Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 691

◈ 691. Amazing Rembrary

“What’s wrong?”

The expression wasn’t the kind one would make when simply surprised. At Rembrary’s question, the Hunter asked in a trembling voice.

“How did you know that?”

“Know what?”

“That someone’s going to die here!”

“I heard it.”

“From who?!”

“Well…”

Rembrary was about to say more, but he looked to the side at the sound of the door opening. Shin Joong-woon was coming out with Amarina.

Whatever they had talked about, Amarina looked rather cheerful.

Then, Amarina even smiled brightly at Rembrary.

Her expression was like a child who had just been told a secret, making Rembrary wonder what Shin Joong-woon had said.

But before he could ask, the sound of about ten panes of glass shattering simultaneously came from outside the window again.

“!”

Shin Joong-woon and Amarina quickly approached the window as well.

“What’s going on?”

“What’s that sound?”

The two who rushed over saw the monster outside the window, their eyes widening as they each asked Hunter and Rembrary.

“What is that?”

“That thing, huh?”

Hunter, thinking that Shin Joong-woon’s question to Rembrary was strangely odd, turned around, thinking that saving people was the priority.

“Let’s figure out what it is after we catch it.”

Amarina also quickly followed that Hunter.

On the other hand, Shin Joong-woon, instead of going with them right away, watched his colleagues’ backs as they walked away, and when they were far enough, he asked Rembrary.

“Is that giant monster the story of someone dying around me?”

“I don’t know about that. But there is a grim reaper waiting around that monster.”

Only then did Shin Joong-woon follow after the two Hunters who had gone ahead.

Instead of following, Rembrary stood in the hallway with his hands behind his back, looking down, but when Shin Joong-woon pulled Rembrary again, he reluctantly had to go down to the first floor.

“Why am I going?”

Rembrary protested as he followed near the harbor, but Shin Joong-woon didn’t say anything because he knew that if he told Rembrary, ‘You’re going to cause an accident if I leave you alone,’ that petty man would treat people like anchovies again [a Korean idiom meaning to nitpick or nag someone relentlessly].

Eventually, Rembrary, who had arrived near the scene, had to climb onto a nearby pile of boxes as Shin Joong-woon led him, and watch the people take down the monster.

At first, Rembrary was listless because he had come to an unwanted place.

But as he watched the fight, he soon became curious.

The navy blue, one-eyed giant he had seen in Gyeongju before was so huge that the Hunters seemed to be struggling to handle it properly.

In the end, Rembrary couldn’t stand it and had to help after running away. [Referring to a previous event where Rembrary intervened in a monster fight.]

But the Hunters gathered here were dealing with the monster so well that it was strange that a grim reaper was waiting.

Some of those in suits fought well, but some fought particularly well, like those wearing uniforms similar to the Hunter who had tried to take Rembrary’s cell phone earlier.

“Ah!”

Only then did Rembrary remember why the uniform that Hunter was wearing looked familiar.

Shin Joong-woon had also worn such a uniform once. It was right after he came back from the High-End Hunter meeting, and it was definitely that shape, except that the border color was slightly different.

‘Is that the uniform that High-End Hunters wear? So, are those uniforms High-End Hunters, so they fight so well?’

In the meantime, the fight continued.

The Hunter who was introduced as ‘Amarina’ made a gesture of turning her hand over, and thick vines that came out of the concrete floor began to climb up the glass monster.

As the monster’s movements stopped, the Hunter in uniform took out dozens of cards and spread them in the air as if setting them up, then quickly selected a few of them and threw them at the monster.

The cards went into the gaps in the monster’s body, which was surrounded by vines, and broke the monster’s glass body from the inside.

The vines that had dug into the gap began to carve up the glass monster from the inside.

Then, the glass monster began to swing its large limbs and attack the surroundings more violently, but Shin Joong-woon created thick ice shields in places where the monster’s limbs could reach to block them instead.

“Why don’t you just freeze it?”

As Rembrary whispered next to him while watching this, Shin Joong-woon answered without moving his lips much.

“They’re fighting well. It’s a bit much if I suddenly jump in.”

‘What’s so much about it?’

Rembrary didn’t understand Shin Joong-woon’s words right away because he didn’t know that the people gathered here had different nationalities and factions, but Shin Joong-woon didn’t think about this and asked the other way around this time.

“Is the grim reaper still nearby?”

“Yes. It’s on top of those stacked containers.”

As Rembrary said that and looked at the grim reaper, the grim reaper lightly waved his hand at Rembrary.

After about 10 minutes of confrontation, the monster finally made a breaking sound and knelt down.

As the monster fell, the Hunters almost simultaneously looked at Shin Joong-woon.

Shin Joong-woon, who had been watching the battle, stepped forward and froze the fallen monster with ice.

When that work was finished, Amarina and the uniform Hunter approached, grumbling.

“You were just watching again?”

“You could have just caught it from the beginning.”

Both of them seemed to know that Shin Joong-woon was just watching. Shin Joong-woon brushed off the complaints and asked.

“Are there any dead people?”

It didn’t seem like there were any at first glance, but Rembrary had said something, and a group of people were surrounding someone not far away, so he was worried.

“I don’t know. I haven’t checked yet either.”

Amarina didn’t know what Shin Joong-woon was worried about, so she answered lightly. She said she didn’t know, but the nuance was that she didn’t think there were any dead people.

At that time. Rembrary, who had been staring blankly at something, answered instead.

“No one has died yet.”

He said that after seeing the grim reaper just watching and leaving without taking any dead people.

