Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 361

361. New Family

Rembrary muttered to himself, unconsciously. From the hairstyle to the clothes, the face. It was definitely Moolu. He was sure because it was exactly how he looked when he fell into the crack. But…

“Moolu?”

Rembrary called the Holy Knight Commander’s name once more. Because of Moolu’s eyes. His usually bright eyes looked strange now. It was hard to tell where those eyes were looking. Besides, they felt strangely empty…

‘Is he irrational?’

It seemed so. It was clear because he didn’t respond even though Rembrary called him twice. That was something that would never happen with Moolu normally.

But his skill was the same as before. Moolu pulled the spear out of the wyvern’s body in one go, then walked up the back, neck, and head to the rooftop. Everyone exclaimed, “Wow,” and “Ooh.”

The wyvern seemed completely unconscious, with two-thirds of its body hanging over the rooftop.

“Moolu.”

Rembrary called the Holy Knight Commander for the third time.

Meanwhile, the child seemed to have regained some reason in this unexpected situation, and the swaying of the building lessened a bit.

It was strange not to pay attention to the situation where a giant wyvern suddenly appeared, got stuck on the roof, and a woman he had never seen before appeared on top of it with a spear.

But as the child regained some sanity, the welcome Moolu became a problem.

‘Ah! They said that when a Great Lord hatches from an egg, they are irrational at first. No different from monsters…’

The moment Rembrary thought this far, Moolu, who was walking while dragging the spear across the rooftop, raised his hand, spun the spear once in his hand, and suddenly started running. In Rembrary’s direction.

However, before reaching Rembrary, Moolu abruptly changed direction and tried to strike Maeng Wooshin with the spear shaft.

“Why! Why me!”

Maeng Wooshin, who had been watching the situation with his mouth open, hurriedly put up a barrier around himself at the sudden spear strike.

But Moolu didn’t stop and struck the spear left and right in quick succession.

Maeng Wooshin muttered diligently as he stumbled backward.

“That’s too much, too much. There are so many people here, why is this green hair suddenly going crazy on me?”

Kim Je-woo, who didn’t usually enjoy fighting and wasn’t an Awakened One [a person with supernatural abilities], didn’t know what to do and just cowered at Moolu’s attack.

“Help me!”

Maeng Wooshin shouted at Rembrary, as if there was some impact even with the barrier.

“Moolu!”

Rembrary called Moolu once again and took a step towards him.

The moment Moolu hesitated at that sound. This time, a voice was heard from where the wyvern was, “Rembrary-nim!”

Ardor? That’s Ardor’s voice? Rembrary looked towards the sound.

But Ardor was not visible. Was I hearing things? Just as he was thinking that.

“Rembrary-nim!”

Ardor’s voice was heard again. A little clearer from a little lower down.

Rembrary ran to the rooftop where the wyvern was hanging. The rooftop with low railings was extremely precarious, but Rembrary bravely leaned his face down.

As he leaned his head out to a precarious extent, he could tell where the voice was coming from.

The 1/3 of the wyvern that was not hanging over the rooftop. Ardor was hanging on to the wyvern’s hind leg.

“Why are you there?”

Rembrary asked in surprise, and Ardor shouted at Rembrary with a smile.

“Rembrary-nim, the Holy Knight Commander is out of his mind. That position is likely to become vacant!”

“You don’t seem to be in your right mind either. Get up here first.”

“I want to get up, but it’s not easy!”

As if the momentarily fainted wyvern was trying to wake up, it wiggled its body, and Ardor, dangerously clinging to its leg, swayed precariously.

Rembrary stretched his hand down as far as he could to prevent Maeng Wooshin from falling, but there was no way he could reach Ardor. No, rather, if he stretched his hand out any further here, both of them would fall forward and backward.

What to do? Thinking, Rembrary had a good idea.

‘Moolu! Spear!’

Wouldn’t he be able to grab the spear and come up? Rembrary looked at Moolu. Because he wanted to borrow the spear.

But Moolu was still fighting Maeng Wooshin and still seemed unconscious. He was just madly attacking the barrier at a crazy speed, as if trying to break Maeng Wooshin’s barrier at all costs.

“Newbie! Aren’t you acquainted with this green hair? Stop him!”

Maeng Wooshin shouted, groaning as he maintained the barrier.

It wasn’t a situation where he could borrow the spear.

Then Rembrary realized that the rooftop wasn’t swaying as much as before.

Looking at the stones rolling from one side to the other, it wasn’t completely calm, but it was much better than the waves that were surging a while ago.

‘Is the child okay?’

Puzzled, Rembrary turned his head towards where the child was standing.

And almost at the same time as Rembrary looked at the child, the child brushed past Rembrary.

The child, who had approached the railing, lowered his head and looked at Ardor hanging on the wyvern’s leg.

At that moment. The tremors on the rooftop, which had subsided, completely stopped.

But what was surprising was not only that.

In front of Ardor, who was hanging on the wyvern’s leg, the railing bent and created a slope that he could climb up. As if the building had originally been shaped like this.

‘Couldn’t they make stairs in that way? What works and what doesn’t?’

