Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 321

321. Are You Perhaps Rembrary?

Someone knocked on the door. Who could it be?

‘At least it’s not the Lion Lord, since they’re knocking.’

Rembrary stopped looking around and opened the door. An unexpected face appeared.

‘Kim Murok PD [Production Director]?’

It was Kim Murok PD, whom Rembrary had worked with from *Sing Survival* to *Survival Hunter* when he was in Woo Yeon-woo’s body. Shim PD had mentioned that Kim Murok might come. It seemed it was true.

‘I keep running into this guy, strangely enough.’

“Hello, Rembrary-ssi.”

Since he couldn’t pretend not to know him, Rembrary asked, “Why have you come?” instead of ‘Who are you?’ Kim Murok smiled brightly and warmly extended his hand.

“Wow, I saw the broadcast. You look much better in person than on TV. I wish I had known you before the Cataclysm.”

Kim Murok, who had known him before the Cataclysm and had done two variety shows with him, quickly pulled out his business card when Rembrary stared intently at him.

“Ah, I’m Kim Murok PD. Shim PD briefly mentioned that I would be coming, right?”

“Just that the main PD had changed.”

“Right. PD Gu Ju-ho is currently missing. But with the person in charge missing, it’s a bit awkward to continue *Future Hunter*. So, for the time being, we’ll be doing a pilot program featuring Redrin and Rembrary-ssi, and I’m in charge of that. Please take care of me?”

As Rembrary accepted the business card, Kim Murok laughed heartily and spoke naturally, as if they were close. Unlike PD Gu Ju-ho, Kim Murok had no intention of treating a much younger guy who spoke informally to him with any particular respect.

However, as someone who had succeeded in every program he had taken on, even if it caused controversy, he had a sharp sense the moment he saw Rembrary’s face. In Kim Murok’s eyes, Rembrary’s face was one that could be a pictorial [photo shoot] if he stood still, a mukbang [eating broadcast] if he just ate something, and a healing video if he moved. And that face had a rude and sassy way of speaking. Wasn’t that a combination that was bound to capture people’s attention?

‘It’s a strange feeling when someone I know doesn’t recognize me.’

Rembrary, for his part, found Kim Murok amusing. With each of them harboring their own thoughts, the two exchanged a few more greetings. After about five minutes, Kim Murok said, “Ah, right,” as if belatedly remembering, and handed over two small cameras.

“What are these?”

Both cameras were about the same size as the self-cams he had received when doing the two-timing variety show.

“Are you telling me to film a video diary with these?”

When Rembrary asked, recalling the video diary he had diligently recorded in the past, Kim Murok laughed, “You know it well?”

“The camera with the blue tape goes over there, and you should act as if it’s not there as much as possible. And the camera with the green tape, well, you can carry it around, put it somewhere else, or mumble to yourself as if you’re filming a video diary.”

Kim Murok explained how to use the cameras and then placed the camera with the blue tape on top of a low closet and secured it.

“Are you going to leave it there all the time?”

Seeing this, Rembrary frowned and asked, and Kim Murok smirked and retorted.

“We’re filming Rembrary-ssi adapting to Redrin, so it’s better to film here to make it feel more like real life. People need to see that to think, ‘Ah, Redrin is just a place where people live.’ Don’t you think?”

“I suppose so.”

“You can go to the bathroom to change clothes or make calls. I heard there’s a bathroom in the room. Ah, there it is.”

Kim Murok pointed to another door inside the room.

However, Rembrary wasn’t very keen and crossed his arms. When he was Woo Yeon-woo, he was an idol and part of a group, so he did everything he was told, but now he was in the body of a High Priest. He didn’t think he needed to go that far.

But the quick-witted Kim Murok immediately sensed that Rembrary’s expression wasn’t good and quickly soothed him with kind words.

“But you can turn it off if it’s uncomfortable. Then what’s the problem, right? Look, there’s this button here, right?”

“Yes.”

“If you press it once, it turns on, and if you press it again, it turns off. Then it’s settled, right? How about it?”

Only then did Rembrary nod, and Kim Murok smiled along.

However, as soon as he said goodbye and came out, that smile changed from a kind smile to a spiteful one.

“It seems like you had a good talk with Rembrary-ssi?”

A staff member who passed by saw the change and asked awkwardly, and Kim Murok chuckled and whispered.

“Yeah, I taught Rembrary the wrong button to turn off the fixed camera.”

“Pardon?”

“Don’t worry. I taught him how to use one camera properly.”

To be precise, Kim Murok had only given the wrong instructions for the stop button on the blue tape camera fixed on top of the closet. However, it all sounded the same to the staff member.

‘Is that okay?’ The staff member stared with wide eyes, but Kim Murok whistled and pressed the elevator button. The staff member clicked his tongue inwardly. ‘That guy was known for his devil’s edits before the Cataclysm, and he’s still doing it after the Cataclysm.’ Of course, he only thought this in his mind, and that staff member didn’t go in to tell Rembrary the truth either.

* * *

Meanwhile, Rembrary, unaware of this, was looking at the portable camera marked with green tape in his hand, reminiscing.

