“Uh, huh?”
Startled by Roi’s voice, Hojin hurriedly hid his phone and turned around.
“Ew, what?”
He stamred and looked around, clearly embarrassed.
“What was that just now?”
“What, what was what?”
When Roi glared silently, Hojin’s head sank.
“You saw it? I’m sorry...”
Does he think I’m angry? I was a bit thrown, but not angry. I’m used to my photos circulating online without my knowledge. I was just curious why Hojin got famous for pictures of . Eighty thousand followers for an ordinary person is influencer level. And it looked like only five photos were posted.
“Well, it’s like this...”
Hojin hesitated, and Taeeon and Yeonwoo glanced over.
“What is it? Why the moodiness?”
“Hojin, are you okay? Is sothing bothering you?”
Hojin shook his head, then squeezed his eyes shut and held out his phone.
“I’m sorry! I just felt bad you got edited out, so I did it without thinking.”
Edited out? Taken aback by that fact, Roi coughed.
“But I didn’t post any with your face showing properly. I didn’t even tag your na, so no one knows it’s you...”
Roi, who had been quiet until now, quietly took the phone. The posted photos were just screenshots from the Episode 2 preview, all side profiles. Yet each post had—
“Three thousand comnts?!”
His firepower rivaled an idol. Comnts were still pouring in.
Since you revealed more pictures, could you please post a front view too? ㅠㅠ
Let’s watch together, butler...
More cat photos please ㅜㅜ
I believe you’ll post more if “One-Second Cat” appears again today♡
What’s “One-Second Cat”? I monitored Episode 1, but thought I’d been fully cut, so I never searched. Only now did I learn they’d nicknad “One-Second Cat.” And who’s the butler? Roi looked at Hojin expectantly. Hojin blushed and explained.
“They all say you’re my cat... When I posted your pictures, they started calling the butler.”
So he enjoyed that. I knew he was crazy about cats, but never thought he’d apply it to too...
‘Ah. Gaslighting.’ Now I’d dug my own grave. Should I be the one apologizing instead of Hojin? Just then, a notification popped up at the top of the phone: a “One-Second Cat” keyword alert.
‘What’s this now?’
Feigning interest, I tapped it—and it opened another app.
[Title: One-Second Cat still fully edited? ㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
I’ve been holding out for One-Second Cat since the Episode 2 preview dropped ㅠㅠ Will they show today?
They secretly keep good stuff to themselves ㅅㅂ
Let us watch too.....
Just show the cat’s front once and we’ll handle the rest, please
Even a one-second side shot dominates the real-ti search; can’t imagine what a front shot would do
Every comnter’s profile picture was my face—yet only side views.
‘No wonder they didn’t recognize in Hongdae.’
That betrayer Park Junseo. He promised to make a star but fully edited out, while Hojin was quietly helping behind the scenes. Roi handed back the phone and patted Hojin’s shoulder.
“Good job, hyung! From now on, post tons of my pics here. Let’s just tweak the tags.”
The forr top-tier idol eagerly coached him on editing hashtags. I didn’t even care about the broadcast anymore. It looked like I was going to be cut again today. I decided that tomorrow at the set, I’d march straight to Junseo and demand answers. Another keyword alert sounded.
[Title: One-Second Cat I will have you]
Right after the broadcast ended, they said on the official site a self-intro video would go up. Two hundred and two views? I’ll find it.
Finally!!!
Please show the front
If the self-intro is just side shots again, I’m going to M company
A self-intro video? Perfect timing. If Junseo cut my screen ti again today, I was ready to steal airti by force to boost [N O V E L I G H T] engagent. Then,
“Hey! Poop-puppy, you’re on! You!”
Yeonwoo suddenly fussed and shook Roi’s arm. Looking up, I saw my back as I selected the sea terrain.
[Last Contestant #202’s Evaluation!]
A drone shot captured entering the safe zone—a white-shirted pretty boy against blue sky and sea. Then, as my face was about to close up—
Vrrr, vrrr, vrrr—
Hojin’s phone started vibrating like crazy. The One-Second Cat alerts had exploded.
“Hey, soone’s calling?”
Taeeon looked around for the source of the sound, then realized it was Hojin’s phone.
“Hojin, I think soone’s calling—”
He couldn’t finish. At Yeonwoo’s “poop-puppy” remark, Hojin’s scratch faded. Overjoyed at the cat’s TV debut, he covered his mouth and wept. Taeeon thought: He really isn’t normal either.
