Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 88

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Chapter 88
EZ @Jaei_zip
Rooty Giants victory wish, opening pitch🐶⚾
#Jaei #JAEI #EVERGREAT
(photo)
Ppo @Jaei10_15
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Hyun Jae-yi’s reaction when Rooty hits a home run in the first inning
(video)
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Lover @E_L0vr
Noona who doesn’t know baseball: save me
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Ppo @Jaei10_15
Come on Ji-on, fighting
Jae-yi Today’s gonna be Rooty/baseball talk all day long
EVERGREAT @EVERGREAT_Official
We’re the ones bringing Rooty victory⚾
Let’s go, Rooty autumn baseball!!
(photo of Hyun Jae-yi and Seo Ji-on in Rooty uniforms)
***
Like a twist of fate (though I’ll admit I orchestrated it), Evergreat and Ashcode’s comeback dates fell on the same day: October 6th.
Of course, the rumor mill had picked up on it beforehand, but after the collaboration where I had a lengthy meeting with Lee Su-bin, the team leader, the relationship with PN had grown complicated enough that neither company wanted to make the first move to change their comeback dates.
Since we were still rookies, both our team and Ashcode were doing all the music broadcasts in full, so the fact that we’d have to beat them head-to-head to win first place became quite the hot topic among fans.
‘Music streaming and album pre-orders must have been exploding…….’
It was actually a pretty good opportunity for us in the end.
Recently, the internet had been non-stop comparing Evergreat and Ashcode, with attention constantly drawn to the Rookie Award and music broadcast number ones.
The problem was, this wasn’t a temporary thing—it had been building up continuously since late July at GayoDay.
As a result, Everies couldn’t help but accept ‘Ashcode’ as a group in a tired and antagonistic way.
Why? Because we hadn’t done anything wrong, yet self-proclaimed Ashcode fans and rival fans on the internet kept attacking us.
Anyway, all of this naturally led to competition emerging within the fandom, and while the groups themselves didn’t have a bad relationship, the atmosphere online between the fandoms had turned hostile.
‘It’s somewhat natural to accept that kind of thing since we’re competing for the Rookie Award.’
It was naturally a sensitive issue for me, but right now the Rookie Award was the most sensitive issue among fans.
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TooJu @l1117uck
ICONIC pre-orders surpassed 200,000!!!
Evergreat Rookie Award indicator—only album sales left!
Let’s buy lots of albums and stream hard, Everies..🧎 🧎
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Posts like these encouraging album purchases got shared heavily, and in reality, ‘ICONIC’, our single album for this comeback, had already surpassed 200,000 copies sold just in pre-orders.
The actual first-week sales came to a total of 310,000 copies.
Slightly higher than Ashcode’s tallied figures.
…This was a result of squeezing the fans’ spending power to the limit, but regardless, winning was what mattered.
‘At least……we’ve crossed the most important threshold.’
Among VMA’s criteria for the Rookie Award, album sales are limited to a single album with the highest sales during the counting period.
Even if K-pop award shows had given up all credibility and fairness, as long as VMA still wanted to claim the title of a credible awards ceremony, they couldn’t easily change the publicly announced counting criteria.
We needed money, sure, but receiving substantial investment from V-Net’s parent company was also a kind of insurance policy.
No matter how much PN and V-Net tried to rig the Rookie Award, they couldn’t easily overlook a girl group that had received major investment from the parent company when it was listed as a competing candidate.
Anyway, let’s set aside all the tiresome talk.
“And now, the first place winner after tallying live broadcast text votes is?”
“Congratulations, Evergreat!”
The important thing was that we’d definitely won the first battle.
I took the microphone the members handed me, smiling casually.
***
The “Colorful” music video, which created a kitschy image centered around paint guns and vivid color palettes, got a good response from fans.
On music broadcasts we wore flashy street fashion outfits rather than neat styles, and the upbeat band sound of the dance track became well-known as something easy to listen to without burden.
Who knew that getting verified once would make things this convenient.
I’d done well catching that the song had gotten proper response in the previous timeline too, even when the fandom base hadn’t been properly established.
But sadly, we couldn’t extend the music broadcast activities for long.
Due to overlapping award shows, we rested for a full week after a two-week promotion.
Though we’d set the activity period for four weeks, in terms of actual music broadcast appearances, we’d be lucky to fill out a full three weeks.
Considering that both my debut track and first comeback in this timeline had four-week promotions, this was the shortest run yet.
At the first award show, KSA, we’d rearranged the setlist a bit to include “Colorful,” so hopefully that eased the fans’ disappointment somewhat.
I’m not sure. I’ve never actually been a fan of idols myself, so I’ve been guessing at the needs based on memories of digging through the internet while working before…….
Anyway, now with VMA right around the corner in late November.
[▷ Current Mission (re) : Win the Female Rookie Award at VMA!]
The likelihood of clearing this wretched mission had become the highest it’d ever been.
Or honestly, if I can’t clear it now, I’m probably done for. The system said something about it when it explained things, but my mind was all over the place so I don’t really remember.
‘Status Window.’
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PROFILE
Name : Seo Ji-on
Age : 21
Affiliation : EVERGREAT
HP ♥♡♡♡♡
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VOCAL Lv.78
DANCE Lv.62
SPECIAL – Composition/Producing Lv.64
Instrument: Guitar Lv.82
Instrument: Piano Lv.79
Instrument: Bass Lv.55
Trait – Tuning (A) : Transforming dissonance into harmony. The sharp sense to notice abnormality faster than anyone and the quick ability to calibrate unseen by all
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Opening the status window I hadn’t paid attention to in a while, my levels had gone up quite a bit.
