Chapter 140

# 141

Across the Sea (5)

‘…… Something else?’

Not only Do-wook but also other members looked like rabbits in surprise at Ahn Hyeong-seo’s sudden words.

‘Did Ahn Hyeong-seo have any other personal skills?’

Dowook looked at Ahn Hyeong-seo with slightly worried eyes. It was because of concerns that Ahn Hyeong-seo might have fallen for Watanabe’s provocation.

However, looking at Ahn Hyeong-seo’s eyes, Do-wook soon put aside the worries in his heart for a moment.

Ahn Hyeong-seo’s eyes showed the determination that he would never finish recording while being treated like a fool.

Of course, not everything was possible through will alone. However, Ahn Hyeong-seo was also a person with sufficient talent and talent. Dowook had faith that he would somehow do well.

Watanabe asked with interest.

“Something else? What is it? “I wonder what Hyungseo, who is only in charge of the team’s SNS, can do!”

Watanabe’s attitude of ignoring Ahn Hyeong-seo could not be seen as personally correct. However, he did not ignore Ahn Hyeong-seo, whom he saw for the first time today, simply to harass him.

It could be seen as Watanabe’s way of extracting fun. There were clearly viewers who took pleasure in ignoring and making fun of someone.

However, it depended on the guest’s choice and ability whether to just end the recording or attack Watanabe.

Even if the same method was used, the reaction was different for each guest.

Watanabe was willing to give Ahn Hyeong-seo a chance if he wanted to do something. If I couldn’t do it, I could create an even funnier image. In fact, if it wasn’t done properly and was funny, it was a huge success.

Ahn Hyeong-seo was truly funny when he couldn’t even be vaguely funny.

“Um… Um… Cola…”

Ahn Hyeong-seo shouted excitedly, but his Japanese wasn’t suddenly improving. Hyeong-seo Ahn stammered, pointing to the Coke bottle for indirect advertising in the MC seat.

Do-wook, who was sitting next to Ahn Hyeong-seo, listened, and Ahn Hyeong-seo explained to Do-wook in Korean the personal story he was going to do.

“Can you do that?”

“uh. “I’ve only tried it once…”

Do-wook frowned a little. Just thinking about it made my throat tingle.

However, since Ahn Hyeong-seo wanted to do it, Do-wook looked at Watanabe and explained in Japanese.

“Can I have a Coke, please? “It is said to be a talent technique of drinking an entire bottle of cola in one go and then immediately singing.”

“Oh oh?!”

Watanabe looked at Ahn Hyeong-seo with interest in Do-wook’s explanation.

The indirect advertising cola prepared at the MC seat was contained in a 400ml plastic bottle. 400ml of highly carbonated cola was not an easy amount to drink. However, when I heard that he started singing right after drinking all the cola, I couldn’t help but be interested.

Even if he failed while drinking cola because of the pain caused by carbonation, the sight of him suffering seemed to be good entertainment even for viewers who like sadistic things to some extent.

The other members also looked at Ahn Hyeong-seo with expressions of surprise or concern at Do-wook’s explanation. Kim Won seemed to think that if he was going to do it anyway, he should help.

“I saw it! “I saw it when I was doing this and it was a success then.”

He played the role of a wind catcher and instilled anticipation.

Hyungseo Ahn smiled.

I did it as a joke while eating chicken and cola at the dorm with Kim Won, but I didn’t know I would show off my talent like this.

Watanabe took the cola from the MC seat and handed it directly to Ahn Hyeong-seo.

“I’m excited to hear that it was a success!”

Ahn Hyeong-seo, who received the cola, took a deep breath and prepared to drink it.

The members next to him did not know that they could not know whether Ahn Hyeong-seo would succeed or not. Jeong Yoon-gi just hoped that Ahn Hyeong-seo would not ruin his image by spitting out or burping while drinking cola.

It was a nerve-wracking moment even though it was just a personal performance on an entertainment program.

For some reason, if it was an entertainment show, I wanted to make a point of seeing Watanabe for ignoring Ahn Hyeong-seo.

“Now…. let’s start!”

