How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 87



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Episode 87. The Last Saintess (3).

Mabel followed the faint voice, though her mind couldn’t figure out where the small voice was coming from.

Without having to worry about where to go, as if he knew where to go, his body naturally headed in the direction of the voice without any obstruction.

[Here… . Here… . Yeah, here… .]

A voice whispering endlessly.

The voice was pitiful, as if telling him that he was here and that he needed to be found.

Before they knew it, Mabel and Kael had left the annex, and a paladin appeared on patrol.

Mabel, who would normally have spotted them and froze, passed through them without a care, as if they were invisible.

Because I trusted the owner of the hand that was holding mine tightly. The energy of the hand that was colder than my own cleared my mind.

Mabel’s steps stopped for a moment.

Mabel closed her eyes to concentrate on the sound, then opened them again and looked at Kael, who was one step behind her.

“Kael, this is the main building.”

“I guess it’s the basement of the main building.”

Even though I was the one who wrote that episode.

Since Lars only described it as an underground space as he walked, Kael couldn’t tell where the underground space was.

The fact that the location, which was not described in the original work, was the main building was also information he had heard for the first time.

Mabel’s legs began to move again, and as she walked away from the main building, which was even more heavily guarded than the annex, to avoid bumping into the priests and knights, her steps suddenly stopped.

“Kael?”

Mabel, who staggered from the recoil of Kael’s stop rather than her own, looked at him in wonder.

“Easy-. Just a moment.”

Kael wasn’t looking at Mabel, and her gaze followed his.

At the end of his gaze were Azepine and another high-ranking priest who had guided him and himself to the annex today.

“How was it meeting you today?”

“Count Damier and Miss Mabel?”

“Yes. Everyone is paying attention because the High Priest has been blessing them since dawn.”

“It doesn’t seem like anything special. I don’t know why the High Priest is interested in it.”

The polite and neat appearance he had shown in front of them was nowhere to be found, and the way Azepine spoke while leaning on his knees was extremely rude.

“Ah-. I thought I could get some compensation from Count Damie since she has so much money. But she didn’t even give it to me.”

“I wonder if anyone would say you’re crazy about money. I’ll just recommend you as someone who’s greedy for material things.”

“That’s too much. You’re not that crazy about money?”

“Tsk tsk, by the way, those two didn’t even come out today, right?”

“It looks like the young lady ate the dessert and fell asleep. The count clearly had a face that would hate sweets.”

“Rather than moving it for no reason, leaving it to sleep was a great choice.”

At the priests’ words that were no different from saying that they mixed sleeping pills in the dessert, Kael looked around for a moment and then picked up a small rock that was rolling around and put it in Mabel’s hand.

No words were exchanged, but Mabel, who realized why Kael had given her the rock, grabbed the rock, closed one eye, and threw the rock at him.

Perhaps because there was quite a distance between them, the stone that Mabel threw with all her might seemed like it wouldn’t reach Azepine. But at that moment, the stone gained a faint magical power and accelerated, flying towards Azepine’s head.

– Ta-aak-!!!

“evil-!!!”

Azepin, who had been hit in the head with a rock, sat down, covering his head, and raised his voice as if looking for the culprit, swearing harshly.

“Go again.”

Leaving him behind, Kael spoke to Mabel, and Mabel nodded with a relieved expression, then led him back in the direction of the voice.

The two headed to the back of the stone statue of the Creator on the altar in the waiting room, not the entrance to the underground sanctuary where the two were supposed to go tomorrow.

The child standing there, seemingly in a place with nothing on the outside, moved his body without hesitation, just as he had walked all the way there.

A small hand touched the feet of the statue, and a faint clicking sound was heard. A narrow staircase, just big enough for one adult to fit under the statue, was revealed.

After releasing the hands they were holding, they carefully walked down the stairs, one step at a time. The moment the two of them completely disappeared under the stairs, the stone statue moved again and the stairs disappeared.

“Kael. Light!”

After confirming that the entrance above her head was closed, Mabel confidently asked Kael for light, and Kael snapped his fingers with a small sigh.

As the soft ball of light rose into the air, Mabel went down the stairs at a slightly faster pace, the stairs now in sight.

“Then you fall down.”

Kael also came down the stairs, spitting out blunt grumbling behind the child.

“It looks like it’s about 5 floors underground.”

Considering that the sanctuary was located about two floors underground, it was quite deep underground.

“Kael, hurry!”

Mabel, who had briefly let go of his hand to come down the stairs, stepped forward and pulled Kael along. He was dragged along by the slight force that could easily be pushed away, and he looked around the underground space.

Haven’t used it for a long time.

