novelraw Chapter 192: Final Version Shared (1)
Chapter 192: Final Version Shared (1)
Every member of Spark appeared in the latest concept photos with something held in their mouth.
Jeong Seongbin had a pen, Kang Kiyeon a mask strap (he pulled one strap with his index finger, creating a killer image), Park Joowoo a syringe cap, Lee Cheonghyeon a plastic card, and Choi Jeho a leather glove.
Lastly, Kim Iwol had a lipstick cap.
Let’s say it again.
Kim Iwol had a lipstick cap in his mouth!
His black, comma-shaped fringe cast a shadow over his face. Because of the thickness of the case, his lips were parted slightly more than the other members’, and a gray shadow settled at the corners of his mouth.
The inside of the glossy black case was painted red. This became the visual focal point in the otherwise dark photo.
≫ Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick? Kim Iwol lipstick?
└ Calm down, let’s talk about lipstick calmly. We’re all lipsticks, aren’t we? It’s like a big lipstick talking only about lipstick, it feels obvious and embarrassing
└ This place is scaryWhat, Kim Iwol lipstick?????
≫ Has Kim Iwol lost his mind or what?
≫ Things to check when the album drops: the producer’s name
You’re never leaving UA now, you’ll bury your bones here
└ But what if, once again, it just says Iwol in the credits……?
└ Then UA will die
≫ Spark’s final concept photo is out!
Iwol…
Iwol… the world is so dangerous these days…
What are you going to do if noonas try to kidnap you after seeing this concept?
└ Honestly, at this point, Iwol is practically putting himself up for sale on a carrot farm. The noonas are innocent
≫ Pale, bloodless skin, red lips + black hair + suit = highly stimulating, period
My baby is showing the dignity of an adult member. I’m so proud I could die, damn it
≫ Ah, f*ck, I’m getting dizzy
I’m disillusioned by the reality that I can only own this digitally
└ I wish they’d release this as a photocard… I want to buy a top loader and decorate it with lipstick
└ Wow, is your fandom career 3 meters long?
└ 214 meters, actually
≫ I have no idea what concept they’ll come out with, but I know I have to buy the album
UA’s business skills are insane… without a single spoiler, they’ve got us buying the album
≫ I’m pretty hyped for the photocards
It’s okay to be excited, right? I’m excited
As a result, Baek Haewon was left waiting endlessly for the release of Spark’s new song and music video.
The title track, briefly heard in the recently released highlight medley, was so good.
The atmosphere was quite different from Spark’s usual songs, but this only heightened the fandom’s anticipation.
It hinted at something big coming. It was exhilarating.
Please, let the outfits be insane. Please, not a cheap set.
As she was offering every prayer she could think of, nearly resorting to a water ritual, her phone buzzed.
Spark’s new music video had been released.
* * *
A dark conference room, with only drum beats and electric guitar sounds playing in the background.
Jeong Seongbin sat at the head of the table, with Park Joowoo and Lee Cheonghyeon on his left, and Choi Jeho and Kang Kiyeon on his right.
At Kim Iwol’s gesture from the podium, the beam projector lit up.
A man’s photo, a brief resume, and the words ‘Requires protection from threats due to whistleblowing’ appeared on the screen.
Jeong Seongbin, who was twirling a pen, leaned back. The chair slowly reclined.
The tip of the pen tapping on the paper was shown in close-up, then the cap was removed by Jeong Seongbin’s fingers.
The scratching sound of a fountain pen was layered over the guitar melody.
Black ink flowed from the nib, and the title 『MISSION』 was written in a scrawled script as the camera quickly cut away.
『I want to be
The last person
Standing by your side』
Kang Kiyeon, dressed in a techwear-style jumpsuit, sat on the hood of a black imported car.
With one knee bent, the sharp lines of his boots and calves were visible beneath the rolled-up pant leg.
‘Holy sh*t, holy sh*t, holy sh*t, holy sh*t.’
Baek Haewon debated whether to pause the music video. But contemplation was a luxury.
