Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 749

◈ 749. The Increasingly Agitated Pair

His leg was swollen, looking as if he’d been stung by a bee.

“When did this happen?”

The warden asked, lifting the child without lowering his pants to examine the leg.

Rembrary, recalling the eyeballs that had vanished as soon as the door opened, replied, “It hasn’t been three minutes. It happened right before the door opened.”

“And it’s already this swollen?”

A stranger approached, muttering as he looked down at Rembrary’s leg.

The warden, the director, and the inquisitor with glasses exchanged glances.

The child’s leg looked like an insect bite at first, but the swelling seemed more severe than expected. Could it really be just an insect bite?

“What was strange? Was it a bug? A flying bug or a crawling bug?”

The inquisitor with glasses asked.

“My leg-”

“We need to take him to a doctor first. It might be more than just a bug bite.”

However, before Rembrary could answer, the warden spoke in a hurried voice.

“Ah, yes.”

Rembrary was carried by the warden and led out of the underground passage. They took Rembrary into a room on the first floor.

But the doctor they were looking for wasn’t in this room.

“Where’s the doctor?”

The inquisitor with glasses asked, looking at the warden, then went outside, realizing the warden wouldn’t know.

“Who are you?”

In the meantime, Rembrary was able to ask the person who was wearing an inquisitor’s uniform and had been with them all along for the first time.

“I’m the director here.”

“Hello.”

“You’re good at greeting.”

As the director smiled and greeted him back, the inquisitor with glasses, who had gone outside, came back in.

“Director, there are no doctors nearby.”

“Why does that bastard always…”

The director was about to say something harsh but stopped himself, realizing there was a child behind him.

“Always what?”

Rembrary asked from behind, and the director quickly turned around with a kind voice and asked, “No, it’s nothing. More importantly, Rembrary, can you wait here for a moment?”

“Where are you going?”

“I’ll go find a doctor.”

The director, the inquisitor with glasses, and the warden left Rembrary in the infirmary and scattered in different directions.

Rembrary was left alone, staring intently at his leg.

‘The eyeballs had legs attached to them.’

Rembrary recalled that the eyeballs thrown by the bony hand initially rolled around on the floor, but later they pulled out something that looked like spider legs from their bodies.

Could those spider legs have stabbed his leg? It was too dark to remember if the legs were sharp.

Rembrary pressed the area around the wound with his hand.

‘Huh?’

It wasn’t a particularly meaningful action. He just pressed it because it throbbed and hurt.

But as soon as he pressed it, a thorn-like object came out of the wound. Rembrary was startled and took his hand off.

‘What is this?’

The thorn that came out of the wound was very thin and slender. It looked just like the legs attached to the eyeball monster.

Rembrary grabbed the thorn and pulled it out. Surprisingly, the thorn came out easily and disappeared as soon as Rembrary tried to take a closer look.

‘What is this?’

But even after pulling out the thorn, the wound area did not subside.

Rather, blood started to flow from it. Even when Rembrary wiped it with his hand, the blood didn’t stop easily.

‘Why is this happening?’

While looking at it, Rembrary suddenly remembered the halo made of divine power chasing away the monster.

Could it be that if he used something like that here, the wound made by the monster would disappear? It seemed plausible.

‘I should try it.’

Rembrary tried to activate the halo as he did when he defeated the monster. But there was no change.

‘Is it because the halo is behind me?’

Rembrary struggled to move the halo.

He groaned, trying to send the halo towards his hand or the wound instead of his head. But the halo didn’t move.

Instead, another surprising thing happened. The swollen leg returned to its original state in the blink of an eye. The blood also stopped immediately.

Rembrary wondered what was going on and shook the injured leg back and forth.

‘Why was it healed? Was there a monster inside my leg? Is that why it’s like this because the monster disappeared?’

As he continued to move his leg, the door opened and a stranger came in.

“Are you the child who got hurt?”

The person who came in asked as soon as he saw Rembrary. Behind him were the director, the inquisitor with glasses, and the warden.

“Where’s the injury? I’m the doctor.”

The doctor pulled a round chair in front of the medical bed where Rembrary was sitting.

“Is it this leg?”

The doctor examined Rembrary’s leg without even waiting for an answer. But the wound had already disappeared on its own.

“It’s fine?”

The doctor frowned and muttered, then looked at the director and asked.

“Where did he get hurt?”

The director approached.

“He said it was like being stung by a big bee.”

Soon, the director also stared at Rembrary with wide eyes.

“Rembrary, didn’t you have a wound here?”

“…”

Rembrary hesitated for a moment and then said.

“It disappeared. Suddenly.”

“Disappeared?”

“It just disappeared.”

Both that it just disappeared and that it disappeared suddenly were true. But Rembrary didn’t mention that he had sent divine power to the wound before.

“What could have happened?”

The warden approached and asked.

The director looked at Rembrary, but Rembrary was only looking at his own leg.

‘Mom told me to stay out of sight for three years.’

Rembrary was already attracting attention here and there, unable to hide his brilliance completely. But he couldn’t ignore his mother’s request.

