Superstar From Age 0 - Chapter 1172



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0 years old to superstar episode 1172

“You… Why are you here?”

Choi Dong-hyun looked at Lee Jae-ha with eyes filled with astonishment.

Lee Jae-ha, who had been applauding enthusiastically in return for the wonderful performance, blinked.

“? My brother brought you here, right?”

“No, that’s not it… … .”

Choi Dong-hyun opened his mouth wide at the sight of his black eyes filled with doubt, then quickly washed his face dry. Judging from the fact that he could even communicate, it seemed like it wasn’t a fantasy, but the real Lee Jae-ha. Of course, Lee Jae-ha was a fantasy in and of himself.

“So… … you just disappeared for a moment a little while ago?”

Lee Jae-ha, who was wondering why Choi Dong-hyun was like that, opened his eyes wide at those words.

“… …Me?”

“okay.”

Lee Jae-ha was startled by the sight of Choi Dong-hyun nodding with a deep sigh and quickly looked at his own body. It seemed like he had no idea that his own body had disappeared.

“I was just sitting here the whole time listening to the performance?”

It’s still so vividly alive(?).

At Lee Jae-ha’s words, Choi Dong-hyeon also looked into Lee Jae-ha’s condition.

Just a little while ago, I prayed in my heart for the soul of Jaeha Lee who had disappeared and for him to live happily in the next life, and I also felt sorry for the empty space, but Jaeha Lee looked completely fine. He looked so fine that it made Choi Donghyun lose all of his energy.

“……I know.”

Choi Dong-hyun, who had been startled by Lee Jae-ha’s reappearance and had straightened up, leaned back against the back of his chair with a slightly embarrassed expression. He remembered saying goodbye to Lee Jae-ha, who had disappeared. Fortunately, he had only said it in his head. If he had said it out loud, it would have been a disaster. Lee Jae-ha must have heard it all.

“Were you worried, hyung?”

Lee Jae-ha, who was examining his own condition, opened his eyes slightly wide at the sight of Choi Dong-hyun, then smiled faintly. Then he asked teasingly.

“Don’t worry. I came here to help you ascend.”

Rather than being worried, I was just a little disappointed.

That’s why Choi Dong-hyun was a little happy to talk to Lee Jae-ha again.

On the one hand, I was worried.

“It was clearly gone.”

Choi Dong-hyun looked at Lee Jae-ha with eyes filled with worry and concern. Judging from his experience so far, it was certain that Lee Jae-ha had disappeared a moment ago. He didn’t feel the ghostly atmosphere at all.

“Is something wrong?”

At that, Lee Jae-ha’s expression also became a little more serious.

“It won’t be a big deal. It may just be that the momentum wasn’t enough to ascend.”

Choi Dong-hyun spoke lightly, as if to reassure Lee Jae-ha.

Of course, my heart wasn’t light.

If there was a god that Choi Dong-hyun served or if there was information about the afterlife, he might have been able to know this and that, but the only thing Choi Dong-hyun knew was physical exorcism.

Still, I knew very well that it was not good for a dead person to remain in this world for a long time.

I am rational now, but if a little more time passes, I might become a demon.

It was not the time to feel regret.

Lee Jae-ha had to be promoted.

Of course, even if you search hastily, you won’t find a solution right away, so I thought I should take my time and think about it.

“Still, it’s fortunate that I know how to do it. I didn’t get this kind of reaction when I played the piano.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Lee Jae-ha nodded in agreement with Choi Dong-hyun’s words.

“I think I should go to another contest. Do you remember anything? Was there anything you were preparing for after this one?”

Lee Jae-ha rolled his eyes at that question and thought,

“Oh, there is. After a while… … .”

When I was about to say that.

Choi Dong-hyun coughed in vain and pretended to move busily.

Jaeha Lee, who was wondering about this, noticed the surrounding situation.

