Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 383

383. Exam Results Everyone’s Watching

Two weeks had finally passed since Rembrary announced he would be interning at the Official Hunter Research Institute.

Exam day. Usually, it was a day only those who wanted to apply to the Hunter Research Institute or those interested in the field paid attention to, but today, more people than usual were paying attention to the exam.

Thanks to that, the exam venue was crowded not only with examinees taking the test and supervisors helping with the exam, but also with people who didn’t fit the exam atmosphere at all.

In particular, those who didn’t come to take the exam even put Rembrary’s name on signs and waved them as if they were cheering for a sports player, causing other examinees to frown.

Then, the supervisors, while setting up temporary shelters in preparation for the ‘Black Cloud’ phenomenon [a weather event common in hunter settings], exchanged worried glances and whispered.

“Seriously, of all the busy days, it has to be today.”

“They probably came because it’s today.”

The supervisors grumbled but struggled to prevent onlookers from entering further inside the main gate of the test center.

“Ah, please move back; you’re disturbing the other people.”

“Move along, please. Over there.”

People who came out of curiosity or because they were fans of Rembrary were relatively easy to control.

The most difficult people for the supervisors to handle were those who came to Rembrary with desperate pleas.

They brought their sickly relatives, one by one, and instead of backing down, they pleaded with the supervisors to ‘let them meet Rembrary just once’ as they approached.

“He hasn’t arrived yet. He hasn’t arrived yet.”

“We’ll let you know when he arrives… Hey! You there, you can’t cross over!”

It was difficult for the supervisors to push those people away strongly, so they awkwardly guided the wheelchairs away while feeling uneasy.

This commotion subsided when an expensive car, which no one dared to touch, entered. As people instinctively stepped back, the car passed through the crowd and went straight into the main gate.

The supervisor also stepped back in a daze, then hurriedly ran towards it, swinging a temporary barrier.

“You can’t come in by car from here! Those taking the exam, get out and walk in!”

As if hearing those words, the car stopped immediately, and Rembrary appeared from the passenger seat.

“Healer! Please help me!”

“Healer, Healer! Please take a look at my daughter!”

“Rembrary, please take a look at my father!”

When Rembrary appeared, the people who had been quiet for a moment raised their voices again.

Rembrary turned his head at those desperate voices and found a group of people whom the supervisors were barely managing to hold back from rushing over.

It wasn’t an unfamiliar sight. Even in his original world, there were many people who rushed to him asking for treatment whenever Rembrary went somewhere.

However, perhaps because it wasn’t a sight that one could get used to even after seeing it often, Rembrary felt a pang of sympathy and shouted loudly towards them, infused with divine power.

“God’s blessing!”

The supervisors who saw that action were dumbfounded, wondering if Rembrary was bringing up religion to people who came because they were sick, and the relatives who brought sick patients were also taken aback.

“What is it?”

“Is the cult thing real?”

However, as soon as the patients started examining their bodies, exclaiming, ‘Huh? I think I feel a little better!’, the atmosphere immediately changed.

Those who had been staring at Rembrary in disbelief realized that the healer had done something besides just giving a blessing in that short time.

‘If you spread divine power through sound like this, you can treat many people evenly and widely at the same time. It’s less effective than treating them one by one, though.’

While the guardians who brought the patients were moved and shouted their thanks, Rembrary calmly asked the examiner next to him.

“Where is the exam venue?”

* * *

The examinees were also interested in Rembrary, so they kept glancing at him while he moved to the exam venue, pretending not to look.

Some of them felt resentful that Rembrary was treating their dreams as entertainment for broadcasting, but since he was the only healer in the world, most of them looked at Rembrary with favorable eyes.

Especially those who saw the earlier scene.

However, Rembrary didn’t pay attention to people’s gazes. He simply went to his seat and sat down with dignity.

Rather, the examinees were so busy looking at Rembrary that they couldn’t focus on their own studying.

However, when Rembrary, who was sitting upright, only prayed without even taking out a book, the examinees admired him, whispering about his ‘cult’ status, and quickly started their last-minute studies.

* * *

Redrin. I will only trust Redrin.

I will try to take the strength out of my hand as much as possible, so please move my computer fan to get the right answer.

Redrin. You have to do this even if you don’t have the strength. That’s how we can save the people of our world who are trapped in the lab.

Even if you have other busy things to do, please put them aside and prioritize this.

* * *

“You should take one exam paper for yourself and send the rest to the back. The person sitting at the very back should also put the exam paper on the empty desk behind them. The supervisor will collect them.”

The exam finally started. When the exam papers were distributed, Rembrary received the exam paper and unfolded it.

The questions on the exam paper were not easy, but Rembrary smiled confidently, sure of passing.

The supervisor, who was watching Rembrary, was surprised to see that smile.

‘That confident smile…!’

* * *

When the examinees left after the exam, the head of the research institute called the supervisor who had been in Rembrary’s exam room and received the answer sheet submitted by Rembrary separately.

The head of the research institute went straight to the administrative office and sat at an empty desk to compare Rembrary’s answer sheet with the questions.

“How is it?”

The research institute staff smiled and asked, realizing whose answer sheet the head of the research institute was looking at.

The head of the research institute quickly glanced around and snorted.

“Everything is wrong. I don’t know if he even studied a page.”

