Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 833

◈ 833. He’s Probably Dead By Now, Right?

People simultaneously recalled the sinister rumors surrounding Rembrary.

The rumor that the child was connected to demons. Could the child be talking about that?

No one here now would newly suspect that a child favored by Redrin could be related to demons.

However, it would be troublesome if the child was making such remarks while keeping that rumor in mind.

It would mean that the child is full of worry and anxiety inside, even if he doesn’t show it.

“Why do you think so?”

The High Priest carefully asked, placing a hand on the blade as if pressing down.

“Because I can use the halo, heal myself when I get hurt, and find my way with Redrin’s guidance.”

As the child answered unexpectedly simply, people simultaneously felt relieved and embarrassed.

That’s right. That’s right. This child is just as confident as usual, but we were thinking too seriously.

The High Priest smiled contentedly and said.

“I see. You’re right. Still, it’s not allowed, Rembrary.”

* * *

It wasn’t that the High Priest didn’t want to find the missing paladins.

However, the High Priest didn’t want to send the child to a dangerous place where even excellent paladins had struggled.

“Today, read the Holy Scripture aloud from page 110 to page 150, Rembrary.”

The High Priest instructed this to appease the child as Rembrary kept pestering him.

Then, Rembrary changed his target.

‘Redrin-nim, Redrin-nim, Redrin-nim!’

Redrin tried to block his ears and ignore Rembrary’s prayers.

But as the child said, ‘Thank you for allowing me, Redrin-nim. Then, I’ll go,’ and ran towards the stables, he had no choice but to call the child.

[Rembrary. Just a moment. Who allowed you?]

‘Redrin-nim. I’m a bit busy right now.’

Redrin issued an order to the High Priest to send Rembrary.

The High Priest was gathering high-ranking priests and offering prayers when he received the order and jumped in surprise.

The High Priest stopped the prayer midway and covered his forehead in disbelief.

“What’s wrong?”

The secretary priest asked with concern, but the High Priest couldn’t bring himself to answer.

How could he say that Rembrary had tattled to Redrin because he couldn’t get his way? And Redrin was even listening to him!

“Redrin-nim says to send Rembrary.”

The High Priest omitted the part about Rembrary’s tattling.

“Yes? Why?”

“There must be a reason.”

What reason? The secretary priest blankly stared at the High Priest before opening his mouth and sighing.

“Redrin-nim must be trying to raise Rembrary strictly. To entrust him with even greater tasks in the future.”

“…….”

“Traveling around helping people and going on all sorts of adventures from a young age. Rembrary will truly grow into an outstanding priest. Right?”

The secretary priest seemed to regard Rembrary’s departure to find Cherub as a trial prepared by Redrin.

The High Priest, who knew that it was the child’s stubbornness rather than a trial prepared by Redrin, simply smiled quietly.

* * *

Regardless of what misunderstandings the secretary priest had or what the High Priest thought, Rembrary was happy that he could go find Cherub.

Rembrary was confident that he would not face any failure.

Just like how he removed Cherub’s curse after several attempts, he was confident that he could find Cherub even in a corner of the Demon World this time.

Rembrary arrived at the Redrin Paladin Training Camp with a proud heart.

Mulu was squatting on the three-step stairs in front of the training camp’s main building.

Rembrary, who had jumped out of the carriage as if flying, abruptly stopped in front of Mulu as he was running towards the main building.

Mulu, who had been hugging his knees, raised his gaze.

Rembrary was about to call Mulu ‘Grass Younger Brother’ but stopped. Calling him ‘Grass Younger Brother’ would remind Mulu of Cherub and make him even sadder.

“I’m going to save Sir Cherub.”

Rembrary said instead with a confident voice.

Mulu’s lips turned downward. As the child’s eyes welled up with tears, his pupils looked like green glass beads in a bowl filled with blue lake water.

Rembrary became flustered, unsure of how to comfort someone in sorrow.

“See you later.”

Rembrary hesitated for a moment before saying goodbye and slipping through the door.

That’s not comforting. The secretary priest, who had brought Rembrary, thought in dismay as he watched the scene, but Rembrary had already gone inside.

Even after entering the building, the secretary priest couldn’t immediately find Rembrary.

In that short amount of time, Rembrary was already walking far down the hallway.

The secretary priest ran and grabbed the child, taking him to the commander’s room.

The commander’s cheeks were much thinner than when they had met before.

“I didn’t think the High Priest would send you.”

The commander stood up from his chair and immediately approached Rembrary.

“Redrin-nim allowed me.”

Rembrary said brightly, but the commander didn’t take those words at face value.

Morso, who had been staying in the guest room, also heard the news and came straight to the commander’s office.

“Long time no see, little one. Do you remember me?”

Morso smiled as he saw Rembrary and extended his hand.

Morso hadn’t given Rembrary a very high evaluation when he met the child at the central mansion before.

He thought that the child Rapsus would stand out in the future instead.

However, the child that Kamuel had instructed him to befriend was Rembrary, not Rapsus.

In that case, he had to become close to this child. Regardless of how he had evaluated the child.

“Of course. You’re the one who said that the Redrin paladins and Lumena priests weren’t anything special.”

“!”

