OPEN YOUR EYES (BLIND I) - MUSIQ SERIES PART 2

92. REACH THE SKY

After taking a rather long nap, in the afternoon Heejin went to the practice room with the rest of the girls to see what their seniors wanted to tell them. It was the first time a practice room had been so crowded, but at the same time it reminded them of back when they were at the company so it felt oddly comforting. They were all even sitting together not paying attention to the group divisions and being fully mixed up, so that only enhanced the feeling.

"As you all may have guessed, we cannot have a live show for the final program that consists of just two performances, so that's why we are gathered here," Mika began explaining. "We have tried to craft the perfect schedule for the show, and for that we decided to make it almost like a concert."

Mika then turned on the TV, which showed them a presentation they had prepared to show them everything more clearly. It had everything that they would be doing in chronological order and with the time accumulated on the side, so it was easy for them to see what they would be doing with just a glance.

"First of all, we want to ask you whether during any of the prior tasks any of you felt even slightly out of breath or like they couldn't continue," Alix said before they explained what was on the presentation, and Iku and Juna raised their hands. "This last task with undoubtedly be the hardest one, so in order for you to be ready for it you will be training in the gym here with me three days a week. On Mondays and Wednesdays we will train your strength and on Saturdays we will train your endurance, so that day the training will take much longer. You are already rehearsing all day and all I don't want you to be stuck in the gym every day for the next couple of weeks, so let's go with this instead. Since Iku and Juna said they were the ones who had most trouble during the other tasks, I'll focus on them more, but I think you should all come to at least the endurance one."

"Good luck with that. You are going to die," Duyi said to the girls, making the rest of C1K laugh. "I'm not kidding. The first week will feel like torture."

"You should be encouraging them!" Leah told him.

"No, I'm just telling them the truth. To encourage them I'll say that enduring that for two weeks will make your performances so effortless that it will feel like all of your hard work was worth it."

"Wow... the true leader has arrived!" Juiyu teased him.

The mood among all of them seemed to have improved even just slightly, which was just what they needed as they soon later were told exactly what they would be doing on the day of the final.

The whole program was scheduled to last around two and a half hours. Instead of starting with a «Breakthrough» performance like they always did, on the presentation it said a music video of the Japanese version would be aired as an introduction, which only helped to confuse most of them as they were not aware of there being any Japanese version of the track.

"When making the song for the program, Heejin not only wrote Korean lyrics, but also Japanese ones. As the program has been having such an incredible reception in Japan and «Perfect World» quickly rose up every Japanese chart, we thought it would be great for you to make a Japanese version of the program's song as a goodbye," Mika explained. "As we know learning the Japanese lyrics with such a short notice can be hard, we will record this as a performance music video so that you just need to lip sync it and don't need to worry about it all that much."

"Yes, another song together!" Iku said, getting everyone's attention. "Sorry, I just really like when we all perform together."

It was a feeling they definitely all shared. Although they were a lot and it made it more difficult for them to stand out individually, they loved performing all together, even if those performances would only remain as a memory after the program was over.