How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 40
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Episode 40. The Disaster Has Begun (2).
Didn’t you clearly say you needed help?
So when he asked what help he needed, what favor he needed, and received a reply that was so absurd that he couldn’t hear it, Kael barely suppressed the urge to kick Cloris out of this space right now.
“I didn’t hear you… Is that all you have to say? Flora Youngae.”
“After hearing Lars’ words, I thought for a while about why Lars had told me to go see Viscount Damier.”
Despite Kael’s voice that froze the surroundings, Chloris, unlike her refreshing appearance, continued speaking in a calm and soft voice as if she was not finished yet.
“Then I started to wonder about the ‘soap’ and ‘disinfectant’ that suddenly became popular. Trends are unpredictable, and sometimes things from the past come back. This trend was caused by His Majesty the Emperor buying large quantities of cleaning products such as soap.”
“I guess His Majesty the Emperor has become more interested in cleanliness recently.”
As if there was nothing strange at all.
Like any other noble, Kael answered like that.
Cloris also nodded in agreement with what he said.
“I would have thought the same thing if it were normal. Your Majesty the Emperor has always preferred Damier’s products. He has also purchased them in bulk several times before.”
but…
“I was concerned about Lars’ words and actions. If it had been Lars before the banquet, he would have immediately reported to the temple that he had heard the voice of the god.”
On the day of the banquet, after His Majesty the Emperor, Lars, and Kael had a long conversation, Lars seemed to be thinking deeply, said Cloris.
“So I thought about something that day when Count Damier said something to Lars.”
“That’s just Young-ae’s guess. I guess she hasn’t heard anything from Lars.”
“Damier Viscount is called the Damier of the Future. In the past, it meant actually seeing the future. But over time, it gradually changed to mean an excellent businessman or investor.”
Cloris straightened her fingers one by one, organizing what she had said.
His Majesty the Emperor’s sudden purchase of large quantities of cleaning supplies, and Lars’ inexplicable words and actions.
And the writer Damie.
“What if the Countess Damier actually saw the future and told His Majesty the Emperor about it? What if she gave Lars advice about the future? All of these conditions would be met.”
“That’s an unfounded speculation.”
Kael didn’t even show the slightest bit of agitation at the sound of Cloris’ voice giving him an answer that was close to the truth.
“That’s right. There was no basis for it until I met and spoke with Count Damier.”
“Do you think there is any basis for this now?”
“There is no visible evidence, but you have confirmed my guess.”
“I don’t think I said anything special to Young-ae.”
“I feel confident because you didn’t say anything else.”
Cloris lifted the teacup she had been fiddling with and brought it to her lips.
As she felt the cooled tea fragrantly filling her mouth, she put into her mouth the evidence that gave me confidence.
“Your Majesty, you don’t ask why Lars doesn’t come to you in person? As if you already know why Lars can’t come right now.”
In response to her words, Kael admitted that his actions were no different from leaking information that he had secretly known.
However, there was always a law that could destroy groundless speculation. Kael, who was about to answer her words by saying, ‘That’s also just a speculation,’ stopped opening his mouth.
Even if it had been Lars in the original work, wouldn’t Cloris, who had already experienced enough aristocratic society, have noticed the fact that he was trying to refute with this reason?
No it wasn’t.
Although he is the pure Lars of the original work, he made the protagonist, who is rather frustrating to the readers because of his pureness, look very rational and smart, unlike how he looks like Chloris, in order to make the sweet potato of the protagonist, who is easier to swallow, into a pumpkin rather than a sweet potato at night.
“That’s a threat.”
As a writer, it was extremely difficult to create intelligent characters in my work. It was easy to think about them in my head, but it took a lot of study and time to directly describe them, create movements, and write the lines.
The Cloris I was facing was not a character in the letters I was simply writing down, but a real person who existed before my eyes in the world I currently exist in.
The person in front of me, Cloris, was more rational and smarter than I thought.
“From the beginning, you were planning to threaten me instead of asking for help.”
“At first, I thought about asking for help. However, it seemed like Viscount Damier had no intention of helping me.”
As I said before, this is a really urgent matter.
As Cloris’s voice continued softly, Kael accepted that this time he was properly drawn into the game she had prepared for him.
“You should know that this is the first and last time.”
“I feel bad because it seems like I am repaying the kindness you have shown me with resentment.”
“Let’s stop this useless chatter. There’s no need to do it, and what help do you need?”
“As a wizard, I need the skills and talents you showed me before.”
The conversation between the two progressed at a rapid pace.
At some point, Mabel, who had become an invisible wall, could not keep up with the speed of the conversation between the two, and from the moment the word “threat” was mentioned, Mabel quietly picked up the cookies prepared on the table and put them in her mouth instead of popcorn, listening to the incomprehensible conversation with one ear and letting it go out the other.
