Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 668

◈ 668. Two Years Later

“Great King? Why is Redrin here?”

It was Redrin who was with Yeomra.

Of course, Sagamjae knew that Redrin and Yeomra were interacting after their alliance. Sagamjae had even visited Redrin on errands for Yeomra.

However, seeing them talking together in this situation made him wonder. *Isn’t* the human realm in chaos right now?

‘Ah. Did she come here because of the chaos?’

Redrin turned her head slightly to look at the bewildered Sagamjae.

At that moment, Sagamjae noticed that Redrin’s condition had changed. Black and silver light swirled around Redrin.

“What is that?”

When Sagamjae asked, Yeomra clicked his tongue and answered.

“Her recognition increased due to this incident, but instead of faith, she gained fear and anger, and that’s how she ended up. The Demon King transformation has begun.”

Yeomra clicked his tongue repeatedly, and Redrin frowned.

Sagamjae was even more surprised.

“Really? But her energy doesn’t feel evil? There’s sacred energy in between.”

To Sagamjae, Redrin looked like she was surrounded by the Milky Way. She was completely different from demons.

Yeomra rested his chin on his hand and clicked his tongue again.

Instead, this time Redrin answered.

“It’s because Earth and my world are connected. I’m still a god in my original world.”

“Ah. So you’ve become half and half… is that it?”

Redrin raised her eyebrows as if she didn’t like the expression ‘half and half.’ However, she didn’t get angry at Sagamjae.

Instead, she looked at Yeomra and continued the conversation they seemed to have been having before Sagamjae arrived.

“I didn’t go to watch the Demon King being sealed. I don’t have such a nasty hobby. I thought my child would come to the place where the Demon King was sealed.”

It seemed that Redrin and Yeomra were talking about Rembrary, so Sagamjae listened instead of interrupting.

“So that Saint didn’t come?”

“That’s right.”

“Then you just wasted your time. Did you just show off your changing clothes?”

“I saved the humans trapped there, so it wasn’t *just* showing off.”

“Then where did that Saint go?”

“That’s why I came here, because I don’t know.”

“Was the Demon King sealed? The energy decreased, but it didn’t disappear completely.”

“The body on Earth was sealed, but the close aides escaped at the end.”

Sagamjae’s eyes widened as he listened to the conversation. The close aides escaped? Weren’t those four high-ranking demons sealed?

However, Yeomra didn’t seem as surprised as Sagamjae, as if he already knew, and muttered.

“I knew it. Still, this is enough for now. Even if they are high-ranking demons, they are not gods anyway. If we can bind the Demon King, we can seal the rest over time. By the time the seal weakens, we will have a way to respond.”

“…….”

“So, what are you going to do now? Half and half, are you going back to your original world? I *hope* you would.”

Going back? Sagamjae almost interrupted, not expecting that story.

He had vaguely heard that Redrin would take her people back to her world when things were resolved, but he was embarrassed when this story came up in the situation where Rembrary had disappeared.

Shouldn’t they discuss the matter of returning after finding Rembrary first?

In the end, Sagamjae intervened, knowing it was rude.

“Shouldn’t we find Rembrary first? Don’t you know where Rembrary is?”

Redrin stared at Sagamjae with strange eyes. Sagamjae flinched back at the ambiguous gaze.

Fortunately, Redrin immediately withdrew her burdensome gaze and answered.

“My child didn’t go to the Demon King even after drinking the power of Binak. Seeing the demons being flustered, it must not have been the change they expected.”

“Then isn’t that a good thing?”

“But I can’t contact him either.”

Sagamjae looked at Redrin with shocked eyes.

Hadn’t Rembrary always put Redrin first in everything? Even though he was a Saint, he prioritized his god over people, and he had thought several times that the Saints from other worlds were very unique.

Rembrary couldn’t contact Redrin.

“Then, does that mean you don’t know where Rembrary is either?”

A streak of worry fell on Redrin’s arrogant face.

Sagamjae widened his eyes and looked at Yeomra. Yeomra was looking at him with a similar expression.

* * *

“Where is Rembrary?”

Jang Taeri rushed into the office and asked urgently, then stopped when she saw Shin Jo-woon’s head.

Shin Jo-woon raised his head, which had been resting on his clasped hands.

Jang Taeri noticed the handprint on Shin Jo-woon’s forehead and sighed.

“You have a mark on your forehead. How long have you been doing that?”

“What about the kids?”

“The lord there said it would be better to leave the kids for now. They stayed with my secretary.”

“Don’t they hate it?”

“Do you think the kids don’t know the situation? They’re so worried.”

As Shin Jo-woon put his forehead on his hands again, Jang Taeri quickly approached and pressed down on his arm to stop him.

“This won’t solve anything. What about Rembrary? Did you look for him? You said you can’t contact him. Is it true?”

“Yeah. He’s not with Redrin. He’s not with us. Sagamjae doesn’t know either. Sagamjae said that even their god can’t reach him and is looking for him.”

“Is he… alive?”

“Judging by what he eats.”

Jang Taeri pulled a chair and sat down in front of Shin Jo-woon, sighing.

“Muloo and Nin Ring have disappeared too.”

“Disappeared?”

“I don’t know. Rembrary asked me to keep them with him on the phone. At first, they were obedient, but when they heard that they didn’t know where Rembrary was, they said they would find him and left.”

Jang Taeri pressed her temples as if she was tired and added.

“But I can still contact those two.”

Only for a moment. Jang Taeri pounded Shin Jo-woon on the back, feeling frustrated that he wasn’t doing anything.

