Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 169

169. Face Time

“Listen to me, Sh-Teacher.”

As soon as he opened his mouth, the host screamed and cut him off.

“No swearing!”

Rembrary stared blankly at the host before retorting.

“I said it in English?”

Beta hurriedly whispered from behind.

“Yeonwoo, ‘teacher’ isn’t ‘ssaem’ [Korean word for teacher] in English. It’s ‘teacher’.”

Rembrary nodded, understanding.

But ‘Sh-Teacher’ sounded awkward. Plus, it sounded too much like a swear word.

In the end, Rembrary decided to drop the ‘teacher’ part.

Isn’t the content more important than the title?

Having made his decision, Rembrary started dissing Teacher Yang again, simply.

“Sheep, listen to me-”

“Ugh, Wooyeonwoo!”

The host cut Rembrary off again.

“That sounds like a swear word too!”

“This too?”

Rembrary sighed as if he couldn’t believe it, and the host sighed along with him.

‘Wooyeonwoo can’t speak English.’

‘Wooyeonwoo is so bad at English.’

‘Well, if he thinks Guan Yu [famous Chinese general] is a game character…….’

Fortunately for Jongwoo, Rembrary’s image was so ignorant that no one thought he was deliberately using swear words.

Except for Teacher Yang himself.

“I’m not ‘Eum-mae’ Yang [likely a play on words or nickname], so why don’t you get away from ‘Sheep’? Are you doing this on purpose?”

Teacher Yang protested, but Rembrary immediately denied it, saying, “Of course not.”

His expression was so sincere that Teacher Yang shut his mouth for now.

Jongwoo was already half-resigned and smiling wryly. If someone were to pat him on the back right now, Buddhist relics would roll out of his mouth [an exaggeration implying extreme suffering]. The fact that CEO Im had scheduled this made his heart ache even more.

Meanwhile, on stage, the host spoke to Rembrary again.

“No blatant swearing, Wooyeonwoo. It might get edited out entirely.”

But Rembrary had already lost all his fighting spirit.

In fact, Rembrary had intended to tell the audience about that absurd incident where Wild Animal was the victim of the choreography issue, but Wild Animal ultimately had to apologize.

However, after being interrupted twice, Rembrary felt that all of this was pointless. He didn’t feel like putting others down in front of people either.

Even if he were to put someone down, he should do it where no one else could see. What good would it do to do it in front of so many people?

In the end, Rembrary decided to maintain his dignity as a high priest, even if he didn’t get a high score in the diss battle, and simply gave advice with dignity.

“I don’t criticize others in front of people. That’s what petty people do. I am a magnanimous person.”

To Teacher Yang, who was clearly impressed by the high priest’s mercy, Rembrary gave a warm and generous smile.

* * *

―Wow, Wooyeonwoo’s personality, lololol

―He’s making everyone petty just to survive on his own, lolololol

―It’s beyond a one-hit-two-kills level; how many people have become petty?

ㄴQueen’s expression is rotten, sob sob

―WTF, what does that make Queen?

ㄴPetty, lolololol

ㄴWhat does it make her? He’s telling you exactly what it makes her, lololol

―I’m not really a Wooyeonwoo fan, but Wooyeonwoo is really nice. Honestly, isn’t it cruel to openly create a space for each other to diss like that? Look at him taking the blame and saying he won’t do that. Wooyeonwoo is really magnanimous.

ㄴWTF, lololol, Wooyeonwoo fan, have some conscience. Does that look like he’s not dissing? He’s dissing everyone from the production team to the cast, lololol

* * *

The Wild Animal’s new song showcase was held the day before Halloween.

Since the showcase date overlapped with the filming date, Shin Joowoon and Jang Taeri specially came to the venue to see the showcase, and the related filming team followed.

Under the host’s skillful guidance, the showcase flowed smoothly without any noise. Some reporters said that they felt a little cheesy after watching the music video, but the response to the stage was generally good.

Wooyeonwoo, who was a visual member, had virtually joined the vocal line, and the vocal line had become so strong that the term ‘performance group’ was no longer appropriate.

There was a fatal flaw in that the main vocalist, Keshi, would make mistakes when nervous, but since the showcase was not live, there was no need to worry about making mistakes.

“Wow, Yeonwoo is good. Right?”

“Is there anything a pig can’t do in your eyes?”

“He can’t cook, it seems.”

“He can’t dance either.”

“No, his dancing is just average. He’s bad for an idol, but good for an average person. Look at that perfect finger angle. How precise is it?”

“Isn’t it a problem if that precise angle is different by himself?”

“No. Yeonwoo is right, and everyone else is wrong.”

While Jang Taeri, who was in ‘Oh my baby is doing so well’ mode no matter what Wooyeonwoo did, was pleased and trying to put rose-colored glasses on the other person’s eyes as well,

Shin Joowoon insisted on the truth, saying, ‘No matter what you say, he can’t dance. He can’t rap either,’ but raised his eyebrows when he discovered a familiar face.

‘That person…….’

“What’s wrong?”

When Shin Joowoon stared at someone, Jang Taeri turned her head along with him.

Jang Taeri, who had confirmed who Shin Joowoon was looking at, pointed to a large man with a nod and asked.

“Oh, are you looking at the homma [Korean term for a dedicated fan who follows a celebrity around and takes photos]? He’s noticeable, isn’t he?”

“Homma?”

When Shin Joowoon asked back, Jang Taeri nodded and laughed silently.

“He’s Yeonwoo’s personal homma. He runs around to events with a photographer, a bodyguard, and a driver in a Rolls?”

At that moment, the ‘homma’ person cast his gaze towards Shin Joowoon.

Amidst the noise of the music, Shin Joowoon and the homma’s eyes met in the air.