『Hold your breath and wait』
The group dance part appeared almost as soon as the first verse ended.
Everyone was in gray suits with black accents.
Leather harnesses with gleaming silver ornaments.
And…
『For the moment
You call my name』
…Kim Iwol’s mind-blowing exposure.
Baek Haewon quickly pressed the space bar. Then, she clasped her hands, rested her forehead on them, and took a deep breath.
She looked at something in the distance. The title of a self-improvement book she didn’t even remember buying, placed on the top shelf of her bookcase, was clearly visible. That meant her eyesight wasn’t failing.
‘My heart feels like it’s going to explode.’
What should she do with this overwhelming feeling?
She wanted to scream. She wanted to shout to her fellow ‘Handsome Men Hunters’ group chat: ‘Aaaagh, Spark has done it, everyone!’
But she couldn’t. Baek Haewon hadn’t even seen half of the music video yet.
‘Friends, please don’t start screaming on the timeline without me…’
Praying fervently, Baek Haewon calmly moved the play bar back. She felt the need to rewatch the jumpsuit-clad Kang Kiyeon first.
Kang Kiyeon, upon second viewing, was truly magnificent. The tight belt, the glossy boots. Nothing was lacking.
And the long-awaited group dance scene reappeared.
First, Kang Kiyeon, the main vocalist for this part and the intro of the song, wore a tight-fitting black halter-neck knit top with a gray suit.
Every time Kang Kiyeon extended his arm for the choreography, the edge of his collarbone was clearly visible under the lighting.
A silver piercing gleamed amidst his slicked-back turquoise hair. The piercings, connected by thin chains, swayed and moved with every tilt of Kang Kiyeon’s head.
Lee Cheonghyeon, the same age as him, wore a similar suit, but his innerwear was different. He wore a turtleneck. A hard harness was tightly fastened over it.
Park Joowoo’s outfit seemed similar to Lee Cheonghyeon’s.
But Baek Hae-won’s trained eyes immediately caught a glimpse of white skin beneath his half-closed jacket
‘He’s wearing a crop top underneath!’
Baek Haewon inwardly cursed UA. They put him in a crop top and then hid it? Tasteless bastards.
Then she immediately switched gears and praised UA profusely.
How did they know that subtly revealing it like this would drive people crazy? Tasteful bastards.
Jeong Seongbin seemed to be completely covered in his three-piece suit, but the slits on his jacket sleeves and pant legs revealed his wrists and ankles with every move. Perhaps because the rest of his body was covered, his round bones seemed particularly prominent.
Kim Iwol had said at the fan meeting that he would only consider a sexy concept after his younger members got their IDs and even the ink on them had dried.
‘Did that mean the older members would take on the sexy concept until then?’
Just look at Choi Jeho standing behind Kang Kiyeon.
A bare-chested harness.
A bare-chested harness.
It was so shocking that she kept repeating it. A bare-chested harness.
The single button on his jacket struggled to contain Choi Jeho’s well-built physique. Every time Choi Jeho moved, the skin beneath his jacket was clearly visible. His abs gleamed faintly, as if oiled.
The visuals were insane. Baek Haewon once again keenly felt the limitations of her vocabulary.
The darker gray suit, compared to the younger members’, was also highly stimulating. And the leather harness that extended from the choker along the line of his chest…
How did this music video even pass censorship? If buttoning the jacket made this safe for all ages, the system was broken.
It was so absurd that she felt a headache coming on. It was the first time she realized that humans could suffer from too much happiness.
And the winner of the most shocking point, surpassing all the other members, was Kim Iwol.
Baek Haewon resumed the video. As Kang Kiyeon’s part ended, Kim Iwol appeared, just like before.
In an absolutely killer outfit.
Baek Haewon paused the video again. Not even two seconds had passed.
Her hand instinctively went to her mouth. Her instincts screamed that she needed to cover her mouth to maintain her last shred of dignity as a human being.
Like Choi Jeho, he was shirtless, but Kim Iwol’s skin tone was extremely fair.
