The easiest way to emphasize a white color was to make the background black. Acting was the same. There was a limit to showing emotions. There was no limit to emotion itself, but there was a limit to the methods of expressing them. No matter how varied one made their facial expressions, there was a limited range for the facial muscles to move, and that was the same for voices as well. After expressing stronger and stronger emotions, acting would become bland after one point. The character would become very flat. That was why the beginning was important. What was more important than the explosion was to keep the fuse lit.

“I am going. What’s today’s lunch again?”

Maru smiled and looked at the actor in front of him. For this moment, the guy in front of him was not a junior from the acting club, but his friend in another reality. Actors needed to accept falseness as reality. Acting could only begin after that.

“Doenjang soup and fried pollacks.”

“That’s terrible. Wanna go buy something instead?”

“Are you treating me?”

“Yeah, well, I’ll buy it. We’re friends after all.”

The most obsequious thing was to try to act like the other side. Maru hung his arms around the people who bullied him until just a while ago. Inside, he created an endless number of excuses to justify himself.

It wouldn’t matter even if he went about acting while thinking ‘I’ll do this kind...