“Well, then. Here comes actor Han Maru. Give him a round of applause!”

Gyungho introduced Maru to his team, who were waiting. The members of his team, who were semi-doubtful that Gyungho would successfully bring Maru over, all cheered when they saw him.

“Please sit down.”

Maru sat down on the bench. “The people I’ve met a lot during the shoot are all here. If I remember correctly, you’re someone I crashed into a while ago.”

“You remember that? I rolled backward back then.”

“I do. You were so realistic that I was worried that you were hurt.”

“I’m pretty good at that.”

The atmosphere was good. They opened their lunch boxes while laughing.

Gyungho did not make haste. Today, he was just going to talk to him lightly. He didn’t know whether Maru was pretending to be kind or was genuinely so, but Maru would definitely be wary if he acted so obviously from the get-go.

“Everyone here is having a hard time, aren’t you?” Maru said.

“There’s no one who isn’t, is there? And rather than us, you have it harder. You had to run around all morning, didn’t you?”

“The weather really isn’t helping. I’d ask the director for a break if there’s a heat wave warning or something, but it just barely isn’t hot enough.”

“Right. If it was gonna be hot, then it should be really hot or...