Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 819

819. What on Earth is This Kid?

“There are too many heretic suspects being caught these days, aren’t there?”

Sediter clicked his tongue as he reviewed the list of names he had to check.

A colleague patted Sediter on the back with a rolled-up piece of paper as he passed by.

“What can you do? It’s the times.”

Sediter pouted.

“You always do the same work whether you’re busy or not, so that’s why you say that.”

Then, hearing the sound of the door opening, he turned to see a brown-haired colleague entering, soaked to the bone from the rain.

The colleague shook off his umbrella and asked in a loud voice, without preamble,

“Have you guys heard the story? About that prince.”

“Which prince?”

“You know, the kid who flew on a dragon and got cursed or something.”

Sediter, who had been reviewing the documents he was looking at earlier, perked up at the mention of a dragon and raised his head. This sounds like Rembrary?

“What about that prince?”

Sediter, who had a connection with Rembrary, couldn’t help but interject.

“I know about him. He came here too, you know.”

Another inquisitor raised his hand, pretending to know.

The brown-haired colleague folded his umbrella after shaking off all the rain and grinned.

“I heard he’s coming again?”

“What?!”

Sediter raised his voice without realizing it.

His colleagues all stared at him because he shouted so loudly.

“Why again?”

Regardless, Sediter asked, dumbfounded.

I thought he was settling down and becoming a hero. Why is he coming here again?

The brown-haired colleague spread his arms wide like a bird and chuckled.

“He flew on a dragon again, apparently.”

“!”

* * *

The carriage moved forward with a clattering sound.

The paladin who had received Rembrary’s treatment pretended to fidget with the bag on his lap while subtly observing Rembrary sitting across from him. He must be scared, right?

The paladins who had been treated did their best to defend Rembrary.

However, the villagers had directly witnessed the paladins being attacked by an unidentified monster not far from the scene.

People who had experienced such a thing just a few days ago were sensitive to the monster issue.

The paladins and the villagers were in tense opposition.

As a result, Rembrary was heading to the Inquisitorial Office for the time being.

This kid is trying to save people, and this is what happens to him. The paladin thought to himself as he looked at the child again.

Rembrary was looking out the window with a serious expression, but in the paladin’s eyes, the child looked hurt and frightened.

The paladin shook his head again, thinking that this was not the time, and tried to comfort the child by speaking to him.

“Rembrary, have you ever seen an inquisitor before?”

“Yes, I have.”

“Really? What were they like?”

The paladin naturally assumed that the child would say, ‘I’m scared,’ but asked anyway.

That way, if the child answered that he was scared, he could tell him that the inquisitors were all priests and the same as everyone else.

“I like them.”

However, the child’s answer was the opposite of what the paladin expected.

The paladin asked back, feeling awkward.

“You like them?”

Thinking about it, he was even more taken aback, so the paladin asked again.

“What do you like about them?”

Even I’m wary of inquisitors, but he likes those gloomy guys. Is he just saying that? Does he want to show that he’s not a heretic?

Rembrary leaned his chin on the windowsill and answered.

“They’re cool.”

He didn’t seem very enthusiastic about saying they were cool, but the paladin still felt goosebumps. Inquisitors are cool?

“What do you like about them?”

“Their consideration.”

Inquisitors and consideration. The paladin guessed that the child was terrified and just saying good things about the inquisitors.

If not, he couldn’t understand what the child was saying at all.

However, when the carriage stopped, the paladin was startled to see a bright smile on the child’s face.

Why is he smiling like that? As if he really likes the inquisitors?

Before he could find the answer, Rembrary threw open the door and jumped out.

“Let’s go together.”

By the time the paladin followed him out, Rembrary was already running far ahead.

“Let’s go together!”

The paladin shouted again as he followed.

Inquisitors who were passing by noticed them and approached.

The paladin barely managed to grab Rembrary and greeted the inquisitors.

“I’m from Sedeten. I sent a messenger pigeon in advance regarding Rembrary and the Black Dragon.”

Before the inquisitor could answer that he had seen it,

Rembrary reached out to the inquisitor with the most fearsome impression, grabbed his arm, and smiled.

“Inquisitor, it’s good to see you again!”

The child’s smile was sparkling.

The paladin was so dumbfounded that he forgot his manners and opened his mouth. Does this kid really like inquisitors? Is his ideology really strange?

* * *

“Mr. Bear, Mr. Bear. Aren’t you happy to see me again?”

Inquisitor Mik, sweating profusely, was asked by the child who was cheerfully following him while holding his arm.

He was a senior member of the Redrin Inquisitorial Office. Inquisitors already had a fearsome reputation.

Among them, Mik, as a senior member, was naturally feared by people, and thanks to his grim appearance, he was one of the most feared even among the senior members.

But he was embarrassed when a small child grabbed his arm, followed him around, and acted like he knew him.

It would have been better if he was just a neighborhood kid or an ordinary apprentice priest.

Isn’t this child supposed to be interrogated because he was witnessed flying on a black dragon?

“You’re young, so you don’t know, but it’s not a good thing to see me often.”

