Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 382

382. Will Intern Life Be Fun? (2)

Rembrary sat on the sofa with his arms crossed, deep in thought, when Moolu passed behind him, wearing wireless earphones and awkwardly dancing with a ‘둠칫 둠칫’ rhythm [a Korean onomatopoeia for the sound of a beat or bass].

Sensing someone’s presence, Rembrary quickly turned his head to see Jookyung following Moolu, dancing the same ‘둠칫 둠칫’ dance like a little duckling.

Behind Jookyung, Siyoung also passed by, keeping the same ‘둠칫 둠칫’ rhythm. The three of them were moving in a line like that.

Rembrary watched them dance, chuckling silently. Moolu, who was taking out a tangerine from the refrigerator, stopped in surprise when he turned around.

Moolu quickly took off the earphones with a serious face and threw them aside, then called Rembrary in a calm voice.

“High Priest.”

“You can keep doing what you were doing.”

“No. The children asked me to play with them…….”

“Keep going. You were doing well.”

Moolu maintained a serious expression, but his face turned red.

Meanwhile, Jookyung picked up the wireless earphones that Moolu had thrown so hard they were broken, and twisted his face like Munch’s ‘The Scream’ [a famous expressionist painting depicting a figure in anguish].

Moolu hesitated, then quickly picked up Jookyung in one arm and Siyoung in the other, and hurried up the stairs.

Rembrary watched Moolu taking care of the children and running away, feeling relieved. It seemed like the three of them were getting along well. Moolu looked comfortable.

‘I’m glad that our Moolu seems to be adapting well. Well, our Moolu adapts well anywhere. Because he’s Moolu!’

I was worried because the environment changed so drastically, but I’m relieved to see him doing well.

‘Come to think of it, Ardor was also adapting well here.’

Me too, as expected, those who follow Redrin adapt well. Rembrary smiled proudly, then unconsciously crossed his arms again and half-closed his eyes to continue the thoughts he had been having.

However, after only a few seconds, Rembrary opened his eyes wide again and sighed.

“Ah!”

A brilliant idea flashed through his mind.

* * *

Inside the entrance to the official Hunter Research Institute.

A new security guard, who had only been here for a few days, was standing alone next to the parking barrier, feeling uneasy. His senior had said he urgently needed to go to the bathroom and had disappeared somewhere.

It was unavoidable, but he was worried that someone who needed special attention might come while he was gone, as quite a few high-ranking people often came and went.

‘Still, nothing will happen in the meantime, right?’ The new security guard nervously fiddled with the gun at his waist, then heard a screeching sound and looked up.

He could hear a car speeding towards him from a distance.

‘Isn’t that speed too fast?’ The new security guard thought for a moment, but assumed the driver would stop on their own. Who in the world would drive into the official Hunter Research Institute?

‘Is that crazy bastard?’

However, the car did not slow down as it approached the parking barrier. The surprised new security guard hesitated, and eventually, the car smashed through the parking barrier before slamming on the brakes.

The new security guard was dumbfounded and opened his mouth in shock. A man opened the car door with a refreshing smile, as if advertising grapefruit juice.

“Hello. My name is Rembrary. I’ll probably get better at driving next year.”

The new security guard stammered, then belatedly came to his senses and shouted angrily.

“Hey! What do you think you’re doing smashing this! What are you going to do! Are you going to pay for this?”

Instead of answering, Rembrary strode towards the new security guard. The new security guard hesitated for a moment at his confident attitude. Rembrary put his hand on the guard’s stomach and muttered.

“This body cannot fix that barrier, nor can it reduce your belly fat, but it can fix your liver.”

“Hey, you!”

The new security guard was about to protest about why he was suddenly talking about his belly fat. But in the blink of an eye, the pain that had been uncomfortably and heavily filling his stomach disappeared completely, and he exclaimed in surprise.

“Huh?”

The surprised new security guard put his hand on his stomach in confusion, then belatedly realized that the crazy person in front of him was a famous crazy person.

“Ah, you are!”

“Is the director of the research institute inside?”

“Yes, yes, he is.”

“Call him.”

The new security guard knew that Rembrary had visited here before, that the director had personally seen him off, and that the director had grabbed his stomach and laughed like a madman after Rembrary left, so he quickly went into the security office and called the internal phone network.

[Yes, what’s the matter?]

“That healer, that, Rembrary, wants to meet the director……!”

[Just a moment.]

After the call was transferred from here to there a few times, the director’s secretary came out before long.

The secretary approached quickly, but flinched when he saw the broken parking barrier. The new security guard gestured that Rembrary had done it, so he forced a smile and asked.

“Mr. Rembrary. My goodness. I never thought you’d come back like this. The director is very pleased.”

“I have something to say to the director.”

“Yes, please come this way.”

The secretary led Rembrary to the director’s office. Inside, refreshments were already set on the coffee table, and the director was standing in front of the sofa, waiting for them.

As Rembrary entered, the director greeted him with a strange smile.

