Episode #76. Shall I bet?
After the Iron Age opened.
Limon got used to a lot of things.
A kid who had never held a sword before boasting that he was a swordsman because he had learned swordsmanship skills.
Even in the way of thinking and judging everything centered on skills and the world tailored to it.
“Look at this! Let’s listen, let’s listen, so what kind of story is that!”
“hmm? Did I say anything I couldn’t?”
“Didn’t you just ask us not to be able to cover up our poo and pee!”
Nonetheless, at this moment.
Limon couldn’t contain his irritation.
“No, I also thought that people without potty skills would not be able to cover their poo and urine because all performances by people without musical skills are noise.”
It was not enough to turn back the steps he was about to leave, to the point of making sarcastic remarks to young people he was seeing for the first time.
[manager? Why are you like this?]
It was clear that this was not like Limon himself, just by looking at Yuna-kyung’s flustered expression above her head.
But Limon didn’t bother suppressing his irritation.
The moment I heard that the performer’s song was treated as ‘noise’ without much thought.
The stress that had accumulated recently while listening to a performance where only skills were used and the gloomy jealousy I felt while listening to the performer’s song just burst out.
“All the dishes you cook for people without cooking skills must be dog food, right? All students who do not have learning skills must be inferior students.”
“What nonsense is that?”
Seeing the hot threesome, Limon smirked.
“why? Isn’t it better than not being able to sing without skill?”
“That is a different case.”
“What is different?”
“Not being able to cook or study is a personal problem, but if you play poorly in a public place, won’t it harm other people?”
“Then why do you decide that the performance is a mess?”
It was only then that they realized the reason why Limon was arguing with them.
The threesome said with a sigh.
“Look, brother. We apologize if our remarks were a little careless.”
“little?”
“Even if it’s not even the noise, it’s obvious that someone with skills plays better than someone without skills, right?”
If you don’t have music skills, you’re a normal person after all.
If you compare the performance of such ordinary people to the performance of players with musical skills, isn’t it the same as noise?
Limon smiled coldly as he watched the threesome protest logically according to common sense.
“Hey, would you like to bet with me then?”
“What bet?”
“From now on, I’ll give you a performance where you don’t use your music skills.”
Limon revealed the conditions of the bet to the threesome who looked suspicious at the sudden remark.
“If you guys can still say the same thing after the performance, I will politely apologize for my rudeness. As a bonus, the money you paid to apply here will be doubled.”
“And if you can’t say the same thing, are you asking us to give up your seats for the performance?”
“No, do as you please.”
“Do what you want?”
“You can literally apologize or not. But I’ll pay you twice as much money.”
“Then why do you want to bet?”
The trio made a puzzled expression.
If that condition was true, they were the only ones who would unilaterally benefit from deciding the outcome of the bet.
However, Limon’s attitude was always natural.
“If you’re scared, don’t.”
“…great. Feel free to do whatever you want.”
In the end, the trio accepted the bet with Limon.
Not only was there nothing to lose, but it was better to let the performer take care of it.
after that consultation.
Limon loosened his shoulders with them and spoke to the musician.
“Hey friend.”
Maybe because the song I was playing just ended.
The performer, who had stopped singing and looked at the situation as they wandered around, tilted his head upon hearing the sudden title.
“why?”
“Lend me that guitar and your voice for a moment. Then I’ll let you have more fun performances.”
Limon grinned at the musician who opened his eyes wide as if surprised by the unexpected proposal and looked at him.
Is it because of his confident smile?
Or is it because you are siding with yourself?
Or is it because you thought it would be fun?
The performer, who had been staring at Limon blankly, finally smiled and nodded.
“Okay buddy.”
The performer’s answer did not end with words.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he gave Limon his guitar and moved away.
Limon, who accepted the guitar, which was heavier than it looked, happily sat down in the seat the player had moved out of the way, and chatted with the player while plucking the guitar strings once.
Ding.
“What about the song?”
“Let’s do what you called earlier.”
“Don’t you look at me? It’s my own song, can you play it?”
“I heard it once.”
“okay?”
The performer was not dumbfounded when he heard what would normally be considered nonsense to play a song he had only heard once.
He just put on an interesting expression, as if he was looking forward to seeing how far Limon could play.
Rather, it was Yuna-kyung who was embarrassed.
Ding.
[What is the team leader thinking?]
‘What is it?’
[Everything from one to ten. Team leader, you don’t usually get involved in things like this, do you?]
Even though she was called a mad dog, Yuna-kyung couldn’t help but question, knowing that Limon was surprisingly the type to respect social norms and unwritten rules.
I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t know why I was helping the person I met for the first time today.
Ding.
‘Think of it as just a whim.’
[What kind of adolescent girl is the team leader? Do you want to be capricious?]
‘There are times when I feel stuffy, too.’