Fortunately, they didn’t reset when I regressed, so I had no problems in the areas where dancing and singing were needed.
The one remaining HP point does bother me, but that’s not something I can do anything about, so I just left it alone.
On the flip side, I’ve been making good use of the system shop, the roulette, recovery potions and the like…….
The fact that I’m pushing forward with the comeback despite thinking it’s a bit much is all thanks to system points and potions.
Achievement points keep accumulating, but there’s nothing really worth using them on, so for now I’m holding off.
Anyway, there’s nothing I can touch in the system right now.
I just need to clear this wretched mission quickly so something can happen.
***
“Oh, right. Unnie.”
“What?”
“That person you sued for spreading rumors last time, you know? The one you sued through Reddit?”
“They got caught?”
“They got caught ages ago though? Anyway. You didn’t settle and just went through with it legally, right?”
Oh, you went harder than I expected…?
Late November. Practice Room.
During a brief practice break, Hyun Jae-yi came over to me and started talking.
After Hyun Jae-yi sued Lee Da-min, I’d completely stopped paying attention to the matter.
The biggest reason was that the group Lee Da-min belonged to had semi-expelled her under the guise of health issues, and the next reason was that I didn’t have the mental capacity left to care about it.
I’d left everything to Hyun Jae-yi and Lee Su-bin to handle, and this was the result…….
“So, what happened?”
“Don’t be too shocked. You told me not to get close with Lee Da-min before, right? It was her.”
“Ah, that idol you met when we came back and said you knew?”
“She’s not an idol anymore now. She withdrew after finishing her first album activities.”
“I see…….”
“It’s seriously crazy. At first I naturally thought it was a name coincidence, but it really was the Lee Da-min I knew? How does that even happen? She’s acting like an entertainer while doing stuff worthy of a lawsuit. Isn’t that hilarious?”
Fortunately, Hyun Jae-yi didn’t seem to be in a bad mood.
Lee Da-min was someone she’d been ‘disappointed in but not surprised by’ anyway, and since they hadn’t been close enough for Hyun Jae-yi to be hurt, that was probably why.
“…Unnie? Are you listening?”
“Yeah. I’m listening.”
“What did I just say?”
“…Sorry, I didn’t catch it all.”
“Ugh, seriously.”
I’d gotten distracted for a moment…….
Hyun Jae-yi had always been talkative and outgoing, but lately she’d become even noisier and frequently reported even trivial things to me.
Since that drained my energy and I’d been letting it in one ear and out the other, she’d recently started checking to make sure I was actually listening, very thoroughly…….
“Thank you for that……. The fandom atmosphere’s already pretty bad right now, and if a PN-related rumor had spread, seriously, I think the online fandom relations would’ve been beyond recovery.”
“Why are you thanking me?”
“For acting friendly with Jo Eun-bin. The atmosphere’s actually gotten worse than I expected now…….”
“Oh, that……. It does kind of feel like foresight, but I wasn’t really thinking that far ahead.”
It actually turned out to be accurate to some degree—the members were getting along with each other, so on SNS they were careful not to call each other out directly or use harsh language, which was why the atmosphere was only at this level.
If Jo Eun-bin had found Hyun Jae-yi somewhat difficult like in the previous timeline, or if the younger members hadn’t been close…….
I haven’t experienced much, but it might have gotten messier than this.
No, I’m confident. It would’ve been a complete mess.
“When the VMA Rookie Award comes out, I think it’s going to be crazy again. But we’ve got a pretty high chance of winning, right?”
“Why, are you gonna practice your acceptance speech? Like at AKON?”
“That, that was just something I wanted to try……. Stop teasing me…….”
“Haha!”
Hyun Jae-yi had done exactly what she did in the first timeline—loudly announced that she’d won the award at the AKON ceremony, and I’d been teasing her about it for days because I’d wanted to poke fun at her for it from the start.
When I checked YouTube’s playlists, sure enough there were compilations of idol acceptance speeches and stuff like that.
I understand. She probably wanted to experience it.
“Anyway. VMA is a solo award though.”
“Right?”
“So I think we’ll probably get it, won’t we?”
“What’s your reasoning?”
“We’re way ahead in streams and almost tied in album sales.”
“What about the global fan vote?”
“Oh, we’re higher in that too?”
“…Really?”
“And even if we lose that, we can win in other metrics.”
Since Ashcode was a group that was popular overseas, I’d figured they’d overtake us in the global fan vote…….
But when I checked, Evergreat was really leading by a narrow margin.
“If you win the Rookie Award at VMA this time, you’re giving the acceptance speech.”
“I think I’m already giving plenty of speeches…….”
“No, the Everies are disappointed!”
“Huh?”
What is she talking about now.
I’m already holding the microphone quite enough at every awards show.
“You always just say stuff like ‘Thank you to the CEO and Music Proof staff’ every ceremony.”
“Right? But that’s what a leader’s supposed to do anyway……. And besides, if you guys had done thorough acceptance speeches, I wouldn’t have had anything to wrap up anyway.”
“That’s not it—you don’t have any actual feelings in your speech!”
“Ah.”
“The Everies are really disappointed about it! Haven’t you been checking Univers posts lately?”
You really hit the core issue there…….
I’d been busy and mostly just writing Univers posts without reading them, so apparently that dissatisfaction existed.
“Anyway, if you win the VMA award, you’re doing the full speech from start to finish.”
“Is this something you’ve agreed on with the other members?”
“No, I haven’t actually agreed with them, but I’m going to announce it and go around telling them.”
And so I became responsible for preparing an acceptance speech for the VMA Rookie Award on my own…….
It’s all Hyun Jae-yi’s fault. Seriously…….
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario With My Own Hands
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