I’m a Genius Idol but my Passive is Sunfish – Chapter 107

Author: LyraDhani

[MC: Ah, so the members each know their own roles?]

[Baekya: Yes, they told us.]

[Yulmu: Really?]

[Yooyeon: You know yours?]

When the members stared at him as if they were hearing this for the first time, the Peach looked flustered by their unexpected reaction.

[Baekya: You—you guys don’t know?]

[MC: What’s this, what’s this? Did the other members not receive any info? Could it be that Mr. Baekya is the Mafia? Or the Joker?]

[Jihan: We all know. We’re just teasing him.]

[Baekya: Hmph!]

The members burst into laughter at the sight of the bristling Peach.

[Yulmu: Ah, and this is a slightly different topic, but a video will probably be uploaded soon. Or is it out already?]

[MC: What is it?]

[Yulmu: We filmed ourselves playing a ‘Vampire Catching’ game, like an epilogue to the music video. Are you curious?]

[Yooyeon: Yes~!]

[Yulmu: You can check it out on DASE’s official YouTube channel!]

[MC: You two have great chemistry.]

[Yooyeon: Hyung and I have similar personalities.]

Yulmu and Yooyeon both gave each other a thumbs-up.

[MC: So, you’re saying that as long as fans know the lore is basically a Mafia game, it won’t hinder their enjoyment of DASE.]

[Jihan: Exactly. The lore was created simply because we wanted fans to have a little more fun with it.]

The camera caught Baekya enthusiastically nodding in agreement.

The introduction of the B-side tracks continued. The flow of the event involved playing a song and then engaging in small talk if there was a related topic.

[MC: Yes~ We’ve listened to all fifteen tracks with DASE. Every single song is so good.]

[Group: Thank you~!]

[MC: When the audio, album, and music video were released today at 6:00 PM, many people saw a new side of DASE, but we can’t leave out the behind-the-scenes stories from the music video.]

Before diving into the talk, Allie announced they would look at unreleased behind-the-scenes photos that weren’t included in the album. A photo appeared on the large screen.

The first photo showed Baekya sitting cross-legged, staring blankly into space with a tissue stuck to his forehead.

[Baekya: Aaagh!]

[Jihan: He looks like a kindergartner.]

[Yulmu: Wow~ as expected of the Peach, he looks so cute I just want to take a bite~!]

[Cheong: Baekya is like that every day!]

Following the members’ testimony, Allie asked if he remembered the moment that photo was taken.

[Baekya: I don’t remember the photo being taken, but I know why I was doing that.]

[MC: Why, what is it? What happened?]

[Baekya: I was in front of a fan trying to cool down my sweat. I had to get my makeup touched up, but I couldn’t do it while I was sweating…]

[MC: Ah~ So that’s the face of someone waiting for their makeup touch-up.]

[Minseong: But I have one thing I’m curious about.]

[MC: Yes, go ahead, Mr. Minseong.]

[Minseong: Baekya zones out all the time. I’ve always wondered what he’s thinking about when he does that.]

[Baekya: Me?]

Baekya’s eyes went wide.

[Baekya: I just… don’t think about anything? Do people usually think while they’re zoning out?]

[Yooyeon: You don’t think?]

[Yulmu: Why?]

[Jihan: How?]

[Cheong: What do you guys think about, then?]

A debate erupted over a single photo of Baekya. The members split into two factions: those who think while zoning out versus those who don’t.

[MC: Everyone, wait a second. I can clearly see the ‘S’ and ‘N’ types right now. Mr. Cheong and Mr. Baekya are ‘S’ (Sensing), and the other four are ‘N’ (Intuition). Is that right?]

The members, recalling their own MBTI types, widened their eyes and said she was right.

[Minseong: How did you know?]

[MC: Truly~ MBTI is a science, everyone. To explain briefly, ‘S’ types think of nothing when they zone out. Why? Because they simply have no thoughts at the moment.]

[Baekya: Exactly.]

[Cheong: If you’re thinking, then that’s just ‘thinking’!]

[MC: On the other hand, those with ‘N’ tendencies have all sorts of imaginations in their heads. Like, ‘What if I suddenly became invisible?’ or ‘What if the ceiling of this venue flew away?’]

[Yulmu: That’s right!]

[Yooyeon: Exactly! Personally, I sometimes imagine getting superpowers and wanting to teleport. Then I could take all the members back to the dorm at once after our schedule ends.]

[MC: Mr. Jihan, what kind of thoughts do you have?]

[Jihan: What if I were transported to another world? Like waking up from sleep and finding myself as the protagonist of a game.]

[Baekya: !!!!! (Pupils shaking)]

The Peach, who had been listening to the N-types’ heated discussion with a lukewarm expression, opened his eyes so wide they looked like they might pop out.

“Aaaagh! So f-ing cute!”

Baepsae didn’t know why Baekya was suddenly so startled, but faced with this sudden face attack, she began spamming the Print Screen key.

