'What is that.'
Min Doha turned and ran just like that.
'She avoided the paintball after hearing the sound?'
Goosebumps rose.
If this scene were captured and broadcast, it would definitely cause quite an uproar.
'I should have continued with close combat.'
Originally, Min Doha planned to shoot from a distance, and if that failed, lure her into close combat.
He thought he could easily subdue a fragile high school girl.
However.
'Absolutely impossible.'
What on earth was that reaction speed?
And why were her eyes shining so frighteningly?
"Hah, hah-hah."
Min Doha leaped over obstacles while listening to the sound of footsteps chasing from behind.
The set had various cover to hide behind.
In other words, since there were many obstacles, he thought he could sufficiently escape by leaping over them while running.
And, just as Min Doha had hoped, he felt the footsteps chasing him grow distant.
"Huuu."
Min Doha barely let out a breath.
His breath came rapidly from running across the set.
He hid behind cover and let out a sigh.
He heard various commotions around him.
Gunfire sounds, voices shouting lines prepared for action acting.
'Acting, it's acting.'
Min Doha suddenly realized he hadn't shown any acting at all.
Even so, he should have done close combat right there despite the danger... no, that's not it either.
'Huh?'
While pondering like that, he suddenly realized the surroundings had gone quiet.
And when he carelessly raised his gaze upward.
"……."
The first thing that caught his eye was black hair.
White skin.
Red eyes, and a smile forming on her lips.
And, he felt those lips slowly moving.
「Found you.」
"Kyaaaaah!!"
Min Doha screamed without realizing it, and tried to stand but his legs gave out.
And just like that, he began crawling away to escape.
Seoyeon aimed her pistol at Min Doha like that... and slowly lowered it.
'She acts well.'
She was impressed.
For a moment, she thought he was screaming for real.
Plus the passionate performance of his legs giving out and crawling away.
The reason Seoyeon let Min Doha go obediently was precisely because of that.
'If this is acting, I need a partner to match with.'
Even if she established her character, she needed a counterpart to match that character.
In that sense, Min Doha was quite a decent character.
Min Doha had definitely chosen the physical enhancement ability.
So even when chasing, she ran at a moderately matched speed.
Because it might seem strange for a regeneration ability user to run faster than a physical enhancement ability user.
'Come back after getting stronger.'
Seoyeon let Min Doha go for now.
She could have chased him right away, but having decided he would be her partner to match with, it was a waste to eliminate him like this.
And.
'Strangely, I feel like many people are watching me.'
Seoyeon slowly moved her eyes and surveyed the surroundings.
At first, about five people were watching Seoyeon.
But as time passed, she felt that number gradually increasing.
Maybe because I ran around too much.
At the moment she was thinking that.
Whoosh!
Something flew in and fell at Seoyeon's feet.
"Huh?"
Avoiding a paintball flying toward her shoulder at that moment, she picked it up.
'An earpiece?'
No, it looks a bit different.
She could tell it was something to wear on the ear.
Thinking it might be a special item prepared by the production team, she put it on her ear.
「Can you hear my voice?」
Completely unexpectedly, Jo Seohee's voice came through.
She was about to ask how she brought something like this, but.
'They said props needed for the movie could be brought in.'
As long as it wasn't weapons or such, it could be brought in after inspection by the production team.
She felt that Jo Seohee's setting was definitely a conglomerate heir and a smart genius... kind of setting.
'So she's trying to utilize props.'
No, more importantly, where is she right now?
As she moved her head looking around while thinking that.
Two or three more bullets flew in again.
She inadvertently swatted one away with her hand, so her score dropped by 1 point again.
「Let's form an alliance.」
"Huh?"
「It'll be hard on your own, right? I'm a bit away from there. The position is high so I can see others well.」
Like a support character from a movie, Jo Seohee said that.
Only then did Seoyeon know where Jo Seohee was.
'She headed to the opposite side, not toward the bag.'
The tall styrofoam ruins near the hill of the set.
She was definitely hiding with her body lowered on top of it.
「...I also got hit by five shots while running away, so that's 5 points.」
Jo Seohee said that with a snort and laughed.
