The Malicious Member is Back! - Chapter 163

– Eek! What was that? A ghost? An oni? This is all because Logan talked about ghosts! They come when you talk about them!

– Ryota, that’s a bit much. I mean, maybe not an oni since this isn’t Japan… maybe a Korean ghost?

– Gaaahhh….

– Gao Yan, how can you just sleep so peacefully in this situation! So mean, so mean! At this rate, we’re all going to die!

– Hey, calm down. Logan, give Ryota a doll or something to hug. I’ll go check.

The night in the idol dormitory facility, where some were sleeping, some were chattering, and some were moving busily for their own plans.

“Who the hell is banging like—what the… Li Ming Shen?”

“─Chunyong.”

The very person who had been fighting off sleep for “some plan” greeted Li Ming Shen, and Li Ming Shen immediately grabbed him by the collar and whispered in his ear.

“Your proposal.”

I’ll do it.

“Now, whether I get exposed or not, it doesn’t matter. I’m just going to do it.”

Even if you back out now,

“I’m still going to do it….”

“What’s with you all of a sudden—wait, first….”

Kim Chunyong, scratching his cheek in confusion, stopped himself when he saw the mix of injustice and fury in Li Ming Shen’s eyes.

Then, tapping Li Ming Shen’s hand that was grabbing his collar, he gently pulled it off and said something else.

“…Alright. Let’s do it together.”

If you want to, then you have to do it.

* * *

Right after the highly agitated Li Ming Shen returned to his dorm.

“Hoo….”

I had somehow slipped into the bathroom of the multinational roommates’ dorm, quietly closing the door behind me and letting out a long sigh.

Seriously, that must’ve looked weird on the hallway camera.

It wouldn’t even be strange if a caption like [Team trainees in a heated clash?!] popped up online immediately.

Given how Producer Joo Cheol Yeong was determined to make Targeting Star the masterpiece of his PD career, there was no way he would miss something like that.

“Good thing I quickly set up a comforting scene afterwards…”

Though, judging by Li Ming Shen’s face, it didn’t seem like that alone would solve everything.

“If we can make that trainee start wanting something from Kim Chunyong, that should do it.”

Honestly, it was hard to say I completely followed Yeon Woo hyung’s advice.

All I had done was imprint my existence beside Li Ming Shen.

So this situation right now was just….

“…Looks like Liu Wei scratched at Li Ming Shen. Whatever he did, anyway.”

It was probably better not to know exactly what.

“Mm….”

I swallowed the groan that escaped between my teeth as I scrolled through the captures stored in the gallery, full of Liu Wei’s dirt.

On top of that, if I added the help of Li Ming Shen, who had just freshly changed his mind, Liu Wei would….

Various thoughts floated through my mind.

Whether I had the right to do this, whether Liu Wei deserved for this to happen to him.

Ding!

– X: Who cares lololol Is this really the time for you to worry about that?

Maybe because he was in a good mood for the first time in a while, X was firing off excited messages at me.

Ding! Ding!

– X: Well Liu Wei really is something, huh, how could someone have such bad luck with people, even his own friend is siding with you tsk tsk

– X: If you think about what he did to you, it’s only karma-bibimbap –3–

– X: How is it! That [Fortune Cookie B] skill I sent you, pretty good, right?

– X: He told you today, ‘A benefactor might come to you?’

– X: Personally, Fortune Cookie is my favorite among the skills… first of all, the icon on the top bar is way too cute!!

– X: Of course, I gave it to you because you decided you were going to crush Liu Wei hehe

With the words and emojis he used, it all looked cheerful and lively, but when you actually picked apart the content, it was chillingly brutal.

– X: Good, good, let’s just keep going like this

– X: Anyway, no matter how it happens, you’re the one who has to debut, right?! Right!?

– X: Let’s do well, Trash Rex, okay?

– X: I know it’s gonna be messy and complicated, ah! yeah! I know, okay?

– X: But if you keep insisting on playing the nice guy, when will you ever debut, when will you ever atone

– X: I’m right, right? ㅎㅎ

And of course, in the end, it circled right back to lines poking at me again.

I brushed my finger once across the screen where the messages popped up, and slowly typed a reply.

– Kim Chunyong: You’re right

– X: …???

Maybe he hadn’t expected agreement from me, because the chat, usually noisy, froze completely.

But this time, I had nothing more to say, because I agreed with him.

I had never been a good guy in the first place.

What good guy in the world would send his family off like that and keep shamelessly living on?

Burdening the precious people who tried to help him, again and again.

“…….”

I couldn’t back down anymore.

I carefully stepped out of the bathroom and pulled the blanket sprawled on my bed all the way over my head.

Today, and tomorrow—then it would be the day of the fourth mission.

That would be the day I brought down Liu Wei.

The blanket that was supposed to be warm felt strangely cold.

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