Chapter 44: The Resurrection of the Zombie Fan

In fact, the testimonies began even before the evening arrived.

Among the fans who participated in the fan meeting, there were those broadcasting the event in real-time on their social media.

– Excuse me?

– Why did the real-time posts suddenly cut off?

Fans who had failed to attend the fan meeting were soothing their regret by watching these social media updates, but at some point, the posts suddenly ceased.

– What is it?

– It’s not just this account that stopped? All the accounts relaying the fan meeting have stopped?

The very last post had been of Demon God Sun-woo wearing the rabbit headband.

The fans’ excitement and passion were reaching a peak, only to be cut off suddenly.

The point at which the relay stopped was the moment the Demon God descended into the audience.

Generally, the real-time relay would have reached an even higher peak at that moment, but the aura the Demon God displayed upon his descent caused the fans’ fingers to halt.

And with the subsequent 30-minute deep sleep event, all social media accounts fell into silence.

– What’s going on? Why is everyone quiet?

└ Did an accident happen?

└ Could it be…?

└ Should we report this? We have to report it, right?

– Let’s wait just a moment.

└ Is the Wi-Fi just down?

└ You’re saying not a single person is using data?

The fans who couldn’t attend were swept up in such confusion.

After 30 minutes passed, the first comment was posted.

– I feel refreshed.

└ ?

└ ??

└ ???

It was a single line that truly made no sense.

The fans waiting for the relay fell into even deeper confusion.

However, other accounts showed similar reactions.

– All my fatigue is gone.

– I thought I slept for three days, not thirty minutes?

Finally, comments mentioning sleep began to appear.

– Did you sleep?

The waiting fans reacted to this and started exchanging messages.

– Yeah. Demon God Sun-woo bestowed a sleep massage upon the insomnia unnie whose story was picked.

└ Bestowed? Did he give her a coupon or something?

└ No lol. He really did it with his own hands.

└ Wait, what…? With his hands… personally…?

└ Fr lol. He pressed down with his hands.

└ Hull, that’s crazy;;; What is that unnie’s life right now ㅠㅠㅠ

└ Oh, but is that unnie the one who posted?

└ No. The fan next to her said “Me too!” and suddenly a massage chaos started.

└ ??? He did it to everyone…?

└ Yeah… I got one too. I slept like a log.

The shocking news finally spread to the fans waiting for the relay.

Demon God Sun-woo personally gave every participant a sleep massage? Personally? Pressing with his hands? Such an unprecedented event actually happened?

– Gyaaaaak! But why am I! Why am I not there!

– Everyone is waking up and stretching right now… Sun-woo is on the platform looking at us with the most satisfied expression “Didst thou sleep well? Didst thou marvel at this body’s power? Thou must have marveled, no? Hmm?” He’s acting like this lol. He seems to really want us to marvel, but we actually are marveling.

– Ky-ky-ky-aaaaaak! You made eye contact with Sun-woo as soon as you opened your eyes?? Is this real life??

– But the funny thing is, Sun-woo told us to make sure to hang Pantheon photos by our bedsides when we go home  The members were trying to stop him until a moment ago, but he’s telling us to hang the photos 

It was a real-time relay they were watching to soothe the regret of not attending, but now they felt even more regretful.

– Ugh, uwa… an event like that is probably a one-time thing, right?

– Probably? There’s no way the agency would keep allowing that? There are security issues too…

This fan meeting event was destined to go down in the history of Pantheon’s fandom.

– The unnie who said she had insomnia at the beginning is the true MVP. She even got a nickname. Zombie unnie.

└ Ah zombie is too much 

└ No, but she really did look like one. It was too obvious she’d stayed up all night…

└ Even if she looked like one calling a person a zombie.

└ No, but Sun-woo gave her that nickname She was giggling and laughing.

