How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 35
Only Noblemtl
Episode 35. Successor Training (3).
“Whose neck would you like me to bring you?”
Tariq asked Kael without a moment’s hesitation. Rather, it was Kael who couldn’t answer his question right away.
A brief silence lingered between the two, and a breeze carrying the coolness of the night blew by. Kael broke the silence by sweeping back his messy bangs that had been caressed by the wind.
“If you wanted to ask for my neck, you would have made it an order, not a request.”
“I see. I’ll keep that in mind.”
“And you should know that I move faster than you can move.”
After a calm exchange of words that would have made Mabel and Lily wonder what the hell they were talking about, Kael revealed the reason he had come to see Tariq.
“Tomorrow morning. Mabel, Lily, let’s do ‘this’ together.”
When Kael said ‘this’, something fell from the air and Tariq caught it easily.
A light box. Tariq’s face, which had been inspecting the inside, showed a rare expression of emotion. The emotion on his face was clearly confusion.
“This is….”
“Okay then. I’ll ask you to do so.”
Having finished what he had to say, Kael magically disappeared before Tariq could catch him, and Tariq, who was left standing alone in the training grounds holding the box, kept looking at it until Lily came to find him and told him to go home.
* * *
The next day. Mabel looked at Tariq, who had come to see her since morning, with a puzzled look.
He knew that Tariq would always be by his side so that he could get used to the duties of a knight escort with Lily, but he never showed up unless he called for him himself.
In other words, this was the first time he had shown up voluntarily.
He even had a large box in his arms.
“… Miss. Would you like to try this with me?”
Mabel’s eyes blinked rapidly at his sudden words.
“What is that?”
I looked at Lily, wondering if she knew, but Lily shook her head as if she had no idea what was in the box.
?Brother. What is that??
?…Let’s go together to Miss Mabel tomorrow morning.?
?Huh? I’ll ask you in the morning. But what is it??
Even without that, I had been looking at the box from the training ground all the way home and even sighing, something I had never done before. I asked and tried to check what was inside the box.
It was nearly impossible for Lily to break through Tariq’s defenses.
“… I think it would be better if you see it for yourself.”
After a while, Tariq placed the box in front of Mabel, and she took out what was inside.
“That’s….”
Lily, who had checked what Mabel had taken out, looked back at Tariq in a hurry.
Is this guy in his right mind?
Why are you bringing that to me, young lady?!
“Huh? Pick?”
What Mabel took out of the box was another box. However, the box was transparent, as if it was made of glass, allowing one to see inside, and there was a round hole at the top so that one could put one’s hand inside. The box was filled with colorful balls.
It was a familiar thing to Lily and Tariq, who lived in Terdam. It was a lottery that was often held as a special event for customers in the black market in Terdam.
The ball contained benefits for using the black market, such as a ticket to preview ‘various’ items that were up for auction in the black market, and a priority auction ticket. This ‘lottery’ that started in the black market spread all over Terdam, and it was difficult to even mention, and dirty things were written on it.
But Mabel, who checked the box, was incredibly bright, and burst into a bright laugh when she discovered something.
“Tariq. When did you prepare something like this?”
“I just happened to… get ready.”
– Dalgrak.
Mabel grabbed the box with both hands, shook it, and then held it out to Tariq and Lily.
“Okay, let’s pick two people first!”
“Us first?”
“Us first…?”
“Yeah! Or should I pick first?”
At Mabel’s words, Tariq and Lily simultaneously had the same thought.
Absolutely not.
I couldn’t let that delicate, innocent young lady draw the lottery.
“I’ll start from here.”
“Brother…!”
Lily called Tariq in a new voice, but Tariq remained unmoved, and with a stern expression, he put his hand into the box held out in front of him.
The smooth texture of the balls was felt on his fingers and palms. Tariq’s expression hardened more than usual at the creepy feeling of a snake crawling.
Tariq carefully picked up the ball and slowly took it out of the box.
As I stared blankly at the balls filling my hand, Mabel shook the box again as if telling me to open it quickly.
A clinking sound echoed through the room, and Tariq held his breath as he opened the ball.
“Let’s see. Tariq is in 7th place!!! He’s the last place winner!!!”
“7th place…?”
“Last place award…?”
Tariq looked at the paper inside the ball. It was a piece of paper with no words written on it. Only the number ‘7’ was written neatly on it.
And through Tariq’s reaction and Lily’s reaction next to her, Mabel realized belatedly that it wasn’t Tariq who had prepared this.
“Tariq. Who gave you this?”
“It’s difficult to say.”
“Is it Kael?”
“… … .”
“Yeah, I see. Thanks for letting me know!”
Mabel later showed me the paper stuck to the box that she had found and burst out laughing.
“Random draw.
1st place – 10 gold coins.
2nd place – 5 gold coins.
3rd place – 3 gold coins.
…
6th place – 1 silver coin.
