Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 738

“He wrapped up the shooting two days ago…”

A man with a scruffy beard and hair muttered as he peered into something that looked like a telescope in front of him. He was chewing gum incessantly.

What was in front of him was similar to a telescope, but completely different. It was a high-magnification camera.

It was not much different from a telescope in the sense that it looked at the stars, the celebrities, in the night sky.

Of course, this was illegal.

The man’s job was a paparazzi.

He was an inevitable presence that the celebrities could not get rid of.

Especially in Hollywood, where the stars were abundant.

The large camera that resembled a telescope had a square screen instead of an eyepiece lens. 

On the screen, a mansion was captured.

It was smaller than the usual Hollywood stars’ mansions, but the security was no less thorough.

It was the LA mansion of the Hollywood star, Seo-jun Lee.

“He’ll probably go out today.”

Seo-jun Lee.

He was the center of attention with his movie [Over the Rainbow 2: For My Friend] (still popular with its sound and video) that he filmed last year and [Shadow & Knight] that he was filming this year, or rather, that he finished filming two days ago. He was an Asian superstar.

He was bound to stand out in Hollywood, where the proportion of Asians was low.

“And the price of the photos is amazing.”

The paparazzi lifted one corner of his mouth as he recalled the amount offered by the gossip magazine company.

Like any star, the amount was not that high at first, but as Seo-jun Lee became more active and gained more fans, the price per photo also increased rapidly. And the reason why the price doubled compared to the ordinary stars was,

“There are hardly any paparazzi photos taken so far.”

That was because there were hardly any photos taken by the paparazzi even though he had been filming in the US.

There were only a few photos taken by the paparazzi, and they were either taken at the outdoor shooting site or when he was entering the event hall.

But those photos, which anyone could know and take, did not make big money for the paparazzi.

“Private life. I need to take his private life.”

It would be nice to see him going to the mart in a comfortable look, or walking a dog (there was no information that he had one), or being with his family or friends.

These days, some stars deliberately asked the paparazzi to take their natural-looking photos (of course, they were all dressed up from makeup to outfits).

They were called paparazzi cuts.

Those everyday looks were the elements that attracted the attention of the fans and the general public, and they were on the rise.

“Well, I prefer something else.”

The paparazzi spat out his gum and took out a bread to fill his stomach.

The photos that the paparazzi was aiming for were more dangerous and controversial than those peaceful, everyday, and planned photos.

Something like a pool party with exposure or a star’s violent behavior.

Of course, a pool party was something that anyone could do with their friends, and a violent behavior could also be a situation where there was no problem for the star if they looked at the cause and effect.

But even with those photos that had no problem, the yellow magazines made a big fuss.

The title would probably be very grand, so intense and vulgar that even the general public who had no interest would not be able to ignore the magazine.

Well, it was none of his business.

“The possibility of drugs is low, huh…”

Chomp.

The paparazzi lost his appetite with regret.

Seo-jun Lee’s image was like that, and drugs would be the most intense and shocking for an Asian.

But when he thought of the names of the actors and directors around Seo-jun Lee, it seemed almost impossible. They were all people who did not touch drugs, so Seo-jun Lee would have no chance to encounter them.

“He’s lucky.”

The paparazzi, who did not know that Seo-jun Lee would not even touch them even if he had a chance, ate his bread and looked at the camera screen.

He had no time to go out when he was filming [Shadow & Knight], going back and forth between his house and the set, but now that the shooting was over, he would probably wander around until he returned to his country. He thought he could make some money by taking pictures of him and secretly following him to his destination.

Then.

Someone came out of the mansion.

The paparazzi put down his bread and zoomed in on the screen.

He had learned a lot about Seo-jun Lee while researching him, and strangely enough, Seo-jun Lee was almost invisible in normal cameras. There were hardly any eyewitness accounts from the general public.

‘So they said he was often overlooked.’

But the paparazzi could guess that the Asian youth wearing a hat who came out of Seo-jun Lee’s house was Seo-jun Lee. So he took the pictures first. The verification work was something he could do later.

‘Well, I don’t have to do it…’

That’s what a gossip magazine was, right?

‘This is not me.’

‘Oh, really? Sorry.’

No, he would be a gentleman if he apologized.

It was usually swept under the rug.

Anyway.

Click click click click-

The shutter sound continued endlessly in a distant place where the youth, who was guessed to be Seo-jun Lee, could not hear.

The youth, who seemed to be waiting for a car, had something in his hand.

“I hope it’s not the C Save Center again.”

The paparazzi did not follow him, but it was the information he found out from the photos posted on the SNS of the C Save Center. Seo-jun Lee seemed to go to the C Save Center every time he came to LA.

“Can’t he go somewhere else…?”

He only met the same people he always met (source: actors’ SNS photos) and went to the same places he always went (source: center or store’s SNS photos).

He should have some fun and break the rules, isn’t he living too boringly?

The paparazzi, who did not know that ‘actor Lee Seo-jun’ was living his ‘current life’ with 100% satisfaction and joy, lamented over Seo-jun Lee’s mundane life.

A superstar who had been rising from his childhood to the present.

If he had that appearance, that acting skill, that popularity, that wealth (gossip magazine’s estimate), he would not have lived so dull.

While spreading his wings of imagination, the paparazzi’s hand moved instinctively and operated the camera. The paper bag he was holding was magnified.

