There was one thing Seoyeon felt when she first read the script for
That the protagonist of this drama, Jin Yeonseo, was a very weak person.
"Why are you looking at me with such a face?"
Truthfully, Jin Yeonseo did not want to go out into the world.
She was afraid of people, and she hated seeing new things.
"Even though you searched for me so desperately."
In her life, she had never made a decision for herself.
Everything was decided by others.
A life lived at the mercy of others.
Her powerful superpower.
A new life.
She desired none of it.
"So I came here. To meet you."
A trembling voice.
In the work, Jin Yeonseo only ever showed a relaxed demeanor.
Probably, those watching this drama would be mistaken about the character 'Jin Yeonseo'.
From the beginning of the drama until now, Jin Yeonseo hasn't shown any sign of panic.
No matter the situation she's put in, she shows an easy adaptability.
That's not just because she is special.
Jin Yeonseo is a coward.
Seoyeon couldn't help but know that fact clearly.
That's why she has no choice but to become more evil and cruel.
That was why Seoyeon disliked Jin Yeonseo.
She comes out into the world and learns emotions.
She didn't want to learn, but she had to know.
'I know.'
Seoyeon knows.
Learning something new is terrifying.
What would change by learning this?
It was the same for Seoyeon.
When her mother told her to learn emotions, to act like a normal person.
Even as she obediently followed those words, she couldn't help but harbor doubts.
'What would change by doing this?'
Her disability wouldn't disappear.
Even if she imitated other people's emotions, it didn't mean she could understand those emotions.
For the most part, just seeing herself smile gave her an unpleasant feeling.
'Yes, you can do it. You are special. The doctor said so.'
She thought she was lucky.
Seoyeon could do what others couldn't.
Someone mistook her condition for being cured.
Even the doctor who knew it was incurable.
"Alexithymia isn't like being a psychopath. Probably, most people won't even notice the fact that they can't properly perceive emotions unless they have a deep conversation with your son."
Alexithymia means either taking a long time to recognize when feeling a certain emotion.
Or not recognizing it at all.
Seoyeon was the latter.
Nevertheless, Seoyeon could perfectly replicate the emotions of others.
Her mother thought of her as a special child.
The doctor did too.
However, Seoyeon knew.
Even so, there was an unreachable gap between them and herself.
"Why do you look at me with such eyes?"
Jin Yeonseo is different from normal people.
She was born as a psychic.
And was made to be someone who could never stand on the same ground as others for her entire life.
Understanding and empathy.
She thought they were wonderful words.
But she knew they were incredibly difficult.
Jin Yeonseo cannot share empathy with others.
Because people fear her.
And she fears people.
Because they both refuse to understand each other, the gap will never narrow.
Just like herself in her past life.
"You shouldn't treat me like this, should you?"
With a trembling voice, the corners of Jin Yeonseo's mouth twist upward.
The smile she always wore.
However, the people from the research institute looking at her only stared with terrified faces.
As if they knew what atrocities she would commit from now on.
"J-Jin Yeonseo. Listen to us. We didn't intend that either. We, we just wanted to talk."
"A conversation, we can have one now."
"H-How can we say anything when you're looking at us with those eyes?"
A researcher who had been watching her since she was still a child stepped forward and carefully spoke up.
He could see it in her eyes.
The deep anger flickering in her red eyes right now.
A deep anger that even she hadn't recognized.
Yeonseo came out into the world and learned emotions.
She learned many things, but among them, she never had the chance to learn about anger.
Because no one taught her.
'Unpleasant feeling.'
Seoyeon gave that emotion such an answer.
Anger is unpleasant.
Seoyeon was reborn and felt many emotions.
Among them, not all were necessarily good emotions.
Anger is like that too.
Seoyeon didn't even realize that she could get angry herself.
Because she didn't know where she should be angry.
However, as she lived, things that made her angry began to occur little by little.
Even in trivial things.
For example, when playing games, or when her dad teased her.
Or when she messed up a test.
In such everyday occurrences.
But, Jin Yeonseo's anger is different from such trivial anger.
Suddenly, Seoyeon recalled what happened at 'Shine Moon' a while ago.
