Assistant Manager Kim Hates Idols - Chapter 80



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| Episode 80. KPI Design Support Program (2)

‘It’s the end.’

It was a good thing I hadn’t gotten up from the sofa yet, otherwise my legs would have given out and I would have collapsed.

So now I can regain my memories of my older sister?

Can you prevent your sister’s accident too?

Are you saying that I can get a job at another company besides Hanpyeong Industries?

My mind went blank. I blinked, wondering if I had misread the text, and read the text written on the system over and over again, without missing a single word.

No matter how many times I checked, the system text was the same.

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[SYSTEM] The KPI of ”debut as a 6-member boy group” has been confirmed.

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My heart was beating fast.

At the same time, I quickly planned the next steps in my head.

First of all, let’s tell the company that we want to resign before the next video is uploaded. Then, they will cut out my part and upload it from the next video.

The deposit can be resolved somehow by selling all the stocks that have been held. If I have to, I can work three part-time jobs and sell my hair.

If I leave quickly, Lee Cheong-hyeon will put his work laptop and luggage in the space I left for him to use, so I should hurry up and find a goshiwon.

Just in case, I was planning to send the planning team the next concept plan, list of ideas, and handover report that I had been organizing little by little on a USB.

‘Let me just supplement the keywords that came out in today’s live broadcast. And… … .’

I glanced at the guys who were watching their stage footage with shining eyes.

I guess we’d better talk to these guys ASAP.

It seemed right to talk to these guys first before talking to the company. They were the ones who suffered the most from my intervention, and they will continue to suffer a lot of damage to their image in the future.

What made me feel a little better was that it would be better for the team if I left early rather than staying behind and holding the members back.

The system lit up again at the moment when I was timing it, saying, ‘Once I finish this part… ‘, ‘Once I finish this section… ‘.

I was already so sensitive, I wondered why it was happening now, and nervously checked the system.

There was some nonsense written on it.

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[SYSTEM] Work instructions from ‘Manager’ have arrived.

I saw the results this time, and Manager Kim did the job of one person? Well, Manager Kim has to do his job for his salary. Try harder next time.

[SYSTEM] ‘Achieving 1st place on a music show with 6 Spark members’ was designated as the KPI for ‘.’

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What the X are you talking about?

The KPI has already been achieved, so why is this coming up again?

I stared blankly at the system window, then checked the ‘Performance Rewards’ item I had seen before.

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[SYSTEM] ‘Performance Reward’ has been designated based on the achievement of the final KPI of ‘.’

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So, obviously, if you achieve the KPI, you will be rewarded… … .

At that moment, my gaze was fixed on one place.

‘Final?’

As far as I remember, there was no word ‘final’ before the KPI of ‘debuting as a 6-member boy group’.

I called out to the system, thinking, “No way.” I kept feeling the aura of X.

Then the system screen changed again. It was a window with something I had never seen before, related to KPIs.

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[SYSTEM] ‘KPI progress status’ is notified to ‘.

▷ 1st: Debut as a 6-member boy group

▷ 2nd: Spark 6 members achieved 1st place on a music show

▷ (The following is private)

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X foot.

X-Fuck, does this make sense?

Are you trying to fool people with such bullshit wordplay?

I was so shocked that I couldn’t even speak properly. My mind went blank in a different way than before.

My body trembled with emptiness and futility.

So, the final KPI comes out only when you achieve any number of KPIs that may be there in the future.

You have to complete all of that to get the final KPI reward, right?

And I didn’t even know that and I was preparing for the breakup and playing around like crazy?

I was so angry. I wanted to tear the system and everything apart and throw it in the trash.

“Hey, what’s wrong with you?”

While I was spitting out every single word I knew in my head, someone shook my arm and asked,

It was Choi Je-ho.

“Brother, are you okay? You don’t look well.”

Then Jeong Seong-bin asked with a worried expression.

By the way, the living room was quiet. I don’t know when I turned it off, but another stage video was paused.

“Brother, were you trying to sleep first because you were tired? Did I hold you back for no reason?”

Lee Cheong-hyeon scratched his head with an embarrassed look on his face.

“You must be tired. We’ll clean up and go in, so go in first and rest.”

“I’ll turn off the living room lights right away… … !”

Kang Ki-yeon and Park Joo-woo also added a few words each.

The system also has to make sense.

These guys are just a bunch of idiots that I hit on the way to their debut. If it weren’t for me, they would have been known as a ‘new male idol group with extremely high difficulty level dance’ with lots of difficult choreography, and they would have been able to continue to rise while hearing ‘a talented male idol group with all the vocals from heaven’.

But how many times do these guys tell me to ride the bus without paying? Without any notice?

I gritted my teeth and joined the debut group, thinking that I had thrown away my conscience. I hated Hanpyeong Industries like hell, and I wanted to save my older sister somehow.

