Chapter 295 – Red Shoes Cuties (2)

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The car entered a shabby old one-room village.

At this point, I had no choice but to look back at the tragic reality of idol groups.
Of course, generalization is difficult.
Idol singers who are well-managed in a normal company can live with a sense of humor that is not enviable by Hunter.

This is my expectation, but I wondered if the life of celebrities would become more difficult after the world changed.
As hunter guilds intervened in the entertainment industry, injustice and corruption occurred, and the popularity and value of entertainers themselves became less than before.

People always pay attention only to the part where the spotlight shines, but they are not interested in the 95% that supports it.
It was clear that their lives would be much worse than they were before the world changed.

“Where are you?”
“We saved up the money and borrowed it temporarily. I didn’t have much money, so I couldn’t find a good place. I was in too much of a hurry.”
“Are there other members here?”
“Yes, they said they couldn’t even come out because they were scared. I think I’m fine though. Because when I was at the agency’s dorm, what I ate was controlled. I think I was satisfied with being able to order food for delivery.”

Han So-yeon’s expression was lonely when she said that.
Judging from the nuance of her speech and the atmosphere, they seemed close, like her biological sisters.
He must have identified their pain with his own pain.

“Now that the shackles are off, I can live freely.”

I was slightly worried.
I thought that since they were still young and talented girls, they would be able to do anything, but I also thought about what to do to make a living now that I can’t become a celebrity.
Originally, I wouldn’t have worried about these details, but since she became close to Han So-yeon and it was about the girls who were close to her, I naturally became interested.

“Do you have any future plans?”
“There won’t be. I had no time to think of anything else until now. But no worries. Because I can feed them.”

Han So-yeon is happy that she can. She grabs my arm and says, “Thank you,” She said.

“Well.”

It was not a bad idea.
You know better than anyone that S-class hunters are people who don’t have to worry about money at all.
Being responsible for a few girls’ livelihoods was frankly nothing.

Still, looking at how she said that she would be responsible for the livelihood of the girls, it was clear that Han So-yeon was no ordinary girl.
Loyalty and strength were not comparable to those of other girls of her age.
I thought that even if she became a combat type hunter, she would do well.

‘It’s a combat type…’

At first, she thought she might belong to them.
But she felt a little vague while having sex yesterday.
Colorless and odorless.
To be honest, this was the first time.
I had no idea how to characterize Mana’s personality.

‘Because I just woke up.’

Perhaps she didn’t know yet that she hadn’t had enough time to fully develop her powers.

We entered the building together.
The guard let us through after seeing Han So-yeon, who lowered her mask and showed her face.

He had a face that was hard to believe.
It’s not that it’s not, it’s because the car I rode in was a luxury car that was hard to see in most cases.
At least for the people living in this studio, it was a car that was difficult to own.

Confused, but also seemed to be thinking in the wrong direction.
It would be one of the natural ideas to think that he asked for a popular guy and brought him.

Han So-yeon got on her elevator and called her.

“Yes, we are all here. Did you eat? I bought a hamburger.”

She heard raucous voices from the phone she held in her hand.
It was felt that they depended on Han So-yeon like her real sister.
Han So-yeon must have regarded Lee So-ri that way in the past.
Lee So-ri, like Han So-yeon, tried to remain loyal to the group members until the end, and nevertheless met a miserable end.
The bastards who made her like that were killed by my own hands, but I couldn’t help but feel that her story itself was tragic.
Because dead people can’t come back to life.

We got off the 5th floor together.
As soon as the elevator door opened and I took a few steps, I heard voices.

“Sister!”
“Where have you been?”
“It’s okay? Did everything go well?”

Han So-yeon ran towards them.
It was like a family meeting after not seeing each other for years.

As I stood at a distance, one of the girls cast her gaze toward me.

“Is that him? Who helped?”

