Chapter 111: Casting the Guest

[Contact me immediately]

“What? Immediately?”

Because it was so absurd, a muttering came out naturally.

Izm’s solo female singer, Lua, was currently holding her phone in her van.

She was an artist the Demon God met at Novior’s concert.

Suffering from stage fright due to the influence of a cursed bracelet, she was about to give up her guest stage.

At that exact moment, the Demon God broke down the door and came in, destroyed the bracelet, and resolved her phobia.

At that time, Lua promised to definitely repay the favor.

“He ignored everything when I asked to meet to repay the favor, though.”

Lua held an unrivaled position even among solo female singers. If she contacted juniors, they would all be surprised and reply immediately.

But not this kid Sun-woo.

He had ignored everything until now. And the message he sends after all that is to contact him immediately.

“Phew, still, I should repay the favor.”

[Why?]

In the end, Lua was the one who contacted him immediately.

[Lua, to contact me immediately. Is your schedule leisurely lately?]

[You told me to do it immediately!]

This junior is unpredictable. Lua braced herself from the start of the conversation.

[Why did you call me?]

[Utterly insolent. Should greetings not come first?]

“Ugh.”

His peculiar historical drama tone also provoked her.

[Right]

[Anyway, I am doing well]

[How about you?]

[Let us skip the trivial matters]

Her head spun.

“Ah, really.”

[Then what’s the business!!!!]

[I wanted to repay the favor anyway]

[I asked to meet several times through Zion, but you rejected them all]

Lua bit her lip for a moment, then added a message.

[Why did you play hard to get when I asked to meet?]

Then, an unimaginable answer returned from Sun-woo.

[I was told female celebrities are strictly forbidden]

“What?”

What is this.

Doesn’t that sound like an idol thoroughly managed by his agency?

According to Zion, no one at the company can do anything about Sun-woo.

Lua tilted her head and asked.

[Who said that? At your company?]

[Company]

[Members]

[Fans]

[On the internet too]

[The internet?]

[What do they say?]

[Male idol taboos? Precautions? It was something like that]

Hearing him say this much, she had nothing to say.

Contact with female celebrities was indeed something male idols should avoid.

[That is true, but…]

[You even rejected a senior offering to buy you a meal?]

Lua’s dissatisfaction was slightly subdued.

Because it was such a commonsense answer for an idol, it couldn’t be helped.

‘Right. They were pushed almost to disbandment and then rode an upward trend again. They must have been careful even with a single message.’

She felt she hadn’t quite understood that position.

At this time, the Demon God’s message arrived.

[Actually, it was bothersome]

“This bastard?!”

Slang flowed out naturally.

Despite working long in the eventful entertainment industry, Lua had a mild mouth, but rough words popped out in an instant.

[Hey!]

[Refrain from disrespect]

“Gah.”

Her neck stiffened from a sudden spike in blood pressure—.

She had slight low blood pressure, but she felt like she was being cured.

The demonic healing itself.

[Let’s calm down, I should calm down]

[Think such things inwardly]

“Ah.”

She would cure her low blood pressure and collapse from high blood pressure instead.

Lua took several deep breaths to compose herself.

She felt it at their first meeting too, but she shouldn’t get swept up. If she gets swept up, it becomes uncontrollable.

This kid was somehow seriously weird.

[So? What about now?]

[They say talking about work is fine]

[Wow, this is absurd?]

[Even if it is absurd, let us repay the favor]

Then.

He suddenly threw a question that hit the core.

[Must we absolutely eat a meal together? Must you necessarily meet me?]

“…….”

Lua didn’t answer for a moment, then typed a message.

[It’s not that we absolutely have to meet]

[That is not the case, so why are you acting like this?]

Lua just shook her head.

‘Forget it then. Let’s just talk about work. Professionally.’

[Got it. What kind of work is it?]

[Only now do you ask the main point]

[The specific schedule has not been decided yet, but a concert is planned in about 3 months]

[Is a guest appearance possible?]

