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“Cut!”
Yoon Jeonghan’s voice rang out.
At that voice announcing that filming was over, Han Seongtae let out a deep sigh.
“Whoo…”
His sigh spread wide across the dining table.
Immersion certainly created good scenes.
But for an actor, it consumed an enormous amount of mental energy.
Han Seongtae was already fairly exhausted from the acting he had just done.
‘I need something sweet.’
As he got up from his seat, thinking he had to eat something, Ma Seokdong approached him.
With a gentle smile on his face, he spoke to Han Seongtae.
“Seongtae-ssi, your acting gets better and better. If you keep doing that well, I think I might get jealous.”
“Isn’t that just because you’re looking at me kindly, sunbaenim?”
“No. Seongtae-ssi, your acting would work anywhere. It’s true that I look at you kindly, but when it comes to acting, I look at it coldly.”
Han Seongtae agreed with that.
Ma Seokdong was not someone who would be swayed simply by personal affection.
The closer he was to someone, the more coldly he looked at them.
“It feels good to know my hard work paid off.”
“You’re doing well. Keep doing exactly that from now on too.”
“Yes.”
“Ah, but don’t overdo it. For an actor, health is life. We need to look at the long run. There’s still a lot to film.”
“Of course. I have no intention of collapsing even a little until we finish filming City of Criminals.”
Hearing Han Seongtae’s answer, Ma Seokdong laughed with a satisfied expression.
As Han Seongtae was heading down from the set with him, he spotted Rogers coming toward him.
Rogers’s face was flushed with excitement.
The moment he came over, he grabbed both of Han Seongtae’s arms and opened his mouth.
“Han really is Han. How can you act like that?”
“I just practiced hard.”
“If acting like that could be done through practice, every actor would become a great actor, wouldn’t they? When I look at you, Han, I can never tell whether you’re being humble or messing with people.”
At Rogers’s words, Han Seongtae let out an awkward laugh and raised his head.
People’s eyes were turned toward them.
Rogers, who could be called the model of a handsome man, drew people’s gazes in all kinds of ways.
“I guess it was pretty good? I didn’t know you’d praise me this much.”
“Pretty good? It was insane! The image I saw in America was completely erased.”
“Haha.”
“How can that even be possible? It hasn’t even been that long since you filmed it. Han, you really seem like someone born for acting.”
At the endless praise spilling from Rogers’s mouth, Han Seongtae felt himself becoming a little embarrassed.
He did not think he had acted well enough to deserve such excessive praise.
Praise from those around him did feel good, but there were times when he could not help thinking it was too much.
Of course, those around him did not agree with that thought.
“Ha… Seriously, when I watch you, Han, it makes me want to act too. I could do well right away. But what can I do? There’s no opportunity.”
Seeing Rogers mutter as if regretful, Han Seongtae smiled and patted his arm.
He understood that desire to act all too well.
There had been many times in Han Seongtae’s life when he had wanted to act.
Even while acting, Han Seongtae was someone who thought he wanted to act.
How could someone like that fail to understand Rogers’s heart?
“Um, if that’s the issue, I think I can solve it.”
At the director’s voice, Rogers abruptly raised his head.
“Yes. If Rogers is okay with it, how about appearing as a cameo? It isn’t a difficult role. I think all we need is for Rogers to accept.”
“Would that be all right?”
“Of course. Though the appearance fee…”
“I don’t need one!”
What did an appearance fee matter when he could act?
At Rogers’s answer, even Yoon Jeonghan, who had made the suggestion, looked slightly surprised.
Well, he probably had not expected Rogers to accept this easily.
“Rogers?”
Rogers’s manager, who was beside him, also looked at him with a flustered expression.
However, Rogers did not pay much more attention to his reaction and continued speaking.
“We can call it a friendly appearance. I’m Han’s friend, after all. Well, if I ask Han to appear in one of my works later, won’t Han appear for me too?”
At Rogers’s words, everyone’s eyes turned toward Han Seongtae.
Under their gazes, Han Seongtae smiled awkwardly and nodded.
“It’s a request from a friend. Of course I should do it.”
“Then that settles it. What should I do?”
The moment Han Seongtae answered, Rogers disappeared with Yoon Jeonghan.
Somehow, he had a feeling this was going to become even bigger.
“You look happy.”
Han Seongtae spoke to Rogers, who was grinning.
In Rogers’s hand was a script he had not seen before.
A script he had received from Yoon Jeonghan.
For the sake of his practice, Yoon Jeonghan was filming another scene for a while.
“Of course I’m happy. I’m acting in Korea. More than anything, Han, I get to work in sync with you again. Aren’t you happy?”
“I’m happy too. Acting with you is fun.”
At Han Seongtae’s answer, Rogers nodded with a satisfied expression.
Rogers turned his eyes back to the script and began practicing again.
The role he had taken had no lines.
A foreign mercenary under Junchao who would be knocked out by Kang Moobae in one blow.
That was the role Rogers had taken.
It was an unimpressive role, but Rogers did not care in the slightest and looked happy.
He was happy purely because he could act.
Seeing that, Han Seongtae also let out a small laugh.
“Seongtae-ssi, can you bring Rogers-ssi over? Let’s run through the action together.”
“Yes. Rogers, let’s go. He wants us to match our timing.”
