A Fortune-telling Princess - Chapter 337

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Chapter 19. Acting Again
“Really? Truly?”
“Yes.”
“You’ll really appear in the drama?”
“I will.”
When Camilla visited the film set yesterday, the drama director couldn’t tear his eyes away from her.
“I may have said something unnecessary to the director…”
When the director grew curious about Camilla’s identity, Sia introduced her as a close friend.
But when he asked if she was an actress, Sia ended up telling him the truth.
‘She acts better than I do.’
‘Better than you, Sia?’
That single boastful remark piqued the director’s interest even further, and a casting offer came immediately.
He’d already been captivated by her mask, and now she acted exceptionally well too!
Moreover, it was Sia—someone notoriously stingy with praise—who said Camilla surpassed her. The director had no reason to hesitate.
“An actor who was supposed to play an important role got into an accident, so the director and everyone else have been stressed.”
“An accident?”
“Drunk driving.”
“I see.”
Drunk driving scandals erupted in the Entertainment Industry like clockwork.
Camilla clicked her tongue lightly. If someone was going to die, they should at least die quietly. What if someone else got hurt in a drunk driving accident?
‘And the inconvenience it causes everyone filming together.’
It was one of Camilla’s most despised types of incidents. Not just any accident—drunk driving, no less. Naturally, the actor would be dropped from the drama.
“Originally, there was a scene scheduled for today between that actor and Yeeun, but since we haven’t cast a replacement yet, it’s been pushed back.”
It wasn’t an extra role—it was a fairly significant supporting character part early in the drama, so they couldn’t just use anyone as a stand-in.
Yet now the director was trying to entrust that role to Camilla.
“Camilla, why did you change your mind so suddenly?”
Sia asked with a slightly excited expression.
‘You were so against it before.’
When Camilla had visited before, hadn’t another director been quite taken with her and asked her to appear in even a single scene?
Yet back then, she’d refused outright. Now she was agreeing to appear on the spot, which delighted Sia but also puzzled her.
“There’s someone I want to keep an eye on.”
“Who? Yeeun?”
“Including Yeeun.”
Mari Choi, was it? Something about her rubbed me the wrong way. The malevolent spirit attached to her was bothersome enough, but the fact that it kept showing interest in Yeeun bothered me even more.
‘Normally, such spirits never turn their attention to anyone else until their host dies.’
What was that thing? It barely seemed interested in its host, Mari Choi.
“Besides the drunk driving incident, did anything else happen during filming?”
“Huh? How did you know?”
“Did something happen?”
“Yes. A facility collapsed a while ago and several people got hurt. Some were injured quite badly. But how did you know?”
Did Yeeun tell you?
“No, I just had a feeling.”
As expected, those around her were being influenced. Camilla clicked her tongue softly to herself. Normally, the one possessed by a malevolent spirit should suffer the greatest injury.
“Mari Choi doesn’t seem to be hurt badly.”
“Fortunately, only her forehead was slightly scraped.”
It was such a minor wound that makeup would conceal it entirely, so filming posed no real problem.
“That was a relief, at least.”
If Mari Choi had been forced to withdraw from the drama due to her injuries, the situation would have become far more complicated.
“By the way, aren’t you curious about what role you’ll be playing?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Pardon?”
“Whatever role I’m given, I’ll just perform it.”
Sia’s eyes widened slightly at Camilla’s confident response, and she soon broke into a soft laugh.
‘That’s true.’
A system window displaying Camilla’s information appeared before her eyes.
System
Name
: Camilla
Agility
: A
Stamina
: A
Appearance
: S+
Acting
: EX
Singing
: A
Charisma
: A+
No matter how many times she looked, it never ceased to amaze her. An EX rating in acting? How was such a stat even possible? And compared to her own?
System
Name
: Sia (Camilla)
Agility
: B+
Stamina
: A
Appearance
: S+
Acting
: A (EX)
Singing
: B (A)
Talent
: B+ (A+)
Remaining Points
: 3
Trait
: Replication—You can perfectly mimic Camilla’s acting ability. (The Replication trait is recommended until you awaken your own acting prowess.)
I thought I’d raised my stats considerably, but clearly I still have a long way to go.
Without relying on the Replication trait, my acting ability would still invite criticism. Everyone would question why I’ve gotten worse than before.
Seeing Camilla’s stats made me realize I needed to work harder, and at the same time, Camilla seemed even more impressive. How does one even achieve numbers like that?
Ding—
A system alert chimed at that moment.
System
Sudden Mission!!
You, who are always thirsting for acting! You’ve just encountered the one who can quench that thirst.
A meeting with an existence that possesses all the stats you’ve aimed for!
An unexpected mission message had appeared.
System
Mission Clear Conditions
1. Act together with Camilla.
2. Raise your acting stat by one tier.
Success Reward—Autonomous Entry Permit for Anomalous Entities.
Failure Penalty—Acting stat decreases by one tier.
Will you proceed with this mission?

