Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 622

◈ 622. I’ve Made a Decision

What is this die? Am I supposed to throw it? Rembrary quickly picked up the die and threw it.

But it seemed he wasn’t supposed to throw it.

The Demon King started to speak, then turned around, frowned, and picked up the die again.

“Weren’t you supposed to throw it?”

“I just put it there as a symbolic object.”

“Ah.”

Rembrary nodded, and the Demon King sighed, placing the die next to him.

Still not trusting Rembrary, he eventually put the die back in his pocket and spoke.

“As I said before, Rembrary, I will let you choose the path the world should take. But you should remember this: whichever path you choose, it won’t be a good one.”

“Are you angry because I threw the die?”

“…….”

The Demon King raised his eyebrows.

Rembrary put down his fork and asked.

“Why are you so sure that the path I take won’t be good?”

“If you choose me, that itself turns into evil. And if you choose Redrin, that is also evil, because you’d be abandoning the benefactor who saved your life.”

“…….”

“Even if you choose to maintain the pillars [magical structures that maintain the world’s stability], you are choosing to coexist with evil. And if you choose to destroy the pillars, you are choosing to become evil.”

Rembrary realized that the Demon King had prepared this game more thoroughly than he thought.

On the surface, he seemed to be just transporting bodies, releasing demons, and fighting to regain his body like any other ordinary fight.

But behind the scenes, he was meticulously weaving his own net.

Rembrary frowned and asked.

“Why are you so obsessed with me? Was I just being nice when I was young?”

The Demon King’s lips twisted upwards.

“No matter how great a vessel you are, I don’t need to be obsessed with you when you’re not even mine yet.”

“Your words and actions don’t match. Then why bother entrusting such a thing to me?”

“You are still a very small existence. But that small you was the last cork that held back my patience for nearly a thousand years.”

Rembrary still found it hard to understand the Demon King.

“If you were at your level, couldn’t you have made me aware of your existence in another way? If it weren’t for this situation, I might have helped you find a way to help you.”

“You?”

The Demon King openly ridiculed Rembrary. He seemed to think that even if it weren’t for this situation, Rembrary wouldn’t have helped him.

“I wouldn’t have helped if you just came. But if you had told me that I saved you in the past, or that I gave you some help, I might have helped, wouldn’t I?”

“I don’t think so.”

The Demon King smiled and looked down at the table. Seeing that the food dishes were almost empty, he slowly got up.

“Anyway, Rembrary, we’ve grown too far apart now. You can’t help me, and I can’t expect your help.”

“If it’s resentment towards me or Redrin, was it necessary to drag people in? The people you once cared for are now treated like slaves by the demons or have come to this world and become outcasts. Did you have to make them suffer too?”

“Do you think I resent you or Redrin?”

“!”

“It’s not other gods who turn a god into a demon, but people.”

“…….”

“Don’t ask me why I’m doing this now. I’ve been holding back until now.”

* * *

No matter how complicated Rembrary’s feelings are right now, they probably aren’t as complicated as Woo Yeon-woo’s.

‘That bastard. That crazy bastard. He really tried to shoot me!’

After the bullet Ardor shot grazed his clothes, Woo Yeon-woo widened his eyes and gasped.

The thought that he could have been seriously injured in the leg if it had been shot just a little to the side filled him with fear.

The Nakru people also seemed taken aback that Ardor would shoot Woo Yeon-woo.

“Aren’t you here to save us?”

“What is that…….”

Just when it was hard to tell who was the enemy and who was the ally, Jong-woo jumped out from behind, shouting, “You can’t hurt Yeon-woo!”

Only then did Woo Yeon-woo realize that Ardor had really come to save him.

That the crazy psycho priest came to save him and shot him.

Woo Yeon-woo was even more shocked by that fact, then got angry and cursed.

“You shot on purpose just now! You were trying to kill me too!”

To that curse, Ardor gave him a pious prayer.

“Ah, High Priest. This Ardor, according to the High Priest’s command, tried to save the poor lamb… but failed.”

Ardor finished his prayer and put the gun to Woo Yeon-woo’s mouth, and Woo Yeon-woo quickly closed his mouth.

The Nakru were still confused. Did Ardor really come to save Woo Yeon-woo?

“Oops.”

As if to answer that, Ardor put the gun to the forehead of the B team leader this time and smiled.

“You like sacrifice, right? Should I give you what you like?”

“No, Mr. Ardor!”

Jong-woo stopped him again this time.

“Rembrary wouldn’t like it if he knew!”

Ardor reluctantly put away the gun and nodded as Jong-woo cried while invoking Rembrary’s name.

Jong-woo quickly supported Woo Yeon-woo and went outside.

The Nakru people belatedly pressed the emergency bell, but the group was able to leave the place immediately because Hwasa was waiting right behind the door.

* * *

Rembrary called Jong-woo to see if things had been resolved well after leaving the dungeon, and after a while, Hwasa came out to meet him.

Thanks to that, Rembrary was able to go straight to Woo Yeon-woo’s accommodation with Hwasa.

“Wow, you’re safe.”

Rembrary, who arrived, greeted Woo Yeon-woo, who was lying on the bed, with a smile.

He thought things would work out well, but he was happy to see him looking fine and safe.

“You- you- you!”

But what came back was Woo Yeon-woo’s resentful shout.

“Why are you doing that?”

