The Haunted Monster Actor - Chapter 37



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Episode 37

“I’m late in introducing myself. I’m Woo Ji-yoon, the CEO of Piorum.”

Bae Geum-sik looked back and forth between Woo Ji-yoon and the business card with a bewildered expression.

“If it’s about to bloom, then Kim’s junior… …?”

“Yes, that’s the Piorum that actor Kim Hyun-soo belongs to.”

A look of surprise appeared on Bae Geum-sik’s face.

Aside from being Kim Hyun-soo’s agency, Piorum is also famous for discovering up-and-coming new actors and unknown veteran actors.

Pieroreum’s name value within the industry was by no means small.

“But what happened to me in Piorum…?”

“I spoke to actor Bae Geum-sik because I have something to offer him.”

“Offer?”

“If you don’t have a contract with any agency yet, would you like to work for us at Pieroreum after this shoot ends?”

Bae Geum-sik couldn’t hide his surprise at Woo Ji-yoon’s sudden offer and answered.

“… … I think this is the first time we’ve met. May I ask why you’re suddenly making such a suggestion?”

Woo Ji-yoon answered without hesitation.

“Because there was a recommendation from actor Kim Hyun-soo.”

“Huh? Hyunsoo… … No, actor Kim recommended it?”

Woo Ji-yoon nodded.

‘There is no actor of the same age who surpasses Kim Hyun-soo’s talent.’

And it was not something to be taken lightly that Kim Hyun-soo gained something through the teachings of another actor.

Woo Ji-yoon thought that anyone who had the ability to help Kim Hyun-soo would also have something to share with other new actors.

“But for that very reason… … .”

“Are you active in the extreme Manchu?”

“How about that?”

Woo Ji-yoon smiled and pointed to her business card on the table.

“As you can see, our company is located in Hyehwa Station, and the young talents we scout are mostly from Daehangno theater companies.”

“ah…….”

“I’ve heard a lot about actor Bae Geum-sik from my actors. I’ve been thinking about meeting him someday, and now we’ve met again.”

“Is that so?”

“Of course, a basic interview will be required, but if you don’t have any special disqualifications, there won’t be any problems.”

As soon as Woo Ji-yoon heard about Bae Geum-sik from Hyun-soo, he looked at his past works and asked Maeng Jong-ho to look at the scenes played by Bae Geum-sik in advance.

‘Indeed… there was a reason why actor Kim said I was the person he needed.’

Woo Ji-yoon also recognized the ‘genius’ that Kim Hyun-soo discovered in Bae Geum-sik.

And Woo Ji-yoon never intended to lose sight of his genius.

“At our company, Pieroreum, we run an in-house acting guidance curriculum for new actors. I would like you to provide acting guidance for new actors, as you mentioned to Actor Kim.”

Woo Ji-yoon’s words were blunt and the content contained was clear.

It was then that a slight hint of disappointment appeared on Bae Geum-sik’s face.

“Acting… … guidance?”

“Yes, acting guidance.”

Yes, that’s right.

What she wants is… …not the actor Bae Geum-sik, but an acting teacher.

Bae Geum-sik is lost in thought with a complicated expression on his face.

Somehow, a really good opportunity suddenly came to me.

‘… … Actually, this isn’t such a bad condition.’

A situation where you are just growing older without accomplishing anything proper.

What if someone who has only learned acting is given an environment where they can live off their talents and receive a steady monthly salary?

It’s not for nothing that famous actors hold the title of professor at the Department of Film and Television Arts at art colleges.

Except for a special ‘few’, learning is generally a much shorter and more unstable profession than you might think.

‘If you accept this… … .’

It goes without saying that as an actor you have to give up a certain amount of life.

“Representative Woo, I’m sorry, but could you give me some time to think about it?”

Baek Geum-sik, who seemed to be reluctant about something.

Woo Ji-yoon wasn’t so dull that he didn’t notice Bae Geum-sik’s signs.

I can guess why he needs time.

Literally, she wants Bae Geum-sik as an acting director right now.

But at the same time, I also know very well what people who have the profession of acting hold in their hearts and live their lives with.

“of course.”

“… … ?”

“If a contract for a production is in progress, we will provide full support so that you can focus on the production instead of directing acting.”

