Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 300

300. This Can’t Air

“I came here after hearing that Mr. Rembrary is staying here.”

Worldboom was a famous hunter company. Naturally, they didn’t let just anyone in. Especially if someone didn’t reveal who they were and started with such words, they would probably hear a very stiff and charismatic ‘get lost’.

However, the guard standing in front of the Worldboom building couldn’t bring himself to tell the unknown person who approached with three pigeons to get lost.

“Who are you?”

Instead, he asked with slight caution. It was because of the *aura* of the man who came with the pigeons.

The Worldboom guard was also a hunter, and like any hunter belonging to Worldboom, he was sharp and perceptive. Thanks to that, the guard instinctively sensed a dangerous presence from the man with the three pigeons and became tense.

“I am a friend of Mr. Rembrary. He will understand if you say ‘Sagamjae’ has come.”

If it were a guest looking for Shin Jo-woon or another employee, he would ask if an appointment had been made, but the man was looking for Rembrary, a guest of Worldboom.

“Please wait a moment.”

Because of this, the guard tried hard to hide his apprehension and quickly contacted the inside with a walkie-talkie.

“A guest looking for Mr. Rembrary has arrived. Name is Sagamjae. Please confirm.”

After a moment, when he heard the response “Confirmed. That’s right,” from the walkie-talkie, the guard opened the glass door and signaled that he could enter.

“Please come in.”

“Wait a moment.”

However, when Sagamjae tried to enter with the pigeons, the guard was horrified and grabbed him.

“We cannot allow pets inside.”

“They are not my pets.”

“We cannot allow non-pets inside either.”

* * *

While Sagamjae was having a brief scuffle with the brave guard, Rembrary heard the news that Sagamjae had come and quickly got on the elevator.

Then, the cameraman who was closely following Rembrary to film him also quickly followed and asked.

“Can I come with you?”

Even as he asked, he was already turning on the camera. He seemed excited about the prospect of filming Rembrary’s first guest.

Besides, Rembrary hadn’t provided much to film lately, but he had never explicitly told the cameraman not to follow him, so he assumed he could naturally film this meeting as well.

“No.”

However, the answer that came back was a firm refusal.

“Yes?”

The cameraman was flustered and asked again, and Rembrary refused firmly once more, “No.”

“Um… but….”

The cameraman stammered.

“Is it because it’s an important guest?”

“No.”

“Then why…?”

“Because I have to talk about secret things.”

The elevator door opened with a ding.

“Secret things?”

The cameraman followed Rembrary out, even after being rejected, and asked again.

“What else would secret things be other than secret things?”

Meanwhile, Sagamjae, who had intimidated the guard with his grim reaper-like presence, was ignoring the gazes of the people focused on him, and quickly approached when he saw Rembrary.

‘Wow, is that person an acquaintance? Acquaintances meet acquaintances just like themselves,’ the cameraman thought admiringly after seeing Sagamjae.

“You go somewhere else.”

However, whether the cameraman admired it or not, Rembrary repeated the same words to the cameraman again and only took Sagamjae and went somewhere private.

“That’s too much. I was looking forward to filming a scene of meeting a friend, but he just left.”

The cameraman grumbled as he watched, but his voice was so small that Rembrary and Sagamjae couldn’t hear it. Eventually, as the subject of the filming disappeared with a friend, the cameraman touched the camera several times with regret.

“What are you grumbling about?”

However, Gu PD [Production Director], who appeared from somewhere, immediately pointed his finger in the direction Rembrary had taken Sagamjae, as if he had heard the story from somewhere.

“Go quickly and listen to what they are talking about.”

“He didn’t seem to like it much….”

“That’s what you have to film! Quickly!”

“He really told me not to follow him….”

“Do I sound like I’m saying it for fun?”

* * *

Rembrary, who didn’t know what instructions Gu PD had given to the cameraman, quickly took Sagamjae to a quiet place and asked if he had completed the work in the puppet lord’s territory.

“Did you call me to ask that?”

Sagamjae frowned slightly at Rembrary’s question. He even mobilized TV to find him, so he thought it was an urgent matter. Did he call him just for this?

“Don’t tell me.”

However, Rembrary immediately denied it.

“I called to ask if ‘the two of you’ are still fighting.”

However, Sagamjae’s expression did not improve and became even more crumpled. This was not such an urgent matter from Sagamjae’s point of view either. Besides―

“Suddenly someone comes into my house and insists, ‘This is my house from now on,’ so it’s a fight. Shouldn’t you phrase it as ‘are you still fighting’?”

“The house is big, can’t we share it?”

“No.”

“Am I uncomfortable to be next to you?”

“It’s not that you’re uncomfortable.”

“Then, can’t you accept my family as if you accepted me?”

Sagamjae didn’t find Rembrary’s words strange at all.

However, it was not the case for the cameraman who was secretly listening to this scene, unable to overcome Gu PD’s urging. The cameraman’s eyes widened like chestnuts.

‘Freeloading? And he’s so confident?’

