Superstar From Age 0 - Chapter 1175



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0 years old to superstar episode 1175

The next day.

Lee Jae-ha and Choi Dong-hyun came out of the room and looked at each other with slightly embarrassed expressions.

Choi Dong-hyun looked disheveled as if he hadn’t slept well the night before, and Lee Jae-ha, although he looked fine on the outside because he was a soul, seemed a bit complicated.

“Even ghosts sleep late.”

“I guess you didn’t sleep well either, hyung.”

One person woke up later than usual and one soul soon smiled and spent the morning as usual.

It was because both of them were still in a state of confusion to talk about the story they couldn’t finish last night.

As always, we had a late breakfast with classical music playing in the background. Choi Dong-hyun sat in front of the computer, and Lee Jae-ha spent time stacking Jenga, which was always on the table (it was only removed when guests came). They both seemed to be thinking a lot.

Even after a light lunch, only classical music could be heard softly at the errand center.

At that time, Choi Dong-hyun, who had been looking at the monitor, opened his mouth.

“Lee Jae-ha, are you really not going back?”

Lee Jae-ha, who was fiddling with the Jenga pieces and placing them on top of the tower, froze at the unexpected question. Of course, he was still anxious, thinking, ‘When will Dong-hyun hyung ask?’, but when he actually asked, he realized it a little late.

Still, the answer came quickly, as if the night’s thought had been worth it.

“Yes. I don’t want to go back.”

Choi Dong-hyun turned his head and saw Lee Jae-ha sitting on the sofa.

“It seems like you’ve been worrying all night too. If you’ve been worrying, doesn’t that mean you want to live?”

If I had made up my mind, I wouldn’t have even thought about it.

Lee Jae-ha flinched. It wasn’t entirely wrong. He also felt a slight desire to turn back.

Choi Dong-hyun got up from his seat and sat across from Lee Jae-ha. Lee Jae-ha looked a little nervous.

It was time to talk seriously.

“Go back. Go back and play the piano and listen to music in good health.”

Choi Dong-hyun, who figured out Lee Jae-ha, said.

“If this continues, I will ascend to heaven every few days, playing the old piano at the old orphanage, and not being able to play even one song perfectly. After ascending to heaven, I will forget everything about this world. The piano, and music. I want to keep playing the piano.”

Lee Jae-ha lowered his head and looked at his two hands, sometimes pressing the keys and sometimes passing them by.

“that’s right.”

It was nice to play around on the old piano, but there were many times when I wanted to play a whole song properly.

How empty it is when you are absorbed in playing the piano and there is no sound. Also, I couldn’t stay at the old orphanage that was located far away with Choi Dong-hyun for more than a few hours.

“Just a few more times. Just a few hours. That’s how long I’ll be able to play the piano.”

Lee Jae-ha said with a voice full of sadness.

“I also feel regretful and sad. I want to play the piano a little longer and more.”

I swallowed back the tears that threatened to come out and continued speaking.

“But I hate playing at home, in front of my father. Just thinking about it makes me feel suffocated.”

Choi Dong-hyun, who had been looking at her with pity, hardened his face.

“Then get out of the house. You’re an adult. Come out, work, and play the piano wherever you want. That’s fine.”

Choi Dong-hyun spoke with sincerity.

“If it’s the Jaeha Lee I know, it’s something he could definitely do.”

Isn’t he a lively, energetic, and humorous guy on the subject of ghosts?

His personality was also kind and bright enough to get along well anywhere.

“… … That’s what my brother said, right?”

Lee Jae-ha laughed bitterly.

“Ghosts are said to think and act only for themselves because they have nothing to do with them. I am the same way. I can act however I want because I don’t have a father or a home.”

The limits that were restraining his mind were released, and he became ‘the current Lee Jae-ha’.

“But what happens when you go back to your body?”

Jaeha Lee, who has a scary father, a stuffy house, always-watching eyes, and a life to live, was destined to become entangled again.

“That’s scary, bro.”

The more I learned about freedom and love, the more scared I became.

It was clear that the frustration that I had felt as much as 1 in the past would now feel as much as 100.

Choi Dong-hyun understood Lee Jae-ha’s feelings.

There is a reason why people say ignorance is bliss. However, there is also a saying that knowledge is power.

