Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 233

< 233. That PD Must Be Crazy (2) >

Before I could even ask what he meant, the call hung up. Rembrary stared at his phone, dumbfounded.

“What is he doing?”

He unloaded a torrent of words on his own and then hung up. But when I tried to call back, the phone was turned off.

“Why?”

Hye-gyeol asked, eyes sparkling beside me.

“Is Hyung-nim [older brother/male friend] very busy?”

“Where did the ‘nim’ suffix suddenly come from?”

“Didn’t you see the video? You have to add ‘nim’ after watching that!”

“…….”

“Who’s the other noona [older sister/female friend] in the video? Is she Hyung-nim’s colleague? The noona who was shooting.”

“You’re quite the sycophant.”

Hye-gyeol frowned at Rembrary’s admiration.

“What did I do!”

Rembrary returned to his room and searched for the video Hye-gyeol showed him on his phone. It wasn’t hard to find since it was the most talked-about video right now.

‘The woman with the blurry face must be Nakru.’

Nakru is basically a team of two.

Woo Sung-woo said he acts alone, but seeing him fight together, it’s clear he’s with Nakru.

‘He’ll explain it later. He said he would.’

Rembrary turned off the video and bombarded Sajae with calls and texts again. As expected, silence on that end.

‘What’s going to happen now?’

* * *

“There’s a monster inside the egg, and it seems like it awakens when it receives an impact from the outside.”

“Are you sure it awakens?”

“It might already be awake, just reacting later.”

Officials from the government were currently visiting Nakru, and Gu Se-ji, along with the Nakru team leaders, were giving them a short briefing.

In fact, Nakru hadn’t fully grasped the situation yet either. But as ‘experts,’ Nakru had to voice their opinion on the situation.

The person with the highest position among the government officials who came here, the person called ‘Chief,’ asked bluntly.

“Then what do we tell the public? Don’t touch it unless there’s an impact? Is it okay if we don’t touch it? Can we push it aside?”

As he bombarded questions, he gestured to his subordinate next to him, and the subordinate quickly added a question.

“The YouTuber kicked and slashed at it with a knife until the ‘black membrane’ appeared, but they were fine. The person who dropped their phone just did that, but it hatched the frog egg. What’s the difference?”

The team leaders were internally flustered. This was a bewildering situation for them too. It was something they were experiencing for the first time. It was like the Earth had suddenly turned upside down. But it was difficult to have questions thrown at them like that.

“It’s just one case that’s come out so far. We don’t know either. It’s easier to analyze these things when there are more cases.”

“More cases? Are you saying we should awaken those monsters one after another?”

Gu Se-ji reached out and tapped the white board prepared for the presentation.

“A frog egg is still an egg. Why is an egg an egg? Because it hatches. What does that mean?”

“Could it be…….”

“Yes. It means it’s going to hatch even if we don’t wake it up. It would be better if they hatched one by one.”

The government officials simultaneously turned pale. Those monsters, which were shocking even in small numbers, would awaken even if they weren’t touched?

If that happened, there would be chaos that couldn’t be compared to the present. It might turn into a devastated country like in a zombie movie.

“Then what should we tell the public?”

Gu Se-ji shrugged.

“First of all, we should tell them not to advance the hatching time by touching it unnecessarily.”

“You said it would hatch even if we don’t touch it!”

Another employee raised his hand and cautiously suggested.

“Before they awaken, how about waking them up one by one and getting rid of them…….”

However, as the Nakru team leaders simultaneously sent him a look that said, ‘You’re not going to get rid of them, are you, you son of a bitch?’ the employee closed his mouth. The atmosphere became awkwardly silent.

After about three minutes of that, Gu Se-ji opened his mouth, breaking the silence.

“Actually, it’s not certain, but it seems like the changes aren’t just happening to the monsters.”

“What does that mean? Are there more monsters?”

“No. Again, it’s not certain, so it’s a bit early to talk about this part yet. Anyway, we’re planning a project right now for various complex reasons.”

“Project?”

* * *

‘Should I go outside and poke at the frog eggs too?’

If Nakru can do it, I should be able to do it too. Especially monster extermination…….

Filled with vague confidence, Rembrary put his hands behind his back and looked down below the veranda. There were several frog eggs floating in front of this mansion, and the cars were carefully avoiding them.

Rembrary felt like he could get rid of those eggs himself, so he fidgeted his fingers for no reason.

Nakru is already a secret group, but they’ve come forward publicly. Wouldn’t it be okay? Shouldn’t I stop hiding?

But Woo Sung-woo’s strange words came to mind, so Rembrary eventually suppressed his impulse and returned to his room.

‘He said he’d contact me, so he will.’

That holy idol or whatever, it’s unsettling that he left those strange words and hung up.

Just then, a call came from Shin Jo-woon. Rembrary answered the phone as he entered the room.

“Hello?”

―Woo Yeon-woo.

But the voice he heard wasn’t Shin Jo-woon’s.

“Hello?”

Is his voice hoarse? Or is it someone else? Rembrary asked again, bewildered, and the person who called on Shin Jo-woon’s phone answered.

[I’m Shin Jo-woon’s butler.]

His voice was anxious. Rembrary recalled the butler he had met when he went to Shin Jo-woon’s house before.

‘Ah, that butler.’

But why is that butler?

“What’s wrong?”

[I’ll send a car, can you come here?]

“What’s wrong?”

―The president has collapsed.

* * *

“Where are you going?”

Jung-seo asked, bewildered, as Rembrary hurriedly entered the room to grab his jacket and mask.

“I’m going out for a bit.”

“Where to?”

“To the anchovy [a nickname for Shin Jo-woon].”

“President Shin?”

