Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 494

◈ 494. He’s Back

Lumina’s eyes widened to the size of chestnuts as she rushed towards Rembrary at an incredible speed, grabbing both of his hands.

Rembrary, forced into a ‘hands up’ position, stared blankly at Lumina.

“Lumina-nim?”

Lumina released Rembrary’s hands but quickly took one of them again.

In her hand, she held a half-torn flower petal. Lumina’s eyes trembled as she looked at it.

*I really… really nurtured it so carefully.*

*I raised it gently in my hands, hoping it wouldn’t hurt this time, only seeing good things and receiving love…*

Lumina looked at Rembrary with mixed feelings. Well, it was always like this.

He didn’t mean to, but he always hurt Lapsus, whether in the past or now. Last time it was the heart, this time the body.

“Lumina-nim?”

As Rembrary asked with a gentle smile, Lumina sighed and placed the torn half of the petal back in its original spot, instructing.

“Put it back.”

“Wasn’t it torn prettily?”

“Put it back. And don’t tear it prettily either.”

“I will. But why?”

“This child is Lapsus.”

“Cock-a-doodle-doo?”

Rembrary looked at the white camellia in surprise and quickly put the petal back in place.

Then, he gently stroked the flower’s head and said softly.

“This form is beautiful.”

He seemed to be praising it in his own way, but Lapsus was already furious, trying his best to avoid Rembrary’s touch.

“But Lumina-nim, if I take a cutting of Lapsus and propagate it, is that Lapsus or Lapsus’s child?”

“I don’t know. But either way, I would never entrust my child to you.”

“Lumina-nim cherishes Lapsus.”

Lumina smiled gently and cursed at Redrin.

[Take your troublemaker away quickly, you bastard.]

As if waiting for the curse, Redrin responded immediately.

[You’re always urging me. What would you do without me, since you can’t do anything on your own?]

How could the laughter that followed those words be so infuriating?

Lumina felt a surge of anger towards both the god and the high priest.

However, knowing that the more she talked to Redrin, the more exhausted she became, Lumina didn’t argue but said again in a tired tone.

[Take the kids away.]

As soon as Redrin agreed, Lumina beckoned Rembrary to come over.

She gathered all the companions who were resting inside the room.

Everyone stood in the small front yard with slightly nervous faces.

Having experienced crossing dimensions more than once, they seemed concerned about various things before the big event.

Lumina, recalling how they had scattered when they came here, advised them.

“Hold hands and go together. Just in case.”

Shin Jo-woon, who had carried Rembrary across dimensions, thought it wouldn’t be of any use, but still grabbed the two people next to him tightly, just in case.

Lumina glanced at them one by one and then called Redrin again.

[Take them away safely. Everyone has suffered a lot here.]

Soon, a gap like a crack appeared in the air, barely wide enough for an adult to pass through.

Knowing that making the rift too large would affect this world, she deliberately made it small.

Lumina glanced at the humans and the grim reaper who were holding each other’s arms tightly at her command and changed her words.

“You’ll have to let go of hands to go.”

* * *

Rembrary volunteered to enter the rift first.

Of course, Shin Jo-woon, Sa Gam-jae, Mullu, and Ardor also offered to go first, but Lumina thought for a moment and sent Rembrary in first.

Rembrary has strong healing powers, so even if something goes wrong inside, he can at least save his own life.

But the others, even if their attack abilities were stronger than Rembrary’s, would be finished if they got hurt.

With three gods stepping in to help only six people cross dimensions, and two of the gods having experience opening and closing dimensions twice,

It would be as safe as it could be, but it was better to find the safest path among them.

Rembrary tried not to lose consciousness this time as he crossed the rift.

He deliberately widened his eyes and concentrated.

When he first crossed the rift, a space appeared that was indistinguishable as dark or bright, but soon that space began to transform into light.

As the bright light faded inward, the silhouettes of objects began to appear.

Among them, Rembrary spotted the shape of a person, a person sitting down, and smiled brightly, throwing himself towards them.

Then, that figure quickly opened its arms to receive Rembrary.

“?”

“!”

However, the friendly atmosphere was immediately shattered as Rembrary’s vision cleared.

“Why are you sitting in my way?”

The person Rembrary had jumped on was Yeomra [King of Hell]. Yeomra also muttered awkwardly.

“I thought Gam-jae was coming.”

From Yeomra’s perspective, a rift appeared and something popped out of it, and when he grabbed it, it turned out to be Rembrary.

Yeomra quickly put Rembrary aside and looked at the rift again, but the rift immediately closed.

Rembrary almost fell but caught his balance and sighed.

At least this time, he landed in front of a familiar face, which was fortunate.

*‘I thought Redrin-nim would welcome me.’*

* * *

Redrin was preparing to welcome Rembrary in his own way.

Lumina had spoken to Redrin when she sent Rembrary in first, and Rembrary also shouted for Redrin as he went first.

With one god and one high priest shouting so enthusiastically, there was no way he couldn’t hear them.

Redrin even waited in front of the rift to catch his most beloved child.

Then, as soon as he saw the shape of a human beyond the rift, he quickly reached out and grabbed it.

But when he smiled brightly, what came out was a human wearing a lion mask.

Redrin’s expression immediately hardened. But there was no time to ask where Rembrary had gone and why he had come.

