"Moon-dae hyung as a leader?"

"Yes."

Kim Rae-bin nodded his head seriously at Gold 2's question. The dumbfounded faces remind me of the reaction of the team members during the second team match.

'Stop this.'

I don't want more running gags about myself. However, Kim Rae-bin continued to speak without hesitation.

"First of all, you are calm, have a good eye for things, and take good care of your surroundings."

"Oh."

Big Se-jin was scratching his chin.

Seon A-hyun nodded his head from the side.

"Th-that's right!"

Happy with his reaction, Kim Rae-bin like a rapid-fire gun shot out his words. It seems A-hyun was influenced by Rae-bin's logic.

"Most of all, I think the best advantage you have as a leader is that you have good judgment in the moment. Given these aspects, I think you will show good capabilities in a situation where comprehensive thinking is needed."

"... That's true."

Gold 2 nodded with a blank look as if he was swept away by the atmosphere. Lee Se-jin is surprisingly quiet.

'Did it work?'

As I grumpily looked over the situation, I suddenly realized that it could be a good opportunity.

'If I'm a leader, wouldn't it be easy to get airtime that shows how desperate I am?'

It's the last minute opportunity anyway, so it's all or nothing.

I think it's okay to go through a bit of trouble and try as a leader.

"I don't mind doing it. Are you guys fine with it?"

"O-of course!"

The team members warmly laughed as Gold 2 eagerly gave a quick respond. I also grinned and organized the situation.

"Then, I'll do it. Please take care of me."

"Ooh~!"

"Congrats~"

I got a round of applause and wore the leaders badge made of cheap metal with sparkly 'L' on it.

'This isn't bad.'

Kim Rae-bin writes the lyrics and Seon A-hyun makes the choreography, so there was not much pressure.

'I just need to be careful with Lee Se-jin.'

I just hope that the character trait 'Now that you mention it, you are right' I used and forgot about a few times during the last team battle will give me a rating this time.

Ah, speaking of character traits.

I have finally leveled up.

This is thanks to the 1,000 practice points collected during the last team match.

'I only managed to level up by singing and dancing.'

I clicked my tongue and called the status window after a long time.

'I barely put up with what I wanted to do in dance.'

It was hell to follow the choreography revised by the duo Seon A-hyun and Big Se-jin with my C+ rated dancing abilities.

I don't know how things will change, so I just want to make sure to leave one extra point before my plans get shattered.

And there's one more thing left.

'One million people.'

It's a staggering number.

I realized that the number of people who remember the name, face, and characteristics of 'Park Moon-dae' has grown to an astronomical number.

Actually, I didn't leave the draw that gives an attribute because I wanted to. I got the achievement for it in the middle of the ranking announcement, so there was no time for me to worry about it until now.

Anyway, I'll do the draw now.

I blinked at the status window, and the slot machine started spinning.

And it stopped in the silver square.

'Not bad.'

It was a necessary character trait for a current situation where I became a leader. It will help me keep a cool head. I was moderately satisfied.

However, there was another pop-up.

What?

'This is how they balance it?'

After all, it would be strange if the game system could continuously give you indefinite amount of attributes.

I sighed and skimmed through the list of attributes.

First of all, there is no 'Infinite potential' in the list.

'It's undeletable, and doesn't seem to be counted in the list at all'

According to the current pop-up, there were three possible character traits. However, this may be right because including 'Infinite Potential' I have had four character traits so far.

'Hmm.'

I thought about it for a while and chose to delete it.

It's a shame since I just got it, but it couldn't be helped.

'The other ones are already useful.'

It would be a waste to throw away 'I want to be the center (C)' because it makes up for my talent stats. It's lower grade than 'Unwavering mind (B)', but it's effective in terms of visibility.

Also, since I'm a leader and on the same team with Seon A-hyun, it could be dangerous to throw away 'Now that you mention it, you are right (C)'.

Besides, I have no intention of throwing away the 'Bacchus 500 (B)' no matter what comes out. It was like a stamina potion in an RPG. I have to have it to the end.

'All that's left to remove is Unwavering mind.'

It's a bit of a waste, but it's worth it.

