Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 548

◈ 548. The Most Refined Ardor

“What are you talking about? Why is Rembrary here?”

Jo Ji-ho muttered, staring intently at the heads of the dinosaurs moving rapidly across the screen.

However, with all the similarly looking dinosaurs moving at such high speeds, it was just dizzying.

It was difficult to properly identify anyone on top of a dinosaur’s head.

“It’s even more amazing that someone could look at this and say it’s Rembrary.”

The cameraman grumbled, also trying to find the person on the dinosaur’s head.

“Oh, that! That’s it!”

Finally, the cameraman spotted a dinosaur and shouted.

On top of the most hyperactive dinosaur’s head, someone was actually sitting there.

“What is that?”

Jo Ji-ho, who had spotted it around the same time, mumbled blankly.

The person sitting on the most active dinosaur was, ironically, the most still.

The sight of them not moving at all, even as the dinosaur shook and moved, caught his eye once he noticed it.

“But… does that look like Rembrary to you?”

However, because of the fast speed and small screen, Jo Ji-ho couldn’t tell at all whether it was Rembrary or not.

The cameraman also shook his head.

“I don’t know. Are you talking about that healer, Rembrary? Wasn’t he blonde? This looks like brown hair. Why would you say it’s Rembrary?”

“He could just dye his hair.”

While the cameraman was readjusting the camera, Jo Ji-ho frowned at his own words.

“Rembrary dyed his hair and joined our project? Why?”

Before he could ask ‘why,’ a person came to mind.

The most noticeable person among the participants. The mullet summoner from the trio of celebrities who had completely covered their faces with masks, hats, and glasses. That guy had long brown hair like that.

Jo Ji-ho muttered in confusion.

“That bastard was Rembrary?”

* * *

However, no matter how flustered Jo Ji-ho was, he couldn’t have been as flustered as Gong Do-hyun.

Gong Do-hyun had no idea what was going on.

At first, he was just moving along normally. He kept following the brown hair and the mask that the brown hair called ‘senior.’

Then, suddenly, he started hearing the ground rumbling from over there.

Gong Do-hyun hesitated at the chilling sound, but the brown hair and the ‘senior’ didn’t stop and continued to talk.

“Is that Ardor?”

“Arrrrdorrr, isn’t it?”

Then, suddenly changing direction, the two of them ran towards the sound at the same time.

‘Where are they going?’ Gong Do-hyun cursed inwardly and ran after them.

The thought of catching the brown hair’s weakness had already vanished.

By the time he saw a group of dinosaurs in the direction the brown hair was running, his head had turned white.

“It’s dangerous! You’re going there? You’ll die!”

Gong Do-hyun shouted, but the brown hair kept running without even pretending to listen.

The ‘senior’ who saw the dinosaurs running hesitated and stopped, but the brown hair was like a bullet.

Gong Do-hyun stopped near the ‘senior’ and stared blankly as the brown hair disappeared into the running dinosaurs.

‘He shouldn’t be running like that. He’ll definitely get trampled to death if he gets caught in there.’

The thought occurred to Gong Do-hyun, and he glanced at the ‘senior.’ ‘Aren’t they going to stop him?’

Surprisingly, the ‘senior’ was calmly looking in one direction.

Gong Do-hyun turned his gaze back in that direction and found the brown hair on top of a dinosaur’s head.

“Aaaagh, what is that!”

Gong Do-hyun was so surprised that he fell on his butt. He stared blankly up at the brown hair and asked the ‘senior’ in dismay.

“W-what is that? What is that person? How did they get up there?”

Instead of answering the question, the ‘senior’ muttered something to himself. It sounded like he was saying, ‘Aish, that bastard.’

Wondering why he was doing that, Gong Do-hyun looked back at the brown hair and belatedly realized why the ‘senior’ was cursing.

The brown hair’s hat and mask were off.

It looked like he had gotten up there easily, but it seemed like it had been fierce enough to knock those off.

“Huh? That person?”

As he blankly looked at the face revealed by the mask, it was a face he had seen somewhere before. Where had he seen it?

His mind had been frozen in shock for a moment, but Gong Do-hyun belatedly recognized him and muttered.

“Rembrary…? That healer?”

Gong Do-hyun quickly turned pale. Rembrary was the reason he had volunteered for this project.

He was also the reason he had been hostile to the brown hair, even though the brown hair had helped him.

Gong Do-hyun realized he was screwed.

‘Wasn’t he being rude to Rembrary himself, trying to look good to someone who had connections with Rembrary?’

Rembrary might refuse to heal him because he was unpleasant.

He despaired and covered his face in anguish, then pleaded with the person Rembrary had been calling ‘senior’ all along.

“That person isn’t Rembrary, right? Please tell me he’s not!”

As he said that, he noticed that the ‘senior’ was also taking off his mask and sunglasses.

Wondering why he was doing that, Gong Do-hyun was shocked again. This one was definitely a celebrity. Actor Maeng Woo-shin.

However, he had heard them whispering among themselves on a site for hunters only, that these days he was following Rembrary around dungeons at the religious hunter company, Redrin.

Gong Do-hyun silently screamed. Seeing them together, it seemed certain that those two were Rembrary and Maeng Woo-shin.

‘Then the person called Arrrrdorrr… is that person… that crazy dog who communicates with guns?!’

