Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 853

853. Who Are You?

When Rembrary pointed him out without hesitation, Moolu stared, wide-eyed.

After the awkward atmosphere on the ship, Moolu had barely spoken to Rembrary. But suddenly, to go together?

—I’m going to find out the cause of Sir Cheru’s disappearance.

Moolu recalled Rembrary’s words about going together. Could this be about that? If so…….

“I will go with you.”

Moolu erased his expression and stepped forward.

The highest-ranking priest looked back and forth between Rembrary and Moolu, his expression darkening slightly.

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In any case, Rembrary succeeded in bringing Moolu into the hall.

After taking a few steps inside, a heavy thud was heard from behind.

Rembrary turned his head.

There was a thick door where he thought there was an archway, and it was now closed.

“Let’s go,” Moolu whispered softly. Rembrary nodded and moved forward again.

At the very front of the wide hall was a large statue.

Facing the statue, a person stood with his hands behind his back.

As Rembrary approached, the person slowly turned around.

It was indeed High Priest Iira, whom Rembrary had met before.

“It’s been a while,” High Priest Iira greeted him kindly, as if she remembered Rembrary.

“You’ve grown a lot taller.” She greeted Moolu kindly as well.

“It’s nice to meet you for the first time. Hello?”

Moolu was a little shocked.

High Priest Iira was a completely different kind of high priest from High Priest Camuel.

Unlike High Priest Camuel, who was arrogant and disregarded the Redrin priests, this high priest seemed kind and gentle.

But Rembrary came to this high priest to find out about Cheru’s disappearance. How is she involved?

Moolu couldn’t quite guess.

“Thank you for coming such a long way, Rembrary.”

As High Priest Iira greeted Rembrary again, Moolu glanced at Rembrary.

*How can Rembrary ask difficult questions to someone who acts like that?*

“I’ve come back to ask again. Was Sir Cheru’s disappearance intentional or a mistake?” However, Rembrary was relentless.

For the first time, the expression on High Priest Iira’s face, which had been smiling all along, changed.

Moolu opened his mouth. *He’s like that even to high-ranking people.*

“Do you still think the sealed item was made incorrectly?” High Priest Iira asked with a sigh.

“I think so.”

Rembrary nodded and looked around the hall, which only had three people in it.

“But that’s not certain. But there is definitely another suspicious person: the high-ranking priest who went with Sir Cheru to seal the Demon Realm gate. I want to meet him again.”

High Priest Iira gave a troubled smile.

“It seems like you came to me, not that I called you.”

With those words, she fell silent, lost in thought for a moment.

In the meantime, Rembrary stood blankly and looked up at the large statue. It was completely different from the familiar Redrin statue.

“Okay. I’ll let you meet him.” Finally, High Priest Iira opened her mouth.

“Thank you.”

“No, you listened to my request and came all the way here.”

High Priest Iira regained her calm smile.

She told them to wait and went out alone through a small door on the side.

“Could it be that my sister’s disappearance wasn’t an accident?” Once they were alone, Moolu asked the question he had been wanting to confirm.

It was a story he could guess from the conversation, but he still wanted to hear it clearly once.

“That’s right.”

Moolu was shocked by Rembrary’s answer.

Moolu now understood why Rembrary was reluctant to talk about the details.

Even suspecting that the Iira priests were involved in such a thing was an insult to them.

Moreover, the person Rembrary suspected seemed to be a high-ranking priest.

If things went wrong, the Redrin Temple and the Iira Temple might end up fighting at a time when everyone should be working together.

While Moolu was deep in thought, Rembrary stood blankly and looked at the Iira statue again.

Unexpectedly, it wasn’t long before the sound of the door opening was heard.

When he turned his head, High Priest Iira came in first, and someone followed behind her.

Rembrary recognized the face at once.

It was the Iira high-ranking priest who had been doing all sorts of suspicious things.

“That’s the person,” Rembrary told Moolu in advance.

It was an abbreviated explanation, but Moolu understood and bit his lip.

After waiting for a while, the two walked up to Rembrary and Moolu.

The high-ranking priest was almost expressionless, but when he saw Moolu, his eyes shook for the first time.

“Well, I brought him. What do you want to do after meeting him?” High Priest Iira asked nonchalantly, as if she didn’t notice the ambiguous atmosphere between Moolu and the high-ranking priest, or as if she was pretending not to notice.

“I’m just going to ask questions.” Rembrary also answered naturally and looked at the Iira high-ranking priest.

The high-ranking priest’s eyes did not waver when he looked at Rembrary.

“What do you want to ask me?” His voice was even sullen.

“It’s nothing much.” Rembrary smiled, revealing his teeth.

It seemed like he was going to ask a really trivial question, so the high-ranking priest slightly relaxed his frown.

“Is the Iira Temple at fault for Sir Cheru’s disappearance?” However, when the high-ranking priest heard Rembrary’s question, his face frowned even more.

“What?”

“Is there a fault?” Rembrary asked again.

Moolu thought that Rembrary could have put it more gently.

The high-ranking priest’s expression changed to one where he wanted to punch Rembrary and answered firmly.

“No.” But instead, the high-ranking priest firmly denied it.

“Is the Iira Temple really not at fault for Sir Cheru’s disappearance?” When Rembrary asked again, the high-ranking priest answered once more.

