The Road To Glory [EN]: Chapter 1911

< Episode 191. A Dedicatory Poem for Someone >

The young man’s hand trembled.

He couldn’t help but notice Eddie was avoiding the subject.

“You’re not dying, are you?”

Eddie smiled faintly at those words.

In that instant, resentment, buried beneath expectation and happiness, bloomed.

“If you were going to die, why did you contact me!”

“…”

“You haven’t contacted me once all this time, so why now…”

Did he want to say a final goodbye?

The young man huffed, looking around.

Where had everyone gone while Eddie was like this?

He wanted to throw a punch right away.

But the only people in this house were Eddie and that old man from before.

The young man thought.

Did they fight?

Or—.

The young man shook his head at the ominous thought.

That couldn’t be.

It mustn’t be.

“Halo.”

Eddie called the young man softly.

“—ah.”

When his real name was spoken, the young man finally looked up.

“It was your birthday recently, wasn’t it? Happy belated birthday.”

“My birthday is in April.”

“Your real birthday is in November.”

Eddie reached out and stroked the young man’s hair.

Only then did the young man remember that his original birthday was in November.

There was a brief pause in the conversation.

The young man glared at Eddie, and Eddie was still smiling as he always had.

Around that time, the old man finally couldn’t hold back his tears and left the room.

“You only thought of me now that you’re about to die?”

“That’s not true.”

“Then why—.”

The brothers might have had a hard time.

Getting scammed by the label. So they might have forgotten small connections while living a difficult life.

If that was the case, the young man could forgive them.

When Eddie suddenly coughed, the young man supported him.

“…I contacted you.”

“I even went to find you. Your label is famous, you know.”

Not many people didn’t know that the label in the heart of London was Halo’s label.

“You came to find me?”

The young man’s eyes wavered.

He had never heard that they came to find him.

Did they not meet because of his schedule?

Still, if someone had come to find him, they would have told him.

“How could we forget you? You’re living so conspicuously. We went to find you several times. It’s not that we wanted anything from you, we just wanted to see you. Me too, and everyone else.”

“I know. Don’t make useless excuses. And it doesn’t matter if you wanted something from me. I’ve made a lot of money in the meantime. You can take some and use it, it won’t even make a dent, you know?”

The young man spread his arms wide, forcing a smile.

“You’re really famous these days.”

Eddie laughed heartily at his boastful appearance.

The young man was relieved because he didn’t see any signs of illness at this moment.

“Then why couldn’t we meet?”

He couldn’t understand.

He had never heard about his brothers until now.

If he had heard that they contacted him before, he would have met them a long time ago.

“Who did you meet back then? Couldn’t they even come in?”

Eddie closed his mouth.

The young man looked at Eddie with a strange feeling.

He had a bad feeling.

The young man tried to dismiss the ominous thought and continued speaking.

“Besides the label. You could have come to the filming set or the stage. Or, there’s my house too—. Didn’t you even think of that?”

Eddie stared at him silently.

The young man’s expression slowly hardened.

“Tell me. Don’t hide it.”

“Halo.”

“There’s no need to hide it.”

The truth was soon revealed.

“They said you refused.”

The young man jumped up.

“I did? Who the hell did!”

When he thought he wouldn’t let any bastard get away with it,

When he found Eddie looking up at him silently.

The young man seemed to know who it was.

“Was it the president?”

There was no answer.

It was the truth.

A thunderbolt struck in his head.

If the president was in front of him right now, he felt like he could grab his collar and smash his smug face.

That’s how angry the young man was.

And at the same time, he was angry at the brothers who hadn’t contacted him since then.

“You believed that? That I didn’t want to see my brothers?”

“I didn’t believe it.”

“Then why didn’t you come!”

“I went.”

The young man was startled when Eddie shouted.

“I went several times, but I couldn’t meet you! The police caught me as a rioter, and your president threatened me! But I still tried to meet you.”

The young man’s hand trembled.

Eddie’s angry expression, which he had never seen before.

Someone whispered that he shouldn’t listen.

But the young man couldn’t cover his ears.

“One day, Dan said he would go to your house. There was no time to stop him. He left on his bike.”

Dan, Daniel, was the brother who often gave him rides on his motorcycle.

He said a lot of irritating things like telling him to go drink more mother’s milk, but he was really cool when he rode his bike.