[…Okay, let’s say I give in 100 times and it’s just a whim.]
Yuna-kyung nodded.
She knew how dissatisfied Limon had been after listening to various performances lately.
The problem was that even taking that into consideration, there was a reason why Limon’s actions had no choice but to be displeased.
[But the team leader doesn’t know how to play guitar! But what kind of guitar do you suddenly want to play?]
‘It’s okay, I learned how to play the guitar.’
[When?]
‘Now.’
[What else is that…?]
D-Ring.
Yuna-kyung suddenly closed her beak.
Limon’s fingers, which had been slowly touching the strings of his guitar while they were talking.
As the movement gradually became faster, the barely audible guitar sound was becoming clearer and clearer.
The thin sound gradually grew louder.
The slow speed gradually increases.
When you want to continue the sound of the strings that were ringing as the strands were broken.
The guitar sound that Limon was plucking had gone beyond simple sound and became a clear performance.
Ding Ding.
“uh?”
“When did you start?”
The few spectators who had been watching with interest from the time the trio and Limon intervened were taken aback.
I was clearly watching with both eyes open. This is because no one realized when this performance you hear now started.
It was natural.
It’s a sword master’s skill.
Because it was a number that contained the logic of immediate action beyond the extreme of the late start system of cutting the enemy before he realized he had to draw the sword.
However, those wondering when and how the performance started disappeared in an instant.
D-Ring D-Ring D-Ring.
‘What is this performance?’
‘Is this the song I heard a while ago?’
Limon strums his guitar fast.
Even though it was the same song that they had heard before, the strangely more catchy melody that the fingers wrung caught the audience’s attention.
‘This…?’
And the person who surprised me the most was the performer.
It seemed strangely awkward, but it wasn’t just because of the excellent performance that was incomparable to his own.
It was because he noticed that Limon was arranging his song on the spot as Myeongsaek was the composer.
‘Are you crazy friends?’
It’s not enough to play the song you just heard for the first time, so you’re trying to put on an impromptu performance.
Is your confidence skyrocketing?
Or is it just a little bit of money?
Either way, it wasn’t something a normal performer would do. Especially after asking a stranger to borrow his voice as the song and guitar weren’t enough.
But because of that, the performer rather grinned.
He took a deep breath and opened his mouth to Limon’s music.
“Don’t look at me—”
“…!”
That moment.
The crowd, including the trio, involuntarily held their breath.
It was because the moment the husky voice overlapped over the neatly resonating guitar sound, I suddenly felt a sensation as if all the downy hairs on my body were standing up.
But that was just the beginning.
Didi diddy.
“Don’t look at me like that―”
As if waiting for the song to start.
The guitar sound resonated more violently like a speeding race car.
And instead of being swallowed up by the performance, a song that rides on the melody and pierces more passionately.
Beyond the level of just fluffy hair, they were randomly drilling something unknown in their hearts with a terrifying shudder.
‘This… is the same song as the one from before?’
Before the threesome came.
The audience who had already heard the performer’s performance was stunned.
Even when the performer sang the guitar himself, it was definitely not a bad song.
However, instead of the original clumsy performance, the song on top of Limon’s flashy guitar sound was completely different.
‘how?’
‘Is it a skill?’
‘Or did he deliberately strain himself a little while ago?’
they didn’t know
Even though he was technically immature, the performer’s song had potential comparable to that of Julia, who is called the witch of the violin.
That there is a monster who, having seen Julia play just once, copied her and admitted that she had nothing more to teach in terms of technique within just a few months.
And the fact that the monster is now concentrating only on assisting the performer’s technical immaturity by mobilizing all the senses of a sword master.
The result is this.
All the passers-by disappeared before I knew it, and instead the street was filled with dozens of spectators.
‘I normally don’t watch street performances.’
‘If you’re late for an appointment like this… Oh, I don’t know. I’ll just be late and take a bite.’
Eden, who hastened his steps busily.
In the first place, Eden was going to see another performance.
Eden had no interest in music.
Nine times out of 10, those who heard the performer’s song even just by passing by hesitated, but eventually joined the crowd.
“Don’t look back―”
A calm performance that changes sometimes flashily and sometimes calmly without any distraction.
On top of that, a song that is sometimes disturbed and sometimes crushed, but that’s why it resonates even hotter.
The harmony created by the mixing of the two sounds that go to extremes with each other pierces the heart like a blade and shakes the soul like a storm.
Diding diding ding –
when your fingers strum the guitar.
What oscillates is the heartbeat, not the string.
When a husky voice calls out.
It’s not the song that squeezes, it’s the emotion.
“Look at me and smile like that—”
Finally the song ends.
Even after the melody that made my heart overflow and suffocate just by listening to it disappeared.
Hundreds of spectators couldn’t help but be immersed in the lingering sound of the performance, holding their breath as if possessed by something.
