Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 738

738. You’re Right, I’m Amazing

“What’s going on?”

Heather pulled Ridal away as he asked. After setting Ridal down, Heather looked at Rembrary again, who wordlessly opened his arms.

Heather placed the two children in front of the carriage and shouted to the coachman.

“Come here. I need you close, just in case.”

The coachman also got down from his seat and approached. He looked even more frightened than Ridal.

Rembrary realized that the situation was unusual.

Heather frequently looked around. The paladin they were supposed to meet was nowhere to be seen.

“Where are the paladins?”

Ridal asked Heather, seemingly thinking the same thing.

“They should be waiting here, but I don’t see them.”

As Heather answered, Ridal asked again, “Then shouldn’t we wait inside the carriage? Or at a nearby inn?”

The coachman looked at Heather with an anxious expression.

Rembrary realized that there was more to the story that the two adults weren’t telling. It was clear they weren’t providing all the information because he and Ridal were young.

Instead of explaining, Heather took out three small bottles from her pocket and handed one each to the coachman, Rembrary, and Ridal.

“Keep these with you, and if something that doesn’t seem human approaches, or someone who uses dangerous powers, throw these at them.”

“Heather, what’s going on?”

Ridal burst into tears.

Rembrary tried to open the bottle and taste it, but Heather snatched it away.

“If you taste it, it’s just water, Rembrary.”

“What is it?”

“Holy water.”

Heather closed the lid and handed the bottle back to Rembrary.

“Keep it in your pocket.”

As Rembrary put the bottle in his pocket, the coachman quickly stuffed his away as if it were a precious elixir.

Heather took out two more bottles and gave them all to the coachman.

“The children’s arms are too short, so they might not be able to throw them well. Stay here with the children, and if it’s dangerous, throw these two first.”

The coachman received the bottles, one in each hand, and looked at Heather with wide eyes.

“What about you, Priestess?”

Heather looked around and answered.

“I need to check the surroundings. I’ll be right back, so Mel, take the children to a nearby inn and get a room. The three of you should stay together.

It’s safer inside than outside. Go to a place where many people gather.”

Leaving those words, Heather ran towards a place where the bushes were hanging down like torn curtains.

The coachman paced anxiously, then called Rembrary and Ridal.

“Get in the carriage first. We’ll leave the carriage and horse at the inn and go inside.”

As soon as Rembrary got into the carriage, he pulled all the window curtains up to look outside.

The carriage rattled and turned back the way it had come.

There was no one at the checkpoint. Rembrary noticed blood pooled in that area.

* * *

The coachman left the carriage at the ‘Florandia Inn’ and took a room on the second floor. The room only had two single beds.

“You guys stay here. I’ll let you know when the priestess comes back.”

The coachman said, trying to sound brave.

“Then wake me up later.”

Rembrary lay down on the bed, but Ridal stayed by the coachman’s side.

Then, when Rembrary opened his eyes, neither the coachman nor Ridal was in the room.

“?”

Rembrary got out of bed. For a moment, his mind wasn’t working properly, and he couldn’t remember why he was here.

Rembrary wandered around the room and found broken glass on the floor.

“Ah. Ridal.”

Seeing that, he remembered the situation before he fell asleep. Rembrary picked up a piece of glass. There was moisture inside. It was clear that the coachman or Ridal had thrown the bottle of holy water.

‘Was there a dangerous situation? But why didn’t they wake me up? Was there no time to wake me?’

Rembrary looked under the bed and inside the closet, then walked to the window. Opening the window and looking out, he saw a quiet street with no one passing by.

Heather told Ridal and Rembrary to stay with the coachman. But Ridal and the coachman had disappeared. So what should he do?

Should he go look for them? Or should he stay here?

Rembrary looked at the clock. The clock was stopped. He didn’t bring his pocket watch.

“……”

After a moment of thought, Rembrary left the room and walked to the front desk on the first floor. There was no one at the front desk either.

“Hello!”

Rembrary shouted, but no one came out. Rembrary went outside the inn and checked the stable. The carriage and horse they had arrived in were still there.

‘Where did everyone go?’

Should he go back to the room? Or should he hide somewhere here? If not that……

‘Let’s go find Heather.’

After much deliberation, Rembrary made an extraordinary decision and went outside the village.

Going to the place where Heather had gotten off, he heard the loud sound of cicadas. Rembrary followed Heather’s direction, carefully examining the footprints.

It became difficult to see ahead after only a few steps, but it didn’t matter. Rembrary turned on his halo with divine power. As a faint light radiated in all directions, his vision immediately cleared.

‘Redrin, Redrin. I’m using divine power effectively.’

Rembrary expressed his pride and gratitude to Redrin [presumably a deity or source of his power] and continued to move forward.