Perhaps because of this, Kim Iwol wore a silver body chain instead of a harness under his cropped jacket. It was a detail she had missed earlier, too blinded by the shock of his bare torso.
Apparently, Kim Iwol wasn’t satisfied with just making people’s eyes sparkle. That was why he so brazenly exposed his back.
Every time Kim Iwol danced with his back to the camera, his jacket lifted and fell, revealing his back. Baek Haewon’s heart skipped a beat every time a shadow fell on his erector spinae muscles.
And when he turned around? She had heard that he was strict with his diet and exercise, but who could have imagined that his muscles would be so sculpted?
Mom, our group’s number one vampire is a ripped hottie… Baek Haewon felt like she was about to faint.
The most infuriating thing was that wicked back tattoo.
Kim Iwol, a model idol, with a tattoo? Did he not know how terrifying Sparkler fans could be? And to have a bouquet tattooed across his broad, pale back, stretching over his 183cm frame? She hadn’t even done anything to deserve a gift like this!
Baek Haewon rushed to the search engine and frantically searched for the flower that seemed to dominate Kim Iwol’s back. But with over four minutes left of the music video, she had to return.
Someone would surely identify the flowers on Kim Iwol’s back by the time she finished watching the video. Trusting her fellow fans, Baek Haewon focused on the music video again.
The scene shifted back to the meeting room.
The image of a man, blindfolded and forced into a car, appeared on the beam projector.
『I’ll escort you
All the way to the stage
Match your steps
I’ll be waiting』
Jeong Seongbin, dressed like a third-generation chaebol heir, pulled out a black file from among luxurious books.
He opened the file and spread the papers on a wooden desk, revealing a large blueprint.
‘So it’s a story about rescuing a man in danger, huh.’
Lee Cheonghyeon, entering the building with a forged ID, casually scanned the lobby among the people leaving work.
His vision was then edited like CCTV footage and displayed on a laptop that Choi Jeho and Kang Kiyeon were watching.
While individual shots of the members singing their parts were interspersed with the main storyline, the Spark members dispersed to their respective areas.
Park Joowoo injected a staff member in the video room with a syringe, knocking him unconscious, and Lee Cheonghyeon entered and turned off all the CCTV cameras.
Then, Choi Jeho and Kang Kiyeon, waiting in the darkness, received a signal and infiltrated a high-rise office from the outside wall of the building. Breaking into the city nightscape, they cornered the target.
Meanwhile, Kim Iwol was shown walking through a harbor filled with containers under a clear sky.
A crosshair appeared, as if someone was aiming a gun at Kim Iwol from behind a container.
The moment he pulled the trigger.
Bang!
With an explosion, the screen turned red, as if hit by paint.
Wiping away the stain was a hand wearing a black glove…
『Only one goal
To stay by your side
That’s all』
…It was Kim Iwol’s hand, with a smile on his face.
Kim Iwol, perched on the fallen men, skillfully opened and spun the magazine.
Looking at the lipstick-stained magazine, Kim Iwol twirled a lipstick he pulled from his pocket.
Kim Iwol retraced his steps.
An open container and spilled boxes of lipstick labeled ‘For Export’ flashed in the background.
Finally, Kim Iwol faced the man, still blindfolded and tied up, isolated at the harbor.
‘This is like a movie.’
Baek Haewon’s brief moment of being moved by the heartwarming rescue scene was interrupted.
The story, which seemed to have concluded beautifully with a fantastic group dance and Park Joowoo spraying sleeping gas before exiting, took a new turn.
Under the dim dawn sky, a chaotic office was revealed.
The VIPs who had been threatened the previous night were making angry phone calls.
Then, on the laptop screen that Choi Jeho and Kang Kiyeon were watching from the building’s rooftop, the man Kim Iwol had supposedly rescued was shown still tied up.
At that moment, the boxes surrounding the man began to catch fire.
‘Is this a plot twist where Kim Iwol is the mastermind?’
Come on. Spark is one! You tasteless UA bastards!
Baek Haewon fumed.
But right before Baek Haewon could grab her monitor,
The music stopped. An unnatural pause.