Free Web Novel[Sion half-body gif just dropped!]
(Gif of Lee Sion getting hit in four places at once by other participants)
↳Seriously, I was watching like, what the hell lol I thought my bias would be good at chicken fights
↳Isn’t Sluggish Ryujin the one who’s good at chicken fights?
↳Hey, she still left an impact, have a drink
↳Like, with what confidence did this noob charge all the way to the center?
↳The production staff are brutal lol when they even aired her rolling across the field in slow motion, I thought they were insane
“I told you, putting in more Lee Sion screentime was the answer.”
Lee Hyuksu had barely slept after Episode 3 of Idol Ground 100 aired yesterday, because he’d been up all night watching the chaos in the online communities, and then gone straight to work.
In particular, the clip of Lee Sion getting wrecked in the chicken fight was currently making the rounds on every site and gaining popularity.
-Why is she a variety character when she looks like that?
-f*ck lol I couldn’t stop laughing watching that
-They edited the preview like she was going to kill someone, but ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ it was a chicken fight, this PD is f*cking insane
-Okay, I believe it now. You really are a variety character, Lee Sion
On top of that, there was no shortage of other scenes with Lee Sion that were getting a lot of attention.
[Our bias having her soul sucked out after getting picked by Im Yunkyung]
(Shot of Lee Sion with unfocused eyes, shuffling off to line up behind Im Yunkyung)
↳Im Yunkyung kills me, she picked Sion before the other A-grade participants lol
↳You can tell our bias didn’t see it coming, her eyes are out of focus the entire team pick segment
↳If you look closely, our bias is saying something under her breath like a ventriloquist behind Im Yunkyung
↳Is she cursing?
↳Nah, judging from how she picked Lee Gahyeon and Geum Shinyu after that, they must’ve discussed the members
Even during the member selection, the reactions of the Lucid Dive A team were so vivid compared to the other teams that Hyuksu had no choice but to edit around them.
He did wonder if he’d been a little too biased, editing with his fan feelings, but with how good the response to the final product was, he couldn’t help but feel good.
For example,
[Sluggish Ryujin and this noob lol how is that an idol nickname]
“Wow, I’ve lived a long time, but I never imagined an idol nickname could be ‘sluggish’ and ‘noob.’
But why do both of them suit her?”
↳Honestly, what Sluggish Ryujin did in the chicken fight, ganging up with the others, was peak sluggish, yeah yeah
↳Sion-ah··· when you enter the dorm you’re supposed to hand in your phone
↳Seo Ryujin is all charisma when she’s with other kids, why does she turn into a variety character only when she’s with our bias?
↳Unexpectedly, Sluggish Ryujin’s gallery kids like it too? They say their own bias is the funniest when she’s with Sion
↳It’s not that the other kids’ screentime isn’t fun, it’s that our bias is over there shooting a one-woman variety show by herself ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
There had even been talk during meetings about editing down the banter between Sion and Seo Ryujin because their images might become too purely variety-focused.
But Hyuksu had said,
“We absolutely have to keep this in! The synergy between those two is insane—cutting this out would be dereliction of duty!”
Even with senior editors insisting those bits should be trimmed, he had argued passionately that this, at least, had to stay, and now everyone was praising his judgment.
‘It was the perfect timing. Viewers are starting to think about the debut line-up, not just pushing their own pick now.’
Lately, in Idol Ground 100-related communities, the trend wasn’t to promote one participant alone, but to promote them in bundles.
-You absolutely have to put in Double U, no matter what.
-The real ones are the F-class trio: Lee Sion, Kim Nayeon, Im Yunkyung. Those three together have amazing synergy, they’re nonnegotiable.
-Isn’t the Sluggish Ryujin–Noob Lee line the best?
-I repent for whining at first like, “Why do we have to pick seven people?”··· Just make it 14, MPlay!!!
