How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 91



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Episode 91. Getting caught (2).

Despite Kael’s positive words, Mabel seemed to be having a hard time making a decision, but she soon showed her body that had been hidden as if she had made up her mind and pointed to a private prayer room with her finger.

“Excuse me… Can I come in?”

“Of course. You are welcome to use any empty private prayer room.”

Fortunately, the private prayer room that Mabel had pointed to was empty, and the child went inside.

Mabel looked at Kael and emphasized again before closing the door completely.

“Do I really have to wait in front?”

“okay.”

“You promised?”

“I’ll be in front until you come out, so hurry up and come back.”

– Okay.

The door to the private prayer room closed, and Kael stood silently in front of the room Mabel had entered.

“You really treat her like your own daughter.”

Seeing him like that, Matthias said with a look of great surprise.

Even if you treat her like your own daughter, the child who entered the prayer room is not your own daughter. Why do you go to such lengths?

Kael shrugged his shoulders, realizing that the words contained a level of sincerity that would put even a nobleman to shame.

“There is no one in this empire who does not know that Mabel is my daughter. And blood ties are not of much importance to the House of Damier.”

No matter what you say, Mabel and I are family under the imperial law that you must follow as long as you have your feet on the ground in this empire. What’s the problem? And don’t you know that the Damier family is more likely to choose a non-blood-related child as their successor than a blood-related child?

When Kael answered back with the words that had been hiding his true feelings, the corners of Matthias’ lips, which had been forming a soft curve, twisted slightly.

“I heard you brought a child from the temple of Janus.”

“That’s exactly what happened: the child came to me.”

“It must have been quite a long way for a young lady to come.”

When asked if she was hiding any special abilities, Kael noticed that Mathias had not completely let go of his suspicions that Mabel might have divine powers.

“Isn’t it fate that that child came to me?”

That fate you love. That fate must have led Mabel to me.

Kael and Matthias.

As the two people’s strange, invisible war of nerves continued, Matthias’ lips, about to open again, parted and stopped.

Instead of lips, the eyes that had been vaguely visible under the blindfold slowly opened.

“Cough…!!!”

It was as if someone with some divine power was looking at him. A groan of pain echoed through the air.

Even though he was hidden under the blindfold, Kael quickly noticed that his gaze had turned away from him and toward the door behind him. So he also turned his gaze toward the door of the private prayer room that Mabel had entered.

A faint light was streaming in through the crack in the door. The same light that Matthias had used to heal Azepine’s wounds.

It was divine power.

* * *

Mabel entered her private prayer room and stared blankly at the closed door.

?I’ll be waiting right in front of the prayer room. Go ahead.?

Yeah, because Kael said he’d be waiting right in front.

“after….”

Mabel took a deep breath and began to look around the private prayer room. As expected, there was nothing particularly unusual about the private prayer room.

The private prayer room, which was about 3 pyeong in size, had a single stone statue of a god on a small altar. Next to it was a donation box and a soft-looking cushion, that was all there was.

“It’s really nothing… .”

Mabel briefly wondered if she had come in for no reason, but then began to look around the private prayer room in earnest. The first thing she looked at was the offering box.

Mabel looked into the hole where she could put money, and seeing that the donation box was empty, she rummaged through the bag she was carrying and put a gold coin in it.

– With my daughter.

Mabel sat comfortably on the cushion, hearing the sound of gold coins falling into the empty container and feeling a little regretful that there was nothing but gold coins in her bag.

Mabel looked up at the stone statue directly in front of her from her soft cushion. Since it was a statue in the Temple of the Beginning, it must have been a statue of the primordial god.

“It looks a little different from the original….”

“[You finally came all the way here, kid.]

A voice that resonates gently.

At the voice that was more compassionate and awe-inspiring than anyone else’s, Lars unconsciously knelt down slowly and bowed his head deeply.

In the field of vision directed towards the floor, a pure white sheet of cloth fluttered, and again a voice was heard from just above.

[Raise your head, child. I am the primordial god. I am the god you call the Creator.]

Lars’ head is raised… .

He was able to capture the image of the primordial god with his eyes.

At the end of the original story, Lars comes face to face with the primordial god. The primordial god’s appearance described at that time was somewhat different from the stone statue.

“Long, golden hair flowing down her back like a waterfall. Eyes like the sun looking down at her. Behind her back, wrapped in a cloth that rippled across the floor, a radiance so bright that it was difficult to open her eyes.”

Contrary to what was described, the statue Mabel was looking up at was wearing a veil and had a compassionate smile on its face.

It was as if no one had ever actually encountered the primordial god, and so his face was covered with a veil, unable to be properly revealed.

“Now that I think about it… .”

Mabel thought of another statue of a god she had seen, a god she had not only seen as a statue, but had actually encountered.

Mabel, who thought of the god Janus, shook her head and got up, remembering how awkward he was somehow.

Mabel blinked as she turned toward the door, thinking that it would be okay to leave now that she had stayed in the private prayer room for this long.

