Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 456

◈ 456. His Majesty’s Hobby

“Ugh! Rembrary!”

Duran, who had followed Rembrary to find him, was horrified by the last line and rushed over.

“What a rude thing to say! Don’t do that!”

Duran stammered, covering Rembrary’s mouth.

“Don’t say that to strangers! It’s rude!”

However, Rembrary brushed off Duran’s hand and laughed it off.

“It’s not rude. He really is a eunuch. A eunuch I know.”

“It’s even ruder if it’s true! It’s a painful wound! Why poke at it!”

“What are you talking about? I didn’t poke at it.”

Rembrary said, looking disgusted, and Duran didn’t understand for a moment before his face turned red and he protested.

“That’s obvious!”

Duran shouted, then hurriedly bowed to the person Rembrary had grabbed, calling him a eunuch.

“I’m so sorry. He’s a friend who lost his memory. He’s a foreigner. He doesn’t speak our language well yet. I’m sorry. He probably doesn’t mean any harm.”

Then, annoyed by the sight of the culprit smiling innocently in this situation, Duran mouthed ‘You apologize too!’ and pushed Rembrary’s back.

Shin Jo-woon of ‘this world,’ with the same face and name as Shin Jo-woon, watched the two of them quietly.

He was also Shin Jo-woon. Although his job wasn’t a eunuch, but an emperor.

And the people in black uniforms around Shin Jo-woon were the guards who followed the emperor on his incognito trip.

However, they knew that the emperor enjoyed these unexpected situations, so they remained vigilant but just watched for now.

It was a possible decision because they knew that even in an emergency, the emperor would handle it more decisively than they would.

Meanwhile, Rembrary slipped out of Duran’s hands, who kept forcing him to apologize, and grumbled.

“I really do know him.”

“Really? Really?”

“Of course!”

Rembrary looked at Shin Jo-woon of this world, and Duran also looked at Shin Jo-woon.

The emperor was curious about what the person who had mistaken him for someone else and rushed over would say, so he looked back at him.

However, even his curious expression was close to expressionless, making Duran even more frightened.

The shadows [imperial guards] were also curious about what their lord had been mistaken for by this rude foreigner who had suddenly appeared, but they maintained a colder expression than anyone else.

At that moment, everyone was focused on Rembrary’s mouth.

“Ah.”

Rembrary, who had been pointing at Shin Jo-woon, suddenly lowered his hand, shrugged his shoulders, and changed his words.

“We don’t know each other.”

‘What the hell? He said he knew a eunuch!’ Duran was about to curse at Rembrary, who had caused this commotion and was suddenly denying knowing him.

However, Rembrary maintained his position of not knowing him.

“Yes. We’re meeting for the first time.”

He had met him as the body of ‘Eunuch Woo Yeon-woo,’ but he was changing his words because it was his first time seeing him in this body.

However, Duran, who didn’t know these complicated circumstances, was just worried that Rembrary had committed a great discourtesy to a stranger.

Moreover, he was even more frightened because the person who had been disrespected looked so scary.

He was even more scared because he thought the fallout would affect him, who knew Rembrary.

As Duran was trembling, unable to do anything, Rembrary turned around, grabbed Duran, and pulled him slightly.

“Let’s go.”

‘Go like this? Can we go like this? Really?’ Duran was still uneasy and thought that the people around the person mistaken for a eunuch were staring too scarily, but he followed Rembrary and subtly moved his steps.

He was trying to gloss over it by following along like this because there was nothing he could do here.

Duran bowed to them and followed Rembrary stealthily.

However, before he could take three steps, he heard a sharp metallic sound from behind.

Rembrary was walking away with Duran, who kept hesitating, when he stopped as a cold sensation touched the back of his neck.

“…….”

Rembrary glanced down with only his eyes, then turned his head halfway back.

The guards standing next to Eunuch Shin Jo-woon had drawn their swords and were pointing them at Rembrary.

Duran’s face turned white, on the verge of fainting, even though a sword wasn’t being held to his neck.

“S, sword. Sword.”

On the other hand, Rembrary didn’t show much reaction even though a sword was being held to his neck, and then asked the eunuch.

“Jo-woon. What is this.”

It wasn’t that he didn’t know.

However, the shadows were collectively surprised by that insignificant remark.

‘He knows His Majesty’s name.’

‘Was he pretending not to know that he was His Majesty?’

The shadows exchanged glances with each other and then glanced at the emperor.

They were briefly confused about whether to lower their swords or keep holding them.

The emperor didn’t give instructions and instead walked over with his hands behind his back.

He came right in front of Rembrary and looked into Rembrary’s eyes.

The sunlight coming from behind him made Rembrary’s red eyes look a little lighter than usual.

The emperor tilted his head, looking at that appearance and the golden hair that swayed slightly whenever the wind blew.

Something… memories were vaguely coming up, as if he could grasp them.

Rembrary, unaware of this situation, tilted his head, wondering, ‘Why is this anchovy [small fish, used as a derogatory term] acting like this?’

At that moment. The emperor, who had been staring intently at Rembrary, exclaimed “Ah” as if something had come to mind.

The shadows didn’t know the emperor’s intentions, but they lowered their swords slightly, sensing the situation.

Rembrary was bewildered, not knowing what the ‘Ah’ that Eunuch Shin Jo-woon had uttered meant.

Duran’s heart was pounding, and he took half a step back.

Everyone was bewildered, not properly understanding the situation, when the emperor suddenly smiled with a blunt face and said.

“Pig.”

Rembrary looked at him, wondering, ‘What’s wrong with this eunuch?’ and was startled.

‘What is this? How does he know me? This guy isn’t an anchovy, he’s a eunuch?’

