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Join the ServerSome time later, at the Pantheon dorm.
The CEO, who still lived on the second floor, came up to the third floor looking for the members.
“Lower-class citizen, what is the matter again?”
“Ugh.”
Regardless of whether the CEO groaned or not.
As long as he lived on the second floor, below the third, there was no plan to change the designation.
The CEO did not protest further and just threw the question he intended to ask.
“Sun-woo, is your practice of various emotional lines going well?”
“Emotion line practice?”
In the past, the Demon God’s emotional lines were simple.
Getting angry, fighting, winning, infatuating with himself, and furthermore, being mischievous.
Other emotional lines besides those were merely attachments to the emotional lines mentioned above.
Originally, the new emotional line [Lively] was also merely acquired by mobilizing self-love.
But!
A short while ago, there was a major incident where he simply became lively because he was satisfied with the commercial.
– Don’t tell me I was smiling in a lively manner?
The Demon God, who was astonished like that.
But now.
“There is absolutely no difference from usual.”
As soon as he realized it, he deleted the memory.
Lively!
Dignity-less!
The possessor of a convenient memory who could forget what he wanted to forget, that was the Demon God.
“Really? You say it is the same as usual?”
“It cannot be said to be completely the same, though. Since there is progress.”
Even so, he did not want his achievements to be underestimated.
Rather, since he wanted them to be over-, excessively, and exaggeratedly evaluated.
In the end, the CEO asked, flustered.
“Are you saying there are results from practice, or not?”
“There are, of course. Did we not shoot a commercial thanks to my achievements?”
“That may be so, though.”
Furthermore, the promotional effect of the commercial was excellent.
“Right, let’s put aside the talk for a moment. Do you want to take a look at this first?”
The CEO immediately found a few articles and thrust them forward.
[Citrus Echo Out of Stock Havoc]
[Pantheon Effect? New Product Completely Sold Out]
[Is the Craft Beer Market Reshaped]
Just looking at the titles, the promotional effect was clearly felt.
First, they succeeded in drawing people’s curiosity and made them taste it.
The beer taste was also excellent, leading directly to subsequent sales.
“Wow….”
Admiration flowed out from Yoon-seo’s mouth, who hadn’t participated in the commercial.
“Yoon-seo, let us do it together next year.”
At the Demon God’s words, Yoon-seo also nodded.
“You can just start with what we can do together this year.”
The CEO spoke with a meaningful smile.
“More advertisement proposals have come in.”
“!!”
The members’ ears pricked up.
“Is that so?”
The Demon God also showed interest.
“Yeah. Already two cases.”
“What kind of advertisements have come in?”
Tae-young asked, representing everyone.
“The first is a beverage commercial.”
Taking out his phone, the CEO went ahead and found images to show them.
A cherry-flavored soft drink.
It was a product with its own base of supporters due to its unique flavor.
“Oh! I know this too!”
“We drink it occasionally too, after all.”
Ha-gyeom and Ji-ho recognized it and spoke simultaneously.
“The second is a fashion commercial.”
He found and showed images this time too.
A basic casual brand targeting teens.
It was a brand that did idol commercials quite often originally.
“Huh? An advertisement proposal came from here? I have clothes from this brand too.”
This time, Yoon-seo, who liked fashion, recognized and spoke.
In other words, it meant the members were also encountering the beverage or fashion brands that came in as advertisements in their daily lives.
“That’s right. Even in advertising, your level is gradually rising. It is something to rejoice about.”
At that, the Demon God’s nose soared to the extent of piercing the gods of the heavens.
“How is it, CEO? The results of this body’s practice.”
“W-Well, that is too good, of course.”
Following the album success, even advancing to public broadcast CFs.
Pantheon’s growth trend was terrifying to anyone, and at its center was Demon God Sun-woo.
There was no room for dispute here, but.
At this time.
In the image photo the CEO was unconsciously flipping through, a familiar face appeared.
““Huh?””
Everyone’s eyes were fixed on that image.
The CEO also stopped his hand at the members’ reactions.
When searching for images on portals, images similar to the search query sometimes get mixed in.
Just now, an image of another fashion brand popped up on the phone—
“It’s EXI?”
“Wow, they shot a commercial for that brand?”
“Since we didn’t know about it, it must be recent?”
