Chapter 42: Backlash and Rankings

The moment he woke up and opened his eyes, a familiar ceiling came into view.

He sat up groggily.

He had no memory of when he’d even gotten home.

So, after having drinks and talking at the pub, he had just…

“Haa….”

…slammed his head onto the table and passed out.

From just three or four glasses of beer.

Given that it happened so suddenly without any warning, this too seemed to be one of the game’s tricks.

“How did I even get home?”

No matter how hard he tried to remember, the memory was literally cut off.

If it was something the game had done, it must have made him do something embarrassing, just like it always had, but he couldn’t remember, and the frustration made him flail his limbs.

Ding-

Just then, the notification sound from the game [Please Take Care of My Idol] rang out.

The timing was incredibly ominous.

Ever since he’d started experiencing all kinds of humiliating situations because of the game, this sound always preceded them.

Whatever it was, he didn’t want to see it, so he hesitated in bed.

The notification rang again, as if urging him on.

…Fine, I’m going, I’m going.

He got up from bed, still groggy, and approached the desk where the sound had come from.

There was a drink bottle next to his phone.

Just as he picked up what looked like a hangover relief drink, a small piece of paper, which must have been attached to the bottle, fluttered down to the floor.

[I put porridge and an ion drink in the fridge.]

Reading the note written in neat handwriting, he automatically pieced together what must have happened yesterday.

So, one of the people he’d been drinking with had carried him, dead drunk, all the way home.

And in that game, which was now ringing its notification incessantly, that scene was probably saved as a photo.

He didn’t want to see it.

But he’d probably end up seeing it eventually, one way or another, right?

Then it was better to just get the humiliation over with all at once.

Making up his mind, he picked up his phone.

He accessed the game, tapped the gallery icon with the ‘New’ mark on it, quickly flipped through the pages, and reached the last page.

There, it was…

“Ah, please….”

Sure enough, there he was, carried on someone’s back like a piece of luggage.

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[Please Take Care of My Idol) Woo-rim uploaded the July Snow team’s four-cut photos on SNS!!]

[(JulySnowTeam_FourCut.jpg)]

Everyone wearing animal headbands is so cute tooㅠㅠ

+He also uploaded a QR video lol

[(JulySnowTeam_FourCut.gif)]

[Comments]

Holy so cute lol

They seem to have really good chemistry!!

↳ Right lol I’ve felt it since the self-cam, they must have gotten really close lol

This is handsome guy next to handsome guy

Why aren’t Young-bin and Han-ul there?

↳ They were busy!ㅠㅠ

↳ Guess they’re not close

↳↳ (screenshot.jpg) Both Young-bin and Han-ul commented saying they wanted to hang out, what are you talking about

Why does Sim Jae-seo look so reluctant lol

↳ It’s not a broadcast, are you really picking a fight over a four-cut photo expression;;

They could debut like this

↳ Yeah the visual combination is so good lol

↳ Honestly, I’m convinced at least half of this team will make the debut lineup

↳↳ I have a different one-pick but I agree lolㅠ

↳↳ Same first of all CheonSangJeu+Chan-seo alone is half

Woo-rim deciding Jae-seo’s poses for him is so cuteㅠㅠ

↳ Fr the combo of those two is so cute lol lol lol lol

↳ Jae-seo fans are probably bowing to Woo-rim lol

↳↳ Fr that’s me, I never even imagined Jae-seo doing a cheek heart, I’m so grateful to Woo-rimㅠㅠ I’m going to stick with Jae-seo and Woo-rim as my two picks until the end

↳↳↳ Same Woo-rim was already my fixed pick because he’s so good-looking, so cute, and such an amazing main vocal, but I like him even more now. Let’s go all the way

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[x00421 Please Take Care of My Idol Season 2 Episode 4 Live Discussion Thread]

[x00421 Please Take Care of My Idol Season 2 Episode 4 Live Thread]

[Comments]

Call me when it starts..

↳ It’s starting!! Hurry lol

Oh lol right away with the July Snow team lol

↳ Noㅠㅠ I’m on my way homeㅠㅠ

Holy shit you incredibly handsome guys, debut togetherㅠㅠㅠㅠ

..What? How can a team name be Miracle Idols..?

lol lol lol lol I think it’s hilarious?

↳ Lucky you

↳ Must be nice

Why do people get LASIK/LASEK these days? Watching July Snow team makes Mongolian-level eyesight totally possible

Thank you to whoever did Jun-jae’s glitter makeupㅠㅠㅠㅠ

↳ Fr honestly, I don’t know if it suits the song July Snow, but my boy is pretty so it’s fine

Jae-seo looks like a Maltese today for some reason? lol

↳ Maybe because his hair is fluffy, so cuteㅠㅠ

Sim Jae-seo’s hair beads are so pretty and suit him wellㅠㅠ

Woo-rim’s pearl-colored outfit must be for July Snow, the concept today suits him so well!

