Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 635

◈ 635. Why is He Here?

Rembrary stared at the spot where Moroso’s arm had been, now a bloody stump where the limb was completely severed.

“I can help, if you want.”

Rembrary grinned, a gesture that twisted Moroso’s face in response.

“Help.”

Even as he gave the order, Rembrary smiled brightly and jumped down from the wall.

He went straight to the hunter possessed by the demon’s arm, grabbed his shoulder, and seized the demonic limb with one hand.

Having failed to pull it out cleanly before, he intended to use the possessed hunter as leverage to extract the demon.

“Ugh… Ugh!”

The hunter screamed, writhing in agony as he was being crushed.

Rembrary nearly lost his balance due to the desperate movements, but Moroso gritted his teeth and grabbed the hunter from behind.

Knowing his body would be harmed if he touched the demon directly, he seemed to be trying to hold the hunter in place.

“Hold tight.”

With the added stability, Rembrary pulled hard on the demon’s arm.

The demon was dragged out, arm first, then head, until its entire body was revealed.

It thrashed wildly, trying to shake off Rembrary, but this time Rembrary held on tight.

Finally, as the demon fully crossed over into this world, Rembrary stumbled backward, losing his balance.

The demon, too, fell to the ground, but quickly spotted Rembrary and tried to get up.

However, it seemed difficult to use its power with its entire body exposed; the demon flopped around like uprooted weeds, unable to stand properly.

Meanwhile, Rembrary got to his feet, and Moroso rushed over to examine the demon’s legs with his one remaining hand.

“You’ll lose another arm if you do that.”

Rembrary said worriedly, but nothing happened.

Instead, both of the demon’s ankles instantly turned to dust and vanished. It seemed the demon’s power weakened significantly when it fully crossed over to this side.

While Moroso took his revenge on the demon, Rembrary healed his arm with divine power.

“…”

Moroso glanced at his restored arm and bit his lip.

He looked hesitant, wondering if he should thank Rembrary for the help and healing.

But Rembrary didn’t wait for gratitude.

Instead, he left Moroso to his thoughts and approached the hunter who had been attacked by the demon.

“Oh, dear.”

But when Rembrary saw the hunter, he lowered the hand he had been about to use to cast divine power.

The hunter was already dead. And not just recently.

Still, just in case, he sent a surge of divine power, but there was no response.

Rembrary stared at the gaping hole in the hunter’s chest and straightened up.

Moroso rushed to his side and asked.

“He’s dead… ?”

“Divine power can’t revive him. I guess they die if the demon passes completely through their body.”

Rembrary clicked his tongue and looked at the demon, whose legs Moroso had destroyed.

The demon lay on the ground, rolling its massive eyes 360 degrees.

“That’s dizzying.”

The demon’s bizarre behavior stopped when Rembrary flicked its forehead.

With the demon no longer acting strangely, Rembrary looked around for something to tie it up with.

‘It would be nice to have some rope. If I infused it with divine power, the demon wouldn’t be able to break it easily.’

Then Rembrary looked at Moroso, intending to ask what he wanted to do with the demon.

But Moroso wasn’t examining the dead hunter. He was staring at Rembrary with a blank expression.

“Moroso? What’s wrong?”

The expression looked so desolate that Rembrary asked, and Moroso muttered in a hollow voice.

“A person died because of our actions, and you’re just joking around.”

“I wasn’t joking around; I was *stopping* a joke. And the hunter died because of that demon, not because of us, Moroso.”

Rembrary pointed out each point logically, but Moroso only muttered in a pained voice.

“You must have abandoned me like that too.”

“I never abandoned you, Moroso.”

“…”

“I never picked you up in the first place.”

Rembrary logically pointed out again, but it backfired.

Moroso’s gaze only became stranger. Just as Moroso seemed about to open his mouth, a loud noise came from nearby.

“What’s that noise?”

Rembrary quickly ran towards the sound.

