Chapter 53 – Wish Ticket Betting ②
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There are two words that a man can never stand.
One is that you can’t play the game.
This will be one of those things that everyone can relate to.
It is because it is one of the unbearable words to say that you can’t play games since you were born as a man in Korea.
Still, this is tolerable.
Because there may be people who can’t play the game.
However, there is one thing I can’t stand even more than saying that I can’t play this game.
That’s what ‘jjol?’ Means.
This was something a man could never tolerate.
Even if you’re exhausted because you’re having a hard time, just hearing the word ‘jollinya’ can make you feel like a blood-mad war maniac with a sudden rush of adrenaline.
So, this word ‘jjool’ is one of the words that can never be tolerated since you were born as a man.
Seohyun looked at Lee Da-yeong, feeling that emotions dormant somewhere in her heart were boiling.
Facing Seohyun’s face like that, Lee Da-yeong looked slightly frightened and stammered as if she had to say something.
“Huh? Ah, no, that’s why… I’m just scared!!”
Seohyun raised the corner of her mouth at the word ‘jjol’ from Lee Da-young, who heard it again, and stood up with her hand on her chin.
“······ Haha. That’s right, I’ll apply it.”
“······Gulp.”
Seohyun, who fell for the provocation, eventually accepted Lee Da-young’s song bet.
Standing up, Seohyun took hold of Lee Da-young’s arm as she swallowed her saliva and led her inside.
“······Puha!”
Lee Seo-young, who was watching the two of them go inside to turn on the karaoke machine, burst into laughter.
* * *
The living room was still buzzing with alcohol.
The three people from outside started to cross the noisy living room and go straight to the karaoke machine.
It seemed like they were having a conversation outside, but everyone in the living room questioned as they suddenly came inside and saw three people walking to the karaoke machine.
Looking at the three people standing in front of the karaoke machine, he opened his mouth as if curious about her grandmother.
“What? Sing a song?”
To everyone who expressed her doubts, including her grandmother, Lee Seo-young opened her mouth and began her explanation.
“Dayoung unnie asked Seohyun to make a bet on a song.”
Then, Lee Seo-young’s father, Lee Kang-heon, who was sipping alcohol, opened her mouth as if unexpectedly.
“Does Seohyun sing? She probably won’t…”
As if she had expected it, Lee Seo-young added a word to her.
“Are you scared, did you say this?”
Then, everyone who knew her Seohyun’s personality nodded her head, saying, “That’s right.”
In the meantime, Lee Kang-heon opened his mouth as if it were natural.
“Yes. Men are never afraid. Fighting, my son.”
“······.”
At that time, when everyone was looking at Lee Kang-heon as if he were a weirdo, the grandfather who was half-lying on the sofa jumped up and looked at Seohyun.
Looking at Seohyun fiddling with the karaoke machine, she said with a happy smile.
Haha! My grandson is trying to cheer up the atmosphere!”
Then she suddenly fell back onto the sofa.
“······.”
“······.”
Everyone shook their heads left and right, at a loss for words as they watched the fallen grandfather.
Leaving her grandfather behind on the sofa, Seohyun turned on the karaoke machine.
Click-
The screen of the connected monitor turned on, and soon after, a voice that seemed to cheer up the atmosphere began to be heard.
-Welcome! Songs make the world, GM Karaoke!
The sound of the karaoke machine shifted everyone’s gaze from Grandpa to Seohyun.
Among them, Lee Yong-heon’s wife opened her mouth with an expectant gaze.
“Does this sound like Seohyun’s first time hearing this song?”
“Huh? Ah. It’s been a while for me too. I’m looking forward to it.”
“Expect? Sing it well?”
At her wife’s words, Lee Yong-heon agreed with her, and at those words, she was a wife who looked at Seohyun with a look of anticipation even more.
-“Ah-“
Seohyun picked up her microphone and checked her volume, and she handed it over to Lee Da-young, gesturing first.
Lee Da-young, who was handed the microphone, looked at Seo-hyun and opened her breasts.
“Really, I do it first?
“······.”
At those words, Lee Da-young flinched at Seohyun’s hardened face, but she hurriedly fiddled with her remote control and began to choose a song for her to sing.
“Umm… What do you call it?”
As if he couldn’t decide easily, the monitor screen was going down helplessly.
Then, as if she had an idea, she pressed the magnifying glass button on the remote and started searching for the name of her song.
Blah blah blah bhhhhh (stars in the night sky)
“It’s my favorite song. Huhu.”
With those words, she pressed the start song button, raised her microphone to the accompaniment of the young voice, and began preparing to sing her song.
Follow me~
The accompaniment ended, and the song began.
-“Shall I pick a star from the night sky and give it to you?”
Upon hearing her first line, Seohyun’s eyes widened.
Contrary to her appearance, she sang quite well.
“Oh oh.”
“Does Dayoung sing well?”
She responded as if she sang surprisingly well from those around her.
She’s less than a singer, but I admit that she sings well though.
She sang better than most normal people.
-“From now on, you’re not alone~”
It became the second half of the song, and I was singing my best until the end.
