The Maknae Has to Be an Idol

Chapter 170

Late that night, Kang Hyun-Sung watched Bong Tae-Yoons teaser again and again. Until the very moment they filmed their teaser, they had been confident that they would win no matter what concept Siren brought forth. AnotherOne was supporting every part of their debut process with maximum production cost, and the producers selected by Kang Hyun-Sung were people who were considered the best in their field. But

Moneyis truly terrifying He took off his glasses and pressed his eyes tightly. AnotherOne secured all talents that could be considered the best in the industry. Thus, no matter what kind of talent Siren brought in, they would have been the second-best talents in the industry. Of course, the broadcasting industry was big and there were many hidden masters, but Kang Hyun-Sung thought Siren would not be able to find great talents in such a short time. Thus, there was only one reason why this teaser came out so well.

How much money did they pour into this? Since they took the industrys top talents, they must have overcome that with sheer numbers and size. One could tell just by looking at the quality of the VFX used in Bong Tae-Yoons teaser. This was not something that could ever be accomplished by one or two people. Likewise, many people were surprised by the extremely high quality of Sirens teaser video in the comments.

The number of views is high. The number of views was too high for a teaser video; it seemed that Siren had succeeded in attracting even the general public, not just idol consumers.

Hmm Kang Hyun-Sung checked the real-time ranking; he was still in first place.

But the difference is getting narrower. At this rate, it wouldnt take long for Bong Tae-Yoon to catch up to him. Kang Hyun-Sung pushed away his concern about the teaser for now; this was just the first teaser anyway. They still had a lot to reveal until their debut, and there was no point in worrying too much right now.

He did a great job filming it. Instead of worrying more about this, Kang Hyun-Sung rewatched Bong Tae-Yoons teaser once again.

***

My members and I had a short meeting after watching Only Ones teaser. We all felt a sense of crisis after watching Only Ones teaser, which had a much higher quality that we expected. Of course, we couldnt find any clear-cut solution from this meeting.

Lets work harder so that we wont lose to Only One!

That’s right!

We have higher views, so lets not worry about it too much.

We just exchanged these kinds of encouragements with each other.

Since we have to shoot the music video tomorrow, lets sleep well today and work hard tomorrow.

Yes, lets do that.

Fighting!

Yes!

We decided to go to bed early for tomorrows shoot. Since we worked without sleeping properly for the past few days to release the trailer, we were planning to increase our sleep time little by little from today onwards. The members all went to their room, and I was left alone in the living room. 𝙡𝙞𝙗𝒓𝙚𝓪𝙙.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Tae-Yoon, arent you going to sleep?

Ah, Ill go in and after washing up.

Yeah, go to bed before it gets too late. I sat at the living room table and looked into the air. Our debut really was just around the corner, so there was a lot more for me to think about. The most urgent matter to address was these missions. It was the mission to reach 10 million views for our music video and make 500,000 album sales within this year. Considering the current trend, I didnt think it would be that difficult to reach those goals. But there was still one problem.

Howdo I rewrite this? I had no intention to carry out the mission like this. From now on, I needed to cut off my one-sided relationship with the system. I didnt think I could reach the future I wanted by carrying out missions like some machine. If so, I needed to change the missions.

But I failed. I tried once and failed. I succeeded in making the missions window appear in the air, but the system strongly resisted when I tried to modify it. Although I had full power over Insight, I could not one-sidedly intervene with the systems authority, and to make a deal with the system, I needed to put my life on the line, like when I went to find the truck driver. However, I could not risk my life every time to make a deal with the system.

I need to find another waybut is there anything I can make a deal with?

I didnt know what else to put on the betting table besides my life. Furthermore, I couldnt just put my life on the line, as the system seemed to react only when the truck driver was on the verge of killing me, and I couldnt go around looking for the truck driver every time to make a bet. While I was pondering what to bet on as a deal, something suddenly came to mind.

Ah! I quickly activated Insight.

Zing-!

The world stopped and only my thinking accelerated. The process was the same as when I tried to modify the mission as before. I stared into the air, and I controlled all the inside and outside area to focus on one spot in the air. Then I moved the mission contents as if I were moving a file in the air.

[Reach more than 10 million views on the title tracks music video of Sirens debut album in a week.]

[Upon Success, meeting with the 27th regressor.]

[Upon failure, Precognitive Vision will be retracted.]

It wouldnt have been difficult to reach this point if I had used insight. The problem was that whenever I tried to modify the missions contents, the system strongly opposed it and tried to deactivate my Insight. Therefore, I needed to first take measures to ensure that the system did not oppose my mission modification. Thus, the method I thought of was:

[Upon failure, full power of Insight will be retracted.]

I modified it so that upon failure, I would lose full control over Insight. When I did this, the system did not erase the mission window or even show any resistance. My prediction had hit right on the mark.

As expectedI have to put Insight on the line. I felt like the system regretted giving me full power of Insight because it didnt think I would use Insight so much and try to access the systems authority. In other words, the only transaction item I could risk instead of my life right now was full power of Insight. Afterward, I revised the mission. The original content was to reach 10 million views for our music video.

[Reach more than 10 million views on the title tracks music video of Sirens debut album in a week, and reach more than 1 million views on the choreography video.]

[10 million views for the music video and 1 million views for the choreography video will be checked in a week based on the upload date.]

[Both missions have to be cleared to be considered successful.]

