The Idol Who Returned from Hell Chapter 87

Throughout the filming of 〈Idol Stove League Season 2〉, I had seen Kang Seon-woo’s smiling face.

Since he was always running at the end of tension, he showed unreachable madness like laughing at really trivial things or wildly hitting the arms or backs of people next to him.

There were a few times when this Kang Seon-woo briefly fell into despair.

“Wh-why is that thing appearing here again!”

Right when the lottery machine that had gifted him the nightmare of random draws appeared.

During the first team battle, starting from when I deliberately picked another group to tease Kang Seon-woo, he acquired the extremely wicked [Cute face (aegyo) 3-Set] in the subsequent self-PR video topic draw.

So after that experience, he was gripped by trauma and writhed in agony just from seeing this lottery machine.

Really ironically, roommate assignments were decided by this machine.

“Our Seon-woo seems to really dislike the lottery machine—?”

“Ah, ahaha! Haha! No, no! Originally all traumas exist to be overcome!”

To Jo Seung-soo PD’s question, Kang Seon-woo tried to act hearty, but.

“Brother, see you later.”

“That’s unfortunate. What can we do.”

“Brother Seon-woo said he wanted to room with Brother Si-hwan so much. That’s unfortunate.”

“Ah, I haven’t even drawn yet, you bastards! Why are you already talking like you pity me!”

The members who liked teasing Kang Seon-woo were already thoroughly making fun of him.

I sighed and stood up first.

“Then may I draw first?”

“Yes, then Si-hwan, please spin the lottery machine first. Inside the capsule that comes out the exit, there will be one number written. You can enter the room marked with that number.”

Maybe it’s because I’ve done all kinds of probability games in 〈ISL 2〉.

I really casually drew a capsule without any thought and opened it.

“My room number is this.”

After quickly showing the paper with the number [3] written on it to the camera, I moved with my carrier that didn’t have much luggage.

{Master, see you later!}

‘Yeah. Just sleep.’

{How can I sleep when it’s this noisy!}

By the way, Cerberus was lying very comfortably in a dedicated house prepared in one corner of the living room.

The planning director probably made that urgent phone call during the meeting to prepare Cerberus’s quarters.

Room 3 was on the second floor.

Walking slowly up the stairs, I gave appropriate reactions to the cameras installed here and there.

“Room 3, room 3… Is this it.”

The CENTIX dorm room I entered after opening the door was much more comfortable than I thought.

The studio apartment I’d been living in since returning from hell only had a bed and a lamp with no other furniture.

This room was full of various furniture from wardrobes to desks and full-length mirrors.

‘First of all, the room is too spacious?’

I expected it to be somewhat spacious since it needed to fit 2 beds.

Looking around the room with space more excellent than I imagined, a smile naturally formed even without intending it.

While organizing my luggage and recalling the old Black Hash Entertainment days.

“Waaah!”

“What, what! Hey, hey, don’t come!”

A roar came from downstairs.

“Is something wrong?”

When I asked the PD who was discretely waiting outside the room, they said a room was just completed following behind me.

Roughly listening to the voices, it seemed Seong-hwi and Ma Si-hyeok were assigned to the same room.

‘That side will also be chaotic.’

Imagining Ma Si-hyeok clicking around like a robot every moment, I thought the variety show content would definitely come out.

Now there were 3 people left.

Honestly, whether Chae Ha-ru or Yu Ha-woon came, the room atmosphere would be similar.

‘Or not. If Yu Ha-woon comes, it might get noisy.’

Yu Ha-woon, who showed chatting skills comparable to Kang Seon-woo once he got started, would still be better for my ear health than Kang Seon-woo coming.

And considering Kang Seon-woo’s spectacular drawing record from the beginning, I predicted the probability of him entering my room was very low.

“Si, Si-hwan!”

“…Huh?”

As if he had won an award at a film festival, Kang Seon-woo covered his mouth and grabbed the door handle, and a trot lyric automatically played in my head.

I naturally imagined subtitles and background music being added to the broadcast.

