Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 255

255. Eye Contact

People who heard that started buzzing, and the sound spread like wildfire. Some were speechless, while others couldn’t stop talking.

The detective bit his lip a few times while holding his phone, then muttered a curse under his breath.

“He really does everything.”

“Who’s attacking them?”

When Rembrary asked, the detective scratched his head vigorously as he replied.

“We don’t know yet.”

The detective, who was simply expressing his frustration with the difficult situation, belatedly realized that this wasn’t the time for that. Things were happening one after another. His judgment seemed to have been temporarily impaired as his emotions fluctuated wildly.

“Woo Yeon-woo.”

When the detective suddenly called out, Rembrary stopped with the juice straw in his mouth.

“What?”

“I don’t think I can take you back to the set.”

“Why?”

“I have to go find the person who’s attacking them.”

As Undushin and the cameraman, who had been watching the situation, approached, the detective asked them.

“Can you three get back to the set?”

“Of course. We know where to go, so you can go take care of your business, Detective.”

When Undushin readily agreed, the detective thanked them and quickly got into the driver’s seat.

Rembrary, who was chewing on the juice straw in the back seat, was inadvertently pulled out of the car as Undushin helped him out.

“Goodbye. Thank you for your hard work today.”

The detective opened the window and greeted them once more, but he was in such a hurry that he didn’t even wait for a response before driving off.

As the detective’s car sped away, Rembrary took the straw out of his mouth and looked back and forth between Undushin and the cameraman, protesting.

“I don’t know where the set is. I don’t even know where I live.”

“Woo Yeon-woo, don’t say things like that in front of the camera. Just tell me secretly.”

“I’m going to heal people tomorrow, but I’m worried because I don’t know which hospitals the patients are in.”

“Say things like that in front of the camera. Don’t tell me secretly.”

Thinking about why Woo Yeon-woo was described as both kind and clueless, the cameraman called Kim Mu-rok. The mission must have been over long ago, so he wanted to ask whether it would be better to return to the set or send Rembrary to his accommodation.

“Hello?”

Fortunately, Kim Mu-rok had been watching this scene and answered the phone right away.

[Yeah, what’s up?]

“The situation here is pretty much sorted out, and the detective went somewhere else.”

[Yeah, yeah, I’ve been watching.]

“What should we do? Should we take Woo Yeon-woo home?”

[No, the other participants are still there. They stayed to watch Woo Yeon-woo’s video.]

“Ah.”

[Since that’s the case, just film the closing and go. Stop by the set for a bit.]

“Okay.”

* * *

On the way back to the set in a taxi.

Undushin and Rembrary were in the back seat, and the cameraman was in the passenger seat, silently lost in their own thoughts.

The taxi driver, who had realized that Rembrary and Undushin were contestants on *Hunter Survival*, was itching to talk to them, but the atmosphere was so unusual that he couldn’t bring himself to say anything and just kept glancing at Rembrary in the mirror.

How long had they been traveling like that? Almost 20 minutes passed before Undushin, who had been quiet the whole time, quietly asked Rembrary.

“What are you going to do now?”

“About what?”

“People are worried. They’re asking if it’s okay to film a survival show with a precious healer.”

The cameraman, who had been lost in thought and tapping on the windshield, quickly adjusted the camera to face the back seat when he heard their conversation. Rembrary glanced at the camera but answered calmly.

“It’s okay for me to keep appearing.”

“Really? Don’t you think you don’t need to risk your life to film anymore?”

“Because of the current situation, there are no *Wild Animal* schedules.”

“Huh?”

“If there are no schedules, I don’t get paid.”

“!”

“This is the only schedule left, so I have to do it. The drama got canceled, the music show got canceled, and other variety shows got canceled.”

“What… you’re a healer, right?”

“Even when I was a Great Healer, money didn’t just fall from the sky. No one knows how much I begged for pizza.”

“?”