Besides, he needed to confirm whether the sudden healing of the wound was a coincidence or whether divine power really eliminated the wound.

‘How do I confirm it?’

* * *

With the wound gone, there was no need for treatment.

Instead, Rembrary told the doctor, the warden, the inquisitor with glasses, and the director one by one in detail about what he had experienced in the temporary prison.

“Can you draw a rough sketch of what the monster looked like?”

The director listened to the story seriously and handed Rembrary paper and a pen.

Rembrary drew the bony hand he saw through the bars and the eyeballs that the hand threw in and handed it over.

“You’re good at drawing?”

The inquisitor with glasses who saw it exclaimed.

He thought that since it was a child’s drawing, there would be some exaggerated and strange parts. But the drawing Rembrary showed was not entirely childish; it was easy to understand.

Rembrary smiled proudly.

“Should I draw another one?”

“No, it’s okay.”

Rembrary felt much better when he heard that he was good at drawing, as if he had healed the wound.

‘Redrin, Redrin. Did you see what I did? Redrin, can you see the picture I drew? Redrin, should I draw Redrin too?’

Rembrary poured out his achievements to Redrin.

But the expressions of the adults with Rembrary’s drawing between them were not good. They looked at each other and couldn’t open their mouths easily.

Following the Great Temple, the Inquisitorial Office was also invaded by monsters.

* * *

After the inquisitor with glasses escorted Rembrary back to his room, the director picked up Rembrary’s drawing and asked in a serious voice, “How did they get in?”

The loud warden immediately replied, “When I was in the temporary prison, I didn’t feel anything strange at all. But listening to what the child said, it’s definitely a monster.”

The doctor asked, “There are many other wardens and prisoners there. What if we ask them if they’ve seen it too?”

The director looked at the eyeballs rolling on the floor in the picture. Rembrary said that the eyeballs disappeared as soon as they opened the door.

“Monsters can’t just come in here, Director. Someone brought the monster inside, even at the Great Temple. It must be the same here!”

The loud warden shouted.

“This is a mess. Inquisitors will end up investigating each other!”

The doctor clicked his tongue and muttered.

The director continued to look down at the drawing, then folded the paper in half twice, put it in his pocket, and got up from his chair.

“We can find out who did this from now on. But seeing that we’ve been attacked here following the Great Temple, the situation is really not good.”

The director recalled the demons’ invasion of the human realm recorded in the records.

In such large battles, countless victims were bound to occur, and the temple people were the first to fight and sacrifice in the battle against the demons.

“We may need to talk to other temple people.”

“With heretics?!”

The inquisitor with glasses frowned and asked at the director’s words.

Other temple priests were heretics, but unless they were spying or committing crimes against this temple, they didn’t keep them in prison for long or attack them.

But that didn’t mean they were friendly with them.

The director sighed and got up.

“The highest priest will judge. First, let’s contact them.”

* * *

‘Redrin, Redrin. Was my wound healed today because of what I did, or was it just healed in time? Or did I not heal the wound, but chased away the monster? Did Redrin do it for me?’

While Rembrary continued to examine his leg in the room and prayed to Redrin.

Redrin was tilting his body to the side as if putting his ear to the clouds and looking at Lumena.

[Did you hear it?]

Redrin asked Lumena with a smile.

[You must have heard exactly what my child did.]

Lumena thought for a moment and said,

[He doesn’t even know it himself yet. Don’t get excited.]

[He might have healed his own wound. My child. By himself!]

[No, I’m saying he doesn’t even know it himself. Don’t get excited.]

Even while saying that, Lumena’s head was moving back and forth with curiosity.

Even gods couldn’t choose abilities for the high priests.

They hoped that their beloved child would have good abilities, but most of them ended up having abilities that suited their disposition and talents.

The abilities of the high priests were all rare, but among them, healing abilities were among the best in terms of efficacy and rarity.

But a child is asking if he healed his own wound.

[Calm down.]

Lumena repeatedly stopped him, picking up Redrin’s hair as half of it fell into the clouds.

[Statistically, it’s highly likely to be a misunderstanding. You know? As the child said, the monster could have entered his leg and looked like a wound, and when the monster disappeared, it looked like the wound disappeared.]

Redrin threw a cloud at Lumena.

[I don’t know.]

Redrin took back his hair that Lumena was holding, but still couldn’t take his eyes off the clouds.

[It’s already been confirmed that that child has outstanding abilities, Redrin. Don’t tell the child something uncertain and make him feel disappointed later.]

Redrin threw another cloud at Lumena, and Lumena tore off a cloud chair and threw it at Redrin’s head.

Rembrary, who had no way of knowing what the gods were doing to him, continued to chatter alone.

‘Huh?’

Then Rembrary noticed something strange.

When Rembrary went out into the hallway, the inquisitor who was standing in front of the door asked in an overly friendly voice, “Where are you going? I’ll go with you.”

“I can’t see Niran. I thought he went out for a while, but he hasn’t come back.”

“Ah, you mean that priest who came with you.”

“Yes.”

“The director dragged him away, saying he had a few things to ask.”