Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 184

[Intermediate Archery of the Elf Archer – Lower Intermediate]

This is the intermediate archery skill of the elf archer.

You can use a bow and arrows skillfully.

Your accuracy, stability, concentration, stamina, and vision are increased.

Some parts of your body become elf-like.

The bow symbol engraved on the back of Seo-jun’s left hand, which held the bow, sparkled.

It was not one.

There were three symbols in total.

They were the symbols of the abilities of the basic archery (lowest grade), lower archery (lower grade), and intermediate archery of the elf archer.

Unlike usual, there were more options, so Seo-jun decided to use the abilities alternately.

‘It’s a waste to use only one when there are so many!’

When Jo Young Hoon first taught him, he used the basic archery ability and used the lower archery ability up to 30m.

From 50m, he felt that the lower archery was a bit too much, so he used the intermediate ability as well.

‘Archery and basic breathing are a good match.’

[Elf’s Archery] was compatible with [Elf’s Basic Breathing].

Other abilities from other lines also showed better effects when used with [Elf’s Basic Breathing].

But maybe because they were abilities of the same elf race, unlike the other abilities that improved slightly, it felt like they had risen by one grade.

Seo-jun smiled as he looked at the arrow stuck in the center of the target far away. Ahn Da Ho filmed Seo-jun with a camera, and Jo Young Hoon shouted excitedly.

“Ten! A ten at 70m! This one must be an X-ten too! Seo-jun, let’s go to the Olympics! You’ll definitely get a gold medal!”

Oops.

He was so excited that he forgot to control himself.

His heart was thrilled every time an arrow stuck in the target as if he had never shot a bow before.

He couldn’t help himself.

‘Is this what it feels like to hunt?’

He liked the feeling of a sharp arrow hitting the target with a thud. Seo-jun smiled as he moved his right hand that held the arrow a few times.

“Ahahaha. I like acting more.”

Jo Young Hoon, who unknowingly asked him, didn’t think Seo-jun would do archery either.

‘I would be happy to help him if he did…’

Jo Young Hoon, who went to retrieve the arrows stuck in the target, let out a regretful sigh.

He had never seen such accurate and beautiful X-tens before.

The arrows were stuck right in the center of all the targets that Seo-jun had aimed at.

Just like all the teachers who taught Seo-jun, Jo Young Hoon looked at Seo-jun with a lingering look.

“It’s such a shame…”

He shot arrows and retrieved them several times.

Seo-jun also tried shooting without using any abilities, and used lower archery on the 50m target where he had hit an X-ten with intermediate archery.

The time they rented the outdoor archery range flew by quickly.

“Teacher! Goodbye!”

“Okay. See you on the next practice day.”

“Yes!”

After finishing archery practice, Ahn Da Ho handed Seo-jun a pile of papers.

It was the script that Director Choi Dae-man had been working on until yesterday.

“How is it? Is it okay?”

Ahn Da Ho asked cautiously as Seo-jun read the script.

According to what Ahn Da Ho had read first, unlike what was written in the synopsis, the order of scenes had changed.

There were also some changes in the flow of characters.

Seo-jun nodded his head without any change in expression.

“Yes. It’s okay because it didn’t change much. It’s better to use better scenes.”

“Director Choi would be happy to hear that.”

Seo-jun smiled at Ahn Da Ho’s words. Director Choi Dae-man checked his homework like a teacher every time the script changed slightly and let him know.

“Please tell him that he can write comfortably and freely.”

Seo-jun, who was already captivated by the zombie movie, was generous.

He thought he would accept it without any complaints unless it was a really messy script.

‘I don’t think Director Choi would write such a messy script.’

He was not just any director.

He was Director Choi Dae-man of Evil Spirit.

He didn’t think Director Choi would waste such an opportunity that he had worked so hard to get.

Ahn Da Ho laughed at Seo-jun’s words.

“Okay. I’ll tell him that.”

Seo-jun’s thoughts were conveyed to Director Choi Dae-man through Ahn Da Ho.

Director Choi Dae-man, who was sitting in front of his laptop with his arms crossed, decided to scale up his script a little more.

