Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 547

◈ 547. Someone’s Riding It!

The blue demon looked like it was about to devour the child.

Of course, it was an act. The demon looked awkward, and the child was nonchalant.

However, the person who followed Rembrary seemed to have fallen for it.

As soon as he thought the child was in danger, he cried out, “No!” and rushed forward in tears.

But after being bounced away by a single kick from the blue demon, he grabbed Rembrary and pleaded this time.

“Save the child! Why are you just standing there watching! Use that Mackerel ability or something!”

“Haven’t you often been told that you’re kind but clueless?”

“Is this the time for such talk?!”

“I wouldn’t have said it if it weren’t for this situation. I would have never known otherwise.”

“You wicked bastard!”

Rembrary was the one who got cursed, but the blue demon was the one who got hurt.

He was acting so hard on stage, but the only two audience members were like this. It hurt so much.

Fortunately, before the blue demon’s heart completely crumbled, another performer appeared.

A red demon appeared from somewhere.

“What is that…?”

The person who followed Rembrary muttered.

The red demon was twice as big as the blue demon and looked visually more threatening.

The person who followed Rembrary instinctively took a step back.

Without any features and completely red from head to toe, and twice as big as a normal adult, the red demon looked threatening even when standing still.

However, after appearing so threateningly, what the red demon did was smack the blue demon on the back of the head and snatch the child away.

“Stupid! Idiot! Bad!”

The blue demon, hit on the head, spouted artificial curses and quickly disappeared.

As soon as the blue demon disappeared, the child ran to the red demon and hugged it tightly.

“Oh, benefactor!”

At this point, even the clueless person who followed Rembrary seemed to realize something was strange, blinking his eyes blankly.

“What is that?”

But no one answered.

The red demon lifted the child up and stared at Rembrary intently.

The child also looked at Rembrary with an expectant expression.

The follower looked back and forth between Rembrary and the demon, then asked awkwardly.

“That demon is only looking at you?”

Instead of answering, Rembrary deliberately muttered aloud.

“I have no idea what you’re trying to show me.”

* * *

“You blockhead! Showing it so directly and you still can’t understand!”

Waryong, who had been watching the situation through the crystal ball, shouted while waving his fist.

The black dragon folded a paper airplane with the empty snack bag and said.

“See, I told you, showing him stuff like that is useless.”

“Then why? Why doesn’t he listen!”

“Because you guys lie a lot usually.”

“…….”

Waryong opened and closed his mouth, then annoyedly put his hands in his hair and ruffled it. It was true, so he couldn’t deny it.

The black dragon clicked his tongue again.

“He’s the type to just brush off whatever you show him. That’s why the Demon King put that device on the pillar.”

“But the Demon King also said it would be good if he could find his memories before the pillar collapses.”

“Because the Demon King will also be sealed if the pillar collapses. It’s a trap made while accepting that.”

“I don’t understand why he’d set a trap even while accepting that.”

Waryong snatched the paper airplane the black dragon made and threw it instead, asking.

“The guy who prophesied that the High Priest would become a Black Priest. Does he really have precognitive abilities?”

“He didn’t prophesy that he would become a Black Priest. He doesn’t know anything about the types of priests. He only said he saw him wearing black priest robes.”

* * *

‘What is that?’

Gong Do-hyun looked back and forth between the brown hair [referring to Rembrary’s hair color], the red demon, and the child, feeling confused.

The red demon kept looking at the brown hair, but the brown hair didn’t seem interested.

The child seemed to be in cahoots with the red demon and the blue demon.

But why weren’t the demons attacking the brown hair and just staring at him? And why was the brown hair just blankly looking at them?

Then, when the brown hair turned around and walked towards the group, Gong Do-hyun hesitated and followed him for now.

As he followed behind the brown hair, another question popped into Gong Do-hyun’s head.

‘But that kid from before. Doesn’t he look a lot like Rembrary from Redlin?’

* * *

While returning to the group after watching the demons’ clumsy play, Rembrary thought about the message the demons were trying to convey to him.

Waryong was disappointed that Rembrary didn’t seem to understand the play at all, but Rembrary understood what the demons were trying to express.

Wasn’t it something about how one of the demons saved the young Rembrary when he was in danger? Regardless of whether it was true or not.

However, Rembrary knew how well the demons lied and how cleverly they deceived others, so he didn’t believe their words as they were.

Besides, if he had such an experience, shouldn’t he remember it a little, even if it was when he was young? There was no such thing in Rembrary’s memory.

“Why are you coming so leisurely!”

Then, Rembrary completely broke away from the demons’ thoughts after hearing Maeng Woo-shin’s shout.

Looking towards the sound, Maeng Woo-shin was up in a tree.

“Senior, why are you up there?”

“Why do you think!”

“Did you find it?”

“No!”

“Liar.”

“Liar… Hey! Why are you concluding my feelings?”

“Then why did you go up there?”

“I avoided it! Those dinosaur-like monsters are coming in droves, so I avoided them!”

Maeng Woo-shin shouted in a very aggrieved voice.

The person who was following Rembrary without permission was startled by those words and asked.

“Come to think of it, where are the others? Why are you alone?”

“Who is that?”

Instead of answering, Maeng Woo-shin asked, and Rembrary shook his head.

Gong Do-hyun, who had been following Rembrary, bristled at those words and introduced himself.

“I’m Gong Do-hyun, who participated and was eliminated because of that person.”

However, even if Maeng Woo-shin heard the name, there was no way he would know who he was.

He had been aware that he was staring at him right behind him ever since Rembrary saved him, so he actually remembered his face.

Maeng Woo-shin frowned and came down from the tree.

“Where did the others go, Senior?”