But these guys must be really tall, I know Son Chae-i is quite tall too, but what’s with the height difference;

↳ Yeah the youngest is seventeen and 183cm lol

↳↳ Holy Han-ul is 183?ㄷㄷ

↳ Except for Young-bin and Woo-rim, they’re all tall, and Woo-rim doesn’t seem that short either?

↳↳ Woo-rim is 175!

↳↳↳ Holy then Jae-seo must be over 180?

↳↳↳↳ Yeah he looks similar in height to Chan-seo, so probably

↳ Han-ul 183, Woo-rim 175, Jae-seo/Chan-seo 180, then how tall are K-Stars?

..They’re talking about the center privilege lol

↳ Of course they’d be wary, he took all the good ones

↳ I’d forgotten about that, but hearing him talk about it makes me mad again,,

Jun-jae is right, he’s the visual lol

I don’t think even the Jun-jae haters can deny this lol lol

Crazy he’s so honest lol

Look at the audience reaction, the madness is real

↳ I’d be the same, especially since today Seo Jun-jae’s face is even crazier than usual

Why why why? What did he say?

↳ Son Chae-i asked him what his role in the team is and he said “Visual?” lol lol lol lol

↳↳ Holy lol so cheeky and good lol

Yoon Ji-heon is a true leader, and his experienced professionalism is insaneㄷㄷ

Oh they’re showing practice!

These guys are so harmonious, they’re really close lol

Everyone is practicing so hardㄷㄷ

↳ Even the ones who are already good practice that hard, and my bias… ugh..ㅠㅠ

Holy a lap pillow?

He’s giving a lap pillow?

↳ ??? Who to who???

↳↳ Hyun-tae to Jae-seo

What, Yeo Hyun-tae is so sweet

Why is this so shippy..ㅠㅠ

↳ You too?

Thank god; moving on to the mid-point check

↳ Thanks for letting me know lolㅠㅠ

Aack lol lol cute but cringey lol lol lol

Save Ji-heon and Hyun-taeㅠㅠ

Oh they did well

They really did well lol

They did well, but doing well makes me more mad, why are these guys doing July Snowㅠㅠ

↳ They said they wanted to..ㅠㅠ

Precious guests in a humble songㄷㄷ

Oh Young-bin got praised for his dance!!

Young-binㅠㅠ I’m tearing up for realㅠㅠ How much hardship did he go through to cry like thatㅠㅠ

Oh the VCR ended

Guess the stage is next!!

📢JulySnowStageStartedJulySnowStageStarted📢

Ah Han-ul is so cute lol The epitome of big and cute lol

But the song doesn’t suit them at allㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Still, they all dance well!

↳ Normally they dance even better than this..ㅠㅠ

Holy Jae-seo’s voice in the intro is insane, seriously;

Why is Sim Jae-seo so good??

Look at Ju-ha ssam’s expression, she’s so excited lol lol lol lol

↳ Ju-ha ssam has been a Jae-seo pick from the beginning lol

Jae-seo just seems naturally talented, during the agency evaluation he was just too inexperienced, that’s all

↳ Fr his tone is legitㅠㅠㅠㅠ

↳ But he lacks charisma..ㅠㅠ

↳↳ I support Jae-seo, but I think this is the biggest problem, he’ll get destroyed on a conceptual stage

↳↳↳ Already now…

↳↳↳↳ Same honestly even just looking at the photos, his expression is so blank and boring

↳↳↳↳↳ Totally agree, everyone thought it was cute that Woo-rim was setting up each pose for him in the four-cut, but I wasn’t a fan, these days being good at taking pictures is so important

↳↳↳↳ Even if you sing well and dance well, the stage is boring. If you have a good tone, you can be a ballad singer. Coldly, he doesn’t seem to have the talent to be an idol.

They’re all not bad?

They’re all good at live singing

Wow lol lol Seo Jun-jae’s high notes, what’s going on lol lol lol lol lol

Wasn’t Jun-jae a main dancer? Why is he good at singing too?

↳ Right, wasn’t he supposed to be in charge of dance?

I’ve been a K-pop fan for nn years and I’m in shock right now

↳ This is my first time being a fan and I’m also in shock lol

I mean, with that face, he doesn’t need to be good at both singing and dancing, right? But he’s good at both..

Woo-rim is good as expected, my main vocal pick!!

Huh Hyun-tae does rap? lol

..Huh? Why is he good..?

What kind of guys are K-Stars??

↳ Both are crazy (positive)

Yeo Hyun-tae’s low voice is insane,,

Other team rappers should reflect after seeing Hyun-tae

↳ Especially that guy who said he was a rapper but couldn’t even say one line should reflect more

(screenshot.jpg) The lyrics are different from the original, seems like they did their own rap making, impressive

↳ Did he used to rap?

↳↳ Not sure, but during the agency evaluation he only sang. And he sang well too.

…

Why does it seem so boring today?

↳ The teams this week were too bad..

Setting the contest order = broadcast order seems to have backfired..

Up until July Snow it was okay, but the rest have been crashing..

