Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 308

The Awakened was angered by Rembrary’s remark.

He had a rough idea why Rembrary was there, but he still gave him a chance to deny it, considering he was someone he enjoyed watching on TV. To answer so arrogantly! Especially with so many camera people around!

‘I need to show him that he can’t just run his mouth off like that.’

The Awakened scoffed at Rembrary and tapped his foot. However, even as he thought this in anger, he still wore a friendly smile.

In fact, this Awakened was more of a fan of Rembrary than the production team expected. He liked the way he glared at the monsters, so he made sure to watch the broadcasts he appeared on with Woo Yeon-woo. He even found and watched the first episode of and the trailer for Rembrary’s episode.

In any case, thanks to that, this Awakened had a rough idea of Rembrary’s abilities.

‘The glaring is just his nasty temper. The real ability of that glare is a curse-type power.’

Curse abilities might seem relatively easy to deal with in a one-on-one fight since they aren’t immediate attacks.

But why is a curse a curse? Because it sticks to you and follows you relentlessly. Like the case of that puppet lord, you had to keep worrying about the curse activating long after the battle was over.

So, he had to quickly attack and subdue Rembrary before he could use his curse ability….

‘My ability also needs time to activate.’

The problem was that this Awakened also needed some preparation time to use his own ability.

Wasn’t that why, despite his great ability, he couldn’t become a lord himself and had to go under someone else, receiving the lord’s help to lead around a bunch of non-Awakened subordinates? If so….

“Wow, that’s too much. I’m a fan of yours.”

Having made a quick decision, the Awakened pretended to be overly disappointed, then smiled kindly and offered his hand.

“Then let’s do this. As I said, I’m a fan of yours, so I don’t want to fight dangerously with abilities.”

“Even if you don’t want to, I have to arrest you.”

“I know, you have your reasons too. So, let’s do this. Let’s fight peacefully.”

Rembrary raised his eyebrows as the Awakened smiled and asked, “How about it?”

“Fight peacefully?”

“Yeah.”

The production team, who were as scared of the guns surrounding them as they were of the Awakened, nodded along even though it wasn’t a question directed at them. Yes, fight peacefully, please fight peacefully.

As the atmosphere around them shifted towards ‘Don’t fight! Don’t fight!’, Rembrary decided to hear him out and asked.

“What do you mean, how do you want to fight peacefully?”

The Awakened smiled brightly at the question and suggested.

“Let’s have a rap battle.”

“?”

‘In this situation?’

‘Why suddenly?’

The tense production team stared in disbelief, but the Awakened just kept smiling at Rembrary with a serious expression.

Seeing that expression, Rembrary muttered quietly to Jungseo, who was standing next to him.

“Jungseo, I think he knows my rap skills aren’t very good.”

Shouldn’t it be expressed as ‘bad’ rather than ‘not very good’? Jungseo thought Rembrary was trying to sugarcoat his rap skills as much as possible, but she didn’t point it out, not wanting to embarrass her benefactor. Instead, she agreed and asked.

“What are you going to do? Are you going to accept?”

Rembrary looked around at the armed enemies surrounding them and replied.

“I’m thinking about it.”

He would automatically recover even if he was hit by those weapons, but others wouldn’t. So, he needed to use the Authority of God widely and strongly to subdue both the Awakened and the armed men at the same time, but this method would be too shocking for his allies.

‘The Authority of God’ was an attack that didn’t cause external injuries, but some people died from heart attacks if their fear was too strong, and others went crazy even if they didn’t die. If it was a one-on-one situation and not a life-or-death situation, he could adjust the intensity and only make them feel fear, but that wasn’t the case now, was it?

Since most of his allies were non-Awakened, Rembrary also thought it was better to resolve this situation peacefully.

Maybe he could even convert that Awakened, who claimed to be his fan, into a believer after this was all over.

“Alright.”

As Rembrary readily agreed after finishing his calculations, the production team was taken aback for the second time. The suggestion of a rap battle was strange enough, but he was actually accepting it?

On the other hand, the Awakened was cheering inwardly.

‘Yes!’

Bringing up rap was the writer’s calculation to naturally secure time to use his ability. Even in a peaceful battle, it would be difficult to prepare his ability with his mouth shut in a normal way, so he created a situation where it would be natural to stay still for a few minutes.

The Awakened, feeling proud of his wit, offered Rembrary a hand as if they were on a real music program.

“You go first to show us an example. I’ll go next.”

This way, he could buy time while Rembrary was rapping, and if he didn’t rap, he could still buy time.

Having made his decision, the Awakened quickly began preparing to use his ability. However, something happened here that the Awakened didn’t expect.

“You go first.”

Before he could even use his ability, Rembrary immediately passed the turn to the Awakened.

When he saw him on the program with Woo Yeon-woo, he didn’t seem like the type to pass the turn to his opponent.

Even in his confusion, the Awakened shook his head outwardly, but inwardly, he was quickly preparing to use his ability.

‘Just 20 more seconds.’

“Huh? Aren’t you going to do it?”

‘19 seconds…….’

“Why aren’t you doing it?”

‘18 seconds.’

“……”

‘17 seconds. If I just hold on a little longer……!’

“Ah. I see.”

“!”

However, at the moment when the Awakened thought things were going well.

Rembrary raised his chin and smiled as if he had seen through everything.

