Superstar From Age 0

-Swallen: Cheer up.

-Evan: /Fighting!/

Seo-jun smiled brightly at their cheers.

***

“Hi, Jun.”

“Hello, Jonathan director.”

Jonathan, the director who came out to greet him, smiled at the familiar sound of director and moved to the actors’ waiting room with Seo-jun.

“I saw the Natra family photos. You did a good job.”

“Ha ha.”

“Ryan uncle was looking at them for a long time too.”

Aha.

He wanted to talk about this, so he came out to meet him.

“Really?”

“He kept looking at them as soon as he found the photos in the morning. I felt strange as a staff member, but how would uncle feel, who was directly involved in the synopsis, script, and shooting.”

As Seo-jun listened to Jonathan’s story, he thought he should send a message to Ryan director after the shoot today.

Jonathan talked a lot about the Natra family photos.

“You’re shooting with Kirk for the first time, right?”

“Yes. Is he here?”

He wanted to greet him if he came first, since it was their first meeting. Jonathan shrugged at Seo-jun’s question.

“Kirk is an actor who arrives right on time, so he’s not here yet.”

Seo-jun nodded at that.

‘As long as he’s not late.’

He had a better idea of what kind of actor Kirk Lawrence was.

“Do you want to take a look at the set?”

“Yes. Sure.”

They left their luggage in the actors’ waiting room and headed to the set with Jonathan.

As they passed by the staff who were preparing for the shoot, they saw a bus.

The shoot today was supposed to take place inside this bus.

There were buses that were modified in various ways for the convenience of the shoot, such as a whole bus, a bus cut horizontally, a bus cut vertically, etc.

A huge screen surrounded the bus.

“This is called the volume, and it’s what Hollywood uses instead of background chroma key these days. Unlike chroma key, which doesn’t show the background at all, it shows the background and makes it easier to immerse yourself.”

As Jonathan explained, the screen that filled the wall, the volume, showed scenes of tall buildings and cars passing by on the road.

“It feels like I’m standing in the middle of the road.”

Seo-jun admired as he looked around.

“Right? When you get on the bus, it feels like the bus is really moving. I’m planning to use it for other scenes too…”

Jonathan, who was excited about introducing the new technology, explained passionately with gestures, and Seo-jun listened carefully.

‘Can I use it for practice?!’

His eyes sparkled.

“Kirk Lawrence has arrived.”

“Oh, really?”

A moment later.

Jonathan and Seo-jun snapped out of it at Matthew’s words. They had lost track of time with the explanation of the volume.

Jonathan checked the time.

“Let’s do the makeup, rehearsal, and start shooting right away.”

“Okay.”

Kirk Lawrence was an actor who arrived exactly on time.

***

After the makeup, a short rehearsal time.

Seo-jun greeted Kirk Lawrence on the set.

“Hello!”

“Nice to meet you.”

The two actors shook hands lightly.

That was it.

“He’s not a bad person… He’s just that kind of actor. A bit stiff.”

“Yes. He seems like that.”

Seo-jun agreed with Jonathan’s words. He didn’t think he was a bad person either. Just…

“He feels like a worker who came to do his job.”

“Oh. Yeah. That’s exactly how he feels!”

Jonathan nodded vigorously at Seo-jun’s words.

Looking at Kirk Lawrence, who was sitting on a chair and reading the script with a blank expression, Seo-jun had a clear idea of what Evan Block meant by lack of passion.

***

“Ready, action!”

William, who had met Shadowman in the park in the morning and thanked him, got on the bus.

The destination was the baseball stadium.

The director told him that they would continue the game at a baseball stadium that was a bit far away, instead of the nearby one that was ruined by the last plane crash.

So he decided to go and see the stadium with his baseball team friends today.

William got on the bus and a few people followed him.

And finally, a man stepped on the bus stairs. He wore a hat tightly and pulled the hood over his face, so his face was hardly visible.

Well, there were all kinds of people in New York, so no one paid much attention.

The camera also didn’t focus on the man as if he was just one of the passengers on the bus. The man walked slowly and sat in the seat behind William.

The sunlight came in from outside the window.

His face felt relaxed by the warm sunlight. His mind was also comfortable. Then his phone vibrated.

-Where are you, Will?

-OK

William, who had been happy every day since he solved his long-standing problem about his family and met his hero, Shadowman, smiled and replied to his friends. Then he opened the gallery app and looked at the photos he took with his parents.

The photos went back slowly from the present to the past.

William’s finger stopped as he flipped through them. It was a photo of seven-year-old William holding a teddy bear and posing with his mom and dad.

William smiled softly.

He wanted to tell his younger self back then.

‘Don’t worry so much,’

He said.

As he thought that,

“…You…!”

A boiling voice came from behind. And a dark green something stretched out from the back seat, piercing the bus’s metal plate and the vehicles next to it, like sharp blades.

Aaaah!!!

Before the screams of the startled people could be heard, before William could figure out the situation and look back,

Jay reacted.

A black shadow rose like a shield and blocked the dark green spike that was stabbing from behind.

No, what he thought was a spike was not a spike.

The blunt end looked like a viscous liquid.

The dark green liquid split in both directions after hitting the shield that Jay made and stretched out towards William again.

Jay tried to defend against the unidentified liquid and attack the man, but it was not enough.

The dark green liquid that kept splitting eventually covered William, and William’s sight turned black.

It all happened in the blink of an eye.