Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 148

< 148. In Office >

I took the phone away from my ear and saw that the call had ended.

I guess people think I’m joking when I say my emotions were stolen.

Rembrary clicked his tongue and called Seon Woo-sil again.

Fortunately, Seon Woo-sil seemed to be waiting and answered the phone right away.

“I said it was my emotions on purpose for privacy, Senior. Actually, it’s someone else’s emotions.”

[You surprised me. You should say things like that anonymously. You’ll be misunderstood if you’re considerate in situations like that.]

“The person who misunderstands is the bad one.”

[Are you saying I’m bad?]

“That’s not what I meant.”

Whoosh, the sound of wind burst out briefly like a broken radio wave.

[Anyway, you punk, I can’t even date myself, and now I have to set up someone else’s romance?]

Rembrary vowed never to use the expressions ‘looking for emotions’ or ‘lost emotions’ again.

Even if it’s not my emotions but someone else’s, people don’t seem to understand it well.

“I misspoke. What I lost wasn’t emotions but an object. Not my object, though. Someone else’s object.”

[If that’s the case, I should help. What kind of object is it?]

“I can’t say exactly what it is.”

[No, you still have to roughly tell me what it is so I can ask around.]

“It’s long and soft.”

[That’s too abstract.]

Daegyu said that the brush has the effect of getting rid of negative emotions, so…

“When you use it, bad thoughts disappear, and you feel good.”

[……]

Again, no sound is heard.

Did she hang up again?

Rembrary looked down at his phone in bewilderment, but this time it didn’t hang up, and the numbers were steadily going up.

Finally, after a long time, Seon Woo-sil called out in a reluctant voice, [Yeon-woo.]

“What?”

[Are you on drugs?]

What?

“Am I strong?”

[Huh?]

“Yes?”

[Is Gi Seung-min stealing other people’s drugs?]

“No, he didn’t steal any drugs, though?”

Seon Woo-sil paused for a long time and then said, “I’ll ask him first,” and hung up.

* * *

As soon as she hung up, Seon Woo-sil felt uneasy for no reason.

‘Even though he’s crazy, he’s still nice, so he wouldn’t be on drugs, right?’

Seon Woo-sil tried to suppress her uneasy feelings and called Gi Seung-min first.

[Oh, hyung [older brother/male friend]. What’s up?]

“Seung-min, have you ever taken someone else’s drugs?”

Gi Seung-min was bewildered by Seon Woo-sil’s direct question but answered obediently.

[What are you talking about? Who said that? I’m overcoming withdrawal symptoms with religion these days. I’m not taking any drugs.]

“Okay.”

After hanging up, Seon Woo-sil called Yeon-woo again.

After hearing Seon Woo-sil’s story, Rembrary realized that the religion Gi Seung-min was talking about was the cult Daegyu was in.

Rembrary frowned.

Seeing him openly talking about religion, it doesn’t seem like Gi Seung-min is the culprit…

‘In that case, should I wait for Song Seo-young to return home?’

* * *

It was the day of the final filming for .

While reading the script, Rembrary occasionally asked the staff and other actors he met what came to mind when they heard the word ‘scorpion’.

He also had to write the lyrics for the solo special album that CEO Lim had mentioned.

He had no idea how to write lyrics with the theme of scorpions and glamorous images.

“When you think of scorpions, you think of the desert.”

“Aren’t they really cool-looking?”

“There are places where they eat scorpions as food.”

“I heard a lot of people raise them as pets.”

Then, finally, Lim Yu-han came up with an idea that Rembrary would be interested in.

“They hide and watch, then attack at once with venom. Isn’t that their signature move?”

“Hide and watch, then attack at once. Venom… Thank you!”

Rembrary quickly returned to the waiting room and wrote down the ideas that came to mind on his phone.

The lyrics were about a story that seemed to express unrequited love in the first verse, but in the chorus, it was revealed that it was not unrequited love but hatred.

After roughly writing down the ideas for the lyrics, Rembrary decided to refine them later while moving and picked up the script again.

The plot of this script was roughly like this.

* * *

Deungbaek succeeds in imprisoning the couple who were his enemies in his past life, but he is torn between killing them or letting them live.

Yangheung hears the story that Deungbaek was her lover in her past life, but she doesn’t believe it.

Even so, Yangheung knows that Deungbaek is suffering by her side, so she doesn’t want to make him suffer and leaves silently to another place.

This is because she knows that if Deungbaek clings to his love for her, he will have to give up the other love he has been pursuing all his life.

Upon learning this, Deungbaek chases after Yangheung and grabs her.

“The fact that lovers from a past life met again in this life means that this time, we should love each other until the end.”

Yangheung realizes that even if she leaves, Deungbaek cannot return to his previous self, and eventually accepts him.

Deungbaek decides to forget about the enemies from his past life so that he doesn’t become the same trash as them, trapped in his past life.

At that moment.

Imseo murders Deungbaek’s enemies from his past life.

Afterward, Deungbaek looks for Imseo, whom he has always taken care of.

Deungbaek feels complicated because he knows that if he marries Yangheung, it will be difficult for him to take care of Imseo anymore.

He can take care of her like a close younger sibling, but he can’t always take her around and take care of her like he does now.

Then he returns to a place. Imseo is sitting in a chair with blood on his priest’s robe.

Deungbaek is surprised, thinking that Imseo is hurt, and approaches him in shock.

He is shocked to discover the bodies of his enemies from his past life behind the chair.

As Deungbaek gets angry and asks if he’s crazy, Imseo smiles, bends down, brushes off the white powder on Deungbaek’s shoes, and mutters.

