NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 209

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Episode 209. Quick Thinking

As Yeon-woo came outside, Son Jin-wook and Jeong Cheol-min immediately approached him.

 

“Oh my, sir. We’ll need to do a quick body search.”

“We received a tip that you’re carrying some suspicious items.”

 

When Jin-wook cheekily started the comedy routine and reached out his hand, Cheol-min immediately played along, and Yeon-woo put on a troubled expression as he interlaced his fingers and placed his hands above his head.

 

“You’re police officers? I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere as a taxi driver.”

 

When Yeon-woo looked at Cheol-min and mentioned Dipangdal, who had played a taxi driver role in “White Blood,” Cheol-min chuckled.

 

“And I’m really ticklish… especially around my sides.”

 

Hearing Yeon-woo’s words, Jin-wook and Cheol-min’s gazes naturally turned to his sides, and they began thoroughly searching from the chest pocket of the checkered shirt Yeon-woo was wearing to his pants pockets.

 

But Yeon-woo, who had anticipated this, was holding the cards in his hand.

 

He had deliberately mentioned the word “sides” to make the two who rushed at him focus their attention on his checkered shirt when they started the body search from his clothes.

 

Magicians say that the most important thing in magic isn’t hand technique or tricks, but misdirection.

 

It’s the work of deliberately causing errors to guide the audience’s gaze and thoughts in the direction the magician wants – determining where the opponent will look and what thoughts they’ll have.

 

After tapping various parts of Yeon-woo’s body and finding nothing, Jin-wook and Cheol-min looked at each other.

 

“Senior Cheol-min. There’s nothing in his pockets.”

“Hmm, Yeon-woo, open your hands.”

 

Then Yeon-woo wiggled his fingers that were placed above his head and quickly moved the cards from his palm between his middle and ring fingers to the back of his hand.

 

This scene was captured perfectly by the camera installed above Producer Joo’s door where Yeon-woo was standing.

 

With a calm expression and smile, Yeon-woo extended his hands forward so his palms were visible.

 

“Didn’t you two steal money from friends during your school days? You’re way too natural at this.”

“We’ll know once we search and find something, right?”

 

At that moment, Yeon-woo stood in a suspicious manner, balancing on one leg and slightly lifting his right foot to press his toe tips against the floor.

 

“Why are you suddenly fidgeting with your foot? Suspicious.”

“I’ve been filming for so long, I think I’m getting a cramp in my foot.”

 

While their gazes briefly turned downward at that movement, Yeon-woo moved the cards from the back of his hand to his palm again and flipped his hand over.

 

“See, there’s nothing. I already failed my mission.”

 

The camera captured everything – the lightning-fast hand movements as Yeon-woo flipped his palms to show them, and the cards moving back and forth between his palm and the back of his hand.

 

Yeon-woo yawned lazily with a tired expression and stretched, and while pretending to stretch with his arms raised, he quickly stuck the cards from his palm to the back of his neck.

 

“Yaaawn.”

“He says he failed some mission right after coming out. Ah, very suspicious.”

 

Then Yeon-woo unbuttoned his shirt cuffs himself and rolled up his sleeves to show them.

Since the cards were already stuck to the back of his neck, he could freely use both hands without any problem.

 

Rather, while Jin-wook and Cheol-min were focused only on Yeon-woo’s hands, the camera installed above the door clearly captured the hi-pass cards stuck to the back of Yeon-woo’s neck, reflecting the fluorescent light.

 

Viewers were amazed by Yeon-woo’s quick movements and boldness, and at the same time, they couldn’t help but burst into laughter at the sight of Cheol-min and Jin-wook being fooled and unable to find the cards even with Yeon-woo right in front of them.

 

Then Cheol-min, who had been tilting his head repeatedly, moved around to Yeon-woo’s back.

Although there was quite a height difference between Cheol-min and Yeon-woo, there was no way he wouldn’t see the cards stuck to the back of his neck.

