Rockstar Again - Chapter 121



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Rockstar Again Episode 121

Episode 121. Game Changer (1)

“… … Everyone worked hard.”

After finishing the last recording of the first album, I looked at my brothers and laughed in vain.

Why did you laugh so vainly?

Well, what is that… … .

Should I say it’s because I feel like I’ve come back too long?

This is the second album.

If it’s the first album, it’s the first album, and if it’s the second album, it’s the second album, but it’s funny to say it’s the second first album, but that’s really the case.

A proper first album recording, not one that no one listened to.

“You suffered the most.”

Taeju hyung lightly taps my shoulder.

Youngpil and Dongsik also complain about the fatigue they feel after a short period of overwork.

“This is really the beginning.”

“I know.”

It is certainly a privilege to be at the starting line.

I picked up my phone and opened the calendar app.

“It’s already March.”

“It’s a great month to start.”

Taeju hyung’s words are quite meaningful.

“Is that so?”

“Of course. It’s the season to start.”

“Aren’t we a group that’s kind of close to December?”

“That sounds scary.”

In the meantime, Suchan, who had been observing the four of us, intervened.

“Over there, Dongha.”

“Tell me, bro.”

“Can I tell the company that the album recording is finished, now?”

“What. Yes.”

“Yes… … ! I’ll contact you right away… … !”

Then I saw him excitedly grab his phone and run out of the recording studio.

It definitely feels like a beginning.

It doesn’t mean that everything we did was for nothing. If you’re an actor, you have to make movies, and if you’re a singer, you have to release an album to be a singer.

In that sense, I feel like I’m truly becoming a singer.

The competition stage was also a stage for our band to work together, but the bigger purpose was to prepare our hyungs.

I think it was practice and a process.

Especially since I started out with my face covered.

Of course, it will still take time for the first album to reach the listeners’ ears.

Because it would require a different commercial packaging than what we upload directly, like a band camp where we practice while hanging out with Taejoo hyung.

In other words, it means that we still have some free time.

‘What should I do in the meantime… … .’

But honestly, even if I were given time, I wouldn’t know what to do.

After I started to fully adapt to the 21st century and had some free time, I first just looked around the world with it next to my nostrils, but after that I never really had any free time.

After the finals of ended, I spent the week I spent on vacation a bit… … in a daze. I tried to blow my nose and play some computer games, but they were hard to operate and I got motion sickness if I looked at the screen for too long, so I soon quit.

Nureongi and I ate three meals together without fail.

Sitting next to an old dwarf who was a homeless foreign worker.

When you say dwarf, my eyes suddenly turn to you.

A member of the military who has been transitioning from a metal legend and charismatic leader to a recording studio guarding dwarf for a month.

Should I call this… … family?

But still, if you pick up a dog and raise it for a month, it will grow to a degree that it never had before. It’s true that you secretly become attached to people.

Lars Roemer glanced at me and stood up, dragging his slippers.

“Where are you going?”

“No matter where I go, and when did you ever say please go away?”

“That’s that. If you go out like this and get lost, it’s my responsibility as their guardian, right? That’s why I have to say something.”

Lars Roemer pursed his lips at my words.

“Guardian? You have a knack for saying things like X all the time.”

“Where are you going?”

“Sightseeing around the neighborhood.”

“Stop running around here and there and just guard the recording studio. I think there are already complaints coming in. There’s a crazy foreigner wandering around the neighborhood.”

Lars Roemer holds up one finger, waves it at me, and walks toward the recording studio door.

It seems a bit boring. It also seems like my musical reflections are a bit blocked.

It would be nice if it could all be solved in one go, but even looking at Inchang hyung, we can see that it isn’t easy.

Maybe that’s why I’ve been traveling abroad more frequently recently.

It was difficult for Metal Road’s local agency to stay there 24 hours a day for a whole month, so they asked me to take good care of them.

Even if it wasn’t exactly a request, you shouldn’t come to a foreign country and end up lost and homeless. I’m the only one who crossed the Pacific Ocean.

But I’m worried because I’m raising him as his guardian.

