Chapter 11

Chapter 11

“No, it is an animation song though!”

“Hey, Cha Seoha, if you’re going to refute do it with the instrument.”

Heo Junseong using the words I said earlier as is.

The words a kid says make me unnecessarily irritated.

“Ah! Come to think of it you don’t have an instrument? You can’t refute?”

“Ahahaha!”

“Uwahahaha!”

“Guitar won!”

“He won!”

The audience reacted strongly to Heo Junseong’s words.

“I have a voice as an instrument though? I can just say it?”

“Ooooo!”

“Wow! Cool!”

“As expected vocal!”

“Vocal won!”

Like that a short banter time continued further and we finished the session introductions in earnest.

The one with the most ment volume was Heo Junseong, but ironically the one who received the biggest cheers during introduction time was Kim Jihu.

The cool guy is popular after all.

Situation with only the last song left.

Unlike other songs it was a song put in with a clear intention so this song especially has to be done well.

What I confirmed while performing is that people filming us here and there were quite visible.

This next song has to go up somewhere no matter what.

Only then can I do this enjoyable stage together with Kang Min.

“Then we’ll let you hear the last song and withdraw.”

Expectation and regret flowed from the audience seats and the pre-recorded drum sound burst out.

While listening to the intro performance and waiting for my part, some thought flashed through my mind.

The thought that our meeting is fate comes, but that fate doesn’t necessarily come all at once, right?

Have to increase the number of trials.

“We’ll perform here next week too, no every week so please come see us!”

The audience who heard those words poured out cheers.

But the reactions of Heo Junseong, Lee Doyoung, and Kim Jihu were completely different.

“Hey! Who decided on their own!!”

* * *

“Thank you!”

After finishing even the last song we presented the first song as encore once more.

The students who were in front came to us and asked to take photos or asked for SNS accounts.

I familiarly granted their requests.

Lee Doyoung and Kim Jihu took photos with awkward expressions.

And unexpectedly Heo Junseong was quiet.

Ah, in this situation is it unexpected.

Pretending not to be interested for no reason, trying hard to act mature.

After the fan service ended like that the friends started organizing the equipment.

As expected vocal has little to do so it’s good.

“Ha...”

While organizing the cables Heo Junseong let out a sigh.

“Why?”

“I want to do it again.”

“Haha, it must have been fun.”

“And I want to do better.”

Soon he’ll be able to do better.

Behind Heo Junseong’s voice mixed with regret Lee Doyoung followed.

“I wish I had done a bit better too.”

“You did well, what.”

As soon as Lee Doyoung’s words ended Kim Jihu encouraged.

“I saw you again Lee Doyoung. And Heo Junseong you too.”

“What’s with you? Praising others and all?”

“I do it to guys worth praising. The problem is there aren’t guys worth it.”

“Ugh cold.”

“Thanks Jihu. Still, the greed coming is something I can’t help. You and Junseong and Seoha were all too cool today. But I still don’t seem to reach that.”

“Hey, Lee Doyoung, earlier you ran out on stage and played bass coolly so what are you worrying about so much? Just do it like this just like this. It was cool!”

“That was possible because Seoha helped.”

Lee Doyoung said looking at me.

Even though I suddenly threw him into the real thing he didn’t grumble and recognized the sincerity so I’m only grateful.

“Right, the reason we could do well was all because Cha Seoha designed the stage well.”

As expected Kim Jihu. Even at that moment analysis was possible.

“Heo Junseong too, Lee Doyoung too. You fixed the selection knowing everyone would grow like this, right? The performance situation too.”

“Well, I won’t deny it.”

“Wow... Kim Jihu you see that kind of thing too?”

“As expected Jihu is amazing.”

“It’s saying let’s listen well to Cha Seoha’s words from now on and do better stages.”

‘From now on’.

Kim Jihu is a guy who by personality if he doesn’t like it will leave the band without looking back.

From such a guy the words from now on came out.

“Yeah, let’s do well next time too!”

“Yeah! Next time I’ll practice a lot more and come!”

“Well, whatever.”

Glad the performance was fun.

To me it’s nothing special but to the guys it would have been a sudden experience.

Nevertheless the guys who followed well are thankful and I’m proud they did well.

“Yeah, let’s do better from now on!”

Before the performance started, the guys clearly couldn’t calm their trembling hearts saying they were nervous.

I soothed the guys saying that was excitement not nervousness but in fact I didn’t know well either.

But, seeing the guys enjoying like this.

That seems to have been the excited emotion.

* * *

The place we rented the equipment needed for busking was Hyun’s Resonance.

Owner Jang Deokcheol rented the equipment for free when we said we were doing busking.

There are many things to repay here and there.

“Uncle, we used it well.”

“Yeah, did the performance go well?”

“So-so.”

“Yeah? Seeing the good expressions everyone seems to have done well.”

The guys were still excited and chattering about what songs they want to do next.

Everyone is probably recalling the audience they saw today in their heads.

