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In this episode Kim Youngchul was absent for the show because he was invited in Germany to perform for the Korean Delegates who are attending the G20 Summit. Because of this, an entertainer named K.JUN is in the show as a substitute for him. Now in this book, I will not include K.JUN in this episode/chapter because I think he is not needed. And also because James is in there lol
Now enjoy :)
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James and Sangmin are the first ones to enter the classroom. The taping of the next episode of Knowing Brothers has started. Few seconds later Kyunghoon is the next one to enter the classroom, he then follows by Soogeun, Janghoon, Hodong and minutes later Heechul.
"Is Youngchul hyung still in Germany?" James asked his older Brothers.
"I guess.." Janghoon replied.
"I saw the article.." Sangmin is already giggling as he speaks, "It said he sang 'Ring Ring' in Germany", him and the brothers started laughing.
The Brothers continue to talk for another minute.
And then..
"OHHHHHHH!!",
"WAAAHHHH!!"
The front door slides open and it reveals today's guests. The Brothers erupted out of excitement when they saw their guests. Heechul stands up and happily waving his hands to greet their guests. Meanwhile, Sangmin and James jumps out from their seats and they are excitingly celebrating at the back of the class. The Brothers are surely giving a very warm welcome to their guests today.
Red Velvet has finally returned in the show after a year. The girls are excitingly enters the classroom and they are overwhelmed by the welcome of the Brothers. This marks their second guesting on the show, and their first with complete members.
James is very happy that their guests today is Red Velvet, but deep inside, he is very nervous on how the show will go because he knew that his Brothers will surely tease him about Irene. There are four people he needs to watch out, Heechul, Hodong and Soogeun because the three of them are all under S.M.. They surely knows about a thing or two about them. And Janghoon because James had teased him a lot, this is a good time for revenge. James knows that the scariest is Heechul, but he have a hidden card to get back at him just incase.
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"We're so glad you guys are here again!" the Brothers are very happy to see Red Velvet is in the show again.
"Hello guys!" Joy is the first one to speak.
"We're from 'The Legends of Ask Us Anything High School',.. In 1.. 2.. 3... Happiness! Annyeonghaseyo~ we're Red Velvet!!" the girls introduce themselves to the class.
"Annyeong!!" the Brothers excitingly greets them back.
"Aren't they total legends? They're the ones who contributed in making this school!" Hodong claimed, as Red Velvet greatly helped the show to survive during their early episodes.
"Didn't you miss us like crazy?" Wendy asked the Brothers.
"We do!" the Brothers replied.
"They're the ones who talked to me rudely when we did the skit before" Janghoon is bringing back the memory of the girls' first guesting. The Brothers laughs as they remember how the girls almost make the giant cry. "You guys were so rude to me" he added.
"That's because we like you the most~" Yeri said to the giant to console him.
"There was also a legendary scene back then when Hodong cried" Soogeun thought of another memorable scene from Red Velvet's last guesting on the show.
"Hodong-ah, you better not cry today" Wendy said to him. She is the reason why Hodong cries the last time. In the episode 21 of the show, Wendy personally sit with Hodong to say something she wanted to say to him for a long time. After hearing Wendy's honest sincere compliment, Hodong slowly getting emotional and soon cried. He said that it's been more than 10 years since he received such compliment.
"If you think about it, the line 'I praise you'. I started using it after Wendy complimented me on the show." Hodong thinks that the line he popularized was started after that episode.
"Wendy made that expression and it became popular.." Heechul remarked.
"That's right! I gained confidence when Wendy complimented me" Hodong admits it.
"Give her some money then" Janghoon told him. Hodong was caught off guard and the Brothers started laughing.
"I'll be grateful" Wendy goes along with the Brothers teasing and she approaches Hodong with her palms open to receive money from Hodong.
"I'll give it to you later" Hodong goes along with it also.
"Seulgi also on of Hodong's famous expression, 'DFDB' (Do you want to Fight, Do you want to Bleed)" Soogeun said to them.
"I did? Me?" Seulgi giggles as she have no idea what Soogeun meant.
"She shot an arrow to me and I started bleeding" Soogeun mentioned another great scene where Seulgi hit Sooguen in the head with an arrow.
"That's right! You were hit in the head!" The Brothers and the girls burst out laughing when they remember it.
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"Boring Seulgi, are you going to be funny today?" Heechul asked her.
"Today, my concept is Funny-Seulgi.." Seulgi cutely did a little dance as she say that. "Mianhae~~" Seulgi quickly put her head down in the desk and hides out of embarrassment. She felt that she is boring again.
"She's already boring" Heechul and the Brothers started laughing at her. She may not be boring today because she just made the Brothers laugh.
"I saw Joy in a drama" Sangmin mentioned. "Right, she's an actress now" Janghoon remarked.
"I really like the drama, but unfortunately it wasn't that popular" Sangmin added.
"I know" Joy coldly admits. The Brothers burst into laughter at Joy's response.
"I thought I was looking at myself" Janghoon commented that Joy just sounded like him.
"You do sound like him unnie!" Yeri laughingly told Joy. Her members are all laughing as well.
"Her voice tone sounds just like me" Janghoon added.
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"I'm really curious about something. Out of five members, one is wearing a wig right?" Soogeun said his observation since the girls all have different hair colors. The girls just laughs at his claim.
"Guess who's wearing a wig.." Joy goes with it and asked them.
"I think it's Irene. She's wearing a hairpin " Heechul said. "Her hair looks too black" Soogeun added.
"You think I'm wearing a wig?!" Irene looks surprised by the claims of the Brothers.
"I think that was the loudest voice Irene made since she made her debut" Heechul commented, he then mimics what Irene said and the tone of it as well. The Brothers and the girls can't stop laughing at Heechul's mimicry.
"The only person wearing a wig here is Janghoon" Soogeun said, and to their surprise the girls believes it.
"Jinjja? It looks natural" Joy seems to really believe it. The Brothers started to laugh even more how innocent the girls are.
"I think they are joking" Yeri figured it out.
"We're just kidding" the Brothers stops and told the girls.
"James.." Heechul looks at the back of the class and asks James, "Do you think Irene is wearing a wig?".
"uh, ani~ that is her normal hair color and length" James answers after he look at Irene.
"Oh, how did you know that exactly?" Heechul is smiling.
James falls right into Heechul's trap. He froze in his seat as he realized that it was a setup. It finally begins. The rest of the Brothers turned their head all at the same time and looked directly at James.
"Yeah, how did you know that is her normal hair?" , "Your answer is too precise and personal" , "that's a little odd that you know the normal length of her hair" the Brothers are now saying tons of things to him.
James is flustered and all he can do is to smile nervously as his Brothers continue to flock him. The girls are laughing hard seeing how the Brothers are ganging up on James. All Irene can do is watch and hope for the best as it seems like this is going to be a long taping for her and James.
Hodong then stops everyone and he takes it from here, "Yah, James.. how did you know it is her normal hair length? answer me.." the oldest Brother wants some answer.
"I-I... I just know.." James cannot answer properly and just let out a nervous laugh.
"But how? Are the two of you close?" Hodong asked him again.
"Y-Yes.." James answers in a rather nervous tone. The Brothers are laughing and loving seeing how their youngest brother is being nervous.
"Irene said in the interview that they are close.." Heechul mentioned. "Right, I saw that" Soogeun seconded.
Hodong then turns to Irene and asked her the same thing, "Irene.. are you close with James?"
"Yes~" Irene shyly nods.
"How close?" Heechul have that evil smile in his face now. He is now enjoying every second of Irene and James getting nervous.
"W-we're close.." Irene answers again but now her voice is a little shaky. And that won't get passed by the Brothers..
"Is there something between them?" Sangmin commented seeing that neither of the two can answer properly. Irene and James are just smiling nervously.
"Araseo~ Let's do an 'Ideal Type World Cup'. Heechul-ah, do it" Hodong is having a great time teasing James. He can finally get back to him as he put James in the Ideal Type World Cup. "Yes, do it! Good idea!" the Brothers are behind him. Irene's members are squealing happily at the idea of the Brothers. James' head is down and he is laughing helplessly, he knew that his Brothers are up to something.
Heechul walks to the back of the class and asks James to stand up to the side of his table in the isle, facing directly to Irene. "Okay, stand here.." Heechul is visibly happy that his plan works better than expected.
"Hyung don't do this..." James laughingly begs Heechul.
"Aniya. Just answer, " Heechul won't let this chance to slip. "Are you ready?" he asked him.
"Do I have a choice?" James chuckles. Everyone laughs and all eyes on him.
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"Okay..." Heechul will now begin the 'Ideal Type World Cup'.
"Kang Mina or Kim Seolhyun? 1 2 3!!"
"Screw Seolhyun. Kang Mina!!" James quickly picks Mina. Everyone burst out laughing at his answer.
