Prince From Another Dimension Becomes An Idol [EN]: Chapter 232

#232.

“MVS , who was the most loved singer of the past year?”

“The Grand Prize goes to… MOST!!!”

It was their third Grand Prize.

They didn’t feel the same shock and astonishment as when they received it for the first time, but all the members went on stage with trembling faces to accept the award.

Unlike the N TV FESTA, which had been such a huge shock, and the chaotic SVS, they could now truly feel only joy and emotion.

Why this luck had come to them… that alone still left them feeling dazed.

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-Thank you, BEST, for giving us such a big award. Without your love, this award would be meaningless.

-Vice President Jung Hyung-seok, Team Leader Jung Hee-young… Thank you so much for creating the team called MOST, for believing in me, and for waiting for me!

January 2nd. Morning.

In the MOST dorm, the replay of the that aired the day before yesterday was playing on the living room TV.

Even after watching it again, Woo-cheol stared at the TV screen with a touched expression, as if still moved.

His eyes were so swollen it was questionable whether he could even see the screen.

The members returned to the dorm at 3 a.m. after finishing the .

Exhausted and hungry, they had a simple meal of cup noodles and prepared for bed.

Even while washing up and changing into their pajamas, the members didn’t forget to check the reactions to their performance.

Only after confirming that the reactions were good, both domestically and overseas, could they rest assured and go to bed.

Even receiving three Grand Prizes didn’t change their daily lives much.

The members fell asleep as if they had fainted and spent the entire day of January 1st in bed.

Like catching up on sleep from the past year, like bears in hibernation.

They woke up once in a while to reply to congratulatory messages, and the members who woke up at the right time ordered food for delivery, but when asked what they did on January 1st, the only answer was, ‘We received the Grand Prize and slept.’

And it was only on the morning of the 2nd that they were properly welcoming the new year.

“I didn’t know, but Gi-jun *hyung* [older brother or male friend] turned around and cried again.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. As expected, MOST’s biggest crybaby was Gi-jun *hyung*……”

Louie, who came out of his room and watched TV with Woo-cheol, laughed.

Honestly, Louie thought both Gi-jun and Woo-cheol cried too easily.

“Both are so emotional……”

“Exclude me.”

Woo-cheol protested at the youngest’s blunt remark, but Louie just smiled again.

“Ah, what is it? Kim Louie. You’re acting up now that you’re a year older? I got older too, you know?”

“Being emotional isn’t something to be ashamed of, *hyung*.”

“Whatever……”

Woo-cheol thought that the youngest’s rank seemed to be rising more and more.

Without even thinking about how he acts towards his *hyungs*…….

As the two were talking and replaying the Grand Prize-winning scene.

“What’s that smell? It smells good……”

Heung-min asked as he opened the door and came out.

Heung-min’s hair was a complete bird’s nest.

“Wow. If a magpie comes, it can live on *hyung’s* head.”

“Hey. Open your eyes before you talk.”

“I think *hyung’s* eyes are closed too?”

Louie hummed happily as he watched Woo-cheol and Heung-min bickering without missing a day.

The members Louie met at eighteen were Louie’s best friends, colleagues, and family.

As much as he was outgoing and loved everywhere, he received nearly a hundred congratulatory messages today alone, but Louie was most comfortable and had the most fun when he was with the MOST members.

“Do-jae *hyung* is making breakfast. Rice cake soup!”

“What? Do-jae is?”

Heung-min headed towards the kitchen.

As Louie said, Do-jae was busily making rice cake soup in the kitchen.

He even took out Korean beef from the freezer, and the green onions were sliced diagonally with a decent touch, so it was definitely rice cake soup…….

“Why… rice cake soup?”

Heung-min asked with a slightly uneasy look.

“We couldn’t eat rice cake soup on January 1st. We can eat it during Lunar New Year’s, but… I felt bad.”

“Ah…. But why……”

“Yes?”

Do-jae, who was stirring the rice cakes with a ladle to prevent them from sticking to the bottom, turned around and asked.

Do-jae, who was meticulously wearing a pink apron, looked like someone with top-notch cooking skills just by his appearance.

“But why… are you cooking it? Haha. Where’s Gi-jun *hyung*?”

Heung-min asked, rolling his eyes awkwardly, trying not to scold him as much as possible.

“Didn’t you hear? Gi-jun *hyung* left a little while ago… He’s going on a trip with Kedo *sunbae* [senior or mentor].”

“That was today……”

Gi-jun had planned a New Year’s trip with Kedo of Big Boyz.

It was a ‘friendship trip’ that they had taken once a year, receiving vacation time whenever they were having a hard time as trainees, but they hadn’t been able to go even once since Big Boyz debuted.

It became even more difficult to coordinate schedules as Gi-jun debuted as MOST.

Even if their schedules allowed, it wasn’t easy to go on a trip.

Since his debut, Gi-jun had become an even more serious workaholic, always focusing on writing songs as if he was being chased by something.

However, he couldn’t just stand by and watch his friend struggle in the process of Jung-jun leaving Big Boyz.

Even at this awards ceremony, Big Boyz couldn’t attend properly.

Kedo congratulated Gi-jun, who received the Grand Prize, without any selfish intentions, but Gi-jun felt complicated.

It would have been better if he could have stood shoulder to shoulder with Kedo at the moment of receiving the best award.

