Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 252

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Our protagonist has changed!

“You’ve seemed off since yesterday.

Is something wrong, Sion?”

Thanks to having Raido as her father, whom others find difficult to even speak to, Lucia, who had gone to him to have her magic and martial arts checked again, cautiously opened her mouth.

She had tried to hide her delighted expression at Raido’s words that she had improved much more than before, thinking she should quickly return and tell Sion, and had returned to the villa last night.

Lilith wasn’t there, and Rishikida, being a knight, instinctively avoided conflicts with Sion’s acquaintances.

So, she had returned hoping to spend some quality time with Sion, but was slightly disappointed to see Lia already there.

‘Well, it’s okay.

You never know who Sion will choose.’

However, Sion’s expression was so terrible that Lucia couldn’t even bring herself to tell him that her skills had improved much more than before.

She couldn’t figure out why he was reacting like that, so she asked Rishikida, Lia, and even Zan for the reason, but the only answer she got was ‘I don’t know.’

‘Ah, did Zan say it might be because he made a mistake?’

Anyway, he didn’t seem to be in a good mood, so she decided to talk to him again tomorrow and spent the day, but even after a day, Sion’s face was as terrible as yesterday.

“I have something to worry about, a little, no, a lot.”

“What is it?

Is it because of Lilith…”

“Lucia.

I have a question about Kim Yu-hyun.”

“Yu-hyun?”

At Sion’s question, Lucia blinked and looked at him.

Surely he wasn’t going to ask if she had some kind of relationship with that man now.

That story had already been settled a long time ago, hadn’t it?

Lucia knew that Sion, the man standing in front of her, wasn’t stupid and wouldn’t needlessly provoke people with baseless suspicion.

‘Why is he suddenly asking about Yu-hyun?’

Thinking that, Lucia nodded, signaling him to ask his question.

Sion tried to erase the look of a severe headache and opened his mouth.

“If, let’s say…

Kim Yu-hyun went somewhere for some reason.

Like, to do something at Raido’s request.

Then suddenly a strange ‘woman’ appears and attacks him out of nowhere, what would you do?”

“…Yu-hyun?

A woman is attacking him?”

“Yes.

If you think about it, what would Kim Yu-hyun…”

“Wouldn’t he kill her?”

Damn it.

Sion almost choked on those words.

He already had a vague idea that such an answer might come out.

No, he was almost certain.

Still, Lucia had spent quite a lot of time with Yu-hyun, and he wondered if she might know something good and kind about Kim Yu-hyun that Sion didn’t know, but she answered without the slightest hesitation.

“W-well, you never know? Maybe he’d go easy on her because she’s a woman.

Or maybe he’d ask her why, to figure out if she’s really an enemy, or just a crazy person who’s itching for a fight. Something like that.”

“I don’t know.

Sion, you’ve been with Yu-hyun for quite a while, so don’t you know?

He’s not evil by nature, but once someone shows hostility towards him, he destroys whatever it is and then thinks about it.”

“What if the opponent is a woman as beautiful as Lucia…”

“Didn’t you see it last time?

A bunch of women rushed at him, and he folded them up on the tree, knocked them out without hesitation, and even slammed them into the ground and planted them like vegetables.”

“…”

“O-of course, it’s a little strange for me to call myself beautiful, but anyway, the people next to Sion are all pretty, right?

But at that time, did Yu-hyun show even a little bit of hesitation?”

In other words, there was no hope at all.

Whether a beauty that could overthrow kingdoms or a stunningly beautiful woman came and rubbed against him or seduced him, the moment they showed hostility towards him, he would immediately make their body and neck not fit together, regardless of whether they were male or female.

It was Lucia’s testimony, so it was definitely reliable information.

At the same time, it was almost no different from the image of Kim Yu-hyun that Sion had originally expected.

‘…Ah, shit.

The White Serpent is gone.

Ah, the White Serpent is gone!’

He almost said those words out loud.

At this point, it would be better to just give up, but still, Sion hoped for a one in a million chance.

He prayed that a miracle would happen and that Kim Yu-hyun and the White Serpent wouldn’t clash, or at least that he wouldn’t kill her.

‘Right, Trisha.

You’re here too.

You call yourself the Black Flame Dragon, and you’re both dragons, both reptiles, right?