Unlike Episodes 1 and 2, when not even the participants’ characters, much less a clear narrative, had really formed yet, once teams were created and the story progressed, viewers naturally started caring about the entire debut line-up instead of just one person.
So posts kept popping up suggesting combinations of their favorite participants—“How about this line-up?”—and the fan communities for each participant were forming alliances and voting together.
Thanks to that, there were more fights too, but that, as far as the production staff were concerned, was also exactly the reaction they wanted, so despite the grueling filming schedule lately, Hyuksu and the rest of the Idol Ground 100 crew couldn’t stop smiling.
Of course, if things had ended there, people might have started saying the show’s identity as an idol survival program was too weak. frёewebηovel.cѳm
[IG-100 Episode 3 was kind of touching when Geum Shinyu came out]
(Scene of Lee Sion entrusting the producing to Geum Shinyu)
↳Ah, that scene? That surprised me too. I thought Sion was just a gag character, but she actually has a serious side
↳Honestly, she had every right to be annoyed when Im Yunkyung picked her, but instead she started leading the team right away, that shocked me
↳The most surprising part was Sion picking Lee Gahyeon. I seriously thought they were mortal enemies because of that stuff in Episode 2
↳All those clowns who were trying to fortune-tell off that deleted their posts already
She had managed to satisfy them by showing the Lucid Dive A team bonding into one through their practice process too.
Lucid Dive A was, speaking objectively, a team made up of participants whose skills were below average, but watching them overcome their lack of ability through teamwork and growth—that was the very essence of what an idol program should be.
‘Where did this lucky charm even roll in from?’
That wasn’t something Hyuksu said because he was a fan of Lee Sion.
Honestly, all he’d done was air the scenes with Lee Sion in them with as little editing as possible, and the one heating up the communities right now was purely her.
Even famous celebrities often couldn’t pull off anything notable without a script in variety shows, but Lee Sion generated screentime effortlessly just by being there, so it was only natural the production staff loved her.
“She’s just a contestant touched by the god of variety!”
“I thought when PD Kim said she’d brought her in as a last-minute patch it was a parachute case, but it turns out she was air-dropped special forces!”
“Lee Sion is the one paying for our performance bonuses!”
The only person still saying they needed to cut down Lee Sion’s screentime was the main PD, Kim Miyoung.
But even Miyoung seemed to have given up now; she no longer tried to block it during meetings.
‘If it had come to it, I almost would’ve had to use that, so thank god.’
If Miyoung had demanded once again that they reduce Sion’s screentime, Hyuksu had been ready to unleash a secret weapon he’d been preparing, so he was relieved she’d changed her mind.
Thud.
Engrossed in carefully reading through community posts, Hyuksu finally noticed the time displayed on his phone screen.
12:48.
Lunch break was almost over; it was time to head back to the filming location.
But,
‘I have to see this first.’
There was still something left he needed to look at.
***
[Hyung, are you watching? You can rest easy now]
“ ‘He’s the greatest soccer player in the world!’
‘Ronaldo?’
‘No!’
‘Cristiano Ronaldo!’
‘No!!’
‘Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro!’ ”
↳I never thought I’d live to hear my hyung’s full name come out of a girl idol’s mouth.
↳For real, I teared up watching that
↳Even with the Guto staff marking the other answer as correct, the way she stubbornly stuck with our hyung was like a drama
↳These crazy Ronaldo freak bastards are crawling out again?
↳Ronaldo freaks? lol okay, I screenshotted that. Are you harassing a woman, and a high school girl at that, right now?
↳f*ck, wow, the CR7 bros just unlocked their invincibility move
↳Let’s be real, Ronaldo is the GOAT. What short-ass midget can compete?
↳Exactly. If our hyung just comes to Korea once, that’s game set
↳With your hyung’s personality, even if he came, he’d probably just sit on the bench lol
↳lol look at these Guto idiots’ delusions, our hyung’s fan service is insane
Kim Jinsoo, 28 years old, was a hardcore overseas soccer fan.
