Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 349

349. Came to Find Someone

[Ah, young miss…]

The tiger demon drooped his whiskers with a dark expression, making Rembrary’s heart ache. Rembrary was weak against long, lush whiskers on furry animals.

“Should I scratch your chin?”

[What are you talking about?]

“Never mind.”

Is it different from cats?

“It’s not.”

As Rembrary and the tiger head engaged in a nonsensical conversation, the cow-headed demon couldn’t bear to watch and informed him from the side.

[Underneath Mermaid Lake. Won’t come out. Comes out when he regains his senses. But he can’t regain his senses.]

“Watch your mouth!”

The tiger head poked the cow head’s side, and the cow head mooed while tearing at the tiger head’s whiskers.

While the two demons were bickering, Rembrary went back to the lake where Yohan Im was said to be.

‘He didn’t come out earlier.’

But even when he bent his knees, brought his face close to the lake, and sent divine power again, Yohan Im didn’t appear, and only unknown mermaids popped their heads out.

“…….”

In the end, Rembrary thought he had no choice and took off his top.

“What are you doing?”

The lion lord, who saw this, hid behind a tree some distance away and asked in surprise, but Rembrary didn’t stop and took off one of his shoes, dipping only his toes into the lake while answering.

“He won’t come out, so I’m going to go in.”

“You’ve been talking to yourself and answering yourself since earlier; it’s scary.”

“Is there anything you’re afraid of?”

“It’s rare, but this is it.”

The cow-headed demon, seeing this, whispered to the tiger head, “That flimsy head isn’t one of your kind,” but the lion lord couldn’t hear this voice either.

“Are you really going in?”

“I’d like to tell you to go in instead, but you don’t have eyes, so I have no choice.”

“Why do you keep saying I don’t have eyes?”

Instead of replying to the grumbling lion head, Rembrary took off his remaining shoe.

“He’s really going in. But what are you going to do in there?”

“There’s someone I need to find.”

“A corpse?”

“A mermaid.”

“Haven’t you outgrown fairy tales yet?”

“…….”

“Are you a good swimmer?”

“I’m decent.”

“If it’s a mermaid, they’ll be in the deep water; is ‘decent’ enough?”

“Haven’t you outgrown fairy tales yet either?”

While the lion lord was gaping, Rembrary put both feet in the water and slowly submerged his upper body.

“He really went in.”

The lion lord panicked at Rembrary’s sudden action and repeatedly appeared and disappeared around the pond.

It was a place that looked quite deep at first glance, and it was hard to believe that he could just take off his top and shoes and go in. It would be hard to swim if his clothes got wet.

But while he was worrying, Rembrary had already put his head underwater and was swimming further and further inside.

* * *

Breathing in the water isn’t a very comfortable feeling. Rembrary slowly stirred his toes and looked around inside the lake.

‘I can’t see well.’

Unlike the surface, which sparkled in the sunlight, the inside was dark, and things that looked like aquatic plants or uprooted weeds floated around, constantly obscuring his vision.

Eventually, Rembrary, who was wandering around with a halo on his head, found Yohan Im only after going down to the bottom.

‘Oh no… Senior.’

Yohan Im was leaning against a rock at the bottom of the lake with her eyes closed. If you only looked at her hair swaying in the water and her ordinary T-shirt, she looked no different from before.

However, below the T-shirt, there was a mermaid tail with jewel-like scales.

“Senior.”

Rembrary went to the opposite side of Yohan Im and called out to her.

“…….”

But Yohan Im didn’t answer. Is she alive? He felt a brief moment of anxiety and touched her artery; he could clearly feel a pulse, but still.

“Senior.”

Just in case, Rembrary sent a large amount of divine power. He had to send it for treatment purposes anyway.

How long had he been there? The eyelids that had been closed all along finally twitched a little. Then, the eyelids went up, and her pupils appeared.

“Senior. Are you okay?”

When Rembrary asked again, Yohan Im blinked a few times. Then, she opened her eyes wide and asked.

[Who?]

“Ah. Senior doesn’t know my face yet.”

[Do you know me?]

Yohan Im, who was asking the question, clearly seemed to have reason [was lucid].

“I introduced you to the tiger head, remember?”

When Rembrary mentioned the tiger head, Yohan Im asked with an even more surprised expression.

[Yeonwoo?]

“His name is Rembrary now.”

[Your face… you’ve become handsome.]

“Senior, your race has changed.”

Yohan Im rubbed her eyes several times while looking at Rembrary. She seemed more amazed that Rembrary’s face had changed than that she had become a mermaid.

That was only for a moment. She soon sighed briefly, “Ah,” and her pupils shook.

[Tiger.]

After saying that, Yohan Im reached out to Rembrary. When Rembrary took her hand, Yohan Im grabbed Rembrary with one hand and began swimming upwards at an incredible speed.

As soon as they rose above the surface, she placed Rembrary on the shore and hurriedly looked around.

[Young miss!]

The tiger head, who saw this, ran towards Yohan Im and asked if she was okay, saying, ‘You woke up quickly this time.’ Meanwhile, Rembrary also completely got out of the lake.

Then, as he sat on a rock waiting for the water to dry, the cow-headed demon approached him and subtly explained the situation of the tiger head and Yohan Im.

[When the mermaid loses her reason, she used to become ferocious. But since her younger sibling got hurt, when she loses her reason, she sleeps. She just sleeps in the pond. She’s always sleeping. Leaving that tiger guy and always sleeping.]

