Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 154

< 154. Sagamjae's Warning>

“Are you… are you serious?”

The director asked with a dubious look.

“Yes. Is it not allowed?”

Rembrary answered firmly and then asked back.

The director scratched his head.

“No, it’s not that it’s not allowed.”

But judging by his expression, it seemed closer to ‘not allowed.’

*Is it really not allowed?* Rembrary gauged the director’s mood.

The director asked.

“What was it… did you read the script properly?”

“Yes.”

Rembrary answered firmly again.

“Geez. But you really want to do this?”

“Yes.”

“Geez.”

The director kept acting like that, so Rembrary also felt strange. *Is it a role that you can’t take as a cameo?*

*It’s written (Cameo) next to this too?*

What Rembrary pointed to was one of the villains who instilled fear in people – a ‘lanky ghost.’

However, their true identities are only revealed in the latter half of the movie, and in the script, the lanky ghosts’ faces were bright red.

In other words, taking on this role meant having thick makeup on your face. *But you’re willing to do this role? A role where no one can even tell who played it?*

The director set one of these roles as a cameo, just to ask a character actor for a cameo and then later promote it by saying, ‘Actually, one of the ghosts was this person!’

But Woo Yeon-woo happened to ask for that role.

“Is it not allowed?”

“Hmm.”

The director scratched his head.

The fact that Woo Yeon-woo asked for a role where his face wouldn’t be visible, and the fact that Woo Yeon-woo asked for a role that required him to show chilling acting skills even with his face completely covered to become a hot topic. These two aspects were unexpected. Also, he hesitated for these two reasons.

“This is a role that requires really good acting.”

“I’m good at it.”

“Oh… ah, right. You were good.”

The director, recalling his decent acting in , nodded and agreed with Rembrary’s words. He was good, indeed.

The director poked the thick stack of papers on the desk in front of him with the pen in his hand. Every time the stack of papers was poked, it made a picking sound.

The ticking of the clock was heard, and some of the actors who had left came back in.

The actors, who came in chatting among themselves, noticed that the director was having a serious conversation with Rembrary, who was the biggest issue maker these days, and alternately looked at the director and Rembrary with curious eyes.

“Then, would you like to try it for a moment?”

The director stopped thinking after a long time and asked. Then, before Rembrary could answer, he pointed to Lee Il-baek.

“You have to chase after Jeon Young’s role, you know? Try chasing him from here.”

Lee Il-baek had been watching Rembrary, unable to leave even during the break, and had been keeping his seat. He was watching the situation blankly, and when he was suddenly pointed out, he asked with a flustered expression.

“Me? Me too?”

“Yes, you too.”

Lee Il-baek looked like he didn’t want to.

But not wanting to fight with the director, he reluctantly got up from his seat.

Rembrary also slyly followed him.

Honestly, he wasn’t confident in imitating a ghost well. But Rembrary was confident in imitating a demon. Because he had seen them a lot.

*In the script, it’s a ghost, but wouldn’t it be okay to just imitate a demon?*

Lee Il-baek asked the director.

“Can I just keep running away in this room?”

The director told him to do so and briefly explained to Rembrary as well.

“The role that Yeon-woo wants to do is in a space where the ceiling is lower than his height, you know? Chase after Il-baek with the thought of moving through that space. Make it feel really scary. Bang! Horror! Pow! Got it?”

Rembrary said he understood, lowered his body slightly, and pretended to push the ceiling with one hand and braced himself sideways as if pushing the wall with the other hand. He turned his head to the side as if he couldn’t stretch his head in that state. It was a posture of squeezing his body into a really narrow space.

At the plausible appearance, some of the actors who had returned to their seats and were watching this situation with interest made an ‘ooh’ sound.

The director, who had just told him to do it once, also had a quite satisfied expression.

“Wow, you’re getting the posture right away?”

Rembrary smiled faintly at the people’s praise and thought to himself that Lee Il-baek was his prey. Like demons do.

In fact, if the director allowed him to make a cameo appearance, Rembrary was thinking of using some divine power on Lee Il-baek.

Of course, it’s not divine power that helps people. What Rembrary was going to use at that time was the ability called ‘God’s Majesty,’ which was an ability that could literally borrow and show God’s majesty for a moment.

When this is used, the person who is hit by the ability trembles in fear as if they are facing something overwhelming and distant.

A subordinate who had been hit by this ability expressed it as feeling like floating in the air on a high cliff where the bottom is not even visible.

However, that was then, and Rembrary was not going to use such an ability here today.

Because Lee Il-baek might say he’s scared and quit the movie.

In the end, Rembrary did not use his ability and just approached Lee Il-baek with the feeling of imitating the actions of demons.

However, that alone was horror for Lee Il-baek.

Lee Il-baek, who was suddenly ordered by the director to show a chase scene, actually thought, *’What can he do if I just follow him?’*

He was also thinking of suppressing the opponent with scary acting if Woo Yeon-woo followed him scarily.

Woo Yeon-woo is getting evaluated as acting better than he thought, but that’s just ‘better than he thought,’ right?

