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Lily finished playing and started talking again.
“… So, Professor Venom is quietly ignoring me. He is said to be ‘of humble origins’! Even if the children of the nobles played poorly, they would still say goodbye. Hmm, we’ll see. I will definitely succeed. “More than that old man!”
I definitely learned more about the internal circumstances of the music academy.
As a bonus, the girl’s complaint.
“It’s scary. Not only students but also professors are busy. “Is that really what the music academy is like?”
“hmm? ah! “It’s probably because of competition preparation.”
“Concours?”
“I have a seasonal exam in a few weeks. If you are among the top seven, you will be eligible to participate in the Musenion Competition at the end of the year. Not only students but also famous musicians participate in the Musenion Competition. If you just get the qualifications to participate, your life will unfold. “You can even get private lessons from great musicians!”
“Ooh, can you make it to the top seven?”
Lily confidently shouted, making a victory V.
“of course!”
* * *
Even after several days, no trace of the devil could be found.
But on the contrary, I gradually became convinced.
The devil exists.
I became close with Lily and met her in the backyard every day after class.
“Now, follow along. The central chord of Aeolia minor is… … .”
“Tell me more about the professor. You said you formed a club with children of noblemen? Where is that… … .”
“really! “You want to learn to play, right?”
“no.”
“huh?”
Lily looked dumbfounded, then furrowed her eyebrows and shouted.
“Then why did you ask me to teach you?”
“By Bored.”
“Wow, that was bad. “Up until now, I was the only one who taught him sincerely.”
Lily, you are such an amazing guy.
From the first time we met, I thought he was a so-called ‘insa’ because he was so friendly.
But over the past few days, I’ve realized that the only person he talks to is me.
“You don’t have any friends.”
Lily was struck speechless by the sharp ball.
“… no it’s not.”
“Otherwise, why do you always talk to me?”
“that… joy.”
I felt sorry for digging into a painful wound.
but,
I needed to know more.
“They don’t play with you. “Because I’m from Dalet.”
“that… I… “How did you know you were from Dalet?”
“I don’t have a janitor. “He said a lot of mean things.”
The island of Musenion is ultimately the same.
There are no highs and lows of status.
Discrimination definitely existed. Dalet, like that kid who gets bullied just because he’s from a poor, outlaw island in the south. The devil enjoys eating people’s wounds. If the devil really existed here, it was clear what the devil wanted. I looked at Lily, who was downcast, and scratched her head.
“Try playing again.”
Lily weakly picked up the sticks and string instruments.
As soon as he started playing, the music started playing lively again.
He was a guy who really enjoyed playing.
I don’t even know the names of minors, majors, and precepts.
However, there is an absolute ability that others cannot imitate.
Every movement was engraved on the retina with the eyes.
I now have the motor skills to imitate the movements I have learned without wavering.
After Lily finished playing.
I immediately picked up an old stringed instrument and recreated Lily’s performance.
♬~
As expected, Cheonan Tong is an unfair force.
… … .
After the performance ended, I looked at Lily’s complexion.
Lily took the instrument back from me with a very grumpy look on her face.
“too bad.”
“what?”
“Have you been fooling me this whole time?”
“It’s not.”
“But how can you play so perfectly!”
“Did you enjoy hearing it?”
“huh. It was annoying, but it was great. “Emphasis and control, when it’s soft, it’s silky, and when it’s overwhelming, it’s like seeing a triumphant general!”
“I’m glad. “The performance I just played was for you.”
Lily answered in a confused voice.
“Wh…what are you talking about? that is.”
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“This is a performance for you. What I just did was more of a ‘reenactment’ than a performance. “It’s just a perfect imitation of what you played.”
After playing it myself, I know for sure.
Lily seemed to be, to put it bluntly, a musical genius.
If you haven’t seen Cheonan Tong, you will never be able to follow it.
Lilly’s performance.
“This is what happens when other people hear you play.”
“My playing… how… … .”
“Don’t think about it. Just feel it. how is it? “Isn’t it nice to hear your performance?”
“… huh. I like it very much.”
“Be sure to listen. you. “In seven.”
“he-”
Lily laughed with her signature laugh.
* * *
Lily, who was playing the instrument, suddenly stopped playing and asked me.
“But, I was wondering earlier, what on earth is that?”
“huh?”
“There are no deer on this island… A deer listening to music! fun.”
I turned my head and looked at Dalby. Whenever Lily played, Dalby would quietly sit at her feet and shake her head from side to side, enjoying the music. And Dalbi is Yeongsu. This is not an ordinary spirit. My father, the strongest psychic, is also a psychic that I have recently been able to see. I looked at Lily and Dalby in turn, then frowned and glared at Dalby. Dalbi tilted her head, yawned, lay down on her back and fell asleep.
“Oh, it’s gone. “That’s strange.”
I asked Lily in a serious voice.
“Since when have you seen deer?”
“… “Since just now?”
“Well, maybe you. “I might be more talented in something other than music.”
I didn’t see Dalby.
However, Dalby showed himself as if he was reciprocating while listening to Lily’s performance.
Shinsoo showed interest.
That alone convinced me that Lily had other talents.
* * *
The day of the seasonal exam has finally arrived.
As if it was indeed an important test, the students gathered together and encouraged each other. It was an obvious faction. Nobles are among nobles, commoners are among commoners. Lily was the only one left alone. I quietly approached Lily, who was standing alone, wiggling her fingers, and whispered to her.
“cheer up.”
“… thank you.”
Lily smiled brightly and walked confidently into the exam room.
