Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 111

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It felt like I had a long, long nightmare.

But in a way, it wasn’t a nightmare, but rather the happiest dream.

Everywhere I looked, eyes were wary and strange, but only one person was smiling.

“…Ah.”

As sunlight streamed through her eyelids, Trisha slowly opened her eyes.

She struggled to rise, forcing her leaden body, but she couldn’t muster any strength in her legs or arms.

It was like the time long ago when she almost drowned while playing in the water, and Jimmy saved her.

She had the same reaction then.

Limp and unable to do anything.

“Heeuhh…”

She wanted to say something, but her voice wouldn’t come out properly.

She couldn’t move a single finger, not even her tongue.

Suddenly, she felt a surge of fear.

What on earth happened?

Why am I like this?

Why, what…

“You’re awake?

Dark Dragon?”

Is that her brother, Jimmy?

No, it’s not.

It’s a much more playful voice.

It sounds unfamiliar, but when she thinks about it again, it sounds familiar.

Trisha rolled her eyes and looked to the side.

And soon, she could see a man sitting next to her, smiling.

“Sion.”

“Looks like you’re coming to your senses.”

“…What… happened?”

“What else could it be?

The Dark Dragon inside you went ‘Kwaaa!’

Like you told me before.”

He’s saying it playfully, but his mouth and eyes aren’t smiling.

Trisha, who was quite confident in reading other people’s emotions, quickly realized that Sion’s true feelings weren’t lighthearted or playful.

‘Something happened.’

The moment she thought that, something flashed through her mind.

A tremendous pain surged, and Trisha frowned.

But she didn’t stop thinking and kept trying to remember.

What happened, why she was lying in bed, and why Sion was sitting next to her.

“…Hahaha.”

And as if she had remembered everything, Trisha began to laugh in disbelief after a while.

After laughing weakly for a while, she took a breath and slowly opened her mouth.

“It was real.”

“What was?”

“The Dark Dragon inside me.

I was just spouting nonsense, but it was real.”

“Didn’t I tell you?

Everyone has a Dark Dragon in their heart…”

“No.

Not that.

The monster inside me.”

Her reason had flown away, but she wasn’t completely out of her mind, so it was only natural that Trisha would remember.

At Trisha’s reaction, Sion let out a light sigh.

“What, what happened to the knight?”

“Liche?”

“Liche, Liche Kida Amshel.

That person.

That person…”

“What if I told you she was dead?

What would you do?”

“Yes?”

“You said she took what was yours.

So what would you think if you killed her?”

At Sion’s question, Trisha’s heart sank.

She had been acting strangely, but she had never really thought about killing someone.

She was afraid to think that she might have hurt someone.

But what was even more frightening was when Sion asked, ‘What would you do if that knight, Liche Kida, died?’

For a moment, she felt happy.

The thought that the existence that coveted and tried to take what was hers had disappeared made her feel that way without realizing it.

“Did I really hurt someone?”

“Fortunately, that’s not the case.

Just like you called yourself a monster, there are several monstrous people around me.

They are not the kind of people who would die easily.”

“Thank goodness, really thank goodness.”

“Do you really think so?”

At Sion’s sharp voice, Trisha was startled and looked at him.

“Those who try to take something precious from you.

No, it would be fortunate if they took it and kept it.

Why would they try to throw them all into the fire?

Ah, maybe they’re trying to get rid of them forever so you can’t have them at all.

Yes, that’s for sure.”

“What, what do you mean…”

“Trisha.

Who is the worse person, someone who just wants to be friends with me, or someone who wants to kill me and burn me to ashes?”

“Who, who says they’re going to kill Sion!

What kind of person…”

“Answer me.

Who is the worse person?”

The answer was obvious.

The guy who takes the doll and plays with it is bad, but the even worse guys are the idiots who throw the doll into the fire and giggle.

“Of course, of course, the ones who try to burn everything precious to me…”

“What if.

What if those guys try to burn me?

What would you do?”

In that moment, Sion was under the illusion that a brilliantly burning meteor was falling right in front of him.

The orange eyes, which had been shaken by the work he had done until just before and the question of what he was, were now violently swirling.

“…I’ll kill them.”

Wow, shit.

It was a word that crushed a man’s pride, but he almost pissed himself.

The stigmata [marks or wounds resembling those of the crucified Christ] that the celestials can only properly operate when they appear on this earth.

That was currently swirling wildly according to Trisha’s emotional changes.

‘So Jimmy died and she was left alone, going through all sorts of hardships, and her twisted heart, combined with the advent of the celestials, caused the stigmata to fully activate, creating a black dragon who had completely turned dark.’

He didn’t know exactly how she became such a crazy psycho.

If they were characters who popped out in the middle of the novel, it would be different, but the Seven Wings were characters who suddenly appeared when the novel he was reading was going downhill.

They had no build-up or well-organized settings.

That’s why it was even more of a problem.

It meant that they could dig into even the smallest gap and create a twisted result with just a few actions, and that they might be people who couldn’t be changed no matter what method you used.

“I’ll kill them, I’ll kill them…”

“Trisha.

Calm down.”

At Sion’s words, a woman who suddenly burst into flames turned her head!

With an atmosphere that made it seem like she was about to shoot laser beams from her eyes, Sion muttered to himself, ‘I hope I don’t have to call Kim Yoo-hyun again,’ and kept a close eye on Trisha’s actions.

“I’ll never be taken away.”

“Okay, okay, let’s calm down first.”

“Jimmy Oppa [term of endearment for older brother] is family, so I can understand.

