Chapter 126: A Revolutionary Concept Change

Pantheon dorm.

The Demon God boldly activated his Authority in front of the members.

“Look!”

Grin.

The Authority [Lively] was activated.

“…….”

Tae-young, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho, excluding Yoon-seo who had already witnessed it, stared blankly at the Demon God-style lively expression.

And there was no word for a while.

“By the way, where is the wind suddenly blowing from? Is a window open?”

Ha-gyeom brought up the wind out of nowhere.

Although Ha-gyeom supported, cheered, and always spoke well of the Demon God, he wanted to change the subject slightly.

Actually, wind did blow because of the storm of self-love….

“Did you really have to go all the way there to practice that? Couldn’t you have just practiced looking at a mirror at home?”

Rendering Ha-gyeom’s efforts to change the subject useless, Ji-ho directly raised a question.

To that extent, in Ji-ho’s eyes, it was still far from lively.

“Furthermore, was there a need to even call an instructor to practice?”

At Ji-ho’s second question, Yoon-seo chimed in.

“I told you there was no instructor?”

“Then what about the woman reflected in the mirror?”

“Hyung, joking again.”

“Joking?”

The supernatural phenomenon was substituted as a joke within Ji-ho and Yoon-seo’s conversation.

“That is not what is important. Tae-young, what is your feedback? It is difficult to maintain the smile, so speak quickly.”

Then Tae-young calmly brought out his feedback.

“Effort is what’s important, guys. Since Sun-woo is practicing to this extent, there will be results soon.”

At the conclusion Tae-young reached like a leader, Ha-gyeom and Ji-ho also nodded and reflected on themselves.

“Hyung’s words are right. Effort is important.”

“Even if there are no immediate visible results.”

It was a rare sight where the Demon God’s Authority was not acknowledged at all.

Facing such harsh criticism, the Demon God immediately dropped his smile.

He wasn’t angry.

He merely stared at the members as if they were pathetic.

“Was your observation power only to this extent? Can you not feel the change?”

The Demon God questioned Yoon-seo, the only one who had seen the Demon God’s lively smile for a second time.

“Yoon-seo, is your sense the same? Try to describe my smile.”

“Even a description? Why only me?”

Yoon-seo cringed like a student presented with an unreasonable task.

However, true to the diligent Yoon-seo, he squeezed his brain and described it.

“It feels like you are forcing a smile while holding back a toothache. Opening your eyes wide because it hurts.”

“What?!”

“T-That may be so—but I can tell there is a change.”

“Oh?!”

Yoon-seo raised his finger and pointed near the Demon God’s eyes and the corners of his mouth.

“Here and here slightly? As if excited?”

“Precisely so!”

““Did you do something like image training? Are you recalling something exciting?””

“Me.”

“Pardon?”

“I recall myself. Then, I get quite excited.”

Yoon-seo was beyond dumbfounded and ended up admiring.

“Wow…. That must be nice.”

To get excited just by thinking of oneself.

In a certain sense, it looks amazing, but it is a sensation where one doesn’t want to become like that.

“Yoon-seo, make sure to try to become like this too.”

Unaware of Yoon-seo’s thoughts, the Demon God spoke warmly.

“Although it will be difficult because your status is far lacking, are there not many who love their lacking selves.”

At the words which were unknown if they were encouragement or what, Yoon-seo turned his head silently.

But even more absurd words flowed out of the Demon God’s mouth.

“Our fans will know when they see it.”

It was a statement like this.

“Well? Regardless of whether they are fans or not, wouldn’t anyone find it difficult?”

Ha-gyeom tilted his head.

“What are you saying? Believers—no, fans are originally existences who focus on every move of the object of worship and notice even minor changes.”

“Even if they notice hair dye or plastic surgery, they would notice a smile?”

Ha-gyeom still couldn’t believe it.

“Excuse me! How about this?”

“What is it?”

“Shall we take a photo and upload it to the fan cafe?”

