Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 651

◈ 651. Battle Through Woo Yeon-woo’s Eyes

“Tsk. I should have just left you behind.”

Woo Yeon-woo, who had been half-dragged into this place by Rembrary, was taken aback by Rembrary’s sudden words as he took a few steps inside the door, and he glanced at him.

“What? What are you talking about?”

“Now that I think about it, it seems quite dangerous. What difference does it make whether you die outside or next to me?”

Woo Yeon-woo almost grabbed Rembrary by the collar.

“Why are you saying that now!”

He shouted in a fit of anger, but Rembrary had already concluded on his own, saying, “It can’t be helped.”

At those words, Woo Yeon-woo felt dizzy and his legs gave out.

After making the man extremely nervous, Rembrary calmly instructed him.

“So, keep your wits about you and stay close to me. Got it?”

“Saying that after scaring me…!”

“That’s why I’m telling you to stay close.”

As he looked up with tearful eyes, Rembrary surveyed the surroundings.

Woo Yeon-woo also looked around and was startled. Before he knew it, the surroundings were a space where the walls and ceiling were indistinguishable.

The door they had entered through was visible far beyond, but nothing else was visible.

Instead, a towering pillar was visible not far away. The pillar was within reach if they walked a little further.

“Wh-where is this? Do I just have to break that?”

He asked quietly, looking at the endlessly rising pillar, and Rembrary nodded. Then, he spoke in a very small voice, as if whispering.

“The demon guarding this place is Noir, but there will probably be a demon named ‘Cloth’ with him.”

“That chef……?”

“Yes. And I don’t know if I told you before, but my ‘Divine Majesty’ doesn’t work on that demon. So Noir will bring him. He’s done it before.”

Woo Yeon-woo asked timidly, also in a small voice.

“Then what do I do?”

“You have to take care of him.”

Woo Yeon-woo inhaled sharply. Fight a demon? A demon? As he hesitated to answer, Rembrary asked.

“I’ve heard what your ability is. I’ll buy you time, so you use your ability. Can you do it?”

Woo Yeon-woo hesitated, then grabbed his sleeve and nodded.

“So, instant, I just have to write ‘instant death’, right?”

“No. Even if you write ‘instant death,’ Cloth won’t die. It’s useless.”

“It’s an ability that makes whatever I command come true.”

“What do you think will happen if you give an immortal being the command of instant death? Do you know what happens when a spear that pierces everything clashes with a shield that blocks everything?”

Woo Yeon-woo’s eyes widened.

“Demons are immortal?”

A chill ran down his spine. That terrifying being was even immortal?

“No. That’s not it.”

Fortunately, Rembrary shook his head with a smile.

“But Cloth is the Dark Lord’s closest aide. Even ordinary demons don’t die easily. Of course, high-ranking demons are even harder to kill.”

“Then there’s no harm in trying, right?”

“There won’t be that much time.”

“!”

“If opposing commands collide, I think the stronger command will be executed. So your ‘instant death’ command is likely to fail.”

Woo Yeon-woo felt a little upset. In other words, it meant that he was much weaker than that demon, so it wouldn’t work.

He could understand why Rembrary thought that way, and it was probably true, but it wasn’t a pleasant thing to hear.

Woo Yeon-woo asked sullenly.

“Then how am I supposed to use my ability?”

“Can your ability be applied to inanimate objects?”

“Inanimate objects?”

“Can you bring down the pillar?”

Woo Yeon-woo glanced sideways. He could see the beautiful, smooth, red pillar. Could he bring that down?

Woo Yeon-woo immediately shook his head.

“I tried to break down a wall to find the range of my ability before. But it didn’t work.”

A sense of self-loathing washed over him endlessly. He felt stupid for saying that he couldn’t do this or that.

Was he just going to be a burden to Rembrary after coming all this way? Of course, Rembrary himself had brought him here, but…….