It's not a big loss since I'm not that emotional in the first place.

'I'm going with this.'

As soon as I turned off the status window, I heard excited voices around me.

"Captain Moon! So what should we do first?"

"Leader Park! Chief Moon-dae!"

Wow, you already got a nickname for me.

It was the right decision to give up Unwavering mind, but somehow I had a feeling that I might regret it throughout this period of practice. I ignored the growing skepticism and proceeded with the meeting.

"First of all, let's think about setting a concept."

That's how the final practice began.

* * *

A few days later, when Park Moon-dae was working hard on practicing for the final stage as a leader, episode 11, which included the ranking announcement ceremony was aired.

Park Moon-dae's fans found his meeting with a VTIC member during to be fun.

In particular, after seeing Cheong-ryeo openly answering in an interview, 'All the questions and answers of mine and Park Moon-dae's matched', some VTIC fans mixed in and enjoyed the broadcast.

//TN: Idk what that means either, but it's a negative comment about Moon-dae I guess.

As the program entered the second half, the experienced fans showed that they were not swayed by most attention-seekers (aggros).

It was at the moment when Park Moon-dae's ranking was announced that the atmosphere of sharing warmth was broken.

With Park Moon-dae's current momentum, they naturally thought he would be ranked third or higher.

Fans, who were denying reality in the confusion, became angry soon after. It was anger directed at themselves.

Even after the broadcast ended, the atmosphere did not subside. Instead, it calmed down a bit.

And all these opinions converged into one.

So, at dawn just before sunrise.

Park Moon-dae's fan sites were all on fire.

There was only one thing stuck in their minds.

'We will show you something!'

* * *

"The air is clear outside."

It's been a while since we have been out of the set. Big Se-jin was muttering beside me in an uncharacteristically mournful voice.

'Has it been a week?'

Due to sudden maintenance problems with the dormitory and the filming set, participants unexpectedly got a short two-day break.

There were ten days until the final stage and three days until the next broadcast.

On the week before the finale, broadcasted the show in the form of a talk show instead of the main show with the surviving participants.

Of course, it was also a live broadcast.

It was fortunate that I had time to rest even for a short time before that. I was a little worried about the amount of practice we had, but I'll take care of myself now and die again at practice in three days.

"Moon-dae is going to stay at A-hyun's house this time too?"

"Y-yes!"

During this break, I was indebted to Seon A-hyun a little more again.

'I don't want to do anything.'

Being a leader... consumed more calories than I thought.

I immediately followed Seon A-hyeon. He said that his parents came to pick him up again.

"Hyung!"

Behind me, I heard another voice that I've been hearing everyday for these past few days.

"Yeah, what is it?"

"If you don't have any special schedules during these two days, do you want to go see the advertisements of us that fans put up?"

"Umm..."

I wanted to immediately answer that there was no schedule. However, I was at loss for words.

'This is the timing to go see it.'

They spent money on it, so if I don't show some sincerity, they would be dejected.

Although, I want to go alone.

But if I refuse and go alone, my relationship with Kim Rae-bin would deteriorate.

'It's not like this is an unannounced attempt...'

It was a bit absurd, but nothing special.

"Sure. Let's go."

"...! Yes!"

Kim Rae-bin nodded with an excited expression. Then he pulled out his smartphone and started working hard on something.

"The most effective route to view that many advertisements is... How about something like this?"

I looked at the screen that Kim Rae-bin stuck out. It was a picture with a line drawn over the subway map. It seems he marked the subway stations that had our advertisements hung and drew down a route for us to move around.

Unsurprisingly, there was a related text at the bottom...

"..."

Twenty-seven?

Only places with a large amount of people moving around was marked with a circle.

'Is this... possible?'

This wasn't some kind of VTIC global fundraising birthday advertisement, so was it possible to have advertisements in twenty-seven stations of me alone?

Big Se-jin, who was looking at the smartphone next to us, hit me on the back.

"Hey, you got one more ad than Cha Yu-jin! Subway Ads! You are number one!"

"Oh... Hyung, congratulations."

What the hell happened during the week of our practice?

//TN: Sorry, the translation of this chapter is a bit strange ㅠㅠ