Prince From Another Dimension Becomes An Idol [EN]: Chapter 173

#173.

Thump.

I was so nervous for a moment there.

Do-jae’s legs gave way, and he collapsed on the spot.

The members, startled, crowded around Do-jae.

“Hyung, are you okay?!”

“Do-jae, were you really scared?”

As expected, other than Gyu-seong, no one noticed that Do-jae was this startled, even sweating from fear.

It wasn’t just the members who were surprised by this unexpected side of him.

The staff also rushed to check on Do-jae’s condition.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

Do-jae, who had been crouching for a moment, quickly pulled himself together and stood up.

“Yes, I’m fine. You don’t have to worry.”

“Hyeong…….”

Louis, who had frozen in fear of the large bee, looked at Do-jae with tearful eyes.

“I’m a little scared of bees…….”

“It was really big! It’s understandable to be scared!”

Do-jae chuckled at Woo-cheol’s words.

The deathly pale complexion was slowly returning to normal.

“Gyu-seong suddenly threw the flower, which startled me! What if you had been stung…….”

Heung-min said with a look of having aged ten years.

Seeing Do-jae’s condition, he understood why Gyu-seong hadn’t waited and had thrown the flower away.

“It seemed only interested in the flower…. And bees don’t sting as easily as you think. Not unless you move threateningly.”

“Still, you have to be careful.”

Gyu-seong nodded at Gi-jun’s words.

“Thank you, Gyu-seong.”

Gyu-seong gave an awkward smile in response to Do-jae’s thanks.

Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he frowned and asked the stylist.

“Oh, but what about the flower? I threw it away…….”

The stylist waved his hands at Gyu-seong, who asked with an apologetic look.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry. We prepared one more of the same kind.”

“I’m glad none of you got stung. Bee stings really hurt.”

“I know…….”

The stylists and staff breathed a sigh of relief.

“Is it okay to continue filming? You seem very startled.”

“Ah. Yes. I’m really okay.”

Do-jae quickly replied to Director Hong Jong-hoon’s words.

He wanted to give them more time to rest, but it wasn’t easy because the sun was setting.

“Then we’ll reorganize and start filming again.”

And so, filming resumed.

***

After successfully finishing the music video shoot.

The members and staff, who had been starving from the continuous filming since morning, all went to a nearby *makguksu* (buckwheat noodles) restaurant for an early dinner.

“Wow, this potato pancake is really good. Hyung, can you make this too?”

“…….”

Potato pancakes were one of the dishes that required a lot of work, starting with peeling the potatoes.

Gi-jun silently stared at Woo-cheol, who asked with a bright smile, answering him that way instead.

“Ah, I understand. I’ll eat a lot here. Can I order another one?”

“Boss! Please give us one more potato pancake!”

Jeong Gil-ju immediately added another potato pancake to Woo-cheol’s request.

Among the tables where the filming team, stylist team, and other teams were sitting, the food was disappearing the fastest from the table where the members were sitting.

“But Do-jae hyung, I really didn’t know you were scared of bees.”

“Right. It was unexpected. I thought you wouldn’t even blink.”

Heung-min agreed with Woo-cheol’s words.

Louis, Gi-jun, and Gyu-seong were also equally puzzled.

Do-jae, who had finished eating his *makguksu* and put down his chopsticks, gave an awkward smile.

Not blinking was actually true.

It was because he was too scared to even blink.

“Well…. I actually have a bad memory from when I was young.”

“Oh? Were you stung by a bee?”

Do-jae nodded lightly.

That day was just one of the incidents caused by the still innocent but curious young Do-jae.

While running around the Secret Garden of Changdeok Palace [a famous historical palace garden in Seoul] with his sister, the first princess, Do-jae, who was only six or seven years old, rummaged into a secluded area and ended up disturbing a beehive.

It happened before the several palace attendants watching over the two young royals could stop him.

The angered bees quickly flew towards Do-jae and the princess.

‘If only I had been stung, it would have been better…….’

Fortunately, the eunuch in charge of the princess shielded her with his body, preventing the worst-case scenario, but both Do-jae and the princess had red foreheads and arms.

It wasn’t just the pain, but Do-jae had to listen to a lecture from the Emperor and Empress, as well as all the royal elders in the overturned royal palace.

Repenting and repenting again, and then spending several nights crying because he heard that the princess was sick.

It was a major shock in his life for the young Do-jae, who had grown up safely in the palace.

After that, he would be terrified even if a bee just came near him.

“I disturbed a beehive when I was young……”

The members’ mouths dropped open at Do-jae’s explanation.

Gi-jun asked back in surprise.

“You disturbed a beehive?”

“Wow…. Do-jae hyung also had that kind of childhood…….”

“It seems Do-jae caused a lot of trouble when he was young.”

Do-jae chuckled lightly at Heung-min’s words.

He had become mature too quickly to cause ‘a lot’ of trouble (he had to), but if he had grown up in an ordinary family instead of the palace, he probably would have caused a little more trouble.

“But surprisingly, Gyu-seong hyung doesn’t seem to be afraid of bees or anything.”

“…Is it surprising?”

“Well… I didn’t think you’d be scared, but I didn’t know you were so fearless! You were so charismatic earlier!”

“That’s right, hyung was cool! So cool!”

Woo-cheol and Louis both raised their thumbs.

Jeong Gil-ju also chimed in.

“That’s right, Gyu-seong has an unexpected wild side. A wild side.”

There was actually a reason why Gyu-seong had no fear of bees.

