How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 99



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Episode 99. The inside story of adults (3).

Jack, who had thought he would be out at any moment due to the curse, stared up at Kael, who was smiling faintly.

“Your Majesty, are you up to something?”

“Not really.”

Jack, who had been staring at him intently, asked slyly. Kael’s answer when he returned was extremely blunt, and Jack tilted his head at his answer.

No matter how I look at it, it’s not true.

The Damier Viscount I knew was not one to sit still when someone messed with what was his. Even before I became the head of the World Tree, the Damier Sangdan was the best Sangdan in the empire, even when I was learning from the head.

?Jack. After I hand over my position to you, there is one thing you must be most careful about.?

?Don’t leak information carelessly??

?That is important, but… among the incoming requests, you should not accept any that could touch Viscount Damie’s.?

The empire was vast.

That means, aside from the Damier top, there were a considerable number of tops. Among them, there were tops run by nobles such as counts and dukes who were higher in status than the viscounts, and they considered the viscount who had grown the top even bigger than them a thorn in their side, and they had even put in a request to the World Tree to obtain information that could help them bring him down.

?The World Tree cannot carelessly leak information about Viscount Damie, but once. The head, who was blinded by money, accepted the request and leaked information about a branch quite far from the capital.?

The client who received information from the World Tree assassinated the branch manager of the branch from which the information was obtained, and several key figures also lost their lives.

As the pillars that supported the top disappeared, the branch began to sway violently, and the story quickly reached the ears of Viscount Damier.

?Count Damie took action himself. In just one day, he destroyed the family of the client who had received information from the World Tree and the assassination guild that had been commissioned to assassinate the branch manager.?

Additionally, the head of the World Tree, who had leaked information to Damie at the time, was killed by the Viscount.

?He told his successor, who would become the next leader, ‘If you touch what is mine again, the World Tree will also have to pay a corresponding price.’?

?But you said it was only once? Isn’t the Viscount Damie back then and the Viscount Damie now different people??

He was the former head of the World Tree and Jack’s adoptive father, and he told Jack that half of his questions were right and half were wrong.

?It is different, but it is not different. It is not every time the generation changes, but every two or three generations, Viscount Damie entrusts the request for the relevant data. It is as if he is warning us not to forget the mistakes of the past.?

After actually becoming the leader, Viscount Damier, whom I met, hated anything that touched his property, just like my previous leader said, and if anyone touched it even a little bit, he would make sure that they paid the price by any means necessary.

Even recently, after the disaster.

Jack, who had been so busy that he had no time to blink, was astonished at the news that the people who had attacked the village of Whidin had submerged the area under the water, found it strange that Kael was so quiet.

“Oh, don’t lie. Just tell me a little bit. We’ve been working together for so long!”

“Let’s see… It’s been about three years since you took the position of chief. I was promoted to Viscount this year, so I’ve only been working properly for a few months.”

Jack got angry and shouted at Kael’s shameless answer, who came to him as soon as he became the leader, brought up his true identity, threatened him, and made him cry while eating mustard, wasting away the three years of helping him who wasn’t even a count yet.

“As soon as you became the leader, you came here and made me work for you?!”

“That’s because your previous leader came to me to ask for my favor as the next Viscount. You can complain later when you meet the previous leader in the Rest.”

“The leader of the squadron didn’t tell me my identity!”

“Yes. The reason I found out your identity is simply because I know more than you.”

“I won’t do any work for you if you don’t tell me what you’re doing. I want to rip you off, but I don’t have enough money!”

Kael looked at Jack silently as he pulled out his own secret weapon.

…did it work?

When no answer came, Jack began to look forward, and Kael reached out to Jack, who was looking up at him.

– Whew!!!

“evil!”

Kael reached out and flicked Jack’s forehead with his finger, and when he saw the boy covering his forehead with a short scream, he said indifferently.

“Is it because you’re eighteen? You’re still young.”

“At eighteen, you’re an adult in the Empire?!”

“Monsters will appear in the empire soon.”

Jack, who had been rubbing his cold forehead, blinked at Kael’s continued words.

“I told you, so stop making a fuss and go.”

“Why are monsters appearing? It’s been so long since they disappeared.”

“Then know it.”

Jack, who clearly didn’t have any intention of leaving and would continue to ask questions if left alone, was moved out of the office and out of the writer’s house by Kael with his last words. The boy, who reflexively closed his eyes at the sudden movement, grumbled when he realized that he had been kicked out of the writer’s house.

“If you tell me a little more, what would be missing?”

Jack, who was looking back towards the office where Kael was with a regretful look on his face, tapped the ground with his toes, then disappeared with a sigh.

A few hours before Jack and Kael made contact.

When Mabel woke up, she was able to hear from Cloris, who had returned with the medicine, about the circumstances under which she had lost consciousness.

