Life, Once Again!

nged into shorts and went to the bathroom.
Thanks to bad luck with draws, he had to wash the bathroom for three consecutive weeks.
He grabbed his classmates who played around with the cleaning brushes and assigned them their areas and then finished the cleaning quickly.

“Hey, Han Maru.
Let’s go get some tteokbokki.
This bro will treat you.”

“I have to go up today.”

“It’s the acting club again?”

“Yeah.”

“Acting at school and outside the school.
You might become a ghost of acting at this rate.
But anyway, good luck with that.”

After sending his classmates off, he took his bag and went to the 4th floor.

The acting club managed to reclaim their original clubroom which they lost last year.
The constellation research club used this room last year, but they were discovered drinking soju inside the clubroom, so the club was disbanded this year.
As luck would have it, the acting club got this space again.

He looked at the sign that said ‘acting club’ before opening the door.
There was no one inside.
There were only bags.
He thought that the room was quite small since just placing the bags filled up the whole room, but also thought that it was better than nothing as he closed the door.

He moved to the 5th floor.
The large hall was still being used by the baseball club, which didn’t make it past the preliminaries for two years in every competition they participated in.
Due to that, there were talks about how the funding for the baseball club might stop if they didn’t produce any results this year either.

Maru remembered back to when he went to meet the principal and the head director with Taesik.
Taesik used his name, saying that it was an opportunity to raise the school’s name value through him, while he sat there smiling without doing anything since he couldn’t just leave.
Thanks to that, the acting club received permission to use the hall for their practice when the baseball club wasn’t using it.

That was good.

Last year, when there were only six of them, it was possible to practice in the classroom.
However, this year….

Maru slowly opened the door to the hall.
What he first saw were the exercise machines located in one corner, and then the kids that were lined up next to them.

“GREETINGS, SEONBAE!”

He heard loud voices.
It had been two weeks since Maru received this kind of greeting from his juniors, but he couldn’t get used to it no matter how hard he tried.

“Seonbae, you’re here.”

Aram, who was teaching the first year students some exercises, came up to him.
Maru looked at the first year students who could be seen over her shoulders.
Thirty-two.
That was a big number.
That was more than five times that of last year.
Even the large hall looked small now.

“Looks like you don’t have a shoot today, huh.”

“I don’t.
Also, can you stop them from greeting me like that?”

“They’re imitating Bangjoo, so don’t come to me about it.”

So that guy was the source of this huh.
Maru scratched his eyebrows and walked inside.
Numerous pairs of eyes looked at him.
He really couldn’t get used to this.

“Where’s everyone else?” he asked as he sat down in a corner.

“Bangjoo and Jiyoon went to buy some kimbap.
Dowook-seonbae said he had something to do today and left early, while Daemyung-seonbae came, but went to the container.”

“Why did he go there all of a sudden?”

“I’m not sure.
Teacher Taesik came by and said something to him, and after listening to him, he was really startled and went to the container.”

What could be happening? Maru nodded for now and pointed at the first year students.

“Do what you were doing before.
Don’t mind me.”

“How about you teach them?”

“It’s not good for someone who rarely shows up to give them instructions.
You do it.”

“Alright.”

The thirty-two people, standing in a circle, were following Aram’s actions.
He thought that things might be different this year as he looked at the kids.

Just then, the door abruptly opened.
The moment he saw the face of the person that rushed through the door, Maru understood the reason why Daemyung went to the container.
He fled.
Maru was sure of it.

“Wow! That’s a lot!”

Coming in with a cheerful shout, the one that appeared wearing a blue jersey was Miso.

Maru lowered his head and walked towards the door as carefully as possible while sticking close to the wall.

When the wide open doors were just in front of him, a voice made him stiff.

“Maru, where are you going? We should do some workouts.”

Maru made an awkward smile as he looked at Miso, who was twitching her finger, beckoning him to come obediently.

“Aren’t you busy?”

“I’m on vacation.”

“Why don’t you rest if you’re on vacation? There’s not long until your wedding.”

“This is a vacation for me.
Wow, I felt like things went to hell after leaving this club to that girl Suyeon.
Blue Sky really needs to be managed by this big sister.”

Miso seemed happy as though she was a fish that found water.

Maru took out his phone, desperately hoping that there was a schedule he missed.
However, there was no way he missed something like that.
Just then, he saw Daemyung, who was peeking over from the central staircase.

Maru made the evilest grin he had ever made and pointed his finger.
Daemyung shook his head before getting ready to run.

“Senior.
The club president is right there.”

Nope, you aren’t getting away by yourself – Maru pointed at Daemyung.
Miso twitched her eyebrows and spoke,

“Mister chubby over there, come here while this noona is still in a good mood.
Or should we start off with twenty laps after all this time?”

Daemyung, standing at the tip of the staircase, came back in large strides.

“You’ve arrived.”

“I have.
But why did you try to run away? You almost made me sad.”

“I-it’s not like that.
I had something to check in the container.”

“Check what?”

“S-some clothes.”

“Then I guess I misunderstood.
Daemyung, come here quickly.
You missed me a lot, didn’t you?”

“Eh? Ah, yes.
O-of course.
I missed you.”

Maru coughed before speaking,

“Uhm, senior.
I have a shoot today, so I need to get going.”

“Han Maru.
Have you forgotten that we belong to the same company?”

“Don’t tell me you checked?”

“I asked Mr.
Byungchan about it already.
I was actually planning to come yesterday, but delayed it to today when I heard that you wouldn’t be available.
The first greetings should be done when everyone’s around, don’t you think?”

What a meticulous woman.
Maru gave up and stood next to Miso.
Miso, standing between Maru and Daemyung, hung her arms around both of them.

“Hello everyone.
I’m Yang Miso.
I’m a really calm and kind woman.
I look the part, don’t I?”

The first year students, who didn’t know what was in store for them, just seemed to think that she was an interesting person and nodded while laughing.
Maru stroked down his face and sighed.

“Well then.
Let’s get started, shall we? Let’s go outside.”

Miso dragged Maru and Daemyung by their collars.
Maru started walking with the mindset of a cow that was being dragged to the slaughterhouse.

“A light ten laps.
Let’s have a look at your stamina,” said Miso like it was something light.