Heechul is the one laughing the most, "Yah, she will kill you!"
"I know" James is laughing hard as well, "She's my bestfriend, she'll understand."
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"Kang Mina or Oh Hayoung? 1 2 3!!"
"uh.. Kang Mina. I'm more close to her.." James stopped and think for a second but he picked Mina again.
"Ohh~." Everyone exclaims as Mina was picked again.
"You will be in the news again with Mina" Kyunghoon commented and everyone laughs.
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"Kang Mina or Kim Dahyun? 1 2 3!!"
"Oh no.." James laughs nervously as it slowly getting difficult.
"Kim Dahyun~"
"Oh~" Everyone is getting excited as James picked Dahyun over Mina. Things are getting more interesting.
"Mina-ya, mianhae~" James looks at one of the cameras and apologized.
"You need to buy her that Mandu" Heechul told James. "Oh yeah yeah" James laughs at Heechul's suggestion.
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"Okay.., Kim Dahyun or Im Yoona? 1 2 3!!" Heechul gives the next one.
"Yoona!" James answers instantly.
"Wohoo~" The Brothers are surprised how quickly he answers.
"He is a die-hard fan of So Nyuh Shi Dae.." Heechul explained it to the Brothers. He is not surprised that James picked Yoona over Dahyun.
"Give him a hard one" Hodong suggested.
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"Im Yoona or Kim Taeyeon? 1 2 3!!"
Heechul is already giggling because he know this will be a hard one for James, and he is right, James is visibly confuse which one to choose. Hodong is laughing hard because it was his suggestion to give a hard one.
"ah--" James freezes as this is hard for him. He needs to pick one between his two biases in SNSD, he loves both of them. The Brothers and the girls cannot stop laughing seeing James is having a hard time.
"Pali!!" Heechul is pressuring James. "I can't!!~ I love both of them!" James insisted.
"Ani, you need to pick one" Janghoon told him.
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"uh.. Taeyeon~" James hasn't surely decided which of his biases in SNSD is the number 1, but he needed to pick one.
"He is sweating haha" Soogeun pointed out.
"This is harder than I thought" James chuckled. His heart beat is rising fast because he knew they are getting there.
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"Okay.. Kim Taeyeon or Kim Go-eun? 1 2 3!!"
"Argh~ it's really hard to choose between them, I like them both.." James is getting frustrated.
James took several seconds before answering, he is having hard time picking which one.
"uh.. Kim Go-eun~",
"OHH" the Brothers got excited as they also have been wondering for a long time which he likes the most.
"Yah, Taeyeon is watching our show weekly, she will know this" Heechul said to James.
"Ah-- jinjja? mianhae~" James immediately apologizes and laughs nervously.
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"Alright! Here we go.." Janghoon remarked and the Brothers is getting ready for the final round. The girls are getting anxious on what will be the end result.
"This is the last one.." Heechul is getting excited.
"Kim Go-eun or Irene? 1 2 3!!"
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"Bae Joohyun~"
James answered instantly and he picked Irene. He didn't waste any seconds to choose Irene. It is obvious why is that. What makes it even better is that James called Irene by her real name.
Irene can't stop smiling and starts to blush a little. She is using her small hands to cover and hide her face. Her members are squealing happily. Meanwhile the Brothers are all over the place and celebrating in the classroom.
"Bae Joohyun? Is that her real name?" some of the Brothers didn't know it is Irene's real name.
"It feels like he sincerely picked Irene.." Hodong is not yet done teasing James.
"James' 'Ideal Type World Cup' winner is.. IRENE! chukhahabnida!~" Soogeun and Heechul teasingly announces and congratulates, then everyone screams and clapped their hands.
"Next to her members, James is the next person Irene is most comfortable with. That's how close they are.." Heechul remarked to end this part and to move on to the next.
"That's true, Irene unnie is a lot closer to James oppa than our labelmates" the girls mentioned and Irene cannot do anything about her members spilling out some facts about her and James.
"Really?" the Brothers are surprised to hear that.
"When did you guys meet?" Hodong is asking the leader of Red Velvet.
"uh.. October.." Irene answers.
"How did you guys meet?" the Brothers followed up another question to her.
"Yuri unnie and Heechul oppa introduce us to each other" Irene answers.
"Oh right~" Heechul remembers it after he heard Irene's answer, "We are having a meeting with our labelmates that time. So while waiting for the others I called James, then while me and Yuri are on the phone talking to him, Irene enters the room. Aside from SNSD, James' favorite group is Red Velvet and he is a fan of Irene. So Yuri and I decided to give the phone to Irene and surprise James. Then after that they became friends" Heechul explained to everyone how Irene and James met.
"But how they are able to talk to each other after that call? It was your phone.." Kyunghoon asks another good question but it is towards Heechul.
"I got his number from Yuri unnie.." Irene is the one who replied and it shocked the Brothers.
"Ohhhh~~" the looks of the Brothers giving to James all have meanings.
Moments later everyone went back to their respective seats. James is still nervous because they are still at the start of the show, and he know the Brothers aren't finish with him just yet.
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"Did you bring your documents?" Soogeun asked for the enrollment forms of the girls. Yeri gets the form inside her bag and gives it to Soogeun. "I should better read it well since Red Velvet are the creators of our program" he mentioned as he receive the form.
"They are Red Velvet.." Soogeun starts reading their form out loud. "They're from the Legends High School"
"Oh, the word 'Legends' suits them well" Heechul commented. "Yes yes!" the Brothers totally agrees.
"Their fans must be curious about their future dreams.." Soogeun said before reading the next dreams that the girls wrote in the form.
"Irene..."
Soogeun giggles as he read what Irene wrote, "This seems inappropriate to write as a future dream" he commented.
"I want to go on a healthy diet.." Soogeun said what Irene wrote.
"That's like a mother's wish" Heechul commented.
"Is this a future dream?" the Brothers asks.
"Yes, that's what I want to do" Irene said to them.
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"Seulgi wants to go to Beyonce's concert" Soogeun reads what Seulgi wrote.
"I actually wanted to do a collaboration with her, but I don't think it's realistic" Seulgi explains why she wrote that.
"Janghoon, you should invite Beyonce to the show for Seulgi" Hodong starts the teasing about Janghoon's wealth. "You should invite her for Seulgi" the Brothers quickly joins Hodong and they start to tease Janghoon about his money.
"Alright, I will Invite her. I have the money" Janghoon was taken aback at first but then gives up and just go along with his Brothers.
"Why is it Beyonce?" Hodong goes back to Seulgi and ask her.
"She's an amazing dancer and singer" Seulgi replied with admiration.
"Do you know any of her dances? You don't have to do it" Soogeun asked her.
Instead of just answering yes to Soogeun, Seulgi steps forward and decided to let her dance speaks for it. Seulgi dances to Beyonce's 'Single Ladies'. Once the song started, Red Velvet's dancing machine started to move to the music. The Brothers got excited as Seulgi dances strongly right off the bat. Seulgi just give them a short yet amazing performance.
"Seul-yonce~" the Brothers are giving Seulyonce a round of applause.
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"Wendy's future dream is heartwarming." Soogeun commented, "She wants to bring her parents back to Korea".
"Where are they now?" Hodong asks,
"They're in Canada" Wendy replied.
"Isn't that good?" , "Aren't they there because they feel comfortable?" Soogeun and Janghoon asks.
"They immigrated because of us daughters. A year after they went there, I wanted to be a singer. So I came back to Korea because of that" Wendy explained.
"Now that you mentioned Canada, I suddenly missed Youngchul hyung now. He would say 'I'm not Canadian, I'm Comedian'.." Heechul mimics one of Youngchul's line. The Brothers giggles because they know that is exactly what will happen if Youngchul is there.
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"Next up is Joy.." Soogeun starts reading Joy's dream, "She wants to be a dog trainer".
"My dream is to live a happy life by training dogs on green pastures.." Joy explains.
"You should ask James to teach you how to train dogs" Soogeun said to her while pointing at James.
"Eh?" James is a little startled about what Soogeun said.
"You were good with dogs. You rescue dogs with Song Hye-Kyo and KARA (Korean Animal Rights Advocates)" Soogeun told him.
"Oh that.." James now understands what Soogeun is trying to say, "Hye-Kyo noona and I, we donated for the rescue of abandoned and dogs that are being use for dog meat consumption." James explains his participation with KARA. "But I'm not good at training dogs. I only know how to pet them" he added.
"James is really kind. He frequently donates to charities and organizations.." Heechul proudly remarked. "How many are they already? 4?" he asked James.
"Ani.. just 3" James corrected him.
"What are they?" Soogeun asks.
"uh.. a Children's Hospital, Deaf & Mute community, and then KARA" James enumerates where he is donating.
"wow~" the Brothers and as well as the girls claps their hands for him.
