Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 801

◈ 801. A Fine Day for the Moon

The moment Rembrary’s voice echoed, Rydal’s wolf nose began to recede, and his wolf fur started to fall out.

The triangular ears that had perked up also transformed back into ordinary human ears.

“Damn it! What is that!”

A mercenary beside him kicked the cart and shouted. The two hands that had turned into wolf paws also regained their original form.

In the blink of an eye, the baby werewolf on the cart had completely disappeared.

All that remained was a neat, kind-looking young novice priest.

The mercenaries quickly exchanged glances.

“Trying to kidnap a novice priest!”

Gaege, who had fallen, rose to his feet, grinding his teeth.

“Damn it! Who would have thought that was a person after seeing that just now!”

The mercenary who had hit Gaege hesitated and protested.

“I kept saying it was a novice priest.”

Rembrary calmly reminded him of what he had said.

“Who would believe that! Usually, no one would believe it!”

Gaege rolled up his sleeves and approached the mercenaries.

“Hmph! Enough noise, show me your mercenary licenses and identification right now!”

The mercenaries stepped back, exchanging glances among themselves.

“I said, show me your licenses!”

Then, when Gaege shouted in a ferocious voice, they cursed and started running away. They were in such a hurry that they even left the cart behind.

Watching them, Rydal ran to Rembrary.

“Rembrary!”

Rydal stopped in front of Rembrary, laughing and crying.

“It’s no use running away like that! I’m going to report you!”

Gaege yelled at the mercenaries at the top of his lungs. However, the mercenaries were running away quickly and were already far down the hill.

“Rydal, Rembrary. You two go back to the mansion first.”

Gaege watched them and then turned his head back, shouting.

“What about you, Priest?”

Rydal asked, then grabbed his neck and sniffled again.

“Your voice is coming out fine.”

Rembrary sighed, looking for any trace of the baby wolf’s face.

“Why, why are you sighing?”

“No matter how I think about it, the wolf face looked better.”

“!”

Gaege glanced at Rembrary and nagged.

“Rembrary. Don’t tease the kid.”

“I’m serious.”

“Even if you’re serious, don’t say it.”

Gaege said firmly, then pointed to the village spread out below the hill and snorted.

“I’m going to find the lord’s representative in charge of the village and tell them about this and ask them to catch the mercenaries. You two go back to the mansion and rest.”

Gaege said that and really started to go down alone.

Rembrary quickly followed him.

“Let me go with you.”

“I told you not to come.”

“If I trusted you, Gaege, I would have gone. But I’m worried because you’re too weak. What if the mercenaries are hiding and attack?”

“Your mouth is the one attacking!”

Gaege was furious but didn’t tell him to go back.

* * *

“By the way, Rydal.”

As they all went down the hill together, Gaege couldn’t help but ask.

“Why did you bite that Lumena paladin? I told you to stay in the room.”

Rydal didn’t answer right away, so Gaege looked to the right. The child’s face was pale.

“Is it hard to talk about?”

The child shook his head.

“No. It’s not that.”

“Then?”

“…Someone poured blood through the crack in the door.”

Rembrary, who was walking on Gaege’s left, raised his head at those words.

“Blood?”

“Yeah. I saw it and my head went blank for a moment. I broke the door and went out without even realizing it. There were Lumena paladins outside the door.”

Gaege clicked his tongue.

“Those bastards! So when Rembrary said he was going to find you, you grabbed his feathers and clung to him. What about those mercenaries then?”

“I don’t know. The paladins handed me over to the mercenaries. They said I turned into a monster and couldn’t turn back into a human, but it seemed like they couldn’t handle it themselves, so they gave me away.”

“Those sons of bitches!”

Gaege suddenly turned around and ran up the hill, so Rembrary and Rydal had to grab one of his arms each.

Gaege wasn’t in good shape, so he ran quickly for a few steps before getting tired and panting.

“I think they planned it from the beginning. Otherwise, there’s no way the mercenaries would have been waiting there.”

“That’s right. Maybe those mercenaries got the blood.”

Gaege muttered, barely suppressing his anger.

* * *

As soon as they returned to the central mansion after reporting the incident, Gaege immediately went to the problematic Lumena paladins and protested, shouting at the top of his lungs.

Gaege, who used to nag the novice priests, didn’t let it go just because the other party was a paladin from another temple.

Thanks to his loud voice, other paladins soon gathered.

“The Lumena paladins tried to harm our novice priest, so we can’t let it go! Hand over all four of the problematic paladins to us.”

“That’s right. We’ll send them to the Inquisitorial Court [a religious court].”

The Redrin paladins rushed at the problematic paladins, their necks flushed.

“Heresy? It’s true that they did wrong, but they are not heretics.”

“Just because Redrin and Lumena are close doesn’t mean heretics aren’t heretics!”

“But it’s not a mistake to go to the Inquisitorial Court. They violated the Paladin Law, so we will punish them in our own way.”

The Lumena paladins were angry at what the problematic paladins had done, but they blocked the Redrin paladins for now.

“What are you talking about! How can we believe that the Lumena Temple will forgive them or not as they please!”