The sound seemed to be coming from a container warehouse, and surprisingly, as soon as Rembrary arrived, a human-shaped figure burst through the wall and ran out.

‘What is that?’

Surprised, Rembrary was about to run after it, but stopped when he heard someone shout from behind, “Mr. Rembrary!”

Turning around, he saw Song Seoho, with a long scar running from his forehead to his cheek, shouting.

“Please take care of the injured here first! One is seriously injured!”

“…”

Rembrary glanced at the direction the human figure had run and calculated his priorities.

Frankly, catching the escapee seemed more important.

But in the meantime, the seriously injured researcher might die.

After some thought, Rembrary postponed the pursuit and entered the container warehouse.

“Where are they?”

Without needing to ask further, he immediately saw the researcher collapsed on the floor.

The other one seemed less injured, leaning against the wall.

The strange thing was that the other researchers were not helping them, but were all standing far away.

Though puzzled, Rembrary quickly rushed over and began to heal their injuries.

But even though the wounds healed quickly, the collapsed researcher did not wake up.

Moreover, the researchers who were standing far away were still keeping their distance.

Looking around at their bizarre behavior, Rembrary asked Song Seoho, who was approaching him, patting his neck.

“Was that ‘jellyfish’ [a term for a monster or creature with a gelatinous form] that was tied up the one who just ran out?”

“Yes. It suddenly went wild and ran away.”

“Suddenly?”

“About… 5 or 6 minutes ago. It was dazed the whole time, then it went wild like a stabbed animal.”

Rembrary raised his eyebrows. That time was—

“When I caught the demon.”

Moroso, who had arrived a step late because he was dealing with the demon, stood in the doorway and said what Rembrary was about to say.

Song Seoho’s gaze fixed on the uprooted weed-like demon that Moroso was holding.

“Is that the demon you were trying to catch?”

Moroso pointed to Rembrary with a frustrated look.

“That guy dragged it out. But when he pulled out the demon, the hunter who acted as the passage died.”

It seemed that all the other hunters who had gathered after hearing the commotion heard the last part. The surroundings fell silent in an instant.

Song Seoho clicked his tongue.

“Monsters are running wild, and demons are mostly active within their territories. I don’t know why this is happening this time. Did Mr. Rembrary break down their territories and force them out?”

Song Seoho’s words were not accusatory. He seemed genuinely curious about the demon.

But no sooner had he finished speaking than the hunters, who had lost two colleagues, glared coldly at Rembrary.

However, before the hunters could say anything, Song Seoho continued to speak to himself.

“Anyway, we should take our two attacked researchers and quarantine them for a while to watch them. We don’t know if the attack by the person who turned into that jellyfish is contagious or not.”

“Hunter Jumin-gi…”

“He ran outside. We should catch him quickly.”

Song Seoho only took care of the two injured researchers, as if catching the escaped jellyfish human was not his job.

As Ki Seonghyun watched the scene with displeasure, Song Seoho suddenly turned around and asked Moroso, “Ah.”

“That demon. Can I take it and study it?”

The hunters’ expressions turned grim at the leisurely question, and Song Seoho shrugged and turned away.

Moroso glared at the back of Song Seoho’s head before taking the demon and going outside.

Judging from the way things were going, it seemed there was nothing more for Rembrary to do.

‘So, should I go back?’ Rembrary thought blankly, then remembered something he had meant to ask Moroso earlier but had forgotten.

‘That’s right. The High Priest of the Central Continent. I was going to ask if he knew where he was.’

Unlike his original world, in this world, people from another world were all like hometown friends.

It wouldn’t hurt to know his whereabouts, so Rembrary quickly followed Moroso and asked.

“Hey, Moroso. I have something to ask you.”

“I have nothing to say.”

“I saved you.”

“I’ll answer one thing.”

Moroso stopped, dragging the demon, and looked at Rembrary.

Rembrary quickly asked before he changed his mind.

“Where is High Priest Iira?”

