I’m a Genius Idol but my Passive is Sunfish – Chapter 29

Author: LyraDhani

– That’s right, an idol should go to a haunted house at least once

– But I heard that place is really haunted. The staff even hold a ritual every morning before they start…

– I would have peed my pants

The maknaes now had reached the patient’s room door. Red light was leaking from the small glass on the sliding door.

[Cheong: Ah… there’s something else in there.]

[Yooyeon: I found the pizza!]

Yooyeon burst open the door.

The ghost that had been unsealed caught Cheong off guard, and Cheong started smacking Yooyeon’s back like crazy. He was angry that Yooyeon opened it without counting to three first.

[Yooyeon: Then I’ll take the lead. Follow me.]

[Cheong: Okay.]

Yooyeon took a step forward, keeping an eye on the wheelchair ghost.

But Cheong, who didn’t want to get close to the mummy wrapped in white bandages, pretended to follow Yooyeon, but as soon as his friend was completely inside the room, he immediately closed the door.

[Yooyeon: Hey!]

[Cheong: I’m sorry, my friend!]

– Lmao lol he closed the door lol

– Yooyeon, you’re trapped with a ghost!

– He said to keep his loyalty, but he betrayed him right away lol so funny

Yooyeon got irritated for a moment. He glared at Cheong through the window, then decided to grab the pizza first.

Meanwhile, the wheelchair ghost was already right next to him. But Yooyeon was not scared.

[Yooyeon: Excuse me, just passing through.]

A calm reaction.

The one who got flustered instead was the ghost. He looked confused, as if experiencing déjà vu. For a brief moment, the screen flashed to Minseong holding his forehead beside Baekya, who had been crying over a peach earlier.

And a caption appeared at the bottom of the screen:

[I can smell the scent of an unfamiliar rabbit on my target.]

The wheelchair ghost, who had lost interest, decided to quickly change its target. In that moment, a scream echoed from the hallway.

[Cheong: Aaaah! Aah! Aah!]

Just moments ago, Cheong had been happily locking Yooyeon in with the ghost. Now he was screaming bloody murder. When Yooyeon opened the door, he saw an uninvited surprise guest had arrived.

[Yulmu: Puhaha! Ah, so fun.]

[Cheong: You’re evil! Totally evil!]

Yulmu was laughing even as he was being shaken by the scruff of his neck by Cheong. Yooyeon, conscious of the camera, quickly separated the two and pushed their backs towards the exit.

[And so, the last team also escapes successfully!]

Following that, the members gathered again in front of the haunted house.

After finishing the shoot safely and eating the pizza the maknaes brought back, DASE were finally able to return to their dorm.

***

Meanwhile, DASE was watching the first episode together in the practice room during a break. The moment it ended, the members started teasing Baekya and Cheong, leaving both of them sulking.

“Our babies were so scared~ Baekya’s eyes were so moist~”

Yulmu was the first to start the engine.

“I didn’t cry! I didn’t cry! And my eyes are always moist!”

“I’m also moist!”

After Baekya’s birth year was revealed, he’d been grouped together with Cheong as part of the maknae line. When Yooyeon also chimed in, saying Baekya definitely had cried, the sunfish was indignant.

“I just sound like that! Do I look like a baby? I wouldn’t cry over a ghost.”

“If you’re 18, you’re still a baby. It’s okay to cry.”

The choreographer approached, saying they’d rested enough and should get back to practice. The two maknaes pouted as they gathered in front of the mirror.

At the same time, clips and GIFs from Episode 1 were spreading like wildfire across SNS and community sites.

[Bouquet Jihan making everyone swoon]

[Peach hunting ghosts]

[DASE’s messed-up family tree organization]

[The peach’s worldview clash]

[Cheongcheong’s soulless pizza mukbang]

Among them, the ‘messed-up family tree organization’ post had a particularly high number of views.

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[ISSUE] DASE’s messed-up family tree organization

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A breakdown of the family hierarchy of boy group DASE, who had a hot debut at Imjingak last year-end.

First, organizing the members’ profiles by birthday order:

Do Minseong (20)

Born XX.1.10 / Height 179cm

Na Yulmu (19)

Born XX.11.8 / Height 185cm

Han Jihan (19)

Born XX.11.24 / Height 181cm

Han Yooyeon (18)

Born XX.4.2 / Height 182cm

Han Baekya (18)

Born XX.5.3 / Height 175cm

Cheongcheong (18)

Born XX.12.12 / Height 183cm

As any stanning fan would know, at first, Baekya was known to be the same age as Jihan/Yulmu. (Actually graduated from high school this year)

But when you look at the date of birth registered on the portal, he’s actually a year younger.

Contrary to that, Yooyeon/Cheong, who are the same age, call Baekya ‘hyung’, and Baekya is friends with Jihan/Yulmu, who are a year older.

If he was an early birth, it would have been understandable, but his birthday is a whole month later than Yooyeon’s. The fans started to have a mental breakdown.

