God's Song Chapter 277-278

Volume 8 / Chapter 277

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Editor: Isleidir

For 1 month, Jina only ate and slept. They could tell how starved and tired she had been.

After 1 month, her skinny cheeks and hands became fleshed out.

She was taken back and forth to the hospital to check on her health, and they heard something to despair of.

“Maestro. Jina will never be able to see.”

“Nothing like a cornea or eye implant will work?”

“It’s completely damaged. It’s the same as if arms and legs were cut off. Just as arms and legs cannot be attached even with donors, it is difficult even if she has an eye donor.”

The doctor was also regretful and his voice was weak as he explained Jina’s state.

“And about Jina’s age. What age do you think she is?”

“I heard she is 10.”

“I don’t think so. By the state of her teeth, she seems to be at least 13 years old. Fortunately, it’s not too late.”

“What? What do you mean too late?”

“If she eats and rests plenty at least now, she will be able to recover a normal physique. She can’t just stay inside the house too much just because she cannot see. She needs to run around like other children and build up her stamina.”

“I understand.”

Jun Hyuk’s decision to make sure that she would never experience unhappiness even if she will never be able to see again.

And after Jina had been living with Jun Hyuk for 1 month, the feared day came to them.

Amelia finished her tour and came home with a stony expression. She already knew through the media that Jun Hyuk had brought a girl home from India.

“Adopt?”

“Yeah.”

Amelia sighed lightly and Jun Hyuk was just watching for her reaction.

“What if I say no?”

“Then… then I guess I’ll have to be her custodian.”

“Even if you’re her custodian, doesn’t that mean she’ll live here with us?”

“Ye… yeah.”

“Then it’s just a difference in the term. How is that different from adopting her?”

“Is… is that right?”

Jun Hyuk wasn’t even able to lift his head and was only resenting Yoon Kwang Hun. He had not come even though he knows that Amelia was returning today.

“Alright. Then that child, what was her name?”

“Jina.”

“Yeah. Jina will call you dad and what about me? She’ll call me mom anyway. No?”

Amelia’s voice grew increasingly sharp.

“Goodness. I’m still a Miss who hasn’t gotten married. But mom!”

“Then… then you can marry me.”

As soon as Jun Hyuk spoke, sparks flew from Amelia’s eyes.

“You… you asshole! Get out of this room, no, this house you jerk!”

Amelia’s eyes were already full of tears than anger.

“Oy, you idiot. How does it make sense to propose so you can adopt a kid? You think of that as a proposal?”

“It’s not just that. I think of Amelia as the only girl in my life.”

Tara came to comfort Amelia who had been crying all night, and Jun Hyuk who had gotten kicked out just drank with Yoon Kwang Hun.

When Yoon Kwang Hun found out about Jun Hyuk’s mistake, he wanted to give him a smack. How women take children men bring home from outside is common knowledge found in soap operas.

“Then what of it? You already told her you guys should get married to make a mom for the kid. Did you think she’d like it if you proposed like that?”

“I’m going to go crazy. Really…..”

It really was not because of Jina. Marriage is a scary thing to him but if he does do it, he thinks that the only person he would marry is Amelia. He could not imagine another woman.

“This is a really serious situation. You guys could break up now because of this.”

“Father!”

“Why is this jerk yelling? You did it to yourself!”

Yoon Kwang Hun only said things that would annoy him as though enjoying the situation. He did not worry because he knows what kind of person Amelia is.

“Hey, think about it. With those looks and the fame of a world-renowned pianist. How many guys do you think follow her around because they like her? But she only looks at you. She endured it even if you didn’t propose to her. But you bring a little girl from India and…”

Jun Hyuk yelled at Yoon Kwang Hun’s unnecessary words.

“Ugh! Stop and lay out a solution.”

“What do I know? I lived alone all my life. And I’m taken aback too. I have a granddaughter all of a sudden. I’m becoming a grandfather all of a sudden… How will Amelia feel when I’m like this?”

