Prince From Another Dimension Becomes An Idol [EN]: Chapter 160

“Kyaaaa!”

“Oppa! Over here!”

“Lui! Kim Luiiii!”

“Mina!”

“Kijun! Just once over here! Hand! Hand!”

The members on the moving lift toured around the audience seats.

The audience on the 2nd and 3rd floors couldn’t hide their excitement, fidgeting in their seats.

Guards and staff around them tried to calm the fans down.

However, it wasn’t easy to quell the excitement of those who had only admired the members from afar, seeing them pass right in front of them now.

The closer they got, the more desperate they felt, as if the moment was fleeting.

“Dojae-!!!”

A fan in the front row of the 2nd-floor audience shouted Dojae’s name loudly.

The slogan she held had Dojae’s face largely printed on it.

It was a photo slogan produced by Dojae’s fan page, ‘Majesty,’ and the photo was a close-up shot of the stage taken during the last activity of .

Majesty was the fan page with the most Twitter followers among Dojae’s fan pages.

Starting its activities from MOST’s first fan signing event, it quickly made a name for itself with professional-level photography skills.

In particular, it was outstanding in how much it loved and admired Dojae’s face, which was evident just by looking at the photos.

Thanks to that, many of Dojae’s ‘legendary’ photos that were frequently talked about in the online community were from Majesty.

Dojae, who was quickly passing through the aisle between the audience seats, stopped in front of the photo slogan and looked around at the fans.

The fans in that area were all holding Majesty’s photo slogans and looking at Dojae with teary eyes.

Dojae picked up one of the slogans that a fan held out.

“Kyaaaa!”

The audience immediately erupted in an uproar.

Dojae smiled at the fan who gave him the slogan and headed to the next section.

Those who were waving Majesty’s slogan in Zone A5 stared blankly at Dojae’s back with dazed expressions.

They always thought he shined on stage, but….

Dojae, whom they encountered up close during the concert, was not just ‘shining’.

He exuded an unrealistic aura, so captivating it didn’t feel real at all.

It seemed as if a curtain of light enveloped Dojae.

He was so dazzling that they felt breathless.

“What do I do….”

The fan who brushed fingertips with Dojae while handing over the slogan muttered, feeling short of breath.

She realized that the expression ‘being overwhelmed with gratitude’ was perfect for moments like this.

She knew she might never reach him, but after touching him, a longing sparked within her, a desire to get closer somehow.

She was already prepared to dedicate about half of her life to Dojae, but now it seemed like her whole life wouldn’t be too much.

“Oppa!”

She called out to Dojae, who was walking away lightly but with dignified steps, with the slogan bearing his face hanging on his arm.

At that moment, Dojae was receiving a slogan made of towel material with ‘I love you, Kang Dojae’ written on it from another fan in the next zone.

The ‘I love you, Kang Dojae’ slogan was produced by ‘MUSTYOU,’ the proactive fan who opened a fan page as soon as Dojae’s teaser [a short promotional video] was released.

Must You was the oldest fan page and, while its photo quality was considered lower than Majesty’s, it boasted the most extensive data.

It was also a fan page that followed all schedules and recorded every move of Dojae, so much so that there were speculations that multiple people managed it.

Dojae walked through the 2nd-floor aisle with large strides, with the ‘I love you, Kang Dojae’ slogan hanging on his other arm.

He wanted to make eye contact with as many fans as possible.

Meeting fans amidst the splendid lights and floating bubbles, now that the concert had reached its peak, was a completely different feeling from meeting fans closely at a fan signing event.

Dojae was as excited as the fans who were shedding tears of joy.

He felt proud of the slogans piling up on his arms and shoulders.

In that way, Dojae finished his greetings on the 2nd floor, adorned with the cheering tools made by fan pages that boasted high loyalty and recognition.

As he went down to the stage again on the lift, Dojae waved his hand grandly.

‘Is this how an emperor felt standing before his imperial subjects?’

Dojae thought with a full heart, receiving the gazes of thousands of fans.

He held on tightly so that not even one slogan would fall.

Then he shook his head inwardly.

The love of fans… was completely different from the authority of the imperial family passed down through bloodlines and the loyalty of the imperial subjects responding to it.

‘They like our songs… They like us as people themselves.’

-You are the sunshine

-Sunshine on me

Holding the microphone to the re-started chorus, Dojae sang with heartfelt emotion.

And the fan page masters in every corner of the concert hall captured that scene as a loving moment.

It was the birth of a moment that would steal the hearts of many people once again with the title [Kang Dojae giving solid fan service at the first concert.jpg].

When the song was over, the members were all back on the main stage.

The members, who had just vividly felt the fans’ reactions like Dojae, stood in a row, heaving their chests.

Soon, the prelude to the next and last song, , flowed out.

“Waaaaa!”

“Mom!!!”

It was a song that the members made directly for the fans and shared for free on the Sound Pie account [likely a fictional music streaming platform].

