NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 180

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Episode 180. Play 「Mirror」 (1)

 

As a single beam of light fell from above, illuminating Jin Yu-han’s figure, a moment of silence flowed.

 

 

 

When people suddenly face a completely unexpected situation, their thoughts stop and it takes time to react.

 

 

 

“Hurry up and run over. We’re departing soon. Show your tickets and board.”

 

 

 

Then, belatedly, screams burst out from the audience seats.

 

 

 

“What, what is it?”

 

“No way, it must be someone who looks like him.”

 

 

 

And several audience members looked around.

 

And some audience members looked around.

 

The murmuring of the person next to him also seemed to confirm Jin Yuhan.

 

“Why is Jin Yu-han suddenly appearing here?”

 

“What? Isn’t this some kind of variety show filming?”

 

 

 

And Im Seong-su’s daughter Lim Yu-jin and her friend were the same.

 

 

 

“Yu-jin! This must be why your father insisted we come!”

 

And the same was true for Lim Sung-soo’s daughter Lim Yu-jin and her friend.

 

Since Jin Yu-han had been doing musicals until recently, it wasn’t incomprehensible that he would do theater, and because it was the special situation of being during a performance, they couldn’t keep talking continuously, so it inevitably became quiet again.

 

 

 

Then Jin Yu-han delivered his lines again as if nothing had happened.

 

 

 

“I’m in such a hurry right now that I couldn’t buy a ticket and ran here, but I absolutely have to board. I’ll give you double, no, triple the cash, so can’t you do something?”

 

 

 

Jin Yu-han hurriedly pulled out cash from his wallet. Seeing this, Ha Jae-hoon scratched the back of his head.

 

 

 

“Ah, that won’t work. This is against the law.”

 

Jin Yuhan hurriedly pulled out cash from his wallet. Seeing this, Ha Jaehoon scratched the back of his head.

 

“Oh no, that won’t work. That’s against the law.”

 

“Please, I’m really asking you. Okay?”

 

When Jin Yuhan waved his hand clutching a bundle of cash, Ha Jaehoon’s head moved following that hand.

 

“Ah, I don’t know. Then just take it and go down to the lobby right below the stairs.”

 

Ha Jaehoon secretly stuffed the cash he received from Jin Yuhan into his back pocket, and Jin Yuhan walked past Ha Jaehoon with his head down, disappearing into the darkness of the stage.

 

Thud─.

 

The highlight above Ha Jaehoon’s head went out and the entire stage went dark again before the large main light in the center turned on.

 

In each room divided by walls like stalls in a public restroom, customers stood one by one, and Jin Yuhan walked out in front of them.

 

Just then, Ha Jaehoon, who had followed behind, came over to Jin Yuhan after peering around the stalls.

 

“Yes. I understand. I got it.”

 

 

 

When Ha Jae-hoon left, Jin Yu-han reached out into the air, mimed opening a door, and entered the space with the bed.

 

 

 

Then the audience naturally recognized that although there were no walls or doors around the bed where Jin Yu-han was, that place was a room.

 

 

 

‘There’s someone lying on the bed across from him too. So that must be a different room?’

 

 

 

They glanced at the bed opposite Jin Yu-han and looked back at Jin Yu-han again.

 

 

 

‘But Jin Yu-han suddenly? What is this performance anyway?’

 

 

 

An audience member who had come to Daehangno and wanted to see a play, but entered without much thought because only this theater company had no waiting line, was still bewildered about what was happening to them.

 

 

 

Looking around, other audience members seemed the same, with their mouths slightly open, staring intently at Jin Yu-han’s face.

 

 

 

‘At least it seems I’m not the only one who came in without knowing.’

 

 

 

When Jin Yu-han lay down on the bed, both the light illuminating Jin Yu-han and the main lighting illuminating the passenger rooms behind went dark.

 

 

 

And a faint yellow light fell over the bed opposite Jin Yu-han.

 

 

 

The silhouette of a man who had been covered with a blanket on the bed stirred and got up, then turned around and adjusted his clothes.

 

 

 

And like Jin Yu-han, he opened a door through mime, went outside, and walked across the stage to the left.

 

 

 

A dim yellow light, just enough to tell there was a person, moved along with the man’s walking path.

 

 

 

The man who walked to the far left of the stage where Kim Se-yeong had come out and joked around when the play first started, turned around and opened his mouth.

 

 

 

“Ah, it’s refreshing coming out to the deck.”

 

 

 

Then strong lighting illuminated the man and Kim Se-yeong approached from the side.