Although Gyu-seong seemed like he had only grown up in an apartment, receiving excessive private education since he was a child, he had actually lived in the countryside for a year as part of that excessive private education.

When Gyu-seong was in the lower grades of elementary school, there was a trend of rural experiences, saying that city children should also live in harmony with nature.

Gyu-seong’s parents, who never did anything half-heartedly, set up a place in a remote mountain village to have Gyu-seong ‘experience’ nature.

At that time, Gyu-seong had encountered not only bees but also snakes.

It was truly a life in harmony with nature.

Back then, he cried and cried because he wanted to go back to his original home where there was TV and friends (it was so remote that it took an hour to get to school, and there were no peers in the neighborhood), but looking back now, it seemed to have contributed to making Gyu-seong a ‘quiet but strong’ person.

“You lived in the mountains for a year? I didn’t know that.”

“Gyu-seong hyung’s parents…. are really amazing.”

Heung-min and Woo-cheol exclaimed.

The other members couldn’t hide their surprise at the fact that they didn’t know.

Do-jae also admired and muttered.

“They really practiced Mencius’s mother moving three times for her son’s education……” [a Chinese proverb about the importance of environment on child development].

Gyu-seong scratched the back of his head and replied that it wasn’t that much.

It was true that he had moved twice for his education, once to the countryside and once again in Seoul because of the choir, so it was actually Mencius’s mother moving twice.

“No, Gyu-seong is amazing too? Then did you live in the mountains for a year and then join the choir?”

“No. Before that, I stayed alone in an English village during vacation…….”

Gyu-seong frowned as he recalled that time in response to Heung-min’s question.

Living in the mountains was a memory when he thought about it now, but living in the English village was the worst.

“Wow, that’s amazing. An English village? Why didn’t you say so?”

“…Because I can’t speak English……”

“Ah.”

The members laughed and said that he was amazing anyway, marveling at Gyu-seong’s childhood.

“Suddenly, I wonder what I did when I was young. I think it was too ordinary.”

“I know. Louis even went to the Philippines.”

Heung-min and Woo-cheol said, looking back on their childhoods.

Gi-jun said firmly because the two of them couldn’t have had ordinary childhoods.

“Think again.”

That’s how the members finished their meal, getting to know each other’s childhoods that they didn’t know.

And.

“The video is out!”

At the words shouted by one of the stylist team members, everyone in the restaurant took out their phones with one mind.

***

The video began with a close-up of Do-jae’s face.

When Do-jae, who had been closing his eyes, opened his eyes, a beautiful falsetto murmur was heard from somewhere.

After that, Do-jae starts running on a white screen in the sensual beat that follows.

The images of the members continuing to climb the stairs as if going to heaven are followed by the members jumping down the stairs all at once.

Then, a bright effect like the sky turning upside down appears, and finally, the place where the members fall is a large flower field.

The video ends with the members smiling on the colorful flower field, looking into the distance, and then looking at the front all together at some point.

-Kingdom, are you crazy?! 1 minute? Are you kidding me? Give us more!

-The concept is so good, from now on, when you say flowers, it’s not butterflies, but when you say flowers, it’s Most

-I’m so excited for this one too

-0:01 Can you make someone go crazy in 1 second?

-Kang Do-jae is insane

-Really took my heart in 1 second

-Crazyㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-I have no idea what the song will be like, but it seems like a bright song

-No one:

Literally no one:

Me: this album gonna be crazy

-Kim Fairy Louis-hae

-Is the intro Gyu-seong’s voice???

-Gyu-seong ㅇㅇ goosebumps

-If an angel sings, it will be Gyu-seong’s voice

-The falsetto is crazy, I want to listen to the song properly soonㅠㅠ

-Is this a stage costume? The pink clothes are so pretty

-loui, parece una muñeca~~~!! [loui, looks like a doll~~~!!]

-0:32 Heung-min’s hair is so hip

-ㄹㅇ New styling is good [Real. New styling is good]

-He’s a rapper

-He’s a rapperㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-OH MY GOD PROUD THAT I AM THE BEST

-The video color is good

-The kids are so pretty, I have to capture them in seconds and make them into short videosㅜㅜㅜㅜ

-This concept trailer is LEGENDARY! every single moment is PERFECT

-Beautifly : MOST new song

Beautiful : MOST

The reaction to the concept trailer video was mostly from fans who came to watch it.

Some fans were disappointed that it wasn’t a performance-oriented, intense atmosphere like during , but most of them expressed anticipation for being able to see the members in another image.

The trailer video didn’t reveal the song or choreography, but only the overall atmosphere and style, and that part seemed to have pleased the fans.

“Phew. I’m glad the reaction to my hair is good.”

Heung-min, who had looked at his fans’ reactions with the Tweety ID that Woo-cheol had shared, muttered as if relieved.

“It seems like we have a lot more fans.”

Do-jae said, watching the number of MyTube video views rise faster than ever before.

The members nodded as if they were also feeling it.

Just looking at the comments, they could feel that even foreign fans had increased.

He was happy that the trailer video was well-received, but he also felt the pressure to live up to the expectations.

“Is it only 2 weeks left…….”

Heung-min muttered, trembling at the approaching comeback date.

“We’ll have to work harder in the future.”

***

As Heung-min said, the members did their best for the remaining 2 weeks for the comeback stage.

The members were now quite used to preparing for a comeback.

It was just as difficult, but they had their own know-how to manage their physical and mental strength.

So the comeback preparation went smoothly.

The crisis that struck everyone who thought so was 3 days before the comeback.