Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 338

338. Here to Heal (1)

The opponent’s demeanor changed in the blink of an eye, a shift Ardore keenly noticed.

In truth, Ardore hadn’t intended to kill Woo Yeon-woo. His plan was merely to wound him.

But the moment the caterpillar before him suddenly transformed into a giant serpent…

‘A demon?’

Ardore instinctively cocked his gun and fired several shots in rapid succession. The sound of gunfire echoed through the quiet parking lot.

But it was ineffective. As the transformed opponent raised his hand and drew a circle in the air, several red roses bloomed along the circular path, swallowing all the bullets Ardore had fired.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. The sight of the flowers swallowing the bullets wasn’t even properly visible.

‘Not an ordinary demon.’

As soon as he had that thought, Ardore rolled to the side, and the bullet he had fired earlier returned and struck the spot he had just vacated. The flowers had swallowed the bullets and spat them back out.

While rolling on the ground, Ardore’s eyes met the arrogant gaze of the opponent looking down at him.

“What are you talking about?”

“Yeon-woo!”

Just then, the surroundings became noisy, and a group of people rushed over.

Woo Yeon-woo, or rather, ‘someone’ in Woo Yeon-woo’s form, lowered his hand and smiled faintly as he heard the noise around him. Ardore clicked his tongue and immediately fled the scene.

“Yeon-woo!”

“That bastard! Catch that son of a bitch!”

While the people chased after Ardore, Jong-woo, who was only shouting without actually chasing, hurriedly approached Woo Yeon-woo and asked.

“Are you okay? Are you hurt? Who was that?”

As he asked the questions, Jong-woo also noticed that Woo Yeon-woo’s demeanor had changed and called out again, “Yeon-woo?”

The Demon King inside Woo Yeon-woo smiled and spread out his hands.

“I am unharmed.”

“Are you really okay? Right now, you….”

“Why do you ask?”

“No. It’s nothing.”

*Was it just his imagination?* Jong-woo waved his hand, trying to ignore the unsettling feeling. Meanwhile, the security guards who had chased after Ardore returned.

“What about that crazy bastard? Did you catch him?”

Seeing the security guards, Jong-woo quickly turned his body, thinking that Woo Yeon-woo’s demeanor wasn’t the immediate problem.

“No.”

The security guards shook their heads with tired faces. It seemed that more gunfire had occurred during the chase, as one of them had blood flowing from his shoulder.

“Oh! Blood!”

Seeing that, Jong-woo hurriedly looked for a handkerchief and handed it to the security guard. Then, he took out his cell phone to report the incident, but the uninjured security guard spoke meaningfully, “But that person….”

“Wasn’t he from Rembrary, or someone from that hunter trainee group that’s been in the news lately?”

“Yes?”

*Is that true?* Jong-woo widened his eyes and looked at Woo Yeon-woo. However, he couldn’t tell whether the security guard’s words were true just by looking at Woo Yeon-woo.

Normally, he would have made a fuss at the mere mention of Rembrary’s name, but for some reason, he was humming and looking around as if the parking lot he saw every day was fascinating.

“Are you saying the attacker is related to Rembrary?”

“No, I don’t mean that….”

“I saw it too. There’s that video of when Rembrary and Woo Yeon-woo were talking on the phone. There was someone wearing a lion mask or something holding a camera. I think that person who briefly passed by on the side was him.”

* * *

―How can you remember someone who just passed by? That’s ridiculous lol [laughing out loud];

―Why are you dragging Rembrary into this when Woo Yeon-woo was attacked? That’s funny.

―Woo Yeon-woo fans, don’t go grabbing Rembrary by the collar just because the details of his phone call were revealed. It’s so pathetic.

―Well, people with good eyes can remember^^ Maybe your Rembrary is too stupid to remember lolololol

―Rembrary stans [superfans] are trying so hard to defend him lol The security guard said he saw his face and that he was from Rembrary’s side lolololol The person at the scene said it was him, so why are you guys saying it’s not?

