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“It’s slow?”
Inside the airplane heading to Jeju Island.
Having finished all their activities, Pantheon was heading to Jeju Island as promised by the CEO.
“Why is it floating in the sky for so long….”
The Demon God could not endure it.
In the days when he roamed the universe, he traveled between planets in a single bound.
But now, to be floating this long just to go to a southern island was frustrating.
‘If so—’
The Demon God raised his right hand.
An Authority swirled inside his hand cupped as if holding a baseball.
Namely, the Authority [Confidence Boost].
‘If I intensely boost the captain’s confidence, wouldn’t it become faster?’
He was abruptly harboring an exceedingly dangerous thought….
Fortunately, Yoon-seo sitting next to him was faster.
He noticed the Demon God glaring at his own hand with an ominous expression.
“Huh? Tae-young Hyung! Sun-woo Hyung is having a strange thought!”
“Hm? Sun-woo, I don’t know what it is but no. Absolutely no.”
At Yoon-seo’s request for rescue, Tae-young immediately kept an eye on the Demon God from behind.
“You don’t know what it is, so why.”
The Demon God frowned and tossed his body around.
Come to think of it, the seating arrangement was strange too.
The Demon God was exactly in the center of the 3-row seats.
Yoon-seo and Ji-ho to his left and right, Ha-gyeom in front, Tae-young behind.
And diagonally were the staff headed by Oh Dae-ho.
“Is it not as if you have spread a barrier around me?”
““Ahem.””
“What is this? Why are you not denying it?”
The following silence displeased the Demon God even more.
When a fan who recognized Pantheon on the plane approached, the 3 people on the aisle side standing up simultaneously and covering him might not have been just a feeling.
“By the way, Sun-woo, have you really never played together with everyone?”
Ha-gyeom turned his head and asked.
It seemed to be a change of topic, but the Demon God didn’t particularly have the mind to press the issue further either.
“Indeed. To be exact, I have only ever played with everyone revering me.”
To the Demon God, a vacation was such a thing.
When he, exhausted from war, enters a state of rest, his familiars step up and handle everything.
The Demon God only had to lie down.
It was to the point where familiars even put his meals into his mouth.
“That sounds quite nice too….”
“Ha-gyeom Hyung! You can’t cross over to Sun-woo Hyung’s world!”
Yoon-seo brought Ha-gyeom, whose eyes had become hazy before he knew it, back to reality.
“Yoon-seo is right. And there’s no way Sun-woo’s words are true. It’s not like he’s the youngest son of a conglomerate family.”
When Ji-ho shook his head and spoke firmly, Tae-young from behind added his words too.
“Even the youngest son of a conglomerate family would be extremely busy? He probably has almost no days off like Sun-woo says.”
Anyway, they decided not to believe Sun-woo’s words.
“I cannot help but deplore the social climate where the truth is ignored.”
The Demon God sighed, covering his eyes with his hand.
“Hmm. If that is the truth. Then this is the first time you’ll be doing it?”
Yoon-seo pointed out ‘the first time’.
“The first time. That would be true. Then again—”
The Demon God shifted his perspective.
“Expanding the realm of emotions was always homework.”
It was the advice of composer Ki So-eun.
If they don’t want to limit Pantheon’s color, they should practice so they can reveal various emotions in their songs.
The Demon God recalled that assignment.
“Good. I shall exert effort and try.”
Instantly, warm advice from the Pantheon members followed.
“No. You don’t need to exert effort.”
“It’s okay not to try.”
“How about just staying still overall?”
“Because a person is precious just by existing.”
Do not exert effort, just stay still preciously.
“Understood.”
The Demon God realized what the members wanted.
“I shall try my best and exert effort.”
So he goes in reverse.
Because the Demon God is such an existence.
“Hmph.”
***
The pool villa they arrived at after passing through the airport.
A place where the beach is right in front of their eyes, they can do activities, and can carry out indoor missions as much as they want.
“Missions?”
“Yeah, missions.”
