Prince From Another Dimension Becomes An Idol [EN]: Chapter 201

#201.

When Rui asked, looking flustered, Do-jae shook his head, keeping his mouth shut.

Do-jae couldn’t grasp the situation just by hearing the conversation inside the room.

Just then, Gyu-sung came out as the door of room 706 opened.

“…Why aren’t you going in instead of standing around?”

When Gyu-sung asked, looking puzzled, Rui raised his index fingers on both hands, gesturing his frustration.

“…Are you really stabbing people in the back like this?!”

Just then, Heung-min’s angry voice leaked out of the door again.

Gyu-sung looked at Do-jae and Rui alternately, surprised.

“Let’s go in and figure out what’s going on.”

With those words, Do-jae pressed the doorbell next to the door.

After a loud ring, the door swung open quickly.

Seeing the three people standing in front of the door with bewildered expressions, Woo-cheol looked relieved.

“Hyungs [older brothers or male figures]! Rui-ya! Come in quickly!”

As they entered the room, Woo-cheol and Heung-min’s large carriers were wide open, leaving no room to step.

It seemed they were unpacking.

Heung-min stood next to the bed, trying to calm his anger instead of greeting the members.

His anger didn’t subside easily, and Heung-min’s chest, which fans liked to call ‘angry chest,’ was indeed rising and falling with anger.

“Uh… What’s going on?”

Rui asked Woo-cheol and Heung-min cautiously.

Heung-min glanced at Rui and opened his mouth, then closed it again.

He wanted to tell Do-jae and Gyu-sung right away and scold Woo-cheol together, but he hesitated because Rui was there.

Even so, Woo-cheol would probably be embarrassed if he got scolded in front of Rui.

At least he shouldn’t show a bad side to the youngest member…

As he held back his words, Heung-min got angry again because Woo-cheol was the one who had done wrong.

“Why did you…!”

The sound came out involuntarily.

However, Woo-cheol confessed the incident on his own.

“No! I’m telling you, no! You don’t believe me… I didn’t smoke! Ha… I’m so frustrated!”

Woo-cheol pounded his chest, appealing to his innocence.

“There’s evidence here! What do you mean, no!”

“I told you! I bought this to practice with… I didn’t throw it away separately, so it was in my bag, I’m telling you?!”

Do-jae, Rui, and Gyu-sung’s eyes turned to the cigarettes and lighter that Heung-min had placed on the side table.

The cigarette pack was unwrapped, and about two cigarettes were missing.

It was definitely a situation that could be misunderstood.

‘There’s no one around who smokes, and Woo-cheol hasn’t met any friends recently… I can’t imagine it belongs to someone else…’

Do-jae completed his situation assessment.

Rui and Gyu-sung were looking at Woo-cheol with shocked eyes.

It was clear that the two of them had come to the same misunderstanding as Heung-min.

Woo-cheol’s frustration doubled, no, tripled.

In fact, it might not be a big deal for Woo-cheol, who was an adult, to smoke in the eyes of others.

However, the members had gathered together just before their debut and made a promise.

It was a promise made up of many rules and regulations, but all of them could be summarized in one sentence:

‘We are a team. Let’s not do anything that harms the team.’

It was a dream they had achieved through hard work together.

It was a promise of determination not to let all the past hardships be in vain due to one person’s mistake or fault.

And of course, it included not drinking, smoking, doing drugs, or gambling.

Drugs and gambling were illegal, so they shouldn’t be done, but alcohol and cigarettes were a little different.

First of all, alcohol could cloud the mind and create various irreversible mistakes.

And Ki-joon’s belief was that ‘drinking parties’ always involved all sorts of temptations, temptations that idols should avoid even more.

Even before his debut, Ki-joon, who was already an adult and had been to a few drinking parties with celebrities as Ke-do, who debuted earlier, strongly advocated the rule.

(Of course, it was allowed for all members to have a beer or two together once they became adults.)

And smoking was something they decided to ban each other from because they had the job of being singers.

In fact, it was a rule that was established because all the members were unusually uninterested in cigarettes.

The part that made Heung-min angry was that Woo-cheol had broken the promise that everyone had kept so far.

“What kind of practice do you do with cigarettes?”

“Practicing smoking! It’s because of the role I’m playing in the web drama?! It’s true!”

“What kind of high school student role smokes!”

Heung-min didn’t let go of his suspicious gaze.

He didn’t like that he used the drama as an excuse when he should have told the truth.

At this point in time, when they were constantly succeeding and the members’ individual activities were increasing.

He was also worried that Woo-cheol might have learned something bad from the outside and changed.

In Heung-min’s eyes, Woo-cheol, beyond being frustrated, retorted with tears welling up.

“Wow, hyung, you don’t trust me that much?!”

“I trust you! That’s why I’m so shocked!”

The sight of the two of them raising their voices seriously, rather than joking around while laughing, was truly unfamiliar to the three of them.

Back in their trainee days, Heung-min had many reasons to really scold Woo-cheol, but in fact, after their debut, Woo-cheol did everything on his own… he had become quite a reliable younger brother.

“Hyung, Woo-cheol is right.”

Before the two of them really got upset, Do-jae quickly stepped in.

At Do-jae’s words, Heung-min, Gyu-sung, and Rui looked at Do-jae with surprised eyes.

Woo-cheol looked at Do-jae, who had taken his side, with welcoming eyes, but he was rather puzzled.

He had just asked Heung-min why he didn’t believe him, but he wondered how Do-jae was so sure.

