Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 195

195. Why There of All Places?

Even without motivation, work must continue.

Rembrary became even busier after the scandal.

For three days, he visited Yul every day to practice for the year-end awards show’s special stage. In the agency’s practice room, he prepared for his solo performance at the awards show, and on top of that, he also had to prepare for the Wild Animal group performance.

Fortunately, the broadcasting station airing also proposed that the Two-Timing Team attend the year-end entertainment awards show and perform, but Jang Tae-ri and Shin Jo-woon flatly refused.

If only one of them had refused, the broadcasting station would have tried to get even two of them to attend, but since both refused, the proposal itself was scrapped. Rembrary heard that a fan and celebrity couple would take on that stage instead.

Anyway, Rembrary was also facing the risk of being cast in a drama amidst all this, so it was understandable that he wasn’t thrilled.

“Do I really have to do it?”

On the way to meet the director, Rembrary asked Jong-woo, exhausted.

“The director and writer of this drama are famous for their great teamwork. They have a terrible relationship, but strangely, when they work together, the results are good.”

“There are people like that.”

“You got a good response from back then. Since your acting range isn’t that wide, if you succeed with a few projects with a similar concept, it’ll be easier to fully transition into acting later. They say strike while the iron is hot, so it’s better to establish your image in advance when the response isn’t bad.”

Rembrary leaned his head against the window, and Jong-woo asked with a sorry tone.

“The end of the year must be really tiring, huh?”

“It’s not just because I’m tired…….”

“Why? Is there something else going on?”

Rembrary hesitated, and Jong-woo muttered bitterly.

“I guess. There have been a lot of things happening recently.”

He seemed to be thinking about the sponsor rumors.

But that wasn’t the reason Rembrary was tired.

A week ago, Rembrary was thinking about Redrin, who had only briefly appeared, and the world he originally looked down upon.

That bothered him, and he just didn’t feel motivated.

His physical fatigue is instantly recovered thanks to his divine power, but no matter how great Rembrary’s divine power is, he couldn’t recover from mental fatigue.

In the meantime, the car arrived in front of a large building.

“We’re here.”

Jong-woo got out first, and Rembrary followed, taking a paper bag with him.

Originally, Sa Gam-jae should be doing this kind of work now, but Jong-woo still didn’t trust Sa Gam-jae, who often went out of contact.

Because of that, while grumbling, ‘Why am I still doing road manager duties when I have a junior?’, he left the members practicing at the agency to Sa Gam-jae and took the wheel himself today.

“The director said he likes your image and wants you, but he still needs to see what kind of picture you’ll make in person first. Got it?”

“Got what?”

“Do well.”

While riding the elevator, Jong-woo gave him a few more explanations about the drama.

“The main cast is already decided, and the drama has been scheduled. They’ve already done the script reading and started filming the beginning.”

“But they’re casting now?”

“They’ve been casting all along. The director insisted that there was no one he felt a spark with, so it’s been dragging on until now. The painter role appears from episode 6.”

Rembrary was openly disappointed.

“Isn’t my part going to be tiny when I actually see it?”

“……Are you motivated or not?”

―Ding

Jong-woo shut his mouth at the sound of the elevator doors opening. When the doors opened, he saw a person standing in front of him.

Recognizing the face, Jong-woo hurriedly bowed deeply without even getting out of the elevator.

“Oh, Director Shim!”

The manager in charge of a famous idol or actor became more assertive as the celebrity became more famous, but Jong-woo, on the other hand, became more cautious and greeted people sincerely.

Kesh, the prepared Maltese fighter. Hye-gyeol, the profanity-spewing woman who uses standard broadcasting language. Tae-in, who doesn’t get along with the members and is always ready to cause discord.

And Rembrary, the final boss with no filter on his tongue. Recently, there’s even been talk that he’s summoning ghosts.

Since you never know when and where these four will explode, he just has to be careful and cautious.

“Ah, I was about to go out for a bit because I was worried you might not be able to find your way here. The roads here are complicated.”

The person Jong-woo called ‘Director Shim’ accepted Jong-woo’s words with a kind face.

“I thought you weren’t coming, that you got lost.”

However, there was an edge to his words, and Jong-woo broke out in a cold sweat.

“Haha, is that so.”

Then the elevator doors closed with a ding.

“Oops.”

Only then was Jong-woo surprised and took Rembrary out of the elevator. Then, from an angle where Director Shim couldn’t see, he pushed Rembrary’s back. Greet him. Greet him.

Did he recognize the signal? Fortunately, Rembrary immediately greeted him.

“Hello.”

Director Shim replied casually, “Oh, yeah.” Even so, he couldn’t take his eyes off Rembrary. He especially scrutinized his face, making Jong-woo feel nervous for no reason.

Is it because he doesn’t have the image he thought he would in person? Is that why he’s staring so intently?

It seemed that Rembrary was the only one who wasn’t nervous in this situation.

Jong-woo was impressed. Does this guy really not have any sense of tension at all? How can he be smiling so gently even in this situation?

At that moment.

A satisfied smile appeared on Director Shim’s face.

“Not bad.”

It wasn’t a bright smile, just a pebble-like smile thrown out casually.

However, this was enough to reassure Jong-woo.

Thank goodness. Jong-woo breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

“Our Yeon-woo has a great mask, you know [a face that looks good on camera].”

Without showing it, he quickly gave a thumbs up, and Director Shim agreed.