“Did you tell her that her sibling is okay now?”

[I did. But she still sleeps. She keeps sleeping.]

The cow-headed demon muttered that when Yohan Im woke up from her sleep, she and the tiger head would talk for hours, and it would be boring to be here for six hours or so.

But perhaps because Rembrary was nearby, Yohan Im soon stopped greeting the tiger head and called Rembrary.

[Come to think of it, I think I heard about you from the cow. That your face changed and you saved my sibling.]

“I did put divine… no, healing abilities on Senior, but how do you feel? Do you think the symptoms of losing and regaining your reason have improved?”

[You healed me too?]

“I tried it because you wouldn’t wake up. Do you feel any changes? I’m not sure if you’ve been cured.”

[I don’t know yet either. The tiger said that I regained my reason and came up faster than usual.]

Yohan Im looked at the tiger head with a trembling voice and asked.

[Could it be because of the effect?]

The tiger head and Yohan Im were about to fall into their own world again, so Rembrary put his hand between Yohan Im and the tiger head and waved it around.

“If it seems to have an effect, tell me. I’ll heal you more if you need it.”

[Thank you, Great Demon.]

“Who are you calling a demon? The real demon is somewhere else.”

[But didn’t you say you had a request for us, Great Demon?]

“Ah. Right.”

While Rembrary called the tiger head and cow head and told them the location of the lab and asked them to search it thoroughly, Yohan Im stared strangely at the lion lord who was hiding behind a tree with only his head sticking out.

[So, all we have to do is check if there are any ‘humans’ trapped in that lab?]

“Yes. They’re human, but they’re being treated like monsters. If there are any.”

[Why is that?]

“It’s a bit complicated. Is it possible?”

[What’s so difficult about it? Do we not have to rescue them?]

“It would be nice if you could…”

Would it be possible? The tiger head and cow-headed demon were invisible to others, so they could just slip out, but the otherworlders who had regained their reason were visible to everyone. If it was such an important lab, the guards would be numerous and very strong.

[I’ll do it as I see fit.]

At the tiger head’s words, Rembrary nodded, thinking that would be better.

Indeed. It’s hard to know how the situation will unfold on the ground unless you’re there. The tiger head is quick-witted and calm, so he would know what to do if he was just told to judge as he saw fit.

Anyway, having accomplished his original purpose, Rembrary thought he should go back and got up from his seat. His clothes weren’t dry yet, but the sky was turning purple.

“Do the job quickly. Ummae will know where I’m staying.”

[I know. I know. Just trust me, Great Demon.]

When Rembrary gestured for the lion lord to come quickly, the lion lord approached with a very reluctant expression. He still seemed to think Rembrary was crazy.

“Let’s go back to the company now.”

But just before leaving.

“Lion, just a moment.”

Rembrary remembered Yuseol Im’s request and conveyed his thanks to the tiger head.

“Tiger, Im Senior’s younger sibling said thank you for saving her.”

But for some reason, it wasn’t the tiger head who received the thank you, but Yohan Im who reacted greatly.

Yohan Im asked, “Really?” but Rembrary couldn’t answer because the lion lord grabbed Rembrary and moved away.

* * *

While waiting for the tiger head and cow-headed demon to search the lab and bring back the results, Rembrary spent his time healing those who came to Redrine, and then took the time to visit the house where Jugyeong’s uncle had lived before he moved.

Jugyeong seemed to be adjusting well in the training center now, but since he had learned about his relatives, he thought he should meet them at least once.

‘Eunuch said that guy moved, but there was something strange about it.’

“The neighbor? He moved? When did he go? Well, he wasn’t home much to begin with. He was a hunter, I think. Is that why?”

But as Shin Jo-un had said, Jugyeong’s uncle’s house was already empty.

‘Eunuch was right. Was I being unnecessarily suspicious?’

“But aren’t you by any chance the Eye-Soothing Healer Rembrary? Right?”

Rembrary, who signed an autograph for a resident who recognized him with shining eyes, was about to call the lion lord to go back. It was because the lion lord had taken Rembrary here, saying he had something busy to do, and had gone somewhere.

But just before pressing the call button.

‘That guy?’

Rembrary spotted a familiar face. Seongwoo Woo. Seongwoo Woo, who had once acted as his older brother.

That Seongwoo Woo parked his car near Jugyeong’s uncle’s house and got out, and almost as soon as he spotted Rembrary, he frowned.

“You…?”

He acted as if he recognized Rembrary, but Rembrary thought he recognized him because he had become famous, so he didn’t pretend to know him separately and asked Seongwoo Woo with the attitude of dealing with a fan.

“Yes, I’m Rembrary. Do you want an autograph?”

But Seongwoo Woo’s reaction was cold.

“Why are you here? Did you come to find my brother again?”

That’s because the Rembrary that Seongwoo Woo knew was a recent enemy entangled with his brother due to a bad relationship.

Only then did Rembrary realize why Seongwoo Woo had frowned as soon as he saw him and explained.

“No. I came here to find Jugyeong’s uncle.”

“Jugyeong’s uncle?”

“The person who lived here before he moved.”

But for some reason, Seongwoo Woo’s eyes turned even colder when Rembrary said he hadn’t come because of something related to Woo Yeonwoo, and he grabbed Rembrary by the collar and gritted his teeth.

“Were you the culprit?”