Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 297

God-Given Top Star 297. Ending (2)

297. Ending (2)

2022.08.24.

“What on earth were you thinking, committing such a terrible act?!”

“Does the statement about filing a complaint today specifically target someone?! You’re not perhaps saying you’re going to accuse yourself, are you?!”

Click, click, click!

The sound of camera shutters and flashes going off incessantly.

And reporters shouting at the top of their lungs at the person who wouldn’t answer.

‘This is incredibly realistic?’

Yeon-woo was genuinely impressed.

You could tell just how much they had prepared with gritted teeth; genuine animosity seemed to overflow from them.

The more Yeon-woo ignored them.

The more the voices shouting at Yeon-woo changed as if they were screaming.

The pouring animosity and contempt were so sharp that they made his whole body tingle.

Amidst the incessant flashes, someone screamed once more.

“The entire nation is trembling with rage! Do you not intend to take responsibility for this situation?! Answer us, Mr. Kim Sun-woo!”

Not at Yeon-woo, but at Kim Sun-woo.

“I…….”

Yeon-woo, no, Kim Sun-woo, opened his mouth.

At that moment, silence descended upon the press conference hall.

“I plan to take responsibility for my crimes.”

Strongly critical opinions arose, wondering what was so great about a serial killer that he would hold such a large-scale press conference.

Therefore, everyone present cast a contemptuous gaze upon the murderer who had flawlessly killed dozens of people for no reason.

“If you truly intend to take responsibility for your crimes, shouldn’t Mr. Kim Sun-woo be in a courtroom, not a press conference hall?”

Someone sneered.

Their anger was justified.

Anyone would feel the same.

If a murderer suddenly appeared out of nowhere one morning, confessing to being a serial killer who had killed dozens of people.

Kim Sun-woo confessed very calmly that he was the perpetrator of numerous unsolved cases.

The news spread quickly, and the media and the public showed strong animosity towards the self-confessed criminal, demanding detailed truth.

“That’s right.”

That was the purpose of this gathering.

The first time that the infamous psychopath killer Kim Sun-woo would directly admit his crimes and reveal his appearance to the public.

“I have not arranged this meeting to assert my innocence.”

“Then what is this press conference for?!”

For a murderer.

What is there to say.

The thoughts that could not be voiced reached him like stinging glares.

Kim Sun-woo slowly lowered his head and brought the microphone to his lips.

“I want to confess the crime, the sin, of the very last murder I committed.”

*

“Everyone, please have some drinks! You must be tired from shouting, so have a cool drink!”

A staff member shouted, gathering the extras.

Meanwhile, Yeon-woo monitored the scene they had just filmed with Park Jung-hyuk.

“Even though it’s the role I’m playing, Do Gang-hoon is a real bastard…….”

The second season of Dramatic Tempest concludes with Kim Sun-woo’s explosive press conference.

As the case involves a current star prosecutor.

The forces that wanted to take down Do Gang-hoon decided to actively use Kim Sun-woo.

If they went through a prosecutorial investigation, Do Gang-hoon’s forces could interfere and make it all fizzle out, so they launched an all-out exposure campaign to make it impossible to deny nationwide.

Kim Sun-woo also knows the intentions of those trying to use him.

But he accepts it.

“Will I be free if I just die…….”

A hollow word with no target.

What that word reached at the end was none other than Kim Sun-woo himself.

“Lies……. Tell me it’s not true. Tell me this is……. a bad joke, and I’ll believe you. So say it’s true!”

A flashback with Baek Ha-yan that will appear in contrast to the press conference scene.

“Tell me it’s not true, even now. Then……. I’ll believe you. Tell me a lie, even if it’s a lie. If you’re really sorry to me, tell me a lie with that good mouth of yours! Just like you’ve always done!”

Kim Sun-woo thinks.

Even if he killed Baek Ha-yan, he could not be free.

For the first time, he thought that he didn’t want to kill someone, but didn’t want to kill.

The biggest threat to Baek Ha-yan was none other than himself, Kim Sun-woo.

That’s why Kim Sun-woo wants to kill himself.

Do Gang-hoon could not be free from Kim Sun-woo’s death either.

‘Now I’ll be completely free.’

Not only Kim Sun-woo himself, but Baek Ha-yan will also be free.

Because there will be nothing left to threaten her now.

“This expression, I made it, but don’t you think I did a really good job? It looks really despicable and urgent, it’s really the feeling of the main villain of Season 2.”

Park Jung-hyuk bluntly evaluated himself reflected on the monitor.

In fact, in a way, it was a great self-praise.

Because the last scene of Season 2 ends with Do Gang-hoon, who belatedly learns of Kim Sun-woo’s press conference, opening the door and entering with a devilish look.

“Ah. I’m going to get some hate for a while.”

Park Jung-hyuk is already getting a lot of hate since Season 2 started.

He seemed to feel joy rather than being bothered by the hate comments.

“How can I wait until the ending? Ha……. It’s really thrilling……!”

No matter how I think about it, this person wasn’t normal either.

“What about Sun-ha’s supporters? Kim Sun-woo is really perfect for screwing over Do Gang-hoon, but this means he’s crossing a river he can’t turn back from.”

“Well……. That can’t be helped. It was a predetermined ending anyway.”

From the moment Kim Sun-woo was a serial killer, the ending was already predetermined.

If Song Jin-joo suddenly caught a positive romance line by reflecting the viewers’ enthusiasm, Yeon-woo would have immediately opposed it.

It’s right to end like this.

Yeon-woo checked the last scene one last time.

“Yeah. Sometimes tragedy has a longer lingering effect. Romeo and Juliet were like that, right?”

“Yes. Well. Can we go as it is?”

