Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 692

◈ 692. I Know a Lot!

As Rembrary wore a smug smile, the high-end Hunters all gaped.

They were all individuals praised as remarkable in their own countries or within the world of Hunters, officially counted among the ‘ten strongest in the world.’

Naturally, they rarely found themselves surprised by someone else’s abilities.

But the fact that Rembrary, the world’s only Healer, also possessed a fairly accurate precognitive ability left them speechless.

Shin Joong-hyun, who had been watching the situation, sighed and said,

“Say you don’t. You’ll invite troublesome misunderstandings.”

“I am great, though.”

“I know. You’re great enough, so say you’re not if you’re not. You’re great even without being able to predict the future.”

Only after hearing Shin Joong-hyun’s words did the high-end Hunters begin to ask, bewildered.

“You can’t predict the future?”

“Then what was that just now?”

Rembrary, who had been trying to tease them a bit more, had no choice but to admit it.

“I can’t predict the future. I’m just using my keen mind to speculate about it.”

“So, this is also speculation…?”

“No, this time I just heard it from someone and know it.”

Fortunately, although precognitive ability users were rare, there were already several, so when Rembrary made the excuse that he ‘heard it from someone,’ they all thought it could be possible.

It was much more believable than a fraudulent ability of being both a Healer and a seer.

However, Black Gambler, who seemed to be suspicious of Rembrary, acted like a contrarian, keeping his mouth shut until now, but as others seemed ready to move on, he suddenly asked sharply.

“Earlier, when Rembrary and I were in front of the window, a monster suddenly appeared in the harbor. At that time, the door opened, and Shin Joong-hyun and Amarina came this way. As soon as Amarina saw the monster, she was surprised and asked, ‘What is that?’ But Shin Joong-hyun almost simultaneously asked Rembrary, ‘Is that it?’ As if he had heard in advance that a monster would appear! And you’re saying you don’t have precognitive abilities?”

At those words, everyone now looked at Shin Joong-hyun, but he immediately clarified.

“I heard information about someone dying from Rembrary in advance. We have not denied that. We just said that there is another seer who told Rembrary that information.”

Black Gambler snorted at the immediate response but couldn’t find any more fault and shut his mouth.

Amarina, who had been excited to ask Rembrary how he fought with Shin Joong-hyun, felt deflated as the atmosphere turned sharp and cursed.

“That bastard’s stage name is hipster, but his actions are petty.”

Rembrary, with hair the color of Mulu [a specific shade of blue], widened his eyes at Amarina’s unrestrained words.

Blue wasn’t really interested in whether Rembrary was making predictions or not, so he approached Rembrary and slyly tried to continue their previous conversation.

“There’s been talk of gradually increasing the number of high-end Hunters. Rembrary, why don’t you join us this time? Since you’re close to Shin Joong-hyun, you could become partners with me and get even closer to me.”

Golden watched those figures and looked down at the device in his hand.

The device still had a red light on. But no one seemed to care.

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The group began to move in a line only after someone came in and asked, “What are you doing gathered here? Aren’t you coming?”

Rembrary was going to sit leisurely on the sofa since it wasn’t his job, but he was dragged along by Blue and ended up moving with them.

When he arrived at the hall, he found that only Hunters in uniform were gathered, and Rembrary was the only one out of place.

The gathered Hunters all glanced at Rembrary.

Shin Joong-hyun finally noticed Blue holding Rembrary’s arm and nudged him to let go of Rembrary.

But Rembrary had already arrived at this spot and was receiving everyone’s attention.

Shin Joong-hyun wondered if he should send Rembrary away now, but before that, he heard the sound of the door closing, and the lights dimmed by half. There was no way out.

Having no choice, Shin Joong-hyun sighed and instructed Rembrary.

“Crouch down.”

“Me? You’re telling me to crouch down?”

“If you don’t want to get involved in troublesome things, crouch down.”

After Shin Joong-hyun said that and asked Amarina for help, Amarina, who vaguely knew the situation, quickly went behind Rembrary and stood there.

Unlike Amarina, Blue didn’t know what was going on, but he stood to the right side of Rembrary to make a good impression.

Golden also stood to the left side of Rembrary, not knowing why he had to do this.

Since the tall Rembrary was still towering, Shin Joong-hyun grabbed the end of Rembrary’s clothes and signaled him to bend down.

Eventually, almost at the same time as Rembrary reluctantly crouched down, someone’s voice was heard.

“Everyone arrived so quickly. As expected of high-end Hunters. Well, the strongest ones are always late.”

It was a voice Rembrary had never heard before.

‘Who is it?’

Rembrary wanted to stretch his legs and see who was speaking now, but he thought there must be a reason why Shin Joong-hyun was telling him to do this, so he held back.

In the meantime, that person continued to speak.

“Everyone received the signal and knows, but someone died. I don’t know if a person killed them or a monster killed them. If a person is the culprit, it will be an Awakened one [a human with supernatural abilities], and if a monster is the culprit, it will be a composite monster.”

‘Composite?’

“Either way, it’s not easy. The deceased was a staff member in charge of the high-end Hunter accommodations, so you guys should catch the culprit or monster yourselves. Don’t make the gathered guests feel uneasy.”

