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Join the ServerThe final appearance after nine consecutive meals, the ‘very spicy’ braised cutlassfish.
Cheongyang chili peppers chopped up in the bright red seasoning.
On top of that, a generous amount of red chili powder.
“It looks spicy just looking at it.”
With Oh Dae-ho’s excited laughter, the braised dish was placed on the table.
“Team Leader, don’t tell me all this was aiming for me?”
“What do you mean? It’s a game of luck. You guys just have really good luck.”
It wasn’t just good luck, it exploded. Winning a 5-person meal 10 times in a row makes no sense. Doing manipulation like this would get one cursed at.
“Nuhahahat!”
However, Oh Dae-ho only let out laughter.
He knew well that Sun-woo couldn’t eat spicy food.
The time for revenge had come here.
“Eating a bowl of rice with it would be hard, right? Let’s just eat the braised cutlassfish.”
“What?”
He even took away the rice that could at least neutralize the spiciness.
The Demon God considered whether to cause a disturbance even in front of the camera.
“Phew, it can’t be helped.”
Yoon-seo’s hand smoothly appeared in front of the Demon God.
“Hm? Yoon-seo?”
The Demon God looked at him puzzledly.
“Yoon-seo? What are you doing right now?”
Oh Dae-ho also asked in surprise.
Even if they have good appetites in their prime, Pantheon had already eaten nine meals.
Moreover, Yoon-seo didn’t have a large physique and originally wasn’t one to eat a lot.
He shouldn’t have the stomach to eat another member’s meal.
“It can’t be helped. If Sun-woo Hyung eats spicy food now, he might get an upset stomach.”
Because it was a top-tier body, he wouldn’t get an upset stomach.
Still, it was true that it was quite an ordeal.
“T-That’s what I was hoping for…”
Oh Dae-ho spoke inadvertently and covered his own mouth.
“So you finally confessed? Let us see after the game ends. A desperate revenge will be waiting.”
While the Demon God glared and pledged revenge.
Yoon-seo combined the Demon God’s braised cutlassfish into his own bowl.
“Then I’ll eat.”
He picked up a piece of flesh with chopsticks and put it in his mouth.
The flesh smoothly breaking apart on his tongue carried the spiciness throughout his mouth.
“It is tasty though.”
The sweet radish put in afterwards created a harmony of flavors.
“Nom.”
Yoon-seo advanced without the slightest fear of the spiciness.
“Nom nom.”
At a glance, he seemed to be eating well.
‘No, something is strange.’
The Demon God tried utilizing the empathy and understanding he learned today.
Chopstick movements noticeably slower compared to his expression of finding it tasty.
A drop of sweat slightly flowing down the side of his face.
His left hand placed on his stomach.
‘Is he not struggling because he is full.’
The Demon God ended up noticing Yoon-seo’s self-sacrifice.
No, this will not do.
As the Demon God was about to take his braised cutlassfish back.
“Then let’s eat at least one chopstick full too.”
“?”
With Tae-young’s words, Ha-gyeom and Ji-ho also took some braised cutlassfish.
“You guys?”
The Demon God just stared at the members for a while.
“Sun-woo, what’s wrong?”
“…….”
Rarely, words came out a little slowly.
“Does this also correspond to playing together?”
“Right?”
“But I cannot eat the braised dish together. Since I have no role, it cannot be called together, can it.”
Actually, such a thing didn’t matter to the members.
They had already eaten nine dishes together at one table?
But the Demon God seemed quite bothered by it.
Then.
“No. I have a role.”
The Demon God’s gaze headed toward Oh Dae-ho.
“Is there a need to purposely delay revenge until after the game?”
“Uh, uh, uh!!”
Oh Dae-ho stood up and ran away, and the Demon God chased after him.
Naturally, he was caught quickly.
And with stuffing Oh Dae-ho’s mouth full of other prepared foods,
The night of Jeju Island passed.
“Ubububup! Sun-woo, forgive me!”
“I normally do not, but this time I dislike it even more!”
It was a fun night, all together.
***
The 2 nights and 3 days flew by.
In the meantime, Pantheon spent their time comfortably.
“Kku…, kkuuuu….”
However, boarding the plane to return home, the Demon God looked somewhat uncomfortable.
The members and staff who had spread the barrier just like when they came.