“It’ll be okay. Jaeha, you know how to live to be happiest.”

And Lee Jae-ha was a person who could work towards that.

“… … What if I forget?”

Lee Jae-ha said in an anxious voice.

The dark and quiet night before had pushed Jaeha Lee into endless agony.

“What if, what if… … I go back to how I was, and forget everything that happened, like a dream, as if I had forgotten that I was dead?”

The times I played the piano happily, the times I went out with my brother, the times I played the piano on the street, the times when the client’s family prayed for my safe ascension, and the times I spent at the errand center, all of it.

“Will I be able to remember my memories from when I was a spirit if I go back?”

There, Choi Dong-hyun could only hold his breath.

I never thought I’d forget, but it didn’t seem like it was completely impossible.

Lee Jae-ha spoke as if crying to Choi Dong-hyun, who was silent.

“I hate that even more.”

The time that seemed like a dream is now forgotten like a dream.

“I woke up and didn’t know anything. I just felt a little frustrated and scared like before, and I’ll continue living like that.”

I would have thought that Lee Jae-ha would not be such a bad person.

That was horrible.

“… … You will remember. And you will leave home.”

“No. You wouldn’t remember. And even if you did, you wouldn’t leave the house.”

A stupid coward who only listens to his father.

“I know myself best.”

Lee Jae-ha spoke to himself with his watery eyes shining fiercely as if making a promise.

“That’s why I’m not going back. Never.”

Choi Dong-hyun couldn’t think of what to say to Lee Jae-ha’s firm answer.

No reason will be heard by Lee Jae-ha now.

“Alive.”

So I just blurted out what was on my mind.

“I want you to live, Jaeha.”

Lee Jae-ha looked at Choi Dong-hyeon with trembling eyes.

“It’s okay if you forget everything, and if you have a hard time, I’ll help you… … Live. Live and play the piano as freely as you want, as much as you want. Live while meeting pianists you like and making good friends. I hope you do that.”

But there was no answer in return.

Choi Dong-hyun hoped that Lee Jae-ha would think again and make a good decision.

‘or not…….’

Physical force should be used as a last resort.

I was thinking of taking him unconscious or dragging him by the collar.

It would be ugly to see Choi Dong-hyun holding onto empty air, and it would be a nuisance to his younger brother to sneak into someone else’s hospital room without permission, but it would be okay since he was saving a person. It seemed like his younger brother was shouting “It’s not okay!!” from somewhere, but it would be an illusion.

After finishing his story, Choi Dong-hyun went back to the computer, and Lee Jae-ha fiddled with Jenga with an expression that seemed to be thinking, but also not.

Some time passed.

The heavy atmosphere returned to normal.

Both of them wanted to postpone the decision until the very end. Jae-ha and Dong-hyun hoped that Hyung would change his mind.

“An article has been published.”

Choi Dong-hyun, who was looking at the monitor, straightened his posture.

“What article is it?”

“Yes, sir. I heard you were hospitalized after a car accident.”

Lee Jae-ha, who didn’t even realize that the Jenga tower he had built with difficulty was about to fall over, quickly walked over to where Choi Dong-hyun was and stuck his face in the monitor.

“Pianist Lee Jae-ha, traffic accident… … .”

“Do you remember?”

Lee Jae-ha shook his head.

“… … No. Not at all.”

The two slowly read the article.

It said that he had been hit by a car traveling at a fairly high speed in an alley, fell down, and suffered a blow to his leg and head, and has not yet regained consciousness.

“alley?”

Lee Jae-ha tilted his head.

This was because it was not a place that Lee Jae-ha, who mostly practiced at home except when attending special lectures or going to competitions (and even then, he traveled by car), would go to.

“Do you think you’ll remember it if you go?”

“Well, I don’t know.”

Choi Dong-hyun checked the time, got up from his chair, and grabbed his outerwear.

Lee Jae-ha opened his eyes wide.

“Brother, are you going?”

“Let’s go and get some fresh air. It’ll be frustrating if you don’t remember either.”

It seems like the story we talked about earlier still lingered in his mind.

Lee Jae-ha also had similar thoughts, so he nodded and followed Choi Dong-hyun, who was picking up his car keys.

“But do you know where it is, hyung?”

