Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 799

799. Now I Think I Know

“I’ll figure out how to fix Lidal. Please take care of him for a month.”

“Rembraryyyyy!”

Gaieger roared as soon as he saw the letter. “He ran away again! He ran away again!”

“What’s wrong?!”

The paladins, hearing the roar, burst through the door and rushed in.

“Is it an attack?”

“Has the child collapsed?!”

All they found was Gaieger, his neck red with frustration.

Gaieger shoved the note into his pocket, grinding his teeth.

“The child has run away from home.”

“Yes?! Run away from home? At this time?”

“Where to? Do you have any idea where he might have gone?”

“He couldn’t have gone far. Let’s look for him first.”

* * *

Rembrary was walking along a mountain path, stopping in a secluded clearing, walking leisurely.

As he stood there, he felt ominous signs stirring around him.

Rembrary started counting the signs, but stopped when they exceeded ten. There were too many to keep track of.

He didn’t come here to fight each monster one by one anyway.

Rembrary slightly spread his arms and unleashed his halo with as much power as he could muster.

* * *

Gaieger was just leading the paladins and priests out of the mansion to find the child when a divine energy flashed.

A brilliant light burst from the mountain.

Gaieger stopped assigning places to the paladins and stared at the mountain.

The paladins also opened their mouths and looked at the mountain from which the light was emanating.

Such pure energy was emanating from the dangerous mountain where monsters were coming out from all directions!

“It’s Rembrary!”

Gaieger recognized that the one emitting the light was Rembrary, judging from the feeling and intensity of the light.

“Rembrary?”

One of the paladins next to him asked.

“Yes. That light is definitely Rembrary. Redrin’s energy and holiness, even the warm and comfortable feeling. All of that is what happens when Rembrary unleashes his halo.”

Gaieger was explaining, but his knees buckled, and he grabbed a pillar.

Awe welled up from the depths of his heart.

He thought Rembrary could only illuminate the area around his head. He never thought he would see light emanating from the mountain at this distance.

“That child… is that child already beyond the level of a high priest…?”

Gaieger muttered unconsciously.

No one denied it. The light gradually faded, but people couldn’t move from their spots easily.

* * *

Rabsus stood on the second-floor railing, gripping the handle tightly.

Rabsus was on his way to persuade the Lumena paladins to watch Lidal with more patience.

Then, there was a commotion, and when he came out, a mysterious and beautiful light was emanating from the mountain.

In front of the mansion, paladins and priests were whispering about Rembrary. Their whispers reached him.

‘Rembrary…….’

Rabsus’s hand bones became clearer than ever because he was gripping the railing with too much strength.

As the light faded, Rabsus returned to his room instead of going to the paladins.

Rabsus tried to calm himself by drinking cold water.

‘I’m the one who became a high priest. That child is just a trainee priest.’

Rembrary’s abilities were useful, and they were just something that people would like. He was still a trainee priest.

On the other hand, he was the youngest high priest. Of course, there was no room for comparison.

‘But why… do I feel like I’m falling behind?’

Rembrary had been like that from the beginning. Just when he thought he was great, Rembrary would appear and confuse people.

* * *

Rembrary turned off his halo and lowered his arms. When he looked around, the birdsong sounded particularly loud.

The eerie signs that had been felt here and there were gone. It seemed that the monsters had all run away busily when he strongly activated his halo.

After looking around, Rembrary looked ahead. In front of him, a black magician wearing a thick cloak was standing alone.

“Did you come alone?”

The black magician asked in a friendly voice as their eyes met.

“Did you do that just now?”

As Rembrary took three steps forward, the black magician took three steps back.

“Use black magic on me.”

Rembrary demanded to the black magician instead of moving forward.

The corners of the black magician’s lips went up.

“What?”

Rembrary stared blankly at the black magician and said again.

“Use black magic on me.”

The black magician tilted his head.

“Why would I?”

“You used it on my friend. You turned him into a werewolf.”

“I did? No, I didn’t.”

“Another black magician used it.”

The black magician tilted his head in the opposite direction. It seemed that the black magician had turned Lidal into a werewolf on his own.

“So, are you trying to get cursed together because your friend is lonely?”

The black magician burst out laughing belatedly and asked in a teasing tone.

Rembrary didn’t answer and just stared at the black magician.

However, the black magician didn’t use a curse for some reason and just stared back at Rembrary.

“Why aren’t you using it on me?”

Eventually, when Rembrary asked outright, the black magician smiled meaningfully.

“Do I know what you’re up to?”

“!”

“You called me out here provocatively and told me to use black magic, there must be a reason, right?”

“That’s right.”

“You admit it.”

“Then you’re not going to use black magic on me? Because I seem smart?”

The black magician smiled gently.

“That’s right. Besides, your ability is very useful. You’re a child with healing abilities, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Magicians and black magicians can’t use healing abilities. There aren’t any among the current priests either. But why would I bother to cast black magic and get rid of that great ability?”

