While COVID-19 ravaged the globe, upending people's normal lives and stalling the global economy, the pandemic also made one young man feel further than he should be from his dream. "I was really eager to go back on stage. Because I haven't performed for so long during the whole period of COVID. I really want to go back on stage because I was training all the time," said Mika Hashizume, a trainee in this season's CHUANG2021. He is a member of the Japanese-American boy band Intersection.