* * *
The human mind is truly amazing. We are jealous of talented people, but sometimes we envy them, and when others do not recognize their talent, we hope that their talent will blossom and be recognized. I’d only talked to Lily for a few days, but I thought she was better than any kid in middle school. What if you come from a lowly background? The string instrument that Lily plays is as warm and cozy as the spring sunlight. She was confident that professors who were more learned than me would naturally recognize and acknowledge her talent.
So that afternoon, when the list of successful candidates was displayed on the notice board, I got very annoyed.
Seven successful applicants.
The ugly faces of children who gossiped, were jealous, and looked down on their friends became engraved in my memory, even if I didn’t want to remember them. All of the successful applicants were children from home. There were people who criticized Lily for being mean. The faces of the children looking at the list of successful candidates were stained with a sense of deprivation that should not be seen at that age. Even from the perspective of young people, we know that it was not a friendly competition.
Lily was eliminated.
When I was taking the seasonal exam, I used the excuse of cleaning to lean against the back of the door and listen to the music.
It was overwhelming.
Lily’s skills were far superior to anyone else’s.
Even a nerd like me can feel the gap in skills, so there is no way the professors at the music center wouldn’t know.
I was strangely angry. It’s unfair. People like me who have experienced all the ups and downs in the world know very well that unfairness is an incurable disease. Even just my ‘Cheonan Tong’ is the height of unfairness. Twins, they are at the peak of inequality. But this is not an inequality of given talent. The ugly story behind it is that ordinary students, including Lily, became victims of greed.
I remembered the faces of the judges. There was no bespectacled professor who got me a job as a janitor. These were professors who were often criticized by commoner students, including Professor Venom, who regularly discriminated against students. All four judges, no one left out.
I don’t know the circumstances of other departments on Musenion Island. But, to be sure, the music hall was a stinking garden with rotten roots, a gathering place for damned bugs that wanted the money of nobles.
As I was leaving the academic building, I saw professors each taking their ‘noble children’ to the central hall. Hahahoho. Laugh. They did not see the resentful looks of students passing by.
There was a guy sitting on an old bench in the backyard park. The exam is held every fifteen days, but this is the only exam that qualifies you for the competition. who? why? Did he make such an idiotic decision? If it’s such an important test, why do we only get one chance?
perhaps.
The ‘qualifications’ would have already been given from the beginning.
To the daughter of a certain person, the son of a central politician, and the children of those in power.
The weather was nice.
The island of Musenion, with its temperate climate;
The warm sunlight was shining unnecessarily brightly.
Lily hugged her instrument, leaned her head against it, and quietly closed her eyes. The guy had high expectations. She is Lily, who said that music is her weapon. Lily, who comes from Dalet, a pirate town and a hideout for criminals, felt as warm as a spring flower when she played her old instrument. Even though she was ostracized because she came from a lowly background, she had someone to talk to, a cleaner who she thought was probably in the same situation. Even though she was the only one with me. She just relies on music, believing in her talent, and thinking that one day others will recognize her too.
You must have endured it.
Lily’s appearance leaning on the instrument looked super detached, but it was visible to my eyes.
I realized that the insurmountable difficulties were not in myself, but in something else.
A color that seems to be colored with pure emotions.
I trudged over and sat down next to Lily.
And just like Lily did to me when we first met.
I stared at Lily quietly.
Lily turned her head. She’s saying she needs some alone time. But I didn’t go. As she continued to stare, she turned her head again and looked at me. After looking her in the eyes for a few seconds, Lily put down her instrument and stretched.
“Get better!”
“You were first place.”
“H-I know.”
Lily spoke while looking up at the blue sky.
“But you know.”
The voice that had been trying to pretend to be cheerful became increasingly lonely.
“I guess the music is the same too.”
“what?”
“… My one and only mother, even before she was killed by a pirate’s blind sword, she had words of encouragement for me. The reason we were born in Dalet Village is because of the karma of our previous life. Since we have to repay our karma, it is natural to live an unhappy life. Lie down and live. Like a mouse, the gutter is your home. “Wow, you’re a great mom.”
“… “Where is that?”
“right? I want to be happy. I don’t like mice that eat rotten cheese. I want to wear nice dresses, play the Boloton Mountain Bayella, and eat steak and wine every night. But maybe Mom was right.”
“I think I stepped on poop just this once. “There are still a lot of exams left.”
“… It’s been like that ever since. “Continued from last year, the year I first enrolled.”
It was that moment.
Black energy rises from Lily’s body. Something slimy, flexible, and unpleasant, like an octopus’ leg, sprouts from Lily’s back and examines her surroundings. There were eyes at the ends of her legs. Their eyes were ominous, like those of a mountain goat. I slowly stretched out my hand.
[…] … !]
The demon was startled and burrowed into Lily’s body. I quickly pulled out the evil spirit with the power of the ball.
“ouch!”
In order to kill the evil spirit, I had no choice but to slap Lily on the back.
“what.”
“Cheer up, encouragement.”
“Mr. Lee, it really hurts.”
Lily was possessed by an evil spirit.
Ever since I took the seasonal exam.
“Lily.”
“why? Are you going to hit me again?”
“Did anything happen at the test site?”
“There was. Bad guys only trust their parents… … .”
“Not like that. “It seems strange to anyone.”
“hmm? “Specifically?”
I caught my eye on Lily’s instrument bag. Lily always oils her old string instrument before playing it. But she didn’t shine in By Ella.
“instrument. Did you play it on yours?”
“No, out of fairness and all, I used the instrument the professor gave me. Wow, it’s expensive, so it’s good! … What do you do if you like it? Seed.”
I got up from my seat and headed straight to the school building.
“Where?”
“To clean.”
Place too.
People too.
or not.
There is only one thing left.
fantasy,