This is one of the rooms in the annex where he and Kael stayed. The story is that the High Priest called Lars, Cloris, and Adrina and told them about Mabel’s awakening of divine powers, and Cloris emphasized her friendship with him, allowing her to stay around the room they were staying in.

And the fact that he woke up five days after losing consciousness.

“So… the beginning of days is over?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“Ka… No, it’s been five days since Dad left the temple…?”

“That’s right. His Majesty the Emperor has been requesting your presence at the palace ever since the end of the First Day period to speak to the High Priest about this matter.”

Mabel fiddled with the blanket for a while in silence.

A pure white quilt. A blank quilt, not the one with cute flowers or patterns that Damier had made for her in her room. Mabel, who had been looking down at the quilt with a sullen expression and was silent, looked at Cloris and Lars, who were looking at her, and smiled faintly.

“I want to be alone… is that okay?”

“Okay. Instead, since I haven’t eaten anything for five days, should we make plans to have a meal with my sister and Lars later?”

Cloris, who saw Mabel nodding slowly to her words, took Lars out of the room with a soft smile.

As the door closed with a click, Mabel, with her sullen expression and smile shining brightly, got out of bed and searched the room thoroughly.

After searching the room and finding her bag there, Mabel, relieved, climbed back into bed, reached into her bag, took out a smaller bottle of candy than the one she had given Selena, and put one on each cheek before taking out everything in her bag and laying it out.

“Umm… This isn’t it, and this isn’t it either… I found it!”

What Mabel took out was a necklace with a purple gemstone. It was the artifact that Hugo had given me after I had asked for permission to go out and buy a gift for him after helping prepare for Kael’s banquet.

?Miss, when you go out, be sure to take this necklace with you. It is an artifact that the Count himself made. It has a magic that protects your body.?

Mabel, who firmly believed that only the magic that protected her body was placed on her, put the necklace inside her clothes so that it could not be seen. Fortunately, the string was long enough to completely hide the necklace under her clothes.

As Mabel was looking through her bag to see if she needed anything else, she discovered a green brooch that she had never seen before.

“What is this?”

Puzzled, Mabel put her hand on the green brooch, and when the child’s small hand touched it, the brooch spat something out.

It was a neatly folded piece of white paper, and Mabel picked it up and unfolded it.

“When you wake up, bring any object to the green brooch.”

Mabel immediately picked up a candy from the open candy container next to her and placed it on her green brooch, seeing the text written in Hangul, the only language that only she and Kael could write and read in this world.

Soon, the candy that had touched the brooch disappeared and the brooch spat out something again. This time, it was a rolled up bundle of green paper, a bundle of white paper, and a quill and ink.

Mabel found a green piece of paper folded alone among them, unfolded it, and read the words inside.

“Hello, Miss Mabel.

My name is Jack, and I am the guild master of the World Tree Information Guild. I have received the request of Count Damie to deliver the young lady’s letter to him.

If you have something to say to the Count, please use white paper. If you have something to say to me, please use green paper.

“jack…?”

It was the first time I heard that name.

Mabel looked at the letter with some suspicion at the name of the character that did not appear in the original work, but soon grabbed a wad of paper, a quill, and ink and began writing a letter on white paper at the small table in the room.

Mabel, who had been writing letters in Imperial language naturally, stopped writing with her quill pen after a while.

“No. Just in case….”

Mabel drew several lines over the text she had written to make it unreadable, then tore the paper into small pieces, stuffed it into her bag, and began writing in Korean on a new piece of paper.

After Mabel finished writing the letter, she folded the paper and held it up to her green brooch. She watched the paper disappear, then picked up the green paper and wrote on it as well.

“Is Kael okay?”

Unlike the writing on the white paper, a short message was written on the green paper and held up to the brooch, and less than a minute after the green paper disappeared, a new green paper was returned.

“It’s not just safe, it’s scary.”

“Ugh….”

Mabel, who burst into laughter without realizing it, immediately became serious.

I can’t believe I’m laughing at this dad joke…

“Still, I feel relieved….”

I couldn’t quite believe it, but if I heard back from Kael, it would mean I had a way to contact him.

Afterwards, Mabel had dinner in her room with Lars and Cloris, who had come to see her, along with Adrina. Mabel woke up around 4 or 5 o’clock, long past lunchtime.

– It’s late today, so the High Priest will come to see Mabel tomorrow. He’s not that scary, so don’t worry. Okay?

Cloris may have been trying to reassure me, but Mabel, who knew the true nature of High Priest Matthias, couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

Those who came after dinner were quickly called away by other priests. Mabel, left alone, was endlessly imagining what she should do if she met the high priest late at night. What he would do and say.

– Bam.

The sound of falling paper echoed through the room, interrupting Mabel’s incessant thoughts.