When Rembrary asked the same question as Gong Do-hyun, Maeng Woo-shin finally answered.

“Everyone scattered.”

“Why?”

“What else could we do when dinosaurs were chasing us.”

“What about Arrr [likely referring to Ardor]?”

“No, he went in a different direction to find you.”

Gong Do-hyun tapped his ear, wondering what he had just heard.

He intentionally went in a different direction from the people being chased by dinosaurs?

However, Rembrary understood, thinking that Ardor was capable of doing that.

“Which direction did he go?”

“That way.”

“Let’s go too.”

Gong Do-hyun looked back and forth between Rembrary and Maeng Woo-shin, who were talking as casually as if they were in a neighborhood alleyway.

He was flustered. What are these celebrities? Are they not celebrities? Maybe they’re just hunters who came with their faces covered with masks?

* * *

―??? What’s going on? Where did all the participants go?

―Get out of here, Jo Ji-ho. We’re not trying to watch you!!!

―What, is the screen broken? Why is it only catching Jo Ji-ho?ㅠ

―Please remove Jo Ji-hoㅠ

―I’m watching with the Squid Potato channel, and there are still some people on the Squid Potato sideㅇㅇ If you want to see people, move over there

―헐 [Korean slang for “OMG” or “WTF”] Did everyone scatter?

―It’s a relief that they scattered without getting trampled

* * *

“Who do you think likes being eliminated?”

Jo Ji-ho checked the reactions of his channel viewers on his phone and cursed.

As a group of dinosaurs suddenly rushed in, the participants literally ran according to their instincts.

In the safest direction from their respective positions.

The only fortunate thing was that everyone who participated in this project had some confidence in their skills, so they scattered without being trampled by the dinosaurs.

However, as the host of a project with prize money, Jo Ji-ho was embarrassed by the situation where the participants were scattered.

“It’s going to be difficult to proceed like this.”

As Jo Ji-ho grumbled, the cameraman asked, trembling.

“Ah, damn it. What should we do? Are we the only ones who got separated?”

“No way. Everyone else must have fallen off too. There seemed to be quite a few people on the Squid Potato side. Wait. I’ll check the other kids’ channels.”

Jo Ji-ho anxiously picked up his phone again.

Like someone’s comment he saw earlier, when he went to the Squid Potato channel, quite a few people were caught on that camera.

“About half of half… seem to be on the Squid Potato side.”

“Ah, damn it. Didn’t they run in the opposite direction from us?”

Jo Ji-ho went to the other hosts’ channels one by one.

Fortunately, Packchup and Long Chacha seemed to be together, and even had many participants around them.

Seon Ha-ri was also separated, but the situation was not different from Jo Ji-ho’s.

The only difference was that there were two eliminated people together.

“I have to go to Ha-ri’s side.”

“Where is Seon Ha-ri?”

“It seems like she went back the way she came. I don’t know where the other kids are based on the background.”

Jo Ji-ho wrote ‘Going to Seon Ha-ri’s side’ in the group text room where the hosts were in, then took out his weapon and started walking.

Even so, he kept glancing at the comments on his phone with one hand.

This was because viewers started to post comments in real time, simultaneously showing the situation on other hosts’ channels in the comment window.

It was difficult for him to go back and forth between other host channels, so this was the next best thing.

“That brown-haired guy used a strange ability to save people earlier. Where did he go this time?”

“I saw him.”

“You saw him?”

“He was running in the direction the dinosaurs were running.”

“Crazy. Really? Why there?”

“I don’t know. Gong Do-hyun followed him after that. I don’t know why, but he did.”

“What about the other two celebrities?”

“I don’t know.”

Jo Ji-ho clicked his tongue and looked down at his phone.

The viewers were still informing him of the situation on other channels in real time.

The cameraman checked his watch and asked.

“It’s going to be sunset soon. What are people saying?”

“Nothing much. They’re just talking among themselves and saying the dinosaurs are coming.”

“Ah.”

The cameraman lowered his arm and looked at Jo Ji-ho in surprise, saying, “Huh?”

“What’s coming? Where?”

The cameraman stopped walking and urgently looked around. But there were no dinosaurs around them.

“Where are the dinosaurs? Are you not talking about us?”

Jo Ji-ho was walking without thinking, but was belatedly surprised by the cameraman’s actions and checked his phone screen again.

“I don’t know. Wait a minute.”

* * *

―Uh oh oh oh dinosaurs are coming dinosaurs are coming

―ㅅㅂ [Korean slang, similar to “WTF” or a stronger expletive] Dinosaurs are running behind you!!!!

―No, behind you behind behind behind! Not that behind, the other behind!

―Run!!!! Run!!!!

* * *

“What. Whose story is it? It seems like a very urgent situation? I don’t think it’s here? Whose side is it?”

Jo Ji-ho muttered in embarrassment.

“Why? What’s wrong?”

The cameraman also lowered the camera and came closer to look at the phone together.

People who stayed on Jo Ji-ho’s channel were all watching other channels and only chatting here, so even though the cameraman lowered the camera, no one pointed it out.

The chat window was only going up quickly.

[헐 [Korean slang for “OMG” or “WTF”] The dinosaurs are coming again]

[What to doㅠㅠ [Crying emoticons]]

[Run!!!]

[Crazy, one dinosaur is so fast;;]

[Why is it so fast]

[Ah no, I’m going to get caught Ah…]

[I’m going to get caught What to doㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ [Crying emoticons]]

What’s going on? Jo Ji-ho and the cameraman looked at each other and swallowed nervously.

Something bad must have happened on one of the channels.

Just as Jo Ji-ho was about to check the other channels one by one.

“Hey Ji-ho. What is that?”