Chapter 714


    “…”


    Mac looked down as he listened to William’s explanation.


    As if he had heard William introduce him, William’s shadow friend ‘Jay’ stuck out his hand(?) and waved it as a greeting. Meanwhile, his ‘partner’ was still poking him with curiosity and delight, as if he was fascinated by the fact that Mac had a shadow with a self-awareness like him.


    Jay, who was greeting him, stretched out his other hand(?) and blocked his partner’s prank, and also poked him back playfully. He was very skillful at it.


    …Is this a dream?


    Ever since he revealed his identity as Shadowman, or rather, ever since he saw William, he wondered if he was dreaming.


    -What? Jay? A shadow friend? Don’t tell me… William still has the power of the Natrains? And he even developed a self-awareness!?


    Mac snapped out of his trance when he heard Bell Natra’s voice in his earphone. He tapped his earphone twice. It was a signal that meant YES, which he used in situations where he couldn’t talk during a mission.


    He had to be careful with his words, since William was right next to him.


    He was too busy thinking about how to deal with this unexpected situation, and he was afraid that he might accidentally spill some important facts (especially about Jin Natra).


    -Oh… Crazy…!


    Yeah.


    That’s what I want to say right now.


    -Why is it still there? I thought the shadow would disappear when you use the Timestone! And you would become a complete Earthling!?


    As he nodded his head repeatedly in response to Bell Natra’s words, Mac couldn’t make any reaction. William, who was sitting next to him, was staring at Mac with sparkling eyes. Mac’s expression, hand movement, voice… William seemed to not miss anything.


    It was a familiar look.


    Mac was about to think about where he had seen that look before, when he heard Bell Natra’s voice in his earphone.


    -Mac. Get away from there for now. It’s better to think of a way to handle this and then act.


    Tap tap.


    Mac agreed with him by tapping his earphone, and looked at William with a regretful expression.


    His head was complicated, but he was also sorry to leave after he was able to talk to William.


    ‘I just wanted to have a normal conversation…’


    He didn’t expect things to get this big.


    He sighed and opened his mouth.


    “I have to go now. Something urgent came up.”


    “Oh, okay!”


    William nodded his head vigorously.


    He had a feeling that it would be like that, ever since Mac tapped his earphone with a serious expression.


    ‘He’s Shadowman, after all!’


    He didn’t know what it was, but it must be a very, very important matter that involved the fate of America, or rather, the Earth.


    Mac smiled faintly at William’s reaction and took out his phone from his pocket.


    “Can you give me your number, Lee?”


    “Please call me William, Shadow… I mean, Brown!”


    “Call me Mac, too.”


    They exchanged their phone numbers.


    In such a shocking situation, Mac walked away with a soulless gait, and William also looked at Mac’s back with a blank expression.


    He sat there for a long time.


    Jay, his shadow friend who was invisible to people, stretched out his hand from under the bench and patted William’s calf.


    “Ah!”


    William came to his senses and took out his phone to check the time. He bent down like he was tying his shoelaces and looked at the shadow under the bench.


    “Thank you, Jay.”


    His voice was calm, but also seemed to be filled with emotion.


    “For letting me meet Shadowman.”


    Don’t mention it.


    He couldn’t speak, but his shadow friend, Jay, seemed to convey his kind heart.


    William smiled and got up from the bench.


    It was time to go home.


    ***


    “Cut! Okay!”


    Jonathan, the director, shouted.


    Seo-jun and Evan Block, who had come out of their characters, came down from the set, and the staff moved busily.


    Seo-jun and Evan Block headed to the monitor where Jonathan was to monitor the scene.


    “How was it, Director Jonathan?”


    “It was good. The emotions were good, too.”


    Jonathan smiled and answered Seo-jun’s question.


    Seo-jun and Evan Block also looked satisfied as they watched the video they had just shot on the monitor. The emotions of the characters they wanted to express were captured on the screen.


    “But…”


    When Jonathan opened his mouth, Seo-jun and Evan Block tilted their heads.


    “You two did such a good job that we have a lot of time left. I was planning to have lunch and then shoot the close-up shots.”


    What they had just shot was a bust shot, and now only the close-up shots of the body parts such as the face, hands, and feet were left.


    Close-up shots could be done without worrying about the direction of the sunlight or the time, since they could cover it with lighting, so they planned to shoot them after lunch.


    Jonathan said with a smile.


    “If Jun and Evan are okay with it, can we take a short break and start shooting the close-up shots right away?”


    “The sooner we finish shooting, the sooner we can go home.”


    James, the cinematographer, who had appeared out of nowhere, added, and Jun and Evan Block laughed. They thought something serious had happened.


    “Shall we do that, Evan?”


    “Yeah. It’s better to shoot when we have the emotions.”


    With Jun and Evan Block’s consent, Jonathan, the director, smiled and told the assistant director.


    “We’ll take a short break and then start shooting the close-up shots!!”


    Matthew, the assistant director, shouted, and the staff moved faster. They all knew that they could go home as soon as they finished the close-up shots.


    “The power of going home…”


    “Hahaha.”


    Evan Block said with a laugh, and Jun also laughed.


    ***


    “Ready, action!”


    The close-up shots began with Jonathan’s voice.