[Jihan: I’d become the main character and actually play the game through my own body.]

[Baekya: Th-that… probably wouldn’t happen, right…?]

[Cheong: Right! It has no reality!]

The Sunfish’s shaking gaze turned toward Jihan, and then he shot his hand up.

[MC: Yes, Mr. Baekya.]

[Baekya: I remembered! What I was thinking about back then!]

[Minseong: Why all of a sudden?]

[Baekya: Uh-huh… I don’t remember clearly, but I was probably thinking about how tired I was.]

Seeing as his answer ended as a question, it seemed he wasn’t even sure of himself as he spoke.

The cheerful atmosphere dampened for a moment. Hearing their singer say he was ‘tired’, a chorus of sympathetic sighs filled the showcase hall.

Realizing too late that he had made a poor excuse, Baekya began waving his hands in a panic to fix it.

[Baekya: No, that’s not it…! You get out of breath after dancing. And I think that was around dinner time… Dinner! That’s the face of someone thinking about what to eat for dinner!]

[MC: Ah~ The dinner menu~]

[Baekya: Yes, dinner. I’m the type who absolutely has to make sure I eat.]

Baekya wiped his forehead as if wiping away cold sweat.

[MC: Then what did you have for dinner today?]

[Baekya: Today? Today we had snack food. Kimbap, tonkatsu, and tteokbokki.]

[Cheong: Pik*chu!]

Cheong interjected, shouting into the mic.

[MC: Pik*chu? The thing Mr. Baekya was eating when he was scouted?]

[Baekya: How do you know that?]

[MC: I have my ways~ It’s a very famous anecdote among our Naings.]

[Baekya: Cheong said he wanted to eat it, but we couldn’t because of our diets. We finally ate it today.]

[MC: Wait, Mr. Cheong! I heard you’ve been saying you wanted to eat that since your very first radio broadcast after debut. It’s been almost 17 months, hasn’t it? (Laughs)]

[Cheong: Catching a Pik*chu is really hard.]

[MC: So how was the taste? The Pik*chu you’ve waited a year and a half for.]

[Cheong: It’s so delicious!]

[MC: I’m glad it suited your palate.]

They moved on to the second behind-the-scenes photo. This time, it was a photo of Yulmu looking serious while monitoring his performance.

[Yulmu: That’s me~]

[MC: Mr. Yulmu, you have quite a gap in your personality too, don’t you?]

[Yulmu: I approach my work with sincerity, but otherwise, I tend to just show myself as I am.]

[MC: Then what mode are you in right now?]

[Yulmu: Right now~ half and half? I want to have a fun time with the Naings, but I also want to look cool.]

He shyly admitted that he didn’t particularly like his expressionless face.

Next, the subject of the third photo was revealed. It was Jihan, holding a tissue with both hands and biting it with his mouth.

[Yooyeon: Whoa~ what is this~]

[Cheong: Are you eating tissue?]

[Jihan: I’m not eating it.]

[MC: Every photo revealed today is pure gold. Mr. Jihan, do you remember this moment?]

[Jihan: Yes, I remember. Before filming the final scene of the music video, the stylist applied lip product, but they said it looked too red on screen, so I was trying to blot some of it off…]

[MC: So thanks to that effort, an iconic scene was born?]

[Jihan: ……Yes.]

Jihan could barely answer, overwhelmed by the praise he was receiving just for biting a tissue.

The subject of the next photo was Yooyeon.

It was a photo taken while his hair and makeup were being touched up, and Yooyeon was looking exactly at the camera with a dimpled smile.

[Baekya: Wow… That was deliberate.]

[Yulmu: As expected of the Center~]

[Minseong: Did you know they were taking it?]

[Yooyeon: I knew.]

[MC: Oh my, oh my. As expected of DASE’s ‘Han-Fox’~ The Naings are screaming just looking at that photo~]

The fans’ reaction was undeniably explosive.

[Yooyeon: Actually, I didn’t notice at first. While getting my makeup fixed, I didn’t know where to look, so I was moving my eyes around and just happened to get a good shot.]

Yooyeon showed off his dimples, claiming it was just a coincidence.

[Yooyeon: Let’s move on to the next photo quickly. It’s a bit embarrassing in front of the Naings.]

Even his embarrassment seemed fox-like and charming.

Then, the fifth photo was revealed. It showed Minseong peering intently at the face of the statue that appeared in the music video.

[MC: What were you doing?]

[Minseong: It looked so much like a real person that I was checking, just in case… But I’m seriously not lying, I saw the statue move.]

[Cheong: Here he goes again!]

[Minseong: I’m telling you, the eyes really moved!]

[Yooyeon: Didn’t you just blink and get confused, hyung?]

[Yulmu: Should I buy you some herbal medicine?]

[Baekya: ……]

As the ‘Ghost Statue Theory’ from the filming set was brought up again, Baekya’s words sharply decreased.