Chapter 268 : Mam-Seohan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony (2)
Chapter 268: Mam-Seohan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony (2)
The pension they rented for the one-day shoot.
After hanging his coat on a hanger, Do Seohan entered the ‘Horror Movie Room’ and hadn’t come back out since.
“Let’s give Seohan some alone time.”
Using that as an excuse, the members who avoided watching the horror movie with him were now comfortably sprawled across the living room sofa watching variety shows.
Jin Sehyun grabbed some snacks while carefully observing the room’s atmosphere.
It had already been around ten minutes since Seohan entered the room.
“It’s quiet.”
The movie Do Seohan was watching was <Midnight Scream>.
A movie infamous for being the scariest recent release, earning its 19+ rating purely through horror elements alone.
Since ten minutes had already passed since the movie started, the scary scenes should be appearing around now.
Jin Sehyun quietly muttered in an indifferent voice.
“Shouldn’t he be screaming by now?”
“Seriously. What kind of reaction do you think Do Seohan’s having?”
“…Feels like he’d be sobbing.”
Their maknae was exactly the type to tremble at anything scary.
He definitely should’ve reacted by now, which somehow made the silence even more unsettling.
Unable to endure the curiosity anymore, Seo Haim suddenly jumped to his feet.
“I’ll go check-yong.”
“Go listen for just a second.”
Seo Haim tiptoed toward the door with eyes full of curiosity.
Pressing his ear against the door, he pursed his lower lip while focusing carefully.
“Can you hear anything?”
“I can hear the movie.”
Tilting his head, Seo Haim added,
“But he’s not saying anything.”
Despite the intense horror movie BGM clearly echoing from inside, the room beyond the door was unnaturally silent.
Ha Junseo let out an impressed sound.
“Wow, maybe Seohan’s unexpectedly good with this kind of stuff.”
“Seriously.”
“Wow, Seohan really became an adult.”
“Or maybe he’s just the type who doesn’t scream even when startled.”
“Do Seohan? I doubt it.”
And right at that moment—
“Hhuuh… hhk….”
“Hm?”
Some strange sound echoed faintly from beyond the door.
“We didn’t hear wrong, right?”
It was faint, but definitely a groaning sound.
Seo Haim blinked rapidly before whipping his head around.
And then—
“Wah! AAAAAAH!”
Thunk-.
Something sounded like it had been thrown inside the room.
Jin Sehyun suppressed laughter while speaking.
“Wasn’t that the doll?”
“I think so….”
Byeoldori, the doll Ha Junseo had given him to hug when things got scary, had apparently been launched somewhere across the room.
“Ahahahaha! Byeoldori!”
Ha Junseo shook his head while quietly laughing.
“Hm. I didn’t give it to him so he could throw it.”
“Well, he is using it whenever he gets scared.”
“…Wah!”
A clear scream of terror echoed through the quiet living room.
People had called it a masterpiece of horror filmmaking, and apparently it was more than enough to terrify one weak-hearted hamster.
“AAAAAH!”
“Wah!”
“Ugh!”
And so, two hours passed.
The screams that occasionally rang out alternated with disturbingly silent stretches of silence.
Only after the movie finally ended did the tightly shut door slowly open.
“Mmm~.”
Seohan casually stretched while walking out of the room with a perfectly calm face.
Jin Sehyun bit down hard on his lower lip before casually asking,
“How was the movie?”
“Not scary at all.”
At that point, everyone completely lost the battle against laughter.
“Pffft.”
Ha Junseo trembled while hurriedly turning his head away.
Seohan tilted his head and shamelessly added,
“It honestly wasn’t as scary as I expected. Maybe around… a 15+ rating?”
“Do Seohan’s mental age is around fifteen, after all.”
“Sorry, Seohan-ah, but we heard everything from outside.”
“……?”
Well then.
Jin Sehyun shrugged indifferently.
“If that’s what he says, then sure.”
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<Mam-Seohan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony>, which had started lightly with a morning movie viewing.
