The lights didn’t turn off, but Maru’s part was done. He finished off his scene by crawling on the ground, and being arrested by the police.

“Thanks for the work,” Joohyun spoke as she offered him a bottle of water.

He opened it and drank a sip. When he did, the pain he had almost forgotten became vivid again. He took off the leather jacket and the padding. He pressed on his arm with his fingers, and thankful, it didn’t seem like he was heavily injured. It seemed that his muscles were just startled, so he thought that he would be okay after around a day or so.

“Does it hurt a lot?”

“No, it doesn’t hurt that much. But you still have scenes left to do, right?”

“I do. I’ll call a taxi, so you can go first.”

Joohyun put her hand inside her pocket before pulling it out again.

“Oh, looks like I left my wallet with my manager. Let’s go.”

Maru stopped Joohyun from going to the van.

“Can I stay at the shoot? I want to see what it’s like.”

“It shouldn’t matter, I think? I’ll ask the producer. He’ll probably say yes though.”

Joohyun approached the producer. Meanwhile, Maru returned the padding and the jacket to the staff in charge of clothing. The staff that received the clothes sighed slightly. It was probably because the leather was damaged due to scraping against the ground.

“Sorry about that. I tried my best not to damage it,...