How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 13



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Episode 13. The Young Helper.

“That’s right. I was reincarnated for 1000 years, and returned to where the original story ended.”

Kael’s voice, responding to the trembling young voice, was flat. The dryness of his voice, as if he were just telling the truth, made Mabel feel sad.

The honest child’s body finally shed tears as a drop fell from his once moist eyes.

Kael, who saw that sight, looked at the child with a helpless expression and asked.

“Why are you crying?”

Mabel’s mouth opened, knowing that it wasn’t a question of why she was crying, but rather a crude consolation that there was no need for her to cry over this matter.

“It was hard… no, I mean… .”

The small mouth kept opening and closing without being able to finish speaking.

It was hard.
It was difficult to even utter that one word.
In the book he read, he wandered, made wrong choices in agony and pain, and chased after hope, but in the end, he returned and despaired.
How can one understand his heart? Who dares to fathom his heart? Who can say?

“…Kael still wants to go back?”

After hesitating for a while, Mabel finally asked him. He replied briefly, “Yes.”

“You’ve been here for a thousand years. Even if you go back, I really don’t know what will happen to your body, and I don’t know how you’ll adapt…”
“Is it because of this book? The memories before I came to this world are vivid as if they happened yesterday. I just want to go back. To where I belong. This is not where I… exist.”

The only wind.
The only sincere words flowed out of Kael’s mouth, and the child who heard his words closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and soon opened his eyes.

“I’ll help you. I don’t know if I can help you… but if there’s anything I can do to help you, I’ll help you. So that you can return to your original world.”
“…Thank you, Mabel.”

The child smiled brightly, still with tears in his eyes, at the grateful greeting he heard from Kael for the first time.

Kael’s gaze turned to the book the child had opened. The chapter on return. The first page. It wasn’t the area where the story after meeting Mabel was written.

There’s no mention of when he thought he’d use Mabel. If I had read a little further into the book, I would have known.

If you knew the truth, would you still say you would help me like you did now? He thought that since you were not going to give him a chance to find out the truth from now on, he would probably never know the truth about this question.

“But how can I help you?”
“How can I get back? I have to find a way.”
“What methods have you tried so far? No. If you read the book, you will know?”

A small hand touched the bookshelf, and Kael took the book and put it back, preventing the child from looking at the next page.

“I speak quickly.”
“That may be true. Could you… tell me?”

He nodded slowly at the child’s particularly cautious attitude. Bringing a chair for Mabel to sit on, Kael recited one by one the methods he had used.

Attempting to take one’s own life.
Being killed by someone.
As I got older, my breathing naturally stopped.
… and finally, holding on until the end of the original work.

Chapter of Return.
Mabel, who was looking at Kael with pity at the countless deaths he had suffered, recalled the words in the last book she had read.

“You said you regressed right after the original ended?”
“okay.”
“It really didn’t end like that and come back like that?”
“Does that mean you had to return because it was over?”

Han.Jum.Jae wasn’t that famous of a novel.
But Mabel in her previous life liked that article. Mabel recalled how she had found an article that suited her taste after a long time and read it over and over again.

“There was no side story or anything like that in Hanjumjae. When the main character died, it was the end. There was no content about how the other characters lived after that.”
“…if we go in the direction of saving the protagonist.”

Mabel answered Kael’s voice softly.

“If we save the protagonist, won’t this world be destroyed…?”
“What if I die instead?”
“Kael, if you maintain this world in place of the protagonist, the protagonist will be saved, and the world will not be destroyed. I think there is a high probability that this world will continue to exist.”

That is what it means to maintain this world.
It was no different from telling the original protagonist to sacrifice himself. Sacrifice, death, whatever. As long as I could go back, I didn’t care what would happen to my life.

If the reason I returned was because the main character died, and I couldn’t continue the story, then I could eliminate that reason by saving the main character and maintaining this world.
… can I go back?

Kael reached out and placed his hand over Mabel’s forehead, moving his chin to cover her chin. His small head shook back and forth as he clumsily ruffled her hair.

“Do you really think I’m a guy?”

Mabel burst into laughter, her clumsy hands not seeming to give her a bad feeling even as she grumbled.

“I guess it helped though!!!”
“Yeah. It’s an unexpected method.”

Because it was a story with an ending.
I just thought about waiting for the end.

“Because when you have someone to think with, you tend to come up with better ideas than when you just think by yourself!”

Kael felt a thorn stuck in his throat at the sight of Mabel, who was purely happy to have helped him.
A small thorn that stings and bothers the neck, but does not interfere with daily life or life at all.

