Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 221

< 221. Seems Like a Misunderstanding >

What is he talking about? Rembrary stared at Shin Jo-woon as if he were a strange person. It was the first time he had seen Shin Jo-woon so flustered, and he was at a loss. How should he react?

“What’s with ‘that guy’ and what’s with ‘this choice’? What do you know to say that?”

In the end, Rembrary asked directly.

Sagamjae, who had been watching this from the side, asked in a chilling voice.

“Are you perhaps talking about me when you say ‘that guy’ of ‘those guys’?”

Shin Jo-woon glanced at Sagamjae and retorted.

“Are you talking about Nakru?”

Only after hearing Shin Jo-woon’s question did Sagamjae realize that he wasn’t talking about the Grim Reaper, and he backed off.

“No, I’m not.”

Then, he pulled Rembrary and set him up in front of himself like a shield.

Rembrary looked back at Sagamjae, then looked at Shin Jo-woon and belatedly realized. There must be some kind of misunderstanding. It seemed that ‘those guys’ in what Shin Jo-woon said, ‘because of those guys,’ referred to Nakru. Then ‘this choice’ is…

“I think there’s a misunderstanding, Shin Jo-woon.”

Rembrary quickly waved his hand.

“What misunderstanding?”

But Shin Jo-woon coldly retorted and pointed his hand below the cliff.

“Weren’t you about to jump off here?”

He then looked at Sagamjae and sharply protested.

“You’re saying it’s not Nakru? Even if it’s not Nakru, you should stop him if he’s doing something strange. Why did you bring him here? What’s the difference from Nakru?”

Rembrary, feeling embarrassed, grabbed Shin Jo-woon’s hand and corrected his position. Then, Shin Jo-woon’s finger, which had been pointing directly below the cliff, moved up a little, correcting the angle to about 100 degrees.

“Not there. I was going to jump over there.”

Shin Jo-woon looked back and forth between the initial angle of about 115 degrees and the corrected angle of 100 degrees, then looked at Rembrary in astonishment.

“What’s the difference… where is it?”

“If I jump over there, I go to a good place, and if I jump over here, I go to a bad place.”

“……”

Shin Jo-woon looked once more at the cliff below 115 degrees and the cliff below 100 degrees, then looked at Rembrary with a ‘are you crazy?’ look.

“Mr. Anchovy. You have a very arrogant look in your eyes.”

He looked very far from the saint who was about to sacrifice his life for the world. Just the same as usual. Shin Jo-woon took out his cell phone and checked the text message Rembrary had sent. Did I have a dream…?

No. I saw it properly. A tremendous farewell message.

Shin Jo-woon showed Rembrary the text message he had sent and asked.

“What does this mean?”

“A farewell.”

“Where are you going?”

“There.”

When Rembrary pointed his finger at the cliff below 100 degrees, Shin Jo-woon, who had been thinking, ‘Did I really misunderstand?’, was convinced that he hadn’t misunderstood. It’s just that words don’t work.

Anyway, he couldn’t let him die. Especially if he was trying to sacrifice himself because of Nakru.

But the moment he was about to say something. Rembrary first stepped back and said to Sagamjae.

“Let’s go back for today.”

At that, Sagamjae asked back.

“You’re not jumping?”

What? This manager? When Shin Jo-woon looked at Sagamjae, Sagamjae shrugged his shoulders. As if he didn’t know he had said something tremendous.

Whether Shin Jo-woon was surprised or not, Rembrary also answered nonchalantly.

“That angle is difficult.”

* * *

Rembrary yawned and glanced sideways at the person sitting next to him. Next to him, Shin Jo-woon was sitting and turning the steering wheel with a dry face.

Originally, he was going to return to the dorm in Sagamjae’s car. But Shin Jo-woon snatched Rembrary, saying he would take him in his car, and that’s how it happened. Sagamjae was following behind in his car alone.

He said to ride together, but why isn’t he saying anything? Rembrary glanced at Shin Jo-woon again and wondered inwardly.

About 15 minutes passed like that. Finally, when they arrived almost near the dorm. When the distance between Sagamjae’s car and Shin Jo-woon’s car widened due to a signal. Suddenly, Shin Jo-woon sharply turned the steering wheel to the side.

Rembrary’s body was pushed to the side as he hung on to the seat belt. When he regained his balance, Shin Jo-woon was driving at a fast speed on a different road than before.

“Where are you going?”

Rembrary asked, but Shin Jo-woon didn’t answer. Until he parked the car in the middle of a dark alley. Then he turned his body and asked.

“Is it Nakru?”

“I told you it has nothing to do with that.”

“That manager.”

“It has nothing to do with that either.”

“Did he tell you to die? That the world will be better off without you?”

“I told you it’s not related to Nakru. But it’s true that the world will be better off without me.”

“!”

Shin Jo-woon looked at Rembrary with shaking eyes.

Why are these saints, whether they are young or have bad tempers, like this…

“Shin Jo-woon.”

“Even if it’s true that the world will be better off without you.”

“?”

“Even if the world is better off without you, you won’t be able to see it. So why go so far?”

What nonsense is he suddenly talking about? Rembrary looked at Shin Jo-woon at the incomprehensible words, but Shin Jo-woon wasn’t looking at Rembrary.

He asked a question. But it was difficult to know whether the question was directed at the person next to him or at the person he had left in the past.

Rembrary tilted his head and tapped Shin Jo-woon’s shoulder.

“Let’s drive for now. I’m hungry. I should eat pizza for the first time in a while.”

* * *

Finally, when the car stopped near the dorm, Rembrary got out without hesitation and went to Sagamjae, who had arrived first and was standing at the entrance.

And Shin Jo-woon sat in the driver’s seat and quietly watched the two people talking, then sighed.

