chapter 3
3 – Call the police!
Episode 3
While looking for a community of agency job seekers, I realized something I had overlooked.
The fact that now I am not an A-level employee who has achieved numerous achievements as the manager of Flower Entertainment, but just an unemployed high school graduate with military service.
It was true that the management system, which was the cheat key itself, and the dozen years of experience leading the company were great, but there was no way to show them with the naked eye.
The only visible qualification is a driver’s license.
And with only a driver’s license, it was impossible to survive in Korea’s notoriously harsh employment market.
As soon as I got to the interview, I was confident that I could grill the interviewer with knowledge that only experienced people can know.
However, the problem was that I could not get to the interview with this poor document.
Don’t agencies do blind tests or something like that?
Even after washing my eyes and searching, there was nothing like that.
It was truly a pity.
To organize my thoughts, I walked across the bridge as a distraction.
Ah, I really don’t want to be a road manager in a small company… .
I really didn’t want to do it, but that was the only way I could think of.
I thought it was dead and I thought I would have to live on for about 2 or 3 years.
As I was walking, wondering which agency with the best prospects would accept high school graduates like me, I found a woman hanging on a railing.
Our eyes met as if the woman had noticed me too.
Then, as if waiting, a status window appeared.
[Name-Midwinter (Female)]
[Appearance-A- Potential A+]
[Vocal-C- Potential A]
[Dance-D+ Potential A]
[Lab-D- Potential B]
[Smoke-E- Potential C-]
[Entertainment-D Potential A+]
[This is a talent suitable for sub vocals. I highly recommend recruiting.]
Oh, he has tier 1 active potential.
I admired a little
It was a talent that could be counted as a debut group no matter which agency they went to.
I was a little curious about the reason why he attempted suicide by hanging from the railing of a bridge with such talent.
Of course, it was ‘a little bit’.
From my experience in the previous episode, I knew how tiring it would be to get involved in something like this, so that little bit of curiosity was easily suppressed.
I roughly cleared the status window.
She was looking at me with a gloomy aura.
I stood still looking at the status window, and it seemed that I had misunderstood something.
Perhaps he thought that I would hinder his suicide by admonishing him.
It was a very useless worry.
I wouldn’t know if it was before the regression, but now I had no intention of wasting money and time by getting involved in such a thing.
Whether it falls or not, you will figure it out yourself.
At that time, I heard a cheap mechanical sound and the quest window came to mind.
[Cheon Jong-hoon, who is in charge of SS’s new girl group project, is struggling to find the last member. Let’s sell the wannabe Midwinter and make a deal with him!]
[Reward – Future Fragments ‘Medium’ (No Monetary Gain Restriction)]
It was a rather odd request to sell the suicide girl he had just seen.
It wasn’t even an era of slavery, so how could you sell a person who was alive and well?
By the way, SS’s new girl group project? Chun Jong-hoon?
Wait, I must have heard this somewhere… .
While I was searching through memories of the past, a piece of information passed through my mind like a thunderbolt.
One year from now, Chun Jong-Hoon’s first project, SS’s first-team girl group Alcest, will debut.
Originally, Alcest was planned as a five-member girl group, but its final debut was made as a four-member group.
Cheon Jong-hun left a secret story about this in his autobiography.
According to his autobiography, it was said that there was great difficulty in choosing the final member.
As this is the first girl group she has been in charge of, she wanted to maintain Alcest’s unique cold and sharp color, while only consisting of members who are worthy of being called the best.
However, it was impossible to find a trainee who had both color and talent to fit the four members, and he chose to change the group to a four-member group rather than lowering Alcest’s status by adding half-decent members.
Although Alcest achieved sufficient commercial success, as a producer, I always thought that the five-member group was the perfect group, so I wrote that I still have regrets.
Now that we are in the midst of gathering members, the regret will be bigger, not smaller.
What would happen if I introduced that suicide woman to Cheon Jong-hoon?
By my standards, F is untalented, D is dull, C is average, and B is brilliant.
And A is called a genius.
I saw all the status windows of Alcest members in the previous episode.
As if Cheon Jong-hoon’s perfectionism wasn’t a lie, all four members were geniuses whose main ability score was A.
However, I didn’t think that the potential of the suicide woman I just saw was inferior to those.
Considering the average numbers, it actually seemed like they were one step ahead.
That’s right, the suicide girl’s potential was at the A level in both vocals and dancing.
This seemed to fit what Cheon Jong-hoon had hoped for.
What about the ‘color’ that Cheon Jong-Hoon was so concerned about?
First of all, the eyes looking at me were as cold as looking at an insect.
The color seemed to be roughly the same.
It was perfect.
If you introduce such a perfect trainee to him who felt helpless to the point of changing to a 4-member girl group, there will be no shortage of recognition for his ability.
If you ask him for a small favor after that, he won’t refuse it easily.
I was sure of this because I was an acquaintance of Cheon Jong-hoon in the previous episode and had been in a relationship for quite a long time.
It’s best to plug it into SS, but it’s okay if you don’t do that.
That could be a very uncomfortable request for Cheon Jong-hoon.
‘There is a man who has eyes to see. Just look at the interview.’
All you have to do is throw this one word at the person in charge.
Then, the person in charge who can’t ignore Chun Jong-hoon’s words will contact me once.
