Chapter 229 – Joint Performance With Spring, And…

『Girls who look best in spring! ‘Spring’! And proud alumni from S University! We are inviting actor and pianist Jin Seon-hoo!”

At the call of the moderator, the spring members go up on stage first, followed by me.

“Good luck, older brother.”

A small, clenched fist smile.
I went up on stage with a smile cheering me on.

-Kyaaaaagh! Brother before and after! Jinseonhu! Wow! Wow!

The loud cheering that made my head dizzy when I went up on stage.
I sat down in front of the piano with a trembling heart.

The view from the audience seats from there was spectacular.

Wouldn’t the number of spectators be 20,000 or 30,000?
I’ve never seen so many people in my life.

I feel like all those people are looking at me.
Moreover, half of them were filming the video with a cell phone or camera in their hand.
I felt like I would get motion sickness.

“Hello! It’s spring!』
『I am Seah,』 『I am Ei,』 『Smile,』 『I am Jin!』
“Nice to meet you!”

The spring members greet each other with enthusiastic cheers.
It was just like the rehearsal.

Then I lightly tapped the piano and said hello.

-Road Dong Dong Dong.
『Hello, this is Jin Seon-hu.』

-Kyaaaaa!!

… Where did the murder happen?
It was such an enthusiastic response that it made me laugh out loud.

『Students of S University! Please enjoy today’s spring festival!

The accompaniment starts with Se Ah’s greeting.

The first song is ‘School Love’, which is popular these days.
I played it a lot, so it was a song I got used to so I could play it while sleeping.

『I care so much about you next to me♬』

The song is about a high school girl’s first love, so it might not fit the college festival.
Me, the members, and the audience, all of them were high school students until a while ago.
It will be a story that will resonate more or less.

A bright and lively song would be perfect as a first song to raise the mood.

『What shall I do? Should I say I like it?』

Lively and cute choreography.
The lyrics of the song are so cute that even me, who plays the accompaniment, smiles on my own.
The reaction of the audience is also excellent.
The spring stage was in perfect shape from the start.

JinE’s solo vocal part, and A’s rap part.
The first song of this performance, ‘School Love’, ended perfectly.

“I will play the next song right away. I will let you hear ‘Neverlove’, which you all know well!”

-Kyaaaaa!!

The second song follows immediately.
In order not to cool the hot atmosphere, we selected Never Love, which was the most popular among Spring’s songs.
It is also ‘Never Love – Jin Seon-hu Arranged Version’.

Jinseonhu Arranged Version… It’s embarrassing, but it’s officially called that.
It’s thanks to the video I took to post on Miso’s SNS even before the Steamed Brothers and Sisters Tube was opened.

I had to cover the colorful and colorful accompaniment of the original song with only my piano, so I deliberately arranged it with force on the piano. At the climax, the piano solo ad-lib part is included.

It was an event held at my alma mater, so it must have given me a chance to be in the spotlight.
It’s a thank you, but… To be honest, I was a bit ashamed.

If I had known that I would be performing in front of so many people, I would have declined.
I also had a little bit of regret.

『Why am I having such a hard time meeting a guy like you?』

Powerful choreography. Vocals full of energy.
Spring, a full group of all four members, will present the most popular song of all time.
That alone made the stage perfect.

There, my piano solo is added.

-Kyaaaaa

The roar was so loud that I was worried that the sound of the piano would be drowned out.

Do Miso and the Spring members always perform in this environment?
Feel the pressure of the field with your body.
Respect for idols rose even more.

I can’t ruin a spring performance like that.
I pounded the piano passionately so as not to be drowned out by the cheers of the audience.

Weird.

– Pounding, pounding.

──It was strangely quiet.

It must have been so noisy that the sound of the music, the piano, and the audience’s cheers made you deaf.
Now, for some reason, only my heartbeat could be heard.

You’re not really deaf, are you?

I played the piano in a trance.

Sweat drips down the side of my head and it’s itchy.

No. Don’t bother with anything else.
Focus on the piano

But.
Something bothers me.

After the piano solo part.
As I enter the accompaniment again, I naturally look towards the stage where the spring members are.

On stage, there are Miso, Sae Ah, Jin E, and A.
Four members.
There was nothing strange about it.
Everyone was singing and dancing perfectly.

… It was strange.

There is no problem.
It felt like an obvious scene seemed out of the ordinary.

… What is it?

Ah. Well, one beeped.
Focus on the piano, Jin Seon-hoo. Don’t look away

Even though I admonish myself like that.

As if being pulled by a powerful attraction, I turned my head toward it again.

To the stage and to the audience.

– Pound. Pounding. Pounding.

My heart beats restlessly.

What’s so strange about it?
Countless cameras, people shouting at me.
I couldn’t adapt to the gaze focused on me, but there was nothing strange about this place.

Did it go crazy because it was too loud?
Or is it a mental illness at this time?
There is nothing strange about it.

… No.
There was.
Strange thing.

No. There was a strange person.

Without even a camera.
Wearing a stuffy suit that doesn’t suit the place.
Wearing a face mask
A subtle expression that neither laughs nor cries.
There was such a strange man.

The man who stood out for a moment quickly disappeared into the crowd.
I searched with my eyes wide open, but couldn’t find it.

