Prince From Another Dimension Becomes An Idol [EN]: Chapter 185

#185.

As the PD [Production Director] signaled, the DJ started talking.

“We’ve been listening to MOST’s [song title]! Wow, that was a fantastic live performance.”

“Thank you.”

“I’m not just saying this… it was really great. The song is so upbeat, it makes you feel good, and it felt like my ears were being purified.”

The members laughed happily at the DJ’s compliments.

Comments praising the members’ live performance continued to flood in.

“Oh my… we played a lot of [song title] on our radio station after its release. But hearing it live is something else.”

She was only supposed to give a short compliment or two and move on, but the DJ was still caught up in the afterglow of the live performance and continued to praise them.

The young men, who seemed ordinary when sitting and smiling, were definitely different when they sang.

They are doing well enough now, but the DJ had a feeling that they would become even bigger stars, so big that she would be embarrassed to invite them to her radio show one day.

That’s how incredibly uplifting MOST’s song was.

“Oh dear. I want to praise you up to four verses… but I’ll skip it due to time constraints.”

“Are you skipping it now? I’d like to hear the full version sometime.”

The DJ laughed at Heungmin’s jest.

“Then let’s move on to the next segment… It’s time to guess the answer to the quiz we gave during the opening.”

The members had already submitted their answers to the questions during the break.

The first question was what members do first when they take a shower:

1) Wash hair first

2) Wash body first

3) Brush teeth first

“First, what is our oldest hyung [older brother or male friend], Gijun’s answer? Does any member know?”

It was actually difficult for the members to know.

However, Louis raised his hand.

The members’ eyes turned to Louis.

Their eyes seemed to ask how he knew.

Gijun himself couldn’t hide his embarrassment.

“Oh, Louis raised his hand.”

“Number 3! Hyung always brushes his teeth first.”

“How do you know that…”

“Oh! Yes, that’s right! Gijun’s answer was number 3. Brush teeth first.”

Everyone looked at Louis’ triumphant expression with a ‘what is it?’ face.

The DJ seemed curious and asked how he knew.

“I always listen to the sounds when hyungs are showering. So I know everything!”

Louis explained quite clearly, but the members’ expressions didn’t clear up.

Instead, they looked a little creeped out.

“What’s wrong with Kim Louis…”

Woocheol muttered, looking at Louis.

“No wonder Louis was often loitering in front of the bathroom…”

Gyuseong said as if he finally understood the reason.

“Why were you listening to the sounds, Louis?”

The DJ immediately asked what the members were curious about.

Louis hesitated for a moment, saying, “Ah…”, and then confessed.

“Actually, we used to have only one bathroom in the dorm… so I was often the last to shower. So I was waiting to see when hyungs would finish…”

“Oh… a story filled with the youngest’s sorrow.”

The DJ responded to Louis.

The members, who had been looking at Louis strangely, comforted Louis with a ‘oops’ face.

“Hyungs are sorry.”

Louis waved his hand at Heungmin’s words.

“No. It’s not like hyungs told me to shower last because I’m the youngest. It was voluntary. Never, never! Hyungs have yielded to me a lot too!”

“If you deny it that vehemently, it sounds even more real!”

Small laughter erupted at Woocheol’s words.

In the comments, there was an outpouring of reactions saying that Louis was pitiful and cute.

“You’ve moved into a dorm with two bathrooms now, right?”

“Yes.”

Gijun answered the DJ’s question.

It was true that having two bathrooms made things easier in many ways.

“I definitely want to succeed more and go to a dorm where we can use one bathroom per person.”

The members stirred at Gijun’s joke mixed with sincerity.

“Wow, that would be really nice.”

“But is there even a house with six bathrooms?”

“Ah, is there not?”

The DJ laughed at the members’ conversation.

They definitely seemed like ordinary young men in their twenties at times like this.

Heungmin and Woocheol announced that they wash their hair first, and Gyuseong, Louis, and Dojae announced that they wash their bodies first, and the DJ moved on to the next question.

“Ah, this is something that was quite controversial in the past, but these days the controversy has subsided a bit, right?”

The second question that the DJ brought up was whether to dip or pour when eating sweet and sour pork [a popular Korean-Chinese dish].

In the comments, the dip-and-eat and pour-and-eat factions were already fighting… although it was more like the dip-and-eat faction was absolutely dominant.

“It seems like the members would easily know each other’s answers for this one… Do you all know how each other eats?”

There was a 1-second pause between the members at the DJ’s question.

Even though they were doing a ‘visible radio’ show, the life of the radio was that sound had to flow out constantly, so Heungmin quickly opened his mouth.

“That’s… yes, we all know.”

“Oh. I’m curious about the members’ preferences. What is it like?”

The members were all looking at Dojae.

Heungmin answered in an unusually calm tone.

“We all dip.”

“Oh, that’s amazing! All the members dip! You guys know what’s up…”

“Except for Dojae.”

“Yes?”

The DJ, who had been cheering, turned to Dojae.

Dojae, who met the DJ’s eyes, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled as if he had expected the reaction.

-헐.. [Korean slang expressing disbelief or shock]

-Only Dojae pours?

-Kang Dojae is a pour-and-eat person?

-Why when you have dip-and-eat..

-As expected, our Gyuseong knows how to eat!! He’s a dip-and-eat person!!

