Chapter 1145 – Over There. Please Be Careful, Right?
Fortunately, or unfortunately, the theater went dark the moment I clenched my fist to punch the man who kept talking next to me. At the same time, the noisy surroundings gradually became quiet, signaling the beginning of the musical.
“Whoa…” … !”
Take some rest now,
Tuk-tuk
… I was about to go, but the man tapped me on the shoulder. I thought it was an opportunity to say something, so I immediately turned around, but the person who touched it was not him, but the woman sitting behind me.
“Hey. Could you please be quiet? “I can’t concentrate because of the sighing sound.”
“Yes? “It hasn’t even started yet,”
“So, I was trying to concentrate, but that person broke my concentration. Please be quiet. Please.”
I feel like I’m being polite but screwing over people. It felt like I had tasted it before. Of course, the Demon King and Taeyeon had tasted it at the café they took Yena to.
“Please be careful. Please.”
“Oh, yes. “I’m sorry.”
“Please be really quiet.”
Doo doo doo…
Just before I finished speaking for an unknown number of times, a small drum sound began. I came to see a musical for the first time in modern times and in this world, and this bitch ruined the opening moment.
“…”
For letting me miss her starting moment, she leaned back against me without a word of apology. I glared at her once more and then turned her head in front of her.
Okay. Because it’s my first time seeing a musical. I guess I made a mistake. It’s like that. Right, Sehee?
“…”
Absolutely
As soon as we made eye contact, I shook my head saying absolutely no.
“Over there.”
Toktok
At this time, the same voice was heard from behind. This time, she stretched her hand between me and Sehee’s seat and warned me about something absurd this time.
“Could you please keep your head still? “I can’t concentrate because my hair is flying around.”
“Oh, yes. “I’m sorry.”
“Please be careful. Really. “Both of you.”
Um, Mr… !
It was okay when he said something to me, but when he said something to Sehee about something that wasn’t a big deal, I got really annoyed. But I couldn’t get angry over something like this, so I tried to endure it quietly.
“…”
Meanwhile, Sehee quietly lowered her head and looked at the number on the seat. Then, she looked back and seemed to be checking where she was sitting.
“…”
Nod
He smiled and nodded as if he realized what I was curious about after a while. I don’t know what she found out, but somehow I was convinced that it was okay for me not to know.
Duttatan♪
Meanwhile, the singing continued. I relieved the tension in my body, thinking that I had to focus on the musical.
-Bang!
“!”
Until a sudden gunshot filled the theater.
Bang! Ride it! Tadadaang!
“… !”
I also knew this was part of a musical. However, my body flinched as I remembered that day, with a completely different sense of reality than when playing an FPS game.
“Umm… !”
“Brother. “What’s wrong?”
Next to me, I was alone with my arms crossed and groaning in discomfort, and not knowing was going to be even harder. When Sehee saw me with a stiff face, she was embarrassed and asked.
“Brother. “Where does it hurt?”
“Uh? Oh, no. “I was just a little surprised.”
-Taang!
The last gunshot I heard was the loudest, causing my body to flinch and shake. Because of me, I was given uncomfortable looks both from the side and from behind.
“Hey. Are you okay?”
“Are you asking me to be quiet?”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
“… !”
I was just overreacting. I calmed Sehee, whose dark blue eyes were shining even in the dark, by holding her hand and telling her that she was okay.
“… Tsk.”
Sehee, who sensed my feelings, just clicked her tongue and laid down the body she was about to get up on the backrest.
-Tadadadang! Was this exactly what I wanted?
As soon as the gunfire ended, and the narration began, I was able to relieve the tension I had been feeling. That’s how we were able to enjoy the musical with a comfortable mind.
The musical we were watching was a story about the New York mafia of the 1920s. At first, he was a simple young man who just needed money, but as he gradually became involved with the mafia, he became a part of them.
“What? What is this? Is this also part of my ordeal?”
Actor Seungwoo Lee, who had made eye contact with the man sitting next to me earlier and said hello, recited a monologue. He had committed murder while taking an exam to enter the organization, and his hands were shaking, covered in blood.
“Hey! Hey!”
A senior mafia member called him sharply. He approached the large man wearing a coat and pushed the trembling protagonist on the shoulder.
“Come to your senses! Now is the time! “Why don’t we hurry and get rid of the evidence!”
“Yes? No, I, I,”
“You won’t join the organization!”
“!”
“You said you were going to become a mafia! He said he wanted to follow the boss! Then come to your senses and follow me!”
As the senior mafia left the stage, the protagonist became alone. The protagonist looked at his bloody hands until then, then raised his head and shouted.
“Okay! This is also the path I must take!”
I envy you. The first time I killed someone, I whined like a child. That main character just accepts it. I wish I could do it like that…
It was left out of my thoughts rather than the song sung by the actor. But soon, someone sitting next to me touched my arm on the armrest.
“Over there.”
Tuk-tuk
“Don’t sleep. “This is an important scene.”
“…”
She raised her head from where she had been thinking and looked at the man. He made eye contact with me and, unable to read my astonished gaze, smiled slightly and nodded. As if he had done well.
“Yes, I understand.”
It was too bothersome to say anything, so I just nodded and focused on the stage again. Then, the anger that was boiling overturned into a sigh.
“Haaaaa… !”
Tak!
“Over there.”
But a disturbance came from behind. This time, instead of patting her on the shoulder, the woman who kicked her back whispered in a slightly sharp voice.