The homma nodded his head first, knowing Shin Joowoon’s face, and Shin Joowoon also bowed his head in response.

The homma nodded his head once more before turning his gaze away again.

Watching his profile, Shin Joowoon tilted his head.

‘Where have I seen him…….’

“Yeonwoo is greeting us. Yeonwoo is greeting us.”

However, Jang Taeri shook Shin Joowoon and urged him to focus on the stage quickly, so his thoughts did not continue.

* * *

‘Isn’t that the person who appears on a show with Wooyeonwoo?’

Hwan Shin thought so as he looked at Shin Joowoon and Jang Taeri, and got up when a song ended.

“Are you going to the bathroom?”

Then the photographer, who was diligently pressing the shutter, asked Hwan Shin.

The photographer was an employee he had hired, but at the same time, he was a real Wooyeonwoo personal fan. Perhaps because of this, his face was more excited than usual.

“No. To the car.”

“To get something?”

“It’s noisy.”

When Hwan Shin answered curtly, the photographer made a shocked expression, saying, ‘Our kids are holding the microphone right now, and you’re saying it’s noisy?’

“This song is a bit noisy. A lot.”

Hwan Shin left the photographer with a 2-hit combo and went outside. Even so, he didn’t forget to tell him to take pretty pictures. He had started it for a different purpose, but he had to play the role of homma properly.

Hwan Shin went straight to the parking lot, got into the back seat of the car, and leaned his body completely against the seat. He didn’t like such noisy songs. Wooyeonwoo’s voice was surprisingly good to listen to objectively, but the group song wasn’t just Wooyeonwoo singing, was it?

[Why are you here already? Why are you here already? Is it not fun?]

Labroom, who was reading the newspaper upside down, asked, slightly pulling his seat to the side.

“No matter how hard I take pictures, I don’t see anything particularly strange. I’m tired.”

[Many places you can’t go. Homma places are limited. Should I find another way?]

“I don’t know.”

Hwan Shin muttered indifferently and turned his head, discovering Shin Joowoon, who had just come out of the building.

Judging by the fact that he had a cell phone to his ear, it seemed that he had come out for a while because it was too noisy to answer the phone.

But just as Hwan Shin was about to turn his head back to the front,

[Hwan Shin. Human. Contractor.]

Labroom rolled up the newspaper and tapped the side of Hwan Shin’s head.

Hwan Shin frowned and knocked the newspaper away.

“What is it.”

Hwan Shin, who naturally looked at Labroom, paused. Labroom was taking his mouth out and smiling.

“What’s wrong?”

Hwan Shin turned to Shin Joowoon along with him, but Shin Joowoon was just continuing to talk to someone.

Labroom tapped Hwan Shin with the newspaper and asked again.

[Hwan Shin. Human. Contractor. Is that Nakru? Is it Nakru? Is it Nakru?]

“I don’t think so.”

[Really? Is that so? I see.]

“What’s wrong?”

Does that person have some aspect like Nakru? Hwan Shin belatedly asked, slightly puzzled.

Labroom tilted his head, said it was nothing, and unfolded the newspaper again.

* * *

After the showcase.

Rembrary left the other members for the filming and came to a braised seafood restaurant with Shin Joowoon and Jang Taeri.

Rather than having a special concept, it was a structure where the three of them were peacefully hanging out before Halloween, so today’s atmosphere was not much different from when the three of them were usually together.

“You should have done a showcase with makeup or something the day before Halloween.”

“That opinion came out too, but there were many opinions that we should wear the same clothes as the music video.”

“Yeonwoo, are you going to put on makeup and upload pictures tomorrow?”

“Yes. I’m thinking of wearing something like a priest’s robe. Or a monk’s robe.”

“You can wear a pig costume, a pig costume.”

“Shin Joowoon, get lost. What kind of priest’s robe are you going to wear? There are many kinds of priest’s robes, aren’t there? A monk’s robe would look good too.”

“Pig country priest’s robe.”

“Shin Joowoon, shut up. The priest’s robe looked good on you during before, Yeonwoo.”

The VJ thought it was a strange relationship while filming Shin Joowoon, Jang Taeri, and Rembrary.

Anyway, it seemed certain that the three of them had actually become close while doing this program.

“What kind of makeup are you going to do, Taeri?”

“What kind of makeup do you think would suit me? Yeonwoo, recommend something.”

“Guan Yu.”

“…….”

“It would suit Jang Taeri well. Should I get you a beard?”

“Jang Taeri, can I order another plate?”

“No. Stop eating, pig.”

“!”

Shin Joowoon laughed, saying that Jang Taeri’s true colors had come out, Rembrary was shocked and hardened when Jang Taeri, whom he had trusted, bounced him, and Jang Taeri was searching on her cell phone for what the mobile game version of Guan Yu, which Rembrary always had in his mouth, looked like. The filming for today’s episode of the Yangdari team was also over.

Jang Taeri came in her own car, so she drove back directly, and Shin Joowoon decided to take Rembrary, who didn’t have a car, back to his dorm.

It was thanks to Shin Joowoon asking Jongwoo for his understanding after hearing the VJ say that the filming would end right after stopping by the restaurant.

Rembrary was in the passenger seat of Shin Joowoon’s car, repeatedly dozing off and waking up while he was driving.

But how long had they moved? While passing through an alley, Rembrary, who was dozing off as if clinging to the seat belt, suddenly raised his head and looked somewhere.

“What’s wrong?”

Shin Joowoon stopped the car on the side in a daze and asked.

“A person.”

Rembrary answered briefly, unfastened his seat belt, and went outside.

Shin Joowoon also followed in a daze and chased after Rembrary.