Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 638

◈ 638. No Mercy

Reflexively grabbing the neck of the person next to him, Rembrary smiled after confirming their face.

“Oh, Seongwoo, isn’t it?”

“Now that you’ve confirmed, let go of my neck.”

“Ah, right.”

As Rembrary released his neck, Woo Seongwoo rubbed the back of his neck and frowned.

“Your reaction speed is faster than I thought. You really don’t seem like a Saint every time I see you.”

Even in this situation, Shin Joowoon, who was calmly observing, twitched his eyebrows at the word ‘Saint.’

“That guy is a Saint?”

Woo Seongwoo was about to scold Rembrary further, but he glanced at Shin Joowoon and frowned.

“What are you talking about?”

It was a reaction of questioning why he was trying to reconfirm a fact that both of them knew.

Shin Joowoon’s expression hardened at that attitude.

Woo Seongwoo quickly noticed the anomaly and asked Rembrary.

“Why is he like that?”

“He only lost his memories of me. Foolishly.”

“Are you two filming a drama? Why did he only lose memories of you?”

“Because it’s the most precious and heavy memory. It’s easy to drop.”

Hwasaja was curious about Shin Joowoon’s expression right now, but he couldn’t bring himself to look at him and just bit his lip.

However, contrary to Hwasaja’s expectations, Shin Joowoon’s expression was no different.

Instead of being swept away by the conversation that was openly mocking him, he indifferently asked his own question.

“Didn’t you side with the demons? Why are you here?”

Woo Seongwoo clicked his tongue.

“His memories are really jumbled up.”

Of course, they weren’t on good terms when they met before either. But somehow, he ended up explaining the situation to Shin Joowoon the most.

It was absurd that he seemed to have forgotten everything and was asking like that.

“Did you forget all the information related to Rembrary? That’s amazing. It’s like someone deliberately erased it… erased? Did someone really erase it on purpose?”

“A demon named Lavrum. We still don’t know how the overlapping memories were manipulated.”

“Ah. Lavrum. The demon who contracted with the Illusion God.”

Shin Joowoon, who had been listening to the conversation with an unpleasant expression, raised his eyebrows when Woo Seongwoo seemed to know about Lavrum.

“Do you know about that demon too, Woo Seongwoo?”

“It seems like they’ve joined hands with the demons.”

Rembrary wasn’t too surprised because he had already expected it.

In fact, if he wasn’t related to the demons, there was no reason for Lavrum to erase only Rembrary’s memories from Shin Joowoon.

Woo Seongwoo looked back and forth between the serious Rembrary and Shin Joowoon, and muttered.

“I came because Jang Taeri asked me to. The situation is worse than I thought. CEO Jang was very worried. Now I know why he was worried.”

At the name Jang Taeri, Rembrary and Shin Joowoon looked at him at the same time.

“Did you meet Taeri?”

“Is Taeri still at the ice rink?”

“Yes. He works there as an employee. He’s not hurt, so don’t worry. But someone stole Jang Taeri’s phone. It’s obvious what they’re going to do with it. If you get a call or text from Jang Taeri, it’s not really him, so don’t believe it. I came to deliver this message.”

Rembrary recalled the text message that supposedly came to Shin Joowoon from Jang Taeri’s phone and looked to his side.

Shin Joowoon seemed to have recalled the same text message.

But that was it. He didn’t show any particular reaction or ask any further questions, so it seemed that he was shaken by Woo Seongwoo’s words, but he didn’t completely believe them.

“You don’t believe it, do you?”

Woo Seongwoo also noticed Shin Joowoon’s wariness and muttered nonchalantly.

“Well, anyway, I’ve delivered the message.”

However, Woo Seongwoo didn’t seem to expect Shin Joowoon to believe everything he said, so instead of staying longer, he got up from his seat right away.

“Wait a minute.”

Rembrary tried to ask more, but he had already disappeared.

“It would have been nice if he had told us more before leaving.”

He muttered regretfully, but the disappeared Woo Seongwoo didn’t reappear.

Instead, Hwasaja, who had been watching all along, said.

“I heard the restrictions are severe when you’re confined to a dungeon. Can you just say information like that?”

Shin Joowoon didn’t seem to understand because he heard the information when he was with Rembrary.

However, Rembrary immediately understood what Hwasaja said and opened his mouth, saying, “Then-”

But before he could even get to the point.

The door of the theater burst open, and something began to pour in from there.

“What is that?”

It was hard to identify properly because of the darkness, but it was certain that the things that poured in were not people, and they were as big as people and very numerous.

“I don’t know either. They look like humanoid monsters, but-”

Before Rembrary could finish speaking, the screen lit up, revealing half of the appearance of those who had entered through the door.

“Ugh.”

Hwasaja shuddered.

Those who came inside were walking on two legs, but they were all grotesque in shape to be called ‘humanoid.’

The common thing was that they were about the size of an adult, had two legs, and each held a weapon.

“What kind of monsters? Are they crazy? So many of them are gathering? What should we do?”

Hwasaja looked around, searching for a place to move.

However, the inside of the theater was instantly filled with moving monsters, leaving no room to set foot.

He also thought about going out to the hallway, but the problem was that he couldn’t see the situation outside from here.

If the door was also full of such monsters, it was possible that they would be swept away by the enemy as soon as they moved.

“Damn it. It’s difficult to move outside because I don’t know what’s beyond the door.”

The moment Hwasaja muttered, a monster that had come close jumped up with a large axe.

Hwasaja clicked his tongue and, at the moment the monster’s axe touched him, moved his weapon behind the monster.

The weapon, which had gained momentum, struck the back of the monster’s head as it was, but its power was weaker than when he held it directly and swung it.

However, while the monster hesitated for a moment. Hwasaja did not miss the opportunity and reached out to the monster’s eyes.