This wasn’t it. He thought that he would be able to persuade her but spitting out a proposal at this appropriate timing because of his dumb mouth was the biggest mistake.

Jun Hyuk drank his beer.

“Amelia probably would have fully accepted adopting the kid. She’s open-minded. But she exploded when you asked to marry because of the child.”

Yoon Kwang Hun emptied his beer bottle and told Jun Hyuk the only way he knew.

“Wouldn’t it be best to show her your sincerity?”

“Sincerity?”

“Yeah. Amelia is the only woman in Jang Jun Hyuk’s life. There’s only you in the past, now, and in the future.”

Jun Hyuk imagined buying a diamond ring and getting down on one knee to propose. It is a method with a 100% success rate in the movies.

“Don’t even think about a diamond ring the size of a baseball. You’ll get beaten with that.”

Sincerity.

Jun Hyuk just drank while thinking of a way to express his sincere feelings.

The next morning, Jun Hyuk pushed a piece of paper under Amelia’s door and spoke as he knocked,

“Amelia. Make sure you look at that. I’ll wait in front of the door.”

After he had been waiting at the door for about 20 minutes, the door opened.

Tears were running down Amelia’s cheeks.

Her hand trembled as she held the paper Jun Hyuk had given her. She looked at Jun Hyuk and suddenly wrapped her arms around his neck.

“Will you marry me?”

When Jun Hyuk whispered into Amelia’s ear, she hugged him even harder.

“Yes!”

When Jun Hyuk proudly talked about his successful proposal, Yoon Kwang Hun let out a low whistle in surprise.

“You’re better than I thought. How did you figure it out?”

“You told me to show her my sincerity. So I showed her.”

Yoon Kwang Hun’s eyes grew wide. He had just said that because he had nothing else to say, but it worked?

“You just told her? Your sincerity? She believes that? Amelia’s dumber than I thought. She believe’s a man’s words.”

How great would it be if people could show their sincerity with just words? Words can hold truth and lies, so it is difficult to tell what the truth is.

This is especially true when people are angry.

“Even I know that words aren’t enough. Fortunately, I had a document that would let me show my sincerity. In Korea. He he.”

“Korea? Document?”

“Yes. I showed her my will.”

“What? Will? You already made something like that?”

He hadn’t even dreamed of something like that even though he is now 60, but Jun Hyuk already wrote one? Yoon Kwang Hun looked at Jun Hyuk in disbelief and laughed.

“Almost 10 years ago? You don’t remember when strange people appeared saying that they’re my biological parents?”

“Oh, when you had your concert in Seoul.”

“Yes. Lawyer Baek Seung Ho created a will then to put out any fires. He said that no one would try to go after money that already has an owner.”

Yoon Kwang Hun could guess why they had written the will without saying a word to him about it. His name will be in that will.

“Amelia was the heiress in that will?”

“Yes. Just two people, you and Amelia.”

Yoon Kwang Hun hit his knee.

“It’s perfect. You were the only woman from 10 years ago. There’s nothing more sincere.”

Jun Hyuk did not know that he would use his will like this. Yoon Kwang Hun couldn’t not say something.

“But why is my name there? You thought you’d die before I did?”

“Just in case. I was young then… he he. I thought geniuses die quickly.”

Jun Hyuk flushed in embarrassment. Yoon Kwang Hun saw this and started laughing again.

“You don’t smoke, you only drink sometimes, and you go jogging every morning, but die quickly? You’re going to live longer than Jina.”

Not all geniuses die premature deaths. Einstein lived 76 years. Living like Jun Hyuk, he will live for more than 80 years.

Jina slowly accepted and adjusted to her daily life which had become completely different. She no longer had to starve, could eat until she was full, and had a cozy place to sleep.