"Janghoon hyung is donating a lot too" James mentioned, "I want to donate to KARA too.." Janghoon said.
"I want to learn how to train dogs from Joy" James diverts back the topic to Joy's dream.
"Oh right, Joy can you show us some techniques" Soogeun asked her and Joy steps forward to demonstrate some. Soogeun and James will help Joy on her demonstration.
"With dogs, the more you shout the more they get excited.." Joy starts to teach the Brothers on how to train dogs.
"They get overexcited?" Soogeun growls like a dog. "Yah, act like one" Soogeun nudged James to act with him, James immediately barked.
"When a big dog gets unleashed, it can harm people if it's untrained. What do you do in that situation?" Sangmin asked Joy.
"Okay. You are in the park with your big dog then he suddenly wants to bite someone. Tell us how you will deal with the situation.." Soogeun tells her the scenario.
"Okay I'll be the huge dog.." James volunteers. Joy then grabs him by the collar like she was grabbing the leash.
Joy and James begins acting like they're walking in the park. James as the dog and Joy as the owner. While Soogeun is coming from the other side walking towards them, then James growls and acts like an aggressive dog.
"Aish~ sh***!! What is this dog doing?" Soogeun acted scared and cussed a little. But of course it will be censored and put bleep to it by the production crew when this is aired..
"When this happen, you have to go between the dog and the person. It means that you are telling the dog that you will take care of this" Joy demonstrate the first step. "You then turn around and show the dog your hand so the dog can relax" Joy tells them the next step. The Brothers are focused and listening carefully to Joy. "Then you should yawn" she added the last step.
"The dog should yawn?" Sangmin asked.
"No, the person" Joy and Soogeun told him. The Brothers laughed at what Sangmin just said.
"Why should you yawn?" the Brothers asked.
"In the dog's language, the yawn means it can relax." Joy explained it to them.
Joy's dog training demonstration is over. Everyone is walking back to their seats.
"Joy, do you have a pet dog?" Kyunghoon asked her.
"uh, I never had a pet dog before"
"Haha what the.." the Brothers are surprised by the sudden turn of events. They just received a dog training to someone who never had own a dog.
"What if the dog don't listen to you?" Kyunghoon is questioning her. "How do we know if that is going to work if you never had a dog?" Heechul finds it hilarious.
"She always watches dog training videos" Wendy defends Joy.
"I studied a lot. I've got the theory down" Joy defends herself.
"We've been tricked!" the Brothers are still laughing.
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"Next is Yeri.. wow her future dream is really cool" Soogeun commented. "Her future wish is to be a vampire".
"Ohh.. do you want to live long and preserve your beauty" Soogeun and the Brothers said to him
"No, it's not that. I watched a lot of of movies and dramas about vampires. That's why I like vampires" Yeri explains.
"I think she is in puberty" Janghoon commented. "You should eat a lot of 'Seonji' (pig's blood/ox's blood)" Kyunghoon said to Yeri. The Brothers started to make fun of Yeri's vampire dream.
"What's wrong with being a vampire?" Yeri raised her voice.
"You're saying you like things from fantasy genres, right?" Wendy is helping out their maknae.
"Why are you guys mocking me? I just like vampires." Yeri said to the Brothers.
"Whose neck do you want to bite?" Soogeun asks.
"Yours" Yeri chuckled.
Everyone laughs at Soogeun's flustered reaction after that.
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"It's time to talk about your strengths and weaknesses.." Soogeun announces, but something caught his attention. Red Velvet members kept on looking underneath the desk.
"Did you guys bring gifts? Why do you keep looking down?" Soogeun confronts them.
"Are you talking about this?" Irene pulls out bow n arrow and quickly handed it over to Seulgi. "Shoot them" Yeri is telling her unnies to shoot the Brothers.
"Yah, what is this? Is that Seulgi's?" the Brothers put their guards up just incase an arrow flew by.
"You got hit at the back of your head last time. So I want to even it out since your front seems okay" Seulgi said to Sooguen.
"Oh, araseo~ Try hitting my forehead. I won't avoid the arrow" Soogeun stood up and gets in the position so Seulgi can aim at him properly.
"Are you serious?" Seulgi was just joking but Soogeun is up for it. "Yes" Soogeun replied.
To make it more fun, Soogeun pulled Sangmin and ask him to stand together with him, "Hyung, stand here. Let's see who's more unfortunate in life".
"You have to hit one of them and become a funny person" Heechul said to Seulgi.
"Araseo~" Seulgi gets ready, she loads the arrow and took aim at the two Brothers standing.
"Will Seulgi become a funny or boring person.." Heechul commentates just before Seulgi shoot the arrow.
"1..2..., 3!"
Seulgi let go of the arrow and it took flight. What happens after Seulgi let go of the arrow was something no one expects. An accident occurs in the classroom. All the noises that can be heard in the studio are the screams coming from the members of Red Velvet and the laughter from the Brothers. Seulgi misses the mark and the arrow hit Hodong just right in his ear.
The Brothers checked on Hodong but at the same time they are laughing their asses off.
"Gwenchana?" Seulgi rushed to apologize and check if Hodong is okay.
"You did that on purpose are you?" the Brothers are laughingly accusing Seulgi.
"It's alright, that was funny" Hodong said to the apologetic bear.
"I saw it clearly and it was glorious.." James is dying.
"I can still hear" Hodong is snapping his fingers to his ears to check.
"Seulgi-ah, what was so disturbing about Hodong?" Heechul is asking her.
"Aniya~ I love Hodong" Seulgi cutely gives Hodong a big over the head heart sign.
The Brothers started singing, "There's no use~, For your regrets now~"
"It was seriously a mistake" Seulgi want to make it clear that it was an accident and not intentional.
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"About Joy's strength, should we tickle her or something?" Soogeun reads the next one, "Her strength is holding back her laughter".
Joy laughs at what she wrote.
"Look she is laughing already" Soogeun pointed out.
"I won't laugh even if you guys are funny" Joy confidently said.
"You are laughing now" Heechul said to her, and Joy giggles again.
"Seriously.. she doesn't have a pet dog but she says she's a good trainer. Now she says she can hold back her laughter but she is laughing already" Soogeun mentioned, it seems like Joy is tricking them again.
"I saw you guys doing something fun with gorgeous Kim Hee-sun" Joy explains that she wanted to try 'Hitting/Pinning to the wall and Confess' thing that the Brothers did when Kim Hee-sun was in the show. "I want to do that too" she added.
"Oh that game where one is stuck in the wall and should not be laugh?" Soogeun clarifies.
"Yes!" Joy excitingly said yes.
"That's not holding back laughter. It's more about enduring embarrassment" Sangmin commented.
"It's kinda the same thing hyung" James told him. "Yes, that's why you should hold your laughter" Soogeun agrees with James.
"Come on" Joy is confidently asking one of the Brothers to come out and try. Janghoon is the first one that is up for the challenge.
"Hit me" Janghoon said to her and started doing different expression to prepare himself to remain calm. The Brothers and the girls burst out laughing at what Janghoon is doing.
"It's cute and ugly at the same time" the Brothers is making fun of their giant brother.
"Okay.. action"
"Janghoon-ah.." Joy starts her attack with a soft voice.
"Stop obsessing over me. Stop following me around. I have another girl. I don't like you that much" Janghoon put up his defense by saying cold hearted words to her.
"What should I do? I like you so much" Joy changed her attack by acting cute to Janghoon.
"Aniya" Janghoon is holding it.
"I like you so much~" Joy takes her cute act to the next level in a matter of seconds.
"Aniya..ha.." Janghoon finally breaks. He cannot resists Joy's overflowing aegyo. Joy hit the right spot, Janghoon's heart is weak when girls acts cute. The Brothers burst out laughing, their giant brothers failed to hold himself against Joy.
"Janghoon hyung hearts melts when girls acts around him" Heechul remarked.
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"Okay. Let's end this" Soogeun stepped out and he is confident he can win.
"It's over.." , "Yeah.." James and Kyunghoon are sure that Soogeun will succeed.
Soogeun put his back on wall and prepares himself from what's next..
Joy's first move is different this time. Joy lightly pinched Soogeun's cheeks.
"Wae?" Soogeun coolly said to her. "What are you doing?" Soogeun is all of a sudden speaking in chinese. The Brothers are already laughing hard at what's happening. While Joy is trying to act calm herself, Soogeun is not an easy opponent. "You're really pretty!" Soogeun continue to talk in chinese.
But then, Joy still have another strategy. Joy moves closer to Soogeun and starts whispering something to him. After that, Soogeun seems flustered to whatever Joy whispers to his ear. All he can do after that is to smile, he can't even talk. Joy managed to defeat the strongest one among the Brothers.
The Brothers burst into laughter seeing Soogeun's flustered and embarrassed looks in his face.
