Assistant Manager Kim Hates Idols Chapter 445 - Reappearance (5)

≫ A literal showcase of human evolution.

But, like, in real-time.

└ Sir, the progress is way too slow.

 

≫ Our boys are so consistent!

They haven’t lost their original mindset!

└ Please lose it, I’m begging you.

└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ I gasp because they’re so handsome, then in the next scene, they’re doing a coconut-throwing contest… I don’t know how to react. T_T

 

≫ Didn’t Spark have a really competent image during Challenge Life?

What happened in just a few months…

└ They’re good at doing what they’re toldㅋㅋㅋBut this is what happens when no one is there to tell them what to do. T_T

└ It’s because they left the ‘brain’ members behind…

└ Honestly, I don’t know anymore. Even if the brain members went with them, I feel like they’d just be assimilated.

 

≫ Park Joowoo doesn’t look it, but he’s strong as hellㅋㅋ What a plot twist.

└ No one in Spark is weak to begin with

└ Just look at how they’re built.

└ He’s not just strong, he’s ‘tear-a-coconut-in-half’ strong. I got scared just watching from behind the screen. Linking the GIF here.

└└ Those forearms… WOW.

└└└ In celebration of receiving a good GIF, I’m leaving this one of his back muscles here.

└└└└ Back muscles… WOW.

└└└└└ Weren’t rock vocals supposed to be skinny, sensitive types…? When did he become this sculpted muscle visual

└└└└└└ Park Joowoo was always a muscular, rock-star hunk.

 

≫ Hey, guys, did Iwol scold you?

└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ Looking at Iwol’s BubblePop, it seems like he was about to pass out.

└ No lie, he was sending 3 messages per minute on BubblePop that day.

 

≫ How an idol uses a branding iron:

Searing the surface of a banana.

└ ???: Wow, it looks like a cafe dessert.

└└ Banana Brûlée is crying right nowㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ It’s so funny how they were poking firewood and then grilled bananas because ‘it’d be a waste of heat’. They don’t waste a single bit of energy.

└ “The banana isn’t ripe yet.” -> “Just force it to ripen.”

└└ The definition of ‘ripen’ is a bit different hereㅋㅋㅋ

 

Kang Kiyeon, the ‘Green Apple Boy’ of the garden, became the ‘Rubber Tree Man’ of the rainforest. Park Joowoo, once the ‘Fairy of the Winter Lake’, became the ‘Guardian of the Amazonian Branding Iron’, And Choi Jeho, the ‘Lord of the Golden Continent’, became a 

Tenant of the Leaf House’.

 

I told them to appear on the show to change the atmosphere, and they went and shattered their images. I had no choice but to watch helplessly as comparison shots between their music videos and the variety show flooded the internet.

 

“Your eyes are going to pop out.”

 

Choi Jeho spoke to me as I spent the entire time after work staring at the monitor. This bastard… picking a fight with me right now?

 

“Honestly, I’d rather they pop out. At least then I’d get to wash them.”

 

“Go to sleep if you’re tired.”

 

“I’m not tired.”

 

“It’s 1 AM.”

 

“And you? Can you sleep? After turning the team’s image into a Natural History Museum, you can still sleep?”

 

As my storm of nagging continued, the resting members started popping out one by one.

 

“Why did I ever put you on a golden throne? I should have just splashed some water on you and sent you out like usual. Then at least people would have just called you a ‘Natural Man of the Brook’ and left it at that.”

 

“Hyung, are you crying?”

 

Lee Cheonghyeon helped me up from where I had slumped on the floor. I’m not crying. Your image is still intact. Seongbin is already a lost cause despite not even going to the island… but as long as you’re safe, hyung is okay.

 

“It’s not like we developed a bad image, so shouldn’t it be fine…?”

 

“If you had done something that created a bad image, I would have locked you in the practice room for three months. Be grateful you’re currently out on bail.”

 

Park Joowoo shut his mouth at my words. Joowoo, I trusted you, and the betrayal hurts. I cherish you, but I can’t take your side this time. Don’t forgive my pettiness.

 

“What on earth did you catch in the sea? No, wait—don’t leak spoilers. That’s absolutely forbidden.”

 

“Jeong Seongbin, take him to his room.”

 

“Yes, hyung.”

 

“Seongbin, are you seriously listening to Choi Jeho right now? In front of me? When the team is in a crisis?”

 

I was dumbfounded. Even Jeong Seongbin had been shocked watching his friend fall apart in real time—so how could he do this to me? At this point, I started to wonder if I was the weird one.

 

Fortunately, it wasn’t me; it was them. The footage aired the following week proved my anger was completely justified.

 

『Kiyeon: ?? Hyung, what did you catch?』

『Jeho: An octopus.』

『Joowoo: Weren’t octopuses supposed to live in the deep sea…?』

『Kiyeon: Doesn’t our team catch octopuses weirdly often?』

『Jeho: Probably because we have a member whose nickname is ‘Octopus.’』

『Joowoo: Does it work like that…?』

 

From a random shoreline, Choi Jeho casually walked in and came back with a giant octopus…

 

『Joowoo: I think one of my pieces of clothing is missing…』

『Kiyeon: Didn’t you put it in your bag?』

『PD: There are monkeys here that steal clothes a lot.』

『Joowoo: !』

『Just then, a suspect enters the eldest hyung’s sight』

『Jeho: Is it that one?』

『! A Monkey Looting Incident has occurred !』

 

…In exchange for consuming natural resources, they were forced to pay a manufactured goods tax to the island’s true owners. No wonder Park Joowoo came back wearing a vest full of holes instead of spare clothes. Why did that monkey ignore the smoked fish hanging out in the open and steal someone’s clothes instead?

