Ding!
As soon as Rayen heard that sound, he couldn’t help but turn up the corner of his lips. Immediately, he took his phone out of his dimensional pocket to check what the sound was about.
And indeed, it was the one he was expecting.
[Skill Ranking Mission successfully passed!
"Dancing isn’t just about a set of movements. It’s storytelling, and the moves are your words."
Dance: C+ >>> B-]
Three days after the video was posted, it had already garnered over a million reactions from fans. However, it was mostly angry reactions.
These reactions taught him that it was truly possible to incur the wrath of people just by dancing.
’Well, it doesn’t matter. As long as my stats went up.’
Adrian was right. Rayen probably didn’t need to mind his face now. He had already done something worse than this.
Rayen sighed.
’What a twisted way of thinking.’
Swiping out the notification interface, he headed to his newly created account to check.
[Notifications +99]
As soon as he entered the account, the red dot on his accumulated notification bell was already glaring at him. Even though the counter could no longer go up, Rayen was sure it was still continuously counting in the new notifications.
– Who’s this clown?
– Wow! He’s so good at exercising!
– Clout chaser. Please report whoever this is.
– Flower Garden, why are you sleeping? Haters are already littering the environment, but you’re still asleep?
– Right! At least let the members have their own social media accounts! Content originally comes from novel※fire.net
Of course, it wasn’t only Rayen’s fans who were here.
– What a coincidence. I was just about to forget about their existence, and here was another hater? Lolol
– Why do I feel like this was just some planned propaganda?
– Right after the show ended, of course, they needed to find a way to make their name not disappear.
– Don’t fall for this ploy. Rayen was already a master at fanning the flames toward him even when he was just a trainee.
Reading the comments, Rayen felt a chill run down his spine.
Indeed, there were some truly sharp individuals out there.
Fortunately, aside from covering his face with a clown mask, he also used some book pages to slightly alter his body build, preventing people on discovering that the one who was dancing was actually Rayen, not just some hater clowning him.
Actually, Rayen had wanted to dye his hair another color too, but Adrian "suggested" he shouldn’t, to add more to the flames.
This was indeed a godly move.
No wonder Ren debuted despite his average performances.
Rayen sighed. Then, he pressed the sign-out button.
Now that the mission was done, he had no use for that account. He wasn’t a masochist to continue dissing himself, nor some twisted person that would rile up his fans for enjoyment.
Just let it rot, never to be used again.
Yet, suddenly, Mini Plotter’s head popped out from the corner of his screen, its lips pouting.
"....."
Rayen waited for it to speak, but it only stared at Rayen with an odd gaze.
"... What’s wrong?"
"Nothing. I think it’s just a pity to waste that account."
"You want me to keep using it?"
Mini Plotter only grinned without responding to his question.
"Anyways, we’ve already set up an account for all of you at Idolverse, but since you haven’t debuted yet, the platform is still in the middle of verifying it," Mini Plotter informed.
"Idolverse?"
"Oh, it’s just a recent platform made for verified idols to interact with fans. Although you are also allowed to create other social media accounts, we suggest you mainly use Idolverse to interact with the public fans."
Rayen finally nodded in understanding.
"That’s all. I just came out to inform you of this."
With that, Mini Plotter disappeared.
...
With Rayen finally done with his ranking mission, he would finally be able to practice his dancing skills with the aid of Mr. Zi.
During the past few days, Mr. Zi could only assign him to memorize the details of his new identity like some secret agent about to embark on his new mission.
He also had to learn other languages so that when they had to interact with the fans outside, he didn’t need to rely on his system all the time. If anything like the last time happened, when they got stranded outside without the help of the system, they wouldn’t be helpless.
Fortunately, there were Life Books that helped them to learn things easier.
Unlike when they were in the midst of the show, with the pressure now gone, the time seemed to quickly pass by.
It was still tiringly the same, though.
When Rayen got up from his bed, his head was in so much pain from the lessons yesterday. Still, he forced himself to get up and get ready for another day.
Rayen massaged his temples as he went down to the practice room.
Too bad the Resting Bracelet was being used by Xu Jiji...
When Rayen arrived before the doors of the practice room, just as he was about to reach its handle, it was suddenly flung open.
Iris’s pale and panicked face greeted him as she ran out.
Because she wasn’t paying attention, she nearly collided with Rayen. Fortunately, Rayen was able to dodge on time.
However, Iris wasn’t quite fortunate. Rayen’s presence greatly shocked her, making her trip on her own feet and fall face-first on the floor.
Behind her, Yeo Haru tried to pull her back, but completely missed his timing.
"Ahh! Iris bro!"
Rayen could only watch her fall. He blinked in confusion.
"... Are you okay?"
Iris lifted her head and glared at him. "Do I look fine?"
Rayen laughed wryly as he scratched the back of his head. "You should watch where you’re going."
"You could have caught me."
"My bad."
Yeo Haru assisted Iris to stand up, also apologizing for not catching her. However, Yeo Haru was still visibly pale.
Not long after, Xi Huan also emerged from the practice room. She wasn’t pale-faced unlike the two, but her lips were obviously curled up in excitement.
"What’s wrong?" Rayen asked.
Being questioned like this, Yeo Haru was reminded of what they were running from earlier. His lips trembled, unable to explain to Rayen the situation.
Instead, it was Xi Huan who responded.
"Rayeye, help us!"
Rayen frowned. Instead of getting worried, he only felt wary. This magician was always up to something, it was hard to truly trust her.
"Help you? Then why are you grinning in excitement if you’re asking for my help?" Rayen said.
"Oh?" Xi Huan touched her mouth, unaware of her expression.
Still, Xi Huan’s grin didn’t fade. She opened her mouth again to explain.
"We saw a ghost inside the practice room!"