Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 384

384. Since I Can Heal It Anyway

“Blood? You’re drawing blood?”

“Why are you suddenly drawing blood?”

The interns looked at each other and murmured at the sudden mention of blood tests.

“I don’t think I heard anything about that.”

“Me neither.”

Of course, they wouldn’t have heard. They weren’t originally going to draw blood.

However, all the interns gathered here had worked hard to join the research center. Except for one, Rembrary. No one was going to quit being an intern just because they had to draw some unexpected blood.

‘He’s thinking shrewdly.’

Rembrary also had a different reason than the interns, but he had no intention of quitting to avoid the blood draw.

He had to find out about the research center’s corruption and save the people from his original world who were trapped here. For their sake, he could put up with the inconvenience of giving blood.

* * *

The head of the research center said Rembrary should set an example and abruptly grabbed his arm, taking him to the blood-drawing room to be the first to give blood.

Rembrary reluctantly did as the head of the research center asked. If all the other interns were giving blood and he was the only one refusing, people would suspect the broadcast was manipulated to favor Rembrary. He didn’t want to, but he was going to do what everyone else was doing.

“You can sit here.”

The director sat behind the desk and pointed to the chair opposite him. Rembrary sat down and looked at the desk.

On the desk were a hard blood-drawing pillow and rubber tourniquets, and next to them, in a transparent rack, were empty centrifuge tubes.

While Rembrary was examining them.

“Okay, give me your arm.”

The director asked with a smile.

As the cameraman came closer with the camera, Rembrary reluctantly placed his arm on the blood-drawing pillow.

The head of the research center, with a satisfied look, tied a rubber band around Rembrary’s arm and then tore open a disposable blood-drawing syringe pack.

Meanwhile, the other interns sat down at the desks next to Rembrary, each extending their arms in a similar position to Rembrary.

Researchers who had been working on research on other floors were sitting across from them, having been unexpectedly mobilized for blood-drawing duties.

A moment later, the head of the research center stuck the needle into Rembrary’s arm, surprisingly painlessly.

His expression looked like someone who had discovered a gold mine, and the cameraman unknowingly zoomed in on the director’s face.

Before long, when the syringe was full of Rembrary’s blood, the director quickly pulled out the syringe.

Rembrary thought it was over and lowered the sleeve he had raised.

“Ah, one more.”

But it wasn’t over. The director stopped Rembrary while tearing open another syringe pack.

“Again?”

How many are you going to draw? Rembrary looked to the side.

However, the interns next to him were all getting up after drawing only one tube each.

“Why only me again?”

“I made a little mistake just now.”

“It looked like you did fine.”

Rembrary said sullenly, but the director ignored him and took out another new syringe and stuck it into Rembrary’s arm.

In the end, the head of the research center drew three tubes of Rembrary’s blood, using the excuse of a mistake.

Rembrary frowned, pressing the cotton ball on his arm that had been tormented by the needle.

In fact, since the blood and wounds healed immediately, he didn’t really care about giving three tubes.

However, he didn’t want to give it because the director’s intentions were bad, and he felt bad. Giving it like this didn’t feel good.

“Next time, I’d really like some anchovy blood too, Mr. Rembrary.”

Saying things like that made him feel even worse.

Rembrary still endured, thinking of the greater good.

‘Let’s think of the people from our world who are trapped here. I have to save them.’

* * *

In fact, Rembrary didn’t need to stop the bleeding at all, but it would be strange if he was the only one not doing it while the other interns were. Rembrary mingled with the interns and sat down on a chair in the waiting room.

Meanwhile, the head of the research center took Rembrary’s three tubes of blood and excitedly went to his lab.

“You finally got the healer’s blood!”

The secretary followed behind him, exclaiming.

The director smiled with satisfaction.

“Yes. Now, the secret of the only healer may be revealed.”

As soon as the director entered his lab, he used all sorts of equipment to thoroughly analyze the three tubes of blood.

Some of the results came out immediately, and some had to wait a month, but the director could wait a year if it was for research, let alone a month.

“To shake off the director and then come back on his own. That healer isn’t very smart.”

Watching the process, the secretary muttered with a half-mocking, half-pleased smile.

She knew how bleak the atmosphere in the research center had been after Rembrary handed the anchovies over to the director, so she seemed to be enjoying the situation.

However, when the director’s expression suddenly hardened, the secretary carefully changed her tone, wondering if she had made a mistake.

“Director?”

However, since the director’s expression didn’t change, the secretary realized that the director wasn’t acting like that because of her words.

Furthermore, the director was motionless with his eyes on the microscope.

“What’s wrong? Did you really draw the blood wrong?”

When the secretary approached with good sense, the director stepped aside.

“Take a look for yourself.”

“Isn’t this healer’s blood?”

The director silently pressed the back of the secretary’s head.

The secretary obediently put her eyes on the microscope and began to search thoroughly for what the director was so surprised to see.

“Oh!”

Before long, the secretary was also surprised and raised her head.

“Director, this…?”

The director sat down on the chair in the center of the room with a stiff face.

“Yes. That healer. His blood is the same as ordinary people. Nothing special.”

The secretary couldn’t believe it and looked at the microscope again, sighing.

“There are characteristics that only appear in Awakened people. This healer’s blood doesn’t have that. What’s going on?”