Oppa has to find his own life too.

I already knew.

That he would have to do that someday.

Because it’s the minimum line that a human being has to protect.”

Thump.

Suddenly, Trisha snatched his hand, and Sion looked at her with a what-are-you-doing look.

At that moment, Sion could notice Trisha’s change.

The thorn bush patterns engraved on the woman’s body were wriggling like living creatures.

What was even more chilling was that the vines were gradually moving, from her forearm to the back of her hand, then across her fingers, and finally reaching his wrist.

“But Sion is different.

You can be mine, only mine?

Perfectly, very perfectly.

You can only look at me forever, only cheer for me forever, only praise me forever, and be by my side only for me until the end of the world.”

“T, Trisha?

It’s better to calm down a bit…”

“I told you.

That I can have Sion when I reach the end.

If that’s really the case, I’ll just have you now.

I can have you from now on without worrying about being taken away, and hold you tight.”

At best, she was just an 18-year-old holding his wrist.

Normally, he should be able to shake it off without any difficulty.

Even if he didn’t have mana, it wasn’t like he had such a pathetic body that he didn’t even have that much strength.

The guy named Sion Claussen was a character who had worked hard to handle a sword.

‘But, what the hell?’

He succeeded in completely shattering Trisha’s heart and then digging into that gap to become the most precious flower.

The problem was that while others stopped at cherishing the flower, she went further and reacted extremely sensitively to obsession and possessiveness.

She hides it so that others can’t even touch it, smell it, or even look at it, and only she can touch it, smell it, and stare at it until it breaks.

‘This is a little dangerous.

A little… no, not a little.

It’s fucking dangerous!’

Moving the object of obsession to Sion himself was part of the plan from the beginning.

However, he had not even thought that a woman on the vague border between Trisha and the psycho, where the power of the stigmata was partially manifested, would be obsessed.

The thorn bush pattern that was slowly crawling up was gradually being engraved on his forearm as well.

It felt like something really bad was going to happen, but Trisha was holding his arm tightly and had no intention of letting go, so Sion had no answer.

But, there were always connections that would create a hole to escape even if the sky fell.

“Wouldn’t it be better to stop there?”

Thump.

Along with the shimmering silver hair, a woman’s hand snatched Trisha’s wrist.

Then, she bared her fangs, clenching it so tightly that she would break the wrist right away.

“Why does a bitch who only cleans up pigeon droppings keep coveting my man?

There’s a limit to listening, and there’s an end to accepting jokes.”

“You.”

Pasasa!

With a sound like petals falling at once, the thorn bushes that had been climbing up Sion’s arm disappeared into Trisha’s body.

Lilith glared at the woman in front of her, who was like a single flame, and growled.

“Don’t mess with me.

Even though I don’t have mana and can’t end it, I can still behead you if I want to.”

“Why is a demon next to a human?”

Trisha is clearly an ordinary human, but now she is not surprised to see a demon.

The stigmata, although unstable, has somehow shone its light.

It was as if a trumpeter who would burn the world was placed on the original Trisha’s personality, so it was even more unstable and mixed up.

“I chose it so I wouldn’t be taken away.

I won’t give my things to anyone.

I will never be taken away.”

“Kkuek.”

Trisha pulled Sion and tried to hug him.

But soon her actions were stopped by Liche Kida, who grabbed Sion from behind.

“…You.”

“You cannot monopolize Master.

That’s what you promised.”

“What nonsense…”

“Let go, this arm!”

“Nyaang!”

Lucia and Lia, who had somehow rushed in, joined forces and grabbed Trisha’s arm, struggling to separate Sion.

Trisha couldn’t hold on any longer, so she finally let go of Sion’s wrist and scanned her surroundings with a burning gaze.

Unless the celestials reappeared on the continent, it was impossible to perfectly control the power of the stigmata and deal with all of them.

Nevertheless, she was burning with the will to clear them all away and monopolize Sion.

“Sion.

You get out.”

“Yes?

Uh, but Lilith…”

“If you don’t want to die.”

At the rather sharp voice, Sion immediately got up from his seat and left the room without looking back.

He was worried about what to do if Trisha grabbed him, but fortunately that didn’t happen.

Clack.

“Tsk.”

Sion closed the door and sighed, but then he heard someone next to him and turned his head.

And soon he could see Kim Yoo-hyun leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

Sion, looking at the future strongest man in the world, unknowingly opened his mouth and said.

“Kim Yoo-hyun.”

“Yes, Young Master Sion.”

“…Is there any way for a mana impotent to become stronger?”

“Yes?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

Sion let out a deep sigh.

Probably, given Kim Yoo-hyun’s personality, he would immediately answer, ‘No, there isn’t,’ or even if there was, he would hit him with the fact that ‘I can’t make you as strong as me.’

‘And Kim Yoo-hyun is likely to understand the words that you can become stronger as a way to defeat enemies by fighting.

That guy lives with the mindset that you just have to win.’

Sion didn’t even want that much.

He learned a lesson from today, and he thought that he should at least be able to do a minimum of defense, even if he couldn’t attack.

The worst body that can’t handle mana at all, or as Lilith put it, a literal mana impotent.

But just because you have an incurable disease doesn’t mean you have to die the next day.

There were always treatments that could extend life to a minimum.

‘If I can’t use a sword, I can just hold a shield.’

There are already many people who will play an active role with the sword.

Then he himself should become a shield and first seek a way to survive.

No matter how good a sword is, it’s useless if the body dies.

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