The cameraman’s heart was pounding. If you think about it, Rembrary is staying at the Worldboom accommodation, so he can’t be freeloading, but when things are urgent, your head doesn’t work well. The cameraman couldn’t think that far.

At that time, even more curious words were heard from inside.

“Even though I’m doing this…?”

What is ‘doing this’…? What is Rembrary going to do for the man who brought the three pigeons? The cameraman couldn’t overcome his curiosity and eventually secretly extended the camera behind the pillar to film the situation.

Then, when he brought the camera back and checked, there was a more surprising sight than he had imagined.

‘This is…?!’

Rembrary is standing face to face with the man who brought the three pigeons, but the three pigeons are nowhere to be seen, and Rembrary is pointing somewhere with his hand. And three naked people awkwardly standing in the direction he pointed.

‘What’s going on? What’s really going on?’

The cameraman’s breathing quickened. He didn’t know what was going on, but it was definitely very surprising. Gu PD was right. It seems like he did well to come. He still doesn’t know what the situation is, but it looks provocative anyway.

“Three is not enough.”

In the meantime, the words of the man who brought the three pigeons were even more shocking.

“Try harder.”

The cameraman covered his mouth with his hand.

‘Oh my god…! Trash!’

* * *

The cameraman thought that the conversation between the two would be long, so he figured he had filmed everything he could film here and went back to find Gu PD.

“How is it? Is there any good content?”

“Good content or anything… I don’t know what this is.”

“What is it?”

“See for yourself.”

Gu PD greeted the cameraman happily, but when the cameraman handed him his camera and muttered, he quickly took the camera and checked the contents. His finger quickly pressed the ‘forward’ button in succession.

“Oh my. Oh my. Oh my god.”

Gu PD made a sighing sound after checking all the videos.

“Do you know what’s going on?”

“No, but there’s room for imagination about this and that?”

However, the corners of his mouth were grinning, as if he liked this incomprehensible scene.

“Actually, I don’t know exactly what’s going on… what should I do? Should I bury it?”

When it seemed that Gu PD had almost checked the video, the cameraman quickly asked carefully.

“What? What are you talking about?”

However, Gu PD jumped up.

“You’re not going to broadcast this after filming it?”

“It’s a shame, but we decided not to do evil editing, right?”

“No, editing or anything, we’re just conveying what they said, so what’s wrong with that? Just put a question mark together so that viewers are curious about what they’re saying.”

Gu PD’s eyes sparkled. If this was released, people would definitely go crazy again. He almost missed this, thinking it was a foolish thing to do.

“But….”

But that was when the cameraman hesitated. Someone swiped the camera Gu PD was holding.

“Ah, President Shin!”

It was Shin Jo-woon.

Gu PD couldn’t resist even though the other person was taking the camera, and only blinked, stunned by the speed of the movement.

It was already known that President Shin Jo-woon was the highest-ranked hunter, but Gu PD’s heart fluttered for no reason when he suddenly appeared and snatched the camera without anyone noticing his approach.

“Haha, have you been well?”

Still, Gu PD hid his surprised expression and greeted him as if he was happy, then asked Shin Jo-woon.

“Well, please give me back the camera, President.”

“I’ve been doing well. Is there anything uncomfortable for Gu PD?”

However, Shin Jo-woon accepted the greeting but did not listen to the request to return the camera. He rather turned on the camera and looked around at the strange situation filmed there, then frowned.

“Um, President Shin? The camera is slowly….”

Gu PD, who thought that expression was unusual, asked again, but Shin Jo-woon continued to move his fingers silently.

“President Shin?”

As he was watching what he was doing, Shin Jo-woon finally smiled and handed the camera to PD.

“I saw it well. You filmed it well.”

He definitely saw what he was doing? Gu PD hurriedly checked the camera.

Indeed. The video he just took had disappeared. Shin Jo-woon had deleted the scene of Rembrary and the three pigeon men talking.

Gu PD’s fingers holding the camera tightened, unable to protest.

While the war of nerves was going on between the three, Rembrary exchanged phone numbers with Sagamjae.

“Next time, don’t wait next to a dying person, just call or text me. That’s faster.”

After that, Sagamjae took the three grim reapers and went straight to the underworld. Rembrary returned to his room as usual and took a rest.

Of course, he had no idea what had happened between Shin Jo-woon, the cameraman, and Gu PD in the meantime.

* * *

From the very day that the conversation that viewers would have been very interested in was deleted due to Shin Jo-woon’s intervention, Rembrary continued his peaceful and calm daily life again. It was a peaceful day of eating, sleeping, resting, eating, sleeping, and resting.

“This won’t do.”

As the broadcast date approached again in that state, Gu PD, who had become desperate, eventually decided to play a trick.

“If I stay like this, it will really become a mukbang [eating broadcast] healing program for promising hunters. I need to set up some situations.”

“Situation setting?”

“Yes. A bit provocative. If I leave it alone, it will just stay still, so I have to make it move.”