Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 110

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Rewinding time, to the morning Trisha went out with Rishikilda for a final check outside the castle.

Sion was secretly meeting with someone.

“…Please say that again, Young Lord Sion.”

“I want to prepare for the worst-case scenario. It’s a long shot, but there’s a chance a Dark Dragon is dormant inside Trisha.”

“…”

Kim Yoo-hyun looked utterly dumbfounded. He was already sick and tired of Trisha’s Black Dragon nonsense, avoiding even looking in her direction.

He felt like he might draw his sword if he heard that ‘Heh heh!’ laugh one more time.

“Young Lord, are you joking with me right now?”

“I’m serious.”

“The opponent is a woman from whom mana can barely be felt. Even if she’s hiding her power, she can’t hide the mana she possesses. You might not be able to feel it, but…”

Kim Yoo-hyun stopped mid-sentence and closed his mouth.

Being unable to use or read mana is considered almost an incurable disease in this world. And Sion Clausen in front of him was suffering from that incurable disease, inflicted by his own hand.

“…I apologize. I couldn’t distinguish between what I should and shouldn’t say.”

“It’s okay. I’m used to it now, so there’s no point in getting angry.”

Sion accepted the apology but strongly implied that he had made a mistake by saying, ‘There’s no point in getting angry.’

“You don’t particularly like Trisha either, do you?”

“I never said that.”

“It’s written all over your face.”

“…”

At Sion’s words, Kim Yoo-hyun cleared his throat lightly. *Why do you keep asking questions you already know the answer to?*

“She’s just a child in a grown-up’s body. A child.”

“Pardon?”

“She lost both her parents at a young age, and her only family is her brother. She keeps demanding the love and attention she didn’t receive as a child, so it’s understandable that she’s tiring to others. But that’s not a ‘sin,’ is it? It’s just a bad habit that needs to be corrected.”

“…”

“Maybe she’s just a boastful woman who can’t escape her fantasies, as you think, but on the other hand, there might be a real reason why she’s talking like that. After experiencing the royal palace being attacked, slave markets openly operating in noble territories, and monsters being brought in to start wars, I’m suspicious of everything anyone says now.”

Kim Yoo-hyun still doesn’t know about the Sacred Marks [magical symbols that grant special abilities]. So, he’s laying the groundwork in advance.

*There’s a reason for everything, so trust and follow me. You’ve helped me well so far, so why not help me this time too?*

“…I sometimes get a strange feeling when I’m with you, Young Lord.”

After a few minutes of contemplation, Kim Yoo-hyun spoke.

“What do you mean, Kim Yoo-hyun?”

“It’s as if the subject of this body isn’t me but you, Young Lord Sion Clausen. Clearly, I’m the one moving and acting, but it feels like it’s flowing in the direction you want.”

…Damn it. This guy has an incredible sense.

Sion stared at Kim Yoo-hyun, inwardly grumbling. He reacted as if he had no idea what he was talking about, and Kim Yoo-hyun scratched the back of his neck and continued.

“I apologize if that sounded offensive. I don’t mean anything else by it. It’s just a complaint because I’m bothered by being swept around without even a sense of purpose in life.”

The moment he heard the words ‘sense of purpose,’ Sion remembered the issues readers had raised about the novel.

*Come to think of it, there were a lot of questions and criticisms about the character Kim Yoo-hyun. He’s definitely a born overpowered character, but instead of actively stepping up or solving things, he seems somewhat… No, quite passive, being dragged around by events rather than controlling them.*

In fact, the novel itself was structured that way. When an incident occurs, someone around Kim Yoo-hyun gets caught up in it, or someone else asks Kim Yoo-hyun to investigate or handle it. When Kim Yoo-hyun jumps into the incident and finishes it, various chain reactions occur, leading to other incidents branching out from there.

On top of that, the author didn’t intentionally make Kim Yoo-hyun’s personality or mentality as strong as adamantite [an unbreakable substance] or vibranium [a metal that absorbs all vibrations] like other overpowered characters. Naturally, he was a character who struggled and hesitated a little with each incident, and Sion was still watching that man.

*In the novel, being passively dragged around is being expressed here as a question about himself being swept up in incidents without even finding a sense of purpose in life.*

Sense of purpose.

Sense of purpose, huh?

Well.

Is that even necessary in life?

“Kim Yoo-hyun, I have something I want to say to you.”

“…What is it?”

“How about finding meaning while living, instead of living to find meaning?”

“Pardon?”

“Humans don’t necessarily live to do something, find something, or achieve something, do they? Sometimes they don’t have it or forget it while living. I don’t think you need to be stressed out by trying to create it.”

