School auditorium converted into an art competition space. Anonymous entries hang on display boards with number tags. Students mill around. Fictional sponsor banners use names like CloudInk and Hanbit Art Mart, no real brands.

Yerin hands in a printed illustration from Starlight Boy under an anonymous number. Hana watches nervously.

Woojin enters quietly and submits Entry 24, original work rather than fan or comic art. Yerin notices from across the room.

Ms. Park and other unnamed judges inspect the works. Yerin and Woojin stand in the same waiting area, neither speaking.

Ms. Park announces the finalists from the small stage. Yerin and Woojin react from opposite sides of the crowd.

Finalists wait backstage while judges deliberate. A monitor shows the finalist pieces side by side, including Yerin's Starlight Boy art.

The backstage monitor glows between them. Yerin tries to dismiss the resemblance, but Woojin analyzes the linework with unsettling certainty.

Backstage silence. Woojin turns from the monitor to Yerin and really studies her face. Yerin is trapped between denial and exposure.

The reveal becomes mutual. Yerin's panic turns to a blade. Woojin realizes she knows his secret account.

Backstage chairs, monitor glow, exposed identities. Their shared silence is awkward and charged rather than triumphant.

Their first honest exchange. Woojin refuses false apology; Yerin refuses to pretend the critiques did nothing. The tone softens without becoming sweet.

Ms. Park opens the backstage door with clipboard in hand. Yerin and Woojin turn toward her. The announcement detonates the fragile truce.