Grab the Regressor by the Collar and Debut!

Chapter 83. MIRO MAZE (1)

Here, there was a girl.

“Ha, damn it. K-pop is dead.”

Don’t be surprised.

Compared to finding out that the oppa, to whom I had dedicated my bank account and heart while wailing over the millennium’s banquet, was simultaneously announcing his premarital pregnancy and wedding articles, this was a very gentle reaction. (And that too, just two weeks before the fan club’s foundation day!)

“Who told you not to find love? Who told you not to get married? Why now, of all times, why now!”

It was only two months ago that the fandom almost shattered because another member was spotted at a club.

He’s an adult anyway, so what’s the big deal if he goes to a club?

“Shouldn’t he have at least thought about covering his face, especially since he has a record of underage drinking and smoking photos in the past, damn it!!!!”

Even the fans who had been defending him with “Yes, our kid might have been a delinquent, but it wasn’t school violence, so stop fabricating stories,” finally gave up and left just a few months ago!

With the mass exodus of notable fans, the bickering among personal fandoms, and the external aggro and ridicule, the public sentiment was torn apart. The excitement for the fan club foundation day had barely managed to patch things up a little while ago!!

“But what, marriage? M~arriage? Getting married when he hasn’t even done his military service? And it’s premarital pregnancy?!”

The girl thought.

Ah, at what point should I have given up?

“From the moment he invited his girlfriend to the concert to introduce her to his parents? From the moment he kept wearing the wristwatch she bought him during his schedules? From the moment he showed signs of dull, lifeless eyes at the fan signing event while pretending to block a fake knife?”

Listing it all out just made it more miserable, damn it.

“It’s remarkable that I haven’t left the fandom until now.”

Anyway, this is the problem with digging too deeply into idols.

It’s beneficial for fangirling to be ignorant of certain things, but I kept finding out things I didn’t need to know.

This marriage article was actually already being whispered about among the fans who favored that member the most. They just denied reality by fully activating their delusion circuits 24/7.

“I loved you, you bastard…. Dreaming of seeing you at Jamsil and the Arena and receiving the grand prize was all just my own fantasy.”

With (nonexistent) tears (squeezed out) in her eyes, the girl deleted the folder of her favorite’s photos stored in her gallery. She even meticulously wiped out everything remaining in the trash folder to avoid facing them later as a ghost.

“K-pop no longer exists for me.”

Having been a fangirl for a few years, she found that they all seemed the same.

This time, she had decided it was truly her last K-pop obsession when she picked him.

The oppa she had before this one went to jail for drug use.

The one before that was a person who listed and displayed the gifts from fans, so she left the fandom.

“No, at this point, isn’t the problem with me, really?”

By now, she couldn’t tell if it was just the oppas she picked that acted like this or if the whole K-pop boy group scene was doomed.

Anyway, the girl thought.

This time, I’ll really quit K-pop and live my real life.

Instead of focusing on oppas, I’ll save my barely-passing grades, which are suffering from skipping classes for fan events…!

– Sweetie, you’ve got a message ♥

“Ah, damn it, you scared me!!”

Startled by the (ex-)favorite’s cute voice she wasn’t prepared for, the girl threw her phone.

“…Oh, right, I set that up after downloading it from Bluebird recently.”

She had set that as her KakaoTalk notification sound when someone extracted and uploaded the voice clip, which was clearly meant to please the fans from a self-content video.

When she had her fan goggles on, she was thrilled, thinking it sounded so real….

Now, knowing the TMI about the premarital pregnancy, she felt even more disgusted, thinking he must have been considering his fiancée when he said that line.

“Change it, change it.”

The girl quickly changed all the notification sounds, ringtones, colorings, and even the background image. Then, she checked the KakaoTalk message.

The sender was her only female blood relative.

She was the one who introduced her to this cursed K-pop world and lived as a die-hard fan, eventually joining an entertainment company herself.

“Ugh, so annoying!”

She usually didn’t like her (ex-)favorite, but today she seemed to have chosen this moment to nag her, right?

What made her even more frustrated was that she didn’t have a proper rebuttal. Eventually, the girl (this time truly) typed with tears in her eyes.

After teasing her for a while, her sister comforted her with a carrot right before her feelings really got hurt.

“Ha…. Yoon Jae-hee, you know me too well.”

The current time was 7 PM.

As her sister said, she hadn’t eaten anything since the article was released earlier, losing her appetite, and now she was getting hungry.

Great, I’ll order something expensive. Feeling much better, the girl replied.

Ah, caught.

Then, soon, she received an iTube link…

Ding,

Ding,

Ding,

…No, several links.

What?

The girl checked the videos her sister sent.

“Ah, is this that thing? Miro Survival.”

These were the ones that the friends who left the fandom recently were spying on with their private accounts.

She remembered occasionally seeing pictures from those private accounts. They were the new faces that even kidnapped the already dwindling fandom….

“Shall I give it a try?”

At her sister’s mention

of the double eyelid angel, the girl quickly forgot her resolution to quit K-pop made just a few minutes ago.

It’s not that she intended to find a new bias, but she was curious about the double eyelid angel her sister had been talking about for months.

