How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 44
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Episode 44. The positive function of clichés (3).
The town of ‘Hwidin’ is rife with an infectious disease.
Two people appeared at the intersection of the road leading to the village. They were Kael and Mabel, who had teleported here directly from the capital.
“Ugh….”
Mabel lifted her head from where it had been buried in the hem of his robes at Kael’s words and the word ‘teleport’, and felt a sharp dizziness at the first sight of the distortion of space.
The feeling was like extreme motion sickness, and Mabel had to fight not to spit out what she had eaten that morning all over Kael’s robes, her young body shaking reflexively.
“… How stupid.”
My head was spinning and my stomach was churning, unable to even pay attention to the small reprimands coming from above.
Kael, who was looking down at Mabel, sighed as he slowly and carefully lowered the child to the ground, and handed the water bottle he had taken out of the other space in front of the staggering child.
“Eat. It will calm you down.”
Mabel grabbed the bottle of water with the cap off and drank the liquid inside, grinning at the sweet and bitter taste that filled her mouth.
“It doesn’t taste good….”
There was no taste, and my tongue felt rough. However, the water I drank was effective, as my headache and nausea disappeared in an instant.
– Bam.
– Knock. Knock.
Then, small sounds came one after another into Mabel’s ear as she flicked her rough tongue.
Mabel turned her gaze towards the source of the sound, which sounded like a small stone being thrown on the ground, and the child could see Kael throwing a stone that had a dull grey tint to the ground.
“Kael. What are you doing?”
“Protesting because money was spent.”
Instead of asking Kael for an explanation at such an unfriendly answer, Mabel picked up the rock he had thrown and examined it from side to side.
It was so elaborately crafted that it looked like a jewel, even though it was just a regular stone. Like a jewel that had lost its original color.
“What is this?”
“Magic Stone.”
“The expensive stone used in artifacts?”
“okay.”
Mabel had also seen the magic stone. When she went out to buy a present for Kael, the brooch Hugo had told her to keep with her and not drop was made from that magic stone.
The magic stone attached to the brooch I still have would have sparkled with a more splendid color than a real jewel.
“It’s different from what I knew?”
“Because it’s a magic stone that can no longer be used.”
“Is it like a battery?”
Kael nodded briefly up and down, and Mabel counted the number of magic stones he had thrown to the floor.
One, two…
Five in total.
“Kael.”
Mabel crossed her arms and called out to Kael. There was no answer, but Mabel looked up at him with a serious expression as he looked at her.
“Illegal dumping of trash is bad.”
People who throw trash are trash.
No! He’s worse than trash!
Kael, you were that kind of person?!
Kael, who was looking down at Mabel, who was giving him a sharp rebuke with a very serious expression, sighed and eventually had to explain the reason for his actions.
If I didn’t explain it properly, I didn’t know when the first reincarnation that didn’t even reach my waist would mention this again, so I would tell them then. Rather, I judged that telling them now would be better for my mental health.
The reason he explained to Mabel was as follows:
“The magic called teleportation consumes a considerable amount of magical power, and is a magic that even the palace magicians have difficulty handling.”
Because you used that magic in front of Chloris.
She would be riding in her carriage by now, thinking she was a magician hiding some great power.
“Magic stones are also used by wizards when they need more magic power than they have.”
“Auxiliary battery?”
“That’s not wrong.”
In short, Kael’s act of throwing the unused magic stone on the floor meant that he was manipulating the scene to make Cloris think that he had used the magic stone to teleport.
“… It’s so thorough.”
After a brief silence, Kael realized that the word missing from Mabel’s words was ‘useless’ and took the magic stone the child was holding and threw it back on the floor.
“To deceive someone for sure, you have to be diligent.”
It was simple logic.
Just as the villain spends years or even thousands of years of time and effort to put the protagonist through hardship and adversity, it is mostly described in a simplistic way, but the villain is the one who has to be more diligent than the protagonist.
At Kael’s words, Mabel raised her arm. The hand on the short arm that was poking out from between the gaps in her robe was holding up a thumb.
“That was a very villainous line! I praise you!”
“I don’t need your compliments.”
Mabel tilted her head slightly, not even listening to Kael’s indifferent answer.
“But if I say something so blatant like ‘I teleported using a magic stone!’, will Cloris believe me?”
“I will believe you.”
“What makes you so sure?”
“persimmon.”
The basis for his confidence was not intuition, but the clichés that applied to himself and Mabel in this world.
Kael, who had no intention of revealing the fact, finished his answer in a reasonable manner and then took out the wagon he had brought into this space for a more plausible manipulation of the surroundings, and began to stack numerous boxes inside it, including the boxes of items that Cloris had requested.
