Life, Once Again!

th Dojin last time.” “Dojin?” “Dojin felt the same thing as me.
I realized my feelings weren’t wrong when I actually started observing you.
I tried asking the other kids to make sure and they told me similar things.” “If even the others felt this way, then this might as well be a fact about myself.” “It’s just a feeling in the end, but…” Daemyung fidgeted for a second before making up his mind.
Maru always helped him out with his problems.
This time, the other boy was the one who needed his help.
He felt it was his responsibility to help the boy out as much as he could.
“I’d like to say some things if you don’t mind listening.
Again, this is just an observation.
Do you remember when you first talked to me in class?” “Of course.” “I’m thankful you did that.
If you didn’t, I might be a victim of bullying by now, just like Gijung.” “Well….” “In any case, you’re a nice person who likes to help troubled people out.
But recently, I started thinking that you’re not just nice.
This is just me who thinks this, but I think you have a specific rule for helping people.” “Rule?” “First, you can’t get impacted negatively from helping someone out.
Don’t get too offended, this is just an observation like I said.” “Alright.
Please continue.” “Remember when we hung out together after your summer job at the gas station ended? And some people got into a fight where we were?” “Of course.” “I thought you’d stop them right there, but you just decided to leave instead.
There’s been a lot of moments like those, actually.
You do help people, but you never step in if you think you’re going to be affected.” “Mm.
That’s right.” Maru didn’t disagree.
“I think you’re pretty amazing, regardless.
Most of us usually don’t decide to help people at all.” “Thanks for the compliment, but that’s not what I want to hear right now.” “Y-yeah.” Daemyung opened the diary and started reading everything about Maru from it, reading it reminded him of exactly what had happened in all of those moments.
“Back then when you saw the kids getting bullied, you didn’t help them.
I heard you only helped them because of Changhu.
Is that true?” “Yeah.” “The Han Maru that I’ve observed never does anything that would harm him, he’s not really a figure of justice.
But strangely, this rule doesn’t actually apply when it comes to acting.
Remember when you shook the club upside down that one time?” “Oh, that?” “I asked Mr.
Taesik about what happened.” “You worked hard for this, didn’t you?” “It’s homework, after all.
You know my dream is to be a director.
I think studying actors in detail is good practice, so… Hm, hm.
In any case, you shook up the club, despite knowing that you would be impacted negatively as a result.
Same with how you always did the menial tasks for the club.
Whenever something involved acting, you really went out of your way to do certain things even if it would be bad for you.” “Right.” “That’s when I started thinking, maybe acting has some great meaning to you.
But that makes something else even stranger.
You said at the beginning of the school year that you weren’t interested in acting, that it wasn’t worth investing time into.
That was why you always skipped practice, but you’re working harder than anyone now.
That’s when I realized that maybe you were trying to get something out of acting, and that was why you were trying so hard.” That’s when Maru closed his mouth and the boy nodded in agreement silently.
“That’s when I started looking back on your character.
You studied really hard when school started.
But now, you’ve started skipping homework and you’re focusing most of your time on your scripts.
You’re working very, very hard on acting, but I couldn’t help but get the feeling that… You might give up on acting very easily.” Maru focused most of his time on acting when December came.
He’d even used most of his time on the weekdays to work on acting, while weekends were reserved for practice in Myungdong.
Clearly, the boy was dedicating most of his life to acting right now.
But… Daemyung couldn’t shake off a certain feeling.
Was Maru trying this hard for acting because he truly cared for it? Looking at the boy again with that in mind made Daemyung come to ‘that’ conclusion.
Empty.
No matter how you tried to spin it, it wasn’t a very nice thing to say to someone.
That was why Daemyung had snatched the diary from Maru’s hands in the beginning.
“And the conclusion is?” “What?” “If you’ve observed Han Maru this much, you must’ve come to some sort of a conclusion about your character.
Some sort of a theme that you can use for the character.
Am I right?” “Ah, yeah….
yeah.” “Can you tell me about it?” Daemyung hesitated for a bit before opening his mouth.
‘There’s two versions.“ “Two versions?” “Yeah.
The first was to portray you as a hardworking actor.
A character that manages to do just about anything he wants, as long as he makes up his mind about it.
A character that’s strong and kind at the same time.” “I suppose what I’d want to listen to would obviously be the second one.” Daemyung nodded.
Honestly, he’s only thought about the second one.
He didn’t really want to talk about it and he wasn’t confident that he would be able to act it out that well either.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have a choice to stay silent since the boy wanted to hear about it.
“The second…” Daemyung opened the last page of his diary.
“I thought about what you ultimately want to get through acting and what you would be like if you lost that thing.” Daemyung carefully continued speaking.
“This might just be my imagination.
Maybe I’m thinking too much.
You can insult me if you want; after all, I’m saying stuff like this when you’re putting your all into acting.
But I really can’t shake off this feeling.
Ah, there’s one more thing.
I came to this conclusion after thinking about the previous two things I mentioned, but… It really feels like you’re acting a character called Han Maru.” Saying this was bound to make Maru mad, Daemyung thought.

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