Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 670

◈ 670. Capture Him No Matter What!

Ki Seonghyun’s eyes widened.

“He spoke like Rembrary? You mean he had a tone like His Majesty?”

The subordinate stammered in response.

“Wouldn’t you say so? I didn’t hear it directly… I just received a report that he spoke like Rembrary.”

“Anything else? What did this Otherworlder look like?”

“He was wearing a satgat [traditional Korean bamboo hat], so I couldn’t see his face.”

It was ambiguous. How could it be so ambiguous? The answer was neither here nor there. Ki Seonghyun abruptly stood up from his desk, though he wasn’t about to rush out, and gave instructions.

“The witnesses. I need to meet the witnesses in person.”

“Yes.”

* * *

‘The system has become much more organized in the meantime,’

Rembrary thought as he walked along the dirt field near the highway.

When he first went to his original world and returned to Earth, everything was generally chaotic. But now, the atmosphere was different from then.

Although not as much as before the Cataclysm [a large-scale destructive event], people’s lives seemed much more stable.

Even this field he was walking on, though there were no crops because it was winter, was ready for farming on the outskirts.

‘Is this right?’

Rembrary tilted his head, looking at the unidentified packaging, placed his hand on his stomach, and sighed as he walked on.

It was fortunate that things had stabilized. But ironically, this well-established system was not helpful to Rembrary now.

‘What to do? Everyone runs away even if I just try to ask about the situation.’

After the commotion at the rest stop, he tried to ask people about the current situation a couple more times, but all he got were similar results.

It was clear that people were aware of the existence of Otherworlders [people from other worlds].

‘If only my phone were working, I could easily solve this. But the battery is already dead. What do I really do now? I don’t know the way.’

It would be best if Redrin could tell Daeju Rembrary’s location, but that was not possible right now.

This was because it had become much easier for Redrin, who had undergone Demon King transformation, to influence reality.

According to Lumena, hearing Redrin’s voice now was like shooting concert-level sound directly into the brain.

‘But I heard that his condition gets better from time to time. Should I wait until then?’

Rembrary was awakened from his thoughts by the sound of a siren in the distance.

‘What’s going on?’

Rembrary looked towards the sound. Several cars were passing by normally on the road.

‘Is something happening over there?’

Rembrary craned his neck to try to see beyond the road. But he couldn’t see well.

However, it was clear that crossing between those cars would endanger them, so it was difficult to go and investigate.

But soon, he realized that this was a completely useless worry.

White, strange cars with black sirens appeared among the cars and began to approach Rembrary.

‘Why this way?’

As he watched, wondering what was going on, the white cars stopped on the road as close as possible to Rembrary.

Soon, the car doors opened, and people in matching black uniforms quickly got out and began to surround Rembrary.

‘Did they come for me? Why?’

The people in uniforms kindly answered his question.

“We received a report that there is a dangerous person here.”

Rembrary’s eyes widened. A dangerous person?

“You mean me?”

“If you are an unregistered Otherworlder without malicious intent, please drop your weapon and raise your arms.”

He heard the dangerous person thing at the rest stop and here too. And what was an unregistered Otherworlder?

Rembrary stared blankly at the people in uniforms. What had happened in the last two years? Was this a good sign or not?

He briefly thought about just going with them, but this was not the way. Rembrary quickly turned around and started running away.

“Damn it, he keeps running away?”

“He’s unregistered, but I don’t think he’s a dangerous person.”

“Is he scared?”

“Stop!”

The Hunters were chattering among themselves as they chased after him, but Rembrary kept running.

‘Should I just suppress them all with the Majesty of God? …No. I don’t know how Redrin’s power will manifest right now.’

If he used the Majesty of God, it would be a problem if they actually went crazy instead of just being suppressed by the pressure.

Rembrary stepped on a low wall and ran straight across the roof of a one-story house, jumping over it.

There was only one of him, but there were many chasing him, so he intended to create distance by using paths that the enemies could not follow.

But after crossing a few houses, he heard a chilling scream from behind.

It wasn’t a deliberate scream, but a scream of pain that seemed to tear at the vocal cords.

Almost simultaneously, there was a loud ‘thud.’

Rembrary stopped while crossing the roof and looked back.

‘What is that?’

A blue monster, almost 20 meters tall, appeared through the roof of a building behind him, flailing its long arms in all directions.

It looked like a human, but its head was too small compared to its body, and there was no nose or mouth on its head.

A single eye filled the head, moving its large pupil from side to side, looking at people, and the eyelashes surrounding the eye moved independently like the spines of a sea urchin.

“Stop the pursuit!”

“It’s a giant type! Subdue the monster first!”

As if it was the rule to subdue the monster first when a monster appeared, the uniforms who were chasing Rembrary all turned around and rushed towards it.

The people in uniforms were all Hunters, and they each took out weapons or began to deal with the monster in strange ways.

Rembrary watched as the monster threw the Hunters around and the Hunters attacked by cutting the monster, then turned back.

‘It looks like they’re handling it well, so I should run away in this gap.’

Rembrary quickly ran the rest of the way.

* * *

“Damn it. He’s running away?”

A brown-haired Hunter cursed as he glanced at the sight.

