The Malicious Member is Back! - Chapter 218



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The Malicious Member Returns! Episode 218

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The words of a sick person are comparatively more appealing.

This is not only true when someone is physically sick, but also when someone is mentally suffering.

“It’s… so hard… I’d rather… then.”

“Rex… .”

“… Hey, hey. Drink. Drink and forget for a while! We have to live anyway. Eat, drink, and then we’ll be able to forget for a while. Let’s do it, let’s do it.”

“Yeah, yeah. I’ll fill your glass, Rex?”

“uh….”

I realized this fact when I was drunk and going from club to club and bar.

The first time I properly encountered alcohol while following around with my brother Jo Tae-wook, it made me open my mouth like I was talking, and my drinking buddies who had only heard my story through articles felt sorry for me.

Of course, at first I too was comforted by that atmosphere.

“Ugh… Ah, if only I had held my little brother’s hand properly back then…”

“Hey. Fill his glass. Just let him keep drinking.”

“Huh…? But, the atmosphere right now doesn’t seem like that….”

“Shh, shh. Stop talking and fill in the blanks. Rex, if you keep doing that, you’ll be like this for an hour, two hours. Do you want to come here and have fun and drink?”

“Oh, I see!”

Of course, when the frequency became too high, there were cases where I got hurt because I got looked at as if saying, ‘This kid is ruining the mood again.’

“… I’m not drinking. I always drink for you guys.”

“Huh? Rex, you’ve never done anything like this before?”

“The more I look at it, the more I think I can do it. So, the ratio is…”

“… Hey! You’re a good drinker! Cheers, let’s cheers!”

In the process, I didn’t want to miss the warmth I felt from people I hadn’t felt in a long time, so I hung on to the drinking party even more, and before I knew it, the roles were reversed and I became immersed in the act of drinking and losing my mind.

Anyway, people have always wanted to basically empathize with the other person’s feelings, and the more difficult the other person is, the more they are willing to listen.

Therefore, now was the perfect timing.

As Kim Chun-yong of T.O.J., not the trash of Arrows, I have been relatively hiding my true feelings, and the members have been considerate of me and have secretly shown some curiosity about me.

“Keuk… Ah, head, head…”

Even to the point of being sick now.

… Don’t you think it would be a good idea for a sick member to finally tell you his true feelings while he’s still in a daze?

If it was true that Antae had told me to let her know that I had a cold, then this was definitely an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Of course, I was still hesitant about saying that Yoochan hyung was stubborn.

“…after.”

I groaned softly at the rising fever and headache, and slowly blinked my eyes.

“Are you, uh, trying to talk right now? Hyung, it’s going to hurt… .”

“No. But I have to talk about it now… Ahem, ah, ah. I think I’ll be able to sleep more comfortably if I talk to you…”

“Ah, I’ll sit down! I’ll… sit down. Just, just… sleep.”

Actually, Siwoo, who came to my room a little while ago and left, seemed like that.

What I said to Siwoo wasn’t anything special.

Because Ahn Tae-yi cut me off firmly by saying, “But since it was just the two of us talking, even if you’re Chun-yong, I can’t tell you anything specific,” I could only roughly infer what Si-woo felt for Yoo-chan.

“… It was because Yoochan hyung seemed so different from you that you felt uncomfortable?”

“… … .”

However, it seemed to be somewhat correct.

Siwoo sees for the first time how to open up to someone whose personality doesn’t match his own while watching Jaden, Eun-i, Han Dan-woo, and Ahn Tae-i.

“I think… even though you and Yuchan hyung don’t get along, I think Yuchan hyung still wants to get along with you.”

“… Really?”

“Yeah. Actually, you two are getting along pretty well right now, right? But there… I’m just saying let’s be a little more honest. Yoochan hyung says he wants to do that sometimes too.”

“… Brother Yoochan, did you say that?”

In the midst of all this, if I push myself like this while I’m sick, it can’t help but melt into your heart.

