Prince From Another Dimension Becomes An Idol [EN]: Chapter 114

#114.

“Who is it?”

Woochul turned around, tilting his head.

It was already past 11 PM.

‘There’s no one who would visit at this hour.’

Dojai’s expression briefly hardened, a flicker of unease crossing his face, but then he relaxed.

They were starting to wrap things up, but the live stream was still running.

“Then, I’ll see you all next time. Have a good night,” Dojai said kindly, even as he hurried.

The fans felt as if time had stopped, captivated by his faintly smiling face and honeyed voice.

Immediately, crying emoticons flooded the chat, begging him not to go.

At the same time, other fans who heard the knocking wondered who it could be.

Woochul and Louis also quickly said goodbye to the fans.

The broadcast ended amidst a wave of regret.

As soon as the broadcast was off, Louis ran to the door, asking, “Who is it~?”

But there was no answer.

Louis looked puzzled, hand on the doorknob.

Woochul also got up, curious and a little unnerved.

Dojai, reaching the door first, quietly said, “Don’t open it.”

He was no longer just a prince charming on screen; he still had to be careful about his safety, even here.

Not just Dojai, but the other members as well.

Dojai pressed himself against the door and asked again, “Who is it?”

The knocking stopped, but still no answer.

Dojai frowned, pressing his ear to the door.

He couldn’t hear anything.

“What is it? Creepy…….”

Woochul also rubbed his arm, feeling uneasy for no reason.

“Did someone come to the wrong place?” Louis suggested, trying to find a positive explanation.

Ding-dong, ding-dong.

This time, the bell rang.

Dojai hesitated for a moment before asking, “…Who is it?”

—It’s me, Gyusung!

The voice was definitely Gyusung’s.

Tension released, Woochul sighed, saying, “Ah, geez.”

“I was nervous for nothing.”

“Gyusung hyung [older brother/male friend]?!”

—Yeah!

Gyusung answered Louis’ question again.

Once it was confirmed to be Gyusung, Louis opened the door.

Gyusung was standing there.

Before Gyusung could even step into the room, Woochul complained, “Hyung! Why didn’t you ring the bell from the start! You scared us.”

Gyusung stared with surprised eyes, forgetting to come inside.

“I did ring the bell from the start?”

“What are you talking about? Then who knocked on the door…….”

That’s when it happened.

A woman in her 20s suddenly appeared from the hallway, shouting, “Oppa [term of endearment used by a younger woman to an older man]!”

Gyusung was horrified and froze in shock.

The woman was wearing a floral dress under a black coat.

On the surface, she looked like an ordinary Korean tourist.

But her face was all too familiar.

It was a face that Dojai, Gyusung, Louis, and Woochul all knew.

A sasaeng [an obsessive fan who stalks or engages in other behavior that constitutes an invasion of privacy of Korean idols or other public figures] who appeared everywhere, regardless of time or place, from the company and dorm to the shops the members frequented, since the promotions.

Heungmin had once been so surprised to see her in the broadcasting station’s restroom that he clutched his chest.

Thanks to her, he had to enter the waiting room with Jung Gilju that day, even though they didn’t know how she got into the broadcasting station.

She was among the most notorious of the sasaengs attached to MOST members recently.

It wasn’t just the invasion of privacy that was serious.

They were even scary because they would hurl abuse behind their backs as soon as they were ignored.

As celebrities, there wasn’t much the members could do, which made it even worse.

Even if they were the first to be cursed at, if they cursed back, it would become an excuse to tear them apart, even if it was just self-defense.

“Hey! Gyusung’s here too!”

As she yelled, another sasaeng hiding behind a flowerpot quickly popped out.

She, too, in a sky-blue coat, was a familiar face.

It was Gyusung’s sasaeng.

Just as the black coat was about to grab Gyusung, Dojai quickly snatched the frozen Gyusung and pulled him inside.

Thud. As the door closed, a loud curse of “Ah, F*ck!” was heard from outside.

“Wow…….”

Woochul and Louis blinked rapidly in surprise.

Gyusung, who had come to the three in his hotel slippers from the room right next door, seemed to have forgotten to breathe for a moment.

“How did they get here…….”

Gyusung muttered with a pale face.

But he wasn’t really curious about the method.

Gyusung had once kindly told her, when he met her in front of the company, thinking she was an ordinary fan in the sky-blue coat, “Don’t wait in places like this, come to a public broadcast.”

But she wasn’t coming to a public broadcast; she was trying to get into the broadcasting station’s waiting room.

She followed them in taxis wherever they went and even meticulously searched a building to find out which room the dorm was in.

Even so, he never thought they would follow him overseas.

It was a stroke of luck that he listened to the managers and didn’t go outside.

The three wore dazed expressions.

“Wow. They must have known we were on this floor and were waiting.”

“They must have known it was this room when I came here.”

Louis said with a tearful face at Woochul’s words.

The two people could still be heard saying something outside the door.

They were making it impossible to even breathe properly.

It was truly an act that couldn’t be called fandom.

It was horror and thriller, not human romance.

Dojai quickly called Jung Gilju.

Even before he could hang up, Jung Gilju was heard opening the door and coming out into the hallway.

—You guys!

With that sound, the phone disconnected.

“Gilju hyung must have come out.”

Woochul said with relief.

The sound from outside the door wasn’t very clear because the soundproofing was pretty good.

But it was certain that the women had disappeared from in front of the door.

The rest was a problem for Jung Gilju and team leader Kim Seokcheol to solve.

Dojai didn’t want it to be noisy, as it wasn’t a hotel used only by the members.

