There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 120

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Episode 120

And so the time limit of 4 hours passed completely.

The children’s presentation time approached.

[Principal: Our 【Second Life Academy】 school students. Did you write your scripts well? Wasn’t it too difficult?]

“It was difficult!”

The children immediately answered.

At an age where even writing a diary is hard, they were told to write a script!

If the adults hadn’t helped about 97 percent, it wouldn’t have been possible to complete.

Fortunately, the mentors wrote down exactly what the children dictated, so they barely managed to do it.

From the beginning, the adults’ plan was for them to write down the children’s imagination as text anyway.

[Principal: Let me say once more, what’s important is your imagination and acting that brings that imagined content to life well, and your ability to cooperate.]

[Principal: Your writing skills are not part of the evaluation criteria at all, so don’t worry.]

The Principal let out a good-natured laugh, “Hehe.”

[Principal: Then let’s come out in the order called and start the role-playing. First, the 【Pizza Missing Cheese】 group!]

“…?”

Yewon was confused hearing the mysterious group name.

What on earth?

“Yes!”

Moreover, when Yewon saw that the children who raised their hands were the Yu siblings and Harin, she became even more confused.

Don’t tell me I’m the cheese?

“The title of the role-play we created is 【Justice Robot and Villain Robot】!”

Despite the very one-dimensional title, the children’s eyes were serious.

…Except for Harin.

And so the short play began.

The children’s acting was quite decent.

…It’s just that the content was something seen many times before.

“…In the name of Justice Robot, I won’t forgive you!”

At Baek Yun’s line, Yewon thought.

‘…Is it homage, or plagiarism…?’

* * *

In the adjacent classroom.

Several adults monitoring the children’s acting in real-time were showing different reactions.

[Hwang PD: What was the reason for creating this kind of play?]

[Jeongyun: Recently! A villain appeared who bullies our friend! We thought if we were powerful, cool adults, we would defeat them like this!]

[Baek Yun: That’s right! If I had power, I would have defeated villains with a kick!]

[Harin: …I’m more on the side of solving things through law rather than force though.]

The role-plays of other groups after the 【Pizza Missing Cheese】 group were completely diverse.

There were groups that truly displayed imagination only children could have, and like 【Pizza Missing Cheese】, content seen many times before.

Naturally, the former received high scores from the judges, but the latter did not.

Some groups had good play content but poor acting, and some groups stumbled over lines even while reading the script.

It was natural. They were still young children after all.

Director Jeongdami scored the children’s role-plays with indifferent eyes.

‘From the beginning, Hwang PD said the purpose of this program was children’s growth and healing.’

No one expected something as intense as adult actors’ auditions.

‘Still, it’s a bit boring though…’

Most were elementary school lower grade age, so she didn’t have high expectations.

For her, it couldn’t help but be a little boring.

‘…Senior Yun seems to be enjoying watching it in his own way though.’

Director Jeongdami glanced at actor Yun Gilyeong, who was watching the children’s acting with fond eyes beside her.

Well, at his age where he could have grandchildren that age, they would look cute.

‘But I actually hoped at least one genius child actor would appear!’

Just as she was about to be disappointed.

[Yewon: Hello! We are the 【Heart Pattern】 team!

It was Yewon and Mun Hyeok’s turn.

[Mun Hyeok: …To those watching our acting, Mun from Mun Hyeok…]p>

[Yewon: Lee from Lee Yewon! Combined it’s MunLee! It means we want to leave a heart pattern in the teachers’ hearts!]

Yewon said that and laughed, “Hehe.”

“!”

Director Jeongdami’s eyes gradually widened.

Those two children, they match quite well…!

A bright and cute girl like sunshine and a boy who’s cold like midwinter but dignified and cool.

‘…Huh…?’

I feel like a scenario just got written in an instant…?

Director Jeong flinched for a moment then focused on the screen.

[Yewon: The title of the role-play we created is 【Woof Woof Meow】!]

[Mun Hyeok: …Me, ‘Tuxedo’, who was a stray cat in my previous life.]

[Yewon: And me, ‘Barley’, who was an abandoned puppy, are the main characters!]

[Mun Hyeok: …In our previous lives, good owners took us each and we lived happily ever after.]

[Yewon: But it’s a story about a dog and cat who missed each other being reincarnated as humans and meeting as childhood friends!]

The two children who briefly introduced their play like that started acting.

[Mun Hyeok: ….]

Mun Hyeok sat in a chair and acted like he was reading a non-existent book, turning pages.

Then, Yewon ran crashing around as if chasing a non-existent ball, and fell in front of Hyeok.