“A bouquet?”

A bouquet…

He muttered again in a puzzled voice and looked at the person (presumed to be Seo-jun Lee) on the screen.

And not long after, a sharp-designed car stopped in front of Seo-jun Lee. 

He couldn’t tell who was sitting in the driver’s seat because of the tinted windows, but it seemed like they were talking for a moment through the window, and then Seo-jun Lee got into the passenger seat.

“Is it his lover!!”

Click click click click-!

Of course, he couldn’t see the person who got into the driver’s seat because of the tinted car, but a bouquet, it had to be his lover. The paparazzi’s hand pressed the shutter faster.

The first lover of the superstar Seo-jun Lee…!!

This would be a real big money.

‘It will be a global issue!’

The paparazzi was thrilled by the thought that his photos would fill the articles all over the world.

He quickly took over a hundred photos in an instant and thought he should go down and get in the car. 

He was going to follow the car that Seo-jun Lee got into and find out his destination and the identity of his lover in the driver’s seat. 

It would be a jackpot if it was a celebrity or a famous person, even if it was a pity if it was an ordinary person.

‘And if I can take a picture of them being affectionate…!’

He giggled and grabbed only the SD card of the camera (the camera and the telephoto lens were expensive, but he didn’t have time to take them all) and hurried down.

The paparazzi.

He did not see the transparent jellyfish that descended on his scruffy hair and camera.

Squishy.

As if the sky was the sea, the transparent jellyfish descended on the human and the machine. 

And then they connected their twelve long tentacles to the human’s head and the camera’s body.

Flinch.

The paparazzi’s movement and the camera’s operation stopped at the same time.

Squeeze squeeze-

And then, as if sucking energy, they began to suck the paparazzi’s memory and the camera’s information through the connected twelve tentacles.

The twelve transparent tentacles glowed like neon signs. It looked like something from a sci-fi movie or magic.

And shortly after.

The jellyfish, who had absorbed all the information, fell off the paparazzi’s head and the camera’s body as if their work was done, and flew back to the sky.

“Ugh-!”

At the same time, the paparazzi came to his senses.

“…Did I fall asleep for a moment?”

Staking out was a hard job.

But he could endure it when he thought of the money that would come into his hand.

The paparazzi wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and looked at the camera screen.

The LA mansion of the Hollywood star, Seo-jun Lee, was quiet and peaceful as it was before the paparazzi dozed off.

“Well, I guess so.”

The paparazzi, who did not remember the black car that had already left, picked up the bread he had left on the floor and bit it hard.

***

[(Evil/Production)Eraser Jellyfish’s Information Deletion (Intermediate-Low) is activated.]

At the alert that popped up in front of his eyes, Seo-jun, who had carefully placed the bouquet on the back seat so that it would not be crushed, opened his eyes wide for a moment and then relaxed.

‘It looks like the paparazzi took a picture.’

Around the house, within a certain distance, he used [(Good/Production)Mearang’s Underground Maze] that he had used at Hanye University to make the paparazzi who approached wander in the maze, but he could not cover the paparazzi who took pictures from a far distance with a high-magnification lens.

The ability he used for that was [(Evil/Production)Eraser Jellyfish’s Information Deletion].

Seo-jun, who had placed the bouquet well, sat in the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt. 

In front of the car, only visible to Seo-jun’s eyes, the transparent jellyfish were floating in the sky.

[(Evil/Production)Eraser Jellyfish’s Information Deletion-Intermediate-]

It is a transparent jellyfish made by magic engineering for information deletion.

It can delete the memory of a living being.

It can delete the information of objects such as machines or books.

Command:

[Caution] If used for a long time on one target, it can cause dementia.

He lowered the rank by one because he could not use the ‘evil ability’ full of magic as it was.

[[(Evil/Production)Eraser Jellyfish’s Information Deletion-Intermediate] rank is temporarily lowered.]

[(Evil/Production)Eraser Jellyfish’s Information Deletion-Intermediate-Low]

It is a transparent jellyfish made by magic engineering for information deletion.

It can delete the memory of a living being.

It can delete the information of objects such as machines or books.

Command: Seo-jun Lee

A world where magic and mechanical engineering developed, where the war between the East and West continents was fierce.

One of the chimeras made for the war in that world was the Eraser Jellyfish.

The Eraser Jellyfish had the ability to delete the memory of the people who thought about the ‘command’ and the data or information related to the ‘command’.

It was useful for information warfare or combat (such as making the commander demented), but it was also hard to produce. One of the few successful products was his ‘previous life’.

‘He worked hard.’

He flew in the sky and diligently erased the memories and data.

But if it had ended there, he might have been able to enter the ‘Library of Good’, but it was not for nothing that he entered the ‘Library of Evil’.

‘The information with the command was so delicious.’

The magic engineers who created the Eraser Jellyfish did not know, but the ‘information’ of the people and machines that contained the ‘command’ was nothing less than heavenly for the Eraser Jellyfish.

It was so delicious that he could go crazy, as it was written in the book of life.

‘So he went berserk.’

In the end, the ‘he’ and the other Eraser Jellyfish, who were low-intelligence chimeras, could not resist the taste and went berserk, making a whole battalion demented and eliminated.

‘The Library of Evil is scary.’

He had to live well no matter how he was born in the future.

That was,

The promise he made and forgot as soon as he was reincarnated, led by his racial instinct.