There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 790

Chapter 790: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 71

Kar tilted his head. "Coaching?"

"Yeah, so..."

"Let me explain, Sir Ishtera," a woman came behind Byul, who Kar knew to be the manager and the CEO of Byul’s agency.

She started by explaining how things work. The production company usually contracted an action school for this kind of action movie; the action school would provide training, stunts, and action choreographers for the filming. For a story with esper characters, the action school had its own contracted espers as trainers for the last stage.

"Why do you need me, then?" Kar asked curiously as they entered the elevator.

"That’s..." Byul scratched his neck awkwardly. "I criticized the esper and he got angry, refusing to train the actors afterward."

The manager continued the explanation then, telling Kar how condescending the esper had been since the start of his coaching--which started about three days ago. Not only that, he used the standard of real espers for the actors in the training, even though they were non-awakened.

"It’s completely different from the training I received from you and Uncle, Hyung..." Byul frowned and clenched his fist. "I had spoken to the movie director, and she said she had told the school’s director about it. But the esper was mocking us today because of that--telling the actors that they shouldn’t pretend to be espers and such. The young actors were scared and someone finally got injured today, so I couldn’t hold back and raised my voice--I was really angry."

Byul bit his lips hard as the manager told Kar about how the esper said he would no longer train them. The movie was set in an esper academy, so there were a lot of young actors involved. They didn’t have enough courage to stand up for themselves, even though they had been feeling so exhausted and in pain the past three days.

Truthfully, they could just go without the esper’s teaching--since it wasn’t really helpful in the first place. But having no esper involved in the production when it was a story about one would diminish the movie’s credibility. If the esper talked to the press, it could jeopardize the movie further.

"Can he do that? Isn’t there a contract or something?" Kar held his baby’s hand and rubbed it for a few seconds before the elevator stopped.

"At this point, the production wants to solve the problem as quietly as possible. A legal case will affect the filming, and it doesn’t fix the initial problem," the manager explained. "And...to be honest, we are also afraid of direct retaliation from the esper."

"I’m sorry, Hyung..." Byul sighed again. "I told the production team I’ll get another esper to teach the actors since I was the one who lashed out at that esper."

"Forgive me, Sir Ishtera. I was the one who suggested Byul to contact you."

"No, you did good," Kar patted the actor’s head before stepping out of the elevator. "If you didn’t contact me and I find out after things escalate, it’ll end in a much, much messier way."

The manager flinched at the esper’s gleaming eyes. She had seen Bassena Vaski before when she was still working for Rina, and she still remembered the dangerous-looking eyes from back then. She swallowed quietly and led the esper to the training hall.

Even though the lamps were blaring inside the hall, the atmosphere was gloomy. There were the actors huddling in one corner, while the production crew were talking with the action school people in the middle. Interestingly enough, the esper who said he refused to teach and stormed out of the place earlier was back, wearing the same haughty expression that had been infuriating Byul for days.

When the manager entered the room, the esper immediately sneered. "So, where’s this esper you said you’ll bring? Must be some jobless esper if they can come in ten minutes."

The manager stopped briefly and grimaced for the esper’s future, but the esper saw it as a sign of inferiority. Well, it wasn’t like he didn’t have any base for this. Most espers were busy with their jobs, especially those who were in a guild. The only espers who weren’t busy were rankers who only worked for high-ranking dungeons or those who were so pathetic they couldn’t get any job.

But there was no way a high-ranking esper would be willing to come and teach a bunch of unawakened people when they could get ten or twenty times more money from just a single dungeon raid.

To get someone in just ten minutes after calling, that person must be a jobless rookie desperate for a gig.

"Jobless, huh?" a man with a low voice entered the training hall. "Well...it’s indeed been a while since I raided a dungeon."

"Hah! As expec...ted?