Undushin tilted his head at Rembrary’s somewhat irrelevant answer, but viewers who had recently started to interpret Woo Yeon-woo’s words and actions generously were impressed.

―The only healer in the world is participating in a survival show to make a living……

―Woo Yeon-woo really works hard.

―I guess it’s because he was unknown for so longㅠ

―If he’s a healer, he could be raking in money now without being an idolㅠㅠ

ㄴNow that I see it, Woo Yeon-woo is really pure and kind. He was even overexerting himself to heal people earlier.

ㄴI don’t think he’s planning to make money by healing people…… If it were me, I’d charge per person and heal them.

ㄴI feel bad for calling him an attention seeker

ㄴMaybe he’s just too dumb to think that far.

However, in the middle of their conversation, Undushin stopped talking and frowned.

“What’s wrong?”

As Rembrary asked, he turned his head to follow Undushin’s gaze and saw something that looked like an eel’s tail quickly flowing between the alleys.

“Huh?”

Rembrary tried to get a better look at the tail again, but the taxi driver kept driving, and he couldn’t see it from that angle.

“Driver, please stop for a moment.”

Even though he had only seen it very briefly and was uncertain, Undushin asked the taxi driver to stop the car.

“Yes, why?”

“I think there’s a monster over there.”

“Yes… yes?! Where?”

The surprised taxi driver widened his eyes, and the cameraman quickly raised the camera again.

“I don’t see anything?”

“In that alley……”

Just as Undushin was about to explain, something that looked like an eel’s tail flowed from one alley to the opposite alley behind the car. This time, it was a clear movement that everyone could see. The taxi driver and the cameraman were startled and let out short screams.

“That― that’s―”

“Go ahead first. This is a residential area, so I’ll take care of that and go to the set. If I don’t arrive by the end of the closing, please send me a text saying it’s over.”

However, instead of being surprised, Undushin calmly got out of the taxi. Then, before anyone could stop him, he grabbed his spear and ran towards it. Before they could even try to stop him, Undushin was gone, and the taxi driver asked the cameraman in a daze.

“Is it really okay to just go without waiting?”

The cameraman quickly nodded.

“Yes.”

This cameraman had seen Undushin shoot the spear like a gun during the training camp and take down a monster in one shot, so he answered without hesitation.

“That guy is incredibly strong.”

However, it wasn’t long before the taxi stopped again. Or rather, it was forced to stop.

A person with a guitar on his back was blocking the road that the car needed to pass, kicking the eggs neatly lined up on the road to wake them up.

“Who is that? Is that guy crazy?”

The taxi driver was angry that a normal-looking ‘person’ was waking up the monsters and fumed.

“There are a lot of guys these days who call themselves hunters and go around smashing perfectly good eggs. Why are they even touching the eggs?”

But the cameraman’s face turned pale, and he swallowed hard. Because of the color of the guitar man’s hair.

Purple hair. Didn’t the victims Rembrary treated mention purple hair and a guitar? Not only that, but the fact that he was tall and an exotic handsome man matched the witnesses’ statements exactly. The detective seemed to suspect that purple-haired man, whom the victims had commonly mentioned, was the culprit……

The cameraman recalled the dozens of victims who had turned into vinyl and were lying on the floor, and he shook the taxi driver like a bird.

“Driver? G-go, let’s go another way. Quickly. Quickly. Reverse. Reverse.”

“Why? No, we have to stop him. What if he breaks them all?”

“We have to go quickly!”

“The eggs haven’t hatched yet, so we have to stop him now. If people get hurt, the damage will be great.”

“Damn it, ‘that’s’ not a person! He’s waking up his own kind!”

The moment the cameraman shouted, keeping his voice as low as possible.

The purple-haired man, who had been kicking the eggs, suddenly stopped his actions. Then, he slowly turned his gaze this way.

“Ugh!”