Among them, he especially loved Ronaldo, who played for Real Madrid in La Liga, and checking the overseas soccer board where other people who enjoyed European football gathered was part of his daily routine.
Strictly speaking, it was to fight against the dark Guto squad who slandered the one true god Ronaldo.
Kim Jinsoo was vice-admin, what they called a “green badge,” on the overseas soccer board.
But the main admin, the “orange badge” user with the nickname Lionelmessi, was a fervent Messi fan, so the two of them were constantly locked in heated “debate.”
Not that it was really a debate.
[Ronaldo freaks are just low-intelligence, that’s all]
“Dicknaldo scores goals, but Godssi plays football. If you don’t get it, underline this and learn.”
↳Why is Ro‧nal‧do a banned word? Dicknaldo goes through, f*ck
↳Ah··· didn’t you know? This is the power of the badge. We can set banned words. Since Messi scored a hat trick yesterday, for the next three hours no terms other than Dicknaldo will be allowed.
Lately, thanks to Messi’s momentum, the orange badge and the Guto squad who worshipped him had been ruthlessly oppressing Ronaldo fans.
But a brilliant shaft of light had descended on those Ronaldo fans trapped in that unfair situation.
“This isn’t··· a bit.”
Kim Jinsoo had not slept a single wink from yesterday dawn until this morning.
[Can we get a female overseas soccer board goddess?]
(Gif of Lee Sion shouting “Cristiano Ronaldo”)
↳What show is this from?
↳Idol Ground 100. It’s good, go watch it right now.
↳What kind of muscle idol is that, and who is she to be shouting Dicknaldo?
↳In the speed quiz, the question was “world’s greatest soccer player” and that participant answered Ronaldo.
↳Crazy b*tch, isn’t the obvious answer Messi?
↳Nope, it’s already Ronaldo.
A post had suddenly popped up out of nowhere: a still from a scene in Idol Ground 100 turned into a gif, and it had shot up to the “best” section under a barrage of recommendations.
Then, in no time, thousands of posts related to it flooded in, so of course, Kim Jinsoo had been busy writing replies all night.
To be fair, 99% of them were just fight posts between Ronaldo and Messi fandoms, but unlike before, when the orange badge and the Guto squad’s tyranny would have crushed them, Ronaldo fans’ momentum this time was no joke.
A female idol called Lee Sion, who had burst into the overseas soccer world like a supernova, which everyone thought was exclusively a man’s domain.
Strictly speaking, she wasn’t actually an idol yet, but that didn’t matter.
What mattered was that a woman, prettier than most female celebrities, had mentioned Ronaldo and European football.
It went so far that even Messi fans, who normally shuddered at the name Ronaldo, were saying things like,
[I hate Ronaldo freaks, but I like Lee Sion]
[Please, just lend us Lee Sion for one day···]
[Honestly, just knowing European football exists is enough to make her worship-worthy]
[For real, Lee Sion is just plain likable]
The reaction to her wasn’t hostile at all; it was friendly.
As a result, instead of being split by war, the overseas soccer board had achieved miraculous unity thanks to Lee Sion.
[Average Ronaldo fan = Lee Sion]
“You Messi scrubs don’t have a girl idol fan, do you?”
↳Ayeon-ah, please··· just shout Messi once!
↳Why is it that when I search “Messi celebrity fan,” it’s just a long line of some gross-looking dude celebs?
↳The Messi fanbase hereby acknowledges that, as of today, the overseas board belongs to Ronaldo.
↳Uaaagh, why did the heavens create Messi and then create Ronaldo again?!
↳Fact: Ronaldo came first.
‘Idol Ground 100? I’ve been hearing a lot about this lately, maybe I’ll check it out.’
Now that he was interested in Lee Sion, Kim Jinsoo was also curious about the program she was appearing on.