Ha-gyeom sitting in front of the Demon God turned his head.
“Sun-woo? What’s wrong?”
“I have ended up owing Yoon-seo a debt.”
“A debt? The spicy food?”
“Indeed.”
Everyone helped eat it, but still, the first person to step up was Yoon-seo.
But apart from that, question marks floated above the group’s heads.
“Sun-woo, you normally make all sorts of demands of other people. But you owe Yoon-seo a debt?”
Team Leader Oh Dae-ho, who normally takes all sorts of demands, asked from diagonally in front. He was the one whose face still looked swollen today from being subjected to an excessive meal by Sun-woo on the first day.
From his perspective, the Demon God’s words were too contradictory.
But the Demon God shook his head.
“If Yoon-seo did it because I demanded it, it is not a debt. But because Yoon-seo sacrificed himself, it is a debt.”
“Eh?”
According to this logic, since Team Leader Oh Dae-ho did things by receiving all sorts of demands, he couldn’t impose a debt on Sun-woo.
“It’s complicated….”
“What would a Team Leader know about complex psychology?”
Oh Dae-ho stared blankly at the Demon God.
“Then Sun-woo, you know that and yet you do this to me?”
“Of course.”
The Demon God thought for a moment, then shouted abruptly.
“And it’s a debt in feeling!”
“Ah? Yeah.”
Only then did Oh Dae-ho fully understand.
If he says he feels like that, then what.
That’s much more like Sun-woo and easier to understand.
Anyway, the Demon God nervously threw a question at Yoon-seo.
Authority [Confidence Boost] was activated in his right hand.
“Is there perhaps anything causing a drop in confidence recently?”
“There isn’t.”
“Wanting to overflow with more confidence? Like me, for instance.”
“Eeh—, that’s absolutely not it….”
“Why is that?”
The Demon God tilted his head and canceled the Authority.
“Then is there perhaps something you wish me to handle?”
“Handle?”
“Someone you dislike, for instance.”
“Uek, that’s absolutely not it either!”
“Why is that?”
Not this either?
The Demon God tilted his head this time too.
“Then how about a promotion? My exclusive adjutant, for instance. A role that follows and assists wherever I go.”
“Eeh…, that’s absolutely not it either.”
“Why is that? You only say no to everything. Furthermore, why do you attach ‘absolutely’.”
Ha-gyeom, who was listening, asked.
“Can’t you guess now?”
Because it was a trip where he learned empathy and understanding, putting oneself in another’s shoes, changing perspectives, things like this.
“Guessing? I shall do that from time to time when I have the leeway.”
It meant he didn’t want to do it.
What one can do and what one wants to do are completely different.
“Yeah…. Then just tell Yoon-seo you’ll grant him what he wants.”
“Oh? That is a good idea.”
Then Yoon-seo answered first.
“Really?”
“Indeed. If it is Yoon-seo, I shall grant anything!”
He thought he would think sufficiently before answering, but an immediate answer came from Yoon-seo. What he wished for was already decided.
“Next time, let’s go on a trip all together again!”
“…What? A trip like this again?”
Playing together again?
“It was really fun this time. You enjoyed it too, didn’t you, Sun-woo Hyung?”
“Hmph! Hu-hmph! Hmph!”
From the members’ view, it seemed Sun-woo definitely enjoyed it.
““…….””
Yeah.
To have grown this much is something.
The warm smiles of the four members surrounded the Demon God.
“What is this? I feel somewhat in a bad mood?”
And of course.
Even this was being captured on the staff’s handycam.
***
– He is in a bad mood! Worship!
└ Worship!
└ Worship!
└ Worship!
Somewhere between sincere worship and a meme.
Pantheon fans who watched the self-produced content reacted explosively.
– Right! You shouldn’t put salt on a water ghost fished out from the sea lol
└ Right lol You should desalt it first lololol
└ Wasn’t it desalted? He said it melted when he took it out of the water lol
└ Sun-woo really likes occult jokes. I should ask him to go to a haunted house together next time
└ Don’t you feel sorry for the ghosts? Remember the water ghost’s end…
– The teamwork is crazy. How do they win a 5-person meal 10 times in a row? Can this probability be calculated?