“…”

“Just let it flow as it is. Don’t bother going back to find something. I think life isn’t that easy, but it’s not that complicated either. Of course, that’s just my opinion.”

“Still…”

“Just act according to what you encounter while walking your path, and when that’s done, just keep walking, right? We’re not saints or sages who are doing penance to find the meaning of life. Even if someone says it’s meaningless, you never know. The connection you make one day might become the meaning of life?”

He’s speaking indirectly, but Sion’s goal is clear.

*Don’t do anything stupid trying to find that sense of purpose, just do as I say. It’s good for you and good for me. So just follow me, you son of a bitch.*

Meanwhile, Kim Yoo-hyun looked at Sion with a strange expression. That’s because the line Sion said was similar to the advice his senior, whom Kim Yoo-hyun relied on the most in the past, had given him.

*What the hell is that man?*

If there’s such a thing as reincarnation, could that man be my senior?

Kim Yoo-hyun opened his mouth, imagining such ridiculous things.

“…I caused a commotion at the slave market last time, so I owe you a debt, Young Lord.”

“Um, maybe?”

In fact, Sion had openly pushed Kim Yoo-hyun to cause a scene. Kim Yoo-hyun just thought that he had failed to control his emotions and that’s why such a mess had happened.

“I’ll just consider it paying off that debt for now.”

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If Lilith was a ferocious demonic beast rushing to tear her opponent to death without fail, Kim Yoo-hyun was like a massive pack of wolves meticulously and flawlessly wearing the opponent down to death.

He didn’t give them a chance to counterattack, time to defend, or even a moment to hesitate. He seemed to stab but then slashed down, seemed to draw a diagonal line but then struck the vital points with the sword’s handle, and even used the scabbard [the sheath of a sword] to strike the opponent, throwing off their center of gravity.

“Ugh…”

Even Trisha, who had no focus in her eyes, seemed quite embarrassed. The Sacred Mark hadn’t been properly activated, making her body movements unnatural, but the opponent was ‘Kim Yoo-hyun,’ the strongest in the world in the later part of the novel, who would surely annihilate any enemy with just one sword.

*Even in the novel, Saik could never beat Kim Yoo-hyun if they clashed properly.*

The reason Trisha was infamous wasn’t just because she was strong, but because the obsession and venom she possessed were truly terrifying. Even if her arms and legs were cut off by Kim Yoo-hyun’s blade, she would never stop the work of burning Hispania.

It was a natural result of the Black Dragon, who craved affection and attention, harboring hatred for the world and properly turning black. She was such a crazy woman, but in the end, she was beheaded by Kim Yoo-hyun.

Although the current Kim Yoo-hyun is different from the Kim Yoo-hyun in the later part of the novel, the same goes for Trisha.

‘This is a game where the odds are stacked against you from the start!’

I feel sorry for my senior, but this is like a level 2 LeBlanc facing off against a level 16 Kassadin [League of Legends champions, illustrating a vast power difference]. It’s a situation where you can’t win no matter what you do.

Moreover, Kim Yoo-hyun learned extreme martial arts when she crossed over to this world.

The combination of sword and martial arts is like the meeting of the Ultimate and the Sword Immortal.

Thwack!―.

Kim Yoo-hyun’s elbow struck Trisha’s side precisely.

The sound of bones breaking is heard, and the woman’s body twists grotesquely.

At the same time, Kim Yoo-hyun snatched the sword she had thrown into the air and cut off Trisha’s legs, completely immobilizing her so she could no longer resist.

“Ugh!”

Trisha’s struggling body fell to the ground.

Thanks to the power of the Sacred Mark, she has healing abilities, but it’s not fast enough. With her body covered in wounds, she can’t even stand anymore.

Kim Yoo-hyun gracefully spun the sword in her hand, scattering the blood on the blade, and then placed the sword against Trisha’s neck as if to say she shouldn’t even think about resisting anymore.

“Young master.

What shall we do now?”

Even though Sion hadn’t spoken first, Kim Yoo-hyun is asking for his instructions.

This is definitely a positive reaction, a green light for Sion.

‘Kim Yoo-hyun is slowly becoming controllable.

Good, very good!’

Sion raised his hand as if to say stop for a moment and slowly approached Trisha, who was sitting on the ground.

Due to Kim Yoo-hyun’s indiscriminate violence, the Sacred Mark seems to have exhausted its power. The thorn bush-shaped marks engraved on the woman’s body are gradually fading.

“You took everything away.

My mom, my dad.

And someday, you’ll take my brother too.

You’re even taking away the only other person who was on my side…

I just want to hold you in my arms.

Can’t you just, just stay by my side?”

