Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 663

◈ 663. Is This Real?

Rembrary placed a hand on his chest and stood still for a moment.

His heart was pounding faster than usual. It was a rare occurrence for the ever-calm Rembrary.

Seeing this, Ki Seonghyun tilted his head and asked,

“Mr. Rembrary? What’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”

“My chest is pounding.”

“Your chest is pounding, you say?”

Ki Seonghyun, upon hearing Rembrary’s answer, glanced around at the gathered reporters and hunters, wondering, ‘Could it be?’

However, Rembrary wasn’t even looking at the crowd. Ki Seonghyun quickly noticed this and inquired,

“Are you not feeling well? Should you get a checkup or something?”

“I might get minor external injuries, but I don’t get sick. Ah, I did get sick once, though.”

“If it’s really bad, you should go to the hospital.”

Ki Seonghyun advised, but Rembrary shook his head, lowered his hand, and said in a nonchalant tone,

“No. It’ll probably get better.”

“Aren’t you being a bit too quick to reassure yourself?”

“I told you, I don’t get sick.”

Ki Seonghyun was even more worried by Rembrary’s reaction.

Because people who don’t show it even when they’re in pain are more concerning than those who readily admit they’re hurting.

However, Rembrary had already moved on from the topic of his health and was looking around.

“So, where’s Hunter Yoo Minoh? I heard he appeared in this area?”

“It’s Hunter Joo Min-ki.”

A cameraman who had stealthily approached to film Rembrary and Ki Seonghyun’s conversation tilted his head at that remark.

‘There’s not a single thing in common in their names.’

Ki Seonghyun, thinking, ‘Should I tell them to back off?’ as some of the reporters got too close, answered Rembrary.

“Since we’re continuously receiving damage reports from this area, he should be around here.”

“Is the location not certain?”

“It was certain when they reported it.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ki Seonghyun put his hand to his in-ear radio and frowned.

‘We used that on stage too.’

Seeing Rembrary curiously approaching, Ki Seonghyun, feeling a bit awkward, covered his ear and moved away.

Only after about three minutes did Ki Seonghyun take his hand off the radio and return.

“Don’t interrupt when I’m on the radio.”

“Weren’t you singing just now?”

“What are you talking about? Anyway, Joo Min-ki’s location has been confirmed. Let’s go there.”

Ki Seonghyun, whose demeanor immediately changed, began to move with his weapon in hand.

Rembrary leisurely followed behind him.

* * *

After walking for a while, Ki Seonghyun waved his hand, signaling to stop.

“It seems like he passed through that way.”

Rembrary also looked in the direction Ki Seonghyun was indicating.

Indeed, people were seen collapsed in the distance, and other hunters who had arrived earlier were checking on their condition.

Rembrary looked at them and opened his mouth.

“I’ve been wondering since earlier.”

“Shh.”

However, because Ki Seonghyun signaled him to be quiet, Rembrary couldn’t say anything more.

While Rembrary kept his mouth shut, Ki Seonghyun lowered his body and looked around.

Rembrary blankly looked down at Ki Seonghyun.

‘What is he doing?’

Ki Seonghyun was sharply looking left and right. Then, he turned around and, startled by Rembrary standing tall, shouted.

“Sit down!”

“Ah. Me too?”

Ki Seonghyun’s forehead veins popped out.

On the other hand, the cameraman who had filmed Rembrary trying to look at Ki Seonghyun’s in-ear earlier, saw the scene from afar and this time chuckled, muttering.

“Rembrary is somehow… more clueless than the rumors say?”

The senior reporter who came with him retorted sullenly.

“He’s originally famous for having a crazy personality anyway.”

“No, not those rumors. The ones about him coming to destroy the Earth or whatever. Honestly, that seems like an exaggeration, doesn’t it? He doesn’t seem like that kind of person.”

“Exaggeration? Haven’t you seen it yet?”

“Seen what?”

“Why, earlier―”

The cameraman waited for the rest of the words, but the reporter stopped speaking and gestured to look ahead.

“Let’s talk later. What are they doing.”

The cameraman quickly adjusted his camera and looked in the direction the reporter pointed. In the short time he had looked away, Ki Seonghyun and Rembrary were running somewhere.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes!”

The two of them quickly followed them.

* * *

Rembrary, who had been running after Ki Seonghyun, stopped and looked back.

Ki Seonghyun, unaware that Rembrary wasn’t following, continued to run alone. Only later, noticing the silence behind him, did he turn around.

Realizing that Rembrary was gone, he angrily ran back the way he came.

Fortunately, he was only out of sight because of a curve. Rembrary wasn’t far behind.

“Mr. Rembrary, what are you doing?”

Ki Seonghyun sighed and pulled Rembrary’s arm.

“We need to go quickly. We received a report that he appeared over there. Joo Min-ki keeps moving.”

However, unlike before, Rembrary didn’t immediately follow.

He put his hand to his mouth, signaling to be quiet, and just stood there.

He wasn’t doing anything in particular, but his expression and gaze seemed to be focused on something, so Ki Seonghyun couldn’t urge him and just stared at Rembrary.

After a moment, Rembrary raised his eyebrows and suddenly took off his shoe and threw it somewhere.

“What are you doing now?!”

Ki Seonghyun, seeing the shoe fly farther than he expected, asked in astonishment.

However, Rembrary was already running towards where he had thrown the shoe.

Ki Seonghyun instinctively followed.

After running a few meters, they saw a person collapsed and a shoe rolling beside them.

Confirming that the rolling shoe was a pair with Rembrary’s shoe, Ki Seonghyun opened his mouth in bewilderment.