I’ll have to ask Kael to organize it and let me know later. I promise.
“Then. Should I understand that we’ll be departing tomorrow?”
“Let’s do that. The items and herbs that Youngae mentioned will be ready in a day or two.”
“Okay. I’ll see you at the capital’s main gate tomorrow morning.”
Cloris, who had finished her conversation, stood up and met Mabel’s eyes. A feeling of guilt flashed through her water-colored eyes as she met the pure and clear purple eyes that resembled Lars’s.
“Mabel. I’m sorry.”
“No. Your conversation was so difficult that I couldn’t even follow along!”
The guilt that had been flashing across Cloris’s eyes grew deeper as she followed Mabel’s smile.
Is it because I resemble Lars? Even though it was a choice to save more people, I felt heavier than usual because I threatened Viscount Damie and pushed him to the limit using this child as an excuse.
… Still, this is an inevitable choice.
Now that Lars was gone, the option he had given her, Viscount Damier, was the most useful and effective option for her.
As Cloris left the Damier estate with another apology, Mabel crossed her arms and called out to the thoughtful Kael.
“Kael.”
Thinking calmly that it was better to call him by his name than by the title of “Dad,” Mabel smiled faintly at the eyes that turned directly to her when she called him.
“Explain it to me.”
“Where to start?”
“Well, starting with the part where Cloris is threatening rather than asking for a favor?”
“You’re really good at saying things like you didn’t understand from the beginning.”
“You’re beating around the bush by saying I’m stupid!”
Mabel sat on her chair and swung her legs in the air as if asking for an explanation, vaguely imitating Kael’s tone of speech.
“It’s simple.”
Kael’s explanation, which began with a simple comment, was as follows.
Cloris couldn’t find the exact reason for Lars’s words that she should come to him if he saw any signs of disaster.
To make matters worse, Lars was currently in a deep sleep absorbing the power and enduring great pain, so he couldn’t tell her anything.
“Of course, I could have endured it alone like in the original. In the original, there was no option for the writer Damie.”
She took a gamble, using the option of becoming Damier’s wife to make things easier and save more lives.
“When Chloris saw that I was not going to listen to her if she just asked for help verbally, she immediately changed her tactics. From asking to threatening.”
“Is Cloris’s blackmail card that she’s going to tell you that Damie can see the future?”
“No. That’s just her guess. If you tell someone else, it’ll just be a rumor that will quickly disappear if there’s no evidence. The blackmail card she’s holding out is you.”
me?
Mabel pointed at herself and asked back, to which Kael nodded.
“Yes. You. If you were to claim that Viscount Damie can see the future, citing the Emperor’s actions and your actions this time when you handed out the lucky soap, what would people’s reactions be?”
“ah….”
“Even if you can’t see the future in Damie’s house. Even if people believe you. Then, there will be rumors that you can see the future.”
Only then did Mabel understand that she had been used as a blackmail card.
“The fact that it’s a guess based on speculation doesn’t matter to people. People love sensational gossip, and if it’s a contagious disease that’s killing a lot of people, they’ll believe it to be true and go around talking about it.”
After Kael’s explanation, Mabel was able to understand the conversation between the two people that she had not been able to understand, but she was unable to say anything.
Because Kael’s worries eventually came true. Because his stubborn actions despite his warnings led to this result.
If you didn’t move.
If she had listened to him, not made the lucky soap, and not shared it, Cloris would never have thought of making such a threat.
– Exactly!
Kael flicked Mabel’s forehead with his finger as she dug deeper and deeper into the tunnel, her face growing sad.
“Don’t think about useless things. It’s not like it wasn’t a problem I had in mind anyway. Even if it weren’t for your actions, as long as Lars’ words were true, she would have come up with any card to threaten me.”
“still….”
Mabel rubbed her forehead and let out a half-sobbing voice.
“I hope I can learn from this incident and not be so stubborn next time. And I’m not completely free from mistakes. It’s just that she thinks your card is more useful than mine.”
“But what if he threatens me the same way next time?”
“I said I wouldn’t do it next time. So I won’t do it.”
“Since when did Kael start thinking so positively…?”
Kael looked at Mabel, who was saying everything she wanted to say even though she was sad, with bewildered eyes. He raised one corner of his mouth, making a mouth shape that was hard to tell whether it was a smile or a sneer, but it was definitely one that sent chills down the spine of anyone who saw it.
“That’s true. It doesn’t suit my personality to just accept it like this. I have to give it back.”
The vivid feeling of ‘guilt’ that passed through Cloris’ eyes as she looked at Mabel. She was going to use that.
“So Mabel, this time you have to help me.”
Mabel nodded as she heard Kael speak softly, muttering softly.
“But Kael… Right now, Kael is more than just a villain, he’s a demon lord. He’s like the ultimate mastermind…”