Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 401

401. Take Down That Post. Now.

One day, while busily preparing for the album, Rembrary finally found the Lion Lord.

It was the day Jang Tae-ri and Shin Jo-woon had differing opinions on whether to film a music video, and all three of them got sulky and went their separate ways.

“Where have you been?”

Rembrary, who was washing his face, saw the Lion Lord sitting on the sofa stretching and rushed over to ask.

The Lion Lord stopped stretching and covered his eyes with his hand.

“Looking for eyes.”

“Eyes?”

“Eyes that let me see what you see.”

You’re still looking for that? Rembrary was dumbfounded.

“Stop looking for eyes. You don’t need them.”

What’s the point of vaguely seeing monsters or ghosts? It would only cause unnecessary stress. Of course, it was clear that the Lion Lord wasn’t the type to be overwhelmed by such things, but Rembrary couldn’t understand his obsession.

“I can’t help it. I’m a bit sensitive about eyes.”

“Should I wipe them for you?”

“How?”

When Rembrary took out a handkerchief and blew on it, the Lion Lord flinched and stepped back. If someone else said it, it would sound like a joke, but with Rembrary doing that, it seemed like he would really stick the handkerchief in his eye.

“Why are you going there?”

“You said you found me. Why did you look for me?”

As the Lion Lord hurriedly changed the subject, Rembrary lowered the handkerchief as if recalling what he had forgotten. Only then did the Lion Lord relax his shoulders in relief.

“Let’s go to the research center together.”

“We could have just driven there.”

“There are people I need to bring in while avoiding attention.”

“Avoiding attention?”

* * *

When Rembrary arrived at the research center with the Lion Lord, the director, who had been waiting after receiving a call in advance, greeted them with a resigned smile.

“Welcome. This way.”

The director led them to the elevator. As soon as he pressed the button, the door opened.

“The elevator broke down when Redrin destroyed the research center before. It’s fixed now, though.”

As the director explained while going underground, Rembrary was about to protest, ‘Why did he destroy it?’ but stopped himself. Come to think of it, he didn’t even see whether it was broken or not.

At that time, Rembrary went to another world and saw a eunuch who looked just like Shin Jo-woon…

‘Eunuch!’

Rembrary was startled and widened his eyes. He had to tell Shin Myulchi about how he [Shin Jo-woon] was a eunuch in a world where people similar to those here lived.

He was so surprised to see Redrin scattering as soon as he arrived that he had forgotten everything.

“I must have been too hasty. I forgot something so important.”

The director and the Lion Lord stared at Rembrary simultaneously when he muttered.

But instead of explaining what he meant to them, Rembrary quickly took out his phone and sent a text message to Shin Jo-woon.

[You eunuch.]

As soon as he turned off his phone, the elevator door opened with a ding at just the right moment.

Rembrary smiled contentedly and stepped outside.

“Oh, my.”

However, his brow furrowed automatically at the sight of the basement. Several blankets were spread out on the basement floor, and people with colorful hair were all lying on them.

Rembrary looked at the director, who explained.

“It’s a bit difficult to transport beds here. And I heard they would be taken away soon.”

Still, it seemed like they were just thrown on the floor. After checking the size of the elevator, Rembrary halfheartedly accepted the explanation.

Although it was a large elevator, it was too small to fit the size of the beds Rembrary was thinking of.

The director kept glancing at Rembrary, worried that he was bothered by the fact that they were all lying on the floor.

“What about those who aren’t human-shaped?”

“Are you going to take those monsters too? You’re very open-minded, Mr. Rembrary. Is it because you have deep faith?”

“No, I was just asking.”

When the director gestured to the doors on the east and west sides, the Lion Lord quickly went there to take a look.

On the other hand, Rembrary, who had asked the question, touched the foreheads of the fallen people one by one and began to infuse them with divine power instead of looking around.

“Can I film this?”

“I can also put them to sleep with divine power. Should I do that?”

“I’ll be quiet.”

While the director watched, Rembrary healed all the fallen people one by one.

“Mr. Rembrary.”

“Redrin… Thank you.”

“High Priest, have you come to save us?”

“I was scared, High Priest.”

The awakened people were initially confused, but when they saw Rembrary’s face, they sobbed and tried to hug him.

The director watched in amazement as Rembrary comforted each person.

In the process, Rembrary also discovered a familiar face.

“Nin-ring!”

When he found the brown, shaggy hair, Rembrary raised his voice and pulled up the head, unlike when he treated the others.

The director stared blankly at the scene and asked.

“Do you know him?”

Rembrary’s heart ached when he saw Nin-ring limply swaying like seaweed, and he coldly asked the director.

“Would I just give a random name to someone I don’t know?”

As he said that, Nin-ring slowly lifted his head. Light brown eyes appeared between his eyelids, and soon they were filled with tears when he saw Rembrary.

“High Priest. You’ve come to save me.”

Meanwhile, the Lion Lord, who had been looking at the room where the real monsters were locked up through the transparent part of the door, began to move the awakened colorful-haired people to the headquarters of the ‘Redrin Hunter Company’ as Rembrary had instructed in advance.

