Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 620

◈ 620. I’ll Send a Substitute!

Woo Yeon-woo’s eyes widened, and he was speechless.

He just stared at Rembrary with trembling eyes, his mouth agape.

It was as if his brain had frozen.

Rembrary clicked his tongue at the reaction.

‘So this was the kid.’

Mors was constantly going on about betrayal, betrayal, and I wondered what he meant.

It seemed Woo Yeon-woo had done something to betray Mors while in Rembrary’s body.

“You’ve been up to quite a lot in a short amount of time.”

As Rembrary clicked his tongue, Woo Yeon-woo’s face turned bright red.

“I…….”

“What happened?”

Woo Yeon-woo hesitated, unable to answer immediately, then turned away abruptly and said,

“The demons forced me to write a letter to Mors.”

“So you wrote it?”

“What was I supposed to do there!”

“So you wrote it.”

“…….”

Woo Yeon-woo bit his lip and glared at Rembrary before shrinking back and asking,

“I don’t know what happened after that.”

“What was the content of the letter?”

“It said to meet urgently at such and such place. I’ve forgotten the location. The place names were unfamiliar.”

“Mors was kidnapped after that.”

Woo Yeon-woo’s complexion turned an even more alarming shade of red this time.

“Is he dead……?”

“No. He’s still alive.”

“Then he’s okay now, right?”

He’s in the position of Deputy Director, but Rembrary couldn’t tell if that was a good state to be in.

He seemed to be doing well, but he wouldn’t know for sure until he heard it from Mors himself.

“He’s not okay?”

Woo Yeon-woo’s voice trembled. His sandcastle-like mentality was already starting to crumble.

Eventually, Rembrary, unable to watch any longer, clicked his tongue and made something up.

“He’s working as a Deputy Director at the Hunter Management Bureau here. Doing civil servant work. I haven’t met him, so I don’t know if he’s doing well, but wouldn’t you think he is?”

Woo Yeon-woo’s shoulders slumped.

“Put some strength in your shoulders. You need that to turn the wheel. Or leave the driving to me.”

“Not in your dreams!”

As soon as Woo Yeon-woo shouted, something fell from behind.

Looking towards the sound, the door was open, and a tray was rolling around Ardor’s feet.

Before Ardor’s eyes could flash with anger, Woo Yeon-woo hurriedly hid behind Rembrary.

* * *

After dropping Rembrary off in front of the dungeon and returning to the accommodation, Woo Yeon-woo didn’t even have the energy to hit the sandbag, so he listlessly wandered around the living room.

‘Rembrary didn’t say it, but they definitely contacted each other. He looked at me like I was a dog who caused an accident before I could even say anything.’

Besides, he sneered, ‘You’ve been up to quite a lot in a short amount of time.’

He must have heard something bad from Mors. He didn’t seem to have heard it exactly, though.

‘They contacted each other…… Rembrary must have told him about me.’

Woo Yeon-woo squatted on the sofa, hugging his knees and trembling.

Nin-Ling’s angry face came to mind, overlapping with someone he didn’t know.

He hadn’t seen Mors in person, but wasn’t he the High Priest of the North? He must be incredibly strong.

If such a person held a grudge against him like Nin-Ling, or even more……!

“What are you doing alone? I thought you were going to see Rembrary. Did you fight again?”

“Jong-woo hyung [older brother/friend]!”

Woo Yeon-woo, who had been biting his nails, rushed towards Jong-woo as he opened the front door and called out to him.

“Hyung, hyung, hyung, how would you feel if someone used your name to get you kidnapped by dangerous people?”

“What are you talking about?”

“When you get kidnapped and then released. Would you want revenge?”

“What kind of obvious question is that? I’d want to kill them.”

“!”

“What, wouldn’t you? Why are you so surprised?”

Woo Yeon-woo ran back to the sofa and hugged his knees.

He’d want to kill them. The High Priest of the North would probably be like that too. He’d want to kill me.

