Chapter 202 – It’s Okay… All I Need Is My Brother
After Park Min-ji entered the room and fell asleep.
Im Ha-eun, who was stretching with Shin So-ye in the living room, finished her pose and stood up.
“I need to go to bed soon too… Unnie goes to bed early too.”
“Huh.”
Shin So-ye sits quietly, answering insincerely.
Im Ha-eun went straight into the room, and even before she opened the door and entered, she saw Shin So-ye remain that way, so she turned her feet again.
“Sister.”
“Yes? Why?”
“Don’t worry, come on, haaam…”
Pat Pat.
Im Ha-eun comforts her sister by patting her sister on the shoulder.
Shin So-ye, realizing right away that the concern she just mentioned was about Park Min-ji, shook her head.
“But… I can see that Minji is getting less motivated.”
“It’ll be fine. If you do, I’ll hold you tight. Give me some strength…”
“No, Ha-eun, if you do that now, it will backfire.”
“Will the child ever quit?”
Shin So-ye doesn’t answer that.
It was the result of a mixture of the thought of “It can’t be” And the worry of “I don’t know.”
“Okay. I won’t. But if it’s necessary, Sejin will do something about it.”
Im Ha-eun spoke in a nonchalant voice, but there was deep trust in her voice.
“Well, is that so…?”
And her words comforted Shin So-ye quite a bit.
Yes, if it was Lee Se-jin, she would take care of Park Min-ji somehow.
“So don’t worry too much and go to sleep. It’s a performance tomorrow, so you need to adjust your condition well.”
“Yes, then.”
Thanks to that, Shin So-ye also became a little lighter, and the two women soon went to their respective rooms and went to sleep.
***
The next day, the stage we were to perform was a celebratory performance for an event named the Seoul New Culture Festival.
It is said that the event was planned to do something against the Busan Film Festival with cultural content, but it mixed everything and even included idol performances.
Idols are naturally included in the current culture or something.
Still, it was welcome to us.
It was a big event held in Seoul, not anywhere else, and the expected audience was very large, so I was happy to accept it, and the size and quality of the stage actually prepared were very good.
It was said that the perfect simple stage was built in one corner of the citizen park, and the scale was large, and above all, the location was good, so it was nice to see people passing by.
Even the rehearsal can be seen outside, to the point where it becomes publicity.
‘Yes, it’s really good to be noticed by people…’
The problem is the quality of the rehearsal stage.
It was obvious that Minji’s performance was not good.
No, in fact, Minji’s performance didn’t fall any further than before.
I have been giving vocal and dance lessons constantly, so I was showing a good performance.
The problem is balance.
It was the skills of Soye and Haeun who were next to her.
‘The two of them have risen in level too much.’
The people in the same group are so good at it, it seems like Minji can’t do it.
However, she couldn’t tell So Ye or Ha Eun to lower her skills, so she didn’t say anything when encouraging her kids right before the stage.
“I haven’t had a stage performance for a while, but it’s a very good opportunity. Let’s do well as we always do and show that our group activities are not dead yet.”
All I can say is work hard.
“Okay, then fighting…”
“Okay, one two three…”
“Go for it!”
After watching the kids go backstage, I moved to the audience.
Even there, I headed to the place with a sign saying 〈 The Queens Support Seat 〉.
It was a place I had prepared by using a trick before the stage started.
“Wow, how many times has it been a stage with three people?”
“I thought this month would pass without anything, but I really like it. Happy.”
“Do you see that we are comparing cheering this time?”
“Of course I saw it. It’s a notice.”
Cheering comparison.
After dividing the people who support Soye, Haeun, and Minji, points are given based on how much they cheer, and the bait with the highest score is that they will hold a fan signing event.
Of course, it was my trick.
If this is the case, wouldn’t it be possible to collect only Minji fans separately?
I went and stood quietly behind the fewest of the three groups.
“There are few people, but we are the elite. You have to show it as much as you can with your voice and action, you know!”
“Yes.”
“It should!”
As I stood behind me, a man asked me.
“Oh, are you a Minji fan too?”
“Yes.”
“Good, good, come to work…” I’ve set the cheering beat now. When Minji comes out with the solo part in the C part, we all lift the lightstick together and do it in 3 beats. Stay cool, you know?”
“I know.”
Because I was the one who decided on that cheering slogan.
“Good, good. Then, after a while, let’s cheer up when the show comes out.”
The man said that and started chatting with the people around him again.
And I listened to the chatter.
‘Information about people who like Minji… This is what I need the most right now.’
The best way to make them feel responsible is with affection.
When you appreciate the hearts of people who like you, you naturally want to respond to their hearts.
In other words, as we want to return affection to those who give us affection, our sense of responsibility increases.
