Chapter 114: A Cry for Help

Zion had to return because the time allocated for vlog filming ended.

He had surprisingly no curiosity about what happened inside the antique shop, and his interest lay elsewhere.

“Where are you going again without me? I want to go together too!”

Namely, playing more with the Demon God.

“No, this is it.”

The Demon God firmly raised his palm and stopped Zion.

“However, thanks to you I enjoyed it. I always end up having new experiences.”

“Ah, really? Then I have time at this time and this time, how about we go play again then?”

“Not then or then.”

“Then—”

“Still no.”

“…I haven’t even said it yet?”

“No.”

“Such a thing!”

Zion was led away by his manager and left Dongmyo.

“Sun-woo!”

Origin’s on-site manager, who came with the Demon God, was also approaching from afar.

“Then shall I tidy up the rest.”

The Demon God scanned the antique stalls spread out before his eyes.

Because the merchants who had recommended the shop he just came out of hadn’t noticed the Demon God’s appearance yet.

The Demon God raised one hand forward.

Containing his lofty status, containing the power he had recovered so far, he issued an irresistible command.

Namely, to the wicked things he hadn’t dissipated earlier.

“Either disappear on your own, or dissipate to me this instant.”

The command fell.

Not a single wicked thing resisted and they disappeared on their own.

That moment, screams rang out from several stalls.

“W-Why did this break!”

“What the? Why did it suddenly melt and disappear?”

“D-Don’t tell me?”

Merchants panicking at what just happened right away, not knowing if he had prevented greater damage for them.

However, it wasn’t something he necessarily had to explain.

“Hmph.”

The Demon God quickly joined the on-site manager before the merchants could look back at him.

“Sun-woo, we should return to the dorm now, right?”

“Wait a moment. Can you guide me to this address?”

“Huh? Here? I think it’s near here?”

They just had to put it in the navigation and go.

There was nothing difficult.

Visiting the metal fabrication shop located at the corner of a nearby alley.

“Sun-woo, is this the right place? It says it’s closed down?”

“What?”

[Closed Down] was proudly attached to the fabrication shop’s main gate.

Even when the Demon God looked inside, it felt like it had been closed for a long time.

“Hmm, still I must look inside, no?”

“S-Sun-woo! What are you doing!”

Listening to the manager’s shout with the back of his ear, he easily jumped over the wall.

“U-Uh! How did he get over this high wall.”

The manager couldn’t follow him in and just kept his mouth open.

Meanwhile, the Demon God found the item he was looking for unexpectedly quickly.

From a busted sack in a corner of the yard, bracelets identical to the one Lua had been wearing were spilling out.

“Is this it.”

The Demon God picked up one bracelet.

No energy could be felt even with spiritual senses.

Just a lump of metal stamped out at a factory.

‘A design identical to the one Lua was wearing. But there is no curse.’

It is not an item imbued with a curse, a cursed object.

He checked other bracelets too, but it was the same.

‘If so, it means someone put a curse on it directly.’

Either someone put a curse on it before the counselor at the healing center bought it from Dongmyo.

Or they put a curse on it after it entered the counselor’s hands.

For example, the counselor himself.

“I must visit soon.”

Because the Demon God is not registered as a member yet—

“When did Zion say he had time earlier.”

However.

The day the Demon God ended up going to the healing center arrived earlier than expected.

***

Zion’s vlog was released.

The chemistry between the Demon God and Zion had been acknowledged by Novior fans since before. It wasn’t strange for Zion to invite the Demon God.

But still—

└ They went to Dongmyo lololol And to look at antiques at that? Are they close because their peculiar tastes unexpectedly match?

└ Probably so lol If not those two, who would go there to shoot a vlog. Most of it is cooking or something like that

└ We’d like it even if you did something like that, but you even prepared this. I got to tour Dongmyo which I’ve never been to

└ For reference, it’s Dongmyo Front Station, not Dongmyo Station

└ Who cares about that?

