Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 1

“You son of a bitch!

What the hell did I do wrong to deserve this!”

Kim Yu-hyun, as if he needed to hear no more, brought his sword down vertically.

It was the moment to end the long, drawn-out bad blood.

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Gas-nim: Wow, he’s finally dying.

That son of a bitch.

Frost is pitch black: Honestly, wasn’t that too easy of a death?

If it were me, I would have cut off his limbs.

Dada Dada Dada: The protagonist is such an idiot.

If he had killed him sooner, the heroine wouldn’t have died, tsk tsk.

zipongkiki: Enjoyed reading it.

IkoooUU: Isn’t the catharsis a bit lacking?

Seriously, that bastard screwed over the protagonist, followed him around like a pervert, interfered with everything, and even got his woman killed, but this is how it ends?

익펠라투라무스: That pathetic bastard from the beginning ends up causing trouble and doing all sorts of terrible things, then asks what he did wrong at the end, lol. He deserves to die, lololol.

The comment section, which had been quiet for a while, became noisy.

The death of a character that everyone had been waiting to see meet his end was the reason.

A villain who appeared briefly in the beginning and was expected to disappear.

But that character followed the protagonist until the end, committing all sorts of evil deeds.

Even the heroine, who was supported by a certain number of readers, met a gruesome end because of that villain, and finally, at the end of the novel, he was killed by the protagonist.

“…A little disappointing.”

After pondering for a moment, I slowly placed my hand on the keyboard.

And as a devoted reader who had read every single chapter without missing one, leaving comments and recommendations every time, I left a comment again this time.

ReadingHard: I enjoyed this episode as well, author.

He finally meets his end at the hands of the protagonist.

Of course, he was a character who deserved to die, but honestly, there were many disappointing parts.

It was a bit strange how he kept popping up and interfering with the protagonist, and the character was too one-dimensional, so even though he was a villain who remained until the end, he didn’t give off a strong impact and remained just a third-rate villain.

And the other villains too…

The story so far has been মোটামুটি 볼만 했습니다 [motdaecheo bolman haet seumnida – মোটামুটি 볼만 했습니다: roughly watchable].

But it’s a shame that the villains are too one-dimensional and are used up too quickly.

If they were a bit more three-dimensional, the story wouldn’t have been just the protagonist’s one-man show.

“Hoo.”

After writing the comment, I clicked ‘Complete’.

Shortly after the comment was posted, several replies began to appear.

From comments agreeing, saying that the villains were all boring, to comments picking a fight, telling me to write it myself if I was so good.

Of course, I didn’t react to each one of them.

I was just expressing my honest feelings as a reader of this author’s work, offering criticism rather than condemnation, and there was no need to pay attention to what others said.

I was just indulging in useless fantasies as a devoted reader, wondering if this story would have been a bit more interesting if it had gone in a different direction.

―A new message has arrived.

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The notification message appeared at the bottom of the screen.

I wondered if it was because I had won the novel usage ticket event that I had applied for, so I went to the message window.

But the name of the sender was not the event banner manager.

The sender was BelieveMe, the author of the novel I had been reading and commenting on.

―Message from BelieveMe

Hello, ReadingHard.

I’m sending this message to thank you for always giving me a lot of advice and criticism from the beginning until now.

I also wanted to talk about the comment you left this time.

It was the first time that an author had sent a message while reading a novel.

After pondering for a moment about how to respond, I gave a simple greeting and then emphasized once again that the characters of some of the villains were one-dimensional and that they were used up too quickly, just like I had mentioned earlier.

Hoping that those disappointing aspects would be improved in the next work.

―A new message has arrived.

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But the content of the next message that arrived was completely unexpected.

―Message from BelieveMe

So you were disappointed with the villains being used up too quickly?

Then would you like to try saving them?

“…Is he angry?”

The content of the message was strange.

For an author to say to a reader, ‘Would you like to try saving them?’

I was worried that my intentions might have been misinterpreted, so I was about to put my hand on the keyboard to leave a more detailed message.

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“No!

Please, please let me go!

Don’t do this!”

“Shut your mouth!

How dare a commoner resist when the Young Master is bestowing his grace upon you!”

With those words, Trey once again threw the woman’s body forward with all his might.

The sturdy man, who was no ordinary knight, threw her around like that, and the woman, who was being held by him, tumbled like a piece of luggage and fell to the floor.

“Hmph.

Like father, like daughter.

Stubborn as an ox.”

Trey, having loosened up his body, waited for his little master’s next words to fall.

The order to tear her clothes and reveal her delicious, snow-white skin.

The feeling of tearing the woman’s clothes, who was resisting but ultimately helpless, was truly exhilarating.

“Young Master.

It’s a bit quieter now.

Shall we move on to the next step?”

“…”

No answer came.

Trey, who had been waiting for his little master’s reply for a while, spoke up again cautiously when the wait became a bit too long.

“Young Master?

May we proceed to the next step?”

“…”

“Young Master?

Is there something wrong?”

“…”

“Young Master?”

“Shut your mouth.”

That was not the usual voice of his little master that he had heard until now.

Normally, he should have been trembling with excitement at the sight of the meal in front of him, but it was different now.

