Chapter 162 – 162. Reversal
Practice room.
Since last weekend, I have only been to this place and the gym.
I can’t even count exactly how many drops of sweat I shed here, and I don’t know how many more I will have to shed in the future.
What is certain is that I felt as refreshed as I did when I was here in the past.
But not now.
Even though I’ve been sweating for a while, I don’t feel refreshed at all.
There is no sense of accomplishment or satisfaction that I made an effort today.
“Good job, everyone~”
“Oh, it’s hard. Let’s wash quickly.”
“Thank you for your hard work!”
Even as Hinami and her sisters finished practicing and started packing up their bags, I didn’t feel like moving at all.
All you have to do is just lie there and let the sweat flow.
I want to stand on stage as soon as possible, or I want to meet my fans and sing.
I didn’t have that natural desire at all.
Once I thought that all my efforts and passion would turn into something for that man’s entertainment anyway, I felt like a fool.
“Jia, what are you doing? I have to get off work. “Are you not going?”
“… “Wait a minute.”
I guess I should say that I’m glad that my relationship with Hinami is at least okay.
In fact, it’s strange to even say that I’m fine.
When the two of us talk, I treat Kang Joo-hyuk as if he doesn’t exist and don’t talk to him at all, so Hinami also follows suit, so it just seems like the relationship went back to the way it was before Kang Joo-hyuk showed up.
I have no idea what he’s thinking inside.
It wouldn’t be strange at all if you treated me like a fool like your sister and Kang Joo-hyuk.
Even though I was so suspicious, I couldn’t stay away from Hinami.
If that were the case, there would really be no one left around me.
“Wake up. Let’s go wash quickly.”
“Okay.”
I grabbed Hinami’s hand as she tried to help me up and dragged me to the company shower room.
I go into the insanely clean shower booth separately and wipe off my sweat while listening to the humming of the girls in the group who entered first.
Normally, this song would have meant the end of a rewarding day.
To me now, I was rather afraid.
… I have to stand on stage again someday.
It needs to get the public’s attention.
The more,
That Kang Joo-hyuk would consider me a more attractive prey.
Everything.
**
Fortunately, I quickly got into the new manager’s car and returned home.
Hinami went back to her house seemingly calmly, and I was also able to safely enter her house.
Unlike the previous manager, the new manager is a slightly taller and larger man.
I felt foolish, perhaps because I was still in the training period, but I didn’t feel as shady as the previous manager.
I didn’t really think that people were nice.
To put it bluntly, it feels similar to Kang Joo-hyuk.
However, he was not as shameless as that man, he had a grotesque body, or showed malicious intent toward me, so I didn’t feel scared.
In some ways, I felt at ease because they didn’t treat me special.
Just one.
If the new manager hadn’t shown up, I would have been stuck commuting to work in Kang Joo-hyuk’s car for a while.
That became impossible, so I was very thankful for that.
“Whoa…”
Fortunately, the original manager seemed to be keeping calm.
There is no news of any disturbances, and there are no signs of spreading my story anywhere.
It’s so bizarre that I can’t see any traces, and even the team leader just told me that things were being resolved well and didn’t say anything more.
Obviously, the person involved in the incident is me, and the only witnesses, excluding the team leader who came later, are Hinami and Kang Joo-hyuk.
I even had dangerous thoughts about whether I had made an extreme choice, but if I had, no one would have been able to show off like I am now.
Maybe it has disappeared from this country.
Anyway, 2 years in prison would be the limit at most, and he might be released on probation.
Maybe it could have been dealt with completely.
… Even if it’s not like putting it somewhere, it’s just about kicking it out of the country.
I didn’t think it was impossible.
The entertainment industry is a place where it is not strange even if something like that happens.
“I’ve been there.”
After being lost in thought for a while, I get off the elevator and step into the entrance.
As soon as I entered the house, I replaced the hot summer air with a cool breeze, put clean clothes on my clean body, and laid down on the sofa.
If I just blankly turn on the TV, it’s funny, but I always see myself on the screen.
I am shining amidst the bright lights and many cameras that hurt my eyes.
It was fun and helpful to look back on this in the past.
I can’t look straight now.
An idol who shines like that doesn’t look like me at all.
I don’t have the confidence to shine like that in the future.
I change the channel, erase myself from the screen, and turn on any other channel.
Hard-to-read arrows and numbers bob up and down, and men in suits talk about things that are hard to understand.
That doesn’t sound too bad, so I throw away the remote control and grab my phone, using the TV sound as white noise.
And then I carefully search my name one by one.
I wonder if someone noticed me wandering around last weekend.