“That’s right. I was worried that he only looks good on screen since he looks so good on TV, but he looks good in person too. He has a good vibe.”

“Our Yeon-woo has a deep vibe, doesn’t he?”

The director looked at Rembrary with the expression of someone admiring a work of art, and Jong-woo, who saw that, forgot that he had been worried about Rembrary until just now and felt proud. As expected, he’s a visual.

“Come this way.”

In the meantime, the director took the two to a room with only a table and chairs.

There, he took out a small camera and looked at Rembrary through the camera lens.

“Can you act naturally?”

When Rembrary struck a pose appropriately, the director began to give instructions on how to position his arms and legs.

While making requests, he also circled around Rembrary.

Finally, after checking the filmed footage, the director muttered with a satisfied expression.

“Really not bad. It’s exactly the image of Do Mu-gyeong that I had in mind.”

Jong-woo, who had been watching the filming with a pounding heart, grinned from ear to ear.

“We need to start filming right away. Can you adjust your schedule?”

However, Jong-woo’s expression hardened again at the director’s request.

The year-end awards show recordings and practices that were scheduled one after another flashed through Jong-woo’s mind.

entertainment filming, Christmas special photoshoot, Madeleine Cosmetics CF [commercial film], advertisements featuring the entire Wild Animal…… They’re not filming all twelve like they did at the beginning, but some offers have come in again.

All of this was incredibly tight.

The director asked again.

“Looks like you’re busy?”

Jong-woo quickly smiled and flattered him.

“Even if we’re busy, we have to make time.”

* * *

Rembrary sent a text message to Daeju.

[Have you had a conversation with Redrin-nim recently?]

A reply came not long after.

[No, I haven’t. Why do you ask?]

[I saw Redrin-nim a few days ago]

[Really?]

[I couldn’t talk to her, but…….]

[But doesn’t the fact that she showed herself mean that her power is gradually returning?]

[Do you think so?]

Suddenly, the text messages stopped. Rembrary held up his phone and shook it, but of course, there was no reply.

“What are you doing?”

Tae-in asked as he passed by. It didn’t seem like a question that needed an answer, as he just walked past as soon as he asked the question.

Rembrary looked down at his phone again and stood up.

At that moment, a phone call came. It was Daeju, who hadn’t replied to his text messages all along.

“Why did you text and then call?”

Rembrary quickly answered and asked, and Daeju asked out of the blue.

[High Priest-nim. If Redrin-nim were to fully recover her power, what do you think it would be like?]

“It would be good, wouldn’t it?”

Why such an obvious answer?

[If Redrin-nim were to come here…… what would that be like?]

Rembrary blinked. Redrin-nim here?

It was a perplexing question. He had never thought about it.

If a god immigrates, chaos occurs. That chaos is not ordinary chaos because a god never comes alone.

“Why are you asking such questions?”

[I’m trying to understand the situation in various ways.]

However, even in this situation, Daeju answered indifferently.

What situation is he trying to understand that requires such an assumption……?

* * *

The drama that Rembrary would be joining from episode 6 was called .

Rembrary woke up early in the morning and got into the car for the filming of .

Filming was scheduled to start at five in the afternoon, but the director said that Rembrary, who was joining in the middle, needed to coordinate his character before filming, so he was going at nine in the morning.

He was scheduled to go there, build the character with the director and writer, and then start filming at five o’clock.

While moving to the filming location, Rembrary reviewed the script and synopsis up to episode 6.

The main character is On Eun-seon. The name of the painter role that Rembrary would be playing is Do Mu-gyeong.

The drama was about a woman who sees everyone as bones after ‘an incident’.

Interestingly, the main character only recognizes some people as ‘gray bones’, and the title ‘Gray Bones’ was taken from this.

The main character thinks that the people with ‘gray bones’ are related to her lost memories and this strange phenomenon, so she starts approaching the people with ‘gray bones’, and the story begins from there.

Rembrary lightly read the story up to episode 5, in which he doesn’t appear.

Episode 1 skims over the situation and background of the main character, On Eun-seon, and On Eun-seon sees ‘gray bones’ for the first time at the end of episode 1.

Episode 2 shows On Eun-seon approaching that person, and this person was the male lead.

Of course, On Eun-seon is convinced that that person is related to her lost memories.

But the other person treats On Eun-seon like a strange person, and then the two start to have a slight romance, and at the end of episode 2, another ‘gray bone’ appears.

In that way, the number of ‘gray bones’ gradually increases, but the main character is confused because she doesn’t know what relationship she has with those ‘gray bones’.

Then, in episode 6, the new ‘gray bone’ she meets is the painter Do Mu-gyeong role played by Rembrary.

Rembrary read the script and understood why the director said this role was important.

While the ‘gray bones’ so far say they have never seen the main character, Do Mu-gyeong was the first person to recognize the main character.

But the scene where the two meet…….

‘Hmm?’

Rembrary was taken aback while reading the script. The location for episode 6. It was an amusement park.

‘If it’s an amusement park, then Gam-jae said before……?’

Rembrary raised his head and looked out the window. In the distance, he could see a large, round structure.

It’s a Ferris wheel.

“Jong-woo.”

When Rembrary called out, Jong-woo, who was sitting in the passenger seat and telling Sa Gam-jae the way, turned around.

“Yeah. Why? Did you read the script? Is there a word you don’t understand?”