Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 196

196. If You’re Going to Be Like This, I Quit!

Rembrary stared silently out the window, which Jongwoo found strange, so he asked,

“Yeonwoo? Is something wrong?”

“The screams…….”

“People always scream at amusement parks.”

“No, it’s not that.”

Rembrary looked at the driver’s seat. From the back seat, only Manager Sagamjae’s head was visible, along with the tips of his hands on the steering wheel, moving steadily.

But Sagamjae was just driving silently. *Doesn’t he have any thoughts about this situation?*

‘Could it be that this isn’t *the* amusement park? Is that why he’s so calm?’

There’s more than one amusement park. Rembrary suppressed his uneasy feelings while watching Sagamjae’s reaction. *Right. Maybe the amusement park Sagamjae mentioned and the one they’re going to for the shoot are different places.*

“Do we have to film here?”

At that moment, the quiet Sagamjae asked, and Jongwoo retorted with a dumbfounded expression.

“Do you think we have a choice?”

Rembrary realized why Sagamjae was asking that question. The amusement park they were going to now *was* indeed the problematic amusement park.

If it wasn’t, he wouldn’t have asked such a question, even if Sagamjae was unreliable as a manager.

Rembrary, who had also noticed, urgently agreed with Sagamjae.

“Yeah, Jongwoo. Do we have to film here?”

“Why are you being like this again? I told you, we don’t have a choice.”

Rembrary crumpled the synopsis anxiously. Jongwoo was right. From what Rembrary had seen, Jongwoo had no power in that area.

Rembrary checked the time on his phone. The filming was definitely scheduled to start at 5 PM.

Since they weren’t going straight into filming, they were arriving eight hours earlier than everyone else. There was time to persuade the director.

While he was feeling anxious, the car arrived at the parking lot.

“Where should we go?”

“There’s a waiting room they lend to the parade team. They said to come there since they’ve reserved it for us.”

Following Jongwoo into the amusement park, they saw a group of young people running by, laughing.

It was morning, so there weren’t many people yet. Only those who were determined to ride as many rides as possible in the shortest amount of time were laughing and talking as they ran to the nearest rides.

*It’s still quiet.*

“What are you looking at? We’re this way.”

Jongwoo led Rembrary and Sagamjae to a one-story building in the far corner.

It was old, like an abandoned building, and surrounded by dangerous-looking wire mesh. There was even a sign on the wire mesh that said, ‘No Entry for Unauthorized Personnel,’ but even the wire mesh and the sign were old.

“Can we go in? Is this the right place?”

“They made it like this on purpose. The inside is fine.”

Going inside, the interior of the building was just plain and clean, as Jongwoo had said.

“Here.”

Jongwoo opened the door closest to the main entrance.

The interior was also plain and clean like a hallway. There was a large desk in the center, a whiteboard in front of it, and uncomfortable wooden chairs around it.

And the director was sitting in one of those chairs.

“Oh, Yeonwoo-ssi, Jongwoo-ssi.”

Jongwoo, who had confidently said that they would arrive before the director this time, was surprised and hurriedly greeted the director.

“You came early.”

“Oh, yeah, I had something to look into.”

Fortunately, the director didn’t nitpick about them being late this time. He even seemed to be in a better mood than when they had met before.

However, a moment later, a person wearing glasses appeared and weakly extended a hand to Rembrary, saying, “Hello…….” The director’s expression, which had been calm, crumpled.

Rembrary realized that the person was the drama writer of . [It is common in Korean dramas to refer to people by adding -ssi to their names, which is a polite way of addressing someone.]

Moreover, as if the rumors of their bad relationship were true, the person glanced at the director with a dissatisfied expression as soon as he finished greeting.

The tense atmosphere between the director and the writer was applied to Rembrary as well.

The director watched Rembrary greet the writer, and as soon as the greeting was over and he sat down, he immediately opened the script and demanded.

“How are you going to portray the character? Read Domugyeong’s line in scene 15.”

Rembrary opened his script.

Scene 15 was the scene where the main character, On Eunseon, who went to the art museum, discovers Domugyeong.

At this time, On Eunseon had not found any evidence of memory loss from the ‘Gray Bones’ she had met so far, nor had she found any common ground between the ‘Gray Bones’.

Moreover, the last ‘Gray Bone’ she met regarded On Eunseon as deliberately approaching them to act special and even insulted her.

On Eunseon came to the art museum to relieve this stress because she could see people properly in the paintings, and she wanted to find peace of mind by looking at them.

On Eunseon was very tired of the current situation where everyone, even the people in the photos, looked like bones.

However, when she came to the art museum feeling sensitive, ‘Gray Bone’ Domugyeong was standing in front of her favorite painting again.

On Eunseon discovers ‘Gray Bone’, but unlike in the previous episode, she hesitates without immediately acknowledging him. She was afraid of being treated like a strange person again.

But she didn’t want to live her whole life seeing people only as bones, so she couldn’t pretend not to know him.

While she was hesitating nearby, Domugyeong, played by Rembrary, was the one who spoke first.

“It’s been a while.”

It was an ordinary line, but it was a line where On Eunseon’s situation took a turn for the first time, and it was a line that brought a big change to On Eunseon’s psychology.

The writer also put parentheses next to this line and wrote (meaningfully).

Rembrary said the line and glanced at the director and the writer. Both of them were staring intently at the script and didn’t say anything.

‘Should I keep going?’

Guessing that was the case, Rembrary skipped On Eunseon’s line, “Do you know me?” and recited his next line.

“You’re doing it again.”

After that, Rembrary paused slightly, thinking that On Eunseon was saying her line in front of him, and then continued his line.

“You still haven’t fixed it? ……You still haven’t fixed it.”

