Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 459

459. Bring the Emperor

“I think that’s what His Majesty understood,” Rembrary replied nonchalantly, and the Emperor raised one corner of his mouth.

“Interesting. Since when?”

“If I tell you, the fun will disappear. I’ll keep the fun going.”

“It’s okay. Tell me. You’re disrespecting me even though you know I’m the Emperor. That’s interesting enough.”

“Does this sound like disrespect to you?”

“You’d disrespect me if we were alone, wouldn’t you? Right?”

“That’s right.”

The shadows watching were even more nervous than they were.

In their eyes, the Emperor and the blond young man looked like they were holding onto a thin spiderweb with both hands, pulling at each other.

Betting on who would break the string.

A subtle breeze blew. The Emperor watched Rembrary with his hands behind his back, then smiled and took a step back.

“Let’s eat first. Maybe if we feed you something, your mouth will open.”

* * *

Elder Soonmu deliberately waited for Rembrary in front of the Empress Dowager’s palace.

However, just as the Emperor seemed to be having a serious conversation with Rembrary in front of the gate, they went somewhere together, so he couldn’t call Rembrary this time either.

“Oh dear. Ahem.”

Elder Soonmu clicked his tongue in frustration and eventually turned around to tell Ardord this story first.

But when he went to the place where they were staying, Ardord was nowhere to be seen.

“Jun-eon, where’s Ardord?”

Elder Soonmu, who had insisted that ‘Ardord is actually good,’ was a little worried when Ardord was nowhere to be seen, so he asked another disciple of the Second Church [likely a religious sect] who he had brought with him.

The Second Church disciple replied in a worried tone.

“He looked at a note full of unknown letters and ran off somewhere.”

“Where to?”

“I don’t know exactly where he was going, but the direction is over there….”

When Jun-eon pointed in one direction with his finger, Elder Soonmu quickly ran in that direction.

But as he was going, he heard a faint sound he had heard somewhere before in the distance.

‘It’s Ardord’s weapon sound!’

Elder Soonmu recalled that it was the sound Ardord made when he was rampaging, and hurriedly ran after the sound.

The place was deserted, and as expected, Ardord was taking out his weapon and shooting at something.

And in the direction Ardord was pointing, an incredible master of lightness [referring to someone skilled in agility and speed] wearing a lion mask was appearing here and there in the blink of an eye, fighting Ardord.

“Ardord!”

To the outside world, the lion mask was only running away, and Ardord was pouring out attacks alone, so Elder Soonmu was flustered and shouted as he ran towards him.

“I told you not to cause an accident!”

But the moment he took a few steps.

Suddenly, a person wearing a lion mask appeared right in front of him, and in the blink of an eye, the lion mask and Elder Soonmu’s positions changed.

And before he could even figure out what was going on, Elder Soonmu felt a strong pain in his stomach and collapsed.

Elder Soonmu put his hand on his stomach as he fell to the side. Blood was flowing from his stomach.

Elder Soonmu groaned in pain as his intestines twisted.

It was clear that the lion mask used him as a shield to avoid Ardord’s attack.

“Ardord.”

Elder Soonmu called Ardord again, panting.

His voice was weaker than before, but luckily Ardord heard it and finally started walking towards him.

However, even as he walked, he kept shooting somewhere with his arms behind him, so the unique sound of his weapon did not stop.

“Ardord.”

As his mind became hazy from the pain, Elder Soonmu weakly called Ardord again.

Ardord, who had approached, coldly examined Elder Soonmu’s condition, frowned, and lifted the elder’s head slightly with one arm.

“Elder. Are you okay?”

Elder Soonmu grabbed his stomach, twisted his body, and frowned.

The pain was getting stronger and his mind was getting hazier, so it seemed difficult to answer.

“Elder?”

Ardord frowned and called Elder Soonmu.

Even in the midst of all this, his one arm continued to move, shooting at something.

At first glance, it seemed like he was just pouring out attacks anywhere, but the lion mask facing Ardord knew better than anyone that Ardord’s gun was aimed directly at him, and gritted his teeth.

‘That crazy bastard. Was that his ability?’

He thought it was that kind of ability because bullets were constantly being fired, but that wasn’t all.

No matter where he teleported, Ardord would shoot his gun in that direction, so the lion mask was too busy running away to even attack.

“Stop! Stop it! I’ll stop too!”

Eventually, the lion mask shouted at Ardord and stopped dodging.

However, Ardord did not stop, and a bullet eventually grazed the lion mask’s arm.

“Ugh.”

Nothing good ever comes from getting involved with that bastard! The lion mask cursed and left the scene.

Only after the lion mask disappeared did Ardord stop shooting. When the gunshots stopped, everything became quiet.

Elder Soonmu, who seemed half out of his mind, barely opened his eyes when it became quiet, grabbed Ardord’s arm, and opened his mouth with difficulty.

“Ardord. The person you were looking for. Four letters in his name. That young man is with His Majesty.”

Ardord, who liked Elder Soonmu the most among the people he met in this world, was worried about whether he should hold a funeral for Elder Soonmu in this world’s style or in the Redrine religious style if Elder Soonmu died, but was surprised and widened his eyes.

“Really?”

When Elder Soonmu nodded, Ardord quickly picked up the elder.

If Rembrary was here, he could save Elder Soonmu.

But when he picked up the elder, he saw countless soldiers gathered around him, pointing their weapons at him.

“Put the monk down.”

Ardord looked around at them and tilted his head.

“No, Ardord. You can’t handle it if you kill even one person here.”

Even in the midst of all this, Elder Soonmu realized that Ardord was about to start shooting and desperately stopped him.

