Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 836

836. The First Oversight

For three days, Rembrary talked to Redrin incessantly in his mind, enough to make Redrin’s ears ache.

It was so noisy that Redrin almost felt like issuing a divine decree to ‘put some salt on that kid’s bread’ [a saying meaning to make someone suffer a little].

Fortunately, Rembrary’s punishment period ended before Redrin’s patience ran out.

“Here. It’s your favorite salt bread.”

As the punishment period ended, the paladin gave the child crispy sausages, salt bread, and a salad with raspberry sauce filling nearly half the plate.

“Thank you, Paladin. I’ll enjoy it.”

While eating the salty bread, Rembrary thought he could endure about three days.

Hadn’t he lived for months eating bland food at the Florandia Temple?

If the paladin had heard these thoughts, he would have been dumbfounded and speechless.

But the paladin was very busy with other matters. Not only Redrin Paladin but also the group that went to Moroso and Seosahal were all busy.

They moved slowly, constantly discussing.

Cherub escaped from the Demon Realm and clearly broke the sealing artifact. But why wasn’t the seal completed?

“Could it be that we sealed it in the wrong place by mistake?”

Higher Priestess Iira subtly tried to attribute this to Cherub’s fault. But it didn’t work on Moroso.

“That’s unlikely. If we had attempted the seal in the Demon Realm, the sealing artifact wouldn’t have been broken on the ground. And if we had sealed it incorrectly after coming to the ground, the seal should have been completed somewhere nearby.”

“…….”

“We searched the area thoroughly, but there wasn’t a single sealed zone.”

Rembrary, who was eating bread nearby, chimed in.

“It was made wrong from the start.”

Higher Priestess Iira glared at the child. It was the correct answer. But it was a correct answer that shouldn’t be acknowledged.

“Are you insulting our Great Priestess Mary now?”

When Higher Priestess Iira asked with a flushed face, Redrin Paladin apologized on his behalf and took Rembrary elsewhere.

“Don’t say things like that. Got it?”

Redrin Paladin gave Rembrary candy and urged him.

“But Paladin, what Moroso said is right. The seal wasn’t completed anywhere. Then it was made wrong.”

Redrin Paladin also agreed with Rembrary’s words. However, the one who made the sealing artifact was Great Priestess Iira.

If they blamed Great Priestess Iira before accurately grasping the situation, the Iira Temple would consider themselves greatly insulted.

With demons and black magicians showing unusual movements, now was not the time for conflicts between religions.

Rembrary ate the candy, thinking it was truly strange that people tried so hard to ignore the obvious answer.

* * *

Unable to find an answer, the group decided to visit Great Priestess Iira in the Central Continent directly.

For the Kamuel Temple people, going through the Central Continent was the fastest way to return to their continent anyway.

“Since we’re going back that way, it would be good to stop by and talk to Great Priestess Mary.”

Great Priest Kamuel muttered and then asked Redrin Paladin.

“What about you? What will you do?”

The Great Priest glanced at Rembrary at the end of the question. It was a look asking if it was okay to bring a child to another continent.

“I want to go too.”

Rembrary quickly answered, but Moroso ignored Rembrary’s answer.

Redrin Paladin hesitated for a moment before answering.

“I will go with you.”

Since the missing person was Redrin Paladin, this matter was deeply related to them as well.

Rather than hearing explanations filled only with their perspective from the Iira Temple later, it seemed better to go together from the start.

“Are you going to take the child too?”

Moroso pointed at Rembrary once more and asked.

“Of course.”

Rembrary answered immediately, but Moroso ignored Rembrary’s words this time as well.

“Yes, Rembrary is close to Sir Cherub, after all.”

Moroso also knew that Rembrary had been carrying around the broken sword he found in Seosahal.

Even when told to put it down because it was dangerous, the child carried the sword everywhere he went. He even heard that he kept it on the bedside table when he slept.

“Well, fine.”

Moroso nodded sullenly and turned away.

* * *

Moving from one continent to another was not as easy as one might think.

The distance was far, the weather changed rapidly with each move, and above all, the necessary documents and procedures were complicated and numerous.

By the time they arrived at the Iira Great Temple after such a long journey, everyone in the group except Rembrary had lost a little weight.

“That person is Great Priestess Iira.”

Redrin Paladin subtly informed Rembrary.

Great Priest Kamuel and Great Priestess Iira seemed to know each other well, exchanging greetings and even a light hug.

“Welcome.”

“I hope I’m not interrupting?”

After exchanging greetings, the two began to talk while standing face to face instead of going to a conference room or reception room.

Rembrary wanted to listen to their conversation, so he approached.

