Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 621

◈ 621. I’ll Let You Choose

Woo Yeon-woo, captured by Nakru, moved stiffly, his whole body tense.

He had been to Nakru’s headquarters before, but this was the first time he had been dragged in against his will in such a heavy atmosphere.

It was upsetting and frightening that people who would have recognized him and greeted him immediately in the past now only glanced at him as they passed by, without approaching.

They didn’t drag him or tie his hands, but he couldn’t shake off the uneasy feeling.

He was taken to a small building a little away from the headquarters.

The building was quite spacious, but the interior was bleak, with no flooring and only a desk and two chairs as furniture.

He wondered what they were planning to do here, and then, after a while.

The B Team leader sauntered in with a few people and closed the door with one hand.

The door made an unusually loud noise as it closed due to the wind, and as the sunlight that had been coming in through the open door diminished, the interior became dim.

Woo Yeon-woo tensed up and stared at the B Team leader.

“Oh, dear. I’m sorry to bring you here like this.”

The B Team leader smiled at Woo Yeon-woo and waved his hand at the others while holding onto Woo Yeon-woo.

“I told them he would have come if we just called him. Everyone’s just nervous for no reason.”

Woo Yeon-woo didn’t answer, just stared at the B Team leader to figure out the situation.

The B Team leader brought a chair and straddled it, gesturing for Woo Yeon-woo to sit down as well.

“The story might be a bit long. Why don’t you sit down and listen?”

Woo Yeon-woo had no intention of doing so, but the person who had been holding onto him all the way here brought him a chair from behind.

Reluctantly, he sat down on the chair, and the B Team leader asked directly.

“There’s no need to beat around the bush, is there? I heard that a Demon King used to be inside Woo Yeon-woo.”

“That never happened.”

Woo Yeon-woo gave a negative answer first, and then his heart started racing belatedly. He cursed inwardly.

‘How the hell did these guys know about that?’

Only a very few people knew that fact.

It wasn’t something Woo Yeon-woo would brag about, and the Demon King had thoroughly concealed his existence at the time, so it was safe to say that almost no one knew, except for the demons.

Rembrary would have known, but…

‘There’s no way Rembrary would have said that.’

Rembrary uses a way of speaking that pisses people off, but he doesn’t go around spreading other people’s secrets.

Woo Sung-woo also knew, but there’s no way he would come to the betrayed Nakru to tell them that. That’s even stranger.

Woo Yeon-woo had no idea who had revealed his secret.

Noticing his expression, the B Team leader smiled and told him.

“You’re wondering who told us. But we can’t tell you that either. It’s for the protection of our informants.”

“…….”

“Woo Yeon-woo, you’re on the same team as us, right? It’s understandable that you couldn’t say it when he was inside you. You must have been scared. But now that’s not the case, so tell us in detail about the demons. You’ll know more than ordinary people, right?”

“I don’t know.”

Woo Yeon-woo replied sullenly.

“You don’t know?”

The B Team leader laughed as if he was dumbfounded.

“How can you not know? You know you’re saying something that doesn’t make sense, right, Woo Yeon-woo?”

“…….”

“What’s wrong, Woo Yeon-woo? If you act like that here, it’ll seem like you’re on the same team as the demons.”

The B Team leader’s voice had a bit more sarcasm in it than before.

Still, Woo Yeon-woo shook his head.

“I know what you’re expecting, but I really don’t know. I can’t just make something up when I don’t know.”

The B Team leader’s expression hardened a little, and Gu Se-ji quickly interjected.

“He said the Demon King came in and then left. So he might not know.”

But it wasn’t an atmosphere where stopping him would work.

“If he really didn’t know anything, he would have told us about it as soon as the Demon King left, Team Leader Gu.”

Gu Se-ji tried to say something more to the B Team leader’s words, but another person who was watching this coldly interjected.

“Team Leader Gu has been watching the Woo brothers for a long time, so it’s hard for him to grasp the situation without bias. It would be better for him to be out of the interrogation room.”

He said it like an opinion, but it meant to leave.

“What kind of talk is that-.”

Gu Se-ji tried to argue, but Un Du-shin, who had come in with the B Team leader, shook his head slightly, telling him not to interfere.

Un Du-shin gestured that he would stop them if it didn’t seem right, so Gu Se-ji reluctantly nodded and went outside.

“Ah yes, yes, I’m leaving, I’m leaving.”

Un Du-shin, like Gu Se-ji, had been watching the Woo brothers for a long time and had received help from them, so he tended to take care of the two brothers more than others.

He was trusting in that and leaving.

Woo Yeon-woo, who didn’t know this, grabbed Gu Se-ji with his eyes, but Gu Se-ji had already turned around and couldn’t see his desperate gaze.

Even if he had seen it, he couldn’t have done anything about it now.

‘Damn it. No, who the hell said that? Maybe the demons… did they?’

With Gu Se-ji gone, Woo Yeon-woo became even more frightened.

But the interrogation continued, and 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and finally nearly 20 minutes passed.

Still, Woo Yeon-woo couldn’t be of much help because he didn’t know anything.

Instead, around this point, the gathered Nakru members began to disagree with each other.

“They say that when a demon takes over the body, there’s no consciousness at all. So even if Woo Yeon-woo is possessed, he might not know anything about the Demon King or demons, right? Then shouldn’t we stop asking him?”

“Even if he takes over the body. He’ll know if it’s strange or not, where he mainly goes, what he seems to be planning, right?”

