Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 329

329. A Grim Reaper’s Request

When will I ever finish dealing with this? I need to find those two people, no, three people, quickly, but when will I ever find them all?

How many frog eggs are there in the world that haven’t hatched? They didn’t go to another country, did they? Ardor endlessly repeated similar thoughts under his expressionless face, poking and prodding at the frog eggs as he walked around.

Then, if something human-shaped came out of a frog egg, he would knock it unconscious, and if it was a monster that had clearly crossed the rift [a tear in reality between worlds], he would deal with it himself.

How long did he wander around like that?

‘Rembrary-nim [term of respect, similar to ‘Mr.’ or ‘Sir’]. How hard must it be for him without someone to attend to him.’

Ardor kicked a frog egg half-heartedly, thinking about the High Priest, who had never lifted a finger in his life, suffering in this other world.

‘Hmm?’

Then, a strange sight caught his eye.

‘What is this?’

It was a hand. A hand that had emerged from a frog egg. A hand that drooped like a deflated balloon, as if it had used all its strength to break through the egg.

‘Could it be? Did they try to come out alone?’

Ardor’s eyes widened. He had heard that in the early days, people were bare-bodied when they passed through the rift. However, that method had too many side effects, so everyone who passed through the rift was covered with an egg-like shield. But even with the shield, there were still side effects, one of which was that it was difficult to come out of the egg alone.

But to extend a hand out alone…….

‘A paladin from our temple? Is it Mullu-nim? Or… a demon who followed along?’

Either way, it wouldn’t be an ordinary being. Ardor smiled and pulled out his gun.

* * *

“What’s wrong? You don’t look good? Is it because of the album?”

When Seonwoo Sil was picking at his ramen with a stiff face, his colleague sitting across from him asked. Seonwoo Sil flared up and replied.

“What’s wrong with my album? The sales are good, the reviews are good, everything’s good!”

The colleague shrugged.

“You still might not like it.”

“I do, though?”

“Then what’s wrong?”

The colleague asked again, but Seonwoo Sil didn’t say anything properly. The colleague, who had asked several times, frowned and grumbled.

“If you’re not going to talk, then don’t sit there with a grim look on your face. You’re ruining my appetite.”

Seonwoo Sil stared at his colleague, who always spoke so annoyingly, and put down his chopsticks first.

“I’m the one who’s losing my appetite.”

However, his expression was still dark, so his colleague finally became a little worried and frowned. But even when his colleague asked what was wrong several more times, Seonwoo Sil didn’t answer. More precisely, he couldn’t answer. The reason he had a dark expression was because of a precognitive dream, but no one knew that he was an Awakened One [a person with supernatural abilities].

“Water, please.”

Eventually, Seonwoo Sil muttered and got up from the table to walk to the water purifier. As he took a cup out of the sterilizer and filled it with water, he recalled the precognitive dream he had last night.

Before, he had seen Rembrary, a hunter trainee, wearing a strange cloak and walking towards a throne covered in blood in his dream. This time, there was no throne. But it was just as strange as the last time.

The trainee was sitting on a crude-looking chair, and people in black suits were surrounding him with all sorts of weapons.

What was unusual was their expressions. It was clearly a one-versus-many situation, but the Rembrary trainee was smiling, while those surrounding him looked very tense.

“Suspicious….”

As Seonwoo Sil muttered to himself, lost in thought, his colleague, who had finished his ramen and came next to him, asked again.

“What is?”

The moment he heard the question, Seonwoo Sil had the thought, ‘I need to check it out.’ Seonwoo Sil put down his water cup instead of answering and put on the thin jacket he had taken off and placed on the chair earlier.

“Huh? Where are you going?”

The colleague, who saw this, widened his eyes and asked, but Seonwoo Sil didn’t stop and only answered.

“I’m just going somewhere for a bit!”

“No, I mean, where are you going… he just left.”

The colleague asked once more from behind, but Seonwoo Sil was already in his car, starting the engine, without even thinking of answering.

“Suspicious. Very suspicious.”

* * *

“Taeri isn’t answering her phone.”

Rembrary was on the phone with Shin Jo-woon.

“She said she was okay, but could she still be angry?”

[That’s a bit strange. Taeri isn’t the type to cut off contact when she’s angry.]

“Just in case, go to her house. With both hands full of food.”

[Should I? It’ll take a long time to go if I wait for you. It’d be rude to go too late. I’ll go.]

“Okay….”

[What about the email I sent? Did you check it?]

“Ah, you mean those songs.”

[How are they? Pick one of them and release an album. Don’t get involved with LLL again and lose money.]

“They’re all good.”

[Then pick several and release a full album. If you show the album-making process from the beginning, you can mix it with the sympathy you received this time to attract attention early on. If you just attract attention early on, your voice will immediately get a popular reaction.]

As Shin Jo-woon, whose experience as an entertainment agency president hadn’t gone anywhere, told him like a president doing his job for the first time in a while, Rembrary nodded and readily agreed with Shin Jo-woon’s words.

Then, his phone, which was to his ear, vibrated, so he slightly took it away from his ear and checked the screen….