Of course, they both look human…’

In fact, if Trisha was the only one to believe in, it might be faster to just not believe.

Kim Yu-hyun and Trisha, literally a fantastic combination of tactical nuclear weapons and firestorms.

No, it was such a frustrating duo that Sion himself was so dumbfounded that he laughed at what he was hoping for in front of them.

“Why are you doing that?

Is there someone Yu-hyun shouldn’t meet?”

“No, just… just someone quite crazy seems to be going to Kim Yu-hyun.”

“Is that a big problem?”

“It’s a big problem.

Not for Kim Yu-hyun, but for that crazy someone.”

Fighting desperately with their lives on the line is the specialty of the Dragonkins [Dragon People].

While other races aim to survive and win no matter what, Dragonkins are a rather unique race that simply aims for the fight itself.

Let me correct that.

They were just completely insane races.

They were truly a fighting race, those who would fight each other even if others didn’t fight them.

It was natural for parents and children to fight each other if they thought the other was strong.

So, it was natural that the number of races decreased exponentially as time went by.

‘In the current situation, the number of remaining Dragonkins is at most three or four.

That’s also an uncertain number.

Maybe Ekaterina is the only one left alive.

Even in the novel, only she came forward and said she would fight Kim Yu-hyun, and eventually died.’

If she had just rushed in to fight, she would have remained a strange character, not a villain.

At the time, Kim Yu-hyun refused to fight a strange person, so Ekaterina said that she would create a reason to fight and devastated the western part of the kingdom.

According to Kim Yu-hyun, a significant amount of the kingdom was devastated by one damn Dragonkin, and he eventually had to eliminate Ekaterina before the worst situation came.

It would have been a pretty useful card if he had somehow persuaded the last remaining Dragonkin and put her in as a force, but unfortunately, Kim Yu-hyun’s limit was just fighting.

“Hmm… I don’t know what’s going on, but it doesn’t seem like there’s anything Sion can do.”

“That’s right.

I can only hope that Kim Yu-hyun and Trisha will take care of it.”

Sion sighed and then cautiously opened his mouth, noticing that Lucia seemed to be expecting something.

“I’m okay, but does Lucia have anything to say?

You’ve been looking at me since yesterday.”

“Ah… um, my father told me that I seem to have gotten stronger than before.

I think I realized what I was lacking after clashing with Yu-hyun last time.”

When Lucia sparred with Kim Yu-hyun, she collapsed in just a few moves and sprawled out.

Kim Yu-hyun, who had mercilessly smashed his master’s only daughter, looked down at Lucia and coldly assessed that one, one power was good, but speed and accuracy were lacking.

“I heard Yu-hyun’s words at that time and thought that this would be a little helpful to Sion, but after hearing those words, I felt it.

With someone like Yu-hyun, someone with my skills wouldn’t be of much help.

So, I worked hard.

It’s only been a few days, but I’ve done as much as I can.”

“…Thank you.

Honestly, I’m just grateful if you just follow me like this.”

In fact, Kim Yu-hyun is the one who is marked as the one to put forward in the fight against the Celestial Race [a powerful, possibly divine, enemy].

Zan and Ekaterina were to assist him, and Trisha and Lilith were to support them from behind.

Lia was thinking of aiming for surprise attacks or flanks because she couldn’t exert her strength properly by fighting the opponent head-on, and Rishikida was originally thinking of her as a bodyguard knight, so she didn’t intend to send her to the front lines yet.

‘In fact, Lucia was the most ambiguous.’

She has a talent for magic, but not as much as Raido.

Martial arts are just about to bloom, but the Celestial Race is also quite strong.

Even a moment’s mistake could result in serious injuries, as well as fatal injuries that could cost them their lives.

She wondered if she should entrust her with long-range support, but honestly, even the upper Celestial Race would just get hit by that level of magic and come closer.

“Honestly, I thought a lot about it.

If we really have to fight against the Celestial Race.

If they are really the enemies of us humans… I wonder if I can do well against them.”

“…”

“If I use magic as usual, I can be safe, but it’s difficult to see the effect, and if I engage in close combat, there’s also the problem that I’m likely to fight against someone much stronger than me.”

“You were already worried about it, knowing it.”

“My father once said.

Unfortunately, you are the most ambiguous of those next to Sion.