At those words, the researchers all laughed, thinking that was to be expected. From the beginning, the majority of them thought that Rembrary would not pass the exam.

However, at that moment, blood suddenly dripped from the head of the research institute’s nose.

“Oh, Director! Blood! Blood!”

The head of the research institute quickly blocked the blood with his sleeve, but some blood had already dripped on Rembrary’s answer sheet.

“Ah. What should I do?”

“There’s no choice. I have to check the answer sheet again.”

Fortunately, although blood had dripped, it was faint enough to discern the answers. The head of the research institute picked up the answer sheet to verify them.

However, as soon as he stood up, his leg got caught on the desk, and he staggered. The answer sheet flew away in a gust of wind that seemed to come from nowhere.

“!”

The surprised head of the research institute tried to grab the answer sheet, but the flying answer sheet went straight into the shredder.

“Huh. What is going on?”

“You didn’t blow it away, did you…?”

“How could the director blow the paper from there to there?”

“No, if it’s a coincidence, that’s even more amazing.”

The researchers who saw that muttered in bewilderment.

However, no one was as bewildered as the head of the research institute.

The head of the research institute was dumbfounded. From the sudden nosebleed to the fact that he almost fell for no reason, and the wind blowing in the meantime even though the windows were all closed. Everything was strange.

‘Could it be…?’

* * *

At that time, Kim Mu-rok PD [Production Director] was chuckling while checking the video he took on the way to the test center.

“Rembrary is really amazing. Seriously. He treats people like this while going all the way there. Huh?”

“How can I just pass by when they’re gathered to see me?”

“Wow. Cool. Really cool. The best.”

When Kim Mu-rok gave Rembrary a thumbs up, Rembrary smiled contentedly.

Kim Mu-rok naturally asked another question while making sure to capture that expression of Rembrary with the camera.

“Are you confident in the exam results?”

“Of course.”

“Oh. You’re definitely going to pass?”

“Yup!”

Later, when Kim Mu-rok finished editing and released this scene, many people were curious about Rembrary’s exam results.

* * *

Finally, on the day of the results announcement, Kim Mu-rok came to Rembrary early in the morning and set up the cameras in the kitchen, filming Rembrary eating with his family.

Thanks to that, the scene of Rembrary receiving the acceptance or rejection text from the research institute was naturally filmed.

Shin-do 305, who was eating across from Rembrary, quickly asked when Rembrary was staring at the text.

“How is it, benefactor? Did you pass?”

Rembrary chuckled and turned the phone he was holding over to show them.

* * *

―He really passed???

―lololol I thought he definitely wouldn’t lololol

ㄴ222222 I’m sorry

ㄴ3333 ㅠㅠ

―I thought he would pass. From the beginning, he has a certain level of basic intelligence, so he wouldn’t plan something like that even if it’s just for entertainment lol

―Wow. I heard that the exam there is really difficult. So Rembrary, that human, has brains, a face, and is the only healer in the world, what doesn’t he have? Isn’t he a scam character?

ㄴHe’s a cult;;;

ㄴCult……

ㄴCultㅠㅠ

* * *

As Rembrary receiving the acceptance text was broadcast, people who had been prejudiced that ‘Rembrary would be stupid’ were surprised.

Later, people discussed ‘Why did we think Rembrary was stupid?’, and later came to the conclusion that ‘It’s because he looks like Woo Yeon-woo’.

Since Woo Yeon-woo was so famous for being not very bright when he was at his peak, it seems that they thought Rembrary, who reminded them of Woo Yeon-woo’s glory days, would be similar.

However, the head of the research institute, who knew that Rembrary had gotten almost every question wrong, was not swayed by this public perception.

He couldn’t reveal the story that the answer sheet was shredded by a series of coincidences, so he ended up processing the acceptance, and he even felt unfairly resentful.

In the end, before the internship started, when Rembrary came with a cameraman to receive training, he ended up asking Rembrary a thorny question.

“How did you study to get in here in just two weeks?”

He disguised it as a question asking for the secret, but it was an expression of ‘What did you believe in to take the exam here without even studying’.

At least Rembrary himself would know that he didn’t have the grades to pass.

However, Rembrary answered very confidently.

“I mainly studied Korean, English, and Math.”

“Korean, English, and Math were not on the exam subjects.”

* * *

First day of internship,

Rembrary took a cameraman and went to the front gate of the research institute as informed in the text. The other interns were already gathered there.

When Rembrary came closer, the interns glanced at him more comfortably than on the exam day, looking curious that a famous person had passed the same exam as them.

However, because of the camera, they couldn’t easily talk to him and just looked around.

“New talents who will lead the society after the upheaval have arrived.”

The head of the research institute walked towards the interns and smiled.

The head of the research institute didn’t introduce himself, but no one among those gathered here didn’t know who the head of the research institute was.

As the interns took their eyes off Rembrary and looked at the head of the research institute with eyes that were proud of themselves and respected him, the head of the research institute smiled and pointed his chin at the assistant researcher who appeared with him.

“Welcome. But before that… let’s start with a blood test.”

As Rembrary, who realized the head of the research institute’s scheme, looked at him, the head of the research institute, who had been deliberately avoiding Rembrary’s gaze, finally looked at him and smiled brightly.