The cameraman shuddered and shook the taxi driver’s shoulder even faster.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry, Driver, let’s go somewhere else. That guy is a monster! You watched *Hunter Survival*, didn’t you! Didn’t you see the color-sucking monster?”

“Huh? I saw it, but wasn’t his hair green then?”

At that moment. Rembrary thought he had made eye contact with the purple-haired man.

“Ugh, that guy is looking at me!”

However, the cameraman seemed to think the same thing, and he jumped up and down, saying that the monster was targeting him, urging the taxi driver even more.

The taxi driver was also surprised and quickly stepped on the accelerator, but suddenly there was a loud bang from not far behind. The surprised taxi driver stepped on the accelerator, and the car lurched forward, hitting the purple-haired man who was standing a little ways ahead head-on.

“Ugh, what to do!”

Even though he was a monster, he still looked like a person, and besides, the taxi driver wasn’t even sure that the purple-haired man was a monster. Startled, the taxi driver instinctively slammed on the brakes.

But there was no need to brake. The car stopped on its own when it collided with the purple-haired man.

The taxi driver opened the door and saw that the purple-haired man was fine, but the front of the car was dented, and he was horrified and quickly got back into the taxi.

―Back up! Back up!

―No, what are you doing driving on the road! You have to get out and run!!!!!

―I’m going crazyㅠㅠㅠㅠ Why are Yeon-woo and the cameraman just standing thereㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―Turn around and run

―You shouldn’t run, you should step on the accelerator more!

The viewers who were watching this scene in real-time were anxious and pounded on their keyboards, but when you’re in an emergency, your head doesn’t work well.

Then. The purple-haired man tilted his head and slowly raised his finger, pointing directly this way.

“What should I do? Is he going to kill me!”

The cameraman saw that and trembled even more in fear. He was the first to see through the monster’s identity and shout, so he thought that the purple-haired man must have heard that and gotten angry.

Rembrary thought that the purple-haired man seemed to be pointing at him, but when the cameraman said with certainty that he was pointing at him, he was confused, ‘Is that so?’

Then, there was another loud bang from behind. It was the sound that had startled the taxi driver and made him step on the accelerator earlier.

What is it this time? The startled taxi driver quickly turned his head to look behind him and saw a monster in the shape of a person with eyes all over its body standing on top of a parked car.

“Aaaaaaaaaah!”

The taxi driver and the cameraman screamed at the same time when they saw that.

The eyes on the monster’s body were all closed, but only one eye on its chest was looking at this taxi.

At that moment. Suddenly, the closed eyes simultaneously opened their eyelids, and they all looked this way. The sight was so bizarre and ominous that the cameraman who saw it fainted on the spot.

Perhaps it was fortunate for him. The sight of the monster with all its eyes open rushing towards the taxi at an incredible speed was even more terrifying.

The taxi driver, who had a stronger mental fortitude, finally stumbled out and started running as hard as he could.

At almost the same time, Rembrary also got out of the taxi. However, Rembrary did not run away in a different direction, and he was holding the camera that the cameraman had dropped.

―What are you doing?

―I can’t see

―Woo Yeon-woo is holding the camera in a strange direction

―I can only see the wall, what’s on the screen!!!!!

While the viewers were wondering what this was, the screen suddenly moved quickly and the monster’s eyeball appeared right in front of them, making them scream in disgust.

―Ugh, the screen, the screen ㅅㅂㅅㅂㅅㅂㅅㅂㅅ [Korean slang for ‘f***’]

―Woo Yeon-woo is crazy ㅅㅂㅅㅂㅅㅂㅅㅂ [Korean slang for ‘f***’]

―Aaaaaaaaa I really hate this kind of thingㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―Woo Yeon-woo, why did you throw the cameraㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Because as soon as Rembrary got out of the taxi, he threw the camera directly at the ‘eye’ that had opened first among the monster’s torso.

While the viewers were screaming in horror at the sudden monster close-up and eye contact.

Rembrary now turned to look at the purple-haired man.