He said that the effect may be the most minimal because you didn’t focus on martial arts from the beginning and turned away from learning magic.

Even if you apply magic to martial arts, there will be side effects that will make it impossible to move flashy or make surprise attacks.”

Covering the shortcomings of martial arts with the tremendous firepower of magic.

That was Lucia’s current fighting method, and it was quite effective against those who were weaker or similar to her.

However, it was quite likely that it would not work against those who were stronger than her.

If Lucia crushed her attack in reverse before applying magic to attack and continued to give direct shocks to her body, there was a high probability that she would not be able to move her fists or even her feet, let alone magic.

“But that doesn’t mean I’m going to back down.

What does it matter?

Anyway, there’s no one to replace me, right?

Tell me, Sion.

Tell me about someone who has an excellent martial arts teacher like me, has that much talent, and can produce much stronger output than most people.”

“There isn’t.”

“That’s right.

I have to work harder.

If it’s just a misunderstanding, as Sion said, or if we misunderstood, that would be really great, but if the Celestial Race really has some other intention and is trying to do something we don’t know, then those who know it should come forward and stop it.”

Saying that, Lucia slightly raises her hand.

There are more wounds on her bandaged hand than before, but she has become stronger.

Even Sion, who really doesn’t know anything about martial arts, vaguely noticed that Lucia had become much stronger than when he first met her.

“So, Sion, you should work hard in your own way.

Don’t pay attention to other things.

We are also making invisible efforts in invisible places for you.”

As expected, she was a woman who even melted Kim Yu-hyun, who was the most impregnable.

Lucia’s appearance, smiling brightly and speaking in a warm voice, was definitely worthy of being called a heroine.

‘…Right.

I touched the White Serpent too late because I was focusing on other things.

I regret it, but in fact, she was such a risky character that this might be better.

Anyway, Kim Yu-hyun has become much stronger than originally expected, and there are many who can become excellent blades at any time, even if they are still a little lacking.

Let’s forget it, forget it.’

Thinking that, Sion shook off his regrets.

He hoped that Kim Yu-hyun and the White Serpent wouldn’t clash, but even if they clashed and the last remaining Dragonkin died, he decided not to care anymore.

Anyway, if people are destined to meet, they will meet, and if they are not destined to meet, Kim Yu-hyun will just cut them off with one stroke.

“Nyaang!

Lucia is here?”

I asked you to please not do that, but Lia came in through the window again.

I don’t know why she insists on doing that even though this is the first floor, not the second or third floor.

Sion was about to nag her not to do that, but then Rishikida stuck her face in behind her.

“Lucia.

I needed a sparring partner, would you like to join me?”

“I don’t mind, but Rishikida?

Aren’t you doing it with Lia?”

“Ah, I’m trying to do it in a feeling of three people fighting each other in a melee, not a 1:1 situation.

I’m trying to prepare for all situations because I don’t know what the battlefield situation will be like.”

At those words, Lucia exclaimed ah and nodded.

Anyway, after saying that they should cheer each other up, Lucia left the room, and Lia, Rishikida, and Lucia walked to the training ground inside the villa, chatting.

‘…I wonder if Kim Yu-hyun is doing well.

I’m also curious about where Lilith has gone now.’

He was worried, but he thought they would do well on their own, and Sion prepared to visit the royal palace once.

It was a natural thing because the cooperation and permission of Vanessa, the current king, were needed to prepare for the matters that would proceed later.

‘Bringing in outside forces can be seen as treason without the king’s permission.’

The one who strikes first is the best, and the one who gets hit is wrong.

If Nudia had always opened the door to attack and gained an advantage from it, this time Sion was going to forcibly take it and use it as he pleased.

He can’t just keep blocking and enduring.

The saying that the best defense is offense was true in most situations, if not always.

From the beginning, he can make the opponent’s mood terrible, drag them to the desired battlefield, and cook them in the desired way.

‘I don’t intend to eat Nudia in an all-out war anyway.

We just need to gnaw away at the forces that will become the enemy’s spear in the future.

To do that, the horsemanship of the northern warriors is essential.’

Sion was so curious about what kind of reaction Nudia would have if they encountered the terrible tactics of the northern warriors who had been tormenting the northern part of the kingdom so much that he was going crazy.

―――――――Author’s Note―――――――

I’m late…!