#184
What, are we the perpetrators?

The members welcomed Ian, who proudly entered the practice room with two trophies at the Yusang Arts Awards.

"What's this?"

"Oh, it's here. It's here."

They brought a red blanket he doesn't know where they got it from, laid it on the floor, and made it look like a red carpet.

"Congratulations on winning the award!"

"Wow, that scared me."

The members gathered around Ian, singing congratulatory accompaniment with their mouths. They even set off a small firecracker when they bought a cake. Ian smiled and was welcomed by the members.

"What? When did you prepare this?"

The exhibition hall in Samseong-dong, where the awards ceremony are held, and the agency in Apgujeong are close, so the members did not have much time to prepare.

The members lit a cake they had rushed to buy near the agency and pushed it in front of Ian.

"We were already expecting an award."

"You're not the only one who's good at guessing."

"Hyung, light it up. My arm hurts."

Ian listened to Kim Hyun and extinguished the candle fire. Then Park Seo-dam, who held the cake, swung back.

"Cake! How do we eat this?""

"Don't you have leftover chopsticks when we had cup noodles?""

"Wow, it's been a long time, cake."

Ian shouted in vain when it quickly changed from a celebratory atmosphere to an eating show.

"...Excuse me?"

"Chopsticks are here!"

"Wow, we just happened to run out of sugar."

"Hey, Ian, come and eat."

Ian pointed at himself with his index finger and uttered it despondently.

"Did I got used?"

"Being used, that's too harsh."

"Yes, please don't ignore our sincerity."

Lee Ju-hyuk and Kim Hyun opened the wooden chopsticks while saying that and are tasting the fresh cream of the cake with a happy face.

'To pretend otherwise.'

Ian smirked. After preparing carefully and actually starting the game, pretending not to be embarrassed, which was the way the members congratulated.

"Let me have a bite."

"Wow, JIN HYUK, is that a bite? Isn't it a bowl?"

"Wait, I'm the main character".

Ian was also about to sit next to the members and eat the cake, when a short notification rang when an important person contacted him from his cell phone.

"Me, I got a call for a second."

"Hey, now we're sincere, huh? We're congratulating you wholeheartedly, but why are you answering the phone?"

You're eating the cake with all your heart. Park Jin-hyuk looked up at Ian's face, who jumped up without even knowing that whipped cream was on his cheek.

"Who is it?"

"My mom."

"You need to take it if it's your Mom."

Park Jin-hyuk, who changed his posture rapidly, jumped up and opened the practice room door. Ian came out of the hallway and received a video call from his parents.

(Son!)

"Yes, mom. There's dad, too. Have you been doing okay? What about traveling?"

(Had a good trip, we just got home. It would have been nice if you could come with us..)

(Congratulations, son!)

Ian opened his eyes wide when he tried to bring up the story first, saying he won the prize.

"How did you know? I heard you just got home."

(I know how it's done.)

If they had just arrived home, they wouldn't have been able to look up the Internet.... Are the articles coming up that fast? Ian tilted his head.

(Body, you're not sick anywhere, are you?)

"Yes, I'm fine. I don't usually get sick."

(I'm glad you're healthy.)

After a long phone call with his parents, Ian ran into the Fever members on his way back to the practice room.

"Ian hyung!"

"Oh, hello."

"Congratulations on winning the award!"

"Thank you."

News must have already spread from the company. Ian even received their congratulations and went into the practice room with a light heart.

"You're here?"

"Oh, wow, you pigs. You ate all the cake."

"Why didn't you come so soon?"

The cake with a spoon left was the last remaining conscience of the members. The members finished the cake and are watching Ian's trophy.

"This isn't real gold, is it?"

"Of course, how much gold does it cost these days."

"Still, it does look classy. One of our music trophies had a broken neck, right?"

"Dong-soo hyung attached it with glue and displayed it in the hallway."

The cake box in the middle of the practice room looked shabby for some reason. Ian took a bite of the leftover cake and put the box in the corner.

Jo Tae-woong, who was resting on the floor after finishing the trophy tour early, turned his head and looked at Ian.

"Mom and Dad, I heard they went on a trip to Switzerland? Did they arrive home just now?"

"Uh, they just got home... Wait a minute."

How do you know that? And "Mom and Dad"? How do you know they've been to Switzerland?

Jo Tae-woong smiled when he read Ian's expression.

"You didn't know? I'm the son your parents gave birth to with their hearts."

"Crazy."

When did that happen? When asked with Ian's expression, Jo Tae-woong replied triumphantly.

"I heard that your parents introduced the law firm. I contacted them when I was going to Seoul from my grandmother's house. Just to say thank you."

"Oh, the man who knows Dori."

>Dori - The right mental or physical attitude that a person should have.

"His name is Jo Tae-woong."

Park Jin-hyuk and Kim Hyun, who were listening next to each other, put in a chuimsae.

Seeing Jo Tae-woong shrugging his shoulders, Ian sighed in amazement.

"How did you get my parents' numbers?"

"I got it when we did World Tour before. Isn't that basic?"

"Crazy."

Somehow, the news of the award just now, and his parents were especially aware of Ian's schedule. So he thought his parents are especially good at searching the Internet.

"Well, you've been in touch with my mom before."

He contacted Jo Tae-woong's mom for a surprise at his grandmother's house, but he doesn't know all the trivial stories of his parents like him.

