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The virtual personality constructed when the dragon plays with Yuhee plays a very important role.

It was a tool that allowed Yuhee to perform more naturally.

At the same time, it served as a kind of filter, protecting the fragile mind of the dragon.

Dragons are a race that can go mad.

At any moment, their minds could be completely worn out by any mental shock.

The virtual personality was there to prevent such dragons from directly experiencing the events faced by Yuhee.

“….”

And Seo Yisoo is now.

Trying to enter Yuhee without this filtering.

She wanted to experience the many pieces of information that make up the character “ “, along with the memories and emotions.

From an acting perspective.

It was a very clear-cut matter.

It was not something that was interpreted by the virtual personality in the first place, but rather the raw emotions that overwhelmed Seo Yisoo.

In other words, even the weak Seo Yisoo in words could interpret the character’s emotions in her own way.

Seo Yisoo would be able to come up with her own unique character interpretation.

However, there were clear drawbacks.

The fact that the virtual personality did not interpret the character in advance.

Seo Yisoo was still awkward and rough in her acting.

What complemented that was the realistic character description provided by the virtual personality.

Therefore, if Seo Yisoo did not properly understand the character’s emotions…

She would lose her existing strengths, fail in her unique acting, and the danger of Yuhee without the filtering of the virtual personality could become the worst choice.

What Seo Yisoo was trying to do in this shoot was exactly that.

Fortunately, “ ” was a character that Seo Yisoo could empathize with in many ways.

Misunderstanding people.

Dissatisfaction with oneself.

Desire for one’s emptiness to be filled.

All these points made Seo Yisoo empathize with the emotions of the Haesoo character.

Seo Yisoo’s raw acting was almost guaranteed to be successful.

But…

“Ah, agh.”

Seo Yisoo turned pale with fear.

While she might not succeed with other characters, at least she could succeed with “ “.

But that was all.

The danger inherent in Yuhee without the virtual personality still remained.

In Seo Yisoo’s mind, all sorts of emotions she didn’t know about were raging like a storm.

Her fragile mind felt like it could tear apart at any moment.

In the midst of immense mental pain and fear, Seo Yisoo…

Couldn’t understand why she had to go through this.

…Just.

Just acting.

It wasn’t creating necessities.

It wasn’t producing tangible goods.

They weren’t real people.

Just.

Fake characters in a fake story imagined artificially.

Just, for that kind of acting.

Why did she have to do something that could drive her crazy?

Moreover, Seo Yisoo wasn’t someone who couldn’t act in the first place.

Technically, she was still rough but she was learning.

She probably didn’t dream of becoming the best actress in Korea just by acting like this.

For her to try such acting, which couldn’t even be said to be better than acting according to the script, wasn’t she paying too high a price?

Such doubts arose.

And the driving force that broke through those doubts and pushed Seo Yisoo to challenge herself was,

Ironically, the emotions that even Seo Yisoo herself couldn’t properly understand.

“Just a little more.”

Seo Yisoo recalled the many moments she had experienced since coming to Earth.

“Just a bit more.”

The sharp expression that Shin Jiho often made when saying to become a shining actress more than anyone else.

Seo Yisoo couldn’t interpret his expression.

“No matter what it takes.”

The last day of filming for .

That night, Seo Eisu recalled the night spent with Shin Jihu at Yonggul Cliff.

She remembered the subtle emotions Seo Eisu had held at that time.

Seo Eisu couldn’t guess the form of that emotion.

“What is a person?”

Even during the final bow at the Bu Gukje stage.

Even when eating shaved ice with Shin Jihu at the hotel that night.

Even the moments spent squatting in front of Seo Eisu’s studio apartment door with Shin Jihu.

Seo Eisu couldn’t understand.

That misunderstanding.

The desire for understanding was overwhelming Seo Eisu.

“I want to know.”

She wanted to know people.

By doing so, a little more. Even just a little.

It seemed like she could accomplish things she wanted to understand but couldn’t.

“……”

Seo Eisu suddenly turned her head to look at a corner of the filming set.

Her manager was there as promised, looking at her with a straight gaze.

Seo Eisu wanted to know Shin Jihu.

And she wanted to know about her own feelings towards Shin Jihu.

That… surprisingly dominated Seo Eisu’s mind more than the madness dragons feared the most.

With that feeling in her heart.

Seo Eisu left the set.

When she closed her eyes for a moment and opened them.

Seo Eisu was not .

She was still Seo Eisu.