Not only was there no longer the smell of dirt bad enough to make her throw up, a pleasant smell came from her clothes and bedding. Jina evaluated everything by sound since she cannot see, and felt warmth in the voices of the people surrounding her.

She still thought of Jun Hyuk as her owner. She just thought of  him as a kind and warm owner unlike the one she had before.

She thought of him as an owner who enjoys her singing instead of her begging, so she was happy about the fact that she just needed to sing for her owner.

And she was happy that everyone including her owner listened to her singing and enjoyed it.

The middle-aged woman who taught her English was ecstatic that she had come across the greatest blessing of her life.

It provided her with an incredible salary and the chance to meet a legendary maestro every day. And she is the only person who can listen to a child with the voice of an angel and Jun Hyuk’s music a performances.

– Alright, again. The part where you did ah-ah! was a little high. Lower it a little.

– You need to make it a little longer than that. About 0.5 seconds? Yeah. That’s it.

Jina was living in the same way Jun Hyuk did when he first met Yoon Kwang Hun. She spent all day buried in music, listening to all genres from classical to pop and falling in love with new music.

And the first song she is learning from Jun Hyuk is “A, E, I, O, U”. As the song does not have a language like English or Italian, it seemed like a song created just for Jina.

“Jun Hyuk. What do you think about teaching Jina vocalization first? Isn’t that song a little hard?”

“No. She doesn’t need basics like that. Jina’s a child who absorbs while singing. You can’t compare her to ordinary singers who were born with great voices.”

A world that normal, ordinary people cannot understand. Absorbing at once and learning on their own, it is a completely different world that they cannot explain.

Yoon Kwang Hun was able to gauge the size of Jina’s ability by comparing it to Jun Hyuk’s past.

Yoon Kwang Hun could not understand and just shook his head as he spoke to Amelia,

“Just watch. And enjoy the wonderful world that people like Jun can show you.”

Jun Hyuk and Amelia held their wedding at President Stern’s villa in Switzerland. It was a secret wedding that only family members attended.

Jun Hyuk’s best men were Colin and Danny, and the people Jun Hyuk met most nervously weren’t Amelia’s parents but her 7 older brothers.

“Oh! Maestro. No, it is brother now? Ha ha.”

The 7 men were neither scary nor threatening. They are just cavalier cowboys who raise nearly 1,000 cows.

There were other truly intimidating people. Amelia’s nieces and nephews. There were nearly 30 of them ranging from those in their teens to infants, and the sound of them chatting away made Jun Hyuk crazy.

No matter how hard he tried to change it into music, it was just impossible noise.

Jun Hyuk and Amelia exchanged rings, were wed by a priest, and had a deep kiss.

And the child everyone looked at with great curiosity held their hands and appeared on the aisle.

As Jun Hyuk and Amelia wed, they became parents.

“Alright, Jina. Today’s your first performance. There are a lot of people in front of you right now who will listen to your song and cry of happiness. Sing to your heart’s desire.”

Jina sang “A, E, I, O, U” for about 30 minutes and Jun Hyuk clenched both fists with his entire body trembling.

The music he had expected from Laura Goldberg. 13 year old Jina had completed that music to 100%.

“Jina, listen well.”

Jun Hyuk started to play the piano and not long after, Jina’s hands started to move. Her hands hesitated at times as it moved to the piano melody, but her hand did not stop moving naturally like water flowing.

Jun Hyuk finished playing after more than an hour and turned around, asking Jina,

“What do you think? Do you like it?”

“Yes. But a few parts are a little weird.”

Jun Hyuk’s smile grew wider.

“Really? How many parts are weird?”

“4 places.”

Jina vocalized the parts that she had found strange with her beautiful voice.

“Yeah. It’s a little weird, right? Then how should I change it?”

“Dad! You did it on purpose again? Just play it. I can’t compose and arrange.”

Jina was wearing dark purple glasses and pouted, while Jun Hyuk sighed.