It seemed that the scene the grim reaper was waiting for was not here.

The uniform Hunter glanced at Rembrary again as he spoke strangely again.

But unlike when the monster appeared earlier, he was now thinking, ‘Isn’t he just saying that?’

He was terrified when the monster appeared at a perfect timing, but after dealing with the monster right away, Rembrary’s words sounded like he was just throwing them out there.

However, Rembrary didn’t know the uniform Hunter’s inner thoughts, so he shrugged nonchalantly.

* * *

For about two hours after that, Shin Joong-woon left Rembrary in the reception room with food and busily moved around.

He looked for anyone who might have died late, but there were no dead people.

However, there were a few people who were injured by the fragments when the glass monster first appeared.

Since Rembrary didn’t come officially, they were all treated by doctors.

As the situation was resolved, a brief war of nerves broke out over which country would take the captured glass monster.

Since each country had begun full-scale research on monsters, everyone wanted to take the unusual monster corpse.

But as only disputes arose and no answer was given as to who would take it, the World Hunter Association, which manages the island, decided to take it in the end.

Only after all that was over could Shin Joong-woon go find Rembrary.

But this time, he wasn’t alone either.

Amarina, who had heard from Shin Joong-woon that Rembrary had come to reconcile with him, was curious and wanted to talk more, so she followed, and for some reason, Black Gambler also followed.

Blue, who had heard the news that Rembrary had come through Amarina, was originally someone who wanted to bring Rembrary to the High-End Hunter side, so he followed urgently.

Golden ended up following along with Blue.

As a result, the number of High-End Hunters going to find Rembrary was only five.

There were a total of ten High-End Hunters, and five of them were moving in a group.

The people who had gathered for the summit looked at them worriedly, wondering if something had happened when they discovered the sight.

Shin Joong-woon, who didn’t want to stand out, was annoyed by the High-End Hunters who were following him in a row, but he knew that the more he tried to get them off, the more persistent they would be, so he had no choice but to take them.

He needed the help of his colleagues to smooth things over without widely publicizing that Rembrary had entered this island without going through any procedures, so he had to put up with this much.

“Huh? Why are you all coming in a group?”

Rembrary, who didn’t know these circumstances, was bewildered when Shin Joong-woon told him to wait a moment and then appeared with several other people after a long time.

“Mr. Rembrary!”

Before he could hear the answer, one of them called out in a particularly welcoming voice and appeared from behind Shin Joong-woon.

Rembrary immediately recognized the person and widened his eyes.

“Aren’t you Myung-shik?”

“You recognize me!”

The person shouted with a touched face and corrected him slightly.

“But my name is Blue.”

Amarina thought, ‘If you call Blue Myung-shik, doesn’t that mean you didn’t recognize him?’ but she held back because Blue’s face was so touched.

However, Black Gambler, who had been standing menacingly, raised his eyebrows and asked when Blue recognized Rembrary.

“What? Have you two met before?”

Rembrary told him with a gentle smile.

“We met at a fan signing event before. Blue is my fan.”

Blue smiled awkwardly. He became a little suspicious at this point. Is he remembering me correctly? He is Rembrary’s fan, but the two of them didn’t meet at a fan signing event.

When Woo Sung-woo disappeared, he went to Rembrary to ask him to temporarily fill the High-End Hunter position.

But Blue kept his mouth shut and watched because he was afraid of being hated if he corrected Rembrary’s memory twice.

In the meantime. Rembrary pointed to the one who was still glaring with a fierce look, who had shouted that fighting and filming were prohibited on this island before the glass monster appeared, and asked Shin Joong-woon.

“Anchovy [another nickname for Shin Joong-woon]. Is this angry person your colleague? His clothes are the same as yours.”

“He’s one of the High-End Hunters. He uses the alias Black Gambler.”

“Ah. So, are all the people who came now High-End Hunters? Why did you bring these people?”

Golden, who couldn’t introduce himself, anxiously looked around, raised his hand, and answered himself.

“I’m Golden.”

Rembrary listened absentmindedly and looked at Shin Joong-woon.

Just as Shin Joong-woon was about to answer, Black Gambler, who had been biding his time, asked openly.

“What was that about earlier? Someone’s going to die?”

Shin Joong-woon immediately understood what he was saying and had a headache. Did he already talk that far?

On the other hand, Amarina, Blue, and Golden looked at Black Gambler, wondering what he was talking about, and asked.

“Someone’s going to die?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Did Mr. Rembrary say that?”

“He said that someone was going to die near Shin Joong-woon, so he came here. The glass monster appeared as soon as he finished saying that.”

Black Gambler told him exactly what Rembrary had said and gave him a suspicious look.

“Of course, no one died, though.”

Amarina, who had heard everything from Shin Joong-woon about Rembrary coming to see him, burst out laughing.

“Haha, he must have just said it. Rembrary is the only healer in the world and has excellent attack abilities, so would he even have prophetic abilities?”

Blue also agreed with Amarina.

“I know, right? I want Mr. Rembrary, but that would be too much of a scam [an exaggeration or something too good to be true]. Especially since prophetic abilities are notoriously abstract, if he had such a precise prophetic ability―”

Before he could finish speaking, alarms went off simultaneously in the pockets of the High-End Hunters.

The High-End Hunters who took out small devices exchanged glances.

“Why is that?”

As Rembrary asked, Shin Joong-woon pointed to the red light coming from the device, thinking that it was a headache.

“It’s a signal that someone has died.”

“No way! Does he really even make prophecies?!”

Blue shouted in belated shock.