-Kuaaaaa!

The monster, enraged by the loss of its eyes, was about to punch Hwasaja when Rembrary, who had been standing with his hands behind his back, casually hit the monster with the back of his hand.

-!

The area where the back of his hand touched instantly caved in, and the monster rolled down the stairs.

However, dealing with one monster was not enough to be safe. Monsters were constantly pouring in.

Hwasaja looked at Shin Joowoon and Rembrary and urged.

“Shoot ice or high frequency!”

Rembrary retorted to that remark, “High frequency, my foot,” but Shin Joowoon instantly froze the monsters that were rushing in.

Hwasaja swallowed hard as he discovered that everything from the seats below them to the screen was covered in thick ice in the blink of an eye.

“That’s why I hate those eyes.”

Hwasaja muttered, clicking his tongue at Shin Joowoon’s ability, which he hadn’t seen in a long time.

He was annoyed that he was capable of close and long range, defense and attack, as well as narrow attacks and wide-area attacks.

He also didn’t like the fact that the shapes of the frozen monsters were delicately revealed under the transparent ice.

“Usually, they hate your ability more. Why do you only pluck out eyes?”

Shin Joowoon retorted coldly, stepped onto the ice, and walked forward as casually as if he were walking on a concrete floor.

“It seems like the movie viewing is over, so let’s go out.”

It would have been a picturesque scene if Rembrary, who had confidently climbed onto the ice, hadn’t slipped and clung to Shin Joowoon.

“You…!”

“Shin, sir. Pull me up.”

Shin Joowoon stared in disbelief at Rembrary, who was dangling from his clothes as if he would never slip alone.

“Don’t you have any common sense? Doesn’t it occur to you that you should be careful when you’re on ice and going downhill?”

“I do think your clothes might tear.”

“!”

Eventually, while watching Shin Joowoon lift Rembrary up, Hwasaja yawned and teleported to the front of the exit.

* * *

“I knew it. I knew the hallway would be swarming with monsters.”

Hwasaja shouted, grinding his teeth, after going out of the theater.

The hallway was already filled with monsters similar to the ones from before.

“What the hell is a peaceful place with no monsters?”

Hwasaja was angry as he recalled the carefree words of the YouTuber he had met on the way.

“It must be peaceful for the residents. But we’re not residents, we’re intruders.”

Rembrary said calmly and looked at Shin Joowoon with satisfaction.

He was frustrated because he had lost his memories, but thanks to the fact that his abilities were intact, Shin Joowoon was still useful.

It was convenient because Shin Joowoon was freezing the monsters that were rushing in on his own, even if he stayed still.

However, Shin Joowoon’s expression was not good even while easily dealing with the monsters, and after freezing the monsters rushing in from the front and back three times, he moved forward and said.

“We’ll be at a disadvantage if we take care of them all and go. We need to move. Follow me.”

“Huh? Why? We can just keep freezing them, right?”

“It’s okay outside. But this is indoors; if we keep freezing like this, we’ll be trapped.”

“!”

Hwasaja widened his eyes.

“Damn it. I didn’t think of that.”

“Hwasaja, how about you quickly teleport us while Joowoon freezes them?”

“If there are monsters in the location I teleport to, it’s like walking into the tiger’s mouth [a dangerous situation] on my own.”

“That’s difficult.”

“You, that thing. What is it? That high frequency thing. How about suppressing the monsters with that?”

“Good idea. But you and Shin, sir, will have to roll on the floor with the monsters too.”

“One of us will be protected, right? How about protecting me?”

Hwasaja shut his mouth at Shin Joowoon’s cold gaze.

“I see. Shin, sir, will have to overcome it with mental strength, and we’ll protect you.”

Shin Joowoon turned away as if the conversation of the idiots was not even worth dealing with.

He left a floor without ice in the middle, as if he was worried that Rembrary would cling to him again, so this time the two of them were able to follow without slipping.

They went to the front of the escalator like that, but this place was also the same, with monsters coming up.

Shin Joowoon thought for a moment, then first made the monsters on the first floor look like they were submerged in an ice lake.

Then, he froze and pushed each of the monsters climbing the stairs, asking them to stay behind.

“Stay as close as possible.”

Before the entire movie theater was filled with Shin Joowoon’s ice, the group finally arrived in front of the exit.

Surprisingly, the outside of the movie theater visible through the glass door was as peaceful as before.

The overflowing monsters were only inside here.

“They won’t follow us anymore if we go out.”

It seemed like they had overcome the urgent situation for now. Shin Joowoon turned around with relief.

But only Hwasaja was behind him. He told them to follow him closely.

“Where’s Rembrary?”

When Shin Joowoon asked with a frown, Hwasaja said, “Huh?” and looked around in a fluster.

“Oh, where did he go?”

“Weren’t you following him together?”

At the sharp question, Hwasaja waved his hands hastily.

“I came from the front. He came from the back.”

“That can’t be.”

“No, really… Oh, now that I think about it, it seemed like he suddenly ran somewhere…”

Hwasaja was rambling, but when he saw three more groups of monsters running from the hallway again, he shouted urgently.

“Let’s get out first. Let’s talk outside.”

“Rembrary.”

“He’ll come out on his own! He’s the kind of guy who survives better than us, so let’s get out first! He would have gotten out first in this situation too!”

The moment Hwasaja spat out those words and reached out to open the door, Shin Joowoon put his hand on Hwasaja’s head.

Before he could even ask what he was doing, Hwasaja became a lump of ice as it was.

However, the moment Shin Joowoon took his hand off Hwasaja’s head, his form in the ice instantly turned into a mirage and disappeared.

Laughter mixed with applause was heard from behind.

“Wow. No mercy. How did you know? Even though your memories aren’t intact.”