Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 381

381. Will Intern Life Be Fun?

– LOLOLOL This is a textbook example of backstabbing, isn’t it?!

– Getting treated to beef and then backstabbing in a day. That’s some speed, LOLOLOL.

– Why is it backstabbing? Didn’t he just heal Ji Taein? Rembrary always healed people regardless of who they were.

ㄴ LOLOL He can heal, sure. But getting beef from Woo Yeonwoo and then immediately going to Ji Taein to heal him, and then bringing him under his wing the next day is a bit sly, LOLOLOL.

ㄴ If he had any conscience, he shouldn’t have eaten the beef ;;

ㄴ Even if he ate it, LOLOLOL, according to the employee, Rembrary ate all the beef himself, LOLOLOL. Woo Yeonwoo just grilled the meat, LOLOLOL.

– I’m more curious about how he sweet-talked Woo Yeonwoo into just grilling the meat. Doesn’t Woo Yeonwoo also love to eat?

ㄴ 222 If my friend gave me the tongs and only took chopsticks for himself, I’d poke his nose with the tongs.

ㄴ Our amazing Rembrary did it!

ㄴ Didn’t he threaten to stab him with chopsticks if he didn’t grill? LOLOLOL

* * *

On the television screen, a female MC [Master of Ceremonies] and a male MC were jokingly reporting the news that a ‘famous idol joined a pseudo-hunter company.’

[Isn’t this a first in our country?]

[It is a first. As far as I know. Isn’t it the first among popular celebrities? Or is there someone else?]

The male MC looked beyond the camera and asked someone presumed to be a staff member, and a faint, mumbling sound that was difficult to understand could be heard.

After hearing the answer, the male MC and female MC chuckled among themselves and began to talk again.

[Yes, Milli Code has also stated their position on this matter firmly. Recently, Ji Taein had an incident during a showcase where he lost his voice, right? Many fans were worried. Rembrary knew about this and came to Taein to fix it.]

[Yes. Milli Code says that Rembrary contacted them first and they are very grateful. So when Ji Taein said he would join Redrine, they were worried about the external image, but they couldn’t stop him.]

In fact, the Honghwa Brigade, which was the predecessor of the Redrine Hunter Company and is now a secret group within Redrine, already had several celebrities affiliated with it. Long before the upheaval.

However, including Maeng Wooshin, they were all hiding the fact that they had joined a pseudo-religion. Thanks to this, Taein became the first top star to officially join a group treated as a cult.

The two MCs continued to talk, but suddenly their voices disappeared and the screen turned black.

Hye Gyeol, who had been watching the news intently, turned her head to the side and said, “Ah, damn it.” Woo Yeonwoo was holding the remote control.

“Why did you turn it off?”

Hye Gyeol protested, but instead of turning the TV back on, Woo Yeonwoo suddenly made a scary face. Then, he turned his head sharply towards Hye Gyeol, who was surprised and changed her words, saying, “You can turn it off!”

“You’re such a reed, Hye Gyeol [easily swayed],”

Seeing this, Keshi chuckled and teased Hye Gyeol, but when she saw Woo Yeonwoo’s pale face, she stopped teasing and cautiously watched him.

“What’s wrong? Are you sick somewhere?”

Woo Yeonwoo clenched his fists tightly and repeatedly took deep breaths.

At Keshi’s voice, even Jungseo, who had been looking down at her phone, raised her head.

“Are you okay?”

Because Woo Yeonwoo’s condition really didn’t look good, Jungseo also put down her phone and asked.

Instead of answering, Woo Yeonwoo’s eyes suddenly changed, and he looked at each of the members one by one, uttering harsh words in a low voice.

“You guys can’t go to him.”

At the sudden words, Hye Gyeol frowned and said, “Huh?”

“Is he talking about Rembrary or Taein hyung [older brother/male friend]?”

“Rembrary.”

Hye Gyeol asked again with a still bewildered face.

“Taein hyung was our member, but why would we go to that healer? Unless we’re sick somewhere.”

Keshi also muttered indifferently.

“Thinking long-term, wouldn’t it be good to meet him? He seems to heal any disease.”

Jungseo was about to say something, but Woo Yeonwoo threatened in a low voice before Jungseo could answer.

“If any of you go to him, I’ll ask hyung [older brother/male friend] and I won’t let you off, ever.”

The members’ expressions hardened at the more severe threat than expected.

However, Woo Yeonwoo didn’t seem to have any intention of retracting his words. Not only that, but after threatening them, he was so shocked that his hands even trembled finely, as if he was about to faint.

The fear and guilt that had arisen after Taein lost his voice had changed shape and taken root in a corner of Woo Yeonwoo’s heart. It was unbearable that Rembrary had cleaned up what he had done.

Even Taein’s existence, which had only been annoying, was taken away by Rembrary, and it felt like a stolen object.

‘Never. I will never let that guy take anything from me.’

* * *

On the other hand, Daeju was very pleased while watching the same news.

Daeju, who had come to Rembrary’s house in a good school district, was watching the broadcast on TV in the living room. When Rembrary approached him, tearing open a jelly, Daeju boasted in a proud voice.

“With Ji Taein joining, his fans are joining as well. He’s very popular.”

“That’s unexpected.”

“He was popular before, but his personal recognition has increased a lot with this incident.”

Rembrary nodded calmly. It wasn’t that he didn’t like Ji Taein’s fans joining, but he was too busy thinking, ‘Could Woo Yeonwoo really be the one who took Taein’s voice?’