***

In mid-August, when Seo-jun’s summer vacation was coming to an end.

He received news that the script was completed from Director Choi Dae-man.

He made an appointment to have dinner with the director to celebrate the completion of the script.

“We’ll have a short meeting as well. President Lee Hansol will also be there. If you have any opinions, say them.”

“Yes.”

Seo-jun nodded his head at Ahn Da Ho’s words in the passenger seat.

To avoid attracting attention, he borrowed a company car. It was a bit awkward because it was not the car he usually rode, but he soon got used to it and enjoyed the passing scenery.

The car stopped soon. Seo-jun tilted his head at his destination.

“Da Ho hyung. Isn’t this a hotel?”

“Yes.”

It was a five-star hotel. He thought he would go to Director Choi Dae-man’s house or the movie dream production company… He blinked his eyes at the shiny exterior.

Ahn Da Ho went to park while Seo-jun, who had pressed his hat down, looked around the hotel as an ordinary teenager. People wandering around. They didn’t seem to think that there was actor Seo-jun here.

A little later, Ahn Da Ho came back. The two entered the hotel and headed straight for the elevator. Seo-jun asked.

“Is Director Choi here?”

“Yes. He was in a can.”

Ahn Da Ho chuckled. Seo-jun tilted his head.

“A can?”

“It means locking yourself in one place and writing all the time. Eat and write, eat and write, sleep and wake up and write again.”

“…Do you write all day?”

Seo-jun’s eyes shook.

“Director Choi said he wanted to do that. He got inspired by watching the archery video, but he couldn’t get it out of his head.”

“Ah.”

Seo-jun nodded his head as he remembered the reply that Director Choi Dae-man sent, saying that he looked like a real archer.

“He said he couldn’t write at home, so he initially planned to rent an office at Movie Dream, but it was too noisy there because of the movie production.”

Besides, the office that Movie Dream rented was small. There was no room to make a separate workspace for Director Choi Dae-man.

“What about Cocoa Entertainment? There are spare meeting rooms and soundproofing is good too.”

Wouldn’t it be good for writing?

Ahn Da Ho nodded his head at Seo-jun’s question.

“I asked him too, but he refused, saying that everyone would be nervous.”

“I see. So he’s writing at a hotel?”

“It seems that the vice president of Plus+ heard that he was looking for a workspace. He said that writing is a very important part of making a movie, so he recommended a hotel.”

‘Recommended…’

The vice president of Plus+Korea had paid in advance and suggested it. Ahn Da Ho chuckled as he recalled President Lee Hansol, who admired him, saying, ‘As expected of an American…’

“Director Choi said he would rather go to Cocoa Entertainment when he heard that the workspace was a hotel suite, but Assistant Director Park persuaded him.”

Lee Hansol was more than welcome.

Director Choi Dae-man, whose face turned pale with pressure, tried to rent a meeting room at Cocoa Entertainment. But Park Jae-min, who was confident in his speech, coaxed him with various stories such as ‘When else would you go to a hotel?’, ‘This could also be used for the movie’, and so on.

In the end, Director Choi Dae-man’s workspace became a hotel.

Seo-jun burst into laughter at that story.

“So he’s been working at the hotel ever since.”

Ding-dong-

As they got off the elevator, Lee Hansol, who had arrived earlier, greeted them.

“Welcome. Actor Seo-jun. Manager.”

“Hello. President!”

They followed Lee Hansol to the living room, where Director Choi Dae-man and Assistant Director Park Jae-min were.

Park Jae-min looked radiant as if he had eaten and slept well, but Director Choi Dae-man looked pale as if he had burned out.

“Hi. Seo-jun!”

“Hello. Assistant Director!”

“Seo-jun… are you here?”

“Director. Are you okay?”

Director Choi Dae-man smiled weakly at Seo-jun’s concern.

“I’m fine. Do you want to see the script first?”

“Yes!”

Seo-jun was excited by the word script and sat on the sofa. Director Choi Dae-man handed him the printed script with sparkling eyes.

