Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 565

◈ 565. Because I Made a Mistake

The most concerning one was the suspicious-looking Number 3.

‘A lie game?’

Just looking at it, I couldn’t tell what kind of game it was. Does the best liar win? Or does the person who doesn’t lie win?

‘In any case, that lie game. If I use it well, I might be able to get some useful information.’

Rembrary made a decision and chose Number 3.

“Let’s do the lie game.”

Noir stopped as if he was about to say something, then asked with a strange smile.

“Do humans know that game too?”

‘Ah. The choices are only visible to me.’

Rembrary realized he had spoken too quickly. Noir hadn’t suggested the game yet.

The choices just popped up before he suggested the game.

“Don’t you want to?”

Anyway, let’s push forward. Noir shrugged and grinned.

“I don’t mind, little one. I’m very good at this game.”

“How do you play it?”

“You were the one who wanted to play it first.”

“I’ve only heard the name.”

“Why did you want to do it if you don’t know?”

“It looked fun.”

“Here.”

Instead of questioning further, Noir handed something to Rembrary. It looked just like a trap.

“Is that a trap?”

“Yes.”

“Why are you taking it out? Do you want me to help you put your hand in it?”

At Rembrary’s question, Noir smiled and placed the trap in front of himself and Rembrary.

“We’re both going to use it.”

“How?”

“We’ll put our hands on both ends. If you lie, your fingers get cut off. If you don’t want to lose your fingers, tell the truth. Easy, right? The person who loses all their fingers first loses.”

“Ah. Easy.”

The method was easy. Just brutal.

However, the demons watching were horrified by Rembrary’s immediate reach for the trap.

Warrion smacked Noir on the back of the head, and Clotte snatched the trap away, yelling.

“Let’s play hide-and-seek!”

Noir didn’t really have a reason to play this game with Rembrary, so he immediately agreed.

“Then let’s do that.”

In the end, Rembrary was going to play hide-and-seek against his will.

‘Hide-and-seek doesn’t seem to be related to the mission.’

But there was nothing he could do now. If he insisted on playing a finger-cutting game here, it would be even stranger.

Rembrary reluctantly nodded and asked.

“Do we just play hide-and-seek? Are there no rules?”

“Going to the castle next door is too big, so we won’t be able to find you even after a few days, so hide only inside the mansion. And the time to hide is 30 minutes. The time I use to find you is also 30 minutes. Got it?”

“Got it.”

* * *

For some reason, Noir naturally took on the role of the seeker. Rembrary wandered around the hallway, thinking.

If this situation really happened in the past, where would the young me have hidden?

The answer came soon.

‘The Demon King’s room.’

Rembrary immediately ran to that room. Since it was an illusion, he didn’t knock.

Fortunately, even the illusionary Demon King wasn’t in the room.

‘Let’s go in there.’

Rembrary walked to the Demon King’s flower bed he had seen before, dug a hole, went inside, and covered the flowers back on top.

The bed was big and his body was small, so it was possible to hide his entire body.

Rembrary lay there, blinking blankly, then frowned at the suffocating rose scent coming from all directions.

Does the Demon King really like this kind of bed?

At that moment.

—Can you promise?

Rembrary recalled a voice.

‘What does that mean? Promise?’

* * *

“Oh, it’s Woo Yeon-woo.”

“It’s Woo Yeon-woo!”

When Woo Yeon-woo went to Rembrary’s house, two children were playing in the garden, making something out of dirt, and whispered.

‘What? Who is that kid making the castle?’

Woo Yeon-woo was taken aback when he saw that one of the dirt sculptures the children made was particularly outstanding, but he thought that this wasn’t the time and waved his hand, saying, “Hello,” and quickly entered the house.

Since he has been visiting the house often these days to meet Nin-ling, the children greeted him back without feeling awkward and started playing with dirt again.

“You’re here again today?”

Nin-ling was watching TV on the sofa, and when Woo Yeon-woo came in, she exclaimed and smiled.

“I asked if you had time and you said yes.”

“Still, I thought you’d start faking sick and not come.”

“Why do you think that?”

“Haha, well, Woo Yeon-woo is used to faking sick… I’m going.”

Watching Nin-ling get up, Woo Yeon-woo was shocked that the story of him often faking sick had reached even here.

‘Who told her? Was it Rembrary?’

It must be Rembrary. Because Rembrary is the type of person who can tell such stories with a harmless smile.

While grumbling inwardly, Woo Yeon-woo followed Nin-ling out of the house.

As they walked along the road, five hunters hired by the kindergarten were seen moving while looking around, taking care of the children lined up like chicks.

The children were just innocently laughing and chatting, but the five hunters were on guard, not knowing what might happen from where.

Woo Yeon-woo sighed as he looked at the unfamiliar but gradually familiar scenery.

“Will the world be a little more stable by the time they all grow up?”

“I hope so.”

Woo Yeon-woo suddenly thought about what happened to the children in Rembrary’s original world.

He didn’t care before. When he thought about it, he didn’t see many children from Rembrary’s world even after coming here.

