Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 746

“…You’re taking summer classes?”

Han Jiho, a college student who was drinking his beverage, opened his mouth wide. His eyes seemed to say, ‘Are you crazy… or are you sick?’

“Are you feeling okay?”

“I told you.”

“You did.”

Seo-jun and his friends giggled.

Today was a day to hang out with his friends.

They had all been busy with final exams and filming, but today they managed to find some time to meet up.

“But I understand how Jiho feels. You have to come to school and take classes even during summer break.”

“Right! It’s summer break, but school! Lectures!”

Kim Jukyung’s words made Han Jiho shout. Kang Jaehan and Park Siyoung nodded in agreement.

“So there are students who take summer classes.”

“That’s my friend.”

“Yup. I surrender.”

Seo-jun raised his hand, making his friends laugh.

“What classes are you taking?”

Jeon Seongmin asked, and Yang Juhee’s eyes sparkled as she said.

“Do you want me to recommend some?”

“Our Database.”

“Our Big Data.”

“Our Yardstick!”

At the same time, Yang Juhee’s nicknames poured out.

Hahaha.

They were having fun no matter what they said, and Seo-jun and his friends couldn’t stop smiling.

“I’m planning to take mostly field classes in the acting department.”

As soon as Seo-jun said that, our search engine, Yang Juhee, spouted out information.

“Oh. That’s a good choice. The professor who teaches the class has a lot of connections, so you can see the backstage of the actual theater performances, and also watch the acting practice. And they also go on field trips to drama or movie sets, and sometimes the students get to participate as extras. And sometimes they get cast as supporting roles with lines if they catch the director’s eye.”

Yang Juhee’s mouth was full of information, and Seo-jun and his friends absorbed it with relaxed faces.

“Wow. There was such a class?”

The other friends also looked interested.

Of course, the actors here were all pretty famous, so they had more chances to audition for main or supporting roles than to participate as extras.

“But why wasn’t there such a class during the semester?”

Jeon Seongmin asked, and Yang Juhee answered.

“Well, it’s hard to go outside during the semester. So they only teach classes inside the school, but the summer classes have more flexible time.”

“I see.”

They wouldn’t have time to go back to school if they went outside for the next class. Then they would be marked as absent and it would affect their grades.

“I’m not just taking the professor’s class, you know!”

Hahaha.

Park Siyoung’s pitiful acting made them all laugh.

“But if Seo-jun takes that class, the filming set will be chaotic.”

“Is this Seo-jun’s extra debut?”

“No, it’s Na Jin.”

“Oh. That could happen.”

The topic shifted to Seo-jun’s alter ego, ‘Na Jin’.

“Na Jin’s last appearance was Hwa, right?”

“An independent film followed by a commercial film extra… that’s textbook.”

“No, it doesn’t end there. Seo-jun, no, Na Jin catches the director’s eye. ‘Who’s that actor?!’”

“And he does so well when he gets a line.”

“He becomes a scene stealer, and starts to make a name for himself.”

“And then he breaks into the world!”

His friends had already made a life for his alter ego, ‘Na Jin’.

When Seo-jun, the original, laughed, the kids who were serious also burst into laughter.

“Well, being an extra during class is something you do when you’re desperate, so it’s almost impossible.”

“Besides, Seo-jun has an agency.”

“Right. And Manager An is there. Oh, he’s the director now.”

The kids thought of Seo-jun’s manager, An Da Ho, whom they had known since middle school.

He was always kind and gentle to the kids, but the stories that circulated in the entertainment industry said that there was no one more cold and thorough than him.

“But he wouldn’t stop Seo-jun if he wanted to do it.”

“True.”

“My manager, who is warm only to my actor.”

Kang Jaehan’s sincere joke made the kids laugh.

***

The next topic for the kids was the Han Ye University festival that would be held in mid-September.

“Actors, staff, apply now!”

“There’s only one spot left for actors!”

The ones leading the project were Yang Juhee and Kim Jukyung, who were seniors and this was their last festival.

Park Siyoung was on a leave of absence because of filming, and the boys still had a long way to go until graduation because of the military.

“Don’t you guys miss doing plays?”

“Acting with the audience!”

Yang Juhee and Kim Jukyung’s eyes flashed like hawks eyeing their prey.

Jeon Seongmin asked with a smile.

“You’re going to have auditions, right?”

“Of course. Do you know how many applicants there are?”

“You’re not even going to spare Seo-jun?”

Yang Juhee and Kim Jukyung said with a smile, and Seo-jun shrugged his shoulders cheekily.

“It’s okay. I’m going to participate in something else.”

“…What?”

“…What did you say?”

“Really!?”

The kids looked at Seo-jun with surprised faces.

“I thought I would participate in the festival someday, but I didn’t know it would be this one…”

“What are you going to do? A play? A movie?”

The kids’ eyes sparkled.

They enjoyed regular plays and movies, but they had more fun and immersion when they did it with Seo-jun. Of course, the practice was hard.

Yang Juhee and Kim Jukyung, who were already preparing for the festival play, momentarily felt sorry, but their eyes flashed as if they had a rival.

“Let’s beat him! Seo-jun!”

“Challenge him! Seo-jun!”

Seo-jun said with a smile.

“Don’t worry. It’s not a play or a movie.”

“…Yes?”

