Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 22

The otherworld depicted in the novel is largely divided into two sections:

The pre-era, mainly consisting of civil war where nations and races engage in meaningless battles for their own benefit, shedding countless blood and tears, and becoming stained with regret.

And the post-era, which involves the desperate struggles of the injured and bleeding to prevent the Judges from arriving and destroying the collapsing world.

In the pre-era, the characters called villains felt more like they were acting for the benefit of themselves and their factions rather than trying to do something truly evil.

In the post-era, it was a state just before a complete apocalypse, mainly filled with lunatics who said, ‘Let’s burn down this damn world and reset it cleanly.’

‘The pre-era was mainly about the conflicts and growth of Kim Yu-hyun and those around him, while the post-era was literally an infinite deathmatch where it’s either you die or I live.’

And those who led that infinite deathmatch were the ones called the Seven Wings.

The background of their appearance in the novel was that the author hastily prepared anti-Kim Yu-hyun villains as the power inflation caused by Kim Yu-hyun became rapidly severe.

The problem was that they appeared in the novel so hastily, and as a result, the background and reasons for each of the Seven Wings to appear were explained quite poorly, as if they were forcibly fitted into the setting.

That was the situation right now.

‘You freaking author! Even if you were too lazy to flesh out the settings, how could the battlefield where the Fourth Wing’s brother met his gruesome death be none other than here!’

Her only family, her brother, died in this war.

After that, the sister who was left alone suffered all sorts of unspeakable and terrible things and went through terrible hardships.

In the end, what appeared before her in despair was wrong beliefs, false convictions, and unjust power!

Explanation over!

‘The setting is so weak!

I couldn’t bring myself to say anything, but the setting is really terrible, you!’

Readers demanded a proper setting, but it was the second half full of battle scenes, so it was glossed over.

In the end, the novel proceeded without any explanation of what painful life the Fourth Wing had lived, where her brother had died, or anything.

No matter how dedicated a reader you are, there is no way to know when the author pulls something like that.

When reading the novel, all I thought was, ‘The setting is really rough.

You’re writing too carelessly because it’s the end!’

But now, when I’m ‘experiencing’ the novel, I had to shout ‘I’m screwed!’ when things were right in front of me.

‘Why the Fourth Wing?

Why the firestorm?

Why is her family name Faker, like the Great Demon King Faker!’

I ran.

I ran like crazy.

Even though the flames were blazing as if they would burn me to death at any moment, even though the Nudia soldiers were surprised but hurriedly loading bolts into their crossbows, Zion did not stop.

No, he couldn’t stop.

The Fourth Wing, Trisha Faker, single-handedly devastated the Kingdom of Hispania.

What’s really scary is that no matter how hard Kim Yu-hyun tried to kill her, she would just deal with him appropriately and tie him down with all sorts of traps, but never actually engage in combat.

For her, the important thing was the extermination of all living things and the destruction of this continent.

Even at the moment when she was finally caught up by Kim Yu-hyun and her heart was pierced, she only regretted not being able to kill one more human.

‘That crazy woman!

I can stop that woman, who even the other Seven Wings were wary of!

A way to completely eliminate the threat to the Kingdom of Hispania and the territory of Klausen!

A way to increase my chances of survival by at least 10 percent!’

Just by not turning that woman into an enemy, the Hispania Kingdom’s stock will not be delisted [referring to the kingdom’s potential downfall].

My home, the Klausen territory, will not collapse!

Thinking that, Zion seemed to have strength he didn’t even know he possessed.

“Jimmy Faker!

Who is Faker!

Damn it, answer me if you can hear me!

Faker Senpai [Japanese honorific used for someone of higher status or experience]!”

Clang!

Clang!

‘···Strong, this woman.’

Excluding Raido, Kim Yu-hyun had not exchanged swords with someone for this long in a long time.

Even though his body was not fully recovered, to be able to block his sword like this.

As his master said, the world is wide, there are many skilled people, and there are even more crazy people.

“You’re quite skilled, you.”

The knight, Rishikida, opened her mouth.

She looked calm on the outside, but she was very surprised on the inside. She didn’t know that there was a young person in the Frontier Count Territory who could block her attacks, which were called genius in Nudia, so easily.

“I didn’t know there was someone as skilled as you in the Klausen territory.

If you had waited in the castle, the knights might have all been killed by you.”

“‘Might have been killed’ is not the case, I would have killed them all already.

I still want to chase after them and slaughter them, but I’m holding back because there’s a pretty good opponent in front of me.”