He was probably regretting bringing him here by now. Woo Yeon-woo felt dejected and looked at Rembrary’s profile.

However, instead of being disappointed, Rembrary had a thoughtful expression on his face.

There was no sign of regret in his tilted head.

Woo Yeon-woo wanted to ask Rembrary what he was thinking. But before he could open his mouth, Rembrary asked again.

“Then how about sending Cloth far away?”

“That…… might be possible. Since I’m not pinpointing an exact location.”

“Good. Then, while I buy you time, you send Cloth as far away as possible. It’s disadvantageous for us if we drag it out. Do it as quickly as possible. In the meantime, I will—”

Before he could finish speaking, Rembrary suddenly covered Woo Yeon-woo’s ears with both hands.

Before he could ask what he was doing, Woo Yeon-woo’s eyes widened as he saw pink hair appearing right in front of him and then receding.

His heart fluttered wildly, like seeing a bird suddenly fly into a car window.

“That’s…… him.”

Rembrary took his hands away from his ears and said something, but he couldn’t hear it well.

Woo Yeon-woo watched the pink-haired man shake his head and stagger, with an expression that he couldn’t tell whether he was smiling or in pain.

“Do it quickly. The gray one is Cloth.”

Rembrary nudged Woo Yeon-woo’s arm, who was spacing out.

Only then did Woo Yeon-woo take his eyes off the pink hair and find the gray-haired man standing a little distance away.

It seemed that Rembrary had done something using his hearing. Compared to the struggling pink-haired man, the gray-haired man certainly looked relatively calm.

‘Did Rembrary block my ears and use that majesty [divine power] or something?’

Before he could even figure it out, Woo Yeon-woo hurriedly reached behind him and began to write down the characteristics of the gray-haired man.

‘Gray hair. Gray eyes. Short, curly hair. Tall height. Majesty doesn’t work. Good at cooking…….’

These were the characteristics of the demon named Cloth that he had glimpsed and heard about.

But with a few things left to write, Woo Yeon-woo screamed and stopped his actions. The spell he had been chanting also stopped in the middle.

“Damn it!”

Woo Yeon-woo cursed. Tears welled up in his eyes. Someone had grabbed his finger from behind and snapped it in half.

When he turned his head, he saw someone smiling.

As he was about to scream, Rembrary’s leg struck the man’s body.

While the man lightly dodged the attack, Woo Yeon-woo hurriedly looked at his arm.

“Ugh.”

The finger was bent in the opposite direction.

“What are you doing?”

Woo Yeon-woo looked again at the man who had bent his finger. He was neither gray nor pink.

But he was definitely a demon. When their eyes met, he smiled, and despite the beautiful smile, Woo Yeon-woo felt a chill run down his spine.

“Ugh……!”

The demon, who approached playfully, frowned and stepped back, as if he didn’t like what Rembrary had done.

“Keep going.”

In the meantime, Rembrary nudged Woo Yeon-woo’s arm, and the pain disappeared in an instant. His finger also returned to its original position.

“Ah, okay.”

Woo Yeon-woo hurriedly regained his composure.

This was not the time to be surprised. Woo Yeon-woo began to list the characteristics of the gray-haired man again.

‘Gray, gray, gray hair, gray eyes, demon, tall height, curly—!’

But this time, he was pushed by Rembrary, and his hand slipped.

“Hey!”

Barely managing to regain his balance after almost falling over, he shouted, and Rembrary stood his ground.

The voice that had been about to protest immediately disappeared when he saw the head of something Rembrary was holding.

“That, that’s?”

The head, which was neither demon nor human, was grotesquely twisted.

As he tried to open his mouth, gaping at the unidentified head, the head turned to dust in Rembrary’s hand and disappeared.

“Don’t worry about this side.”

“Even if I don’t want to worry…!”

In the moment he was about to protest, Woo Yeon-woo was startled by the mirror that appeared in front of him, and he had to look at the floor as Rembrary pressed his head down.