“Wait. Yeon-woo, you’re not listening to me, are you?”

It was a scene completed in just two takes, but it looked pretty good.

In fact, it could have ended with the first take, but there was an NG [no good] on the extra side.

“Now, in Season 3, you’ll only have to be thoroughly 털릴 [be thoroughly defeated/destroyed].”

“You have to be in Season 3 too.”

PD [Production Director] Gil Sang-joon subtly adds strength to Park Jung-hyuk’s words from the side.

Whether he did or not.

Yeon-woo nonchalantly ignored the words.

“I think I’ve been neglecting practice a bit because I’m filming other programs these days. I think I can be of some help when you start filming Season 3. How about it. Would you like to practice together again?”

“Hahaha! What scary words!”

Park Jung-hyuk immediately lowered his tail [backed down].

“But aren’t you really sorry?”

The regret about Yeon-woo’s actual departure continued even at the afterparty.

“I can’t catch you because you’re doing other programs. But what exactly are you doing now?”

Suddenly, he was surrounded by people and received an interrogation that wasn’t an interrogation.

“헐 [Huh/Wow]. So you’re dancing to girl group songs?”

“Yes, well…….”

“It seems to suit you somehow…….”

“Yes……?”

“No, but. Is the image okay? This seems to overlap with our Season 2 in a subtle way?”

Song, the writer who was talking with him from the side, checked the schedule.

Then he said.

“Oh……. It’s going to be broadcast after our last broadcast? That girl group…….”

Suddenly, a subtle silence fell on the Korean beef restaurant with X 10,000 won [approximately $8 USD] per person.

“Around that time, Sun-woo and Ha-yan will be wailing…….”

“Oh……. At that time, Sun-woo is dancing to a girl group…….”

Everyone had a subtle expression on their faces, wondering what they were imagining.

“I have to watch that.”

“Where does the clip appear?”

“I have to record it.”

And then, they vowed that they would definitely watch it.

The people who reassured them that they would vote for Yeon-woo’s team secretly muttered.

“Sun-woo dancing to a girl group song……. That’s really precious.”

“Shall we gather and do a reaction special at that time?”

“That’s a good idea?”

And.

“What did hyung [older brother/male friend] eat to be so good at dancing……?”

The very next day.

Yeon-woo was dancing to that precious girl group dance in front of the mirror with a expressionless face.

With the shock of the UTT members thrown in.

*

“Huh? Why is hyung here?”

“What is it?”

When he went out after touching the equipment in the practice room, the UTT members who had returned from dinner looked at Yeon-woo in surprise.

“I heard you filmed a drama yesterday?”

“I did.”

“Didn’t you have an afterparty?”

“I did.”

“But you came to practice?”

Why on earth?!

Five pairs of shocked eyes followed him.

“Is there a reason why I shouldn’t practice?”

“You can rest for a day……. Yeon-woo worked so hard. Practice and filming. So I thought you wouldn’t come out today……?”

“We have to win, right?”

Then practicing every day is a matter of course.

‘Even Kwon Seong-hyun almost immerses himself in script research and character research when he gets a work. To be the best, you have to do at least that much, or at least that level.’

The first person Yeon-woo learned about the entertainment industry from was none other than Kwon Seong-hyun.

It was only natural that the perfectionism he learned from him was passed on to Yeon-woo.

It was an unfortunate thing for UTT.

“Have we been living too easily……?”

“I think I’ve been working hard in my own way……. There’s really a sky above the sky [meaning there’s always someone better].”

Even UTT, who had overcome all kinds of adversities and lived with gritted teeth, shook their heads at Yeon-woo.

“I know you don’t have much time.”

“Still, isn’t a day okay? If you don’t get enough rest, it’s hard, so just take a good rest for a day and do it again…….”

The program proceeded on a fairly tight schedule.

The PD gave them a period of time in his own way, but the time of only a few weeks was never enough.

The process of learning, interpreting, arranging, and reassembling a new song.

It was quite tight to do all of that in just half the time, not even a month.

“Even a day is not okay.”

However, the broadcasting station was not a charity, so they couldn’t just give them a long time.

In fact, time is like money.

The labor cost of continuing filming during that time alone easily exceeds millions of won per day.

In addition, since it was a competition program, they deliberately made it tight to minimize security leaks about the results.

“That kind of thinking is the problem.”

“Huh……?”

“Don’t you know how dangerous it is to think, ‘A day is okay’?”

Suddenly, in an atmosphere of being lectured, the UTT members knelt down one by one.

“Why are you kneeling, 마이 니 [My Ni]?”

“Match the atmosphere, Daniel.”

Daniel resisted, but it didn’t last long.

“During that one day, other teams will be practicing. Without sleeping. Without eating. They will be constantly practicing and honing their skills.”

“No……. Not that much…….”

Min-chan’s mouth, who had inadvertently uttered the word no, was blocked.

“A day is okay. You can’t do it with that weak spirit.”

“We are weak, that’s…… that’s true……. But I’m sorry anyway. It seems like the other mentors don’t do this much. We’re too indebted…….”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Yeon-woo cut off the leader’s words that were coming out like digging the ground.

“Didn’t we promise? To make you win.”

It doesn’t matter what other people do.

Yeon-woo was just doing his best.

‘That’s how Fever Time is…….’

Yeon-woo, who had become increasingly thirsty for life after Madam Kang, quietly burned his fighting spirit.

How did they think about it, the UTT members’ mood changed once again.

“Really……. He’s doing this much for us…….”

“Wow……. Really……. I almost got excited just now.”

“I’m already excited.”

“Yeah. Yeon-woo is doing this much for us, so we have to work hard too……!”

The misunderstanding deepened.