The members sat gathered in the pension living room, waiting for the camera setup to finish.
Finally, it was time for Part 2.
“Ahem.”
After lightly clearing his throat, host Kang Siwoo once again sat in the center.
The moment the camera’s red light turned on, smooth commentary flowed naturally from Kang Siwoo’s mouth.
“Yes, we took a short break.”
“But it seems Seohan had a rather rough time during that break.”
“Wahahaha!”
“This kid already lost focus in his eyes….”
Unlike the energetic hyungs who still looked perfectly alive despite filming barely having begun, the maknae somehow already had dark circles deeply settled beneath his eyes.
Cha Seongbin smiled brightly and added,
“Seohan currently looks like someone who’s been chased by something.”
“I got chased by ghosts.”
“You said it wasn’t scary though.”
“Ha, honestly, it was scary.”
Seohan shook his head repeatedly while letting out a short sigh.
“Anyway, because Seohan has now personally proven that he’s become an adult…!”
“Waaaaah!”
“The next segment will be a congratulatory speech from his family.”
“…Huh?”
At Kang Siwoo’s words, question marks practically appeared across Seohan’s face.
“A congratulatory speech? From who?”
“Due to their busy schedule, they unfortunately couldn’t attend in person, so I’ll be reading the family’s congratulatory speech on their behalf.”
“Is it Do Seojun?”
Correct.
Do Seojun, the youngest producer who had recently become more dedicated to his actual job than to Byulstar Lives.
Recently he’d been handling a program and editing day and night nonstop.
The congratulatory message personally sent by the older brother who pretended not to care while secretly doting on his younger sibling was—
[Hello, Seohan-ah.]
Kang Siwoo nodded with a pleased smile.
“…….”
Seohan must’ve secretly been curious, because he leaned his head forward to hear the next line.
But then—
“…That’s the end.”
“…Pardon?”
This counts as an older brother?
“He added in parentheses that he had nothing else to say, so he’d be replacing the rest with blank space.”
“Wahahaha!”
Cha Seongbin burst into loud laughter.
“As expected from a variety show producer.”
“He’s got sense, real sense.”
“He absolutely refuses to sincerely congratulate him.”
“He could’ve at least written, ‘Congratulations on becoming an adult.’ That alone would’ve been over ten characters.”
Seohan stared toward the camera in disbelief and shouted,
“Then why even send it?!”
“Hey hey, go fight at home.”
“If they fight, Seohan loses~.”
“Well… honestly, he definitely looks like he’d lose.”
The tragic fate of being the maknae.
While Seohan trembled indignantly, one-day MC Kang Siwoo quickly pushed the program forward.
“And that concludes the congratulatory speech.”
“I didn’t hear anything though.”
“Anyway!”
<Mam-Seohan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony>, the third segment.
“Next is Doljabi.”
“…?”
“Since he’s now become an adult this year, we’ll use our traditional folk custom, Doljabi, to predict what kind of adult life awaits him.”
“Waaaaah!”
This was the first time Seohan had ever heard of someone doing Doljabi at a coming-of-age ceremony.
Still, he simply assumed it was some kind of variety show gimmick and didn’t question it too deeply.
The staff hurried over and handed him a black blindfold.
“So I pick while blindfolded.”
“I just put this on, right?”
Following instructions obediently, Seohan put on the black blindfold.
He swayed his head side to side while humming quietly.
Seo Haim waved his hands around right in front of Seohan’s face, but Seohan didn’t react at all.
“You seriously can’t see?”
“I seriously can’t see anything.”
“Oh, the quality’s legit.”
And so, the Doljabi began.
Apparently curious about many things, Seohan suddenly started asking questions.
“Can I touch things before choosing? Or do I just grab one immediately?”
“Obviously you just trust your instincts and grab one. It’s Doljabi.”
Well, babies doing Doljabi didn’t carefully inspect every item either, so technically that made sense.
Though honestly, this felt less like Doljabi and more like a random draw.