“Besides, it’s been conveyed once again that the High Priest is healthy.”

“I thought everyone already knew I was back.”

“Not everyone pays attention to information in real-time. But with this incident, people who hadn’t heard the news of Rembrary’s return, or those who were worried that he might have lost his power, all seem to know that Rembrary is still a healer.”

“Has the number of people who left when I was kidnapped been restored?”

“Yes. It has increased even more.”

Rembrary nodded in satisfaction.

“Then that’s enough.”

* * *

“Terminal?”

Inside a two-person dormitory room in a university. One person was on the lower bunk of the bunk bed, and the other was sitting in a desk chair.

The person sitting in the desk chair rested one arm on the back of the chair and looked at the person sitting on the bed with concern.

Next to the person sitting on the bed, five soju [Korean distilled rice liquor] bottles were rolling around, but none of them had actually been opened.

“Yeah.”

The person sitting in the chair clicked his tongue, seeing that the person sitting on the bed had dark circles under his eyes as if he hadn’t slept properly.

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m going crazy.”

The person sitting on the bed covered his face with both hands.

“I thought I was finally escaping from home and living my own life. How could this happen right away?”

The person sitting in the chair anxiously looked at his roommate and shook his leg.

He hadn’t heard the details, but he knew that his friend didn’t have a good relationship with his parents. He also knew that he had tried hard to come to a university as far away from home as possible.

But now that he had found out he had terminal cancer, he felt so sorry for him. But even with a heart full of pity, he didn’t know how to comfort him, so he felt frustrated.

The person sitting in the chair hesitated for a while and then asked, “Ah!”

“Why don’t you try joining Redrine? I heard they accept ordinary believers even if they’re not hunters.”

The person sitting on the bed took his hands away from his face and looked up at his roommate.

“Redrine? That pseudo-hunter company?”

“Yeah, but the healer’s ability isn’t pseudo. The day before yesterday, Ji Taein joined too. You know, Ji Taein? From Wild Animal.”

“I don’t know. I’m not interested in idols.”

“He was in the same group as Woo Yeonwoo. He must have joined there too. Hey, I heard that even if you’re an ordinary believer, the healer will heal you. There was no mention of money… so it’s probably free. Go once.”

The college student with the disease opened his mouth as if he was tempted, but after thinking for a moment, he shook his head desperately.

“I’m not the only one like that. There must be a lot of people like that gathered there, so when will it be my turn? Even if it’s early or mid-stage, I’d join and wait my turn, but… I don’t know if I’ll be alive by the time my turn comes.”

“Hey, you have to do something.”

“I don’t even know if my turn will come, so I can’t spend the rest of my life praying among the pseudo-religious.”

The college student with the disease took out his cell phone with a gloomy face and searched for something frantically. After about five minutes of doing so, the college student shook his head and put his cell phone aside.

“I just looked it up, and there are too many.”

The friend kept trying to comfort him from the side, but the college student with the disease was too shocked to accept those words rationally one by one.

“I don’t know. It’s not like I’m praying every day. In my opinion, it’s better to put your name on the list… It’s your decision, so I can’t force you. Think about it a little more.”

In the end, the friend couldn’t handle the heavy atmosphere and thought that the other person might want to be alone, so he went outside.

The college student, left alone, sobbed and buried his face in his knees.

As soon as he buried his face in his knees, he heard the sound of the door opening, but the college student thought, ‘He went out a little while ago, did he come right back in?’ and didn’t say anything, thinking that it didn’t matter anyway.

Right now, he just wanted to cry like this because he was sad and in pain.

But after sobbing alone for a while, he had a strange thought. He clearly heard the sound of the door closing and the sound of the door opening, but after that, there was no sound. Whether he came inside or went out again, there should have been the sound of the door again.

Thinking that, the college student realized that his feet were completely dark, and a chill ran down his spine as he slowly raised his head.

There was no sound of closing. The door was still open. The light in the room was off, and there was only light in the hallway.

Thanks to that, the shadow of the person standing in the doorway stretched long inside… The person standing in the doorway was not his roommate. It was a stranger wearing strangely shaped black clothes.

Moreover, a bleak and dark atmosphere. Above all, his unique purple hair stood out.

“Who are you?”

When the college student asked in confusion, the person asked a question.

“What if there was a way to eliminate fear and pain?”

“Huh?”

The college student was briefly afraid, but soon regained his senses and protested irritably.

“Hey, outsiders are not allowed here. I don’t know how you got in here, but can you please leave?”

He was already upset, and now some crazy guy came and said nonsense, so he was angry. The purple hair gave him a vaguely familiar feeling even though it was his first time seeing it, but it wasn’t that noticeable.

The college student got up abruptly, intending to chase him out if he didn’t leave. However, instead of leaving, the other person strode in and put his hand on the college student’s forehead in the blink of an eye.

“Ah-”

The moment he tried to protest. The college student was surprised to see that the throbbing pain in his stomach had disappeared completely, and he looked at the purple hair.

Not only that. A fluffy and pleasant sensation, as if buried between cotton candies, spread from the place where the pain had disappeared. He felt like he was in the clouds.

The fact that he got sick at a young age, the pessimism about his current condition, fear, sadness, pain, all of this disappeared, and he just felt endlessly good.

The college student sat on the bed, smiled happily, lay down on his side, and closed his eyes.

Rabsus, who was looking down at the sight, turned around and left the room.