Episode #64. fragments of starlight.
Julia Franke.
A genius violinist who swept countless competitions even before becoming an adult and became a professor at the Frankfurt National University of Music at the young age of only 20.
With that experience, she was pretty good at teaching and never gave up easily on any student.
‘Should I just hit him up?’
But now, Julia is an assault and a nabal, and she was seriously contemplating just giving up.
“Have you really never learned anything? Your violin career has only lasted a month?”
“You did that.”
Seeing Lee calmly admit that she was a total newbie, Julia felt her head throb.
Of course, it’s not that beginners can’t teach.
No, rather, there are aspects that are easier for beginners to teach than clumsy experts with useless habits.
That is if you are young.
“I’ll tell you in advance, but I’m a person who thinks that age doesn’t matter when it comes to learning.”
“That would be desirable.”
“…but the case is different with the violin.”
What is so satisfying?
To the young man who nodded with a satisfied face, Julia explained as seriously and sincerely as possible.
“Do you know why many violinists learn to play the violin from a very young age?”
“Isn’t it because of the extreme passion for education of the parents?”
“No, because it keeps my wrists and fingers flexible.”
The violin is such a sophisticated instrument that even a slight difference in humidity can ruin its sound.
Therefore, a first-class violinist must first have the flexibility and delicacy to handle the violin elaborately before musical sensibility and technique.
“Even those who only started in their mid-teens have to work twice as hard as those who started before that.”
Still, teens are a period of growth.
As long as there is still room for growth, depending on how much effort you put in, you can be equipped with physical conditions.
Even so, very few of them can become professional, especially first-class violinists.
“However, it is generally close to impossible to become a first-class violinist when you first start learning the violin as an adult.”
A violinist is not a person who plays an instrument.
They have become part of the instrument by adapting themselves to it from an early age.
“Of course, even if you learn now, you can enjoy it as a hobby. But taking my lessons for that would be a very useless waste.”
Stop having useless dreams.
There are things that money can’t do.
He said that his lessons were too much for him to enjoy as a hobby.
So don’t waste your money, effort and above all your passion and time.
Julia’s eyes were serious enough to make anyone think twice.
However, the young man did not raise an eyebrow.
No, I rather snorted.
“There is nothing to worry about. I don’t know anything else, but at least my ‘ears’ and ‘hands’ won’t fail to keep up with your class.”
“…are you really that sure?”
“What do you need to be sure of? That’s true.”
Upon hearing the young man’s answer, Julia made a strange expression.
The answer itself was arrogant, so it was arrogant, but seeing what it was like asking something so obvious, it didn’t feel like bravado.
What is the source of that confidence?
Looking at Lee with a puzzled face, Julia suddenly recalled anticipation.
“Are you familiar with other instruments? Are you learning the violin for the first time?”
“No, the violin is the first instrument I’ve ever played in my life?”
“…then are you a player? Like I recently acquired a skill related to performance.”
“I’m sorry, but I’m a person who doesn’t like things like Constellations or whatever. I have never been a player and I have no intention of becoming one.”
It was an instant.
That is why the youthful anticipation on Julia’s face disappeared like snow melting in the spring sun.
If you are familiar with the performance itself, you can understand. A player who is good at one instrument tends to adapt easily to other instruments.
Even if you have skill, you will accept it. Because players have outstanding abilities that transcend age and aptitude.
“But what do you believe in and are so confident?”
“I believe in my body, which I trained all my life.”
“Training? Did you do any exercise? However, the body that can be created through exercise and the body required for performance are completely different.”
“You’ll know when you see it.”
“…Yes, you’ll see.”
Julia eventually gave up trying to convince Lee.
It wasn’t just because I realized that he had no intention of giving up, no matter what logic and reason he used.
This is because I wondered what the root of that confidence was and how far this arrogant young man could go.
“great. Lee, if you say so, I will teach you whatever you want.”
“Should I say thank you?”
“You don’t have to. Instead, while learning from me, I sincerely try and practice. If you do it moderately or quit halfway through, I will be very disappointed.”
“Hmm… got it. don’t promise that After all, I’m not doing this to pass my time.”
“That is reassuring.”
Julia smiled lightly.
The attitude itself was still arrogant like the king’s, but at least it didn’t seem like he was just saying empty words.
And what if you are an immature young boy who wants to boast that he learned from the first class with no money?
For any student who sincerely intends to learn the violin for any reason, this is enough reason for her to teach with all her heart and soul.
“You said it was the first time you learned to play the violin… no, right?”
“What is that? Just think of it as teaching little kids. Because that would be convenient.”
“But you know how to read sheet music, right?”
“Sheet Music? Do you mean the paper on which the tadpoles are playing?”
“…OK, I understand. I really need to learn from the basics.”
