Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 314

314. It’s Not Just You Who Can Do That

“Ah, Mr. Shin. Well, you see…”

PD Gu stammered, backing away. His face was clearly filled with fear.

In fact, he couldn’t help but be scared. He had just witnessed something he ‘shouldn’t have seen.’

“Speak. Why do you keep backing away?”

Shin Jo-woon spoke calmly. He seemed no different than before. Yet, there was something about Shin Jo-woon that made you feel pressured.

Well, in a situation where you’ve witnessed a dangerous secret, Shin Jo-woon would be scary whether he was polite or angry.

“Lord, Lord.”

PD Gu stammered, calling out to the Lion Lord in a small voice. When the Lion Lord turned around, PD Gu gestured for them to run away quickly.

Unfortunately, because PD Gu had been rummaging around, the two of them were standing a bit apart. But the Lion Lord was an ability user who could close the distance in an instant. PD Gu desperately pleaded with his eyes. *Let’s run away! Quickly!*

“Why?”

However, the Lion Lord was truly clueless. Just like when he was surprised to see the person tied to the bed earlier, the Lion Lord just stared blankly, asking again.

“Speak.”

*Is this really the time to talk, you clueless Lord!* PD Gu shouted inwardly.

“Yes, speak.”

In the midst of all this, Shin Jo-woon agreed and took a step forward. And then two steps. The sound of footsteps echoing…

Even Shin Jo-woon’s handsome face was terrifying at this moment, and PD Gu couldn’t hold back any longer and actually spoke.

“Lord, let’s get out of here! Quickly! Quickly!”

“Why?”

“Because we sneaked in…”

But before he could say, ‘Because we sneaked in,’ Shin Jo-woon, who had approached, looked down at him with an expression that said, ‘So you knew?’ And then, without giving PD Gu a chance to make excuses, he reached out his hand.

“H-hand, why the hand…”

“The camera.”

“C-camera, the camera…”

The clueless Lion Lord chimed in again.

“There’s no camera. That guy came to find the camera. He hasn’t found it yet.”

Shin Jo-woon didn’t even bother to respond to the Lion Lord, but he didn’t take away the hand he had extended towards PD Gu either. As if saying, ‘You have the camera. Just give it to me since I already know.’

PD Gu eventually trembled and handed over a small camcorder.

“Hmm?”

The Lion Lord tilted his head when he saw it, but Shin Jo-woon calmly checked the recorded content. As if there was nothing strange about it at all.

However, as soon as he took his eyes off the camera, the corners of his lips turned up, and in the blink of an eye, the camera froze. Completely.

With a crackling sound, the camera turned into a block of ice that you might see penguins using to play soccer in Antarctica.

“That…!”

PD Gu reflexively tried to get angry but soon made a crying face and made excuses.

“Mr. Shin. If I knew there was something like this here, I would never have come. I heard that there was something amazing here, something that would enhance Mr. Shin’s charm, a cute secret, so I came. So I…”

As PD Gu stammered, the Lion Lord tilted his head and acted clueless again.

“That’s different from what I heard?”

*Please just shut up, you Lord.* PD Gu cursed inwardly, but in doing so, he missed the timing to make more excuses.

Thanks to that, in the brief moment he glanced at Shin Jo-woon, his eyes met Shin Jo-woon’s, who was fiddling with the ice-covered camera. As their gazes intertwined, Shin Jo-woon smiled and asked PD Gu.

“It’s not cute when you see it in person?”

*You crazy bastard, how could anyone call it a cute hobby to tie someone up and lock them away?* PD Gu thought Shin Jo-woon was a bit crazy, but he still half-heartedly agreed.

“Well, it is cute. It’s cute. So I…”

“Aren’t you scared?”

“Huh?”

“Aren’t you scared?”

PD Gu swallowed hard. Shin Jo-woon was smiling right in front of him. What would happen if he said he was scared? And what would happen if he said he wasn’t scared?

“W-well, it seems like a g-good hobby.”

If he said he was scared, he thought Shin Jo-woon would suddenly change, so PD Gu decided to try to appease Shin Jo-woon for now. Because psycho-like crazy people like being appeased.

“I’m glad you’re not scared.”

Shin Jo-woon smiled kindly at that answer, and PD Gu felt relieved. *I gave the right answer. Thank goodness.*

Unfortunately, PD Gu didn’t know that Shin Jo-woon wasn’t a psycho.

“You’ll endure it well.”

“Huh?”

The moment he asked. PD Gu lost all consciousness. Because Shin Jo-woon froze him in an instant. Without any pain or surprise, it was truly instantaneous.

He wasn’t killed immediately, but if he was left in this state for a few days, he would probably die. Without even knowing he was dying.

Of course, Shin Jo-woon had no intention of killing PD Gu with his own hands, but as he looked at him, now a block of ice, he spread out the palm of his hand that had been holding the camera.

As the camera fell to the floor with a thud, Shin Jo-woon lightly stepped on it, crushing it completely, and then leisurely turned to look at the Lion Lord.

The Lion Lord was blankly looking at Shin Jo-woon.

“…”

“…”

A moment of silence passed between Shin Jo-woon and the Lion Lord.

Then, the moment Shin Jo-woon raised his hand. A huge block of ice appeared where the Lion Lord had been standing.

But despite that surprise attack, the Lion Lord was already in front of Shin Jo-woon, and the Lion Lord’s hand was just about to touch Shin Jo-woon.

However, what touched the Lord’s hand was not Shin Jo-woon but a block of ice. Shin Jo-woon had also immediately discerned the Lion Lord’s movements with incredible reaction speed.