“You’re out of your mind.”

“Maybe it’s because I’ve only been rolling around in a mess that I couldn’t have survived with a sane mind.”

Kim Yu-hyun finished speaking and adjusted his sword.

The opponent was definitely strong, but not an unbeatable enemy.

In the first place, if his body was in normal condition, he would have played around with her for a while before cutting off her breath.

Even now, he gave her time to figure out his swordsmanship, and now that process was over.

All that was left was to draw a line of blood on her neck.

“Jimmy Faker!”

Just as he was about to attack, Kim Yu-hyun turned his head slightly at the shout from behind.

It is absolutely forbidden to be careless during battle, but it was an unavoidable reaction because the owner of that voice was a man he had been watching all along.

“Who is Faker!

Damn it, answer me if you can hear me!

Faker Senpai!”

A man is running around like a madman, calling someone’s name.

Even though the flames are blazing around him, even though the Nudia soldiers are loading crossbows, he doesn’t care at all and is working very hard, like a dog looking for food.

“What on earth is he doing···.”

At that moment, Rishikida’s eyes widened.

The young man found someone, sat down on the ground, and carried a soldier on his back.

It’s questionable how he has such strength in his slender body, but it was very interesting that he could step forward to save someone in that living hell.

“Young master!”

“Protect the young master quickly!”

“Quickly form a formation and move!”

Young master?

Young master, you say?

Could that man be Zion Klausen, the eldest son of the Klausen family?

Rishikida, startled, stared at the young man, forgetting that she was in the middle of a battle.

He is the successor of a count’s family, a person in a position where he would lose if he was injured or killed in a place with nothing lacking.

In the first place, the successor of a noble family is an important person, so he will not be greatly blamed for retreating in the midst of battle.

Rather, it is more troublesome if he is caught, so no one will say anything even if he steps back.

But that man was different.

He ran through the flames to save one of his soldiers and lifted the soldier up with enemy soldiers right in front of him.

I don’t know what he’s trusting in, but I could definitely know one thing.

That nobleman risked his life to save one soldier.

Whoosh!

‘Oops.’

Rishikida quickly lowered her head.

As soon as she did, her hair was cut off and scattered in the wind.

“You’re paying too much attention during battle.”

“···You didn’t attack seriously either.”

As Rishikida said, Kim Yu-hyun deliberately gave her an opening even though he could have aimed for her neck.

As if to tell her to notice and avoid it quickly.

“I want to ask you one thing.

By any chance, that man over there, the one who is saving that soldier and running towards my formation.”

“What about that man.”

“Zion Klausen, I want to ask if he is really the eldest son of the Frontier Count Territory that was rumored to be.”

“That’s right.”

Kim Yu-hyun answered in a short form.

But he hesitated for a moment and continued.

“Rumors are not very reliable, they say.”

“···.”

“My damn master said that.

Maybe he was aiming for that rumor too, he said.”

When Rishikida heard that, she muttered to herself, ‘As expected,’ and slowly stepped back.

When Kim Yu-hyun made a questioning expression, the knight took out her sword slightly and said.

“Let’s stop the battle here.

We’ve both been hurt a lot.”

“I’m fine?

Both you and I.”

“But others are not.”

At Rishikida’s words, Kim Yu-hyun glanced at the battlefield.

The battlefield, which had entered a lull, was rising in crisis again due to Zion’s sudden actions.

The atmosphere was such that if the flames subsided, they would start a full-scale war again.

“More than half of our knights are injured, and the soldiers are even more so.

I will persuade the commander on this side, so don’t worry and go back.

This battle is your victory.”

“···Are you telling me to believe those words now?”

“I can’t help it if you don’t believe me, but I am a knight who keeps his honor.

I swear on my name and my beliefs.

Let’s end today’s battle here and retreat.”

“···.”

Kim Yu-hyun was annoyed and frustrated that the opponent who had been fighting so well was coming out like this.

But seeing her lower her sword like that, it seemed like she really had no intention of fighting anymore.

Swinging a sword against such a person was like smearing mud on his own face, so Kim Yu-hyun clicked his tongue and stepped back.

“Name.”

“Rishikida Amshel.”

“Okay.

I’ll have to settle the match we couldn’t finish today later, so let’s meet again, Rishikida.”

“I’d like that too, if possible.”

It was an ambiguous answer.

Kim Yu-hyun also felt that Rishikida’s answer was strange, but he didn’t ask any further.