The thorn was the slight guilt that Kael felt toward Mabel. He had thought that he would use her. But when it actually happened, he felt terribly disgusted at himself for feeling guilty.

“… That’s right.”
“Now that we have the direction, let’s think of a plan!”

Having lived among other groups for a thousand years, he had become accustomed to being deceived and being deceived countless times for his own purposes. It was easy for him to elicit the desired response from someone who had only recently been reincarnated.

To Mabel, he is the only one who can share her past life. He is the one who helped her escape the temple, and he also understands the flow of this world that follows clichés.

Until life in this world ends.
Words that should never be said out loud.
Spitting it out is actually not a good thing.

Now all that’s left for me is to go back, and to do that, I have to go back.
I can and will do anything.
So instead of saying sorry for taking advantage of me.
I’ll say thank you for taking advantage of me.

He said words that will never be told.
Now, he spoke to someone who was out of sight.

“Okay. Let’s think about a plan.”

* * *

There has been a rumor going around the Damie family recently.

‘The count and the young lady have become close!’

The rumor spread like wildfire, and the servants couldn’t help but smile happily whenever they saw Kael and Mabel together.

Here’s one of the main characters in the rumor.
There was someone right next to Kael who was smiling. It was the Viscount’s aide, Hugo, the Viscount’s chief butler.

“I feel like the master is spending more time with the young lady these days.”

Those words, simply reciting what he had seen, sounded completely different to Kael.

I have no regrets about dying now.

“I didn’t know you could creatively turn the phrase ‘wanting to die’ into something else.”

Kael spoke in a cold voice and looked down at the paper in his hand.

“Project to save the protagonist!”

“Is this the code game that you and your maid like to play?”

The letters written on the paper were visible to Hugo, who was nearby, but he could not read them. As he had said, ‘a game of codes’, the letters written on the paper were not in this world’s language, but in Hangul, which only Kael and Mabel could read and write.

“Oh, right.”

It was fortunate that it seemed like a game to other people.

After the day when he revealed reincarnation and regression to Mabel, Kael and Mabel put their heads together to figure out how to twist the original story and prevent the protagonist’s death.

First, how to destroy the Holy Sword.
It was the best way to save the protagonist, but using this method would have resulted in the destruction of the world. After all, the original ending was him sacrificing himself by stabbing himself with the holy sword.

Second, the method where Kael is stabbed by the Holy Sword and sacrifices himself instead of the main character.
It wasn’t bad, and it was the most reliable method. However, at the end of the original story, the question arose as to whether he could suppress the protagonist, who had the strongest power in the world, with his own power.

It would have been easy to press it now, but in the end, it was difficult for even I to be sure.

?The Holy Sword absorbs the power of the person who is stabbed, and gives the protagonist a trial so that the protagonist can use that power. Those who were sacrificed to the Holy Sword were the strongest people in the empire, so wouldn’t it be okay if we could prevent the absorption of that power??

Mabel was quite. No, quite smart.
Perhaps it was because I had been blindly running for a long time, looking only at one thing. The child made my thinking flexible, which made it difficult for me to think of other things.

A manipulated oracle given to the protagonist.
The subjects of the oracle were the mercenary king, the puppeteer, and the dark spirit master. They were the hidden powerhouses of the empire, so if I could get them to my side, they would not only become a major force, but they would also weaken the protagonist’s power.

The main character will take care of the Holy Sword’s test on your behalf, and when the Holy Sword is ready to become the chain that binds the god, I can get stabbed instead.

“Stop the protagonist’s ordeal!
The Holy Sword is a sword that becomes stronger through sacrifice. Let’s save the people who are in trials that will become sacrificial lambs!

Looking down at the paper, Kael smiled faintly.

“… Hugo. Get out before I gouge out your eyes.”

Although the smile didn’t last long at the sight of Hugo taking out a handkerchief and dabbing at his wrinkled eyes.

“Please call me if you need anything.”

– Okay.

As Hugo closed the door and left, Kael quickly picked up a piece of paper and a pen.

The first scapegoat.
A greedy person. The mercenary king ‘Tariq’.
There was quite a bit of preliminary work needed to save him.

“The feeling of ‘saving’ is different… I guess it would be more correct to say ‘intercepting in the middle’.”

How long would the sound of the quill pen echo through the square?
Kael folded the paper into small pieces and used his magical powers to take out the information token that he had kept in this space.

When I held the paper up to the dark green round jewel brooch, the paper disappeared with a faint light.