Everyone tilted their heads at Yoon-seo’s opinion.

Since he claimed the fans would notice, they could just ask the fans directly.

Uploading this kind of photo?

“Will it be okay?”

“Let’s ask the Team Leader about this.”

“He won’t allow it. He’ll probably tell us not to upload it.”

“I have already uploaded it, though?”

““What?””

The Demon God’s power of execution was like a flash of lightning.

As soon as Yoon-seo’s suggestion dropped, he took a selfie and updated the fan cafe.

Although there were companies where dedicated managers managed the fan cafe activities themselves, Origin was not on the strict side.

First, because there was trust in the members, they hadn’t blocked access.

Second, because there was trust that Sun-woo didn’t know how to enter the fan cafe, they hadn’t blocked it.

But the Demon God was an existence who caused chaos anywhere.

“You even know how to enter the fan cafe?”

“Hm? Obviously I should know. I must look after my believers.”

Furthermore, he was an existence who watched over and cared for the fans.

“And the account?”

“I had not forgotten what was told to me in the beginning.”

He was also an existence who absolutely never forgot what he wanted to remember.

Thanks to that, the members were in great chaos.

“T-Take it down! Delete it!”

Tae-young urgently shouted.

“Because he logged in with Sun-woo Hyung’s account, Sun-woo Hyung has to delete it!”

Yoon-seo stared at the Demon God, but the Demon God shook his head.

“Sun-woo, please delete it!”

Ha-gyeom stretched out his hand to grab the phone, but it was impossible.

He couldn’t keep up with the Demon God’s agile movements.

Above all—

“I refuse, though?”

The Demon God was puzzled.

“Why delete it? I took three photos.”

“That’s the problem!”

“Why take it down when I have done a laborious task?”

The Demon God was one who lightly ignored the members’ clamor.

And while they were causing a commotion, time slipped away.

“It’s too late…. The fans have already started viewing it.”

Along with Ji-ho’s announcement, strength drained from the members’ bodies.

It was already too late.

The Demon God’s lively smile selfie was uploaded.

Since there must be fans who downloaded it as soon as they saw it, they couldn’t block it.

If they took it down, it would only cause talk.

“Really? How is the reaction?”

Tae-young, barely recovering his composure, asked Ji-ho.

“Yeah…. The reaction….”

Ji-ho kept reviewing without answering, then reached a conclusion.

“It might not be bad?”

““???””

****

The frequency of normally taking and uploading photos was in the order of Ha-gyeom, Yoon-seo, and Tae-young & Ji-ho.

The Demon God was on the side of photos being uploaded because other members took them.

Although he did look at the phone at the members’ requests, there were more photos taken in daily life.

Those photos were naturally scary photos, so they were uploaded quite often to horror communities or photography communities.

For example, in the horror community—

[Is the thing the person in the photo is tearing with his hands not a spirit?]

[lolol It’s a composite, right]

[Good composite lol The spirit’s despairing face is realistic]

[Real spirits are not captured in such detail in photos]

[This is an idol photo! The fans probably composited it while playing among themselves!]

[But this idol is Demon God Sun-woo? The one from Mystery Horror Commando]

[Ah, then it might be real]

It was in this manner.

A flow of looking half-believingly because a fame that wasn’t quite fame had arisen within the horror community.

On the other hand, the photography community was a bit more dry.

[What is this haze rising from the body of the person in the photo?]

[Isn’t it just an effect added?]

[They say it’s the original photo]

[That’s an idol photo. The fans probably added an effect while playing among themselves]

[Must be so]

They did not believe it at all.

The common factor of the two communities was that they did not believe the visible truth and considered it the fans’ composites and manipulations.

Then what about the actual fans?

[Kyaaaak! What is this photo!]

[Sun-woo suddenly throwing a photo?]

[Huh? It’s a photo uploaded by the members without adding effects!]

The fans were considering that the members or the company handled the photos.