It was a reasonable thought for Lee Il-baek, who hadn’t seen the last episode where the demon temporarily possessed Woo Yeon-woo’s body.

He’s said to be good at acting, but Woo Yeon-woo had almost no presence in .

However, as Woo Yeon-woo approached, groping around while trapped… strangely, it was eerie.

He’s clearly not acting realistically, and there are awkward parts here and there. But something… it was eerie because it felt real.

Lee Il-baek inadvertently took a step back. After taking a few steps back, he suddenly turned around when he realized that this wasn’t the scene.

The director, seeing that, scolded him.

“What are you doing now!”

The director looked infinitely good when he was in a good mood, but he was infinitely scary when he was angry.

The thunderous sound struck the room and passed, and the actors and staff who had been freely relaxed straightened up at the same time.

Lee Il-baek also froze.

Rembrary also lowered his hand and looked at the director.

The director pointed his finger as if he had been greatly insulted.

“Jeon Young’s role! Is this a scene where you run away like that? Where’s your expression, your expression! How can you have worse facial expressions than an idol who hasn’t even been acting for a year!”

Lee Il-baek belatedly realized his mistake at the director’s shout. He realized that he had made a mistake in his actions and corrected it right away. But he didn’t take care of his expression. It was clearly his mistake.

The director, who was panting, went outside to drink water, perhaps because he was thirsty from shouting.

Then, naturally, three staff members followed, and two managers also followed, watching the situation.

Lee Il-baek glared at Rembrary. As if it was all Rembrary’s fault.

Rembrary smiled warmly and kindly at Lee Il-baek and raised his finger to his neck and drew it.

*We. Will wage a holy war.*

***

Jong-woo heard about the cameo after another script reading and during the second break.

“Are you okay with it?”

The director asked, and Jong-woo naturally waved his hand, saying he was okay.

“Oh my, if you write it for us, our Yeon-woo will be honored!”

It wasn’t just empty words. He was actually okay with it. No, he was very happy.

If two idols from the same group appear in one movie, some people might grumble that LLL [the agency] is pushing them too much. A large agency would hear such words.

But LLL was an agency that didn’t have the ability to push that much. Even if they suspected, they would soon find out.

If there were no people looking at it with a twisted perspective, there were many things to promote this case in various ways.

It’s a role where his face doesn’t appear, but Jong-woo knew that Yeon-woo was surprisingly good at scary roles. He suspected that Yeon-woo’s other personality might have played the scary role,

Even if it’s not that personality, he has a creepy side, so he seems to be good at scary acting, and if it’s well intertwined with emotions, it would be good to spread promotional articles.

Jong-woo patted Rembrary on the back and praised him.

“Good job.”

“Of course.”

That praise was withdrawn when Lee Il-baek smiled and threatened Jungseo and Rembrary, saying, “It’s going to be very fun on set.”

Jong-woo glared at Rembrary.

“What happened? What happened that made the guy who only sneered, no, that made Lee Il-baek evolve to threatening?”

“The director scolded him.”

“But why is he like that to you?”

“The director praised me.”

It was the truth, but Jong-woo was convinced that Rembrary had caused an accident.

Rembrary must have caused an accident, but somehow it got twisted, resulting in Rembrary being praised and Lee Il-baek being scolded.

He knew that Lee Il-baek managed his image well in front of the director, so he thought that way even more.

In the end, Jong-woo asked Sagamjae.

“I was going to keep you with me today, but I can’t. Can you take Yeon-woo and go to the company?”

***

In the car on the way back.

Jungseo and Jong-woo were still at the script reading location, so Rembrary sat in the passenger seat.

As always, Sagamjae, who was quiet, was just as quiet when driving, so Rembrary yawned and turned the radio button, then picked up his cell phone. He was thinking of taking a picture to post on social media.

But just as he turned on the camera app and raised his cell phone to eye level.

Sagamjae, who had been silent for 15 minutes, suddenly spoke.

“It’s your decision to play a scary role, but.”

“?”

“The ‘shadow’ might take over your body again during filming.”

Rembrary put down his cell phone and looked at Sagamjae.

“What?”

“It’s as you heard.”

Sagamjae answered indifferently.

Rembrary turned off the social media and photo app altogether and asked Sagamjae.

“Why do you think so?”

He wasn’t questioning him, he was really curious. Rembrary himself has no memory at all when the real Woo Yeon-woo in the shadow or ‘it’ appears.

On the other hand, Sagamjae had been rescuing Rembrary every time he lost his memory and keeping him at his house.

“I’m not sure, but it seems to come out when the role is a bit like that. When the camera is nearby.”

“Is that so?”

“Or when it’s dangerous…”

Sagamjae, who trailed off, tapped the steering wheel with his finger.

From the radio that Rembrary had given up on turning on earlier, a sobbing song flowed out.

“I said it briefly before, but I’ll say it again in case you’ve forgotten. If you lose control of your body again and that dark being takes over your body, you will really be classified as a dangerous factor in the afterlife. They will come to catch you.”

< 154. Sagamjae's Warning> End