7th place – Unfortunately, next time (done).
Tariq and Lily, both from Therdam, had never seen a box with such a wholesome and healthy prize.
At this point, one question arises.
Why did Kael give the lottery box to Tariq?
“Kael wouldn’t do something like that for no reason.”
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t figure out the reason.
It’s clear that he knew I would be busy and had to deliver the report by today, so he sent me to give me a change of pace.
Report. Soap. Pick.
“ah.”
Mabel sighed briefly.
i get it.
Mabel burst into laughter again at Tariq and Lily’s puzzled looks.
I wish you had told me directly.
After all, the outward appearance of it is for the purpose of educating successors.
Despite her small grumblings, Mabel somehow felt like she understood why Kael had made this choice.
Something Kael told me to do myself.
From yesterday’s conversation to today’s lottery.
It seemed as if he wanted to think, worry, and act on his own a little more.
“I told you, you’re really dishonest.”
A person who you can’t easily hate because you know it.
Even if you feel hateful towards him, there must have been a reason. The person who makes you look back is Kael.
“Tariq, don’t worry. Kael knew he’d get caught anyway.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. I’m sure that’s true. So. Let’s use this lottery to our advantage and charge Kael for it!”
Billing?
Mabel smiled as her siblings looked at her. With a cute smile, she carried the box and went around the Damie Village, offering a chance to draw it for the servants she met.
“I’m first! Am I first?! Huh? Ten gold coins?”
“Oh! Were there any duds? I wish I had a fairy tale… even a fairy tale that you gave me…!!”
“You’re in fourth place. That’s five silver coins. I’d like to give you a present, young lady. Is there anything you’d like to have?”
The employees’ reactions were different, but when they all did the drawing, they all seemed happy and you could tell they were waiting for their turn.
Mabel returned to her room with an empty box and went to Kael’s office with a single sheet of paper that she had filled in just an hour.
“You’re here, miss.”
“Hugo!”
“Would you like me to help you with the box?”
“No! It’s okay! I’ll take it to Kael myself!”
“Okay, I’ll open the door for you.”
Hugo opened the door to the office, and Mabel strode over to Kael, who was leaning back in his chair with his legs crossed and looking at her with a ‘you’re home’ expression, and placed an empty gacha box on his desk.
– Thud!
The empty box clanked against the thick wooden desk, making a rattling sound as Mabel placed her newly written report on top of it.
“Here! Report!”
“It’s thinner than I thought.”
“Who lives there? Give me a hint.”
“I guess I should be grateful to whoever lives there.”
“That’s right. Would it hurt your mouth if I told you directly?”
“Well, it looks to me like that means there’s no more help.”
Kael picked up the report Mabel had placed there.
“Product Name: Lucky Soap.”
Kael narrowed his eyes at the product name written on the top line.
“Your naming sense is bad.”
“Isn’t the original product name supposed to be straightforward?”
After the product name, a description of the product followed.
?Product Details: At first glance, it looks like a soap commonly found on Damier Top, but if you continue to use it, another colored soap will appear. Bring it to Damier Top by color to receive a prize. Who will be your luck??
“When I saw the lottery, I remembered a soap I made in my past life with pocket money for a child who didn’t wash his hands well, so I made this soap based on that.”
“In that case, wouldn’t it be okay to put in gold, silver, or copper coins?”
When Kael asked a question to Mabel, Mabel answered, crossing her arms and lifting her chin.
“If you put real money in it, people can just cut it and take it out without using it properly. But if it’s a soap of a different color, you have no choice but to use it directly or melt it.”
“Hugo.”
As if he had anticipated the question, Kael called out to Hugo, who was looking at them with a kind smile.
“Yes, master.”
“Bring it.”
“Huh? What did you bring?”
What Hugo brought were small glass vials containing colored powders.
“It’s the pigment that you mentioned that is harmless to the human body. It’s made by drying natural ingredients and turning them into powder. Mix them well and make it.”
“Kael…!”
As if I had never prepared something like this.
Mabel’s eyes were moistening in real time, beyond emotion.
“If the product is bad, it won’t be approved.”
“I’ll work hard to make it!”
Mabel, who was carefully holding the glass bottles in her arms in case they would break, stopped as she walked more calmly than usual to the office door to make soap.
“That’s right!!! Kael!!!”
“why.”
“Raffle prizes!!! I have to give them money! I have to give out prizes to the people who won the raffle! By the way, I got first place?!”
What I’m thankful for is what I’m thankful for.
You have to pack what you have to pack. Yeah, that’s right!
“I’ll let you know through Hugo.”
“Okay! Then, I’m off!”
Mabel, who had taken all the benefits, a day later.
A sample of the ‘Lucky Soap’ was approved by Kael, and word began to spread that the soap made by the adopted daughter of the Damier family would be distributed to the Empire as a prototype.
Soon after, the distribution of the prototypes was announced through each top, and that day was three days before disaster struck.