Superstar From Age 0 - Chapter 1164



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The elevator door opened.

Lee Jae-ha, who was following Choi Dong-hyun with his shoulders hunched, suddenly stopped when he saw the tightly closed front door and a thought occurred to him.

‘……uh?’

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I’m probably dead now, so people can’t see or hear me… ?

“… … But, Dong-hyun hyung.”

Choi Dong-hyun, who was pressing the door lock password at Lee Jae-ha’s call, looked back with a puzzled expression.

“If I’m really dead… … how did you rent this house, this Airbnb?”

Lee Jae-ha’s pupils were shaking greatly.

“ah…….”

Choi Dong-hyun opened the front door with a bitter smile.

“Let’s go in. I’ll tell you.”

***

Unlike Lee Jae-ha, whose world as he knew it was turned upside down, his home had not changed.

The piano, which made me feel good just by looking at it, and the Jenga game on one side of the living room showed how ordinary the days had been until now.

So Lee Jae-ha couldn’t believe it even more.

I couldn’t believe it, even though I experienced it over and over again that people didn’t see me.

‘You can play the piano like this too.’

Lee Jae-ha pressed the white piano keys with his fingers as always, thinking, “And I did it.”

But the sound that should have been heard was not heard.

“……uh?”

Lee Jae-ha’s body froze completely.

His already haggard face suddenly turned pale.

Lee Jae-ha forced his stiff body to sit down in front of the piano. Then, he placed both hands on it and pressed the white and black keys, and began to play as usual.

But the piano did not respond.

When I took a closer look at my hands that were trembling without me knowing, I saw that my fingers were passing through the keys without being able to press them.

Lee Jae-ha had no choice but to admit it.

That he was truly dead, and only his soul remained.

Choi Dong-hyun sat on the living room sofa and looked at the back of Lee Jae-ha sitting in front of the piano. The inaudible piano performance also weighed heavily on Choi Dong-hyun’s heart.

“Why… why can’t you play, hyung? I was definitely able to play just a moment ago… … .”

Lee Jae-ha grabbed my hand and turned around to look at Choi Dong-hyun.

The piano that was installed on the street was clearly played very well. People stood and watched.

no.

Were those really the people who stopped to listen to his playing?

For a moment, Lee Jae-ha’s eyes became dizzy.

“It was probably a poltergeist phenomenon.”

Choi Dong-hyun, who had been looking at Lee Jae-ha, whose face was filled with despair, opened his mouth.

“… … A poltergeist phenomenon?”

“Yes. It’s when something strange happens in a place where there is nothing, usually a bad smell, objects moving, or sounds.”

ah.

sound.

Lee Jae-ha looked at the piano with trembling eyes. And he thought back on his performances so far.

“Perhaps you were able to play by combining the power of sound and movement of objects.”

Choi Dong-hyun continued the explanation.

“Usually, poltergeist phenomena are caused by coincidences and people’s mistakes. People see curtains fluttering and think someone is there, or they think the reflection of light or the echo of sound coming from a drain pipe is a strange phenomenon and are afraid.”

Choi Dong-hyun spoke naturally, as if he had explained it several times.

“But sometimes, there are some that are ‘real’ among them.”

“Really, that means… … ?”

“Ghost.”

Seeing him speak with a serious expression, Lee Jae-ha felt that he finally understood who Choi Dong-hyun was.

“I’m talking about incidents caused by ghosts.”

“… … Like me?”

Choi Dong-hyun nodded slowly as if sighing at Lee Jae-ha’s dry voice.

“That’s right. And it’s my job to solve that case.”

“But you said you were an errand center employee.”

“That’s my main job, and this is a side job I do occasionally. It’s not like I get that much work.”

Choi Dong-hyun continued speaking with a bitter smile.

“And it was a lie that your father sent me. In fact, I came at the request of the owner of this house.”

“Are you the owner of this house?”

Lee Jae-ha looked around the house with a blank expression. Choi Dong-hyun continued his explanation.

“I’m talking about the new people who moved into this house.”

Choi Dong-hyun thought about the family that had come to him to ask for help.

The family, who had heard the story from acquaintances, seemed particularly vulnerable to ghosts and other paranormal phenomena and looked very haggard.

“I tried putting up talismans, going to church, and going to temples, but none of it worked… …!”

“Rather than increasing my anger, the piano music that used to be heard only at night began to be heard during the day as well… … .”

The family, who looked tired, spoke trembling.

I could tell at a glance how difficult it had been.

“If it’s piano playing… … there must be a story behind the piano. Did you buy it used or find it somewhere?”

Ghosts are often attached to things they were obsessed with in life (whether for good or bad). If you hear piano music, it’s probably a ghost attached to the piano this time.

“no.”

The son shook his head.

“I’ve been playing the piano since I was little. About 10 years ago.”

Choi Dong-hyun touched his chin.

“Then it seems like the house is the problem. Is there anyone dead there?”

“That’s not it. On the contrary, the previous owner’s family said they were all doing well and moved to a better house.”

After hearing that story, I was so excited that my family could be like that if they lived here, but it turned out to be a ghost.

The family felt like they had been hit in the back of the head.

“How about selling the house again?”

“… … I’m really considering that as a last resort.”

The husband and wife said, sobbing.

“It was our family’s first house, which we bought with great difficulty, saving up every penny.”