    James, the cinematographer, and the cameramen focused on shooting Seo-jun Lee and Evan Block’s facial expressions, hands, feet, and other body parts, as well as the ground where ‘Partner’ and ‘Jay’ were.


    As in [Shadowman Series], Shadowman’s shadow ‘Partner’ and William’s shadow ‘Jay’ were going to be processed with CG after the shooting, so they had to shoot the ‘real shadows’ that were created by the objects blocking the sunlight.


    Of course,


    Seo-jun Lee and Evan Block were also acting while looking at the ‘real shadows’.


    “…But why does the shadow…”


    It seems to have a presence, right?


    Someone among the staff muttered to himself, and some others nodded their heads in agreement.


    In the scene where Evan Block and Seo-jun Lee were having a conversation, and in the scene where Seo-jun Lee was shooting alone, it seemed like the ‘shadow’ was moving and tapping Seo-jun Lee, or rather, William’s leg, or pointing at where Mac was, or bickering with Mac’s shadow.


    They rubbed their eyes in surprise and looked again, but it was just a normal shadow. They felt a chill without knowing it.


    “Cut! Okay!”


    “Good job!”


    While some of the staff with sensitive senses were surprised, the close-up shots were all over.


    And soon, the set was buzzing with that story.


    The few people who saw the shadow ghost told their stories, and the many people who didn’t see it listened with interest.


    “I heard from Jason, the cinematographer, that it was like this in Shadowman 3, too.”


    “Oh, I heard that, too. They said they used the same movement of the shadow they saw on the set as CG in Shadowman 3.”


    “They even did an interview, right? Wow, I didn’t think I’d see it for real.”


    “Didn’t they say the ghost started from a Korean movie?”


    The staff’s eyes turned to the Korean staff. The Korean staff who didn’t see the shadow ghost explained with regret and nodding.


    “Yes. There is an occult movie called /Evil Spirit/ that Seo-jun Lee starred in, and there is a rumor that the ghost that appeared there followed Seo-jun Lee to America, and even appeared in Shadowman 3.”


    “Wow…”


    “That’s amazing, right?”


    Some people were amused by the interesting story, while others said,


    “I’m really weak at these ghost stories…”


    “Me too.”


    Some people shivered, and others said,


    “Did you see it?”


    “Yes.”


    Some people blinked their eyes.


    They were James, the cinematographer, and Jonathan, the director.


    They were not surprised by the strange phenomenon that occurred during the shooting, but rather, they seemed to think that the movie shooting and directing were more important, and they watched the footage several times to remember the appearance of the ‘shadow ghost’.


    ‘I have to tell the CG team later!’


    He hoped that [Shadow and Knight] would have CG as realistic as [Shadowman 3].


    “But it feels totally different from Shadowman 3. It was full of evil then.”


    “That’s right.”


    The shadow ghost that had a terrifying aura and a dark energy that suited the words ‘evil’ or ‘villain’ had no such atmosphere in this footage.


    James, the cinematographer, who was recalling the invisible shadow ghost, hummed and spat.


    “And it feels like it has a lot less presence.”


    Maybe it lacked the explosive feeling of Shadowman 3.


    Jonathan, the director, opened his mouth.


    “But that’s why it fits better.”


    “That’s true.”


    It was not a battle scene, but just a scene where they were sitting on a bench and having a normal conversation, so they didn’t need the explosive presence of Shadowman 3.


    The presence that matched the scene perfectly.


    That appropriate feeling pleased Jonathan, the director.


    “And William doesn’t need an evil atmosphere like Jin Natra’s shadow in Shadowman 3, since he’s a hero. Rather, this is the perfect atmosphere.”


    Whether it was a ghost, or an illusion caused by Jun’s acting, he didn’t know.


    But it seemed like a really cool movie.


    Jonathan, the director, who had finished shooting and was heading to the dressing room with Evan Block to change his makeup and clothes, looked at Jun with sparkling eyes.


    ***


    Jun, who had changed his clothes, sat quietly on the chair and received the stylist’s touch while lost in thought.


    ‘Even though I lowered it to low level, there are quite a few people who saw it.’


    Jonathan, and James, the cinematographer, too.


    He remembered the eyes that stared at him as if they were burning his back of the head, and smiled slightly. While the stylist was away for a moment, he looked down at his feet. The black shadow looked unusually dark.


    [(Good)Dark Elf’s Shadow Transformation-Mid-Low Level]


    A dark elf who lives in a deep and dark forest.


    You can manipulate shadows freely.


    It was a new ability that he had brought from the Library of Life for this shooting.


    The ability he used in [Shadowman 3], [(Evil)Mashed’s Shadow Magic-Mid-Low Level>>Low Level], was full of magic, so he couldn’t use it for this movie, [Shadow and Knight], where ‘William Lee’ was a hero.


    ‘So I thought I’d try that…’


    The ability he used in [Evil Spirit].


    The one that caught Ryan Will’s eye, [(Good)Bubble Goblin’s Mr. Kim Teasing-Low Level].


    But after reading the script and thinking about it, he felt that it was not enough.


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    ‘Because it’s low level.’


    Since there was a scene of awakening as a superhero, he needed a more intense ability, so he chose [(Good)Dark Elf’s Shadow Transformation-Mid-Low Level].


    Ding-


    He seemed to hear a regretful sound of a bell.