 

With Jin-wook in front and Cheol-min behind, there wasn’t really anywhere suitable to hide.

 

‘Can’t help it.’

 

Yeon-woo stretched his neck left and right as if tired, using that movement to detach the stuck cards and guide them to go inside his shirt and flow down his back.

And at the same time, timing it perfectly, he grabbed the stomach area of his shirt with one hand.

 

The cards that had been flowing down inside Yeon-woo’s shirt got caught by the shirt that had become taut from being pulled in front and stopped in the middle of his back.

 

Then, with a nonchalant expression, Yeon-woo pretended to rub his stomach with the hand holding his shirt and asked Jin-wook.

 

“Ah, why am I so hungry? Aren’t you feeling peckish, hyung?”

“Hmm, I’m fine though?”

 

While Cheol-min was walking around Yeon-woo in a circle, Yeon-woo looked at Han Byeol and Jung Su-yeon who were sitting on the sofa watching.

 

“Aren’t you guys hungry either?”

“I’m a little hungry!”

“Yeah. Me too, just a bit?”

 

While Cheol-min’s attention was momentarily drawn to Han Byeol and Su-yeon’s voices, Yeon-woo let go of the hand that had been gripping his shirt.

 

Then the cards slid down his back, and just before they hit the floor, he slightly turned his body to catch them with the top of his foot so the sound of the cards falling wouldn’t be heard, then dropped them to the floor and stepped on them.

 

Yeon-woo, whose body had turned while catching them with the top of his foot, naturally pointed with his finger toward the PD’s room behind him and spoke.

 

“Should we ask our production staff if they have some ramen and cook it to eat? Isn’t cooking ramen for a late-night snack when visiting the standard rule?”

“Hmm, I’m not really that hungry though?”

 

All these movements flowed like water and appeared to the actors on screen as ordinary, everyday actions.

 

However, the YouTube subscribers watching from a bird’s-eye view through the installed cameras couldn’t help but be amazed as they watched Yeon-woo cleverly move the hi-pass cards around, avoiding the actors’ gazes and fooling them.

 

Hearing Jin-wook’s answer that he wasn’t hungry, Yeon-woo narrowed his eyes and looked at him.

 

“It seems like hyung keeps blocking me from going to the kitchen… You hid something in the kitchen, didn’t you.”

“Me? No way!”

 

When Son Jin-wook waved his hands in denial, Yeon-woo nudged Jeong Cheol-min beside him and said.

 

“Teacher. What do you think?”

“Hmm, suspicious.”

 

Then Son Jin-wook looked at them with a bewildered expression.

 

“What, does senior find everything suspicious?”

 

Then Yeon-woo naturally walked forward and kicked the card he had been stepping on with his back foot.

 

The card slid across the floor and slipped right under the decorative cabinet against the wall.

 

‘I’ll have to get that out with a coat hanger or something later when everyone’s asleep.’

 

Then he ran toward the kitchen and shouted.

 

“If there’s anything automobile-related in the kitchen, I’m throwing it outside!”

 

Then Son Jin-wook, who had been denying it, chased after him running.

 

“I told you there’s nothing in the kitchen!”

 

The way he chased after him made it obvious to anyone that he had hidden something in the kitchen.

 

Meanwhile, regardless of what the members were doing, Han Byeol kept glancing toward the restroom where she had hidden the air freshener.

 

 

And with this scene, the first week’s released content ended.

 

Everyone’s eyes in the main conference room were focused on Yeon-woo.

Among them, the mouths of Jeong Cheol-min and Son Jin-wook, who had been completely fooled, were particularly wide open.

 

“Huh, what did I just see…?”

“Yeon-woo, this guy is a complete card shark, isn’t he?”

 

***

 

‘Magician W’, who runs a YouTube channel with content showing magic tricks to people passing by on the street, had watched the Starlight Family video dozens of times.

 

But even while watching it frame by frame each time, he couldn’t help but be amazed.

 

Requests from subscribers to analyze the Starlight Family magic scene were already flooding the YouTube channel’s community page.

