Free Web Novel[Lee Sion Isn't the Type to Bully Anyone]
「I can’t honestly call Lee Sion a straight-A model student, but even if Lee Sion joked around, it’s obvious Lee Sion wasn’t the kind of person who would bully other kids or anything.
In the first place, among the regular kids, there wasn’t a single one who disliked Lee Sion.
It was the same at school as on Idol Ground 100.
But because Lee Sion stopped the delinquents from running wild, only the kids who hung out with them hated Lee Sion.
(Proof photo taken with Lee Sion)」
↳Ever since the press conference, alumni “verification posts” just keep going up
↳If everyone’s saying there’s no way Lee Sion would do that, it really seems like Lee Sion got through school without any issues
↳But why do they all start with “can’t call Lee Sion a model student” every single time?
↳Because Lee Sion wasn’t a model student
↳Lee Sion···what is this, some Dark Knight? Took out only the delinquents, lol
“Great response.”
“Originally, for celebrities, if you overcome a controversy, it becomes the best advertisement.”
As soon as it got light out, Jiyeon and Jinsu met up at a cafe near Jiyeon’s place and talked while searching up community posts on a laptop.
Communities that, up until just yesterday before the press conference, had been lining up post after post to curse out and condemn Lee Sion, were now filled to the brim with nothing but feel-good stories about Lee Sion, like none of that had ever happened.
The two of them were feeling relieved, but at the same time, they were also feeling this ridiculous, dumbfounded emotion.
“Haah···you have no idea how much I was shaking until the press conference.”
“Same. I believed it wasn’t true, but I kept thinking, what if it really is true—what do I do then? I couldn’t focus on studying all day.”
“Weren’t you the one who gave up on studying?”
“No I didn’t?!”
For the last two days, Lee Sion’s fandom had been riding a roller coaster between hell and heaven.
-You’re still defending that trash Lee Sion’s personality?
-Please don’t cause trouble for the program and the other contestants. Just disappear quietly.
-This is why in Korea you have to be pretty. Even if you do school violence, they’ll still ride you just because you’re pretty, low IQ behavior.
-I brought you “punishment record facts” since you stans love facts so much, so why are you blocking meㅠㅠ?
After the exposé post went up, and even Lee Sion’s disciplinary records were uploaded to the community, people who were tearing into Lee Sion everywhere like unleashed guard dogs.
Naturally, their main target was Lee Sion’s fandom.
Because of that, the member count of Lee Sion’s fan cafe Sionism, which Jiyeon was running, didn’t drop after the controversy broke out—it actually increased.
-From now on, this place is occupied by our Manchester United.
The so-called trolls who show up wherever an incident breaks out.
It was thanks to people who joined the fan cafe to stir things up, apparently thinking they’d found some fun prey.
Because of that, Jiyeon and Jinsu had been monitoring while taking turns catching catnaps, managing the cafe.
Not just Sionism, either—starting from the Lee Sion gallery and even places like overseas soccer galleries, every community even slightly related to Lee Sion had to suffer because of trolls and antis.
[Why are these insane bastards even coming to our MMA gallery and starting shit?]
↳Do you remember ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) how many loaves of bread you’ve eaten in your life?
↳What the hell are you talking about?
↳We’re just trolling because it’s fun, why would we look for some “reason,” lol
↳So what, you want us to talk about MMA or something?
↳Oh.
They swarmed around like a plague of locusts, causing chaos everywhere, and Lee Sion’s gallery—the “home base”—wasn’t even worth mentioning.
Even though it had originally been the biggest gallery among the Idol Ground 100-related galleries, it couldn’t handle the people flooding in like they’d discovered prey, and it had no choice but to raise the white flag.
But then,
[You can tell what kind of losers you are if you’re stanning a school-violence perpetrator]
「How can you like a school-violence perpetrator and still call someone “gallery master, gallery master”?
If it were me, I’d be too embarrassed and I’d quit stanning immediately, and I’d be the one in front demanding an explanation.
Do you not understand how serious this situation is?
School violence is a really serious issue, but only here you’re treating it too lightly···.」
↳This post is way too long
↳Someone give a 3-line summary
↳But doesn’t this feel like a woman wrote it?
↳Why is this bastard looking for a woman in the post?
↳Then where else would I look, are you saying I should look in real life?
↳My bad.
Unlike other galleries, in the overseas soccer gallery, the antis and trolls invading didn’t have much effect.
In the first place, it was a place where all kinds of random people gathered, so even if new antis or trolls came in, it didn’t even stand out.
If there’s a disturbance in clear water, it turns muddy, but if it’s already a mud pit, making a disturbance doesn’t change anything—it stays the same.
[Looks like not just anyone can be the “gallery master”]
「To think Lee Sion had even mastered Honaldo (Ho-Nal-Do).」
↳Never thought Lee Sion would copy beating people up, too
↳Our guy doesn’t talk
↳For real—when Guto shows it with soccer, our guy shows it with actions
↳Are you watching, GOAT? Your successor was in Korea.