If such an opportunity arises, I can learn the rest through experience.
A demonstration show of the product called Regressor Manager becomes possible.
Even if things went wrong and you didn’t get the opportunity, the rewards offered by the system were enough to make it worth a try.
Since we had used that future fragment in the previous episode and seen the second place lotto number, there was a high probability that its contents would result in immediate gain.
The sentence (no restrictions on financial gain) may have such a meaning.
do. This is real.
This quest must be followed unconditionally.
As soon as I was sure, I turned around and ran back the way I had come.
I was afraid that I might fall while running, so I shouted loudly.
“Stop students! Suicide hurts!”
As if my bullsh*t had worked, she stopped what she was doing.
“hehehe… , heck.”
I did my best to catch my heated breath as I rushed over.
She passed by as if she wasn’t interested, then suddenly came back and looked at me as if I was an idiot as I was admonishing her.
It was a look that made you feel like you had to look away right away, but it wasn’t as spicy as the treatment given by Ban Sang-cheol.
First, we had to stop that woman’s suicide attempt.
What is the most effective way to stop someone from committing suicide?
My mind was spinning and I was searching for an answer.
I struggled to find the optimal answer through persuasion, threats, violence, empathy, humor, etc.
Humor can backfire if the code is not right.
Threats or violence could lead to a backlash and create a worst-case scenario.
Persuasion requires talking too much in principle.
I made the best of all assumptions.
Let’s go with empathy.
“Isn’t life easy?”
“… .”
“It would be embarrassing to have a strange man suddenly appear and say something like this. You may get angry and wonder why you are pretending to know something. But what if we think that there is one more person here who was hurt?”
“… .”
“… It’s a story that’s nothing to hide. “I have attempted suicide before.”
He took off his shirt and showed the scars on his wrists.
It was a wound caused by a stone fragment thrown in an exquisite position while mowing in the army.
At first glance, it looked like a cut on the wrist.
“I took a lot of sleeping pills and committed it in a hazy state of mind. It was quite dangerous because I couldn’t properly determine if this was a dream or if I cut my arm.”
Of course it’s a lie.
“Of course, you might think it’s different because it was done in a crazy state, but it was true that there were so many of them.”
This is a lie too.
“I don’t think life is easy. “What you thought was the best thing could end up being the worst, and even if you tried your best at the wrong time, it could end up getting worse.”
“… .”
“You may feel helpless, as if the world has abandoned you because no one is helping you or caring about you. But it doesn’t mean there isn’t anyone who can help.”
Even as I said it, it was something I couldn’t relate to at all.
Let alone someone to help you, you’ll be lucky if someone like Ban Sang-cheol doesn’t hit you in the back.
However, because I thought that what a suicide attempter needed was dreams and hope, not a bleak reality, I continued with my bullsh*t.
“If you can’t think of someone like that right now, I’ll help you. Since you’re an adult, it might be helpful. So, why don’t you come down from the railing and talk about it?”
Her eyes were shaking wildly.
It was not clear whether it was a positive or negative signal.
I just hoped it was a sign before I came down from the ledge.
“… I.”
She closed her eyes tightly and opened her mouth as if she had made up her mind.
“I wasn’t trying to commit suicide.”
“… ok?”
She put her foot down on the railing as if nothing had happened, stood up normally, and spoke.
“I didn’t mean to commit suicide.”
Ah, it was a misunderstanding.
Only then did I see her properly.
Her hair was blonde with a hint of black, as if she had bleached her hair at home, and her bangs had pink hair rollers for curls, and her red Samdidas jersey looked as neat as if she had bought it yesterday.
The school uniform skirt was shortened to the point where it seemed like it wouldn’t get caught, and the sharp eyeliner on her sharp face, as if she were chewing gum, made her look like she had a deeper interest in soju and cigarettes than in textbooks.
Lastly, there was a butterfly tattoo on his neck.
It was close to a typical one-on-one situation.
He seemed too full of vitality to be considered a suicidal person.
After realizing the situation, I quickly apologized.
“I’m sorry for the misunderstanding.”
It wasn’t that he was glaring at me out of suspicion that he was trying to prevent me from committing suicide, but rather that he was just glaring at me because he didn’t like my face.
However, there was one question that remained unresolved.
“But why did you try to climb over the railing of the bridge so high that you would definitely die if you fell?”
“that… .”
She hesitated, perhaps because the question was difficult.
It seemed like he didn’t want to talk.
While she was thinking about how to persuade that child to follow her introduction to Cheon Jong-hun, she suddenly started crying.
“Black… “hehehe, hehehe, hehehe, hehehe!”
“No, why are you like that? “Talk to me, I will help you.”
She answered in gibberish, with tears and snot running down her face.
“Black… My wallet slipped in my pocket… . I was trying to pick it up, but I accidentally kicked it… “Black.”
I tried my best to focus on what she was saying.
According to her, she had come up from the countryside to attend an audition and had accidentally pushed her wallet over the railing to stay in Seoul.
I asked her if she understood correctly.
“I was trying to pick it up because I was worried that the wallet I had pushed away might not be caught in the suicide prevention net, right?”
She nodded her head, crying like a dog, not matching her iljin-like appearance.
Having grasped the situation, I said exactly what came to my mind.
“Didn’t you just think about calling the cops…?” .”
A person almost died trying to pick up a wallet.