At the Demon God’s question, Tae-young pointed at the cameras.
“You know resting is also content for idols, right?”
“What?”
The Demon God had also seen such self-produced content, but thought they were all staged situations.
However, the staff who came along were setting up cameras one by one.
“Then is this not resting?”
“Because we aren’t filming every single moment.”
Tae-young spoke nonchalantly, and the other members over there seemed quite excited too.
Just how harsh is the punishment called an idol.
The Demon God shuddered at the world of idols, which adds depth just when he thinks he knows it.
“Sun-woo! Come over here for a moment.”
Oh Dae-ho called the Demon God.
“Do you still not know? The Team Leader should come.”
“Ugh.”
As Oh Dae-ho approached, Tae-young smiled and stepped aside.
“I’ll look around inside the dorm for a bit.”
Saying this, Tae-young walked away.
He seemed to go straight into the dorm entrance, but.
‘Fufufufu.’
He was inwardly shedding a laughter full of conspiracy, unlike him.
Tae-young changed direction at the dorm entrance with an elegant moonwalk befitting a main dancer.
Far, far away, he went around the back of the dorm so as not to enter the Demon God’s line of sight, and entered an external building that looked like a warehouse.
There—
““Tae-young Hyung. Did you slip away well?””
Yoon-seo, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho were already there.
The members who seemed to be laughing and chatting on one side had gathered here too.
“Yeah, as promised, Team Leader Oh Dae-ho talked to him.”
“Phew, because Sun-woo has bright ears. We barely dare to have a meeting hiding in a place like this.”
As Ha-gyeom said, the Demon God’s hearing was incredible.
The members entered the warehouse for safety.
Then what meeting did they come here to have.
“It seems Sun-woo didn’t have any friends.”
Taking a breath, Tae-young brought up the preamble of the meeting agenda.
““…….””
The silent Pantheon.
After a moment, they carefully opened their mouths.
“It’s something we had been well aware of, though.”
“Because no matter how you look at it, it’s not a personality that would have friends.”
“If he has a friend, we should be suspicious of that friend too.”
For carefully spoken words, they were exceptionally sharp….
Encouraged by the members’ perception of reality, Tae-young finally brought up the main topic.
“So this time, we are going to teach him the fun of playing together with everyone.”
This was precisely the agenda of today’s meeting.
To keep playing together with Sun-woo and make him feel enjoyment!
“It’ll be difficult, though….”
“I like Sun-woo, but I feel a little suffocated.”
“Hyung, can I give up in advance?”
Negative reactions popped out first to an exceedingly massive mission.
It’s daunting. What should they do to teach such a thing to the uncontrollable Sun-woo?
“Is it okay to just keep letting him play alone?”
Ji-ho said this, then hup covered his own mouth.
But from the side, Ha-gyeom slightly turned his gaze.
“Sun-woo still seems happy though….”
Lastly, as Yoon-seo was also about to say something, Tae-young preemptively shook his head.
And declared.
“This is something only we can do.”
““…….””
It was as Tae-young said.
Excluding the members, they couldn’t picture Sun-woo mingling with friends in a group.
He seems close with Novior’s Zion, but. Not only is it on an individual basis, above all, they couldn’t erase a somewhat distorted feeling….
“If we give up, the world gives up. Should we do that?”
Maybe we should?
—were the words that came up to their throats, but the members firmly swallowed them back down.
Actually, the members also wanted to teach Sun-woo the joy of playing together. If not, they wouldn’t be having this meeting either. It was just slightly burdensome.
Here, Tae-young gave the final motivation.
“And we have to do things like this for Sun-woo to bring up the words friends or colleagues out of his mouth, right? How long are we going to be called subordinates?”
The Demon God was still referring to the members as subordinates, even though his actions said otherwise.
“Why does he do that?”
“I don’t know. Stubbornness? Pride?”
“It wasn’t in psychology books either.”
Even when trying to use words other than subordinates, he would startle himself and correct it back to subordinates.
The members had already witnessed that sight multiple times.
