Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 583

◈ 583. Woo Yeon-woo’s Decision

“Yeon-woo? Yeon-woo is in danger? Didn’t several members of Nakru go in with him?”

Rembrary asked, puzzled. He had heard that the Nakru executives were going as a group. Could there be any danger?

“And why is Nin-Ling involved?”

Woo Sung-woo’s expression darkened.

“I don’t know the exact details either, but it’s certain that their paladin attacked Yeon-woo. Yeon-woo was injured in the process, and their paladin was held responsible.”

‘I wondered why the demons were staying quiet.’

Rembrary clicked his tongue. Well, demons were demons, no matter what they looked like.

Even though the demons were showing old events to make it seem less threatening and allowing them to pass through less dangerous dungeons, who knew?

Ultimately, the stories themselves could be lies.

“Can you help?”

Woo Sung-woo asked anxiously.

Then, perhaps worried that the wall was too high for Rembrary to climb down, he awkwardly extended his hand.

“What’s with the hand? Are you telling me to step on it to get down?”

But contrary to his concern, Rembrary didn’t grab Woo Sung-woo and jumped straight down from the wall.

“You jump down well.”

Woo Sung-woo briefly admired Rembrary’s courage, who jumped down without hesitation from the considerably high wall.

“There’s almost nothing I can’t do.”

“Still as confident as ever.”

“Not as much as you, coming to me for help right away.”

“……”

Woo Sung-woo pursed his lips, but he couldn’t find anything to refute. It was true.

Instead, Woo Sung-woo turned in the direction they needed to go, changing the subject.

“It’s this way.”

“But why didn’t you go rescue him yourself, knowing it was dangerous? It doesn’t seem like you’d avoid it because it’s a hassle. If you couldn’t do anything else, you could have at least saved Woo Yeon-woo, couldn’t you?”

“Being stuck in a dungeon has more restrictions than you think.”

“Restrictions? What kind of restrictions?”

Rembrary recalled when he fought Shin Jo-woon before.

“It wouldn’t be a restriction that prevents you from fighting.”

“I can’t tell you all the rules.”

“You can’t tell me all of them? Sounds like there are several.”

“That emperor who resembles Shin Jo-woon, who came from another dimension…”

“Have you met him?”

“If he’s also in the dungeon, he probably can’t appear because of various restrictions.”

The car Woo Sung-woo had arrived in was parked not far away.

As Rembrary got into the passenger seat, Woo Sung-woo hurriedly started the car.

Rembrary noticed that Woo Sung-woo’s hand on the steering wheel was clenched tightly.

He seemed calm on the outside, but not at all on the inside.

“If it had been a fight, I would have found a way to stop it.”

“Huh?”

“Yeon-woo was injured before I could even step in, and I don’t have the ability to heal anyone.”

During the drive, Woo Sung-woo told him more details.

“Was Nin-Ling hurt?”

“When I saw her last, she wasn’t seriously injured yet, but since there are so few of us and I don’t know what will happen, I separated her for now. It seemed better to keep her away from the others.”

“So Nin-Ling is alone?”

“When I last saw her, yes.”

“Do you know how Nin-Ling ended up attacking Yeon-woo?”

“As I said before, I don’t know the exact details. Maybe she was seeing illusions. If she really intended to attack, she wouldn’t have cut Yeon-woo in front of so many people.”

She cut him with a sword?

“Nakru seems to have misunderstood that she was trying to attack Yeon-woo.”

While they were talking, the car arrived in front of a high wall. It was the wall surrounding District 1.

Rembrary, having spotted Gate 3, got out of the passenger seat and ran towards it.

Woo Sung-woo parked the car nearby and quickly approached him.

Rembrary, standing in front of the gate, belatedly asked, worried.

“But isn’t there more than one space connected to a gate? If I go inside now, will it lead to the space where Yeon-woo and Nin-Ling are?”

Recently, when Rembrary entered a dungeon, the demons were eager to show him his childhood.

He hadn’t tried it in Noir’s territory yet, but if Noir did the same, there was a high probability that he wouldn’t be able to go to the same space.

“I’ll hold the gate open.”

However, Woo Sung-woo said as if it wasn’t a problem and opened the gate with one hand.

“Nin-Ling and Yeon-woo are separate now, right?”

“Yes. Nakru has Yeon-woo.”

“Since Yeon-woo is injured, I’ll go to Yeon-woo. You go to Nin-Ling, explain the situation, and tell her to escape the dungeon alone and go home.”

Rembrary entered the domain.

After confirming that the gate was closing behind him, he looked around and saw a jungle-like place.

And thanks to Woo Sung-woo’s good adjustment of the arrival point, he could hear people’s voices not far away.

‘Is that Nakru? Are they all gathered together?’

Rembrary decided to go towards the sound.

‘There they are.’

As he got closer, it became clearer. The people gathered were indeed Nakru members.

The jungle ended and a meadow unfolded, and they were gathered there, with only one tent set up. Rembrary guessed that Woo Yeon-woo would be inside.

As Rembrary approached, the Nakru members, who were watching the surroundings, shouted, “Who’s there!” and drew their weapons.

“It’s me.”

As Rembrary got closer, they hesitated and lowered their hands.

“How did you get here…?”

Nakru asked Rembrary with a complex expression.

Since Nin-Ling, who was in the same camp as Rembrary, had attacked Woo Yeon-woo, and they had just attacked Nin-Ling in retaliation, they seemed cautious.

“I heard Yeon-woo is injured. Where is he?”

But as Nakru heard Rembrary mention Yeon-woo, they seemed to realize something and quickly led the way, saying,

“This way!”

Inside the tent, Woo Yeon-woo was lying on a makeshift bed.