―You only see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear. You must live a good life without any stress!

―I knew it from the moment he stabbed a senior in the eye on live broadcast. A guy with no personality.

ㄴOh, Woo Yeon-woo^^?

ㄴRembrary, you son of a bitch!

―Isn’t it obvious that Rembrary tried to kill Woo Yeon-woo because he couldn’t threaten him? The situation is clear as day. Are Rembrary’s fans blocking their eyes, ears, and even their brain cells?

―Even if he didn’t send him to kill him, it seems like he sent him to threaten him…….

* * *

“Woo Yeon-woo was crazy, but he was always legally compliant. But Rembrary is crazy and disregards the law.”

Shin Jo-woon read a line from the news comments on his phone and looked at Rembrary.

“That’s what they’re saying.”

Rembrary took out a bean sprout from the seafood stew and gave him a look that said, ‘So what?’ Shin Jo-woon only smiled.

“When did your change of heart happen? Did you realize that strictly adhering to the law was meaningless?”

“What are you babbling about?”

“Or were you keeping a certain line because you were an idol, but now you’ve decided to ignore that?”

“You seem very happy.”

“As if.”

The expression on Shin Jo-woon’s face, which had only been smiling, changed completely in the opposite direction. His eyes became stern, and only the corners of his mouth turned up.

“I hastily took down the strange call in front of the camera, only to see you cause an even bigger accident. I’m lamenting that.”

“This incident has nothing to do with me.”

“Yeah, soon others will say that too, so don’t worry.”

“Are you going to delete all the related materials as soon as people upload them again?”

“Isn’t that the only way?”

“Then it will become unrelated to me, but it seems like it won’t be unrelated to you, Sardine. Kim Mu-rok is already targeting you.”

“Me? Why?”

As Shin Jo-woon asked as if he was curious, Rembrary ate the last remaining steamed egg, thinking that he was more like a water snake than a sardine.

In any case, he was convinced that Ardore was not very helpful in expanding the Redrine Church.

“Be careful with the cult’s actions. If you keep doing that, even the existing members will run away.”

“It would be a great help if you joined our church, Sardine. Aren’t you clever and smart?”

“No way.”

“Why? Do you have another religion? If so, why don’t you try having multiple religions for now?”

At Rembrary’s absurd suggestion, Shin Jo-woon wiped his mouth with a napkin and smiled again.

“I can’t have a religion, Pig.”

“Why?”

“Because my life is not worthy to be shown to God.”

A subtle remark. Rembrary was puzzled when the always arrogant Sardine expressed himself so lowly. *Had his self-esteem dropped because he kept calling him Sardine?*

“Whale.”

Feeling sorry for him, Rembrary gave him an emergency prescription to boost his self-esteem, and Shin Jo-woon lowered his napkin and smiled, as if it had worked.

“Come to think of it, didn’t you say you had somewhere to go earlier?”

* * *

The place Rembrary was going was the hospital where Im Yu-han’s younger sibling was hospitalized. However, Rembrary refused Shin Jo-woon’s offer to take him and used the Lion Lord’s ability to move to the hospital room.

It was because he wanted to secretly visit, secretly heal, and leave without revealing that he had healing abilities. However, the moment he arrived at the hospital room…

“Ah!”

“Eek!”

“What is it!”

“A lion! A monster! A person!”

The people there screamed in surprise at the sudden appearance of Rembrary and the Lion Lord. The Lion Lord was also flustered and quickly grabbed Rembrary and ran away from the spot.

The people in the hospital room barely calmed down about five minutes after Rembrary and the Lion Lord disappeared and whispered among themselves about what had just happened.

“Isn’t that, that person? The one who sent a killer to Woo Yeon-woo.”

“That’s right! It must be him! The hunter who goes around with a lion mask!”

“But why is that person here?”