As the fans reacted, a Dongmyo antique tour vlog was rare.

Zion and Sun-woo are both young.

They wondered if they even knew how to look at antiques.

That question was resolved not long after the video started.

└ They went to destroy lololol It wasn’t to appreciate antiques, they went to destroy

└ I thought it was a vlog but it was a fake video. Does it make sense that things get destroyed just by looking at them?

└ Looking closely, the merchants seem like actors. There are some who feel like I’ve seen them in dramas or something

No way.

The Dongmyo merchants in the video had never even appeared as extras in a drama. They have no intention of doing so in the future either.

└ Sun-woo’s concept immersion is crazy. He really talks like a Demon God and acts like a Demon God

└ Uh… I have a friend who is a Pantheon fan… They say that’s just his real self?

└ Does that make sense

└ I’m a Pantheon fan who stopped by passing through. It’s true that that’s his real self

Novior fans still didn’t know many things—.

└ Then does it end with just doing one round of the stalls?

Of course, not every scene appeared in the vlog video.

What happened inside the antique shop was appropriately edited out.

Only the conversation between Zion and the Demon God went out as is.

└ It seems like they planned the comedy in advance, right?

└ Yeah yeah Seems they practiced thoroughly

The conversation between the two somehow talked past each other, which rather made the viewers laugh.

That alone was enough to satisfy the fans.

And, it was enough to satisfy non-fans as well.

“Ah, these guys have unexpectedly good chemistry. That’s why I’m saying the three of us should eat together.”

Lua also smiled as she watched this video.

Sun-woo is still peculiar, but Zion played well with Sun-woo without minding that peculiarity.

It seems it would be quite fun to watch them right before her eyes.

‘When the concert is over, I should use that as an excuse to ask to eat together.’

Suddenly, Sun-woo’s message asking if they absolutely had to meet came to mind, but.

‘Just with a mind wanting to see something funny, yeah.’

The purpose is observation.

Observing Sun-woo and Zion.

Thinking like this, Lua looked at the mosque-like building that revealed its appearance in the distance.

“It’s been a while.”

She visited after a long time to manage her condition.

Get a massage, do some yoga.

It seems she won’t need psychological counseling anymore.

After pondering for a moment, Lua made a decision.

“Shall I just go say hello.”

The van entered the underground parking lot instead of above ground.

Receiving and putting on a mask at the lobby, Lua headed to the psychological counseling center.

“Is the counselor here?”

“Of course. He’s always been waiting for you.”

While waiting in the waiting room, the counselor soon revealed his appearance.

He was the counselor who originally handled Lua’s phobia counseling.

“Counselor, have you been well?”

“Have you been well? It’s been a while.”

As the counselor greeted her, he pointed to the counseling room.

The two conversed even as they went inside.

“Yes, since my phobia was completely cured, this is my first time at the healing center itself.”

“Is that so. That is something to congratulate. The treatment was difficult, you know.”

“Right? But there was a catalyst.”

“A catalyst.”

Lua and the counselor sat facing each other in their respective chairs.

The counseling room she had visited often before for phobia treatment.

This arrangement was familiar too.

Yet, Lua felt a somewhat heterogeneous sensation.

“Lua, why are you looking around? Nothing has changed since then.”

“Really? But it’s a little….”

Because she doesn’t know the reason for the heterogeneous feeling itself, it’s hard to explain it.

However, she could know one reason.

She felt it on her skin.

“Counselor, it’s strangely cold inside the counseling room. Are you okay, counselor?”

“Of course.”

“Didn’t you originally get cold easily? My memory says so.”

“Because people change.”

“Your constitution?”

Does it change as one gets older, Lua tilted her head.

“Things that are not people change too.”

“Yes?”

“Lua, your intuition has gotten better while I haven’t seen you.”

The counselor smiled calmly and leaned his body forward.

“It’s because of a special program that it’s cold.”

