Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 402

402. Kkokko Song

“A post? What post are you talking about?”

―The one you wrote out of jealousy for the rookie singer who just released a song and is gaining popularity.

“Ah, you mean the one I wrote about Kkokko [onomatopoeia for a chicken’s clucking sound, used here as a nickname].”

Rembrary burst into a hearty laugh, seemingly unbothered by Shin Jo-woon’s mention of jealousy.

“I have to do this so that at least my followers won’t listen to that song.”

―It’s not that your followers won’t listen to the song, but your image is becoming very narrow-minded and petty. People will see you as the guy who wrote ‘a post out of jealousy for the rookie singer’.

“I’m fine with it, so what.”

Shin Jo-woon fell silent for a moment on the other end of the line at Rembrary’s completely unconcerned voice. Rembrary put the phone on speaker mode and opened the refrigerator door, humming a tune.

―Do you know that your fans are even more upset than you are?

“My followers are wise. They won’t listen to Kkokko’s song.”

―Rembrary.

When Shin Jo-woon called him by his name instead of ‘Pig’ for once, Rembrary stopped pouring sesame oil into the frying pan and moved closer to the phone.

“Why are you calling me by my name for once?”

―I don’t know about your previous agency, but I don’t do noise marketing. It doesn’t do any good for the artists in the agency in the end.

“Ooh.”

―So, delete the post. You can win against that ma… anyway, you can win with just your voice.

Shin Jo-woon seemed embarrassed to call him the Demon King, so he vaguely expressed it without calling him the Demon King. The sentence was inaccurate, but Rembrary roughly guessed what he wanted to say and laughed.

“Should I?”

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―Rembrary is crossing the line ;;

―Woo Yeon-woo is more famous than him and not easy to deal with, so it’s understandable if they fight, but Rabsus is much weaker, isn’t he? Publicly attacking himㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ He really looks down on people

ㄴHe even tagged him so that no one would not recognize itㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴDid you guys think it was okay when Rembrary attacked Woo Yeon-woo? Put some saliva on your mouth, you antis [anti-fans]. Until Ji Tae-in released the recording, you guys were only on Woo Yeon-woo’s side. It’s so frustrating

ㄴHaven’t you guys experienced the Woo Yeon-woo incident? How do you know what kind of relationship Rembrary has with Rabsus to be cursing him already?

ㄴI don’t know what kind of relationship they have. Rembrary publicly cursed him firstㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

―Our Rabsus is going to be a superstar. You can already see the jealousy^^.

