The members also seemed to discover it belatedly, glancing at Ka Jerim’s back, not knowing what to do. But right now it was a live broadcast and it was the highlight scene of passing cards, so they couldn’t stop. Since it was the dance breaker part with no room to rest at all, everyone was restless, and meanwhile the bloodstain on Ka Jerim’s clothes kept spreading.
“Crazy. Isn’t that blood?! It’s getting bigger?”
“Whoa…… That was blood?”
However, Ka Jerim himself even smiled brightly at the members and audience with a face that said it didn’t hurt at all. He performed the movements so calmly and even sang, so people made dubious expressions, but in fact, Ka Jerim was biting his lips to endure the pain every time he left the camera frame.
Soon the rough and flashy choreography that seemed like it would never end finished, and only the last part, Ma Doun and Onseol’s part, remained. Ka Jerim knelt down side by side with Seon Hobeom with a gap between them for the next choreography.
‘It hurts.’
Ka Jerim, who briefly lowered his head, closed his eyes tightly in pain. It was a part that was used a lot, so it felt like the injured part was opening up more while dancing.
‘It’s my mistake.’
Since it was a movement changed right before the stage, it was inevitably awkward, and above all, no one would have expected the corner of the box to be that sharp. The top part was rounded, but who knew the bottom part would be that pointed.
‘If I had just passed by with quick steps like when we practiced in the waiting room earlier, it wouldn’t have been this bad, but I ran past it so it’s my responsibility.’
Ka Jerim, who was blaming his careless self for acting hastily with the thought of quickly joining the movement, soon raised his head and silently continued with the remaining choreography. When he raised his arms, it felt like a scream would come out, but he smiled.
‘Just endure a little.’
He couldn’t stop the stage during the live broadcast now, and the highlight part was all over and only the ending part remained. It would end soon. But time felt like it was flowing as slow as a thousand pounds.
“Kyaa!!”
Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the audience seats, and then a black jacket was suddenly placed on Ka Jerim’s shoulders. Ka Jerim, who wondered what this was, lifted his head slightly with a puzzled face.
‘Clothes?’
Where did the suit jacket come from? When he looked around, he could see Ma Doun rapping behind him wearing only a dress shirt.
Actually, this was just Ma Doun’s rap part with no particular choreography. But Ma Doun took off his suit jacket with calm and quick hand movements to make it look like part of the choreography, and casually covered Ka Jerim’s shoulders with that jacket. Ka Jerim, who was watching Ma Doun staring at the camera and silently rapping with such an indifferent face for someone who had just given him clothes, tilted his head dubiously.
‘Why did he give it? Did my dress shirt rip?’
Unable to see his back, Ka Jerim didn’t actually know that he had bled that much. Ka Jerim just thought he gave it because his clothes ripped and smiled slightly at Ma Doun who was rapping as if to say thank you.
[……Every day,]
Ma Doun, who made eye contact with Ka Jerim, paused briefly while rapping, then quickly turned his head with an embarrassed face and continued rapping. Because he knew Ma Doun’s personality of having an endlessly kind heart even if he looked cold on the outside, Ka Jerim was sorry for making Ma Doun worry, but on the other hand was very grateful for covering his unsightly back.
[So,]
Onseol’s last part began. But the camera that had been filming Onseol suddenly changed direction toward Ka Jerim, who was adjusting the jacket on his shoulders.
‘Uh…… Why is the camera.’
If it went according to rehearsal, the camera should be filming Onseol a few seconds before the ending. But realizing he was suddenly being filmed, Ka Jerim opened his eyes wide with a flustered face, and the camera director also made a surprised expression as if filming Ka Jerim was a mistake.
It seemed like he had accidentally pointed the camera in the wrong direction while looking at Ka Jerim adjusting the suit jacket.
‘What should I do.’
In that moment when Ka Jerim hesitated, flustered by the solo camera shot filming him, he made eye contact with himself on stage reflected in the camera screen.
Why was it?
At that moment, Ka Jerim felt the pain in his back, the disturbing thoughts that had been tormenting his mind, all of it being neatly organized. He even felt the music receding like tinnitus, and as if possessed, as if it had been decided as the ending pose from the beginning, he grabbed the tie he was holding and kissed it. And stared straight at the camera. It was a perfect ending pose by anyone’s standards.
“Waaaah!!”
Then, along with the audience’s cheers announcing the end of the stage, the music also ended. Even after the stage ended, Ka Jerim stayed dazed for a moment, then sat down with a thud, pressing the floor with a face where all tension had been released.
“Jerim-ah!!”
“Are you okay? How did this…!”
“Ka Jerim! Ah, crazy. What do we do!!”