Clear purple eyes filled with confusion hid and revealed themselves under their eyelids several times. No matter how many times she blinked, a pure white space filled Mabel’s field of vision instead of the obvious text that should have existed.

“We finally met.”

Where the statue of God was. That is, a voice was heard from behind Mabel, and Mabel’s body turned back towards the owner of the voice.

A voice that is deep and resonant.

Because the voice in my memory that I had once heard was definitely that of the god Janus.

As expected, Mabel turned around and was met with the beautiful face of the god Janus wearing a long, vertically split mask.

– Tick.

– Tick tock.

In a pure white space. In a colorless space, the sound of the clock ticking echoed between Mabel and the god Janus, who was sitting in the place where the statue of the god had been.

“… Child?”

Mabel’s reaction, which was blankly staring at him without saying anything, seemed to be not the reaction he had expected. The god Janus called out to Mabel in a voice that was faintly filled with embarrassment.

“… a thief… .”

Mabel muttered something softly at the voice calling her, and the god Janus, unable to properly understand the words spoken, approached the child.

“I didn’t hear you properly. Could you say what you said again?”

The god, who had two heads of difference in height, bent down to get on the child’s eye level, and a small hand grabbed the god’s collar, noticing the anger in his clear purple eyes.

“fraud-!!!”

Mabel shook the hand that held the god’s collar with all her might, but Janus’ body did not move at all, and only the child’s body swayed like a paper doll.

“A, a conman…?”

However, Mabel’s actions of grabbing his collar and calling him a fraud with such a cool voice were enough to fluster the god Janus, and when the god asked again, unable to hide his bewilderment, Mabel, who had been shaking his collar, stopped moving, looked at him, and nodded resolutely.

“Yeah! You’re a fraud! And you just kidnapped me, right? And now you’re kidnapping me?! And you’re still a god after doing that?! If you’re a god, you’re all!!!”

This scammer!

This kidnapper!

At Mabel’s voice that kept flowing out, Janus lightly snapped his fingers. As soon as he snapped his fingers, a screen appeared between him and Mabel, and Mabel’s hand that had been holding Janus’s collar lost its strength and fell as she saw the sight on the screen that passed through her arm.

“Ka…el?”

On the blurry screen that looked like a CCTV, Kael was seen blocking the private prayer room he had entered.

In front of him, as if in a standoff, stood a group of armed knights and high-ranking priests who seemed to be more than ten, along with the Archangel.

[I just wanted to briefly check inside. Didn’t you see it, Viscount Damie? The sacred power flowing out.]

The High Priest, Matthias, opened his mouth, but Kael did not move.

[I decided to wait in front of here until my daughter came out.]

[If you keep acting like this, I will have no choice but to use force.]

[If the personal prayer room is in use, even if it is the main office, you will not be able to enter or exit without permission.]

[I can’t help it.]

Matthias gestured to the knights.

The sharp swords of the knights were aimed at Kael. The standoff was tense. Mabel, who was facing the situation on the screen, let out a sharp scream.

“No…! Kael…!!!”

* * *

Even though the tip of the sharp sword was pointed at him, Kael showed no intention of moving away. He stood there as if he was guarding his position, and Mathias spoke in a voice filled with pity as he watched him.

“If you do not step aside, I will have no choice but to force you to step aside, Your Majesty.”

Despite the warning words of young Matthias, Kael only let out a cold sneer.

“Are you saying you will use force?”

“If you step aside, I won’t have to use force.”

“We will meet force with force.”

“You’re probably at a significant numerical disadvantage.”

“Because I am a pretty good wizard.”

Kael glanced at the door behind him. The divine power that seemed ready to burst out at any moment had long since subsided.

I couldn’t tell what had happened inside, but since Mabel hadn’t come out yet, something must have gone wrong.

The entrance to the private prayer room had to be through the door you were standing in. There was no human intervention. So…

Janus, the god of the beginning.

It could only be seen as the intervention of one of the two gods. If the divine power that was normally well controlled was flowing out to this extent, it was even worse.

If they stepped aside now, they would notice Mabel’s divine powers and take the child away at any cost.

The final scene of the saint came to mind again. Mabel’s figure was added to the image of the girl who had been stripped of her divine powers and exploited, closing her eyes alone in pain.

“I’ll say this one last time. Get out of the way.”

“I promised to wait out front until my daughter came out, so that’s going to be a bit difficult.”

The knights, armed with pure white armor, approached Kael with a threatening clang.

Should I kill all of these guys and run away with Mabel? But if I did that, the fate of those left behind in the Damier household would be too obvious.

“Oh, really… This is why I said you shouldn’t have people next to you.”

Kael muttered in a whisper, and as the paladins took a step closer, a purple magic began to ripple around him.

“What’s all this noise?”

And at that moment.

A new voice cut through the tense atmosphere.

“I took time out of my busy schedule to visit the temple. Why are the knights threatening Viscount Damie? I guess I need to explain a little bit. Archpriest Matthias.”

The pitch-black eyes of the only person who could address him without any honorifics after the title of Archimandrite were turned toward Matthias.

Emperor of the Titus Empire. It was Bastian.