Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 387

387. Not a King!

Why are there suddenly flowers there……?

Even as he wondered, the flowers grew taller with a rustling sound, as if they would pierce through the ceiling.

The secretary swallowed hard.

‘Is it a new kind of monster?’

Then, the moment the flowers almost touched the ceiling, thorny chains like blades began to stretch out in all directions from the flowers and stems.

The chains, spreading in all directions, shot towards the walls, floor, and ceiling like snakes, piercing through the concrete and extending further.

“It’s a monster!”

As screams began to be heard again from the hallway, the secretary snapped back to his senses.

‘This is no time to be doing this!’ Startled, the secretary hurriedly ran towards the door.

However, it wasn’t easy because the chains kept coming. It was only a few steps, but he couldn’t even take those steps, repeatedly blocked by the chains.

Even during that time, the flower continued to stretch upwards, and each time, pushed by the leaves, the building crumbled with a terrifying sound.

The chains that stretched out from the flowers, stems, and leaves were irregularly stuck everywhere, as if trying to bind the entire building with chain vines.

The secretary retreated in dismay, but realizing that retreating was as dangerous as running forward, he gritted his teeth and ran towards the door.

The moment he grabbed the cold doorknob, he twisted it open and rushed outside.

“Ugh!”

The situation in the hallway was even more terrible. Researchers and interns who had failed to avoid the chains were pierced by them and stuck to the walls or ceiling.

Chains that easily pierced even concrete walls could not possibly fail to pierce human muscles and flesh.

“Help…… Help me…….”

As one researcher reached out his hand, the secretary tried to save him, reaching for the chain.

He endured the thorns piercing his hand and applied force, but the chain that had pierced the researcher’s stomach and entered the wall did not budge.

“Damn it. Sorry. I’m sorry!”

As another chain flew towards him, the secretary eventually abandoned the researcher and began to run away alone.

He desperately ran while calling the director, but the director did not answer.

‘Damn it!’

The secretary cried and lowered his phone, tripping over a chain passing across the floor and falling forward with a thud.

Fortunately, he fell near the door, so the secretary rolled across the floor and was thrown outside.

Coming out, he saw people who had succeeded in escaping standing outside, mouths open, looking at the building with gowns stained with blood.

“Come this way!”

“You can’t stay there!”

A few brave people ran over and grabbed the secretary’s arms and neck, pulling him back haphazardly.

Only after being dragged by their hands did the secretary regain his senses and could see the state of the building.

The giant rose. The giant rose that the secretary had first seen was already piercing through the roof and clearly revealing its appearance.

The thorny chains that came from it were wrapping around the entire building, and the building was gradually collapsing under that force.

“What…… What on earth…….”

The secretary muttered in terror. He swallowed hard, but it was difficult to understand what was happening.

At that moment.

Something began to slowly reveal itself from behind the building.

It looked like a person, but it was too beautiful and too huge to be called a person. If there were Titans in Greek mythology, they would be this beautiful and huge.

Even though it hadn’t fully stretched out its body, the fact that it was the size of a building showed how enormous that ‘something’ was.

Then, the ‘something’ completely raised its head… unexpectedly, it was crying. It was hugging the building with both hands and crying, and even its tears were an unrealistic gold color.

It wasn’t just a simple gold color; it was a very sparkling tear, as if gold had been melted and then an exceptionally shiny gloss had been poured into it.

The ‘giant something’ hugged the building in that state, and then its body gradually became transparent and finally disappeared completely.

However, the giant rose was still wrapped around the building, and as the giant ‘something’ disappeared, it turned blood-red, covered in flowers and chains.

A heavy silence fell for a moment. The flowers, the building, the chains, and the people did not move.

“Di, Director?”

The research director barely asked the people urgently, looking around, but the research director was still nowhere to be seen. It was the same even when he called.

At the commotion, other people also looked around, but the research director was not there.

“Where is Rembrary?”

The secretary recalled that the research director had run off to get Rembrary and changed the direction of his question.

But Rembrary was also not there. The secretary recalled ‘those things’ in the basement and swallowed hard.

Then… are ‘those things’ also there? Are ‘those things’ also involved in this?

* * *

Rembrary opened his eyes and looked around, feeling bewildered.

‘Where is this……?’

The scenery was unfamiliar yet familiar. It was a background that he seemed to have seen when he did the King Three entertainment show with Shin Jo-woon and Jang Tae-ri. But it wasn’t exactly the same.

Rembrary recalled what had happened earlier. The walls began to narrow, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

There was no choice. Rembrary ran along the direction where the walls were not narrow.

He even turned on the camera in the middle to see what the research director was doing. And then he kept going… someone stabbed him in the back with a knife.

After pushing the opponent away and turning around, there was someone standing there, smiling.

‘Since when was he there?’

As he wondered, the person smiled eerily, saying, ‘Finally, I get to avenge Baek So,’

“If I kill you, the research director will also have to take responsibility for the healer’s death. I’ll send Shin Jo-woon after you soon, healer.”

The person seemed to have a grudge against the research director, Rembrary, and Shin Jo-woon. Probably related to someone named ‘Baek So.’

However, Rembrary was dumbfounded because he didn’t even remember who Baek So was.

“Who is Baek So?”

As soon as he heard those words, the other person’s face hardened even more.

Still, after thinking a little more, one person who had a grudge against him and Shin Jo-woon came to mind.

Back when he was in Worldboom, a certain mayor asked him to catch a certain criminal Awakened in exchange for signing an early dismissal agreement.

