Superstar From Age 0 - Chapter 721

Chapter 721

At the bottom of the abandoned ship, where not a single ray of light could enter.

A place filled with peeled paint and rusty iron bars, garbage thrown haphazardly, and dust piled up as if it had been neglected for a long time.

In a place where not even a mouse could be seen, let alone a person, someone’s faint breathing could be heard.

The camera moved along with the sound of breathing.

Without looking for it, the owner of the breathing was soon found.

It was a boy, hanging in the air, wrapped in a thick, dark green liquid that looked ominous and unpleasant.

“Ugh…”

The boy, William Lee, slowly regained consciousness.

At the same time, his shadow friend, Jay, also woke up with a flash. And he quickly assessed the situation.

His master was in danger. A place where no light could enter.

They had to escape, but William was still not fully awake. And because of the darkness, his shadow had become very faint, weakening his power. 

He tried to move around to get rid of the dark green tentacles attached to William’s body, but it was not enough.

Jay decided to wake William up first.

Poke- poke-

Jay poked William’s cheek harder than usual.

His gesture made William’s pale face cringe slightly. 

Soon, his long eyelashes fluttered and moved up, revealing his blurry black eyes. And after blinking a few times, he regained his sparkling light.

“J-Jay?”

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw darkness.

He was momentarily confused. William calmly called his most reliable friend.

He didn’t know where he was, but maybe it was because of the dust, or because he hadn’t spoken for a long time, his voice was hoarse and he had to cough.

Thump-

He felt Jay tapping his cheek. William sighed with relief. He felt reassured by Jay’s presence.

He slowly got used to the darkness.

With a fairly clear view, William looked around calmly without panicking. He had an expression that resembled ‘someone who disappeared’.

It was a place where all four sides were blocked, and he saw old and rusty things everywhere. 

Drums with peeled paint, sharp iron pipes, large and small iron boxes, and things that he couldn’t tell what they were. 

And there seemed to be some small trash, but he couldn’t see well because it was dark.

An abandoned factory? Or a construction site that was halted?

He felt strangely calm, and he calmly guessed the place, but somehow his angle of view was a bit strange. It felt like he was looking down from above.

“…Jay, am I in the air right now?”

Jay nodded.

William’s body tensed up with surprise. He didn’t notice it because he was so stable.

William’s gaze turned downward. He saw the thing that was wrapping his body, the dark green mucous tentacles.

“This is…”

He slowly remembered.

He met Shadowman and took a bus to the baseball stadium. And when he was looking at his phone, a rough voice came from behind and this same thing exploded and filled the bus. Jay blocked the tentacles that were heading towards William, but it was not enough.

“Jay, are there any other people?”

He thought of the people who were on the bus. Did they all get caught here?

If so, he thought he should help them a little until the rescuers came, and asked Jay. Jay shook his head.

“Really? That’s a relief.”

William said with a sigh of relief.

“Then we just have to escape… Jay, can you get rid of this?”

Jay shook his head again. He looked a bit gloomy. William felt a pang of regret.

“There’s no light…”

His ‘shadow’ friend, Jay’s weakness was darkness.

In a place like this, where all sides were blocked, he couldn’t use his power properly in the dark.

“Then what do we do…”

William fidgeted, but he only felt the unpleasant touch of the dark green tentacles. He felt like he was a prey tied up in a spider web and hung from the ceiling.

“Ah, my phone! Jay, can you find my phone?”

The light from his phone might help.

Jay went through the gaps of the coiled tentacles and searched William’s pocket. Then he reappeared in front of William with his shoulders drooping. William understood the situation by his look and felt sorry.

“I must have dropped it on the bus. Mom and dad must be worried… Do you know how long it’s been?”

Jay, who had lost consciousness with William, shook his head.

Sigh, both William and Jay let out a sigh at the same time. Of course, Jay was just imitating, but still.

That’s when it happened.

Bang!

With a loud noise, the whole area where William was shook from top to bottom.

William and Jay looked up reflexively. Of course, they couldn’t see anything because it was blocked by a rusty iron plate.

Once again, Crash!

With a huge noise, this time the whole room tilted from right to left. And with that, William, who was dangling from the tentacles, also swayed from side to side.

The machines on both sides of the set moved according to the ‘battle scene on the ship between the villain and Shadowman’ that Seo-jun filmed on his day off. It was to create the feeling that the impact of the villain hitting the ship with Shadowman was transmitted to where William was.

Clank-

The shaking of the set, which moved up and down and left and right, was very realistic and made the scene more immersive.

It was a shooting that deserved admiration, but the staff’s eyes were focused on something else.

It was the actor Seo-jun Lee.

“Amazing…”

‘Shadow friend Jay’ was supposed to be added later with CG, so Seo-jun was acting with his eyes fixed on nothing. But it looked like ‘Jay’ was really there.

The shooting continued as everyone admired.

Bang! Bang! Crash!!

Loud noises and huge impacts followed one after another. And with that, the shaking of the place where William was became more intense.

