Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 792

◈ 792. People Asking for Help

“I will never be as soft as Head Priest Heather.”

High Priest Gaieger, the deputy head of the Florandia Temple, sternly warned Rembrary in the carriage heading to the central mansion.

“Yes, sir.”

Rembrary answered politely, but Gaieger snorted and turned his head away.

Ridal watched them alternately, then clutched his bag tightly like a shield.

-Ridal. Never leave Rembrary’s side.

Ridal recalled Heather’s request and thought to himself, ‘Head Priest Heather… I don’t think I needed to come.’

The highest priest had asked Heather to bring Rembrary to the central mansion.

However, Heather had already spent several days with Rembrary at the training center.

Including the days spent traveling, it was difficult to leave his post any longer.

He was responsible for a large temple, its staff, priests, the largest number of trainee priests, and even exchanges with the nearby Floran lord, in addition to Rembrary.

So, Heather entrusted Rembrary to High Priest Gaieger, the deputy head.

At the same time, he chose Ridal to closely monitor Rembrary and prevent him from causing trouble.

‘Hoo.’

Ridal, feeling the weight of responsibility, leaned his forehead against his bag.

“I’m not just saying this, Rembrary. Head Priest Heather is worried that you cause too much trouble. I will lock you up and make you write a thousand apology letters every time you cause trouble. Understand?”

“A thousand?”

“Yes.”

“Will I be able to reach it?” (Referring to completing the task of writing a thousand letters.)

“What?”

Ridal grabbed Rembrary’s arm and gave Gaieger the answer he wanted.

“Rembrary won’t cause any trouble, High Priest.”

Gaieger snorted and crossed his legs.

“High Priest, High Priest is…”

Ridal covered Rembrary’s mouth and handed him a book he had brought.

“Rembrary, read this.”

* * *

As the carriage entered the central mansion, Gaieger, who had less stamina than Heather, was completely exhausted.

Rembrary was engrossed in the book Ridal had given him, reading diligently even in the swaying carriage.

Ridal, bored, looked out the window and noticed a group of holy knights walking together.

‘They must be from the Lumena Temple.’

Ridal watched the holy knights, whose uniforms were different from those of the Redrin holy knights, with curiosity, and then noticed something even more peculiar among them.

‘That one isn’t an adult?’

A small child was among the group of holy knights, who were generally larger than the priests.

“Rembrary. Rembrary.”

Ridal shook Rembrary’s arm.

“What?”

“There’s a holy knight our age outside. Look at him.”

However, Rembrary had seen enough holy knights his age at the training center.

“There are novices everywhere.”

Rembrary said indifferently and turned the page.

Ridal, disappointed that Rembrary wasn’t excited with him, sadly looked out the window alone again.

Perhaps hearing the noise, the child turned his head this way.

When the child’s gray eyes met his, Ridal reflexively smiled and waved.

The child smirked, raising one corner of his mouth, and turned his head away without returning the greeting.

Ridal awkwardly lowered his hand.

* * *

Since there was a schedule for holy knights and priests from the Lapsus Temple and the Lumena Temple to gather, there were many carriages parked in front of the mansion, and many more trying to park.

Horses were wandering around freely, and the staff were chasing after them, grabbing their reins, or opening the carriage doors and guiding guests into the mansion.

When Gaieger opened the door, Rembrary got out of the carriage and stretched.

As he stretched, he saw the purple hair of someone from the Lumena Temple in a nearby carriage.

He recognized the face and was about to greet him, but the purple-haired boy hesitated and turned his head away when he saw him.

Rembrary shrugged it off and gathered his belongings.

“Lapsus.”

On the other hand, Ridal immediately walked towards Lapsus and greeted him as soon as he spotted him.

“Hi, how have you been?”

While Lapsus was flustered by the friendly greeting, Rembrary gathered all his belongings and entered the mansion.

Lapsus, overwhelmed by Ridal’s kindness, barely managed to answer, then frowned as he saw Rembrary quickly enter.

* * *

Later, the first investigation team was formed and entered the mountain occupied by black magicians, but Rembrary had to stay at the mansion as promised.

“Shall we go for a walk?”

“No.”

“Just a walk. Let’s just walk around the mansion.”

“No. If you want to go, go with Gaieger when he comes.”

Besides, Ridal was a stricter supervisor than he had thought.

Rembrary, bored, pestered Ridal a few times, but eventually got tired of it and stayed in his room doing homework, eating, and napping.

Since the investigation team had entered the mountain and not returned, Rembrary had nothing to do right now.

Meanwhile, Ardor deliberately timed his movements to coincide with Lapsus being in the study.

“Who are you?”

Ardor was angry as soon as he saw Lapsus’s purple hair, as he had been somewhat expecting someone else.

Lapsus frowned as he took out and examined each book. He was taken aback when an unknown child approached him and abruptly asked, “Who are you?”

“Who are you?”

He retorted, dumbfounded, and the child slammed the bookshelf with his fist and got angry.

“It’s not you.”

Lapsus was even more dumbfounded.

“What?”

“It’s not you.”

“Who are you?”

“I’m disappointed.”

Lapsus gaped. Anyone would be embarrassed if a stranger suddenly said they were disappointed.