No one would have known that the situation of Gi-jun and Kedo, who were watching Big Boyz’s awards ceremony performance from the practice room just a few years ago, would change like this.

He could once again realize that life is longer than he thought, and that he never knows what will happen in life.

Of course, Kedo and the other Big Boyz members were people who could pave their way well again.

In any case, Kedo and Gi-jun relied on and comforted each other, building their friendship, and the two of them were now relieved and leaving for a 2-night, 3-day trip.

“Did they say they were going to Gangwon-do?”

“I think they’re going to see the winter sea and go to the mountains.”

“Gi-jun *hyung* in the mountains……”

Gi-jun was surprisingly physically fit, but Heung-min shook his head, not acknowledging it.

Anyway, it was a good thing that Gi-jun, who carried a lot of weight as a leader, had a friend other than the members to comfortably share the weight with.

The younger members hoped that Gi-jun would have a good time, as much as he had suffered.

“Oh, then what about Gyu-sung?”

Heung-min quickly looked for Gyu-sung.

If there was anyone who could be trusted next to Gi-jun in cooking, it was Gyu-sung.

“Gyu-sung has a meeting. For .”

“Ah, that was today……”

Heung-min scratched his head and looked at Louie and Woo-cheol, who were sitting in the living room.

And then he looked at the rice cake soup, which was boiling deliciously in the pot again.

Honestly, he wanted to suggest ordering delivery right now… but he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

He felt like he had to accept this reality.

“Okay… Is there anything I can help with?”

Do-jae said as Heung-min nodded.

“No. Just wait. It’s almost done.”

“Okay……”

Do-jae smiled happily as he looked at Heung-min turning around.

It was the first time he was cooking himself because Gi-jun was always there.

It seemed like quite an exciting and fun thing to do.

Whether he knew Heung-min’s worried heart or not, Do-jae’s smile shone brightly, receiving the sunlight coming in through the kitchen window.

Heung-min came out to the living room and quickly lowered his voice so that Do-jae couldn’t hear him.

“Did you guys ask Do-jae to make rice cake soup? We should have just ordered delivery!”

“Ah, *hyung* suddenly said he would cook it himself. Even when we said it was okay, *hyung* said he wanted to do it. He said rice cake soup should have sincerity in it……”

Woo-cheol also excused himself as if he couldn’t help it.

From what had happened, the members knew that the only thing Do-jae couldn’t do was cook.

Do-jae, who could do anything quickly, suddenly went ‘clunk-clunk’ only when it came to cooking.

Louie quickly reassured Heung-min.

“Gi-jun *hyung* told him how to do it. He said rice cake soup is super easy. He said you can’t not cook it well even if you try not to.”

“…Really?”

“Yep. And… it’s not like you have to make it look pretty, and Do-jae *hyung* will probably get the seasoning right, right?”

“Hmm…. Is that so? Do-jae is a gourmet, though……”

Anyway, what was done was done.

Still, it was a good thing that he was making food for them.

Heung-min, Woo-cheol, and Louie quietly waited for the rice cake soup to be finished.

And after a while.

Do-jae’s rice cake soup, with whole pieces of seasoned seaweed placed on top one by one… was placed on the table.

“The royal kitchen…. No, Gi-jun *hyung* would have made it look pretty. This isn’t easy.”

“Does the appearance matter! The taste is what matters! I’ll eat well, *hyung*!”

“Thank you for the food!”

“I’ll enjoy it, Do-jae.”

Woo-cheol, Louie, and Heung-min took their spoons in turn.

Do-jae looked at the three with sparkling eyes.

Honestly, it was far from the rice cake soup sold in the market in terms of appearance, not to mention the royal court, but he could confidently say that the sincerity was the best.

He thought the taste would be good because he followed the recipe Gi-jun had told him.

Louie bravely took a spoonful of rice cake soup.

The other members also put rice cake soup in their mouths one after another.

Do-jae waited for the members’ reactions with a spoon in his hand.

“How is it? How is it?”

Looking at Do-jae’s expectant face, the members swallowed the rice cake soup.

“……”

“Haha. Getting a year older means… it’s really salty, delicious!”

Heung-min commented instead of the two younger members who couldn’t answer and froze.

Do-jae quickly took a spoon and tasted the rice cake soup with surprised eyes.

“Ugh.”

The saltiness was strongly conveyed to Do-jae’s tongue.

Do-jae didn’t even know that he had to taste it.

Woo-cheol quickly took another bite of the rice cake soup as Do-jae’s expression, which had been so proud, contorted and became unusually discouraged.

“S, still, it’s delicious? Is it because I eat salty food?”

Heung-min also said something unhelpful, “It’s delicious because it’s stimulating.”

Then Louie got up from his seat and took something out of the refrigerator.

“This! Let’s put this in and eat it!”

What Louie had in his hand was retort [pre-packaged] bone broth soup.

Woo-cheol and Heung-min’s eyes widened.

Louie quickly warmed the bone broth soup in the microwave and poured it into the rice cake soup.

‘Wherever you go, you just have to go to Hanyang [a historical reference to Seoul, implying seeking help from the best]…….’

Do-jae thought and shared the much more delicious rice cake soup with the members.

He resented a little why the royal court had taught him everything else but not cooking lessons…….

That’s how another day was passing in the dorm.

In one corner of the living room, the three Grand Prize trophies that Gi-jun had polished well were shining side by side on the display case.