Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 134

< Chapter 134. An Unexpected Name >

“Hey. Guess what I just saw?”

Oh Jung-shin, who was checking the reactions after posting a short video on social media, turned his head.

A member of the same group was taking off his shoes at the entrance and coming inside.

“What?”

Oh Jung-shin asked briefly and then lowered his gaze back to his phone. After and a series of experience-based variety shows, commercials, and photoshoots with Woo Yeon-woo, photos of him and Woo Yeon-woo together spread widely among people.

From Oh Jung-shin’s point of view, it was extremely annoying, but fortunately, they haven’t been involved lately, and the fact that the two of them fought like cats and dogs was slowly being erased from people’s memories.

Thanks to that, he liked that Woo Yeon-woo’s name hardly appeared in the SNS [Social Networking Service] comment section.

“There’s an LLL Entertainment official, you know.”

Suddenly, a member of the same group brought up Woo Yeon-woo’s name. No, it wasn’t Woo Yeon-woo’s name, but it was a name related to Woo Yeon-woo, which made him feel bad.

“Hey, don’t even mention that company. It’s bad luck.”

“Looks like you guys have calmed down a little lately?”

“It’s not that we’ve calmed down, it’s just that I’ve had to accept it. Why should I, a normal person, have a hard time fighting with a psycho?”

Besides, there was something eerie about him. Oh Jung-shin shuddered and rubbed his arms.

Seeing Oh Jung-shin like that, the member chuckled. It seemed like he was laughing to tease him, but the laughter sounded very ominous.

Oh Jung-shin put down his phone, abruptly rose from the sofa, and glared at the member. Not as a joke, he really didn’t want to get involved with anything related to Woo Yeon-woo. So much so that if Woo Yeon-woo was in the east, he wouldn’t even want to look east.

But when his colleague casually brought up Woo Yeon-woo’s agency, he became very displeased.

“Oh, I’m so sorry.”

“If you’re sorry, don’t even mention him, okay?”

“But I thought you should hear it.”

“What the hell is it? What is it! If it’s nothing important—”

“An LLL Entertainment official visited here with a real estate agent?”

Oh Jung-shin, who was about to scream, froze with his mouth open. Oh Jung-shin’s pupils shook rapidly.

The member lightly ran to the refrigerator as if he had finished his business.

“Ah, shit.”

Oh Jung-shin rubbed his palms on his clothes with a fearful and ominous feeling.

“Hey, that psycho isn’t moving here, is he? Someone else is moving in, right?”

“I don’t know about that. I just saw the official from there visiting.”

* * *

Date: September… what day was it?

Anyway, a video diary after a long time.

The current time is… what time is it? I don’t know.

It’s not that I’m too lazy to check my phone. It’s confiscated, so I can’t.

The first reason why things turned out this way is because of the upcoming Chuseok [Korean harvest festival] special program practice.

The second reason is that the song we have to arrange and sing is a song by Long Distance.

The third reason is that Keshi is holding onto his phone and won’t let go.

The correlation between reason number 2 and reason number 3 cannot be specifically stated.

Because Jong-woo hyung [older brother or male friend] will try to kill me if I say it.

Anyway, for these three reasons, the phones were confiscated overall, and I’m writing a diary without even knowing what time it is.

And just in case Shin Jo-woon is watching, let me tell you, hey, anchovy. What happened to my grilled king prawn with butter?

Three PM. I checked the time with the clock in the practice room.

Since we only have one day to practice, we are practicing very hard right now.

“It’s ‘intensely,’ you idiot.”

…Was Tae-in’s voice recorded just now?

Did you all hear that? It’s a big catch, isn’t it?

Everyone, he talks like that when others aren’t watching.

“Hey, Woo Yeon-woo! Are you filming right now?”

Just a moment…

Five PM.

I went to find the CEO to avoid Tae-in, but the CEO kept looking for cigarettes, so I watched him and came out.

Ah, some people might know. Our CEO is quitting smoking.

But he has severe withdrawal symptoms, so his hands tremble whenever his peace of mind is broken even a little.

Jong-woo hyung admires his great mental strength, but I think he’s just expressing it that way because he’s the boss who pays his salary. Jong-woo hyung is probably secretly mocking him as a foolish boss.

Anyway, I was hiding in the CEO’s office when I was caught by the dance teacher and returned to the practice room.

Long Distance’s choreography is more complicated and has more movement than I thought, so it’s very difficult right now.

Besides, our group doesn’t have a rapper, so I ended up rapping.

It’s not that I’m good at rapping, but the rap part got longer while arranging the song, and I wouldn’t have to dance during that part, so I had no choice but to take it on.

This song is performance-oriented, and the performance will only come alive if I minimize the parts where I dance.

Everyone has something they’re not good at, and for me, that’s dancing.

But I’m not discouraged at all because I can’t dance.

It’s just that I can’t dance, but I’m good at everything else.

Besides, dancing is not an essential element in life. It doesn’t matter if I can’t dance.

* * *

―Yeon-woo, ㅠㅠㅠㅠ you’re an idol, ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―It’s not an essential element for us, but isn’t it an essential element for Woo Yeon-woo? ;;

―Does Woo Yeon-woo still not know how to dance? lololol

―But he’s really bad at it. It’s not that he doesn’t dance, he can’t dance.

ㄴ22222 Even if he tries hard and dances, his dance lines are ㅠㅠ It’s like a rhythm game character dancing ㅠ

ㄴ33333 Shouldn’t we consider Woo Yeon-woo a naturally clumsy person?