“Don’t sigh? “I can’t concentrate right now.”
“Ah, yes…”
“He’s a strange person. Really.”
Shut that up, just!
Every time I see a rude person, I miss this other world. Unlike modern times, it was a barbaric world, but it was a place where there was implicit permission to hit rude people on the head.
They touched my heart throughout the musical. He told Sehee, who was scratching her cheek, to stay still. He told me, who was shaking because the seat was uncomfortable, to stay still. Later, we even held hands… !
What was fortunate, though, was that the musical content and the actors’ acting were excellent. The story of how the main character, who was a simple young man, degenerates into the mafia, the chemistry, songs, and stage settings throughout the process. Really, really everything was good.
“Hey. “Please be careful, right?”
“Hey. “Now is not the time to laugh.”
If it weren’t for the kids sitting next to and behind me, I would have wanted to come see it again.
Anyway, the musical ended with patience and joy. As the curtain fell on the stage where all of human life, death, joy and sorrow took place, people stood up.
Clap clap!
“Hwii! Swish!”
“Nice!”
“Seungwoo Lee is handsome!”
All the audience members who had been quiet so far stood up and clapped. I stared at him blankly and tried to get up to follow Sehee.
“Hey. Applause. “Standing ovation.”
“Oh, really. “I don’t know how to watch musicals.”
But then again, these bastards said something and took away the will to get up. In the end, I sat down until people started leaving.
“Haaaaa… !”
“Really, there are all these strange bastards.”
The man who seemed so friendly at first left without even saying goodbye, and the woman behind her also left, ignoring me until the end. Sehee and I went out to the lobby cursing them.
“No, the musical was fun.”
“That’s right. So, shall we come see you again next time?”
“Oh, really? “There wouldn’t be kids like that back then, right?”
“No way. Ah, I thought you were going to catch someone.”
“Probably not. Right. Next time, let’s all come together.”
“That’s good. With my sisters and aunt. Oh, can Yena see this too? “Isn’t this 15 years old?”
We tried to forget about those inconveniences and just force ourselves to be immersed in the afterglow. The moment I headed towards the entrance leading to the outside, the lobby, which was full of people, became noisy.
“Wow! It’s Lee Seung-woo!”
“Please sign!”
“Seungwoo! It’s me, it’s me! Me!”
“What is it?”
It seemed like Sehee, who was short, couldn’t be seen because of people’s heads. Of course, I wasn’t that tall, so I couldn’t see it clearly, but when I heard people talking, it seemed like actor Seungwoo Lee had come into the lobby.
“Lee Seung-woo is here.”
“Oh, really? Shall we go see it?”
“No. I’m tired. Because of those people.”
“Yes. Actually, me too.”
The fatigue from being tormented by those people was more dominant than the curiosity of seeing the actors in person. We headed in the opposite direction from where the crowds were and welcomed the cool outside air.
“Oh, excuse me.”
But it wasn’t just the air that greeted us. When dinner was almost over, a man wearing black sunglasses and a black suit approached us. I tensed my body and asked the large, quiet man who seemed to be my bodyguard.
“Yes? “Why?”
“By any chance, are you Mr. Kang Ji-heon?”
Please! Let me go home and rest!
“Yes. “It works.”
He expressed some of his inner feelings in a blunt tone. Then, the man spoke in a deep voice to me as I hid Sehee behind me.
“Then, can you give me a moment?”
“No. “We’re going to go eat now.”
“It only takes a moment.”
The question seemed to be asked out of courtesy. No, it wasn’t a courtesy, it was a formality. If it had been polite, they wouldn’t have stopped us like this.
“Yes, it is currently facing the entrance.”
The bodyguard who stopped me whispered into my collar as if I shouldn’t go. Not long after that, the noise coming from inside started to get worse.
“S-Seungwoo! Please take a look here!”
“Do you remember me? I? You invited me to a performance!”
“I’d like to ask for your autograph!”
“No, I do not want. “You’re going to sell it as used, right?”
Huh?
Even in the commotion, a soft male voice could be heard. Just as I was thinking, “Where did I hear this?” A familiar face appeared in the doorway.
“Uh! Hello, Mr. Jiheon!”
“Huh?”
“I wanted to meet you sometime, and now I get to meet you like this! Did you enjoy the performance?”
“Uh, huh?”
“Maybe you don’t know who I am?”
I knew it. Of course, I knew. It was someone I saw just a little while ago. But at that time, that person was on stage, and I was being harassed by strange people in the audience.
“Hello! Today’s lead actor, Lee Seung-woo!”
Actor Lee Seung-woo, whom I saw in person today for the first time, approached me with a bright smile. I didn’t come to my senses until he held out his hand for me to shake.
“Uh, yes, hello…”
“Wow, this is how I get to meet you!”
Chin!
Suddenly, he grabbed her outstretched hand with both of her hands and shook it. The actor, who was shaking hands happily, looked at Sehee next to me with the same face and asked.
“Are you by any chance your girlfriend?”
“Yes, yes? Oh, no. Well, wife…”
Tak
“My younger brother.”
I would have been honest if Sehee hadn’t poked me in the side with her elbow.
“Ah, really? You are truly a beauty! “Are you a beauty too?”
“Oh, yes. Right, right?”
“Ahahaha! But you got married quite early.”
I couldn’t figure out why actor Seungwoo Lee was acting friendly to me. But what was certain now was that the people who had bothered us so much earlier were looking at us with envious eyes.