-“Nana Nana~”
The song ended with the last verse.
After the song, the points required for betting began to be counted.
-Dugudugudugu~
A drum beat was heard, and soon after, the tally score was announced.
-93 points! Wow, what a singer!
The number displayed on the monitor is 93.
It was said that Lee Da-young’s singing ability, judged by AI, was 93 points.
“Wow! Good job!”
“Good call!”
“Are you doing very well?”
Lee Da-yeong’s family members who heard Lee Da-young’s song responded that she sang well and applauded.
Seeing that reaction, Lee Da-yeong put her hand on her waist and looked at Seohyun and said.
“Etham. Did you see? This older sister is this good!”
“······Yes well, she sings well.”
Looking at Lee Da-young, who seemed satisfied with the score of 93, Seohyun replied curtly. Now that it was her turn, she picked up her remote control and searched for a song to sing.
[ Looking – MC the X ]
Unlike Lee Da-young, who was contemplating a song earlier, she seemed to decide at once.
“Looking at you? This is a pretty high-pitched song… Can you handle it?”
She was Lee Da-young, who asked Seohyun as if she was surprised by the song she chose.
As she said, the song “Looking at” Had a bit of difficulty.
It was a song that seemed to flow calmly at first, but then suddenly a high-pitched note burst out.
In particular, the tremendous treble in the second half was a part that could be humiliated if sung incorrectly.
That’s how much this MC the X’s Looking at was a tricky song to sing.
However, it was not a very difficult song for Seohyun.
It was a song I sang a lot when I was a man, and more than anything, it was Seohyun’s favorite song.
Also, Seohyun is someone who likes to sing.
Even when she was a man, she loved to sing and sang a lot, and even as a woman, she liked to sing to the point where she sang when she was alone, not when someone was around.
So… Her own voice is the one she knows best.
-Dadaddan~
Seohyun operated the remote control and pressed the start button, and soon after, the accompaniment started playing from the karaoke machine.
While everyone was holding their breath, Seohyun’s song started.
-“It’s an unfamiliar road that my heart knows~”
“”······!!””
Everyone who heard Seohyun’s first line opened her mouth wide and made the same expression.
* * *
Late night at 10pm.
A total of three people, Seohyun, Lee Da-young, and Lee Seo-young, were walking on a dark country road where not a single light came in.
“Why do I have to go…”
Seohyun grumbled and muttered.
“If we go, you should go too hehe.”
Seohyun frowned at Lee Da-young, who continued her nonsense.
Currently, the three of them were walking to a nearby mart to buy ice cream.
It was because Lee Da-yeong, who suddenly said she was craving ice cream and asked to go buy it together, dragged us out.
Seohyun, who was lying down and chatting with Seol-ah, waved her hand, saying goodbye, but Lee Da-young and Lee Seo-young each grabbed one of Seohyun’s arms and dragged her away, and now it’s like this.
“You’ll look ugly if you frown.”
“You’re prettier than your sister.”
“······Hey.”
Seeing Seohyun’s frown, Lee Da-yeong jokingly said, but she couldn’t even get her money back and retreated.
“Pu-sup…”
Hearing those words, Lee Seo-young could not hold back her laughter and nearly burst out laughing, and she barely held back her laughter.
“Even you, Seoyoung…”
“Puhhhhh, sorry, sorry. It was so funny.”
Lee Da-young, who heard Lee Seo-young’s laughter once again after that, began to stare at Seo-hyun’s face as she walked beside her with a teary face.
“?”
Sensing her gaze, Seohyun met her eyes as if asking what she was looking at.
As if digging into Seohyun’s face one by one, I unconsciously opened her mouth.
“It’s pretty.”
“Hee…”
She suddenly saw Lee Da-young, who told her that she was pretty, and Seo-hyun wrapped her hands around her shoulders to protect her own body.
Seohyun herself didn’t know why she was doing this, but she instinctively felt that she was supposed to be this way.
“Omg.”
Seeing Seohyun in a posture of protecting her own body, Lee Da-young pouted her mouth as if she had suffered a wound in her heart.
“So, when are you going to use the wish ticket?”
“Well? Maybe someday I’ll use it?”
Lee Da-young looked at Seo-hyun and asked about her wish rights, which she blamed on Seo-hyun’s win in the song bet earlier.
It was hard for her to accept the fact that she had lost, but she tried to move on with a smile, saying that it was a good fight.
However, she was taken aback when Seohyun suddenly held out her hand and asked for her wish ticket.
However, since she lost the bet, she was in no position to argue, so she had no choice but to give up her right to wish.
Lee Da-yeong, who made a bet to get her wish ticket, was defeated as it was and ended up giving away the wish ticket on the contrary.
She was self-employed, so she had nothing to say.
“Please write as late as possible.”
“Why?”
“That’s how you forget that you have the right to wish. Hehe.”
“······.”
Lee Da-yeong wanted Seohyun to write her wish ticket as late as possible.
That way, it would be perfect for her to forget the memory of having a right to wish.
Seohyun nodded her head, vowing to use the wish ticket she had as soon as possible.