Siwoo is weak-willed, and Yoochan is always easygoing and wants to get along well with others.

Ah, the long-running member relationship issue will be somewhat resolved today.

“Khuh… .”

Just then, as I was feeling so good and giggling as if I had lost my mind with a high fever, the door swung open.

“Hey, what’s up? Chun-yong is awake?”

“Khuh, uh, uh… Hyung Yuchan.”

“You… are you okay?”

“… Haha, yes. Of course.”

Finally, it was time for Yoochan hyung to come to my room.

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Before Kim Chun-yong started the conversation.

“Oh my, do you know how surprised I was? As soon as I came in, you were laughing like you had lost your mind… .”

“Uh… I guess it was because of the fever. I’m sorry.”

“Well, there’s nothing to be sorry about. I just thought you should go to the hospital… You seem to have a fever. Are you sure you don’t need to go to the hospital?”

“Oh, yes. I have practice tomorrow too, so it’s a bit much to waste time like that…”

“Oh my… Then let’s take some medicine first. That way, you’ll get better quickly.”

A typical nursing scene began to appear.

Bang Yoo-chan sat on Son Jae-ha’s bed across from him, and Kim Chun-yong raised his upper body while groggily taking the medicine he was given.

“… … .”

It was natural for a bit of silence to flow within it.

In the living room beyond the door, the members’ voices can be faintly heard, each chatting away during their rare break.

Why, it felt like this space was completely glassy.

“… … .”

Kim Chun-yong, who had swallowed the pills down his throat, rubbed his flushed cheeks with his hands and observed Bang Yu-chan’s expression.

“Well, I wish you had come out and had a meal with me. It’s been a while since we had a leisurely meal together. Things always go wrong like this. Ah, that’s too bad.”

Bang Yoo-chan didn’t seem to have changed much.

Even though I had that conversation with Kim Chun-yong on the emergency stairs in the practice room.

That wasn’t all.

Even when practicing with Wiz, and even when dancing with Jang Siwoo,

Bang Yoo-chan didn’t show anything on the outside.

Just like Son Jae-ha, who used to try to shoulder everything, and Kim Chun-yong now.

However, they were essentially different people.

Son Jae-ha had long had high expectations from people, and Kim Chun-yong had the determination to atone for his sins to his family and members by returning and making the group successful.

So then, what on earth is inside Bang Yoo-chan?

Kim Chun-yong knew.

There was no way I didn’t know.

Kim Chun-yong tapped the cup he was holding in his hand for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth and muttered in a hoarse voice.

“…Brother Yoochan.”

“Ah, now you’ve finished eating. Now I’ll clean up and go out… .”

“My brother….”

“uh?”

“You’re a greater person than you think. You don’t need to be so desperate.”

It was such an absurd statement that anyone who heard it would think, ‘He’s talking nonsense because he has a cold.’

Actually, when Bang Yoo-chan first heard about it, he briefly thought, ‘Should I really take him to the hospital?’

But when I saw the sharp eyes of Kim Chun-yong, the pupils still clear even though they were blurred by the heat.

“… … .”

Bang Yoo-chan couldn’t help but instinctively know what Kim Chun-yong was talking about.

It was Jang Si-woo who just came in and left, and that was the biggest issue between them for the past few days.

Oh, this guy really observes people closely.

You know me so well, it’s like you’ve known me for a very long time.

…you’ve figured out what kind of desperation I have.

If Jang Si-woo was jealous of Bang Yoo-chan’s talent, Bang Yoo-chan was sometimes distressed by his own situation of having to work hard to have the background that Jang Si-woo had.

At the same time, there were times when I hated that about myself.

He’s a lot younger than me.

Even though they are the same members.

Why do I still have the same thoughts as I did when I was taking the college entrance exams, even though I am an adult and older?

Even though I’ve just debuted.

Cheerfulness and coolness were his strong points.

And Bang Yoo-chan thought that was who he was, and he hated himself for thinking the opposite of that.

That’s where the problems started.