“No, Mr. Rembrary, why are you suddenly―”

He was about to ask if he was knocking people out with shoes, but before he could finish, Rembrary pointed to the collapsed person’s hand.

“Look there.”

Ki Seonghyun, looking in a fit of pique, widened his eyes as he saw that the collapsed person’s hand looked as if it had been torn apart by several sharp nails.

“This is…?”

“Is this a trace of Joo Min-ki’s attack?”

“That’s right.”

Ki Seonghyun looked at Rembrary in surprise.

“How did you know and throw it?”

“I wasn’t trying to attack this person.”

“Yes?”

“I threw it towards the direction of the bad energy.”

“Bad energy? What’s that? Is it a hunch?”

“No.”

“Then what is it?”

Ki Seonghyun didn’t understand Rembrary’s words at all but seemed curious. However, these instinctive feelings were difficult for Rembrary to explain.

Besides, this shoe might look like just a thrown shoe, but Rembrary had imbued it with some divine power.

‘Did Joo Min-ki attack this person and then use the shoe as a shield and run away when it flew at him?’

Rembrary muttered, looking at the collapsed person’s disheveled hair.

“That Joo Min-ki. It seems like he’s avoiding me.”

“Avoiding you? Ah… Come to think of it, when the report came in, they said he was completely rampaging. But I haven’t seen him since we arrived. We keep hearing reports that he’s rampaging, though.”

“He’s avoiding me. Just as I sense him, he senses me.”

“Is that possible?”

“The more one is tainted by darkness, the better they recognize the light.”

Ki Seonghyun, a modern Earthling, felt a bit embarrassed by Rembrary’s earnest expression and rubbed his arm.

“Why are you doing that?”

“No. It’s just that hearing those words in reality is a bit…”

“?”

Rembrary also didn’t understand Ki Seonghyun, so instead of explaining further, he just stated his purpose.

“If the enemy senses me, it’s better to set a trap than to chase after him.”

“A trap?”

Instead of explaining, Rembrary suddenly looked around.

“What are you looking for?”

“Don’t you have something like water? I’ll make holy water.”

“Holy water…?”

Exorcists and demons came to Ki Seonghyun’s mind once again, making him very embarrassed.

Even though it was a world with actual demons, an Awakened [a person with supernatural abilities] fighting demons felt real, but fighting with holy water felt like a scene from a movie.

“Yes. Since he’s avoiding my energy, I’ll put things with my energy here and there. Then he won’t know which one is me. That way, I can lure him to my side…”

As he was speaking, Rembrary suddenly frowned, clutching his heart.

It was the second time. Ki Seonghyun panicked and approached Rembrary.

“Mr. Rembrary? Are you okay? Are you really not sick somewhere?”

It was the second time he had done this since they first met, so it seemed unusual.

However, Rembrary shook his head.

“It’s not pain. This is…”

As Rembrary was speaking, he suddenly looked up at the sky and stood still. Ki Seonghyun, feeling a bit scared, called out,

“Mr. Rembrary? Are you really okay?”

Instead of answering, Rembrary stared blankly at the sky, then lowered his hand from his heart and said,

“We’ll have to set the trap later.”

“Yes? Why, when we can catch him now?”

Rembrary looked at his palm for a few seconds before lowering it and answering.

“I don’t know if what I make now will be a trap or a reward.”

“What are you talking about?”

Ki Seonghyun was taken aback by Rembrary’s declaration that he was suddenly leaving, even though he had come all the way here saying he wasn’t sick.

If he was leaving because he was sick, he would understand, but why when he wasn’t sick?

However, Rembrary seemed to be sincere, as he began walking towards the place where he had parked the car he had arrived in.

Ki Seonghyun instinctively followed Rembrary, to persuade him.

However, as Ki Seonghyun headed towards the parking lot, he sensed an unusual atmosphere as he approached the area where people were gathered and stopped.

It wasn’t long before he realized what was strange. The people. The people were staring intently at Rembrary.

‘What is it? Why are they like that?’

It was a strange sight.

Of course, Rembrary always attracted people’s attention.

However, the reporters’ gazes were not the kind that looked at a news item.

Not only the reporters, but also the other hunters they had brought with them were looking at Rembrary with unfriendly eyes.

Even in this situation, Rembrary, who was calmly walking to his car, seemed even stranger.

Feeling that he needed to protect him for now, Ki Seonghyun walked towards Rembrary.

However, just as he was about to reach Rembrary, a hunter stepped forward and showed Rembrary his phone, asking,

“Is this real?”

Ki Seonghyun, who had reached Rembrary, also looked at the phone screen the hunter was holding out.

―Earth’s Destruction Caused by Hero Actㅋㅋㅋ [Korean slang for ‘lol’]

It was a provocative thumbnail with Rembrary’s face under the red text.

And the number 45:00 below. The video with this thumbnail seemed quite long.

“What is this?”

Ki Seonghyun, seeing that the number of comments under the video exceeded ten thousand, snatched the phone and played it.

Unexpectedly, the documentary about Rembrary that Morsoo and the Hunter Management Agency had gone to confiscate began to play.

‘How did they get this? I’m sure we went to Mirage headquarters and took everything?’

Ki Seonghyun looked at Rembrary with wide eyes.

However, Rembrary was much calmer than him.

Even though Rembrary could see the contents of the documentary, he didn’t show any signs of surprise.

No, far from being surprised, he even had a gentle smile on his face.

The problem was that seeing that gentle smile along with this video made Rembrary look like the final mastermind who would appear in a series of movies.

The hunter snatched his phone back from Ki Seonghyun and asked Rembrary again,

“Mr. Rembrary. Is this real?”