“Isn’t he here to do something bad again?”

People were suddenly throwing out random words, feeling uneasy as a hunter trainee—moreover, a hunter trainee who tried to kill the national hero Woo Yeon-woo by sending a killer—appeared and disappeared here with a lord with a bad reputation.

* * *

Meanwhile, Rembrary, who had returned to the dorm, belatedly asked the Lion Lord.

“What were those guys just now?”

The Lion Lord shook his head.

“Weren’t they the patient’s relatives or caregivers?”

“There were more than one or two of them?”

“Then they must be relatives.”

The Lion Lord went to take a nap as if he wasn’t very surprised. However, Rembrary, who was left alone, lamented that he couldn’t heal Im Yu-han’s younger sibling.

However, now that things had turned out this way, the family or relatives would probably deploy more people in the hospital room to watch him heal. It was already impossible to secretly go and heal.

If he had to heal them, he would have to reveal that he was a healer…….

At that moment, as he was standing by the window looking at the view, a minotaur approached him.

Soon, the minotaur entered the room and asked majestically as soon as he found Rembrary.

[Are you the hunter Rembrary Remreury? Are you the hunter who knows a healer?]

“Hey, aren’t you Um-mae?”

As soon as Rembrary recognized him, the minotaur took the strength out of his vocal cords and looked up and down at Rembrary in surprise.

[Are you the Great Demon? Are you the handsome Great Demon?]

“I’m not the Great Demon, but I’m the person you wanted to hold hands with and chased after, Um-mae.”

As Rembrary answered, the minotaur was startled and looked around at Rembrary again. He didn’t seem to understand why his appearance had changed.

Then, when Rembrary began to touch the horns on the minotaur, he jumped and hurriedly waved his arms.

[We have to go, we have to go. Um-mae’s friend is in danger, Um-mae’s friend is crying.]

“Your friend?”

[The mermaid is sad and won’t come out of the water.]

“You made a mermaid friend too?”

The minotaur explained the situation to Rembrary as best he could in his usual rambling manner.

He heard that Im Yu-han, who had become a mermaid, periodically lost his mind, and when his younger sibling was injured as a result, Im Yu-han, who had lost his mind, was sad for no apparent reason and went deep into the lake, and the tiger head was sad and stuck to the lake, always crying.

The minotaur sometimes went to see them, but he was embarrassed to see his two friends like that, so he remembered hearing that ‘the hunter Rembrary knows a healer’ and came here.

[Can you fix it? Can you? Great Demon-nim, this, this]

The minotaur wildly stabbed his thumb into the air to flatter him, and regardless of the flattery, Rembrary decided to save Im Yu-han’s younger sibling, even if it meant revealing that he was a healer, for the sake of Im Yu-han and the tiger head.

“I can fix it. Let’s go.”

Since he was going to heal publicly anyway, Rembrary this time took Dae-ju’s car and went to the hospital.

However, unlike what he thought, it was not easy to enter the hospital.

“I’m sorry, but the patient’s guardian has blocked the entry of all unapproved visitors. You cannot enter.”

The patient’s guardian had blocked visitors, so he was blocked by a security guard from the entrance.

“I didn’t come to visit, I came to heal.”

Rembrary explained with a gentle smile, but it was ineffective. No, rather, just saying that he came to heal caused all the guards to slowly gather around him.

From among the people watching this, he heard whispers saying, “They tried to kill someone here,” and Rembrary finally realized the situation.

It seemed that the fact that he appeared and disappeared with the Lion Lord was completely spread like a ghost story in connection with the Woo Yeon-woo killer incident.

*What should he do?* As Rembrary was lost in thought for a moment, the minotaur jumped up and down next to him.

[If you don’t go soon, the mermaid’s sibling will die! They looked critical!]

“Okay…… then there’s no choice.”

Rembrary sighed briefly and instructed Dae-ju.

“Make a way.”