When the audience seats got brighter and the competition was over, there were audience members who got up from their seats and left the concert hall. Some of them looked at Choi Dong-hyun, who was talking to himself. Of course, it wasn’t a problem because he was wearing wireless earphones, but it seemed a little strange because Choi Dong-hyun’s eyes were on the empty seat next to him.

Even in the crowded mart, Choi Dong-hyun was trying hard to appear normal while covering for Lee Jae-ha who was wandering around here and there. It seemed that he was so embarrassed by Lee Jae-ha’s disappearance and reappearance that he didn’t even think about what other people thought.

“Don’t look at me anymore, hyung.”

“……under.”

As Lee Jae-ha spoke with a big laugh, Choi Dong-hyun, who was fiddling with his outerwear and tapping on his cell phone, let out a small sigh as if relieved.

“Let’s go back now.”

“Yes. Can I play the piano at the old orphanage on the way, hyung? Seeing other people playing the piano makes me want to play too!”

“I guess I have to go back a bit. Okay, I guess.”

Maybe I will ascend to the top with the synergy of the concours and piano.

Choi Dong-hyun, who was thinking about how to make Lee Jae-ha ascend once again, and Lee Jae-ha, who was thinking about which song to play, got up from their seats and went out of the concert hall.

In the lobby, people who appeared to be family and acquaintances of the participants were waiting for them.

“I’m going to the bathroom.”

“Yes! I’ll wait here!”

As Choi Dong-hyun walked toward the bathroom, Lee Jae-ha went to the corner of the lobby and waited for Choi Dong-hyun.

Of course, there was no problem waiting in the middle of the lobby since no one could see or touch it, but it didn’t feel very good to have people passing through your body.

“You did a great job today, daughter!”

“Don’t you think you made a mistake?”

“What a mistake! You were really good at it!”

The contestants were seen receiving bouquets from their families. The results would be announced later, but the contestants’ faces looked relaxed at the thought that they had safely completed the competition.

Lee Jae-ha looked at the appearance of such pianists.

I have received flower bouquets many times.

He also expressed gratitude for liking his playing, although he did not know if that was true.

However, Jaeha Lee wanted to receive a bouquet like that from someone close to him rather than someone he didn’t know.

For example, parents or friends.

Well, my father isn’t the kind of person who would do that and I don’t have any friends, so it might be difficult.

“… …Should I ask Donghyun hyung for it?”

I think we’ve become quite close.

Perhaps even more so than the father I lived with my entire life.

“Maybe that will be the turning point for ascension.”

Lee Jae-ha smiled faintly as he thought of Choi Dong-hyun, who was going to buy him a bouquet while looking puzzled.

And I thought.

Next time I leave, let’s make sure to say goodbye.

♪-♬-

While I was waiting for a while, humming, Choi Dong-hyun came back.

But he had a strangely absent-minded expression.

“What’s wrong, bro?”

“… … No. Nothing.”

Choi Dong-hyun said, then returned with a normal face.

“Let’s go. You said you wanted to play the piano, right?”

I was puzzled for a moment.

At the mention of the piano, Lee Jae-ha quickly nodded his head with an excited expression.

***

The next day after the contest was held.

Choi Dong-hyun has been busy since dawn.

I sat in front of the computer and typed away on the keyboard for a while, but as soon as people started coming to work and getting active, I left the office, saying I had something to do.

“Brother! Make sure to eat breakfast!”

“okay!”

If you leave home without even eating breakfast, you must be really busy.

“I don’t need to eat it… … .”

I’m not saying you’ll die if you skip a meal, but I’m a little worried. It seems like you have some concerns.

“It seems like something happened yesterday.”

I said it was nothing, but it wasn’t true.

“It’s something that could have happened at a concours… … .”

I couldn’t quite imagine it.

Dong-Hyeon hyung isn’t a pianist, so there was no way there would have been a problem.

“Then what the heck is it?”

Lee Jae-ha lay down on the sofa while thinking about this and that. It was now like his assigned seat. Classical music was flowing out of the speakers. No matter how busy he was, he seemed to have the presence of mind to think of Lee Jae-ha, who would be bored if he was only at the errand center.

