Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 148

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“Freeze! Are you cheating?”

Crunch―.

“Oh, this is delicious.”

“Lysi, can you come here for a second?”

“Yes?”

As Lysikida, who had been standing quietly beside him, approached, Sion opened his mouth slightly, as if struck by a sudden realization.

The knight tilted her head, and as she opened her mouth slightly, her master offered her a sweet-smelling cookie.

“Uhh?”

“Try it.

I heard that the Northern nobles don’t live as well as people elsewhere, but they seem to be doing pretty well.”

The sight of the woman with the cookie in her mouth was quite stimulating.

Sion, fearing that his little friend might stand at attention if he watched any longer, picked up his teacup and sipped the contents.

Lysikida stared blankly at her master for a moment, then blushed and carefully munched on the cookie he had given her.

Thud―.

“Keugh!”

Thud, thud!―

“Eugh!”

While Sion leisurely enjoyed his refreshments, Kim Yu-hyun pulled the curtains by the window and was, quite literally, beating the hell out of a man inside.

There were no words like, ‘Tell me the truth!’ or ‘I’ll stop if you confess now.’

Kim Yu-hyun was simply and silently carrying out his task without any change in expression.

It looked like simple assault or battery, but to the recipient, it was an extremely vicious beating beyond comparison, truly the five fingers of death [a technique that targets pressure points to inflict maximum pain].

Kim Yu-hyun knew exactly which spots on a person’s body, which pressure points and vital spots to target with his punches to make the victim want to bite their tongue and die, and to alleviate concerns about them immediately spitting blood and dying.

“···.”

His moderately worn conscience was, in a way, the best condition to have.

If he had ordered someone else to do it, they might have shown reluctance, considering it was an unarmed person being beaten to death without any evidence.

‘…Or not?

Lilith would have enjoyed tormenting him, Lysikida would have followed orders unconditionally, and Trisha… let’s not even talk about it.

It would be a relief if she didn’t try to burn him alive.’

Thinking that, Sion continued to munch on his cookies.

The refreshments on the table were undoubtedly prepared by that Baron Jino to show off his *yoyuu* [余裕, Japanese for composure or余裕] while talking to him.

Sion was now using those refreshments as popcorn while enjoying the beating show.

“Cough!

Keuh-heuk!”

“Hmm.”

Baron Jino, struck again by the grim reaper’s blow, finally succumbed to the pain and slumped forward.

Kim Yu-hyun stopped punching and removed the black cloth covering his face.

After removing the gag, Baron Jino was about to look at Sion and shout, ‘What is the meaning of this!’

“Shh.”

Thwack―.

“Keugh!”

Kim Yu-hyun’s fist slammed into his back this time.

With a jolt, Baron Jino felt as if his voice was completely blocked.

Thanks to that, his plan to nonchalantly express his anger at Sion Claussen, asking what this was all about, was thwarted in an instant.

“You want to ask what this is all about, I see.”

Hoorook―.

Sion leisurely tilted his teacup and gazed at Baron Jino, whose eyes were filled with fear of Kim Yu-hyun.

Not just anyone, but Kim Yu-hyun, the protagonist himself, had taken him to the room of truth.

Of course, it wasn’t a full demonstration, but just a slight glimpse, a mere ‘*jjikmeok*’ [찍먹, Korean slang for a quick dip], but even that was a cultural shock to Baron Jino.

“So, what do you have to say?”

“W-What are you talking about…”

“Lysi.”

He didn’t need anything else.

He had no time or desire to listen if it wasn’t the answer he wanted.

At Sion’s gesture, Lysikida took out a handkerchief again.

Before Baron Jino could even react, she gagged him once more.

Kim Yu-hyun then struck the struggling Baron Jino on the back of the head, and after he staggered from the impact, he covered his face with the black cloth again.

“Kim Yu-hyun.”

At Sion’s call, Kim Yu-hyun stopped entering the room of truth and looked at him.

“It seems like we should gradually increase the intensity.”

“…I agree.”

Baron Jino wanted to scream at the two men’s conversation.

What on earth did that intensity mean?

Of course, he would soon be dragged to the window and realize ‘with his whole body’ what Sion meant by that intensity.

“Gasp!

Cough!”

