The Kpop Gamer

23

'Jarvis. Is there anything I can use to keep up with the practice?'

It's been 4 years since I started training. The first 2 years has been enjoyable. But the following months has been hell that my mind was constantly being drained. I was asking Jarvis if there's anything that can help me at all, but with no avail. While Gacha has been useful for me, it can't help me with my situation now. I even forget sometimes to use the machine since I don't anything at the moment. I don't want to become some sort of superman because of the stat points. So I just kept them, together with my other coupons inside my inventory. One day, I was so bored that I used the Gacha machine and got a Katana for myself. I practiced Kenjutsu by watching videos but got bored quickly. What I did was collect skillbooks for various things and learned them. Some were related to sports, some were for house chores, and some were for fighting skills. I just found out that learning skillbooks related to fighting will serve as an EXP boost for my CQC Mastery so I abused this advantage again. My CQC skill eventually went up into Level 8 and I'm satisfied with the results.

[Sorry sir. But even though you can buy some items that can help you in your training, your funds is insufficient for purchasing such items.]

We trained for dance routines and vocal trainings, which are very easy for me because of my cheat skills. My perseverance is very average too since I didn't place too much effort in gaining them. Maybe this is System making me pay back for what I did back then. But it's what they say, 'There's no shortcut to victory. If you're going to the easy way, then you're going to the wrong way'.

For our first assignment, the instructors are conducting a mini workshop for acting classes. They taught about how to memorize lines, making the right expressions in the right scenes, how to immerse yourself in the scene for better acting, and so much more.

While I can easily make expressions for different scenes, it takes much more to become a proper actor. It also helped me grind my skills. At the end of the day, our acting instructor made us demonstrate our acting skills and evaluated us based on our performance. She even praised my acting, thanks to the System. After that, she helped us correct our mistakes and fix our fault points for 2 hours until the training session ended.

The next day, it was dancing that were assigned to us. The dance instructor taught us rhythmic moves, how should our body properly move along the beat, and the emphasis we give in our body movements. At the end of the day, the instructor prepared as music that we can dance to. Then, her evaluation began. I passed her evaluation which even impressed him. He asked me if I am attending dance classes before I became a trainee.

I just answered him that I was a club member in my primary and middle school. He praised me on how I moved like a professional, which I just politely nodded. Too much praises can make me cringe, and I don't want to gain more attention than what I have now. That will just create unnecessary troubles for me. But I wanted to stay competitive. I'll be out of the competition if I stay timid. Every trainee here dreams of becoming an idol like me. So while they are friends outside the agency, they become competitors when they train and evaluation.

It was the same for the singing instructor. Some were already sending envious gazes at me. So I just did what I can and completely ignored others. We both want the same thing, so we have to fight for it.

It went like that for a year. Those months reminded me on how harsh the path of being a trainee is. There were trainees who quit as they can't take the stress anymore, some kept failing the evaluations that the agency gave up on them and sent them home. Some even caused too much trouble that they were kicked out of the agency. This is the harsh reality of being a trainee. Not everyone was as dedicated as others are. Not everyone were hard working as what they thought they are. Some were just too weak under pressure and gave up.