Rembrary spoke in a kind and friendly voice, assuming that there was a partner in front of him.

Meanwhile, Jongwoo was anxiously watching the director, the writer, and Rembrary. He was worried that neither the director nor the writer touched him while he was reciting the lines.

He couldn’t tell if it was good or not.

However, as soon as Rembrary’s lines in scene 15 were all over, the director, who had been listening to the lines perfectly, frowned and got angry.

“That Baek Inseol bastard, he said he was a genius actor, but what is this?”

The drama writer also scratched his forehead with a serious expression.

“Hmm. A bit.”

Jongwoo’s spine tingled. *Did they not like it?*

In the midst of this, Rembrary put down the script and asked the director.

“Who is Baek Inseol?”

Under the desk, Jongwoo hurriedly kicked Rembrary’s leg with his own. *Hey, don’t ask that in this situation. Just try to get through it with a little bit of tact.*

But the director had already heard the question.

“You don’t even know the name of the movie director you appeared in?”

Rembrary thought about whether he had appeared in a movie, and then recalled the Jungseo movie he had recently made a cameo appearance in.

He didn’t pay much attention to the director because he was focusing on Lee Ilbaek and Redlin, so he didn’t remember anything other than that his last name was Baek.

Moreover, the Demon King had taken over his body on the day of filming. Rembrary had only exchanged a few words with that director a few months ago.

Jongwoo said that the director praised him a lot after filming. Of course, he didn’t remember any of it.

But the director, who had no way of knowing this, clicked his tongue.

“I’m going crazy. I have to film with this guy in a few hours. I was a fool to trust that guy’s judgment. A fool.”

The writer added fuel to the fire.

“I know. You should have seen him in advance.”

“I did see him in advance? Outwardly, he’s exactly Domugyeong’s image.”

The director protested to the writer, getting angry. The writer’s voice was subdued, but he didn’t back down.

“What good is it if the appearance is Domugyeong? He speaks too kindly. He’s supposed to be a character who looks like he has something, but he looks like a nice person.”

Jongwoo was flustered and looked back and forth between the writer and the director.

The director was now angry as if Rembrary and Jongwoo weren’t even there.

“When I showed Kim Writer the acting scene that Baek Director sent me, Kim Writer said he liked it?”

Kim Writer ignored the director and demanded Rembrary.

“I saw you playing Imseo. There’s a confession scene there. Do it with that feeling.”

Rembrary frowned. Both of the scenes those two were talking about were when the Demon King appeared. Rembrary had no memory of it.

“You’re doing well naturally now. But it’s not the image we want.”

“It’s been a while.”

Even though Rembrary recited the line again, the director shook his head.

“Make it darker. As soon as the viewers see it, they should be like, ‘Wow, that bastard,’ ‘Wow, that bastard has something.’ Make it dark enough for them to start guessing.”

“……It’s been a while.”

“You’re too warm. Say it suspiciously.”

“It’s been a while.”

The director pounded his chest, and Jongwoo was so intimidated that he shrank back.

He had heard rumors that Director Shim and Kim Writer would drive the actors and staff crazy as soon as they were together, but it was even worse in person.

Director Shim. Especially that director, wasn’t he not like that when they met separately? But why is he like this now…….

“Again!”

At that time. Suddenly, Rembrary put down the script and made a serious expression.

The moment Director Shim saw that and tried to get a slight feeling of ‘Oh!’

Rembrary brought up something completely unexpected, not the line that Director Shim had expected.

“I want to change the filming location.”

“…….”

The room became quiet in an instant. Director Shim and Kim Writer blinked, looking like they didn’t know what they had heard.

After a long time, Kim Writer blankly asked back.

“What are you changing?”

“The filming location. Can’t we film at another amusement park?”

Director Shim’s mouth dropped open as wide as a gourd. His pupils became as big as if they would fall out. With that expression, the director looked at Jongwoo.

Jongwoo belatedly jumped up in surprise.

“Hey, Yeonwoo, what are you saying!”

In the midst of this, Rembrary continued calmly.

“I don’t like the feeling here.”

He kept thinking. If that big accident happened while filming here, what would he do?

He doesn’t recklessly step forward just because there are injured people in front of him. There are so many patients in the world that he can’t handle, and Rembrary knew that he couldn’t treat them all by himself.

In fact, when the reporter and cameraman were attacked by the monster, he saved the reporter but couldn’t save the injured cameraman because people were crowding around, so he left.

Just before one of Nakru’s members was attacked by the cow-headed monster. At that time, he warned them of the danger, but he didn’t push through the crowd to treat the attacked person. But 119 came right away. [119 is the emergency telephone number in South Korea]

But if a major accident happened, there would be more than one or two people whose lives were in danger.

Moreover, this was an amusement park. Since the place was an amusement park, there might be children among the injured. In that situation, could he turn a blind eye to all the dying people?

Then it would be better if he wasn’t at the scene of the accident.

“I want to film somewhere else.”

But Rembrary’s words just sounded arrogant to Director Shim and Kim Writer.

“Wow…… I’ve met a truckload of stars who have caught the star disease, but this is real. This is legendary.”

Director Shim laughed in disbelief because he was so dumbfounded, but even so, he immediately conveyed his request.

“Just say the line. Scene 15 again with the same feeling.”

Even though he was dumbfounded, he seemed to regard Rembrary’s request as just a crazy remark from a celebrity who had suddenly become popular.

But Rembrary stubbornly demanded again.

“I want to change the filming location.”

Jongwoo was surprised and stood up, pulling Rembrary up.

“I’m sorry. Yeonwoo, let’s go out and talk for a bit.”

However, the director, who was already very angry, couldn’t stand it anymore and shouted.