Debut or Die

Chapter 368

If you can’t debut, you’ll get a fatal disease Episode 368

‘… So this is it.’

I came to my senses in the practice room of Cheongryeo and Nam’s agency, who seemed to be around 20 years old.

It was a crazy situation.

I turned my head. Only then do we meet eyes in the huge full-length mirror that occupies the entire wall.

“… … !”

“Your junior is the same as before. Yes?”

Yes.

The one reflected in the full-length mirror was Ryu Gun-woo. The one who used to be my body. However, they are not in their late 20s who are tired of public announcements.

The appearance that seems to be the same age as Chungryeo now, who looks like she just graduated from high school.

I swallowed and raised my hand. Young Ryu Gun-woo in the mirror follows.

‘… Gunwoo Ryu.’

But somewhere… My impression at the time was a little different.

Things like the eyes, the mood, and the skeleton.

“It seems that the appearance of Moondae Park is still there. like mixed? Haha, that’s unique.”

It gives me goosebumps.

‘No, don’t be so damn tidy.’

It might have been because of his facial expression.

Around this time, I didn’t look very good due to entrance exams and life problems, but the guy in the mirror seemed to have managed quite a bit.

‘… … .’

why did you manage it?

“The starting point is different this time. Well, they are different ages.”

I turned my head. Cheong-rye is looking for her smartphone and checking the date and situation.

I put my hand in the pocket of my sweatshirt. An old smartphone is caught.

“They are different ages.”

“is it so. The original restart was always 18 years old. But at the age of 20, the date is a few years later… hmm not right Is it because someone restarted it together?”

I took out my smartphone from my pocket and checked the date on the lock screen.

[201X / 01 / 08]

“… !”

The date was definitely odd.

If I’m about 20 now, it should be a few years earlier than now.

In the first place, Ryu Gun-woo should be older than Cheong-ryeo, but now they seem to be of a similar age.

‘Neither this nor that makes sense.’

Only then will your head be clear. The path is clear.

Isn’t it different from ‘Daydream’?

“This is a dream.”

“yes?”

“I can’t be sure, but I’ve experienced something similar.”

I briefly described a daydream I had while in a coma following a car accident. Cheong-ryeo listened without any change in expression.

“… And you don’t match your age and year. I also don’t like the way I look or the place I’m in.”

I concluded

“So it seems like this isn’t the past, it’s a mismatched dream.”

“ah.”

Cheongryeo smiled.

“Isn’t that what you want to believe?”

“… … .”

I clasped my hand.

“Then, is there a better guess than that in the current situation?”

“The surreal situation of returning to the past has already occurred, but other elements are contradictory, so do you think it is a dream? Isn’t that an overly arbitrary judgment?”

“… … .”

“Of course, you have to think of it as reality and act, junior. no um… Can you call me Geonwoo hyung?”

“stop.”

This bastard is way too far ahead.

But after taking a deep breath, I regained my composure.

Because there was nothing wrong.

“first… You’re right. We have to respond realistically.”

“yes.”

It’s stupid to see things the way you want to believe them. It makes sense to assume the worst and act.

and one more.

‘This bastard… My eyes are gone.’

It may have been because he voluntarily caught up with him, but he got caught up in this madness anyway… Now that it’s in a state where it looks like it’s restarted.

It’s a face that doesn’t know if he’s excited or who he wants to kill.

‘I’ll have to come to my senses.’

I don’t know what kind of sudden action will happen. I closed my mouth.

and… determine the cause.

‘Where did the error come from?’

Let’s look back at the situation on the plane at the time.

The error status window around us pops up like crazy, and that guy… .

-hmm… I see this.

“… !”

I saw the status window of Cheongryeodo!

It feels like a blow to the head.

‘No way’

this bastard… Could it be that the system went into this guy and the disabled status ailments worked again?

condition of this guy.

infinitely return to the starting point.

[Correction (Disabled)]

: Try again

– Go back to the beginning in case of failure.

As already confirmed in the case of Seon Ah-hyun, there is a possibility that status ailments that have been inactive can be re-activated.

‘Even if the system didn’t enter directly, if it became a kind of catalyst.’

I immediately checked the condition of Cheongryeol.

‘Status window.’

No, I was trying to check.

however… The window didn’t open.

Chi Chi Chi!

Instead, something like a strange glitch popped up and then disappeared.

One meaning was certain.

‘… The big moon.’

It means that it is in a state where it cannot appear in the status window.