“Are you doubting the Lumena Temple right now!”

“Yes! Does it look like we wouldn’t doubt it?!”

“In the first place, that child was in a monster state. We decided to take care of the child even in a monster state, giving him a deadline!”

“But you didn’t take care of him and handed him over!”

“So we’re going to punish that part separately!”

“The Redrin Temple’s novice priest was harmed, so the Redrin Temple will punish them.”

“Those paladins belong to the Lumena Temple, so the Lumena Temple must punish them!”

Gaege’s one-sided shouting gradually turned into a fight between the paladins of the two temples.

The Lumena paladins were ashamed and angry at the actions of the problematic paladins, but they wanted to punish them on their own.

On the other hand, the Redrin paladins thought that Rydal was a Redrin novice priest, so they should naturally take the problematic paladins away.

It was difficult to gather opinions because there was no agreement there.

“Even if we execute them, we will do it, not the Redrin Temple.”

The Lumena paladin drew a firm line.

At that moment. Suddenly, a bright white light burst out in the room. The paladins stopped fighting and covered their eyes.

When the light subsided, the paladins looked around and found Rembrary standing at the door.

“Stop fighting.”

Since Rembrary turned on his halo to the maximum in the mountains, there was no one among the people living in this mansion who didn’t know about Rembrary’s halo ability.

“Rembrary. You have to get a clear apology from them right now.”

Gaege gestured for Rembrary to stay out of this.

“I want to do that too, Priest. But I have a story to tell.”

Instead of stepping back, Rembrary came further into the door.

“Rembrary. We have to fight those idiots right now. Tell me later.”

Gaege nagged, but Rembrary stubbornly came inside and said.

“Gaege. The black magician I met in the mountains earlier said that the gate to the Demon World is wide open today because the weather is nice.”

At Rembrary’s words, the black magicians stopped moving at once.

“What?!”

Only after a while did Gaege belatedly jump up.

“Did he really say that? Think carefully.”

“Ah.”

“You were wrong, right?”

“I think it was the moon, not the weather. When the black magician tried to attack me, another black magician appeared and urged him to leave quickly. That’s when he told me.”

When Rembrary cut him off firmly, the paladins began to murmur.

* * *

The paladins realized that this was not the time to do this and stopped fighting.

Even if all the paladins here were mobilized, they couldn’t surround the entire mountain.

It would be a big problem if more monsters appeared in the mountains and came out of the mountains, and there were more than one or two villages surrounding the mountains.

The paladins couldn’t predict which direction the monsters would come from.

Inevitably, the paladins decided to go to nearby villages to protect them in preparation for the night.

The lord’s representative who managed the village jumped up when he heard the news.

“You mean monsters might flock here tonight?!”

“It’s not certain. It might be somewhere else, or maybe the number of monsters will only increase and the attack won’t be today.”

“What? The number of monsters is increasing?”

“Anyway, just in case, the paladins will guard the village tonight.”

There was no reason for the lord’s representative to refuse.

As a result, most of the paladins went down to nearby villages, and only a few remained in the mansion. All three children were staying at the mansion.

“I want to go with you too.”

Rabsus approached with a determined expression, but the paladins refused.

“No. Let him be with Rembrary and that child.”

“But I have the best ability to deal with monsters. I’ve been practicing against monsters steadily.”

“It’s dangerous.”

If a large number of monsters came, there would be more than one or two people injured.

As a result, the Lumena paladins knew that Rabsus’s ability would be helpful, but they refused.

Rabsus glanced at Rembrary with dissatisfaction.

But Rembrary didn’t even offer to go with them. He was just eating chocolate that he had gotten from somewhere.

‘If I turn on my halo strongly, not only the monsters but also the paladins won’t be able to fight. If the monsters run away to other places while the paladins are stopped, unprepared villages will be in danger.’

He seemed to have no thoughts, but Rembrary had his own thoughts.

And Rembrary thought that this was why the paladins didn’t ask him to go with them either.

As a result, a few hours later. The three children were together in a room on the first floor of the mansion, and only some of the paladins remained, and all went down to nearby villages.

* * *

“Rembrary. I have something to say.”

Rydal called Rembrary while eating tomato dishes.

“What is it?”

Rembrary asked, looking around, as if he wasn’t full even after eating his share of the food.

Rabsus stared at the two with a fork in his hand.

“Thank you.”

Rydal smiled brightly and said hello.

He was so grateful at first, but he couldn’t say hello properly because of the shocking story that the mercenaries were caught, reported, the paladins were fighting, and then the gate to the Demon World would open further.

Rembrary raised his head while breaking the chocolate. Then, when his eyes met, he smiled and concentrated on the chocolate again.

Seeing that reaction, Rydal felt a little strange. When Rydal was a baby wolf, Rembrary was really kind and friendly.

But when Rydal returned to being human, Rembrary seemed to treat Rydal and Gaege no differently.

* * *

Meanwhile, at that time. The paladins in question who tried to hand Rydal over to the mercenaries had their punishment postponed, and as the other paladins all became busy, they took the opportunity to gather among themselves.

“If we are punished for this, our future will be blocked. We must come up with a plan.”