Unexpectedly, Moroso’s expression turned even more ferocious than when he was dealing with Rembrary when he heard about High Priest Iira.

Rembrary was puzzled by the expression that seemed to indicate that just hearing the name made him feel terrible.

God Kamuel and God Iira weren’t as close as God Redrin and God Lumena, but the two High Priests were relatively friendly.

Perhaps it was because Rapsus and Rembrary were younger than the other High Priests, so it happened naturally.

But to see such an expression… Something must have happened.

“Did you fight?”

“If it was just a fight—”

Still, he seemed willing to answer, and Moroso was about to open his mouth when the demon, who had been lying on the ground, wriggling, suddenly started laughing like crazy and instantly entered Moroso’s heart.

It happened in the blink of an eye, so there was no time to stop it.

A beat late, Ki Seonghyun exclaimed in surprise, “Deputy Chief!” but Moroso was already collapsing.

Ki Seonghyun hurriedly caught Moroso.

“Moroso. Moroso?”

Rembrary also quickly approached, shook Moroso, and sent divine power, but Moroso did not wake up.

Hurriedly placing his hand on his neck, Rembrary was relieved.

“He’s alive.”

Ki Seonghyun asked urgently.

“Wh-what should we do? The demon, just now the demon—”

Rembrary shook his head.

“I don’t know anything about this demon either.”

Ki Seonghyun picked up Moroso.

“We need to take him to the Management Agency first. Please help me, if you don’t mind.”

“Let’s go.”

As Rembrary readily agreed, one of the hunters quickly drove up in a parked car.

After laying Moroso in the back seat, Rembrary also got into the back seat, and Ki Seonghyun sat in the passenger seat.

The car quickly left the hotel area and entered the city.

As the car sped along, Rembrary placed his hand on Moroso’s leg and released divine power like a thread, examining various parts of his body.

He suspected that the demon might have taken root in his body, like he had.

However, he couldn’t feel the demon by examining him like this.

‘Did it escape through the heart instead of entering the body? …More importantly, why can’t the demon approach me, but it can approach Moroso? Is it because Kamuel isn’t the god of Earth? So, he’s not completely incompatible with demons?’

It was possible. Rembrary had had a similar experience.

There was a time when he couldn’t harm the demons with divine power alone, so he had to suppress them with the majesty of God.

“We’ve arrived.”

Rembrary, who had been lost in thought, quickly came to his senses at the sound of Ki Seonghyun opening the car door and shouting.

Ki Seonghyun carried Moroso on his back.

“Is there anything helpful at the Management Agency?”

“It’ll be better than over there.”

However, as soon as they entered the Management Agency, Rembrary and Ki Seonghyun were blocked by hunters pointing guns and swords at them.

To be precise, the guns and swords were pointed at Rembrary, and Ki Seonghyun seemed to be blocked along with him.

“Moroso is in danger. Get out of the way!”

The hunter who had driven the car shouted, but the hunters did not lower their weapons.

Instead, one of them said firmly.

“I’m sorry, Ki Seonghyun. The order is to strictly prohibit outside access. Besides, that person is someone who continues to be controversial for various reasons.”

It seemed that Ki Seonghyun was too low-ranking to remove these hunters.

“Are you going to leave Moroso in danger?”

As Ki Seonghyun gritted his teeth, the hunters exchanged glances but did not back down.

“He just needs to leave.”

“I brought him in case of an emergency. His healing abilities are the best.”

The hunter behind him hurriedly added.

“He suppressed the demon, but the demon entered the Deputy Chief’s heart. He may look fine, but he’s not in a normal state. First, go inside and—”

Before he could finish speaking.

“Okay. Come in.”

Someone said brightly from behind.

Then the hunter who had been insisting that everyone except Rembrary come in looked over Ki Seonghyun’s shoulder and said, as if protesting, “Deputy Chief.”

‘Is there another Deputy Chief?’

Rembrary turned to the sound and widened his eyes.

“Black Dragon?”