Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 131

< Chapter 131. What Did You Bring? >

[I see. You’re really perceptive. How did you know?]

[I actually knew when I met you at the building before.]

[Wow. You’re a genius at reading people!]

[I also know it’s a secret. Let’s keep it a secret between us, sunbae [senior/older colleague].]

[You’re so considerate. But you’re very calm. Usually, people are surprised.]

[We’ll have a lot of work to do together.]

[??? What work???]

[Just trust me for now >ㅅ<] [Okay, okay, but I'm a bit of a face person, haha.] Rembrary was perceptive, so he understood immediately this time as well. Lim Yuhan likes human-shaped monsters like faceless specters, but unlike faceless specters, he prefers ones with properly placed faces. [Sunbae, sunbae. Does the face have to be human-shaped?] [Huh? What do you mean?] [Can it be a lion, tiger, cow, leopard, raccoon, something like that? Do you have a preferred animal shape?] [Ah, hahaha, an image? It's okay, I don't mind.] [I understand >ㅅ<] It seems Sunbae Lim doesn't mind whether it's a lion's head, a tiger's head, or a cow's head. Rembrary put his phone away. If he had brought a small, fluffy monster that he preferred without knowing his sunbae's taste, it would have been a disaster. "Hmm." However, as the pleasant feeling faded, he became troubled again. He said it easily, but… where on earth could he find such a monster? As he was pondering, the image of the suit-wearing man from before came to mind. He had met him once more through Woo Sungwoo afterward. Come to think of it, that suit-wearing man seemed to be in contact with Woo Sungwoo. Should he get his contact information through Woo Sungwoo and ask if he could find a large monster? Since it was a group that handled monsters like that, they might be able to find one right away. Or perhaps rent one… 'No. Woo Sungwoo will be suspicious.' Rembrary thought positively for a moment, then shook his head. Woo Sungwoo was involved, and the suit-wearing man had wanted to be his sponsor before. If he called through Woo Sungwoo, he might misunderstand and be overjoyed to the point of fainting. He didn't care if the man fainted, but he didn't want to be misunderstood. Besides, Lim Yuhan was already affiliated with that group. Would it be meaningful to borrow a monster affiliated with that place? As he was deep in thought, he heard the sound of hooves approaching rapidly. He looked up and saw a cow-headed man rushing toward him. When their eyes met, the cow-headed man quickly came behind Rembrary and pleaded. [Help me, help me, moo moo, it's dangerous, please hide me.] Then, he shrank his large frame as much as possible and hid behind Rembrary. He hid well behind the thin curtain so he couldn't be seen. It seemed he couldn't hide as well behind a person, crouching his head and back as much as possible. "What are you doing?" Rembrary asked, bewildered, and the cow-headed man begged. [Help me, help me, moo is in danger, I'm out of breath.] "Moo?" Rembrary was puzzled but thought about sending the cow-headed man to Lim Yuhan. Of course, he would have to train him not to push Lim Yuhan off the veranda, not to stab passersby with his horns, and not to push Maeng Wooshin into the pond… No, it would still be dangerous. 'But maybe I can get introduced to another monster instead?' That seemed like a good idea. 'I'm really smart. To come up with such a brilliant idea.' Rembrary admired himself again today, organized his thoughts, and opened his mouth. "Moo. Do you have any friends who are about your size… who don't attack people, and who have faces? It doesn't have to be a cow's head." [Ummer?] "If there is such a monster-" The moment he was about to ask for an introduction. Something whizzed past and grazed Rembrary's hair. The cow-headed man reached out and knocked it away, then cried out that it was hot. Wondering what it was, Rembrary looked in the direction from which something had flown. There stood a woman with an ax and a man with glasses. What was that combination? As he looked on, even more puzzled, the woman with the ax whispered to the man with glasses. "That one looks human? I can see him too." 'That one looks human' meant that she knew the cow-headed man wasn't human. 'I can see him too' meant that the cow-headed man wasn't visible? Then the man with glasses had 'eyes,' and the woman with the ax didn't have 'eyes'? 'That combination is the one that Nakru uses.' As Rembrary was quickly assessing the situation, the man with glasses nodded. "He's human. But he's an accomplice. He's hiding the monster behind him." The woman asked again. "Then isn't he Cheonlipung [a member of Cheonripung group]? Shouldn't we go then? We're not fighting with them these days, are we?" "That's just the team leader's decision. What does it matter?" Before he could finish speaking, the cow-headed man straightened his back and pulled the horns from his head. The woman who had been whispering gripped the ax she was holding like a baseball bat and grinned. "Then should we kill them both?" "Even if he's an accomplice with a monster, you can't kill a person." "Okay, okay." "Really." He didn't know what the situation was, but he knew it was precarious. Rembrary gestured to the cow-headed man to 'solve the situation you caused.' However, the cow-headed man was snorting and waving his horns in the air. It seemed these guys were suddenly trying to fight, with a passing innocent high priest caught in the middle. Just as Rembrary, feeling resentful, was about to scold them. Even before that, the woman approached with a speed that was unbelievable for someone holding an ax. * * * "How's the manager job these days?" "It's harder than I thought." "I heard you don't do anything." "Who says that?" "Well, here and there. Doesn't Fake Saint always diss you?" "If it's Yeonwoo-nim [term of respect], he's not a Fake Saint." "Anyway, if he's not a saint in our world, he's fake." Sagamjae and Sajikjae were walking along the dark, reddish-brown street where