Rembrary recalled the black magician who had tried to eliminate his divine power before.

Did the black magicians change their minds because he gained healing abilities? Or are that black magician and this black magician on the same side but have different opinions?

“Rembrary, you were pointed at by people because of the kidnapping incident in the past.”

Then, the black magician suddenly brought up what Rembrary had experienced in the secular world [the non-religious world].

“You know a lot about me.”

“Rembrary, don’t you want to take revenge on those people?”

“No.”

“You didn’t do anything wrong, but people looked at you suspiciously and whispered about you. They called you an ominous prince and despised you. Aren’t you upset?”

Rembrary raised his eyebrows. This black magician really didn’t just know Rembrary’s name.

He seemed to know quite a bit. Besides, he was trying to provoke Rembrary with a sympathetic tone.

“Why are you saying that?”

“I’ve been through something similar.”

One corner of the black magician’s lips twisted upwards.

“Don’t you want to take revenge on those people, Rembrary?”

Rembrary answered without even thinking.

“Not really.”

The black magician, who had been coaxing him gently, was startled by Rembrary’s indifferent words.

“…You don’t want to take revenge?”

The black magician pressed his lips tightly as if he couldn’t believe it and came three steps closer.

“You really don’t want to take revenge?”

“The bad guys are the criminals.”

“The criminals are either killed or punished by law when they are caught. But the people who insulted you, spread rumors that you were ominous, and made you get kicked out of the palace don’t even get punished. Aren’t you angry?”

“But the people who point fingers are imagining me, not the real me. I don’t need to be embarrassed just because someone is acting stupid.”

The black magician’s lips hardened coldly at Rembrary’s nonchalant answer.

“With that kind of thinking… you wouldn’t listen even if we suggested that you become one of us and take revenge on people.”

“I don’t want to.”

Rembrary answered firmly.

The black magicians tried to take Rembrary’s divine power, made it impossible to use Sir Cheru’s divine power, and turned Lidal into a werewolf.

Even if that black magician didn’t know about the first two incidents, Rembrary had just told him the story of his friend becoming a werewolf.

And yet he was making such a suggestion.

“……I see.”

The black magician readily agreed.

Rembrary thought that the black magician was angry and would now pour curses on him.

“Then how about this.”

However, the black magician made another suggestion.

“If you join hands with us, I will restore your friend who is becoming a werewolf to his original state.”

“Is it possible to reverse it?”

Rembrary’s eyes widened.

The black magician who cast the spell on Lidal and this black magician were different people. Is it possible to undo another black magician’s spell?

“Of course.”

The black magician answered readily and watched Rembrary with an expectant expression.

The black magician thought that the young prince seemed to have a sense of loyalty, so he would eventually accept his offer.

Even if he didn’t accept the offer, he would blame himself for missing the opportunity to save his friend.

“Then I guess treatment is possible after all. I’ll try hard later.”

“!”

However, Rembrary refused without hesitation. The corners of the black magician’s lips went down.

“You’re a difficult child to handle.”

The black magician muttered and raised one hand up.

“Okay. Then I’ll cast black magic on you as you wished. I’ll cast black magic that makes you lose your memory. I’ll tell you well that we were originally a team.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the transparent, wriggling energy from the black magician’s hand shot towards Rembrary.

Rembrary tried to grasp the flow of how the black magician’s curse was applied while using divine power on his body.

His straight forehead furrowed slightly.

Rembrary felt that the curse was spreading along his blood vessels. It wasn’t just staying on the surface. The curse seemed to be moving along with the blood.

Because Rembrary kept pouring divine power into his body, the curse couldn’t scatter and was easier to recognize because it was more concentrated.

The black magician watched Rembrary standing there blankly and barely calmed down the feelings he had been shaken by Rembrary’s words earlier.

He just had to approach the child kindly and make him an ally once he lost his memory.

“……”

The black magician didn’t know that Rembrary was observing without being swept away by the curse. If he had known, he would have interfered.

It wasn’t that Rembrary didn’t react to the curse at all.

While examining the flow of the curse, Rembrary was reminded of a room full of roses.

It was a vague memory, like a memory from a very young age.

But every time he tried to recall that memory properly, it didn’t come to mind properly, as if cloudy water had flowed over it.

‘I said I lost my memory due to shock. Is that perhaps that memory?’

After some time passed, the black magician also realized that something was wrong.

At first, the black magician thought that Rembrary was just standing still because he was losing his memory and was confused.

However, after a long time passed and Rembrary didn’t move at all, he began to think that something was wrong.

Losing memory didn’t stop movement like that. Was he perhaps dead?

Just as the black magician was getting worried and was about to take a step or two closer, the child, who had been looking down, raised his eyes and stared straight at him.

The black magician was startled and stopped. The child was smiling kindly. It wasn’t the expression a child who had lost his memory and was in confusion would show.

Could it be. Did it not work! The child greeted the horrified black magician.

“Thank you. It was helpful. Now I think I know.”

“Know…?”

“How to undo the curse.”

“!”