Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 751

◈ 751. Can You Swear to God?

“Hey! Shut up and be quiet!”

The tall blonde shouted from his seat.

“It’s noisy!”

The child momentarily flinched at the tall blonde’s roar. The tall blonde was the oldest and had the worst temper in the room, so everyone was afraid of him.

However, when the other children stared at him, the child raised his voice again, half-closing his eyes and shouting.

“Still, I have to get my things back!”

“Is he really missing something?”

Another novice priest whispered, observing the child’s confident attitude.

Since there were several feathers, Rembrary could have given him a few if the child really wanted them. He would have given them if asked. But not like this.

Rembrary thought for a moment and then decided to test him.

“If the feather is yours, you must know what it looks like, right?”

The child replied as if he had been waiting for the question.

“It’s a feather that glows subtly on its own. It’s about this big. Right? I know everything because it’s mine.”

The child’s description of the feather’s appearance was relatively accurate.

“Then do you know how many there are?”

Rembrary tested him a second time.

“I don’t know. But mine is just one.”

The child was being clever. He wasn’t trying to take all the feathers Rembrary had.

The child chose to secure even just one.

As the child acted like that, the other children exchanged glances, seemingly confused.

“I still don’t know why you’re insisting that my feather is yours.”

Rembrary sighed and pointed to his bed and locker.

“But if you want to insist so much, go ahead and look. Redrin [likely a pet or familiar] will be disappointed and spit on you.”

“Why are you cursing!”

The child burst into anger, but after hearing about Redrin, he seemed a bit uneasy and quietly began searching Rembrary’s bedding.

But the quiet behavior was only temporary.

When he couldn’t find anything after searching here and there, the child gradually threw the blanket and pillow on the floor, and even threw everything in the locker onto the floor.

“He’s really bad.”

“He has no manners.”

“He’s mean.”

The other children whispered as they watched him rummage through things so harshly.

The child continued to search through things while listening to those voices.

But no matter how much he searched, when he couldn’t find the feather he was after, the child’s face turned red and he shouted at Rembrary.

“Why isn’t it here! Give me back my thing! Give it back! I know you hid it! I know you hid it!”

Seeing that, another child couldn’t stand it and pushed the child, shouting.

“You’re a liar. I didn’t believe you from the start!”

The child looked at the child who pushed him with a surprised expression, then looked around at the other children. Everyone was glaring at him.

Unlike usual, the isolated person wasn’t Rembrary. Realizing that the children saw him in a bad light, the child cried and ran out.

As the child disappeared, the other children picked up Rembrary’s scattered belongings from the floor, dusted them off, and put them back in their place.

As the children dispersed, the tall blonde approached Rembrary. Then, he whispered into Rembrary’s ear so that no one else could hear.

“That kid is the one who stole your paper before.”

“Really?”

The tall blonde nodded and returned to his seat.

Rembrary grabbed the end of the pillow and shook it to get rid of the dust. After doing that three or four times, he went out into the hallway and looked for the child from earlier.

After hearing the tall blonde’s words, the child seemed a bit suspicious.

How did that child know about the feather that Rembrary always carried around and only looked at when he was alone? And he’d done it before too?

When Rembrary saw the child turning around the corner far away, he quickly ran towards that way.

The child went up two steps and then walked down the hallway.

As the child entered a room, a voice shouted from inside after a while, “I looked, but it’s not there!”

Rembrary stood against the wall. The child was talking to someone about Rembrary’s feather.

Large novice priests passing by glanced at the strange child leaning against the wall.

Rembrary realized that the room the child had entered was where the larger novice priests stayed.

The novice priests passing by in this area were all big children.

‘It’s strange after all.’

As soon as he finished thinking, Rembrary quickly entered the room.

“Who are you?”

A large novice priest standing by the door asked in surprise.

Rembrary walked behind the child.

The child, who was furiously angry in front of a novice priest who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, belatedly turned around and hiccuped.

“Rembrary… !”

The large person who had been putting up with the child’s annoyance also looked at Rembrary with slightly embarrassed eyes. He seemed to recognize who Rembrary was right away.

“Hey, why are you here!”

The child shouted.

“I followed the baby.”

Rembrary answered honestly but didn’t take his eyes off the large novice priest.

Rembrary recalled that the ‘Heretic’ who had come here before had told him that there were several ‘bad priests’ targeting Rembrary.

One of them was Niran, so there must be several more bad priests.

Rembrary was sure that those bad priests were ordinary priests or high-ranking priests.

But after experiencing this situation, Rembrary thought that some of those bad priests might be novice priests.

