Chapter 221 (2/2)
“Sure.”
At that moment, the blue-shirt looked at one corner of the corridor before walking towards the place. Perhaps there was someone he knew?
“You shouldn’t litter.”
The blue-shirt picked up a piece of tissue. He then started walking towards the trash can which was far away. Maru walked to the end of the corridor in the meanwhile. When he turned left at the end of the corridor, he saw many people. They were all sitting in seats lined up in the corridor, and were looking at the door that faced them with heavy expressions.
There were around thirty of them. That was a big number considering that it was still 10 in the morning. As far as Maru knew, the interview would continue until late afternoon. This meant that people would be arriving as time passed. He was surprised to see that so many people remained after the profile review.
“Hey, you went ahead of me.”
The blue-shirt had already caught up and spoke as he put his chin on Maru’s shoulder. It was a really annoying gesture, but it strangely didn’t annoy Maru that much. It perhaps had to do with his blinding smile of his. This guy had a peculiar ability to make those around him feel better.
“Wow, that’s a lot of people. Will I be able to pass?”
Maru looked at the blue-shirt, who clearly seemed capable of having a conversation by himself. Most people would get frustrated and no longer talk to him by this point, but this guy just didn’t seem to care.
“Wow. That girl over there is really pretty. Will I be able to work with her if I pass the audition?” The blue shirt spoke as he looked at every person here.
Maru decided to ignore him since dealing with this guy seemed like a pain. He sat down on an empty seat at the end and waited. The only notification he got was a message that he was going to hold a simple interview. Since the audition would happen later, the interviewers would at most look at his first impressions and voice.
It was just as he was waiting calmly for his turn. He saw a lady with a cart full of cleaning supplies. She seemed to be a janitor here. The lady pushed the cart very carefully so as to not disturb anyone here, but made a grim expression seeing that the corridor was packed with people. The people around seemed to have noticed her presence. Everyone seemed so occupied with themselves that they didn’t have any leisure to care for other people.
Someone stepped in though. It was none other than the blue-shirt.
“Lady, do you need to go to the other side?”
“What? Oh, yes, I do.”
“It’d be nice if you can get there directly, but the people here are waiting for an important moment in their life. What’s the way round?”
“If I want to take another route, I need to go down the stairs…”
The business-only elevator seemed to be in maintenance. So it would be really difficult to drag the cart up and down the stairs. The lady’s predicament could be felt.
“I’ll help.”
“W, will you be alright? Aren’t you here for the same reason as them?”
“I can come back right after this anyway.”
The blue-shirt stood in front of the cart with an expression that told the lady not to worry. The lady was still worried that he might screw things up because of her.
“Let’s go.”
The blue-shirt started pushing the cart. Maru watched as the two walked away. He thought that while he was a good guy, his good nature might make others take advantage of him one day.
“Mr. Yoo Jiseok?” Someone came out from the interview room and called a name out. However, no one amongst the interviewees made a move.
“Mr. yoo Jiseok from Film, are you not here?”
Maru had a look at the corridor. The two had disappeared. He felt a bad premonition. He scratched his eyebrows.
‘Now then, what do I do,’ he wondered.
“Excuse me, can I have a look at his photo? There’s someone that urgently went to the bathroom just now.”
“Oh, okay.”
The application form that the lady showed him indeed had his face on it.
“He’ll be back soon, so why don’t you continue with someone else?”
“But his number…”
“He was here just before, and he left just now. If you had told him beforehand, he wouldn’t have left.”
Hearing that, the lady looked inside the interview room. The people inside looked at her and asked what happened.
“The next interviewee went to the bathroom.”
“The bathroom?”
“Yes.”
“Well, I guess it doesn’t matter. It’s not like we told him his order. Put him at the end and call the next one.”
“Yes.”
The lady put his application form at the bottom. Maru had a look at the corridor in the meanwhile, but there were no signs of him.
“How long does it take to take those stairs over there to go to the other side?”
“The stairs? Since today’s a Sunday, no one’s allowed into the office on the eighth floor, so you’d have to go to the 9th floor, so it would take some time.”
“....And please excuse me, when is my turn? My name is Han Maru.”
The lady spoke after flipping over the application forms.
“You’re last.”
“Then everyone here should be before me, right?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, thank you,” as soon as he heard the answer, Maru started walking down the corridor.
‘Consider yourself lucky.’
Maru wouldn’t have moved if his profile wasn’t at the bottom. However, now that he knew that he had some time, he didn’t want to just ignore it. He didn’t hate the blue-shirt’s straightforward kindness that much. Although the world was one where kind people were taken advantage of, only when there were such people in the world was the world not so frustrating. He thought that he should help out when he could.