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Join the ServerFor a while, a chase took place at the Pantheon dorm.
Namely, a chase between Instructor Yoon-seo and Trainee Demon God.
“Sun-woo Hyung, stop right there!”
“Stop? If so, I shall run.”
“Then run!”
“Understood. I shall run.”
The tree frog-like trainee was turning the instructor’s stomach inside out.
“What are you saying, seriously!”
“But I do not feel like it at all.”
The Demon God, who had avoided even bright emotions, had no reason to take an interest in sadness.
“What should we do?”
Yoon-seo turned to the members and wore a troubled expression.
“It is fine, Yoon-seo.”
Surprisingly, this time Ha-gyeom spoke calmly.
It was a voice full of trust, as Ha-gyeom was the one who viewed the Demon God’s words and actions most positively.
But Yoon-seo could hardly believe it.
“It is fine?”
“Yeah. Because he has the goal of external expansion. Even if he postpones it like that for a bit, he’ll end up doing it in the end.”
Because—
“He is a born idol, after all.”
“Ah, that is true.”
In this aspect alone, Yoon-seo felt the same as Ha-gyeom.
“I told you I am not! Just how many times must I say it!”
The sharp-eared Demon God shouted from far away.
Thanks to that, Yoon-seo also figured out where the Demon God had hidden in the residence.
“Inside the grandfather clock! You’re in there, right?”
“Tsk!”
Just as the Demon God, who popped out of the grandfather clock, was running again to attempt a tactical movement.
“Guys, we have a big problem!”
Another lower-class citizen, Team Leader Oh Dae-ho, came up to the third floor holding a tablet.
Not just saying it was a big problem, but he actually looked quite flustered.
The Demon God and Yoon-seo temporarily stopped their chase, and the rest of the members also stopped watching.
“What is the matter, Team Leader? If it is a trivial matter, I shall not stay still.”
“You never stay still anyway. And it is not a trivial matter!”
The Team Leader spoke firmly and held out the tablet.
“For the Team Leader to say this much.”
Pantheon focused on the screen, wondering if some groundless rumor was circulating—
“It’s an email, right? URBAN CODE?”
It was the fashion brand the CEO had mentioned a while ago.
Street & basic mix-based.
Showing individuality while not being burdensome, its popularity was rapidly surging among those in their teens and twenties recently.
There were many easy-to-wear products such as graphic t-shirts, hoodies, and sweatshirts, so the members also had one or two pieces.
“Don’t tell me the advertisement is canceled?”
Tae-young asked seriously, putting strength into his eyebrows.
“No, the talk is going well. If it continues like this, it’s a contract.”
“?”
Contrary to their worries, the words from the Team Leader’s mouth were extremely positive.
“Then what is the problem?”
Yoon-seo tilted his head.
“Ah, I know.”
The meticulous Ji-ho let out a sigh while reading the email.
“What is it, what is it?”
Ha-gyeom also poked his head in—
The problem was the content of the requested materials.
—
[Requested Materials]
1. Profile photos for each member (High Resolution)
2. Pictorials or photoshoot photos with various expressions
– Bright smile
– Chic expression
– Natural expression
3. Full-body photo (Casual clothing)
4. Recent activity photos
In particular, in the case of member Sun-woo, we wish to confirm whether he is capable of digesting a mood filled with sorrow and melancholy befitting the W season concept.
—
“Ugh.”
Even Ha-gyeom’s positivity toward Sun-woo couldn’t block the choking sound.
“Originally, this is normal.”
Ji-ho nodded.
Fashion pictorials also require acting.
And the model must be able to digest that acting.
Thinking quietly.
Until now, the advertisements themselves were small-scale.
Even the advertisements that came in wanted Pantheon’s concept.
But as advertisers casting Pantheon increased, various demands began to come in.
“But? Their target audience is late teens to early twenties, is sorrow? Melancholy? okay for the winter season?”
Yoon-seo raised a question, but in any case, that was something the brand would decide.
“Team Leader, aren’t clothing advertisements originally done as F/W?”
Tae-young, who had no deep interest in fashion, also asked.
It wasn’t that Oh Dae-ho knew fashion well, but because he had researched for the advertisement deal, he explained the background.