“Is this the time to be looking over there?”

A black-haired Hunter glared, readjusting his lightning-shaped sword.

A red-haired Hunter silently shot an arrow at the monster’s eye.

However, the quickly shot arrow was blocked by the monster’s randomly moving eyelashes and bounced off.

“Damn it!”

The red-haired Hunter took out another arrow, pulled the string, and asked.

“Has that monster appeared before?”

“The one-eyed giant type has appeared several times. But I don’t think there’s ever been a blue one with those eyelashes.”

In the meantime, the monster was quickly destroying the surrounding houses and warehouses.

It didn’t seem to have a specific goal of attacking the Hunters. That’s why the monster’s reckless movements were even more dangerous.

“Stop it from getting to the road!”

“Sound the alarm to keep people from coming this way!”

“I’ve requested support!”

The sounds of the Hunters shouting here and there must have further stimulated the giant.

The monster, which had been focused on throwing Hunters and destroying houses, stopped destroying houses and began to focus on the Hunters.

The monster simply slapped away one of the Hunters who was cutting its body with a sword, and the Hunter flew away and disappeared without being able to defend himself.

The monster simply tore off the entire roof of a building and began to swing it towards the Hunters.

Every time the monster’s arm or the roof hit, the intact buildings snapped with a cracking sound.

Then, just before one of the Hunters was hit by the sharp end of the roof that the monster was swinging.

Something small seemed to bump into the monster’s arm, and suddenly the monster screamed loudly and staggered backward.

Soon after, something else flew at the monster and hit its eye, and the monster covered its eyes with both hands and began to retreat wildly.

The monster, not caring if there were houses behind it, roared like a dinosaur and fell over, rolling around.

“Now’s the chance! Capture it!”

Not missing the opportunity, a Hunter took out a tranquilizer gun and began to shoot at the monster.

Because it was difficult to kill giant monsters on the spot, it was common to knock them out with a special tranquilizer gun even if they gained the upper hand, and then send them to the laboratory to dispose of the bodies.

As the monster, which had been flailing its arms and legs in all directions even after falling, finally calmed down, the Hunters finally realized who had thrown ‘something’ at the monster.

“Dangerous person?”

It was the dangerous person wearing a satgat that they had come to catch after receiving a report.

Then, the Hunters noticed the difference from before in the dangerous person’s appearance. The dangerous person was barefoot.

Soon, two pairs of shoes rolling around the monster came into their sight.

The Hunters’ eyes widened.

‘No way! He attacked the monster with shoes?’

‘He launched a giant monster with shoes of that size?’

‘Unbelievable.’

‘Is he a high-ranking demon? If he’s a demon, there’s no way he’d save us?’

‘It looks like shoes, but is it actually a weapon? A shoe-type weapon?’

While the Hunters were in shock and unable to do anything for a moment.

The dangerous person wearing a satgat walked over, put on one shoe, hopped on one foot to put on the other shoe.

The Hunters finally snapped out of it and became tense.

It seemed like the opponent had saved them. But since he had been uncooperative with their requests for cooperation and had been reported as a dangerous person, they couldn’t just relax.

As the satgat lowered his arms and looked at the Hunters, they swallowed hard.

‘Should we try to talk to him?’

‘Should we thank him?’

‘Can he even understand us?’

That ambiguous time lasted for a few seconds. Before the Hunters could make a decision. The satgat, who had made a decision first, turned around and started running away again.

‘He’s running away?’

‘Why?’

The Hunters looked at each other and belatedly shouted, “Wait a minute!” to the satgat, but the satgat never stopped.

* * *

[I couldn’t see his face because of the satgat… Ah, he was very tall.]

The witness, who had briefly spoken with the dangerous person wearing a satgat at the rest stop, rolled his eyes and continued to speak slowly.

Ki Seonghyun anxiously stared at the video screen and asked.

“Didn’t he say anything about himself?”

[He said he had been away for a while and didn’t know the situation here.]

“Where was he away?”

[He didn’t say.]

“Didn’t he say when he went away?”

[No. There was no specific date… Ah, he asked me to tell him about the time when the Demon King was sealed. So wouldn’t that mean he went around that time?]

Ki Seonghyun, who was listening to the witness’s statement, clenched his fist at the story of the Demon King’s sealing.

‘Is it really Rembrary?’

His tone was like Rembrary, and even the timing was the same as when Rembrary disappeared. Maybe it really was Rembrary himself.

“Please contact us if you remember anything else.”

Ki Seonghyun moved to another place, took out his cell phone, and pondered.

There were several people who were eagerly waiting for Rembrary.

Should he tell them the story now, or should he tell them when he was more certain?

But before he could make a decision.

“Senior!”

The Hunter who had previously reported the satgat incident ran over and quickly said.

“There’s an additional report about the person you were concerned about.”

“Additional report?”

“Yes. He was found in a village near the highway, and a nearby team went to catch him.”

“Did they catch him?”

“No. A giant monster appeared during the pursuit, and a fight broke out. Then, there was a bit of an emergency, but that satgat came back from running away and subdued the monster.”

The Hunter who was reporting hesitated for a moment and added.

“By throwing his shoes.”

“Capture him no matter what.”