The gaps between the stones that made up the wall were covered in moss with a reddish rust, and vines that grew from unknown sources were also appearing here and there.

The basement, where he went down the stairs, looked like a maze. Kael noticed that there were blocked paths here and there along the way, and he looked down at the small, pink-colored back of his head that was leading him forward without any obstructions.

I wonder if it’ll be okay when I go back.

While still thinking about the problem that would be solved by teleportation anyway, how far had they been dragged? A space covered in a bluish light, not an artificial light created by magic, appeared in front of the two of them.

The only place where the light from the ground shines, just like in the original description. In the space where the bluish moonlight shines down, there was someone sitting with their legs crossed on a small altar that looked like a private prayer room, not a collapsed one.

[Wow-! You finally came!!!]

I saw Mabel and Kael appear.

To be exact, someone who saw Mabel jumped down from the altar and approached her.

Her bare, white feet, not wearing anything, touched the cold stone floor and she walked lightly as if feathers were falling on them.

– Chalgrang.

With every step he took, the blue chains wrapped around his ankles moved with him, making a sound that reached Kael’s ears.

[Huh? Another person has come! Someone who can even see me?!]

Only after he approached Mabel did the man’s eyes widen when he noticed Kael’s presence.

Her long hair, which seemed closer to a yellowish color than to be called gold, and her bright gold eyes, which contrasted with her hair, gave off a sense of surprise.

Seventeen or eighteen. The girl, who looked to be around that age, spread her arms as if she was about to hug Mabel and Kael, but then she quickly dropped her arms sullenly.

[That’s right… I can’t hug you guys.]

… Was this the personality of the original character?

Kael narrowed his eyes at the girl whose appearance reminded him of someone right next to him.

“The girl who introduced herself as the last saint, Selena, slowly got up and approached Lars.

The girl’s face, covered in tear stains, looked pitiful, but at the same time, very beautiful.

[You came here because you heard my voice?]

“Yes. If it’s not too much trouble, may I ask what the last saint means?”

At Lars’ question, Selena lifted her faint arm, wiped away her tears, and tried to smile.

[This might be a pretty long story, is that okay?]

Carefully. At the pitiful voice asking, Lars nodded without thinking.

Even if I briefly recall the original, the gap between the Selena I described in the original and the Selena I see now seems very stark.

[I am the last saint, Selena. Can you tell me your name?]

“I am Mabel! My name is Mabel Du Damier!”

“Kael du Damier.”

[Huh? Your last names are the same? Are you siblings?]

“No! Kael is my father! I am Kael’s daughter!”

[Eh-? They do look alike, but… Kael. So Mabel’s father got married early?]

It was hard to believe that Mabel and Selena were meeting for the first time. They chatted like old friends who hadn’t seen each other in a long time.

[I see! But aren’t saints originally affiliated with the temple?]

“Except for a few people, no one knows that I have divine powers!”

[You weren’t caught by the temple? Of course… Mabel’s divine power is greater than mine, so even ‘he’ wouldn’t notice.]

It was only for a very short time.

Selena’s voice, when she spoke of another person called ‘him’, sounded like someone swallowing down deep anger.

“Who is he?”

Kael, who had been quietly listening to their conversation, asked Selena without missing a beat, and Selena, who turned around with a sigh at his question, lifted her feet slightly and showed them.

– Okay.

The thick, rough blue chains and shackles on her slender ankles made a shrill noise as they clashed against each other.

[300 years ago, the person who put this on my feet. The person who imprisoned me here and exploited my divine power. And… the high priest of the Primordial Temple who pretended to be kind in front of me. He pretended to be merciful as if he was embracing all the worries and concerns of the world. Matthias Limpite.]

The name of the current Primal Temple’s High Priestess flowed from Selena’s mouth. Mabel looked at Kael at the girl’s words, and Kael frowned.

?[300 years ago, the one who was the high priest of the Primordial Temple put these shackles on my feet and trapped me here. Then, he began to exploit my divine power and use it as his own.]?

In the original, Selena remained here as a spirit for a long time and gradually lost the memories she had.

That is why Lars misunderstood that she was imprisoned here by the former Primal Priest of the Temple, not the current Priest, and the Priest’s true identity was revealed when he met the Creator himself.

[Matthias Limpite. He still reigns over the others as the high priest of the primordial god?]

Selena’s personality, reactions, and even lines are clearly different from the original.

A passing episode.

Even if it’s a break episode.

Surely, is it possible for a character in the original work to change like this?

The faint, yet clear, sound of gears starting to misalign somewhere rang in Kael and Mabel’s ears.

It was the sound of the dust that had been there gathering and gathering to form a small lump, causing the gears of the original work to shift so slightly that they were almost invisible.