The joke that he wanted to die on the road when he died was also cool.

The young man once wanted to become an adult like Daniel.

“And then?”

The young man urged when Eddie stopped talking.

What happened?

“I don’t know.”

“…”

“I don’t know either. I don’t know why it turned out that way. But the police said he was riding his bike too fast. So…”

There was an accident.

The young man felt his breath catch in that moment.

“After Dan died, I didn’t go to you. We didn’t have any more will, and the band broke up.”

“When was that?”

“…It’s been a long time.”

“When is it.”

A bad feeling came over him.

He always enjoyed parties when he didn’t have a schedule.

Drinking, hanging out with people, and enjoying pleasure.

Daniel said he came to his mansion.

Everyone knows his schedule, so he probably came when he didn’t have a schedule.

And—.

When he was chatting, singing, and dancing with people.

Daniel—.

Eddie didn’t answer cruelly.

The rest of the story was similar.

The reason why the other brothers except Eddie weren’t here.

One was a traffic accident. One was a drug addiction. One was a robbery murder.

The only one alive, Eddie, had pneumonia.

The young man laughed blankly.

“When everyone was having a hard time, I was having fun.”

“Halo, don’t talk like that.”

You’re not at fault.

It felt like the string that had been holding his reason together had snapped at that one word.

“Wait a minute.”

He couldn’t control his anger.

“Halo? Where are you going! Hey, don’t go! —, please!”

Eddie grabbed his arm, but the young man ran out of the house.

He couldn’t stand it.

He felt like he would suffocate and die if he stayed in this house.

And soon the young man got on his bike.

Daniel died riding his bike too fast,

He didn’t die even if he rode faster.

He ran to the label from there.

No one stopped him as he headed to the president’s office.

“What brings you here—.”

The door slams shut.

The president, who had already realized he was coming from the thumping footsteps, paused when he saw the young man’s expression.

“Why did you do that?”

“What’s wrong now.”

Unbearable anger rose at the brazen expression.

The young man kicked the vase in front of him and broke it.

Not only that, but he also took out the shotgun hanging on the wall.

“Did you take drugs again—.”

When he pointed the shotgun at the president’s head, the president realized that something was wrong and closed his mouth.

“Why didn’t you tell me.”

“…”

“I told you to tell me if someone came to find me. Because it would be someone I know. But you lied? That I didn’t want it?”

Only then did the president seem to realize what he was talking about.

“Put the gun down and talk.”

“…”

“Lock the door so no one can see.”

The president was worried about the young man’s image until the end.

“What’s going on—.”

“Don’t let anyone in until I tell you to!”

When someone tried to open the president’s office door at the sudden commotion, the president shouted.

The slightly opened door closes again.

Silence fell.

Until then, the young man was still pointing the shotgun at the president’s head.

Whether he knew how to shoot or not, it would be instant death at this distance.

“Did you come all the way here over something trivial?”

“Something trivial?”

“I cut off those beggar bastards from clinging to you, you should be grateful.”

It’s not that the president doesn’t have a clue.

He knew very well that he was saying this to make him even more angry.

Maybe the president doesn’t know that he has a shotgun pointed at his head.

Or he believes that the young man won’t be able to shoot.

“You don’t think I can shoot?”

When the young man released the safety, the president smirked.

“Are you going to shoot?”

“You can’t shoot.”

Even if he pointed the gun at the president’s mouth, the president laughed even more.

“As much as you know me, I know you too. You can never shoot.”

“…”

“I don’t care if I die. You’ll still make music without me. But you know what? You can’t do it if you kill someone?”

The president spoke as if he were teaching a child, just like when they first met.

“Can you shoot me, you who said you want to make music even if you die?”

The gun trembled.

“Can you give up music forever?”

His head cools down.

The faster his heart beat.

The gun trembled.

Kill him.

His whole mind whispered to him.

The young man slowly put strength into his thumb.

Bang!

The whole world turned black.

The sound of shattering echoed.

A moment of silence fell.

But that also ended with the president laughing ha ha!

See, I told you.

The outside becomes noisy.

The president shouted again not to come in,

He whispered softly.

“Go on. To your house.”

He held the smoking gun in one hand,

He didn’t care about the blood flowing from his ear.

“You weren’t here. I accidentally fired the gun. Now, go, before the police come. You know very well that attempted murder is hopeless.”