‘Why are you coming out from there?’

“I, I did it! I beat that damn lottery machine!”

“Uh, uh, yeah—.”

“I told you, don’t underestimate this brother!”

With that single word, Kang Seon-woo threw his carrier and put me in a headlock.

“Gag, kagh! Hey, Kang Seon-woo, let go! Let go!”

“You bastard, you thought I couldn’t come here, right?”

“Of course. You have terrible luck—.”

“I don’t have terrible luck!”

I could only regain my freedom after being squeezed for a while.

I already felt like blood was flowing from my eardrums.

‘Think positively, Si-hwan. You can definitely get broadcast content. Even though he’s noisy, he’s not an obvious crazy person like Seong-hwi—.’

“Hey, Si-hwan! What underwear should I wear tomorrow?”

“Decide that yourself!”

“I brought too many so I’m worried—.”

“Hey, hey! It’s all being filmed!”

I take that back.

Unsealed Kang Seon-woo easily surpasses Seong-hwi.

Roommate assignment time was finished and CENTIX came back down to the living room and sat on the sofa in a row.

The roommate combinations fit perfectly as if someone had arranged them.

Room 1 with Seong-hwi and Ma Si-hyeok.

Room 2 with Chae Ha-ru and Yu Ha-woon.

And room 3 with me and Kang Seon-woo.

“Are you all satisfied with your roommates?”

“Yes!”

“Very good!”

“…Yes.”

“Si-hyeok, if you keep answering like that, viewers will misunderstand.”

“…It’s good! Haha.”

Everyone except Ma Si-hyeok, who had already been thoroughly drained by Seong-hwi, answered energetically.

By now it was time to get hungry.

“Before fans select missions through surveys, we mentioned we’d do one warm-up game prepared by us today, right?”

“Yes!”

“Since our CENTIX seems to be at the perfect hungry timing, we’ll have a group game with lunch on the line.”

When food was mentioned, everyone’s eyes lit up.

As a result of filming 〈ISL 2〉 and living together, I had figured out that all the members had tremendous appetites.

Especially Chae Ha-ru, who usually had dead fish eyes as default, became full of life whenever mealtime came.

“Anything is fine!”

Looking at his vigorous voice, he seemed the same today.

The warm-up game we had to play with a hearty lunch on the line was ‘Random Play Dance.’

The guys who heard the event all had confident faces.

“We’ll eat soon?”

“How much have we lived dancing all this time.”

Ma Si-hyeok, who came to his senses, also cracked his neck and muttered lowly.

“I’m confident.”

The mission was to dance together to at least 6 songs out of 10 total.

During the 1-minute preparation time, we made a plan of ‘the person who knows the song best goes to the center to dance and the rest follow as much as possible.’

When the first song played, all plans became useless.

“I know this one!”

“Brother, I know it too!”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t know this?”

“Everyone go out, everyone go out and dance!”

Since 〈December Rain〉, which appeared as a mission song during the 1st round, came on, 4 people except me and Chae Ha-ru rushed forward and held a frenzied dance party.

Of course, I also knew the basic choreography, so I followed along fine.

“Hey, Hwi, move to the side!”

“Ahaha, Brother should have come forward first.”

“Everyone! Brother Si-hyeok is pushing me with his shoulder next to me!”

“This is the key point choreography so it can’t be helped.”

“Ugh, that’s unfair Ma Si-hyeok!”

The production team seemed quite flustered by the members who turned the living room into chaos with just one song.

I gave an enlightened smile and threw a comment to Jo Seung-soo PD.

“This is how they usually are. They’re always like this.”

Following that, we showed perfect group choreography to other songs and achieved the goal of 6 songs early, but the excited members couldn’t be easily stopped.

CENTIX danced to all 10 prepared songs until the end before high-fiving each other and calming down.

“The lunch mission is successful.”

“Yes!”

“Let’s eat, guys!”

“Food tastes best after exercise.”

The lunch provided by the production team was actually Korean set meals.