 

Even without the requests, he was planning to analyze it anyway.

 

“Hello. This is Magician W. I’m going to immediately analyze the amazing scene that actor Ryu Yeon-woo performed in a YouTube variety show video that was uploaded a few hours ago!”

 

He began explaining each movement while playing the screen in slow motion and drawing yellow lines with his mouse to show the actors’ gazes and Yeon-woo’s hand positions.

 

“You can see this here, right? The hand technique that Ryu Yeon-woo used in this part isn’t anything incredibly flashy or high-difficulty. Viewers who study magic would know what technique this is, right? But the important part is that all of this was live.”

 

Then Magician W shook his head.

 

“Moving the card from palm to back of hand, then behind the neck, and from inside clothes to the floor – all these movements are actually quite easy for skilled magicians. But that’s when they’ve prepared and gone on stage.”

 

There certainly weren’t any flashy or complex techniques.

But there was timely misdirection and naturally flowing movements.

 

“Wow, I never thought I’d be uploading a video like this, but coming up with quick thinking to adapt to the opponent’s irregular movements is a problem of a different dimension.”

 

Not only magicians but ordinary people were equally amazed by this incredible scene.

 

Someone immediately made this scene into a clip and it began spreading through SNS.

 

– Shrimp(wodnsdh**) : Whoa what is this

– French Fries(mcdonal**) : First, ban Ryu Yeon-woo from casinos lol

 

– Farmer King Jingu(farmer1**) : No but how did he do 47:12 this part

└ Kneading(catcat**) : I think 49:01 here is more amazing how did he catch it perfectly with his foot

 

– Harry(potter3**) : Wow… magicians really have fast hands

└ King Jun-su(wnstn**) : Excuse me? He’s not a magician;; He’s an actor

 

Meanwhile, Jeong Cheol-min and Son Jin-wook, who had finished watching the variety show, were making plans to have drinks again today.

 

“Senior, shall we clink today too?”

“Sounds good.”

 

Watching Son Jin-wook make a clinking motion while making the sound with his mouth, Yeon-woo shook his head.

 

“Hyung. You really seemed like an old man just now.”

“I’ll be in my mid-thirties next year, so I am an old man.”

“Yeon-woo, do you want to have a drink too?”

 

Yeon-woo shook his head at Cheol-min’s words.

 

“I have some things to do at home today. Let’s drink together later.”

“Hmm, suspicious. What do you keep doing at home these days? Did you hide a girlfriend at home?”

 

Yeon-woo smiled at Cheol-min’s words.

 

Not a girlfriend, but he had hidden several men.

And not at home, but on the 5th floor right above the building they were standing in.

 

These days, he had been doing classification work with Han Hae-woon based on information the agents brought.

 

People in the prosecution, police, and military leadership who had connections with Baeksol.

In other words, he was drawing up Baeksol’s organizational chart to cut out the rotten parts.

 

“Anyway, both of you shouldn’t drink too much.”

“Alright.”

 

***

 

Meanwhile, since the sorting work had to be done simultaneously with Yeon-woo, Han Hae-woon was waiting at home.

While waiting and watching NeTube Saebyeol Family live, Han Hae-woon’s mouth also dropped open.

 

“Wait, did they teach agents things like that back in Team Leader’s era…?”

 

Tilting his head, he pulled out a credit card from his wallet.

Han Hae-woon was also quite confident in his hand dexterity from various intelligence operations.

 

Standing in front of the full-length mirror, he tried to follow the movements, quickly moving his hands to send the card from his palm to the back of his hand just like Yeon-woo had done on screen.

 

Thud─.

 

But just when it seemed he was doing well enough, the card inevitably fell to the floor.

 

“Hiss, how did he do that? He did this as instant improvisation in the field?”

 

Having seen something cool, how could he not try to copy it?

Han Hae-woon’s struggles in front of the mirror continued until Yeon-woo arrived home and contacted him.

 

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