If I Fail to Debut, I’ll Get a Killer Disease - Chapter 30

The girl who came to the audience at her friend’s request was able to get herself a middle seat with a good view.

‘It’s a little awkward.’

When the girl who was watching something for the first time felt embarrassed, the person next to her spoke to her.

“Who are you here to see?”

“What? Oh……Park Moondae?”

“Ah………Yes.”

The seat next to her holding a slogan that said 〈Kim Raebin Debut〉 in one hand looked up and down, and soon turned her head away and started looking at her phone.

“…….”

Somehow she felt strangely bad.

Feeling her mood souring and wasting time for no reason, the girl began watching the first stage in a grim mood.

“The first performance………It’s 〈Fingerprint〉 by ‘RollingCouple’!

With MC’s loud introduction, the stage of ‘Rolling Couple,’ a mixed idol who failed after two activities, was briefly screened on the screen.

It was composed under the pretext of ‘Considering the audience who aren’t familiar with the song because it’s a hidden masterpiece’ and ‘Respect for the original artist’.

However, in fact, it was intended to contrast the rustic stage of an old idol that did not appear and the stage of the current participants.

“And the participants who reinterpreted this performance are……Ha Iljun, Ji Taewoo, Lee Sejin, Seon Ahyun, Choi Nahoon, Seok Heekang, and Choi Wongil.~ ‘Gigantic’ team! Please enter!”

The stage screen of the original song turned off, and the profile pictures of the participants filled the screen one by one according to the MC’s call.

Then the screen gradually turned off, and the stage was illuminated.

-The feel when you put your hands together~

Keun Sejin’s smile filled the screen.

Da dan da

And with the fast-beat electro-house accompaniment, a spectacular group dance unfolded on the stage.

‘Wow……’

Unlike watching it from a screen, the presence of the choreography felt more powerful on the spot because it was live.

It was especially shocking for a girl who was watching an idol stage live for the first time.

‘Should I have gone to a dance singer concert instead of a ballad singer?’

She inadvertently regretted it, and enjoyed watching the stage in front of her eyes.

“Thank you!”

So by the time she was applauding the participants leaving after the stage was over, she felt completely excited.

‘This is kind of fun.’

It was boring to wait for the preparation in middle of the stages, but being able to watch the performances of celebrities while the broadcasting equipment had a completely different taste.

What was disappointing was that the team’s skills were uneven depending on the participants.

“This team is a little………That’s right.”

The second team was disappointing, and the third and fourth teams were quite fun.

Since she had never done the so-called ‘fangirling’, she forgot about it, leaving only a lumpy feeling rather than a detailed appreciation of each stage.

First of all, the first team did the best so far, and that was what remained in her head.

‘Did they tell us to vote for our 2 favorite teams once we went out?’

Once she saved a spot for the first team, she continued watching the stages.

The next teams also had their own concepts and were fun, but none of the teams had a better impression than the first team.

‘Hmm, I’m a little tired.’

In fact, the skills of the team in the second half were not inferior to the first half.

It’s just that when you keep watching songs you don’t know one after another, the freshness starts disappearing and you start feeling bored instead.

In addition, the participant her friend asked her to watch hadn’t appeared yet.

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‘Isn’t it the last team now?’

Resisting the urge to turn on her smartphone, she barely listened to the introduction of the next  team.

“This performance……It’s 〈Burning like the sun〉 by the band ‘Solar Island’.

And a video that looked like a music show from about 10 years ago appeared on the screen.

‘Ah, this song.’

It was a cheering song she heard at the baseball stadium when she went with a friend who likes baseball.

‘It was originally sung like this……’

Somehow, it wasn’t as exciting as it was at the baseball stadium. She just thought it was a difficult song with a lot of high notes.

She was surprised by MC’s loud voice as she played the vocal on the enthusiastic screen without much emotion.

“And the participants who reinterpreted this stage! Ryu Chungwoo, Lee Sejin, Kim Yujun, Park Moondae, Yoo Jiho, Kim Raebin, and Cha Yujin!”

‘They just said Park Moondae, right?’

She hurriedly stared back at the screen. On the screen, the profile pictures of the participants started appearing.

‘Oh, I know everyone.’

It was the last team since there were many famous participants.

She settled down in her seat as her anticipation started rising again. The cheers that were several times louder than before caught her ears.

“’Oh my gosh, it’s really popular.’

“The ‘Hero’ team! They’re coming in now!”

Before she even had the chance to think that the name was tacky, the stage became dark.

It was a black stage where the screen light disappeared.

The moment a ray of blue spotlight hit the stage.

A participant was seen raising his index finger into the sky like a gun.

A bright black jumpsuit with a racing suit-like pattern absorbed the intense blue lights.

In that hand, a red finger suit flickered along the lights.

And then a low-pitched voice came in.

-Yah, yah……Hero Time

[HERO TIME!]

At that moment, the same letters filled the screen.

Squeaaaak!

The intense bass began to tear the speaker with an explicit glitch sound.

All the lights on the stage came back as if they were exploding. And the seven people began moving in unison.