He was puzzled that Eunuch Shin Jo-woon, whom he had never met in this body, was calling him by a nickname that Anchovy Shin Jo-woon had unilaterally created.

However, the emperor smiled as if he felt relieved and said again.

“Gold. Rembrary. Pig.”

When he was staring at Rembrary earlier. Various things were flashing through the emperor’s mind.

And finally, he combined the fact that the Lion Mask had mistaken him for ‘another Shin Jo-woon’ and the explanation about Rembrary in his head, and realized that the ‘Golden Pig’ that the Lion Mask had mentioned was a person.

The first time they met, Hwasaja called the pig’s name Rembrary.

The second time they met, he said the pig was a golden pig.

But this guy has blonde hair and his name is Rembrary, so if you think of the pig as a nickname rather than a species, it was exactly him.

However, Rembrary couldn’t know what was happening in the emperor’s head, so he was just puzzled.

‘Surely this guy isn’t Shin Jo-woon. How did he recognize me?’

“How does Eunuch Jo-woon know me?”

The shadows were furious at Rembrary’s rudeness in constantly calling the emperor ‘eunuch, eunuch,’ but the emperor raised his hand to signal them to stay still, so they calmed down again.

Soon, the smile that the emperor used when he was deceiving the Lion Mask slowly appeared on his lips.

“It’s me. Shin Jo-woon.”

His voice was also a little softer than usual.

However, Rembrary still didn’t believe it.

“I know you’re Shin Jo-woon. But aren’t you Eunuch Jo-woon? The Jo-woon I’m talking about-”

“We came here to save the world.”

Rembrary, who was about to say that the Jo-woon he was talking about was ‘Anchovy Jo-woon,’ hesitated at the words that Eunuch Jo-woon said, interrupting him.

“The Lion Mask was dragged along though.”

Rembrary’s eyes widened in confusion at the words that Eunuch Jo-woon added.

‘How? How does Eunuch Jo-woon know?’

“The pig that Jang Tae-ri and I always took care of. Is you. Person.”

The emperor, who spoke haltingly as if a machine was creaking, smiled suddenly as if he had remembered something, and Rembrary’s eyes widened even more.

‘What is this guy? Is he really Anchovy? Is he really Anchovy Shin Jo-woon? But… no? He looks like Eunuch Anchovy? If he was the real Anchovy Shin Jo-woon, there’s no way he wouldn’t have recognized me at first?’

As Rembrary looked at him with suspicious eyes, the emperor thought, ‘He’s not falling for it,’ and murmured, looking at the sky as if reminiscing about the distant past.

“I jumped into a strange place to save you.”

He was reciting the words that the Lion Mask had told him, but Rembrary, who couldn’t know this, muttered as if hit by a finishing blow.

“You… are you Anchovy? Really not a eunuch. Are you Anchovy?”

The emperor raised his head and smiled with only his eyes lowered, and Rembrary muttered again.

“He looks like Anchovy because he’s smiling slyly.”

Still, Rembrary was confused because there was something fishy about it, when suddenly the emperor staggered and grabbed his head.

“Does it hurt?”

“A bit of a headache.”

“You have a headache?”

“Actually, I lost some memories as a side effect back then.”

Rembrary was surprised and grabbed the area of the head near the forehead that Emperor Jo-woon was holding with both hands.

“Here?”

The shadows, who saw the sight of him grabbing His Majesty’s head like a ball, glared and trembled with anger, but Rembrary lightly blew ‘hoo’ as if blowing out a candle in the air and let go of his hand.

The shadows were even more angry, thinking, ‘Is our lord’s head a candle now!’ but Emperor Shin Jo-woon was very surprised when the throbbing pain suddenly subsided.

He remembered that the Lion Mask had described Rembrary as a ‘pig with healing abilities.’

He thought that part was also a kind of metaphor after seeing that the pig was a person. Could it be. Does he really have abilities?

The emperor quickly looked at the ordinary young man who came with Rembrary and his guards.

They had faces that didn’t know what had just happened at all.

The smile on the emperor’s lips deepened.

‘If his nickname is Pig, he must eat well. And if he calls me Anchovy Anchovy as soon as he sees me, the nickname of the person with my face is Anchovy. If they call each other nicknames, they must be close.’

After finishing his calculations, the emperor smiled and completely agreed with the lie.

“Yes. It’s me. I’m Anchovy.”

The shadows thought, ‘His Majesty is lying again,’ but Duran was still bewildered, wondering what this was all about.

It wasn’t making sense.

When Rembrary first pretended to know that person, that person pretended not to know, and when Rembrary said he was mistaken and left, that person chased after him, and then that person said they were acquaintances?

However, Rembrary, who had completely mistaken Emperor Shin Jo-woon for Anchovy Shin Jo-woon, was happy at the thought that he had finally found a comrade and grabbed Duran’s arm to introduce him to Shin Jo-woon.

“Jong-woo. Say hello. He’s the most unremarkable of the comrades I’ve been looking for. He’s the one I always called Anchovy.”

The moment he heard those words, Duran remembered one of the comrades that Rembrary had described as Anchovy and widened his eyes.

‘Anchovy? Could it be that… the ice-shooting person that Yoomena’s disciples were chasing after?’

Duran’s mouth dropped open.

He thought he was like a flimsy bowl of dog food after hearing Rembrary’s description. Far from being dog food, he’s not even a dog, but a wolf-like person.

‘Why on earth is he calling that person Anchovy?’

Besides, he’s smiling, but isn’t the way he looks at people a gaze that puts them all under his feet?.

It’s even more severe and creepy than the Grand Duke… how can there be such an anchovy in the world?

Duran swallowed hard.

There were two possibilities.

One. Rembrary has terribly bad taste.

Two. That person is impersonating someone right now.