Feeling much better with the thought of spicy chicken feet and soju, the girl upgraded her sister’s contact name to . Of course, she’d change it back if something annoyed her again, but for now, she was in “our precious sister mode.”

“Alright. Let’s give it a try then.”

Ah, but I forgot to ask the double eyelid angel’s name.

The girl pondered for a moment but decided to ask when her sister arrived and lay down on the sofa.

Then, with a light heart, she clicked on the preview link her sister sent.

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Soda???? @soda_lll

K-pop is eternal

Lee Doha Kang Hajin definitely debut, damn it

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ProfessorPleaseNoMoreAssignments???? @tlqkfrytn

lolololololololololololololololololol You too? Me too^^

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SoftBear???? @malang2

Ah, sis lololololololol

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Saerok???? @saerokk

Is this worth watching? All my friends are talking about this these days

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SoftBear???? @malang2

This airs today!

But the PD is Kwon Myungeun

He does a lot of idol reality and music shows

No evil editing and creates good characters

I’m looking forward to it lol

Give it a try

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Saerok???? @saerokk

Oh, if it airs today, I’ll check it out lol

“Crazy, I ended up watching everything….”

Unable to resist, the girl covered her mouth after tweeting on her private account.

She had only intended to watch the preview for a bit, but before she knew it, she had watched all the related videos and even followed Miro Maze’s official account. She almost created a new account for Miro Maze but barely restrained herself by tweeting on her private account.

“Calm down, Yoon Se-eun. No matter how sudden love can be, this is like a bolt from the blue.”

But her hands naturally clicked on another related video on iTube. She even took out the tablet she had hidden deep in her bag, charged it, and watched it for a better view.

“Why are there so many teasers when the first episode hasn’t even aired yet!”

It was a happy scream.

Releasing a monthly evaluation video before the broadcast, are they crazy? (It means she loves it)

And they’re giving it without any cut edits, with a fixed front camera full cam? (It means she’s overjoyed)

Uploading it without any background music, letting you hear every footstep? (It means she’s thankful to death)

In the much larger and clearer video on the tablet, five tall and handsome guys were performing an elaborate group dance.

Tearing through the night, Knight, those who hope for a new morning on the street

Since the on-site sound was released as it was, the sound quality wasn’t the best, but it was rather good.

It made the powerful vocals of (my) boys (already!) feel even more vivid.

“This must be the double eyelid angel, 100%. Yoon Jae-hee, your taste is like a pine tree.”

Even rolling left and right, the trainee who was her sister’s type looked quite good to her eyes too. If she didn’t have a heart that only responded to rappers, she might have picked him as her one pick.

“Ha, please be friends with our Doha, be friends…. I found some sighting stories with Seo Taehyun.”

The girl, who had become “our Doha” from “a trainee who raps a bit” in just 30 minutes, watched Lee Doha’s rap part with satisfaction, praying fervently. She logged into SNS to search for any tidbits she might have missed about the two.

“Oh, there’s something.”

She clicked on the most popular mention at the top of the trending tab.

Rossy Day @rossy_1017

I was curious about the 1st teaser ending guy

So I looked at roughly height, back, hair color

And matched it with the preview and 2nd teaser

Roughly looking at the back and height

Kang Hajin Lee Doha Lee Yugeon are the strong candidates

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Rossy Day @rossy_1017

But Lee Yugeon has

Platinum blond hair in the 2nd teaser

(He had red hair in the performance video

He must have bleached it again… Is his hair okay?)

The ending cut has dark hair

Yugeon is out

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Rossy Day @rossy_1017

So it’s either Doha or Hajin

My reason for thinking it’s Hajin is

First of all, Doha doesn’t seem like the type

To jump in so confidently

(I’ve been following Doha since his underground days, no arguments)

The voice over the line sounds like Hajin’s style

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Rossy Day @rossy_1017

(Preview “Let’s win, Team A guys” voice video)

(1st teaser “We have to go up, it says to reach the sun” voice video)

If you watch these, the tone and voice sound like Hajin’s style

And when you look closely when the light isn’t shining…

“Oh, this is definitely Hajin. Doha was wearing a jersey.”

Muttering in deep immersion while reading the thread carefully, the girl slowed down the teaser videos she had watched five times at 0.25 speed. The captures of Doha and Hajin fleetingly appearing in the corners or very briefly increased.

“Damn, why is my gallery so disorganized.”

A new folder was created in the phone gallery that had been completely wiped of the (ex)oppa’s traces just an hour ago.

To prove her newly discovered clues, the girl ended up creating a new public account for Miro Maze.

And she quoted the thread, adding the captures she found.

Harang @dohajin_luv

(pictures)

This is definitely Hajin

If you look, Doha is wearing a jersey

And Hajin isn’t

The ending guy’s outfit is similar to Hajin’s

Watching the rapid likes and retweets with satisfaction, Se-eun had no choice but to acknowledge in the end.

“Love is a bolt from the blue….”

The new saviors who would wreck my life this time are these guys.

…It was summer, though it was early May now. Anyway, that’s how it was.