Title: I Was Isekai'd With My Wife and Now She's the Final Boss of the Fandom Author: H. Behevras Genre: Comedy, Isekai, Music, Married Protagonist, Parody Tags: #FinalBossWife #MetalheadMC #BoybandHell #TrashIsekaiButActuallyGenius
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Chapter 40: The Ballad That Broke the Internet". Part.1 (The Chart Domination)
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Three months after the Second Inquisition, Tealandia woke up to a phenomenon.
"Thank You... Ahjusii"
Had done something unprecedented in the kingdom's music history—it had knocked REQUIEM6 off the #1 spot.
Not through manufactured drama or corporate manipulation, but through sheer, raw emotional honesty that made grown adults cry in grocery stores and teenagers question their life choices.
The song was everywhere.
Enchanted mirrors played it on loop.
Street musicians attempted covers with varying degrees of success.
There were rumors that even the Royal Family had been caught humming it during state dinners.
At the REQUIEM6 dorms, the morning news played softly in the background as the members ate breakfast with the resigned energy of people who'd just been dethroned by a ballad.
"...the mysterious 'Ahjusii' referenced in the song has sparked a kingdom-wide detective game,"
The news anchor announced cheerfully.
"Fans have created elaborate theories about the identity of this mysterious figure who apparently saved rising solo artist Autumn from an unspecified darkness..."
Raiko choked on his coffee.
"You okay, hyung?" Eun asked innocently.
"Fine," Raiko wheezed, avoiding eye contact with literally everyone in the room.
"Just... hot coffee."
Jinwoo looked up from his laptop, where he'd been monitoring social media metrics.
"The hashtag #WhoIsAhjusii has generated more engagement than our last three comebacks combined."
"Maybe we should write a response song," Hyun-bin suggested.
"'Dear Mysterious Ahjusii, Please Stop Making Us Look Bad.'"
Taeyang nodded enthusiastically. "Or 'Ahjusii Stole Our Chart Position (And Our Hearts).'"
Raiko's eye twitched.
"The song analysis threads are fascinating,"
Minjun added, scrolling through his own enchanted mirror.
"Some fans think 'Ahjusii' is a metaphor for self-acceptance.
Others believe he's a guardian angel.
There's even a theory that he's actually the Ghost of Good Decisions."
"Ghost of Good Decisions," Raiko muttered. "That's... actually not wrong."
"What?" Eun blinked.
"Nothing. I said nothing. I don't know anything about any ahjusii or any cliffs or any—"
His mirror buzzed with a notification that made his blood run cold:
"BREAKING: Autumn and REQUIEM6 to perform at tonight's Royal Music Festival.
First time appearing at same event since solo debut."
The coffee cup slipped from his suddenly nerveless fingers.
It shattered on the floor like his hopes of anonymity.
"Hyung?" Minjun looked concerned. "You've gone very pale. And slightly green."
Raiko stared at the notification, his brain running through approximately seventeen different disaster scenarios.
All of which ended with him explaining to Noona why a famous idol had written a love ballad about their clifftop cigarette session.
"I'm fine," he said faintly. "Everything's fine. This is fine."
It was not fine.
It was the opposite of fine.
It was about to become a very public, very musical nightmare.
"Should we be worried?" Jinwoo asked.
"No," Raiko said, standing up with the mechanical precision of someone walking toward their own execution.
"You should be entertained."
He walked toward his room with the defeated posture of a man who'd just realized his good deed was about to become his public humiliation.
Behind him, five pairs of eyes exchanged looks that promised tonight would be absolutely legendary.
For all the wrong reasons.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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Author Note
Three months after all the chaos, Tealandia's charts aren't safe. Someone wrote a song that literally knocked REQUIEM6 off the top spot—and yes, it's heartfelt enough to make grown adults cry in grocery stores.
No spoilers, but the mysterious "Ahjusii" has fans running detective simulations. And one of our heroes is now having an existential crisis over being publicly "thanked" in ballad form.
Remember: saving lives is heroic. Being thanked in public via chart-topping ballads? Terrifying.
— H. Behevras
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