Listening to the admonishing speech, it seemed that this person was the leader of those gathered here.

But apart from that, Rembrary wondered why they bothered to dim the lights just to say such admonishments.

However, as he stood there blankly, unable to ask such questions, the darkened lights turned back on, as if reflecting Rembrary’s feelings.

Starting with that, those who had been quiet began to talk among themselves.

It seemed that keeping their mouths shut when the lights were dimmed was the rule here.

But unlike the others who felt a little more comfortable as the lights brightened, Rembrary still had to keep crouching because the people standing to his left, right, front, and back didn’t move out of the way.

As he wondered how long he would have to stay like this, feeling stuffy, unexpectedly, the voice from earlier was heard very close by this time.

“Who are you hiding again?”

Rembrary immediately understood and raised his head, seeing a person he had never seen before leaning out between Shin Joong-hyun and Amarina and looking down at him.

The dirty blonde hair was scattered haphazardly, but the face beneath it was that of a sharp, elite-looking person.

On top of that, he wore silver-rimmed glasses, making him look even colder.

Then, as his eyes naturally met Rembrary’s, the person tilted his head for a moment and said with a sigh, “Oh.”

“You’re him. Our baby, good baby.”

‘Our baby? Good baby?’

While Rembrary couldn’t understand at all, the person playfully lit up his latte-colored eyes and asked Shin Joong-hyun.

“Isn’t that right, Mr. Baby?”

“Sardine. Is your nickname Baby?”

When Rembrary burst out laughing at the nickname, Shin Joong-hyun sighed briefly.

If Rembrary hadn’t called during the meeting and said, ‘Aren’t you our baby? Good baby?’ that person wouldn’t be teasing him like this.

But it was absurd that the main culprit was laughing like that.

However, Shin Joong-hyun knew that Rembrary was likely to not even remember what happened at that time even if he brought it up, so he simply replied, “No.”

Then he signaled Rembrary that he could get up. Now that things had come to this, there was no point in hiding Rembrary any longer.

As Rembrary stretched out his crouching legs, his height suddenly rose upwards.

The person who had spoken to Rembrary widened his eyes as Rembrary’s eye level suddenly rose.

“Who are you to call Sardine ‘Baby’?”

Then, as Rembrary asked with a gentle smile, the person asked back with a slightly surprised expression.

“You don’t know me?”

“Many people know me. But I don’t need to recognize each of those people.”

As Rembrary smoothly returned the answer, the person burst into laughter and held out his hand.

“One of the high-end Hunters.”

At that affable attitude, Rembrary couldn’t understand why Shin Joong-hyun had made him crouch down to avoid that person.

However, the moment he shook the hand that the person extended. The Hunter, who seemed like a nice guy, gripped Rembrary’s hand with tremendous force and added in a completely different atmosphere than before.

“I’m also the chairman of the World Hunter Association. And I haven’t heard any reports that this celebrity has come to my island within the last week. What’s going on, Mr. Shin?”

The last question was directed at Shin Joong-hyun, not Rembrary.

The atmosphere suddenly turned sharp. Black Gambler didn’t miss this opportunity and quickly jumped in.

“That guy is suspicious, Chairman. He knew someone was going to die and came here. He said he heard a prediction from someone else, but we should still find out for sure. Don’t you think?”

“Really?”

The chairman asked Rembrary.

Rembrary met the sharply shining eyes behind the glasses. The chairman’s eye color was soft, but his gaze was as sharp as a beast.

Rembrary stared intently into those eyes, then glanced at the Grim Reaper standing by the door.

Next to the Grim Reaper stood a deceased person with an aggrieved expression, as if she was about to take him away.

When his eyes met Rembrary’s, the Grim Reaper asked with lip movements, ‘Are you coming back with me?’

Rembrary paused for a moment, lost in thought, then asked the chairman.

“Did the deceased happen to have brown hair and a large scar on his cheek?”

At Rembrary’s question, the corners of the chairman’s mouth turned upwards.

“Oh, my. It seems our celebrity really came knowing something?”

Although it was said indirectly, it was no different from saying it was correct, so the surrounding high-end Hunters exchanged glances with each other.

On the other hand, the deceased, seeing that Rembrary was looking at him and seemed to be acquainted with the Grim Reaper, wore a lively expression and said something to the Grim Reaper, then approached Rembrary and pointed at someone with his hand.

He even mouthed, ‘Culprit. Culprit. This bastard is the culprit,’ in case Rembrary didn’t understand.

The person the deceased was pointing at was a completely unexpected person.

As Rembrary’s gaze looked at the air because he was looking at the deceased, the surrounding high-end Hunters also looked in the same direction. But they couldn’t see anything.

When Rembrary blinked to signal that he understood, the deceased made a hand heart to thank Rembrary and quickly went back to the Grim Reaper.

The Grim Reaper asked Rembrary again, ‘You’re not coming with me, right?’ and when Rembrary nodded slightly, she took the deceased and entered the path to the afterlife.

Rembrary looked at the chairman again and opened his mouth with a smile.

“I know something. I even know who the culprit is.”

“!”