“Anyway, since it’s certain that it’s not a language problem but a personality problem. We have to approach him with our hearts.”
Tae-young clearly summarized where the problem lay.
They had never heard of such a golden child member even among golden child members.
Ultimately, the members also nodded.
“Good.” “Let’s do it! Let’s do it!” “We need a plan.”
Pantheon raised their spirits.
“Hyung, then do you have something you thought of in advance?”
At Ha-gyeom’s question, Tae-young smiled as if he had been waiting.
“No. It was difficult for me too?”
““…….””
“Only things like sports come to mind. But we can’t do that.”
““That’s true.””
They knew without saying why they couldn’t.
The Demon God’s physical abilities were overwhelmingly high.
If they played sports, especially competitive sports, given the Demon God’s personality, it was obvious he would light a fire in his eyes and try to be first.
“Should we do something like charades?”
“Would Sun-woo do it quietly? I don’t think he could endure it?”
The meeting continued.
Then, Yoon-seo suddenly remembered a mission scheduled to be filmed.
“Um, how about this?”
Yoon-seo quietly continued his explanation.
It was an impromptu plan, but having heard it all, the members nodded.
“It’s good?”
“It might work if we do it well?”
“Let’s try this. If it doesn’t work, we still have time so we can do something else.”
Their opinions matched.
Since they couldn’t leave Sun-woo alone and drag the time out further, they decided to talk about the rest later.
““…….””
Tae-young, Yoon-seo, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho looked at each other’s faces and nodded resolutely.
We must join forces.
Only then can we pull it off.
We can achieve the mission waiting for the four of us.
“Let’s go. To Sun-woo.”
““Yes!!!””
They vigorously raised their bodies for the massive mission called the Demon God.
And that moment.
“What are you doing here?”
The warehouse door flung open.
““Uwaaaack!!!!””
The members fell over in surprise.
Sniff sniff, the Demon God wrinkled his nose.
“I smell a rebellious scent?”
It turned out the Demon God didn’t just have good hearing.
***
“Gathering?”
They barely overcame the crisis with the primitive excuse that they went in because they were curious what was in the warehouse.
And they quickly changed the topic, and fortunately, the Demon God seemed intrigued.
“Are you interested in this kind of thing?”
“Interested. Rather than that, it is exceedingly familiar.”
“Huh? Did you live in the Brazilian backcountry?”
“I lived in Buenos Aires.”
“I told you that’s Argentina.”
“Tsk.”
Anyway, the word gathering was familiar to the Demon God.
Hunting and gathering.
It was the most primitive method humans used to obtain food, and a method the Demon God and his subordinates quite enjoyed.
He even felt a sense of excitement.
There was a weir blocking the seawater near the dorm.
During high tide, it gets submerged under the sea and fish or other seafood enter.
During low tide, the ones that couldn’t get out remain inside the weir.
Namely, a place like a basket holding seafood.
“We bring the ingredients we will eat together from there.”
“Really? I shall show you my skills. While you guys catch one, I will sweep it clean.”
Then Tae-young stepped up.
“But there’s a mission.”
“Hm?”
“We have to catch them together.”
It’s a relay game where the member going into the water keeps changing.
The members not going into the water open the paper given by the production team and check what seafood to catch.
They express the checked seafood with their bodies.
The member going into the water sees that and catches the seafood.
What if they caught it but it’s wrong? Then again!
They catch seafood within this set time and share it together. So it’s a problem if they catch too few.
It was a mission combining the game of charades and seafood gathering.
“Ugh? It is bothersome? Must I consider what you guys are thinking.”
That’s exactly it.
Sun-woo, you’re doing well.
The members smiled warmly.
***
The members wavered and shook their bodies. Even raising both hands up and swaying— swaying—
No matter who looked, they were expressing seaweed such as kelp.
Seeing that, the Demon God shouted vigorously.
“A water ghost? Understood, wait for me!”
And the echoing splash sound.
““…….””
It was a rough voyage from the start.
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