The Fire Lion was bewildered and looked around, and as soon as he spotted Redrin, he immediately recognized him and hurriedly bowed three times.

Then, he teleported away, and before Redrin knew it, there was no one in front of him.

Even the rift was now closed.

Redrin sighed and thought that Lumina was always clumsy.

* * *

Jang Tae-ri was struggling to open the doorknob with a cell phone in one hand and a thick stack of documents in the other.

-You haven’t heard from him either?

“Yeah. I’m telling you, I haven’t heard anything. Rembrary hasn’t contacted me, and Shin Jo-woon hasn’t either.”

Her secretary was nearby, but the secretary was holding an even larger stack of documents precariously, so she couldn’t open the door for her.

“Oh, really. Why is this like this.”

-Me? Were you being insensitive when I asked?

“Not you.”

After failing to turn the doorknob several times, Jang Tae-ri complained over the phone.

“Anyway, that Shin guy, after hearing the sound of anchovy, anchovy, must have thought he was a real anchovy. Did he go to the sea? I can’t get in touch with him at all. Rembrary has disappeared too. I’m worried that something might have happened to them in a dangerous place.”

-Jang Tae-ri? Do you miss Shin Jo-woon?

“Wouldn’t I miss him? I’m worried. That guy who was always slick—”

Jang Tae-ri pondered whether to hang up the phone, put down the documents and open the door, or kick the door, and tried to push the doorknob with her elbow for the last time.

At that moment. Before her arm even touched the doorknob, the doorknob went down on its own and the door slid open.

Jang Tae-ri stumbled for a moment, straightened her body, and was startled.

“Did you miss me?”

The person who opened the door was her childhood friend, Shin Jo-woon. The Shin guy she had just been cursing.

As Jang Tae-ri stared in surprise with her mouth open, Shin Jo-woon smiled mischievously and completely removed the hair tie that Jang Tae-ri had tied loosely, as if it were about to fall out.

As the hair that had been tied together flowed down, Shin Jo-woon smiled and held out the rubber band hanging on his finger.

“I missed you.”

Jang Tae-ri blankly took the rubber band and looked at Shin Jo-woon for a moment, then reached out and tapped his forehead and shoulders, and tapped his feet with her foot.

Finally, confirming that Shin Jo-woon was really in front of her, she became furious, twisted the rubber band on her finger, and shot it at Shin Jo-woon’s forehead.

“Ah.”

He didn’t put it down gently, so it didn’t hurt, but as Shin Jo-woon grabbed his forehead and pretended to be in pain, Jang Tae-ri became even more furious and hit his back with the stack of documents she was holding.

“You! Idiot! Where! Did you! Go! Go! Back! Go! Back!”

With each short syllable she cut off, she swung the documents, not hard enough to hurt, and each time Shin Jo-woon was hit by the documents, valuable reports fluttered down.

The secretary hurriedly picked up the falling documents and chased after Jang Tae-ri.

Shin Jo-woon had been pushed all the way to the window in the meantime.

Only then did Jang Tae-ri put the documents on the desk and glare at him.

She had an angry face, but tears were welling up in her eyes. Seeing that, Shin Jo-woon took out a handkerchief and brought it to her nose.

“You’re going to have a runny nose.”

“You!”

“You get a runny nose when you cry, Jang Tae-ri.”

“Get lost!”

Only after Shin Jo-woon left did Jang Tae-ri huff and puff, then quickly call Shin Jo-woon’s mother and his butler to tell them that Shin Jo-woon had appeared.

In the meantime, Jang Tae-ri’s secretary wondered how Shin Jo-woon had gotten in here.

The door here locks automatically when the president is away? Isn’t it a high floor where you can’t even enter through the window?

* * *

Shin Jo-woon thought he was lucky this time as he left Jang Tae-ri’s office.

Last time he went to that strange world, he had to start from a towering high-rise house without an elevator, so getting down was a problem.

But this time it was a proper company with an elevator, and even his friend Jang Tae-ri’s office.

Not a stranger’s office.

*‘Everyone else must have arrived too.’*

However, since he doesn’t have a cell phone and there’s no guarantee that everyone came nearby, it will take a day if it’s short, and four days if it’s long, for everyone to get in touch.

*‘Then I’ll check the contacts tomorrow.’*

Shin Jo-woon pondered whether to go to the company or go home first, but decided to go home first.

* * *

Shin Jo-woon was lucky, but there was someone who was even luckier than him. It was Mullu.

“My sister appeared in the air!”

“My sister appeared from the sky!”

When Mullu arrived, it was home.

That house that Shin Jo-woon lent to Rembrary.

In the living room, Joo-kyung and Si-young, Shin-do 305, and Nin-ling were eating bibim noodles [spicy Korean noodles], and Mullu suddenly fell near them.

The two children were excited and jumped at Mullu.

“Team leader!”

Nin-ling followed behind them.

Mullu was surprised to see that Joo-young was a hand taller than before and asked Nin-ling.

“How much time has passed? The child has grown a lot.”

That sinking feeling quickly stabilized when she saw Si-young, who appeared next.

“It hasn’t been long.”

Seeing that Si-young hadn’t grown at all, it was clear that Joo-young had just grown taller.

“It hasn’t been a year yet.”

Watching Mullu stroke Si-young’s hair in relief, Nin-ling asked worriedly.

“But team leader, what about the High Priest?”

* * *