Life, Once Again!

ghtly in response.
“That’s all there is to it.
Don’t try to chase after perfection, you’re just an amateur.” “But then the results…” “Maru.” “Yes?” “Don’t try to go so fast, you’re doing well enough as is.
I know you’re frustrated, but your character isn’t anything special.
You’re not meant to garner attention.
That’s why we told you to restrain yourself.
But! You’re already garnering attention as is.
The audience might become too attached to you if you go further from here, and that would only manage to hurt the play.” Miso lightly patted Maru’s shoulder.
“Is that a good enough answer?” “No.
But… I understand it to an extent, now.” “You’re too much.
Bring out your everything when you’re able to control yourself perfectly.
Not even amateurs do things when they know they’re not ready.
That’s just an idiot at work.” With that, Miso walked away elsewhere.
An idiot… Maru scratched his eyebrow.
He honestly didn’t really know right now.
Could he keep going on stage like this, feeling really stuffy inside like he was now? ‘Well, she said I’m fine, so whatever.’ If you’re sick, go to the doctor.
If your car breaks down, go find a mechanic.
If you have questions about acting, go ask your instructor.
The instructor said he was fine, so what could he do? Especially when that instructor was a pro like Miso.
“Hah!” Dojin quickly hid himself as soon as he got off the stage, he immediately started huffing like he was out of breath.
“How was I?” he asked.
“I didn’t see,” Maru responded with a smile.
“Ugh, you turd!” “But looking at the audience, I think you did alright?” “R-really?” Dojin flicked his head back to look at the audience, his nervous expression straightened immediately.
Maru could tell why pretty easily.
The man in the front, the one with the particularly scary face, was smiling.
“We can go…
right?” Dojin was asking the question to everyone around him.
No one asked him ‘where’ they were going.
They all knew what he was talking about.
“Of course.” “I won’t be able to sleep if we don’t go to the finals.” Plus, the fate of their auditorium was at stake this time.
No matter what happens, they need to go to the finals.
They needed something they could use to appeal to the school.
“Maru, it’s your turn.” “Yeah.” Maru got ready to go out again.
This time, he was doing a baton touch with Daemyung.
He could see an angry student walking towards him from the stage.
He slowly took off his first step as well.
“Good luck.” “Of course.” They exchanged a short greeting as they passed.
For some reason, the stage in front of Maru didn’t look so empty, despite no one being there.
Probably because of the amount of passion that got spilled onto the stage seconds before.
He could still feel energy emanating from the empty stage.
“They’re very stubborn, aren’t they? My goodness, I felt so frustrated looking at them from off the stage.” Maru would collect the passion that’s left over on the stage, gather it, and pass it onto the people in the next scene.
To do that, he needed to abandon his desire to show off.
He couldn’t fill up the stage as much as he wanted to just yet.
For now, he needed to listen to the instructor.
Hopefully he could go wild some day in the future, but today, he needed to be calm.
‘It’s still fun being up here, though.’ The feeling of the wood under him was great.
The heat of the light above him was nice.
The silence on the stage felt good.
The gazes from the audience felt exhilarating.
Acting… was exhilarating.
“I wonder what these people are going to do next.
I can’t wait.
How do you guys feel?”

* * * Geunseok was good at acting, Suyeon could tell that the moment she saw the boy.
The others were alright, too.
More than alright actually, she was pleasantly surprised.
They were quite harmonious together.
Most high school plays were a little lacking by nature, but this school was different.
Instructor Miso was definitely quite talented.
To begin with, the woman was asking Suyeon about what she wanted to do with Geunseok.
She was sharp.
Probably the reason why the club turned out to be so skilled as well, but there was one person Suyeon was more concerned about.
‘Han Maru…’ The boy she first saw when she met Ganghwan.
She was unsure what Junmin meant by him being odd, but she understood the man perfectly now.
If she saw skill from Geunseok, she saw possibilities from Maru.
Right now, Geunseok was objectively better than Maru.
On the other hand, Maru had a skill that Geunseok didn’t have.
She might simply be mistaken.
This was her first time seeing him act, after all.
‘But I have this feeling.’ Feeling.
There was no other word that was as iffy as it.
Suyeon only reserved this word for those she believed held more value than they let on.
She could tell if she was right after some time, but for now, she was sure that Maru was different.
Suyeon tapped at her lip lightly with her index finger.
She was thinking.
Calculating.
How long would it take for her to establish a relationship with Maru? What could she gain from it? The abacus in her mind quickly came to a conclusion: It would be profitable.
Suyeon felt a need to agitate Geunseok even more.
If she used the boy well, she could establish a relationship with both Geunsoo and Maru.
‘Speaking of which, how could he just completely ignore me like that?’ She was ignoring Geunsoo because she didn’t want to greet him first, but Geunsoo didn’t even seem to notice her.
It was a little humiliating, but for now, she put Geunseok higher on her list.
She would have a lot of fun breaking him down.
‘I’m getting a lot out of this.’ It was a good day.

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