The official promotional video posted on the drama teaser site.
The reaction to the one-minute-plus video was much hotter than Seoyeon had expected.
Considering that Sua had been making a fuss about it all night.
"Our daughter came out so beautifully!"
"That she did."
"Right? It's going to be crazy at the art festival tomorrow."
Is that so?
Seoyeon blinked as she watched the drama promotional video on the computer screen.
The timing of the video dropping right before the art festival was surprisingly coincidental, but she couldn't really guess how much impact the teaser video would have.
"Don't put too much pressure on the kid, haven't you seen the news? It's the reason child actors can't stay active for long."
Ju Youngbin pointed out in a small voice in response to his fussing wife's reaction.
He was worried that the child might feel burdened for no reason.
"I know that, but... Seoyeon secretly likes this kind of thing."
"...Likes it?"
"Yes. She secretly really loves it when people hype her up."
Sua replied in a hushed, whispering voice.
It hadn't been very noticeable before, but as her daughter did acting work, her emotional expressions had become clearer than before.
Sitting at the computer desk with an expressionless, calm face, scrolling the mouse to watch the video was the same as before.
However, looking closely, she could be seen eagerly rewatching only the parts where she appeared.
"...Right?"
"Umm. But there are also malicious comments..."
At the moment she said that, as if she saw something, the daughter started doing strange things on her own.
Shooting a gun at the monitor or throwing hearts...
"What's that?"
"She does that when she sees good comments. She says it's reaction practice."
"What kind of reaction?"
"I don't know that either. She says you have to work hard when it's Hakko..."
"What's Hakko again."
Ju Youngbin watched his daughter quietly with half-closed eyes.
Looking closely, just as Sua said, contrary to her expression, her flushed cheeks and subtly heaving body were visible.
'She definitely looks like she's in a good mood.'
There must be malicious comments too, but she didn't seem to care at all.
'I guess I don't have to worry about her at the art festival tomorrow.'
Ju Youngbin nodded.
Child actor work has a limited period of activity anyway.
Especially for child actors with a big hit work.
'Of course, if she looks for work, she can certainly still do it.'
Youngbin intended to help so that Seoyeon could do as she wished as much as possible.
Because that was a father's role.
And Seoyeon seemed to have come up with her own answer to this.
***
The art festival of Arongdarong Kindergarten.
As it was the largest kindergarten in the area, its art festival was also large in scale.
First of all, it was held in a rented auditorium rather than inside the kindergarten, and with the number of children exceeding 300, the number of attending parents was bustlingly large.
"You know, right? They say that child is in the Sun Class here."
"Ah, Princess Yeonhwa... what was her name again?"
"If you're talking about that child actor's name, it's probably Seoyeon, Ju Seoyeon. My daughter is in the same class, you see."
Leaving her awkwardly standing husband behind, the topic of conversation among the group of mothers was mostly like that. Since parents wish for their own children to be the best, the subject of a particularly eye-catching child naturally had to come up.
"The kid acts really well. I'm thinking about getting her autograph when I see her."
"It could be because it was an ad. No, well... I'm not particularly badmouthing her, but child actors are all pretty much the same."
"Right. I heard the Sun Class is doing a play today..."
Heard that there were two child actors in the Sun Class.
If one of them was the child actor who recently appeared on TV and was being pushed by KMB, it was obvious she would hog all the attention at this art festival.
Indeed, there were even people eagerly waiting, dying to see Seoyeon appear.
"I heard the play is Snow White, but she's playing the mirror? She said she yielded the role."
"Ah, is that so?"
At the mention of the mirror role, it was half relief, half disappointment.
Anyway, for better or worse, Seoyeon was currently drawing attention from all sides at the art festival.
Wasn't it just yesterday that such a teaser dropped!
The rumors that had been spreading quietly usually became a topic of conversation that any parent participating in this art festival would mention at least once.
"Why don't you go join them and chat a bit, honey?"
When Ju Youngbin, who had been listening to the parents' conversation from a distance, said that to his wife, Sua slowly shook her head.
"I got so many dirty looks the last time I participated in the mothers' committee."
"D-Did you? Ahem!"
Youngbin had vaguely heard the facts about that.
Rather than giving her dirty looks, they just kept staring at her.
Looking at his wife, he thought that was unavoidable.
'Will Seoyeon be okay?'
Of course, Sua, who had no way of knowing Youngbin's thoughts, just looked inside the auditorium, worrying about her daughter.
By now, her daughter would be finishing up her preparations and getting ready to go out according to the order.
Even if she's a mirror...
No, rather, because she was a mirror, there was a part that made her oddly more worried.
Because her unpredictable daughter sometimes had a tendency to put way too much effort into strange things.
***
"Ju Seoyeon."
"What."
"I'm going to show you properly today."
What does she mean by showing properly?
I glanced at Jiyeon. It was a princess dress with an impressive, colorful arrangement.
It was an outfit that strangely suited a different princess more than Snow White.
"But don't you need to get dressed up separately?"
"I just have to stand behind the board."