‘Woosil?’

The reason the phone vibrated was because Seonwoo Sil had left a secret comment for Rembrary.

However, Shin Jo-woon was saying something else on the phone, so Rembrary decided to check the comment later and brought the phone back to his ear.

However, he stopped, seeing unexpected content on the screen he glanced at.

“Hold on a moment.”

Rembrary pressed the end call button and went into SNS to properly check the comment.

As expected. He saw it correctly. The comment Seonwoo Sil left said the same thing he had seen at first glance.

[Hey, my fan. I’m going to be near there for a bit, can I see you for a moment?]

A sudden visit.

[Yes >ㅅ<] He didn't know why he wanted to see him, but Rembrary was happy and quickly replied. Surprisingly, he got a reply in less than 30 seconds. [Come to XX Cafe across from XX Cinema] [When?] [Now. Come alone. Don't bring the broadcasting station people or anyone else] Moreover, Seonwoo Sil wasn't in the 'going there' state, but had already arrived. "?" What's going on? Why did Seonwoo Sil suddenly come to find him? Rembrary tilted his head, but got up, thinking he would go. * * * Rembrary found the cafe Seonwoo Sil mentioned right away with the help of the Lion Lord. "If it's the cafe across from the cinema, it must be here." "I guess so." "Should we go in together?" Rembrary was about to say 'let's do that,' but he remembered that Seonwoo Sil had told him not to bring the broadcasting station people or anyone else. "Should I wait?" As the Lion Lord quickly changed his question, Rembrary nodded. "Watch a movie. I'll text you when the conversation is over." As the Lion Lord disappeared in the blink of an eye, saying he would, Rembrary went into the cafe and called the phone number Seonwoo Sil had told him earlier. Immediately, a person wearing a hat pulled low from the second floor of the cafe came down and gestured for him to come this way. 'Is that Woosil?' Rembrary warmly greeted the cafe employee who recognized him and mouthed 'Rembrary! Rembrary!' and then followed the hat, presumed to be Woosil, upstairs. Unlike the first floor, which had a wide space with various tables, the second floor had a hollow center and was in the form of room cafes [private rooms for rent] along the walls. Following the hat into one of the rooms, the hat took off his hat and closed the door. As expected, it was Seonwoo Sil. "I must have surprised you by calling you so suddenly. Thanks for coming." Seonwoo Sil put his hat on the table and sat down on the sofa, greeting him. Rembrary sat facing him across the table, wondering whether he should call him 'Woosil Senior' or 'Seonwoo Sil-ssi [formal title, similar to Mr./Ms.], ' but just nodded for now. 'Woosil Senior' is more familiar…. "You know who I am, right?" "Seonwoo Sil-ssi." Seeing that, Seonwoo Sil suddenly felt the urge to ask Rembrary, 'But are you really my fan?' He had talked to him on SNS before, but at that time, he couldn't really tell whether he was a fan or someone pretending to be a fan to cause trouble. He felt a little better after seeing him on TV and thinking, 'Ah, he's like that to everyone else too.' However, he didn't come here to talk about this, so Seonwoo Sil got straight to the point. "Is it, perhaps, a bit dangerous there right now… that kind of situation?" "No. I'm going to order a delicious coffee." "No, not the action you're going to take right now. I mean the situation you're in right now, or your circumstances, or your surroundings, or something. Is it perhaps a bit dangerous?" "No. Why?" Rembrary picked up the menu and opened it, waiting for Seonwoo Sil to get to the point. In this body, he had only talked to him once on SNS, but from the moment he suddenly called him, saying he was nearby, he thought that he wasn't calling him for an ordinary reason. But he didn't know what he was going to talk about, and Seonwoo Sil couldn't easily open his mouth, clasping his hands together while Rembrary flipped through the menu without saying anything. However, unlike his tightly closed mouth, his eyes were sharply watching Rembrary. When Rembrary finished choosing his menu and looked up, Seonwoo Sil finally opened his mouth. "I don't really know if you're a dangerous person or if you're the one in danger." "?" "Anyway, it seems certain that you're in danger, so I came." * * * At that time. Jang Taeri, who was worried about Shin Jo-woon and Rembrary, was still staying in that night with the person who identified herself as a grim reaper. At first, she didn't believe the woman who identified herself as a grim reaper. A grim reaper out of nowhere. There was no way she could easily believe such words. Besides, wasn't this a world where people who used something similar to superpowers were appearing? Even if the woman who said she was a grim reaper showed strange abilities, it was difficult to believe the words grim reaper. However, in the blink of an eye, even though the yellow streetlights and nearby walls were the same, the surrounding background changed drastically, so Jang Taeri had no choice but to believe the pale woman's words. More than anything, the air itself felt completely different from this world. She couldn't say exactly what was different, but she could feel it instinctively. "Does the appearance of a grim reaper mean it's time for me to die?" After acknowledging that the other person was a grim reaper, Jang Taeri believed that her lifespan had run out. What business would a grim reaper have with a person? But that wasn't the case. "The reason I came to find Jang Taeri-ssi is to ask for help from you, the Saint."