"Yah! What did she say?" , "Pali~ tell us what she said!" Heechul and Kyunghoon stood up and confronts Soogeun. While Sangmin and James are on the floor laughing.
"Aniya that's just for me" Soogeun refuses.
"She's no joke" the Brothers exclaims and Joy is proud of herself.
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"Kyunghoon, go~" the next Brother who will is going to challenge against Joy.
"He will lose.." Sangmin totally have no confidence to Ssamja.
"Kyunghoon's facial hair is already growing" Heechul said.
Kyunghoon positioned himself to the wall and getting ready for Joy's attack. Meanwhile, Joy didn't waste any time and she quickly makes her move.
"You look quite handsome.." Joy moves closer to Kyunghoon and she chicly said those words to him.
"Who are you to judge?" Kyunghoon replied, acting a little snob. The Brothers are already laughing even though they just started.
"You look quite handsome" Joy repeats herself but this time she grab Kyunghoon's face like she is inspecting his face.
"What in the world are you doing? Did you just touch me?" Kyunghoon seems a little flustered by her touch, and he is about to break. The Brothers are enjoying every moment of it.
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Joy goes for the finishing move, she moves closer to Kyunghoon and slamming her hands to the wall behind him. They are now face to face with just a couple of inches between their faces, "I'm trying to seduce you!".
"Wait a minute.. please don't come too close" Kyunghoon breaks and is laughing out of embarrassment. He is shaking as he quickly moves away from Joy. The jaws of the Brothers are already aching from laughing too hard.
"You didn't expect that right?" Soogeun asks him.
"She came too close" Kyunghoon reasoned out.
"Look how red his ears are" Heechul is dying.
Joy is just standing there all proud and victorious that none of the Brothers managed to win against them.
They are about to move on to the next. Everything seems to be going smoothly, but things are not going to be just as easy like that, well for James..
"Araseo~ we still have a secret weapon, James, your turn" Soogeun is sending out their maknae.
"Me?" James is surprised, he thought it is already over. "araseo~" James stood up and walks upfront.
"James can do it" the Brothers seems very confident that they are sending their youngest Brother out.
Meanwhile, Joy is acting a little odd and somewhat nervous while James is getting in the position. She kept on glancing to their leader. Fortunately or unfortunately, Heechul noticed it..
"Hold on.." Heechul stood up and walks towards the front desk where the rest of the girls are standing. "Come here.." Heechul drags Irene out.
"Ah, wae~?" Irene is asking what's going on.
"Joy, go back there" Heechul asked Joy to go back. "Let Irene and James do it".
The Brothers are clapping their hands and excited about that idea. The girls are squealing as they also likes that idea. Meanwhile, Irene and James are just standing there laughing nervously, they both know this is coming when they found out that Red Velvet will come to the show.
"Same thing, same rules just like earlier.." Heechul is helping the two to get in the position. He put James to the wall and put Irene in front of him. "James, don't laugh. You can do it" Heechul doesn't really mean that, he have that evil smile again as he went back to his seat.
Irene is giggling and being shy in front of James. Both of them are not prepared to be part of this.
"I can feel my blood pressure is rising up" James laughingly said and the Brothers burst out laughing seeing James' nervous face. "Hang in there!" the Brothers are cheering him up.
"eotteoke?" Irene doesn't know what to do.
"Want to switch places?" James offers, seeing how nervous Irene is.
"Okay, switch places. James will be the one to attack" Heechul agrees to the suggestion. "Wait.. this is better.." Heechul thinks of another idea. "Irene, don't lean on the wall yet. Let James pushed you. Then the rest is up to you" he told them.
"Eh? but.."
"Aniya, that is even better" Heechul and the Brothers insists.
James cannot do anything but to accept. "Araseo~".
"You hold her hand first, then you will push her.." Heechul gives them further instructions and he taps James' arms to do it. James shyly moves his hand and Irene put her hands to him. The two of them are holding each other's hands in the classroom, in front of everyone and in front of the cameras.
"After you push her to the wall, just do or say anything, it's up to the two of you. Remember who laughs or smile first, loses~" Heechul is like a director giving them final reminders.
The Brothers and the rest of the members of Red Velvet are all smiling and excited to what's going to happen between Irene and James.
"noona, you.. r-ready?" James asked her in a nervous tone. Irene just smile and nods shyly.
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"Okay 1.. 2.. 3.., action!"
James took a deep breath and makes a move. He swiftly and carefully turns Irene's petite body and pinned her to the wall. They are now in the same position as Joy and Kyunghoon earlier, but their faces seems a little bit closer, just little. Both of their eyes are locked to each other's. They're both biting their lips to prevent themselves from smiling or laughing.
Then after a few seconds..
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Both of them burst into laughter. They break at the same exact time, they both can't handle each other. The whole studio erupted in laughter of excitement. Irene leans her head to James' chest and that is where she let out all her laugh. At the same time, she is using her hands to cover her face from the cameras. She knew that she is blushing at that moment. Meanwhile, James turns his head sideways away from the camera angles.
"It's a tie!" Soogeun claims while still laughing hard. Hodong's face is bright red, but not because he is blushing, but because from laughing too hard.
"They laughed at the same time" Heechul remarked, and it seems like he is the happiest person in the studio. The Brothers ended it there because they already got what they wanted.
After that, Irene and James moves back to their respective places.
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They finally moved on to the next and Soogeun is reads the last one, "Last but not the least, Irene has prepared Rock-Paper-Scissor Toy Hammer game"
"What kind of game is this?" Soogeun asks.
"We're going to do rock-paper-scissors, and whoever wins will hit the other person with toy hammer but you can also block it" Irene explained the game she wanted to play.
"Okay, let's go!" the Brothers are up for the game.
"Let's do it!" Irene coolly said it, confident that she can easily beat them.
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"Who should go first?"
"Irene, come on" Sangmin will be the first one to challenge Irene.
Irene and Sangmin get in the position.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Irene wins and she swiftly lift and hit Sangmin with the toy hammer. It all happen in a blink of an eye.
"Ohh" the Brothers are now getting a little scared. The girls celebrates a little with Irene's wins. James is just on the side watching, he already knew how good Irene is in this game.
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Next one Irene is going to face is Hodong,
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Hodong wins the rock-paper-scissors but Irene was too quick and she blocks the hit of the toy hammer using the pot.
"Yah, you hit from the side!" Heechul and the Brothers confronts Hodong for that. Soogeun then immediately hit Hodong to the side of his head as a punishment.
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"Okay, I'll go" Janghoon is tired of waiting.
Irene is now battling Janghoon.
"He's so tall" the girls commented, Irene is now facing the giant. It's a battle between the smallest and the tallest in the classroom.
"Noona, you might have to jump to hit him" James chuckled while saying it to Irene.
"You have no manners! Lower a little bit!" the Brothers are scolding their giant brother.
"Just a warning, you might get hit in the nose if she failed to reach" Soogeun gives Janghoon a fair warning.
"Araseo"
"rock-paper-scissors!"
The first three is a tie between them. Then on the fourth one, Irene wins the rock-paper-scissors and she quickly hit Janghoon.
"She's very fast" the Brothers commented after seeing that Janghoon wasn't even able to react.
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The next one Irene is going to face is Heechul.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
The first two was a tie. On the third one, Irene wins the rock-paper-scissors and she quickly grabs the toy hammer to hit Heechul as he fails to grab the pot in time.
Meanwhile, James is just standing on the side smiling, he is rather proud about Irene's wins than being sad about his Brothers losses.
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Kang Hodong stepped in again to try.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Irene immediately won and hit Hodong with the toy hammer.
"I think this is better" Hodong said. It turns out, he doesn't really wants to challenge her again, instead he just want this part to taped over his first match against her to cover up that he hit her sideways, unfairly.
"It seemed so natural" The Brothers burst into laughter after finding out Hodong's intention on battling Irene again.
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Kyunghoon steps out to face Irene. The Brothers have high hopes for him because he previously won against another guest on the show in the same game.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
The first one is a tie. Irene won the second time but Kyunghoon is fast and he was able to cover his head with the pot, so it is a draw. On the third one, Kyunghoon won, and Irene managed to quickly covers her head to block Kyunghoon's hit.
"Yah! How dare you!" the Brothers started scolding Kyunghoon for the hard hit, and they are hitting Kyunghoon with the toy hammer.
"I know she can block it" Kyunghoon said to them. He then quickly checks Irene if she is okay.
"Thanks to this, my incident is forgotten" Hodong commented.
"You are so fast" Kyunghoon acknowledges Irene's speed.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Kyunghoon wins the rock-paper-scissors but Irene swiftly covers her head. This time Kyunghoon controlled how hard his hit.
"He hit soft this time" Yeri commented.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Irene wins the rock-paper-scissors but Kyunghoon managed to defend.