As the block of ice touched his hand and a chilly feeling came to his legs, the Lion Lord moved away again.

But ice bloomed even in the place he moved to, so the Lion Lord moved behind Shin Jo-woon. But whether he had eyes in the back of his head or not, there was ice in that spot as well.

A touch-and-go situation where someone could die if they let their guard down even for a moment. Both the Lion Lord and Shin Jo-woon attacked each other expressionlessly, but they didn’t let their guard down even a little.

At that moment. A song of curses rang out from Shin Jo-woon’s pants. It was the ringtone that Shin Jo-woon had set specifically for pigs [derogatory term for someone he dislikes].

At the same time, the movements of Shin Jo-woon and the Lion Lord stopped.

*Does he know why he’s stopping?* Shin Jo-woon thought it was strange that even the Lion Lord had stopped, but for now, the Lion Lord was also standing still, tilting his head.

Since he didn’t seem to be in a position to attack further, Shin Jo-woon took out his phone and answered the call.

“Yeah, what.”

[Anchovy. Have you seen the Lion?]

“Lion? …He’s with me. Why.”

The Lion Lord tilted his head again and pointed at himself with his finger, so Shin Jo-woon frowned and nodded.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the Lion Lord came next to Shin Jo-woon and shouted.

“Rembrary! I’m here!”

It seemed like he was acting arbitrarily, but in fact, the Lion Lord was using his own brain. Shin Jo-woon is close to Rembrary, so he calculated that this would prevent him from attacking him further.

He didn’t know why Shin Jo-woon was suddenly attacking with his eyes flipped, but in fact, the Lion Lord had no intention of fighting Shin Jo-woon. In the Lion Lord’s eyes, Shin Jo-woon’s eye shape was pretty, but his eyeballs were rotten. He wasn’t very interested.

[Ah, you’re there. Lion. Come quickly. I just remembered something important I need to tell you.]

“I’ll go!”

As Rembrary abruptly hung up the phone, Shin Jo-woon frowned and looked at the Lion Lord. But the Lion Lord had already run far away.

As their eyes met, the Lion Lord grinned.

“Your eyeballs aren’t my style. No reason to fight.”

Shin Jo-woon sighed. Since he had been watching the situation all along, he knew from the start that the Lion Lord, unlike PD Gu, was not afraid of this sight. He just wanted to shut his mouth just in case.

But as it turned out, he had no choice but to call a truce for now. But in what way?

Unexpectedly, the Lion Lord spoke first.

“I’ll keep your secret. So don’t start a fight.”

Shin Jo-woon was genuinely a little surprised. He thought the Lion Lord was completely stupid. But… he realized this was a secret?

“So you know this is a secret.”

“I’m just taciturn, not an idiot.”

Yeah. He seemed smarter than he thought. Shin Jo-woon clicked his tongue inwardly, but he didn’t bother to pick a fight since he wasn’t going to fight anymore.

But….

“How can I trust your word? What if you say that and then blab?”

* * *

At the same time. Daeju and Sagamjae were still facing off.

“If I had come to take your life, would you even have had the chance to talk to me?”

Still, thanks to the words that Sagamjae kept throwing out, Daeju realized that the Grim Reaper hadn’t come because of his main job.

But he was still puzzled. Then why did he come?

After several confrontations, Daeju learned that Grim Reapers cannot directly kill humans who have life left. Because Grim Reapers belong to the ‘good’ gods. This was a restriction of the given world, regardless of the individual personalities of the Grim Reapers.

“I have come to give you a final warning.”

But he suddenly appeared and gave a warning?

“A final warning?”

“Change your mind now. Belong here like the people of this world. Do not follow the god who came from another world.”

“!”

Daeju, who didn’t expect Sagamjae to openly persuade him, was briefly surprised but soon smiled faintly.

“I didn’t expect you to try to persuade me here.”

“I can’t kill humans directly. You know that and you’re acting up.”

“…”

“But I can make other humans kill you, Daeju.”

As Sagamjae threatened, Daeju briefly raised his eyebrows. He was actually a little surprised. Persuasion and threats didn’t suit Grim Reapers, did they?

But….

“Think about it. I knew there was a god and I received the god’s love. Can I go back to a life where I didn’t know anything now?”

“How about thinking about where your soul will go when you die?”

“So I must raise Redrin to the ranks of God before I die.”

As they exchanged sharp words without yielding, the pigeon in the cage also vigorously hit the bars with its wings.

After a while. Sagamjae sighed with a somewhat exhausted face.

“I didn’t want to.”

Then, he muttered something incomprehensible and called out as he turned around, “Come out.”

*Who is he calling? There’s no one around here, who is he telling to come out?*

Daeju was puzzled and looked in the direction Sagamjae was pointing.

At that moment. In the blink of an eye, a gap appeared in the air and another Grim Reaper came out.

“!”

Daeju was surprised and widened his eyes. It wasn’t because another Grim Reaper had appeared. It was because of the person with one arm caught in the handcuff that the Grim Reaper was holding.

‘*The Eastern High Priest of Lord Redrin’s world!*’

He thought he was captured, but the Grim Reaper who brought the Eastern High Priest immediately released the handcuffs.

The Eastern High Priest fiddled with the wrist where the handcuffs had been. Then, he looked at Daeju with emotionless eyes and asked Sagamjae.

“Kill him?”

“!”

As his eyes met Daeju’s, Sagamjae twisted up one corner of his mouth and mocked Daeju.

“Originally, it’s not just you who can betray a god.”