Gong Do-hyun completely staggered.

Maeng Woo-shin was clicking his tongue and walking towards Rembrary.

“Seriously, that troublemaker.”

* * *

As Rembrary rode the dinosaur, he saw that people were already running away in droves.

“Everyone, it’s safe! Everyone’s okay!”

Rembrary shouted to stop people as he rode the dinosaur. However, everyone was too busy running away to hear him.

In fact, Rembrary’s pleas were drowned out by the sound of the dinosaurs running.

‘Should I use the Authority of God? No. If only the people stop, a major disaster will occur. That’s dangerous.’

Rembrary was deep in thought.

But even this sight was something the people busy running away couldn’t see.

The only ones who could see Rembrary’s serious appearance were those watching the situation through the camera.

Those watching the situation through the camera chuckled as they watched Rembrary on top of the dinosaur’s head, appearing and disappearing briefly in the camera’s view.

―That looks like Rembrary lol;;;

―Why is he there lololol

―I heard Rembrary was here and rushed over!!! Where is Rembrary?

―Rembrary fans are swarming lololol

Rembrary couldn’t check the chat window, so he didn’t know the atmosphere people were in.

In any case, there was still a lot of tension on the scene.

‘What do I do now.’

Rembrary thought, assuming that people would naturally calm down once the dinosaurs calmed down, and began to sing with divine power in his voice to stop the dinosaurs from running.

Fortunately, this time it worked on the dinosaurs.

As if hearing the faint, small sound, the eyelids covering their large eyes began to slow down, and eventually they began to nod off.

As the dinosaurs stopped one by one, succumbing to sleep, some people stopped running and turned their heads.

Rembrary even stroked the head of the leader dinosaur, who was desperately trying to break free from sleep.

When the leader dinosaur finally stopped completely, Rembrary slid down from its back to its tail.

Some people gasped when they saw that.

“Huh? That person?”

“He came down from the dinosaur’s head!”

Maeng Woo-shin finally arrived near Rembrary, stuck out his tongue, panted, and protested.

“You, seriously. You never tell me! Why are you suddenly riding a dinosaur?! Are you crazy?”

“It’s not like I rode it because it looked comfortable.”

“I didn’t even think that!”

“That dinosaur looked like the leader, senior. I thought if I controlled that dinosaur, the other dinosaurs would stop.”

“You ran the fastest!”

“Yes. It ran even faster when I rode it.”

In the meantime, some of the people who were running away regained their senses and discovered Rembrary.

The surroundings instantly began to buzz.

“Isn’t that Rembrary?”

“It’s Rembrary.”

“Maeng Woo-shin is next to him?”

* * *

Jo Ji-ho gnashed his teeth as he watched this scene on his phone.

He thought those three people wearing masks and covering their faces were celebrities. He didn’t know they were hunters as famous as celebrities.

“Isn’t this a scam?”

Jo Ji-ho was angry and huffed.

He was even more angry because those two weren’t on his side. Because he couldn’t even get any buzz.

‘If their identities had been revealed where I was, I would have just given up half of the project and pretended to cover those two.’

Here, there’s only Jo Ji-ho himself and one cameraman.

But there are many people over there, and even two of those who suddenly became famous since the Cataclysm [a world-altering event] appeared.

The cameraman asked awkwardly.

“Why is this a scam?”

“Why is it a scam? That Rembrary is the person who has cleared the most dungeons among Koreans, right?”

Jo Ji-ho suddenly thought it was unfair that Rembrary, who had already cleared the most dungeons, was participating in a project where amateurs gathered.

“This is a project where amateurs gather to play. Isn’t he crazy?”

“Really? But the project application conditions didn’t say only amateurs could come, right? Some of the participants are also named hunters.”

“Rembrary and Maeng Woo-shin aren’t just named hunters! They’re people who focus on clearing dungeons!”

A participant on Jo Ji-ho’s channel, who had been listening to this conversation, commented, ‘Isn’t Rembrary not a hunter?’ but Jo Ji-ho didn’t see it.

The cameraman stopped the huffing Jo Ji-ho and suggested.

“Stop getting angry. Let’s just go where we were going. Let’s go to Seon Ha-ri’s side.”

“What about the side where the dinosaurs appeared?”

“What good would it do for us to join in there now? We’d just steal the attention for no reason. Besides, we don’t know where that location is. Let’s go to a place we know.”

After the cameraman, who had come to a conclusion, properly held up the camera, Jo Ji-ho suppressed his dissatisfied feelings and started walking again.

“Hey, Ji-ho. There were three people wearing masks earlier, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Seeing that two of them are Rembrary and Maeng Woo-shin, doesn’t it seem like the other one is as famous as those two?”

“Probably.”

“Since there are only two people on that side, it looks like one person fell behind. Let’s find the one who fell behind. Looking at him, he seemed like the most refined person.”

“Could that person be Shin Jo-woon? Shin Jo-woon?”

“But where did that person go alone? If he was where there was a camera, there would be talk about him. There’s no talk about that person at all?”

* * *

At that time.

Ardor was alone, separated, chasing after the red devil, or rather, the illusion that looked exactly like Rembrary walking next to the red devil.

The red devil had nothing to show Ardor, so he kept running away, but Ardor chased after him like crazy.