Mabel opened her mouth, ‘Heh-‘, as she watched the wagons popping out of the air and the boxes stacking up inside the wagons.
I’ve often seen Kael put things in and take them out of this space, but I just can’t understand how this space can be so big that it can fit a carriage like that.
Isn’t that something that only a munchkin protagonist could do? No, since what he’s been through isn’t ordinary, it’s only natural that he would have such abilities?
“I think this is enough.”
While Mabel was thinking about this and that, Kael looked around the scene he had manipulated with a rather satisfied expression.
A wagon with a mark on top of it, and a pile of magic stones that had lost their shine and were scattered about on the floor. And there were also boxes lying around that looked like they had been left behind by the people who had driven the wagon and the boxes that were full inside.
Those who left behind were sent back before Cloris arrived.
Cloris had no choice but to believe her own words, since she would never have thought that something of this scale could be retrieved from this space.
After finishing the on-site operation, Kael caught Mabel, who was wandering around, and sat her down on the coachman’s seat. He leaned against the carriage and waited for the one person who had not yet arrived.
How much time has passed?
“Huh? Kael! Carriage!”
A shabby carriage, too shabby to carry distinguished guests, slowly approached where Kael and Mabel were.
* * *
Chloris could hear the voices of those she had parted ways with an hour or so ago in the carriage, which was completely uninsulated and allowed the outside noise to seep in.
“Can you stop here?”
“Oh my! I am grateful!!!”
Perhaps because of the stories of the plague circulating in the capital, no coachman was willing to leave the capital.
If she had wanted help from her family, she could have easily found it. But Cloris did not ask for help from her family.
This was because he knew that if his family heard what he wanted to do, they would actually prevent him from leaving the capital.
The coachman, whom he had managed to secure with great difficulty, was so poor that he could not even get through the day due to the plague, and the carriage he drove was so old that it seemed as if it would not even be able to drive properly.
The coachman, who had responded with the brightest voice I had heard today, slowly stopped the carriage when told that they didn’t have to go all the way to the village. After the carriage had come to a complete stop, Cloris opened the door and got out of the carriage.
“Thank you for driving the carriage all the way here. Here’s the remaining balance I promised.”
“thank you!”
As soon as the coachman received the purse, he immediately turned the carriage around. Cloris, who had been staring at the moving carriage, turned her head and looked at Mabel and Kael in front of the carriage that was twice as large as the one she had come in.
I walked closer to them and looked around them.
The large carriage with the mark on the top of Damier and the boxes outside must have contained the items she had requested. The number seemed to be much larger than she had expected, and Cloris had to admit that Kael’s abilities were much greater than she had thought.
They said it would only take a day or two.
After visiting the Damie maker yesterday, the time given to him would not have been even half a day, and he would have sent people at least this morning to move that amount of goods.
However, it was curious that the people who had been guarding the carriage and luggage until his arrival were nowhere to be seen.
“Your luggage arrived first?”
Since they had parted ways an hour ago and met again, it was an awkward situation to greet them, so Cloris approached them and looked at the carriage, not hiding her doubts as she spoke.
“I finished preparing earlier than I thought. Isn’t it something neither Young-ae nor I want to create unnecessary noise?”
He realized that his question was not purely a question of surprise at the luggage having arrived first, but of where the guards of the luggage had gone, and to avoid unnecessary discussion, he replied that they had been sent away before he arrived.
“I heard that there is only one road that a carriage can take to get to this village, so I told you to avoid the road that Yeong-ae would take.”
It was a perfect measure that could not be faulted at all, and it was a statement that was without a single flaw.
I didn’t come here to tell anyone else, and I didn’t want this story to spread to my family.
“I don’t see any horses to pull the carriage, so may I ask how you plan on getting these items into town?”
“Why do you have to bring the carriage all the way into the village? I’ll leave it here.”
Cloris showed a bewildered expression at Kael’s question, which seemed to be a retort, asking why he was asking the obvious.
“What if someone else comes and takes it?”
“You just need to take the boxes that are listed here. The carriage on top of Damie is basically covered with camouflage and security magic, so people on the road won’t find it, and even if they do, they won’t be able to take the items inside.”
Was this the reason why there was absolutely no news of the Damie Merchant Company, which handled numerous goods throughout the empire, having an accident or being attacked by thieves?
Cloris counted the number of boxes outside, then looked down at the feeling of rocks hitting her feet.
It was the moment when the magic stone, which had lost its light, entered her field of vision.