How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 89



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Episode 89. The Last Saintess (5).

[Hey… are you okay? Mabel? Kael?]

After Selena’s death, the voice of Selena in spirit state was heard by Mabel and Kael.

The two people blinked a couple of times and realized that they were underground 300 years in the future.

Mabel’s eyes filled with tears as she blankly watched Selena, who had stopped crying, and they soon began to flow down without her even having time to wipe them away.

[Mabel? Why… Why, are you crying? Yeah? Is it because I’m crying? I’m okay. I’m not sad, I’m happy. I cried because I was happy. So don’t cry. Yeah?]

“Ugh….”

The girl who saw Mabel start to cry even louder at Selena’s voice trying to soothe her looked at the child with an anxious expression and then looked at Kael as if asking him to soothe her.

“…I saw your past.”

Kael spoke to Selena, who had no idea that he had seen her past. Selena widened her eyes at his words, then seemed to realize why Mabel was crying, and then awkwardly hugged Mabel.

[When Mabel and I made contact, Mabel’s divine power and the remnants of my divine power that remained here collided and showed me the past.]

Patting Mabel on the back clumsily, Selena guessed why they had come to see her past.

“I only saw it in fragments, but did Archimandrite Matthias Limpite make your divine power his own?”

[That’s right. Do you see the chains on my ankles? These are chains made of ore that has the property of absorbing the divine power of those who touch them.]

Selena continued, adding that when she was alive, she often used her divine powers to punish priests who had misused them or committed injustice.

[Matthias Limpite. He seemed to have found a substance with similar properties. Or… he created a substance that his divine power could not absorb.]

“Sniff… Right… Just now, Selena asked me to take away that person’s divine power. Is there a way to do that?”

Mabel, who had just stopped crying, asked Selena with a flushed face and a sniffle, and Selena touched the tip of Mabel’s round nose with her finger and laughed.

[You’ve finally stopped crying, dear Mabel. If you want to answer, there is a way.]

– Okay.

Selena lifted her foot with those words.

Naturally, Kael and Mabel’s gaze fell on the girl’s ankles. Unlike the dull color they had when the girl was alive, they looked at the shining blue shackles, which shook and made a clear sound.

“shackles…?”

[That’s right! If we do this… like this.]

Nodding, Selena bent down and reached out, fiddling with the chains around her ankles.

[It’s solved like this!]

Soon after, with a snapping sound, the blue-glowing shackles were released from her delicate ankles, and Selena lifted them up to show them to her.

Easy, right?

Kael looked at the chains in the girl’s hands with a trembling expression, feeling as if he was hearing a familiar voice from somewhere.

“Was it solvable…?”

[It can be solved, but some parts of it were not solved.]

Kael, who was about to ask why the shackles that had been held in place were being released, became silent as he watched Selena’s figure gradually fading away.

“Selena?”

Mabel called out to the girl in confusion, and Selena smiled as she looked at the child who had called her.

[Is it because of my wish not to return to the embrace of God? These shackles have allowed me to stay here. I… have waited and waited for someone who will one day take revenge on my behalf.]

For revenge.

I thought I had come to stay here to get a chance at revenge.

[I guess I missed warmth more than revenge.]

But when he saw Mabel’s warm embrace and the sight of someone crying sadly after seeing his past, he realized that the reason he stayed here was… to feel the warmth of a person once again.

All I could do for the child who had made me feel warm again was to provide a safety net so that this child, who had a divine power stronger than mine and stronger than the High Priest who had taken away his divine power and the divine power of so many others, would not suffer the same fate as I did.

[I think these chains have become a kind of holy relic because I’ve been wearing them for so long. If you use them well, you can not only steal the divine power of the Great Priest, but also protect you from those who seek to exploit your divine power.]

“Three, what about Selena?”

Mabel grabbed Selena’s hand, which was gradually fading away.

Selena answered Mabel’s question with a bright smile, feeling the warmth in her small hands.

[It’s late, but… it’s time to return to the embrace of God. So don’t worry, Mabel.]

“Really? Really?”

Mabel looked at Kael without realizing it.

As the child’s gaze turned to him, Selena looked at Kael, who was looking at her, and lightly placed her thumb on her lips.

The girl’s words about returning to the embrace of God were a pure lie. Selena had refused to return to the embrace of God from the beginning. There was no merciful god in this world who would willingly tell her to return to his embrace.

Selena. That girl was not able to return to the embrace of God and was destroyed from this world. That was the truth.

Who said God is merciful?

A person who can be more cruel to humans than anyone else.

It was God who gave unsolicited love and did not fulfill the responsibility. When God sent a trial, did someone say that he gave the person as much trial as he could endure?