“What kind of trouble did you cause?”

Jong-woo, sensing something was wrong, rushed over and asked. Woo Yeon-woo was tearful, with tears streaming down his face.

“No, this bastard has a bad temper, but he’s not the type to cry easily.”

Jong-woo became even more nervous at the sight.

“What kind of trouble did you cause? Tell me. You have to tell me to fix it. Whose name did you sell?”

“How can I say that!”

“You have to say it so I can go and beg or something!”

“I told you I said ‘dangerous people’! He might kill me before I can even beg!”

“What have you been doing!”

“I couldn’t help it!”

“Then at least convey the excuse that you couldn’t help it! By text! Or email! Or phone!”

“I don’t know his number!”

“You can ask! You’re close to Nakru, aren’t you? Nakru is a government agency! Where else are you going to use your connections!”

“Ugh, you’re both noisy!”

Jong-woo and Woo Yeon-woo, who had been shouting at the top of their lungs, both shut their mouths at the sound of Keshi kicking the door open and yelling.

Keshi, with messy hair, stormed out of the room and pointed to her dark circles.

“I told you I go to sleep late after finishing my broadcast, so do you have to make so much noise?!”

Woo Yeon-woo took out his phone, not caring whether Keshi was yelling or not.

“That’s why you have enemies everywhere!”

Keshi clicked her tongue at the sight, but Woo Yeon-woo didn’t have the energy to get angry at Keshi.

Even the little energy he had left was exhausted from arguing loudly with Jong-woo.

Woo Yeon-woo anxiously opened his phone’s text message inbox.

‘Should I find out his phone number and apologize like Jong-woo hyung said? Maybe the High Priest will accept it like Nin-Ling did…… Ugh. This is driving me crazy. But after that happened to hyung, even Team Leader Gu doesn’t answer my calls well.’

Woo Yeon-woo, who had been tearing at his hair, decided to try something, so he decided to send a text to Gu Se-ji after all.

But before he could send the text, he received a call from the other side first.

[Dont open the door if i go.]

[If there are other people have them open it and you hide]

The text was full of typos, as if it had been sent in a hurry.

‘What is he talking about?’

Woo Yeon-woo frowned at the text, which he understood what it meant but didn’t understand the purpose, when he heard the doorbell ring and then the sound of the door opening.

“Who is it?”

Jong-woo’s voice was heard, nagging, “Ask who it is before opening the door.”

“Oh? Team Leader Gu?”

Keshi’s voice was heard.

The person who came in was Gu Se-ji. A look of embarrassment crossed Gu Se-ji’s eyes as he saw Woo Yeon-woo holding his phone.

Woo Yeon-woo looked back and forth between his phone and Gu Se-ji.

Behind Gu Se-ji, there were several others who appeared to be Nakru hunters.

“What’s going on?”

As soon as Woo Yeon-woo asked awkwardly, Gu Se-ji strode over and said in a more blunt voice than usual,

“We need you to come with us for a bit regarding a demon-related matter.”

“A demon?”

Before he could even question the sudden statement, the hunters who had come with Gu Se-ji roughly grabbed Woo Yeon-woo’s arm and pulled him up.

They didn’t drag him after that, but the hands holding his arm were full of strength. They were ready to drag him away if he resisted.

Surprised, Woo Yeon-woo looked at Gu Se-ji, who shook his head very slightly.

‘Something’s going on.’

Keshi, flustered, tried to report it in a panic, but one of the hunters openly mocked her when he saw it.

“We’re doing government work, what are you going to do by reporting it.”

“!”

“It’s better to just wait without ruining Woo Yeon-woo’s image.”

Jong-woo hurriedly approached Gu Se-ji and called out, “Team Leader Gu!”

“You have to tell us what’s going on first, how can you suddenly take him away?”

“I’m sorry. I’ll tell you later.”

When even the trusted Gu Se-ji was of no help, Jong-woo rushed at the hunter holding Woo Yeon-woo without hesitation.