I added one more condition: to reach 1 million views in the choreography video, not only 10 million views in the music video. At this point, someone might be wondering why I had made the mission harder and not easier. However, I hadnt just made it harder.

[Upon success, meeting with the 27th regressor and the 15th regressor.]

I also changed the reward. Since I knew that unless I changed the content of the mission, the reward would not change, I first changed the difficulty level of the mission. This time, the system also didnt try to oppose me as it seemed to consider my deal as fair. I thought my modification of the mission would be completed like this, but I suddenly heard a strange sound in my ear.

[?!**&(^$]

Then I received the following notification:

[Will you modify the mission?]

When I thought this was finally the end

[Upon modification, Precognitive Vision will be retracted.]

[Upon deferment, the previous mission would be progressed as it is.]

Judging by how it tried to remove Precognitive Vision as the price for revising the mission, the system seemed to have decided that although I put Insight as the risk failure and raised the mission’s difficulty, it was not enough to achieve the desired result.

Precognitive Vision was a very useful ability. However, it was more important for me to meet my members.

Accept. I also had other plans I was thinking about anyway. I used to think that the members from other worlds were strangers to me, but my mind changed.

Theyre all my members.

[The mission has been modified.]

Soon, the system finally confirmed that the mission has been modified.

[Reach more than 10 million views on the title tracks music video of Sirens debut album in a week, and reach more than 1 million views on the choreography video.]

[10 million views for the music video and 1 million views for the choreography video will be checked in a week based on the upload date.]

[Both missions have to be cleared to be considered successful.]

[Upon success, meeting with the 27th regressor and the 15th regressor.]

[Upon failure, full power of Insight will be retracted.]

The final and organized mission contents flowed into my ears.

At the same time, Ah! my eyes containing the Precognitive Vision began to hurt. It was a pain similar to the first time I received Precognitive Vision.

[Precognitive Vision has been retracted.]

As the Precognitive Vision disappeared, I felt something slip out of my eye.

Haaa. I calmed my rough breathing and deactivated my Insight, and the world returned to its original pace.

Sigh. Its over. It was a valuable time when I got everything I needed.

But I need to complete the mission successfully, no matter what.

I need to succeed the view count mission at all costs since full control over Insight was on the line.

Well, if I fail, Ill go find the truck driver again. I just needed to prepare to die one more time. It felt like I was thinking too easily about dying

Lets get it together. Thus, I thought I should be careful not to become too immune to death.

***

The music video shooting began the next day. I thought it was hard when shooting the teaser, but shooting the music video was on another level of difficulty. The scale of this music video was massive since we put in even more resources, considering that this was our debut album. Judging by how the agency pooled all its resources, Yoo Won-Dong must have also realized that if this debut album failed to produce results, it would be difficult to receive additional investment.

Did Yoo Won-Dongfinally get to his senses? Since I made the provocation before, he was acting differently from before my regression. I didnt know the exact reason, but it was a positive response. While shooting the music video, we took more concept photos and took a lot of selfies for photo cards.

With the companys permission, we also threw in spoiler-like hints through SNS little by little. In turn, individual teasers of Yeon-Hoon, Dong-Jun, Woon, and Do-Seung were also released. These teasers contained the stories of each member, and they were not just stories of this album but stories that encompassed the entire universe we created.

The key story of Yeon-Hoons teaser was that he arrived at a remote mansion while walking in a ruined city, and the highlight was of him standing in front of dozens of rooms. In Dong-Juns teaser, he was spending a happy time on a picnic with his family and was suddenly left all alone. After that, a monster started chasing him.

In Woons case, he was practicing his dancing alone in the practice, and the figure of a monster was caught in the full-body mirror. When he placed his hand on the mirror, he was immediately sucked in. Lastly, Do-Seung was walking down the street at night wearing a headset and then suddenly encountered a monster. The appearance of a monster was a common element in the teasers. As a result, people began to think of all kinds of theories.

Is Sirens concept the apocalypse?

I think theyre just espers.

But why is everyone running away from the monster except for Tae-Yoon?

A monster didnt appear in Yeon-Hoons teaser.

Otakus were usually like this; by throwing a single bone, they imagined all kinds of theories on their own. We were worried that our teasers would garner less attention than Only One, but as time passed by, the narrative aspect between the teasers accumulated, and our views went up.

1st place. Woo Yeon-Hoon crazy (70,541)

1st place. Dong-Jun (67,431)

1st place. Lee Woon cute (67,450)

1st place. Kang Do-Seung black cat (65,557)

Except for me, all of the members ranked first in the real-time charts. Of course, after the first teaser, we never overlapped with Only One. Yet, although the release dates didnt overlap, our overall popularity was greater. Everything was going in a more positive direction than I expected.

HaaaWe really are debuting.

Were finally revealing our music video

Im feeling really nervous.

Itll do well, right?

As a result, on the day our music video was released, my mind was elsewhere while my members worried about whether it would be well received.

Hmm. Unlike my members, I was a regressor, and I remembered the results Only One made in the past world. If I made an estimate comparing our current results and Only Ones, our activities this time were bound to be successful.

Its almost double the number. Thus, I didnt worry about our success unlike my members, since we would definitely succeed. However, I needed to adjust my own goals. Originally, the goal was to reach 10 million views for the music video for this album and 1 million views for the choreography video in a week.

But500,000 album sales in the first week within this year. I think we can clear it this time? I thought I could look forward to something a little bigger now.

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