Well, at least not dying was something.
It seemed she moved, leaving the fleeing Jo Seohee alone since it was about time for the bag to appear.
If this was acting, chasing a helplessly fleeing target didn't have the right flavor.
'Did she give up?'
Seoyeon also felt puzzled by Jo Seohee's behavior.
Did she really have no intention of passing at all?
Behavior that made her think that.
「The position here is quite high, so I can see below well. Even you can't have your sight reach everywhere, right?」
Actually, even if it didn't reach, she could roughly know everything, but Seoyeon nodded.
'Huh?'
At the same time, she felt that Jo Seohee's voice tone had suddenly changed.
But she passed over it as nothing significant.
It must be because of the situation.
「I'll watch from here and tell you the positions. How about that kind of alliance?」
"...Yes. I understand."
Alliance!
Seoyeon was inwardly jealous of the three actors who had attacked her earlier.
To think they would form a team in such a short time.
Honestly, Seoyeon also wanted to try it.
But to think Jo Seohee would propose it first like this.
Moreover, the aspect of informing the opponent's position like a receiver was also quite a good picture.
「Okay. First, there are four people looking at you over there. The rest are gradually heading toward the bag. Ah, behind you!」
At the same time, a firing sound was heard.
Seoyeon turned back and avoided it by leaning her body.
She felt the opponent whose eyes met Seoyeon's flinch.
And after aiming the gun back, soon lowered their hand.
'Shooting from long range, after all, has no impact.'
Seoyeon glanced at the pistol and frowned.
After all, the pistol didn't suit Seoyeon very well.
There was no sense of impact.
If she had to say, Seoyeon's preference was close combat, like when she was Cha Seoah.
So to speak, something like a hand axe.
It would go quite well with her red eyes.
...It feels like a slightly different genre though.
「Then, I'll tell you. You trust me, right?」
"...A little."
「That much is just right.」
Jo Seohee's laughter was heard, and Seoyeon turned her body.
And, she ran toward those who aimed their gun muzzles at her.
Lowering her body, swatting away the flying bullets with her hands.
Like that.
[Ju Seoyeon: 38 points]
Seoyeon's score started to rise.
And at a very fast speed.
***
"Wow, what is that?"
Han Bongsik, who was gradually heading back to being a 1.4 million subscriber YouTuber, muttered.
That was understandable, since he couldn't believe what was appearing in the video right now.
- Seriously what is this?
- Now she's avoiding paintballs without even looking
- Isn't it because Jo Seohee is telling her?
- If telling made you do everything well, I would have gotten a perfect score on the CSAT
- fr lol
Jo Seohee was captured on screen.
Jo Seohee, hiding her body in the styrofoam ruins, surveying the battlefield from the high ground.
Every time she spoke, Seoyeon's body moved.
Almost a solo performance.
It was to the extent that such a word suited it.
- Even sniping doesn't work because Jo Seohee is telling her the positions
- She was already going one by one and beating them up anyway?
- Who is Ju Seoyeon? Was she always like that?
- yeah always like that
- ????
- You guys are naive, of course it's all scripted since it's entertainment
- Fuck how is that scripted, crazy bastard
- If that's scripted, my life is scripted too...
Certainly, here and there, there were groups having their own gunfights while doing their own acting.
But right then.
- Ju Seoyeon appeared!
- Fuck is she a ninja
Pandemonium caused by Ju Seoyeon who suddenly popped out.
On top of that, with her regeneration ability, she couldn't be killed under normal circumstances.
Because she would block with both hands if it looked like she'd take a fatal wound.
"Still, she's definitely keeping her character. That's why this is even scarier."
Seoyeon was still acting even now.
Probably other viewers thought so too.
The people chatting in his stream right now would be the same.
"If you hit the arms and legs, it's a stun. But, what's a bit funny is..."
- Doesn't it seem like she let herself get hit?
- ?
"...There's that kind of feeling. I said this before. Action acting needs to match with the partner."
Watching Han Bongsik's video, he played it at 0.25x speed.
The gun muzzles aimed at Seoyeon.