―But our sloth can’t dance, but can’t he also rap? I was shocked by that ASMR rap during Sing Survival ㅠ

ㄴHe can’t rap, but lololol, isn’t it better than dancing because of his tone?

ㄴHe overpowers it with his tone. He’s really bad, but it makes you feel comfortable when you listen to it lololol

ㄴlololol I shout shit shit shit while listening to Woo Yeon-woo’s rap, download it, and listen to it before going to bed ^^ I feel self-loathing every time I listen to it, but I like his whispering voice ㅠㅠ lol

ㄴMe too lol Plus, it makes me feel good because I think I can do better than him if I do it lololol

―No, why is everyone only talking about Woo Yeon-woo? Seriously, I was shocked to hear that WA [Wild Animal] is singing a Long D song ㅠㅠ

―That’s why I hate public relationships. Please let our Yulri go ㅠㅠㅠㅠ Every news title says that Keshi is singing his lover’s song, which is driving me crazy ㅠㅠ

ㄴLook at this person? You’re naturally cursing Keshi?

ㄴWhy, am I wrong? It’s true that WA is using Long D to build up the recognition of a 망 [failed] group idol.

ㄴWhat can we do if it came out that way in the lottery?

ㄴThe agency is crazy, they shouldn’t have made them do it. And how does it make sense that WA is singing a Long D song in the lottery?

―Yulri ㅠㅠ I’d rather he date Woo Yeon-woo ㅠㅠ He’s dating Keshi, who is neither here nor there, and his career is being cut short ㅠㅠ

ㄴIgnore the troll.

ㄴShort Ds don’t curse other idols. Yulri fan cosplay ㄴㄴ

* * *

Time passed quickly as they busily learned the choreography for a day, made slight changes to the movement, and recorded Long Distance’s song, which was arranged to fit Wild Animal’s atmosphere.

Rembrary and the other members were completely exhausted and got into the car. Even if they returned to the dorm like this, they would have to come out again soon and stop by the shop [beauty salon for hair and makeup].

Numerous idols are appearing on the Chuseok special program they are participating in this time. To stand out there, they had to prepare more thoroughly than ever.

Because of this, the members hurriedly went up to the dorm as soon as they got out of the car.

However, Rembrary grabbed Sa Gam-jae instead of going straight into the dorm.

“Gam-jae. There’s something I need to tell you.”

Sa Gam-jae checked his watch and nodded, and the two entered an alley near the dorm building.

“What’s going on?”

“Do you happen to know about a demon that looks like a tall adult man but has no eyes, nose, or mouth on its face and is flat?”

“Not a yokai [Japanese supernatural entity], but a demon?”

“Yes.”

“If it’s a demon… it’s probably a Labrum.”

“Labrum?”

“Yes. They are relatively docile among demons.”

Sa Gam-jae frowned for a moment, recalling his memories, and then added.

“There have been no reported cases in the last 10 years either.”

“You report them too?”

“We are receiving them. As I said before, we are suffering from a shortage of manpower.”

“I see. But Gam-jae. There are no docile demons. There are only demons who like to be noticed and those who don’t.”

“I agree that most of them are mean, but not all of them are.”

Rembrary frowned as he recalled the demons he knew. He couldn’t agree with Sa Gam-jae’s statement at all.

But he was a high priest with a deep understanding, so he admitted that the demons in his world might be a little different from the demons here.

“The demons here might be like that.”

“The demons there will be too.”

“More than that, do you know anything else about the characteristics of a faceless demon?”

“They are quite interested in human culture.”

Sa Gam-jae answered obediently, but suddenly felt uneasy and asked.

“But why are you suddenly asking about that demon? You seem to have met him, judging by the specific characteristics you’re mentioning.”

“I met him. And he was with a human.”

“Did he threaten you?”

“The human with that demon offered me a sponsorship.”

“Excuse me?”

Sa Gam-jae, who was listening to Rembrary’s words with tension, frowned in embarrassment. Sponsorship out of the blue?

“Why to you?”

“I don’t know about that. Anyway, a demon is wandering around not far away, so be careful and keep an eye on him. You never know.”

Rembrary thoroughly instructed him.

He didn’t know if Sa Gam-jae had properly listened to his advice, but he had to tell him clearly first.

And he himself also returned to the dorm, took out his phone as soon as he lay down on the bed, and lay face down on the bed.

This world was very harsh on supernatural phenomena, so information about demons and magic was very rare. But this world was convenient for sweeping information in place.

‘Labrum…’

Rembrary typed the name of the faceless demon that Sa Gam-jae had told him into the search bar.

He didn’t expect any great information to come out. He just had the mindset of doing a proper investigation, so it would be good if information came out, and if not, he was thinking of contacting Woo Sung-woo and sounding him out about the man in the suit and the demon.

But as soon as he typed ‘Labr,’ the letters ‘um’ immediately followed.

Rembrary stopped typing.

‘Why are these letters following?’

Rembrary erased all the recently used search terms just in case.

After checking, there was clearly a trace of searching for Labrum with this phone.

Rembrary himself learned the name of that demon for the first time today. There was absolutely no way he could have typed the name Labrum before.

Then ‘the real Woo Yeon-woo’ searched for it…

‘Wasn’t Woo Yeon-woo trying to join that organization that Maeng Woo-shin joined?’

< Chapter 134. An Unexpected Name > End