Audition.

Inside Lee Jin-seok’s study, Lee Jin-seok and I were facing each other.

“”…..””

“Dayeon… she’s an outcast… she doesn’t want to go to school.”

“Who bullied you?”

Lee Jin-seok got angry at my words, took a gulp of hot plum tea, and slammed the cup on the floor.

“dare!”

“So, just come to the school I go to! Why did you separate me from Dayeon…”

Lee Jin-seok, who admitted that he was wrong, sighed.

“Haa… Siyoon, what should I do?”

“We have to go to plan B. If you transfer to a nearby school because you were bullied, that won’t be a rumor.”

Jinseok Lee nodded silently and handed me a paper bag with Plan-B written on it.

HSW candidate.

It was an envelope containing information such as the children’s personal information and personality.

“Early training for bodyguards of the same age… You’re a genius, Siyoon.”

“Let’s go somewhere and educate them so that they don’t get caught as bodyguards… Hanseong’s image will be ruined.”

“Of course! Even if it looks like this, it’s top secret.”

HSW, simply put, is Hansung’s weapon.

I heard that S Company, a bodyguard organization created by Lee Ki-seok in the past to precisely oppose Taebaek, boasts overwhelming skills comparable to the ‘Blue Roof’.

Regarding the hiring of a young bodyguard for the HSW, work was going on secretly in the study.

“I tried to reduce the number to 3 people.”

“hmm…”

“I don’t like this guy a little…”

Jinseok Lee reading the paper I gave him.

The kid who said he didn’t like me reacted visibly, wondering if Lee Jin-seok was a strong candidate in his opinion.

“why?”

“Look at your face.”

Kim Tae-oh is a boy with overwhelmingly high grades in all his grades, but he also has a very handsome face.

That too… at the level of a child model.

“…Don’t you like good-looking people?”

“What nonsense, if Dayeon falls in love with that kid, can you take responsibility?”

Lee Jin-seok must have finally understood what I meant, and he flinched.

“Stand… no way.”

“Da-yeon, due to her personality, always falls for a man who saves her every time. Look at him being this handsome.”

“ah…”

Jinseok Lee asks for the opinions of the remaining two.

“The one on the left seems like he’s going to show off that he’s a bodyguard, and the one on the right is so passionate that it would be a good thing if he doesn’t become a trouble maker.”

“…..”

“Anyway, I chose three people, so I’ll go~”

I went out of the study, and Lee Jin-seok stared intently at the three faces in the document.

Time passed, and winter vacation arrived.

Looking at the children cheering on winter vacation, children are children.

I looked out the window and remembered the invitation that came yesterday.

“It’s a preview…”

Dad said an invitation had arrived and handed it to me while I was playing the Maple Leaf game.

The invitation included invitations to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd previews, but it said that the 1st was in the revision stage, so participation other than those involved was not possible.

When my eyes stop on one place, my dad smiles.

“…this is right?”

“Hmm… wouldn’t that be right?”

I read one phrase with shocked eyes.

– It has been ruled that teenagers cannot watch the show… so it looks like Si-yoon will only be able to watch the first episode.

Although it is a work that I have already personally monitored several times, they say that they cannot see my work in theaters.

“…..”

“Siyoon?”

“Can’t I… see you at the movie theater…?”

As I was disappointed, my father became restless.

“I had a hard time filming it…”

Dad nodded as if he had made up his mind.

“You can watch it at home!”

“…I wanted to see people’s reactions…”

Dad began to worry with a serious expression.

“Later, when Si-yoon grows up, let’s watch what we filmed at the movie theater!”

“Ha… If you want to watch a movie when you’re 19… you just have to live as long as I’ve lived…”

“Mo… shall we go see it secretly…?”

“how?!”

My father thought seriously and eventually called Jang Seong-man.

As I was thinking about yesterday’s events for a moment, Park Ji-hoon started talking to me next to me.

“Wow… we almost didn’t end up in the same class.”

Jihoon is looking forward to being assigned to the next grade.

In the past, Jaehyeong was on the verge of ignorance, but now I can see that he is putting in a lot of effort.

Or, you say your brains are better now than when you were Jaehyeong.

“I think I’m smarter than I thought…”

He chuckled as he saw Park Jihoon looking at his grades.

“Doing pull-ups among 8-year-olds?”

“It’s not a pull-up…”

Ignoring Jihoon, who was looking at me with a serious expression, I opened the picture notebook.

It was full of pictures I had recently drawn.

“Wow… Are you really preparing for art school? That’s awesome…”

“I think I can sketch to a certain extent, but hmm… it gets weird when I add color…”

Jihoon Park takes my notes and goes through them one by one.

“The art teacher told me to come find you.”

“If you’re going to use an honorific title, don’t do it. Until when do you mix it up.”

“Then you should tell me~”

As I said, watching Park Ji-hoon’s reaction, emotions welled up inside me that I couldn’t put into words.

“…..”

I closed my notebook and got up from my desk.

“Where?”

“store.”

“me too!”

Park Ji-hoon quickly got up and followed me.

As I headed toward the cafeteria, there were many faces I hadn’t seen before, and the kids who saw me for the first time were surprised.

A road that opens like the parting of the Red Sea.

“”…..””

Upon arriving at the store, Jihoon excitedly starts choosing.

It’s just a cafeteria, but there are a variety of menus like a buffet, and it’s a spacious and gorgeous space.

I had banana milk in my hand, and Jihoon was holding a lot of food in his arms.

“Can you eat it all?”

“of course.”