 

Oh, and the reason for the holes in Park Joowoo’s clothes was revealed in full detail.

 

『Jeho: Park Joowoo, your clothes are on fire.』

 

While he was slowly roasting the fish to smoke them, he ended up flash-heating his own clothes. Choi Jeho slammed Park Joowoo’s vest into the sand so hard it looked like he was trying to extinguish even the hidden embers of his soul.

 

I sighed at the sight of Park Joowoo sitting back in front of the bonfire to dry his fish while wearing his charred vest. The fire that had been blazing enough to burn clothes ended up going out completely during repositioning. It was just one thing after another—a total mountain of disasters.

 

The only saving grace was that all this stupidity didn’t feel frustrating to watch. They ate well and slept well. If the fire went out, they just used their empty bags as blankets and slept anyway. When they woke up, they did chores, and when it was time to eat, they feasted. Their ‘pantry’ was so full it looked like they were the wealthy landlords of the deserted island. The word ‘hunger’ was nowhere to be found throughout the broadcast.

 

≫ Stacking mangoes and eating them like that looks powerful

They’re just eating whatever they want because they’re moving all day and burning the calories, ㅋㅋㅋ

└ Rising satisfaction from the sweetness of local fruit.

└ That is a severe sugar high.

└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

 

≫ They’re not exactly competent or sharp types, but watching them still makes you go ‘wow…’

I wonder why.

└ They just… survive so well. I feel like they could live there forever if you told them to.

└ No! Come back before Iwol’s heart explodes.

 

≫ An idol proving firsthand that a farmhand can survive with just rice

└ They didn’t even give this farmhand rice

└ ‘Madam, I don’t even ask for white rice. Just please give me some clothes’

 

The biggest reason for this kind of reaction was their easygoing nature.

 

≫ It’s less exhausting to watch because they aren’t stressed.

Even when their clothes are stolen or the house is terrible, they’re just like, ‘Whatever, we’ll just live with what we have~ we just need to sleep~’ and move along. It feels like watching a clumsy adventure rather than something cruel.

The mango bursts? ‘Let’s just walk a bit more and find something else’. They never blame each other or make the mood tense

└ Is it because they have personalities that don’t complain much?

└ It’s definitely not forced positivity, but they have a strangely optimistic side.

└ Optimistic…?

└ Yeah, exactly what the comment above said.

 

They’d lie together in a tiny house, and even if one crawled out because it was too hot and another rolled out because it was too cramped, they all woke up with refreshed faces in the morning. They praised each other over trivial things and brushed off mistakes like they were nothing.

 

In short, the deserted island for these three was ‘peaceful’.

 

『Kiyeon: Should we play Truth or Dare?』

『Joowoo: I’ve never lied to the members, though…』

『Kiyeon: No, it’s not that I don’t trust you, hyung!』

 

Along with that, their teamwork and group dynamic showed even in small moments.

 

『Jeho: Did Joowoo get a bit tan?』

『Kiyeon: His face is quite red.』

『Joowoo: I applied a lot of sunscreen, I wonder why…?』

『Jeho: Should I make you a sunshade?』

『Joowoo: No, it’s fine… natural light is something you can’t get even if you want it.』

 

『Joowoo: Kiyeon, eat this.』

『Kiyeon: When did you remove all the bones?』

『Jeho: He was sitting in front of the bonfire for 30 minutes.』

『Joowoo: There were a lot of small bones…』

 

Viewers noticed how they lived like ‘living because they happened to be alive’, yet still took care of each other in small ways.

 

On the final night, a scene of Park Joowoo sitting on the breezy beach scribbling something was broadcast. The notebook Lee Cheonghyeon had given him before departure was visible. An interview filmed on the first night was edited in.

 

『Joowoo: Cheonghyeon told me to make sure to write a diary in the notebook. He said he wanted to hear everything that happened on the island.』

『PD: You’re the first person to write a diary on a deserted island.』

『Joowoo: But I might not be able to write it…』

 

In the following footage, Park Joowoo was shown searching through the bushes like he was hunting for prey to find something that could act as ink. He didn’t have a writing utensil.

The tool he finally found after much struggle was…

 

『Joowoo: It’s time to say goodbye to my charcoal pen too.』

 

…Charcoal. He pulled a few crumbling twigs from the fire and wrote his diary by the light of the filming equipment.

 

『Smoked be—』

 

Due to the flimsy durability of his writing tool, there was a tragic moment where he couldn’t get many letters down, but he kept switching out the charcoal pieces, diligently writing stories to tell his dongsaeng. He had even become skilled at it over the few days.

 

『…The sky is so pretty.

Let’s come here together next time.』

 

Park Joowoo’s final island diary ended with a terrifying yet warm message. Knowing Lee Cheonghyeon would probably follow him in a heartbeat, I was worried. Sure enough, that brat Cheonghyeon was already looking up island tours.

 

≫ Unless the members themselves want it, let’s stop chanting for a solo debut~

They say they like promoting together, so leave them be.

If they decide to release solo albums later when they have more say in the company, then support them—but don’t start tearing them apart saying they’re only looking out for themselves

 

The heartwarming friendship between the members put a definitive end to the solo activity issue that had sparked this whole mess. Since it was content that was easy to watch and resolved the previous problems, it received a great response from Sparklers.

 

‘Well, everyone likes it, so I guess it’s fine.’

 

I could just fix their ‘nature’ image in the next comeback. At least for now, I was satisfied with having crossed this major hurdle. I’d just make sure to write ‘ABSOLUTELY NO SHIPWRECK CONCEPTS’ in my Dotion before going to bed.