As soon as Ahn Hyeong-seo opened the lid, Watanabe announced the start.

“Ha!”

Hyungseo Ahn began to gulp down his cola. The camera took a close-up of Ahn Hyeong-seo’s Mokuldae as he passed around a bottle of cola.

“Ugh…”

Drinking cola was even more painful to watch. Just imagining it made my throat feel sore. Seok Ji-hoon frowned and looked away from Ahn Hyeong-seo as if he were drinking cola.

Watanabe, who was dissatisfied because the filming seemed to have proceeded too smoothly without any major laugh points, looked at Ahn Hyeong-seo with interest with a satisfied smile.

It wasn’t bad to see Ahn Hyeong-seo trying his best to drink cola. It was clear that a good picture came out.

There were only two sips of cola left.

“cheer up!”

“cheer up……!”

Won Kim and Taehyung Park gave words of support to Hyungseo Ahn in Japanese.

“Sigh…!”

Ahn Hyeong-seo, who poured the entire bottle of cola into his mouth while cheering, forced himself to swallow the carbonic acid rising from his chest and caught his breath.

And then he started singing right away.

“Whoaaaaa—!”

It was ‘Star Flower’, which Watanabe pointed out as not having practiced well.

Hyeong-seo Ahn sang the chorus of ‘Star Flower’ beautifully. Of course, I had difficulty breathing immediately after drinking a bottle of Coke, but I was able to use my skills and handle even the lack of breathing as if it was an emotional process.

“…… ha. “That’s it… that’s it.”

After Hyungseo Ahn finished singing, he looked at Watanabe and said.

After finishing the song, Ahn Hyeong-seo was busy digesting the coke that had not yet gone down, pounding his chest as if something was rising.

“Isn’t that amazing?…”

The members who were watching also applauded Ahn Hyeong-seo’s individual skills.

The same was true for Watanabe.

“What a great individual skill! “I shouldn’t have shown you this a long time ago!”

Although there were still ironic comments, Watanabe also clapped and praised Ahn Hyeong-seo.

***

“Kkeok.”

“Ugh! “What is so dirty!”

In the car on the way back after finishing recording. Jeong Yoon-gi, who was sitting next to him, was startled by the belch that Hyung-seo Ahn couldn’t bear and pushed him away.

“Ahh. “You’re pushing your hard-working younger brother like that!”

“Who told you to do it? “He raised his hand and did it.”

“Wow… if you come out like this, I will take revenge.”

“Why do you eldest brothers always do this? Be quite.”

Jeong Yoon-ki and Ahn Hyeong-seo, who were bickering, stopped talking at the words of Director Oh Baek-ho, who was sitting in the passenger seat. Even then, Ahn Hyeong-seo continued to pound his chest to see if he was burping.

“Thank you for your hard work, brother.”

Do-wook, who was sitting on the other side, spoke to Ahn Hyeong-seo. Hyungseo Ahn smiled proudly and made a V sign with both hands.

“hmm. It’s true that you had a hard time. “But please refrain from burping right next to me.”

When Jeong Yoon-gi added another word, Ahn Hyeong-seo glanced at Jeong Yoon-gi and did not respond again. In fact, it was true that all the members were amazed and surprised by the individual skills that Hyungseo Ahn showed today. I also felt like I could understand why Ahn Hyeong-seo did something personal that he never did.

‘Ogi must have been activated…’

After the recording, Watanabe visited Ahn Hyeong-seo separately and praised Ahn Hyeong-seo through an interpreter, saying that it was Hyung-seo who saved today’s broadcast.

Hyungseo Ahn also knew that Watanabe did not ignore him because of personal feelings. Anyway, I was satisfied that Ahn Hyeong-seo was able to get a good cut that deserved attention thanks to Watanabe.

Ahn Hyeong-seo asked Watanabe for a photo without any hesitation, took a group photo with the members, and uploaded it to SNS asking people to look forward to the program that will be broadcast soon.

The program PD also gave a very positive evaluation of the recording to the members and Director Oh Baek-ho. It has been said that all of the members’ personal stories will be able to be released without editing.

