Chapter 177

“We came because of her!”Maru looked at the numerous shoes that were suddenly in front of him. He couldn’t raise his head, so he didn’t know who had arrived. He could only infer from the voices and legs that these were girls.“U-um, we’re not bothering you, are we?”From what he could hear, the girl sounded nervous. Maru thought that she might be one of the first years who visited the club two days ago.“Oh, they have posters here. It has chocolate, too.”Maru remained silent, the girls chatted a little more before grabbing a poster for themselves.“Wow! Thank you!” Bangjoo excitedly dove and prostrated himself before the girls. Even Maru was surprised at that. To think Bangjoo would go so far… he hadn’t expected it at all. Maru rose slowly and took out a piece of chocolate for each of the girls.“Wow. You’re giving them to us?”Of course, he didn’t speak.“Must be one of those silent performances.”“Wait, then what about this senior?”It seemed that the girls had misunderstood Bangjoo, the boy nervously stood and returned to his spot. He made a distraught expression that seemed to win the girls over.“Haha, that senior’s hilarious.”“Did you see how he was glancing at us nervously?”The girls had infectious laughter, and one by one, other students started crowding around the acting club.“What the—what are you guys doing?”“Hey, try taking a poster from here. It’s pretty hilarious.”“What’s hilarious?”“The frog!”“What?”The students each took a poster with bewildered looks. Maru glanced at Bangjoo and the boy peered back at him like a frightened puppy. “Just do it!”“Okay!”The encouragement worked, Bangjoo leapt into the air. His jump was incredibly high, like some sort of martial arts instructor, before coming back down onto the floor. The students around them clapped, impressed.“What the—?”“I think they’re doing something over there.”“Hey! They’re doing something over there!”The students congregated in a flash. Bangjoo started jumping repeatedly, smiling, and Maru did his best to pantomime a frog as he handed out pieces of chocolate. Before they knew it, the box of posters was completely empty. At this point, even the teachers were watching their performances out of sheer curiosity.Some of the girls even poked his body nervously. The boys just smiled from afar, but the female students were getting braver. “You aren’t going to move even if we do this? Or this?”Iseul popped out of nowhere as the number of students like this grew, she put her chin on top of Maru’s curved back.“Hey, take a pic of me, please.”Iseul was lightening the mood. With that, they thankfully managed to ingrain the acting club into the minds of the amassed students. It was a success, for sure.“Is this good enough?” Iseul whispered.Maru gave her a silent thumbs-up, Iseul was beautiful and her doing this was even causing some of the boys to take pictures.“It’s the acting club.” Taejoon joined in as well. With the two of them guiding the atmosphere, more students began taking pictures. Despite the event being nothing special, the students were still enjoying it to their fullest.“We are the acting club! Our clubroom is next to the central staircase on the fourth floor! Please come whenever! We’ll have our arms open at all times!”Bangjoo started promoting the club, he and Maru had discussed beforehand the use of loud voices to announce their presence once enough people gathered. Bangjoo’s voice rang throughout the school.