It was a song that couldn’t help but be meaningful to the fans.

-Do you remember when we first met? You told me, who had nothing, that I could do it

-I was a terribly small boy full of ambition and impudence, and the world was endlessly big and scary, but

-It was from then on. The reason I could always get up even when I fell was from then on. It’s because I sang for you

The honest lyrics, crafted with the members’ participation, resonated deeply through the concert hall.

Woocheol, Kijun, and Heungmin’s raps followed quickly in turn, and the fans who had memorized the lyrics even sang along.

-Are you listening? I’m singing for you again today

It was the part where Lui’s voice continued and led into the chorus.

-I’ll sing for you-Song for you

It was when Dojae was singing loudly.

The words ‘Song for BEST’ appeared on the large screen.

And at the same time, the fans raised the slogans they had hidden under their seats high.

-I’ll sing for you- My…!

Originally, the lyrics ‘My dream’ should have followed, but Kyuseong momentarily missed the beat.

Large concert hall.

Ten thousand fans were simultaneously waving slogans that read ‘MOST, I love you, forever together’.

The densely packed, waving letters of ‘I love you’ were etched in the members’ eyes.

The MR [music recorded] was still playing, but the members couldn’t bring themselves to sing the chorus together.

Instead, the fans sang the chorus in unison.

-I’ll sing for you Song for MOST!

-I’ll sing for you Song for MOST!!!

“Haa….”

Woocheol was remembering the cheers that the fans shouted when he was starting activities with .

He remembered the memory of ranking first on the music show that day and crying.

He wanted to cry like that again today.

He learned then that he could cry even when he was too happy, and he felt that way now.

Kijun was recalling the time when Heemin left during practice and his debut seemed far away again.

Heungmin was recalling the time when he fought with his father and was kicked out of the house.

Lui was recalling the time when he came from the Philippines to Korea.

Kyuseong was recalling the moment when he first stood in the recording studio….

The members recalled the moments that led them to this place, moments that were unhappy, but that made this moment more precious.

They were so happy.

-I’ll sing to the end, forever in the future

Dojae barely grabbed the microphone and continued the song.

“Thank you! And I love you!”

He shouted vigorously as he finished the song.

Kijun couldn’t hold back his tears and turned around, and Heungmin comforted Kijun, then burst into tears again.

Seeing the crying brothers in turn, Woocheol said a word.

“Ah…. Why are we all such crybabies!”

Laughter erupted from the audience at Woocheol’s words.

Of course, it was a secret that those fans were also teary-eyed, and Woocheol soon burst into tears as well.

“Don’t cry!”

Lui shouted, but even Kyuseong was already wiping away tears with the back of his hand.

“Thank you… for being with us today.”

Kijun barely regained his composure and continued his closing remarks.

“BEST… I love you!!!”

With Heungmin’s shout, the members bowed deeply.

The members slowly turned back behind the stage as if their feet were dragging.

And the fans’ shouts echoed loudly in the darkened concert hall.

“Encore!”

“Encore!!!”

The MOST members, who finished the encore stage with , were completely exhausted in the waiting room.

The members, who hadn’t even realized they were tired because their excitement hadn’t subsided even when they were changing their clothes, were sitting or lying down on the sofa one by one, collapsing as they slowly realized that the performance was ‘over’.

The performance alone would have been physically exhausting, but unlike other times, they cried, laughed….

It was exhausting because they had even poured out their emotions.

“Ah…. I’m glad there’s tomorrow.”

“I know.”

Kyuseong agreed with Woocheol, who was muttering while immersed in the afterglow.

At that time, the waiting room door opened and people came in.

“Oh!”

Lui jumped up and ran to hug the good-natured woman.

The people who came to the waiting room were the families of the members who watched today’s performance.

With the arrival of their families, the members who had been idols to ten thousand fans just moments ago transformed.

The members, who had been the very image of ‘idols,’ had returned to being ordinary sons of their families.

“Did you see me do well?!”

The members greeted each other’s families and showed affection to their parents and siblings.

In particular, Woocheol showed affection to his heart’s content, and Kijun frowned at the fuss of his sisters who were telling him to quickly take a picture with Dojae.

The waiting room was bustling in an instant.

Dojae, who had finished greeting all the members’ families, gestured to Team Leader Kim Seokcheol.

‘We have to prepare for the performance early again tomorrow…. There’s no time except now.’

In fact, there wasn’t much time even today.

They had to eat dinner and go to the practice room to review today’s performance.

If he went to the hospital, he would barely have time to eat dinner with cup noodles.

‘Even so, I think I’ll be relieved if I see my mother….’

Dojae said to Team Leader Kim Seokcheol.

“Team Leader Kim, I think we should leave now.”

“Yes. The hospital visiting hours will be over soon, so let’s hurry and come back.”

Having said that, the two asked Jung Gilju to clean up and left the waiting room.

And someone was watching Dojae and Team Leader Kim Seokcheol.