Still, he accepted it.
“Okay.”
“Then shall we begin immediately?”
At Kang Siwoo’s signal, the staff behind them hurriedly brought something over.
The moment the items prepared for the Doljabi were placed on the table, Seo Ian instinctively covered his mouth.
Kang Siwoo loudly announced in a shameless voice,
“Yes! You may begin now!”
“I’ll grab one immediately.”
Sway sway.
Seohan’s right hand floated through the air before finally stopping.
Trusting his instincts, he grabbed one of the items.
“Hmm?”
At the same time, Seohan frowned.
Even if identifying objects purely through touch wasn’t easy, the texture already felt strangely unfamiliar.
“I grabbed something at least.”
The texture felt oddly rough.
Tilting his head, Seohan carefully rubbed ‘it’ again with his right hand.
What… is this?
Just as he fell into thought, the blindfold covering his eyes was suddenly removed.
And then—
A roaring cheer erupted from the members.
“Wow! Seohan picked basalt!”
“Wooooow! Congratulations!”
…Huh?
Clap clap clap.
“Wow, out of all these stones, he perfectly picked basalt!”
“May Seohan’s future be filled with basalt!”
“Wow, it’s full of holes…!”
Is this supposed to be a good thing?
Frowning, Seohan belatedly looked down at the table.
“What even is all this?”
Beside the basalt sat granite… next to that was marble and pebbles.
“This counts as Doljabi?”
The words escaped automatically.
Meanwhile, Jin Sehyun shamelessly chimed in.
“But basalt has low density. That means you’re lightweight~.”
“Shouldn’t celebrities have high density?”
“That’s not the kind of density he means.”
“Let’s live like basalt from now on!”
“What does that even mean?!”
This was genuinely giving him a headache.
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[Adding another title to the recommended Stardust self-content list]
<Mam-Seohan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony> >>>> this thing is genuinely insane
It’s hilarious from start to finish.
They made Seohan watch a 19+ horror movie because he’s an adult now, and he got scared enough to throw Byeoldoriㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ then afterward he came out petting it apologeticallyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
After the surprise congratulatory message from big brother Do Seojun… the final Doljabi tooㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Are you guys actually insane?
You can’t help saying it out loud.
Stardust are gods….
Do Seohan is unbearably cuteㅠㅠ
* I want to become the Byeoldori in your room for just one day
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ As long as I can even be the dust rolling around in the corner of the room, it’s okay with me
└ Byeoldori must be happy, surrounded by handsome men
└2222 Please let me reincarnate as Byeoldori
* I seriously never expected the Doljabi
└ Look at Do Seohan freezing while holding basalt (photo)
└ Ahㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ I would’ve gone ??? too
└ That Doljabi was literally about ‘stones’
└ Apparently when they asked what Seohan grabbed as a baby during his actual Doljabi, he just grabbed the table itself
└ Ahㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ So he grabbed the whole thing instead?
└ No matter how much I hear about Mam-Seohan, he’s clearly been an extraordinary troublemaker since childhood
└ If he’d been a little stronger, wouldn’t he have flipped the table over?
└ Apparently he actually did try to flip it over back then tooㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Dusty Minha laughed while clutching her stomach as she watched the newly uploaded <Mam-Seohan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony> self-content.
“Ah, they’re insane.”
The hyungs being completely serious about teasing the maknae, and Do Seohan pretending to stay perfectly calm even after watching something that terrifying, was the true killing point.
“This hiatus isn’t boring at all.”
Thanks to Doubles constantly dropping self-content since the end of the year, even the hiatus had become bearable.
Though calling it a hiatus was technically misleading, considering the members were only about to get busier.
Still, from the perspective of domestic fans, this was the brief moment to rest from hardcore fangirling.
Dusty Minha’s gaze moved toward a recently uploaded Jjajjak post.
“Ah, but I still have to apply for this.”
[Accepting photocard split purchases for Stardust’s Japanese debut album]
Our boys are finally debuting in Japan.