As the opponent returned to the Klausen side, Rishikida, who was left alone, thought of Zion.

It was an action that did not suit the position of a nobleman.

Because of that one thing, all the surviving soldiers could have had to throw away their lives.

But he stubbornly took his soldier and escaped that hell.

‘Those who serve such a person must be happy.’

A master who is willing to risk his life for someone below him.

Rishikida smiled self-deprecatingly and closed her eyes.

‘This is my last order.

Rishikida Amshel.’

‘···.’

‘Go and die.

Fight honorably.’

‘···Yes.’

She was different.

Her master was different.

A master who asks for the lives of his servants, and a servant who cannot refuse his master’s orders.

It was right.

She believed that was right.

She just thought that she could be made into a sword, live as a sword, and disappear like a sword.

‘But today, looking at that.’

Just a little, she had regrets.

A regret that she wanted to live longer, that she wanted to become that man’s sword.

―

“Are you crazy?

Are you so eager to die that you’re out of your mind?

You foolish thing!

Huh!”

“Li, Lilith-nim [formal and respectful suffix].

Please calm down···.”

“Die, just die!

Just die in my hands!

Just die, you foolish thing!”

Keheok!

Please save me, Sister!

Zion, who couldn’t resist because he had done something wrong, was just getting hit.

Even if he could somehow avoid the flames, he couldn’t avoid the arrows of the Nudia Kingdom.

The reason why Zion was able to return so safely was entirely thanks to Lilith.

She subtly cast charm to make the enemies’ vision blurry even for a moment.

She had almost exhausted the mana that had been somewhat recovered by deploying defensive magic, so that was all Lilith could do, and if Zion had been even a little later, he might have become a hedgehog by the enemy who had come to their senses.

‘Still··· I did it.

Damn··· I really stopped the Fourth Wing···.’

He prevented the Fourth Wing, Trisha Faker’s brother, from being burned alive, or being captured by the enemies and sold as a slave, or just being hanged.

If this happens, Trisha Faker will not become the Fourth Wing, she will not have hostile eyes towards the continent!

“Zion.”

Looking to the side, the Frontier Count Lichten was looking at him with worried eyes.

In fact, it was understandable that he was receiving such eyes, starting with the fact that the successor of the count’s family jumped in without considering the consequences, and even a demon suddenly appeared.

“···I will explain about the sister next to me later.”

“It seems like the story will be long.”

With those words, the Frontier Count Lichten did not say anything more.

Zion sighed, thinking that it meant he should rest well.

Then, feeling the gazes pouring in from all directions, he looked around.

“···.”

“···.”

“···.”

The Lion Knights Commander, Lucia, and Kim Yu-hyun too.

Everyone was looking at him.

At first, he thought they were looking at Lilith next to him, but that wasn’t the case.

“Why.”

Zion asked back, but soon decided to ignore their gazes.

It was because the difficulties that lay ahead of him were clearly visible.

‘It’s a problem to talk about Lilith-nim right away, but··· I can’t do it this way.

Since the setting was roughly set from the second half of the novel, I can’t know exactly who is where at what time, so it’s impossible to prepare in advance.’

The same goes for the Fourth Wing, Trisha Faker.

If it had been even a little later, her brother would have died as he was, and the territory that had barely survived could have been reduced to ashes by her in a year.

‘Just looking at the flow and preparing is a stupid thing to do.

It’s like discussing nuclear arms reduction while a nuclear bomb is falling in front of you.’

He had to move more and gather more information.

The author had created a vast world, but the detailed settings deteriorated as the episodes progressed, so in the current situation, everything would collapse with just a slight mistake.

‘I don’t know if it was even completed··· sigh, damn··· don’t you guys watch that···.’

He had always supported the author even when he was late for updates or took breaks without saying anything.

Zion hated the author who hadn’t finished the story so much today.

[Author’s Note] I’m Hwarang, running hard today and tomorrow.

Thank you always for the recommendations and favorites!

I want to write more, but as I mentioned in other works, my physical condition is not normal, so 10 consecutive chapters are impossible ㅠㅠㅠ [Korean emoticon for crying];

(Then if you do 9 consecutive chapters, I will hate you···.)

My stomach is still not good and my reflux esophagitis doesn’t seem to be getting better···.

Still!

I will try to upload 2 chapters every day!

Ah, and Kim Yu-hyun doesn’t know who Faker is.

Yes, of course he doesn’t know lol [laugh out loud] either.

Poor bastard.