101 – My Lady (1)
0.
“It’s a new year.”
“I will.”
“You are nineteen now.”
“Yes. Nineteen.”
“Okay then. Be independent now.”
“I see.”
Independence was semi-forced because it was possible to stand alone.
When I was told to live on my own now, I didn’t think much of my independence because everything I needed was available around me.
No, rather, it was so good that I thought it was finally over. Because I was able to get out of that damn mountain valley.
That’s why I nodded my head without hesitation when I was told to become independent.
I have never been to the destination, but the place where I was born is Korea.
So I became independent from nature and took a step towards Korea.
However, the journey southward until I arrived in Korea was more arduous than anything I have ever experienced.
It was terrifying enough to make me think that the reason I’ve been through that hellish period of growth up until now is to cope with this homecoming.
It was already winter, so there was nothing to eat, even the bark of the trees was pushed away, and the faces of the people I passed by were more miserable than those of me who grew up in a remote area where there were more monkeys than people.
After passing countless villages of people made of only bones and skins, and quietly dealing with soldiers in monochromatic green clothes threatening with guns, they reached another nature.
It was only after I reached there that I managed to fill my stomach.
The elk meat I ate right before starving was the most delicious in the world.
Anyway, it was nature that was reached, but the elk that was running in front of the eyes exploded and turned into a chunk of meat, and there were guard posts built by soldiers on the high hills scattered around.
The nature was not very wide, about 4km wide, but I had to be careful under my feet or over my head. The hardest part of the way home was when I broke through the 4km.
In the middle, there was a barbed wire fence called the Military Demarcation Line and whatnot, but it wasn’t too difficult to cross the barbed wire fence that high.
Korea somehow reached the end of such an arduous breakthrough.
I didn’t get caught by anyone while coming down, and on paper, I was a 19-year-old who was homeschooled and preparing for the GED instead of going to elementary and middle school, so no one looked at me strangely.
I also had a resident registration card that I received as a birthday present when I was 18, so I was able to show it calmly even when asked to present it.
When I arrived in Korea, I came with the idea that I only needed to arrive in Korea, and there was no specific destination beyond that, so I just walked again aimlessly toward the address written on the back of my resident registration card.
But there was no food available in this perfectly urbanized country, so I had no choice but to move on and on and on and on, completely hungry and exhausted.
The address we arrived at was turned into ruins that no one could live in.
At the end of my reckless journey, I sat down next to the trash, reaching my limits in body and mind.
At that time, I couldn’t resist the approaching death because I didn’t even have the energy to get up.
“Excuse me. It’s winter, and I’m dying while doing it.”
With the very special scent of snowflakes, which is impossible to distinguish and smell, but can be clearly felt.
“If you don’t want to die, will you come with me?”
I met.
“I went around thinking about picking up an abandoned dog or cat, but picking up an abandoned man would be hip and cool. Hold my hand I’ll pick it up for you.”
A life saver. My lady.
1.
That was already 8 years ago. Heh, time goes so fast.
The winter sky I looked up from inside the lobby on the first floor of Bareungil Entertainment was clear and blue.
Are you saying that the young lady came to Korea across the sky without any notification that she was coming?
In one day, the young lady broke through a much longer and more difficult road than the month-long road I had taken to come to Korea.
I thought it was natural since I was on a plane, but the lady came on a chartered plane owned by the lady.
Like me, the young lady broke through that long road with her own power alone.
No, not like me. It’s because the lady’s side is so great that it can’t be compared to what I did.
The difference between a girl who has just been released from prison and is trying to do something in society for the first time and a girl who has already secured the top spot in the field I want to work in is the difference between heaven and earth… No, the difference between the universe and the inner core. It was no exaggeration to say that.
That’s why I couldn’t meet the lady right now.
At least when my kids debuted and started at the starting line.
I felt like that would give me the courage to meet the young lady.
If I meet you before that, the young lady will definitely be me…
Kudang-dang-dang-dang-dang!