Y

N
…An Autonomous Entry Permit for Heterogeneous Entities? Why is the name so ridiculously long?
‘If it’s a heterogeneous entity…?’
…Camilla?
Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember hearing something similar when we first met this time.
When I asked why she suddenly had to leave back then, she said she was expelled from this world because she was a foreign substance to it.
‘Then, if I succeed at this…?’
Wouldn’t that mean Camilla could stay here as long as she wanted?
“…Sia, Sia!”
“Y-yes?”
“What are you thinking about so hard?”
I wasn’t responding even when called. Camilla looked at me with puzzlement as I stared blankly at one spot for a long while.
Was today’s filming really that exhausting? Why do you look so out of it? Did that malevolent spirit drain your energy or something?
‘That can’t be.’
You went out today wearing all the protective items I gave you, didn’t you? I poured so much divine power into them.
“Camilla!”
“…My ears work fine.”
After staring blankly at her for a long moment, I suddenly grabbed her hand tightly and shouted loudly.
“Let’s do really well with this drama!”
“…Suddenly?”
“I’ll work hard!”
“…? Sure.”
Not knowing what suddenly sparked this, Camilla nodded somewhat bewilderedly as she watched my eyes burn with determination.
“So, what’s the role I’m playing?”
* * *
Whoosh—
Whimper… whimpering….
A pure white puppy was wrapped in a garbage bag, crying out in small, pitiful sounds.
“….”
And standing before it was a woman holding an umbrella over it.
The garbage bag didn’t contain just one puppy. Another small dog, already cold and lifeless, was visible inside.
“Humans are truly….”
A soft voice escaped from the woman who had been standing in the rain, gazing at the puppy.
Eyes devoid of any warmth—cold and piercing. Within them lay exhaustion… and a deep, seething rage.
Swiftly.
The woman finally cradled the trembling puppy from the garbage bag in her arms.
Whimpering….
“….”
For a fleeting moment, warmth flickered across the woman’s eyes as she gazed at the shivering puppy in her embrace. Of course, it vanished far faster than it had appeared. She slowly turned and walked away from that place.
“Huh?”
At that moment, someone stood transfixed, watching a woman pedal away on her bicycle with a puppy cradled in her arms.
“Isn’t that the director of Sky Animal Hospital?”
The man continued to stare at the departing woman for a long while, oblivious even to the downpour drenching him.
“Wow… is she really a newcomer?”
“Right? That’s the scene we needed.”
“The writer said emotional shifts shouldn’t be obvious, but we also can’t miss the subtlest feelings.”
“When I first heard that, I thought I’d lose my mind. I wanted to demand what kind of scene she actually wanted. But now that I see it—that’s exactly it.”
Director Kim, who was helming this drama, nodded continuously as the Assistant Director and the camera director chattered about the footage on screen.
‘I felt the same way.’
He’d even wondered if the actor who originally took that role had caused a drunk driving accident because she hated filming this scene.
“My instincts were right after all.”
Ever since Sia brought this newcomer to the Film Set, his eyes kept drifting toward her.

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