Chapter 148: K-pop Tore It Up

“Oh, they’re coming in.”

The moment the Yui App live broadcast alarm turned on, the number above the chat window began to rise quickly.

Strangely enough, every time we started a live, it felt like the viewers increased.

That must have meant our popularity was going up.

“Dusty fans!”

Ha Junseo’s eyes sparkled as he stepped back.

That was after he checked that the screen was showing properly.

“Did you see our concept photos?”

At once, the heated reactions poured in.

Among the comments streaming down in foreign languages, a few in Korean said, “I’m looking forward to the comeback, you’re handsome, give us a spoiler.”

This time, Kang Siwoo firmly shook his head.

“There are absolutely no spoilers this time.”

“Absolutely, absolutely not~.”

Cha Seongbin added with a bright smile.

Then he tapped Seohan, who was sitting next to him, with his arm and added.

“See, we completely locked down our maknae.”

A head completely wrapped up in a hoodie.

Seohan nodded and pulled the strings of his hoodie even tighter.

“My hair color is a secret.”

For Dusty fans who had seen the concept photos last night, this was quite an absurd announcement.

-Huh??

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋWhy is Do Seohan acting like that?

-To hide his hair color???

-Your concept photo was literally revealed already, you were the very first one ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-What on earth are you hiding then

Jin Sehyun, who was scrolling through the comments, suddenly turned his head.

It wasn’t certain, but according to the Dusty fans, this was the situation.

“Hey, they said it was released yesterday.”

“Huh?”

Seohan blinked as he checked the flood of comments.

In the past, he would have been startled by just one comment from Dusty fans, but now it wasn’t like that.

“Eh, don’t lie.”

As if he had already been tricked into spoiling things more than once, Seohan shook his head with a grin.

“I’m never falling for that again.”

-No, I’m telling you it really was revealed ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Please believe us, Seohan ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-He’s been tricked so many times by fans that he’s lost all trust ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Seohan, go on JjaekJjaek right now, I swear it’s really up!

-Who kept tricking our Seohan all the time ㅠㅠ

“My hair color is absolutely a secret. If I give one spoiler, it’s that I look very handsome.”

Thinking that was an excellent spoiler, Seohan smiled proudly.

He seemed very pleased with his first-ever bleach job.

-That’s been known for 18 years already

-Your hair color has already gone global, you golden hamster

-Is Do Seohan the only one who doesn’t know his own concept photo’s out? How does he not know ㅋㅋㅋ

As the fans’ reactions grew stranger, Ha Junseo tilted his head. He was starting to get confused.

“Wait, whose concept photo came out yesterday?”

“It was Sehyun’s, Sehyun’s.”

“No, not me.”

“Didn’t they release it in reverse age order?”

“I feel like I saw Do Seohan in my dream yesterday.”

“In my dream it was Siwoo-hyung.”

It was chaos.

-Why does nobody know ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Is everyone seriously forgetting?

-Did they pass out right after practice yesterday and miss it?

-Our kids being so clueless is so freaking cute

And they were right.

We had practiced until dawn and passed out.

When we woke up, we were dragged straight to the practice room, then went live right away, so no one had checked properly.

So the debate continued.

“I’m telling you it’s in age order.”

“Then it’s Junseo-hyung.”

“Yeah, must be me.”

Ha Junseo nodded and boldly took off the cap he had pulled low over his head.

“You all saw it anyway, right?”

His ash gray hair, hidden under the cap, was revealed.

-Woahhh is that gray?

-Love it, Junseo ㅠㅠㅠ

-Thanks for the hair color spoiler, Junseo

-So glad I endured the painful wait for this comeback

-Now sing us a song while you’re at it

-You said no spoilers but looks like you’ll all spill everything ㅋㅋ Dusties, let’s push them harder ㄱㄱ

“Huh…?”

Something was wrong.

Ha Junseo quickly put his cap back on.

Jin Sehyun, who realized the situation late, spoke coldly.

“Hyung, the concept photo that was released was Do Seohan’s.”

“…This isn’t it?”

Yeah, no.

[They ended up spoiling everything in their live]

But the teaser really was in age order, right?

→ They spoiled that it was reverse order

Didn’t you already spoil a part of the chorus on your YouTube Shorts?

→ Not released yet

So you guys use Shorts to spoil things ㅋㅋㅋ

Siwoo-hyung’s blue hair was insane….

→ He worked hard to cover it

You should’ve seen Kang Siwoo’s face ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The one who spoiled everything >> Seo Haim

He ended up getting smacked by Jin Sehyun and chased out ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The problem was that right in front of that, Do Seohan’s pupils were shaking like crazy ㅋㅋㅋ

Some things might have slipped by naturally, but because of Seohan, everything got exposed.

The maknae line carried the live….

Thanks for the spoilers, kids….

-In the end, when wrapping up, Jin Sehyun gave up and sang his part

└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋOh really?

└No way, for real? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└He sang it so naturally like it wasn’t even his part that I didn’t notice ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└Sehyun’s resigned Dusty spoiler live….

└Wait, tell me too

└http://neotube.128nvdkf.com

-Ha Junseo whipping off his cap so confidently shocked me, I thought he’d been hiding it on purpose ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└He was hiding it on purpose

└Why did he think his teaser was out though ㅠㅠ ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└Meanwhile, Mam-Seohan never took off his hoodie

└He never believed it until the end ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└Baby, don’t distrust us ㅠㅠ

└But to be fair, Dusties do mess with him a lot….