The secretary, taking her eyes off the microscope, looked at the director.

The director was sitting with his legs crossed on the chair, propping up his arms and narrowing his eyes. His face, lost in thought, seemed bewildered by the unexpected result.

Other test results had not yet come out, but even if other test results came out, this test result would not disappear, so he was confused.

“Why? It’s the blood of the only healer in the world. Shouldn’t it be more special? Why is it the same as non-Awakened people?”

“Could it be because he’s a healer?”

“According to the test results, Rembrary isn’t even an Awakened…”

* * *

As Rembrary sat upright in the waiting room chair, the other interns, who were slowly getting used to it, kept glancing at Rembrary.

They wanted to talk to Rembrary, but the camera was next to them, and the other person was too famous, so they couldn’t easily talk to him.

“Excuse me.”

Then one of the interns finally plucked up the courage to call Rembrary.

“Everyone!”

However, the intern who had spoken to Rembrary had to retract the courage he had barely mustered because the secretary, who had followed the director earlier, came walking quickly down the hallway and called the interns.

As the interns took their eyes off Rembrary and awkwardly got up from their chairs, the secretary quickly said, putting her hands together as if she was sorry.

“I was going to give you a tour first, but we urgently need help now. We can do the tour later, right?”

She made a sorry face, but she didn’t actually seem sorry. The secretary apologized as if she was notifying them and then walked ahead, gesturing for them to follow.

The interns quickly followed behind her, and Rembrary also took the cameraman and quickly chased after them.

“Mr. Rembrary.”

However, before he could take a few steps, the head of the research center, who had directly drawn only Rembrary’s blood and gone somewhere, stood in the hallway and called Rembrary.

When Rembrary turned around, he asked with a smile.

“Can you help me with something, Mr. Rembrary?”

Rembrary glanced at the backs of the interns who were moving away and confirmed.

“Only me?”

“Yes. I’d like you to help me carry some things.”

You called me just for that? Rembrary was dumbfounded, but the director then asked the cameraman as well.

“These documents are all confidential, so let’s film later.”

“Ah. Yes.”

At the roundabout [indirect] expulsion order, the cameraman awkwardly took the camera and left, and the director closed the door himself and looked at Rembrary.

Rembrary was standing on tiptoe, reaching for the paper box on the ceiling. The director looked at him and opened his mouth.

“I had a blood test done.”

“Bring me a ladder. Or a footstool.”

“You’re not an Awakened.”

“Don’t you have a ladder?”

Rembrary lowered his tiptoes and looked at the director. The director was looking at Rembrary with his arms crossed, and his gaze was very intense. The determination to get an answer no matter what was shining fiercely in his eyes.

However, Rembrary didn’t know about the blood. Of course, he thought he would be different from the Awakened. Other Awakened people gained abilities after the Cataclysm [a large-scale disaster or event], but Rembrary himself was the same before and after that.

However, while organizing the new information well inside, Rembrary asked calmly on the outside.

“Is it a problem that I’m not an Awakened?”

Then, when Rembrary stood in front of the director, the director asked without turning around.

“Then how can you be the only healer in the world?”

“Thanks to the love of the god I serve.”

“Love?”

The director made a shocked expression at the cheesy words.

“The power of love, is that what you’re talking about?”

“The power of God.”

Rembrary turned around and tried tiptoeing one more time, but when he still couldn’t reach, he finally lowered his arms and muttered.

“It’s not a height I can reach by stretching out my hand.”

However, the director was so confused that he seemed to have forgotten what he had asked Rembrary to do.

The power of God? The power of God? Since he thoroughly believed in science, the story of the power of God seemed even more embarrassing than the story of the power of love.

“If you lie down, I’ll step on you and climb up. Then the height might be right.”

However, Rembrary didn’t care whether the director was confused or not, so he kicked his leg and told him to lie down.

The director reflexively tried to lie down, but then he suddenly came to his senses and burst out laughing.

Why is he laughing? When he looked at him in doubt, the director shook his head with a smirk.

“Funny jokes too.”

It seems that he has concluded that this is all Rembrary’s joke.

However, Rembrary didn’t care whether the other person thought his words were a joke or not, so he answered calmly.

“Anyway, you’ve lost interest in me with this. Then that’s good.”

Rembrary pointed to the ceiling with his hand.

“Bring a ladder and take that down later.”

Then, as he was about to open the door and leave, the director suddenly asked from behind in a burdensome way.

“Can’t we research a little harder?”

When Rembrary turned around, the director was smiling with half-crazed eyes.

“What?”

“That body. Since you can heal yourself anyway?”

In those eyes, he saw a madness in a different direction from Ardore. The director seemed to have become more interested, not less, when Rembrary’s blood seemed closer to that of a non-Awakened.

“To be able to exert abilities beyond those of an Awakened even though he is not an Awakened. Perhaps Mr. Rembrary is the key for ordinary people to become Awakened!”

Looking at those eyes that shone especially brightly even in the dim lighting, Rembrary suddenly smiled warmly. The director’s expectations swelled, wondering if Rembrary was going to accept the offer at that benevolent smile.

“Since I can heal it anyway, would it be okay for me to kill you halfway too?”

However, the words Rembrary asked gently in a refreshing voice were completely different from usual. The atmosphere in which he spoke too.

“!”

The director was startled and looked at Rembrary.