ㄴWow, is this what you call mental victory? ㅎㅎ Here’s a perfect example! >ㅅ< ㄴRembrary stan [ardent fan], change your emoticon and pretend you're not shielding him. ―Why do you think Kkokko is an insult? Isn't it a friendly nickname? They might be close. ㄴDo close friends tell each other not to listen to their songs? ㄴMy younger sibling is close to me, but they cover their ears and scream when I sing. ㄴThat's just because you're tone-deafㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Your sibling doesn't publicly tag you on social media and tell you not to sing. ㄴThey do? ㄴThink about it carefully. Are you and your sibling really close, or do you just think you're close? ㄴㅅㅂ [Korean slang, similar to 'WTF'] What is thisㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ * * * Shin Jo-woon, who had been clicking the mouse wheel, sighed and rubbed his forehead when he realized that people were saying the same things over and over again. Even though he quickly took action, it was like this. Even in Rembrary's social media, it was this bad, so he could imagine how much he was being torn apart elsewhere. Fortunately, Rembrary's side was... ―My fans are all good at arguing. Fighting! Win >ㅅ< Shin Jo-woon's stomach churned as soon as he refreshed the page and saw Rembrary's close-up photo with that phrase, so he right-clicked on the photo and saved it as "Alone Pure Pig." Shin Jo-woon narrowed his brows, even more angered when Woo Yeon-woo's former manager, the Grim Reaper, was the first to press the 'like' button on the photo. It was like he was teasing him. Shin Jo-woon was angry that Rembrary, who had entrusted him with producing, had caused such a major accident, so he decided not to press the 'like' button on that photo. 'The Demon King's priest.' Instead, Shin Jo-woon searched for the official LLL Entertainment account and then went to the personal account of the rookie singer Rabsus. But... what is this again? Shin Jo-woon frowned and clicked the refresh button. That singer Rabsus. According to Rembrary, that fallen priest-turned-singer had also posted a strange post two minutes ago. It was the close-up photo that Rembrary had posted earlier, and surprisingly, the priest Rabsus had shared the photo on his account and wrote 'Woof woof ㅗ' on it. The 'ㅗ' is a Korean symbol that looks like a middle finger. Naturally, the number of comments noticeably increased every time he refreshed, and the battleground quickly moved from Rembrary's post to here. "……." Shin Jo-woon repeatedly refreshed about fifteen times and then sent his deepest regrets to CEO Im of LLL Entertainment. 'The rumors of discord are definitely confirmed.' * * * The next day. At a time that was thoroughly calculated to reflect the daily chart, Rembrary's single was released. Since the opponent had a full-length album with eleven songs, this side had too few songs, but it was a single that came out under the conclusion that it would be better to release one proper song than to force a full-length album due to lack of time and lower the quality. "How's the reaction?" Shin Jo-woon was looking into matters that were being discussed between the government and high-end hunters, but every 15 minutes, he called his secretary to ask about people's reactions to Rembrary's song. "The graph trend is good." "It looks like it will safely reach number one in real-time rankings in three hours." "People's reactions are good too. We are periodically reporting malicious comments related to Rabsus." Even though it was annoying, the secretary answered surprisingly cheerfully. Since the secretary had been with World Boom since it was an entertainment agency, she seemed very excited to be doing her original job after a long time. When the secretary finished her report and left, Shin Jo-woon felt relieved and picked up his phone to send a text message to Rembrary. However, as he was about to send a text message, a strange text message that he had not been able to respond to immediately due to urgent business and had forgotten about for a while suddenly caught his eye. [You eunuch.] Shin Jo-woon's expression crumpled. What does this mean? * * * Redrin-nim [term of endearment, like 'dear Redrin']. People are sometimes strange. God-Myeolchi [God-Anchovy, a nickname] is the same. I mean, when Redrin-nim tried to save me before. It's hard to believe, but I was in Woo Yeon-woo's body again, in Woo Yeon-woo's body in a different dimension from this place. I was a bit shocked that Woo Yeon-woo was a eunuch there, but well, it's not my body. If there's anything that bothers me, it's that the castrated area was restored because I went into that body... well, that's not my job either. Anyway, I met God-Myeolchi there again, and God-Myeolchi was also a eunuch there. Besides, he was a very lazy eunuch, so he was always playing whenever I saw him. I'm constantly sweeping while taking naps. That incident came to mind, so I told Shin Jo-woon, 'You are a eunuch,' and Shin Jo-woon didn't ask what that meant. So, I explained, 'I saw you when I went to another dimension for a while, and you were a eunuch,' but he told me not to lie and acted cool. It's unbelievable, but the truth is the truth, so what can I do? But, I was going to end it there, but Shin Jo-woon sent me a text message again in 5 minutes. He said I must have seen something wrong. I said I saw it properly, so he asked if I checked properly. So, I said I checked properly. Then he asked again. Did you definitely check with your own eyes? I was dumbfounded. So, I asked logically. You pervert, how can I check if you've been castrated properly or not there? Then Shin Jo-woon accused me of lying without knowing properly and called me a liar on the social media photo I posted. I felt a little bad, so I wrote 'Eunuch Boss' as a reply, and people started asking what was going on. So, I said, 'I can't answer properly because of the boss's Friday,' and people liked it. They said they didn't like Friday either. Shin Jo-woon is saying something else like, 'Try ignoring it. I can rest that day too,' and people think that's cool. In my eyes, it just looks like a myeolchi [anchovy] is flapping around without understanding. Oh, of course, it's the most colorful myeolchi... Redrin-nim, where are you? I miss you. * * * "Healer-nim [term for healer]! Did a package come from the underworld?" As soon as she heard the doorbell, Si-young ran out like a bullet, stared intently at the writing on the box, and shouted with wide eyes. The Lion Lord appeared next to her in the blink of an eye, picked up only the box, and went into the house. Si-young quickly closed the front door and chased into the kitchen, asking. "Did it really come from the underworld? Is it like Santa Claus sending it?" Rembrary, who kept looking at the real-time rankings that were constantly fluctuating, came out at the sound of the underworld delivery and answered instead. "It really came from the underworld, so eat a lot, Si-young-ah." When the Lion Lord opened the box, Si-young looked at the peaches inside and retorted firmly with a disappointed face. "It's just peaches." "What you've eaten so far are peaches from this world. That's a peach from the underworld." "What's the difference?" "One can be bought anywhere if you pay, but the other can't be bought even if you pay." Si-young tilted her head as if she was about to be persuaded by that, and asked. "Then where did Healer-nim buy this?" "Santa Claus gave it to me. As a gift." "It's autumn now. It's not Christmas." "It's a holiday gift. Santa Claus gives toys to children on Christmas and fruit to adults on holidays." When Rembrary, who was running out of answers, mixed the Santa Claus worldview and the underworld worldview, the Lion Lord made a sullen expression, but Si-young, who was still young, nodded in admiration at the words. "Lion, cut fruit for Si-young and Joo-kyung, and you eat too. Cut a plate for me and bring it to me." Rembrary said that to the Lion Lord, who was still suspicious, and then went back into his room to check the real-time chart again. Unlike when he was Woo Yeon-woo, he poured out his divine power to his heart's content and was already famous as a healer, so the song's ranking rose quickly, but the opponent was also putting in dark divine power, so the ranking kept going back and forth, which he didn't like. Of course, even if you mix divine power into a song and make it into a sound source and distribute it, a lot of divine power will be lost like the tide. But that would be the same for the opponent. Rembrary was very worried that he couldn't immediately gain the upper hand. 'If you look at the Kkokko Song review section, there are already many people who have developed addiction symptoms. I'll have to treat all those people….'