But I wasn’t sure how many times I could use these guys for my own selfish desires.

Aren’t the lives at stake in this team just these five guys?

My chest felt tight. I didn’t have the confidence to meet the gaze of the five pairs of eyes focused on me.

“… … Sorry, I guess I’m just a little tired. Don’t worry about me and just watch what you guys were watching.”

So I ran away.

And I tried not to hear the guys quietly cleaning up the living room, so I covered myself with the blanket and went to sleep.

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Naturally, I couldn’t sleep a wink.

It was fortunate that Choi Je-ho and Lee Cheong-hyeon were sleeping soundly to commemorate the end of their activities.

I spent the whole night cataloging the pros and cons of my stay in Spark.

There are roughly two advantages.

1. The team doesn’t have to experience the issue of members leaving immediately after debuting.

2. It can prevent any major controversy that may arise in the future.

On the other hand, there were many disadvantages.

1. My sloppy movements make the entire team look low.

2. The longer I stay, the more material fans will have to mosaic later.

3. The average appearance is lower.

4. The average age of the team increases.

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And more than anything, I was concerned that it would be disrespectful to future fans who would come to love the five-member Spark.

Even without looking in the mirror, I could clearly see that my dark circles had gotten darker.

I walked out into the living room, stumbling.

Then, out of habit, I was about to toast some bread, but then I realized that even bread was a luxury for a newbie like me, so I sat down at the table and opened up my laptop.

At that moment, I received a call from my manager on my PC messenger.

Manager Chanyoung

[Guys, organize your ideas and post them here by today~]

These were individual stories that each member had prepared during their inactive period to showcase their individual charms.

Until the planning stage, I had only decided on five examples of topics and didn’t even think about mine. The photos I took at that time were scheduled to be released after my withdrawal announcement.

“under…….”

I took a deep breath and washed my face dry.

In order to achieve the initial goal, you must remain on this team at all costs. And while aiming for a higher goal.

Even time wasn’t infinite.

Spark got his first first place in his fourth year since debut. His performance has been pretty good since then, but he had struggled before that.

Considering that I had to prevent my sister’s accident from happening in a few years, I had to secure as much time as possible. I didn’t know when the system would play tricks and hit me in the back of the head again.

The bottom line is that we need to get this group to number one as soon as possible and finish all the remaining undisclosed KPIs.

If that were the case, would I have lived like Manager Nam at Hanpyeong Industries?

I’ve been so angry since yesterday that my head started hurting now.

‘1st place… … . 1st place.’

I searched for ‘No. 1 idol’ on portal sites like a machine.

Recently, news about idols who won first place on music shows has been pouring in. It was a strong lineup.

Spark breaks through this and takes first place. Even with sandbags attached?

Well, absolutely not.

I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. I could understand if they brought forward the five first place winners, but I couldn’t imagine Spark taking first place with me joining them.

My gaze soon shifted to the manager’s message.

Before worrying about the distant future of being number one, this was more urgent. Because I was only thinking about leaving, I didn’t even think about things like my own self-esteem.

But would there be anyone who would want to see something like my own in the first place?

I’m talking about the live performance of an incompetent male idol who puts on heavy makeup to hide his dark circles, makes name-brand headbands at dawn, and whose only talents are memorizing subway maps and guessing the star sign of his occupation. Even I have no interest in watching it.

I tried to recall what kind of fun content there was while monitoring Spark’s Jakon.

And they failed miserably. I had momentarily forgotten that these were a boring group that even the fans acknowledged.

‘Can’t we do something like ‘Study with me…’?

Let’s all study together for the final exam! I wanted to go with the same feeling, but since I was filled with a guy who had graduated from high school a long time ago, it was obvious that this wouldn’t be fun either, so I gave up.

I am confident in creating material for the male video. If it were Spark, I could have created twenty tasks for each member.

But if you asked me what I should do alone, I had nothing to say.

Just as I was racking my brain, I heard the door open. When I turned around, Kang Ki-yeon was coming out, yawning.

“You’re up early. I thought you’d sleep in.”

“You woke up early. It’s Saturday and you’re up early.”

“It’s become a habit.”

Kang Ki-yeon, who saw that my laptop was on, asked me what I was doing this morning. I answered while closing the Internet windows one by one.

“I was thinking about it because the manager asked me to decide what I wanted to do and let him know. Have you decided?”

“I just thought of some candidates while looking at the list you gave me. I was planning on asking you later anyway, is this a good time?”

“It’s okay. But I’m the problem.”

“why?”

Kang Ki-yeon pulled out the chair across from him and sat down, asking a question.

“I can’t think of anything.”

“Didn’t you find ten for each of us?”

“When I tried to do it, there was nothing that I felt was right.”

Kang Ki-yeon, who was listening to me, spoke without much hesitation.

“Brother, you can do that.”

“what?”

“‘I’ll answer any question you have.’”