I caught Lars Roemer as he came out and put a small sign around his neck.

“what’s this?”

“Navigation.”

“Navigation? Why? I don’t need it. I know my way around pretty well now. And what kind of navigation system is this…?”

Then, after checking the sign around his neck for a moment, Lars Roemer asks slowly.

“… … What does it say here?”

“I don’t know Korean. If you see me, please contact me here. I’ll be grateful.”

“Isn’t this… … called navigation?”

“That’s right. If you can see it and find it when you’re lost, that’s navigation. Is navigation really that great?”

“I won’t do it. F**k!”

oh……?

They say that a dog that has been in a village for three years can recite poetry, and now the curses were in Korean and his pronunciation was quite good.

Definitely, this inspiration is my style.

You react quickly when you tease me, right?

Unlike my older brothers, he seems to have aged somewhat, and he is so friendly that he almost feels like a friend.

To be honest, it’s been a while since Lars Römer was a popular musician.

Although the media made quite a fuss about us, it is true that in the eyes of Koreans, we are just seen as foreigners.

I was laughing for a while watching Lars Roemer take off the plywood around his neck and break it, but then Dong-sik suddenly got up from his seat.

“I’ll follow you.”

“Yeah. You’ll need a dog walker when you take him for a walk. Did you bring a poop bag or something?”

“… … Hey, don’t be like that. He’s a musician I respect… … .”

“I told you not to respect me or anything. I just like you. That’s all. Okay?”

“Okay, I understand. Should I follow you?”

“Okay. When you go out, I’ll buy you something delicious.”

As I was staring blankly at the two people leaving the recording studio, a strong feeling crossed my mind that I had missed something.

yes…….

Before I started teasing Lars Römer, I used to worry about what to do in my spare time… … and I used to think about what I did during my week off before that… … !

“ah!”

I remembered.

Why did I forget this?

My brothers looked at me with a puzzled expression at my last exclamation,

“car!”

“car?”

“I promised to buy you a car!”

I decided to get a car, and I bought a bass guitar because I thought giving and receiving was a gift. I bought it and kept thinking about giving it to him, but I forgot about it. After the vacation, I was busy recording and completely forgot about it.

I got up from my seat and picked up the case that had been placed in the corner of the recording studio and handed it to Tae-ju hyung.

“What is this?”

“Brother, guitar. Of course, since you have a lot of money, there are a lot of nice things. But when I thought about receiving a gift, it wasn’t like that? Even if you have money, gifts are nice, right? Right?”

At my words, Tae-ju hyung smiled as if he finally understood what was happening.

“Get your driver’s license first. Then I’ll give you a real gift.”

“… … Do adults always speak like this?”

“Seriously. You need a license to buy a car in your name. And you’re just going to buy it? Or not drive it?”

… … That seems pretty logical.

“Once I get my license, there’s no need to say anything?”

“Yes. And to begin with, it’s not just a joke, you need to get a real license to buy it.”

Then Tae-joo takes the guitar out of its case and gently caresses it as if it were a precious object.

Anyway, I safely gave the gift to Taeju hyung.

However, you can see a guitar case left alone in the place where the guitar that was given to Tae-ju hyung was taken out.

“Hmm… … I guess we’ve decided what to do before the album is produced and promotions begin.”

My brothers tremble slightly at my monologue.

The first priority is to get a license.

Getting a license isn’t something you’ll be practicing all day long, so you’ll have a lot of free time, right?

That’s when something came up to me.

I guess I’ll neglect my family once I start working, and I can’t let my kids hear things like that at home when they feel awkward around their dad.

I’m supposed to be the leader.

“What does Daeyoon like?”

When I give him a quick glance, Youngpil smiles awkwardly.

“It’s okay. It’s really okay.”

“What? I just asked you what you like, and you’re saying it’s okay?”

“It’s just… … It’s okay. If you move, things will get worse no matter what… … ?”

“What do you like? Do you like robots? Doraemon?”

“… … No. It’s really okay.”

Whether you absolutely refuse or not.