“Ji… … Won? So, that means… … ?”

Woo Ji-yoon continued speaking with a smile toward Bae Geum-sik, who was looking bewildered.

“Yes. In addition to hiring actor Bae Geum-sik as an acting instructor, we at Pieroreum will also be assisting him with his work as an official actor.”

With Woo Ji-yoon’s skills and infrastructure, it wasn’t that difficult to cast someone with Bae Geum-sik’s acting skills in a supporting role.

Of course, whether or not to go further from there is entirely up to Bae Geum-sik.

‘Bae Geum-sik is a veteran actor whose acting skills are recognized in the theater world. If he can develop a little more sense for acting in the media, he will have plenty of room to continue to be active in the future.’

In short, Woo Ji-yoon was trying to kill two birds with one stone by being an in-house acting director and a solid mid-level actor.

Bae Geum-sik’s response to Woo Ji-yoon’s proposal was actually set.

Baek Geum-sik opened his mouth with a dumbfounded expression, as if he couldn’t believe what he had just heard.

“Excuse me, where should I write the contract?”

* * *

As autumn passed, bitter cold set in.

It’s winter.

The movie was now reaching its climax.

#New Number, 81 On the way back

“Fortunately, the friends who came with me seem to be out of danger.”

It seems that Yu-seol did not die because she left the door open when she left the pension late at night.

“You saved them.”

Yuseol shook her head at the restaurant owner’s words.

It was not Yuseol but the existence of a ‘phantom’ that saved them and their lives.

If Yuseol hadn’t chased the ghost and Gunhoo that night and opened the door and gone out to the beach, all three of them would have died in the cold room.

“Are you leaving?”

The restaurant owner grabs Yuseol’s hand as she tries to leave.

“You can’t go. Just stay here.”

The hostess’s eyes, unfocused and seemingly staring blankly into space, are directed at the ghost standing behind Yuseol.

“If you follow that… … you will lose.”

“What?”

The hostess answered.

“Everything.”

A cool presence that calms the unsettling anxiety of the journey ahead with just a few words.

“It’s okay. I have nothing left to lose anyway.”

Yuseol shook off her hand and got into the car with Gunhoo.

The two headed to Seoul together.

The camera calmly frames the two people’s journey.

A small date.

In a world beyond time and death, what these two people desire are the smallest and most trivial moments.

The director plans to show the happy times of Gun-hoo and Yoo-seol from about 10 years ago and their current appearances.

So, that’s what I want to say.

The gap between the two people was that the ten years were really nothing.

Everything was the same.

That we wanted nothing more than to be together.

That was a quality that could not be undone by anything.

“That’s right, we… …we were this happy.”

happiness.

That was what Yuseol had been looking for for the past ten years.

“now?”

Yoo Seol answered Geon-hoo’s question.

“I’m happy.”

And the truth is, it was in the rumor all along.

Geon-hoo never left Yuseol’s side even once.

“But… … why did you make that choice?”

A cold wind passes by, scratching the window of a car parked somewhere in an alley in Seoul.

Gunhoo’s voice was colder than that.

To be exact, I was angry.

“There were moments like this, so why did you decide to leave?”

Leaving the time and space we shared together.

That means spring will never come after winter anymore.

That there is no summer.

It’s neither a separation nor a loss.

It’s complete annihilation.

“I am not where you are trying to step.”

There is only infinitely deep and cold darkness there.

“Without you, there is no me.”

The first snow fell and it didn’t snow for a while.

The cold was getting more intense, but on the other hand, the days were getting longer.

You can know it naturally even if no one tells you.

There isn’t much time left to spend with Gunhoo.

Knock, knock, knock.

Droplets of water mixed with cold ice crystals are dripping down the car seat.

Gunhoo’s body, made of ice, is melting.

Only then did Yuseol realize what the mistress meant when she warned him that he would lose everything.

If you leave the ‘sea’ following the ghost, you will lose everything.

Everything about Yuseol.

You lose Geon-hoo.

The townspeople who knew about the ghosts were, in fact, the ones who had trapped themselves in them.

Those who are trapped in the past and loss and cannot leave the border.

Some remained at the border, while others crossed the border and disappeared into the cold sea.

Yuseol was now standing at that crossroads.

“You dropped me there on purpose…?”