Even after Lee Sion’s school-violence controversy broke out, the overseas soccer gallery kept showing unwavering fan devotion.
Of course, now that the truth was revealed, it ended as a mere happening, but still.
“I don’t think I slept even three hours over the last two days managing that cafe.”
“Yeah. There are still people clinging on and saying stuff that makes no sense.”
“Those kinds of people will be there the entire time Sion is active. They’re just people who want Lee Sion to be ruined, so the truth doesn’t matter. I really want to sue every last one of them, but since Sion doesn’t have an agency···.”
After going through this incident, Jiyeon was desperately feeling how necessary an agency was.
Honestly, even Sionism, which was almost being recognized as an official fan cafe at this point, had already passed 50,000 members and was looking at 100,000, to the point where it was too hard for an individual to run anymore.
Normally, a fan cafe of this size would be taken over and managed at the agency level, by transferring ownership from the original owner, but since Lee Sion currently didn’t have an agency, it was still Jiyeon and a few managers gritting their teeth and holding it together.
And not only that,
“This time, I captured all the posts that crossed the line and saved them as PDFs, but it pisses me off because there’s no agency to sue them.”
“Keep it stored well. Once Sion debuts soon, there’ll be an agency, so you can use it then.”
When something like this happens, the people who post and comment past the line are supposed to pay the price.
But because there was no agency to do that, they had to swallow their anger, and it felt so unfair.
“Still, Sion must’ve really lived well.”
“Yeah. Thanks to the alumni and the contestants who practiced with Sion posting for Sion, the atmosphere totally changed.”
After the press conference, posts defending Lee Sion from classmates started going up like they’d been waiting, and posts made by eliminated contestants who had participated in Idol Ground 100 were circulating through the communities.
Every single one of them said Lee Sion wasn’t that kind of person and defended Lee Sion, so now the situation had flipped to the point where Lee Sion’s image was even better than before the controversy broke out. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
[That seven-versus-one fight video is seriously insane]
↳For real, Kim Hyundong uploaded an analysis on YouTube, and he said this is impossible unless you trained boxing professionally
↳Then why did Lee Sion get crushed in chicken-fight?
↳Even in Class F, the other contestants jumped Lee Sion
↳Lee Sion was hiding strength, damn
[Seeing all these verification posts, Lee Sion must’ve been popular at school]
↳With that face, would Lee Sion have been a loner···
↳Even on Idol Ground 100, there are a lot of younger contestants who follow Lee Sion around—there must’ve been a reason
↳I like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Legend of Valley too, so why is only Lee Sion popular?
↳The face is different
↳Oh.
And on top of that,
[Hot Issue Journal, which targeted Lee Sion—turns out it was a tearjerking fatherly love?]
「The story of reporter Park Sunwoong of Hot Issue Journal, who was the first to report the school-violence controversy of Lee Sion, currently participating in Idol Ground 100, has been drawing attention recently.
It has been suspected that Park Sunwoong writes particularly malicious articles about Lee Sion and Idol Ground 100, and it has now been revealed that Park Sunwoong’s daughter is actually Park Soyoon, who participated in Idol Ground 100 and was eliminated, and···」
Even if they couldn’t catch every malicious commenter, Jiyeon felt extremely refreshed because the masterminds of this incident were being ripped out by the roots, one by one.
“I like this reporter, Yoon Jiwon!”
“That’s the one person who was writing the only article that stayed neutral toward Sion before the press conference.”
“Park Sunwoong is gonna be eating prison food, right?”
“I saw a lawyer’s analysis post in the community, and they said it’s completely airtight.”
After the press conference ended, articles about Park Sunwoong and Park Soyoon poured out like they’d made up their minds.
[Idol Ground 100 contestant Park Soyoon—verbal abuse and profanity at the agency?]
[The reporter who targeted Lee Sion was a family member of an Idol Ground 100 contestant]
[An unusual briefing by the National Police Agency said they have already secured evidence as they launched an investigation into the personal information leak]
[Indiscriminate witch-hunting—now is the time to restrain ourselves]
Some of them were about criminal allegations like leaking personal materials and harassment, so the Park father and daughter could even end up in jail.
Of course, MPLAY had also declared they would proceed with legal action against Jang Daeseon, who posted the false exposé, so it was such a clean, movie-like ending that not only fans but even ordinary people watching were clapping, saying they handled it well.
“Usually things don’t ever go this smoothly.”
“Maybe heaven’s helping?”
“Is it?”
In the middle of that, Jinsu had unknowingly blurted out something close to the right answer, without realizing it.
“Anyway, I really hope Sion gets comforted after seeing what we prepared.”
“I hope so too, but since Sion went through something so huge, I’m worried Sion might still be curled up and scared.”