the streetlights were flickering, having a meaningless conversation. In the darkness, their unusually pale skin stood out, making them look even more like twins than usual. At that moment. Suddenly feeling a chill, they stopped talking and turned their heads in one direction. "Something's there." "Let's go." Sagamjae and Sajikjae exchanged glances and hurriedly ran toward the direction where the dark energy was gathering. There, two humans were lying motionless on the ground. The cow-headed man was trembling behind a utility pole, and when he saw the two grim reapers, he turned around and ran away. And standing in front of the two fallen humans was… 'Woo Yeonwoo?' Just as Sagamjae, recognizing Woo Yeonwoo, was about to call him. "A weakling who only talks." Woo Yeonwoo muttered in a voice that was lower than usual. Sagamjae flinched. That voice, full of fatigue and dissatisfaction, was similar to the voice he had felt during Lim Seo's last line on the set of [the drama they were filming].' Come to think of it, his expression and atmosphere were completely different from usual. Usually, Rembrary wears a gentle expression and uses a kind and friendly tone. He gnaws at people's minds with that tone, but anyway, his tone alone is kind. But the current Rembrary is… The moment he thought it was strange, Woo Yeonwoo suddenly glanced at Sagamjae. The moment their eyes met, his lips grinned. Then, in an instant, Woo Yeonwoo collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut. Hurriedly running over, Sagamjae grabbed Woo Yeonwoo's neck to prevent his head from hitting the ground. When he picked him up, he was unconscious. "He's not a straw doll, you know? Why don't you hold him properly?" "He's unconscious." "He's unconscious, so I'm telling you to hold him properly? He'll get strangled if you hold him like that." Sajikjae clicked his tongue and asked. "But what was Fake Saint doing earlier? Earlier, he wasn't Fake Saint, but something like that. That-" * * * [Great Demon?] Two college students who had drunk a lot of alcohol at their club were staggering along. They were clearly walking forward, but their bodies kept swaying this way and that. Thanks to that, they had to support each other, but they managed to walk without falling. But then, they heard a strange sound from inside a dark alley. The blond-haired college student burst into laughter. Great Demon? That word sounded very ridiculous in his drunken state. To think there were people who actually said such things. "Hey, did you hear that?" The blond-haired college student poked his side, and the less drunk college student spat out, "Let's just go." "Didn't you hear it?" "I heard it, let's just go." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard whispering voices again from inside. [Did you feel it just now?] [It's like the Great Demon?] [It's the Great Demon.] The whispering voices sounded strangely unpleasant. They seemed to be whispering with their voices lowered as much as possible, but even so, the voices were loud. Moreover, the voices that unpleasantly scraped at people's eardrums seemed to be more than one or two. The less drunk college student also frowned and looked at the alley where the sound was coming from. But at first glance, there was no one inside the alley. The blond-haired man subtly turned in that direction. "Hey. Don't go. Let's just go." The less drunk college student tried to stop him, but he didn't have much strength in his hand. He was curious after all. "Why, it's strange." The drunk blond-haired man chuckled and said, "Let's see who's sharing such crazy words," then he lowered his voice and whispered. The less drunk college student felt even more creeped out. The voice of his friend whispering was even smaller than the whispering coming from the alley, giving him the conviction that the whispering in the alley was really strange. But unable to overcome his curiosity, they both went to see where the sound was coming from. The two people who went closer widened their eyes in surprise. When they got closer to the alley, large and small monochrome 'somethings' were gathered and whispering. [That can't be. The Great Demon is sealed.] [But it was a power comparable to the Great Demon.] [Is it a new Great Demon?] [Wasn't it a bit weak for a Great Demon?] [Too short] [We need to see more] [Did he come to save us? Did he come?] [Which one was it?] [Which side was it?] [Let's go first.] [We have to go first.] [If it's the Great Demon, we have to go first. We have to become his henchmen] [Let's become his henchmen] 'Those' with no distinction in body color were completely red, completely white, completely black, or completely blue. In that state, they were whispering among themselves. The blond-haired man rubbed his eyes, wondering what this was. The less drunk college student was also horrified and stepped back, accidentally bumping into something. An empty can that someone had thrown away made a clanging sound. In an instant. 'Those' all turned their heads sharply towards the two people. The 'those' with various body colors all had red eyes in common. "Ugh… Ugh!" "Monster!" Before the screams could end, 'those' rushed in. The two college students were terrified and began to run away. * * * About 15 seconds after waking up, Rembrary realized that he had woken up at Sagamjae's house again. Yawning and raising his upper body, as expected. Sagamjae was sitting on a one-person sofa with his legs crossed, reading a newspaper. "Are you awake?" "Uh-huh." The TV news that was on was reporting that two college students who were drinking and returning home had suddenly died. Rembrary yawned again and asked Sagamjae. "But why am I here? And why are you here again?" "I'm here because it's my house. The problem is, why is Woo Yeonwoo here?" "…Did the real Woo Yeonwoo appear again and bring me here?" "It would have been better if Woo Yeonwoo had appeared." "What do you mean?" "What on earth did you bring with you in your shadow?" < Chapter 131. What Did You Bring? > End