Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 283

283. Finally Found Him

Everyone thought the bulky guy would harm Rembrary and was terrified.

“No!”

“Get out of the way!”

The black hats shouted wildly at Rembrary, agitated. Logically, the iron bars would prevent any punches from reaching Rembrary, but this world wasn’t logical. Who knew what kind of Awakened that bulky guy might be.

However, it was the bulky guy who reacted.

“Ugh… Aaaah… Aaaaah?”

The bulky guy suddenly let out a strained scream in a low voice and collapsed.

What was going on? The black hats stared in astonishment. He didn’t just collapse. The bulky guy covered his face with his hands and kept making ‘Uaaah’ sounds.

The bulky guy’s appearance was bizarre. His hands gripped the iron bars tightly, but his legs seemed to have no strength, collapsing and failing to support his large body.

“What, what’s going on?”

A black hat asked Rembrary, but instead of answering, Rembrary reached into the bulky guy’s pocket, found the key, and pulled it out.

Then, without hesitation, he walked towards the prison door and used the key to unlock it. With a clanging sound, the door creaked open, and Rembrary walked out, casually advising the black hats.

“You guys come out too.”

The black hats still didn’t understand what was happening.

At that moment. Another bulky guy yelled, “Uaaaah!” and threw a punch at Rembrary’s stomach. But he, too, suddenly fell forward with a thud before completing his attack, curling up and trembling.

“S-scary, scary, scary.”

Seeing two people trembling like that for no reason was even scarier. The black hats helped the others out of the prison, exchanging glances.

‘Did that blonde guy do it?’

‘I don’t know.’

Eventually, one of the hats directly asked Rembrary.

“Trainee’s ability, what is it? What’s causing this…?”

“It’s Majesty.”

“Majesty… It’s terror!”

“I said Majesty.”

Rembrary found another bunch of keys from the second fallen bulky guy, handed them to the black hats, and went outside.

“Oh, where are you going?”

“Let’s go together!”

The black hats hurriedly tried to follow, but Rembrary stopped on the stairs and waved his hand.

“I’m going to find the shirtless guy, so you guys take them outside.”

“Let’s go together. It’s dangerous alone. You mean the lion mask guy? He’s dangerous.”

“His movements were invisible. He must be a speed-related Awakened.”

“If we combine our strength…”

“It’s a hassle.”

The black hats suggested going together, but Rembrary flatly refused.

“I can’t use my full strength with you guys around.”

“Trainee!”

“If you really want to come, come separately. Keep your distance, and don’t step on my shadow.”

“!”

Rembrary spoke arrogantly with a gentle voice and a kind smile, leaving the black hats speechless and frozen.

Rembrary turned around and finally left the prison alone. He began searching for the lord’s room. He didn’t know the structure of this place well since he was dragged here unconscious, but if he followed the walls, there would be a way out. No matter how large the building was with many corridors.

However…

‘The structure is strange.’

As time passed, Rembrary realized that the structure inside this building was not normal.

‘Illusion? Or a maze? A dungeon?’

It was clear that there was at least one more Awakened with a strange ability besides the lion mask. No matter how far he walked, the corridor never ended, and when he went up the stairs, the same place appeared again.

‘Well. If they’re occupying a city…

I shouldn’t be too careless.’ Rembrary belatedly straightened his mind and began to walk forward more calmly, touching the wall.

“There he is!”

“Catch him!”

At that moment. A group of people with all sorts of weapons appeared from the corner of the corridor. As soon as Rembrary thought they might be the lion mask’s subordinates, he felt something explode behind him with a loud noise and quickly rolled forward.

However, as he rolled, something seemed to explode in that direction as well, and he felt a burning sensation as if something had pierced between his shoulder and chest. Looking down, he saw blood coming out and his shoulder was half-lowered.

“!”

He was surprised, but he recovered immediately, but Rembrary was really surprised.

‘What is this?’

But Rembrary wasn’t the only one surprised.

“What kind of monster is that…?”

One of the attackers also stopped attacking for a moment after confirming that Rembrary had been shot, and muttered in surprise as Rembrary’s half-dropped shoulder reattached. Only for a moment.

“Keep shooting!”

Having roughly judged what kind of Awakened he was, they started shooting again in succession.

‘Damn it.’

Rembrary frowned. It would have been easier to subdue them if they were monsters. But since these were clearly people using human weapons to shoot like this, Rembrary couldn’t do much.

‘I’ll give up on defense.’

In the end, Rembrary ignored the pain he felt everywhere and muttered softly, imbuing his voice with divine Majesty.

“Crawl.”

As soon as he finished speaking, those who had been attacking dropped their weapons in sudden fear and began to tremble. Without even knowing why they were doing this.

Rembrary walked towards them, kicking one of the weapons that had hurt him in anger.

“!”

Then, the gun went off, and he suffered another penetrating wound to his leg, but that injury also quickly healed.

Those who had fallen to the ground under the influence of divine Majesty trembled even more when the leg of the opponent, which had half-disappeared, rose again right in front of their noses.

“My clothes are in tatters. This is all your fault.”

Regardless, Rembrary lamented, looking at his clothes that were not recovering unlike his body.

* * *

As he continued to move forward, he encountered enemies several times, but Rembrary won every time, sacrificing his clothes.

‘I’m glad I left the hats behind. How much of a hindrance would they have been if I had brought them?’

Seeing that most of the enemies were holding guns, Rembrary admired his choice. How long had he been wandering the corridors?

‘A scream?’

A scream was heard not far away. Rembrary took his hand off the wall and ran towards it. Then, he finally saw a room with the door open.

‘There it is!’

The moment he entered.

“!”

What Rembrary saw was not an enemy. It was a person with two empty eye sockets, bleeding as they wandered around.

