episode_0082

“Five hundred million?”

“He said he struck five hundred million?”

“That must mean he’s confident! Everyone be quiet for now!”

Whispers spread from all corners.

The newcomer, who seemed like an interloper, was actually an incredibly skilled person. This fact was bound to attract a lot of attention.

Sua addressed the noisy crowd.

“Should we start the performance now?”

Go Tae-min and Kim Iseo, as well as the AWA Entertainment director and everyone else who would have stopped Sua, were now nodding their heads like fools. The shock was immense.

“A performance? Ah, I’d be grateful if Miss Sua would oblige.”

Go Tae-min’s reaction was just that.

Currently, “Crescendo From Tomorrow” was slightly pushed back in everyone’s minds. They were simply captivated by the thought of Sua performing after Ham Ah-yoon.

Skill was one thing, but the performances of the two were subtly different even with the same song. The pleasure of discerning the differences was definite.

Amidst all the commotion.

“I’ll start.”

Sua took a short, deep breath.

Originally, the expression of someone performing for the first time can’t be clean.

Hesitation is mixed in, questions about the song are mixed in, and fear and random thoughts linger in the mind. This is because there are too many impurities that will melt into the performance.

But soon, Sua’s expression became very clean. A face that emerges only after eliminating all distractions and thinking only of the music.

And finally.

The Flight of the Bumblebee began.

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After a while.

“…”

All around was complete silence.

In the midst of that, Sua thought.

‘…What am I going to do about this?’

She messed up terribly.

No, do bumblebees originally fly this fast? It wasn’t an exaggeration; she thought her fingers would break. She was even worried that her ten fingers might get tangled like earphones in a pocket.

‘Special Trainee, what’s going on…?’

An answer came back immediately.

[ It’s natural. ]

[ Experience is experience. ]

[ Sua’s hands are still stiff. ]

[ Actual practice is needed in conjunction. ]

‘…Well, yeah. I’m just disappointed, that’s all.’

Immediately after, Sua flinched. What could she say, for a moment, she saw the Special Trainee in the form of an arctic fox baring its teeth and bristling its fur? What was certain was that the Special Trainee was definitely pissed right now.

[ Show script level ]

[ Let me experience the script ]

[ Raise intelligence ]

[ Let me learn abilities ]

‘Ah, I understand. Calm down for now.’

[ I did it all for you. ]

[ I did it all for you. ]

[ I did it all for you. ]

[ I just did it all for you. ]

At this point, Sua also flared up.

‘No, I just said it, why do you keep doing that? It’s annoying.’

Then.

“…?”

[ …Deleting Special Trainee… ]

[ …In progress, 1%… ]

‘…Ah, I’m sorry. I understand. I’m really sorry.’

Then, the deletion message stopped abruptly.

[ Sua surrender. ]

[ 1 time forgiven. ]

[ Don’t mess with me. ]

‘… .’

Sua pouted and hung her head low.

It was a meaningful situation. Why meaningful? It was the moment when the hierarchy between Sua and the Special Trainee became clear. Surprisingly, Sua was lower in the hierarchy. Sua had succumbed…

That’s when it happened.

“Sua-ssi.”

Director Go Tae-min’s voice.

Only then did Sua escape her reverie. At the same time, worry crept in as her mind returned to reality. Everything was good, but she messed up the last performance. What is she going to do now? She shouldn’t have played it.

In that moment, when she was soaked in all sorts of worries.

Something unexpected happened.

“Kim So-hee, did you deliberately try to mimic Kim So-hee?”

“Pardon?”

“I’m talking about your piano performance just now. I wondered if what I felt was right.”

Director Go Tae-min had said something Sua hadn’t even considered. No? I’m still Sua-stiff, so my fingers just don’t move well?

Sua thought. What should she answer to this?

But the answer came from elsewhere.

“That’s right. It’s the Kim So-hee style of playing.”

And everyone’s gaze snapped toward the source of the voice. It couldn’t be helped. It was none other than Ham Ah-yoon.

As always, her blonde hair flowing, she continued speaking with a more serious expression than ever.

“The score is perfectly ingrained in her head, but her hands are still stiff and can’t keep up. I was dubious at first, but I definitely saw it just now. Especially since it was The Flight of the Bumblebee.”

What?

Sua was bewildered inside.

“Good heavens. It’s amazing enough that you can play the piano, but you even took on the role of Kim So-hee in the meantime and performed it. I didn’t even think of it. Acting even in this situation?”

“…I guess so.”

Go Tae-min and Ham Ah-yoon started having a conversation that only they knew. Sua was Suasilent and listened.

And then.

“Maybe, you’re more suited for the role of Kim So-hee than I am.”

Ham Ah-yoon’s sudden shocking statement. Everyone was shocked.

“…!”

In effect, she was declaring that she would give the role of Kim So-hee to Sua, but Ham Ah-yoon continued calmly.

“It’s hard for me to play like that. The long-standing habits ingrained in my body pursue a perfect performance. Even if I try to pretend to be bad, pretend to be stiff, it will show. It will be unpleasant to listen to.”

“That’s right. But in Sua-ssi’s case…”

“That stiffness is natural. Since the theory is perfect, the fact that the body isn’t accustomed to it acts as an advantage. The savant syndrome of Kim So-hee is naturally expressed by that itself.”