Searching all communities to the point where it seems pathological.
Only after confirming that there were no photos of me from that day, I was able to calm down and eat in peace.
Likewise, without knowing how much more I should eat, I eat the diet as slowly as possible and then just sit there in a daze.
… The day will end like this.
Is it weekend again starting tomorrow?
Sua doesn’t play games much these days either.
When Hinami spends time hanging out with me, she wants to be more cute to that guy.
Is meeting briefly at the gym and chatting between the three of us all there is to do on the weekend?
Even that was a routine that would end once Su-ah quits her part-time job.
… Actually, the only reason I went to Kang Joo-hyuk’s gym was because of Su-ah.
It was clearly someone who intentionally became friendly with Kang Joo-hyuk in order to screw him over.
Now things have changed so much that I can’t even imagine anything like that.
At one point, I felt like I was her crazy bitch for trying to use her as her her her her her her her her her her her.
While I was endlessly leaning on the chair and enjoying the emptiness and loneliness,
… A notification has arrived on your phone.
When I looked at the lock without opening it, a small blue bird greeted me on the screen.
There was no point in worrying about whose DM it was.
That account only had one follower anyway.
-If you are at home, come down for a moment
With just one really short word, the emptiness and loneliness that had enveloped me so coldly disappeared like a lie.
Instead, fear and anger wrapped around my body.
What are they planning to do again this time?
What do you want from me?
How far must I cross the line before I can even have the heart to rebel?
Enough to be engulfed in such worries.
“…”
As soon as I see the DM, I don’t even sigh, I just put on a cardigan and slippers and trudge downstairs.
Anyway, my sister will be there at this time.
The goal is probably to undermine my self-esteem by playing an unbecoming prank again.
Instead of changing my shabby clothes like they wanted, I proudly unlock the door in my name and open the door.
“Why?”
“Hey, ring the bell and come in.”
“… “Why did you call me?”
“Oh, it’s nothing special. “This.”
As soon as I stepped into the front door, the person who had been waiting for me walked out and threw something at me.
I didn’t understand what this was for a moment, but after accepting it, I was able to recognize what it was.
The last time I stayed here for a while, my lounge clothes I brought from upstairs and wore.
I thought everything had been collected and put back to its original state, but it seemed like there was one set left.
… That’s a good excuse.
Why bother stocking up on things like this?
“I thought it was Ha-eun’s clothes, so I folded them and put them away, but she said this morning that they weren’t hers.”
“… So.”
“Why are you doing this? “It’s your clothes, so take them.”
I wondered what on earth he was going to do in the name of this, but contrary to my sarcastic question, he made a dumb expression and looked at me strangely.
I felt strangely offended by those eyes that seemed to have no interest in me at all, so I frowned, took off my slippers, and stepped into the living room.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
“What about your sister? Where did you go?”
“I went filming. “I have to bring him later.”
“What are you filming?”
“Ah, rather than filming. Should I call it a broadcast? A girl she cosplayed with at the event the other day asked her if she could come on her show, so she did. “I didn’t know who he was, but when I looked, he had quite a few subscribers.”
… Ha.
In this way, you are calling me when my sister is not around.
I was complacent.
I thought my sister would never leave that person’s side.
“… “What kind of broadcast is this?”
“Looking at it, it was originally a game broadcast, right? There are about 200,000 subscribers. “We have a higher number of views.”
“What on earth are you going to say in a place like that?” .”
“He will take care of it. Ha-eun is not in the same situation as you.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“You’re saying she’s different from you.” Even if she goes around saying that she lives with me, it doesn’t really matter.”
… Just hearing you say it, made me a little annoyed because it felt like I had a special relationship with that person.
At least it wasn’t wrong in that it had a completely different impact when it became an issue, so it was difficult to say anything more.
She had already known that her sister would do various things in the future anyway.
As her older sister she got busier, it was expected that that man would try to fill her vacancy with me.
While she was thinking that if it was just a matter of giving her a drink and groping her, she would just spit on her and move on,
“Well, anyway. Because I returned the clothes. You can go back. “I’m done with my business.”
“Yes?”
“What is ‘yes?’ Go back. “Do you have something to say to me?”
“… No, I don’t have one.”
“Then go. “You don’t want to be here either.”
“…”
It’s really embarrassing.
The day he set foot in the living room, he kicked me out again.
Even though I should definitely be happy that nothing happened,
I really don’t understand, but his head is hot.
After the front door slammed shut, I had no choice but to instinctively kick the wall.
… I happened to be wearing slippers.
The limit was to kick so timidly that it didn’t even make a sound.