A cold, subdued voice, and a face that was frowning as if he didn’t like something.

His eyes were tightly closed, and he was even pressing his temples as if he had a headache.

It was not the behavior that his little master would normally show in front of the ‘meal’.

‘Why is he suddenly like this?’

Even though the woman was trembling and cowering right in front of him, his little master was sitting there without moving.

He was just breathing roughly, running his hand over his forehead, covering his face and sighing, and then taking his hands away again and looking up at the ceiling, muttering to himself.

Then, finally, the young man who had been sitting down turned his gaze to the woman who was kneeling in front of him.

He had been showing strange reactions, but as always, he seemed to expect his little master to clap his hands and shout that he was happy and that they should move on to the next step.

“…Ah, damn it. This isn’t right.”

However, the words that came out of his mouth were completely unexpected.

“Young Master?”

Trey, taken aback by the sudden words, looked straight at his little master, disregarding his manners.

At that moment, the young man who had been sitting down looked down at him with a glint in his eyes.

Could it be that he was feeling displeased by his rudeness and was about to inflict a punishment befitting it?

“…”

The young man snapped his fingers.

Trey quickly lowered his head and knelt down as soon as he reached him with quick steps.

He had looked straight at his notoriously ill-tempered little master without permission, so he thought that he had to endure whatever harsh words or even physical abuse he might suffer.

“Is the sun out right now…?”

“Yes?”

“Is the sun out, or has it already set…?”

It was a series of completely unexpected events.

He had been on edge, not knowing what kind of trouble he would cause, but this question was the end of it.

Relieved, Trey kindly explained that the sun had already set and it was a dark night.

Then the young man, as if even more desperate, covered his face and said, ‘Oh, God.’

“Why are you suddenly like this?

Young Master?

Young Master Zion?”

Zion.

Yes, that was definitely the name.

Zion Klausen.

A character in the novel who appeared briefly as a good-for-nothing villain in the early stages and was expected to be used up quickly, but later became the worst villain who persistently harassed the protagonist.

His first appearance was the scene where he kidnapped Lucia, the only daughter of Lido, who was Kim Yu-hyun’s benefactor and teacher in the novel, and tried to rape her, only to be beaten to a pulp by Kim Yu-hyun, who had rushed to save her.

The exact time when that happened was not written, but what was certain was that the moonlight was beautifully illuminating the two of them as they rescued Lucia and took her out.

In other words, the terrifying protagonist from the novel was running like a madman somewhere right now, flying straight towards this place.

‘Shit!’

Zion, or rather Lee Ji-hoon, cursed.

This is not a dream.

Everything is too vivid to be a dream.

Besides, everything is flowing the same as the descriptions in the novel.

The kidnapped woman and the protagonist who is coming at the speed of light to rescue her.

And the villain who is busy caressing the woman in front of him, completely unaware of it.

‘I have to live!’

He’s no ordinary protagonist.

He’s a man who was forcibly transferred from an ordinary Korean 복학생 [bokhaksaeng – returning student after military service] to Murim [martial arts world], where he made a name for himself as the Supreme One, and then accidentally fell into a dimensional rift and flew to this other world.

He was even given the nickname Sword God because it was said that he could cut down any enemy with just one sword.

Now that guy is flying to save his teacher’s daughter.

This means that he is about to be beaten to death by such a terrifying guy!

‘What do I do, what do I do, what do I do?’

Lee Ji-hoon, or rather Zion, covered his head and worked his brain hard.

From the start, he was placed in a relationship of enmity with the strongest person in the world.

If he had more time, he could have avoided meeting Kim Yu-hyun.

The deed has already been done, and the man who is more terrifying than a dragon is still coming this way.

There is no time.

He might break down the door in front of him right now and rush in to beat him to a pulp.

‘Should I beg?’

Should I say that I was out of my mind for a moment and admit my mistake?

Thinking that, Zion recalled Kim Yu-hyun’s appearance in the novel.

He doesn’t take lives recklessly, but he has a more cruel side than anyone else when it comes to ‘punishment’.

He cut off one of Zion’s arms for kidnapping his teacher’s daughter.

The protagonist who is flying towards him right now was such a man.

‘No, with Kim Yu-hyun’s personality, he’s not the type to say, “Oh, is that so? I see that there is such a thing as a change of heart, so I’ll let you off this time,” and laugh it off.’

Then there is only one way left.

Zion swallowed hard and looked back and forth between Lucia, who was trembling in front of him, and Trey, who was kneeling with an atmosphere that was hard to tell whether it was respectful or cowardly.

“Sir Trey?”

“Yes, Young Master.”

As expected, the knight’s name was Trey.

A pitiful errand boy of the villain who appears in just two episodes and gets his head blown off by Kim Yu-hyun.

Zion, beckoning the knight, picked up the candlestick that was next to him.

He blew out the flickering candlelight with a ‘Hoo!’

After blowing out the candle, he took out the candle and grabbed only the candlestick.

‘I don’t know if it will work… but there’s no other way.’

Fortunately, Lee Ji-hoon had received a lot of very useful teachings from many people when he was an ordinary young man in Korea.

“Young Master?”

And the head of the man who was just staring at him with a blank expression.

As it is, he hit him very hard.