└Do Seohan also got tricked into spoiling a bunch during their last activity’s live….

└I got this in a Private Message, he seriously didn’t believe it until the very end of the live ㅋㅋ ㅠㅠ

And so, after two long weeks of waiting,

The day had finally arrived for Stardust’s first full album “Undock” to be released.

November 23rd.

A noisy classroom after school.

High school Dusties had taken over the front row of desks and connected a monitor screen to their phones.

Dusty Lee Hyun shook his friend’s shoulder and exclaimed in excitement.

“Ahhh! Why am I the one feeling nervous?”

“You saw the teaser that came out yesterday, right?”

“Of course I saw it! It was insane… seriously….”

The moment I saw Do Seohan’s platinum blonde in a moving teaser video, it felt like I was having arrhythmia.

How could a person be a golden hamster?

I thought I was really going to faint the moment I saw it.

“Do Seohan is crazy handsome.”

“I heard the styling this comeback is insane.”

“Hey, didn’t he wear a school uniform in the teaser?”

“He wore a school uniform, hockey gear, and even a jacket….”

“Ha, that’s wild. They’ve already torn it up, haven’t they?”

It was the first full album of our boys, something we had waited for months.

In three minutes, the official music video of the title track was about to be released.

My friends fussed and stared at the screen of the music video that hadn’t even started yet.

“Hey, two minutes left.”

“One minute left.”

The time that felt so long began to flow slowly, and then the countdown appeared.

Shouts burst out here and there to suppress the trembling hearts.

“10!”

“9!”

“8.”

“Hey, what is this, a New Year’s countdown?”

“Leave them be, everyone’s dead serious….”

The boys in the back row, who had just come back from dinner, grumbled as they buried their faces in their desks.

Whatever.

Dusty Lee Hyun’s adrenaline was already rushing to the top of his head.

Dding–

With a cheerful alarm, the screen finally switched to the music video.

Without realizing it, she swore.

“Shit.”

An empty street.

A person standing absentmindedly in an abandoned phone booth lifted their head.

Hair dyed a light brown.

Seo Haim’s lips parted carefully, and Seo Haim’s unique soft tone tickled the ears of fans.

I’m in maze, looking for the exit

In his faint smile, there lingered a trace of wistfulness.

“Seo Haim, don’t seduce people with your eyes….”

“Hey, he’s so damn serious.”

“For a moment, I almost lost it. If you’re gonna be like this, just marry me.”

Immediately, a slick beat followed, and Cha Seongbin’s rap burst out.

Trapped in time, so many times

What I was looking for was only one time

Just one would be enough

But I can’t grasp it

With an unusually handsome face, he grinned and swept his hand down his neck.

“Cha Seongbin, are you insane?”

I had heard that Cha Seongbin composed this title track.

Sure enough, the song itself carried a lot of his vibe.

Maybe that was why.

Even though it was their first time trying this style, it matched perfectly with the members.

“Yeah, I think he’s insane.”

It was obvious that our boys had gone all in.

Since it was their first full album, the company must have given it their all too—there wasn’t a single flaw from the styling to the song to the choreography.

When Kang Siwoo’s face was zoomed in, gasps burst out from the back row.

“He’s… really handsome.”

The time lines that crossed and diverged.

Some looked wistful, some looked happy. They were all searching for someone across an empty Earth.

Should I just stop here?

This is an S.O.S I’m sending to you

With his hair dyed pink, Seo Ian smiled brightly and covered the camera with his hand.

“Aaaahhhh!”

Dusty Lee Hyun couldn’t hold back and screamed.

“From today, Seo Ian is my bias!”

Since when was Seo Ian’s personal color cherry blossom?

Even though spring had long passed, it was enough to make one’s heart tingle.

“All of them are insane this time, huh?”

Proving those words,

The scene switched, and members in primary-colored hockey gear jumped out laughing.

The formations were clean and perfect.

The members of Stardust, chasing after every timeline they had shared with a girl.

Desperate hand gestures followed, as if shouting that among all those times, there would be one with you.

When Seohan suddenly jumped to the center in the choreography, the friend sitting beside me stomped their feet while screaming.

“Do Seohan is so fucking handsome!”

“He’s definitely my ideal type….”

Mayday Mayday Mayday

Something’s gone wrong, please take my hand

Feels like I’m drifting in the wrong timeline

Wandering through the empty universe

The sharp rhythm of the synchronized steps was so satisfying to listen to.

How could they dance that well?

“The center isn’t called the center for nothing….”

Seohan’s dance lines, which perfectly anchored the group’s weight, appeared on the screen.

Seohan truly moved like a fish in water with this kind of intense beat.

I thought the fluttering feelings from the Starf days were gone, but my chest swelled up again.

Mayday Mayday Mayday

Something’s wrong, please hear my cry

Feels like I’m drifting in the wrong timeline

I’m searching for you

Even though the choreography was tough, and the song itself was the most intense among all the styles Stardust had pulled off so far….

Already, the chorus part felt like it was hooking into my ears.

My friends grabbed my arms, shaking me wildly as they shouted.

“This song’s addictive, isn’t it?”

“Hey, they nailed it.”

“Ha… my heart’s racing. I think I’m going to faint.”

“This is definitely going to blow up.”

With a voice full of emotion, Dusty Lee Hyun exclaimed.

One thing was certain.

“Universe Dust tore up K-pop….”

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