Kim Yu-hyun effortlessly struck places that wouldn’t endanger his life, places that wouldn’t cause fatal injuries even if hit.

However, he focused on inflicting pain tenfold.

In addition to that, Kim Yu-hyun was focusing more intently and meticulously than usual, prioritizing precision over mercy in his technique, so that he wouldn’t accidentally die.

“U-Um.

Master.”

“Hm?”

“T-The cookie you gave me earlier was too sweet.

W-Would it be alright if I had a sip of tea?”

“You want to drink from the tea I was drinking?

Why not just ask the person waiting outside to bring you another cup…”

“J-Just one sip is enough!”

“Keuh-heuk!

Gasp!

Cough!”

Whether someone was being tortured or beaten on the other side of the curtain, whether they were half-dead or not, it had long since faded from Lysikida’s mind.

Her attention was solely focused on the teacup that Sion’s lips had touched.

Like a puppy running over when it hears the sound of a treat bag being opened!

Lysikida looked at Sion with sparkling eyes, as if asking her master to give her something delicious too.

Sion, feeling overwhelmed by her gaze, subtly offered his teacup.

It was true that the cookie was sweet, so it would be normal to cleanse her palate with tea, but it was suspicious that she insisted on drinking from his cup.

“Hmm…”

Lysikida carefully examined Sion’s cup and soon found the spot she was looking for with a sidelong glance.

The spot where that person’s lips had touched!

As if smelling the aroma of the tea, Lysikida brought her nose close and sniffed, then placed her red lips precisely on that spot and sipped from the teacup.

‘…I thought only Lilith was in a hurry, but she’s heating up just as much.’

Sion was worried that Lysikida might turn dark if he dragged it out any longer.

It seemed like the time had come to pat that puppy-like knight on the head.

Swish!

“Keugh!”

Baron Jino’s appearance as he emerged from the room of truth was miserable.

Of course, he avoided places where wounds would immediately appear and bleed, so as not to be noticeable.

He also didn’t touch his arms and legs, as bruises would be visible.

Avoiding all those areas, Kim Yu-hyun used mana to neatly trim Baron Jino’s blood vessels, pressure points, and internal organs.

“Cough, keuh-heuk!”

When the gag was removed, Baron Jino continuously coughed in agony.

Tears welled up in his eyes from the pain, and traces of snot and drool were clearly visible.

“Hmm.”

Sion crunched on the remaining cookie and stared blankly at Baron Jino.

An unspoken question asking if he had anything to say to him.

Even after being beaten so badly by Kim Yu-hyun, Baron Jino recognized Sion’s inner thoughts and hurriedly opened his mouth.

“C-Crown Prince Sion Claussen.

If those Northern barbarians said anything strange, it’s absolutely not true.

Everything, everything is an attempt to divide the kingdom, split public opinion, and slander our Northern nobles…”

“Lysi.”

Muttering to himself, ‘You’re really something,’ Sion clapped and called out to the puppy-like woman who was sipping tea.

Lysikida hurriedly put down her teacup and took out a handkerchief again.

As if anticipating what would happen next, Baron Jino struggled, and Kim Yu-hyun grabbed him with a terrifying expression that seemed ready to tear him apart.

“Curious?

How many handkerchiefs my escort knight has.”

“Keup, keuh-heuk!”

“Lysi.

How many handkerchiefs do you have left?”

“Three left, Master!”

“There you have it.”

Three, plus the one that was just stuffed in his mouth.

Baron Jino’s face turned pale at the thought of having to endure this pain at least four more times.

Of course, Sion had no intention of soiling Lysikida’s handkerchiefs any further.

“Kim Yu-hyun.

You can do it properly now.

The method you mentioned to make the other person talk.

I don’t know exactly what it is, but since he’s holding out like that, I can’t stop you anymore.”

At those words, a glint flashed in Kim Yu-hyun’s eyes.

Although he said that, Sion knew very well what he would do from now on.

He had been driven to the brink of madness by it several times in the Murim [martial arts world].

Some people around him couldn’t withstand the method and took their own lives.

So, Kim Yu-hyun used that method on his enemies without any hesitation.

And now, Baron Jino was about to be designated as that ‘enemy.’

“Baron Jino.

I’m asking this for purely humanitarian reasons, nothing else.”

“Keup, keuh-heuk!”