My mind is made up.

As I slowly moved my gaze from Yeongpil to Taeju, he avoided eye contact, unlike before when he was happy to receive the gift.

“What does your sister-in-law like?”

“… … .”

“Answer me. I’ll give you a gift.”

“… … .”

Okay.

Let’s start with Dongsik Junior, our top priority.

Because I’ve already prepared a gift.

* * *

January 17, 1942.

A child was born in a city called Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Of course, many people didn’t know it at the time, but later this child became the king of boxing, became history, and is considered to have laid the foundation for modern boxing.

Muhammad Ali.

For the public, it is imprinted as a short story of ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.’

“Whether Ali flew like a butterfly or stung like a bee, it doesn’t really matter. What really matters is why Ali is still mentioned and respected among the countless boxing stars. There are as many stars as there are in the history of boxing.”

Kim Do-ah held back a yawn as she listened to her major teacher’s story instead of answering.

‘Ah… … What are you talking about… …? What is Ali talking about during major class? Are you the person who created the shopping mall?’

I don’t know why boxing is suddenly coming up, and I have even less idea who Muhammad Ali is.

Kim Do-ah forced her blurry eyes open and looked at her teacher.

Teacher Gu Mi-yeon.

It’s only been a week since the semester started, so I don’t know exactly who the teacher is, but it’s not the boxing or gym teacher. It’s even more incomprehensible because I’m not old enough to bring up old stories.

Teacher Gu Mi-yeon smiled and continued speaking, perhaps noticing that the students around her were also starting to relax.

“He was an irregular. That boxing star named Ali.”

“Irregular?”

“Yeah. A person outside the norm. In fact, you know this because your father was a boxer. The important thing is that real people create trends rather than being trendy… … That’s it. Just like the flow of boxing completely changed before and after the appearance of the boxing star Ali that I mentioned earlier.”

“ah…….”

Gumiyeon smiled as she watched the students finally nodding their heads.

These are good times.

Originally, kids who just entered high school have the bluest eyes. Of course, they are a bit blurry, but the fact that they can show such blurry eyes proves that they are still less tainted by competition.

When you become a second or third year student, you are busy building up your achievements. Naturally, there is fierce competition there.

Arts and physical education are always like that.

A series of brutally fierce competitions.

Ali seemed a bit bored, so I guess I should tell a story that everyone would be interested in.

Gu Mi-yeon smiled brightly and opened her mouth.

“Recently, there was an irregular… … No, a team came out. Does anyone know who it is?”

“Move!”

“move!”

“uh?!”

Definitely. The reactions are different.

The conversation skill of starting with a topic that children are unlikely to be interested in and immediately gaining their interest is a skill that he learned from his father, who is a boxing champion.

For a poor boxer to recruit students and build a family, he needed to be able to communicate before he could learn boxing skills.

Gu Mi-yeon smiled brightly, praising her speaking skills that immediately captured the children’s attention.

“That’s right. The band that Lee Dong-ha and Lee Dong-ha are in. It’s clearly irregular. The musical ability that Lee Dong-ha shows at that age can’t be judged simply by whether he has talent or not, right? I don’t know for sure, but he must have practiced hard for an unknown amount of time. Since you guys are majoring in instruments, you know that it doesn’t make sense to reach that level without practice, right?”

however.

The children are all looking in different directions.

Follow that gaze.

“I told you to move, sir?”

“Right? Right?”

“Wow, man! Awesome! I’m a fan!”

“Oppa, I joined your fan club!”

I don’t even know why I’m here… … The moving guy I just mentioned is looking at me from behind the instrument room.

With a satisfied smile.

“That’s right. I practiced really hard.”

why?

And how?

All kinds of questions fill Gumiyeon’s head.

Lee Dong-ha opens his mouth in a calm voice.

“I told you I was here to see my nephew, so you were kind enough to show me around. I apologize if I was a bother.”

Then, finally, the surroundings become visible.

A few school teachers were standing behind the moving vehicle like guards, blocking other students from approaching.

“… … Your nephew?”

“yes.”