Gunhoo knew from the beginning.

That if you leave the ‘boundary’ you will disappear.

Nevertheless, the reason why I returned to Seoul with Yuseol.

“Where you belong is not in the cold and deep.”

This is where we spent time together.

“You came to save me.”

The only person that Gunhoo, who saved countless torsos, couldn’t save.

That’s right, it’s a rumor.

Geon-hoo returned to save Yoo-seol.

To keep them far away from the deep, cold darkness.

“As anyone may wish.”

Instead of getting angry, Yuseol started the car.

I opened all the windows and turned the air conditioner down to the lowest setting.

“Let’s go back.”

The village chief called the coast at dawn ‘the border between this world and the next.’

Maybe if I go back there, I can stop Gunhoo from melting down any more.

Like an old man and his mistress, a lifetime spent with the ghosts of the past.

Even if you end up confining yourself to an empty boundary that is neither life nor death.

Even if I have to dive deep into the sea… … .

‘I don’t want to lose you again… … .’

“We’re already back.”

“……where?”

“To each other.”

Except now that we are next to each other.

There is no place to return to and no need to return.

“If this continues… … it’ll just be a repetition of the same old story… … .”

Yuseol drove madly toward the beach with an expression on her face as if she was possessed by something.

Geon-hoo, whose arms and legs began to melt, couldn’t stop such rumors.

I just sat there quietly taking in Yuseol’s appearance.

The car headed towards the setting sun.

As dawn breaks, warm sunlight follows the two people.

Yu-Seol said, shivering all over, perhaps because of the bitter winter wind blowing in through the open car window.

“How about we go somewhere where spring never comes? For example… … somewhere like Siberia.”

Geon-hoo responded to Yuseol’s pointless joke.

“It’s very cold there.”

Before he knew it, cold water was dripping from Gunhoo’s face.

Upon arriving at the beach, Yuseol hugged the bust of Geonhoo, who was crying.

My whole body was soaked in cold water.

[torso on the blue]

‘Kim Hyun-soo’ thought as he looked at Yuseol, who was hugging him and shedding tears without stopping.

‘Junhyuk would have been like that too.’

He probably wanted to save Ha-young more than anyone else.

If Ha-young also endures a time of deep loss like Yuseol.

If I had known that it would be this hard to live in a world without Junhyeok.

It must have been so.

“… … Seol-ah.”

So Hayoung, the truth is.

Actually, me too… … .

“I wanted to go back to you.”

“Stop… … ! Don’t say anything, don’t say anything. I’ll do something about it… … !”

“Seol-ah. Can you hug me a little, a little tighter? I’m so cold right now.”

“No… … Then you’ll melt faster with my body temperature.”

“But that doesn’t matter. I’d rather melt in your warm embrace than freeze in the cold sea.”

Seol hugged Geon-hoo.

Even though she knew that he was melting away in her body heat and tears, she couldn’t let him go.

Then, at some point, Yuseol realized.

He was disappearing, but at the same time he was still here.

Even though it was a cold and solid image of sadness, the time and space of the two clearly existed here.

And there the story is.

“Seol-ah, like you always did… … you’ll wait for me… … right?”

Please wait.

Seol soon understood what Geonhoo was saying.

In order to completely melt all the moments we spent together and the images we miss into this world.

It must exist until the end.

So, the waiting that Gunhoo is talking about is none other than ‘life.’

“Why… … Why on earth… … ?”

Should you disappear from my side?

Am I supposed to flounder in your loss?

Geon-hoo answered the question that Yuseol had been unable to find the answer to for 10 years with great ease.

“Because I want to know more.”

“what?”

“Your pretty heart.”

In fact, Yuseol also knew the answer to this question for a very long time.

There was only one answer.

“love you.”

Geon-hoo melted after hearing those words.

It permeated Yuseol’s entire body.

Oddly enough.

In the cold of winter, I felt warm even though my whole body was wet.

“Me too… … I love you too.”

It’s not cold.

For a while, Yuseol was in the form of a bust that tightly hugged the empty space.

He just stood there still like a statue.

Finally, wake up.

I walked towards the other side of the sea.

With the image of Yuseol walking in the direction of the light.

Cut.

The camera lights went out.

Spring was coming.

Continued in the next episode