Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 100

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Shin Jo-woon belatedly realized Rembrandt was being filmed.

The VJ [videographer], unable to ignore the strange turn of events, had subtly and deliberately moved behind Rembrandt with the camera, making it clear.

Dumbfounded, Shin Jo-woon let out a laugh that didn’t quite reach his eyes.

He wasn’t sure if their earlier conversation would make it to air, but he suspected it would seem very odd if it wasn’t edited out.

*Anyway, something seemed to be twisted, so he had to untangle it…*

In the meantime, Rembrandt resolutely continued his lines, unfazed.

“Yes, it might sound funny coming from me, the *affair partner*, to say this. Yes, I’m shameless.”

Shin Jo-woon leaned back comfortably in his chair and smiled wryly.

*Anyway, since the kid was working so hard, he had to play along.*

Meanwhile, Jang Tae-ri also understood the situation and adopted a serious expression.

After all, with the three people in a love triangle gathered, the atmosphere couldn’t be *all* friendly.

But since they had exchanged friendly words earlier, it was a bit awkward to suddenly start fighting.

Rembrandt had almost finished all his essential lines, but when the other two remained silent, he ran out of things to say.

A moment of awkward silence hung in the air.

*I guess I have no choice but to keep leading the conversation,* Rembrandt sighed, and brought up the topic of his father to Jang Tae-ri in order to continue with line 5.

“Oh, and Tae-ri, you said your father was sick before. Is he okay?”

“Yes. It was just a temporary indigestion. He’s fine now.”

Rembrandt quickly opened his mouth to continue with line 5.

However, Sunwoo-shil called at that moment.

Rembrandt tried to hang up, but the VJ gestured that he could answer it, perhaps to maintain the reality of the show.

“Just a moment.”

Rembrandt picked up his phone and briefly stepped away.

In the meantime, Shin Jo-woon picked up on the father topic and asked Jang Tae-ri worriedly.

“Did they catch the culprit who almost scammed your father with voice phishing [a type of phone scam]?”

“No, not yet.”

“Voice phishing is scary these days. Since it doesn’t seem to work as well, they’re calling people out directly.”

“Right. Still, it’s a relief he realized it was a scam halfway through. It’s really scary.”

While they were whispering.

Rembrandt, who had brushed off Sunwoo-shil with ‘I’ll call you later’ and hung up, returned and delivered line 5.

“Ah, Tae-ri. Please apologize to your father for me about back then.”

“Back then?”

“Why, when I tried to call your father out a few days ago.”

***

July 23rd video log.

After the three-way meeting, thinking about it before going to sleep, I’m suddenly bothered by Shin Jo-woon calling me a pig.

What if that scene airs and people start calling me a pig?

Once was unavoidable, but I thought I should prevent it a second time, so I sent Shin Jo-woon a text message asking him not to use that word anymore.

Unexpectedly, Shin Jo-woon flatly refused.

*Why would he?*

So, when I protested, saying where in the world is there a handsome pig like me, he sent me a picture of a pig he used to raise. It was very handsome.

I still refused to be called a pig, so he asked me what he should call me.

When I told him to call me by my name, he asked why he should treat me like a person when I call him a whale or an anchovy.

That made sense.

When I asked him to call me a tiger or a lion, he chided me for having only a tiny bit of conscience.

When I asked him to call me a sloth, he said he didn’t like it because he felt like he was becoming my fan.

When I asked him what he wanted to do, he hesitated and said he would call me a ‘pig-cat’.

When I asked him what that meant, he said, ‘A very lovely cat.’

When I protested that I knew it meant ‘pig cat’ and that he was lying, he pretended not to know and got even more upset.

The liar was even cunning.

From now on, I’ll have to call him whale-anchovy or anchovy-whale.

***

July 25th.

Jang Tae-ri said she would buy me grilled lobster, so I went out, and Shin Jo-woon joined us in the middle.

I don’t know why he came, but as we were talking, the topic of the swimming pool came up.

Shin Jo-woon said he goes to the swimming pool regularly.

“Swimming is essential.”

He said it in a very pompous way and then asked me if I was a good swimmer.

I said I was very good, and he suggested we go to the swimming pool together.

Jang Tae-ri said she was also a good swimmer and suggested we go together, so we went to the swimming pool right away.

I borrowed a swimsuit from Sa Gam-jae because we went so suddenly.

Shin Jo-woon said he had never seen anyone come to the swimming pool wearing something like that.

When I said I borrowed it from my manager, he said he wouldn’t wear it even if someone paid him to.

“Why are you scolding the kid? It looks great!”

Jang Tae-ri couldn’t stand it and stood up for me, and Shin Jo-woon made a very strange expression and blatantly said he liked Jang Tae-ri this time and clicked his tongue.

“I just like everything about Woo Yeon-woo!”

When Jang Tae-ri retorted like this again, Shin Jo-woon asked, ‘I respect your taste, but don’t come within 2 meters of me, both of you.’

My swimsuit, Shin Jo-woon’s swimsuit, and the swimsuits worn by other people are all revealing.

I don’t know what the difference is that makes him act like that.

***

– Take down the picture right now!

When Rembrandt posted a picture of himself in a swimsuit on SNS [Social Networking Service] and wrote, ‘Is this weird?’, Jong-woo, who said he was sick, called in 5 seconds.

“Jong-woo. Did you see the picture?”

– First, take down the picture!!

“Why?”

– Just take it down!

Rembrandt was bewildered by Jong-woo’s shouting, so he hung up and turned on SNS again.