“He’s a good brother.”

please.

I hope it wasn’t a big deal.

Time passed.

Out of boredom, Jaeha Lee cleaned up the errand center here and there (after a lot of trial and error) and built a Jenga tower in a strange shape that was enough to make people exclaim in awe (this also took a lot of trial and error).

When I was thinking, ‘Hey, maybe he’s not coming in today?’, Choi Dong-hyun came back.

“brother!”

Lee Jae-ha greeted Choi Dong-hyun with a happy face.

However, unlike Lee Jae-ha, who had a cheerful expression on his face, Choi Dong-hyun’s face was pale and bloodless, as if he was shocked. Also, his eyes, which were examining Lee Jae-ha from head to toe, looked urgent.

“… … Dong-hyun hyung?”

Lee Jae-ha blinked.

Choi Dong-hyun grabbed Lee Jae-ha’s shoulders with both hands. His hands were shaking slightly.

“Lee Jae-ha! You, you! Why didn’t you say anything?”

“What, what?”

“… … Surely, you didn’t know either?”

Lee Jae-ha, who was bewildered by Choi Dong-hyun’s words that he could not understand at all, just blinked.

Then, Choi Dong-hyun realized that Lee Jae-ha really didn’t know.

‘How could you not know this, you idiot… … !’

Choi Dong-hyun opened his mouth wide. He had a lot to say, but he couldn’t get it out. He didn’t even know where to start. Only after Lee Jae-ha’s face turned into a mixture of doubt and anxiety did Choi Dong-hyun open his mouth as if he was sighing.

“You… … weren’t dead.”

“……yes?”

“Lee Jae-ha, you’re still alive!”

Lee Jae-ha stopped breathing.

***

Choi Dong-hyun heard that story as he was coming out of the bathroom at the competition venue.

I didn’t intend to listen in on other people’s conversations, but when Lee Jae-ha’s name was mentioned, I couldn’t help but listen in.

“But why didn’t Lee Jae-ha participate?”

Looking at the large camera, I thought he was probably a reporter.

“It seemed like the rich couple risked their lives in the contest.”

Since he is already dead, there is no way he can participate.

But Choi Dong-hyun answered in his mind that he saw the contest even after he died, and that he almost(?) ascended to heaven.

‘Come to think of it… … .’

Choi Dong-hyun, who had been smiling faintly, suddenly stopped moving as a thought occurred to him.

Lee Jae-ha was famous.

The general public may not even know the names of internationally recognized pianists or pianists who don’t often appear in the news, but Jaeha Lee, a skilled player who wins every time in the piano world, was bound to be famous.

There were quite a few articles about Choi Dong-hyun, to the point where you could find out his rough history with just a few searches.

‘But… …there was no obituary.’

It was the death of a talented young pianist who might one day become world famous.

There should have been quite a few articles, even if not enough to fill the entire column.

But there wasn’t a single one.

Not a single one.

That means Lee Jae-ha’s father hid Lee Jae-ha’s death,

“It’s not that I didn’t do it, it’s that I couldn’t do it. He was in a car accident and is currently unconscious.”

The point was that Lee Jae-ha wasn’t dead yet.

“What? When?”

“It’s been a few weeks. The article will probably come out soon. It wasn’t published until now because of my parents’ request.”

“Why did your parents do that?”

“I guess you thought you’d wake up before the contest.”

‘Wow. So you were planning to send him straight to the contest? Without even letting him recover?’ The reporter’s words of shock passed by my ears, but I didn’t have the presence of mind to listen to them.

‘Lee Jae-ha, was he alive?’

At that moment, the image of Lee Jae-ha, who had disappeared completely without a trace just a moment ago, came to mind.

Choi Dong-hyun’s face turned pale as he opened his mouth wide.

Maybe then.

Lee Jae-ha may not have really known that he almost died.