└ Ah, then it’s acknowledged! Zombie entry complete at the fan meeting hall 

└ But she’s not one anymore. She really resurrected after sleeping well lol. Her skin tone was originally white?? Suddenly she’s in angel mode.

As a first-time perk of manifesting his Authority, Zombie unnie Yoo Jin-ah was promoted to an angel in an instant.

From zombie to angel in just 30 minutes.

No renowned doctor could have achieved this.

– Oh, the fan meeting is starting again. There’s a little bit left until the ending stage! I’ll keep relaying.

└ Wait a second!

└ ??

└ I was going to ask this later… you really saw Sun-woo up close. How was it?

The first fan meeting, the first event where fans saw Pantheon up close.

Is he the Sun-woo we knew and expected?

– He’s exactly the same.

└ Really? Exactly like the character?

└ There’s no need for words like ‘character’ lol. He’s just himself.

└ You mean the person himself is like that?

└ Yes fr lol. He’s very funny, but he’s frighteningly charming.

Gyaaaa! I want to see him tooo!

The fans in their respective spaces swallowed their regret.

In that way, Pantheon’s first fan meeting ended successfully.

***

And naturally, testimonies had to be posted on idol communities.

‘Will they believe this?’

In front of their respective phones or laptops, the fans fell into a dilemma.

It was a fact they naturally believed when sharing the scene among themselves.

However, when they tried to write it down, they wondered if others would accept it.

Still, they couldn’t not post about the fan meeting.

Each of these posts was essentially a promotion, and not posting was a betrayal of their duty to Pantheon as fans.

While the fans were agonizing and refreshing the community posts for no reason.

“?!”

The eyes of the agonizing fans widened.

– I heard there was an event at the Pantheon fan meeting, someone spill the details.

└ What was the Pantheon surprise fan meeting?

└ I heard they collectively fell asleep at the Pantheon fan meeting, is that real?

Rumors had already spread to fans of other groups through the real-time relay.

Regardless of whether they were part of the fandom, the collective sleep incident at the Pantheon fan meeting was enough to pique curiosity.

Other fans were wanting more detailed reports.

“Good, then!”

Since it had come to this, the participating fans began to post.

[ Pantheon’s Refreshing Fan Meeting ]

[ I had a mysterious experience today ]

[ Sharing a 100% cure for insomnia (feat. Demon God Sun-woo) ]

Posts with titles roughly like these appeared.

The content was similar.

(Fan meeting photos)

I am a participant of today’s Pantheon fan meeting.

(Boasting about Pantheon members—visuals, talent, aura, etc.)

And during the story-reading time in the middle, I had a bit of a mysterious experience…

If there are any stans with insomnia, try hanging a Pantheon photo above your head when you sleep. You ask what kind of crazy talk this is? Let me tell you what happened today—

And as they spilled the details.

There was no clickbait quite like this.

– Eh? Is this for real?

└ Everyone fell asleep for 30 minutes due to a member’s deep sleep massage?

└ That makes no sense…

It was an understandably hard situation to believe.

– We went there and slept. We actually fell asleep, so what are we supposed to do?

└ I slept soundly. I haven’t had such a sweet sleep in ages.

└ He told the people who fell asleep today to stick a Pantheon photo at home. He said we’d continue to sleep well for a while.

└ He told even those who didn’t to stick it up. He said it would have a good influence ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Since the people who actually went were saying so, it was impossible not to believe.

It was also irrational to think that all 100 fans had conspired with Pantheon to lie.

Even the malicious commenters didn’t know how to leave hate comments because the situation was too nonsensical.

On top of that, the ‘gods’ correction’ was added like seasoning.

In the end, while other fans were puzzled, they focused on the more sensible part.

– It means the fan service is certain, right? At least it’s true he gave them head massages.

└ Oh? That’s true?

└ Come to think of it, if my favorite gave me a massage to help me sleep…

└ Ah…

└ That fan service is killer…

“See, our Sun-woo did it!”