Seo-jun opened the first page of the script with a look of anticipation.

While Seo-jun was focused on the script, Ahn Da Ho and Lee Hansol, who had a short conversation, also received scripts from Park Jae-min.

Director Choi Dae-man looked at the three people who were reading the script with an anxious face. But his eyes were shining.

‘I thought I wouldn’t be able to write until I got here…’

At first, he felt burdened by the clean and shiny hotel room.

He thought he wouldn’t be able to write a single line, but it was a needless worry.

Director Choi Dae-man got used to the hotel faster than he expected, and with Park Jae-min’s help, he was able to focus entirely on writing the script except for eating and sleeping.

By then, he didn’t care where he was anymore. No, rather, it helped him a lot.

The different environment helped him write out the scenes that were stuck in his head.

The wide-open scenery and the night view that sparkled with lights that he couldn’t see at home gave Director Choi Dae-man a new sensation.

That’s how the script for Escape was completed.

Director Choi Dae-man looked at Seo-jun nervously.

He was confident in his script.

He thought Seo-jun would like it too. But he couldn’t help being nervous.

Seo-jun’s eyes moved without rest.

They followed the text down, turned the paper over and headed down again.

Soon, the endlessly turning papers stopped.

When Seo-jun’s hand stopped, everyone’s eyes turned to Seo-jun.

Director Choi Dae-man swallowed his saliva and asked.

“How is it?”

Seo-jun smiled brightly.

“I like it! It’s really fun!”

The outline didn’t change much and the scale got bigger, but there were definitely some changes from the synopsis. But he liked the changed script better.

‘I want to shoot it.’

He wanted to start shooting right away and his butt twitched.

The adults could tell that his words were sincere by his sparkling expression.

Director Choi Dae-man sighed in relief at Seo-jun’s reaction.

Park Jae-min smiled and handed Director Choi Dae-man a cold water.

While Director Choi Dae-man drank cold water and sighed, seo-jun opened the first page of the script again and read it slowly.

He understood the story by focusing on the dialogue and actions of Go Joo Won, the role he would play.

While checking the script and thinking about the characters and locations, Lee Hansol opened his mouth.

“There are some foreign characters in the script. Should we contact an agency?”

Director Choi Dae-man nodded his head as his face relaxed.

“Yes. Please do that.”

“It would be better if they can speak Korean, right?”

“It would be easier to communicate if they can.”

At the mention of finding foreign actors, seo-jun raised his head from reading the script.

“Director.”

“Hmm?”

“Can I recommend someone for that role?”

Lee Hansol and Director Choi Dae-man widened their eyes in surprise. Ahn Da Ho and Park Jae-min, who were ordering food at the hotel restaurant, also looked at Seo-jun.

“Recommend? Who? Do I know the actor?”

Wondering if he had met a good foreign actor while filming something else, Director Choi Dae-man, Park Jae-min, and Lee Hansol listened carefully to Seo-jun’s answer.

‘If it’s Seo-jun’s recommendation, it would be good, right?’

Who could it be?

They recalled the faces of the foreign actors they knew and waited for Seo-jun’s answer with a relaxed mind.

Unlike them, Ahn Da Ho, who knew Seo-jun’s range of activities well and knew most of the people Seo-jun knew, had a hunch.

Ahn Da Ho, who thought he was used to the title of a superstar’s manager, trembled.

Without knowing the manager’s agitation, seo-jun answered brightly.

“Evan Block and Rachel Hill!”

“…”

As expected!

Ahn Da Ho took a deep breath, and the three people seemed to not understand Seo-jun’s words yet and had blank faces. 1%, 2%, 10% They slowly began to understand Seo-jun’s words. Slowly, their eyes and mouths grew bigger.

No, who?

The appearance of unexpected characters made silent astonishment flow from the three people.

Seo-jun, who thought they would like it, tilted his head at the vague reaction of the adults.

“Director?”

At Seo-jun’s call, Director Choi Dae-man asked in a trembling voice.

“Seo, seo-jun… who?”

“Evan Block and Rachel Hill!”