↳ Why did the order have to be decided like this

The 1st contest should have ended with the July Snow team lolㅠ

Right, this is all because Seo Jun-jae was greedy and broke the balance. If at least Seo Jun-jae, Yeo Hyun-tae, Yoon Ji-heon, and Lee Chan-seo had been split up, it wouldn’t have been like this.

↳ ? How do you know lol Honestly, the other teams were greedy and picked members too, they just couldn’t do well themselves lol

↳↳ Yeah except for the last two or three teams picked, everyone picked greedily, right? Even last week, except for the Hashtag team, everyone said they did well. This week only a few teams messed up, and you’re blaming it all on Seo Jun-jae?

↳↳ I agree with the comments above. And just look at July Snow’s Young-bin for the answer. His grades were F-F, he had no screentime, but he worked hard, got praised at the mid-point check, and got his own screentime.

↳ Huh, I’m curious, without Seo Jun-jae, Yeo Hyun-tae, Yoon Ji-heon, Lee Chan-seo, would they not debut? No matter how the members are chosen, they have to put on a good stage first, that’s their job;

…

It’s over,,

Why is today so anticlimactic

↳ Because after July Snow, everything was boringㅠㅠ

It’s because the production team brought in weird rules, why pre-decide the broadcast order

No matter if they’re idols, if the stage is boring, how can the survival show be fun?

I’m a fan of trainees who did well today, and I’m just upset

↳ You too?ㅠㅠ

↳ The ones who did well today were really good, it’s sad they’re getting lumped together and called bad

No preview today?

↳ No, next week is the live voting elimination

Voting closes today, so don’t forget and make sure to vote if you haven’t!

↳ http://kmbs.com/mydolplzseason2/vote/

Who are the trainees who did well today?

↳ Youth’s Na Sung-hyun, VS’s Lee Ha-jin!ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

↳ As teams, the VS team did the best, and within that, Lee Ha-jin and Nam Jin-wook?

↳↳ Agree VS did the best, agree Lee Ha-jin did the best, but Nam Jin-wook is a bit.. I think your bias is showing?

↳ Yoon Jae-hee!!

↳↳ Right Yoon Jae-hee did wellㅠㅠ +Summat’s Ye-chan also did well

↳ ..Honestly today, no questions asked, it’s the July Snow team lol

↳↳ Agreed lol Even including last week, it’s a fact they did the best

↳↳ That team already got the benefit, and there’s no trainee in it who would be in the elimination ranks anyway

↳↳↳ Jang Young-bin is there

↳↳↳ If you’re going to say that, the ones mentioned above also have high rankings? Besides, except for Jae-hee and Ye-chan, they’re all former debuted idols, so what; lol

…

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[Please Take Care of My Idol Episode 4 Online Voting Rankings Results]

[1st Place Nam Jin-wook
2nd Place Yeo Hyun-tae
3rd Place Park Kang-hoon
4th Place Lee Chan-seo
5th Place Yoon Ji-heon
6th Place Kim Woo-hyun
7th Place Seo Jun-jae
8th Place Kwak Jun-sung
9th Place Rohan
10th Place Na Yoon-jae
11th Place Kang Eun-hyuk
12th Place Lee Woo-rim
13th Place Sim Jae-seo
14th Place Han Tae-woo
15th Place Kim Jae-ho
16th Place Chae Han-ul
…]

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[Comments]

Holy why are the rankings like this

Huh? Did I come to the wrong place?

↳ You came to the right place lol

Jin-wook is 1st!!ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

↳ Congrats congrats

Seo Jun-jae’s public sentiment has gone to hell lol

↳ But after today’s broadcast, it’ll probably come back? lol

↳↳ Fr today Jun-jae’s visuals + high notes caused a stir, and everyone who skipped voting is regretting it like crazy

I can understand Seo Jun-jae, but why did Yoon Ji-heon and Sim Jae-seo drop so much..?

↳ Dunno, just got lumped together with their team and criticized

↳ Both have lots of haters for no reason

↳↳ Yoon Ji-heon because he did an A.C.E song, Sim Jae-seo because he gets criticized for being a PD pick

↳ Sim Jae-seo just showed his true colors

↳↳ Huh? Where in Please Take Care of My Idol is there a growth character like Sim Jae-seo? lol lol lol lol

↳↳ This person is probably one of those who keeps hating on Sim Jae-seo calling him a PD pick

Jun-sung rose a lot! Let’s go for debut

But aren’t there too many trainees who already have active teams?

↳ There are only three in the debut range, that’s not many

↳↳ 3 out of 9 is a lot, isn’t it? And 10th and 11th are both from EODER, 15th is Code:Kids, 18th is Wakers again

↳↳↳ There’s no rule that debuted trainees can’t appear, why are you picking a fight;

↳↳↳↳ It’s a bit funny that they’re appearing here when they were active just a few months ago, unlike Yoon Ji-heon whose team disbanded

↳↳↳↳↳ Who was active a few months ago?

↳↳↳↳↳↳ 1st place Nam Jin-wook was active with Code:Kids until 4 months ago

↳↳↳↳↳↳ Juke is also there, the team Park Kang-hoon is in

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