The Heavenly Idol: Episodes 9-10

The Heavenly Idol: Episodes 9-10

by Unit

Scandals, confusion (and more confusion), noble idiocy, and self-sacrifice characterize this week in the life of our heavenly idol. And as he will come to learn, sometimes his divine power is not all he needs to save the world.

 
EPISODES 9-10

As usual, Rembrary is flustered by Dal’s confession (up to the point of tumbling down the stairs, lol), and this time, Dal’s is pretty embarrassed too. To make sure that neither of them forgets this moment, their forehead kiss is secretly captured by a reporter, and it’s breaking news: Yeon-woo out on a date with a non-celebrity. Oops! Right in the middle of filming of a dating reality show where Rembrary is a cast member. Double oops!

As fallout, Dal quits being Wild Animal’s manger and working at the agency, too — but not before making herself out to be a stalker and Yeon-woo the victim of the scandal she claimed to have faked. No thanks to Dal’s self-sacrifice, the tides turn in favor of Wild Animal. Their song climbs the charts, and they get love calls from variety and music shows. Rembrary even gets to co-star in a candy CF with Woo-shin — after he saved the latter from getting killed during a stunt scene on their drama set.

Of course, the whole on set accident was engineered by the evilest member of Evil Boys. And as to how the evil boys became goblins (with the superpowers of invisibility), the most remorseful Evil Boy member explains to Rembrary that they also used to be a washed-up group until they were approached by people from a certain religion with the offer for stardom. They signed a contract with an old brush (the Afterlife’s stolen relic?) and they didn’t think too much of it until everything about them changed.

All Remorseful signed up for was popularity, not to be a bloodsucking goblin, and he begs Rembrary to help him get out of the contract. Rembrary promises to help — as he should, really, because Evil Boys were promised the Artist of the Year win, and we all know what that win means for Rembrary. Heh.

Or maybe not, because Rembrary is no longer interested in returning to The Other World thanks to his feelings for Dal. “Even if I save the whole world, if I cannot save you, I feel everything will be in vain,” he says to her, on a “Come back as our manager” visit to her house. Cute. But how does he expect a girl with feelings for him to interpret such a heart fluttering statement if he doesn’t open his mouth to actually confess? Stop confusing her, Mr. Pontifex!

Speaking of pontifices and powers, we finally get a mini Evil vs Evil showdown between The Evil One and the earthly Master of the religious group. “How dare you show up in front of me disguised as Redrin?” Evil One barks, and the Master apologizes after she’s issued a warning not to cross the line again.

In summary, we learn a few things here: the religious group are indeed Lord Redrin’s devotees. Rembrary’s divine powers were not bestowed upon him by the deity (who’s probably different from Redrin? Honestly, the whole thing is so confusing because they keep saying Redrin, and then deity, that it’s hard to tell whether they’re referring to the same being or not). And finally, Lord Redrin and Evil One made a pledge a thousand years ago, and it is his duty to kill the pontifex. Uh… what?

Back to our pontifex, the candy CF turns out to be a hit, and sales spike through the roof! Unfortunately, The Evil One goes on a rampage and uses his black magic to poison everyone who purchased the candy. With over 150 confirmed cases on life support, the CEO shuts down the company and flees, leaving Rembrary to shoulder the responsibility — alone, of course, because red-eyed Woo-shin throws him under the bus after calling him out to be in cahoots with the CEO.

Things get to a head when Rembrary tries — and fails — to heal the candy victims, and he discovers that he has lost his divine powers. “Do you know why you lost your powers? It’s because you let someone other than the deity (Dal) into your heart,” The Evil One mocks, and then urges him to take his own life in a cruel and creative way if he wants to save the candy victims. Rembrary then becomes overcome with a panic attack as it dawns on him that since he can no longer save people, he doesn’t deserve the title of a pontifex.

“What’s the cruelest and most miserable suicide you’ve ever witnessed?” Rembrary asks Gam-jae, seriously contemplating taking The Evil One’s advice. Thankfully, Dal arrives to snap him out of his morbid thoughts. Scared that The Evil One will make good on his threat to kill the people dearest to him if they get involved, Rembrary goes all noble idiot and warns Dal to stay out of it. Pfft. As if she’d stay put.

Dal ignores Rembrary’s warning and turns to her next best ally: Gam-jae. Since he’s a grim reaper, he can help her find the CEO, she reasons. “How did you know? But I seem like the average human being,” Gam-jae sputters. No, you don’t. Hehe. But really, I’m curious too. How did Dal know?