However, Ardor was quite serious. Ardor turned around and left.

The sound of the door closing loudly made everyone in the study look at the door.

“Crazy…”

Lapsus muttered and turned his attention back to the book he was reading.

Lapsus might be taken aback, but Ardor’s disappointment was genuine.

“Master. Master!”

Ardor, disappointed, went to his master and immediately begged.

“Master. Let’s go back.”

Ardor’s master was swinging his sword in the training ground and lowered his sword, asking, “Huh?”

“You begged to come and now you want to go back right away? We just got here yesterday.”

“I saw a kid named Lapsus, but it’s not the face I was looking for.”

“Ah. It’s not?”

“It’s completely different. Even the hair color is different. The one I’m looking for doesn’t have purple hair.”

The master became awkward. But Ardor seemed quite serious.

However, they couldn’t just go back after only one day, after he had deliberately asked to come together.

“Let’s keep an eye on things for a few days. How about thinking of it as just a sightseeing trip?”

So, the master tried to appease the child, but there was a loud running sound from the hallway.

The master and Ardor stopped talking and looked at the door.

The door soon burst open, and an employee came in with a pale face.

“Something terrible has happened.”

“Let’s talk later.”

The master patted Ardor’s shoulder and asked the employee.

“What’s wrong?”

“We received an urgent request for help from the first advance team. Something must have happened.”

“What? When?”

“Just now. A light asking for help came up from the mountain.”

The master took the employee and left.

Ardor watched them go, then sat down on a nearby chair and sighed. It looked like he wouldn’t be able to go back right away.

Ardor thought it was all because of that purple-haired kid.

* * *

“Please take good care of our Ardor.”

“I will take good care of him, so you don’t have to worry.”

Ardor’s master took some of the remaining holy knights and priests with him to help the first advance team, just in case.

He was the most skilled of the remaining holy knights.

“Can’t I go with you?”

Ardor wanted to go with his master and followed him to the foot of the mountain, asking.

“No. You’re a genius, but even geniuses have their time.”

The master appeased Ardor and entered the dark mountain.

Ardor, feeling that life was hard because Lapsus was not the benefactor he was looking for and he was separated from his master, returned to the mansion with the employees.

“Why don’t you play with them if you’re bored?”

One of the employees suggested, seeing that he looked down.

“Who?”

“There’s Lapsus, too.”

“Absolutely not.”

“There are also two children from the Redrin Temple. They’re both very talented. One of them was specially invited.”

“Who is it?”

“He has healing abilities.”

Ardor waved his hand.

“No, thanks.”

Ardor was looking for a child who bravely charged in on a horse and trampled monsters.

Not a priest who healed people in place.

‘I should have remembered the name.’

Ardor, feeling dejected, decided to stay at the mansion and wait for his master, reviewing what he had learned alone in the training ground.

Then the next day. Ardor was running around the training ground early in the morning when he saw four holy knights and a carriage coming up the hill.

‘Master? Is he coming back?’

Ardor quickly ran towards them.

“It’s you.”

One of the holy knights recognized Ardor and greeted him. However, he was not one of the people who went with the master on the second trip.

“Hey, can you go to the mansion and call that kid who uses healing abilities? Two people got hurt on the way up. It would be faster if that kid went into the carriage and healed them.”

The holy knight pointed to the carriage.

“Okay.”

Ardor turned around and ran, then realized something and came back.

The holy knight, who was wiping sweat from his tired face, asked Ardor again.

“What’s wrong?”

“Did you call my master because of this? Did you switch places with my master?”

“Huh?”

The holy knight was bewildered by Ardor’s clear question and asked back.

“Call my master?”

“You asked for help yesterday. My master went to help in the afternoon.”

At that, the holy knight’s eyes widened, and he said urgently.

“No. No? We never made such a request.”

“!”

“Who said that? What time? Who was the person who asked for help?”

Ardor looked up at the holy knight with wide eyes and hurriedly ran down the hill.

“Hey!”

Even as the holy knight called from behind, Ardor disappeared with the speed of an otter.

An employee who came down late after hearing the conversation tried to follow Ardor, but lost him before long.

“Oh no! What should I do!”

The employee, covering his head with both hands, jumped up and down and returned to the mansion. Meanwhile, the carriage was in the mansion yard.

“Can you call that kid who uses healing abilities here?”

The holy knight was asking another employee.

The employee ran to the other side to find the remaining High Priest Gaieger and shouted.

“Something terrible has happened! Some of the first advance team just returned, but they said they never asked for help yesterday! After hearing that, the trainee holy knight from the Lapsus Temple ran off somewhere alone!”

At that time, Rembrary was taking a lesson with Ridal opposite Gaieger.

Gaieger put down the holy scripture and stood up.

“Ran off where?”

“His master is among the people who left yesterday. I think he went there!”

The employee then looked at Rembrary and said.

“Ah, Little Priest. There are injured people in the carriage outside.”

Rembrary went outside with Ridal and entered the carriage surrounded by holy knights.

A borrowed carriage was in the center of the training ground, surrounded by holy knights.

“I’ll heal them.”

As Rembrary approached, the holy knight opened the carriage door.

“It’s cramped, so will you stay outside?”

However, Ridal was not allowed to follow Rembrary inside.