The CEO nodded at the words the members were each chattering.
The Demon God asked, puzzled.
“Excuse me? Is EXI able to promote this actively?”
No matter how much the Demon God was serving his punishment, he had accumulated a certain level of knowledge about idols.
He also recalled that public opinion had worsened significantly during Kwak Su-eon’s intrusion incident.
Much time hasn’t passed yet?
Can an incident of that scale be covered up?
“Your words are right, Sun-woo. It is a strange thing.”
Strange, indeed.
At the CEO’s words, the Demon God’s eyebrows slightly gathered.
“Since it was an unprecedented incident, I thought recovery would be difficult or take quite a long time, you see.”
“Was it not so?”
“It wasn’t so at all. Furthermore, surprisingly, far from the fandom shaking, it is steadily increasing.”
“What?”
Not only the Demon God but also the members looked at each other in surprise.
“How is that possible? No matter how solid the fandom is, the incident was too big.”
“The follow-up measures weren’t that swift or well-done either.”
“They just cut off Kwak Su-eon and that was it. That’s why there was rather a lot of talk, though?”
Even combining the members’ memories, Izm hadn’t done anything grand.
Yet the fandom actually increased.
“Was there some good issue?”
“Not particularly?”
If there wasn’t even a positive issue to cover up the incident, how on earth?
“So there is a lot of talk in the industry too. At first they even suspected manipulation.”
Using viral marketing companies, album push-offs, there are various methods.
But industry people were also well-versed in such areas, so it wasn’t something they wouldn’t recognize.
“Looking at various indicators, that isn’t it either. It is certain that the fandom is actually increasing.”
This was why it couldn’t be analyzed.
He would rather understand if it were manipulation.
“They say it is the potential of Izm’s fandom. That EXI simply worked. There are many rumors, but there is no plausible story.”
The Demon God’s eyebrows gathered closer to his glabella.
Strange.
Impossible to analyze.
A bizarre phenomenon occurs.
The Demon God had been confronting such matters.
The evil spirits hovering in the entertainment industry and those who controlled those evil spirits.
‘The one with the star tattoo.’
There are no rumors heard recently.
The incidents caused by celebrities are also quiet.
‘But.’
The Demon God shook his head.
‘There is no way they vanished just like that.’
Furthermore.
‘In the first place, Izm had many suspicious corners.’
With EXI’s growth trend, the suspicion deepens.
When strange things happen, humans attach realistic reasons to those events. They try to understand the strange event itself as something that could actually happen.
But the Demon God is different.
He accepts strange events as strange events, and instead finds who the culprit that caused the event is and inflicts punishment.
“CEO.”
“Hm?”
“Then we shall confront EXI again too?”
“That would be given, right? First of all, a rivalry structure was formed before. And Izm wouldn’t try to be on good terms with our Origin after all this time either.”
The CEO frowned and shook his head, but.
“Exceedingly good.”
“Hm?”
“Izm, EXI, all of them are good.”
“?”
Others’ malice was always a pleasant thing for the Demon God.
YouTube or Shorts produced by human civilization are also fun.
But after all, the Demon God’s true dopamine was ‘malice’.
“Hmph.”
At the Demon God’s smile, the CEO, who had just been staring blankly, regained his senses.
“So! That’s why I came and asked the question at first!”
“If you are practicing emotional lines well?”
“Oh? You remember?”
“Because it is needed this time.”
Going in circles, he returned to the first question again.
“We are sourcing various songs, you see. Because I want to know how much your song digestion ability, Sun-woo, has improved.”
This was the main point.
The emotional line practice was not something started to obtain a CF.
It started to widen the emotional lines they could handle in songs.
External expansion.
It was to expand the songs’ reach, expand the fans’ reach, and achieve a rise through expansion.
They entered the safe zone after passing through rising.
Only by continuing from here can they rise to the top tier.
The Demon God glanced behind his back.
Clink, clink.
Chains invisible to humans.
He snapped a few lines, but many still remained.
He is slowly getting a feel for it now.
‘I feel I cannot break all the chains unless we are top-tier. Those heavenly god bastards, they bound me so.’
The CEO spoke to such a Demon God.
“Sun-woo too, and everyone else. Do you want to listen to the songs that came in? We are still sourcing them, so there is no need to make a choice.”