“……!”

Their stretched arms and legs hit the floor , bending their bodies and unfolding a knife-like elaborate group dance.

They were all dressed in black jumpsuits with different patterns.

Cha Yujin, located in the middle, started singing.

–My heart is burning up

Brightly like the sun.

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A participant who got up took over and started singing.

-It reaches high in the sky far away

So that I can fly farther and catch you

In the accompaniment where the typical band sound should flow, there was a heavy and intense dubstep sound, leaving only a rocking feeling.

WOB- WOB- WOB- WEEEB-!

BRMMMM–!

And then the group danced again.

Participants stretched out one hand and moved as if they were doing martial arts.

She opened her mouth and looked at the stage. Moving more intensely in the part that caught her eye.

The choreography consisted only of large and solid movements without any small movements.

The composition which might seem monotonous and excessive, only became stronger thanks to the changing movement in the blink of an eye.

-There’s one thing that saves the world

Fiery passion

Ryu Chungwoo, wearing a navy hairband, sang the pre-chorus.

The moment when she thought there was a mixture of strange and wonderful choreography like shooting something, the chorus burst out.

-Fly! I’ll go all the way~

Until the day I shine like the sun!

The hair color of the participant who kicked his leg forward and stretched out a cool high note was shiny blonde.

The bright yellow glossy choker matched it as if it was made of his own hair.

While making that high note, the participant was smiling.

‘Crazy.’

Was he Moondae? The woman covered her mouth out of reflex.

‘Y-You’re so bad at taking pictures……!’

He looked nothing like the picture her friend showed her!

Shouldn’t you take pictures of someone who’s that good and cute!!

It held tremendous destructive power to beat the already formed low expectations.

In addition, there was no business that won over taste.

‘I had similar tastes to her…!’

As she gained new enlightenment, the stage entered a new phase.

Kim Raebin came into the spot where Park Moondae sat and stepped out.

Goggles with purple lenses shook near his biceps.

-Rising like a star

Shining like the sun

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‘Huh?’

A rap was inserted in the place where in the original song, the chorus with high notes continued

However, the remaining chorus melody did not disappear.

Instead, it was treated as a synthesizer like a sampler, adding a bright sound to the hip dubstep accompaniment.

When the rap was placed on top of it, the momentum of the previous high notes did not die. Rather, it felt more comfortable to listen to.

In addition, since the lyrics of that part were old, the rap lyrics directly translated into English made the song sound more modern.

-It’s flying! At this moment~

It’s burning like the sun, Time!

-Take your wings

and fly up

Let’s catch up

to the moon!

‘Wow…’

Since the girl wasn’t familiar with the original song, she only felt that ‘this is much better’ but still, she could hear that the arrangement was much better than other teams.

And most of all, the stage was just awesome.

By the time the last chorus came out, she was almost possessed and leaned her back towards the stage.

–Fly! Till the end~

This time, Park Moondae and Kim Raebin sang the chorus as if they were exchanging at the end of the formation.

The wave of choreography moved as if it were a single body.

Under the blue-violet laser light, the black jumpsuits doubled the feeling of a Sci-Fi comic character.

And the last chorus of the ultra-high note.

–I will save your world!

‘Gasp.’

She swallowed the groan that was about to come out of her mouth.

Park Moondae, who raised his head in the white pinpoint light, seemed to save the world right away.

No, it was clear that he was saving himself…!

Cha Yujin jumped out of the stage with a back flip along the last dance break.

The body that cut through the air landed on the floor like a sequence in an action movie.

Tuck.

It was a very symbolic superhero landing.

Narrations such as glitch-mixed announcements flowed over the remaining accompaniment of the top line.

–Thank you for flying with Hero Air today…

The boys on the stage slowly turned back.

And as they all raised one thumb together, the song ended.

At that moment, the first thing she realised were the surroundings filled with tremendous noise.

“Aaahhh!”

“Woaaah!”

All kinds of cheers and screams that she had unconsciously ignored while watching the stage rang in her ears.

What was even more surprising was that she was also screaming.

“Crazy!! Crazy!!”

The person next to her who talked to her earlier was screaming almost as if she was about to jump out of her seat.

The slogan in her hand was already wrinkled and shaking recklessly, so she was unable to fulfill her original role.

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In her head, images of Park Moondae smiling, Park Moondae pushing the high note all the way, and Park Moondae turning his back were playing endlessly.

At the same time, in order not to miss a single cut of Park Moondae leaving in front of her eyes, she thought with her eyes wide open.

‘Vote! I have to vote!’

And above all, she was convinced of one thing.

‘1st place no matter what!! Definitely 1st place!’

This team was the winner!

***

After the stage was over, the ranking announcement immediately began in front of the empty audience where the audience left.

In front of the participants of each team lined up in a row, the MC announced the next ranking.

“The 3rd place is……the ‘Hero’ team that reinterpreted 〈Burning like the sun〉!”

“What?”

“I can’t believe it.”

As soon as the MC’s presentation was over, there were murmurs everywhere.

I looked at the screen with cold eyes.

‘I knew this would happen.’