While Ian still couldn't erase his bitter expression, Jo Tae-woong made a strange expression as to what else came to mind.

"Since we're talking about it, should we go check it out when Kim Ju-young comes the day after tomorrow?""

"What?"

"A letter of apology."

Members raised their heads at his words. The agreement will not be settled, but there was no reason to block the letter of apology from them.

It is said that there are quite a lot of letters of apology sent to legal representatives, as if they were anxious when the punishment was just around the corner even though they posted malicious comments on the Internet.

"Aren't you curious what the person who cursed us wrote?"

"That's a bit..."

"I'm curious...."

Ian also became curious inside.

They won't be the whole haters. Some people might not have caught it, but they wanted to see how much fire they had on their feet.

"But won't you know all the malicious comments?"

"Is everyone okay?"

At Lee Ju-hyuk's words, the members looked at each other and shrugged as if nothing bad. Jo Tae-woong, who was most worried, also looked fine.

"Then let's go when Ju-young says okay. To say hello to the lawyer."

"We have to start practicing now."

Ian has won the trophy, but he has no time to rest. It was the longest hiatus since debut. The members rushed to practice in advance due to the upcoming schedule.

They jumped up and said excitedly as they stretched.

"I'm curious about the apology. How did they write it?"

"There's no way that such people would thoroughly write about what they did and how they reflect on themselves, right?"

"He's just a young student, and if his parents know it, he'll whine that he'll die.""

"Or do they have a young child, so please take good care of them?""

It's obvious.

* * *

"Hey, it came out again."

"Where, where.

"I'll read it for you. My family is a recipient of basic living, and because of a single comment without thinking, I'm going to put a dagger in the heart of my parents who are only looking at me. If you could do me a favor....'"

"Puhaha".

When Park Jin-hyuk recited funnyly, the members held back their laughter.

"What, are we the perpetrators?"

"What do you want me to do?"

The Awy members used lunch time to visit the law firm's office in Gwanghwamun.

Even though it was a sudden request, the law firm vacated a large meeting room for the members, but on the desk, the letter of apology sent by the perpetrator was piled thick like a law code.

'There are so many people who haven't written yet.'

And those people won't stop writing malicious comments. Ian skimmed through the pile of documents in front of him with a fed-up look on his face.

"How come they all have the same repertoire?"

"Hey, there's another divorce."

"Welcome to the family discord."

Most of them were apologetic statements appealing to their emotions. There was a single mother, a divorce because of this, and there were various kinds of job preparations that blocked it.

"Guys, don't look too closely."

While Seo Su-ryun and Park Dong-soo went on their honeymoon, Kim Myung-jin accompanied them to the law firm. Some people wrote what comments they wrote in the letter of apology, so he's stamping their feet in the back for fear that the members would get hurt again.

"Can I grind this?""

Unlike Kim Myung-jin's worries, the members were fine.

"Yes, I've copied it anyway...I would have sent the same to the judge."

At the secretary's words, the members carefully put one letter of apology into the document shredder installed on the wall.

Jo Tae-woong smiled broadly. The sound of grinding paper in the shredder could be heard lightly. It hurts his pride that he was only hurt by the words of these people.

"Hey, are you okay now?"

"Yes."

Ian, who looked at Jo Tae-woong's face, bowed to his secretary and greeted him.

"Thank you for your time even though you are busy."

"What, you're a customer. If you're really sorry, why don't you take a picture of our staff over there pretending not to see and peeping at everyone?"

Awy's popularity was also evident in law firms. As the secretary walked through the blinds of the conference room, some of the staff stood up and watched and went back to their places pretending.

"First of all, I'll go first. Please take a picture of me."

The members laughed at the secretary's words. The members who readily responded to the photo request came out of the meeting room and signed autographs for the staff.

"You can put it on My Star."

"That's right, scare away all the malicious commenters you see."

"No!"

Kim Myung-jin hurriedly approached and asked for understanding from the staff. In particular, Jo Tae-woong's surprise return was at stake, so he is minimizing his exposure before the comeback.

"Sorry. Even if you upload it on social media, would you post it after our kids comeback?"

While Kim Myung-jin was sweating profusely to deal with the situation, someone called Ian.

"Ian-ah."

"Attorney Ji. Attorney Jeong."

The people who called him were attorneys Ji Woon-jo and Jeong Yeon-jae, who are friends with Ian's father from college.

"Isn't this the first time since signing a contract with a law firm?"

"Yes, how are you?"

"I'm dying because I have a lot of work to do."

Attorney Ji Woon-jo cried out.

Having accumulated considerable experience at the law firm Seo&Woo, they were the ones who readily complied with his parents' request.

As soon as they were contacted, they came to the agency, finished the contract, and quickly sent complaints to the perpetrators.

"Thank you so much. I was going to buy the two of you a meal, but... ."

"It's okay, how do I get my nephew to eat?"

Attorney Jeong waved his hand.

"No, I am uncomfortable. Are you free this evening?"

"Tonight? Atty. Ji, how is it for you?"

Attorney Ji and Attorney Jeong looked at each other.

"I am... my schedule is empty today?"

"Me too. Shall we get a meal from our famous celebrity?"

Ian laughed haha.

"I'll treat you to something expensive."

I just have a question It's a good opportunity...

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