I’m entangled again. Sacrificing himself for others and not looking around, endlessly altruistic but selfish, that’s a saint. I’m entangled again this time.

Old memories came to mind and his heart felt heavy.

The shadow of a small child holding a candy in his hand and smiling as he went to his death flickered before his eyes.

At that time. Someone tapped on the window.

Shin Jo-woon, who had unknowingly closed his eyes tightly, opened his eyes only after hearing the sound. Rembrary was already standing in front of the window.

“Why.”

When he lowered the window and asked, Rembrary held out a small candy, where did he get it from.

“A gift for the anchovy who misunderstood.”

In this situation, why candy of all things. Shin Jo-woon took the candy and stared at it dryly.

But no matter what kind of gaze the other person had, Rembrary explained in a gentle voice as if to soothe him.

“I thought it might make you feel better if you eat something sweet.”

* * *

What on earth happened?

After giving candy to Shin Jo-woon, who was sitting in the driver’s seat and wouldn’t come out as if protesting, and barely calmed him down.

I barely coaxed him into the elevator and returned to the dorm. But this time, the house was a mess.

Jung Seo was spinning around in one spot like a broken cat, and that spot was no more than 60cm in radius. Hye-gyeol was laying out all the members’ laptops and cell phones and was busy doing something. Jong-woo was on the phone with CEO Lim with an expression as if the end of his life had suddenly come 1m in front of him.

Keshia, whose already soft and thin mentality seemed to have completely shattered, was squatting on the sofa, crying while saying sorry, sorry.

For some reason, Jang Tae-ri was also in the middle of it, scolding Jong-woo with an anxious face.

“What are you doing.”

After looking around at the mess, Rembrary asked, and everyone stopped acting like a video with the pause button pressed.

Then, after 1.5 seconds, they all looked at Rembrary at the same time.

After 2.5 seconds, they all rushed at Rembrary.

“No, what’s wrong with these people?”

Rembrary took a step back, but Jong-woo had already grabbed Rembrary’s hand.

Rembrary tried to pull his hand out because it was so burdensome, but Jong-woo cried out while sobbing.

“I’m sorry I didn’t know you were having a hard time!”

I don’t know what he’s sorry for, but Rembrary resolutely pulled his hand out.

But this time, Keshia rushed at him, hugged Rembrary, and burst into tears.

“I won’t call you stupid, idiot, crazy anymore, so don’t think like that!”

“What? What did you call me?”

Rembrary coldly asked back, but Keshia couldn’t hear anything because she was crying.

Jong-woo also covered his face with both hands and continued to say something in a very garbled pronunciation.

“If you want to rest, you can rest. Why can’t a guy who usually says things he shouldn’t say be able to say that and suffer alone.”

Rembrary had no idea what was going on. Then, when he turned sharply towards Shin Jo-woon, Shin Jo-woon was patting Jang Tae-ri’s back.

Jang Tae-ri wasn’t crying, but she had a blank expression. When Shin Jo-woon wrapped his arm around Jang Tae-ri’s back and whispered something in her ear, she finally seemed to come to her senses and frowned. There were no tears, but she had a sadder expression than anyone else.

Rembrary asked Sagamjae in a small voice.

“What’s going on?”

But as soon as he asked the question, he immediately realized it himself. Not only Shin Jo-woon, but everyone here seems to have misunderstood that I was trying to die!

* * *

“This is all your fault.”

“It was Mr. Woo Yeon-woo who sent the text message strangely.”

“What’s wrong with my text message. It was a normal farewell.”

“Would this mess have happened if it was a normal farewell?”

Rembrary glared at Sagamjae, who was nonchalant, with the eyes of a flounder [unevenly].

“Isn’t it because you happened to find a crack in the cliff? And at that time of night.”

“If you say so, I admit my responsibility up to Shin Jo-woon. But the rest is not.”

Rembrary was about to protest, but he grabbed the railing and looked down below the veranda.

Down there. Near the parking lot. Keshia was seen running like crazy with a scarf wrapped around her face. There was a blacked-out sports car nearby where the inside couldn’t be seen.

Keshia, whose mentality was initially shattered because she thought Rembrary was dead, was completely shattered when she found out that she had misunderstood, and she was lying on the sofa like seaweed. Then, she must have eventually sent an SOS to Yulri.

“I want to upload that picture to my SNS [social networking service] account.”

“As a manager, that’s not allowed.”

“I just feel that way. I won’t upload it either.”

“Usually, your actions go along with your feelings.”

“There’s a limit. More than that, is that crack okay?”

“It will close on its own. It’s in the air, so there’s no way a car accident will happen.”

“You said that Yeomra made a gap in the crack.”

“……”

Sagamjae stared at Rembrary intently, then sighed softly, “Ah.”

“Ah?”

Rembrary frowned. The ‘ah’ just now was closer to the ‘ah’ you make when you hear something you had forgotten?

“You didn’t make a gap and not close it, did you?”

Instead of answering, Sagamjae pondered for a while, then answered with a face that was clearly relieved.

“We agreed to open the gap if we contacted you. We haven’t contacted you yet, so we haven’t opened it.”

“Are you sure?”

“Of course.”

At the confident tone, Rembrary was relieved.

* * *

At that time.

The Grim Reaper, who had told Sagamjae the location of the crack in the cliff, was talking to Yeomra near the crack.

He was informing Yeomra that he couldn’t use this crack.

Yeomra answered that he understood, and the Grim Reaper grumbled about how the battery would run out every time he made a call to the underworld as he hung up the phone.

Then, he put his cell phone in his pocket and raised his head. The Grim Reaper’s eyes widened and he took out his cell phone again.

< 221. Seems Like a Misunderstanding > End