✧
[Title: Current Real-Ti Trending 1–3]
1 위 : One-Second Cat Self-Intro
2 위 : One-Second Cat Grading
3 위 : Star Hero Episode 3 Preview (Thumbnail: One-Second Cat)
True perfection.
All-ti buzz king
That view count is insane lol
Why is the one who should be in an idol survival show acting like this there?
How did he get #1 trending for a self-intro...
└ Huge troll bait, hogs all the buzz lolol
Watched the whole vid—his style is on another level
I’m also awakened, but even in a virtual world, not just anyone can provoke a blood fiend en masse
Is he Level 2?
└ No wonder... he’s f ucking handso, damn
└ Unheard-of good looks
└ I heard he’s F-rank?
└ He’s not Level 2?
└ So is it true or not?
=====He’s not Level 2=====
[Title: Lee Roi is definitely Fire-elent... definitely...]
(flower petals and winking Roi.gif)
Set my heart ablaze
My house caught fire too
└ My mom’s group chat caught fire
└ Company group chat caught fire
└ My guild’s chat caught fire
└ Chicken shop caught fire (when Roi winked, the aunt at the next table rang a bell LOL thanks)
└ Shopping mall crashed (Roi’s shirt sold out too much traffic)
Why is the cat talking..?
No, his power is Sumr-elent, right? It was Sumr...
Thinking of him cutting paper with scissors to make flower petals with those small hands, I want to chew and swallow him whole
How can soone be that refreshing
Others are flying, crawling, striking, smashing and it’s chaos lol, but the purity of his face alone dominating buzz is incredible
Roi ≠ Second Level!!! Similar na and elent but so handso everyone thinks he’s Level 2—so annoying (BTW I’m from Bugak High)
└ He’s C-rank, guys ㅠ (I’m from Seogak High); feel bad for Bugak kids;;
└ 2222 Who dares pair him with “Blessed Second Level”?
Where’s the coordinates so we can swarm him and explode our inferiority complexes? lol
└ Seriously, it’s not about rank vs looks ㅠㅠ Even if he were Z-rank, I’d still stan
From today on, anyone who trash-talks One-Second Cat will get beaten, so watch out
PD Park was hiding the self-intro to explode it with Episode 2 haha you mad... give us the unreleased video!!!
Wow... look at those comnt counts
[Title: I know about survival shows]
Usually the loud ones in Episode 1 get eliminated—that’s the rule. But this Roi guy just won’t go down. His firepower is insane lol. Fire-elent seems right? Nothing hotter than this buzz.
That’s why you gotta be handso first
Who said rank = face
└ Want to see his parents’ faces
Did they even properly test the elental aptitude? That guy and Park Yeonwoo both got C?
└ They’re getting roasted for sloppy testing lolol two top-tier faces with those ranks...
└ Will they retest them both?
[Title: Elent Bureau is f cking trash]
They’re not just idiots; they’re complete morons. Don’t they know how to do their job? There are cases where ranks get corrected and they just hush it up. I bet 500 won that the uproar over Roi and Park Yeonwoo is because they’re victims of the Elent Bureau’s mistakes.
I heard corrected ranks are called “re-awakenings”
└ Did soone really think that was the neighbor kid’s na?
└ Lol, they said “re-awakening” to cover up their error
I’m Elent Bureau staff, I admit it. We do nothing. The $150 million machine from the US Bureau handles all the tests.
[Title: When does Star Hero voting start?]
Straight to the point
After the first selection round
[Title: Star Hero Bermuda Triangle]
Recognize Roi, Park Yeonwoo, Kim Taeeon? Your move to refute.
Episode 2 rating 16%. Peak 22% when Roi played tag with a blood fiend
Opening: Park Yeonwoo / Ending: Roi... Episode 2 was f ucking perfect. Gotta collect it
Seo Hyunwoo got wrecked lolol
└ He doesn’t know the face
Bermuda confird. Now I want those three to hang out
Curious how votes will go if those three team up lol Will voting begin this week?
[Title: Butler Kim’s InHeart update ㅠㅠ]
(heart-eyed Roi.jpg)
All photos on InHeart are posted with Roi’s permission, so don’t worry
Roi read all the comnts and said thank you, please love him more from now on ㅠㅠㅠ
The account will continue to be run by Butler Kim!
When I followed yesterday it was 80k, now it’s over 800k...
Butler Kim is insane, so jealous
Too handso ㅜㅜㅜ
Followers went from 80k to 800k in one day lololol
Transparent people...
Everyone’s taste is the saㅎㅎ
So, Butler Kim, what’s your cat up to now?ㅜㅜ
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