As soon as the song ended, the members screamed and instantly gathered in a circle around Ka Jerim.
The staff under the stage also seemed to have already grasped Ka Jerim’s condition through monitoring, as they hurriedly came up on stage with pale faces. Ka Jerim stared at them blankly.
“What do we do, should we carry him? No, supporting would be better…… Can you walk?”
He stared at the members being restless beside him, then suddenly opened his mouth with a beaming smile as if he was fine.
“The stage is over, right?”
“You’re laughing now? And why does that matter?”
Onseol poured out worried nagging at Ka Jerim with a face that said this was ridiculous. Park Eden kept telling Onseol, who was getting more angry beside him, to calm down, saying the hospital came first. Seon Hobeom standing next to them silently kept his mouth firmly shut while glaring at the dancers, and Ma Doun knelt down beside Ka Jerim and kept checking Ka Jerim’s expression.
“Hyung, but I think I’m in pain.”
“You say that while smiling……”
“Because if I show I’m in pain, everyone worries.”
Ka Jerim smiled like a fool while adding those words. The members who were looking at Ka Jerim smiling innocently made deflated faces with empty laughs and reached out their hands to him.
“Get up, let’s go quickly.”
Routine, Abyss’s first stage that was like a war finally ended.
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[Real-time Search Rankings]
(1) Siri Gate
(2) Go Yoon
(3) Abyss
(4) Abyss injury
(5) Hangang Coin
(6) Crayfish
(7) Routine stage
(8) Fine dust
(9) In-season crayfish
**Episode 7**
[Breaking News] Rookie idol group ‘Abyss’s’ skills that shone through ‘injured fighting spirit’
Today on <Music Core> LIVE, the debut of rookie idol 5-member boy group Abyss was successfully accomplished. The reason Abyss rose in real-time search rankings is ……(omitted)…… Currently, Abyss member ‘Crayfish (Ka Jerim)’s fancam has become an issue on various sites……. (Click! See full article)
(Fancam Full version → http://musicenter.goneya.glssza)
Related news: Idol injuries, is this okay?
Related news: In-season crayfish uproar, suddenly why? The reason is not this ‘Crayfish’ but that ‘crayfish’!
-Comments (1,020)
36R7***: How did he get injured that there’s that much blood? Whoa;;
└WDK0***: He got stitches (related news link)
└saij***: Well with that much blood;; I wish you a quick recovery…
d309***: But honestly doesn’t it seem totally self-inflicted lololol how much could you get hurt on stage lololol isn’t that nobody doing it to get attention?lololol
└eiDf***: 222 agreed lol why would blood suddenly come out from passing between backup dancers. Self-inflicted agreed? oo agreed.
└jfdo***: According to the agency he went to the hospital and got stitches?lolololol don’t create weird rumors nn just scroll down lololol who gets stitches all the way to their back to self-inflict. Don’t say stupid things lololol
└hee3***: Is the comment above an Abyss fan?lololol when the Abyss teaser dropped, they were nobodies except Onseol being called an idol lol the reaction was that Onseol was grabbing the group by the collar and carrying them lololol if I were Crayfish, I’d do anything if I could get famous
ndfl***: The comments are fucking dirty. The other person is a nineteen-year-old kid you assholes. If it’s not self-inflicted, how are you gonna hold your heads up? Will you secretly delete your comments lol? That nineteen-year-old Crayfish is more mature than you guys who are twice his age; looking at the video, even muggles can see he’s in pain and doesn’t know what to do fuck
└il***: oooo Next Abyss fan~
hie***: Wow so…amazing ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ How can he perform on stage smiling even though he’s in pain? If he hadn’t turned his back, I wouldn’t have known he was injured ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ So heartbreaking…
356r***: oo Probably an attention seeker. The magic concept from the start lolololololol the back is probably fake too whatever; Real-time ranking is a bit suspicious ㅡㅡ; Not because of politics?
└fkdl***: lololololol another politics suspicion nutjob?lololol
└ll***: Fucking ridiculous. Abyss’s agency isn’t that big and it’s a place that only pushes girl idols lol what ranking manipulation bullshit?lololol the reason the Abyss teaser was buried is because there wasn’t much media play from the agency oo But you’re saying such an agency manipulates real-time search rankings? How and why would an agency with zero power and interest push them?
nke***: Heartbreaking… If you look at the fancam, he bites his lips and grabs his forearm every time he turns his back… I hope it’s not a major injury ㅠㅠ
ikre***: No it’s fucking frustrating that whenever you shield them they ask if you’re a fan!!! They’re rookies so they don’t have many fans!!!!!!!!! But whatever you say they call it shielding!!! It’s not shielding, it’s facts you assholes!!!