As Seo Eisu.

Seo Eisu began to act.

***

, who obtained the contact information of the criminal through Hansung’s sacrifice.

After much effort, they finally reached the hideout of the criminal.

It was not an easy path.

There were still many collaborators and minions for the criminal.

sometimes used tricks, and sometimes fought hard to reach the criminal.

There…

It was a luxurious house with a yard near Gyeonggi-do.

The monster who killed people, and the victims he killed, were enjoying life in a place where dreams could not be dreamed.

“So you’ve come this far. Impressive.”

The criminal was an old man of advanced age.

Well.

It had been a tremendously long time since he had committed murder.

It was quite natural that the criminal was very old.

looked at the criminal with complex eyes.

An old man with a wrinkled face of a murderer.

To catch one miserable human, they had to lose too much.

Too many victims had to cry.

But that would be the end now.

Only the criminal was in hiding.

It didn’t seem like that old man could resist Junseong, the detective, and the other members of .

Now, capturing the criminal and handing him over to the police would bring an end to their long journey.

But then.

“Three years ago.”

Doyeon spoke up.

“October 7th, 5:30 PM. Playground of xx Apartment in Nowon-gu, Seoul. Remember?”

“What?”

The criminal seemed taken aback by the sudden question.

But Doyeon continued without caring.

“A girl was kidnapped there after Dohee went missing. The suspect captured on CCTV was a man in his 60s, around 160cm tall, of average build, and with half of his bangs pulled back.”

There was no emotion in Doyeon’s words.

It wasn’t that she was originally emotionless, but it felt like she had been worn down by countless storms.

“Exactly, it matches you.”

Her voice was unsettling.

“After Dohee went missing, I started having dreams. Dreams that revealed someone’s crimes. I came here following that dream. It was all for one thing.”

The leader of .

The prophet guiding them on the path they must take.

The hero who saved countless victims and wiped away their tears.

Doyeon was a failed mother who had lost her child.

Since losing her daughter.

In the midst of that dreadful despair and the longing to find her daughter, Doyeon had a dream.

It was a dream of the murders committed by Jinbeom and his followers.

Doyeon considered that dream to be a kind of destiny.

She thought that if she followed that dream, she would eventually reach the end at some point.

With eyes full of longing, she spoke.

“To meet Dohee again. Even if she’s dead, even if it’s just her body. Tell me. Where is my daughter?”

All emotions of a person are bound to fade away with time.

But sometimes, certain desires only burn hotter and twist more fiercely with time.

Doyeon was like that.

To her, the life or death of her daughter was no longer of great importance.

She simply yearned blindly.

To meet her daughter again.

To meet the daughter she had lost as a failed, incompetent mother.

There was something she had to say.

Doyeon’s eyes blazed like never before.

And when faced with such desire from Doyeon, Jinbeom said,

“How can I remember all of that? I don’t know.”

With a snort.

In the midst of the countless deaths he had caused, he reminded her that the sorrow of a desperate mother was insignificant.

Jinbeom couldn’t even remember the existence of her daughter.

That fact pushed Doyeon to cross a certain line.

“…Haha. Maybe I thought you wouldn’t remember.”

Doyeon no longer engaged in any conversation with Jinbeom.

Instead, she reached into her bosom.

And when her hand emerged, she was holding a knife.

“If you can’t remember, just die.”

“Doyeon!”

“…!”

Junseong and Haesoo looked on in shock.

To Doyeon, her comrades were no longer of any value.

By reaching this point, had served its purpose.

Step by step,

Doyeon walked towards Jinbeom with determined steps.

“Are you trying to kill me? Well, life ending like this isn’t so bad. After all, you might become a monster in my place.”

Jinbeom was nonchalant.

Due to causing too many deaths, he had become indifferent even to his own death.

And…

“Why.”

Watching the two of them, Haesoo looked at them with a confused expression.

“Why are you trying to kill people?”

She couldn’t understand Doyeon’s intention to kill people.

She couldn’t accept that her new rules would lead to such actions.

***

“This is an important scene.”

Director Kim Jungho opened his eyes wide and observed the set.

As he said, the scene about to begin was very important.

It might be the most crucial scene in the entire 13th episode of .

Therefore, he meticulously controlled the set.

He carefully specified the angle of the lighting, instructed the boom operators to hold the microphones high so they wouldn’t appear on screen, and made sure the cinematographer was aware of the meaning behind the composition of each shot.

It was so natural that even the staff were warned to be silent to the point of suffocation.