“I think I know when I see the photos from the accident scene.”

After a while.

Lee Jae-ha and Choi Dong-hyun arrived at the alley where the accident occurred.

“There’s nothing unusual… … .”

It was just an ordinary alley you would see anywhere.

There didn’t seem to be any buildings or events related to piano or classical music nearby.

“But why did you come here?”

“I have to find out from now on.”

While Lee Jae-ha was looking around the alley, Choi Dong-hyun, who had been looking around the alley, noticed a supermarket on one side and his eyes lit up. He then skillfully entered the supermarket, bought some things, and chatted with the supermarket owner at the checkout. Naturally, the topic was about the traffic accident he had had a few weeks ago.

“I saw it briefly as I was passing by, but the person who got into the accident was a woman, right?”

“No, it was a man!”

The supermarket owner, who was completely fooled by Choi Dong-hyun’s lies, threw up his hands.

“A student was walking alone when a car came by.”

“I knew I’d cause an accident someday, that car! It’s in an alley and it doesn’t even slow down.”

A nearby resident who was hungry for a conversation partner also joined in.

“Oh my. You must have been badly hurt.”

Lee Jae-ha approached Choi Dong-hyun, who was talking nonsense, and listened to his story.

But you walked alone? Without your father?

No, if my father had been there, he would have taken the car. Then there wouldn’t have been an accident.

“It seems like he was less hurt than I thought. The bag he was holding acted as a cushion.”

“You were carrying a bag too. I thought you were going on a trip.”

“Travel? I thought you were a runaway student?”

At that, Lee Jae-ha and Choi Dong-hyun stopped.

And then I opened my eyes wide as a thought occurred to me.

After quickly greeting the two people who were talking about traveling and running away from home, Choi Dong-hyun and Lee Jae-ha came out of the supermarket.

Lee Jae-ha’s expression was blank.

“therefore…….”

Lee Jae-ha of the past, who felt frustrated and afraid but was unable to take action.

The Lee Jae-ha of the past was evaluated by the current Lee Jae-ha as a stupid coward who only listened to his father.

“So you ran away from home?”

It was she who had the courage to leave her father, even though she had never experienced freedom after death.

It was a story that was simply unbelievable.

That my past self was such a courageous person.

Choi Dong-hyun smiled and said as he looked at Lee Jae-ha, who was feeling so overwhelmed that he didn’t know how to express it in words.

“I told you, you can do it.”

Lee Jae-ha smiled and said with a face that had suddenly become pale.

“That’s right. I thought I knew myself best… … .”

Actually, I didn’t know that.

Lee Jae-ha is a great person who goes to find freedom even though he doesn’t know freedom.

“Then I’ll ask you again. Are you really not going back?”

Lee Jae-ha laughed at Choi Dong-hyun’s playful question.

“No. I’ll go back.”

Whether he remembered or not, I began to believe that Jaeha Lee would somehow find freedom and happiness.

So there’s no reason not to go back.

I’m going to go back and play the piano longer and more while I’m still alive.

“I have to go back, bro.”

Lee Jae-ha smiled brightly as he thought about the life and future he would face again.

***

Two nurses were talking as they walked down the hallway.

“I saw him this morning and he was really handsome.”

The nurse in charge frowned slightly and shuddered.

“I find it a little creepy. He just stays still and doesn’t say anything.”

“It’s better if you behave, right?”

The nurse who had said that saw off the patient and stood in front of the patient’s room.

[Lee, E.H.]

This was the patient who woke up this morning.

I knocked and opened the door to the hospital room, and I saw a man wearing a hospital gown sitting on a bed. I was drawn to his white hands and handsome face, perhaps because he was a pianist. But after hearing what my classmate said, I felt strangely cold.

‘It must be my imagination.’

The nurse shrugged and went about her business.

The man sat quietly.

After the nurse had finished her work and left, and after the untouched dinner was returned, she sat still.

It was a dark night when even the moon was hidden by clouds that the man moved.

Car camping-

The man got out of bed and walked barefoot without even putting on slippers, towards the mirror hanging on one side of the hospital room.

Then, he looked at his face in the mirror with his extremely black eyes as if he was looking at something unfamiliar, and raised the corners of his mouth.

It was an eerie smile that made my heart shiver just by looking at it.