The flying bullets.
At first he wondered if it was coincidence, but he could see Seoyeon's eyes moving accordingly.
In other words, Seoyeon 'sees' the paintballs flying and avoids them.
Whether that's possible is secondary.
"Then she could have avoided it, but she got hit."
When Seoyeon was briefly stunned, she could have just avoided with her body.
If someone thought of that moment as an opportunity and attacked.
"It's an instant death."
- What kind of tyrant lol
- But aren't other people using their superpowers?
- Seems like they can't think that far?
As the chat said, there weren't as many actors performing superpower acting as expected.
There was a strong feeling as if they were at a loss about how to act in this kind of situation.
But then.
- Han Soyou!
- Isn't running away the right thing here?
A woman with a fairly cute face was captured on screen.
On the screen, a subtitle appeared on the spot saying 'Han Soyou's ability is psychokinesis.'
It was an explanation text that came out as if it had been waiting when the cast appeared.
Of course, no one had properly used the superpower mentioned in the description yet.
Until now.
"This is."
Bongsik could see Ju Seoyeon's eyes moving.
Her eyes met Han Soyou's, and her left hand not holding the pistol was pointed toward Seoyeon.
At that moment, the camera zoomed in and got close to Han Soyou.
Probably the cameraman caught on to what Han Soyou was trying to do.
"I was trying to say this earlier. This superpower acting, it's not as easy as it sounds."
- Isn't that obvious? Without CG it's just useless
"So especially the psychokinesis that Han Soyou is trying to do now. Especially this kind of thing. There's nothing visible."
Seoyeon's regeneration ability or physical enhancement could be passed off as 'oh, that's how it is.'
But superpowers that require CG naturally look ridiculous.
"However, at least psychokinesis can be done even without CG."
- ?
- What are you talking about
Bongsik recalled Seoyeon up until now.
Ironically, although Seoyeon seemed to be running about wildly, there was a kind of rule.
First, she recognized the opponent's superpower beforehand.
For example, if someone had a fire superpower, she wouldn't approach them as much or showed strong signs of being on guard against something.
Although it was meaningless since the person in question just blindly fired their pistol.
'The gunfights were probably not just to see action.'
It must have been to see if they could properly perform superpower acting in this extreme situation.
Han Soyou probably knew.
Ju Seoyeon's action logic, just as Bongsik was seeing now.
If so, how she would react to her psychokinesis too.
"In other words. That's how it is."
Han Soyou's hand points toward Seoyeon.
Then, Seoyeon's eyes widen.
And she flew backward just like that.
Whoosh, toward a nearby styrofoam building.
"Do you perhaps know WWE? It's American pro wrestling. When they perform action acting there, receiving the opponent's move is called selling."
The role of receiving when the opponent performs a technique.
That was the element that could make 'superpowers' feel realistic.
In the first place, psychokinesis is invisible.
But Seoyeon 'sold' it and properly threw her body to express it.
"But if you look at this in full screen, it looks childish. Like a tokusatsu with bad CG."
That's why they pulled the camera forward.
Rather than showing the whole body, in a direction where only a part shows.
If you only saw the scene of Seoyeon flying away after that, it really looked like she was hit by something and sent flying.
- It's real
- Isn't this the filming crew's amazing skill?
"This is a billboard. A billboard letting people know that the GH Group sharpened their knives for this movie."
Bongsik saw Seoyeon and Han Soyou.
As expected, Seoyeon properly reacted to Han Soyou's psychokinesis.
Reaching the left hand forward was the activation condition.
The ability manifests in the direction her sight reaches.
That was Han Soyou's ability written in the script.
Previously, Han Soyou had experience playing a wizard role in a children's drama.
At that time, it was just cute, potentially laughable acting.
Depending on the opponent, it could become a truly threatening psychokinesis.
- Wow
- Something, it feels a bit real
Seoyeon is seen moving out of sight to avoid Han Soyou's hand.
Knowing how threatening Han Soyou's superpower was from that one strike just now.
Everyone's eyes become expectant about how Seoyeon will overcome that superpower.
