Holy Idol - Chapter 2

As soon as the music ended and after coming down from the stage, a young man wearing glasses roughly grabbed Rembrary’s arm and shouted,

“Hey, you punk! What are you doing? Do you want all of us to die together?!”

The eyeballs of the young man wearing glasses that came running were frighteningly enlarged.

The young man, with his other hand, grabbed the surprised Rembrary’s hair and cried out,

“Are you crazy? Are you crazy! You decided to let it sink just because it won’t float? You wanted to at least leave your name, so you want to leave it with the greatest broadcasting incident. Is that it?”

Where did the person who energetically cheered me up earlier go? his expression now is terrifying.

The young man wearing glasses shouted until the blood came up to his throat, but the music on the stage was too loud so his shouting was ineffective.

“Come here, you crazy bastard!”

Perhaps the young man wearing glasses also noticed this, so he pulled Rembrary’s arm to draw him closer.

After returning to their waiting room, the young man wearing glasses finally let go of Rembrary’s arm and shouted
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“What are you going to do? I said, what are you going to do?! Do you know that there are dozens, no, a few hundred kids who want to stand on your stage? You said you wanted to stand on a stage. You said you wanted to be a celebrity! A kid like you gets to stand on the stage… you really, how much I want to grab one of this stage…”

The young man wearing glasses couldn’t even speak properly anymore. He hit himself on the chest in anger.

Other young men who also went up on stage started to get sarcastic.

“Did you get paid with money? Who would want you to ruin the stage? You want to take over the real-time search keyword?”

“Oh my God. You’re going to kill us, you’re going to drive a stake through us.”

“You’ve cut off the last lifeline.”

“This is driving me crazy… If you want to die, you should die by yourself. No, even if you die alone you’d still cause an uproar.”

Rembrary still doesn’t know what was going on. However, he could tell that the atmosphere is very heavy just by looking.

“There’s no chair.” Rembrary calmly explained the situation to the young man wearing glasses.

“Wasn’t I asked to sit on the chair? But there was no chair.”

“Fuck, I don’t want to hear it so shut up! You still dare to fool around while we’re in this mess?!”

But I guess it wasn’t the situation that mattered to them.

The yellow-haired young man clicked his tongue and mocked him.

“Don’t an unknown idol get treated like this every other day? You should’ve just gone to a corner.”

“What do you mean an unknown idol?”

Rembrary, who considered “idol” to be the last name or maybe the first name of the original owner’s body, asked in embarrassment.

“Then, are you an unknown idol or a famous idol?” The young man wearing glasses pressed his voice and sarcastically said.

Rembrary finally found out that “idol” is not a person’s name or surname. It was like a job where you’re either unknown or famous. Or something like that.

However, there was one thing that was certain. Rembrary could somehow understand the words, but Remrary’s world and this world were very different.

What do you do if you want to communicate? There are so many words that are difficult to understand. As soon as Rembrary discovered this fact, he used his wits to make excuses.

“It is just like what the yellow-haired young man said earlier. I hit my head in the morning.”

Rembrary then pointed his finger to the side of his head.

“This seems to be a problem. I don’t even know who you are right now.”

Even the person who entered this body has a hard time believing the current situation.

Honestly, if I had said that “I’m the High Priest Rembrary, and I was trying to save the world until a few hours ago”, nobody would’ve believed me. I think it would be better to explain it this way.

“I’m telling you the truth!”

However, the young man wearing glasses kept tapping his chest and did not believe any of the words spewing out of Rembrary’s mouth.

Then someone knocked on the waiting room door.

“Stay here. Don’t even think about going to the bathroom!”

When the young man wearing glasses, who was yelling earlier, went outside, the other young men started to take turns criticizing Rembrary again.

What the hell is this…

Rembrary became sullen and approached the doorway.

He didn’t even get the chance to open the door when he heard a loud shout from the outside.

“Wild Animals?! No, never, unless dirt gets into my eyes. I can’t put you in the music scene!”

“Please, Woo PD-nim. What are you talking about? I’m sorry. It’s because he wasn’t feeling well today. I. We’ll explain it properly with an article-”

“He was standing upright with his back straight, and you’re saying he’s not feeling well?”

“Oh, he was trying to hide it. Look at how pale his face is right now. Our Yeonwoo is in the waiting room right now, crying because he feels sorry.”

“That’s your situation. Now is not the time for me to argue with other people. I also want to cry! If you’re sick, then tell us that you’re sick! The chair too, if you asked we would’ve brought one out!”

“Sorry, uh, it’s my fault. I should have said something!”

Rembrary looked down awkwardly.

He doesn’t know who’s the person that is angry. However, the voice of the one apologizing to the angry person was clearly the voice of the young man wearing glasses.

He angrily shouted and scolded me right here.

Rembrary is too embarrassed to go outside, where someone is defending him.
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What the hell is going on…

Rembrary sighed……

***
-Woo Yeonwoo silence

-Woo Yeonwoo, I don’t know how to dance

-Wild Animal Woo Yeonwoo

-Woo Yeonwoo

-Wild Animal

– Idol ignoring live broadcast

-Music Music broadcast incident

A thumb was quickly moving up and down on the screen of a black coloured phone. CEO Im swiped the screen with emotionless eyes, then sighed and looked at Jongwoo.

Jongwoo, the manager of the idol group <Wild Animal>, was bowing his head.

“Jongwoo.”

CEO Im called him in a soft voice.

“Yes, sir.”

