Holy Idol

Chapter 12: I Want To Sing It Sacredly

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“What do you mean I’m good at my role?”

Jongwoo, who didn’t inform him anything about the evil editing, was embarrassed and looked around.

“It’s just your image during shooting, your image during shooting.”

Rembrary thought, ‘That sounds like a lie’, but didn’t ask more.

Kim Moorok PD looked at Jongwoo with a meaningful glance, but he also shut his mouth

“By the way, Woo Yeonwoo-ssi sure speaks prettily. My nephew is eight years old, and she speaks exactly the same.”

“Is there something weird about the way I speak?”

At Rembrary’s words, which is likely to appear in an elementary school moral book, Jongwoo bit his lips tightly, and KC laughed openly. Even Seon Woosil, who had been fighting with Rembrary, burst into laughter.

Thanks to the appearance of Kim Moorok PD, everyone became more docile and the atmosphere improved, but Kim Moorok PD was a busy person.

He had 20 participants who wanted to talk to him a little, so he couldn’t stay there all the time.

“I’ll look forward to it, Woo Yeonwoo-ssi.”

Kim Moorok PD tapped Rembrary on the back and told to Seon Woosil as well,

“Seon Woosil-ssi, well. I’m sure you’ll sweep it all.”

(T/N: Sweep it all: Win it all)

And then he went to another place.

KC’s expression darkened, as he was the only one who didn’t receive a greeting, but Jongwoo could not pay attention to KC because he was too concerned about Seon Woosil.

Fortunately, instead of picking a fight, Seon Woosil muttered, “Strange b*st*rd”, then went away.

For the last time, Rembrary compared Seon Woosil’s looks with the picture in the cell phone, and belatedly asked Jogwoo,

“Are they really the same person?”

“They’re the same. It’s because it was photoshopped too much.”

“What is photoshop?”

“To make the picture appear better than the real thing. To balance it, to enlarge or reduce the eyes…”

“Aaah.”

Rembrary immediately understood.

Even in his original world, when they paint portraits, they would often paint them differently from the real person. Usually, it’s just for self-satisfaction, so it doesn’t matter. However, in marriages between countries, portraits that are different from the real thing have sometimes become a problem.

The royal family’s political marriage was a result of the fact that the delegates often talked only with portraits and conditions. As a High Priest, Rembrary was responsible for the weddings of the royal family, and this was a big headache for him.

“Why are you laughing?”

“ I just thought of the old days.”

“Did a snippet of your memory come back?”

A new participant came in just in time, so Rembrary was able to pass the question over. Afterwards, the participants arrived one by one until two o’clock, and later, everyone was busy greeting each other.

Managers exchanged business cards between themselves, and participants also greeted randomly, whether they knew them or not.

Jongwoo, while exchanging business cards, will anxiously look at Rembrary from time to time.

KC will surely do a good job, but he’s worried about Rembrary.

However, unlike Jongwoo’s concern, Rembrary got along surprisingly well with the other participants.

In fact, his king-like way of speaking and lack of common sense made him look like an oddball, but Rembrary’s personality isn’t bad in nature.

Jongwoo was relieved and focused on his work, and Rembrary, with a friendly smile, gradually made friends with the other participants. But when they were in the middle of a conversation, suddenly, there was a popping sound and the light around them disappeared. Then there was a small scream.

Rembrary was also looking around to see what’s going on, then only one light came back.

It came from Kim Moorok PD’s side, and the person holding the camera was standing next to Kim Moorok PD.

“Welcome to the Real 100% Authentic Survival, Sing Survival.”

When Kim Moorok PD smiled and talked, the lighting came back.

The participants buzzed.

When someone shouted, “Ack, No, I’m not wearing any makeup!” The sound of laughter was heard and the atmosphere became more comfortable.

Producer Kim Moorok finished the explanation.

“As you may have heard in advance, the contest takes place every two weeks. Like today, we meet on Monday to receive assignments, prepare the contest for a week and hold the contest next Monday, and so on.”

“…”

“As for the result, I thought a lot about how to make it as fair as possible. Should we do voting for free on the Internet, SNS voting, paid text voting, expert judge, audience judge…”

Kim Moorok PD smiled mischievously.

“But when I think about it, it seems that popular people will have more advantage when it comes to voting, and older people will have more advantage when it comes to judging. So, we decided to make a thorough result-oriented winner by comparing music revenue and Youtube views revenue!”

Rembrary absentmindedly stood still as he couldn’t understand half of what he’s saying, but the participants around him burst out a sigh.

The person holding the camera, took a closer shot at Rembrary’s calm image.

“We will do a week-long basis calculation of the revenue, and we’re going to announce the winner and the loser on the following Monday. And as I’ve said before, the loser will take on the role of a servant.”

There was a sigh again, but Rembrary, who had lived in the world of the status system, remained calm again.

“The top seven will be able to order around the loser one after another in one day! But the time spent on ordering around should not exceed three hours per person. The loser must also prepare for the next contest.”

The someone faintly muttered,

“If you’re not confident, then just be the loser and secure a week’s worth of screentime.”

Perhaps he heard the sound, Kim Moorok PD gave the person a warning look, pointing his fingers towards that direction.

“If you become the loser three times, you will be automatically eliminated from Survival.”