[How can I say whether it’s possible when it’s not even specific?]

Letting out a long sigh, Lua typed the message.

She had a somewhat resigned face.

***

“Lua says she is available.”

Looking at the reply, the Demon God nodded.

““What?””

The moment the Demon God relayed the answer, everyone in the CEO’s office looked at him.

“Senior Lua?”

“Really?”

“We were only talking about XXX level!”

They had been discussing guests, but things weren’t going well.

Because Pantheon was a 2nd-year rookie, there was a limit to the guest pool they could invite.

Furthermore, let alone Izm’s interference disappearing, it would get worse in the future, so there was much to consider.

“I wondered what you were doing holding your phone, and you suddenly cast a big shot?”

Oh Dae-ho spoke blankly.

He completely didn’t expect it. For Sun-woo to cast a guest, and a big shot like Lua at that.

“A big shot?”

Only the Demon God tilted his head.

Only the Demon God treated her recklessly; Lua was an S-class solo female singer.

She rarely showed her face even at concerts of similar S-class singers. Novior’s time was a special case.

Naturally, the group couldn’t help but be curious.

The members threw questions in a flurry.

“How do you know Senior Lua?”

“Novior’s concert? But we only brushed past each other.”

“Don’t tell me you contacted her separately?”

“It’s not, right?”

“It is not. I came to know her at Novior’s concert, and though we did not exchange contacts separately, there were consistent messages asking to meet. I was ignoring them.”

“What?! Senior Lua consistently contacted you asking to meet…?”

Pantheon, who gained shock instead of curiosity.

It was a statement that laid the groundwork to let their imaginations run wild.

Fortunately, the always calm Tae-young existed in this team.

“Can you talk in detail about the messages asking to meet?”

“I bestowed a favor upon her once. She said she wanted to meet with Zion to repay that favor. But Zion alone is bothersome enough, so why go out of my way?”

Haaaah. So that’s not it.

Everyone let out a sigh.

He says Zion was included too. Considering other circumstances as well, it didn’t seem to be the direction they worried about.

The CEO abruptly opened his mouth.

“Team Leader Oh, what happened to Sun-woo’s Korean lesson matter?”

“We brought in a few people, but they all gave up midway. It fizzled out after that.”

“Push it again.”

“Yes.”

Only after directing the lesson did the CEO ask the remaining questions.

“I heard Izm’s schedule is murderous lately. And Lua belongs to Izm, is she allowed to stand in our Origin’s performance?”

Izm and Origin were now enemies even more than before.

Even if not, he didn’t know how she could give a definite answer knowing the schedule.

The Demon God exchanged messages for a moment, then answered.

“Lua says she intends to leave the company.”

“What did you say?”

The CEO opened his eyes wide.

Lua is one of the singers symbolizing Izm’s identity.

She had been promoting under Izm ever since her debut, so for her to leave the company meant the company’s atmosphere had drastically changed.

Above all, she is a truly massive big-shot free agent.

Which company will she, an S-class artist, go to?

Right now, when no one even thinks she will leave Izm, Origin knowing this fact means they are considerably ahead.

“Such tremendous information comes out this nonchalantly? Sun-woo, what kind of favor did you bestow?”

“Hmph.”

Is it the CEO’s imagination that the simply smiling face looks even cuter today.

“CEO, your eyes are full of greed?”

“You saw correctly. I should slowly approach Lua. Fufufufu.”

“A good laugh.”

The Demon God praised the CEO’s dark laugh.

“Anyway, it’s certain. It seems Sun-woo really got a promise from Senior Lua.”

When Pantheon’s other members blankly looked at Sun-woo.

“Admire me. Because I am such an existence.”

Then, the Pantheon members actually spoke their admiration out loud.

“It’s amazing. Sun-woo Hyung had connections we didn’t know about.”

“I thought he had no one on his messenger besides company people. Excluding Zion too.”

“Right. So 0 was a certainty, but it was 1.”