It didn’t seem like even a minute had passed.

Everyone was very happy, and the number of hearts under the picture was enormous.

Moreover, the number of hearts was increasing rapidly every time he refreshed the page.

People said it wasn’t weird at all, and everyone agreed that it was the most amazing celebrity swimsuit they had ever seen.

Some people were even very moved and shouted that Korea was getting bigger.

Although it was a shame, Rembrandt deleted the picture and called Jong-woo again.

“I deleted it.”

– It’s too late… It’s already spread everywhere…

Even though I took it down because he told me to, Jong-woo still muttered in a gloomy voice.

– Where did you even buy something like that?

“Gam-jae bought it because he liked the design, but he gave it to me because he couldn’t wear it because it wasn’t black.”

– Sa Gam-jae, that bastard, with his ascetic face… Haa… No, even so, do you wear it just because he gives it to you? You jump up and down saying it’s too revealing even if girl group members wear short pants?

“But everyone wears revealing clothes at the swimming pool.”

– God…

“Are you Christian?”

– Is that important right now?

“How’s your body feeling? You said you were going to get rid of your phone, but why is it still the same?”

– I changed it. Only the number is the same. And I begged the CEO to speed up the process of changing your dorms.

“Are the dorms changing?”

At Rembrandt’s words, Hye-gyeol, who was eating a salad nearby, stared with wide eyes.

“Wow, are our dorms changing?”

Rembrandt shrugged, meaning he didn’t know either.

– It’s not confirmed, but you guys have been getting strange notes for a while, and we’ve been thinking about moving to a place with better security. Oh, right. But when we move the dorms, you might not be able to live in the same house.

***

It was the filming day of .

Today’s filming was outdoors at dawn, so Rembrandt had to wake up before sunrise.

Rembrandt washed, changed, and got into the car with his mind half-buried in sleep.

He fell asleep again in the car, and when Jong-woo shook his shoulder to wake him up, he was already at the filming location, and it was still 4:30 AM.

Rembrandt got out of the car with the script in his hand, yawning several times.

As he was greeting people absentmindedly, Sa Gam-jae brought a portable chair from somewhere.

Rembrandt sat on the chair with a still dazed feeling and opened the script.

Today’s scene was the first time Im-seo and Deung-baek fought.

To be exact, it was a scene where Deung-baek was unilaterally angry at Im-seo.

In the last scene of the previous episode, the person who brushed past Im-seo with a knife stabbed Yang-heung with the knife, and Yang-heung was fortunate enough not to be seriously injured, but he had surgery and was hospitalized.

Im-seo was the last person to meet Yang-heung before the incident, so he was questioned as a witness at the police station.

Deung-baek comes to the police station as Im-seo’s guardian, but after watching the CCTV, he gets angry that Im-seo didn’t help Yang-heung.

The person with the knife did not stab Yang-heung near Im-seo, and Im-seo did not see Yang-heung being attacked on the CCTV.

However, Deung-baek thought that if a person with a knife passed by, a normal person would look or report it, wondering what was going on.

Im-seo does not understand Deung-baek’s anger, and Deung-baek knows in his head that Im-seo is that kind of person, but he cannot handle his anger.

Afterwards, the police conclude that the perpetrator did not randomly target victims and investigate whether Yang-heung had any grudges.

Deung-baek tells the police that ‘Yang-heung has no grudges’, but he begins to suspect that the couple who killed her in her previous life are trying to kill her again.

Just as he was surprised to see Yang-heung’s face, the couple from the previous life would have been surprised to see that Yang-heung’s face looked exactly like the woman they killed.

*Im-seo is said to be embarrassed because he doesn’t understand the situation because Deung-baek, whom he called as his guardian, is angry rather than worried about him. Is this also a kind of emotion? Then doesn’t Im-seo have no emotions at all? Or is the question reason rather than emotion?*

But while Rembrandt was looking at the script for a long time and trying to figure out Im-seo’s emotional line.

He felt uneasy and looked up, and Im Yu-han and Maeng Woo-shin were standing facing each other in the distance, and the previous cow-headed monster was standing between them.

One of its horns was broken, and the cow-headed monster seemed to sense Rembrandt’s gaze and glanced this way.

When their eyes met, the cow-headed monster flinched, hesitated, and then hurriedly turned around and started running.

Rembrandt tried to call Sa Gam-jae, but Sa Gam-jae was nowhere to be seen because Jong-woo had called him and was scolding him about the swimsuit.

Inevitably, Rembrandt chased after the cow-headed monster with his cell phone in his hand.

It was an outdoor shoot, but it was late at night, and people were being controlled after asking for understanding, so there were no people walking around.

The cow-headed monster kept glancing at Rembrandt and ran hard.

At that moment, a person with a long spear appeared from somewhere and swung it at the cow-headed monster.

However, the cow-headed monster quickly avoided the spear and instead pulled out one of its horns, broke the spear in two, and ran away again.

*It wasn’t a horn, it was a weapon.*

The person with the spear tried to chase the cow-headed monster even though his weapon was broken, but he stopped and turned his head towards Rembrandt, as if sensing someone’s presence.

When their eyes met, the person raised his eyebrows and muttered, “Woo Yeon-woo?”

*Does he know Woo Yeon-woo?*

While Rembrandt was hesitating, wondering if he was an acquaintance of Woo Yeon-woo, the person came closer, exclaiming ‘Wow’ with excessive exclamation, and asked.

“I just thought you were a weird crazy celebrity. Hey, did you chase after the monster just now?”

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