The deeper he went, the bushes that had been up to his ankles became as high as his waist, and instead of the sound of cicadas, he heard the sound of animals crying, but he wasn’t scared at all.

Then Rembrary realized. The sound of the animals crying was coming from too close.

‘Animals? In the village?’

Rembrary looked around. But every time Rembrary moved his head, the halo on his head moved with him, and the shadows of the trees moved as well.

Because of that, it was difficult to see if there were any animals around.

Then, at some point, something big rushed towards Rembrary.

“!”

Rembrary fell on his butt. Because of that, whatever it was that jumped over Rembrary, whether it was a cow or a tiger, ran far away and then changed direction again.

Rembrary stood up and looked back at it. It was big and scary. Rembrary ran in the opposite direction.

‘Holy water, holy water!’

As soon as Rembrary thought of the holy water he had received from Heather, he put his hand in his pocket. At the same time, something tripped him, and he rolled on the floor. The bottle of holy water left his hand and rolled somewhere.

Rembrary looked around and then looked in the direction the beast was approaching.

The big beast was bright red and bigger than a cow or a tiger. It was growling and slowly approaching.

Then, when their eyes met, the beast rushed towards Rembrary again.

At that moment.

It, which was about to ram Rembrary, suddenly stopped. Rembrary breathed quickly and looked at it.

The huge beast, which had come almost to his feet, surprisingly only narrowed its eyes and looked down at Rembrary.

In Rembrary’s eyes, it looked like the beast was dazzled by the halo.

Rembrary made the light even stronger. The beast’s eyes narrowed even more.

“Is it because you’re dazzled?”

Rembrary cautiously spoke to the beast. The beast snorted and stepped back further.

As Rembrary made the light stronger, the beast retreated further. It was clear that it hated the halo.

At that moment. Just as he heard a whooshing sound, an arrow was stuck in the beast’s neck. The beast let out a chilling scream and then disappeared into smoke with a bang. A bright red jewel fell to the spot where the beast had disappeared.

“Rembrary! Are you okay?”

Heather ran from the direction the arrow had come from. Heather picked up Rembrary and cursed.

“You’re all scraped up!”

Rembrary realized that his palms were scratched here and there.

“Ah. It is.”

As Rembrary muttered, Heather tore open a bottle of holy water, sprinkled it on Rembrary’s hand, wrapped it with a handkerchief, and asked.

“What about Mel [the coachman] and Ridal? Why are you alone?”

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?”

“When I woke up, they were both gone. The bottle of holy water was broken. It didn’t seem safe inside either, so I came out to find Heather.”

Heather couldn’t decide whether to scold the child or praise him. Listening to the child’s words, it seemed that the inside was definitely dangerous as well.

Rembrary fidgeted with the hand that Heather had tied the handkerchief around, and then discovered a woman with light green hair holding a large silver bow. It seemed that this person had shot the arrow.

“Who is it?”

As Rembrary asked, Heather answered.

“Sir Cheru. A paladin.”

“Ah. You said you were looking for a paladin. Did you find one?”

Cheru was not the paladin Heather had arranged to meet. Heather had not yet found the paladins she was supposed to meet.

Rather, Cheru had found them after discovering a help request signal used among paladins in this area.

But she couldn’t tell such a daunting story to a child who had just turned seven.

“Uh-huh. That’s right.”

Heather glossed over it and picked up Rembrary. Even though she had wandered around, there were no paladins, so Heather informed the guard on duty that the paladins had disappeared.

By morning tomorrow, the lord would hear the news and send people to investigate in detail. But Heather had to leave here before that.

“Let’s find Mel and Ridal and leave.”

“Okay.”

“But Rembrary, don’t go into the forest alone in the future. Even if it’s a forest attached to a village, it’s dangerous. You faced a monster earlier. What would have happened if Sir Cheru hadn’t been there?”

Heather poured out some belated nagging as she looked for the road. It was really lucky that she found Rembrary in this dark bush.

The child didn’t even scream in front of the monster. If the child didn’t have the ability to emit a halo, she would never have found him.

Rembrary yawned and didn’t answer. He wanted to brag, but he had to keep the story of how he was defending against the monster all by himself until he turned three years old.

“He would have handled it well on his own.”

But the paladin named Cheru said the secret that Rembrary was trying to keep first.

Rembrary rested his chin on Heather’s shoulder and suddenly raised his head.

The paladin was looking at Rembrary with light green eyes.

“Yes?”

Heather turned her head halfway to look back at the paladin.

The paladin pointed at Rembrary with her eyes.

“This child. He was fighting the monster alone.”

“Haha, our Rembrary?”

Heather didn’t believe it and just laughed.

“Our Rembrary is brave, but he’s not at that level yet. All he does is emit a halo, right?”

Rembrary was torn between wanting the paladin to praise him more and wanting her to keep his secret.