***

The members who had been standing in front of the door finally came to their senses after a while and sat on the sofa and beds, respectively.

“You must have been surprised.”

Gyusung shook his head at Dojai’s words.

Woochul said as if he understood everything.

“Hyung, it’s natural to be surprised. I froze as soon as I saw those people too.”

“Me too…. I never thought they would come this far.”

Louis added.

They said they liked them, but they spewed out words they couldn’t even say whenever things didn’t go their way.

In particular, Gyusung had almost been grabbed in front of the dorm once.

Jung Gilju was following right behind him, so nothing more happened, but it was no different from meeting a stranger on the street.

It was inevitable that Gyusung’s body would freeze.

After a while.

Jung Gilju came to the room and informed them that the situation had been resolved.

“Ah. They’re really vicious. What were they trying to do coming all the way here…….”

Jung Gilju clicked his tongue and continued.

“I had the dorm canceled because it was somewhere else, and team leader Kim told the hotel too. To block them from entering if they’re noticeable from the lobby, or to contact us.”

“Yes. Thank you. Late at night…….”

At Dojai’s words that he had worked hard late at night, Jung Gilju said it was his job and checked if there were any other problems.

“No. I closed the door as soon as I saw them.”

“Okay. Good job. Geez…. What’s going on. I told them properly that if they follow us to places other than our schedule one more time and curse recklessly, I’ll report them to the police. We can’t keep forgiving them.”

Even now, as their popularity increased, the number of ‘sasaengs’ was gradually increasing.

It was necessary to set an example before more damage occurred.

The members nodded at Jung Gilju’s words.

As their surprised hearts seemed to calm down a bit, Jung Gilju asked to lighten the mood.

“But Gyusung, why are you here? Weren’t you sleeping? I thought only the three of you were broadcasting.”

“Ah…. That’s…….”

Gyusung looked at the empty food boxes on the table with slightly sad eyes.

“I wasn’t sleeping. I was listening to music while taking a bath…. The broadcast notification popped up…….”

Gyusung, who only received the broadcast notification without seeing the message, checked the broadcast and came to the three of them after finishing his bath late.

Because it was none other than a ‘mukbang’ [an online audiovisual broadcast in which a host eats large quantities of food while interacting with their audience].

But it seemed to be too late.

“Hyung…. You came to eat.”

Woochul asked, noticing Gyusung’s eyes right away.

Gyusung nodded slightly.

Gyusung’s appetite was just strong, unlike his quietly strong competitive spirit.

The members who knew him well laughed lightly.

Dojai got up and took out the leftover food from the refrigerator.

“I bought more than I thought, so there’s some left.”

Gyusung’s expression gradually brightened each time food came out of the plastic bag.

Jung Gilju, who was watching Gyusung as if he was funny, said.

“Isn’t it too bloated if you eat now? You really have to sleep now. You have a morning flight tomorrow.”

Jung Gilju wasn’t a manager for nothing.

“Ah…….”

Gyusung’s face darkened again right away.

“Just try eating this one, and eat the rest tomorrow morning.”

“I guess I’ll have to.”

Gyusung, who received the jelly from Dojai, nodded and took the plastic bag.

“Let’s go out together. I’ll take you to your room. Don’t come out separately tomorrow morning either; come out when we come out into the hallway first.”

At Jung Gilju’s words, Louis and Gyusung left the room together.

Louis and Gyusung both had rooms within spitting distance, but they didn’t know what might happen, given what had just happened.

Dojai and Woochul, who were left alone in the room again, also prepared to sleep well.

It felt like something had swept through fiercely in a short time.

Click. After turning off the lights and lying on their respective beds, the two had a short conversation.

“I was really surprised. To come all the way here…….”

“Yeah. Geez…. It’s a problem.”

“They say we don’t have many sasaengs…. I don’t know how other singers get around.”

“I hope it doesn’t get worse.”

Woochul, who was worried for a short time, said as if trying to forget what had just happened.

“Still, I’m glad the live stream was successful! Can I upload hyung’s photos and videos on Tweety [Twitter]?”

“…….”

“Can I?”

“…….”

“Hyung?! Are you sleeping?! Did you fall asleep in 3 seconds?!”

Woochul was sure that he couldn’t have fallen asleep, even though it didn’t look dark.

“Hyung, hyung!”

It was a little embarrassing for those photos and videos to remain in the world, but it was just a matter of being shy.

There would be many fans who recorded the live broadcast.

‘The fans liked it too.’

Dojai recalled the fans’ comments that were going up so fast that he couldn’t even read them with his excellent dynamic visual acuity and answered.

“Yeah. You can.”

Woochul chuckled and shouted “Okay!” at Dojai, who turned around and lay down, answering in a voice that could barely be heard.

It was a few days later that the photos and videos that Woochul uploaded just before going to bed recorded the highest number of RTs [retweets] and hearts since the opening of the MOST Tweety account.

***

The next day.

Kijun and Heungmin, who heard the story late, frowned.

“I’m glad nothing happened…….”

Team leader Kim Seokcheol reacted as Kijun muttered worriedly.

Then he said that he would discuss it separately with team leader Jung Heeyeong and post a warning notice.

“You must have all been surprised. I slept without knowing anything.”

“Hyungs…. You’ve gotten a year older and aged another layer, sob sob.”

Woochul playfully teased Kijun and Heungmin at Heungmin’s words.

Kijun sighed as if he was used to it and looked for the plane seat written on the ticket.

That’s how the members arrived safely in Korea.

Waiting for the members who arrived in Korea was their first public broadcast group entertainment show.