“It’s been a while. I thought you wouldn’t come back on your own after giving me anchovies and running away.”

“I have a request.”

“Please, say it’s a request.”

“I have a request. You’ll grant it, right?”

“You’re very confident. What do you want to request?”

“I want to film my intern life here.”

“Intern?”

The director sat on the sofa and crossed his legs, then looked Rembrary up and down with an arrogant smile. With a subtle gaze that was hard to describe.

When Rembrary sat opposite him, the director smiled and asked in a slightly dismissive tone.

“Did you graduate from a science major?”

“You have to decide which department to send me to.”

“Definitely not. And definitely not a liberal arts major either.”

“Is it okay? Will you let me be an intern?”

However, Rembrary was not the type to get angry when someone looked down on him. If someone looked down on him, he firmly believed that the problem was not with him, but with the other person’s judgment.

Rembrary asked again without budging at the dismissive voice and eyes, and the director was dumbfounded and burst into laughter.

“You gave me a handful of anchovies and ran away. Do you think I’ll grant your request?”

“Yes.”

The director was speechless at Rembrary’s confident answer. It was annoyingly true.

He was very interested in Rembrary’s abilities. He would be happiest if he came as a research subject, but he had no choice but to welcome him even if he came as an intern. Once he was in his hands.

However, the memory of what Rembrary had done to him still lingered on his tongue, leaving a bitter taste. So the director smiled slyly and asked.

“Not just an intern, but you want to film your intern life?”

“Yes.”

“Then…… take the entrance exam first.”

“Entrance exam?”

“I can help you with the filming, but you have to be able to keep up to some extent. Otherwise, it’ll be too much of a hindrance.”

“Exam? What exam?”

“The exam date is in two weeks. You can study for two weeks and come back.”

The director smiled and added provocatively.

“Two weeks is enough time to pass, right?”

* * *

Rembrary came out of the research institute, reversed the car that was still stuck in the parking barrier, and turned the corner, moving away from the research institute.

A satisfied smile appeared on Rembrary’s face as he looked at the research institute receding in the rearview mirror.

The research institute had a good image. If he took people out of the research institute, Redrin’s image would definitely be tarnished.

So he had been racking his brain. He decided to publicly announce that the research institute was holding ‘people’ captive and take them out.

The people here don’t know the existence of ‘monsters in the shape of people’, but he could just take them out and then claim that they were ‘people, not monsters in the shape of people’.

Rembrary took out the small recorder that Kim Murok PD had put in his pocket. From now on, he would show everything to the people in real time. Disguised as entertainment.

* * *

―Rembrary is going to be an intern at the research institute?

―LOLOLOL I can’t imagine it

―I heard the exam there is really difficult ;;

ㄴI can’t even guess what you need to study or what kind of exam you need to take to get into the Hunter Research Institute. What do you test?

ㄴI don’t know either. I just took the exam out of curiosity, but there were a bunch of alien languages, so I just laid down and sleptㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ [Korean slang for laughing]

―Why, he might be surprisingly smart. There’s no talk of him being smart, but there’s no talk of him being bad either.

* * *

After the news that he would be taking the official Hunter Research Institute exam spread. Rembrary, after checking how people were reacting to it, dragged Daeju, who had bought snacks for Jookyung and Siyoung, into his room and ordered.

“Film well. Make me look smart. Focus on my face.”

Rembrary handed over the camera and sat neatly at his desk, opening a book and asking. Daeju, who had become a cameraman by accident, said casually, “Yes, yes,” and raised the camera.

Rembrary hadn’t told him the specific details, but Daeju had actually come after hearing about Rembrary’s exam, so he roughly knew the whole story.

Rembrary put on the smartest expression he could and confidently looked down at the book with a sharp pencil in one hand.

It was a thrifty plan to show people his studying and then broadcast his successful passing of the exam right away.

“…….”

However, that expression soon hardened slightly, and Daeju zoomed in on that appearance and captured it.

“Wait. Turn it off for a moment and come here.”

“Yes? You told me to film you studying…….”

“Quickly.”

However, before long, Rembrary waved his hand and called Daeju. When Daeju turned off the camera and approached, Rembrary pointed to a paper mixed with foreign languages and numbers with a bewildered look.

“What does this mean?”

“Don’t you know?”

“I’ll know if you tell me.”

“I don’t know because I don’t have to take the exam.”

“You’re from here. I’m from somewhere else.”

“Not everyone here has the same knowledge.”

Rembrary frowned and looked down at the book, and Daeju muttered worriedly.

“You’re stuck from the first page, so you won’t be able to pass the exam.”

“!”

“What if the High Priest’s unintelligent appearance is broadcast publicly?”

Rembrary hurriedly looked at other pages as well, but it was still difficult to understand what they meant. Even the sentences to try to understand were hard to recognize.

The more he looked, the more confusing it became, and eventually, Rembrary closed the book and fell into thought.

“What should I do? I finally found a way to get into the research institute. I can’t get stuck on the exam.”