A New Career Singer Who Can Read The Future [EN]: Chapter 12

Did you guys hear the news? Na Do-hyun (Spoiler Alert)

Na Do-hyun passed the second preliminary round without any difficulty.

My staff acquaintance told me.

┗Honestly, how many times is this his debut? Passing should be a given.

┗Why are you being so negative?

┗Just face reality ^^.

┗Ignore the commenter~ I’m looking forward to Na Do-hyun because he’s really talented.

┗Na Do-hyun should be able to make it to the TV finals.

┗Na Do-hyun, really ㅠㅠ My favorite ㅠㅠ He has to succeed ㅠㅠ

┗So, what song did our baby sing?

┗The song he sang on V-Star live before! He played the guitar and sang Lavitavita’s song.

┗Wow, amazing. Na Do-hyun is good at guitar too?

┗I don’t know. I’ve never imagined him playing the guitar. He’s never shown it before. Is that why Huent Entertainment took him?

* * *

I passed the second round easily with Lavitavita’s song.

The judges gave me a passing necklace with the comment, “Fresh. I learned about another charm of Na Do-hyun.”

I heard on-site that many people who sang Marilyn Page’s song, which I was originally going to sing, were eliminated despite being good at singing. They couldn’t bring out the charm of their vocals, so they were buried.

I sent a thank-you text message to PD [Production Director] Lee Jun-hyuk. I didn’t get a reply, but I was happy.

Now, the third preliminary round is tomorrow.

I decided to draw a tarot card for myself with the determination that I must get to the finals.

Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle!

The cards stick to my hand today.

The shuffling sound was cheerful.

The feeling is different. It felt like a good card would come out.

Spread!

I spread the cards.

At that moment, there was one card that caught my eye.

“Hoo, I hope for a good future!”

I slowly turned the card over.

[ACE OF PENTACLES]

Ace of Pentacles?

The picture on the tarot card, where a big hand appears from the sky and gives a huge coin, implied that great financial luck was following me from the beginning.

“So that means… I can interpret that as I will be given the opportunity for the third round and the finals, right?”

Tarot card, please be right this time!

It’s been right so far, so this opportunity won’t go wrong.

* * *

‘I want to be your first singer’ Third Preliminary Round Day.

There was a long line in front of the 88 Gymnasium. It wasn’t as crowded as the first preliminary round.

There were some who became acquainted while coming up to the third round.

There were those who were challenging after living as unknown singers like Do-hyun, and there were those who came out on the recommendation of acquaintances, ‘You should go out once,’ and came up to the third preliminary round.

While chatting with them for a while, a staff member with a camera approached.

“Na Do-hyun!”

It seemed like they were trying to get an interview.

Do-hyun turned around and bowed politely to the camera.

“Hello! I’m Na Do-hyun!”

“Do-hyun, how do you feel about challenging your fourth debut? If you pass the third round, you’ll be staying in the dorm and preparing for the finals!”

“I’m really excited, and I remember the moment I first debuted! I hope there will be good results.”

“You’re so humble. You played the guitar in the second round, which you’ve never shown to your fans before. Can you give us a hint for the third round?”

Do-hyun knew that he could sing with MR [Music Recorded] from the third round, so he didn’t prepare a separate instrument. He only prepared MR with a slight arrangement.

“First of all, I want to say that it’s not an instrument performance.”

“Oh… There must be many people who were expecting Do-hyun’s instrument performance.”

“There are many opportunities left in the future, so I’ll show you then! Thank you!”

“Thank you for responding to the interview. Then I’ll see you on the broadcast.”

The staff left to find someone else.

The people next to Do-hyun looked curious.

“Are you really not playing an instrument this time?”

“I didn’t bring my guitar in the first place. Doesn’t that mean I won’t be playing an instrument?”

“Even if that’s not the case… I think you’ve prepared something.”

“Hey, I really didn’t. Hyo-seop, you’re so suspicious.”

Hyo-seop was a friend who suffered the pain of his team disbanding after two of his team members flew to another country as soon as they debuted. He was younger than Do-hyun, but he was also mature in his thinking, so Do-hyun got his contact information first. It seemed like they could remain good friends.

“Ah, hyung [older brother/male friend]. I told you to speak comfortably! Anyway, after we pass the third round, we’ll all gather and practice together in the dorm.”

“Hehe….”

Hyo-seop seemed to firmly believe that he could get to the third round. Do-hyun was thinking that too. Do-hyun thought that it would be better if someone he knew also went up.

“I’m not good at talking comfortably. This has been a habit since my first debut….”

“Hyung! I’m young. If we get into the top 125, we really have to be more comfortable from then on.”