What is this? What’s this situation?

But Sua’s shrewd brain soon understood.

She just hasn’t perfectly reproduced the experience gained from the Special Trainee with her body yet, but anyway, that suits Kim So-hee’s savant syndrome? It fits well?

[ One more point fits ]

[ Intelligence ]

Yeah, let’s ignore the Special Trainee for now.

“Excuse me, Sua-ssi.”

Around that time, Director Go Tae-min called Sua again.

“I still haven’t heard Sua-ssi’s answer. Is that really so? Sua-ssi is doing that much for the role of Kim So-hee…. That much….”

Sua suddenly looked around.

The factions were no longer divided.

Doubting gazes, hostile gazes. Those were also already gone. People were standing together, not divided, and were just waiting for Sua’s answer with admiring eyes.

So.

Sua simply crossed her arms as if to support her chest.

“…I admit it.”

With a smile that gave a smirk.

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“…Sua! What on earth is going on?”

Kim Iseo, with wide eyes, asked Sua.

Sua blinked and thought. What else could it be? She just admitted it because it seemed like a favorable situation had come.

The two had moved to a corner of the conference room.

Currently, the conference room was caught up in an unexpected fervor. Suddenly, the production team of “Crescendo From Tomorrow” gathered as if by appointment and started a heated meeting.

It was amazing to Sua. Were these the people who were fighting until just now?

Kim Iseo placed her hand on her chest.

“I was surprised. I was really surprised.”

It seemed so. Kim Iseo’s eyes, looking at Sua, looked like they would pop out and roll on the floor.

But that’s when it happened.

“Excuse me, do you have a moment?”

Ham Ah-yoon’s voice.

But a total of three people approached Kim Iseo and Sua. Go Tae-min, the AWA Entertainment director, and the blonde Ham Ah-yoon.

Blinking, wondering what was going on.

Go Tae-min opened his mouth with a bright smile.

“First of all, I must thank you. We have just finished talking to AWA Entertainment. The role of Kim So-hee has gone to Sua-ssi very cleanly.”

“Ah.”

“It turns out there was a misunderstanding in the middle.”

“Misunderstanding?”

Then, the director of AWA Entertainment, who was next to him, took off his ball cap and bowed his head deeply. Completely different from before, he felt very polite.

“I’m sorry. Honestly, I thought Ah-yoon’s value was too high and we were being lowballed. I misunderstood more because she was a newcomer. I didn’t know there was such a prepared actor…”

“Lowballed?”

Kim Iseo tilted her head.

“…Ah. It’s understandable to misunderstand.”

Since she had a brilliant brain, she immediately understood what they had misunderstood. Well, it’s not their fault. They acted extremely reasonably. It’s just that Sua is too unexpected of an existence.

Around that time, Sua was wondering in her own way.

“Then you don’t have to thank me, do you? You should thank AWA Entertainment instead. They cleanly gave up the role.”

“No. The gratitude to AWA Entertainment is there in its own way, and the gratitude to Sua-ssi is separate.”

“Gratitude to me?”

“Sua-ssi, I think of the work as a ship and build it.”

Go Tae-min began to speak in a very gentle tone. Meanwhile, Sua began to sweat down her spine. Ah, this is definitely a flow to a difficult story. I don’t know things like that!

“If even one person can’t row evenly, the ship will go in a strange direction, but Sua-ssi played the role of the sail. Everyone’s hearts are bound together.”

“Uh…”

[ Everyone thinking different. Fight. ]

[ But Sua prove. ]

[ Now no thinking different. No fight. ]

“…Ah! I understand completely!”

It was Sua who perfectly understood the situation through the Special Trainee.

This time, Ham Ah-yoon opened her mouth.

“Congratulations on the role of Kim So-hee. However, I want to ask you one thing.”

“Hmm?”

“When I was playing, why did you make that expression?”

Sua simply blinked silently.

She was asking very seriously, but Sua didn’t remember what expression she had made. Was my face weird? I think I just listened thinking, “Wow, she’s really good!”

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know? You, the expression you made was…”

But Ham Ah-yoon didn’t finish her words.

Soon, she just sighed.

“…No. Never mind. I’ll be going. Do your best.”

At the moment when Ham Ah-yoon turned around with the director.

( ! )

A notification suddenly appeared in front of Sua.

“…”

Sua’s eyes widened as she checked it. It was about Ham Ah-yoon.

Also, very shocking content.

“…Ah, just a moment.”

Then, Ham Ah-yoon turned only her head with her back to her. It was an alluring profile that could captivate even the same woman.

“Director, have you found the role of Park Min-seo?”

“Park Min-seo? Not yet. But it won’t be difficult. Kim So-hee is difficult, but there are surprisingly…”

“Then, can’t Ah-yoon do it?”

Then, everyone was surprised.

But Sua was serious. She had to catch Ah-yoon no matter what, so she traced back the conversation she had just had and promised even this.

“Ah-yoon-ssi. Please take the role of Park Min-seo.”

“…What?”

“The expression that Ah-yoon-ssi was curious about, I’ll make it again.”

It is a time just before the short film festival opens.