“My eyes, my eyes! My eyes!”

It wasn’t a pleasant sight, so Rembrary frowned. The person seemed to have no other injuries, but strangely, only their eyes were missing. Judging by the blood, it seemed like the eyeballs had been gone for a short time, but the missing eyeballs were nowhere to be seen on the floor or on the furniture.

Rembrary knocked the person unconscious to quiet them down, then sent divine power to restore their eyes, and looked at the half-open door inside. Judging by the blood on the edge, it seemed like this person had come out of that door.

‘Is the lion mask inside?’

Rembrary approached it and pushed the door open a little more. Then, he saw a woman sitting in a wheelchair right in front of him.

‘Those eyes…?’

The woman was also bleeding from her eyes, but unlike the previous person, she didn’t seem to be in pain. But the woman’s eyelids didn’t move at all, even though her eyes were open. Her focus was also looking in a completely wrong direction. As if she didn’t know Rembrary was there.

‘Did they put the eyes of the previous person into this person?’

At that moment.

“Not these eyes either. Not these eyes either.”

Rembrary was looking at the woman and belatedly realized that there was another man in the corner.

‘It’s the lion mask.’

The man wasn’t wearing a mask, but he was wearing the same outfit as the lion mask, with a suit bottom and no top.

But was he crazy? The man was clutching his head and muttering ‘Not these eyes’ over and over again, and he wasn’t even looking at Rembrary. Then, when Rembrary tapped the wall next to him, he suddenly turned his head and shouted at Rembrary.

“Let’s try you!”

Before he could even blink. The man came right up to him and grabbed Rembrary’s neck in his hand as before.

“You’re a bit of a waste. You smell good, so it’s a waste.”

“!”

“But it’s okay. You won’t die. It’s okay. You won’t die.”

Then, as he muttered and touched Rembrary’s eyes with his hand. Rembrary and the man’s eyes met.

“!”

Unlike before, this time Rembrary’s ‘divine Majesty’ was activated first. As soon as the man’s eyes met Rembrary’s, he covered his face with both hands and screamed in agony as he stepped back.

Then, as he bumped into the table and fell with a thud, the woman who had been sitting motionless in the wheelchair suddenly looked around.

“Son?”

The moment the woman called out to the man.

“!”

Rembrary realized that he was outside.

‘Was the maze-like thing that woman’s ability? The hats? Are the hats all Awakened?’

Rembrary frowned, looking down at the extremely ordinary-looking three-story building. It seemed so large when he was inside, but when he looked at it from the outside, it was just a small building. It seemed that the woman’s ability was what made the inside of this building into such a maze. And although he couldn’t know for sure, the man’s ability was to move in the blink of an eye.

‘Are they both Awakened who manipulate space?’

Rembrary tried to go back into the building, but the door was firmly closed as if trying to stop Rembrary from entering. Even trying to open the door with divine power was the same. In the end, Rembrary grabbed the doorknob and stepped back.

“Trainee!”

As he was doing that, someone called him from behind. When he turned around, the black hats were staring at him with surprised expressions.

“Where did you come from?”

Rembrary shook his head and approached them.

“What about you guys? Did you take everyone who was trapped out?”

* * *

“Son. Son. Lion.”

The mother’s desperate voice is heard. The man curled up, his eyes wide open, panting, and barely turned his eyes.

“Lion.”

As the mother called him again, the man’s body was next to the mother’s wheelchair in the blink of an eye. He leaned his head on his mother’s lap and barely calmed his surprised heart.

“Mother. Mother. Mother.”

As the man repeatedly called out, the mother patted the man’s shoulder.

“Are you okay? What’s wrong?”

“The smell, the smell is good, but the eyes… the eyes are pretty, but they were scary. Red eyes.”

“Who?”

“Strange… strange…”

The man muttered weakly. Then, only for a moment. Suddenly, his eyes changed, and the man turned his head to the side.

At that moment. His body was already bursting out of the door. The person who was trying to escape quietly was screaming and collapsed when the lord suddenly appeared.

“Uaaagh!”

“!”

The man’s hand was accurately shot at the prey trying to escape. The person trying to escape closed their eyes tightly. But there was no pain even after waiting. The person trying to escape slyly opened their eyes.

Then, the man standing right in front of them was tilting his head and staring at them. The man’s eyes were fixed on their pupils.

“You…? Your eyes? Grew?”

With the last thing the man muttered being his face brightening, the person trying to escape felt a dizzying pain in their eyes once again and screamed. The lord had plucked out their eyes again.

“Uaaaaaaagh!”

The person screamed, covering their eyes and rolling on the floor. The lord quietly watched the scene, holding the extracted eyeballs. Hoping that the person’s eyes would grow again.

But no matter how long he waited, the pupils did not grow back.

“Why aren’t they growing back?”

Around the time the person fainted. The strange guy from before with the good scent and scary eyes came to the lord’s mind. The guy that his mother had sent out.

‘That guy?’

The lord’s eyes widened. Could that guy be the one who made that person’s eyes grow? Can that guy make people’s eyes grow? The lord’s body moved to his mother’s front again in an instant.

“Mother!”

As the lord, who had reappeared, leaned his head on her lap and shook his shoulders, the mother patted her son’s back, wondering why he was doing this. The lord hugged his mother’s knees and smiled eerily.

“Mother, we can finally cure you. I found the guy who makes eyeballs.”

“A healer? There are no more healers after ‘Woo Yeon-woo’, right?”

“I don’t know if he’s a healer or not. But I think he’s a guy who can make eyeballs.”

The lord reached out and touched his mother’s eyes, smiling brightly.

“I’ll catch that guy and cure you, Mother.”