「This is!!」
Han Soyou's eyes distort viciously.
With that one word and expression, the image of what kind of character she is instantly takes shape.
'She volunteered to be the villain.'
Bongsik thought Han Soyou was clever.
With just superpowers, she couldn't ultimately eliminate Seoyeon.
According to the rules, the one-hit kill is hitting the opponent with a paintball.
Superpowers couldn't specifically determine a death condition other than acting scores.
Unless the opponent sold the acting in that way.
It was impossible for Han Soyou to beat Seoyeon who was overwhelming from the start in physical ability.
Having judged that, Han Soyou set herself as a 'strong villain.'
Because Seoyeon, who had been overwhelmingly taking down others until now, gave a great sense of crisis just by being lightly sent flying by psychokinesis.
Once the atmosphere reverses, what follows is simple.
Seoyeon approaches while avoiding Han Soyou's hand.
As if her arm was broken by psychokinesis, her right arm twists and she drops the pistol.
That, Seoyeon kicks the pistol forward with her foot.
"Hiek!!"
She runs forward toward Han Soyou who screams momentarily and grabs with her intact left hand.
As Han Soyou hurriedly reaches her left hand forward, Seoyeon's gun muzzle touches Han Soyou's chest.
Tatatang!!
Light gunshots.
[Ju Seoyeon: 68 points]
And along with the score indicating she had eliminated more than half by herself.
"!!"
Min Doha, who was hiding while hugging the bag to his chest, gasped.
It felt like the surroundings that had been noisy until just now had gone quiet.
'What happened?'
Min Doha's motivation was completely crushed from the point he escaped from Seoyeon.
Still, he somehow managed to get the bag, so he changed his strategy to just defending the bag like this.
'In the first place, fighting something like that was wrong.'
No, how do you fight someone who avoids paintballs.
Min Doha was truly frustrated.
Could she be someone who had some special training?
Otherwise, it was hard to believe.
'Still, if I just defend the bag, that's 30 points...'
「So you were here.」
"……."
Min Doha ended up losing his mind.
***
Seoyeon's score was effectively over 80 points including the bag.
It was probably a score that even the production team couldn't have possibly expected.
Because even if cut in half, it would still be first place.
If acting scores were added to this, it would exceed 100 points.
Since it was practically overwhelming, the other participants could only give hollow laughs.
Even if they were eliminated by Seoyeon, ultimately advancing to the upper rounds was determined by scores.
Because death was, in the end, nothing more than acting.
There were many who walked around even after receiving wounds that would have led to death.
To get other scores even if their acting score was cut.
'Still, I made it into the top 10.'
'As expected, this kind of acting didn't suit me.'
Amidst the mixture of joy and sorrow, there were about 5 minutes left of filming time.
As for survivors, there were only two left.
Seoyeon and Jo Seohee.
Having picked up the bag, Seoyeon headed to where Seohee was.
There was Jo Seohee, who was relatively clean compared to others, though she had some paint on her.
'But.'
Seoyeon glanced at the scoreboard.
Jo Seohee's score wasn't displayed.
Effectively 0 points.
It was a situation where anyone could see she was eliminated.
Even if Seoyeon gave her the bag she held in her hand.
It was when Seoyeon was about to approach Seohee and ask if she was okay.
「My, good work. Our agent.」
Seohee smiled with an eye smile.
At Seohee's attitude like that, Seoyeon momentarily paused.
'Acting.'
Why at this timing?
It was when she was thinking that.
Bang.
A light firing sound.
Seoyeon lowered her gaze.
The paintball smeared on her chest.
At Seoyeon's only weakness as a regeneration ability user, the heart.
Because she was too close.
And without time to avoid in the gap of her guard being down.
[Jo Seohee: +34 points]
It was a score enough to raise her to around the 5th place in one go.
Despite having become 29 points from getting hit by several shots earlier.
Seoyeon checked the score displayed on the scoreboard and looked at Jo Seohee as if she couldn't believe it.
"Sorry. Still, I'll give you the bag."
At Jo Seohee's words spoken as if to console her.
Seoyeon sulked.