How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 61



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Episode 61. Black Forest (1).

Black forest.

As the name suggests, everything that grew in that forest was black, although there may be differences in brightness.

The Black Forest, also known as the Cursed Land or the Dark Land, was famous for the beauty of the surrounding area, except for the Black Forest. Those who thought that they could avoid the Black Forest would buy up the land using various excuses.

But the end for those who set foot on that land was always the same. They eventually set foot on the black forest and disappeared.

Are you lost?

What was I fascinated by?

No one knew why, because none of those who set out to find the missing returned.

But here, there was someone who knew why.

“Things will go more smoothly than I thought.”

It was Kael holding a document with the Emperor’s seal, which made him the master of the Black Forest and its surrounding lands.

About ten days ago.

So, having received the Emperor’s letter asking him to attend the contribution ceremony, he had made plans to obtain Mabel and the Black Forest.

“We will take the Black Forest from the Emperor.”

“Black Forest?”

As if she had heard it somewhere. Mabel folded her arms and became lost in thought at Kael’s words, then looked at him with sparkling eyes.

“The second trial! That place was the Black Forest, right?”

“that’s right.”

In the original work, the place name Black Forest was often described as the Land of Darkness, so looking at Mabel, who remembered the original work’s content that was not mentioned many times, Kael recalled the child’s appearance remembering the previous saint episode.

Kael asked Mabel, wondering if the child could see the original work like himself, or if he had been given the ability to remember all the original content by the god Janus, as well as the episode that didn’t have much weight, and the Black Forest.

“Did you get the ability to remember all the original content?”

“Huh? Hey, if you had been given that ability, you would have immediately thought of the second trial when you heard the word ‘Black Forest.’”

Kael looked at Mabel with a surprised look as she began to grumble, saying that she was worried that she might forget the original content.

It wasn’t a novel I wrote myself, and I didn’t have all the original content. The fact that I could remember the content to this extent was a measure of how many times she had read my novel in her past life, and whether she had liked it.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“nothing.”

“Hey, that wasn’t just a look of nothing-?”

Kael flicked Mabel’s forehead with his finger as she playfully looked at him, her tail tail growing longer, and then changed the subject.

“Anyway. If you remember the original, you probably remember how the contribution ceremony was conducted, right?”

“Of course! When the Emperor calls your name, you can say, ‘Tell me what you want,’ and then just say whatever you want.”

“that’s right.”

“But is it okay if I tell you about the Black Forest right away?”

“Of course, you shouldn’t mention the Black Forest directly.”

After that, Kael told Mabel how to tell the Emperor, predicting several scenarios in which he would give an answer.

“But the Emperor will mention this land directly.”

Mabel, who had been questioning Kael in a puzzled manner, was able to understand his plan.

The only land that was not currently owned by the Empire of Tius, a land where no noise could be heard, a land where one could rest and be given as a reward for one’s contribution, was the land near the Black Forest.

The reason for this was simple. In the original, the temple had obtained the land from the emperor for the second ordeal under the pretext of Lars’ test. The only land that the emperor could give up while keeping the temple in check was the land that he wanted to obtain.

“You’re trying to take the land first, rather than building a temple.”

“Since it is land that the Emperor himself has occupied, there is nothing to say about the temple on the outside.”

“But if we bring Tariq and the land of the Black Forest, won’t the temple be suspicious of us?”

Mabel, who didn’t have any particularly good memories of the temple, asked worriedly, and Kael shrugged.

“So what can they do?”

As Mabel blankly stared at Kael’s shameless attitude, he smiled and spoke to the child.

“You don’t need to worry about the temple. What you should care about is acting shamelessly and innocently like a child of that age in front of the emperor. That’s all.”

Kael’s words were no different from the white lies that adults often tell children.

It could be considered a coincidence that the first victim, Tariq, was brought in as a knight escort to the Viscount Damier. But he was involved in a disaster that was not even told to the Emperor, and he took the land they had been hoping to acquire for the second ordeal? From their perspective, it would be difficult to dismiss it as a coincidence any longer.

Of course, this meant that even if they couldn’t protest formally, they could move behind the scenes to eliminate the risk factor.

Well, it was something that could be ‘dealt with’ just like in the Whidin Village.

“I don’t know about the complicated circumstances of adults. I just want to go play with my dad. Are you saying that to appeal?”

The movements of the temple were too obvious to Kael compared to the Mabel in front of him.

Kael nodded leisurely as he looked at Mabel, who had it written all over her face that she cared even when she was told not to care, but who was good at answering questions.

“Okay. Just do it like you normally do.”

“Does that mean I usually act like an 8-year-old?”

“Isn’t she 8 years old?”

“No way?!”

There was a brief commotion, but Mabel did better than Kael expected during the service, and the land of the Black Forest was in their hands.

Another week has already passed since that day.

– Smart.