“Hey!”

“Don’t look anywhere else. Don’t make eye contact with the enemies. If you think it’s not going to work, just close your eyes altogether.”

He could hear the sound of glass breaking and painful groans, and he could see blood pooling on the floor.

“Remember what I said.”

At Rembrary’s small request, Woo Yeon-woo recalled what Rembrary had said before the enemy appeared.

—It’s disadvantageous for us if we drag it out.

Woo Yeon-woo began to write again with trembling hands.

He kept getting pushed by Rembrary, but this time he didn’t ask what was going on or turn his head to check.

He focused only on capturing and writing down the characteristics, picturing Cloth’s appearance in his head.

After several failures, Woo Yeon-woo finally completed the opponent’s characteristics and wrote the command ‘banish’.

But thinking it was too vague, he quickly added.

1,000km away.

‘That’s it!’

Then, the moment he raised his head in joy. He saw gray eyes right in front of him.

‘Cloth! When did he get here?’

But the moment he was about to scream in horror, Cloth narrowed his eyes and pointed at Woo Yeon-woo as if to say, ‘I’ll remember your face.’

With that, his body disappeared in an instant.

As soon as his body disappeared, Rembrary’s hand, which had risen into the air as if to prevent Cloth from approaching Woo Yeon-woo, also went down.

Did it work? Did it work? Did he chase Cloth away to a far distance?

Woo Yeon-woo looked to the side, filled with elation, and pulled Rembrary’s arm.

“Did you see? Just now—”

But before he could finish speaking.

The moment he met Rembrary’s red eyes, who glanced at him, Woo Yeon-woo felt a bottomless terror, as if the ground beneath his feet had turned into a cliff.

It was as if someone had pushed him into the abyss of the deep sea.

Scary.

With that thought, Woo Yeon-woo lost consciousness.

* * *

When he opened his eyes, he saw a large wooden door. Woo Yeon-woo stared blankly at the door.

Rembrary had burst through that door, told him to go for a walk, shoved him into the bathroom, and then took him to the pseudo headquarters [temporary base of operations].

Then he immediately took him into the dungeon…….

‘Rembrary!’

Woo Yeon-woo belatedly came to his senses and jumped up. This was the guest room in Rembrary’s house where he was staying.

‘Where did Rembrary go?’

Woo Yeon-woo pulled the blanket, groping for his last memories.

He was definitely…… he was definitely with Rembrary at the end.

He hadn’t been able to see the battle scene properly because he was looking down, but he remembered that something was flashing here and there and that he kept getting pushed by Rembrary.

Blood was flowing under his feet, and he kept hearing the sound of glass breaking. He also heard groans…….

Anyway, he barely managed to write Cloth’s name successfully.

He also saw him disappear before his eyes. He was so happy with that success that he grabbed Rembrary.

‘I saw Rembrary’s eyes at the end.’

But the moment he saw Rembrary’s eyes, filled with excitement, a terror washed over him that was even greater than when he saw the demons. Just thinking about it made his skin crawl again.

‘Is that what Rembrary was talking about, that majesty [divine power]… or something?’

Woo Yeon-woo thought blankly, recalling his memories.

Then did we succeed? Did we succeed and get out?

But it was too quiet. Woo Yeon-woo sat blankly for a while and then went to the window.

He raised the blinds and looked out the window, but he could only see the desolate outside.

Woo Yeon-woo carefully opened the door and went outside. The house was also quiet.

“Rembrary?”

No one answered. There was no one in the living room or the kitchen.

He went to Rembrary’s room, but it was empty, and there was no one in Nin-ling and Mullu’s room either.

There was no one in Kim Je-woo and Shin Jo-woon’s room, or the children’s room either. There was only one room left. Ardor’s room.

‘Ugh.’

Woo Yeon-woo closed his eyes tightly and opened Ardor’s door.