Prologue
Hexad Carmit.
Despite being from a small agency called Willow Entertainment, they were the group that once rewrote idol history—sweeping #1 on the music charts and taking home every music show trophy immediately after their debut.
But now, that name no longer exists.
They—no…
We—
Ended up disbanding because of a ridiculous incident.
We debuted through a cutthroat, public survival program under our agency’s strict competition system.
During that time, we ran toward our debut without a single moment to look around at one another.
Was that why?
We never had a single chance to clear up the misunderstandings and conflicts that had built up between us.
Whenever we were out of the fans’ sight, we were always fighting.
I think Hexad Carmit’s relationship is kind of bad?
Yeah, I’ve never seen them joke around with each other on the way home.
It’s so obvious how awkward they are even when they do W-Apps together.
Sharp-eyed fans quickly caught onto our hostile atmosphere.
Rumors of discord were raised several times, and a pattern repeated where the agency barely managed to fix things with official explanations.
But one day, while we were somehow dragging our idol lives along…
A massive incident happened that even the agency couldn’t stop.
It was called the “Idol Waiting Room Recording Leak.”
That day, the fight was even more intense than usual.
Awful screams that we could never show our fans were flying everywhere, and some of us almost came to blows.
The manager tried to stop us by screaming back, but eventually, he gave up and left the room out of sheer exhaustion.
However,
Of all days, it had to be that day.
Someone had placed an illegal recording device in our waiting room, and it was running…
The recording file, filled with graphic swearing and verbal abuse, was released on the internet and spread everywhere.
“Discord-dols,” “Fighting-dols”…
Decorating the entertainment headlines every day with the worst titles imaginable, we fell without hitting rock bottom.
No broadcast station and no event would accept us.
In an instant, Hexad Carmit became the trash of the entertainment industry.
Disbanding was the natural next step.
After the group broke up like that, I moved between a few different agencies, but my debut was cancelled every single time.
A debut member would get into trouble, or a CEO would embezzle money and disappear…
In the end, after giving up on everything and returning home, I spent a long time unemployed.
My parents told me to start studying now and go to college, but I had barely managed to get a high school diploma through the GED. Studying just wasn’t for me.
My parents, who ran a business, suggested I help out with their company if I had nothing else to do…
But in a company where even the part-timers were college graduates, it felt wrong to parachute in as the “boss’s son” and be a burden. No, doing that was a huge burden for me, too.
But…
After spending several years as a jobless person.
I realized.
What my true talent actually was.
