The next day…
Seungho awoke bewildered in the morning, sweating excessively and stunned eyes, Waking up from a nightmare, Seungho wastes no time pondering the same nightmare he has had for the last 6 years.
Today is Saturday and most workplaces are closed so there isn't any new place he could interview. A light bulb sparked in Seungho's head, if TV stations were not willing to take a risk on him because of his lack of experience then he simply has to get more experience.
"HEY TAESIK! WHERE ARE YOU?"
Seungho slowly creaks open his roommates door, peeking through the slight crack with a devious smile on his face.
Taesik turns grey as he makes eye contact with Seungho, certain that he is about to get roped into Seungho's scheme.
Seungho grabs Taesik still in his pajamas and sprints out of the house, only wearing a suit with tie, wearing only his boxers.
They walk side by side on the sidewalk exchanging glances with people walking by, Taesik, still feeling self conscious about his attire, tucks his shirt into his pajamas before crossing his arm.
"Are you finally gonna tell me what this is about?" Taesik looks up concerned, thinking of the work he still has to do over the weekend, especially as a college professor, he has his hands full with grading assignments.
Seungho deep in thoughts looking intently at the street ahead, to the right, behind and right next to him; unable to understand his motive, Taesik gets closer to his ear before screaming,
"HEY ARE YOU LISTENING?"
Seungho jumps onto one leg startled off his feet, "What the hell is wrong with you?, he clasped his hands on his ears.
Taesik tightens his fist into the air towards his face, "Hey bastard, what the hell is wrong with me? You better —"
Seungho's eyes glow as he focuses at something in the distance and without saying a word, Seungho sprints off at full speed startling people as he moves at the speed of a cheetah, Taesik manages to catch up alongside him.
"Hey what's wrong now", Taesik says while jogging alongside him, people walking on the sidewalk disperse to the sides to avoid collision with them running at what seemed like the speed of light.
There was a small crowd formed on the sidewalk, an echo of gasps can be heard. Seungho suddenly stopped running, sending Taesik through the crowd, splitting it like the red sea. As the crowd dispersed, the scene became clear to Taesik, it was a burglary happening in broad daylight.
Seungho shoves Taesik with his phone, "Just record this for me, I'll get you pork bulgogi for dinner"
The phone was opened to a newly made youtube channel, it lacked even a profile picture and the username read "Reporter Seungho". As Seungho was pulling up on his tie and dusting his suit, Taesik started a livestream on Newtube.
"Only show my top half, Taesik" Seungho raises his thumbs up in the direction of the Taesik.
Taesik thumbs the go-live button on the phone, and not long after some chats start rolling in.
Chat:
"Hey what the hell is going on here?"
"This has to be AI"
"What is going on"
"WE ARE WITNESSING A LIVE BURGLARY…QUITE A CROWD HAS SETTLED HERE…THE THUGS INSIDE ARE USING A WRENCH… AND HOLDING WO OF THE EMPLOYEES HOSTAGE" Seungho yelled into the camera, lacking a proper microphone so he had to improvise.
Chat:
"Why is this bastard yelling?
"Stop yelling you bastard"
After a while, the viewership of the livestream was going off the charts, a total of 30 thousand viewers were watching live as the pharmacy was getting trashed by the thugs and Seungho was commentating this play by play as if it were a sports event.
"AAAAAA—"
A desperate scream can be heard from the store causing people in the crowd to gasp.
"I think a quarrel between the hostages and the thugs is taking place…" Seungho announces,
Seungho turns around to look at the thrashed store, scouting around for anyone hurt amidst the broken appliances, at the back he could make out a burglar grabbing the wrist of an employee and in that moment, a vein popped for Seungho and his eyes turned red with anger, as if a bull seeing the color red.
Seungho twists around to face the camera,
"And that's the end of this situation, I am sure the police will be here soon"
Seungho made eye contact with Taesik, smiling and winking, startling Taesik, instructing him to turn off the recording.
I didn't think he swung that way, Taesik questioned what that meant while plucking his nose.
Chat:
"What the hell was that?"
"creepyyyy"
"Where is he going"
Taesik should know to turn off the video, we've been friends for so long. Seungho thought but he couldn't be farther from the truth.
Seungho cautiously walks towards the shattered door of the entrance, still in his boxers, which does not sit well with the chat.
Chat:
"Where are your pants pervert"
"I'm calling the police"
"pervert"
"ㅋㅋㅋㅋ"
The store had no proper entrance, the glass door had shattered from a strike of the red wrench earlier in the altercation. Seungho slowly planted his foot through the door, appearing behind the burglar harassing the lady.
"Why don't we talk out here" Seongho grabbed and pulled the burglar by his arm.
"What the fuck bastard, let go of my arm" The burglar stops crouching above the woman, standing on his legs finally and tries to pull himself away. "Let go, bastard!"
While the thugs twists and turns aways from his grasp, his fist only tightens and twist slowly, mangling his arm like a twisted branch of a tree; As a mango tree digging deep with its root, the thug digs deeper into the floor, legs turning into itself and finally collapsing from the pain, foaming from his mouth.
Taesik on the side of the road steadied his arm recording the fight for the now 90 thousand viewers:
Chat:
"This pervert is so strong…"
"wow the director is who?"
"You just lost to a guy in his underwear"
The leaves swayed in the air as a silence dropped in the crowd before a collective cheer exploded among the bystanders.
Seungho tilts his head to the left, having felt air pierced by a spear, he easily dodged a punch from behind. Seungho, turning in a blink, met the eye of the attacker bulging out of his head to see his punch miss by a hair, before striking the chest with the ball of his feet and distancing himself.
The masked man kneeling on one leg with his hand to his chest, with his other hand reaching for the floor; The man stood tall once again after snatching the wrench among the shattered glass on the floor. He charged at Seungho with his left fist tightened on the wrench ,out and above him, staring intently to strike the shoulder.
Seungho lifts his right forearm, swinging it down to redirect the hand wielding the wrench; In the same motion, Seungho steps forward and strikes down with his elbow on the spine, disarming him completely as he slams the ground chest first, quaking the shattered glass around him.
The crowd erupts.
Taesik who was streaming the whole thing saw how ridiculous everything was; A random guy in his underwear takes down 2 armed burglars with just his hands.
The chat also erupted. with skepticism.
"What movie is this from?"
"Mr boxer is so cool"
"I knew it was AI"
"Movie? stop typing, He is the real deal"
"Have you gone crazy?"
Seungho walks out heading over to Taesik, where he returns the phone to Seungho. He glances at the chat and his face on the livestream— still running.
Chat:
"Hey, you're a really good actor"
"Good job out there, what movie is this?"
"Who the hell are you?"
"Is this an underwear ad?"
"Why is it still going" Seungho whispers, to not give away his professionalism, staring down Taesik with bloodshot eyes, a grim face appears on Taesik.
"When did you tell me to turn it off, bastard?" Taesik slowly turns to his left before running away from Seungho.
"Wait– I'll catch you fucker, you're not getting away" Seungho fumbles with his phone, how do you turn this crap off, He mumbles to himself, at last he finds the end stream button, simultaneously, an email notification pops up for Seungha, from his last interview…
"Dear Applicant Kang,
Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that at this time we have decided to move forward with a different candidate…"
Seung sighs, a thousand applications turn into two hundred interviews, and now there is only one interview left.