Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 256

256. Counterattack or Escape

As their eyes met, the purple-haired figure’s lips curled slightly upward, a self-assured, mocking smile. But Rembrary, instead of getting angry, muttered calmly.

“You used to run away as soon as you saw me. You’ve gotten a little bolder.”

The camera the cameraman had tossed aside was fixed on the monster’s eyeball, but the sound was still being recorded. Thanks to this, viewers, tormented by the grotesque and frightening image, debated whether to turn off the screen but were startled by Rembrary’s voice amidst the monster’s growls.

―That’s Woo Yeon-woo’s voice

―OMG it’s King Yeon-woo version

―King Yeon-woo is here

―What is he saying? What’s the monster saying? My speaker is broken, I can only hear from one sideㅠ

ㄴHe’s ignoring and provoking it

ㄴThe monster? Woo Yeon-woo?

ㄴNo, Woo Yeon-woo is. To the monster.

People postponed turning off their screens to hear what Rembrary was saying. However, because the eyeball monster kept wriggling, the monster’s eyeballs were visible from various angles, making it difficult to concentrate on the sound. Viewers continued to scream in agony.

―Damn it, please someone get rid of these eyeballsㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―Even a stray dog would be better, just point the camera somewhere elseㅜㅜ

―F
You were so cool, but you’re giving me eyeballs?

―Trypophobia [fear of closely packed holes] ㄷㄷ I can’t get rid of the goosebumpsㅠ

―Please, I can see the blood vessels in the eyesㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Do I have to make eye contact with a monster from my couchㅠㅠ

―Where is this, near the monster’s belly button?

At that moment, the wriggling monster seemed to move greatly once, then stopped completely. The camera lens attached to the monster’s body also shook and changed direction several times before fixing on Rembrary and the purple-haired monster.

Thanks to this, Woo Yeon-woo was clearly visible, and the monster’s eyeballs were not, so viewers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, unlike the viewers who were relieved, Rembrary was not in a good mood because of what the purple-haired figure muttered in response to Rembrary’s provocative words, ‘You’ve gotten bolder.’

“We’ve met before. But it seems we were acquainted even before that……”

Rembrary had clearly seen that purple-haired figure for the first time during the first mission. But he had some doubts about the frog eggs themselves, so the other’s words bothered him. The appearance of the frog eggs and the monster seemed to be a phenomenon that occurred when Redrin crossed over here. Whether that was an unavoidable event in the process of a god crossing the rift, or…….

However, his train of thought was interrupted as the purple-haired figure took something out of thin air.

‘What’s that?’

Nothing was visible on the surface. It just looked like that monster was lowering its hand into the air and flipping its wrist back.

‘Shadow. It’s holding something.’

But Rembrary noticed through the shadow that the purple-haired figure was holding a weapon. The shadow clearly showed the monster holding a weapon, presumed to be a sword, curved in a crescent shape, in both hands.

‘Is the ability to make something transparent that purple-haired figure’s power?’

Then, as a cloud passed and sunlight shone on that side, the invisible weapon briefly sparkled near the purple-haired figure’s hands. Several viewers with sharp eyes also noticed the weapon and talked about it in the chat room.

“You’ll know if we’re old acquaintances when you see this.”

While Rembrary was paying attention to the weapon, the purple-haired figure, thinking that the opponent was intimidated, smiled and muttered. Watching that, Rembrary quickly sorted out what he had to do.

‘It seems to be a belligerent one. It has no qualms about attacking people. If I leave it alone, it will continue to awaken monsters. The number of victims will increase rapidly…….’

Rembrary wasn’t planning on using his healing abilities any more today. He had already said that two people were his limit and then healed more than that. Of course, he acted like it was difficult and that he was pushing himself too hard while healing, but he had still managed to heal them.

But what if he healed more people here? Everyone would definitely think, ‘Ah, even if it’s hard, he can keep healing if he squeezes it out.’ That would mean the effect of the lie that healing two people a day was the right amount would disappear. So, no more healing.

But if that monster caused a ruckus, there would be people whose lives were in danger. Could he stand by and not heal such people?

‘It’s better to just get rid of that monster. That would be better.’

Rembrary finished his assessment and took off one of his shoes.

―Why is he taking off his shoe?

―Is he going to run?

―Why take off a shoe to run? Isn’t that a sneaker?

While the viewers and the purple-haired figure were wondering why Rembrary was taking off his shoe, Rembrary threw it straight at the monster.

―WTF

―What is he doing?

―Why throw that!!!!!

The viewers were watching to see what Woo Yeon-woo was doing but were so taken aback that they screamed into their keyboards. The monster had taken out an invisible weapon, one that looked terrifying even just from the shadow. And he was going to confront it by taking off and throwing just one shoe. It was absurd.

Still, those who had hoped, ‘Maybe that shoe will have some effect!’ were completely disappointed when the monster easily knocked the shoe away with its invisible sword. The monster also had a look on its face that said, ‘Is this guy crazy?’

―Eondu-shin come quickly Eondu-shin come quickly

―Instructor, the healer is in dangerㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―Ah, my heart is pounding, I can’t watchㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ

However, Rembrary, who had thrown the shoe, was also outwardly calm but as flustered as the others.