When he asked because it was strange, Woo Yeon-woo opened and closed his mouth, then covered his face with a pillow and wriggled his body.

“Why is he doing that?”

When he asked Hwasa because he looked crazy, Hwasa told him in a small voice.

“Ardor accidentally shot him a little while saving him.”

“Is that a mistake?!”

Woo Yeon-woo, who had heard everything, took off the pillow and shouted, then glanced at the door and covered his face with the pillow again.

Rembrary tilted his head.

“What on earth happened?”

* * *

After Jong-woo left to discuss this incident with CEO Im,

Rembrary ate the apple that Ardor had cut and listened to Woo Yeon-woo’s story.

After listening, he seemed to know the situation roughly, so Rembrary told Woo Yeon-woo.

“The Mirage side probably told you about the Demon King being inside your body.”

“Mirage? Why suddenly me there?”

“The Nakru not deciding to team up with us was also because of the Mirage side. It was the Mirage who told the Nakru the prophecy that I would join the demons.”

“What. Mirage? Why are they so aggressive towards you?”

“They’re venting their anger that Lumena saved me and left.”

Woo Yeon-woo, who doesn’t like stories about gods from another world, frowned.

“No, why are they fighting among themselves and bothering me…….”

“You’ve been active in Nakru recently, right?”

“I followed you around when you followed the *hyung* [older brother/male friend]. I didn’t follow you after the *hyung* disappeared, except when I went to find the *hyung*.”

Woo Yeon-woo was about to grumble more, but he became quiet when Ardor put an apple in his mouth because it was noisy.

Hwasa was watching Ardor and was ready to run away at any time.

Rembrary waited for the chaotic atmosphere to calm down a bit, and when Ardor asked, “How was the dungeon, High Priest?” he finally brought up what he had been trying to say since earlier.

“Since the dungeon story came up, Hwasa, how many 4th dungeon doors do you have left?”

“Five.”

“Three left, right? Go through two more and come back.”

“Why did you ask when you knew?”

“To see your motivation.”

“There’s no way you can see my motivation, right? It doesn’t exist?”

Ardor pushed Hwasa, who was protesting, aside and asked worriedly.

“If Hwasa passes through two more dungeons, there will be one door left in the 4th dungeon and one door left in the 1st dungeon, High Priest. Have you decided to destroy the pillars? Did you have a change of heart in this dungeon?”

Woo Yeon-woo, seeing Ardor’s gentle attitude, covered his mouth with one hand and pretended to vomit.

“I had a little talk with the Demon King in this dungeon.”

But when Rembrary brought up the story about the Demon King, Woo Yeon-woo put down his hand and stared at Rembrary intently.

Hwasa, who was worried about running away, also straightened his posture and looked at Rembrary.

Woo Yeon-woo, who knew better than anyone how scary the demons were, urgently asked.

“Really? Are you okay? Are you okay?”

“I’m okay, but the overall situation doesn’t seem okay. He just seems to be wandering around. The Demon King, I mean. He prepared more meticulously than I thought.”

“Preparation?”

“Preparation to settle down with the demons.”

Hwasa asked in dismay.

“On Earth?”

“He presented two paths. One of them is definitely settling down on Earth.”

“What’s the other one?”

“That’s also on Earth.”

“There’s no difference?”

“The former is the Demon King managing the demons and settling down on Earth. The latter is the Demon King being sealed and the demons being released and mixing in with the devils here.”

Woo Yeon-woo blankly opened his mouth and glanced at Ardor.

He seemed to have something he wanted to say, but it was difficult to say it because of Ardor.

But still, he seemed to have to ask, so Woo Yeon-woo clenched his fist tightly and asked.

“You guys don’t have any intention of going back to your original world……?”

Fortunately, Ardor didn’t glare at Woo Yeon-woo this time. He was just looking down at the floor indifferently.

But Woo Yeon-woo felt even stranger at that attitude. He had asked a question that was natural as an Earthling. He felt a slight sense of guilt for no reason.

Rembrary seemed a little embarrassed and rubbed his forehead, muttering.

“This isn’t certain, but maybe the Demon King’s whole body hasn’t come here yet. The largest part is definitely here.”

“Then some of it is left in your world?”

“Only four of the Demon King’s closest aides came, and two didn’t stay, right? If he had no intention of giving up on that side at all, there would be no need to do that.”

“Crazy. He’s so greedy.”

Woo Yeon-woo muttered a small curse.

“And the smallest piece is in the world that I, Anchovy, Lion, and Ardor went to before.”

“Then even if you seal him, the Demon King can wake up again at any time? Then what’s the point of sealing him?”

“It’s not useless. If you close the interdimensional rift, it’s hard to go back in complete form, so at least the power will be weaker than before, right? In that state, it won’t be easy to break the seal.”

Ardor was frowning between his eyebrows all the time, deeply troubled.

Hwasa asked cautiously.

“It’s complicated, so I don’t understand it well. Then, from Earth’s point of view, is it good to seal even the Demon King anyway?”

Rembrary shrugged.

“The best thing would be for the Demon King to control the demons well and try to integrate here. The worst thing would be for the Demon King to use the demons to invade Earth. The Demon King being sealed would be somewhere in the middle. If the Demon King is sealed, there will be no one to control the demons.”

Hwasa’s face turned pale.

“Then isn’t it better not to seal the Demon King?”

“Is that so. I talked to the Demon King and made the opposite decision.”

“!”