└ It’s 0.00000000001615
└ Uh, the probability is a bit scary…
└ No? You can just watch it as variety entertainment lol The production team probably set it up, why care
└ They obviously did, right?
The incidents entangled with catching seafood in the weir or the spinning wheel meal were naturally understood. Because if it strays too far from common sense, people tend to find fitting explanations.
Of course, there were many other things during the 2 nights and 3 days.
– Why is he having a staring contest with the Dolhareubang lol The comment is weird too lol ‘I heard you monopolize the worship of this place!’
└ He really likes worship lol I thought he was going to break the Dolhareubang
└ If left alone he might really have? If it’s Sun-woo he seems capable of it?
└ Um… Was it my imagination that the Dolhareubang seemed to move to the side a bit at the end?
It wasn’t an imagination.
Feeling the threat of destruction, the Dolhareubang was carefully avoiding his body.
If checked closely, drag marks could be seen created under the Dolhareubang.
– And why does the pony listen to him so well. I knew animals followed him friendlily since before, but it really did everything Sun-woo asked
└ Right. As expected, Sun-woo must have a warm heart. Seeing him receive plenty of love from animals shows it
└ Yeah… But am I the only one who feels like the horse is terrified and completely snapped to attention…?
└ Nonsense. How does a horse snap to attention?
It can. A horse can properly snap to attention too.
At the very least, Winky the troublemaker of the farm ended up snapping to attention after meeting the Demon God. The rumor was that it was living a new life as the farm’s model student thereafter.
“Hahahaha! It was worth sending you guys on vacation. The response to the Jeju Island self-produced content is good too.”
Pantheon came to the company practice room after a long time.
They went up to the CEO’s office for a moment and shared the results of monitoring the self-produced content.
“The fans liked it saying you guys looked like you got along well.”
Oh Dae-ho also spoke warmly.
“Do the fans like such things?”
“Of course. They are group fans, so naturally they like seeing the members get along well with each other.”
Having said that, the CEO and Team Leader sighed simultaneously.
“What is the matter? Do you need this body?”
At the Demon God’s question, the CEO answered.
“I guess you could say we’re relieved. In the few days since you went on vacation and came back, we roughly summarized the results of the regular album.”
The 1st regular album marked a milestone for Pantheon.
From sweeping consecutive 1st places on cable music shows in their 2nd to 3rd week of activities, they proved their upward trend.
And in their 3rd week on SBC’s Star Gayo!, they snatched their first public broadcast 1st place.
The album was the same.
It surpassed 100,000 copies in first-week sales, and total sales have now reached 200,000 copies.
It was a figure unreachable for idols belonging to a small-to-medium agency.
Furthermore, the title track entered the top 50 on the digital music chart immediately after release, and is still steadily staying settled in the 20-30 range.
Its highest record was 22nd place.
The review that it was the best ‘work song’ surprisingly didn’t stop as a joke. Many people played it when doing some work.
The music video was hot too.
Recording 1.9 million views on the first day, it surpassed 8 million in just one week.
Not to mention the choreography challenge surpassing 5 million views in just 3 days.
“It’s amazing up to here too, but it was even more amazing that there’s an overseas response.”
Spotify Global Chart, highest ranking 98th.
Particularly in the club scene where Lucio’s name was already known, the song began to be heard, and DJs even tagged Pantheon on SNS.
Now they are making their name known on the global stage as well.
“Is that so? If I gain fans overseas as well, I could obtain even more worship.”
The Demon God imagined himself burying worship in fans all over the world while riding a slow-as-molasses airplane.
‘Before that, let’s unlock the Authority [Teleportation].’
With this thought, he looked at the CEO again.
“So about that, I thought Sun-woo’s opinion to hold a solo concert and please the fans was even better.”
“Even more? It must have been exceedingly good from the start?”
“Um.”
The CEO nodded.
“We will discuss parts like the setlist and stage direction together as we gradually prepare, of course. But there is one thing I must ask first.”
“?”
One of the many elements needed for a concert.
Namely, the guest.
“Is there anyone you want to invite as a guest?”
It was a question asked to all of Pantheon.
The Demon God also rummaged through his mind at the CEO’s question.
Even after rummaging, there were exactly two people.
“I should contact them.”
The Demon God sent a message to one of them.
[Contact me immediately.]
It was a contact demanding contact.
And immediately, at that.
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