#Chapter18
Everyone laughed while Ignat coughed, /"Let's talk about me some other day./"
Akagi smirked and nodded. They both stared at each other for a while.
/"Did you ever think you'd be so big by following your passion?/"
/"Nope. See, novel—writing was never my passion—I did it because I guess it's better than drugs?/"
Everyone laughed.
/"And I, as a teenager, was curious. And a curious teenager is a dangerous asset./"
/"So, what kind of person were you as a teenager? Apart from curious,/"
/"Dead inside, trying to figure out what depression is so that I seemed more natural as an actor, clumsy, a weeaboo—Basically I did everything except my homework and women./"
/"I thought you didn't do drugs?/"
/"Bold of you to assume./"
Ignat coughed /"So, I guess you didn't want to become a writer?/"
/"It just happened./"
/"So, what did you want to become. Maybe you can do that now alongside writing?/"