But he was thrown off at once.

As soon as the hunters dragged Woo Yeon-woo out, the door slammed shut with a ‘bang’ as if it were breaking.

“Hyung, hyung! What do we do? Can’t we really report it?”

Keshi, panicking, picked up Jong-woo and asked in a trembling voice.

They often fought, but they had been active as a group throughout the two cataclysms.

Now that something like this had happened, her whole body was trembling.

“They said it’s no use.”

“But we can’t just wait! Did you see the expressions of the people who took him? Nakru is where Woo Yeon-woo hyung is, so if they’re taking Woo Yeon-woo like that, something’s seriously wrong, right?”

“He said he sold someone’s name earlier. Is it that?”

“He sold Nakru’s name?”

Jong-woo tore at his hair with one hand and called Woo Sung-woo with the other.

“I’m going crazy. He’s not answering.”

“What about someone else?”

“How would I know any hunters. Woo Yeon-woo wouldn’t tell me about hunters, and I don’t know any hunters…… There’s one.”

Belatedly, Jong-woo thought of Rembrary.

Woo Yeon-woo had become so close to Rembrary that it was laughable how much they had fought in the past.

Even though they had become close, they still seemed to fight periodically.

Still, Rembrary was the only one he could contact at this time.

* * *

“Huh? How did you know my changed phone number?”

Rembrary asked, surprised, when he heard Jong-woo’s voice from an unknown number.

The answer that came back was very fast.

[I asked Yeon-woo before just in case. More importantly, Yeon-woo has been taken away! Please help!]

“Where to?”

[I don’t know, people from Nakru came and took him. Yeon-woo and Yeon-woo hyung are also in Nakru, so I don’t know why they’re doing this, but Yeon-woo hyung isn’t answering his phone either, and Team Leader Gu is suddenly acting strange, and before that, Yeon-woo was saying strange things and getting all worked up―]

It was Jong-woo who was getting excited and rambling. Rembrary finally cut him off.

“Wait a minute. I can’t understand.”

[Please help!]

“I want to help too. But I’m inside a dungeon right now.”

[!]

“And it’s too noisy here right now. I can’t hear you well? Instead, I’ll send a substitute, so ask for help. Should I send them to Yeon-woo’s house?”

[Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank you!]

* * *

As soon as Jong-woo hung up, Keshi asked urgently.

“What did he say? Is he coming? Is Rembrary coming?”

“He can’t come because he’s inside a dungeon, but he said he’ll send someone else instead.”

“Shin Jo-woon?”

“I don’t know. He said it was dangerous, so he’ll send someone strong.”

Jong-woo hugged his phone and let out a sigh of relief.

“Still, that’s a relief. I thought they had fought because he was huffing and puffing after going to see Rembrary today. I guess he didn’t fight with him.”

“They used to have a bad relationship. When did they make up?”

“I don’t know. Is fighting the problem or making up the problem?”

Jong-woo couldn’t take his eyes off his phone and wandered around the living room like Woo Yeon-woo.

Keshi, also unable to sleep and worried, sat cross-legged in the middle of the living room and waited for ‘Rembrary’s substitute’ to come.

But as 20 minutes passed without the substitute coming, they both gradually began to get anxious.

Still, since they were a government agency, they wouldn’t do anything to ‘Hero Woo Yeon-woo’ in 20 minutes, but the atmosphere when they took him out was ominous, so they kept checking the time.

Then. Finally, someone rang the doorbell.

“Who is it!”

“Yes!”

Jong-woo and Keshi ran out at the same time and opened the door, and as soon as they opened it, they fell backward.

The person standing at the door was…… Ardor, the madman from Redrine who had shot Woo Yeon-woo in the past.

“Who did you ask to come?”

Jong-woo swallowed hard as he looked at those arrogant eyes looking down at him.

‘Rembrary and Yeon-woo. They haven’t made up yet, have they.’

Asking that person to save Woo Yeon-woo was absurd.