While they were all checking the internet reactions together, Tae-young laughed and patted the Demon God’s back.

“How dare thee!”

But following Tae-young, the other members also rushed in.

“Sun-woo!”

“Sun-woo hyung!”

“Ugh! Get away from me!”

The Demon God pushed the members away with his powerful strength, but they kept coming.

They were truly surprised when Sun-woo first went down from the platform, and even more surprised by what happened afterward.

They were even more shocked by the results.

However, they were shocked in a good way.

The fans slept comfortably, woke up happy, and were more focused on the fan meeting afterward.

Above all, they fell deeper for Pantheon.

“Sun-woo, where did you learn that?”

“The fans really went to dreamland?”

“Speak without clinging to me!”

After struggling for a while and pushing them all away, the Demon God did not forget to react to the members’ praise. Even if he hated the clinging, he liked the praise.

“Hmph, thou shouldst praise my Authority even more.”

It was a good choice to pick deep sleep inducement as his first Authority.

He had only chosen it to match the believer who was in trouble before him, yet it had not only impressed all the believers at the fan meeting but also influenced those who didn’t attend and even fans of other groups.

“Hmph, I suppose it is my greatness.”

As he recovered more strength in the future, he would manifest more diverse and powerful Authorities.

To do that, he had to communicate with even more fans.

“If we perform a magnificent stage at MAMA, the fans will increase further, will they not?”

“Eh? You’re preparing for MAMA as soon as the fan meeting is over, Sun-woo?”

Tae-young looked at the Demon God with moved eyes.

“Naturally. I must take even more fans into these palms.”

“You’re going to give even more fans massages with those hands?”

“No, that is not what I meant…”

A translational error had occurred.

The Demon God did not have the confidence to go that far.

“Sun-woo hyung….”

Even Yoon-seo looked at him with touched eyes.

“Let’s aim for the MAMA Rookie Award first! We can do it!”

“Statistically, it is not impossible.”

Ha-gyeom and Ji-ho also spurred themselves on.

“…….”

The Demon God did not correct the misunderstanding.

After all, the goal was the same.

Obtain the Rookie Award at MAMA and capture the attention of even more idol fans.

This was the immediate goal.

“We should go to bed early then, shouldn’t we? Tomorrow’s schedule starts at dawn.”

Tae-young said.

Due to the success of their second album, they were still getting plenty of schedules. There was a shoot tomorrow morning. To make it to a morning shoot, they had to go to the salon starting at dawn.

“Yes, Tae-young is right. Everyone return to your respective rooms and seek sleep— hmm?”

Starting with Tae-young who just spoke, they were all lining up in front of the Demon God.

“What is this?”

In front of the bewildered Demon God, Tae-young thrust his face forward.

“What is it.”

“I don’t think I can sleep because I’m in such a good mood today. But we have to sleep to handle tomorrow’s schedule, don’t we?”

He was saying things no different from his old subordinates.

The Demon God sent him a cold gaze.

“As I thought, it has to be Sun-woo, doesn’t it?”

“Of course. If it’s the massage you gave the fans, we’ll be able to sleep soundly too.”

“I need Sun-woo…!”

“Hmph, it seems thou art unable to manage without me.”

The Demon God had no choice but to stand up.

“Move to your respective beds. I shall manifest my Authority there, so fall asleep just like that.”

The members accepted Sun-woo’s touch on their respective beds.

With the acupressure, they departed for dreamland.

“Hmm.”

After all the members fell asleep.

“Then, shall I do a little phone-ing.”

The Demon God finished his preparations to immerse himself in human civilization.

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A short while later, through web surfing, the Demon God reached an entertainment news article.

[ Assailant of the ‘Random Assault’ at the abandoned school revealed to be ‘A’, a formerly famous actor ]

“An actor?”

Recalling the face of the assailant, which had been decent even while possessed by an evil spirit, the Demon God tilted his head.