“Sounds good!”
The moment Han Seongtae finished speaking, Rogers sprang up from his seat.
The two of them moved with Ma Seokdong and practiced for two hours.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes.”
“We’re ready.”
“I can do it right now.”
Beyond Han Seongtae and Ma Seokdong, Rogers’s awkward answer could be heard.
Seeing him answer in Korean, people burst into laughter.
Soft smiles appeared on their lips as they looked at Rogers.
They had already finished calculating the benefits they could gain from Rogers appearing in their film.
With Rogers’s appearance, the profits they could gain had increased that much, so how could they not be happy?
“We’ll begin filming!”
At the staff member’s voice, the three of them headed toward the set.
Perhaps because there were many action scenes this time, the staff checked the safety equipment again and again before leaving.
‘Is it because of Rogers? They seem more thorough than usual.’
Was it because a Hollywood actor had joined them?
They looked somehow more fired up than usual.
With Han Seongtae smiling, filming began.
“Action!”
At the director’s voice, Rogers’s atmosphere changed.
The eyes with which he glared at Ma Seokdong belonged to a foreign mercenary.
‘So this is what it means to be a great actor.’
A world-class actor recognized by Hollywood.
He had the ability to pull out the best scene even with only two hours of practice.
Watching him, Han Seongtae also pulled up his concentration.
Yoo Yeongjun looked at Kang Moobae in front of him.
Not the reliable figure he usually was, but Kang Moobae covered in wounds.
Kang Moobae was looking at Yoo Yeongjun with an injured expression.
His tightly closed lips spoke for what he was feeling.
“Hyungnim, you should have stopped at a reasonable point. If you hadn’t dug any deeper, you wouldn’t have had to see something like this.”
“…”
“It’s not like I wanted this either. You know that, hyungnim. How much I respect you. As a police officer, and as my hyungnim. You know what I think of you.”
“…”
“I don’t want to do this either. But what am I supposed to do? I have to live too. You ignored my warning and came in too deep.”
Yoo Yeongjun was rambling at Kang Moobae.
Unlike his usual light manner, he now looked somehow desperate.
Listening to Yoo Yeongjun, Kang Moobae opened his mouth for the first time.
“You talk too much. Since when did we do things with words?”
“…Hyungnim, seriously.”
“I guess we really have known each other for a long time. Seeing your face is making me weak.”
At Kang Moobae’s words, Yoo Yeongjun clenched his fist.
He looked up at the sky while biting his lip hard.
Unlike his feelings, the sky was far too blue.
That made him feel even worse.
“Hyungnim. Let’s go now. No matter how strong you are, do you think you can take us on with that body?”
Kang Moobae was alone, and there were many on this side.
On top of that, Kang Moobae was injured.
He had beaten down dozens of Korean-Chinese gangsters before making it here.
‘What a monstrous man.’
It was more amazing that he had come here after beating dozens of people armed with weapons all by himself.
Something possible because he was Kang Moobae.
“Let’s end this.”
At his words, Yoo Yeongjun let out a “Ha” and sighed.
Because he knew what those words meant.
Kang Moobae was trying to sever the bond between the two of them.
Since Yoo Yeongjun was the one who had started this, he could not resent him.
So, as a final gift to his hyungnim,
“Kill him.”
He intended to grant him death.
“Uaaaagh!”
“Kill him!”
“Cut off his legs!”
The Korean-Chinese gangsters rushed at Kang Moobae.
Yoo Yeongjun did not think they would be able to kill Kang Moobae.
“Watch for an opening, then go in and kill him.”
That was why he gave the mission to the mercenary he had hired from overseas.
A professional contract killer brought over from America.
If it was this mercenary, he could kill the wounded monster known as Kang Moobae.
Crunch!
Thud!
Bang!
“M-monster!”
The Korean-Chinese gangsters screamed and collapsed.
Kang Moobae did not back down against more than ten of them. Instead, he beat them all down.
He looked like an enraged bull.
A beast no one could stop.
He charged in.
Slash.
The mercenary left a long cut on Kang Moobae’s forearm.
Kang Moobae said nothing.
He only clenched his fist again and glared at the mercenary.
The two clashed again.
The mercenary seemed to be putting up a good fight.
After all, the knife he held had wounded Kang Moobae’s body.
However, that display did not last long.
Pow.
Kang Moobae’s fist drove into his side.
“Keheuk!”
The mercenary groaned and stepped back.
Bang!
Kang Moobae, who had closed the distance in an instant, struck the mercenary in the face with his fist.
Bang, bang!
From Kang Moobae’s fists, which pounded the mercenary’s body in rapid succession, came sounds that could hardly be thought of as made by a human.
“Ggeuk.”
The mercenary collapsed because of Kang Moobae, and seeing that, Yoo Yeongjun let out a hollow laugh.
“As expected, hyungnim… you’re a bull. A bull no one can stop.”
“Let’s end this.”
Crack.
Yoo Yeongjun was driven into the ground.
That was the last thing he remembered.
Kang Moobae took the evidence from Yoo Yeongjun’s body.
“Cut!”
Filming ended.
“That was amazing!”
“Wow, Hollywood actors really are different.”
“Seongtae-ssi, your acting was so good.”
People came over and praised them.
Filming for City of Criminals continued on, and that was how time flowed.
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