Woo Yeon-woo’s condition seemed worse than he had expected. They seemed to have given him temporary treatment, but that was all it was.

His consciousness seemed a bit hazy, so Rembrary quickly approached, placed his hand near the wound, and poured out divine power.

Soon, Woo Yeon-woo opened his eyes.

“Rembrary?”

As soon as he opened his eyes, Woo Yeon-woo recognized Rembrary and called his name.

“Why are you here?”

Moreover, his memory seemed intact, as he looked at Rembrary and asked, puzzled.

“You didn’t come here with us, did you? Where’s Nin-Ling?”

However, before Rembrary could answer, the brown-haired executive who had brought Rembrary here stepped forward and gritted his teeth.

“That bastard stabbed you and ran away!”

Woo Yeon-woo frowned and said.

“I remember being stabbed. So where’s Nin-Ling?”

“Who knows! The bastard ran away on his own!”

The brown-haired man, who had been shouting, became a little quieter until another Nakru member entered the tent.

In any case, since Nin-Ling was also a Redrin [member of Rembrary’s religious group] and Rembrary was also a Redrin, they were wary of saying anything more recklessly.

“How is Yeon-woo?”

Then, when a red-haired hunter came in and asked about Woo Yeon-woo’s condition, the brown-haired man started cursing at Nin-Ling again.

While Yeon-woo was telling the red-haired hunter, “Rembrary healed me,” the brown-haired hunter seriously asked Rembrary.

“Rembrary, do you know why Yeon-woo is like this?”

“I heard Nin-Ling is involved.”

“That’s right. Nin-Ling suddenly disappeared, and Yeon-woo was worried and went looking for him. When he found him, Nin-Ling suddenly glared at him and stabbed him. Don’t even say it was a misunderstanding. We all saw it with our own eyes.”

The red-haired hunter listened to what the brown-haired hunter was saying and coldly added.

“Rembrary, aren’t you guys a religious group? That Nin-Ling person seems fundamentally immoral. If you keep him in your religion, your image will be tarnished.”

“Yeah, it’s better to kick him out.”

Listening to the stories of the two Nakru hunters, Rembrary wiped the blood on his hand on the hem of the brown-haired man’s clothes.

The brown-haired man, unaware of this, continued to persuade him seriously, and after finishing his words, he asked Rembrary.

“What do you think?”

Rembrary, who had been listening absentmindedly, looked at Woo Yeon-woo.

Woo Yeon-woo was looking down with a vague expression at the area between his chest and stomach where he had been injured.

Rembrary answered honestly.

“If I were to use morality as the standard for who I heal, there wouldn’t be anyone in Nakru who could receive my healing.”

“!”

Then, as Rembrary went out of the tent, the red-haired man followed him, grumbling.

Rembrary listened casually, and when he saw one of the Nakru executives trimming a placard with Woo Sung-woo’s name on it, he told them.

“Stop grumbling. Woo Sung-woo isn’t here, so you guys should just escape the dungeon quickly.”

“How do you know that?”

“How else would I know to come here at this timing? Woo Sung-woo asked me to save his brother.”

“Really?”

Woo Yeon-woo, who had recovered and followed Rembrary out of the tent, asked urgently.

“Did you meet my brother?”

Rembrary nodded and looked towards the jungle where he had first entered.

“I’ll go separately from that side, so you guys get out on your own.”

* * *

After Rembrary left alone.

As they packed up the tent and prepared to move again, the Nakru executives began to whisper among themselves.

The content was that Shin Jo-woon wasn’t the problem, but Woo Sung-woo was the problem from the beginning, and that Woo Sung-woo might have simply changed his mind, contrary to their expectations.

They would stop talking and switch to another topic when Woo Yeon-woo came near, but Woo Yeon-woo was very perceptive in these matters.

Woo Yeon-woo became a little uneasy because of what they were saying about Woo Sung-woo.

He was a little disappointed that Woo Sung-woo hadn’t appeared in front of him again, but since he had tried to save him, he was more worried about the atmosphere of the Nakru executives.

Meanwhile, Rembrary quickly escaped the dungeon alone and returned to his home.

Perhaps because Woo Sung-woo, who had driven him to the dungeon, had disappeared, and he had to call Jang Tae-ri to get a ride, it took some time. When he arrived home, Nin-Ling had already returned.

Nin-Ling was sitting on the sofa, dejected, and stood up when he saw Rembrary.

“High Priest.”

Rembrary went to sit opposite Nin-Ling and asked.

“What happened? I heard you stabbed Yeon-woo. You’re not someone who would stab anyone recklessly.”

“I think I was affected by an illusion. In my eyes, Woo Yeon-woo didn’t look like Woo Yeon-woo.”

Rembrary clicked his tongue.

“Woo Sung-woo said you seemed to be affected by an illusion, and it seems that’s the case. The Nakru people must be stupid. If you suddenly acted strangely, they should have at least assessed the situation, instead of suspecting you unconditionally.”

Then, as he was about to comfort Nin-Ling, he noticed Nin-Ling’s expression was not good. It was because he knew why Nakru had acted that way.

The Nakru people had noticed the strange atmosphere between him and Woo Yeon-woo early on.

To be precise, his suspicion of Woo Yeon-woo.

“Why is that?”

Rembrary asked, but Nin-Ling couldn’t answer.

He thought that if he talked about this, Rembrary’s position would become difficult.

Rembrary was not the type to pry into what someone was hiding, so when Nin-Ling avoided answering, he thought, ‘Something else must have happened,’ but didn’t ask any further.

At that moment, someone rang the bell.

Nin-Ling quickly ran to the front door, and when he opened it, Woo Yeon-woo was standing in front of him.

To the stiff Nin-Ling, Woo Yeon-woo said with a tense face.

“I want to talk to you alone for a moment.”