When all the work was finished, all that remained in the space that had been filled with people were blankets and bedding.

Rembrary was filled with mixed emotions as he recalled the things he had gone through to save them—getting a license, going to save Dae-ju who had been captured by a pterodactyl, meeting the monk, entering the research center, and being thrown into another world.

“Let’s go back.”

However, the director, who had been watching all along, stopped Rembrary as he was about to leave the research center with the Lion Lord.

“Just a moment.”

When Rembrary looked at him, the director smiled faintly. Rembrary sensed what he wanted to say and immediately said it.

“You can join Redrin. Go to the headquarters anytime.”

As he was about to leave, the director stopped him again.

“That’s a given. I stopped you for something else.”

Something else? When Rembrary looked at him, the director smiled awkwardly.

“About our researchers.”

“What about them?”

“Not the researchers who escaped, but the ones Redrin kept here with him. They were released from the chains when Redrin left, but they haven’t woken up yet.”

“Is that so.”

“If you could take a look…”

The Lion Lord thought Rembrary would definitely refuse, but Rembrary readily agreed to take a look.

“I’ll take a look. I don’t know if it will work.”

The two took the elevator and went to the top floor this time.

There, numerous beds were lined up along the walls, and the researchers were lying on them without moving.

Rembrary looked at them and muttered sadly.

“There are beds here?”

When Rembrary squinted at him, the director avoided his gaze as if trying to hide his embarrassment.

“The elevator here is a bit bigger?”

“It was originally here, and people were transported here.”

“You could have transported the people in the basement too.”

“Everyone was afraid that they might turn into monsters again.”

The director was worried that Rembrary might change his mind at any moment, but Rembrary didn’t continue to be sarcastic and instead went over and started healing those people too.

The director was moved by the sight of the people who had been lying listlessly waking up as soon as Rembrary touched them, and he put his hands together and brought them to his chest.

“Seeing you being so benevolent makes my desire for experimentation even stronger.”

What does the two have to do with each other? The Lion Lord glanced at the director, not understanding what he meant, but Rembrary didn’t answer, either because he didn’t hear him or because he was just ignoring him.

On the other hand, the researchers were confused because they couldn’t understand the situation when they first woke up, but when they saw Rembrary waking people up, they vaguely guessed that they had also been healed and woke up, and they looked at his back with complicated eyes.

Then, when Rembrary woke up all the researchers, one of them got up from the bed barefoot and approached Rembrary to thank him.

“Mr. Rembrary. Thank you for helping us this time… No, actually, I don’t know what’s going on yet. Still. Thank you for helping us. You must have a lot of bad feelings about the research center in many ways.”

The researcher who was speaking had a hoarse voice. The last thing the researcher remembered was the moment when strange flowers suddenly bloomed in the research center and chains wrapped around them, so he couldn’t help but be moved by his current healthy state.

Other researchers didn’t step forward to speak, but they all had similar expressions. Rembrary smiled calmly and casually patted the researcher on the shoulder.

“Buy my album when it comes out later.”

“Album?”

“I’m about to release a new song.”

The researcher looked at him, wondering what he was talking about, but Rembrary seemed to have finished his work and took the Lion Lord and left the place.

As the Lion Lord took Rembrary to the headquarters several times, he asked what he had been wondering about all along.

“Your god made people like that, so how can you, who are of a lower rank, heal those people?”

“Because Redrin didn’t want to kill them?”

“If I join your religion, can I have eyes?”

* * *

The people who had been rescued had been healed by Rembrary, but their hearts were weakened due to the time they had suffered in the research center.

For this reason, they were first given training to get used to life here while recuperating in a dormitory a little away from the others.

Meanwhile, Ardor and Nin-ring joined Rembrary’s household in a good school district, and Rembrary was busy going back and forth between the recording studio and the practice room to create a song that was more addictive than Kkokko [previous song].

However, Rembrary’s plan to release his own music two hours after Kkokko released his album was eventually pushed back to 24 hours later.

Shin Jo-woon was glad that it turned out that way, but Rembrary anxiously kept checking people’s reactions as soon as Kkokko’s music was uploaded.

“It’s a mess.”

It wasn’t good. People literally cheered for Kkokko’s song. People who had shown signs of addiction with just the teaser music immediately searched for and listened to the proper song when it came out, and Kkokko’s song, which debuted with a full album, unusually entered the charts within a few hours, even lining up all the songs [achieving an ‘all-kill’].

—I’ve been waiting for thisㅠㅠ

—I was going crazy wanting to hear this. The song is really addictive.

—Where does LLL find all these geniuses? From Woo-yeon-woo to Lapsus.

At this rate, something really bad was going to happen.

Rembrary watched the scene with concern and had no choice but to turn on SNS [social networking service]. He had to give even his fans a sense of urgency.

Rembrary tagged Lapsus’s song and left a post.

—Kkokkosong lol Don’t listen to it >ㅅ< Surprisingly, Shin Jo-woon called him as soon as one minute passed after he posted the post. —Take down that post. Now.