However, with Rembrary’s bright smile, Morso was certain that becoming close to this child would be quite a difficult journey.

At the child’s words, the eyes of the Redrin paladins and priests sharpened. It was fortunate that there were no Lumena priests in this place.

Morso cleared his throat and made excuses.

“Did I say that? You must have misheard.”

“You are at an age where you often forget things after saying them.”

Kamuel-nim. Do I really have to befriend this impudent child? Morso shouted inwardly.

Kamuel also watched the scene and said to his angel.

[The child that Redrin cherishes has a personality just like Redrin.]

* * *

The famous apprentice priest Rembrary is now going to a place swarming with monsters to save a paladin who fell into the Demon World.

This story spread like wildfire among the paladin trainees in just one lunch hour.

The children were talking about it so enthusiastically that Jeremi, who was avoiding Rembrary and eating in a corner, even heard the story.

Jeremi put down his spoon on the iron tray and frowned.

Rembrary is leaving for a dangerous place to save a paladin?

Jeremi frowned even more. The Rembrary Prince he knew was not so sacrificial and altruistic.

The Rembrary Prince he knew was rather arrogant.

Of course, it didn’t seem that way at first glance. His attitude was a little different from the commonly thought of arrogant personality.

But when Jeremi talked or played with Rembrary, he wondered what the child thought of him, whether he even considered him a friend.

Eurishe also felt similarly, so it wasn’t just his inferiority complex.

But Rembrary is voluntarily going to a dangerous place where he might lose his life?

No way. That can never happen. Jeremi quickly muttered inwardly, grabbing his spoon again.

Rembrary must never be that kind of child.

If Rembrary is that kind of child, then why is he here, and why is his father being threatened by black magicians?

‘High Priest Kamuel is going with him, so he must be following along. High Priest Kamuel is famous for being very strong. He’s going because he can be protected.’

* * *

After confusing many people, Rembrary himself left the paladin training camp with High Priest Kamuel in three hours.

No one knew how long a person who fell into the Demon World could last. But that person couldn’t be comfortably camping and living in the Demon World.

They wouldn’t be able to sleep comfortably, they would lack food, and above all, they might be injured.

“The Demon World is a terrible place.”

Inside the carriage, Morso spoke as if he had been there once or twice.

For some reason, Rembrary thought, ‘That’s probably not true,’ but didn’t argue because he was annoyed.

In any case, everyone agreed that Cherub had to be saved as quickly as possible.

“Little one. What kind of person do you think you will be in the future?”

Even in the midst of this busy time, Morso kept asking Rembrary trivial questions inside the carriage.

“The same kind of person I am now.”

“Don’t you have any ambition to become a more outstanding person?”

“Morso-nim seems to feel inadequate about himself.”

“You’re really a child I don’t want to get close to.”

Rembrary thought Morso was a strange person. Why does he keep talking to me when he doesn’t want to get close?

But Rembrary couldn’t deny Morso’s abilities.

As they went to Seosahal, the monster attacks increased, but Morso was definitely a High Priest.

The monsters that rushed in were scattered into dust before they even touched the carriage.

The Kamuel paladins weren’t surprised at all, as if this wasn’t the first time this had happened.

The road to the dangerous forest was the smoothest of all the journeys Rembrary had taken.

The carriage, which had been moving forward without hesitation, stopped for the longest time when it arrived at a village near Seosahal.

“Little one. You should wait for us here.”

Unexpectedly, Morso booked a room on the second floor of an inn near the forest, handed Rembrary the key, and said this.

Then, he instructed the Redrin paladin who had come with him.

“We’re going to go inside and come back, so wait here.”

Rembrary rolled around on the floral-patterned blanket in the room before quickly jumping up and asking.

“Aren’t I going with you?”

“From the beginning, we only promised to bring you this far.”

Morso said firmly.

They had traveled all the way here in one carriage, but Kamuel’s instructions to build a friendship with Rembrary had not yet been fulfilled.

That being said, he couldn’t take a young child to that inner area.

“Then what about Sir Cherub?”

“I, our paladins, and High Priest Iira will go together and save him.”

The High Priest of the Iira Temple quickly nodded.

He was included in the first advance team that left with Cherub, and he was the one who came along again this time to guide the way.

Rembrary, who had naturally assumed that he would go to the Demon World with them, was surprised and his eyes widened.

Watching that scene, High Priest Iira wanted to switch places with Rembrary. He wanted to stay here too.

But in order to find and clean up the ‘evidence’ that he might have left behind on the previous journey, he had to go with Kamuel’s group without question.

Together with that High Priest who turns his opponents into dust before they even touch him, who is more demonic than the demons.

If that High Priest finds out what he did on the previous adventure, what High Priest Iira instructed, he might turn him into dust without anyone knowing.

Even if he disappears into dust, there won’t even be any evidence left then.

Thinking that, he felt a sudden chill. High Priest Iira stepped back from the group and wiped the cold sweat from his sleeve.

It would have been better if that paladin hadn’t jumped after the sealed item.

It would have been better if that paladin hadn’t fallen into the Demon World, and it would have been better if he hadn’t had to do such troublesome things.

High Priest Iira wiped the sweat from his palm on his sleeve once more. Still, by this time, that paladin… he’s probably dead, right?