Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 192

192. Who is it? (2)

“……Pardon?”

Yeonwoo, seeing Lee Gyu-han ask again as if he thought he had misheard, slowly repeated himself.

“I am having difficulty participating because I am not confident in being eliminated.”

“No…… that’s a very…… good confidence to have……?”

“If I keep winning, I’ll keep needing to practice, and it seems like it will become difficult to clear my schedule.”

“That, that would be the case, wouldn’t it?”

“It’s a schedule that needs to be kept secret, so it will be difficult to keep making excuses.”

“That’s right……?”

“The Masked Singer isn’t a schedule you can do half-heartedly, so I’d have to pay attention to that as well.”

“That’s right……”

“So, I think it would be difficult to proceed while filming a drama at the same time. If possible, I want to focus on one thing.”

“I see……?”

The more Lee Gyu-han talked, the more he found himself strangely persuaded.

‘What is it? That unknown confidence……?’

But strangely enough, Yeonwoo’s confidence didn’t feel strange at all.

Rather, it felt like things would really turn out as Yeonwoo said.

In fact, Yeonwoo wasn’t squeezing out non-existent confidence or making up thoughts.

It was because he really thought so.

‘Even I think it’s a bit of a scam.’

He could clearly see it at this fan club launch event.

That mixing his additional abilities would cause a huge reaction.

Having these abilities.

Is there any way I can’t become the Masked Singer king?

Well. This thought that I will win too easily might be arrogant.

But what can I do?

I really have no confidence in losing.

‘My pride is at stake if I do it half-heartedly.’

In fact, I have no intention of doing it, but if I do, I have no choice but to do my best.

Isn’t it natural to aim for the best if possible?

And Yeonwoo’s best would clearly make him even further from elimination.

Of course, there was one restriction.

‘I also need time to recover my spirit power.’

The spirit power he used so much at the launching ceremony that his body staggered has not yet recovered even half of it.

Competing in this unprepared state is impossible.

Because that’s not the best.

‘Well…… I did recover thanks to Kwon Seong-hyun. But it’s still not enough.’

I used the human spirit battery to good use, but it’s still not enough.

-You can use it as much as you want. Please use it more.

That’s what Kwon Seong-hyun said.

‘A person has a conscience.’

How can I suck it all up?

“So…… you’re really refusing?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm…….”

Anyway, therefore.

Yeonwoo firmly declined the offer to appear.

To refuse to appear because you have no confidence in losing.

If someone other than Yeonwoo had said that, they would have been ridiculed for overflowing with excessive self-confidence.

However.

‘Well. If it’s Yeonwoo, it’s possible.’

The fact that Yeonwoo might really be able to do it was quite credible.

The aftermath of the song he sang wearing a mask at the launching ceremony just a while ago was enormous.

And.

-Hyung [older brother/male friend]. Let Yeonwoo do what he wants to do.

Kwon Seong-hyun said that too.

I don’t know why the only two celebrities in the company have such strong personalities.

Lee Gyu-han crossed out Masked Singer in his notebook.

‘Oh, they were begging so much. How am I going to refuse this…….’

I’m sure if I express my intention to refuse, they will grab my pants and stop me, but I can’t help it.

That’s what a manager has to do.

*

Several days have already passed since the launching ceremony.

It was about time for the gifts that Yeonwoo had separately drawn and sent to arrive.

-The gift Yeonwoo sent has arrived!

-Unboxing the gift our Yeonwoo sent~!

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ Yeonwoo, you should sell this for money ㅠㅠ

Thanks to this, a wave of authentication swept through, and favorable articles were posted.

It also became an opportunity to further increase the perception of Yeonwoo, who takes care of his fans until the end.

“This is good enough.”

“I prepared a press release just in case, but I’m glad.”

“I was a little worried because it would be a headache if people said it was a waste of money.”

“Well, Yeonwoo’s image is very good right now, so if you release such an article rashly, you’ll get backlash.”

The agency staff who were paying attention to monitoring were relieved.

Up to this point, everything was as everyone had roughly expected.

However.

“Huh……?”

Unexpected things can pop out anytime, anywhere.

“What is this……?”

The law was applied to Yeonwoo without exception.

“No, why is this person here……?”

After Yeonwoo’s plagiarism scandal.

A monitoring team dedicated to Yeonwoo was newly established to prevent such incidents in advance.

Since an official fan club had been created, management was necessary in many ways.

Something unexpected popped into the monitoring team’s view.

“This…… I should tell Yeonwoo, right?”

The staff member, who was staring blankly at the monitor, hurriedly started contacting someone.

*

[Crazy.]

Dongja Ryung muttered.

[Is this real?]

He chatters again as if he can’t believe it.

[Yeonwoo. Are my eyes okay? Did our little bird’s eyes get hurt?]

“No, I told you several times? Your eyes are fine, and you didn’t see it wrong.”

Yeonwoo finally sighed, unable to bear it.

[No, but…… I have to be able to believe it. What can I do if it doesn’t feel real! Is this really a dream? Is this real life?]

“You. Haven’t you forgotten that you’re dead? Where is real life for you?”

[Ah, that’s what I mean! It just doesn’t feel real!]