“Did you see the real-time search keywords?”

“…Yes.”

“I want to say that.”

“Yes.”

“It’s my first time seeing a family member of my agency dominate the search keywords like this.”

“…I’m sorry.”

Jongwoo barely let out an answer without even raising his head.

“The person said that he lost his memories…”

“Jongwoo, do you believe that?”

“…No.”

CEO Im held his nape and leaned his head against the chair.

‘Wild Animal’, a three-year-old idol nicknamed ‘nuclear submarine’ LLL Entertainment, the agency of Wild Animal, was originally an actor-specialized entertainment agency. Then, when the K-pop Korean Wave hit. Several idol groups emerged as the main attention of the craze. LLL Entertainment launched an idol group rapidly to keep up with the trend of the time.

And this was Wild Animal.

However, the group that debuted without preparation did not show any sign of becoming popular, contrary to the aspiration that it would somehow work out.

In order to receive good songs through their method, they visited famous composers and even recruited foreign choreographers to match the song with complicated dance moves.
A significant portion of the budget for the actors was invested into Wild Animal.

However, in the era where countless numbers of idol groups came out, Wild Animal couldn’t stand out.

They kept on saying to just scrap the idea, but CEO Im continued to pour money with affection because this was the first group that they launched.

I couldn’t give you a good meal nor a good accommodation, but I tried to give you good songs and good choreography. He persuaded himself, almost like brainwashing, that they would somehow stay afloat if he held on…

Since all the faces are passable, let’s try making them become actors if it doesn’t work out, and since his face is not well known, he will be less likely to be criticized for “He wanted to act so he became an idol”

But… he caused such a huge incident.

CEO Im let out a very pained voice.

Woo Yeonwoo is a member of Wild Animal that is a little bit well-known. It’s only a little bit of recognition, but that little recognition was important for an unknown idol group.

“Listen. No, no. Come and see for yourself.”

CEO Im showed the top comments after clicking on the article that people saw the most on the Internet entertainment news.

“Now, look at it from here to here in order of recommendation.”

– Is it because the group’s name is Wild Animal? So the head is also like an animal? ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ That thinking is also wild.

ㄴIt’s all-time mental. If your mentality is like that, you have to admit it.

“······”

-Would you watch a group that came out with a name like a Wild Wnimal? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-This is my first time seeing an idol with guts like that appearing on stage for a living.

-Is it because they don’t have any money so they can’t do media manipulationㅠㅠ?

-I bet 100 won for this group to float.

ㄴ With this situation, it’ll take more that 100 won for them to float.

-Do idols just need to stand still these days? The world is good. I think I will do it too.

ㄴI can’t do it ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-He’s got a name for his agency. – But, did he get plastic surgery?

ㄴ Did not, did so

-I don’t know how to dance!

ㄴ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㄴ But why did he yell like that?

– It seems that there is a problem with his agency…

The more the CEO Im scrolls down the screen with his finger, the more Jongwoo’s head is lowered.

“Well, tell me what you’re going to do”

With a sigh, CEO Im put his cell phone down on the desk and instructed.

“Call Woo Yeonwoo.”

***

After exiting the waiting room and riding a strange carriage, they arrived in a different building.

It was a smaller building than the first building, but as soon as they arrived, the young man wearing glasses went inside the building, leaving Rembrary and other young men and went straight ahead somewhere.

The other young men seem to know what this place is, with a lot more relaxed attitude than before, they scattered around.

Rembrary just stood there.

After a long time.

The young man wearing glasses came and asked with a surprised look, “Have you been doing this all this time?”

Rembrary looked absentmindedly, he titled his head with a frown as an answer.

“Please follow me once.”

He guided me in some kind of room, when I entered the room, there was a large desk and a nameplate with the name ‘ CEO Im Seon-Il’ placed on the desk.

In front of the desk, a scary-looking man was sitting, but when he saw Rembrary, he sighed and called out, “Woo Yeonwoo.”

As soon as Rembrary noticed the word ‘CEO’ on the nameplate on the desk, he realized immediately that he had a higher position than the young man wearing glasses.

Besides, unlike the other easily excited young men, he looked relatively calm.

As soon as Rembrary made his decision, he tried to communicate with some hope.

“Im Seon-Il. I have something to say.”

But as soon as Rembrary’s words were uttered, the young man wearing glasses screamed loudly and pressed the back of Rembrary’s head.

“I’m sorry, CEO-nim! Hey, why are you talking informally? Are you crazy?!”

The young man wearing glasses was on the verge of fainting.

He humbly apologized for the impoliteness of him speaking informally.

My heart started pounding.

However, instead of getting angry, CEO Im widened his eyes and shook his hand.

“Wait a minute.”

As the young man wearing glasses removed his hand, Rembrary lifted his head again, which was being forcibly pressed down.

CEO Im stared at Rembrary with a serious face. When their eyes met, he raised his eyebrows and after a while, he frowned. Then he suddenly got up from his desk and went to the bookshelf. He went to the bookshelf and pulled out an album, then a small piece of paper from the album.

CEO Im handed the paper to Rembrary and asked.

“Do you know who this person is?”

A portrait full of realism was drawn on the paper.

“I don’t know. What’s wrong with this?”

When Rembrary replied, CEO Im clicked his tongue.

“You must have really lost your memory.”

The young man wearing glasses made a ridiculing noise.

When I looked at him wondering what was wrong, CEO Im said in a solemn voice.

“It’s a picture of your parents.”