Kael thought that was complete nonsense.

The one who had to endure the pain and wounds of the ordeal was the one who faced the ordeal. Even God could not arbitrarily judge the wounds and the pain.

“…okay.”

Mabel, who asked Selena if what she said was true, might have subconsciously known that what the girl said was not true. She might have turned away from the cruel truth, hoping that she would give herself a definitive answer.

Kael answered, looking into the clear purple eyes looking at him, and Mabel turned her head towards Selena.

Selena, now barely a swaying figure, slowly knelt down and placed the shackles on Mabel’s ankles.

[You heard? So… I’ll give this relic to you. Unless you activate it, no one will know it’s a relic. So try not to drop it on your body.]

The loose chains on Mabel’s feet glowed softly and changed shape.

Selena looked down at her barely visible body as she saw the shackles change into anklets with blue gems on a gold chain that resembled her own eyes, and took a step away from Mabel and Kael.

[I’m glad that the people I met were you. Thank you.]

Only a faint silhouette remained.

Kael and Mabel could intuitively tell that Selena was looking at them with a bright smile.

“Selena…?”

Mabel called Selena’s name, but there was no answer. The basement was silent, with only fainter moonlight shining down than before.

“Kael… Was this really enough for Selena?”

“I guess he left because he had had enough.”

“But when Selena wants revenge. That look in her eyes….”

– Take away the divinity of others, including me, and take away the life of others to maintain youth and live life. Take away the divinity of him. Make him feel my. Our pain equally.

Selena’s eyes were sincere when she said those words.

It was the look in the eyes of someone who truly wanted him to suffer.

“It must be because your warmth was greater than my desire for revenge.”

I will hand over the holy relic to Mabel. From the moment I made up my mind. No, even before that, from the moment Mabel hugged me, I didn’t care what the revenge would be.

When she handed over the relic, the girl hoped that the relic she had handed over would protect Mabel rather than seek revenge.

“Mabel.”

Kael approached Mabel, who was looking down at the anklet on her ankle.

– chin.

Finally, his hand was placed on Mabel’s crown, which was facing downward.

“If you want to get revenge on Selena, do it.”

“Is that okay…?”

“If you want to.”

Kael moved his hand to stroke Mabel’s soft head under his palm and waited until the child’s thoughts were sorted out.

“I…want revenge. I want that person to suffer as much as Selena suffered. I…, I don’t know if I deserve it. But still… I still want revenge.”

“I already have the qualifications.”

Mabel looked up at him as Kael absentmindedly replied, pulling his hand away.

“That relic you possess. That alone makes you qualified to avenge Selena.”

He pointed to the anklet around the child’s ankle and added slowly.

“And the Damier Viscount must return what he has received. You too are a member of the Damier Viscount, so you must return what you have received. Whether it was with good or bad intentions.”

The moonlight streaming into the basement was gradually becoming dim. Kael, who noticed this, realized that it was time for the sun to rise, so he lifted Mabel and placed her on his shoulder.

“Ka, Kael?! I can go on my own feet!”

“Do you remember the way you came?”

“…That is….”

Mabel, whose body moved instinctively to follow Selena’s voice, could not possibly remember the way she came. When Mabel was unable to continue speaking, he looked at the child on his shoulder as if he had expected her to do so and said.

“Close your eyes.”

Mabel, who knew from previous experience that when he told her to close her eyes, it was a warning that he would use teleportation, shut her eyes tightly, and the two disappeared underground.

The two people who disappeared underground appeared in the annex of the Temple of the Beginning. They were assigned a room there, and as soon as Kael put down Mabel, who he was carrying, a presence was felt at the door, and a knocking sound echoed through the room.

“Your Majesty the Countess Damier.”

Mabel exchanged glances with Kael as she heard a small voice whispering from beyond the door, then quietly climbed into bed and turned over the blanket.

Kael slowly approached the door and opened it. As he opened it, he saw the high priest Azepine clenching his fists as if he was planning to knock on the door again.

“Thank goodness you’re awake.”

Kael nodded to the whispering voice and said as his gaze turned to the bed behind him where Mabel was lying.

“It seems it is still too early for my daughter to wake up.”

“Oh… Now, you should start getting ready so that you can arrive at the sanctuary in time for the sun to rise….”

It would have been better if they had just gone back like this. Kael said with a short sigh at the sight of Artisan’s expression, which seemed to indicate that he would raise his voice and wake Mabel at any moment.

“Let’s try to wake him up. Wait.”

Artisan scratched his bandaged forehead awkwardly at the closed door before he could answer.