It was a strange point of admiration….

“Three people. Let’s aim for three people you know outside the company. You can do it, Sun-woo.”

Tae-young patted the Demon God’s shoulder and delivered the finishing blow.

The Demon God tilted his head.

“Something is strange?”

***

That afternoon.

A brief break time while the Demon God and members were practicing.

– Tok!

A message sound rang from the Demon God’s phone.

“Hm?”

The Demon God picked up his phone.

There’s no place for a contact to come from? Like the members said, I only know exactly two people outside the company? Ah, is it Lucio?

But somehow, the number 1 appearing on the app icon gives him a somewhat suspicious feeling.

The Demon God, narrowing his eyes and looking at the 1, touched the app for now.

“As expected.”

There was one message from Zion.

Did he perhaps hear the news of Lua’s guest participation.

I should make sure to ignore it.

Just as he was about to close the phone—

“?”

The first line of the message caught his eye.

[A dark existence attacked a young man…]

“Tsk, if it’s like this, I have no choice but to tap it, do I not?”

To bring up another interesting preamble, how utterly insolent.

With this thought, he ended up tapping the message.

[Zion]

[Continue]

[Sun-woo!]

An immediate answer returned from Zion as well.

The Demon God was puzzled.

He himself was tremendously busy with schedules, so he didn’t know how S-class Lua and Zion contacted him immediately.

However, apart from the Demon God’s curiosity, Zion’s ghost story began.

[Here, there was a pure young man who loved his work]

[But one day, he encounters a certain existence]

[That existence dominated the young man in an instant]

“Mhm, mm. Naturally, it should dominate in an instant.”

The Demon God focused with somewhat distorted appreciation.

[Because of that, the young man even came to do actions he normally didn’t do]

[Those around him tried to stop the young man, but it was useless]

“If dominated, that is what should rightfully happen.”

The Demon God nodded.

[Eventually, the young man reached the point of waiting for the existence’s call]

[But…]

[But?]

[The young man ended up being betrayed]

[The existence did not choose the young man]

[It ended up choosing someone with less worship than the young man]

[No]

[Choosing someone who doesn’t even worship the existence!]

The Demon God narrowed his eyes. It was an incomprehensible story.

[How can that be?]

[To leave a worshipper and choose a non-believer?]

[Does that existence have its right mind?]

[By what criteria exactly?]

[Right…?]

[I’m curious about that too]

Instantly, the Demon God felt a somewhat bizarre sensation.

A sensation as if he had encountered this story somewhere.

[I have a solo song too]

[Why leave me and]

“My, it was a trap.”

[Invite Lua Noona as a guest!]

“Hmm….”

The Demon God narrowed his eyes not in question but in annoyance.

He knew it would be like this from the start.

He intended to listen to his whining if he unleashed a ghost story.

“Shall I terminate it.”

No.

Still, he should properly explain the reason.

Anyway, he’s a precious core fan.

And, the proper reason the Demon God thought of was this.

[Originally, a ruler does incomprehensible actions]

[Just accept it]

[Such a thing!]

[You dare to try and restrict my actions?]

[Must you receive punishment?]

[S-Such a thing! Do I even have to receive punishment?]

[Actually, I can give punishment even if there is no sin. That too is included in domination]

[!!!!]

[Then that is all]

The moment the Demon God neatly summarized, evaluated himself, and was about to turn off his phone.

[Wait a minute!]

[Then at least]

[Please appear on my self-produced content!]

[I decline]

A proper distance is needed with Zion.

[It will be fun!]

[Because we’re going to Dongmyo to look at antiques!]

“Hm?”

The Demon God exercised his selective memory.

Lua, who contacted him in the morning, said she got the cursed bracelet from a counselor at the healing center.

And the counselor said he bought the bracelet at Dongmyo.

The Demon God typed a message.

Anyway, he was a believer who knew how to catch the Demon God’s interest.

[Zion]

[Try speaking in detail]

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