Why would a mirror get dressed up?
Behind a board made of thick paper, I just had to stand behind the mirror decorated with aluminum foil and speak.
In a way, this is Ju Seoyeon's VTuber debut.
'The kids are definitely all nervous.'
While there were kids smiling innocently, there were also kids who looked nervous.
The kid who seemed the most nervous was the boy playing the prince.
The prince role, which strangely had both importance and lack thereof.
Because of that, the boys avoided it, and this kid had no choice but to take it on.
"M-My stomach... ugh."
He was so nervous that his complexion was bad.
Is he okay?
But I understood.
Look at the number of people filling the auditorium right now.
'A kindergarten art festival is much bigger than I expected.'
I had vaguely expected it.
With the number of children exceeding 300, I predicted it would be quite large-scale, but I didn't expect it to feel like this.
You can't take a kindergarten art festival lightly.
Above all, given that almost all parents participated, in some ways, the level of interest seemed higher than in middle or high schools.
"They said the plays are only our class and the Sprout Class."
"What about that side?"
"King Lear."
It was a play title I hadn't thought of at all.
No, is it really a play kids can do?
Snow White and King Lear have, well, quite a big difference in target age groups...
Anyway, Arongdarong Kindergarten had a total of ten classes.
Among them, the Flower Class's order was exactly in the middle, fifth.
As we waited for a while.
"Kids, it's almost time to go out. Get ready! You all practiced hard, so it's okay if you make mistakes! Fighting!!"
When the Sun Class teacher, Mina, said that, the kids answered loudly with a "Waah~!"
The order before us was a stage with light rhythmic movements and singing mixed in.
Should I say it was a composition that was short but good for showing off the kids' cuteness?
"Seoyeon, tell me when you move the board. I'll help you."
"No, it's fine."
As the mirror, I had to carry this paper board around.
It might be heavy for a kid's strength, but from my perspective, it was literally a paper board.
If I could lift an iron plate of the same size, paper was nothing.
When I lifted it up and walked around, Teacher Mina's eyes widened.
"S-Seoyeon, you're so strong. Is it because you're an actor?"
That didn't seem to have anything to do with being an actor.
But I didn't have an excuse either, so I just roughly nodded.
"Anyway, okay, then let's go, Sun Class fighting!"
Soon, along with Teacher Mina's cheering, the play began.
For me, hiding behind the board, there wasn't much pressure, but the gazes of the parents sitting in the auditorium seats flew all at once and pierced the stage.
'This is... different from drama filming too.'
This had its own flavor.
Should I try something like a children's musical later?
But to do a musical, I'd have to learn to sing too... and since VTubers also need singing skills, it seemed like a good idea to think about it later.
***
"They said it's this class."
"Ah, the play that child is participating in?"
There was no need to specify who "that child" meant.
The name that was exchanged the most among the mothers today.
It was Ju Seoyeon, who played Princess Yeonhwa, who gained attention as the teaser for 'Tae-sum-dal' was released yesterday.
"I heard she's playing the mirror role."
"That's a shame. I wanted to see how well she acts."
They were curious if she would act as well as she seemed in the teaser.
At the same time, since having a real 'actor' child could be burdensome for the other kids, there were many who understood.
The Flower Class's play, which began amidst such interest.
The lights went out, and a small glow illuminated the stage as the play began.
"Mirror, mirror, who is the prettiest in this world?"
Unlike a children's play, the background music was laid low, making the atmosphere quite decent.
Also, it was clearly felt that the child playing the queen had practiced a lot for this play.
She had originally competed with Lee Jiyeon for the princess role, but unfortunately lost and took on the queen role.
To the queen's passionate acting, the mirror responded with acting that matched it.
[Oh, it is of course the beautiful Queen.]
It was a strangely androgynous voice.
The parents who heard the voice momentarily flinched and stirred.
"As expected, an actor is an actor. It's somehow different, right?"
"It's called vocalization... right? This? The feeling is definitely different."
Among the stirring parents, Sua also widened her eyes.
"She said she wanted to go to a voice acting academy last time. I guess this is what she was practicing on her own."
Unlike acting, this vocalization part was something Seoyeon had been doing for a long time since she was even younger.
If acting was the product of pure talent, the voice part should be called the result of long practice.
Thanks to that, even in the drama, Seoyeon's voice had a distinctly clear part that was unlike a child's.
The parents, who had been watching with smiles thinking it was a children's play, gradually immersed themselves in the play.
The play proceeded calmly.
True to the well-known story of Snow White, when Snow White was born, the mirror's words, which had always praised the queen as the most beautiful, changed.
[A beautiful princess with skin as white as snow, her name is Snow White.]
The refreshing voice that stuck in the ears pleased the ears.
Even though it was an ordinary children's play, it was a voice that made one strangely immerse into it.
'Vacation, vacation is right before my eyes!'
Sun Class Teacher Mina shuddered with ecstasy.
If it went like this, the vacation would be hers.
The stage definitely seemed to be proceeding smoothly.
Until that moment, that is.