When he sees Jang Si-woo, he realizes that Bang Yoo-chan has to keep confronting the part of himself that he hates.

“after….”

Bang Yu-chan, who had stretched his long body out on Son Jae-ha’s bed, made eye contact with the flushed Kim Chun-yong for a moment before looking up at the ceiling again.

“… Oh my, Chun-yong, you too. Are you like that even when you’re sick?”

His face, which always had a cheerful and refreshing smile, had a subtle shadow on it.

It was only after a short while that his mouth opened again.

“… Chun-yong, I know you know what kind of relationship Si-woo and I have, and I know you’ve been trying hard these past few days.”

“… Did you notice?”

“Haha, how could I not know? You’re always like that.”

Bang Yoo-chan’s voice was slightly locked as he spoke like that.

Even though it was actually Kim Chun-yong who caught a cold.

Kim Chun-yong’s thoughts were correct.

The words of a sick person were more appealing than he could have imagined.

Especially when it precisely targets the concerns you have had all along.

The glassy feeling between the living room and the bedroom seemed to grow even bigger.

– “Ah, Logan. Foul, foul! Put the card down, that one. You cheated, right? Bring the hammer, hammer.”

– “No! It’s not foul play! But what is an ohamma?”

– “Hmm, Mars. Hammering is difficult….”

– “Nooo! Mars, what the hell did you say! A hammer?!”

Outside, the other members are chatting happily, while Kim Chun-yong and Bang Yu-chan are having a heavy, rambling conversation in a quiet, sickly-smelling room.

They were the same group.

In the past, only Kim Chun-yong knows, he was Arrows, and now he is the Target of Xenon, Tioze.

So, from the moment you start feeling this way, something is wrong.

“haha….”

Bang Yu-chan, who had been locking eyes with Kim Chun-yong for a while, nodded his head and let out a short, hollow laugh.

“I’ll be honest with you. I can’t guarantee that things will go well just because you talk openly with Siwoo.”

“Uh… I guess so. Just don’t hit my face, my face.”

“Inma, would I really hit you? I would never do that. Siwoo is too weak… .”

“Are you saying I’ll hit you if you’re not weak?”

“No way?”

First of all, it was important to get started.

Be prepared to see each other as we are, without judging or taking things to heart, just facing each other.

That’s where it all began.

And, until now, Kim Chun-yong has suffered so much to make that starting point.

“… I’ll talk about it when we do the collaboration stage. I think that would be a good time.”

“That should be enough, I guess.”

“Ugh, honestly, I don’t know… Ah! It’s because my feelings are too low. You don’t know, Chun-yong.”

“Haha, I don’t know why.”

Kim Chun-yong slowly laid his body back on the bed and giggled.

It was because the heat rising to his body seemed to be leading him into a dream.

Is this it?

Are the two ready to look at each other properly now?

I couldn’t figure it out.

For now.

“Take a rest. Okay?”

“yes….”

Besides, Kim Chun-yong was sick and unable to tell right from wrong and was in a state of confusion.

Was the voice of Bang Yoo-chan, who closed the door and left, bright or dark?

Because it was difficult to even distinguish between them.

Anyway, what was important was that the two main characters in the reconciliation project that Kim Chun-yong had been preparing for had now completed their preparations.

“after….”

Beyond Kim Chun-yong’s field of vision, which had grown even more heated by the brief serious conversation, a blinking cell phone screen appeared, indicating that messages had arrived from An Tae-i and X.

At the same time, the date and time were clearly engraved on it.

“There’s less than a month left. Huh.”

As Kim Chun-yong regained his stamina and began practicing again, the year-end stage would soon arrive.

Awards ceremonies where rookie awards and other awards are given out, year-end collaboration stages, and other entertainment figures that we will only meet then.

Tangled, tangled.

Intertwined, tied up.

At the same time, it is released unintentionally.

“It really happened so quickly, so quickly… .”

The new result that the ropes that had been gathered together like that would create was gently trying to tie up Kim Chun-yong’s ankles.