From Thug to Idol: Transmigrating to a Survival Show

"Are there people yet?" Akira whispered with narrowed eyes, trying to see the viewer count on the TV right before them.

"I don't think so," Jisung said. "Maybe the live hasn't started yet? I'm not seeing any comments."

- We're here, guys!

- Omo! It's been a while since I saw all my babies together.

- I love love you guys! Please send me some of your bodily fluids!

"Welp, there they are!" Jaeyong said, noticing the rowdy comments.?"Hi, guys!" Akira exclaimed while excitedly waving his arms at the camera.

"It's been a while. We're glad to have you here!" Sehun shyly said.

"Aww, our oldest member is shy," Akira said, bumping his shoulder.

Sehun clicked his tongue and glared at Akira. "It's just been a while since we've had a live like this."

"Yeah," Jisung quickly chimed. "How is everyone doing?"

- We're definitely better now that you guys are here!

- You made us wait too long.

"It has been too long?" Ren asked. "Yeah, it's truly been a while. However, we wanted to give you guys some great content, so we took longer."

"Yeah, and the company had us go to King of Kings, too, so it was hard to have a comeback right away," June quickly added.

The staff looked at June with wide eyes and held up a notepad that said—' Refrain from talking bad about the company.'

However, June, being the dense boy that he was, read it out loud.

"Refrain from talking bad about the company? I didn't say anything bad, though. I was just stating some facts."

- June is being savage as usual.

- Yes, bring Azure to the ground!

- Get out of this company, boys. They're trash!

The staff members saw the damage that June had caused, so they quickly directed the boys to move to another topic.

"Right!" Jaeyong exclaimed, doing some damage control. "Have you guys seen the teasers for our albums?"

- I've seen them all. I've printed them all out!

- Oh, look! Is that EVE? No, I've just printed them out!

- You guys looked amazing like usual.

- I wished you guys did an outdoor shoot similar to Oasis instead of being in a studio, but I'll still take it!

"An outdoor shoot?" Jisung asked. "We wanted to do that too with another song of ours. However, we didn't have much time, so we rented out a place!"

"Don't worry. It's all great, though. Choi Pablo helped design the set, and it turned out amazing," he added.

- Choi Pablo? Is he a set designer now?

- No, he just loves June.

"Where are our manners?" Jaeyong suddenly asked. "We haven't even done our greeting yet."

"Right!" Zeth exclaimed. "I nearly forgot!"

"Shoot to the top! Hey guys, we're LEVEL-UP!" they excitedly exclaimed.

"Now that we've greeted them, let's go straight ahead and tell everybody what they can expect for this comeback," Zeth said, subtly reading the prompt in front of them.

"Well, for starters, our title track, Skyrocket, is a heavy-bass, pop EDM song with a powerful choreography! It depicts our desire to rise to the top like a skyrocket where no one can stop us," Casper explained.

"Moreover," Zeth quickly added. "Our album 'Starlight' will be dropping at the same time as the album, so make sure to check out the B-side tracks too!?We have varying genres and colors that we hope you'd appreciate."

- Of course! You can release a song of you guys farting, and I'd still listen to it.

- Same.

- Same.

- Same.

"Should we be concerned about that?" Jisung asked, pointing at the comments.

"Nah," Zeth shook his head. "That's just them being normal."

June cleared his throat, capturing the other members' attention.

"Do you have anything to say, June?" Jaeyong asked.

"Yeah," June nodded.

"I just wanted to tell everyone to look forward to Luster, too. It's a song that all of the members worked hard on. We made the arrangements, wrote the lyrics, and even made the choreography. It's the promoted B-side title track of the album, so please look forward to it," he said despite it not being part of the script.

- You guys wrote a song for the album? How come we don't know about this?

- Yeah! This information is usually released before the day of the comeback!

- We're going to support it!

- Azure is being sneaky again.

- Should we burn them down?

"And!" Jaeyong nervously chuckled when he saw the displeased looks on the staff's faces. "We also guested on some variety shows."

He quietly sighed in relief when he saw the comments shift displeased looks on the staff's faces. "We also guested on some variety shows."

from being angry to excited once again.

- Variety shows? What kind? I discovered you guys on Quiz God and have been wanting to watch more of you on variety shows ever since.

"We don't want to spoil anything just yet, but you can look forward to it," Ren smiled. "One of us even guested on a very popular show!"

"Shh," Jisung said. "Can we spoil that?"

"I think we can!" Zeth said. "There are a lot of popular shows out there. They probably can't guess what it is."

- *Narrows eyes.* Are you underestimating us?

- Only one member? Where could it be? Crawling Man?

- Crawling Man x EVE would be amazing!

- Or maybe it's 'I Live By Myself?'

- Does someone from EVE even live by themselves?

"See," Zeth said, teasing the astras in the comments. "You guys won't be able to guess it. We, too, didn't expect that we could guest there. However, one of our precious members did. We're very excited about the airing date, just as you guys are!

"What time is it now?" Jaeyong asked.

"There's still forty minutes until six," Ren responded. "We still have plenty of time to play the song previews for you guys!"

"That's right!" Casper excitedly chimed. "For all of the people in the live right now, you will have the opportunity to listen to our songs exclusively before anybody else."

"Just a disclaimer!" Sehun added. "It's not the full songs. However, we want to give you a taste of what we've been working hard on for the past few months as a thank-you gift for being here."

"Should we start with the first song?" Zeth asked.

"Wait," Jisung suddenly said, halting their conversation.

"What?" Ren asked. "Did something happen?"

"Our astras are saying something in the comments," Jisung said, leaning on his knees so he could get a better look at the wild comments.

"It's going too fast," Casper complained.

June, on the other hand, saw a glimmering comment, causing his eyebrows to raise in surprise.

"We have two million pre-orders?"