Pyo Jiwoo, who looked as if she would kill Rou right that instant.
A deep anger directed at the opponent.
That anger was terrifying enough to make even Seoyeon flinch for a moment.
'But that's not it.'
Jin Yeonseo's anger doesn't harbor such deep murderous intent toward others.
Her anger comes from sorrow and pity.
A sense of injustice and indignation.
And fear.
What Seoyeon could understand was the latter of the two.
When Sim Cheongseok was hurt, Seoyeon also felt a deep anger.
That's why she went to Shine Moon recklessly.
Anger paralyzes reason.
Because it was an unfamiliar emotion, she couldn't cope with it properly, but.
Thanks to Pyo Jiwoo, her head was able to cool down.
If it hadn't been for her... Seoyeon might have made a mistake.
Anger is something so terrifying and fearful.
Seoyeon realized that fact.
That being unable to control oneself is a frightening thing.
And Jin Yeonseo was always accompanied by such fear.
Realizing that, Seoyeon no longer disliked Jin Yeonseo as she used to.
Only now could she finally reach her heart.
"I came here today to make a decision."
Jin Yeonseo's low voice.
The researchers trembled at that voice mixed with a sigh.
So naturally.
That was not acting.
Because the emotion contained in that voice was so deep.
'Method.'
Director Han Yegeon leaned his upper body forward.
He felt something was different from the start.
She had shown this kind of acting only once before.
Cha Seoa in
As 'Kasugayama Yuina' in
'No, should this even be called method acting?'
It's different from simple method acting.
Then is it a different style of acting?
He didn't know.
Because this was Seoyeon's own unique acting style.
Acting that only she knew and only she could do.
If someone were to say such a thing, people would say it was nonsense.
But what can you do if it's real?
Just like an actress in the past did, Seoyeon was the same now.
If she was a brilliant starlight, Seoyeon is like a blazing sun.
Sometimes it shines intensely, and sometimes it can become a soft sunset.
'It's just how they appear.'
Such a special person.
A true star embracing starlight.
Han Yegeon saw a world filled with a green background.
Even without CG overlaid, his eyes could see it.
An old research institute on a remote island.
And a small psychic girl who was crying while smiling.
"Which side will be able to accept me."
The world and the world she was born into.
To someone, it might just be a small research institute, but to Jin Yeonseo, it was her entire world.
Her small playroom.
And the terrible laboratory that gave her pain.
It was all her world.
Adam said.
The world is shining.
And that if she went out into the world, she would be able to do many things.
Of course, that might be true.
But, Yeonseo was afraid.
"Between this small research institute and the world."
She was dragged out into the world forcibly, but she was afraid to choose this world.
The world is surely wide and she might be able to do many things, but who knows if she can actually do them?
She is different from countless people.
She didn't know how they would think of her and accept her.
The research institute was a terrible place, but there were people similar to her.
Then, there might be someone who could empathize with her.
If she left, and someone similar to her was born.
Or created, they might be able to empathize with her and live together.
To that extent, Jin Yeonseo was a cowardly and weak girl.
"T-That is."
The researcher hesitated.
Feeling that slight hesitation, Jin Yeonseo calmly closed her eyes.
The smile she was wearing also faded.
She knew.
That it wasn't this place.
"Is Adam here?"
Yeonseo asked in a slightly smaller voice.
The researchers didn't properly notice that change.
"A-Adam? That guy died a long time ago..."
"I believe you heard the news that he is alive."
From the psychic Shin Arin, who was disguised as her friend.
"Adam will come here."
"H-How do you know that?"
"Because he knows me."
Adam knows her personality.
He was the one who made her make this choice in the first place.
"And because he must have known it would come to this."
What she didn't want to see.
He made her keep seeing what she wanted to forget, forcing her to make a choice.
"I told you. I came here today to make a choice."
Yeonseo walked forward step by step, holding a red fire axe in her hand.
"Normal humans and psychics. I was going to decide which of the two to choose. I hoped to be the latter if possible."
Even if it's a terrible memory.
She thought it would be fine if there was someone here who could empathize with her.
"The latter means one person. The former means many have to die, you see."
The trembling voice drops flatly without inflection.