“Breaking News!!! Breaking news!!!!!!”
“What?”
My thoughts were interrupted by the sudden sound of urgent footsteps and a loud voice.
When I turned my head and looked at the source of the raucous sound, there was Ji-Woo running hurriedly with a cell phone, Li-Ri and Woo-ri running after him, and Ha-An-I and Haru walking leisurely further behind him.
“hehehehe! hehehehe! Whoa! Manager brother! Urgent Breaking News! Breaking news!”
Jiwoo rushed over and buried his face in the vicinity of my pituitary gland.
“What is it? Is class over?”
“Yes! After a while, I’m done! I and everyone else were exhausted and didn’t have the stamina to squeeze more.”
“I see.”
Jiwoo, who says he has no stamina, seemed more tense than ever.
However, the fact that his stamina was exhausted did not seem like a lie. Although his tension was sky-high, his legs were trembling.
Perhaps that sky-piercing tension is barely supporting the body.
Ji-yeon said that it is the spirit that controls the body, and now Ji-woo was proving it.
Then you should know what awakened the spirit of Ji-woo, who was scattered like a zombie.
“So what is Breaking News?”
“That! That!”
However, Ji-woo must have been so excited that he only repeated the words ‘That’s it!’.
“Nova has returned home. Oppa also knows Nova, right? The best dance singer of our time. Nova.”
“I was originally planning to stay for a few more weeks after the overseas tour, but suddenly I came because I wanted to come to Korea! I watched the video of the interview, and it’s so cool!”
In the end, instead of Jiwoo, Lira who was behind answered, and maybe it was because we’ve been trainees for a long time, we, who are quick to say the least, added additional explanations.
“·······.”
“Manager?”
“Brother, is there something wrong with you?”
However, the moment I heard Lira and our explanation, I couldn’t manage my expression to the point where Ha An and Haru looked at me anxiously.
Just because the name Nova came out of my kids’ mouths.
Well, Nova is a world-class superstar, and for us, Lira and Jiwoo, who dreamed of becoming idols from the beginning, it’s not strange at all that they are the object of admiration. No, it’s more strange that I’m not the object of admiration.
However, there are things in the world that are difficult to accept with the heart even though the head knows them.
Jiwoo and Lira are so excited about the news that Nova has returned to Korea right in front of them. Seeing us makes us feel sick.
As expected, I can’t let the kids and the lady meet. Even if we meet, I have to meet alone. You have to hide their presence until you can.
To my children, Nova may be an object of admiration, but to me, Nova is not the world’s best dance singer, but a young lady, a farewell.
And even though the lady is called Nova in the world, when she stood in front of me, she was just a 24-year-old girl who likes to sing and dance.
That’s why I couldn’t let Ha-an, Li-ra, Ji-woo, Haru, and Woori meet the lady.
Because these kids are still too weak to handle the lady.
We can be confident that each and every one of us has the potential to become the best idol, but unfortunately, that was all our kids did.
There’s no way these kids, who are one tool of potential, can compete with Nova, the best dance singer who has already been completed.
I wonder if they made an official debut, but now they are in the trainee stage without debuting, and if they meet the lady, they will surely explode in mid-air.
I’m sure the girl who went crazy after seeing me raising idols would make that happen. And she says she makes my dream of raising the best idol come true and she’ll tell me to be her own manager. It’s obvious even if you don’t look.
And I can’t say no to that.
Because the young lady… No, no. I don’t have time to think about this right now. If you’re going to do it, do it as soon as possible.
“Hey guys. Let’s go to Lee Seong-kyung for now. You shouldn’t be here.”
So the moment I was about to take the kids out to buy some time.
It’s rattled.
The front door of Bareungil Enter opened.
Whoops.
With the winter wind, the scent of snowflakes, the only one I have never forgotten, brushed my nose.
“······Brother.”
“My lady.”
My lady whom I met after 7 years. It was a farewell.