I clenched my fist.

‘X feet.’

It seems to have failed properly, but I am not sure where it came from.

It was then.

A cautious voice is heard from behind.

“Those brothers.”

At the door of the practice room that was open before I knew it, a lanky guy poked his head out.

It was a familiar face.

“Oh, hello… !”

Ohda Shin, a member of VTIC.

Of course, he looked much younger than he did in real life. He opened his mouth again with a slightly nervous face.

“The head of the department called me, but he didn’t gather yet, so he sent me… .”

“okay? for a moment.”

Cheong-rye softly listened to him and spoke to me.

“Shall we go?”

“… yes.”

Once you follow the situation. Cheong-Ri and I moved along with Shin-Oh.

Walking down the hallway of an unfamiliar agency.

The place we arrived was the office.

And the head of the office, who looked like a janitor, called a lot of young people and put them in a row.

Maybe they’re all trainees.

‘About 20 people.’

Considering the size of this company, of course, it didn’t seem like the entire staff.

“I called you to encourage you now because I have a special eye on you. okay?”

“yes!”

Among those who were called, I saw a few familiar faces. A couple of faces debuting at a small agency after a few years.

And I can see the faces of the VTIC members I know.

‘Shin-oh, the guy who called us. next to it… Is that cast iron?’

No matter how you look at it, both of them are standing at the back of the line, as if they are not in the debut group.

It’s obvious.

‘Cheongnyeo cut them out.’

Chae-yul, who is not here, seems to have even been picked up separately.

I suddenly realized that the guy next to me was someone with experience who had combined reality through various attempts.

In the meantime, the head of the department is picking and encouraging and asking questions as if looking at each one.

“Shin Jaehyun, you take good care of the children.”

“yes.”

Shin Jae-hyun, who has not yet been given the stage name of Cheong-ryeo, nodded his head at the chief’s words with a plain face.

… How many times has this guy gone through this moment?

It was then.

“And Ryu Gun-woo.”

“… ! yes.”

why are you calling me all of a sudden

The head of the office wiggles his fingers and makes fun of his mouth.

“Geon-wu is also a good age and has a good academic background, so he has merit. Stop worrying unnecessarily and practice harder.”

“… … yes.”

Ryu Gun-woo is meeting all kinds of bullshit situations to listen to advice on his debut at LeTi.

‘hmm.’

I checked the attitudes and expressions of the people around me and where I was standing.

Those who forced a smile, in the first row next to Cheongryeol.

And if you combine the director’s words… .

‘I’m in the first team.’

Looks like I could be a trainee for LeTi. It is also a debut group.

Anyway, the person called the head of the department added a few words that sounded like he was going through a bit and dismissed the trainees.

“Do you stay and practice Jaehyun?”

“Um, see.”

“yes.”

I frowned after seeing the debut group trainees disappear across the hallway.

‘The chief seemed to be searching for something.’

First of all, let’s put aside the priority since it’s not a conspiracy by the head of this company.

‘I have to get out of this dream right away.’

ASAP.

I have no idea how time flows in real life or what kind of shit it is.

‘From a hint.’

I decided to check my position here.

‘This is unconditionally starting with the smartphone.’

It’s a bunch of personal information.

I walked down the hallway, took out my old smartphone, and manipulated the screen… .

“… … .”

I don’t know the lock pattern. Fuck.

I tried a few times, but they all got stuck. And I don’t know what he did, but… Then turn around and you’re done.

“Shin Jae-hyun.”

“hmm?”

“Do you have any records of conversations with Ryu Gun-woo on a smartphone?”

Considering the situation where we practiced together earlier and stretched out, it must be that we know each other.

“There was. here.”

also.

I saw the smartphone screen that Cheong-rye obediently held out.

[LeTi 16th class Shin Jae-hyun: Hyung, tell me the address of the place where you moved ^^]

[Let me know what to do]

… But after doing this, why bother sending a reply with the address written down there?

‘Are you crazy?’

I hear the sound of the cheongryeo being split.

“Hmm, I guess we were friends. It is a convenient structure.”

“Ah, you asked because you didn’t know the lock pattern. It’s a rhombus. Now is the time for the company to unify the debut group smartphone pattern for management reasons.”

That means you’re working with crazy assholes with no privacy.

It runs very well. it was shit

* * *

“After.”

11 p.m.

I am on my way to the place called Kun-Woo Ryu’s room, as recorded in Cheong-Ryeo’s message.