I put it on the counter and took out my black card because I didn’t have any cash.

The employee looked ordinary for a black card, but he recognized what I was holding.

“…uh?”

“Check please.”

“Yeah…yeah.”

When I buy food, I always end up paying for Jihoon’s food, following my past habits.

As soon as he finished paying, Jihoon ran to the microwave and heated up some pizza bread.

I sat down and opened the bread Jihoon brought.

Jihoon, who had come to warm up the pizza bread, found me eating his bread and playfully let out a dissatisfied voice.

“If that’s the case, why take it away when you can pardon it again?”

“It’s my money.”

“Wow, where is your money, where is my money?”

“…Be quiet, just sit down, and eat.”

“yes.”

Jihoon sits arrogantly and looks around.

Jihoon looks around as if he’s used to being the center of attention because of me.

Because of what happened in the past, upper elementary school students did not ignore Jihoon.

In the past, children who went with me had doubts because of Park Ji-hoon’s goofy face.

Jihoon, who consoled and comforted a kid who was older than us and whose actions crossed the line toward me, became more famous than I thought.

While eating bread and looking at my phone, I said as if I had remembered something.

“Oh, that’s right, the trailer for the film has been released.”

“!? really?”

I showed the trailer with the expected release date.

Jihoon tries to touch my phone with dirty hands covered in pizza bread sauce, so I throw him a tissue and Jihoon wipes his hands.

I focused on my phone as if I had never done that before.

“Wow… look at the technology…”

The tense music created by my father plays, actor Kim Ha-neul appears on the screen, and an overwhelming number of zombies appear.

And at the end, Kim Ha-neul is sitting in front of the door, the screen passes through a small hole, and I appear, aiming a crossbow in perfect posture.

-“Bow down more, if you don’t want your head pierced…”

Although she is at an age where she can show off her cuteness, she has short hair that looks like she cut it roughly herself.

A strange sense of decadence flowed from his seemingly emotionless expression.

“Oh…”

I chuckled at Jihoon, who was looking back at me.

“Did it come out well?”

“Wow, looking at your posture, it’s the same as before.”

School cell phones are subject to penalty points if used outside of lunch hours.

“Hey, stop looking and look at yourself.”

Jihoon ignores my words and looks at my cell phone.

“Wow… I guess I’ll have to ask my mom to see me.”

I took a bite of the roll cake Jihoon brought and said with a smile.

“Young people are not allowed to watch the show?”

“…Then you can’t see it either?”

I remembered the conversation I had with my dad yesterday, and I didn’t say anything.

JSM headquarters says I shouldn’t reveal that I watch movies…

“…..”

I looked at Jihoon, who had finished eating all that food.

“Is that all included?”

“Hehe… I’m full. Well, it’s not much.”

As I put the milk and bread I had eaten into the trash can and moved, Jihoon, who had cleaned up the place, followed me.

Since it wasn’t the way to Van, Jihoon asked.

“Where?”

“Art room.”

“suddenly?”

“I’m not going to class next time, so please tell the teacher.”

“Huh… Is this the first class in the entire school?”

I left Jihoon muttering and headed to the art room.

“Uh! Siyoon, what’s going on? I don’t think there’s class today.”

“The next class is Teacher Jang Hyuk-jin’s class. Please tell me that we are practicing drawing.”

“Of course! Wait, I’ll tell you now. Sit over there.”

“yes.”

The art teacher called the Korean teacher and then nodded and looked at me.

“Are you here to draw?”

“yes.”

“What kind?”

I handed the note to the teacher who sat in front of me and tried to ask me questions one by one.

“also…”

My art teacher is amazed at my photo-like drawings.

“Because I’m not good at coloring.”

After looking at the light and shade I added for a moment, the art teacher looked puzzled.

However, perhaps because he really wanted to check whether adding color was enough, the art teacher moved to the warehouse.

“Really? Then, since I’m used to drawing with graphite, shall we start with watercolor pencils?”

A case made of boxes brought from one place.

There were 120 colored pencils in there, and the art teacher who had finished preparing placed model fruits and flowers in one place.

“Still life painting would be good for getting used to color.”

“yes.”

The teacher smiled as he opened a sketchbook on one side and began drawing, as if he was doing something he really enjoyed.

The art teacher, lightly drawing a frame with a red pencil, handed me the pen he had been using.

“The colors are all different, so mistakes can be made, so we create a framework.”

Unlike the teacher, I had lighter colors, but I made the mold in one go.

“Oh… that’s good too, but it’s not accurate?”

The teacher next to me, holding a pen and measuring the size of the apple, grabbed each side and made a new frame.

“how is it?”

The teacher’s drawing was definitely beyond perfection and included his own colors.

Although it was only a framed picture, it looked different from the model apple.

The ultimate goal of those who dream of creating the best art in Korea.

The paintings of art teacher Go Min-soo, who graduated first in his class from Korea National University of Arts, which boasts the highest competition rate in 2022, were clearly different.

I know that Seoul Private Elementary School also invested quite a lot to bring in this young art teacher.

I drew it step by step as the teacher instructed.

“Wow… is that amazing? The basics are definitely very strong.”

The teacher quickly made an apple and handed me a pen in order.

The art teacher is amazed as we draw one by one based on memory.

“Not even one thing is missing?”

I chuckled, got up, and turned the apple in half.

Apples that show more yellow.

As we drew quickly and silently, the art teacher realized what the problem was.

“You didn’t draw it based on what you saw, you just drew it after me…”

“yes.”

I drew pictures following the teacher who pointed out the problems one by one.