“I haven’t even dreamed of being in the top 125 yet, so I don’t know.”

The judging criteria are different depending on who the judges are.

“Number 89, Na Do-hyun! Please come in!”

At the staff’s shout, Na Do-hyun was guided to the place where he would sing.

“……!”

The moment Do-hyun saw the judge’s face, he was very surprised.

Popularity, face, and skill.

The singer who had everything, Coast, was sitting in front of him.

Coast often appeared as a judge on audition programs, and he was also famous for making the cast cry with more cold-hearted evaluations than PD Lee Jun-hyuk.

“Hello! I’m Na Do-hyun.”

“Na Do-hyun, nice to meet you. I have high expectations.”

“I’ll sing to meet your expectations!”

The MR he had prepared began to play.

Do-hyun closed his eyes and acted as if he was on the final stage.

“I love you so much, everything I have is yours, I’ll tell you now.”

With a sweet voice, Do-hyun was whispering love.

It had been a long time since he had fallen in love, but he could express the feeling of love well.

The reason he chose this song was because he wanted to prove that he could sing well even if it wasn’t a breakup song.

The first verse is over….

“Let’s listen to it here.”

Do-hyun took a breath and said thank you.

“It’s okay to say thank you. There’s nothing for me to be thanked for. Thank you for the good song, but I have a question.”

“What is it?”

“As far as I know, this song is not originally this BPM [Beats Per Minute]. If it’s the song I know, it should have been played at a slightly faster tempo. This song has been arranged. Why did you bother to arrange it?”

“……!”

It was a sharp question.

PD Lee Jun-hyuk arranged it, saying that a few tempos slower seemed to suit Do-hyun’s voice well.

Do-hyun also agreed with that opinion and chose to sing at a slower tempo.

He didn’t expect Coast to catch that. No, it was amazing that he even knew this band’s song. It was amazing that he knew a band called Before You, which you can only know if you dig deep into indie bands.

“That’s because it suited my voice well.”

“Then you can sing it at the original tempo, right?”

“Yes. I can sing it at the original tempo.”

“Then let’s listen to it without accompaniment.”

Do-hyun recited the lyrics in his head once again and started singing without accompaniment.

Coast’s expression, who was looking at Do-hyun with his hands clasped and his chin resting on them, was subtle.

Do-hyun, who made eye contact with such Coast, tried not to be nervous.

‘Focus, focus. You might fail if you don’t focus.’

Feeling a sense of crisis, Do-hyun ended up making a slight off-key at the climax.

‘Damn it! This is not a song to make a mistake on! It was a song that I could freely sing within my range!’

The song was over, but Coast was still looking at the score sheet on the desk.

That moment felt very long to Do-hyun.

The staff who were filming this scene were urging Coast to say something.

After a few minutes, Coast opened his mouth.

“Na Do-hyun.”

“Yes!”

“You were very nervous when you went to the original tempo. In fact, a singer’s life can be ridiculed for a long time because of even a small off-key. Whether it’s an audition stage like this or any stage, you have to be able to sing well in any tempo and any code. That’s basic, so you know that.”

“I know that well….”

“The reason I told you to sing at the original tempo was because I was curious about your real skills. But you’re challenging your fourth debut, and you have a lot of stage experience, but you made a mistake of being off-key. At that moment, I doubted Na Do-hyun’s skills.”

Do-hyun hoped that the words of failure would not come out.

He couldn’t fail in the third preliminary round.

For the people who were cheering him on, and since he had a contract with Huent Entertainment, he prayed and prayed to pass.

“…Yes.”

“So I’m at a crossroads. I haven’t decided whether to pass or fail Na Do-hyun yet. You are definitely a promising prospect, but you made such a small mistake while singing in front of only one judge. The reason for disappointment is also clear. So I decided to think about one more thing.”

‘Please, please! I hope it’s not a failure!’

Coast thought for a while and called the staff and whispered something.

When the staff nodded, Coast opened his mouth to Do-hyun.

“You won’t be given two chances. That’s the same for any judge. Instead, go to the finals and prove your skills. I asked the staff if I could say this, and they said I could, so I’m saying it. I’m also a judge in the finals.”

“……!”

In other words, it was a pass.

Do-hyun resented the off-key, but he was grateful that he was able to get to the finals even by a narrow margin.

“I’ll see you again in the finals.”

“Thank you! Thank you!”

Do-hyun turned around and clenched his fist.

‘…Nice!’

It didn’t go as smoothly as the [ACE OF PENTACLES] tarot card, but it was a pass.

Maybe this tarot card was pointing to Do-hyun’s performance in the finals.

‘Really, really the last time, Na Do-hyun!’