William realized two things.

“Jay, someone must have come to rescue us.”

The first was that someone (probably a hero) who came to rescue him was fighting with the villain above, and the second was-

“Is this inside a ship?”

That this place was on the water.

He thought it was a place like an abandoned factory or a construction site, but it felt different. When you hit the ground, it should stop, but it felt like it was bouncing up and down on the water, like it was rocking.

Maybe because it was an old ship, he saw dust and iron powder falling every time it was hit. William swallowed his saliva.

“…They must have come to rescue us, right? What if they don’t know I’m here?”

He thought that might be possible.

He didn’t know why, but there was no one else here, only William.

“Jay. Can you go up and tell the hero that I’m here?”

He thought it might be possible, even though he was weak.

“There’s a Shadowman among our colleagues, so we won’t treat you like a weird shadow.”

Jay nodded reassuringly and slowly extended his shadow. Following the dark green tentacles that connected the ceiling and William, a thin and pale shadow stretched out.

That’s when it happened.

Peek-

Between the ominous and unpleasant dark green slime that filled the ceiling, something black appeared. William felt a familiar sensation and widened his eyes. Jay, who was gray, also stopped moving as if surprised.

“! Partner!”

William exclaimed with a wide smile.

It was the shadow of the Shadowman, his partner.

The partner moved his body this way and that, as if he was happy to see William recognize him. It was like he was dancing.

“Haha!”

The Shadowman came to save him!

William, who was truly relieved, laughed at the sight of his partner.

Jay also seemed to feel the same way and shortened his body, sticking close to William’s side. As if to say, ‘I can trust the Shadowman.’

“Partner! Tell the Shadowman that we’re here…”

Before William could finish his sentence,

Kwaaang!!

A huge shock was transmitted.

It was the strongest shock among all the shocks he had felt so far. At the same time, dust and wind blew strongly.

At first, it was the dust wind, and then a cool and salty wind mixed with the sea breeze blew to William. 

It was a wind that blew away the anxiety that filled his mind.

And then light shone.

It was night already, and the moonlight shone through the large hole in the ceiling.

There was a man below.

The man who stood with his back to the light was not visible because of the black shadow. But it didn’t matter.

The shadow was the man himself.

“Are you okay, William?”

The Shadowman.

He was William’s hero.

***

“Cut! Okay!”

Jonathan, the director, shouted a refreshing okay.

The staffs then released the wire of Evan Block, who came down from the ceiling of the set. Seo-jun, who had been hanging from the ceiling for a long time, also came down, untied the rope, and stretched his slightly stiff body.

“How was it?”

“It was awesome!”

Jonathan, the director, raved in response to Seo-jun’s question, who came to monitor.

“The setting that William’s calmness and situation awareness are the faint traces of Jin Natra, I’m glad I put it in. The expression acting that showed a glimpse of Jin Natra’s face was also good.”

“I’m glad.”

Seo-jun smiled, imagining the fans who would recognize the traces of ‘Jin Natra’ in every movement of ‘William’ and cry with their mouths shut.

“We’ll start the next shooting right away!”

At Matthew, the assistant director’s shout, Kirk Lawrence got up from his seat.

Originally, they had to shoot the bust shot and the close-up shot, but since three actors appeared, they expected that the waiting time for each actor would be long, so they decided to shoot all the full shots first and then shoot the bust shot and the close-up shot separately for each actor.

“Jae Yeon, please get ready too.”

“Yes.”

Kim Jae Yeon, Kirk Lawrence’s stuntman, finished his makeup and prepared for the shooting.

And then, when everything was ready.

“Ready, action!”

The shooting started again.

***

“Shadowman!”

While William was happy to see the Shadowman.

His shadow darkened by the moonlight that came through the large hole, weaker than the sunlight. 

Jay, who became stronger, cut off the dark green tentacles with one stroke, as if to wash away his frustration.

“Ah!”

And then he made a net to catch William, who was falling from the air, so that he wouldn’t get hurt. William, who was briefly surprised by the soft cushioning of Jay, burst into laughter.

“Jay, please tell me before you do something like this.”

“…Are all the shadows with self-awareness like this…”

The Shadowman shook his head as he looked at his partner and Jay alternately.

“Thank you for saving me, Shadowman. But there were a lot of people on the bus besides me…”

William, who got up from Jay’s net, said to the Shadowman. 

The Shadowman smiled and answered. 

He was well-grown, thinking of others even in this situation.

“The others were hurt, but they’re okay. You were the only one kidnapped.”

“Only me? Why?”

“That’s-”

The Shadowman turned his back to the puzzled William. At the same time, his partner and Jay took an offensive and defensive stance.

“It’s time to ask.”

Through the hole that the Shadowman made, sticky and unpleasant mucous liquids dropped thickly. 

The liquids and the tentacles that had bound William gathered in one place.

And then someone came down over the dark green mass.

“…Shadow…!”

He was a man who looked like he was one with the dark green slime.