Since the content of the broadcast was meaningful and there were fun and surprises at the end, there was also talk of plans to extend the length to 25 minutes.

“But how did you hold back during the broadcast? How did you sing? I think it would be a big hit if we did it in Korea too…”

Seok Ji-hoon, who was sitting in the back seat, asked.

Seok Ji-hoon asked Ahn Hyeong-seo if he had any know-how and wanted to learn it and go to ’48 Hours Camping’.

“How can I hold back…. I just endured it!”

But there was no such thing as know-how. Hyungseo Ahn shouted.

“You can’t do this in Korea! “It’s a one-time use skill that can only be used once!”

***

A few days later.

In the meantime, it was KK who showed short interviews and performances through broadcasts. The KK members finished their short but long schedule in Japan and were now packing their bags to return to Korea.

When the entertainment program with Watanabe was broadcast, it received a bigger response than other broadcasts.

Watanabe was an MC with a strong tsukomi personality who was well known to Japanese people. Nevertheless, there was a lot of praise for the KK members’ sense of answering without being too embarrassed. Also, the individual skills shown in the personal skills corner were very impressive.

It was clearly revealed that they were a talented group that did not miss anything in singing or dancing.

In addition, the fact that Dowook was from the Cannes Film Festival caught the attention of Japanese people who were not fans. Like Korea, Japan also had a tendency to give generously to people who were ‘recognized abroad.’

In fact, Dowook’s performance of ‘Naoki Hanjo’ was excellent. It was only one of the many programs he appeared in, but the fact that he had prepared to act in a popular Japanese drama specifically for that program was enough to melt the hearts of Japanese people.

Thanks to this, Naoki was added to Dowook’s Japanese nickname, Uki, and a new nickname, ‘Uoki’, was created.

And as expected, the one that drew the most enthusiastic response when it was edited and uploaded on My Tube was Ahn Hyeong-seo’s personal story of ‘drinking cola and singing’.

It spread widely as a humorous video, showing great interest not only among ordinary Japanese people but also in Korea.

Korean fans felt that their hearts were somehow touched when they saw KK working hard in Japan.

At the same time, I felt proud that K.K., who had good skills and personality, was Korean.

Ahn Hyeong-seo’s video of him drinking coke received tens of thousands of views. It has become a trend among MyTube users to record and upload videos imitating Ahn Hyeong-seo’s personal skills. There were people spitting out cola and there were many who said they couldn’t do it. Thanks to this, Ahn Hyeong-seo’s personal skills were left behind in a legendary video.

Manager Oh Baek-ho announced the good news to K.K., who packed up their belongings in their hotel rooms.

“Guys.”

When Director Oh Baek-ho called the members in a low voice, the members looked at Director Oh Baek-ho with excited eyes. Judging by Director Oh Baek-ho’s mood, it seemed clear that there was good news.

“That’s enough.”

“yes? “It works?”

“It’s March.”

At the word March, all the members opened their mouths and looked blankly at Director Oh Baek-ho.

“Dome tour. “It has been confirmed.”

The Japanese fan base was growing exponentially and album sales were soaring. Since it was already popular, it was entirely possible for it to become even more popular.

The dome tour, which was also the main goal of this Japanese activity, has been confirmed. It was an indescribably great achievement.

Among Korean singers, only one group has made it to the dome tour.

“wow!”

Kim Won shouted. It was good news. The KK members knew well, having seen the singers around them, how difficult it would be to go from an arena tour to a dome tour even if they had established themselves in Japan.

This was possible because K.K. had grown by building its foundation step by step in Japan, from small concert halls to arena tours.

‘Dome…’

Do-wook also stood blankly, unable to hide his joy. The car to transport the KK members arrived, but everyone enjoyed the joy of having their dome tour confirmed without even thinking about getting in the car.

The dome was a place that could show off its prestige and was different from Korea’s large performance halls in terms of size and facilities. Dowook’s heart raced at the thought of performing there.

At that time, Dowook’s cell phone vibrated in his pocket. There was a notification in the email app that a new email had arrived.