So, if you collect specific and vivid examples of how much these people like Minji and what they are into, it will be a great motivation to promote as an idol.
“Ha, to see Minji’s movement in person… Just imagining it makes me so happy…”
“Can Minji and I hold a fansign?”
“There hasn’t been a lot of Minji solo exhibitions so far, so I have to win this time. Let’s do our best with a small number of elites.”
“I changed it to a new phone, SpaceX23, because I wanted to film it properly.”
“Oh really? I heard that the camera performance is amazing?”
“Oh, I want to see you soon.”
“Yes, this is essential. If you’re going to be taking pictures, you should definitely wear this.”
“Should I change that too…”
“Dad, can I see you from here…?”
“Yeah, it will look good. Shall we go a little further?”
Among them, there was one conversation that strangely pulled my ears.
‘Was it a girl?’
The voice of a young girl who calls her father and the voice of a man who kindly responds to those words.
The Queens, plus Minji, was a really unique combination in a situation where male fans were overwhelming.
I think he’s the one who supports Minji for a different reason than the usual (?) Reason, but what kind of reason is that?
Curious, I went behind them.
***
The stage performance ended successfully.
The Queens’ performance succeeded in captivating the audience with Shin So-ye and Lim Ha-eun’s outstanding performances, and even though it was a group performance, they received an encore song.
In the process, Park Min-ji also performed diligently.
Just like before, in the sense of filling the minimum point as an idol.
“What’s the middle man’s name among the Queens kids? The performance was good.”
“Shin So-ye. I am the leader.”
“Wow, I thought the person in charge of the dance was amazing, but the vocals were even crazier. It gave me goosebumps when I saw him screaming for his solo part.”
“Im Ha-eun is a good singer these days. Would you like to listen to the single?”
“The leader performance is getting better every day. It doesn’t stop growing.”
“It sucks.”
“Ha… Really, all three of them have very… Amazing hearts…”
“Brother, what the hell were you looking at!?”
“The youngest was cute.”
“Huh. Although it’s a one-tool for the chest.”
“Chiggle.”
While the stage was over and people were leaving, The Queens, who were resting in the waiting area, were listening little by little to the people passing by.
It was a waiting area, and the space prepared was barely covered by a tent and a screen, so I could hear the voices of people leaving.
‘…I rarely talk about myself.’
Park Min-ji, who heard the story, fell into deep thoughts alone.
He wasn’t disappointed.
It’s true that his performance was lacking the most in the first place, and he’s rarely been able to monopolize fans’ support on stage until now.
After all, didn’t people just see their heart shaking and not like it?
There is nothing to look forward to, so there is nothing to be disappointed about.
Yeah, you won’t be disappointed.
‘Because I’m usually… That’s all.’
It was like that from the beginning when I joined this group.
Even in the unpopular days, the only thing that came out was about Shin So-ye and Im Ha-eun, and there was almost no talk about herself.
‘Do I need to become an idol?’
Anyway, my older sisters do everything, and I am a screenwriter.
There are not many people who want me as an idol.
She was Park Min-ji, who felt her heart suffocate just by looking back at the facts she already knew, but she soon brushed off the suffocation with another thought.
‘It’s okay… I just need my brother.’
Yes, I just need my brother.
The two older sisters will do well even without confidence, and there are few fans who will regret that she is not confident.
“Minji, let’s go.”
“Ah!?”
Park Min-ji was taken aback the moment Shin So-ye hit Park Min-ji, who was lost in thought.
“Why? Are you sick?”
“Oh, no… Nothing… No…”
Park Min-ji, who answered erratically, quietly followed So-ye Shin.
She looked quietly behind her on her back.
***
“Everyone did a great job. Let’s eat in the car and go to the next schedule. I’m sorry I don’t have a waiting room.”
“No, it’s not because of Sejin that there is no waiting room.”
“Here is the lunchbox.”
In the van, Yena Baek was busy handing out lunches to the children.
“Sejin, would you like to go buy something to drink with me?”
“Okay let’s go.”
As I followed Soye’s words and walked outside, she spoke to me in a worried voice.
“Me, Sejin.”
“Huh?”
“Minji… Is it okay?”
“Why all of a sudden? What happened?”
“No, nothing happened… I overheard everything the fans were saying when I was resting for a while in the back after the performance.”
There were many people who praised Soye and Haeun, but few people talked about Minji, and even they often said that Minji was not good.
The problem is that Minji heard it all, and she is worried that Minji will be disappointed.
“It will be fine.”
After hearing her story of her soye, I comforted her.
“Okay…?”
“Huh. There are people who like and support Minji.”
“Yeah, but…”
“I have heard and collected some of their stories. Besides, I’ve come up with a very nice plan.”
“…Huh? Collection? Plan?”
So-ye tilts her head at my words.
I laughed and explained her plan to her.