“Come in.”

Kael, who was looking down at the documents in his office, spoke when he heard a polite knock on the door, and soon the door opened and Hugo appeared.

Hugo, who bowed his head slightly in greeting, told me why he had come to see his master.

“Master, it will take about a week for the Black Forest Villa to be completed.”

“That’s pretty fast.”

“It’s thanks to the master who prepared in advance.”

On the day he received the land document for the Black Forest, Kael ordered Hugo to build a villa.

After receiving the Emperor’s letter asking him to attend the ceremony and immediately thinking about taking the land of the Black Forest, he prepared materials for building the villa despite his busy schedule, and thanks to this, the villa was able to be completed quickly within two weeks.

“Hmm… .”

Kael cleared his throat and quickly calculated the time in his head.

In the original, after the contribution ceremony, Lars regains consciousness. He lost consciousness in order to accept the power absorbed by the Holy Sword from the sacrificial lamb as his own, and after that, he takes the test prepared by the temple so that he can use the power he has accepted directly.

Trials, disasters and tests.

The original work proceeded by repeating this mechanism.

The first test took a month, the second took two weeks, and the third took a week.

The fact that Lars gradually became accustomed to the test is only a story in the original work. In reality, the purpose was to reduce the length of the test episode in order to quickly conclude the story.

The temple must have already known that he had taken the land of the Black Forest, and by now Lars, who had recovered, would have to take the test.

Jack hasn’t told me any information yet.

“Master?”

After Kael had been lost in thought for quite some time, Hugo called out to him cautiously.

“Oh, it’s nothing. I’m planning on going on vacation with Mabel as soon as the villa is finished. Please prepare in advance. Keep the number of people to a minimum.”

The master is going on vacation with the young lady!

Hugo’s heart swelled with emotion at Kael’s words.

Of course, the other nobles had already been talking to their servants about how Miss Mabel thought of the count at the service and how close the two of them seemed, so the servants of the countess Damier, including themselves, were also expecting that the two of them would go on vacation soon.

Since Kael had already finished preparing to build the villa, his anticipation was certain, and the fact that the master, who was already crazy about work… no, only worked, would finally go to rest made the hearts of the servants of the Damie family excited.

“…What do you plan on doing with that guy’s expression?”

Even though I had become accustomed to this world that revolved around clichés, there was something about Hugo’s expression that was hard to get used to, as he would often say things like, “I’m touched,” or, “Our master is finally…!”

With a sigh, Kael took out a handkerchief from his bosom and dabbed his eyes. He sent Hugo out of the office, who was wiping his eyes.

– Bam.

Not long after he sent Hugo away, a green note fell from the air onto his desk.

As they say, even a tiger will come when you call it, it was a note from Jack, who I had not heard from. When I opened the note, it was written in Jack’s signature cursive handwriting, along with a rather long message that was different from his usual style.

“Lars. After regaining consciousness, he went to find the World Tree. Asked for information from the Dark Elf. After that, he went to the Temple of the Beginning to take the test. He was late because he was trying to find out how he found the World Tree, and there was nothing much to gain.”

Lars found the World Tree and asked for information from the Dark Elves.

Information. The World Tree of Information Guild was a guild that did not exist in the original work as it was created in this world.

Even in the original work, Lars had never visited the World Tree before the return. And he asked for information from the dark elves.

… how do you know about the second victims?

The location may have changed, but the original story flow of Lars taking the test prepared by the temple has not changed. However, he. The main character. showed movements that were not seen in the original story or even before the regression.

“Is it changing…?”

The flow of the original story has not changed.

Lars went to take the test and for some reason asked the World Tree for information regarding the second victims.

Kael didn’t stop thinking.

I kept all possibilities open and looked back at the information I had written, heard, and seen.

As he moved, the hopeful circuit that the original story was broken by Mabel’s involvement was not turned.

Because uncertain hopes have always given rise to anticipation, and uncertain anticipation has always given rise to greater despair and misery.

?Lars heard the voice of God?

?It was a god with a slightly unfamiliar name. Sure enough… Oh, that’s right. Janus. It was a god named Janus.?

The voice of the god Janus that Lars heard, as mentioned by Cloris.

The most likely explanation was the intervention of the god Janus.

As he had foretold of the disaster, it is possible that he was referring to the second victims, the dark elves.

“What on earth are you thinking?”

The god who brought himself and Mabel into this world.

A god who did not exist in the original.

And the god who had the intention of sending himself back to his original world. He was a god who hoped that he would not return to his original world.

Anyway, one thing is clear: for me, it is not a positive direction for that god to intervene and ruin the original story.

What actions can you take in this situation?

“There is only one.”

Kael muttered briefly, took the only action he could, wrote a reply on another note, sent it to Jack, and picked up the papers as usual.

And time passed.

The day has come to take a vacation to the Black Forest.