On the Internet, the rumors of Park Moondae were being quickly corrected.

Thanks to the person directly involved coming forward and explaining, only a few people were unnecessarily nitpicking. Only haters who couldn't vent their anger on Park Moondae, leaving sarcastic comments like 'Park Moondae is justifiable even if he curses', remained.

In any case, the finals were just around the corner, and fans were enraged to see people who rushed to damage his image even just a little bit.

It was at that time that Gold 1, Ha Il-jun's article was posted.

As soon as Ha Il-jun was eliminated, he opened a social media account and posted his thoughts about participating in the program and a practice log.

Ha Il-joon mentioned it half because he felt sad seeing Moondae getting hate and half because he wanted to start a newsworthy discussion. However, the issue was in the content of his post.

No one had known that Park Moondae had stayed up all night during the rating evaluation.

At the same time, the amount of mentions of Park Moon-dae on the Internet was overflowing, so this social media post became a great aggro.

In the end, Ha Iljoon responded to several questions posted on social media.

And Park Moon-dae's fans fell into shock.

After the shock was over, every community was burned with a sense of mission to make Park Moon-dae debut somehow. Many fans posted sales posts and put more effort into promoting the stock. And some fans have started to seek third-party accusations against malicious commenters through their own lawyers.

Originally, no matter how fast they progressed, they couldn't produce results before the finals, so they tried to start it when his agency would be established, but some fans who were on fire couldn't stand the bullshit about Park Moon-dae any longer.

So the fans works, which started with the purpose of warning malicious commenters, found something unexpected.

While identifying malicious commenters, they found their groupchat room.

And it was revealed that some of them had trespassed into Park Moondae's house.

They were taken away by the police without any particular results, but were soon released from prison, and there was only one thing they could take away in the process.

It was a copy of Park Moondae's resident registration.

Of course, Park Moondae had already ripped the summarized copy of the paper and put it in a recycling can. He would have never dreamed that some madmen would break into the house, and even dig through the trash can to collect the shredded copy of the paper.

They dug up the fact that Moondae was a high school dropout from the copy and posted it on the internet. The fact that they didn't reveal Moondae was an orphan was because that would make people feel sympathy for him, but in their chatroom there were numerous sarcastic insults about this.

Fans who were proceeding with the accusations were angry, but naturally, they tried to proceed quietly without disclosing this fact. However, as always, when a lot of people do this together, information tend to leak.

Naturally, there were many people who criticized the post, but the number of views did not lie. Shortly after, even articles began to appear.

This article, too, faced tremendous criticism and got taken down hours later, but what was already known was unavoidable.

However, this led to an unexpected effect on the internet.

If you insulted Park Moondae at this moment, you will become trash. In addition, the tragic past of a participant in the audition show has become a natural selling point for those who are sensitive.

Of course, with all the information, if this atmosphere calms down, the fact that Park Moondae is an orphan could be used as a tool to ridicule him.

But not right now.

Thanks to this, Park Moondae reached the finals amid tremendous advocacy and sympathy of the public opinion. It was thanks to this fact that he got the 'desperate image' narrative he had wanted.

What's going on here?

On the Internet, which I checked for the first time in a long time, crazy things were happening one after another.

'It's all exposed.'

The four trespassers seemed insane, but I didn't know they would even dig through the trash cans and combine the torn paper. And I didn't expect it to leak to the whole nation to know that I was an orphan.

Although I was curious as to why things turned out this way, I felt rather indifferent inside.

'Well... I don't have a family, so it doesn't matter if other people know.'

I already said about it when I was cast for the audition program, but because the production team didn't even mention it in the show, people got to know about this too late.

The issue is the timing when this was revealed, and the momentum is unusual.

'It seem I'm going to debut...?'

No, it's not just debuting... I might even rank 1st?

"..."

That...wouldn't be good. It's good that I debut, but not at 1st place.

'That would be like stepping on a landmine.'

I first got off the computer in a cold sweat. I borrowed it as an excuse to revise the stage lyrics, and I did sneak a peek on social media, but didn't expect to find out so much.

"Hyung, are you okay?"

Kim Raebin, who was also searching next to me, understood the situation and asked. He meant whether I was okay that the fact I was an orphan came out.