“It seems clothing brands of that line, including URBAN CODE, are aggressively marketing. They say they are seizing the gap while competitor companies are faltering.”
Furthermore, the background explanation was not the end.
“And among subsidiary brands like URBAN CODE, there is a brand called NEXT.”
“Yes, I have clothes from there too!”
Yoon-seo vigorously raised his hand.
“They say the W season model there is EXI.”
“Ugh.”
Yoon-seo quietly lowered his hand.
“I don’t feel like wearing it anymore….”
“How about burning it to purify it, Yoon-seo?”
It was Yoon-seo nodding weakly even at the Demon God’s random proposal.
“Um, then it will become a comparison of sorts.”
Ji-ho pointed out the core point again.
A lower-tier line of the same brand.
And the same W season at that.
Naturally, they are bound to compare them within the brand, and of course, in the fashion industry as well.
“I dislike losing to EXI, though?”
“We’re talking about you, Sun-woo!”
At the Demon God’s doubt, the Team Leader pointed out.
“What if we are pushed back in concept digestion ability there?”
“In particular, what if Sun-woo Hyung is pushed back?”
“What if he is pushed back by EXI’s Kang-yul?”
“A complete disaster?”
The members also chattered respectively.
“What is that! A complete disaster!”
The Demon God shouted in great anger.
“Is it not enough to simply digest such a concept! I was about to slowly set out to practice even without that!”
“Didn’t you just go inside the grandfather clock?”
Lightly ignoring Yoon-seo’s question.
“Team Leader. What is the deadline?”
The Demon God asked, fully raising his demonic Aura.
“Originally, immediately, or within two days?”
“It is, is fast?”
The Aura faltered.
Two days is far too fast, even for being fast….
“Could we ask to extend the deadline?”
“Well, if we say we’re in the middle of a schedule, the time might extend slightly. But not too long.”
Because it is a large contract, the priority is high.
If it were an agency of similar size, it was a situation where they would have shot and sent it even in a rush.
“They are individuals without any patience whatsoever. Deplorable.”
“Are you discussing patience, Sun-woo?”
“Of course.”
The Demon God let out a long sigh.
“Everyone should cultivate patience to wait for this body. Why is the world so chased after.”
“…….”
Ah, it is not your patience.
You mean other people’s patience with you.
The Team Leader nodded.
“I understood.”
“You should.”
The Demon God stroked his chin.
‘It would be nice if even a god of manipulation came down. Even if I stay expressionless, he would manipulate it into an expression full of sorrow.’
But there was absolutely no way that would happen.
The god of manipulation has an ill-fated relationship of having badly manipulated the Demon God’s image across the entire universe. He would absolutely never come, fearing he might get beaten up by the Demon God if he descended.
“In the end, is there no choice but for me to do it.”
It was a contract that breathed tension into the relaxed Demon God.
***
“Shall we try with classic movies first?”
“Classic?”
The first practice Yoon-seo prepared was experiencing sad contents.
Was practicing from the facial expressions, not the emotions during the ‘Lively’ practice, not a blunder.
It was a training process created after such poignant reflection.
It was about starting from feeling the emotion called sorrow through contents.
The movie Yoon-seo had searched through OTT was ‘Taitanic’.
It was a movie depicting the love and parting of a couple while the world’s largest cruise ship sank.
Because it was a movie of the late 90s, it was a work before Yoon-seo was even born.
“How do you know of such things?”
“But this movie is extremely famous. Older folks all know it, you know?”
“Really?”
The Demon God tilted his head and sat on the sofa.
“But why are the other members here?”
Tae-young, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho were also sitting side by side on the sofa.
“For things like this, creating the atmosphere is also important, you see.”
Under the command of Instructor Yoon-seo like this, the Pantheon members entered into the world of Taitanic—
In the opening scene, the protagonist John won a Taitanic ticket through gambling.
“He is a fellow to my liking.”
The Demon God looked at John with a contented smile.
The members felt that the point was somehow strange, but they bypassed it without pointing it out for now.
Because the important thing was the feeling of sorrow.
The following scenes.
John fell in love with the female lead, Lily.
Lily’s fiancé felt a strange current and was displeased.
