72 A Sizzling Year-End

Growing up.

A period everyone has to go through, and one that must be passed through in order to become a normal adult.

Various changes occur in the body, but those weren't what mattered to me.

What mattered was that I was about to enter the stage when my voice would change.

In fact, considering that I was about to enter third grade, this was a fairly early stage of growing up.

“You have precocious puberty.”

The brief period when I was in Korea after filming Do You Like Music? and before departing for Tokyo.

I was still being called out to various places one after another during that time, but in any case, I also visited the most important place—the hospital.

A doctor reputed to be fairly well-known in this field diagnosed me with precocious puberty.

Precocious puberty...