Rembrary still believed that Great Priestess Iira had made the sealing artifact incorrectly. He wanted to ask about this matter definitively.

However, at Great Priest Kamuel’s signal, the Kamuel Paladins formed a perimeter around Moroso and Mary, preventing anyone from approaching them.

Rembrary had no choice but to stand at a distance and watch them talk.

“I don’t know why I’m not included in the conversation.”

Rembrary muttered, and Redrin Paladin burst into laughter.

“When you grow up and become a Great Priest, you’ll be able to talk among them.”

“How old do I have to be?”

“You’ll have to wait several decades.”

“Will those two still be alive by then?”

Redrin Paladin bit his lip tightly.

Then, as Rembrary asked Redrin Paladin more questions and then squatted down, one of the Kamuel Paladins approached and said.

“Rembrary, Great Priestess Iira is calling for you.”

Rembrary quickly ran between the two. He already had more than one thing he wanted to ask Great Priestess Iira.

“So, you’re Rembrary.”

Great Priestess Iira, who had been looking at Moroso with a serious expression, asked as Rembrary approached.

“Yes. You said you had something you wanted to ask me?”

It seemed Moroso had told her about Rembrary.

“Yes.”

Rembrary nodded and took out a handkerchief from his pocket. When he unfolded the handkerchief, a broken piece of glass was revealed.

“This came out of the spot Sir Cherub passed by.”

Great Priestess Iira accepted the glass shard. While the Great Priestess looked at the shard from various angles, Rembrary carefully observed her reaction.

As Great Priestess Iira lowered the shard, Rembrary urgently asked immediately.

“Did the Great Priestess make the sealing artifact wrong from the start? That’s why Sir Cherub tried to seal it but couldn’t, right?”

Moroso rubbed his forehead. *Ask indirectly and slowly*, he seemed to think.

“No. I made it properly as intended.”

However, Great Priestess Iira calmly denied it without showing any displeasure.

“Think carefully. Sir Cherub doesn’t make mistakes.”

Even when Rembrary said it again, Great Priestess Iira only gently soothed the child.

“Rembrary, was it? I’m sorry. But I definitely handed over a glass ornament containing sealing power. I don’t know why it didn’t work. Could it have been broken incorrectly?”

“Could it be that it didn’t work because it was made wrong?”

“Do you want to take this back? Shall I dispose of it for you?”

Great Priestess Iira asked, handing the ornament to Rembrary.

Great Priestess Iira asked gently, but beyond the words, a firm attitude was revealed that she would not listen to Rembrary’s opinion.

“Give it to me.”

Rembrary wrapped the glass shard that Great Priestess Iira handed over back in the handkerchief and put it in his pocket.

Rembrary still remembered the suspicious attitude shown by Higher Priestess Iira.

If it hadn’t been for that suspicious attitude, Rembrary wouldn’t have distrusted Great Priestess Iira’s words so readily.

However, the Iira priests and paladins, who were unaware of these circumstances, thought Rembrary’s attitude toward Great Priestess Iira was too arrogant.

“Doesn’t the Redrin Temple educate their children enough?”

“They shouldn’t blame our Great Priestess for their mistakes. The Great Priestess helped out of good will.”

Rembrary got back on the carriage and stared intently at the handkerchief wrapped around the glass shard.

* * *

After several more days, Rembrary returned to the Redrin Great Temple. It was already the end of winter at that time.

“Did you have a good trip?”

Ridal ran over, smiling happily without knowing the situation.

“I couldn’t find Sir Cherub.”

Ridal’s face lost its color at Rembrary’s answer.

“Ah… I see.”

Ridal didn’t know what to say and fidgeted.

Rembrary hadn’t said it expecting any particular reaction.

And a few days later, the highest-ranking priest, who had received a long report from Redrin Paladin about this matter, made a decision.

The highest-ranking priest, in order to protect Rembrary, cut off all requests to send a healing priest at his own discretion.

He believed that Rembrary needed to be more emotionally comfortable. People expressed dissatisfaction, but the highest-ranking priest was firm.

“Sending trainee priests here and there for a few months was a special case. They will soon be able to become ordinary priests, so ask again then.”

Thanks to this, Rembrary spent a few months leisurely and peacefully, and in that situation, he celebrated his birthday.

Now, when autumn comes, he would be able to take the divine power test alone.

In a few months, it was only a matter of time before Rembrary rose to the position of ordinary priest.

Trainee priests who had just turned ten years old were racking their brains over whether they could become ordinary priests in the next few years, but Rembrary didn’t need to do that.

Instead, Rembrary finally took out the item that had been completed a few weeks ago but had only been placed on the shelf.