‘Did he notice my plan!’

Almost at the same time as the surprised Awakened widened his eyes, Rembrary smiled arrogantly and pointed at the Awakened with his finger.

“You need a beat, don’t you?”

At the confident question, the production team, who had been taken aback by the absurd rap battle proposal, shook their heads slightly.

‘I don’t think so.’

‘I don’t think that’s the reason.’

On the other hand, the Awakened, who had lost focus for a moment because he was swept up by Rembrary, needed 30 seconds from the beginning again, and his face turned red as he shouted, “Shoot!”

He thought it would be better to just start shooting as he had been doing, and then finish preparing to use his ability in the meantime.

And as soon as they heard the order, the people who had been disguised as passersby started shooting indiscriminately.

However, the hunters of Worldboom, who had been preparing to engage in battle since the Awakened had created confusion with his rap battle, used their abilities to subdue the nearby enemies as quickly as possible and began targeting the enemies in the rear.

The atmosphere that had been relaxed by the Awakened’s absurd proposal quickly became precarious.

Moreover, the Worldboom hunters had come out wearing bulletproof vests in case of emergency, but the production team didn’t have any.

“Aaaaaah!”

“Uaaaaaaah!”

Just as the production team was about to scream amidst the bullets flying around.

Almost everyone in that place suddenly felt a pressure pressing down on their bodies and collapsed to the ground.

“I should have just done this from the start.”

It was because Rembrary, unable to watch any longer, had simply used a concentrated Authority of God [a divine power].

He felt a little sorry for his allies, but it was better than letting them get injured if he left things as they were.

The production team sat on the ground, trembling, without knowing why. They didn’t even know who did what or how.

The Awakened also rolled off the bus, trembling all over, without knowing why.

“We have to resolve things peacefully.”

Rembrary lightly scolded him as he looked at the scene, then first took care of Jungseo and put her inside the bus, then knocked the Awakened unconscious and put him on the bus as well, and then began collecting the enemies’ guns.

* * *

“Wow…… this guy is really amazing.”

Jongwoo, who was watching Future Hunter Episode 3 while eating an apple, exclaimed in admiration, and Woo Yeon-woo, who was pretending not to watch while sitting on the sofa and flipping through a book, frowned.

“Amazing, my foot.”

At the blatantly disapproving voice, Jongwoo glanced back.

It was as if he hadn’t read a single word in the book during the broadcast; Woo Yeon-woo was staring at the large TV screen with the same page open as before.

Jongwoo clicked his tongue.

“Honestly, he’s amazing. He subdued all those people in the blink of an eye and still looks so calm. He seems like he’d be one of the top-ranked in our country? How did he do that? I don’t even know how he did that. What kind of ability is that?”

However, instead of readily agreeing, Woo Yeon-woo firmly denied it.

“He’s not strong at all. He’s much weaker than me.”

It was difficult to agree that he was much weaker, but Jongwoo nodded, recalling the sight he had seen a few days ago.

“Of course, you’re stronger. That’s why you were choking him a few days ago.”

Woo Yeon-woo, who had already heard from Jongwoo that he had been choking Rembrary a few days ago, pretended not to hear and flipped a page of the book, feeling annoyed for no reason.

“Why are you watching a show with that bastard in it, hyung [older brother or male friend]? Why are you boosting the ratings?”

“Why else? I’m watching because Jungseo is in it.”

“…….”

“Always with the temper.”

As Yeon-woo finally shut his mouth at the mention of Jungseo, Jongwoo clicked his tongue and shook his head before focusing on the screen again.

As he did so, Jongwoo suddenly remembered how Woo Yeon-woo, who had lost his memory in the past, used to look up people’s reactions after causing an accident, so he even scanned through people’s opinions on this Future Hunter Episode 3.

“There are a lot of smart people, I tell you.”

Still, he felt more at ease than when he had checked the internet’s reaction after Woo Yeon-woo had caused an accident in the past.

Moreover, after seeing all the different opinions, Jongwoo realized that people were smarter than he thought and admired them inwardly.

Unlike Jongwoo himself, who was simply impressed by Rembrary’s abilities, people were debating the number of abilities Rembrary had shown, saying things like, ‘Wasn’t Rembrary’s ability a curse?’ ‘Usually, abilities only have one type, right?’ ‘Then is Rembrary the first to use two types of abilities?’ ‘Isn’t that also a type of curse?’

That wasn’t all.

―Who was it that treated the people who got shot and left?

―I don’t know.

―Wow, is this the second healer to appear after Woo Yeon-woo?

As soon as the enemies started shooting, Rembrary immediately stepped forward and subdued them, but in the meantime, several members of the production team were seriously injured. That scene was all visible on the screen, but when they arrived at the Worldboom dorm, none of the production team members were injured.

Surprised by this, people were flooding the Future Hunter viewer bulletin board and Rembrary’s personal SNS [Social Networking Service] with questions about how this had happened, but Rembrary was just making excuses, saying, ‘An unidentified healer appeared and healed everyone.’

Woo Yeon-woo pretended not to care about Rembrary, but he couldn’t really ignore him, so as soon as Jongwoo put down his phone, he quickly asked.

“What are people saying? Are they saying he’s crazy?”

“I don’t know about crazy. It’s a mess in many ways. Everyone must be surprised that the first two-type Awakened and an unidentified healer have appeared.”