“Yes, I said no!”

“Can you swear to God? That you told the truth?” When Rembrary asked again for the last time, the high-ranking priest opened his mouth wide in anger.

However, before the words came out, High Priest Iira blocked his mouth.

“!”

The high-ranking priest stopped talking and looked at his high priest with wide eyes.

Moolu also didn’t understand what High Priest Iira had done.

From the looks of it, that high-ranking priest was about to say, ‘We’re not involved.’ Why did she stop him from speaking? Could it be that she wants to say, ‘We are involved’?

“It seems you have more interesting abilities.” However, the words that came out of High Priest Iira’s mouth were completely unexpected.

Moolu raised his eyebrows, and the high-ranking priest looked at Rembrary with fearful eyes.

“But this person is a person of our Iira-nim [Iira’s chosen]. A priest who serves Iira-nim cannot rely on another god to swear.”

High Priest Iira removed her hand, but now the high-ranking priest closed his mouth on his own, sensing the situation.

“You can’t swear, is that it?” The Iira high-ranking priest’s face turned red at Rembrary’s rudeness.

“That can’t be.” However, the high priest answered calmly, as if she wasn’t offended at all. Then she said to the high-ranking priest.

“Swear to our Iira-nim.”

The high-ranking priest was worried for a moment.

*That strange, monster-like child seemed to be trying to use some kind of curse when swearing. Is it okay to swear in front of that child?*

However, the high priest’s calm appearance gave him courage.

The high-ranking priest steeled his heart and said.

“I can swear to Iira-nim. We have nothing to be ashamed of.”

Rembrary stared intently at the high-ranking priest’s forehead. If this guy lied, a mark would appear on his forehead.

And Rembrary believed that the mark would definitely appear.

Wasn’t he the one who had been acting suspiciously all along and hindering the search for Cheru?

However, the Iira high-ranking priest’s forehead was fine.

Rembrary felt empty.

On the other hand, the Iira high-ranking priest, who had been terrified because he thought Rembrary was up to something, suddenly became arrogant when nothing happened.

“Is that enough now? Daring to suspect people with such things.” The high-ranking priest shouted loudly, but he kept avoiding looking at Moolu.

Moolu dropped his shoulders in disappointment.

Rembrary frowned and tilted his head.

The mark on his forehead did not appear, but Rembrary still couldn’t shake his suspicion of him.

Instead, he thought that High Priest Iira was very smart.

As soon as Rembrary asked if he would swear to God, she immediately realized that there was something and not only stopped him but also devised a way to avoid it.

That high priest had good instincts and good judgment.

“Is there anything else you want to ask?” High Priest Iira asked.

“……”

Rembrary thought for a moment and shook his head.

“No.”

Then High Priest Iira gestured to the high-ranking priest that he could leave.

After the high-ranking priest left, High Priest Iira asked again.

“Then Rembrary, now that I’ve granted your request, can I tell you why I called you?”

“Of course.” Rembrary, who had been disappointed until just before, answered cheerfully.

However, as soon as she heard the answer, High Priest Iira’s expression turned even more gloomy.

She even looked at Rembrary with a somewhat sympathetic gaze.

*‘Another sad expression,’* Moolu thought inwardly. *Why does that high priest keep making that expression? The highest-ranking priest is also like that, and this place is definitely strange.*

“Why did you call me?”

“The reason I called you is… I heard you were smart, so I wanted to see you.”

“Of course.” Rembrary immediately agreed.

Normally, Moolu would have found it strange that Rembrary was confidently saying that he was great.

But today, High Priest Iira seemed stranger.

She called a promising future high priest candidate to this dangerous place for such a reason? This far?

“Have you seen everything now?” When Rembrary asked with wide eyes, High Priest Iira returned to her kind atmosphere instead of the sad expression from before.

“Actually, the reason I called you is because there’s someone I want you to treat—” Then she started talking about something different from before.

*‘It seems like she changed the subject.’*

* * *

High Priest Iira told Rembrary and Moolu to rest for now.

In the meantime, the high-ranking priest personally took the two to their lodgings.

When they arrived at the guest lodgings where the other Redrin priests were staying, the paladins who had been anxiously waiting rushed out at the same time and surrounded them to greet them.

Rembrary and Moolu ate early that day, washed up, and went straight to bed.

However, late at night, as soon as the bell rang to announce the time, Moolu, who had been pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and got up.

Moolu put on a cloak and wore shoes made of a material that didn’t make much noise even when walking on the marble floor.

Then he went near the dining hall and stood near the table where he had sat. Moolu tried to recall the memories of a few hours ago.

*‘How did people move around?’*.

Finally, Moolu remembered which direction most of the Iira priests went and ran in that direction.

He followed them to the dining hall and forced himself to eat something, even though he had no appetite, just to see that.

*‘That high-ranking priest knew something. I’m going to ask him.’*

* * *

At that time, while Moolu was secretly running through the corridors and cloisters of the Iira Grand Temple to meet the high-ranking priest, Rembrary was also slowly getting out of bed.

However, Rembrary didn’t stay up all night but actually woke up from sleep.

[Rembrary.]

It was because of the voice of a god that seemed to be transmitted into his head.

However, it was not the voice of Redrin.

Nor was it the voice of Lumena, who occasionally intervened when talking to Redrin.

[Rembrary.]