A small event that fans hurriedly gathered their strength to prepare for Sion, after Sion went through a hard controversy.
Because of that, Jiyeon and Jinsu, who hadn’t been able to rest for two days, were meeting again from the morning to rush and prepare the event.
***
“Hm···a 500,000-won one really is different.”
Originally, I wasn’t interested in stuff like figurines.
And if it was a 500,000-won one, even more so.
That was the kind of luxury only bourgeois types like Yunkyung would buy.
But when I saw the Kongming Three Kingdoms limited-edition figure set welcoming me back home for the first time in a while, I realized my perspective had been way too shallow.
This figurine, modeled exactly after the scene where Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei clasped their weapons together beneath the peach tree, was a masterpiece with nothing lacking to be called the Venus de Milo of the 21st century.
How did they express even the tiniest details so delicately? It had a vividness that made it feel like it could come alive and move at any moment.
And, as you’d expect from a 500,000-won one, it practically screamed that they’d put real effort into the background, to the point where if I placed it in my room, it felt like that alone would let me meet the brothers Liu-Guan-Zhang in my dreams.
“Hmmm~Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei~.”
There wasn’t really a proper spot on my desk, so I pulled out the books on my bookshelf and carefully set the figurine up there.
'Anyway, Madam Sukja doesn’t look at them.'
Madam Sukja would go around spreading the false claim that she’d been a literary maiden when she was young, and maybe because of that, she’d occasionally buy novels out of nowhere and shove them into the bookshelf.
Of course, I’d never once seen her open any of them, so it seemed like it wouldn’t matter even if I took them out.
'Since I worked so hard, I should enjoy myself a little now, too.'
Because of this school-violence controversy, I hadn’t been able to rest even for a moment over the last three days.
People always needed balance, so now was the time to let my exhausted body and mind rest.
I slumped into the chair like I was collapsing into it, turned on the PC tower with my toes, and after waiting a moment, a very welcome startup screen greeted me on the monitor.
And, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, the place my mouse-gripping hand headed toward was the Legend of Valley launch icon.
'I can’t put it off anymore.'
Last vacation I’d raised my tier up to Silver, but shouldn’t I be at least Gold to have the bare minimum human rights?
When I did the math, it was about 30 games of winning with no losses, so it felt like it would be enough of a challenge during the rest of my vacation.
Kooong!
My Rift buddies were diligent friends who worked 24/7 regardless of time zone, so as expected, not long after I started the queue, a match got found.
[zjjonSion : Alright! Let’s win and stay strong!]
[ueid0021 : What, our ADC is on a 5-win streak?] [ADCisPrince : Feels like we finally got a good ADC for once, lol]
When I picked the blond-haired punk—basically the textbook ADC—unlike usual, the chat’s reaction was really gentle.
'You guys got lucky.'
Normally I would’ve picked top without even looking, but this time I had a goal and limited time, so I picked ADC.
And among them, the blond-haired punk was the ADC I handled best—honestly, I couldn’t even remember the last time I lost while holding this pick.
The guys who ended up on my team today were really lucky.
[zjjonSion : Vroom vroom! The bus is departing—everyone buckle your seatbelts tight!]
[ADCisPrince : OK OK, let’s go!]
[LoveGahyeon : I’ve got a good feeling about this one.]
[ueid0021 : For real, let’s make them surrender fast.]
With that, we moved into the cheerful game start screen, and it was right around when the first minion wave was reaching lane.
KakaoTalk!
“Huh?”
A sudden KakaoTalk notification.
Honestly, because of the recent controversy, I’d been getting so many messages that I’d set it so only a few really important chatrooms would send notifications, so I hesitated.
Should I ignore it, or should I check quickly?
'It can’t be helped.'
At first I thought I’d ignore it, but just in case it was an urgent message from the production staff, I quickly opened my phone screen and checked the KakaoTalk message that came in.
[Im Yunkyung : Boss, did you see this? (link)]
[Lee Gahyeon : Lee Sion must be nice, getting things like this from fans.]
[Kim Suyeon : If you see it in person, that’d be so moving.]
The KakaoTalk messages I got were from the Idol Ground 100 contestants’ group chat—the one I’d only been separated from for a few hours.
'Huh?'
[ADCisPrince : Wanna go hard early? Or just farm until level 3?]
[zjjonSion : Wait a sec]
I calmed down the support Xerath, who looked excited about butchering the opponents, then checked the link attached to the message Yunkyung sent.
And then,
[zjjonSion : Sry sry, guys, my mom told me to run an errand so I gotta go]
[ADCisPrince : lol your jokes are intense these days]
[LoveGahyeon : What, lol not funny] freewёbnoνel.com
[ueid0021 : Hey, why is that bastard actually walking back to fountain?!]
-zjjonSion has left the Rift.
[ADCisPrince : Ah.]
Sorry, Rift buddies, but I have somewhere I need to go right now.