I thought she was just a middle schooler with a severe case of chuunibyou [a Japanese term for adolescent delusions of grandeur], but it turns out she’s traumatized by the loss of her parents.

On top of that, her anxiety has amplified because she fears that someday her only family and support, her brother Jimmy, will meet someone else and leave her.

Originally, taking care of such a mentally weak character is like living with a ticking time bomb.

For Sion, whose life is the most precious thing, she is someone to be avoided at all costs, the number one person to be eliminated.

‘But if I get rid of her right now, there are too many things I’ll miss out on.’

First of all, there’s her power.

Although she was helplessly pushed back by Kim Yoo-hyun because the Sacred Mark wasn’t properly activated, she had already fought Lilith before that.

If the Sacred Mark had been properly utilized, even Kim Yoo-hyun would have had to fight a long battle.

In the first place, the Seven Wings were hastily created devices in the novel to fight against Kim Yoo-hyun.

There’s no doubt about it, her power is certain.

‘Moreover, there’s nothing as suitable as Saik for gaining justification or influence.’

Saik is one of the best cards the Celestial Race has.

She is the vanguard who blows the horn announcing the end of the continent and burns the world at the forefront.

But imagine if such an existence suddenly blocked the Celestial Race and growled, ‘You bastards.

I’ll kill you all,’ and charged at them.

For the Celestial Race, who were expecting an unchallenged holy war, it could be a signal flare leading to an unexpected civil war.

‘Is that all?

There are also those crazy bastards who said that the world’s destruction is really not their thing, but they can’t go against the Celestial Race, so they’ll choose death!

I can turn them back with this card too.’

Imagine there is a god who wants to burn the world and another god who wants to stop that god.

Which god would you believe in and follow?

A god of destruction?

Or a guardian god?

Isn’t the answer obvious?

“Trisha.”

Sion made eye contact with Trisha, who was sitting on the ground, and continued.

“What’s been taken can be taken back.

It’s not difficult.

You just need to become stronger than the one who took it.

It’s simple and easy.

Trisha is already incredibly strong.”

“Taken back, it can be taken back…”

“But you know what?

What’s lost forever can’t be.

Your parents are such a case.

Right?”

“Both of them… passed away.”

Slowly, but surely, it’s flowing in the direction Sion wants.

If the Celestial Race were watching this scene, they would be spitting blood, Sion thought to himself with a snicker, and said in a very warm voice.

“Yes.

That’s exactly it.

Now, let’s think about it.

Who is worse, the one who took something from you but is holding onto it so you can take it back anytime, or the ones who are trying to burn this whole world so you can’t take it back at all?

Who is more harmful to you?”

“…”

Suddenly, a red light flashed behind Trisha’s back, and the thorn bush pattern was engraved on her body again.

It’s as if the Sacred Mark is telling her not to answer, not to give the answer the other party wants.

Sion thought, ‘No way!’ and whispered in Trisha’s ear.

“I want to be by Trisha’s side.

But some guys are saying they’re going to burn this whole world.

So if I can’t be by your side anymore, Trisha, if they’re going to turn me into a handful of ashes so you can’t take me back.

What are you going to do, Trisha?”

“…I’ll stop them.”

“What will you do?”

“I’ll burn them all, all of them.

The ones who are trying to burn them.

I’ll burn them all.”

Flowers slowly bloom from the thorn bushes.

The woman, who had been so ordinary, transforms like a flame.

Her hair turns bright red and yellow, and her unfocused eyes are dyed orange, gradually regaining their vitality.

“I won’t give it to you.

I’ll never give it to you.

If it’s taken away, I can take it back.

But if it’s lost forever, I can never take it back.

So I’ll stop them.

No, I’ll burn them.

Everything, everything.

If there are guys who are trying to burn what’s precious to me, whatever it is, I’ll burn it all.”

Instead of the Black Dragon’s black flames, Saik’s brilliant sacred fire and lightning take their place.

Not a middle schooler with a severe case of chuunibyou, but finally a Sacred Mark holder.

‘Saik’ Trisha has revealed herself.

“Trisha.

Protect me.

Then you, at the end of it, will be able to have me.

Unlike your brother, completely, until the end, everything.”

Sion decided to mortgage himself like that.

In reality, it wasn’t her having him, but him monopolizing Trisha.

―

“What’s going on?”

“The tears of God briefly flowed somewhere on the continent, but soon stopped.”

At the woman’s report, the man flapped his wings and groaned.

“···We need to speed things up.”

“I will tell those who are outside the Holy Land to move more diligently.”

The woman bowed her head and disappeared somewhere.

The man, watching her leave, closed his eyes and slowly looked up at the sky.

As expected, God wants them to purify this world as quickly as possible.

―――――――Author’s Note―――――――

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