How about locking your phone? Surprisingly, the diamond pattern for the company also failed, so I left it just in case.

-is it so? It seems that Mr. Ryu Gun-woo has just joined the company.

‘Damn it.’

The reasoning ended there. I’m going to take it to the service center tomorrow and have it fixed. I sighed and moved my feet.

Cheongryeo also agreed to go back to his house first.

– Let’s talk again after each figure out the situation.

-is it so.

It was a reasonable decision.

The problem is.. and the arrival of my self-made building looks better than I thought.

‘It’s an officetel.’

How much money did you do this for?

Looking at the building, which seemed to be quite large and out of balance from the outside, I moved on.

It was a dream, not a reality. And

fortunately

, I passed through the building entrance with the card key sticker on my smartphone.

I was thinking of going back to the company’s practice room if I had to, but I was fortunate enough.

‘Then it will be the gate of the house.’

I went up to the lake and unlocked the door as well, then reached out and pulled the doorknob.

The door opens softly.

But the lights were on in the house where there was no one there.

And a voice was heard.

“Is your brother here?”

“… !”

“You practiced for a long time today.”

Sitting on the living room sofa in comfortable clothes…

It was Ryu Cheng-wu.

Like me, he looks about 20 years old.

‘what’s this.’

“brother?”

Gunwoo Ryu here… He was living alone with his relative Ryu Cheng-wu.

“Hyung, have you ever heard of this culture?”

“… The professor doesn’t give good grades.”

“Um, that’s right.”

I don’t know what I’m doing. I rolled my eyes, reflexively appraising the 3 credits of liberal arts shown by 20-year-old Ryu Cheng-wu.

And saw.

In the living room, it is useless to give at a college entrance ceremony… Teddy bears are on display.

Two points too.

‘I’m going crazy.’

It is completely certain.

It was clear that Ryu Cheng-wu here had entered the same university as me.

Even those two teddy bears look the same.

‘It means I entered the school in the same year.’

But why is he calling me brother? There was no way I would have taken the exam again to go to the same university as when I was active duty.

“… … .”

Let’s ask in a natural way.

“Why do you keep using honorifics when you’re the same age?”

At worst, you can excuse yourself for drinking.

“Ah, I thought you were my older brother when I was little… It’s already stuck in your mouth. It’s really inconvenient, so don’t worry.”

Liu Chengwu smiles a little shyly. is it? The settings are unnecessarily meticulous.

I suppressed my drool and reflexively came up with a valid question.

‘… How about archery?’

At that age, I’m sure he would still be doing archery, but now that I think about it, it was strange that I entered college right now.

However, I saw the moment when a relative who even lived with him was about to do something suspicious by asking about it.

A blue, transparent line that suddenly appeared.

“… … .”

At first I thought it was a hallucination. But as if it’s creeping up… A long line is drawn in the air and finally becomes a square.

And the letters floating on the plane between the lines.

[[email protected]&!5 hyung!]

Status window. big moon.

“… !”

I got up from my seat. And immediately went into the bathroom and shut the door.

thud.

‘What condition are you in?’

[I’m not sure either. It looked like it could be eaten, but I avoided it. It’s fine now.]

Sparse letters pop out as if trying to squeeze through a narrow gap.

It doesn’t look okay. But the text doesn’t stop.

[And there is a status window #[email protected]^]

A crackling pop-up appears.

familiar phrase.

[Enjoy your]

That’s right.

This is a sentence that starts with the words you saw in your daydream. I clenched my fists.

… It was a hasty feeling.

Because the endings of the sentences are different.

[Enjoy your reality :D]

Not a dream, but reality.

‘reality.’

My brain cooled as if I had been hit with cold water.

The popup shook again.

[It’s not something I wrote. Hyung, I’ll try this somehow

.

“Wait, you are in danger… … .”

The status window disappeared before I could even tell him to wait.

‘Damn it!’

Why don’t these bastards listen to me like this? I nervously banged my fist on the bathroom wall.

It was then.

Lights flash like a neon sign.

[START / Registration complete!]

Player: Gun-Woo Ryu (Mun-Dae Park)

Prism and light enter the hologram as if the eyes are brightening.

Shine like a firecracker and a new window is created.

[Quest has arrived!]

Awakenable Companion: ?

Required fame: 1000 exp

Small letters appear on the pop-up window of the big moon.

[this… ]

It was a new game system.