 

 

 

“Sir. Please make sure to hold the railing when outside. It’s dangerous.”

 

 

 

Then the man turned around.

 

 

 

“The sunset viewed from the sea is beautiful.”

 

 

 

Seeing the face of the man on stage, the audience, regardless of age or gender, simultaneously screamed.

 

 

 

“Aaah! What, what?! Isn’t that Ryu Yeon-woo?”

 

“The sunset over the ocean is beautiful.”

 

When the audience saw the face of the man on stage, they all screamed simultaneously, regardless of age or gender.

 

“Ahhh! What, what?! Isn’t that Ryu Yeonwoo?”

 

“Is that really Ryu Yeon-woo?”

 

“Hey, what the hell is this? Jin Yu-han and Ryu Yeon-woo?”

 

 

 

Everyone looked at the stage with surprised faces.

 

 

 

It was different from when Jin Yu-han appeared. Following Jin Yu-han’s entrance, when the audience was hit with the consecutive shock of Ryu Yeon-woo’s appearance as well, the murmuring didn’t stop and kept growing louder.

 

 

 

Song Ju-ah, a third-year reporter who had come to the small theater as promised after having dinner with her boyfriend, also covered her mouth in shock.

 

 

 

‘What is this? Ryu Yeon-woo and Jin Yu-han suddenly appearing on a small theater stage?’

 

 

 

And she recalled what the young man handing out flyers had said.

 

 

 

– Starting tomorrow you’ll need to book online, but since today is the first day, we’re only selling tickets at the venue!

 

 

 

‘So today is the first performance? Like this, secretly, without anyone knowing, Ryu Yeon-woo and Jin Yu-han suddenly appearing together on stage in a small theater?’

 

 

 

It was Jin Yu-han.

 

A star who had always been at the top since his child actor days until now.

 

 

 

And it was none other than Ryu Yeon-woo.

 

His career was now becoming not just a simple filmography but an Achievement.

 

 

 

‘But those two on the same stage, and in a secluded small theater tucked away in a corner of Daehangno…’

 

 

 

This was definitely a scoop.

 

Although Song Ju-ah wasn’t an entertainment reporter, with a scoop of this magnitude, what did it matter if they were from different departments?

 

 

 

And at that moment, Yeon-woo on stage was listening to the murmuring from the audience seats that showed no signs of subsiding and was growing louder.

 

 

 

Of course, he had expected it to some degree, but Kim Se-yeong in front of Yeon-woo also looked clearly flustered by the commotion that had grown larger than anticipated.

 

 

 

‘I need to break this flow now.’

 

 

 

He had to bring back the audience who had fallen out of immersion in the play due to his appearance.

 

Ironically, only his own presence could solve this.

 

 

 

Yeon-woo took a breath.

 

Though it should have been a gentle line originally, he had no choice but to deliver it with strong voice projection.

 

 

 

“Sunset!”

 

 

 

Though he clearly wasn’t using sound equipment like a microphone, the waves from Yeon-woo’s voice projection, forged solid like steel, diffracted along the dome-shaped ceiling of the small theater before falling and piercing straight into the audience’s ears.

 

 

 

When the strong voice projection burst out like lightning from the stage, the startled audience stopped murmuring with the people next to them.

 

 

 

And Yeon-woo began his lines again with a gentle smile.

 

 

 

“Do you know why it’s beautiful? The reason why the setting sun is more beautiful than the rising sun.”

 

 

 

The audience seats became quiet again, momentarily overwhelmed by the presence that actor Ryu Yeon-woo emanated from the stage.

 

 

 

And Kim Se-yeong, who was standing with him on stage, struggled not to be overshadowed by Yeon-woo’s strong presence as she answered the question.

 

 

 

“…I wonder? Sunsets are definitely more beautiful than sunrises.”

 

 

 

Then Yeon-woo quietly recited.

 

 

 

“The reason why the regret of falling petals is more beautiful than the freshness of blooming buds, why the rapture of the setting sun is more beautiful than the rising sense of awe, is because we know our own mortality.”

 

“Where does that come from?”

 

 

 

At Kim Se-yeong’s question, Yeon-woo shook his head.

 

 

 

“I wonder. I don’t remember where I saw it. I might have just made it up on the spot.”

 

 

 

Kim Se-yeong looked at Yeon-woo and asked.

 

 

 

“Wow, excuse me, but what do you do for work? Are you perhaps a poet?”

 

 

 

Yeon-woo laughed loudly as if Kim Se-yeong’s question was unexpected.

 

 

 

“Hahaha. A poet? I guess I got too sentimental watching the sunset. I’m a detective in violent crimes.”

