"What is this..."

Ryu Chungwoo stopped his mumbling as he checked the living room which looked like it had been hit by a bomb of balloons. It was probably because he saw a rotating camera lens between the balloons.

The familiar reality show camera was back.

'The re-shooting started today.'

Recently, there was little time we spent in the dormitory, so the reality show cameras kept it short and bold when extracting content and then left.

'So many activities and daily content were squeezed from us that there wasn't more to use.'

However, since it was the first time something this full-fledged was organized, the members hesitated to enter the living room.

A large note could be found in the midst of the swaying balloons. As for its size, the shape alone took up a quarter of the living room wall.

"Huh?"

"...A trip?"

"A trip!"

Cha Yujin immediately approached the wall while kicking the balloons. Colourful balloons that were the colour of the group's official colour and the same Pantone number shade, flew in the air.

"This is ripped! There's something inside!"

"You have to be careful, Yujin!"

"Oh."

Cha Yujin calmly put down the note with a slightly dispirited face as he recalled being scolded last time.

"Okay, let's check it out together."

"Yes..."

I wondered if there was any need to do this, but for the sake of the broadcast appearance, we all tore out the note together.

"One, two, three!"

Then a giant roulette appeared.

"...A roulette."

Just hearing the word made me have flashbacks.

However, the members were excited about the thought of having a full-fledged trip for content.

"Wow! What's this?"

"A random draw?"

"It says that it's a random travelling draw!"

As Kim Raebin said, there was a 'Random Travelling Draw' text largely written on the top. Following that was a fitting explanation written below.

"Umm~ 'Spin this roulette together to decide on the concept of the trip... TeStar's friendship vacation for 2 days and 1 night!' Wow, they're serious?"

"I love it!"

"Sh-should we quickly spin it...!?"

Even Seon Ahyun, who had little energy, was excited and stuck to the roulette wheel. The roulette had a total of seven compartments, with different themes written on each of them.

"Oh~"

It was filled with quite distinctive keywords.

'Healing would be the best.'

Looking at it, it would be a schedule to go stay in the countryside mountains with everyone. It felt easiest and there wouldn't be much stamina consumption except towards housework.

"I want to do Adventure."

"Healing would be good."

"I think Mukbang was put there for Moondae."

The guys, who had been expressing their preferences for a while probably for the amount of screen time, soon couldn't resist and excitedly stuck to the roulette.

"Let's hold it together and spin it at the same time!"

"Let's do that. You too Moondae, come here quickly!"

"...Yes."

Thanks to this, the camera caught a strange scene of the seven of us spinning the roulette together.

'Please come out nice and warmly.'

I mumbled my wish and touched the roulette at the same time as the members.

"Ooh~"

"It's spinning!"

'Of course, it spins. Why would it not spin?'

As it had been turned with a lot of force, the roulette barely stopped after spinning for quite a long time.

"Theme park...!"

Despite Kim Raebin's desperate words, the disc went beyond the purple Theme park compartment... and stopped at the red one.

"Oooh!"

The theme was written in an avant-garde font in the red space of the compartment.

"...Extreme?"

"Oh, extreme!"

Cha Yujin smiled and raised his hand as he finally understood the Korean spelling of the word in English.

'Cha Yujin likes this one?'

It could not have been more ominous.

And after a while, a text message came from the production team on Ryu Chungwoo's smartphone.

"N-no backing out...?"

"Uh... Uhhuh..."

The members' complexions began to change as if their trained survival show instincts were triggered.

"..."

I approached the roulette.

"Moondae?"

And I spun the roulette again.

The roulette diligently spun around...

And stopped on the Extreme trip again.

...I spun it once more.

It went round and round... and stopped.

...It went to Extreme.

And the members realized the situation.

"...!!"

"...This is a scam!"

The production team we met the next day laughed out loud saying that since they had to make the schedule first, there was obviously no way to make all the options happen.

'These bastards...'

I could feel their desire to draw in more viewer ratings with the travelling content.

...The ominous feeling really came to be.

* * *

It was ridiculous having to immediately reply to a text message as soon as I woke up in the morning. He said that he noticed it late even though his status messages kept coming.

For reference, the other person was VTIC's Chungryeo.

'This bastard is really tiring.'

How could he have checked it late when his group was also a candidate for the first place?

Of course, any member could have said it on the day. The triple crown on the broadcasts was stopped for 3 weeks in a row, but it could not have been said.

'It seems like he contacted me on purpose to be passive-aggressive.'

Unsurprisingly, a reply came soon after.

It means that it would be good to not bother each other by avoiding promoting at the same time, and we both can take first place.

'I can't ignore this either.'

I turned off the notifications for now. Every time we met with the director, all the damn bastards were annoying as it was.

"Ready! For! The! Travel!"

"Mo-moondae-ya... Ha-have you got everything?"

"Yeah. Wait a moment."

As soon as I turned off the phone, a loud noise could be heard.

'It's a pre-departure shoot...'

It was the beginning of the reality show's travelling content.

"That's all?"

"Yeah."

"Will you be okay?"

"Of course."

When I came out with a single backpack, everyone came asking if my luggage was too light.