Anyway, thanks to that, Ardor climbed up the railing, and the child bit his lip tightly and dropped his shoulders.

He looked like he was thinking that it would have been nice if he could have saved his siblings in this way.

Gazing pitifully at his drooping shoulders, Rembrary approached the child.

The child, who had been running away from Rembrary when he lost his reason, did not run away now. Instead, he looked up at Rembrary with all the muscles in his face twitching as he tried to hold back tears.

“Can the Healer really find my siblings?”

The child asked in that state.

When Rembrary nodded, the child wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and asked again.

“Really?”

“I will look for them.”

The child held out his little finger.

“Can you promise?”

Rembrary nodded and solemnly held out his thumb.

“Yeah.”

Ardor watched the touching scene with a sob, then quickly reached out and changed Rembrary’s finger [referencing a pinky promise].

The sound of Maeng Wooshin shouting “You bastards!” was faintly heard from behind.

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After that, the child, who had completely made up his mind, used his ability to grab Moolu’s ankle, and in that short moment, Rembrary stunned Moolu with divine power.

Even though the situation was all sorted out, the descending elevator did not appear, but thanks to the child creating stairs, Rembrary, the child, Maeng Wooshin, Ardor carrying Moolu on his back, and Kim Je-woo were able to safely descend from the rooftop.

“Can’t you move between floors?”

The child nodded at Maeng Wooshin’s question.

When they came down from the building, the town, which was already devastated, was even more ruined.

The buildings, roads, and parked cars were more of a mess than they had been the day before.

As Rembrary looked around, Ardor pointed at Moolu with his eyes and said.

“It’s all because of that Commander. You must hold him accountable, Rembrary-nim.”

“Moolu did all this?”

“He did this while fighting that bald bird.”

The people who had been nervous when they saw Ardor widened their eyes when they saw Rembrary.

They also widened their eyes at Maeng Wooshin and Kim Je-woo, but in different ways.

They had naturally assumed that everyone was dead.

“Maeng Wooshin? The actor?”

“Je-woo! Oh my god, Je-woo! Oh my god!”

The townspeople surrounded the group, wondering what had happened, as not only had a townsperson who they thought was dead returned, but also Maeng Wooshin, who had been kidnapped by the wyvern, had returned, and Rembrary, who had entered the ‘Gate,’ had also returned without a scratch.

“Please take me with you, Rembrary-nim. I don’t know what Room 305 is, but… I will do it.”

Moreover, Kim Je-woo, whom Rembrary wanted to make a Believer No. 305, himself pledged allegiance to Rembrary.

As Rembrary looked at him with satisfaction, Believer No. 305 said with a face full of trust.

“I will never be able to repay your kindness no matter what I do. So, I will follow Rembrary-nim from now on and repay your kindness.”

Everything was going well.

Except for two things.

“More than that, it’s really fortunate. Suddenly, stairs appeared on the rooftop.”

“What?”

“Ah! Perhaps this is also a miracle performed by Rembrary-nim?”

Even though he had heard all about the child’s circumstances. Kim Je-woo had already forgotten about the child after not much time had passed since coming down from the rooftop.

The townspeople were the same. They welcomed the survivors but did not even look at the child.

The child, who was about to go to his grandfather, looked at Rembrary with a darkened expression.

Rembrary realized as he watched that.

The oblivion that Lumena had cast on these people was not at all affected by getting rid of the wyvern or rescuing Maeng Wooshin, even though they had safely escaped from that building.

Not only that. The Great Lord, who was the very purpose of Rembrary’s rescue, could not even be found.

“Maeng Wooshin. The Great Lord?”

“I don’t know. They were caught by different monster birds.”

“Then the Great Lord?”

“I told you, I don’t know?”

In the end, Rembrary went around asking the townspeople one by one if they knew what had happened to the handsome young man who had been with Maeng Wooshin.

But most of them answered that they didn’t know.

Besides, the wyvern that was currently unconscious on the rooftop was nesting on the rooftop of this building and coming and going, and other birds that looked similar to that wyvern occasionally appeared here and played with the wyvern, but they soon went somewhere else.

“At least they don’t live in this non-city.”

Rembrary wanted to call the Great Lord, but he couldn’t call because his battery was dead.

All he could do now was hope that the Great Lord was safe.

After putting aside the Great Lord’s matter for a while. Rembrary looked at the child again this time.

The child was just staring blankly at the air, hugging the plump backpack that he didn’t know why he was carrying.

The hope that he would one day be able to find his siblings inside that building was what allowed the child to live steadfastly even while being treated like an invisible person by people.

But the hope was gone, and people still didn’t recognize the child.

Faced with the sudden bleak reality, even a smart child seemed at a loss as to what to do.

Looking at that blank expression, Rembrary proposed the plan he had been making for Joo Kyung-yi for the past few weeks.

“Would you like to come with me?”

The child slowly turned his head and looked at Rembrary.

“With the Healer-nim? Where are you going?”

Rembrary pointed to Ardor, Moolu being carried by Ardor, and himself in turn.

“There are three of us like this, and one person to be added later. And one kid just your size. We’re going to live together like that. Would you like to join us?”

“!”