← Your Voice, My Only Outtake
Ep. 2

Where Breath Breaks

2026-06-16

Cast: Siwon

A low fever that wouldn't break — and an afternoon that dragged on just the same.Where Breath Breaks #2No — that take was definitely an NG.Where Breath Breaks #3What was the NG? Even he had no idea — it showed on his face.Where Breath Breaks #4I swallow the question — never able to ask it.Where Breath Breaks #5Is it a hand reaching for something — or one groping for what it's already lost?Where Breath Breaks #6Your tone is fine, Siwon — but your breath is one beat late.Where Breath Breaks #7Your ears are getting old, hyung.Where Breath Breaks #8The way his smile closed... it was zero.Just one beat. In that space, today — there was nothing at all.I tried not to look. And that's exactly why I did.Where Breath Breaks #11It wasn't reading. He was just... stopped.Where Breath Breaks #12A hand that neither deleted nor saved.Where Breath Breaks #13Let's start over.Where Breath Breaks #14That change — I could see it more clearly now.15 minutes. Break time. End of the hallway.Where Breath Breaks #16I was never the type to overthink things.Where Breath Breaks #17What are you having? Oh.Where Breath Breaks #18Where Breath Breaks #18Where Breath Breaks #19The exact one you always used to pick.Fingertips… just once.Where Breath Breaks #21Ah, this— I was going to drink this. Just grabbed the wrong one.Where Breath Breaks #22He hadn't reached for any coins.Where Breath Breaks #23Out of six, of all things, that one. Too precise to be a mistake.Where Breath Breaks #24Before my head could reach a conclusion, my body already knew.Where Breath Breaks #25It's fine. I like this one anyway. Oh, do you?Where Breath Breaks #26I tried not to look at those empty hands.Tried to let go — but my hand only gripped the can tighter.Hey, Kang Siwon. You said you were looking for me.Next month's Project A — the 22nd work for you?Where Breath Breaks #30Hyung, I'm in a session right now. That's next year Siwon's problem.Where Breath Breaks #31Just think about the 22nd.Where Breath Breaks #32Ah, the Director. That guy — ever sincere about anything?Where Breath Breaks #33Turning everything into a joke — it's literally a disease. For real.Where Breath Breaks #34It's not that he doesn't mean it. He does. Maybe he's just scared to let it out.Where Breath Breaks #35Hyung.Where Breath Breaks #36There was a place — somewhere — where a key fit.Where Breath Breaks #37I'm leaving. Two cups left behind without a word.Where Breath Breaks #38He acts like that and still leaves it in every single time.Burying every real feeling under a joke — that's a disease.Just before resuming the recordingWhere Breath Breaks #41For the next line, bend it just once in the middle. Don't push all the way to the end.Where Breath Breaks #42That trembling tone from earlier. You requested it that way on purpose, didn't you?Where Breath Breaks #43…Your direction always bends once at the edge of a breath.Where Breath Breaks #44You're asking me to place a tremor right there.Where Breath Breaks #45Nothing came out. Because I was right.Since when. Those words had risen all the way to the tip of my throat.It was a face that had let something slip.Where Breath Breaks #48Someone who sees everything, from the place they've always stood.Where Breath Breaks #49…Yes. That's right.Where Breath Breaks #50Alright, I'll give it a shot.Where Breath Breaks #51That one word — 'always' — snagged on me.Where Breath Breaks #52The place he already knew before you even opened your mouth.Where Breath Breaks #53That's your quota for today.Where Breath Breaks #54I wasn't going to ask. But it slipped out anyway.Where Breath Breaks #55How did you know what can I like?Where Breath Breaks #56The 0.5 seconds of someone with two things in their mouth.Where Breath Breaks #57A voice actor would only need to hear the voice. A real pro memorizes the footsteps in front of the vending machine too.Where Breath Breaks #58It had the shape of a joke. Not the warmth of one.What he'd memorized wasn't footsteps — it was the exact moment your voice breaks.He didn't say a word. He just looked.Where Breath Breaks #61OK. My waveform was right there.Seems I was the one who got caught. He never was — not until the very end.One per session. Always the same kind of tone.Where Breath Breaks #64An engineer is someone who keeps the good takes.Where Breath Breaks #65That tone's been around since before the director ever showed up. Lately it's been happening more and more.Where Breath Breaks #66Now there was only you, alone in this room.Where Breath Breaks #67He could strip everything bare with words. Just not his voice.What he couldn't strip bare was leaking through a single folded breath.Afraid I'd figure out what he was doing, I tried not to think about it.Where Breath Breaks #70The place where the sincerity he couldn't strip bare once folded itself inside.Where Breath Breaks #71Just as I'd finally watched him through the glass — in that same way—Then which tone has he been dubbing his real self over, all this time?If I stopped, I felt like I'd have to explain why I was leaving.This could no longer be stuffed back into the box labeled 'coincidence.'