I thought the days of moving every few years, of going around asking landlords for the key money they’d raised, and of worrying about being scammed were finally over.

“I never thought something like this would happen… … .”

Underneath a glass window with a sticker that says [Errand Center].

A family sitting on a sofa that you would see anywhere spoke with heavy expressions.

“They say I have to do a good deed, but it’s too expensive… … So I came here. I heard that a relative of someone I know in the neighborhood solved a similar problem here.”

Just by looking at the way they spoke frankly, I could tell how ordinary and gentle this family was.

‘But I don’t intend to accept less.’

The incident with the relative of a friend I know was caused by a kitten that fell into a drain, but this incident seemed ‘real’.

“Okay, I’ll take your request.”

“! thank you!”

Choi Dong-hyun received the home address and door lock password from his delighted family.

So I came to this house and Jaeha Lee was there.

Unlike the ghosts that usually appear blurry, Lee Jae-ha’s appearance was so clear that even Choi Dong-hyun, who had seen many ghosts, mistook him for a living person.

However, since Choi Dong-hyun knew that the client’s family had packed up all their belongings and moved to a temporary residence, he was able to quickly figure out that the intruder in this house where no one should be present was a ghost.

“So I was a bit nervous.”

How powerful must a ghost be to be able to see it so clearly?

The living room lights, which the client’s family had clearly turned off before leaving the house, were still on, and the piano melody being played could be heard very clearly.

It couldn’t help but be eerie, considering that the sounds usually associated with ghosts are faint, fuzzy, noisy, and creepy.

Upon closer inspection, I saw that he was using his ‘ghost power’ to cause a poltergeist phenomenon and was pressing the piano keys very delicately.

‘… … Did I receive the wrong request?’

Should I run away?

As I was thinking about that, Lee Jae-ha opened his mouth and said, ‘I’m sorry, father.’

“It looks like you don’t even know you’re dead.”

As if he were a living person, he was playing the piano naturally, using a ‘strength’ he wasn’t even aware of.

ah.

Lee Jae-ha couldn’t even make a sound while listening to Choi Dong-hyun’s story.

“So, for now, I agreed with what you said.”

It would have been okay to just exorcise him, but seeing his body flinching at the word father and his innocent, young face happily playing the piano, Choi Dong-hyun thought that another method might be better.

“My exorcism method is a bit… … extreme.”

“Is it radical?”

Choi Dong-hyun smiled playfully at Lee Jae-ha’s blinking eyes and took something out of his pocket. It was a rosary bracelet with a cross on it and a wooden prayer bead. He held it like a knuckle.

“It’s a physical exorcism.”

“!”

Lee Jae-ha’s mouth fell open.

“You can’t beat a child who doesn’t even know he’s dead.”

“… …Thank you, hyung.”

Lee Jae-ha was truly grateful.

Choi Dong-hyun smiled slightly, put the rosary bracelet and prayer beads back into his pocket, and continued talking.

“And I’m not sure if I can exorcise you or not.”

This was the first time I saw a ghost that could see so clearly and handle its ‘force’ so delicately, so I couldn’t tell if it was strong or weak.

“But then I thought of the client’s family who said that it was their first home and they couldn’t just run away.”

At that time, Lee Jae-ha, who thought that Choi Dong-hyun was the person sent by his father, said that he would return in time for the contest.

From Choi Dong-hyun’s perspective, his intention to return was the same as his intention to ascend.

Concours.

Is this the foolishness of this ghost?

Choi Dong-hyun, who had been thinking for a while, said that he would stay here with Lee Jae-ha.

Although he doesn’t seem like a bad soul, it’s unclear what Jaeha Lee might do if he realizes he died while living alone.

“Ghosts don’t have physical bodies, so their emotions change frequently and are extreme.”

If it seemed dangerous, it had to be exorcised immediately.

I’m not sure if I can do it properly though.

“……I see.”

Lee Jae-ha looked around the house and thought of the owners of this house whose faces he didn’t even know.

“I was the one who kicked him out.”

The people he had chased away, the people who were actually alive, without even knowing they were dead.

“Airbnb… … .”

A hollow laugh escaped from his lips at his own absurd delusion.

I also felt really sorry for the people who had to live in the homes they had worked so hard to secure and who ended up having to move to temporary accommodations.

“You may not know, but ghosts usually do whatever they want. That’s why they sometimes stick to people who are similar to those they hold a grudge against, or they stay in places or objects they have a fondness for.”

Choi Dong-hyun spoke comfortingly.

“You were just like that. And you didn’t even know you were dead.”

Seeing Choi Dong-hyun talking like that, Lee Jae-ha thought of Choi Dong-hyun from the first day he met him.

I didn’t notice it at first because I was just thinking about spending an ordinary day with someone, but now that I think about it, those first few days were really stiff and frozen.

It was obvious that he was nervous about what he, a ghost, would do.

It broke my heart to realize that the time that was fun for me was a heavy and tense time for Choi Dong-hyun. I felt sorry.

“But… … why were you so kind to me, hyung?”

Lee Jae-ha’s voice became moist.

I was grateful, but I also felt a little resentful. There was no need to do that. I could have just exorcised him.

“I think that after you do everything you want to do, you will be able to ascend.”

Lee Jae-ha cried as he saw Choi Dong-hyun looking at him with a pitiful expression, thinking that he was indeed a soft-hearted brother.