It was very cute to see her eyes wide open and curious expression on her face.
She was likely to be in the mid 150 cm tall, and was the type that didn’t look like an adult from her face or figure.
She didn’t wear fancy clothes or makeup, but her presence gave off a cute feeling that made me want to carry it in her pocket.
She could easily predict what position she would have in the group.

On the other hand, there was also a woman who was looking this way with a sharp gaze.

“Are you trustworthy?”

She was a tall, slender beauty with bobbed hair.
Her boyish charm exudes.
In technical terms, she was a girl with girl-crush charm.

“It’s my first time meeting you, so why are you talking so aggressively?”

The girl who was rude to the girl-crush girl had a feminine charm.
Her face was kind and innocent like that of a puppy, but her body was anything but.

“Hello.”

The last girl bowed to me and said hello.
For some reason, the expressionless expression made me feel like a robot.
If we were to evaluate it simply by her face, this girl was the prettiest.
More so than Han So-yeon, who has the best overall balance.

‘It’s a girl group…’

I couldn’t help but think that way.
Each one was beautiful and had a personality that could be quickly characterized.

Regardless of the place and situation, I felt happy to be in the same space with them.
Do you think it’s the first time in my life that I understand the feelings of people who do virtue?
It was to the point where it seemed unreasonable why girls who spewed out the happy virus just by being themselves had to suffer like this.

“Hello.”

For some reason, I greeted him face-to-face with the feeling of entering a youth drama.

Aside from the robot-like girl who had already greeted me, the other girls greeted me in unison.

“Hello.”

It seemed very natural to act as a group in this way.
It wasn’t really counting the numbers and putting them together, but the greeting movements were the same as if they were dancing in a group.

“Let’s go in.”

Han So-yeon said with a smile.
Hagiya, the space itself was too cramped for chattering in the hallway.
By the way, this many people were in the studio.
She felt the need to change places immediately.

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As expected, the room was very cramped.
In addition, the ventilation was not good, so it was full of food smells.
On one side of the room, as Han So-yeon already mentioned, the leftovers from ordering and eating a lot of delivery food were piled up.

It made me feel sorry to see the members of a girl group who were once called out as regulars at music festivals and were not particularly uncomfortable and were roaring around in a small room.

For a while I had nothing to do.
I just stood there and sat still.

The girls’ first concern was, of course, food.
When Han So-yeon took out a package of hamburgers from her inventory, she said “Wow ~~” And exclaimed in unison.

“Is it the inventory?”

The cutest and smallest woman asked if not all the members were ignorant about hunters.

“Yes. That’s right.”

Han So-yeon triumphantly placed her hand on her waist.
It was quite different from when I was alone.
Seeing this, she could better see the relationship between her and her other members.

As expected, she was Han So-yeon, who seemed to be in the position of an older sister.
It probably wouldn’t have been much different when Lee Sori was there.
It seems that Han So-yeon relied on her a lot.

The girls charged at the hamburgers as if they had starved for days.
She did not pay much attention to Han So-yeon’s strange behavior.

They were definitely still young girls.
Those are girls whose basic needs have been forcibly suppressed for a long time.

After devouring hamburgers, drinks, and French fries, I was able to get to the point.

“What the hell happened during the day?”

A girl with short hair and a tough look asked.
It’s basically a boyish look, but now she was smearing ketchup on the side of her lips.
Han So-yeon naturally wiped the side of her lips with a tissue.

“A lot happened.”

She turned her head and said meaningfully.
The eyes of the other girls reached me as I was sitting like a sack of barley.

Even when left alone, there was no uncomfortable feeling.
It was a pleasure to be part of this atmosphere.
I thought that everyone had a reason for being a girl group.

Han So-yeon started talking slowly.
Her story begins with a scene where she runs into a car after being chased by men.
It was something she had already experienced personally, but when she heard it again with Han So-yeon’s voice, I thought it was truly spectacular.

As the story progressed, the girls became more and more obsessed with it.