Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 756

Just as the secretary priest was about to raise his voice, the Redrin High Priest placed a hand on his arm to calm him down.

“Calm down. We made a promise, remember? You’re not an assassin anymore.”

The Redrin High Priest stopped the secretary priest, deliberately reminding him of his past life.

However, the Lumena High Priest didn’t even blink.

“Is that so?”

It was Heather who took the bait.

The Redrin High Priest cleared his throat and sharply said to the Lumena High Priest.

“Unfortunately, we cannot use the child as bait.”

“The child must be quite talented.”

The Lumena High Priest smiled coldly.

“The child’s talent is not the issue.”

The Redrin High Priest replied even more sharply.

“If you dislike it that much, I suppose there’s nothing we can do.”

The Lumena High Priest shrugged, but his expression showed no sign of backing down.

* * *

On the way to the east building that the Redrin priests were assigned to after the meeting.

“Are all Lumena Temple people like that?”

Heather couldn’t help but ask.

Although he was a high priest, he was in charge of a single temple, so he rarely had the opportunity to meet priests from other continents.

“People have different personalities.”

The Redrin High Priest replied with a smile.

It was a valid point, so Heather closed his mouth. Even under him, there were priests like Niran who tried to harm children for money.

“Rembrary, don’t worry about what that priest said earlier.”

The secretary priest instructed Rembrary.

“Okay.”

Rembrary, who had been dozing off while walking, quickly replied and started dozing off again.

* * *

Late the next morning. The four Redrin priests, who had woken up late, went down to the dining hall for breakfast almost at lunchtime.

The staff hired at the mansion brought out fried dishes, soup, and salad without complaint.

The four Redrin priests, exhausted, ate their food without saying a word.

About halfway through the meal, the mansion manager hurriedly entered the dining hall.

“High Priest, I went to the village this morning because of a food supply issue and heard some strange rumors.”

The manager approached the Redrin High Priest and said.

“Strange rumors?”

Heather asked, holding a fork.

Rembrary, who was sleepily eating soup, looked at the manager.

“There’s a rumor that the child the black magicians have been targeting is here. People are worried that their nearby villages might be attacked!”

The manager exclaimed in disbelief, glancing at Rembrary.

Heather and the High Priest each grabbed an arm as the secretary priest tried to run out.

“Where are you going?”

Heather pulled the secretary priest back with force.

“I need to go to the village and tell them that such ridiculous rumors are not true!”

The secretary priest said in a calm tone, but his voice was strangely high-pitched.

The manager cautiously looked around and quickly left the dining hall.

“It seems the Lumena High Priest has finally spread the rumors.”

Heather put down his fork and muttered.

Rembrary blinked and looked back and forth between the three priests.

“What happens now?”

When Rembrary asked, the three priests quickly put on smiles and said in a nonchalant tone.

“It’s just a temporary rumor.”

“We’re going back soon anyway.”

“We won’t be going outside the village.”

“Besides, black magicians can’t come in here.”

“There’s nothing to be afraid of.”

The three of them made their voices so gentle that they all sounded the same.

Rembrary looked at them and held out his empty bowl, asking.

“Can I have more?”

* * *

Although they had assured Rembrary that black magicians couldn’t enter the mansion, Heather, the secretary priest, and the High Priest couldn’t simply relax.

Even the thoroughly defended Grand Temple and the Inquisitorial Squad had vulnerabilities due to internal enemies.

This intermediate zone was not as thoroughly controlled as the Grand Temple.

“Shall we read a picture book together?”

After discussion, they decided that in case of an emergency, only the secretary priest and the High Priest would attend the meeting the next day, and Heather would stay with Rembrary.

“I have to do my homework.”

“Wow, Rembrary is so diligent with his homework!”

“He’s so busy trying to live diligently.”

While Heather read picture books, Rembrary lay on the floor doing his homework.

It was about halfway through when they heard a commotion in the hallway.

Rembrary stopped writing and looked up.

“Wait here.”

Heather said and went out the door alone.

Rembrary put down his pen and sat up.

Soon after, Heather returned with a flustered expression and asked Rembrary.

“Rembrary, can you keep doing your homework here?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Something came up.”

“What is it?”

“I’ll tell you later.”

Heather gave Rembrary a bottle of holy water in case of emergency and went outside.

‘Holy water? Did a monster appear?’

Rembrary held the bottle of holy water and cautiously followed him out.

In the hallway, the people working at the mansion were running around busily.

Rembrary walked down the hallway.

As he approached the stairs, he heard a loud voice from the landing.

“So, the child has been missing for two hours!”

‘Child?’

Rembrary walked further and peeked over the wall.

The Lumena High Priest was interrogating the manager with a fierce expression.

Rembrary tried to listen to the conversation. However, as if he had a keen sense, the Lumena High Priest immediately turned his head.

When their eyes met, the Lumena High Priest frowned and said.

“Why are you alone there? Stay with the other priests.”

“Who’s missing?”

When Rembrary asked, the manager was about to answer inadvertently but fell silent, watching the Lumena High Priest’s reaction.

“Rembrary!”

The secretary priest, who appeared from behind, picked up Rembrary and took him to his room.

