The Idol Who Returned from Hell Chapter 175

“Are you going to be mean and abandon us to go to Section B?”

“What do you mean mean? Your fingers are just too slow, so what do you want me to do about it?”

“I told you not to rub salt in the wound, girl!”

“You brought up that topic first, girl.”

Song Ji-won and her friends were as harmonious as always.

If there was a slight difference, today was a conversation where truly more than 100% sincerity was exchanged.

The topic was none other than fan meeting seats.

The operation planned with her classmates was this.

Naturally, they put floor seats as first priority on their list to see CENTIX up close.

But when they checked public opinion the day before ticketing, posts saying floor resale prices would soar to 800,000 won were everywhere.

In other words, scalpers were planning to enter this competition with the power of macros.

No matter how long their fangirl experience, they couldn’t confidently say they had reflexes and luck to definitively beat machines.

So Song Ji-won and her classmates subtly lowered their tails.

While nominally aiming for floor seats, if it seemed impossible, they’d quickly shift their gaze to second floor sections.

Song Ji-won didn’t completely misunderstand her classmates’ cautious approach.

But she felt a bit defiant.

CENTIX’s monumental first fan meeting where she was dedicating everything to fangirling.

At this glorious occasion, she should occupy the front row and properly see the members’ faces.

So she approached ticketing with the mindset of taking risks and unconditionally targeting first floor rather than second floor sections…

She broke through the powerful macro pressure and proudly secured Section B Row 4, called the best prime spot!

Her classmates had been staring at Song Ji-won’s mobile ticket, worth its weight in gold for today only, for quite a while.

Around the time she wanted her phone back. Song Ji-won’s eyes caught a decidedly unpleasant scene.

“Hey, hey, girls. Give me my phone quickly. We need to run.”

“Suddenly why are we running—?”

“Look ahead! There’s already a line like that!”

“Wow.”

A giant CENTIX standee placed in front of the large white tent.

In front of it, a long queue reminiscent of amusement park ride lines was already forming.

Song Ji-won grabbed her bangs desperately and started running.

‘I came 2 hours early on purpose to buy goods before they sold out!’

There are things that can’t be missed on special event days.

Among them, event-exclusive goods that agencies essentially prepare.

Items sold temporarily only on the event day and never sold again, so their rarity value is precious enough to break through the ceiling.

Of course, member support placards, pickets, photo cards, etc. are items that can be self-made anytime with money.

But buying goods on the day of the event versus making them later feels completely different.

Moreover, what kind of company is Rave Entertainment?

Even though their management skills are terrible, they’re a place with capital power second to none.

The fan meeting exclusive goods that appeared in previews a few days ago boasted overwhelming quality as expected.

The number of captured and retweeted posts about those announcement posts was enormous, showing MILLENNIUM had finished preparing to open their wallets early.

The result was revealed before her eyes like this.

“Can I buy the name tag set? I’ve been waiting so long to buy this…”

“Probably everyone who came here is thinking the same thing, right?”

“Well, the company people also knew in advance and prepared generous quantities. Surely they won’t have the phenomenon of selling out right in front of us.”

“Don’t say such jinxing things.”

The line should get shorter as people in front leave.

But more crowds started gathering behind Song Ji-won, making the length increase instead.

‘At least I’m thankful I’m not at the very back.’

While waiting, she double-checked the MD product list she’d written in her phone’s memo pad in advance.

Hard-earned monthly salary exists to be blown on days like this.

She really planned to spend without any regrets.

‘But this comeback had definite returns for the money invested!’

The money invested in [Sixth Wing] was considerable.

With the determination to get signed polaroids that she’d tried so hard for in the first album but couldn’t even see.

She didn’t just order albums, but thoroughly visited temporarily opened music popup stores to participate in events. Plus the official cafe music purchase verification events and self-content live viewing events that occasionally came up.

As a result of such efforts, Song Ji-won obtained one dreamed-of signed polaroid.

Although it wasn’t her bias Ryu Si-hwan but Yu Ha-woon who appeared, the member wasn’t a big problem.

Signed polaroids are valuable just by existing.

While entrusting her body to the slowly moving line, Song Ji-won accessed the community.

MILLENNIUM who bought goods as soon as the goods booth opened must have posted spoiler posts about the future.

[My scratch ticket failed like a dog T_T]

As expected, my luck couldn’t follow me this far T_T….. I really wanted that clock bracelet T_T T_T 300 people is too harsh T_T At least it’s not the last place prize, I guess

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Fan meeting goods scratch ticket 3rd place prize random 3 photo cards Si-hyeok, Hwi, Seon-woo photos. If there’s someone with good hands later, please photoshop all six members’ photo cards together

Separate from tickets, the goods quality is amazing lol. Worth flexing with pocket money I saved up~~ Definitely worth it

I can see why name tag sets were so popular. If you hang this on bags or pencil cases, it’ll be really pretty + members’ ID photo concept pictures are a bonus for real

“Oh, there’s a surprise event?”

“Surprise event?”

When Song Ji-won showed the post mentioning scratch tickets, her classmates got excited simultaneously.