Still, the child was so happy to see him that Mik couldn’t help but tell him.

“Why?”

“Because I’m an inquisitor.”

“I like inquisitors.”

They should have sent someone else. Mik screamed inwardly.

The other inquisitors next to him thought they were lucky to be meeting this child for the first time.

Then, finally arriving in front of the interrogation room for people with weak suspicions, Mik threw open the door and shouted in a relieved voice.

“Hey, Sediter!”

Flying on a dragon was definitely not a weak suspicion. If anything, it was dangerous. But because the other party was a child, he deliberately brought him here.

Sediter, who had been selected for his ability to judge the other party’s lies in the most moderate way, jumped up from his chair.

“Inquisitor!”

Rembrary, who had been chattering next to Mik, jumped and ran straight to Sediter.

“It’s good to see you again!”

Mik felt the burden he had felt earlier disappear as the child who had been clinging to him left, and he felt strangely relieved.

He was so happy to see me, but he just left so coldly.

On the other hand, Sediter smiled tearfully as he looked at this troublesome prince who was greeting him so happily.

“We seem to be seeing each other quite often. Why do you keep riding dragons?”

Mik felt relieved that Sediter seemed to be acquainted with Rembrary, so he closed the door and left.

Sediter heard the sound but didn’t even look at the door and naturally offered Rembrary a handshake.

Rembrary answered while shaking hands.

“I didn’t ride one.”

Sediter felt the clear lie coming from the child and wanted to cry. He’s lying again. What should I do?

* * *

Lumena returned to her space while Redrin was away for a while and looked at those whom Redrin always teased as chickens [a derogatory term for followers or believers].

It was not easy to talk to each of the high-ranking priests, examine each of the ordinary priests, and then look at the apprentice priests and ordinary believers.

However, for Lumena, a new god, all this work was cumbersome but did not take very long.

Lumena’s angel said with a proud expression as Lumena pressed her eyes after finishing her work.

[Unlike Redrin, Lumena examines everyone carefully one by one. Redrin’s believers should know this.]

The angel was proud of Lumena, but when Lumena heard those words, she remembered that Redrin had disappeared to see Aquari.

Lumena quickly returned to Redrin’s territory.

Redrin’s angel, who was filling the clouds that Redrin had constantly torn apart, grudgingly pretended to know her.

[You’re here again.]

[Where’s Redrin?]

[He’s here.]

Redrin’s voice was heard in the air first, and then the god’s figure appeared next.

Redrin’s expression looked a little tired, but the corners of his mouth were full of an arrogant smile.

As soon as Lumena saw that arrogant smile, her worries that had disappeared suddenly resurfaced.

[What have you been up to?]

* * *

Inquisitor Sediter was in a state of confusion, holding hands with Rembrary as if shaking hands.

Judging by his expression alone, Rembrary didn’t seem to be lying at all.

However, the child’s hand and his divine power clearly told him that Rembrary was lying.

The problem was that if it turned out to be true that he had been riding the Black Dragon, the fame the child had built up might turn to dust in an instant.

Not only that, but the child might be treated as a heretic.

What would happen if the child, who had already had ominous rumors spreading about him in the beginning, was actually treated as a heretic?

Besides, wasn’t this a time when black magicians and monsters were rampant?

Right now, the public sentiment towards monsters was very bad.

Sediter was silent, lost in thought about how to report this.

He was distressed at the thought of giving the child, with whom he had a connection, the evaluation of being a heretic with his own hands.

Rembrary stared at him, watching Sediter’s choice.

[Rembrary.]

Then, Rembrary’s face brightened at the sound of Redrin’s voice in his ear.

Sediter became even more distressed as he looked at the child who was suddenly smiling brightly.

Why is he smiling in this situation? Does he not know how dangerous this situation is?

At that time.

“Inquisitor. Redrin told me to tell you something.”

Rembrary said something strange.

Sediter flinched, thinking that the child was easily name-dropping Redrin.

Even if he was good at lying, using Redrin’s name at will was something a priest should not do.

Was this why the child was a heretic?

“Rembrary… You shouldn’t use Redrin’s name at will, for your own sake.”

Still, Sediter kindly advised him because of their past relationship.

Rembrary’s already large eyes became even rounder.

“But I can’t *not* do Redrin’s errand.”

“You’re saying you can talk to Redrin?”

Sediter asked weakly.

“Of course.”

Sediter was at a loss as to where to start pointing out the child’s words.

“Redrin says this: ‘It’s not my fault that your abilities are excellent but look plain.’”

However, Sediter, who had been embarrassed, hardened his expression as soon as Rembrary conveyed a word.

The words Rembrary had just said were the complaints he had often made since he learned about his divine power.

It’s too plain, it’s too uncool, I want to use it a little cooler, etc.

Sediter was already shocked, but Rembrary didn’t stop there.

“And also. He says this: ‘Redrin is also thinking of the inquisitors as precious, so you don’t have to keep asking what he thinks.’”

“!”

Sediter stared at Rembrary with wide eyes. His head was in a state of mental breakdown due to the strong shock.

What is this kid… What on earth is this kid…?