The fearless girl is neither scared of The Evil One nor the grim reaper — even though said reaper’s solution for Rembrary to regain his divine powers is for him to drink from the Afterlife’s Well of Oblivion and forget all about Dal. Oh! And for Dal to die, too, because erasing Rembrary’s memories won’t take away his feelings for her, and those feelings will be reignited the moment they cross paths again. What!?

But Rembrary absolutely refuses to sacrifice the love of his life to regain his powers — as he should, because what kind of “calling” involves sacrificing one person to save others? Anyway, the candy victims begin to die, as well as the entire staff of the candy company. Still, Rembrary cannot bring himself to drink the unholy Water of Oblivion.

In the end, Dal beats Rembrary to the Altar of Self-sacrifice. Her plan: to take the fall for the candy incident, and — in shifting the spotlight to herself — buy time for Rembrary and Gam-jae to look into the matter and clear her name once they find out the truth.

And no, it’s not just because of her feelings for Rembrary. She’s happy to do this because Rembrary fixed her — and not with his divine powers, either. It wasn’t the power that stayed beside her when she hit rock bottom, neither was it the power that taught her not to hate herself. It was all Rembrary. “Even without your powers, you can heal people,” Dal says. Rembrary is moved to tears by her belief in him, and voila! His powers return! Hurray!!

Based on everything that has happened, Gam-jae comes to a conclusion: Rembrary’s divine powers don’t come from the deity — as we already learned — but from the trust that people show him. According to Gam-jae, only a deity can possess such powers, and Rembrary seems to have the gift of a deity. *Scratches head* So, Rembrary himself is a deity? At this point, I can’t even.

Rembrary realizes that maybe The Evil One already knew the source of his divine powers, and that’s why he wanted to push away those who believed in Rembrary by spreading lies about him. This realization is a powerful, yet humbling moment — until it gets broken by Gam-jae’s deadpan “It’s a relief since we believed that killing Dal was the only way to restore your divine powers.” Who is “we”? LMAO! Gam-jae is so my favorite person on this show right now! I can’t believe how sleek he was with his escape, leaving Rembrary alone to deal with Dal’s hilarious feeling of betrayal. Heh.

But with a smooth wrist-grab, Rembrary clears the air with Dal. “I thought I had lost my powers because I was in love with you… but even if [killing you] was the only way, I would have chosen you.” And as to any doubts she might still have about his feelings for her, he silences them all with a kiss. And another. And another. And with his divine powers returned, Rembrary heals all the candy victims. Yaay!

Dal eventually locates the candy CEO, but the CEO refuses to turn himself in because he’s scared that The Evil One — or rather, his earthly host, Vice Chairman Shin — will kill him. Dal then persuades Gam-jae to appear in his reaper form to the CEO because, “I don’t know how influential the vice chairman is, but this guy is the one who decides who will die… so you better join hands with us.” Well, that’s a good sales pitch. And it works, too, because the CEO admits to the media that the vice chairman and Woo-shin were behind the whole thing.

Woo-shin is arrested. Unfortunately, The Evil One is already in the wind after escaping from the Master of the religious group — who sets out to “send him back to where he belongs” as a punishment from the deity, because due to The Evil One’s actions, Rembrary is now aware of his deity powers. Sigh. I refuse to be confused by all the deities floating around in this drama’s universe.

In happier news, Rembrary and Dal continue to bask in the glow of new love. And with the candy scandal over, it’s time for Wild Animal to make their comeback on a music show. On stage, Rembrary stops short — not for a “I do not know how to dance!” declaration — but to apologize to the fans, affirm that none of the rumors about him are true, and promise that Woo Yeon-woo will remain a wild animal to the end. Phew! The members are visibly relieved, Dal is happy, and we conclude our penultimate week.

I cannot be the only one who’s happy that the show is coming to an end next week, because this drama has long strayed from my expectations for it. Hopefully, the finale clarifies the confusion surrounding the deities, and vanquishes all the evil once and for all.

By the way, Rembrary’s unwillingness to return to The Other World aside, we’ve got Evil Boys vs Wild Animal in the running for Artist of the Year. And even if Wild Animal wins, Rembrary already promised to remain in the group till the end. Meaning no more acting? Meaning no more Best Rookie Actor award? Haha. Looks like the real Yeon-woo will have to make do with a permanent residence in The Other World.

 
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