“Who is that person that everyone is reacting like that? Are they that famous?”

Even when the agency staff contacted him seriously and solemnly as if something very big had happened.

Even when Dongja Ryung, who heard the call next to him, made a fuss.

Even when Lee Joo-ha, who I don’t know how he heard the news so quickly even though he’s not in the same company, contacted him.

Yeonwoo’s reaction was consistent.

“Then is that a good thing……?”

It was a natural thing.

Because Yeonwoo didn’t know who ‘that’ person was at all.

‘Well. From what I’ve heard, they seem to be a very famous person…….’

The problem was that everyone’s explanations were jumbled up because they were so excited.

Yeonwoo only understood a few things.

‘Foreigner. Famous musician. And my fan……?’

About that?

[They’re reeeeally famous? Do you know Grammy? Grammy?]

“I don’t know.”

[No! How can you not know that?!]

“…….”

Korean celebrities don’t even know, so how would he know a famous foreign celebrity?

[If you sing, you should know!]

“I don’t sing.”

To be honest, he’s not uninterested in singing either.

Because he saw with his own eyes what kind of synergy occurs when combined with his abilities.

But what he’s interested in now is not singing.

He may go that way someday.

But not now at least.

[But, but…… Ugh! You don’t even know Grammy. We didn’t raise you that way!]

“I grew up alone.”

[……Anyway, they’re a famous person. They’ve won seven awards at the Grammy Awards and been nominated more than fifteen times! They’re incredibly famous!]

“Okay.”

Yeonwoo, who doesn’t know what the Grammy Awards are, just thinks so.

Dongja Ryung, who sensitively noticed the sign, jumped up.

[You’re just thinking of it as a neighborhood concert, aren’t you?!]

“Did you learn mind reading these days?”

[The Grammy is an event hosted in the United States, and it’s a historic event with the highest authority in the recording industry. There are so many different categories to award! It covers a lot of fields, not only singers but also composers, lyricists, arrangers, and mixers! Receiving an award here is like being recognized for standing out in that field. It’s an event hosted in the United States, but it boasts tremendous authority that musicians around the world recognize!]

“Um. Okay.”

So, in a nutshell, they’re a very great person.

“But why does such a person have the MD [merchandise] I gifted?”

Yeonwoo’s question was exactly that part.

Why does such a great person have the gift that Yeonwoo randomly selected and sent?

No matter how you look at it, it’s strange.

I thought maybe they took a picture with something similar, but I could never mistake that specially made cheering rod.

There’s no way there are two similar cheering rods with such a fancy design that looks like money was poured into it.

“Good picture.”

[Are you only going to react like that?!]

“It’s a good picture.”

From the perspective of someone who has taken pictures, it was clear that the uploaded pictures were taken with a lot of effort.

Moreover, that wasn’t the end.

Not only did they fill the maximum number of 10 photos per Instagram feed, but there were also several posts.

One of them was even an unboxing process.

How delicate and detailed the process was.

“Is this person not a professional reviewer, not a singer?”

I even thought that for a moment.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind.

“Dongja Ryung. Tell me straight. Is this really a hidden camera?”

[No?! Why is he catching innocent ghosts? Where are you talking nonsense?!]

“Wait. Didn’t we decide to ban that word?”

[What? Mongdal [term for an unmarried man]?]

“Where did I put the exorcism talisman…….”

[I was wrong.]

Yeonwoo jumped up and rummaged through the accommodation.

“Why isn’t it here?”

Of course, he couldn’t find the camera.

[Because it’s not a hidden camera!]

“If it’s not a hidden camera, I can’t understand it?”

Yeonwoo, who searched every corner with sharp eyes, gave up and sat down and looked at his phone again.

An official account with a clear blue check mark.

And the number of followers was incredibly enormous.

Fan club items are uploaded to such an account?

‘It doesn’t make sense to think about it logically.’

It would be strange even if someone passed it on as a gift.

No matter how fancy and artistic it is, even Yeonwoo admired the cheering rod.

Isn’t that an MD product made for Yeonwoo and his fans?

Who would give something useless as a gift if they’re not a fan?!

But.

“Um…….”

The answer came from a surprisingly simple place.

When the public relations team and the Yeonwoo dedicated team gathered to discuss this phenomenon.

“Come to think of it, there was one address that was sent overseas…….”

The staff member in charge of sending the MDs slipped out a testimony.

All the company employees were floating question marks over their heads, so it seemed like they were recalling their memories.

“There were some overseas fans, so I sent a few to that side…… but there was something a little unique among them?”

“Unique? What kind of unique?”

“Well…… you know roughly what neighborhood it is when you look at the address, right……?”

“That’s right.”

“I don’t know exactly where, but Beverly Hills is famous.”

“That’s right, that’s right.”

“But that address was on the list of people who were selected.”

“What?!”

The people who gathered to hear the staff’s testimony were surprised.

Of course.

“……?”

That much did not apply to Yeonwoo.

Yeonwoo is equipped with the internal Heungseon Daewongun [a 19th-century Korean politician known for his isolationist policies] according to Dongja Ryung.

“Is it a famous place?”