Just listening to what kind of songs there are.
The members would not refuse.
““We’d love to!!!!””
Pantheon immediately headed to the CEO’s workroom downstairs.
The CEO sat before his work computer and explained one by one.
“First, bright and lively styles.”
The CEO pressed the play button.
– ♪♪♪
A refreshing and bright melody flowed out.
While focusing on the song, the members glanced at the Demon God on and off.
‘Is he not going to throw a fit?’
However.
“Hum, hum, hum.”
““!!!!””
Surprisingly, the Demon God did not have a fit.
– Bright! Happy! I absolutely hate it!
He wasn’t saying things like this.
Since he was even humming along with the melody.
`[Does his expression not seem slightly improved too, guys?]`
When Tae-young asked with his mouth shape, the members nodded in unison.
There are results of practice.
On top of listening quietly, there is also progress in emotional lines.
The excited members urged.
“CEO-nim! Quickly, the other songs too!”
“Right. Here are faint and sad styles.”
Will Sun-woo react this time too?
The members focused on the Demon God amidst excitement and anticipation—
“…….”
““?””
Sullen.
He was quietly staring forward with a blank expression.
“Sun-woo?”
“Why so?”
“Is the emotion of this song not sad?”
“Sadness, you say?”
Ah.
Difficulty was already anticipated.
True, he hadn’t practiced sadness.
But regardless of that—
“Sun-woo Hyung, you must have been sad too before, right.”
“Yoon-seo, dost thou still not know me? I have not been that sad, though?”
“Pardon?”
Yoon-seo tilted his head.
Of course, looking at the usual Demon God, it seemed like that would be so.
But the CEO and members knew the Demon God as Sun-woo.
And they had heard that Sun-woo did not have parents.
‘What about when your parents passed away?’
But no one easily dared to throw that question.
Because it could be rude, and they didn’t want to make Sun-woo recall bad memories—
“Then how about when parting with someone?”
Tae-young, like a leader, threw a euphemistically turned question.
`[Excellent.]`
The CEO even sent an approving glance.
“Parting, is it.”
And the Demon God, having received the question, closed his eyes.
‘Ah, he must be recalling his parents.’
The members all thought like this.
‘How were those stupid subordinate bastards.’
In reality, the Demon God was recalling his subordinates.
The Demon God is immortal.
Since he had seen the sight of subordinates who didn’t obtain such a status departing numerous times, he had accepted parting long ago.
If you meet, you part.
That is a law that cannot be helped.
Thus, the Demon God sent off his subordinates with a smile, replacing farewells with taking care of their families and descendants.
“Right—”
Everyone waited for the Demon God’s answer.
They thought a statement about his parents would come out, after all.
“Since they worked hard, I am grateful, though. But when it’s time to go, they must go, right?”
““…….””
Everyone was dumbfounded at the statement that surpassed imagination.
“I-Is that so?”
“Um, Sun-woo Hyung?”
“When it’s time to go, they go?”
Was that something to say.
‘He, he, seriously—!’
The members backed away from the Demon God step by step.
“Excuse me, Sun-woo.”
Fortunately, Tae-young was the first to regain his senses this time too.
It was the instinct of a transcendental translation interpreter.
He knew better than anyone that there was always a major flaw in the speaker, the Demon God’s words.
“When you say ‘when it’s time to go’, who is the subject you recall?”
“My subordinates?”
Whew—, a sigh flowed out.
It was such a relief that it wasn’t a story about his parents.
They normally doubted his character, but just now was too severe.
Subordinates, well.
Because it was what Sun-woo always said to people around him.
The members understood that he didn’t mean a parting experienced in reality.
“But even with just that, his character is really.”
“Right….”
“What are you talking about?”
It was the Demon God alone, puzzled, unaware that he had almost become the world’s worst immoral person just now.
“Anyway, did you say sadness? There are many emotional lines I must learn.”
Since he had agreed to the emotional line practice for external expansion, he was bound to do his best.
And at that moment.
Yoon-seo poked his head in from the side.
“Sun-woo Hyung?”
“Ugh? Yoon-seo, your gaze has changed again, though?”
“How shall we practice this time?”
Instructor Yoon-seo had poked his head in.
“The emotion called sadness.”
As expected, it seemed harsh practice was prepared.
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