To that extent, the truth about the Demon God was thoroughly buried.

The fans wanted was just for him to upload a lot.

[He uploaded three, though?]

[An optimistic Oracle. He only uploaded three, though. Is this not correct?]

[But. Since he originally barely uploads any]

[That’s true]

Sun-woo uploading directly was quite an incident in itself.

[So? What on earth is the photo? What did he write?]

Therefore, they were extremely curious about that content.

[Why did he upload three of the same photo?]

[Ahem, it means look at it three times]

[We’ll look at it ten thousand times anyway, though?]

[Then… thirty thousand times?]

[Worship! Thirty thousand times is a bit tough, but worship!]

[First, replacing the photo above the bed with this]

[Hmm… but what expression is it?]

[Sun-woo is asking that, though]

[He says, ‘Fans, try to guess the emotion captured here.’ That’s so like the Demon God and triggering lol]

[Sun-woo giving a quiz to Oracle?]

[Oracles, rise up!]

True to Pantheon’s fans, Oracle burned with a sense of challenge.

Because Sun-woo, who normally didn’t even upload photos, told them to guess, it was even more so.

[Did he get a toothache medicine commercial?]

[Viral?]

[Plausible]

[No, Sun-woo probably won’t do this kind of viral. He subtly filters them out]

[Right, he doesn’t do things that could confuse the fans]

[It is a smiling expression, right?]

[That seems correct]

[He just opened his eyes wide]

[The corners of his mouth are subtly different from usual]

[Was there a time he normally smiled?]

[There’s that. Hmph.]

[Ah]

Oracle focused on the gap between ‘Hmph’ and the photo.

[When doing ‘Hmph’, contempt is basically a given first]

[And self-love]

[And arrogant]

[Then isn’t it the same as that?]

[It seems the basic is like that]

The basic emotion was the same.

But there was clearly a difference.

[It seems more excited?]

[Ah? It seems so!]

[Excited, yet opening his eyes wide…?]

[Because he is the Demon God]

And this time too, a certain fan reached the truth.

[Lively… is… it…?]

She reached it with a slight lack of confidence.

Still, reaching it was reaching it.

[Lively…?]

[Wow…]

[It seems so too…]

[Shall we go with lively for now…?]

No one had confidence.

It reached a point where the Authority [Confidence Boost] had not much effect in front of the Demon God’s photo.

***

“Hmph.”

The Demon God lifted his phone and showed it to the members.

With a ‘Hmph’ smile rather than a lively smile, fully wearing a smile of arrogance and contempt.

““They guessed this…?””

The members trembled with shock.

That Sun-woo’s words about the fans were right? That catching even this kind of thing was actually possible?

At the end of shock and horror, Yoon-seo even shed tears.

“Fans are…, truly precious….”

To recognize him even with that kind of photo.

It was something that happened because the fans’ love was felt so strongly.

“It is strange, but moving….”

“Yoon-seo, make sure to trust my words in the future too.”

Along with the Demon God’s triumphant smile, the episode of the three photos ended like this—

Or so they thought.

***

A conference room of a certain company.

Men clad in suits were looking down at printed photos.

“Is this guy the one you mentioned?”

“That is correct. It is the photo uploaded today.”

A subtle silence flowed in the conference room.

“It is a unique smile, though….”

One attendee evaluated cautiously.

“How about it? Trying using him this time?”

“Pardon?!”

The attendees stared at the proposer in unison.

With expressions asking what kind of crazy talk that was.

“Look closely again.”

The proposer proudly pointed at the photo.

At that confidence, the conference attendees also looked down at the photo.

“Looking closely, does it not suck you in too?”

Then the proposer raised his voice.

“That’s what I’m saying! Let’s revolutionize the commercial concept this time!”

A truly proud shout.

The attendees, slightly pushed back by it, harbored thoughts only inwardly.

‘But isn’t it too revolutionary?’

They did not know.

The Demon God was originally such an existence.

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