"Woohh, they are scary!" James and the Brothers commented. It is the battle of the aces.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Kyunghoon wins again and Irene managed to covers her head again.
"wow~" everyone is getting excited about their close battle.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Irene wins the rock-paper-scissors and this time she managed to hit Kyunghoon because he failed to pick up the pot, leaving his head defenseless. The battle of the aces is finally over.
Irene is jumping happily that she won that battle. Irene has now won a total of six consecutive matches.
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Soogeun will step out next when he realized something, someone is hiding. "Yah, It's your turn" he calls James to face against Irene.
"Do I have to? I can't beat her" James said to them.
"Aniya, she is tired, she's slower now.." Soogeun told him.
"araseo~"
Irene is now facing James. Both of them have that 'smile' in their face.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
The first one is a tie. On the second one, Irene wins the rock-paper-scissors and she quickly grabs the toy hammer and lifts it, but she did something that surprises everyone. She didn't hit James, she just can't.
"hold on.. what was that..." the Brothers,. well it's not only them who noticed the moment that Irene hesitated and stopped herself from swinging the toy hammer to James, everyone in the studio saw it.
Irene just shyly laughing at what happen, while James is starting to blush a little.
"She stopped half way!" Sangmin commented.
"Yah, hit him!" Heechul is scolding her, but Irene just shakes her head, refusing to hit James.
"Ohh.. she refuses" the Brothers are smiling mischievously.
"Just what is going on between the two of you?" Hodong asked while playfully looking at their younger brother. James didn't say anything to Hodong, he just smiles at him and shakes his head.
"Kamsahamnida noona~" James thanked Irene for not hitting him with the toy hammer.
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"Okay this is the last one"
Soogeun is up, the jack of all trades of the Brother's School. The last one Irene needs to beat to secure her total win against the Brothers.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Soogeun wins the rock-paper-scissors, both of them are equally fast but Irene grabbed the wrong toy hammer instead of the pot to defend, leaving Soogeun to hit her head freely.
"Game over!" the Brothers celebrates their victory. Irene sadly pouts and her members console her.
"Wait.. wait" Sangmin and Kyunghoon is already laughing. "We all clapped our hands and celebrates Soogeun's win. James is standing behind us he says 'oh, so close'. He is rooting for Irene to win" Sangmin explains. James guilty and he is just smiling.
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There's a quick 15 minutes break before the start of the next segment. Everyone either went back to their waiting/dressing room or restroom.
"Yah.. I know something like this is happening" Yuna approaches James while he is coming back from the restroom and walking back to the classroom. Apparently, Yuna is in the set watching the taping of the show.
"Noona, what are you talking about?" James is confused what Yuna is talking about.
"You and Irene. I saw the whole thing. You two have something else going on. I saw the way you two look at each other.." Yuna is getting all loud and excited.
"noona noona, calm down~" James is asking her to settle down.
"Then what was that?" Yuna is not yet done.
"I-I'll explain later after the show. Just be quiet.. Heechul hyung is coming" James saw Heechul is walking towards their direction.
"Oh, Yuna-ssi, annyeong~! I think this is the first time I saw you here in the set. What are you doing down here?" Heechul greets her.
"Oppa annyeong~ hmm.. I think this is the second time.." Yuna replied, "anyway you might have need to get used to it oppa" Yuna chuckles.
"huh? what do you mean?" Heechul asks.
"She is now my manager" James told him.
"Whaaat?! jinjjayo?!" Heechul is surprised to hear that.
"Yes oppa. I resigned weeks ago, then James asked me if I was interested to be his manager" Yuna explains.
"Really? so you finally agreed to them.." Heechul said to James.
"Yeah.." James nodded, "So when I heard Yuna noona resigned, I immediately thought that she would be an excellent one for that job, so I told my agency about it and here we go" James explained further.
"Oh, that's actually great. I mean Yuna was technically, sort of, acts like your manager before you signed with UAA" Heechul mentioned. "Plus, you guys are close and knows each other well.." he added.
"Apparently I didn't know 'everything'.." Yuna quoted, "I just found out about Irene today..".
"Ohh haha.. well it's better if James is the one to explain it" Heechul chuckles.
"Speaking of.., your girl is coming.." Yuna pointed at Irene who is walking with Wendy down the hall heading towards their way.
"Come on, she is not my girlfriend, we're just friends.." James replied.
"Araseo~" Yuna and Heechul scoffed and giggles.
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"Unnie who is that girl Heechul oppa and James talking to? She is cute.." Wendy asked their leader.
"hmm, I think that is Yuna unnie" Irene replied.
"You know her?" Wendy asks,
"Ani, well not in person. James told me about her, she works as a publicists here at JTBC, but now she is her manager" Irene explains.
"He have a manager now? He finally agrees to it" Wendy exclaims. Irene just nodded.
"Come on unnie, let's say hi" Wendy begins to walk faster.
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"uh.. annyeonghaseyo~" Wendy and Irene shyly greets them.
"Oh, you guys are heading back to the classroom?" Heechul asks them. The two girls nodded then they both looked at James.
"oh yeah.. this is Yuna noona, she is my manager" James introduce his manager to Irene and Wendy.
"Annyeonghaseyo~" Irene and Wendy politely greets her.
"Annyeonghaseyo~" Yuna greets them back, "Omo~ you girls are really pretty!" Yuna compliments them.
"uh. kamsahamnida" the two girls shyly thanked her.
"Nice to finally meet you Irene. James told me a lot of things about you" Yuna smiled at her.
"he did?" Irene is a little surprised.
"Yes, he says you are a lovely and very sweet person" Yuna said to her, and that makes Irene smile. "Don't get me started on how many times he told me over and over and over again that you are the most beautiful girl he have ever seen" she added.
"Okay, that's enough. We need to go back to the taping" James pushes Yuna away before she tells more made-up stories.
"He is getting embarrassed. Bye, nice to meet you~" Yuna can't stop giggling while she is getting pushed away. Irene is smiling wide while waving goodbye to her.
After that they all went back to the classroom and resume the taping of the show.
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The 'Quiz About Me' segment is up next and Joy will be the first one..
"When I debuted as a member of Red Velvet, what were the words of my father when he saw the debut stage?" Joy reads gives her first question to them.
"I know!" Heechul raised his hand to answer first. "Just quit" he answers while doing a voice impression of Kim Byung-ok.
"Wrong!" Joy hit him with the toy hammer.
"Why do you keep fidgeting.." Kyunghoon is the next one to answer, and same as Heechul, he is also doing a voice impression.
"Wrong!" Joy is laughing while she is hitting him.
"Why don't you sing that much" Janghoon gives his answer.
"Wrong! Do you even know our first song?" Joy asked the giant while punishing him.
"You debuted on Music Bank with the song Happiness.." Heechul said, the pop-culture encyclopdia of the class.
"That's right" Joy said.
"How do you even remember that?" the Brothers exclaim.
"We will show you a little bit of our debut stage" Joy said to the Brothers, and the girls shows them a short performance of their debut song, 'Happiness'. The Brothers are watching closely to their performance to look for hints about Joy's question.
"I tried my best for the debut stage. I smiled so much" Joy gives them more clues after they perform.
"Joy, you should've smiled more like that at home" Kyunghoon gives his answer right away. Everyone laughs and like that answer, soon the Brothers begins to follow up answer related to Kyunghoon's answer. "She is so fake" , "You never smiled at me like that".
"Wrong! but my siblings say that" Joy said to them.
"Joy, don't just keep smiling from the beginning to the end" Sangmin tries to answer.
"That's a little close" Joy said.
"You're smiling so much. Have you gone crazy" Janghoon tries to answer again.
"Wrong, but that is also close"
"You keep smiling, it's quite scary" Kyunghoon answers again.
"Correct!"
"How much do you not smile for him to say that?" Heechul is wondering why. "Why do you smile like that?" the Brothers ask her also.
"Because I really don't smile a lot. I'm also the oldest so I don't really know how to act cute, and they nicknamed me snob because I don't smile a lot.." Joy then explained everything to them.
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"Okay, next question.." Joy is going to give her next question. "When is the toughest part of my day?"
"Right now, this moment" Heechul answers right from the start.
"Aniya! but I think anyone would be able to relate. It's the toughest part of the day" Joy added a little hint.
"It's when you wake up in the morning, because you have low blood pressure" Hodong tries to guess.
"You are close.. but incorrect"
James raised his hand to answer, "When you are very tired and you are already in your bed. Then you suddenly starts thinking if you locked the door, did you turn off the stove, does the windows close. So you need to get up even if you really don't want to". Everyone started laughing at his answer because all of them can relate to that situation.
"Right, or you suddenly have an urge to go to the bathroom" Soogeun added and they laughed even more.
"I hate that too, but that's wrong" Joy said to him. "This is my first morning regimen" she then gives another hint.
