How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 49
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Episode 49. Trembling (4).
Kael, who entered the attic, frowned at the bright light, blinked a couple of times to adjust to the light, and looked at Chloris, who was sitting there.
“I came here because I had something to ask you.”
It was very typical of him to skip the greetings and get straight to the point. Chloris, who had been thinking about this, quickly shook her head.
How long have I been seeing this person?
Are you saying that the phrase ‘that’s the answer’ came out?
Viscount Damier was just a bad-tempered man who consistently got on my nerves.
“Are you saying my question is not worth answering? This is quite disappointing.”
Kael spoke in an indifferent voice that did not show even a gram of resentment at the sight of Cloris shaking her head.
“I didn’t shake my head in that way. I just had something to think about.”
“The young lady of the Countess Flora has a habit of shaking her head when thinking. This is really it. I feel like I have gained valuable information.”
Chloris’s eyes turned towards Kael and became quite sharp.
You have to look at him favorably. He was a man you couldn’t look at favorably.
I thought he was quite responsible, seeing him prepare meals together with her and take care of Mabel while pretending not to care, even though their irregular meal times were the same every day. But then he would always say things that would hurt people’s feelings and ruin his own image.
Is it intentional? Or is it natural?
Cloris opened her mouth, swallowing the sigh that threatened to escape.
“Didn’t you say you had something to ask?”
It was like saying if you’re not going to ask, get out.
Despite hearing her words, Kael didn’t even close the open door, but instead leaned against the doorframe and stared at her blankly.
His dark purple eyes, which seemed to be on the border between light and darkness, were bathed in bright light and cast shadows by his hair, making it difficult to read what he was thinking.
“If you have nothing to say, leave….”
“Why don’t you go to the palace?”
Cloris looked at him as if asking what he meant when he rudely cut off her words as she was about to issue another order to swear at him.
“You must know that there are many excellent pharmacists residing in the palace, so why don’t you seek their help? Isn’t it because the work of making healing medicine is blocked?”
At his question, Chloris’s lips moved, but then she closed them tightly as if avoiding an answer. At her silent sign that she would not answer, Kael sighed without hesitation.
“It’s already been 10 days since I stayed in Whidin, and as I said on the first day, I’m a busy person. I can’t understand why I would go back when there were better options, faster options.”
“…….”
Cloris remained silent at Kael’s words.
I knew that what he was saying about a better option, a faster option, was right. And I also knew that if I were my original self, who I had unconsciously turned away from, I would have chosen that efficient method without hesitation.
That’s how things were.
The mindset, reason, and goals you had when you first started tend to be diluted by the various variables and situations that arise as you begin the work.
I am the type of person who would choose a method that would make things faster and more efficient, even if it was different from the original reason and goal.
?Sister, why did you think of making medicine in Whidin Village??
On my way back from my morning clinic, I vividly remembered Mabel’s voice asking me.
Since I had only been in Whidin Village for four days when I was asked this question, I answered without much thought, “Because I wanted to give medicine to the sicker people first.”
?Really? That’s totally awesome!!! I don’t know if I can help, but… I’ll work hard to help you too, unnie!!! I promise!!!?
To my own words, which I answered without much thought.
Mabel said she would help too, with the loveliest smile I’ve ever seen on a child.
I swore an unfamiliar promise by crossing my little fingers.
Cloris looked down at her own little finger, which had been hooked onto her tiny little finger.
Maybe it was because of the guilt I felt towards the child who strangely reminded me of Lars.
It must have been difficult for him to see a doctor early in the morning at his young age, but he never complained like other children his age often do, and sometimes he would struggle physically, but he would quickly smile brightly.
Cloris wanted to keep her word to the child.
“Is it because of Mabel?”
Kael remarked on Mabel’s consistent silence, and Cloris lifted her head slightly without realizing it.
Once again, Kael’s lips parted and a longer sigh escaped him.
“I don’t know the details, but I think the only reason Young-ae wouldn’t choose an efficient method is Mabel.”
If Mabel is the reason, then that’s fine.
Kael added his words a little slowly, then bent down and put down a thick book and a bundle of fairly thick papers on the attic floor.
“that….”
“This is a book that I asked His Majesty the Emperor to procure, containing descriptions of the Empire’s diseases from the past to the present, along with recipes for treating them. The paper contains information about infectious diseases.”
The book he brought, which he spoke of as nothing special, was a book that only the emperor’s apothecary, among the palace apothecaries, could read.