After succeeding there, he and Shin Jo-woon briefly became someone’s target.

‘Is it that person?’

He wasn’t sure, but he couldn’t afford to be caught off guard, so Rembrary immediately crushed the opponent with the dignity of God.

“!”

The opponent couldn’t even resist and fell over with wide eyes.

Up to this point, it was very easy. As always.

However, the moment the opponent fell over, small beads rolled out from inside the person’s arms, and then they began to burst as they hit the wall.

Rembrary was thrown away by the impact. It wasn’t a long distance, but it wasn’t good in a situation where the walls were moving in all directions.

When he staggered and got up, Rembrary was already in the narrow gap between the walls, and even in the meantime, the walls were narrowing quickly.

The person who had started the fight to get revenge looked up at Rembrary, who was on the ground, and smiled.

His whole body was covered in wounds from the explosion. He was about to die in the narrowing gap between the walls. It was an attitude that didn’t even blink an eye.

Rembrary tried to get up, but he couldn’t get up because he was blocked by the wall. Turning his body to the side was the best he could do.

The pressure on his shoulders and legs wasn’t good.

Rembrary frowned and weakly called Redrin.

* * *

He didn’t remember what happened after that.

‘Did Redrin step in and save me?’

Rembrary felt relieved and got up to look around.

“?”

But even after focusing and looking around, he still didn’t know where he was.

He wondered if it was some kind of museum or cultural heritage building, but it was hard to say for sure because the shapes of the buildings and furniture he had seen during the King Three filming were all different.

In the end, he thought he should go outside, so he opened the door. At that moment, a person who suddenly came inside was surprised to see Rembrary and shouted.

“Oh my! You’ve woken up!”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

“I thought you were going to die!”

The person cried and hugged Rembrary, and when Rembrary stepped on his instep to tell him to let go, he stepped back and sobbed.

“Don’t worry. It’s been revealed that it was Eunuch Gwi-yeon who poisoned Seo-bin Mama and pretended that you committed suicide, so you just need to get treatment safely.”

Rembrary couldn’t understand what this meant, so he stared at the crying person and flicked him on the forehead.

“Huh?”

The surprised person, who had been crying, looked at Rembrary in surprise. But that face…….

“Hye-gyeol?”

It was Hye-gyeol. Hye-gyeol was wearing strange clothes, not his usual attire.

Even though he called his name, Hye-gyeol was bewildered and asked “Huh?” one more time.

Rembrary felt strange.

He had returned to his original body, and he had never met Hye-gyeol in his original body. The people he met were Tae-in, Yeon-woo, and Jeong-seo.

But why was Hye-gyeol talking to him so familiarly?

Rembrary hurriedly looked for a mirror to check his face.

‘No, what is this again?’

But there was no need to check his face. It was the same again. Once again, it was Woo Yeon-woo’s face.

Rembrary, flustered, asked Hye-gyeol, who was still standing awkwardly by the door, looking around.

“Am I an idol? Am I an idol again?”

Hye-gyeol trembled, taking a step back with a frightened face.

“Why are you doing that? It’s scary. Don’t do it.”

“Don’t you ask if I’m a Wild Animal! Is this entertainment?”

“Don’t do that. It’s weird.”

“Don’t you ask who I am!”

Hye-gyeol was flustered and fidgeted, but when Rembrary stared at him seriously, he became very nervous and answered.

“We, we are eunuchs.”

“!”

* * *

At that time.

Shin Jo-woon was late in hearing about this because he was discussing with other hunters, the mayor, and government officials how to break through the blocked flight path due to the black cloud phenomenon and flying monsters.

“Disappeared?”

Surprised, Shin Jo-woon turned the car around and went straight to the scene instead of going to Worldboom.

He had already seen it in photos on the way, but the scene was even more eerie in person.

A giant rose was wrapped around the red building, and people were struggling without daring to enter it.

As soon as Shin Jo-woon got out of the car, he ran straight towards it.

“President!”

The surprised secretary tried to come in, but Shin Jo-woon just opened the door and entered the building. When the secretary tried to follow him in, a thorny chain moved and blocked him from even getting close.

Shin Jo-woon couldn’t see this scene because he was in a hurry to get inside.

There were surprising things everywhere inside.

The hallway and walls were full of red roses, and people’s faces were revealed between them.

When he plucked the leaves around those faces and examined them in detail, those people were researchers whose bodies were pierced by chains and hung on the walls. For some reason, they were all still alive.

Shin Jo-woon frowned and lowered his hand when he couldn’t pull out the chains.

Then, as he was thinking about whether to freeze it or find Rembrary first.

[Your power is closer to another dimension.]

A voice that resonated through his brain past his ears was heard from right behind him.

When he turned around sharply, ‘something’ with red hair hanging down to the floor and golden eyes was standing right behind him.

It had a human form, but it was felt that it was not human just by the atmosphere and pressure.

Shin Jo-woon was wary and created an ice barrier between him and that being, but the ice was immediately broken by the flowers that bloomed between the ice.

“Who are you?”

When Shin Jo-woon asked warily, the lips of the person who didn’t seem like a person sadly turned up.

[You don’t know me, but I’ve heard about you. My child often told me your story.]

“Child……?”

[Aren’t you the anchovy?]

“!”

Even in this situation, anger briefly surged, but thanks to that word, Shin Jo-woon immediately knew who the ‘child’ the person was talking about was. Rembrary.

When Shin Jo-woon nodded in agreement, the person who didn’t seem like a person stretched out a finger and pointed somewhere in the red hallway.