“Are you really going to be like this? You have to look for him.”

“I’ve been to the demon realm. He’s not there either.”

“Still, you have to do something. Or you have to reveal that the documentary was too exaggerated.”

“I got the second part of the documentary that Gu Joo-il made when he was sane. I don’t know if it will help, but I got a promise of help from the vice president of Mirage. Some reporters also sent me videos of Rembrary helping people on the scene.”

Jang Taeri quickly got up from her chair.

“Then you have to release that first!”

Shin Jo-woon shook his head.

“If I release it now, people will just say that he was defended by his own side and it will be buried.”

“If you stay still, you really can’t do anything?”

“I’m waiting for the right time, Jang Taeri. I’m not doing nothing, I’m trying my best not to do anything.”

As Shin Jo-woon muttered in a heavy voice, Jang Taeri sighed and sat back in her chair.

Somehow. I wondered why such an action-oriented person was sitting in one place like that. Rather, he was putting in effort to stay in one place like that.

But Jang Taeri couldn’t wait for the time to come and suffer like Shin Jo-woon.

Shin Jo-woon, who ran an entertainment agency, seemed to be waiting for the right time like an eagle for image making, but that wasn’t Jang Taeri’s way.

Jang Taeri got up again and packed her bag.

“We have a lot of volunteers who are hunters anyway, so there are a lot of people who are wandering around even if there are no hunter missions. I’ll focus on finding Rembrary. He can heal himself, so it’s unlikely, but you never know. He might have lost his memory due to shock…”

Before she could hear an answer, Jang Taeri ran out.

Running now doesn’t reduce the time it takes to find Rembrary, but her feet naturally quickened because she was so anxious.

* * *

However, Rembrary, whom people were so eagerly searching for, was surprisingly quite free right now.

Rembrary was sitting face to face with Lumena, drinking tea.

“The tea is very delicious, Lumena. Do you have any more snacks?”

“I’m glad you look comfortable. I thought you would be anxious.”

“The big crisis is over.”

Rembrary didn’t know why things turned out this way.

After knocking out Daeju. Rembrary braced himself and drank the honey-flavored liquid of Binak.

The plan was already in his head.

‘In a situation where people are angry, even if I become a Black Priest, it won’t be of much help to the Demon King. Then it won’t be of great harm to Redrin. The people sealed in the demon realm can be taken out from the inside by me. There is definitely a door that didn’t pass through the first pillar. There’s no way the demons don’t know about it, so it’s an entrance they deliberately pretended not to know about. If I use that, I can save people too. I’m sure I have that much awareness. I’m great.’

But as time passed, there was no tremendous change that he had expected.

He felt very sorry for the Demon King, but that didn’t mean he lost his reason.

He felt complicated when he thought of the Demon King, but that didn’t mean he wanted to leave Redrin.

‘Did it go bad?’

Rembrary looked down at the glass bottle and seriously pondered.

Anyway, if there was no change even after drinking the glass bottle, it was difficult in its own way. Because all the plans he had worked hard to make were being scrapped.

Still, he felt a little floating, so Rembrary went home for now.

It just so happened that Yeonwoo gave him a cake, so he was thinking of eating it and resting.

But as he tried to receive the cake, that’s when the change came to his body.

It was a very strange feeling. The sacred power inside his body became seawater and surged like waves.

As he was thinking about what this was, his vision blurred.

He thought he saw Yeonwoo being surprised. When he came to his senses, he was in a place with open sides.

A place with no floor or ceiling.

As he looked around there, he faintly heard Lumena’s voice.

“Lumena?”

But even if he called out, there was no response, so Rembrary ate the cake he had brought.

After eating it all, fortunately, a familiar space appeared. It was the room where Woo Yeon-woo was staying.

Rembrary put the plate on the bedside.

But after putting down the plate, it was that strange space again. Moreover, this time he heard Lumena’s voice more clearly than before.

-Come here.

Rembrary went straight there. But it was difficult to find a direction in a space without walls or floors.

As Rembrary hesitated for a moment, someone wearing a voluminous dress grabbed his arm.

The side of his face was Shin Jo-woon, so Rembrary called out in bewilderment.

“Anchovy? Why are you here?”

But as he met the glance that turned back, Rembrary immediately corrected his title.

“Great King Anchovy?” [Referring to Shin Jo-woon’s role as an emperor]

The opponent was Emperor Shin Jo-woon.

“How *are* you here?”

But it was also strange that Emperor Shin Jo-woon was here, so when he asked, Emperor Shin Jo-woon answered in the same way.

“I was on my way home.”

“Is that here?”

“Yes. But I saw you strangely circling the same spot.”

Perhaps because he was on his way back to his world, Emperor Shin Jo-woon went on his way without hesitation.

Rembrary didn’t shake off his arm and followed him well.

When he came to his senses, Emperor Shin Jo-woon was gone and Lumena was in front of him.

Before he knew it, he had returned to Lumena’s hideout.

Lumena sighed as she looked at Rembrary’s blank expression and asked.

“Would you like some tea?”

That was what had happened for the past few hours.

After that, Lumena tried to contact Redrin, but she couldn’t reach her easily, so Rembrary stayed at Lumena’s residence for a few weeks, playing with Kkokko, who had become a camellia.

Then, Redrin and Lumena barely managed to get in touch, but it took more time for the two gods to prepare to safely open the dimensional door.

By the time all of this was done and he returned to Earth, two years had already passed.