I nodded. Kim Raebin looked more relieved after my respond, and suddenly it seemed like he got an idea.

"Hyung, why don't you take advantage of this momentum and reveal you memory loss as well?"

"What?"

This guy was also aware of my memory loss when he heard the situation on the morning of the day when things were sorted out. But apart from that, what kind of nonsense is that?

"If you reveal it to the current public opinion, the malicious comments about hyung would be blocked. And obviously the number of votes will also increase..."

"No way."

"Huh?"

If I get more votes and win first place, it's like getting a minefield as a prize. Since I couldn't tell him that, I just made a passable excuse.

"There's no evidence for it. The atmosphere would only turn weird."

"Ah, but if you post the medical diagnosis..."

"There's no such thing."

"...You lost your memories, and didn't go to the hospital?"

"I'm in good shape, and I don't have any money for that."

Kim Raebin, who looked like he got hit by a rock, quietly mumbled.

"Okay...."

If he got it, then we're done with the topic.

Kim Raebin and I left the computer room. The camera caught up to us right away.

"Did the revision of lyrics go well?"

"Yeah, that's correct."

A small applause erupted from the practice room when we told that we didn't have to do any changes to lyrics. It was an attentive act for the broadcasting, even though it was obvious to everyone that we went there to secretly browse the internet.

"Well, the finals are tomorrow... Leader-nim, can you give us a word?"

"Ooh!"

"Let's take turns."

I interrupted in a hurry. Then the giggling members coughed, and each started talking about their feelings.

They looked happy.

Gold 2, who was almost eliminated, has not surprisingly given up. Perhaps the fact that the number of debut members has not yet been announced gave him hope. There was only one person in the team that might be on their deathbeds.

'Lee Sejin.'

It was Lee Sejin, the former child actor.

He has gone far with practice, but neither the reactions or the amount of screentime were that exceptional for him. Still, he didn't protest much during the practice of this team match. It's just that he's not very sociable and looks like he doesn't want to do this.

'If possible, I wish it could be someone other than this guy.'

Since it seems like I'm going to debut, I was now wondering about the guys I might debut with. I sighed and abandoned the thought.

'Let's just mind my own business.'

"Now then! Lastly, Leader Park Moondae hyung-nim~ please give us a word!"

"...So that we don't have any regrets, let's show everything we have prepared."

"Ooh~"

Even with mildly clichéd remarks, the respond to my comment was well taken. I shrugged and sat down on the floor of the practice room.

Unsurprisingly, the tension kept rising.

'It will be over tomorrow.'

Almost a confirmed moment for me to delete the status abnormality.

"Come one, let's practicing again!"

The final was just around the corner.

* * *

The last filming of was held at a concert hall at a famous university.

As it was a live broadcast, the hall, which accommodated nearly 3,000 spectators to boost the excitement, was already filled with humid heat.

Thousands of people were waiting for the broadcast to begin, holding signs and slogans of the participant they supported. MCs and judges entered one after another and took their seats. Some judges returned a light greeting to the cheers from the audience.

And on-time for broadcast.

The broadcast started without delay.

"Thank you to everyone who has been with us on the long journey of the last twelve episodes!"

Young-rin's voice rang everywhere in the huge concert hall where the lights were turned off.

"Now, there is only one decision left to form a group! Shareholders, have you made up your mind?"

The screams of 'Yes!' echoed everywhere with some painful sounding 'No' mixed in there.

"Then let me introduce the participants... Do you have your stocks?"

Aaaaaahhhh!!! (Screaming)

Waahhhh!!! (More screaming)

The stage lights up with overflowing cheers and screams.

With the lights soaring in all directions, the participants climbed up on to the stage on stage equipments.

"Please, invest now!"

That's how episode 13 began.

//TN: I'll try my best to translate chapters 59 and 60 as quick as possible. Since my school assignments are starting to pile up, I might have to decrease the frequency of chapters (since I've been realeasing 1-2 chapters basically everyday since I started translating) but I'll try to translate at least 2-3 chapters per week.

//TN: Also, I'm really sorry if the translation seems kinda funny sometimes. It's bc my Korean sucks and my English also sucks so I sometimes have to translate it to my second or first language first and then look up the meaning in English :'d