"If that's the case..," Janghoon is going to try guessing, ".. then you will probably go to the bathroom and..."
"Are you talking about pooping? Aniyaaa" Joy didn't let him finish and she is already walking towards Janghoon to punish him.
"I know!" Heechul raised his hand to answer, "Since it is hard to brush your teeth in the morning, so you don't do it. You just brush your teeth when you came home at the end of the day".
"Aniya. How can anyone still miss the answer like this.." Joy is frustrated that no one is still getting the right answer.
"I know" James raised his hand, "Brushing your teeth first thing in the morning".
"Correct"
"Wait.. then my answer is already correct" Heechul protested.
"Ani, you missed the main point" Joy told him.
"How is that the toughest part of your day?" the Brothers asked her.
"It's the first part of the day. My entire body is aching and I feel numbness because I didn't get enough sleep. And also because of this I also get infection in my mouth often" Joy explained while confessing something a litte embarrassing.
"Wait, so Heechul's answer is correct" Janghoon remarked, "Right, so you don't brush your teeth" James agrees.
"Aniya! It's not like that" Joy told them. Heechul then teases her like she have a bad breathe. Joy immediately hit him with the toy hammer.
"Why everyone is doing that?" Joy saw some of the Brothers are looking at her while covering their noses.
"I think we're feeling better with our hands like this" Hodong continue to make fun of her.
"aniya~ I'm getting infections because of my weak immune system" Joy corrects the misunderstanding.
"If your body aches, you need to get them check because it means something else is wrong within your body, that's why you have weak immune system" Janghoon suggests that she should see a doctor about it.
"Also, you mentioned you are experiencing numbness, that means your blood is not circulating well. All your blood is circulating only in your hair " Soogeun makes fun of Joy's red dyed hair.
Joy is lost for words while everyone else is laughing. She thought he was giving her health advice.
"I think Irene will get up first in the morning" Heechul said.
"Me? Well these days, I do wake up other members often" Irene replied.
"That's because when you got older, you tend to sleep less" Soogeun commented.
"How can you say that to a 27 year old.." Hodong laughingly said to Soogeun. Everyone else burst out laughing while Irene is cutely getting angry and clenching her face. Joy immediately passes the toy hammer to their leader. Irene stood up and grabs the hammer. Meanwhile, James is suppressing himself from laughing hard. He is covering his mouth.
"Here she come.. oh my god~" the Brothers exclaims as Irene is walking fast towards Soogeun to hit with the toy hammer.
"Ey.. I thought you will hit hard. I was scared for a second" Soogeun was disappointed that she didn't hit him hard.
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Next one to give her quiz is Seulgi..
Seulgi reads her question to them, "I was shocked at something that I saw in my older brother's cellphone".
"Eyyy~~" the Brothers green minds flickered up. The girls is laughing out loud at the reactions from the Brothers, especially the older ones.
"I thought people don't really watch it on their phones" , "Yes, phone screen is too small" the Brothers are thinking of the same thing.
"Is it your older brother or your ex-boyfriend?" Heechul asked her.
"I'm talking about my older brother who is three years older than me" Seulgi replied.
"I feel bad for your brother, but I have to answer this" Janghoon is going to guess the correct answer, "He left something on the screen, and you saw something you shouldn't have seen.."
"Which is?" Seulgi is telling him to say it.
"You know... uh..." Janghoon is hesitating to say it.
"Show her. Act it out?" Soogeun said to him. "huh? Act it out?" Janghoon is taken aback. Everyone in the studio burst out laughing. Meanwhile, James is drinking a water when Soogeun said it, he almost spit out the water he is drinking.
"If I act it out, this show will be canceled. I can't do that" Janghoon laughingly commented.
Kyunghoon raised his hand to answer, "He saved your number with a weird title. For example, instead of Seulgi he saved your number under the name 'Sleggy'..",
"Sleggy?" the Brothers burst out laughing.
"What in the world is Sleggy?" Seulgi rushed to punish him.
"How did you find out?" Hodong asked her.
"I asked him to show it to me" Seulgi replied.
"He drew something on your picture. Like he put mustache and other stuff" Janghoon tries again.
"Wrong, that's too childish" ,
"He saved my number with a title that is not my name" Seulgi give them a hint.
"Ahh, it is really about the name" the Brothers now can think of something now that it finally narrowed down.
Soogeun tries to guess it, "it is 'Red Velvet is great except for you'..."
"Wrong" Seulgi is giggling while she hit him.
"Why do I have to be her sibling" Heechul gives his answer. The Brothers started giving similar kind of answer, once again they are not answering to get the correct but to be funny instead.
"Wrong. You guys are having trouble guessing it" Seulgi commented.
"Idiot!" Janghoon yelled out his answer.
"Correct!",
"Why was it idiot? Were you bad at studying?" the Brothers asks her.
"Aniya aniya aniya~~" Seulgi cutely saying no while shaking her head.
"It must have a reason behind it.." Sangmin said.
"He saved my name as Idiot. While I just saved him as Oppa" Seulgi explains.
"Well, siblings do that.." Janghoon remarked.
"Seulgi is a very kind person" Heechul mentioned, "You never said a swear word in your life, right?".
"I did curse to my older brother" Seulgi cutely admits.
"What did you say?" Heechul asks,
"Jerk~" Seulgi said it in very low, almost like she is whispering, mainly because she is not sure if it is allowed to say in the taping of the show.
"Ahh, 'jerk'.. don't worry it's okay to say that. We all say curse words.." Heechul told her. "James is the best at saying curse words.." Soogeun giggles while pointing at James.
"Yup. I can curse in seven languages.." James understood what Soogeun is trying to say, "Just choose between English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, German, Russian and (reader's native langauge), and I will surely curse you". Everyone in the studio started to laugh out loud.
"Oh, you are fluent in German and Russian as well?" Sangmin asks.
"Ani.. just the curse words" James let out a laugh, as well as the brothers. "If you have comedian friends with different nationalities, first thing they will teach is how to say 'hello' and then curse words" James explained further.
"Haha that's right!" Soogeun and the Brothers are laughing in agreement.
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"Anyway, that's what I'm saying, if you are close to your siblings you can do that.." Janghoon said to her. "Yes, that is normal if you are close with your siblings to curse.." the Brothers agrees with him.
"Do you fight with your younger sister often?" Soogeun is asking Janghoon.
"My younger sister went to the States to when she was in middle school. She returned after graduating from university. That's why I don't know her well" Janghoon coolly admits it. Everyone burst out laughing after Janghoon proudly admits that he doesn't know his sister well.
"He's doing his best not to share the inheritance with her" Soogeun laughingly commented.
"What did you save on your younger sister's name?" Seulgi asked the giant.
"Just her name. I even wrote her Surname" Janghoon chuckles.
"You have no affection at all" Soogeun said to him, "People usually save it as 'My sister'..." he added.
"I can't do that. It's awkward" Janghoon replied. He then proceed to tell a lengthy story about why he is not close with his younger sister.
"James how about you?" Heechul looked at him.
"My siblings.. uh I put---" James was cut off by Heechul.
"Aniya.. what is Irene's name on your phone?" Heechul caught him off guard.
James is just smiling, trying to decide whether to tell the truth or not. He needs to think fast because if it took him long, the Brothers will surely suspects him. He also glanced at Irene to see what is her reaction at the moment.
"Baechu~",
"What? Jinjja? Why Cabbage?" the Brothers burst out laughing.
"It's a nickname since her real name is Bae Joohyun, so Baechu" James explained to them.
"How about you Irene, what is James' name in your phone?" Heechul is not yet contented with knowing just one side.
"uh.. Janchi.." Irene shyly giggles after she said it.
"What? jinjja?" the Brothers cracks up even more. Even the production are laughing.
"Yah why did you nicknamed each other after foods" Heechul is dying. "Irene is Napa Cabbage and James is noodles" Kyunghoon is cracking up.
"Why Janchi?" Hodong laughingly asked Irene.
"James-ssi sounded like Janchi.." Irene explained it to them. The Brothers laughed more because Irene nicknamed James to Janchi-guksu (Warm Noodle Soup).
"You guys are weird" Heechul remarked.
What Irene and James didn't know is that both of them lied to the Brothers. Their names in each others phone is totally different. Irene doesn't know what's her name in his phone, and James also doesn't know what's his name in her phone.
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"I'll ask the next question" Seulgi will now give her second question to them. "I once cried in our company's restroom. Why do you think I cried?".
"Your poop... ah, nevermind.. mianhae" Janghoon didn't want to continue the answer he wanted to say.
"Janghoon, how can you talk about poop again?" Seulgi is walking towards him fast to punish him.
"Wait let me try again.." Janghoon is going to rephrase his original answer, "You had to do your business, but after that you clogged the toilet and it exploded".
"Wrong!" Seulgi hit him with the toy hammer.