After trying to figure out what to teach Lee through these few conversations, Julia put on a troubled expression.
I knew that this young man was a beginner, but it was worse than I thought.
A level that doesn’t even know the basic musical scale. Beyond the level of an outsider, it was doubtful that he had never taken a basic music lesson at school.
However, Lee was not at all ashamed of that fact.
As if it was only natural that he could not learn music and culture when he was young, he calmly asked the question.
“Oh, sir.”
“Just call me Julia. I am not here to teach you as a professor.”
So, I wonder if it is too unfair to the students who entered the music school after all the hard work.
Watching Julia playfully speak, Limon laughed.
“Yes Julia. Before learning this and that, I have a personal question, can I ask?”
“If it’s my size three, it’s confidential.”
“Who are you treating as a careless old man? Also for someone who is going to get married soon. It is a question related to the class.”
“If that’s the case, feel free to ask.”
Julia nodded willingly.
Being a curious character herself, she aimed for an open education where it is good to ask questions if you have any questions even during the course.
“That means playing the violin. Could it help with indigestion?”
“…yes?”
“I was just playing, but is there such a thing as getting better on its own? Or have you ever heard of such a thing?”
“Yeah, if you play well, your condition can improve, but…”
“More practically. For example, cancer suddenly gets better, or it helps with magic or psionic training.”
“You don’t understand the meaning of the question?”
“okay? Then, when you play, do you feel like someone is watching you from behind?”
“….”
Looking at Lee asking a bizarre question with a very serious face, Julia put on a bizarre expression.
And as if hesitating whether or not to ask this question, in the end, he casually asked with a half-doubt-and-doubt look on his face.
“Lee, do you do drugs?”
* * *
I’d say you’re lucky.
Julia’s misunderstanding was quickly cleared up.
It was because Lee was so angry at the suspicion of drug lord, and declared that he was purely curious about whether playing was good for health.
Thanks to that, I had to be looked at as if I were looking at someone who fell into a strange religion.
Anyway, after such twists and turns, after Julia went back saying that she should try to make a curriculum.
The black-haired young man frowned and looked back.
“Are you having fun? fun?”
[Ahahaha! You say you’re a drug addict! Oh my God, the team leader is a drug boy!]
“…You must be laughing so hard.”
A blue-feathered baby bird rolling around on top of a piano in one corner of the practice room with a small ring on her slender ankle and laughing.
Yuna-kyung giggled and opened her beak.
[Then why did you ask such a thing?]
“Since you are a famous violinist, I thought you knew something.”
[You have to expect what to expect. Knowing that, would that be a violinist? A witch or a priest.]
Those are thoughts, not words.
The young man clicked his tongue at Yun Na-kyung’s telepathy, which was transmitted not through the vibration of the air but through the response of the mind.
“Tsk, didn’t I get that chlorine item for no reason?”
[Heh heh heh. Even if you regret it, it’s already too late Having obtained the item, I am already a bird with wings! Now I can make fun of the team leader as much as I can!]
“Shall I take that bastard’s item right away?”
[Eek! Where is it that you give it to the world and take it away!?]
“Didn’t you know? The person who originally gave it also has the right to take it away.”
I wonder if it was quite scary to lose the item.
Na-kyung Yun, who quickly put on a ring and hid her ankle, protested vigorously, crouching like a ball of hair.
[Don’t talk nonsense. This item is already part of my body, right? They say you can’t take it off because
it’s so integrated with me!] “Then, when I take it off, I’ll pull out your legs too.” [Team leader, are you a
demon
?!
[You can’t be cowardly and beat me up with facts! Fight fair and square with instigation and fabrication!]
“…I just told the truth without instigating or fabricating, so what kind of medicine can you take to be cowardly?”
It was a while to chat with Yuna-kyung.
The young man muttered as he turned to the door where Julia had left.
“Well, I think this teacher will last a long time. At least I didn’t run away on the first day.”
[That was because of the team leader.]
“Why is it because of me? They asked me to play it, so I played it, but they quit, that’s the problem.”
[That’s because it’s a normal performance…]
Yuna-kyung, who was muttering to herself with a strange expression that couldn’t say anything, slightly averted her eyes.
And inside the practice room.
He stared blankly at the elongated box that was tightly stored there, as if it were sealed, and suddenly opened his beak.
[By the way, team leader, is this really training?]
“Then, am I going to be doing this because I’m immersed in my hobby at this age?”
[It’s such a strange story.]
“What can I do about something like that?”
A black-haired young man who swept his hair.
No, a white-haired man who returned with sharp eyes and a cold face instead of a cheeky and cute face.
Limon Aspelder reached out and placed a hand on top of the box containing the cursed dark violin.
“Whether it’s because that violin is special or because my condition is unusual. Anyway, it’s clear that this will help control the Constellation’s power.”
