Chapter 214: Final Round (4)
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The crowd gasped the moment Rayen opened his mouth to sing. Their minds seemed to lag for a second, unable to process the ever changing performance before them.
Before they could even report to the police of their ears getting violated, the music suddenly changed, now serenading them. (Not serenading)
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Rayen’s calm and precise notes echoed through the ears of the listeners, as if healing them from the previous torment.
The atmosphere that seemed like something wrong was swirling in the air suddenly exploded. Everyone on stage started to move, aiming their hand guns with each other.
Snap! Snap!
The simultaneous snapping of their fingers initiated the fight that broke. Invisible bullets rained on stage.
Liam rolled on the floor to "evade" the imaginary bullets, changing position with Rayen at the center. Then, he started to rap with his low voice.
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As he rapped, the lights on the stage dimmed, bathing everyone in the darkness. However, a light seemingly coming from a projector illuminated Liam and the wall behind him.
A video of everyone hanging out, laughing among each other, dancing silly moves, and eating together, was played on the wall.
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Liam’s tone of voice seemed filled with regrets.
He glanced back, a tinge of nostalgia visible on his eyes.
Something seemed to tug at the audience’s hearts. They couldn’t help but tear up at this scene.
The members in the dark aimed their hands at Liam.
Snap, snap!
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The lights returned.
Everyone moved in seamlessly to their new formation. However, one person seemed distracted and moved a second late — Adrian.
Rayen caught this mistake from the corner of his eyes. His fears came true.
Performing onstage in a terrible condition is a bad decision.
’I should have said something!’
Thankfully, although Adrian committed a mistake, it wasn’t as obvious to the audience. Adrian’s face remained unfazed from his mistake and continued to dance to the choreography.
Rayen sighed inwardly.
But this situation shouldn’t continue. If he let it be, the next mistake might not go unnoticed by the audience by then.
The bridge of the song gradually approached. The dance break also approached.
The dance break was supposed to be Ara’s centerstage. However, the accident happened, and it was Adrian who replaced her as the second person who had the highest dance skill out of everyone.
Before the bridge, the chorus came. It was Rayen’s turn to sing again. He figured he must move now.
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His booming voice echoed loudly throughout the venue. His beautiful voice catching everyone’s attention.
His enthusiasm caught his other members off guard. They all glanced at him at the corner of their eyes. When Rayen’s eyes met Adrian’s, a slight smirk appeared on Rayen’s lips.
’Oi, oi. You shouldn’t ruin the performance, dear writer! I can’t afford to die!’
Adrian’s brow raised in offense.
’Yeah, I’m berating you right now! Got any problem with that?’
Adrian rolled his eyes to ignore him.
’This writer has such a bad temper these days.’
When Rayen’s turn to sing ended, he was still somewhat worried. Just then, another unexpected thing happened.
Before the enthusiasm that Rayen brought forth complete faded, Ren continued to sing in the same vigor.
Rayen’s eyes slightly widened in surprise.
’Since when did Ren able to sing this good?’
Rayen had no recollection of any noteworthy performance from Ren. He was so unremarkable, it hurt Rayen’s liver when he got kicked out of the vocal group during the 2nd round by him.
Yet now...
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Back at the center of the stage, although it was Adrian who was leading the dance, he was completely overthrown by the two people beside him.
This was a complete bullying. His broken pride stabbed him right in the chest.
Glancing at Rayen, a flashback of the incident that happened appeared in his mind.
He still hadn’t confronted this lousy dancer for what happened, yet he was getting provoked by him.
This was totally unacceptable.
...
Minji watched the spectacular performance happening onstage before her. She tightly grasped Seoyun’s hands and screamed.
"Rayen! Rara! Aaaahhhhh!!!"
She jumped up and down as she screamed, bringing Seoyun along. In her eyes, she could only see Rayen. The others didn’t matter now.
However, when the dance break started, a halo seemed to form in Adrian’s head. His every movement stole a bit of Minji and the others’ attention until their eyes forcefully stayed on him.
The chaotic battlefield turned even more chaotic. Adrian executed every move with sharp and precise movements.
Although their team didn’t have a highly skilled choreographer such as Xu Jiji and Yeo Haru, they still had Ara.
She was the one who arranged the choreography together with Adrian. Ara’s legacy continued through their dance steps, and now, Adrian was living it.
Still, they knew that their dance skills weren’t enough to contend with the other team.
That’s why Rayen had to think of another idea to make it seem more grand.
When Rayen thought of using everything, he really did use everything.
Since he had upgraded his Production Skills to the S rank, it would be a waste to not use it. And with Liam’s experience in music composition from their first life, arranging three songs into a single song was a breeze.
The three songs merged into a new masterpiece.
If they couldn’t compete with their dancing, use the music. If that still wasn’t enough, use everything!
"Bang, bang!"
When these lyrics rang out once again, the invisible bullets could finally be seen.
Rayen’s and everyone from Team 1’s shirts were dyed by a rainbow of colors. The formerly gloomy ruined stage was covered in colors. The viewers vision was filled to the brim with colorful paint.
It was a feast for the eyes.
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But even though the world seemed colorful, the hateful words that seemed like bullet continued to hurt them.
Minji’s eyes teared up. She was reminded of everything that happened to Rayen in the past.
Hateful words, evil-editing, bullying... Rayen stood still to accept it all.
This song... was he telling everyone to stop and end it?