What’s with them…?

It was confusing, but it seemed to be settled with the thought that Yooyeon/Cheong had just decided to coolly treat him as a high school senior… But… in the reality show that was released today, Yooyeon calls Baekya ‘you’.

Cheong calls him ‘hyung’ and then ‘Baekya’ (basically whatever he feels like lol)

As a side note, there’s Rose Day’s Mayoung in the same agency. As an early XX birth, she’s friends with Yulmu and Jihan.

But that girl Mayoung is also friends with Minseong.

※ Conclusion: Minseong=Yulmu=Jihan=Baekya=Yooyeon=Cheong are all friends, and Baekya is a family tree breaker.

(Baekya’s biting heart.gif)

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– Oh my god

– Why is their family tree like this? A mess, a total mess lol

– Family tree breaker lol

– lol wow, it really can’t be organized

– But the kids’ faces and heights are really perfect, a god-given perfection itself

– I get it. So Baekya is in the maknae line? Ha… even cuter

– By this logic, it’s only a matter of time before ID’s great senior and Cheong become friends lol

– Phew, my head hurts, don’t ask, don’t question, Baekya you did great, my baby

***

Manager Na, who was in her 5th year at the company.

Working at a web agency in Yeonnam-dong, she was under a great deal of stress these days because of her new team leader.

“Ugh, so annoying. She should just do her own job well.”

As soon as she got home, Manager Na cracked open a beer and downed the small can in one go. Beer really did taste best after work.

“Kaaah!”

Wiping the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand, she flopped onto her bed. Showering could wait—she just wanted to rest for a bit.

Out of habit, she turned on her phone and opened her messenger app. Messages piled up everywhere. But she didn’t feel like replying right now.

Putting that off too, the tired office worker scrolled aimlessly, then tapped on the ever-reliable YouTube.

Suddenly, a song by some idol group—recommended by a coworker a few days ago—popped into her head.

“Was it ‘No Games’?”

A song she had been forced to listen to because of her colleague’s strong urging to check it out. Surprisingly, it fit her taste, and she’d kept it in her playlist ever since.

Remembering how her coworker had raved that the music video was a work of art, she typed ‘No Games’ into the search bar.

[DASE ‘No Games’ MV]

[Music Note DASE Baekya Vertical Cam ‘No Games’]

[Top 10 Paper Cup Games]

The search results came up in a line.

Manager Na, who didn’t know what to click, roughly clicked on the most flashy-looking thumbnail. A white sparrow-like thing was standing blankly on the stage.

“Huh?”

Anyone could see that it wasn’t a music video. Manager Na realized she had clicked the wrong thing and was about to go back, but a grand accompaniment immediately started, and the sparrow began to sing. The very intro that had captivated her ears.

‘He sang that?’

It was the killing part that had stuck in Manager Na’s ear the moment she first heard the song.

Forget the chorus, Manager Na felt like she could listen to just this part for the full 3 minutes. And now, she was sitting in a formal posture on her bed, mesmerized by the screen.

When the sparrow became invisible, hidden by the members and the jib camera, she even tilted her phone. Of course, the hidden man did not become visible just because she did that.

“No, why does he keep going to the back!”

The tiny thing only came forward when it was his turn to perform his part. The rest of the time, he was perfectly put away in the corner of the stage.

Manager Na was getting frustrated.

The sparrow came forward again after the dance break. Just as her face was about to brighten up, the stage was over.

4 minutes had passed in a flash, just by looking at his face.

Below the paused screen, the music video she had just passed over earlier was shown as a related video.

Without even realizing it, her finger had already clicked the thumbnail.

– No Games, there’s no next

If you want to win, kill me

Grand music. A flashy video. And even more flashy faces.

After staring at nothing but cranky, old-fashioned bosses like her team leader every day, now there were six insanely handsome men on screen, telling her to kill them if she was going to leave?

By the time she came to her senses, she’d watched almost every performance video.

‘But why am I still watching this?’

A delayed sense of reality hit her, and she turned off the search bar and quickly went to the home screen. But in that brief moment, the algorithm had misunderstood her tastes.

Her feed was now plastered with thumbnails she’d never seen before.

‘It becomes like this just by watching a few of those videos?’

It wasn’t just a few—but she hadn’t realized that yet. No matter how many times she refreshed, the results stayed the same.

“Give me back my feed…!”

The infectiousness of idol videos was amazing. Every refresh felt like a rotation through every idol performance in South Korea, like a zombie virus.

But in the midst of it all, a thumbnail of a slightly different nature was spotted.

[EP.1｜One Day We Suddenly Ended Up in Front of a Haunted House｜DASE HAPPY DAYS]

A terrified sparrow was holding out a peach, on the verge of tears.

‘…Puss in Boots?’

She couldn’t not click it.

The video watching that had started with a moment’s curiosity thus led to another, and another..

[EP.2｜Won’t you go see the stars with DASE?｜DASE HAPPY DAYS]