“Who’s missing?”

Rembrary asked again.

“Remember the purple-haired brother? From the Lumena Temple…”

“Yes.”

“That brother has been missing for a while.”

“Should we look for him together?”

When Rembrary asked, the secretary priest shook his head.

“No. Rembrary, you have to stay here and not go anywhere. Okay?”

* * *

The secretary priest left Rembrary in the room and went to find the Redrin High Priest.

“Have you still not found the child?”

Heather, who was reporting something to the Redrin High Priest, clicked his tongue.

“He was going to use Rembrary as bait. Now that his own child has been kidnapped, the Lumena High Priest must be going crazy.”

The commotion had started because Lapsus had suddenly disappeared.

Moreover, a faint aura of black magic remained near where Lapsus had disappeared.

The enemies had completely caught them off guard. They took Lapsus, not Rembrary, whom everyone had expected.

“Rembrary is being targeted because of a request, but why did they take Lapsus?”

Heather asked anxiously.

“Did that child have many enemies in the secular world?”

The secretary priest also asked.

“I don’t know all the details of that child’s family history. But if he had enemies in the secular world, he would have been attacked separately before gathering here. The fact that he was attacked for the first time here means…”

The Redrin High Priest frowned and trailed off.

“It’s true that no one would target Lapsus for personal reasons. Please continue.”

A stern voice was heard from behind. The Lumena High Priest was walking over.

The Redrin High Priest nodded apologetically and continued.

“Rembrary’s divine power was simply something they were trying to eliminate because of a request. But Lapsus is a talented individual who is rumored to potentially become the youngest High Priest in the future. Perhaps the black magicians targeted Lapsus first, who might become a powerful enemy in the future, rather than Rembrary, who could be dealt with at any time.”

The Lumena High Priest clenched his fist. However, he did not express his anger.

It was he who had tried to use Rembrary as bait.

“They kidnapped the child instead of killing him, so it seems they are after his divine power.”

Another priest who had come with the Lumena High Priest said anxiously.

The priests didn’t know everything about black magic. But they knew that those people could do something with other people’s divine power.

“We must find Lapsus immediately!”

The Lumena High Priest said in a low voice.

Everyone agreed. But there were no remaining traces.

At that moment, the Redrin High Priest suddenly looked up at the sky, or rather, the ceiling, with a blank expression.

After staying like that for a while, he lowered his head and asked Heather.

“Where is Rembrary?”

“He’s in his room. Why do you ask?”

“Redrin-nim [a deity in this world] has told me to borrow a feather from Rembrary.”

“A feather?”

Unable to understand, the adult priests rushed to the room where the child was staying.

Rembrary, who was doing his homework in the room, looked back at the five adult priests who had suddenly appeared.

“Did you find him?”

“Rembrary, do you happen to have a feather?”

The Redrin High Priest didn’t even know what the feather was, but he asked the child anyway.

Rembrary took out a feather from his pocket and held it out.

“This one?”

“Yes! That’s it!”

The Redrin High Priest took the feather and infused it with divine power.

When he let go, the feather floated in the air on its own.

Rembrary wondered why they were suddenly asking for a feather, then his eyes widened.

“It seems we can follow this.”

Heather said urgently. As soon as he finished speaking, the feather began to move on its own, floating gently.

The feather went out of the room and flew down the hallway.

The five adult priests followed slowly behind it.

The feather didn’t fly too fast, but it wasn’t too slow either, so there was no time to prepare to fight the black magicians.

“Rembrary, you stay in the room.”

Heather turned around and shouted after confirming that Rembrary was following.

“Can’t I come with you?”

“Let’s go later. Okay?”

Rembrary watched his feather disappear and dejectedly returned to his room.

‘Redrin-nim, what is that feather used for that it flies away on its own?’

Rembrary asked Redrin and took out another feather from his pocket.

He thought it was just for decoration, but the feather flew away on its own, and the adult priests followed it.

It’s his feather, but they tell him not to come. Rembrary couldn’t understand what was going on.

“Like this?”

Rembrary recalled how the High Priest had infused the feather with divine power and tried to imitate him.

“Oh!”

Surprisingly, the feather floated up again when divine power was infused.

The feather flew to the door and tapped on it as if asking to be opened.

‘Is it okay? Heather-nim told me to stay here?’

Worried, he opened the door, and unexpectedly, the feather flew in a completely different direction from where the adult priests had run.

Rembrary looked back and forth at both ends of the hallway. The adult priests were no longer visible.

‘What should I do?’

Rembrary hesitated and began to move, following the second feather.

The feather floated gently down the hallway and turned at the end of the stairs. It went down to the landing, and as he went down the stairs, the end of the first-floor hallway appeared.

There was no one passing by in the area used as a warehouse. The feather went inside the warehouse.

Rembrary cautiously opened the warehouse door. Sunlight streamed in layers into the dark room.

When the feather was exposed to the sunlight, a transparent string was visible.

‘String?’

Rembrary looked at the side where the string was connected.

Deep inside the warehouse, a person covered in scales was opening his mouth and carefully pulling the string.

“!”

When their eyes met, the scaled person smiled and ran towards him.