Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 612

◈ 612. Three Voices

“What are the two that came true?”

“One is the Kim Murok phone incident.”

“And?”

“…….”

“And? Why are you stopping there?”

“Anchovy. Did you go dream?” [A playful way of asking if someone is spacing out or not paying attention.]

Rembrary waved his hand in front of Shin Jo-woon, who had stopped talking.

Shin Jo-woon’s eyes shifted to the side. It was a clear sign that he didn’t want to tell.

Rembrary noticed it, but continued to ask.

“Anchovy. What’s the second one? Tell me.”

After repeating that, Shin Jo-woon tilted his head and asked in a warning tone.

“Weren’t you the type to not pry into things others don’t want to talk about?”

“I want to hear it now.”

When Rembrary said firmly, Shin Jo-woon eventually had no choice but to tell him.

“It was a prophecy that I would become a burden and be abandoned by you.”

“Ah. I was wondering what it was.”

Rembrary laughed blandly.

“Doesn’t it seem like that prophecy hasn’t come true either?”

Shin Jo-woon looked at him with eyes that seemed to ask, ‘Are you serious?’ but Rembrary didn’t seem to be joking.

He seemed to have completely erased from his mind that he had called Shin Jo-woon a burden.

Since there was no need to remind him of that memory, Shin Jo-woon changed the subject instead of continuing the story.

“Anyway, there’s one prophecy left. But it’s even stranger.”

“What is it?”

“It said someone with orange hair would grab you by the collar.”

Rembrary stared blankly at Shin Jo-woon before asking.

“Who is someone with orange hair?”

Shin Jo-woon frowned and said.

“I don’t know either. That’s just what I heard. You? Does anyone come to mind?”

“No one comes to mind. I just think oranges and tangerines would be delicious.”

“Can’t you think of anyone, even a little bit?”

“No.”

Shin Jo-woon’s expression turned serious at Rembrary’s firm answer.

It was then that Mullu, who had been walking slowly, brought a water cup to the water purifier and subtly interjected, just as Rembrary was about to ask if there was anything else.

“High Priest. The Northern High Priest’s hair is close to orange.”

Rembrary was silent before picking up a piece of pizza.

‘I forgot.’

‘You forgot.’

Mullu and Shin Jo-woon thought at the same time, but didn’t bother to say it out loud.

Instead, Shin Jo-woon asked Mullu directly.

“Is the Northern High Priest on bad terms with Rembrary?”

“They weren’t even on terms to be good or bad.”

Shin Jo-woon looked at Rembrary.

Rembrary was chewing the pizza he had picked up, trying hard to recall the Northern High Priest’s appearance.

Mullu, who glanced at the sight, subtly defended Rembrary.

“I only said that because the Northern High Priest was the first one that came to mind. Orange hair isn’t that rare in our world. It could be someone else.”

Mullu, holding the water cup, looked back and forth between Rembrary and Shin Jo-woon before subtly leaving the spot again.

Rembrary finished putting the pizza in his mouth and shrugged.

“If someone with orange hair appears and grabs me by the collar, I’ll let you know.”

Shin Jo-woon brought up the topic carefully, but the other side didn’t seem to take it as urgently.

Shin Jo-woon was about to urge him, but he remembered that Rembrary was like that even at the moment he sacrificed himself and jumped across dimensions, and swallowed the words that were about to come out.

If the other person was Rembrary, it was better to shout out the precautions next to him and jump along, rather than giving advice or warnings.

In the end, Shin Jo-woon gave up on advice or warnings and brought up another topic he had prepared in advance.

“Ah, and Pig. You don’t go into dungeons these days, do you?”

“I’m still thinking about it.”

“That’s good. Then go do some volunteer work.”

Rembrary picked up another piece of pizza, put strength in his neck, and looked at Shin Jo-woon with a sullen expression.

“Volunteer work all of a sudden?”

“Why? Are you busy? Do you have other things to do?”

“I’m not busy. And I don’t want to be busy for a while. But if I have to go somewhere, I’ll become busy.”

“I thought saints would like volunteer work.”

“That’s a prejudice.”

“You don’t seem like a saint when I see you like this.”

Shin Jo-woon took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over. It was a Worldboom business card, but it didn’t have Shin Jo-woon’s name on it.

“Why are you handing me someone else’s business card?”

“I want you to go with this person. Your image has become a bit strange because of the Kim Murok case. Go do some volunteer work. It’s not just any volunteer work, it’s a government-run recovery project.”

“Recovery project?”

“We can’t just divide ourselves into urban and non-urban areas forever.”

Rembrary picked up the business card Shin Jo-woon had put down.

Seeing that it said President’s Secretary, it seemed to be Shin Jo-woon’s secretary’s business card.

“If it’s a government project, shouldn’t Nakru go? Nakru heard a prophecy that I might side with the demons, so they’ll be hostile to me.”

“Large hunter companies like us have been helping with recovery projects as volunteer work, though not as much as Nakru. It’s not just this time, we’ve always been going, so it won’t look like we’re just showing off. Just go along.”

Rembrary put down the business card with an unwilling face.

“Will the rumors die down if I go here?”

“The rumors won’t die down, but everyone will see again how precious you are.”

Rembrary smiled contentedly.

“That’s right. I’m precious. Valuable. Admirable. You know that well.”

Shin Jo-woon tried hard to manage his expression.

* * *

“Hello, Mr. Rembrary! Please take good care of me today!”