But can he ask about this?

Woo Yeon-woo glanced at Nin-ling, and when he thought that it would take about 10 more minutes to walk to the place where they always trained, he carefully opened his mouth.

“Um, but.”

“Yes.”

“There are quite a few people who immigrated here from that world, right?”

Woo Yeon-woo quickly changed his words because he didn’t know if it was a lot or a little when he tried to express it as ‘many’.

Nin-ling was walking peacefully, then glanced to the side with a face that said, ‘What are you talking about?’

Woo Yeon-woo thought he was rambling and continued to speak.

“Well, there are people Rembrary rescued from the lab, and besides that, there, there, that Great Lord and those hunters are going around looking for them.”

“Ah, yes.”

Nin-ling raised her eyebrows, but Woo Yeon-woo found it difficult to know what that meant.

Is she thinking, ‘Do you even know that?’ Or is she thinking, ‘Why are you curious about that?’

Woo Yeon-woo wanted to slap himself. Why did he bring this up? He wanted to punch himself in the head a few times.

But after seeing the children lined up, he remembered the children he had seen when he was in Rembrary’s body and was captured by the demons, when the demons forced him to walk around the village.

At the time, he was too busy taking care of his own safety to spare any attention to those children, and he was just scared, hated, and disliked that the situation had turned out like this.

He hardly had the energy to care about other people, not just the children. In the meantime, that human Nin-ling kept trying to kill him.

But strangely, when he saw those children, he vaguely remembered those children he had seen. Just wondering if they were doing well.

“But I don’t think I’ve seen many children. There were a lot of children there too.”

Surely. They didn’t just leave the children behind, did they? No, when he thought about it, he hardly saw any old people either.

‘Of course, there’s no need to show them to me, so they might be keeping them without showing them.’

Woo Yeon-woo glanced at Nin-ling while thinking inwardly, and when he saw that Nin-ling’s expression wasn’t good, he thought he should have shut up earlier.

Even if it was strange to interrupt in the middle, he shouldn’t have asked any more.

When Nin-ling met Woo Yeon-woo’s eyes, she forced a smile and said.

“Ah. Sorry. It’s not a very good topic.”

“No… I won’t ask…”

“They are scattered when crossing dimensions. And since the timing of coming out of that shield is different, the time zones are all different when they come to their senses.”

“!”

“So we……”

Nin-ling seemed to say something more, but when the two arrived at the empty lot where they always trained, she smiled and cut off the conversation.

“We’re here?”

“Yes? Ah. Yes.”

Because the words were cut off at such a perfect point, Woo Yeon-woo became curious about the rest of the story. So what? What are you going to do?

But since he was in a position where he felt guilty, he couldn’t really ask about the rest.

“I’m impressed that you keep coming.”

Regardless, Nin-ling calmly went to a place a little away from Woo Yeon-woo and took out her weapon.

Should he ask Rembrary later? He immigrated very early, so he probably doesn’t know anything.

Woo Yeon-woo thought inwardly, took a stance, and faced Nin-ling.

“I have to work hard. To be helpful… and save my brother.”

Woo Yeon-woo muttered like that and looked at Nin-ling’s legs. It was to check which direction the opponent would fly in.

At first, Nin-ling told him to look at the eyes first to read the opponent’s movements, but when Woo Yeon-woo found it difficult to check even the movement of the pupils during battle, she corrected him to look at the feet. Since then, he has always looked at his feet when entering training.

Thanks to Woo Yeon-woo’s request to do training as close to real combat as possible, Nin-ling was giving him a scary opponent closer to real combat than the other Nakru members.

Woo Yeon-woo had to use his ability to make him drop his weapon while skillfully avoiding Nin-ling’s continuous attacks.

Finally, Nin-ling popped out from one direction, and Woo Yeon-woo wrote letters in the air with his fingers while trying to avoid his attack, took a direction, and ran with him.

Since Nin-ling was using a sword, he shouldn’t get too close. Of course, even if he doesn’t try to get close, Nin-ling comes running.

Woo Yeon-woo, who had taken refuge behind a pile of unidentified rubble, brightened up when he thought he had written almost all of Nin-ling’s characteristics without interruption.

He had never taken a weapon from Nin-ling since he started training like a real battle. Maybe he can finally subdue him today.

Thinking that, Woo Yeon-woo, who was trying to avoid the spot again, was cut on the cheek by a dagger that flew from somewhere and fell to the side.

‘Blood?’

As a result, the writing was cut off.

Woo Yeon-woo sat down and touched his cheek, and when blood came out on his palm, he was surprised and looked ahead.

“Couldn’t you avoid it?”

Nin-ling was looking at him as if he was sorry.

“Why a dagger…”

Didn’t he always use a sword? As Woo Yeon-woo mumbled blankly, Nin-ling took out another dagger and smiled.

“In real combat, you try to suppress your opponent by using all sorts of methods. A dagger can fly, and a stone can fly.”

The words sounded plausible. The words sounded plausible, but…….

Woo Yeon-woo swallowed dryly. That person. Why are his eyes so cold?