“…What did you say?”

“It seems like we’ve been repeating ourselves since earlier…”

Kang Jaehan’s voice faded away. Han Jiho furrowed his brows and asked.

“Then what are we going to do?”

In Han Jiho’s opinion, there was nothing else to do besides acting or making a movie.

And since it was Seo-jun’s first college festival, he didn’t think he would do something unrelated to acting (like being a waiter or a cook at a snack bar).

“I saw something when I was filming for Shena at a tourist spot,”

…Wow!

The kids’ eyes sparkled.

They had been avoiding talking about [Shadow and Knight], but they didn’t expect Seo-jun to bring it up first. Of course, it was a completely irrelevant topic.

Seo-jun smiled and asked.

“Do you know what a living statue is?”

The kids’ eyes widened.

“You mean… when people dress up like statues and stand still like they’re really statues?”

“Is it acting or performance art… anyway, that thing?”

“When someone thinks they’re a statue and takes a picture with them, they move and scare them?”

The friends who were talking about what they knew with dumbfounded faces, Seo-jun grinned.

“Right. I’m going to do that.”

***

“…That’s amazing.”

“I never imagined that.”

“I thought he had a sculptural appearance, but I didn’t think he would actually become a sculpture…”

The kids who were amazed by Seo-jun’s idea burst into laughter at Park Siyoung’s words.

“But I’m really curious what he’ll look like.”

Han Jiho said with a serious expression, and the friends nodded and stared intently at Seo-jun who was sitting in front of them.

He was handsome even now, but what would he look like as a statue?

“That’s right. I’m really curious.”

“Me too.”

Seo-jun laughed at the friends who had been sighing continuously since earlier. He thought of two people who had the same reaction.

“Da Ho hyung and Tae Woo hyung were curious too.”

When they heard Seo-jun’s idea, An Da Ho and Choi Tae Woo also admired and wondered what the outcome would be.

“Who wouldn’t be curious?”

Everyone nodded at Jeon Seongmin’s words.

Kim Jukyung asked.

“What character are you going to do?”

“I haven’t decided that yet. I’m going to choose slowly.”

“Then let’s choose together!”

Yang Juhee said with sparkling eyes. Park Siyoung and Kim Jukyung also had interested expressions.

“That sounds good.”

At Seo-jun’s cheerful answer, Yang Juhee took out a fine pad from her bag with an excited face, searched for images of living statues, and showed the screen to her friends.

There were images of statues that looked like they could move at any moment, but also looked like they were really made of metal.

Seo-jun and the kids looked at them one by one.

“There’s a statue of a company worker going to work, and a statue of a knight in armor.”

“A knight… wouldn’t that be nice as a connection to Shena?”

At Kang Jaehan’s words, the girls shook their heads quickly and fiercely.

“No way. The helmet would hide Seo-jun’s face.”

“His face is the most important thing.”

“What’s the fun of watching if his face is hidden?”

Ah, yes.

Kang Jaehan closed his mouth quietly at the powerful atmosphere of the girls. Seo-jun, Han Jiho, and Jeon Seongmin chuckled at their friend’s appearance.

“Isn’t there anything good?”

“Something that shows Seo-jun’s charm well…”

“Something that makes you exclaim as soon as you see it…”

Before they knew it, only the girls were brainstorming passionately with their heads together.

“You don’t have to join in?”

“Um. I’m going to make the final decision anyway.”

Seo-jun shrugged his shoulders and answered Jeon Seongmin’s question.

“Besides, I think they know the hearts of the sprouts better.”

It was a school festival, but the photos and videos would go online and reach the sprouts.

Since it was a fun festival for everyone, he wanted to do a disguise that would fit the sprouts’ hearts as well.

“That makes sense.”

Kang Jaehan and Han Jiho nodded.

“This is not it.”

“This is also…”

While the girls were looking at the images seriously and earnestly, as if they were going to meet the expectations of the sprouts all over the world, the boys were drinking and chatting.

“What were you going to do originally? You must have had some candidates in mind?”

At Han Jiho’s question, Seo-jun rolled his eyes as he drank orange juice.

“Just something normal?”

“If you say it’s normal, it won’t be normal at all…”

The boys nodded and agreed at Kang Jaehan’s words. They realized that ‘normal’ was not normal at all by Seo-jun’s standards, as they had been friends for a long time.

Seo-jun smiled and said.

“You saw some of them earlier. I was going to do something like a person who only has a cane touching the ground and is floating in the air, or a person sitting on an invisible chair. Something like levitating or standing on a water pillar, like a circus.”

He was going to wear a flashy costume with a single color, such as gold, silver, or white, with lots of decorations, and stand still in the middle of the green school lawn, like a graduation work made by an art student, changing his posture every hour.

“Levitating…”

“Water pillar…”

“See? It’s not normal at all.”

The friends shook their heads vigorously at that, and Seo-jun laughed.

“Okay. Then let’s decide on this!”

The girls who had been discussing hard finally lifted their heads from the fine pad. Seo-jun and the boys looked at them with interest.

“We’re not telling you to do this, we’re just recommending it.”

Kim Jukyung said with a smile, and Seo-jun nodded.

“I got it. I’ll make the decision.”

Park Siyoung opened her mouth with an excited face.

“The character we recommend is…!”

Boom boom boom!