'It's just 1 night and 2 days.'

After all, it was a group trip where we had to go wherever the production team tells us anyway. Shouldn't clothes and a toothbrush be enough?

"What about snacks?"

"What?"

"What about snacks?"

"...Snacks."

"Yes!"

"We can go buy some."

"Okay..."

It seemed that my image in Cha Yujin's mind have become a snack supply planner.

'It feels like I've become a bread shuttle.'

//TN: Bread shuttle: the person in school who has to run errands to buy snacks or cigarettes for others and is usually forced into doing that

I couldn't get my head around the titles I had never even worn in high school.

"Now then... We're finally going on our first trip~"

"Yay!!"

"I hope we can make a lot of good memories!"

The opening went well in front of the production crew's camera. Even though we were deceived, everyone was excited because it was the first trip.

'We've been working excessively.'

It was because we had been working without a break for two months ever since we started preparing for the debut album.

However, we should have guessed what was going to happen from the moment the production crew contently grinned at the members' actions.

About three hours later.

We arrived at a rural village at the foot of a mountain located at the end of Gyeonggi-do.

"Congratulations TeStar for arriving at the first destination of the day!"

"Yay!!"

"The view is really nice!"

It was a little hot, but the weather was definitely nice. The PD shouted with a loudspeaker to the members who were excited about having outdoor activities after a long time.

"Your first extreme activity is... skydiving!"

"...!?"

The atmosphere froze.

"You see the light aircraft up there?"

Whooosh...

A black flying object swept over the blue sky.

"You are going to get up there and jump."

"...!!"

And it became total chaos.

"Aaah!!"

"This is completely safe... I will be safe..."

"Hahahahaha!"

"...Is it not possible to give up midway?"

"Come on, it would be a waste since you're already on the plane~ It's even paid already."

"..."

Lee Sejin's face turned pale after hearing the instructor's carefree answer.

'This is bullshit.'

Still, the production crew did give the last condition.

'I think this is going to be an insult to the fans.'

If one of us cried saying that he really couldn't do it, the fans would criticise by saying something like 'Why are you making an idol reality show needlessly sadistic?' and then there would have to be an apology issued.

However, it seemed unlikely that that would happen.

"Well now, let's jump one by one!"

"Ahhh!"

It was because all the guys were surprisingly tough. It may be natural since they are the ones who had to endure a lot of things in IdolCo.

In any case, everyone jumped down. From Kim Raebin, who was stuck in a corner muttering to himself, to Cha Yujin who was stamping his feet with excitement.

Having an instructor behind with us must have played a part in gathering some courage.

"Now then, let's go!"

"Yes, yes...!"

Seon Ahyun also jumped off without any problems.

'I'm going next.'

Before I knew it, I became the last one again. IdolCo's surprise VCR came to my mind.

'This isn't scary at all.'

It's not like I was going to die or get hurt, so what's there to be concerned about? I just didn't think this was worth paying for.

"Now~ We are going to jump together. Take a deep breath."

"Yes."

"Oh, this friend has the strongest spirit~ Let's go!"

Swoosh.

The wind pierced my face.

"...Haah!"

"Isn't it nice~?"

It was nice.

...I didn't even think of it.

The blue sky spread in all directions. Mountains and fields stretched out endlessly over the blue horizon. Even though the sun shone in my eyes, it didn't feel too hot. The wind was swirling.

"Now, the parachute~"

With a thud and a sense of pressure, my body slowly stopped falling in the air and began to move with the wind.

It felt like a great sense of freedom.

"Well done! Grab this... and let's push it like this!"

"..."

If I had continued to live as Ryu Gunwoo, would I have thought of doing something like this?

'Definitely not.'

I would have asked why I would pay that amount of money to jump from the sky.

However, I was doing it right now.

And there were so many more things I would not have done.

Achievements, performing, the fans and the cheers... The feeling of living life.

'...It's strange.'

Even with the status abnormality and whatever, things were rather good.

Strangely, I liked being Park Moondae.

"Now, let's land!"

The moment we landed on the ground, the guys who had jumped down first smiled while waving their hands.

"Moondae also arrived~"

...Well, an extreme trip didn't seem to be too bad. I smiled and stepped down on the ground.

* * *

Did I say it didn't seem to be too bad?

"Now, the second extreme experience of the day! It is~ 'An invitation From A Haunted Family' !"

"Aahhh!!"

I take back what I said. The production crew didn't know the limit.

"Do you see the house in front of you?"

"Yes...!"

"I do see it but...!"

Some members, who were certified as scaredy-cats, were already crying.

The PD excitedly talked on the loudspeaker.

"This time, it is a horror experience setting run by a Korean horror creator team!"

"Uaah..."

"They only operate in summer, so we can only do it now!"

A detailed explanation like this... was for the sake of sponsorship advertisement.

Lee Sejin muttered with a gloomy face next to me.

"I just have to survive this summer..."

"..."

I know right.

"Then everyone, please divide into groups to enter 'An Invitation From A Haunted Family' !"

"We...! We have bad memories about making groups...!"

"We will enter together!"

...However, that obviously didn't work and TeStar began to divide into groups.