-Dojae oppa [term used by younger females to address older males], pours??? ㄴㅇㄱ [Korean slang for ‘real’?]

-I was originally a pour-and-eat person!!

-Kang Dojae, I’m so disappointed

It seemed like it was the first time he had heard fans say they were disappointed in him.

Watching the comments that were being uploaded in real time, Dojae showed a reaction of ‘what’s revealed has been revealed’.

He had already been suffering from the members for a long time, so all the shocked reactions were familiar.

The time was 3 years ago.

It was about half a year after starting a new trainee life in Kingdom [entertainment agency name].

Until then, there had been no chance to eat sweet and sour pork with the members.

But Woocheol and Louis had their final exams at school… and Gyuseong said he would buy sweet and sour pork to celebrate the end of the two younger brothers’ exams.

In fact, it was a time when Gyuseong himself wanted to eat sweet and sour pork so much, but he couldn’t order it because he was afraid of getting scolded by the company, even though he ordered jajangmyeon [Korean-Chinese noodle dish with black bean sauce].

‘Because it was when the monthly food expenses were fixed….’

Dojae recalled that time for a moment.

The members ordered a large sweet and sour pork with the thought of what a windfall.

Along with the jajangmyeon, jjambong [spicy seafood noodle soup], and fried rice that the members ordered as individual menus, the sweet and sour pork with the mouth-watering fried smell and sweet and sour sauce soon arrived.

“Why did the sauce come separately?”

It was then that Dojae, who was setting the table, questioned.

Come to think of it, the sweet and sour pork in ‘Kang Dojae’s’ memory was all separate from the sauce and fries.

The ‘sweet and sour pork’ that Dojae had eaten was always in a sauced state.

That’s because Dojae had always eaten food freshly made by the chef in the imperial palace…….

There was no way that the sauce and fries would be separate in that dish.

“Is it a secret?”

Dojae thought that it was a unique secret of Korea, where the delivery culture was developed.

Therefore, without even thinking about the dipping method (even though it was in Kang Dojae’s memory), he poured all the sauce on the fries.

“Ah!”

“Hyung, what are you doing?!”

“Dojae-ya, what are you doing?!”

It was natural for the members to be shocked by the sight.

The members looked at Dojae and the sweet and sour pork with the sauce thickly poured on it with eyes as if they had seen a ghost.

“Why are you all……”

“Dojae, you……”

That was probably the first and last time the members looked at Dojae with critical eyes.

(Of course, they looked at him with incomprehensible eyes every time they ate sweet and sour pork after that)

Only after that did Dojae learn that all the members preferred ‘dip-and-eat’.

However, Dojae was firm in this regard.

“Sweet and sour pork must have the sauce soaked in it.”

Dojae was sad.

This is because he thought that you couldn’t feel the true taste of sweet and sour pork by putting a little sauce on the fries.

Of course, the members did not budge on the opposite opinion.

If there was one thing that the members did not follow Dojae’s words, it was not to ‘pour-and-eat’.

***

“Ah, that’s what happened.”

When Woocheol briefly explained the episode that happened during his trainee days, the DJ nodded, saying, “That’s what happened….”

“Dojae was a hardcore pour-and-eat person……”

“Yes. I don’t ‘dip-and-eat’. That’s not true sweet and sour pork……”

“Hyung, the dip-and-eat people are watching! There are fans of hyung among the dip-and-eat people!”

“I don’t think so.”

Even with Woocheol’s dissuasion, Dojae smiled and freely expressed his beliefs.

The members shook their heads, thinking ‘as expected of Dojae’ this time in a different sense.

Dojae’s steadfastness was good when he was on ‘our side’.

***

[Today’s radio, MOST Kang Dojae’s strong line-crossing remarks](+2011)

“Hyung, hyung, look at this! You caused a fight because of hyung.”

On the way back after the radio show.

Woocheol showed Dojae the community site.

A video of Dojae’s remarks, ‘I don’t think dip-and-eat is true sweet and sour pork,’ was edited and uploaded.

The fight between the pour-and-eat and dip-and-eat factions always ended with the overwhelming victory of the dip-and-eat faction.

However, the pour-and-eat faction, which gained strength from Dojae’s remarks, was now quite imposing in the comments.

“The sweet and sour pork debate… it’s probably tiring now……”

Gijun shook his head.

It seemed like a never-ending fight.

Even Gijun was still insisting that he was not ‘pour-and-eat’ until the end.

Dojae chuckled as he looked at the (joking) comments that he was disappointed in him.

In fact, there were parts that he said more strongly to give fun, but he even thought it was cute to see people who were so serious about eating like this.

“I never knew hyung was someone who would create controversy like this.”

Dojae said to Woocheol at Woocheol’s mixed words of lament.

“Woocheol-ah, I……”

“Yes?”

“Should I reveal that I’m a mint chocolate lover on Twitter too?”

“Ah, hyung! I’m absolutely against it! I’m absolutely against mint chocolate!”

“Why, why! I like mint chocolate!”

“Yeah, mint chocolate is delicious, why!”

At Woocheol’s opposition, Louis and Heungmin pointed fingers, saying they didn’t know the taste.

The inside of the van quickly became noisy with a debate about ‘mint chocolate flavor’ due to the small stone that Dojae threw.

***

After finishing his schedule, Dojae went to his studio instead of the dorm.