Heavy.
The passionately burning eyes cool down, harboring a tranquil killing intent.
Murderous intent.
Only the will to kill the opponent is contained in those eyes.
"But it seems you don't want the latter."
If they hadn't denied her, Yeonseo would have been fully prepared to kill one person.
For a short time.
A normal girl who wasn't so bad.
The daughter of her adoptive father Park Hunmin, Park Yeonseo.
But while they didn't want that version of her, they even rejected her as a psychic.
To be precise, they feared her.
How could she expect any empathy and understanding from those who harbor fear?
"I hoped it wouldn't come to this, but."
If her adoptive daughter disappeared, he would be sad, but she thought that would be better for him too.
Thinking about what trials would befall him because of her in the future, definitely.
However, the world doesn't go her way after all.
"W-What are you trying to do?"
"Wait a moment, please wait. Yeonseo, let's t-talk."
Only then did the researchers, sensing the changed atmosphere, speak up.
Exchanging glances with each other, they looked for a way to stop her.
The psychics currently in the research institute.
Who among them had the ability to stop her.
Reading such looks in their eyes, Yeonseo's eyes sank.
Into deep darkness.
"The latter would have ended if just one girl died."
One normal girl, Park Yeonseo.
But.
"The former... yes. Many die. Really many."
Even if she perfectly acted as a normal girl, as long as someone knew she was a psychic, her surroundings would be constantly threatened.
Knowing that, Jin Yeonseo couldn't easily open her heart.
The one girl who opened her heart this time.
Didn't 'Hong Seha' also get severely hurt because of her?
If she had been just a little later, she would have lost her life to Adam.
Therefore, she had no choice but to give her answer.
"For me to become a normal person. I'll have to kill everyone who knows Jin Yeonseo."
Those who know her as a psychic.
If she killed them all, only then could she step forward into the world.
Because the psychic Jin Yeonseo would disappear, and only the normal girl Park Yeonseo would remain.
"C-Crazy. Just how many people are you going to kill!! A-And you still call yourself human?!!"
"What are you talking about?"
Jin Yeonseo stopped in her tracks.
And.
"The ones who made me into a non-human entity aren't me, it's you."
Yeonseo smiled softly.
A smile beautiful enough to make one lose their mind.
Like the smile a devil makes before coveting a human soul.
Yes, a devil.
A devil in human form.
A Demon.
They felt it.
That they had created an irreversible monster.
'Hah.'
At her appearance.
At Yeonseo.
The eyes of the actors staring at Seoyeon trembled.
Same as before.
Just like the first time she acted as Jin Yeonseo, who didn't know emotions.
Acting that felt like she was a being different from humans.
A girl who looked endlessly like a human, but was not human.
The fear emanating from there devoured the actors.
"Arthur."
Oliver, who saw that, spoke to Arthur, who was staring intently at her acting.
"She's acting especially like a monster today."
"Yeah."
"Are you okay? It makes me uneasy because it feels like seeing that original monster. I've only seen acting like this exactly once."
The original monster.
It went without saying who Oliver was referring to.
And what acting he was talking about.
Stella Baldwin.
The acting that won her the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Oliver recalled Stella, who acted with such malice at that time, from Seoyeon right now.
The current Stella had somewhat cooled down.
Because she had achieved too much at that age.
But the past her was different.
She acted with her life, as if that was truly all she had.
And the result was the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Right now, Seoyeon's acting, riding the flow, was like that too.
Something was different.
Something from others.
A talent that ordinary people couldn't obtain even if they chased it their whole lives.
Acting that moves the emotions of others.
"Oliver."
"Hmm?"
"Opportunities are really funny."
Arthur straightened the white gown he was wearing.
The white gown he wore when he met the young Yeonseo in the past.
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A drama from this small country.
He thought he would never be sincere about it.
But,
A drama like a small revolution that occurred in this small country.
That drama created a fierce torrent.
And made the world's attention focus on this small country.
A drama perfectly ready to ride that trend.
If it were properly completed, Arthur judged it was entirely possible.
"......It really comes from places you least expect."
A work good enough to deal a blow to Stella.
And, an opportunity to let the world know about him again.