“Hey, we could aim for a big hit in one go. What’s this clock bracelet thing?”

“I don’t know either.”

She looked hard for posts about what the scratch ticket first place clock bracelet looked like, but no winner verification posts seemed to have been uploaded yet.

She was curious what the real thing looked like.

“Well, lucky winners will probably upload real photos in about an hour.”

“Can’t we be those lucky winners?”

“Come on. I know my reality.”

“Don’t include me in your misfortune.”

Song Ji-won also secretly hoped the clock bracelet with the title of first place would fall into her hands, but she quickly shook her head and emptied her greed.

‘Getting one signed polaroid already used up my 6 months’ worth of luck.’

Eventually the end of waiting became visible.

Song Ji-won and her classmates stamped their feet while watching foreigners ahead of them ordering goods in broken Korean.

Wanting to quickly swipe their cards to see the gorgeous MD products and mysterious scratch tickets.

Finally Song Ji-won’s turn came.

“What products would you like?”

“Ah, yes! First, please give me one support picket for each member, and do you have name tag sets left?”

“Yes.”

“Then 3 name tag sets and 3 photo card sets, and…”

Fortunately, the hottest items of name tags and ID photo sets were still surviving.

Song Ji-won confidently handed over her pre-written list and swiped her card with a satisfied feeling.

The MD booth staff who quickly took out products with swift hand movements checked the receipt then said to Song Ji-won.

“Since you purchased over 50,000 won, I’ll give you one lucky scratch ticket. Please check your ranking at the side table there and receive your prize.”

“Thank you!”

So it was a ticket provided only to people who purchased over 50,000 won.

Song Ji-won looked at her receipt that easily exceeded 200,000 won and swallowed slight disappointment.

Couldn’t people who bought a lot get two tickets instead of one?

‘Well, if people who bought more got multiple tickets, only heavy spenders would monopolize everything. This is more fair.’

She carefully scratched off the silver part covered by the card edge.

The moment she blew away the powder without much expectation.

‘Huh?’

She looked down thinking she’d see a curved number, but what came back was the straight number 1.

Song Ji-won felt her brain stop for a moment.

A moment when she couldn’t distinguish whether this scene her eyes were seeing was real or not.

Her classmate scratching tickets beside her screamed tremendously loud.

“Hey, heyyy! Crazy! Hey, Song Ji-won got first place! She’s insane!”

“What? First place?”

“Don’t lie—”

“It’s real! Hey, show it quickly!”

Song Ji-won suddenly found herself waving her first place winning ticket around the neighborhood.

Only after barely calming down her excited friend could she receive the first place prize from the MD booth staff.

“Here it is. Ah, and could you write down your phone number? We need to collect personal information to prevent reselling.”

Since it’s such a limited event product, there would definitely be scalpers aiming for a windfall opportunity.

They seemed to have created this procedure to prevent that even a little.

Song Ji-won, who left her number, was still dazed while receiving the luxurious sky blue case.

She still didn’t know if this was really real or not.

“Open it, quickly!”

“Hey, this is crazy. We’re seeing the real bracelet that hasn’t even been posted in communities with our own eyes? Right next to us?”

“No, why is this sister so lucky lately? Following the polaroid with this isn’t a bit much, right?”

The moment she witnessed the real bracelet due to surrounding encouragement, reality hit.

“It’s so pretty.”

A silver bracelet with a small clock-shaped decoration attached.

Looking closely, she could see clock hands stopped at exactly 12 o’clock.

A scene suddenly flashed through her mind.

The day CENTIX’s light stick, aka ‘clock stick,’ first lit up in front of the members.

Back then, they collectively gathered the lights to draw a clock shape.

It was a bracelet design reminiscent of that time.

The clock bracelet itself was enough.

But Song Ji-won discovered a message card attached to the top of the case.

“Gasp.”

And she was instantly breathless.

[Hello, MILLENNIUM! This is Si-hwan. I’m not sure if you’ll like the surprise gift we prepared. We chose a bracelet you could wear comfortably because we want to be with MILLENNIUM every day. Let’s promise to make wonderful memories together going forward. Let’s enjoy today’s fan meeting too! I love you♡]

A message card with Ryu Si-hwan’s handwritten message and signature.

The community post definitely said there were 300 total winners.

Then this message card must be randomly included too.

‘…I broke through the first place winning probability and also won Si-hwan’s message card?’

Song Ji-won thought she might suddenly collapse.

She’d never been this lucky before.

Her classmate, more excited than her, laughed while giving her a rough headlock.

“Hey, still, thinking about how Ji-won has been fangirling since 〈ISL 2〉 days, she deserves this level of reward! Right? Honestly, if it wasn’t for her, Si-hwan couldn’t have debuted~. She’s the main person who hit the jackpot with that early prediction battle and even sent the bus.”

“Wow, I forgot about the prediction battle.”

“How can you forget that?”

She naturally smiled at her friend’s words.

‘Right, let me brag a bit too!’

She hadn’t even entered the fan meeting venue yet, but her heart already felt like it would burst.

Song Ji-won carefully put on the bracelet while making a resolution in her heart.

She would play until she collapsed today.