Rembrary didn’t have time to explain in detail and hurried out.

“Huh? Hey!”

Kesh shouted from behind, but Rembrary quickly caught the elevator. And after going out to the entrance and waiting for about five minutes, a car he had never seen before appeared.

He was hoping it might be Shin Jo-woon, but the person who came out of the car was a face he had never seen before.

“I’m President Shin Jo-woon’s driver. Get in.”

But the person immediately approached Rembrary and spoke, and as Rembrary quickly got in, the driver drove the car at a fast speed.

It was fast, but it wasn’t even half the speed of most vehicles, but it was still speeding on a road occupied by frog eggs.

Because of that, Rembrary became even more anxious.

“What’s going on?”

“Yes?”

“What’s wrong? What’s Shin Jo-woon’s condition like?”

“I don’t know. I saw him collapse. I don’t know his current condition either. But the butler told me to bring Woo Yeon-woo instead of calling a doctor.”

The driver’s voice contained a hint of disbelief. He was told to pick up Rembrary, but he didn’t seem to like the fact that they were calling an idol instead of a doctor when someone had collapsed.

But Rembrary was actually taken aback. Does the butler know something and called me? What did the anchovy say?

In the meantime, the car finally stopped at Shin Jo-woon’s mansion.

“I’ll get out first.”

Rembrary quickly opened the car door and ran to the mansion’s entrance.

“No, why does he keep switching between informal and formal speech?”

The driver muttered in dismay from behind, but Rembrary couldn’t hear him. The butler opened the door as soon as he rang the doorbell.

“This way.”

Moreover, he was waiting right in front of the entrance, and he quickly guided Rembrary to the room where Shin Jo-woon was.

“Here it is.”

The butler said in front of the door, and Rembrary thanked him and grabbed the doorknob.

As he turned the doorknob, the first thing he saw was a large curtain partition. Rembrary approached beyond the partition. Meanwhile, he heard the sound of the door closing behind him.

As he went around the partition, there was a large bed and Shin Jo-woon was lying down.

“Whale―”

Rembrary closed his mouth as he was about to say he had arrived. And as soon as he saw Shin Jo-woon, he realized why the butler hadn’t called a doctor.

“Shin Jo-woon, your eyes…….”

There was something like a black line around Shin Jo-woon’s eyes. Moreover, Shin Jo-woon hadn’t regained consciousness yet.

Normally, he would have jokingly asked, “Pig. When did you get here?” But now he was just lying still without moving. His chest, slowly rising and falling, indicated that he was still breathing.

‘Why is this happening? Could it be because of what happened a few days ago? Did that have some kind of effect? But I protected him perfectly with divine power back then? The only thing that could have broken through that would have been divine power?’

Although puzzled, Rembrary placed his hand on Shin Jo-woon’s forehead and sent divine power.

He was worried about what would happen if it didn’t work. Fortunately, the black lines that had spread around his eyes gradually seemed to shrink into his eyes, and later they disappeared altogether. Almost at the same time, Shin Jo-woon opened his eyes.

Then, as his eyes met Rembrary’s, he teased him with his usual arrogant smile.

“I must be having a pig dream, so good luck is coming my way.”

Rembrary waved his hand in front of Shin Jo-woon’s eyes.

“Can you see me?”

“Of course I can.”

Shin Jo-woon said that and raised his upper body. His actions didn’t reflect the fact that he had just collapsed.

At that time, a call came from Jong-woo.

“Hello?”

[Where are you? I told you to stay home, where did you go! Please, can’t you just stay quietly in the dorm in the midst of all this? What if someone takes a picture of you like this!]

Shin Jo-woon smiled and told him to go as Jong-woo’s nagging voice could be heard through the phone.

Rembrary was about to talk to him about his eyes, but he thought the butler would do it anyway, so he left the room.

“Call me again if you need me later.”

Rembrary also told the butler that Shin Jo-woon had woken up, and if he collapsed again, to call him and left.

As soon as Rembrary left, Shin Jo-woon called the butler and asked.

“Why did the pig [another nickname for Rembrary] come here? Did you call him?”

“You called his name as you collapsed, President.”

“I did?”

“Yes. I didn’t expect Woo Yeon-woo to wake up as soon as he came.”

Shin Jo-woon frowned and then nodded, saying, “Ah.”

When he first felt the pressure in his eyes, he should have just asked for treatment, he thought. It seemed like that came out of his mouth.

Anyway, thinking it was a relief, Shin Jo-woon picked up his phone. He was too flustered to thank him earlier. He didn’t even think that Rembrary had helped him.

But now that he knew, he had to thank him.

However, the moment he grabbed his phone, there was a fluttering sound and the phone froze.

“…….”

The butler’s eyes widened as big as walnuts.

* * *

In the meantime.

Rembrary was on the way back to the dorm in the car he had come in, receiving a barrage of nagging from Jong-woo.

After a long time, Jong-woo finally calmed down a bit, panting.

[Anyway, the current situation is really strange.]

“It’s strange. Very strange.”

[You know Kim Mu-rok PD [Production Director], right? That guy is even crazier.]

“You mean the Sing Survival PD?”

[Yeah, that guy.]

Why the PD story all of a sudden?

Rembrary was just letting Jong-woo’s nagging flow in one ear and out the other, but now he was slightly interested.

“Why all of a sudden?”

[He must be crazy after Sing Survival succeeded. He’s planning something like a hunter survival show, in the midst of all this. But what’s even crazier is that it’s getting government support.]

“What?”

[I don’t know. I heard it from CEO Im. I don’t know if this is bullshit or real.]

“What?”

[But that crazy PD really wants to put you on his show.]

“?”

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