WETRIED TRANSLATIONS

[ Translation - Aren ]

I'm a Reporter, Please let me get off the Stage

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Chapter 12

When I left the cafe with Yoon Sanho, the sun was already setting.

Baek Gyeom, back in the car, was nodding off again.

I tapped my fingers on the steering wheel, keeping an eye on the road ahead.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

Yoon Sanho suddenly called out to me quietly.

“……I’m sorry.”

He spoke softly, almost as loud as the buzz of a mosquito, but that didn’t matter.

I couldn’t help but smile a little.

It felt like I achieved something, like I collected one of the Dragon Balls.

Chae Ire… I wasn’t so sure about him, but it seemed like he was on my side for now.

The matters with Baek Gyeom and Yoon Sanho were resolved pretty smoothly, so I was gaining some confidence.

It felt like I could gather everyone together within a month.

The remaining members were Tae Oh, Gong Haram, and Seo Haedun.

As far as I knew, Tae Oh was a foreign member, and the others were Korean.

I left all three of them a message earlier today, but (as expected) none of them have replied yet.

[Notoriety : 89

Notoriety Keywords : Discord, Disbandment]

Discord, disbandment. Those things appeared after just 3 seconds.

The livestream must have become quite a hot topic already.

With one hand, I opened a social media website and searched for Ahn Yuyoung’s name.

<@ Let’s talk about that livestream earlier… Didn’t Ahn Yuyoung try to grub money from fans to release an album because the rich boy ran away, so he went to scold him? Ahn Yuyoung’s obsessed.>

└ Is it okay to be so confident about mere speculations??

└ Obsessed my ass……Your ^^ Sanho just ran away without saying a words smh

└ Honestly, it’s understandable why he left. Isn’t it obvious? What has the group ever done for him? LOL Ahn Yuyoung publicly trying to keep him around is just to make him feel uncomfortable kek

└ So he can just leave without discussing it with anyone? Get your facts straight, the mess started because of Sanho’s dumb actions.

└ The Monday fandom sure is ruthless, amazing

Yeah, I needed to reflect. I was a bit too hasty earlier.

I needed to be more careful with battles of public opinion going forward.

[Karma Points : 160

Network Level : 8]

Running around like this had accumulated quite a lot of points though.

The shop’s item list seemed to change every 24 hours.

[<Over-the-counter Energy Booster> : Recovers 5 stamina points upon use! - 20 Points]

[<A Large Bowl Can Hold More Food> : Increase total stamina by 10! - 30 Points]

There were quite a few stamina related items.

I was tired, but…. I don’t think I need any of them right now.

[<Reporter's Notebook> : Peek into the reporter’s notebook! Maybe it contains some future events? - 1,000 Points]

And then, there was this item that caught my eye yet again.

A ridiculous price, 50 times that of the stamina items!

A dreadful name that made one not want to open it!

……But I’m curious.

Could I ever gather enough points to buy it?

Instead of saving up for an item I might never be able to afford, perhaps it would be more efficient to just buy bookmarks one by one and reveal things slowly.

I’ll just buy a bookmark.

[Purchase for Notebook Bookmark completed]

[Loading third bookmark……]

<Published on 20.12.21 at 14:55

Title: WEEKANIZ’ Ahn Yuyong makes Extreme Choice… Members ‘Out of Contact’>

“……”

Honk— Honk—.

“……Hyung? We need to go!”

“Ah!”

My vision suddenly brightened.

Yoon Sanho was leaning close to the driver's seat, calling out to me.

The car behind us was honking loudly.

“……Are you okay, Hyung? Your face is pale.”

Moving stiffly like a rusty robot, I turned to look at Baek Gyeom and Yoon Sanho.

For now…… It didn’t seem like either of them were the culprit.

This just confirms that quest failure means death.

Still in a state of mental shock, I heard Yoon Sanho calling out to me repeatedly.

“Hyung, you got a message on your phone. Oh, it’s from Chae Ire.”

What is it? I had a bad feeling about this.

“Should I read it for you?”

“No, I’ll check it myself.”

What if it said something about leaving because he wasn’t able to trust me……

<Hyung, I brought in the laundry and put it in your room! By the way, one of your socks has a hole in it, you know?>

……Looks like I’ve been too anxious.

* * *

When we entered the dorm, Chae Ire had just come out of the shower.

“Oh! It’s Sanho Hyung.”

“Why are you so surprised……?”

“I’m just happy to see you! Gyeom Hyung’s here too.”

“Ire, have you seen the CEO?”

“No? I came straight here after meeting with a friend during the day, so I didn’t.”

How could he go meet a friend in this situation?

How could he be so damn positive about all this?

Chae Ire, blissfully unaware of my worries, was just smiling as he got the water out of his reddish brown hair with a towel.

My half gathered Dragon Balls seemed to have forgotten the cold words from earlier in the day about how they wanted to become streamers or pack up their things. They were now wandering around the dorm, chatting among themselves.

I took Chae Ire into my room.

“We still need to find Gong Haram, Tae Oh, and Seo Haedun, but none of them are answering their phones. What should we do?”

“Well…… I think they were the first to pack their things and leave.”

“Do you have any idea where they might be?”

“Hmmm…… Haram Hyung probably went back to his hometown.”

“And where is that?”

“Jeju island.”

“Uurgh.”

Hometown, hometown…… Right.

People who had their family home in the provinces could easily do that.

“Just send me around the world, why don’t you.”

I muttered sarcastically to myself.

I flopped onto the single bed.

Wait a minute.

“……Around the world?”

The word I had casually spat out somehow got stuck on my tongue.

Besides Chae Ire and Beak Gyeom.

Yoon Sanho and Gong Haram decided to go back to their hometowns.

So then……

One of the members I hadn’t gotten a reply from yet was born to a Korean mother and an American father, so he had dual citizenship for both the U.S. and Korea.

And his family home was located in ‘Los Angeles, USA’......

Bang!!!

“Ah, you scared me!”

“Are any of you in contact with Tae Oh?”

All of them looked at me after I slammed the door open, but none of them answered me.

So, I returned to the room.

[<Notebook Bookmark> : A bookmark carefully selected and inserted into the notebook by the reporter. What might be written on those pages? - 50 Points]

[Would you like to purchase?]

I boldly spent the points.

This system, even though it might be lacking in manners, should at least have some integrity, right?

If it did, it wouldn’t show me the same bookmarked page it showed me earlier, right?

[Loading the fourth bookmark……]

<Published on 04.12.21 at 15:20 

Title: WEEKANIZ’ Tae Oh, departing today (the 4th) …… taking steps towards ‘Withdrawal’?>

December 4th.

That was the day after tomorrow.

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