There was no noble who did not know that the Hwang family and the Damie family were close friends, but was it to the extent that they would lend such a precious book without hesitation?
“then.”
“Just a moment!”
As if all his work was over, Chloris stopped Kael, who was about to leave without any hesitation.
“…thank you.”
“No need to thank me. I just don’t want to waste any more time on this pandemic.”
Kael answered in an indifferent tone that even felt cold as he left the attic, and Cloris looked at the books and papers lying there.
I felt a strange certainty that if it weren’t for Mabel, he wouldn’t have given me these materials.
“Let’s not think about useless things.”
Cloris rose from her chair.
The important thing now was to extract the necessary information from that data and find the shortcomings of the medicine I had created.
That day, the fire in the attic did not go out until daybreak.
Meanwhile, Kael, who had handed over the materials he had brought to Cloris, returned to his room and collapsed on his bed.
His face stung slightly where it had hit the mattress because it was of worse quality than the one he had been using at the author’s house, but he didn’t care and stayed in that position until he was out of breath.
“…under.”
After a while, he turned his head and took a deep breath, looking up at the empty ceiling.
After confirming that Chloris was not heading to the palace, he went straight to find the Emperor without anyone knowing.
The Emperor was surprised by Kael’s sudden appearance, but he calmly asked him why he had come, and Kael confidently demanded that he hand over a book containing the empire’s diseases and cures.
?I can lend it to you if you ask me to. Are you making a cure??
?I don’t know how to make medicine.?
?I heard that Count Flora’s daughter visited Count Damier a few weeks ago??
The Emperor secretly watched him as if he knew who the book Kael requested would go to, and Kael turned around without hesitation at the Emperor’s watchful attitude.
?If you won’t give it to me, I’ll go.?
?Haha! I know you’re quite impatient when you see things like this. Just wait a minute. Do you need the latest information on the epidemic??
?Yes. By the way, what is the situation in the capital??
?Excellent pharmacists are working day and night to create healing medicine.?
Kael looked at the emperor who insisted on saying something serious, then put the book under his arm and disappeared.
?The eastern entrance to the palace is quite shabby.?
He left a message that seemed to suggest that security be strengthened, telling us how he came in.
Kael closed his eyes as he recalled his brief meeting with the Emperor.
The fact that Cloris had come to see the Damier Countess meant that others knew about it as well. It would not be long before the news spread that she was in the village of Whidin to make a cure.
Because the situation in the capital is dire.
There may be guests coming here.
Kael’s lips, which were naturally coming up with a plan for it, opened and his voice flowed out.
“It changed so easily with Mabel’s intervention?”
The voice, mixed with bitterness and self-mockery, seemed to be protesting to someone or giving up on oneself.
Kael was happy that the original story, which had not changed easily despite saving Tariq, the main character in the original work, had changed due to Mabel’s actions, but at the same time, he felt very empty.
There was a hope that he could twist the original, but it seemed like he was just laughing at the thought that it would be impossible with his own strength.
This world is ultimately a world in a novel that follows clichés and is influenced by them. The fact that it is in the original work is vivid and painfully felt once again.
?Kael!!!?
That he had accepted Mabel. Sometimes, his eyes would linger on the little child, and without realizing it, his heart would let go, and he would feel the same guilt he had felt toward the child, hiding the truth.
The reason is that the child is from the same world as himself.
If it’s not because we’re both reincarnations, but because of this tiresome cliché.
“Ha, haha…fuck.”
I feel dirty once again.
Kael muttered as if he was chewing on the thought that the very emotion he was feeling might have been created by the great fate and clichés that made up this world.
My feelings and life.
Whatever material or immaterial things that make me up were entirely mine.
It was a thought I had constantly had even after I became aware of the given cliché, and it was something I had already come to a conclusion about a long time ago.
Whether it’s original or a cliché.
Didn’t you promise to use everything available to you?
Even if it is self-deception.
All that’s left for me is to leave this world and go back. That’s all there is to it.
“Still, I’m hopeful. If we use Mabel well, we can gain the benefit of twisting the main flow of the original story.”
He muttered to himself as if he was talking to himself, ignoring the feeling that was bubbling somewhere inside him.
He slowly cleared his mind, trying not to recall the name of that trembling feeling that he thought he knew.
* * *
On the third day after Kael visited the attic and handed over the information he had received from the Emperor, a new guest arrived in the village of Whidin.
These are familiar guests to the Damier family.