Then he shared a few more jokes and then shouted.

“The first contest assignment, let’s start with the basics! ‘Sing the same song on your way’!”

While looking at him blankly, the cameraman focusing and casting a light at Kim Moorok PD, lowered the camera down.

Producer Kim Moorok stopped talking like a host and laughed and asked the participants.

“You’re all surprised, weren’t you?”

While the participants jokingly protested, Rembrary was caught by Jongwoo and stood together with KC.

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“Has the camera been rolling since we greeted each other?”

The group returning to the car was caught by two strangers with small cameras.

One was the woman who was pushing a camera into Rembrary while Producer Kim Moorok was talking, and the other was a man who was pushing a camera in front of Kathy.

Jongwoo screamed hopelessly at what one of them said.

“I’m sorry, PD-nim said that it would look natural this way.”

Jongwoo made a grunting sound.

‘No wonder.’

He was laughing even though Rembrary was arguing with his sunbae, Seon Woo sil. He probably thought that it would be selected as the most famous scene, so he was in a good mood.

Rembary, regardless of what they do, went into the car.

The woman, who followed the Rembrary, quickly greeted him with a smile as she sat face to face with him in a narrow car.

“Hello, I’m Park Eunseon.”

“Hello, I’m Woo Yeonwoo.”

Jongwoo, who was looking nervously at Rembrary, was relieved when he greeted her normally.

When the car started, Jongwoo asked the person holding the camera for some information.

“When and where will the camera film?”

“We are going to film the preparation for the contest for a week. And the contest scene… and the waiting room reaction during the contest, we won’t film while waiting for the result.”

“You will film for one week, and won’t film for one week?”

“Yes. Then, when you go back to the beginning and get an assignment, we’ll film them preparing for the assignment… like this.”

“You won’t film for 24 hours, right?”

Jongwoo asked, taking a look at Rembrary.

“Of course.If you give us a call once you’re prepared, then we will bring the camera and wait for you.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Eunseon quickly typed a number on her cell phone and handed it out.

“This is my number.”

Once Jongwoo saved Eunseon’s number, Eunseon also gave her number to Rembrary.

Fortunately, there is a precedent of saving the members’ phone numbers, so Rembrary was able to save the number naturally.

Eunseon mumbled,

“What else…”

and explained again.

“Aaaah,That’s right. Even if you are not preparing for the contest, tell me if there are things you want to show, such as your daily life, or something like that. Let’s try filming it, and if it’s okay, I’ll probably be able to go out.”

“Then, can I call you when Yeonwoo and KC are together with the other members? Going out together…”

“Of course!”

When Eunseon answered without hesitation, Jongwoo let out a satisfied smile.

“We will start filming again from now on.”

As the camera started rolling again, Jongwoo awkwardly lowered his eyes towards the floor. KC also seemed to be burdened by the camera attached on his side. In the midst of this, Rembrary was the only one who was indifferent.

As the High Priest, he sometimes carried dozens of attendants with him at many times.

He lived his life while receiving glances full of expectation all the time, this much is nothing to him.

Eunseon admired that the problem child, who recently dominated the real-time search word, seems to be born with a lot of guts.

In the meantime, Jongwoo awkwardly fiddled with his hands, and opened his mouth like he was reading a book,

“Ah, Yeonwoo-ya, KC-ya, how are you going to sing the competition’s song?”

KC, who is more familiar with the camera than Jongwoo, responded quickly and naturally.

“Since we have to sing it in our own style, I’ll have to re-arrange the original song,right?”

“But wouldn’t it be okay if we don’t do it?”

“Let’s listen to the song first.”

Rembrary silently watches KC fiddle with his cell phone.

After a while, a foreign music started to play from the phone.

Rembrary frowned because he couldn’t understand anything. KC, on the other hand, nodded his head and sang along with the song.

When the song was over, KC quickly said to Jongwoo.

“I want to do it in a musical style.”

Then asked Rembrary,

“How about you?”

Jongwoo tried to tell Rembrary to sing the song as close as possible to the original song.

It was because of the idea that Rembrary’s clear and clean tone would be advantageous when breaking through the front. Besides, Rembrary would be overwhelmed with memorizing lyrics in a week.

Thinking about it realistically, there’s not enough time to re-arranged it.

“Yeowoo, do you want to go with the original song? It might be okay, because the others will not do it.”

However, Rembrary had already thought about it from the time he was told to ‘sing it your own way.’ Rembrary shook his head and said.

“I want to sing it like a choir.”

“Like Sister Act.?”

Eunseo, who was beside him and couldn’t hold back speaking, asked.

(T/N: Sister Act is a 1992 American Christian comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Paul Rudnick (as Joseph Howard), with musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman.  Source: wikipedia)

“That’s a good idea.”

But Rembrary shook his head.

“I will sing it in a formal sacred choir style.”

Eunseon was bewildered and asked again.

“Yes?”

“Do you not know the lyrics of the song?”

“I don’t know.”

When Rembrary answered nonchalantly, KC, who was beside him, informed.

“I have a lot of money, I have a lot of things, I’m so handsome, everyone loves only me, and your lover is my future lover… It’s a song like this.”

(PR/N: basically it’s an ‘unholy’ song)

“!”

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