‘Come to think of it, I filmed a lot of video diaries.’

Of course, he filmed a lot, and Jong-woo ran out and interrupted a lot too. As old memories came to mind, Rembrary felt nostalgic and decided to film a video diary for the first time in a while. However, just before pressing the power button, someone knocked on the door.

‘Did they have more to say?’

Rembrary put down the camera and opened the door. But this time it wasn’t Kim Murok. There was someone he had never seen before.

A person with downward-sloping eyes and large piercings in their ears. Overall, they had a swaggering and unruly impression, wearing a flashy floral shirt and holding a cigarette between their fingers.

‘Who is this person looking for me?’ As he watched, the person tilted their head and asked.

“Are you that newbie Rembrary? Why is your room so nice?”

From the tone of their voice, Rembrary immediately realized. This person wasn’t a member of the production team, but a Redrin Hunter. They must have come to pick a fight with me. Since I’m using such a nice room without revealing that I’m a High Priest, someone must be unhappy about it.

“Who are you?”

Still, to confirm who they were, he asked, and the other person frowned and became annoyed.

“What, who are you to talk down to me like that?”

“I only treat those who respect me with respect.”

* * *

‘Liar!’

Kim Murok returned to his room and was checking if the fixed camera he had installed in Rembrary’s room was working properly when he heard Rembrary’s conversation with someone and shouted without realizing it.

‘Treating those who respect him with respect,’ my ass! When they first met, he was the one who said ‘Hello’ first, but didn’t he answer ‘Why have you come?’ back then? He used informal speech later, but he was the one who spoke down to him first. But respect for respect? That was complete bullshit.

But soon Kim Murok realized that this wasn’t the time for this.

‘To clash with a believer here right after installing the camera. Perfect!’

Kim Murok chuckled and called a cameraman to have the video being filmed in Rembrary’s room uploaded to their newly created YouTube channel, adding captions that would attract attention.

-Clash with a believer as soon as he arrives in Redrin?!

-Will Rembrary be exposed as a concept pseudo [fake]?

* * *

The fanatic, or rather, the fanatic sent by Maeng Woo-shin, unaware of this, brazenly put his hands behind his back and entered Rembrary’s room without permission, looking around and clicking his tongue.

“No, seriously, why is a newbie using this room?”

“I am Rembrary.”

“Do you think I asked because I don’t know your name?”

“That’s how it sounded.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“Yes, this room is no joke. Isn’t it great?”

“Hey. I was talking to you.”

“Of course, I am more wonderful.”

“Damn it! Why do you keep twisting my words?”

“But why did you come into my room without permission?”

When Rembrary asked again, the fanatic Ho Ri-beom realized that he had been led on by Rembrary and hadn’t introduced himself yet.

“Ahem. I am Ho Ri-beom.”

“I didn’t ask for your name.”

“……”

The fanatic Ho Ri-beom, who had his own words thrown back at him, hesitated for a moment. Rembrary asked with a gentle smile.

“Coffee? Tea?”

Ho Ri-beom, belatedly realizing that he had been teased, almost hit Rembrary, but he barely managed to hold back, remembering that Maeng Woo-shin had said that Rembrary might actually be a believer.

“Coffee.”

“I’ll have a Choux Cream Power Ice Ball Latte.”

“What? So what?”

“Aren’t you buying?”

“You son of a bitch?”

* * *

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋcrazy bastardㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-The pseudo is getting involved. The pseudo is losing. Pseudo, cheer up!!!

-Rembrary is reallllllly ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ stubbornㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-I’ve been thinking about it for a whileㅋㅋㅋㅋ Rembrary is kind of Woo Yeon-woo materialㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴWhy Yeon-woo? Our Yeon-woo is polite and kind

ㄴ22222 Yeon-woo also had a rebellious period in the pastㅋㅋ

ㄴIt’s probably still the same now. He’s just being quiet because his image changed from a crazy idol to a national hero, so he’s saving face.

-So what if he’s crazy. Rembrary is so cute…ㅎㅎ

* * *

‘What a strange person.’

After the Redrin believer, who identified himself as Ho Ri-something, left huffing and puffing.

Rembrary changed into comfortable clothes, sat on the bed, and turned on SNS [Social Networking Service]. Although that Ho Ri-byeong person said something strange, he didn’t need to worry about that person.

Rembrary needed to inform his prospective believers of his recent activities to naturally induce them to become interested in Redrin. But when he logged into his account, someone had left a strange comment.

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– Are you perhaps the great Rembrary of the West and South?

‘The West and South!’

Rembrary’s eyes widened in surprise. In the original world, the Redrin Temple was most prosperous in the Western and Southern continents, and Rembrary was the High Priest of the West and South. But to specifically point out the West and South and ask if he was the ‘great Rembrary’…

‘Is it someone who came from the original world?’

Rembrary recalled Mullu, Nin-ling, and the Holy Knight of the Eastern Continent, whom he had temporarily forgotten. Come to think of it, those three also fell into the rift together. Could it be one of those three?

Even if not, it seemed clear that they were from another world. Considering that, the bear emoticon hiding half of its body was a bit suspicious, though.