The young man’s body turned back like a machine.

Behind such a young man, a small sneer was heard.

“I should have listened to me.”

His hands trembled.

He regretted not killing the president.

He had to kill him.

He had to get rid of that guy who was laughing at him. The devil who drove his brothers to death.

No, he shouldn’t have signed a contract with that bastard in the old days.

But the one he hates more is himself.

The more he thinks about it.

When his brothers were dying painfully one by one, he hated the past him who spent time indulging in pleasure.

And he resented the current him who couldn’t give up music in the end and chose music instead of his brothers.

The sound of police sirens rings all over the world.

He, who was stuck in the mansion, grabbed his head.

The bright and noisy mansion cannot be so quiet.

The darkness was getting darker and seemed to swallow him.

“Eddie…”

Suddenly, he remembered that there was still one left.

There was still one person alive.

Yes, let’s bring Eddie.

Let’s treat Eddie well as much as we’re sorry to the other brothers.

It may be denial of reality.

Maybe he had hope because he wanted to live somehow and wanted to breathe.

The young man rode his bike again.

But at the end of that black and white world, an old man in black clothes was standing.

I didn’t know it then.

She said she was Eddie’s mother.

“Where is Eddie…”

The young man couldn’t say a word in front of the tombstone.

“It’s Eddie’s.”

The young man roughly put the handkerchief that the old man gave him in his pocket and came out.

He didn’t have time to check what it was.

He didn’t want to be here.

He felt like he was going to suffocate and die.

The young man just ran.

It was blurry and he couldn’t see.

He spreads his arms.

He thought it was a perfect day to die.

“Ha, ha.”

He doesn’t know why the road that drove Daniel to his death is so safe for him.

The young man got off in front of the Thames River and just walked.

Whether the paparazzi took pictures of him or not.

He didn’t want to think about anything.

But at some point, he stopped.

The young man slowly took out what he had put in his pocket.

He didn’t want to check it, but he thought he had to see Eddie’s will.

When he took it out with rough hands, coins poured out onto the floor.

What is this?

The young man grabbed the rolling coin with his foot and took out the handkerchief.

What was there was not a letter but a note.

[Buy fish and chips for —]

The young man, who was watching it silently, counted the number of coins.

His eyes blurred again, but he raised his head, determined to count.

There’s a pub right in front of him.

Most pubs would sell fish and chips.

The young man bit his lip and headed to the pub.

A menu board was placed in front of the neatly decorated pub entrance.

The price of fish and chips and beer caught his eye.

At that moment, the voices of the brothers were heard again.

It was a hopeful voice.

-Don’t cry, young master. It’s not a permanent farewell. We’re just a little further apart. Come find us anytime if you want. Can’t a popular star buy a fish and chips for a young fan?

He couldn’t stand it anymore.

His knees buckled, and the young man sat down.

And he curled up more and more.

Ah.

It was painful, but no groan came out.

His voice, said to be the most beautiful in the world, did not come out.

No matter what he tried to say, only a metallic sound came out like Eddie’s last words.

Someone’s voice is heard.

—!

The brothers were calling him.

When he raised his head, the brothers of his young days, who did not know their end, were smiling.

As usual, they were teasing him for being a crybaby.

The young man forced a smile at them and said.

“You can’t even buy french fries with this, you idiot.”

The prices have gone up in the meantime.

That year. HALO’s 7th album Requiem for the dead peter was released.

His childhood ended like that.

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“You’re working alone?”

“Yes.”

Halo received a call from Shin Joo-hyuk.

He said he was doing it alone too.

He seemed suspicious of the boy’s whim.

“I suddenly remembered something I wanted to say.”

“Is that so?”

“I also remembered what I had forgotten.”

There was darkness and depression on Hwang Ryong-pil’s face, whom he saw for the first time after announcing his retirement.

For some reason, it resembled Eddie’s last moments.

So he may have remembered the promise he made with his brothers.

To become superstars together, have fun, and write a retirement song for anyone who says they’re retiring.

But he’s not trying to write a retirement song for his brothers.

The story of the past world is already a thing of the past, and it’s too old to have a big impact on him.

It’s a waste of time to hold on to regrets.

He is a person who has a lot of things he wants to do.

So, this is just.

A song for the teacher who has a similar face to them.