KangYoon had a headache. To think he came back after all that insult… While KangYoon was grabbing his head to think of a solution to send him away, Lee JunYeol spoke.
“I thought about it a lot yesterday. Yes, your words are all correct. My voice changed and I didn’t put in effort. Smoke? I smoked like crazy to forget all that. People say that you should control evil with evil so I even believed in absurd thing like smoke can make me better. But the result is this.”
“……”
KangYoon narrowed his eyes. He didn’t understand what Lee JunYeol was saying right now. Is he confessing his sins or something? However he calmly listened.
“In the end, I started doing things as I wanted. My throat was becoming worse but I had loads of money. Playing around was fun. Women? I played around to the point of being fed up. Meeting women was so easy when I had the money. Rubbing and rolling around – I did everything I wanted to do at that time. But you now? The more I played around, I thought strange things. I’m a singer, a singer. I’m supposed to be singing but what is this? – things like this. And so I even recorded things.”
“What is it that you want to say?”
“I did record things, but the stages were all not to my liking. No, to say it correctly, I was afraid now that I was going to sing. My changed voice, wouldn’t people say something about it? Will it be alright? My heart was pounding. I was scared. My entire body trembled in fear.”
“……”
“However, a man should have face. How can I say this? And so I rejected all of them. I won’t do it. And I met you.”
“Then don’t do it. I’m not a catholic priest who listens to confessions.”
KangYoon felt like he was talking with a drunk man. He asked himself and he answered himself. He got excited by himself – Lee JunYeol was like that. KangYoon felt that he didn’t need to listen anymore and turned back.
But Lee JunYeol desperately clung to him.
“Hyun. I was wrong. Please make my stage.”
“……”
KangYoon doubted his ears. He blinked his eyes while thinking what he had just heard.
“Nobody said things like that to me. In fact, I also thought that I was probably a little worse than before but I never thought that I would fail. I just vaguely thought that this was wrong. However, you said the entire truth to me. I was angry at first, but when I thought about it, your words were all correct.”
“……”
“I’m scared to stand in front of my fans with this voice. However, if it’s you, if it’s you who told me about myself clearly and looked into me, helped, I think it’ll be possible. Help. I beg you.”
Lee JunYeol kneeled towards KangYoon who had his back towards him. He was serious. KangYoon was surprised at Lee JunYeol being so serious, but he didn’t show it on the surface. KangYoon calmly spoke.
“I already said yesterday. I want to invest my time and effort in something that has no possibility. And this industry is not as easy as you think it is, you won’t succeed just because you’ve changed your mind, you should know this, right?”
“Hyuuung…”
“Perhaps the God of Music could do it, but it will be difficult for me. If you truly changed, then you will be able to do well even by working with other people.”
KangYoon tapped Lee JunYeol’s shoulders and left for home. With the kneeling Lee JunYeol behind him. He did feel bad but KangYoon did his best to ignore it.
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