It was really miso soup and stir-fried pork that I hadn’t had in a long time, so I also said “It’s really so delicious!” while giving consecutive thumbs up.

After all meals ended, the production team withdrew with a comment that they would resume filming tomorrow with survey results.

“Ah, now that all the cameras are gone, it finally feels like our dorm.”

Patting his protruding belly, Kang Seon-woo sprawled on the sofa.

Meanwhile, Yu Ha-woon, who had built up quite internal intimacy with Cerberus, nodded while scooping out food.

“Right. It was definitely our dorm, but until just now it felt no different from a variety show filming set.”

“Well, we’ll have to get used to it now.”

Seong-hwi pointed to the fixed cameras installed throughout the hallway and grinned.

“Still, doesn’t it really feel like we became idols, everyone?”

“That’s true, when would we ever see cameras that turn their heads following us like this.”

Chae Ha-ru looked around at the subject-tracking camera installed next to the living room TV.

The round circular camera following Chae Ha-ru’s movements was certainly interesting.

“Ah, I’m already getting hungry.”

“You’re hungry after eating that much?”

“Haha, Brother Si-hwan. We burned a lot of energy. That’s why.”

Seong-hwi winked at me and walked to the kitchen.

For a moment I didn’t feel any sense of incongruity, but suddenly I noticed something strange.

“Wait. You’re speaking informally—?”

“I told you, Brother. I’m going to speak informally to you from now on. Did you forget already?”

Seong-hwi handed me a bag of snacks with a calm expression.

Right, I definitely remember him saying ‘I’ll speak informally when we enter the dorm’ during the 〈ISL 2〉 finale.

I never imagined he’d actually do it so immediately like this.

“…You really exceed people’s expectations every time.”

“If it’s predictable, it’s no fun, Brother.”

“Hey, bastard, then let me also speak informally fairly! I was always sad that you spoke formally to me.”

Even Kang Seon-woo joined in watching, and eventually Seong-hwi declared he would speak informally to everyone.

“But what kind of missions will fans write for us?”

“Well…”

“I feel like there will be a lot of really funny ones.”

We discussed what kind of extraordinary ideas fans might come up with while diligently consuming snacks until bedtime.

We never imagined it would be this difficult from the very next filming.

* * *

[CENTIX’s reality program, 〈TIME WITH CENTIX〉 mission recruitment begins! We ask for your active participation!]

The (former) national managers who had been eagerly waiting only for new news were ecstatic to see the survey announcement posted on KNet’s SNS account.

The CENTIX reality program that they had dismissed as just wishful thinking had become reality.

Nothing could be better than this.

—Wow my prayer post actually worked like this?? This doesn’t make sense, really

—No, why are Rave and KNet suspiciously doing such good work… At this point I’m getting scared

—To finally see my babies playing around in the dorm T_T. From now on I won’t call them Dog-ave Dog-Net

└It’s still too early to let your guard down, the opponent has tremendous records….

└They probably also lack ideas a bit so they’re making us participate? LOL. Their foundation is already showing

└You could think that way, but I think it’s good that they wanted to get our opinions from the beginning

└Trust me. We can just pick amazing material here lol

People who had been waiting in standby for the mission recruitment post for CENTIX’s reality program expressed the desires they had been holding back without reserve.

—I really wanted to see the CENTIX kids do Silent Scream

└LMAO. For some reason I think even that calm Si-hwan would get angry during Silent Scream

└You can see angry Ryu Si-hwan? I’d rather like that, proceed immediately

—Am I the only one who found it funny when they did physical stuff lol. My favorite ISL scene was when they played group dodgeball

└Dodgeball is king-tier lol

└Honestly CENTIX would be excited even with sports-related stuff?? The kids have incredible energy

└Then what games could cause chaos outdoors

└They said it was mainly group battles, right?

└I agree

Indoor funny games.

And outdoor games where CENTIX could show their energetic side were mainly discussed as ideas.

[How about this game?]

One person planned and posted one game they were confident about.