 

“A detective? But why are you going to a remote island like Chudo Island? Did some incident happen?”

 

 

 

Then Yeon-woo shook his head.

 

 

 

“No. I’ve been handling several murder cases in a row lately, so they told me to take about a week or two off to rest and enjoy the scenery. Something about PTSD prevention.”

 

“Ah, I see. Still, you do really good work.”

 

 

 

At Kim Se-yeong’s words, Yeon-woo smiled and looked toward the audience seats.

 

 

 

“Everyone just lives doing their assigned work in their respective places.”

 

 

 

Then an announcement came through the small theater’s speakers.

 

 

 

– Attention, this is the captain. The waves may become severe, so all crew members and passengers on deck please enter the ship interior.

 

 

 

With the announcement, Yeon-woo and Se-yeong went inside, and after all the lights on stage went dark again, the captain’s cabin on the far left of the partitions lit up.

 

 

 

“Captain! Storm warning. I think we should dock at a nearby island and temporarily stop operations before continuing.”

 

 

 

At Ha Jae-hoon’s words, Woo Seong-sik checked the mechanical devices in the captain’s cabin and nodded heavily.

 

 

 

“Right. The nearest island is Heukdo Island. That was an uninhabited island, wasn’t it?”

 

“Yes. It’s an island where fishing boats temporarily dock when the waves are high.”

 

“Then let’s head there for now. Jae-hoon, you make the announcement.”

 

“Understood.”

 

 

 

And the stage darkened as an announcement flowed out.

 

 

 

– Ah, this is the navigator. A storm warning is currently in effect, so our ship has temporarily docked at the nearby Heukdo Island and will resume operation once the warning is lifted. Please understand this unavoidable safety measure, and we apologize for the inconvenience···.

 

 

 

The announcement faded out with gradually diminishing sound.

 

 

 

After that, about 5 seconds of silence passed in darkness before the audience began to murmur again, starting to talk about Yeon-woo and Jin Yu-han.

 

 

 

Then, suddenly, a piercing scream was heard.

 

 

 

Kyaak─.

 

 

 

The startled audience widened their eyes and looked straight ahead as the main lighting came back on across the entire stage.

 

 

 

And Kim Se-yeong, running urgently, encountered Kim Jun-su who was cleaning the hallway in front of the ship cabin.

 

 

 

“Jun, Jun-su! The captain has collapsed. There’s blood all over the captain’s cabin floor. I think he’s already dead.”

 

“···What? Dead? The captain?”

 

 

 

Kim Se-yeong nodded and pushed Kim Jun-su’s back.

 

 

 

“Don’t tell the passengers for now and quickly bring the guest from Room 4 to the captain’s cabin! I talked with him yesterday, and he said his job is being a detective!”

 

“Room 4? Understood!”

 

 

 

Then finally, the audience learned about the genre of this play for the first time.

 

 

 

‘Ah. A murder case has occurred on the ship.’

 

 

 

On the poster they saw on the way here, and on the ticket too, only the simple title “Mirror” was written, so all the audience who entered here began watching the play with absolutely no prior information.

 

 

 

Therefore, they were watching without knowing what kind of story it would be when the massive bombs named Jin Yu-han and Ryu Yeon-woo exploded consecutively on stage, surprising them.

 

 

 

However, with the driving progression of the play, they temporarily put aside the question ‘Why are Ryu Yeon-woo and Jin Yu-han here?’ and began to immerse themselves in the content of the play.

 

 

 

Bang bang bang─.

 

 

 

In sync with the sound effects, Kim Jun-su knocked on the empty air where Yeon-woo’s room door would be located.

 

 

 

“Sir, sir!”

 

 

 

Then Yeon-woo reached out into the air and opened an imaginary door with mime while poking his head out slightly.

 

 

 

“What’s the matter?”

 

“I think you need to come with me for a moment. It seems an incident has occurred inside the ship.”

 

“An incident? Let’s talk as we go.”

 

 

 

Yeon-woo followed Kim Jun-su out of the room.

 

 

 

And he opened the door of the first passenger room on the far left among the lined-up cabins.

 

 

 

“Gasp!”

 

 

 

Kim Jun-su stepped back in surprise while Yeon-woo entered the cabin.

 

 

 

On the floor of the room, Woo Seong-sik was lying on his back looking at the sky, having bled profusely.

 

After checking his pulse at the neck and examining him thoroughly, Yeon-woo shook his head.

 

 

 

“He’s already dead. This is a murder case. Which means the culprit is someone on this ship.”

 

 

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