“Why does he not grab John and throw him into the sea immediately? Does he intend to just stay still?”
The Demon God, enveloped in question, asked, and the members kept silent this time too.
Movie watching continued within chaos.
Finally, Taitanic struck an iceberg.
“Oh!”
The Demon God cheered.
“So it gets interesting from now on?”
No wonder there was too much strange content in front.
Scenes like John and Lily’s carriage repair were too boring.
Thereafter, Taitanic sank, falling into great chaos.
Even within it, there were people maintaining order, but some also aggravated the chaos even further.
And the Pantheon members fell into chaos because of the Demon God.
“It is interesting!”
“Interesting?”
“Exceedingly interesting! To think there is such a twist. I had assumed John was the protagonist until now.”
““????””
John is the protagonist, though.
He has been the protagonist from the opening scene until now.
Where exactly did he place the point.
Just pointing far wouldn’t change the protagonist, though.
“Then who do you think is the protagonist? Lily?”
“No.”
“Lily’s fiancé?”
“Hm? No. He is merely an insignificant person.”
The members could no longer recall any candidates.
In the end, they asked directly.
“So who do you think the protagonist changed to?”
“Changed? From the start, the protagonist was the iceberg. The existence that sank the world’s largest cruise ship in a single blow. If that existence is not the protagonist, who would be?”
The Demon God’s point was indeed far away….
“But, to make the trophy the title of the movie instead of the protagonist. It has quite some humor.”
““…….””
Yoon-seo covered his face with both hands as fatigue rushed in.
“Yoon-seo, cheer up.”
“It is a great relief that I am not the designated instructor.”
“A quick give up for me. Yoon-seo has great patience.”
Tae-young, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho spoke respectively.
This is harder than during Life Four Cuts.
Back then, they didn’t even have to encounter Sun-woo’s inner world.
Exchanging impressions after watching the movie was different.
Encountering his inner world couldn’t be avoided.
No matter how much they liked Sun-woo, contacting him that deeply was somewhat reluctant….
“Yoon-seo, even if you give up, no one will say anything.”
“Tae-young Hyung, but if we give up here, the advertisement disappears too. I want to do that fashion commercial, you know.”
Yoon-seo had Yoon-seo’s own reason.
Yoon-seo, who had a deep interest in fashion, seemed to really want to do this advertisement.
“Even if we do that, I don’t think a classic movie will do? Would another movie be any different?”
“Ugh, I think so too.”
“Then? Is there a next step?”
“There is, but….”
“?”
“A-All together….”
“What?”
“We have to go all together, you see.”
The members looked at each other’s faces.
Although they didn’t know where they had to go, Pantheon is a group.
If it was a necessary practice for Sun-woo, and for Yoon-seo, Tae-young, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho had no intention of backing out either.
“Say anything.”
“Right, Yoon-seo! Whatever you say, we’ll do it together.”
“Me too.”
Supported by Tae-young, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho, Yoon-seo lifted his head with hope.
“Actually, I heard from the Team Leader a while ago. That a variety show idols rarely go on came in.”
A variety show?
“The Team Leader said they probably just tested the waters because we have buzz.”
Testing the waters?
“But they said the story of the person living in nature was sad…. So I asked to hold off on the refusal for a bit.”
A person living in nature?
“Ah, wait a moment.”
Ji-ho, who loathed leaving the city, raised his hand, but was caught by Ha-gyeom next to him and lowered again.
“You also said you’d do it all together.”
“But the program Yoon-seo is talking about is that one, no matter how I hear it.”
While Ha-gyeom and Ji-ho muttered.
“I Live in Nature.”
Yoon-seo finally uttered the program name.
A program visiting people who live alone buried in nature.
A program idols rarely go on.
A program Tae-young, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho, let alone Yoon-seo himself, did not want to go on.
But—
“I wonder if we absolutely must go. But looking at Sun-woo Hyung, it seems normal methods won’t work.”
All of them turned their heads toward the Demon God.
Over there.
Paying no mind to the members’ meeting,
there was the Demon God repeatedly playing the iceberg collision scene in front of the TV.
Seeing that sight, everyone’s opinion was in agreement.
““We must go.””
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