But even with such thorough preparation, there was still an uneasiness.

“Seo Eisu seems to be wandering around these days.”

The key figures in this scene were two people.

One was the lead actress, Gil Hye-yeon.

And the other was Seo Eisu.

If either of these two central figures malfunctioned, the scene would not be completed.

Therefore, many staff members were worried before the shoot.

Seo Eisu seems to be experiencing some sort of slump.

If this continues, won’t it ruin the shoot?

Drama shoots are already pressed for time.

If time is wasted on NGs, incomplete and flawed scenes are often broadcast.

Perhaps…

The crucial part that should have been a highlight might end up tarnishing the quality of the work.

And so, achieving the already precarious 11% viewership rating record would become quite challenging.

The concerns of the staff stemmed from there.

There were suggestions to reduce Seo Yisoo’s role by modifying some scenes.

However…

“I can’t do that.”

Kim Jungho rejected all those proposals without hesitation.

He still remembers.

The pitiful appearance of Seo Yisoo, trembling and cowering, that he saw during the audition.

The immense shock he felt while watching that performance.

He can vividly recall all of it.

“It’s okay. If it’s Seo Yisoo, she’ll pull it off.”

That’s why Kim Jungho believed.

That Seo Yisoo would once again deliver a huge impact.

With that in mind, he watches the actors who are approaching the filming with such determination.

In front of the camera, the climax of “Criminal Predator” was being created.

Hyesoo, the psychopath…

She harbors a world within herself that is only filled with darkness, and that fragile and empty world has been maintained solely by rules.

Her mother was her rule when she was alive.

And since meeting Doyeon, Doyeon has taken over that position.

However…

Through this scene.

The world of rules that Hyesoo lives in undergoes a significant change.

“Criminal Predator” Episode 13.

#New 60

-The Hideout of the Culprit

Doyeon is about to kill someone.

My rule is about to be broken.

It felt like the most terrible joke that could not exist in the world.

“Ah.”

I let out a gasp unknowingly.

Thud-

Red ash-like particles were falling from the sky.

I have seen this ash before.

It was the hallucination I saw when I first met Doyeon at night.

Those ashes were the remnants of my world.

And the fact that they were falling meant one thing.

Once again.

My world was on the verge of breaking.

I hurriedly approached Doyeon.

“Don’t do this. This is… not a rule.”

I stopped her.

I told her to act according to the rules.

And to me, who said that, Doyeon…

“…Rules? What nonsense are you talking about?”

She scoffed.

“Don’t you still get it? I’m sorry, but I never cared about rules in the first place. So, I couldn’t be your rule. It was just a pretext to use a psychopath like you the way I wanted.”

“…”

“So, don’t try to stop me with that weird talk.”

“…”

Doyeon said that and passed by me.

And I couldn’t say anything to her.

“…”

In the midst of confusion.

One realization crossed my mind.

The fact that I was being abandoned by Doyeon at this moment.

Doyeon was my new rule.

And my world, filled only with darkness, would collapse without the existence of rules.

Thud-

The sound of falling ash increased.

The world was accelerating its collapse.

The chains of rules were breaking.

With a thud, the sky collapsed and fell, turning into a pile of red ashes.

“Ah, aah.”

In such a situation.

I couldn’t do anything.

I had no means to prevent the collapse of my world.

I could only watch that sight.

The camera zoomed in, capturing my trembling eyes on the screen.

I.

With eyes wavering in despair.

In the endless chaos and emptiness that came at the end of the collapse of the rules.

I watched the destruction of my world.

I had always been curious about one thing.

The destruction of one world signifies the birth of another.

And so, what kind of world would unfold after the destruction of my rule-bound world?

I was curious about such things.

And, the world that unfolded before my eyes after the destruction… was simply a desolate wasteland filled with red ashes.

I instinctively knew that the red ashes were a symbol of death.

Among the red and rough piles of ashes, I could see scattered bone fragments that had not yet turned to dust.

It was ashes soaked with human blood.

Countless deaths had occurred here.

Death, death, death, death…

All those deaths gathered on this barren and desolate land.

The new world that my world had become, after its destruction, was just that kind of place.

Perhaps it was only natural.

I was nothing but a hollow disabled person who couldn’t even become a monster.

There was nothing remarkable about the traces left behind by the destruction of my world.

And I,

In this desolate world.

I must continue to survive.

“Ah, ah, ahhh.”

My eyes trembled with deep despair.