‘It withstood one hit. It’s a formidable one.’

The monster whose whole body was eyes had collapsed as soon as he threw the camera. But the purple-haired figure had easily knocked away the shoe.

‘It might be more difficult than I thought.’

Rembrary narrowed his eyes and took off one more shoe.

Watching that, the viewers screamed with their mouths and hands.

―He already threw it and saw it didn’t work!

―Please do something elseㅠ Don’t just throw shoesㅠ

People cursed, saying that another hunter should come and help quickly, but there were no hunters nearby. The closest one was Eondu-shin, but Eondu-shin was fighting a monster with an eel tail in a place without cameras.

In the meantime, the purple-haired figure, holding the sword, took a threatening step forward. A slow but carnivorous gait that slowly cornered the opponent.

―Ah, something other than shoesㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―Don’t you have a weapon? Carry a weapon, you’re a hunter

―The monster has an invisible sword, why shoes!!!ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

The moment the purple-haired figure, who had been walking slowly, suddenly rushed forward.

―Aaaaaaa

―I can’t watchㅠㅠㅠ

People screamed, and Rembrary ran forward at almost the same time.

Rembrary had caught a monster that imitated Lee Ki-cheong, but somehow that monster had been evaluated as the weakest in people’s minds.

On the other hand, the purple-haired figure was a terrifyingly strong person who made a large number of people into vinyl. It was a fight where the winner was obvious to anyone, so the viewers screamed even more.

This time, Rembrary didn’t throw his shoes but ran with them in his hands, but that didn’t help the viewers feel relieved at all.

―What if Woo Yeon-woo becomes vinyl tooㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―Vinyl isn’t the problem, he has a sword!

―Ughaaaaaaㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ

―WTF Woo Yeon-woo is crazy, if a shoe and a sword clash, of course……

But the moment Rembrary’s shoe in his hand and the monster’s sword collided in the air.

―Are the shoes strong?

Suddenly, the monster’s hand went back, and there was a clanging sound from somewhere on the floor. People saw it clearly: the monster’s surprised expression. The monster had dropped the sword.

But this was just the beginning.

“Divine!”

Rembrary, who shouted with dignity, didn’t give the opponent a chance to be surprised and pressed down on the monster’s head with one hand while quickly swinging the hand holding the shoe towards the monster’s back.

“Footprint!”

―Divine…… Footprint?

―Idol Footprint;;?

―God? Shoes?

Starting with that, Rembrary started hitting the monster’s back, thwack thwack.

“Divine punishment! Divine punishment! Divine punishment! Divine punishment!”

He kept shouting something every time, and the viewers were even more perplexed as they watched.

―Is he saying shoes or fuck?

―Is he saying divine punishment?;;

―I’ve seen that a lot somewhere…

―I’ve even been through that. My mom does that to me often.

―Back smack?!?

―LOLOLOL Woo Yeon-woo is back smacking a monsterㅠㅠㅠㅠ

―WTFㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I shouldn’t laughㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s funnyㅋㅋㅋㅋ

People were very nervous, but when Rembrary subdued the opponent familiarly and the purple-haired monster cowered without being able to counterattack, they were completely dumbfounded and opened their mouths and just typed ㅋㅋㅋ on the keyboard. They felt relieved, but no one understood this situation.

―The monster’s pupils are shaking right now

―Why is it just getting hit?

* * *

Why is the monster just getting hit by Woo Yeon-woo?

This was the question that the purple-haired monster himself was most curious about. On the surface, it just looked like he was getting his back smacked with a shoe, but every time the monster was hit by the shoe, he felt a pain that resonated in his soul as if he was really being trampled on by a god.

Not only that, even if he tried to push the opponent away and run, shoes would fly at him wherever he tried to run, so there was nothing he could do.

And this pressure? He was just holding one shoe, but what was this pressure?

The purple-haired figure’s pride was hurt. If the opponent had at least held a proper weapon, it wouldn’t have been so humiliating.

‘I have to get away from that guy somehow…….’

At that moment, as he desperately searched for an escape route, the opponent who had been thwacking him suddenly frowned and paused.

‘A gap!’

In an instant, the purple-haired figure thought of two options: One was to take this opportunity to escape. The other was to take this opportunity to counterattack.

The first time he saw that guy in the egg, the purple-haired figure instinctively chose to escape. He didn’t even know why. He just thought it was the right thing to do.

But the second time he faced the author, he was stronger than he was when he had just woken up, and he was more self-aware than before. And the purple-haired figure now knew that he was an incredibly strong being.

He was bothered by the fact that he had unknowingly run away from that guy before, and he was also bothered by the strange feeling that they were old acquaintances, so the purple-haired figure put aside the urge to run away this time and decided to subdue the opponent directly.

But now that things had turned out like this, he was confused about whether he should escape or counterattack even if a gap appeared.

At that time.

The moment a faint rose shadow appeared at the feet of the opponent who had been frowning.

‘Let’s escape.’

With a chilling feeling as if a needle had been stuck in his spine, the purple-haired figure ran away quickly without looking back.

As the opponent disappeared, the rose shadow that had bloomed on the floor also slowly subsided and turned ordinary, but this scene was mixed with other shadows, and no one saw it.