"I know" Sangmin will try to guess, "You were in doing your business. Then the four members have no idea you were in the restroom, and they gossiped about you".
"Yeri said, 'I don't even want to call Seulgi as an older sister. Just because she was a trainee for so long it doesn't mean she can be so bossy'. Then Yeri started to curse Seulgi.." Heechul tries to make up a scene and acts like Yeri.
"That wasn't the problem" Yeri suddenly speaks.
"What?" the Brothers are looking at her.
"Why are you defending yourself all of a sudden?" Heechul said to her. All Yeri can do is to laugh.
"This happened before my debut, it is when I'm auditioning" Seulgi gives thema hint.
"I know" Heechul stands up and asked Seulgi to come and act like they bump into each others shoulders wile walking by, "I'm like the sunbae in S.M., then you bumped into her. After that she said.. 'Yah! Watch where you're going. What's wrong with you?'.." Heechul acts like a bitchy and mean senior.
"Wrong!"
"Heechul hyung is that senior.." James commented. "Haha right!" the Brothers started laughing and goes along with the teasing. All Heechul can do is to laugh because he knew that if he replied to that it will only spark James to get back at him.
"SNSD came to the audition and they were watching. You loved them so much when you were younger. You cried because you thought you didn't perform well in front of them" Janghoon gives his answer.
"Correct!"
"Let me explain.." Seulgi shared the story behind it, "SNSD unnies were about to make their debut that time. I went to one of the practice rooms to have my second audition. Then I saw the members of SNSD, they are so overarching. And it scared me that I might not do well infront of them".
"I saw Sooyoung unnie after the audition. She said I'm really good at singing" Seulgi added.
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Next is Yeri..
"I was first place for something in my class when I was in elementary school. What do you think it was for?" Yeri reads her question for the Brothers.
"You were the most pungent girl" Soogeun is the first one to guess.
"Wrong" Yeri burst into laughter.
"You were the most chic girl" Janghoon tries to guess.
"Wrong!"
"You were the student who talks back to teachers the most" Heechul gives his answer.
"Wrong!"
"You were the most popular student" Janghoon tries again.
"Janghoon was close" Yeri said.
"You were the student everyone wanted to befriend" Janghoon continue to guess.
"Close!"
"You were the student who is most unlikely to grow up" James took a guess. The girls and the Brothers burst out laughing at his answer.
"Neomuhae~" Yeri said to him.
"You were the student most likely to be a Miss Korea" Soogeun tries to answer.
"Oh, that's so close" Yeri excitingly said. "It was very famous term back then for being pretty.."
"You were the most likely to become an ulzzang! (best face)" Heechul answer immediately.
"Wrong!"
"You were the most likely to be a model" Sangmin yelled out his answer.
"Wrong!"
"It was a popular term back then for being pretty, but it wasn't ulzzang. It was a younger generation to that" Yeri gives the Brother a good hint to help them out.
"I know" Heechul confidently raised his hands, looks like he will get this one, "You were the student most likely to be a 'hottie' in your class".
"That's correct!" Yeri is happy that someone finally got it.
Yeri then explained to the Brothers why is that. She even also shows old pictures of her back then as a proof that her face doesn't changed that much and her beauty is natural. It just shows that Yeri has been always a beautiful girl.
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Next one to give the next quiz is Wendy..
"When I was young, I had to do this because of my Dad. What it is?" Wendy reads her question to them.
"What kind of personality does your dad have?" Janghoon asks.
"He's conservative.." Wendy replied.
"How old were you?" Sangmin asks.
"It was when I was about five years old... uh aniya~ hold on, I was crawling and walking.." Wendy is trying to figure it out.
"You remember that?" the Brothers asked her.
"ani.. my mom told me" Wendy replied.
"I know" Soogeun will try to guess it, "Your dad saw you crawling and then he yelled 'Stand Up!'. How dare you crawl in front of an adult".
"Aniya~" Wendy cracks up.
"I love my Dad so much and I copied everything my Dad did" Wendy gives them a hint.
"You shaved" Hodong tries to answer.
"I did shave but where did I shave?" Wendy told them that they are getting close.
"You shave your chest hair" Soogeun answers
"Wrong!"
"You shave your belly hair" Kyunghoon tries to guess.
"I was a baby!" Wendy laughs at his answer.
"Eyebrows?" James tries to guess also.
"Wrong!"
"I copied my Dad while he was shaving his beard" Wendy gives further hints while gesturing which body part. "There was a blood when I shaved it" she added.
"Your lips?" Kyunghoon tries again.
"Close!!"
"Don't tell me you shave your tongue?" James said to her.
"Correct!!" Wendy joyfully announced. James accidentally got the right answer.
"jinjja? You shaved your tongue?" the Brothers exclaims.
"Yes. I climbed on the top of toilet seat when I was a baby, then I reached the shaver and shaved my toungue. I have no idea what I was doing because I'm still a baby" Wendy explained the story behind it. "My mom told me that I copied everything my Dad did back then" she added.
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Last but not the least, Irene is the next one..
"Who put the hair clip on for you?" Heechul asked her.
"My hairstylists did it for me" Irene replied.
"Tell her to take it off!" Heechul sassed. "I get jealous when girls are prettier than me" he added. The Brothers are laughing hard because savage Heenim shows up. Irene is flustered and she is cutely getting angry again.
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"This is my question.." Irene proceed to read her question to them, "I recently went to a trip with my family. I remember this the most. What do you think it is?".
"Where did you go?" Janghoon asked.
"We went to Gyeongju.." Irene replied. "My family have been always going there to rides bikes in the spring.." she explains.
"I know" Soogeun raised his hand to take a guess, "There's four people in your family right? You, your sister then your parent?".
"Yes.."
"You rented three bikes. But then your Dad just rode a bike out of nowhere" Soogeun said his answer. Irene cracks up along with the Brothers. "He secretly stole another bike to save money!" The Brothers starts to add more to the story.
"Not only that, he carried the bike all they way back home" Soogeun added. "He rode the bike from Gyeongju to Daegu" James joins in and added more to the story. The Brothers are laughing even more the more they add things to the story.
"They rented 4 bikes, but they only returned 3" Hodong continue to add more. The Brothers burst out laughing again. "It's his old habits".
"mianhae~" Hodong suddenly apologized and got scared when he looked at Irene.
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"I know" Soogeun will try again, "There's a lot of Royal tombs in Gyeongju. Your Dad suddenly kneeled. 'Your highness, it was an honor to have served you until now'. Then after that, your Dad rode a bike all the way to the mountain".
"Wrong!" Everyone is laughing again. Soogeun's answer is still connected to their first story.
"I'll give you guys another hint.." Irene decide to give them another one, "I saw this and I almost cried"
"Your Dad remembered coming to Gyeongju with your Mom.." Sangmin tries to guess. "You saw your parents walking in front of you with their hands held together" he added.
"Oh.. it's close!"
Heechul stepped out with Soogeun to act their answer, "Your Dad was like, 'Honey, this is Cheomsungdae, where we had our first kiss'. However your Mom said, 'We didn't have our first kiss in Cheomsungdae, Who did you kiss?!'.." there was a twist in his answer. The girls cracks up at Heechul's answer.
"Wrong"
"It was on our way to Gyeongju" Irene gives another clue.
"I know" Heechul raised his hand, "Your Dad was driving and the car suddenly stopped. Then your Dad said to your Mom, 'Honey, get off and push the car". The Brothers burst out laughing, looks like the Brothers are enjoying making up stories around Irene's question. The Brothers continue for awhile until one of them finally figure it out..
"Wrong!"
"I know" Janghoon raised his hands to answer, "Your parents sat in front of the car. You sat in the back. When you were young, you remember that your Dad's back was very strong and big. You grew up and saw your parents from behind, and realized that they became smaller than before and you almost cried".
"That's right.." Irene's voice cracks and she is becoming a little emotional.
"Aigoo.. she's about to cry" the Brothers saw that Irene is getting a bit sad.
"aniyo.. aniyooo~" Irene cutely denying it.
"You're a good kid.." the Brothers said to her.
"How old are your parents?" Janghoon asks.
"My parents are both born in 1967.." Irene replied.
"They're still young, don't worry" the Brothers are trying to cheer her up.
"I know how that like, I felt sad also while in the waiting room.." Heechul decided to share his story also, "Hodong always looked big before, but he is getting old now. I saw the stylist bought black hair powder. She then sprinkled it on his hair"
"Don't make things up. I beg you" Hodong told him. "I saw it" Heechul is looking and pointing at Hodong's stylist behind the production crew.
"I'm getting stressed because of you" Hodong is denying it. "Take your hat off" Heechul doesn't seem like he is joking.
"Hyung I saw it too.." James suddenly speaks.
"See! James saw it also" Heechul is telling Hodong.