Jina became a completely different person over the past 2 years. Her familiarity with English and bright expression. She has become a girl in her teens, grumbling to her parents.

She completely understood that Jun Hyuk and Amelia are her adoptive parents and not her owners, and she also realized that her adoptive parents are world-renowned musicians. She was also growing used to the attention she received because of this.

The school she began attending not too long ago was a different world. She felt the joy of learning and learned what having friends means.

Music was the only time she had to learn alone. She could not participate in music classes according to Jun Hyuk’s request. The school’s principal thought of this as a reasonable request. What could the school say when he is saying that he would like to teach her music himself?

What Jina considers the greatest blessing is her father who lets her listen to new music everyday. To her, Jun Hyuk is a magician.

He makes everything she hears, feels, thinks, and learns into music.

But if Jina could see, she would have been surprised by how the magician changed over 2 years.

Jun Hyuk did not come out of his studio at home. He came out a bit when Amelia was home, but there were more and more days when he spent nights in his studio.

There were no scores either. Unintelligible notes just kept stacking up and he became thinner and thinner.

If Amelia had just stayed at home without touring, it would have been hard for her to watch Jun Hyuk. But since she was away from home for more than 6 months, she just pitied Jun Hyuk as he wasted away. She was also more sorry that she could not be by his side.

Amelia kept the promise she made in the beginning that she would not step foot in Jun Hyuk’s studio at home. This meant that while he was in the studio, he was neither a husband or lover, but a great musician.

And there were many times when she fell asleep with Jina when Jun Hyuk spent the night in his studio.

“Jina.”

“Yes, mom.”

“Will you sing for me before we go to sleep? I sleep well if I hear you sing. Hm… Sing Bellini’s Casta Diva.”

“Mom, you’re supposed to sing the lullaby.”

“You’ll have nightmares if I sing a lullaby.”

Jina buried her head in the pillow and couldn’t stop laughing. Once she finally stopped, she spoke with an embarrassed expression,

“Sorry, mom. I can’t sing. Dad told me not to sing outside of my lessons. I don’t even sing at school. I keep my promises.”

“Can you tell me why?”

“He said my voice is still too weak, that it’ll be ruined if I use it too much. He said I need to build it up slowly…”

“Then how many hours a day do you have lessons?”

“5 hours? 6 hours?”

“What? You sing that much every day?”

“Yes.”

Unbelievable. He is telling her not to abuse her voice but making her practice as much adult vocalists do.

“Isn’t it hard?”

Jina looked regretful and spoke in a strange voice,

“Mom. I want to sing all day. I’m just really sad that I’m only allowed to sing that little in a day.”

“Then what songs do you sing?”

“They’re not songs but sounds. Dad said he hasn’t finished making the music yet. So I’m just making sounds.”

It was hard to believe that he had not been able to finish creating the music. 2 years for him is enough time for him to write 10 symphonies. He would have written hundreds of arias.

“No way. You guys have been practicing for over 2 years. What on earth is he making?”

“He just said that it’s the best music. He said that all of the songs he’s ever written combined won’t be able to follow this one song.”

Jina chatted away excitedly.

“Dad’s first symphony expressed pain, but he said that this one is going to express bliss. This must mean it’s standing opposite to Inferno.”

Amelia bolted up in bed. What is Jun Hyuk trying to do to this young child? To make her feel that pain!

“Did you hear Inferno?”

Amelia asked cautiously and Jina sat up in bed as well.

“Of course.”

“You didn’t feel anything while listening to Inferno?”

“How could I feel nothing? It felt like electricity was running through my body. I never get tired of Inferno no matter how much I listen to it.”

There’s another person. Another person who can enjoy Inferno. Amelia suddenly felt dizzy.

“But what do you mean by 1 song?”

“The song Dad is making now. He said that it’ll be a really long song.”

Amelia couldn’t sleep that night. There were so many questions she wanted to ask Jun Hyuk.

Chapter end