‘Someone who lives on a different floor in a different room and is so much older wouldn’t suddenly want my feather and tell him to take it.’

This older novice priest didn’t have any reason to clash with Rembrary, but he deliberately manipulated the younger novice priest.

It was highly likely that this person’s purpose wasn’t the feather but Rembrary.

“Why are you staring at me like that?”

The large novice priest, who seemed a bit embarrassed for a moment, calmed down faster than the child and asked.

“What’s your name?”

Rembrary asked back instead of answering.

“Why my name?”

The large novice priest asked with a smile. He didn’t seem like a bad person just by looking at him. Niran looked like a bad person just by looking at him.

“His name is Salleah.”

A large novice priest sitting next to him, who was playing with a large ball, chimed in. He didn’t seem to know how serious this was.

The large novice priest frowned and looked back at his colleague, then looked back at Rembrary.

“You’re Rembrary, right? The one from the imperial family. I know you’re used to acting as you please, but you can’t just enter other people’s rooms. Can you leave?”

“What about him?”

When Rembrary pointed to the child who insisted on the feather, the large novice priest said.

“He’s okay. Because I allowed it.”

‘He comes here often.’ Then it seemed that the large novice priest had induced this child.

The child rolled his eyes anxiously.

Instead of leaving, Rembrary walked right up to the large novice priest and asked.

“Did you tell that baby to lie?”

The large novice priest burst out laughing.

“What? You’re a funny kid.”

On the other hand, the child’s face turned pale.

The novice priest who was playing with the ball looked over here with interest.

The large novice priest frowned as if he was bothered by that and said.

“Leave before I call your assigned priest and kick you out.”

“Did you tell that baby to lie?”

When Rembrary asked again, the large novice priest jumped up and grabbed Rembrary by the collar.

“Go away quickly. I didn’t.”

The large novice priest dragged Rembrary and threw him into the hallway.

“Can you swear to God? That it’s true?”

“I said no!”

The moment the large novice priest shouted in an angry voice, Rembrary saw something rising on his forehead.

But the door closed right away, so he couldn’t confirm what it was.

Rembrary got up from the hallway and shook his hands, but stopped when he felt a stinging sensation. On closer inspection, it seemed that a thorn from the hallway floor was stuck somewhere in his palm.

The door opened slightly, and the child peeked out. When the child made eye contact with Rembrary, he quickly closed the door again.

Instead of questioning the child, Rembrary turned around and returned to his room.

The feathers were in the other luggage that was loaded onto the carriage and didn’t seem to have been transported to the room yet.

Rembrary was a little tired from this incident, but he learned an important fact.

* * *

“How have you been?”

The next day, Ridal, who met Rembrary after a long time, sat next to him in the cafeteria and asked.

“I heard there was a commotion yesterday?”

“That’s right.”

The child who insisted that Rembrary’s feather was his was ashamed and went to Rishuer, crying and begging to change rooms.

Rishuer eventually put the child in another room.

Because of that, there were eleven children in the room Ridal used, and nine children in the room Rembrary was in.

It was because the children who shared a room with Ridal didn’t want to go to another room.

“You must be tired from going back and forth.”

Ridal muttered in a small voice.

“I’m a little tired, but it’s okay. The food wasn’t bland there either.”

Rembrary said while yawning, then noticed a wound on Ridal’s face. There was a scratch on the child’s nose.

Seeing that, Rembrary suddenly remembered that the wound on his leg had disappeared when he turned on his halo. Was that really a miracle he had created?

“Ah, my nose. I was chasing a bug, and the kid next to me hit me.”

Ridal noticed Rembrary’s gaze and said, laughing.

“Can I try something on you?”

Rembrary asked Ridal.

“Sure.”

Ridal said yes without knowing what Rembrary was talking about.

Rembrary was about to turn on his halo right away, but he quickly ate the bland noodles, thinking that he shouldn’t heal Ridal in a place with so many people.

And when he went to the classroom, he briefly took only Ridal out into the hallway and told him to bring his face closer.

“Like this?”

As Ridal bent down, Rembrary immediately activated his halo.

“Ah!”

Ridal covered his eyes and fell to the floor.

“Rembrary!”

Rishuer, who was walking with a sacred text, hurriedly ran over and picked up Ridal.

“My eyes! Everything is white, Rishuer!”

As Ridal said while crying, Rishuer covered Ridal’s face with both hands and examined it thoroughly.

Rembrary also quickly peeked out, but it was hard to check if the bridge of his nose had been healed because Ridal was covering his eyes.

“Rembrary! You can’t shine light in your friend’s eyes!”

Rishuer shouted at Rembrary, putting Ridal down.