“I heard it from the acting teacher.”

“Oh, the teacher?!”

The acting teacher who was currently teaching Woo-cheol had also taught Do-jae before.

“Yeah. He said you were working hard even in a scene that passes by quickly… He even said you were practicing smoking.”

At Do-jae’s words, Woo-cheol smiled with pride for a moment.

Then he immediately glared at Heung-min.

“See, hyung!”

“Do-jae… Is it true? Are you trying to cover for Woo-cheol…”

“Ah! Lee Heung-min!”

Woo-cheol, who had become so confident that his liver seemed to have popped out of his stomach, shouted at Heung-min, who was suspicious.

However, Heung-min couldn’t say anything to Woo-cheol here.

Do-jae nodded as if confirming it was true.

Rui and Gyu-sung were relieved that the misunderstanding had been resolved.

If Woo-cheol had really been smoking without the members knowing, the two of them would have been quite embarrassed and a little disappointed.

“Hey, you…”

Heung-min scratched the back of his head, muttering in embarrassment.

He could have handled it more calmly, but because it was Woo-cheol, of all people, he got angry first.

Woo-cheol glared at Heung-min without being hateful and said.

“You should have trusted me more.”

However, Woo-cheol knew why Heung-min was so excited and angry.

The two of them were like real brothers.

Woo-cheol would also be very disappointed and angry if Heung-min did something wrong without him knowing and didn’t show any remorse for it.

“Sorry for misunderstanding.”

Heung-min apologized cleanly.

Woo-cheol thought about making Heung-min do a few errands on this occasion, but he stopped.

“It’s okay. It was understandable to misunderstand.”

Woo-cheol was doing his part to show he had matured.

Heung-min was touched when Woo-cheol accepted the apology without any demands.

“Park Woo-cheol, you…”

“It’s a relief that Do-jae hyung proved it. Otherwise, I would have been ripped apart by Heung-min hyung until the drama came out.”

“…I’ll definitely watch that scene in detail later. Your acting skills…”

“Do whatever you want. If you do something wrong later, I’ll tear you apart!”

“Okay, you.”

Heung-min laughed and replied to Woo-cheol’s words.

Fortunately, with the situation resolved well, Rui shouted.

“It’s past six! It must have all been released already!”

Only then did Woo-cheol shout “Ah!” and move hastily.

“Anyway, Heung-min hyung! You misunderstood for no reason! You’re not helpful!”

Woo-cheol quickly opened his laptop and connected to MyTube.

He didn’t forget to nag Heung-min while doing so.

Heung-min prepared himself to receive all of Woo-cheol’s nagging for the day.

And so, Woo-cheol quickly set up his laptop on a table in a corner of the hotel.

The members sat on chairs and beds, looking at the laptop screen.

It was honestly a bit stuffy with five people looking at a 17-inch laptop.

It was a shame that the TV in the Japanese hotel was an old TV and couldn’t connect to the internet.

“Wow, hyung! There are already so many comments!”

“No way. I’ll look at the comments later. Let’s watch the video first…”

“Okay!”

There were two videos uploaded at 6 o’clock.

As it was a web drama of about 20 minutes, episodes 1 to 3 were released simultaneously.

Thanks to the great interest it had garnered since the teaser was released, the number of views for episode 1 had already risen quite a bit.

Woo-cheol took a deep breath, seemingly nervous.

He was nervous and excited about how the scenes he had filmed would be edited.

The members also watched the screen with anticipation, wondering what kind of acting Woo-cheol would show.

As soon as Woo-cheol pressed the play button, the title of appeared, and the school building, the central backdrop, appeared.

“Oh…”

“…”

The members focused on the screen.

***

23 minutes later.

The members, who had watched all of episode 1, shifted in their seats, preparing to watch episode 2.

Their bodies felt stiff because the screen was too small and their posture wasn’t comfortable.

Before playing episode 2.

Only then, with the tension slightly relieved, did Woo-cheol ask, as if he had remembered.

“But why didn’t Ki-joon hyung come?”

Gyu-sung, who shared a room with him, said “Ah…” with a troubled face.

“That’s… He said it would be more comfortable to watch on his phone, and why would we all watch together and struggle when there’s no TV…”

At Gyu-sung’s explanation, the members thought it was like Ki-joon, who was blunt and prioritized efficiency, but at the same time, they thought, ‘Even on a day like this…’

Woo-cheol pouted and shouted.

“Wow, they say teamwork is important for a team! Heung-min hyung, shouldn’t you be scolding Ki-joon hyung instead of me?”

“I guess… Ki-joon hyung… But if hyung came, there wouldn’t be enough space, so it would have been more uncomfortable. If he watched it in the dorm, he would have watched it on a smart TV with a big screen…”

Heung-min defended Ki-joon so that Woo-cheol wouldn’t be too upset.

“He *is* watching it, right? I need to check properly whether he watched it or not.”

The members laughed at Woo-cheol’s words.

Even though he said that, it was a laugh that came from the belief that he would definitely be watching Woo-cheol’s web drama in the room.

However, Do-jae’s smile, which he gave with a smirk, was a little more unnatural than usual.

“Let’s watch episode 2 quickly.”

At Do-jae’s words, Woo-cheol nodded and played episode 2.

The members and Do-jae focused on the screen again.

‘Episode 1 is just episode 1…’

It wasn’t that they wanted to watch episode 2 quickly because episode 1 was fun.

They wanted to watch episode 2 quickly, hoping that episode 2 would be better than episode 1.

To be honest, episode 1 was…