In a place where tens of thousands of people stood up and waved their hands, it was impossible to identify someone whose face or name was unknown.

『Now start again, Without you, Neverlove──』

… The song is over

“Thank you!”

-Kyaaaaa!!

The spring members greet the audience, and the talk begins with the host.

Anyway, did I play right?
A strange obsessive-compulsive disorder popped up when I was concentrating on my performance.

… What was it?
I’ve never had these symptoms before.

It’s embarrassing.
I don’t know what’s wrong with it, but it was annoying anyway.

『──How about Jin Seon-hoo? You say it’s the first time you’ve ever played in a public place like this.”

Eek. This time it was my turn to comment.

“Ah yes.”

-Kyaaaaa

I only opened my mouth, but screams came back from the audience.

I was able to do this at S University, where I went to my first performance–
『It seems that pterosaurs live in the S era——』

Oops.
Your thoughts and words came out the other way because you were thinking about something else.

Haha!!

Fortunately, the audience seems to have accepted it as humor.
Ugh. If I had cursed at you, I would have been in big trouble.
Be careful.

“I think it is very meaningful to be able to do this at S University, where I went to my first performance.”

“Yes. Jin Seon-hoo made her debut as an actress this time and took a leave of absence from her S university. After that, she immediately starred in the drama ‘Flower, You and I’ ──』

For some reason, the reason I took a leave of absence was packaged as preparation for my acting debut.
I didn’t feel the need to correct it.
It also coincided with the timing. It’s better than being mentally ill.

『There are many people in S University who want Jin Seon-hoo to return to school. Are you willing to go back to school after this drama is over?”
“I want to focus on acting now, but I haven’t yet. I plan to return when I want to study more than acting.”
“By that time, my current classmates won’t be graduating, right? Haha.”

-Ah~

Sighs poured out from the audience.

I can’t say I’ll come back with empty words.
Because there might be people who are really waiting.

Mike passed back to Spring.

“Miss Mi-so is Jin Seon-hoo’s younger brother.”
“Yes.”
『Is this your first time attending S University? How do you feel when you come?”
“Seeing it in person, the campus is so pretty, and I regret that if I had studied well, I could have gone to school with my brother—”

The sweaty smile after the dance was 50% sexier than usual.
I felt like I would fall in love again.

So it was too late to realize.
The ‘strange man’ coming up on stage.

On the stage, from the outside, A, Miso, Sae Ah, and Jin stood in order.
The man hurried toward Ai and Miso outside.

Without any restraint, as if it were so natural.
No one could stop the man.

There were many people involved in the event, spring, and university.
So, of course, he must have thought that he was also related to it.

Perhaps because of his well-dressed appearance, no one considered the man suspicious.
It’s not unusual for an official to come on stage to deliver items for the event.
The man thought so too.

In such an awkward place.

I was the only one watching the man.

-Tump-thump-thump-thump.

In the man’s right hand is an ordinary coffee tumbler.
Women’s handbag in left hand.

I didn’t know what that meant.

But in my chest, an unpleasant pounding continued.

I’m glad if it’s my mistake.
But if I’m not mistaken… ?

There is also a smile in the direction the man approaches.

I–

Far.

I used the piano chair as a stepping stone and threw myself.
It was too far from the piano at the right end of the stage to A at the left end of the stage.

So I couldn’t stop it
The man pouring the contents of the tumbler on A.

“Kyaaak!”

I don’t know if that scream was Ei’s or a smile’s.

The tumbler the man poured into contained a clear liquid, not coffee.

The liquid coated Ai, and some splashed onto Miso next to her as well.

The first thing that came to mind was ‘sulfuric acid terror’.

However, judging by Ai’s reaction, it wasn’t.
Because it wasn’t painful.

Instead, I felt the stinging gas station smell.

The liquid was gasoline.

Once I landed on the floor,

Stamped her feet,

Jump once more towards the man.

Time slows down.

My ears are blank.

His eyes were blinking with anger and excitement.

In that blinking field of vision, a man was taking something out of his handbag.

-Damage!!

I was going to shout that, but I don’t know if I actually shouted that or not.

I didn’t hear anything in my ears.

Somehow the man got it.

I had to stop just lighting the gas lighter.

Stretch your legs.

Reach out

Please.

Please reach out!

I stretched every muscle in my body and prayed only for that.

And my feet.

Reached the man’s hand.

– Tick!

Making such a shabby noise.

The lighter hit my toe as I swung it upward, and floated into the air just before lighting it.

-Kyaaak–

A terrible scream that is incomparable to the previous one that seems like the stage will collapse is belatedly heard.

After knocking the lighter out of the air, I landed on the floor.

And turned around and cried.

– Avoid!!

Aye, and a smile.
He was stiff and did not move.

It was frustrating.

Avoid!
Why are you still!

– Mr. Seah! Smile soon!

Please evacuate! I saw Se-ah to shout like that.

The direction Sae-ah, with an urgent expression, pointed her finger at.
I turned around in the direction the man was.

A long, thin hing knife that can be found in Japanese restaurants.
The man had such an object in his hand.

Before even figuring out the situation.

A sharp pain spread through the fingers of my right hand.

“Brother——!!”

Ah.

Really i

Not so bad luck.