Mun Hyeok glanced at Yewon like that, then like a sensitive cat, coolly and quietly just lifted his legs as if saying ‘I don’t want to get involved.’

[Mun Hyeok: …Aren’t you stupid?]

Of course, he didn’t forget his lines either.

Yewon looked up at Hyeok like that with sparkling eyes.

[Yewon: Do you want to play ball too, oppa?!]

[Mun Hyeok: I don’t like that kind of stuff.]

[Yewon: Then what do you like!? Play with me!]

[Mun Hyeok: …I like hunting games or hide-and-seek. Go away. We’re not friends.]

[Yewon: We can become friends starting now!]

At those words, Hyeok looked at Yewon as if dumbfounded, then moved his seat far away next to the window.

Yewon looked at him puzzledly, then went “Aha!” and nodded her head.

[Yewon: You like being in the sunlight too! I like sunlight too! Hehe.]

[Mun Hyeok: ….]

Yewon said that and dragged a chair over to sit next to Hyeok.

Like that, the two of them enjoyed the pouring sunlight in their own ways.

Hyeok quietly gazed out the window and didn’t move a muscle under the sunlight.

Yewon leaned against Hyeok’s knee under the warm sunlight and began nodding off.

When Hyeok saw that Yewon had completely fallen asleep, he let out a big sigh.

[Hyeok: …Going around without even combing her hair.]

[Hyeok: So bothersome….]

He began carefully untangling Yewon’s messy hair with his hands.

A very subtle smile began to spread across Hyeok’s face.

Like childhood friends who had just become close.

With that, the curtain fell on the role play.

Yewon and Mun Hyeok got up as if nothing had happened, held hands (though it was closer to Yewon snatching and gripping his hand as if she’d never let go), and bowed to the audience.

[Yewon: That was, Heart Pattern!!]

[Mun Hyeok: …was.]

And the adults who watched the children’s play couldn’t speak for a moment.

Especially.

Director Jeongdami was slightly shocked.

‘…Instead of bringing props, they acted perfectly on the spot, so vividly it was drawn right before our eyes….’

Hyeok perfectly acted reading an invisible book, and Yewon perfectly acted chasing a ball.

‘Both of their acting was as perfect as adults.’

Not acting like they were pretending to be mature.

Really childlike, yet realistic acting.

‘Well, Yewon has been proving her acting skills bit by bit….’

But Mun Hyeok, was that child always such a good actor?

Director Jeong quickly searched her memory.

But no matter how much she thought about it, she had no memory of seeing acting of that caliber.

Basically, it wasn’t that he “couldn’t” act, but he wasn’t particularly outstanding either.

‘That means….’

Yewon, that child unknowingly drew out Mun Hyeok’s potential.

‘They say when you meet a good scene partner or a director who directs well, actors’ performances can suddenly improve… or at least appear to be good acting.’

But that was a story about adult actors, not child actors.

‘…It must be coincidence….’

They just happened to work well together, by chance.

Director Jeong quickly organized her thoughts.

The two of them really match so well it’s spine-tingling!

[Hwang PD: I noticed earlier that Yewon seemed to write the script by herself. So did Yewon think up all the content by herself too?]

[Yewon: No! Hyeok oppa thought up all the content.]

[Yewon: …Though I did hear it when he was just muttering and wrote it down!]

“!”

She heard the story and wrote it down on the spot!

Director Jeong’s eyes widened.

[Mun Hyeok: I, I wasn’t muttering.]

[Yewon: Mmm. I’ll say you weren’t….]

When Yewon nodded with a look that roughly said ‘Fine, whatever…’, Hyeok got irritated.

[Mun Hyeok: Really. I just, just…. I just said I missed our house cat and dog who went to Star Planet.]

[Yewon: You also said you wanted them to be reborn as people so we could all be friends together. That’s the important part.]

[Mun Hyeok: ….]

[Yewon: So I thought oppa wanted to write something like that, so I took dictation!]

Yewon said that and glanced up at Hyeok as she added.

[Yewon: Since we wrote Byeol-i and Kongee’s story like this, they must have seen it all from Star Planet. Right?]

[Mun Hyeok: ….]

[Yewon: Next time we can ask all four of us to meet and do role play together!]

At Yewon’s words, Hyeok turned his head away with a pouty face, going “Hmph.”

[Mun Hyeok: …Kongee doesn’t like strangers…?!]

[Yewon: They both saw this from Star Planet, so they’re not strangers anymore.]

[Mun Hyeok: What, what do you know. Kongee only likes me.]

[Yewon: Childish….]

[Mun Hyeok: ….]

Watching the children bicker, Director Jeong made up her mind.

‘You two are the leads.’

This works. This is definitely a winning stock.

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