“You have the same hell in your heart as I do, Senior.”

* * *

Rembrary flipped through the script, slammed it shut, and frowned.

At the sound, Jongwoo and Sagamjae turned around at the same time.

“What’s wrong?”

“What’s wrong? Is there a problem?”

It was because Rembrary’s face was noticeably stiff.

Rembrary nodded.

“The content in the second half of the script has changed a bit.”

“Oh, really?”

Jongwoo approached and picked up Rembrary’s script, saying he would take a look.

Jongwoo usually went to the cafe on behalf of Rembrary to print out the script, so even if he couldn’t memorize the script, he always knew the content.

Jongwoo quickly looked through the script and nodded in a few places, saying, “Ah.”

But soon, he asked with an indifferent face.

“The actions have changed a bit. The last line has been added. But the actions have changed a lot, but the main plot and lines have hardly changed, right? I don’t think you need to memorize it again?”

Jongwoo knew that Rembrary had a good memory even if he acted crazy.

Memorizing one added line was nothing.

There were no complicated movements in the actions either, so it would be okay to check the script briefly before filming.

An action scene had been added, but the added Imseo battle scene took place in the dark, so it was said that all the stunts would be performed by stunt doubles.

In Jongwoo’s opinion, there was nothing to worry about.

However, Rembrary’s expression did not improve.

“That’s the problem with the changes.”

“Huh? Where?”

Rembrary pointed to a few places with his finger.

The scene where Imseo bends down and brushes the dirt off Deungbaek’s shoes.

The scene where he murders the couple who were his enemies.

The line saying that there is hell in my heart.

These were the three parts.

“What’s wrong with that? Aren’t they all key points?”

Jongwoo asked back in bewilderment.

The scene where Imseo murders the couple who were Deungbaek’s enemies was a moment that could easily turn Imseo, who didn’t know emotions and could easily become a psycho criminal, and Deungbaek, who was holding onto such Imseo and making him walk forward, would break the relationship between them.

The line that there is the same hell as Imseo brushing off the white powder on Deungbaek’s shoes was also a scene that implied that the relationship between the two had broken down.

Controlling Imseo, who might become a psychopath criminal, and becoming a priest and walking the path of faith. These two things were tied together for Deungbaek.

However, Imseo eventually committed a crime as Deungbaek feared, and Deungbaek gave up the path of faith and chose Yangheung.

It was a device that showed that the two things that made up Deungbaek in the beginning had all failed, and he had to go to a new world.

Jongwoo personally liked that Rembrary, who he thought was just a background character, had such a big role.

But he was dissatisfied with this.

“Hey, this time the main focus is completely on you. Your role is on par with the two main characters, so what’s the problem?”

“Didn’t I say I was dissatisfied with all three?”

“Why is that?”

“First. I do not kneel before anyone.”

“What?”

“Second. I do not murder people.”

“……”

“Third. There is no hell in my heart.”

At Rembrary’s firm words, Jongwoo opened his mouth and blinked his eyes.

He was thinking, what is this bastard saying now?

But Rembrary was serious. The above three things were difficult to accept as a current high priest.

Even if he reluctantly conceded, the scene of murdering people or the line that there is no hell could be passed over by thinking it was just fake.

But the scene of kneeling down and brushing off the things on his shoes was really unpleasant.

“No, you did well in that scene where you crawled on your knees before, right?”

“Is that the same as this?”

“What’s the difference?”

“That’s sitting down. This is different.”

“Anyway, kneeling is all the same, right?”

Jongwoo was trying to persuade him in bewilderment, but before that, a staff member came and told him that they would start filming after the on-site reading.

Rembrary went outside, and Jongwoo followed him, carrying a water bottle and a blanket, and whispered to Sagamjae anxiously.

“He wouldn’t say he won’t do it on set, would he?”

“I think he’s capable of doing that.”

“Right, I think so too…”

Jongwoo’s face turned pale.

The more an entertainer is just starting out, the more careful they have to be about their behavior.

If they build the wrong image at this time, the word ‘his personality is really bad’ might come out among industry officials.

In other words, the moment Rembrary says to the director or writer, ‘I don’t like this scene. Please take it out.’ That rumor will already spread to other places.

No, if he makes a mistake, one of the staff members might post it on the internet and be called arrogant by the public. Of course, he’s already being called arrogant.

While Jongwoo was anxiously uneasy.

Rembrary, who arrived at the filming set, was called by the director, who was excited about the script.

“Come here, come here.”

Since only Rembrary and the middle-aged couple who were his enemies appeared in this scene, Maeng Wooshin and Lim Yuhan were not seen.

The set was decorated like a warehouse with a gloomy feeling.

“We’re going to film the scene where Imseo kills Deungbaek’s enemies here, right? Before he kills them, there will be a scene where the gangsters that this couple hired before break in and fight. The martial arts director will take care of the battle scene, so Yeonwoo, you just need to capture the expression before and after the start.”

“…Okay.”

“And we’re going to turn off all the lights from there to there, is that okay?”

When the director, who asked the question, gave a signal, the lighting staff turned off all the lights in the filming set at the same time.

The set, which was decorated like a warehouse, turned pitch black, leaving a faint light.

At that moment. Rembrary worried as he saw the evil spirit that had seeped into the shadows rejoicing in his enlarged space.

‘Is it okay?’

The next moment.

The staff turned the lights back on, and the inside of the filming set lit up brightly.

“Are you okay?”

The director asked.

A man in the form of Woo Yeon-woo smiled coldly.

“Of course.”