“I think he knows more too. Isn’t it because we’re just asking him with words that he’s not answering?”

‘If you don’t just ask with words? What else are you going to do?’

Woo Yeon-woo swallowed hard as he watched them fight.

The Nakru members’ opinions were initially divided into ‘Woo Yeon-woo is telling the truth. He just doesn’t know anything’ and ‘Woo Yeon-woo is hiding something.’

But as the argument progressed, they fought over ‘The Woo brothers were figures representing Nakru, and they still are officially. If we pursue this further, it will be uncomfortable for each other’ and ‘Isn’t Woo Sung-woo already betrayed and left? What’s the point of interrogating him like this? We’re already uncomfortable with each other.’

Watching that, Woo Yeon-woo looked down at his hands.

As if they didn’t want to completely break things off yet, Nakru hadn’t tied his hands tightly, and the interrogation was only being conducted verbally, with questions being asked in a subtly roundabout way.

Woo Yeon-woo looked at the people fighting one by one.

He could kill or knock out one of them in the midst of this commotion.

But should he? The moment he takes down one person, wouldn’t he be treated like a truly dangerous person?

Maybe they were waiting for Woo Yeon-woo to attack them first, since they were having trouble attacking Woo Yeon-woo first.

At that moment, the tightly closed door suddenly opened from the outside.

‘What is it?’

Woo Yeon-woo looked over there.

As light came in through the crack in the door with a creaking sound, those who had been talking among themselves turned around.

A silhouette of someone was visible between the widening rectangle of light.

At that moment. A series of loud noises rang out, and the people who had been standing all began to sit down.

“Ugh!”

“It’s an attack!”

“Block it!”

Woo Yeon-woo realized that someone was shooting a gun.

By the time he recognized this, the people inside were all sitting down and rolling on the floor, due to the gun that the person who had come in had fired without giving them a moment’s gap.

Woo Yeon-woo widened his eyes and looked at the person who had opened the door and entered.

‘Did he come to save me?’

As his eyes gradually became accustomed to the brightened lighting, the appearance of the person who appeared was gradually revealed.

Woo Yeon-woo opened his mouth and stared blankly at that person.

It was Ardor.

‘Why is that bastard…?’

The moment he had that thought. As if someone else had the same thought, he gritted his teeth and shouted.

“Did you come to save Woo Yeon-woo!”

Before the words were even finished, Ardor seemed to turn the gun towards Woo Yeon-woo this time, and then just shot him.

“!”

* * *

‘I hope Yeon-woo was rescued okay?’

The people living with Rembrary were all strong.

Ninling and Mullu were paladins, so they were naturally strong, and Ardor was not a paladin, but he was strong.

No matter who went, Yeon-woo would be rescued okay.

‘Yeon-woo will be safe. The problem is… this side, huh.’

Rembrary stopped walking, put his hands behind his back, and looked around.

It seemed like it had been a while since he entered the dungeon in terms of time. Even though he walked and walked, the surrounding scenery remained the same.

The field stretched out endlessly, and no matter how much he walked, only the field kept appearing.

There was no terrain to use as a standard to see if he was moving well, and the pillar that was visible over there was just visible in the distance.

Rembrary looked back at the path he had walked and tilted his head.

‘It would be easy to lose direction in a place like this. But I don’t lose direction.’

Rembrary turned his head again and started walking again in a place slightly off the path he had been walking on.

After about 15 minutes of doing so. Finally, a different sight appeared in the field than before.

It was a brown wooden table.

The table, which seemed to be for about 4 people, was full of various foods, and unexpectedly, the Demon King was sitting in front of it.

The Demon King was sitting in a fancy outfit, and when Rembrary approached, he calmly offered.

“Shall we have a meal? While talking?”

‘If the Demon King is offering a meal in a place where there’s only a field and no way to get out of the dungeon, then of course this is the way to get out of the dungeon.’

Rembrary sat across from the Demon King.

“I’ve prepared foods that you’ll like. I wonder if they’ll suit your taste.”

The Demon King reached out towards the food.

“I’ll eat it and tell you.”

Rembrary gripped a fork and examined the Demon King.

He said let’s talk while eating too. What does he want to talk about? A few stories that the Demon King might tell flashed through his head.

However, the Demon King only ate slowly and didn’t open his mouth. He suggested talking first, and then.

‘Is he trying to have a battle of nerves?’

But Rembrary didn’t care about the order of speaking, so he just asked first.

“I know that if you pass through five more doors, you’ll destroy all four pillars, right?”

“Not four pillars.”

The Demon King smiled and wiped his mouth with a napkin. It seems he’s willing to talk.

“I heard there’s one more hidden pillar. But I omitted that pillar because it’s not visible.”

When Rembrary explained in detail, the Demon King nodded and gestured for him to continue speaking.

“Thinking about it, Binak’s ability was to amplify emotions. Perhaps if the pillar collapses, will the seal on my memory be broken? And the plan is to amplify the emotions that come out at that time with Binak’s ability?”

The Demon King chuckled.

“You’re asking everything.”

Rembrary stared silently at the Demon King.

“It’s not a secret anyway. If you were planning to keep it a secret, you wouldn’t have taught me everything in a roundabout way.”

“That’s right. It’s more fun to know this and choose, so I’ll tell you everything.”

The Demon King put down the fork and placed a die in front of Rembrary.

“I’ll let you choose the path the world should take, Rembrary.”