He didn’t have anything better to do anyway, so he decided to watch Idol Ground 100 out of curiosity.
But even though he’d only meant to watch Episode 1, before he knew it he’d devoured all the way through Episode 3, and when he came to his senses, he was reading through posts on the Sionism fan café after signing up.
And he could say with certainty.
“She is not a fake Ronaldo fan! She’s the real deal!!!”
The way the corners of Lee Sion’s eyes trembled before she even got to the cursed name “Messi.”
And Ronaldo’s full name, which only a die-hard fan would know.
Some people insisted it was a “concept,” that she was doing it to win over male fans, but to Jinsoo, a seventh-year Ronaldo fan, he could see the sincerity in Lee Sion’s eyes.
Tap tap.
He felt a duty welling up in him to spread this truth far and wide.
[As of today, I withdraw my support of Lee Sion]
From today on, I’m no longer just a supporter
Lee Sion and I will be one body, one entity
Any attack on Lee Sion will be considered an attack on me
Don’t worry, Sion. You’ve got 7 billion Ronaldo fans behind you.
Because that was the loyalty owed from one CR7 little brother.
In the end, Jinsoo’s post recorded 3,944 recommendations, climbed beyond the overseas soccer board, and became one of the site’s real-time best posts.
And as a bonus, Lee Sion’s clip spread even further across more communities.
***
‘This is a circus comp.’
Legend of Valley was a game where you picked a combination of five champions and fought against the enemy team.
Because of that, the synergy of those five champions was extremely important.
For example, if I picked top Yaso, the mid laner would pick something like Malphte to generate synergy—like that, champion combinations were crucial.
And just by putting together the right combo, you could win games easily, so people usually called those kinds of comps “press-R comps.”
As in, you didn’t need to do anything complicated: once the team got together, all you had to do was hit your ult buttons.
But,
“Isn’t this section a little too hard?”
“Even so, if we want to keep the vocal feel of the song alive, we need powerful choreography here.”
“···Okay.”
Opposite of those press-R comps, there were “circus comps” that didn’t rely on synergy but instead pushed individual skill to the extreme.
And our current team choreography was exactly that kind of circus comp.
I glanced over at Yunkyung’s face, which had drooped as she went back to practicing after her suggestion about lowering the difficulty had just been rejected by Ryu Ayeon.
‘Honestly, the choreography itself is good, though.’
Maybe it felt that way because I’d watched the whole process of her creating it, but the choreography Ryu Ayeon had made was incredibly complete.
Even I, who didn’t know much about songs or dance, and the other members, had all let out little exclamations when we saw the choreography Ayeon had put together, so objectively speaking, it seemed to be very good.
It was just that, because the completeness was so high, the difficulty was high too, and some of the members were struggling to keep up.
The prime examples were Yunkyung, who had just tried asking Ayeon to adjust the choreography, and Lee Gahyeon and Geum Shinyu—basically, the former Lucid Dive A members were having an especially hard time.
Not that the others were doing all that well either.
Yoo Jihae and Kim Nayeon were barely managing to just follow along, too.
Even for me, and I’d glued myself to Ayeon and squeezed every last drop of her know-how out of her, keeping up wasn’t easy, so it was definitely a difficult stage.
That was why I was conflicted.
‘I like the choreography, but the members are having a hard time, so should I tell her we need to change it?’
If I thought about the team, it felt like the right thing to do was to lower the difficulty.
But at the same time, I also felt that the current choreography fit the song exactly, so it was hard to make a decision.
Because of this, my head was a mess, but there was one thing I was sure of.
‘First, I have to master the choreography perfectly.’
Even if we did change it later, if I was going to argue for that, I had to show enough skill to back it up, so that both I and the other members could accept it.
The mid-check and the final check, where the team’s stage would be evaluated.
There were only three days left until the first evaluation, the mid-check, so I set my goal as completely mastering the choreography before then, and started matching the moves from the beginning again.