If he killed a soldier in the imperial palace, Ardord would become a national criminal. He had to stop him.

Fortunately, Ardord respected Elder Soonmu and stopped shooting, and calmly demanded to the otherworlders [people from another world] who were pointing their weapons at him.

“Bring the Emperor.”

* * *

“There’s a world I live in, and there’s a world you live in. They’re completely different worlds. But strangely enough, it seems like there’s a pair of people who look exactly the same in my world and your world.”

“Is that so.”

“Yes. And it seems like there’s a high probability that they have the same name… but I can’t be sure about this.”

As his nickname was Piggy, the Emperor’s guess that he would open his mouth if he fed him something was spot on.

Rembrary looked at the luxurious feast that filled five tables and became generous, telling the Emperor a strange story.

The shadows were relieved to see him completely taken over by the food.

But even though he seemed to be rambling about this and that, Rembrary’s mind was working in a different direction from his mouth.

‘Now that he’s seen my abilities, that fake Anchovy will definitely try to hold me back.’

Rembrary recalled the many powerful people in his original world who coveted his abilities.

Just because they were powerful didn’t mean that ‘God’s Majesty’ wouldn’t work on them, so it wasn’t difficult to simply subdue them.

The problem was that they had countless subordinates.

Emperors with hundreds of thousands of subordinates were naturally very difficult to deal with.

This Emperor wouldn’t be any different.

‘He won’t help me find my comrades even if I ask him to. He’ll probably try to scam me again with his fox-like words….’

Rembrary thought of Hwa Chin-chin.

‘Is the easiest way to gather my comrades by making Hwa Chin-chin famous? The competition will continue since I healed the Empress Dowager.’

“Your eyes are rolling, Piggy.”

“…….”

“Why?”

“No. It’s nothing.”

‘If I can just bring Hwa Saja, the problem will be solved well.’

After finishing his thoughts, Rembrary looked at the fake Anchovy, who looked surprisingly like Shin Jo-woon, and had another worry this time.

‘Even if the fake Anchovy seems like a scammer, he can’t imitate Anchovy so well without knowing anything. He had a lot of information to say that he was completely lying. He must have met one of my comrades before he met me.’

He pretended to have lost his memory, but he couldn’t just guess that he had come to save the world, that he had saved Rembrary last, or that he knew his nickname.

That fake Anchovy had a vague idea of ​​some key information, as well as the fact that there was someone with the same face as him.

‘Who is it? Who did he meet? Ardord and Shin Jo-woon are definitely not it. Sagamjae? Mullu? Hwa Saja? Is that person still staying here? Maybe I can find him in the imperial palace.’

Meanwhile, while Rembrary and the Emperor were racking their brains and eating, someone knocked lightly on the door from outside, and one of the shadows came in and whispered something to another shadow next to the Emperor.

Then, the shadow raised his eyebrows and approached the Emperor again, whispering something in a small voice, and soon the Emperor’s expression changed.

“Why? What’s wrong?”

Rembrary asked, noticing that it didn’t look like good news, but the Emperor got up instead of answering and said.

“Take your time eating.”

“Where are you going?”

Rembrary asked again, but the Emperor walked out instead of answering this time, stood by the door, and instructed the guards in a voice that Rembrary could hear.

“Stop him if he goes out.”

Then, he glanced at Rembrary and smiled, unlike the person who had given the rude order a little while ago, and informed him.

“Ask for more if you’re missing anything.”

* * *

When the Emperor came out, the close eunuch was a little worried and asked.

“He seemed like a very skilled doctor. Shouldn’t we treat him better? That Hwa Saja also told us a few prohibitions and is having fun wandering around on his own.”

The Emperor replied indifferently.

“We can’t hold that guy back, so we let him go.”

“That’s true, but….”

“That golden pig. He’s good at medicine and good at using his head. If we let him go now, he’ll meet Hwa Saja soon. If he meets Hwa Saja, he’ll leave right away.”

“If we issue an arrest warrant, he’ll be caught soon.”

“Does it sound like he’ll be caught even after seeing Hwa Saja’s abilities? He won’t be caught. It’ll be hard for them to run away, but if we issue an arrest warrant, we’ll both lose.”

“Then what should we do?”

“We need to manage his movements so that he doesn’t meet Hwa Saja for the time being and think of a way.”

“Is that so?”

“Hwa Saja was looking for his scattered comrades. That blond comrade is the same. Then there’s a problem. Why are they looking for their comrades?”

“?”

“If it’s just to check whether they’re alive or dead, things will be easiest. We can formally offer them a job here. But if not? If those people with strange hair colors gather and try to do something separately? Then they won’t want to be here even if we offer them ten million gold.”

The close eunuch, who was not at the scene where Rembrary was treating the Empress Dowager, tilted his head at the sound of ten million gold.

He had heard that he was an excellent doctor who instantly relieved the Empress Dowager’s pain, but he wondered if it was enough to talk about ten million gold.

However, the Emperor, who had directly experienced and seen Rembrary’s unique abilities, thought that if he had that level of ability, it was worth keeping him by his side even if he gave him ten million gold.

“Then, what if Your Majesty helps them do what they’re trying to do first? Then give them a suitable position?”

“That would be fine too. But let’s talk about that later.”

The Emperor nodded and waved his hand to tell the eunuch to shut his mouth, and this time he asked the shadow guard who had entered the room earlier.

“So, the guy the Shaolin Temple monk [referring to a Buddhist monastery known for martial arts] brought is rampaging?”

The guard, who had been waiting anxiously because the Emperor was talking so calmly about the eunuch and the doctor, quickly replied.

“Yes. He’s carrying the monk on his back and rampaging, telling us to bring Your Majesty.”