Chilly air.

For instance, cold like when a spirit appears.

Lua shivered slightly.

***

And a few days later, inside Pantheon’s van.

Today too, the members were moving after finishing a schedule.

Each taking a rest or doing their tasks on their phones.

“Huh? Senior Lua canceled her schedule?”

At Yoon-seo’s words, everyone inside the van and the Demon God pricked up their ears.

“Canceled?”

“Yes, it’s an attendance for a small event though. They only said she couldn’t participate due to health issues.”

Listening to this, Tae-young tilted his head.

“That’s strange. Senior Lua is famous for not canceling. She’s been active for a long time, but I’ve never seen an article about her canceling.”

Then Team Leader Oh Dae-ho spoke from the front.

Because he had also been at Izm and left, he knew a little about Lua.

“Tae-young is right. Because she debuted young, she tried hard not to be looked down upon. She maintained an even stricter attitude as a professional. But a cancellation, that’s somewhat strange?”

Everyone looked back at the Demon God.

“I tend not to make trivial contacts, but.”

“Do you guys have a close relationship or not? You didn’t force her to be cast, right?”

The Demon God thought for a moment and answered.

“Have I ever forced things?”

““…….””

Everyone forgot what to say.

At times like this, as always, Tae-young opened his mouth a little later.

“It’s true that Senior Lua said yes, right?”

“Of course! Do not dare to doubt.”

Every time the Demon God gave a definite answer, doubts welled up….

Eventually, around the time Tae-young decided he needed to check the Demon God’s phone, they heard Oh Dae-ho’s voice answering a phone call that just came in.

“What? Lua’s side canceled the meeting?”

““?””

This time, everyone ended up looking toward Oh Dae-ho.

To not contact the Team Leader directly, but contact the company so the Team Leader gets the message belatedly.

“What did they say? Huh? They just gave a notification and that’s it?”

Even the cancellation contact seemed to have been a one-sided notification.

Oh Dae-ho finished the call and lowered his phone.

“What is this?”

“Team Leader, what happened?”

The Demon God also narrowed his eyes.

“Izm’s manager contacted us. Well, I can guess. Lua intends to appear at our concert because she’s close with you, Sun-woo, but there’s no way Izm would like that, right.”

Izm and Origin are enemies.

Unless Lua notified them directly, the story was that the Izm manager wouldn’t go out of their way to contact them kindly.

“I just looked it up.”

Ji-ho said while scrolling through something on his phone.

“Senior Lua, she hasn’t been on SNS for a week either? She seemed to have been steadily posting for her fans. That stopped.”

Then the fans were leaving comments too.

└ Unni! Why have you been scarce lately?

└ I saw the cancellation article! Unni, are you okay?

└ Our Unni never cancels? Are you very unwell somewhereㅠㅠ? It’s not, rightㅠㅠ?

└ ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

└ Get well soon!

The Demon God tilted his head.

“She is sick?”

The Demon God also used his phone and watched several of Lua’s videos.

Unless she suddenly collapsed or got into an accident, she was someone who would definitely contact him.

If such a thing happened to a celebrity of Lua’s caliber, an article would definitely come out soon.

But there is nothing at all.

The Demon God quietly lifted his phone.

[Contact me]

If the external reason is not the truth—

[Whatever it is, do not hesitate]

Thus, if she is experiencing difficulties—

[I shall help]

The Demon God was here.

The Demon God who could resolve even things humans cannot solve in a single stroke.

Sitting right inside this van, not far away anywhere.

– Bzzzt.

The vibration sound of a message arriving.

Is it Lua?

The Demon God looked down at his phone screen.

“Hm?”

The messenger account itself was Lua’s, but the sender was different.

[I am Lua Unni’s younger sister]

[Is it possible for me to meet and consult with you regarding Unni’s matter?]

The Demon God typed a message without hesitation.

[Immediately possible]

Of course it is possible.

And immediately, at that.

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