Two days later. Shin Jo-woon’s secretary came directly to Rembrary’s house in a good school district, and Rembrary took that car to the place where he was supposed to do volunteer work.

“I don’t really have a name to call it, so I call it volunteer work. It’s just government cooperation? Something like that.”

The secretary checked Rembrary’s condition from time to time while driving the car, and told him various stories. She seemed like a very bright person.

“Please feel free to ask if you have any other questions.”

“How many secretaries does Jo-woon have in total?”

“Huh? Is that what you’re curious about?”

“I saw Jo-woon’s secretary before. It seemed like a different person from you.”

“Ah, did you see the chief?”

“I don’t know, but it was someone who had been there since the entertainment agency.”

“Ah, that’s right, that person is the chief. There are five more people under him, including me.”

While exchanging conversation, the car exited onto the highway and quickly drove a long distance.

Monsters could be seen popping out from the outskirts from time to time, but the secretary skillfully moved the steering wheel to avoid being swept away by them.

How long had they been driving? Just as he was dozing off, he heard the secretary say, “We’ve arrived.”

Rembrary opened his eyes and saw a yellow field beyond the window.

It was a place where the highway could be seen in the distance, and on the other side, houses with colorful roofs were gathered.

“Is this the place?”

“Yes. It says we have to walk from here.”

Rembrary followed Shin Jo-woon’s secretary along the path between the fields and entered the village.

The village scenery was relatively similar to before the upheaval, so it looked quite peaceful.

Rembrary looked around and asked.

“Is this the right place to do recovery work?”

He thought there would be many people gathered because it was a recovery project. The village seemed empty.

The secretary checked the text message and replied.

“Yes. It says this is the right place. They don’t have the capacity to deal with places that have been severely damaged or where too many monsters appear yet. They’re deliberately working on the less damaged areas first.”

“Is this a non-urban area?”

“It’s too small to be called a non-urban area. They’re just living in village units, and passing hunters come and go to take care of the monsters… that’s what it says.”

While talking, the two completely entered the village.

As soon as they entered the village, traces of people that were not visible from the outside could be seen here and there.

“It says they’re in the community center. I wonder where the community center is?”

The secretary muttered and looked around. Rembrary also looked around.

Finally, someone came into the eyes of the two. It was a man in a suit, with a long spear on his back.

Rembrary recognized him. It was Nakru, whom he had seen when he was in Woo Yeon-woo’s body before.

“That guy. It’s Nakru.”

“Huh? Do you know him?”

“I don’t know his name, but he’s been using a spear since before.”

The man also saw Rembrary and the secretary, and quickly walked towards them while looking at his cell phone.

He wondered if a fight would break out, but the secretary immediately reached out her hand and introduced herself kindly when the man came.

“I’m Yoon Seo-hwa from Worldboom. This is Mr. Rembrary, who came to help this time.”

The man looked back and forth between Secretary Yoon and Rembrary before slowly reaching out his hand.

“I’m Un Doo-shin, the leader of Nakru Team C.”

* * *

The reason why there weren’t many people in the village, even though it was a national restoration project, was because most of them were inside the community center.

“Originally, they were gathered outside, but a black cloud phenomenon appeared in this area. Everyone went indoors to avoid it.”

Even while explaining, Un Doo-shin kept glancing at Rembrary as if he was wary of him.

He didn’t used to be so wary. The ‘saint from another world who might side with the demons’ seemed to be a worrisome target for Un Doo-shin, who was a member of Nakru.

Rembrary deliberately smiled kindly at him to ease his wariness, but the other person only became more wary. It had no effect at all.

In the end, Rembrary stopped talking to Un Doo-shin and the Nakru team members he had brought, and focused on the announcement of what to do here.

Surprisingly, there wasn’t much to do, and they just had to get rid of the frog eggs around the village.

Rembrary saw that there were almost no cracks near this village, which seemed to be thanks to that.

“Everyone, please work hard. I look forward to working with you.”

Whether it was a government person or a Nakru person, anyway, when the person who introduced what to do today shouted that, the people gathered in the community center lined up and rushed out.

Rembrary also left with them, and then searched for frog eggs while walking around the village with Shin Jo-woon’s secretary.

But how many laps had they walked?

“It doesn’t seem like there are any?”

“There must be some… but it’s hard to see.”

While talking to the secretary, they heard whispering sounds from beyond the high wall.

It would be fine if they were just whispering. But the speed of the whispering was too fast.

It was like turning a video at about three times the speed.

Rembrary and the secretary reflexively stopped and looked towards the sound.

Soon, the two looked at each other and stepped on other objects around them and climbed towards the wall.

When they sat on the wall, they saw a villager collapsed, and someone covered in a cloak was leaning towards the villager.

‘What are they doing?’

At that moment. The cloak, noticing the presence, looked towards Rembrary and the secretary.

Then, suddenly, he started shouting into the air with three voices.

“Someone attacked a person!”

“Someone is attacking!”

“Someone help!”

“Cover your ears.”

“Yes? Yes!”

Rembrary covered the secretary’s ears and used divine majesty.

“Be quiet.”

The cloaked person immediately stopped talking and collapsed. Rembrary went over the wall and approached the cloaked person.

As he was about to lift the cloak’s hood, a silver chain flew from somewhere and wrapped around Rembrary’s arm.

Rembrary looked in the direction the chain had flown from.