“If, just if, you have anything to say to me now, close your eyes tightly and stay still.

Then you won’t have to go through anything more unpleasant.

Of course, if you insist on being stubborn…”

“Eueup!

Eueueue!”

It seemed that he thought he could withstand this level of torture after being beaten moderately.

Sion sighed and gestured lightly.

At that, Kim Yu-hyun, with an extremely cold face, began to drag Baron Jino, who was tied to the chair, back to the room of truth.

‘*Bungeun Chakgol* [分筋錯骨, Chinese martial arts term for separating tendons and dislocating bones].’

Literally, an extreme technique or martial art that inflicts the pain of separating bones and flesh.

It was a frequent guest that appeared whenever it was forgotten in the Murim part of the novel, and once it came out of someone’s mouth, it was one of the top 1 or 2 things that never had a good ending.

‘If a man who is only at the level of a trainee knight suffers that.’

A sound more hideous than a pig squealing would probably erupt.

Even most strong people would eventually scream in agony and spit out all the information they had and didn’t have.

Until now, Baron Jino might have thought he was holding out well, but from Kim Yu-hyun’s perspective, he hadn’t even entered the proper ‘room of truth’ yet.

As Kim Yu-hyun took Baron Jino beyond the room of truth, he decided to clean up the surroundings before *bongeukjeogeuro* [본격적으로, Korean for ‘in earnest’ or ‘seriously’] separating bones and flesh.

After getting up from his seat and opening the door slightly, the baron’s butler and a few maids who had been waiting outside appeared.

“Crown Prince Sion Claussen.

Is there anything you need?”

“Ah, it seems like the story with the baron will be long.

I think you all should go back and wait instead of waiting here, and come back in about 20 minutes.”

A handsome young man with a beautiful appearance even smiled and said that, to the point where even non-existent trust would arise.

The maids immediately blushed and nodded slightly, and the butler, infected by the sense of security given by Sion’s smile, also decided to step back, saying, ‘Then I will take care of some business and come back. We have prepared enough refreshments, so please enjoy your conversation.’

From Baron Jino’s point of view, it was regrettable that he had kept quiet about what he had done to people inside the castle, such as the butler, in order to minimize the number of people who knew the secret.

If Baron Jino had known what he had done, he would have noticed that things had gone wrong and would have tried any means, but for them, who knew nothing, they could only think that the story was just getting a bit long.

‘Anyway, Kim Yu-hyun must have suppressed him so that he couldn’t scream, but it’s always good to be fully prepared, just in case.’

Once the preparations were complete, Sion closed the door.

That was the starting sound that signaled the beginning of information excavation for Kim Yu-hyun.

For Baron Jino, it was the moment he faced his first experience of bones and flesh being separated.

“Kkeoeueueue…”

He must have been suppressed so that he couldn’t scream, but along with the sound of air escaping, the sound of a person dying began to be heard from beyond the room of truth.

‘Ah, noise pollution, damn it.’

Sion scratched his ear and decided to erase this noise pollution quickly.

“Lysi.

Can you come here?”

“Yes?”

As Lysikida subtly approached, Sion grabbed her waist and gently pulled her so that the woman’s body sat on his lap.

Originally, she could have braced herself by putting strength into her body like a high-ranking knight, or she could have lightly brushed off Sion’s touch, but Lysikida didn’t do such foolish things.

She simply blushed and became a docile puppy, nestling in her master’s arms.

“You look even prettier today.”

“Aeuheu? J-Master.

W-Why are you saying that all of a sudden…”

‘Seeing you after looking at that nauseating traitor’s face makes you look like a fairy!’

Sion muttered to himself like that and gently wrapped his arms around the woman’s waist.

“Kkeueu… Keoeok…”

The sound of a person dying was gradually heard from beyond the room of truth, but no one in this place cared about it.

Sion was constantly feeling Lysikida’s hair with the tip of his nose and lips, and was fully inhaling the fragrant scent coming from the woman, and the knight was blushing at her master’s actions and trying to hide the happy smile that was about to burst out.

“Kkeu, kkeueuk…”

And Kim Yu-hyun, the protagonist of this novel, was slowly disassembling a person.

―――――――Author’s Notes―――――――

I might be able to show a scene that matches Lysi’s illustration soon…!

Ya, Yass?

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