“If you’re going to perform again later come borrow. Since it’s not being used anyway use it freely.”

“Thank you. Later I’ll bring something delicious.”

“Enough, just work hard.”

A veteran who helps newbies this purely.

Grateful but the thought also came of how fun he must be watching us.

Have to grow more and increase the viewing taste.

“Yeah, now is everyone going home?”

“No, we’re going to eat hamburgers in front here and go.”

“You mean the store right in front. Eat deliciously and go in carefully.”

“Yes, goodbye.”

“Um, are you guys not gathering more friends?”

“Friends? What friends?”

“Uh, never mind. Go in carefully.”

“Uh... yes, goodbye.”

* * *

After the guys returned Jang Deokcheol was immersed in thought.

Can skill increase that much already.

When he first saw Heo Junseong he thought it was a bit better level for a high school student.

But in the appearance shown in the recent busking he was showing off star quality that decent pros could show.

There was a tendency to show off a bit but it’s a necessary attitude for a band’s guitarist.

Lee Doyoung was a guy who would become an excellent artist.

A guy who knew how to put meaning in each sound and a guy who knew how to ponder.

Confidence looked a bit low but that was because of caution.

Like choosing appropriate words when speaking, finding appropriate expression methods.

That time will shorten as time passes and when that time comes Lee Doyoung will have become a monster.

Kim Jihu’s skillfulness went without saying.

Lee Doyoung and Heo Junseong were excellent too but not to the degree of catching up to Kim Jihu yet.

And Cha Seoha standing at the center.

In Jang Deokcheol’s thought that high school band was a band that would draw a thick line in the Republic of Korea band scene in the future but it wasn’t completed yet.

Because there was no drummer.

While thinking that someone opened the door of Hyun’s Resonance and entered.

“Oh, you’re back?”

“Yes.”

“How was it?”

“Where are they now?”

* * *

If it weren’t for Heo Junseong I would have eaten a different menu.

“Doyoung, did you order the cola as zero cola?”

“No?”

“...Hmm.”

Cha Seoha spat a short sigh but since everyone worked hard today he decided to let it pass without particular words.

Lee Doyoung, Kim Jihu, and Heo Junseong didn’t stop talking about the performance that happened today even while munching hamburgers.

Praising each other, pointing out regrettable parts, and resolutions to do better next time came and went.

While conversing for a long time such talk came out.

“Ha, I want to do it again.”

“Doyoung you were the first performance, right?”

“Yeah, right. I didn’t know it would be this fun.”

“Did confidence come a bit?”

“Thanks to.”

In Lee Doyoung’s answer of ‘thanks to’ numerous scenes were contained.

From when he said let’s do the band together, when he let him hear a good song.

All the scenes when practicing all together and when he dragged him out to the center of the stage in today’s performance.

All those scenes brushed the memory and he could chew on and feel the enjoyment he was feeling now and the confidence he regained.

“Heo Junseong, you had done performances a bit before?”

“No.”

“What, you did busking before too.”

“Is that kind of thing a performance? This is a performance! I was reborn as a body that did a performance for the first time today!”

“Hey, this... Embarrassing. Lower your voice a bit.”

A pose that would come out in a manga and a large voice.

Kim Jihu was sincerely embarrassed by such Heo Junseong.

“Now I kind of understand. Until now I only concentrated on playing but now I think I know what matching harmony is.”

“Yeah, you grow little by little like that.”

Members who were learning a lot from today’s performance.

Objectively speaking there are still many lacking points, but for now this was enough.

We were still an incomplete band, and only growth remained ahead.

Because today’s successful memory will become the driving force that moves us forward.

“Hey, Cha Seoha but shouldn’t we start looking for a drummer now? The sound is a bit plain so it’s regrettable.”

“Seoha do you have someone in mind this time?”

“Someone in mind...”

Only one person comes to mind for Cha Seoha.

He didn’t have a good sense of where and how to find Kang Min.

It would be good if he at least knew where and what he was doing around now.

At the very least it would be good if he went to school but he remembers the guy is a dropout.

There’s no way for now.

Let’s think carefully slowly.

“Not yet. By the way Doyoung.”

“Yeah?”

“Are you going to eat all those fries?”

“Yeah, Seoha want me to give you some?”

“No, not that... You eat a lot.”

It seemed our long day would finish like this.

“Excuse me.”

Until someone suddenly appeared and spoke, that is.

“You are...”

I was so surprised I thought my heart would flip.

The hamburger I was eating felt like it was getting stuck but I have to stay calm now.

“...Who are you?”

“Ah, I’m a person who was watching the performance earlier.”

“Ah, is that so. Hello.”

I don’t know Kang Min right now.

I have to pretend not to know.

But this was my mistake.

“Who are you, Cha Seoha you...”

“Seoha this is a bit not.”

“To think we elected this kind of guy as leader.”

The three guys’ reactions were strange.

“It’s Kang Min!”

Did these guys know Kang Min?