"Stop it. Don't make things up!" Hodong is begging James and Heechul to stop.
"Heechul hyung, don't worry. It's not black hair powder. It's black pepper powder. They are seasoning him" James said. Everyone in the studio burst out laughing at the twist. "They're going to throw him to the boiler later.." he laughingly added.
"You are getting more mean to me!" Hodong is still laughing.
"Mianhae hyung, I just want to make Irene noona laugh. She looks a bit sad" James quickly approached Hodong and hugged him to apologize. It was a success, Irene is now laughing and smiling again.
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Irene is going to ask her next question, "During my time as a Red Velvet member, I made this product very popular. what do you think it is?"
"Hair clip" Sangmin answers first.
"Wrong!"
"You showed people that a girl group member can do vaping too" Kyunghoon answers and the Brothers cracks up at his obnoxious answer.
Irene didn't say a word, she just punish him with the toy hammer.
"Is that a public bathhouse key?" Sangmin is asking the thing in Irene's wrist.
"Are you talking about this?" Irene shows the black thing in her wrist. "This is a hair tie" she giggled.
"Tie your hair with that.." Heechul asked her to do it.
"Why?" Irene lifts her hair to show what it looks like if it's tied. The Brothers got mesmerized by Irene's gorgeousness. It then later became a viral scene.
"Wahh.. she's pretty" that all the Brothers can say.
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"Let me give you a hint" Irene said to them, "When Janghoon puts this on, he will definitely scream. Because it hurts".
"Can I answer it?" James is raising his hand.
"Of course~" Irene smiled at him.
"Why are you asking if you can answer?" Sangmin asked him.
"I have an idea what it is. I'm like 99% sure.." James replied.
"jinjja? how?"
"I think Irene noona mentioned it to me once.." James explains.
"Ohh.." the Brothers are giving that look again. "Go ahead then.."
"Acupressure massage slippers, right?" James gives his answer.
"That's correct" Irene smilingly said.
"You two are really close... really close" Heechul commented, with a hidden meaning behind it.
"Did it become trendy?" Kyunghoon asks.
"Yes, because the other members also wears them" Irene replied.
"Did you become healthier?" Janghoon asks.
"Yes, I bloat less" Irene replied.
The production crew prepares a number of acupressure massage slippers so the Brothers can try it. They also asked Irene if she can do jumping ropes while wearing those acupressure massage slippers. She then showed them that she used to it and that she can handle the pain.
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An hour later and the taping of the show has finally ended. It was a long taping and yet fun taping. It also marked as the first time for Irene and James to be working together in a set. Both of them are very nervous from the moment they found out that Red Velvet is doing a guesting to promote their new album in the show, up until towards the very end of the show. Both of them prepared themselves for all the possible teasing they're going to get from the Brothers, especially to Heechul, Hodong, and Soogeun who are all from S.M., and possibly heard a thing or two about them. They still need to be thankful because those three didn't go over the line to tease them.
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Before they leave, Red Velvet members drops by to each waiting room to say goodbye and gives their thanks to the casts of the show. They are now on the last, James is sharing a waiting room with Kyunghoon and Soogeun. The other girls are talking to Soogeun and Kyunghoon while Irene is with James..
"Omo.. you are really pretty and cute~" Yuna can't resist Irene, she wants to pinch her cheeks.
"kamsahamnida unnie~" Irene shyly thanked her for the compliment.
"I now understand why James keeps on saying how beautiful you are.." Yuna said to her.
"wha.. noona since when I did that?" James confronts her for making up stories again.
"Don't act like you don't.." Yuna chuckles. "Anyway, I'll go to the restroom for sec and then we're leaving also". Yuna went out from the waiting room and heads to the restrooms.
"Are you going home or you are still heading somewhere?" Irene asked him.
"hmm.. not sure, depends on Yuna noona if she want to eat dinner or visit her soon to be boyfriend.." James replied.
"What do you mean soon to be?" Irene asks.
"Well, I have a close friend who works at Happy Seoul Club as a barista/bartender. Then the two of them met because of me. and now things are starting to go well between them" James explains it to her.
"oh, I see.."
"How about you noona? are you girls going home?" James asked her.
"Yes, we have tons of schedule ahead for us now that we have another album" Irene replied.
"Oh yeah, well good luck to you guys, the comeback is going to be a success" James commented. "So I guess you girls will be busy. I'll probably see you again after your comeback promotions..".
"huh? what do you mean? we can still see each other. You can just go visit me in our dorm" Irene told him.
"oh.. uh.. yeah.. you're right.." James still wasn't so sure that it has really become a normal thing for him to visit Irene in their dorm. Irene just giggles at his reaction.
"By the way noona, uh.. will you be fine with what happen earlier on the show?" James asked her.
"What do you mean?" Irene doesn't know what he is talking about.
"Uh.. well.. about their.. uh.. teasing.." James shyly replied.
Irene just laugh and smile at him, "Gwenchana~ I don't mind".
"Eh? really? you sure?" James is surprised that Irene is just smiling and doesn't seem to be bothered by it even just a little.
Irene just give him a warm smile and nodded.
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"You ready to go?" Yuna just came back from the restroom.
"uh yes yes.." James got startled that Yuna is already back.
"We will be going too, annyeong unnie~" Irene said goodbye to Yuna.
"annyeong~" Yuna smiles and waves her hands to her.
Irene then looks at James, "I'll call you later.. annyeong~".
"Y-yes.. annyeong~ take care noona" James said goodbye to her. Irene went back to her members and they all left together.
"Aigoo.. if only I'm a guy, I'll definitely asked her out" Yuna commented.
James just laughs at his manager who is being gay for Irene.
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About two hours later, at Red Velvet dorm..
"I'll be going first.. goodnight~" Joy said to her members.
"Goodnight~"
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"How about you?" Irene asked her members.
"Just little bit, I'm just going to finish my tea.." Wendy said to their leader.
"How about you unnie? Aren't you going to sleep?" Seulgi asked their leader.
"She is still going to talk with James oppa, or else she won't be able to sleep" Yeri teases their leader.
"Yah.." Irene is guilty.
"Why you haven't call him yet?" Seulgi asked.
"He left a message that he just arrived and he's going to take a shower first. He said he will call me after" Irene replied.
"Speaking of., unnie did you really saved 'Janchi' as his name in your phone?" Wendy asks.
"Ani.. I just made that up" Irene giggles.
"jinjjayo?" her members let out a laugh as well. "wahh, unnie that is a quick thinking and it was really funny" Wendy commented.
"The Brothers will not stop if I didn't say something" Irene explains.
"So unnie, what is his name in your phone?" Yeri asked.
"FL" Irene replied.
"huh?" the members looks at each other in confusion.
"what does it mean?" Seulgi asked their leader.
"Secret~" Irene cutely laughs.
"ahh,, unnie.. no fair~" Yeri whines.
"I'll tell you girls someday" Irene just give her member a smile. "Go to sleep now, pali~ I need to clean up", she asked her member to go their bedrooms now and rest.
"araseo~ goodnight unnie" the girls are too tired to begged Irene to tell them the meaning of it. They just stood up and walks to their rooms.
"I wonder why unnie named him FL. It's not even in oppa's name" Yeri commented she enters her room.
"We'll found out soon.." Wendy tiringly blurted out.
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Irene is just smiling as she watch her members go to their own rooms..,
"It's First Love.." she whispers.
Her phone suddenly rings, and on the screen it's says, "FL is calling..".
Irene is just staring at her phone for a few seconds before she answers the call..
"hey noona~", Irene smiles brightly when she hears the voice of her First Love.
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To be continued...
**This chapter is like a thank you and celebration now that this book has reached 50,000 reads. Thank you so much guys! :)
**Additional..
As a thank you, I will write down a few facts about this Book and to me as well.
1. My bias in Red Velvet is Wendy. You guys have no idea how much Irene is wrecking me because of this book TT, I need to stay strong and loyal to Wendy, lol.
2. For the roles of most of the idol characters in the story, I used randomizer/random picker wheel. And yes, like the roles of Heechul, Jonghyun, Irene, Song Hye-Kyo, etc. Exception is Kim Go-eun.
3. As for James' bestfriend role, I can't decide between Seolhyun(AOA) and Naeun(Apink). So I flipped a coin, haha. Their group is also affected by it.
4. I switched the role of Sulli and Rosé in the story. Yes, that means Rosé is originally planned to appear in the early chapters.
5. Haejoo is originally a boy.
6. Larry and Frank wasn't part of the original plan.
7. Chapters 24 & 25 isn't part of the original draft. I came up with it when I was waiting for an elevator.
8. There's a total of 6 more important characters to be introduced in the story. All of them are part of James' past in Japan. But as of now, Sojiro and Inui have showed up in the story. The remaining four.... well just wait lol.
That's all for now :)