Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 191

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“Hey, that path ahead is hell.”

A Stigmata Holder has no idea they possess such immense power.

Not until the moment the Celestial beings completely leave the Sanctuary, or until they awaken to their power by sheer chance, realizing they are fundamentally different from ordinary people.

Until then, they live believing themselves to be ordinary, or perhaps slightly different from others.

Trisha is a prime example.

Living as an ordinary territory resident, her Stigmata was forcibly awakened by Zion, making her aware that she was fundamentally different from others.

‘Honestly, at first, I was scared and felt a bit of rejection.’

Something of unknown origin was sleeping inside her, then awakened.

For Trisha, a normal girl from a noble’s territory, it was a problem that could have been overwhelming.

Whoosh!

‘···That’s right.’

But she realized that this power was not a curse but a blessing.

Because of this power, she could receive requests from the man she so desired, meet his expectations, and gain his recognition!

This isn’t magic using mana, and she knows she isn’t a mage.

It’s a power that ordinary people would find hard to accept.

Perhaps others who see this situation might call her a monster.

She would receive strange looks from people even more than when she lived in the village.

‘But.’

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

But now, none of that matters.

Even if the whole world curses her, ridicules her, and stares at her strangely.

She doesn’t care at all; it means nothing to her.

‘I only need one thing.

If he says it’s good, it’s good, and if he says it’s bad, it’s bad.

And···.’

The world becomes as bright as day.

The whole area is filled with red and crimson energy, as if the sunset is consuming the world.

Like hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of fireflies taking flight at once.

Or like thousands of shooting stars falling at once.

So many countless flames rise up all at once, then suddenly stop in one place.

‘If he says kill, then I kill.’

Having finished such a simple thought, Trisha lightly flicked her fingers.

Whoosh!

Boom!

As if lava was flowing from the sky, bright red ‘Filth’ [a term for corrupted or chaotic energy] flowed towards the pirate ships.

The moment the flames danced and poured down like a waterfall.

“···Damn it!

Everyone jump!

Abandon ship!”

The Captain shouted to the surrounding crew with a bleeding heart.

As he threw the nearby crew members into the sea, the Captain watched the Filth that had rushed right in front of him in an instant and felt something shatter in his heart.

At the same time, the Filth, more immense than even the rough waves, swept through the pirate ships.

“Ooh.”

Zion exclaimed repeatedly, forcibly suppressing the urge to applaud.

Instead, he sat quietly next to Ria, who was watching the magnificent fire show, or rather, the execution by fire, unfolding on the sea, and fiddled with her ear.

“···I told you not to touch my ear.”

“Don’t like it?

I’ll stop if you don’t like it.”

At Zion’s words, Ria shook her head as if that wasn’t the case.

“More than that, Zion.

Are you sure it’s okay?

You said that woman is a Stigmata Holder [a person who possesses a fragment of divine power].

Is it okay for her to use it like that?”

“Of course not.”

“Ehhh?”

It’s not a joke; it’s a power that shouldn’t be used carelessly.

The Celestial beings imprisoned themselves in the Sanctuary to repair their damages, and naturally, the Stigmata left behind by those Celestial beings would have its power diminished.

However, depending on the emotions or efforts of the Stigmata Holder, some output might be possible, but it will definitely put a lot of overload on the body.

‘But I need to get her used to it from now on.

In the novel, Trisha’s specialty was burnout.’

The reason she had her neck cut off by Kim Yu-hyun was also because of that.

Of course, the protagonist didn’t care and had the will to burn even a little more of the kingdom’s land and people, but in addition to that, the characteristic of collapsing after pouring out her power once was Trisha’s weakness.

Like a flame, it burns as if it would burn everything in the world when it blazes, more brilliantly than anything else.

But after burning everything, it dwindles and shrinks, eventually disappearing.

‘She’s the type who becomes helpless after burnout, so she needs some care.

She needs to know how to control it.’

And one more thing.

Every time a Stigmata manifests its power on the continent, the Celestial beings in the Sanctuary receive the signal.

They don’t know the exact location of the Stigmata or the Stigmata Holder, but they can know roughly where and what size of Stigmata has appeared.

‘I need to shake things up so that the Celestial bastards can’t focus solely on the Holy War.’

The Stigmata is definitely a power for the Celestial beings, but the Stigmata Holders are not always friendly to the Celestial beings.

In the novel, most of the Stigmata Holders acted according to their own will rather than what the Celestial beings wanted.

The Celestial beings were only trying to use them as those who would blow their horns and raise their flags instead.

Because eventually, they were all just ashes that had to confess their sins and disappear.

Since those Celestial beings felt not one but two Stigmata, they will definitely focus on this.

Naturally, their followers and some of the lackeys who left the Sanctuary to operate will leave the Holy War and enter Hispania.

To find out what happened, what major event could be considered a Stigmata.

‘Well, to catch something, you have to go into the den, but if you have to go in anyway, it’s not bad to lure some of them out and catch them beforehand.’

Zion thought once again about how he should move in the future and spoke to another woman who had been standing quietly behind him.

“I think it’s about time to go.”

“Are you sure I only need to bring him back alive?”

“Yes.

You can break his limbs or make him live as a cripple for the rest of his life.

Anyway, from the kingdom’s point of view, that man is a traitor and a criminal, so he will be hanged if caught.

There’s no need to feel guilty.

This is a just punishment, what people call ‘justice.’”

The blonde woman with her hair tied back tightly slowly nodded at Zion’s words.

Then, she took a deep breath and loosened her arms and legs for a moment before disappearing somewhere.

“Zion, are you sure it’s okay?”

“Don’t worry.

Do you think she’d go alone?

She has an overprotective father.”

“Ugh··· That man is weird too.

He seems even worse than my dad.”

“Can’t deny that.”

“Why do all the weird people gather around Zion?

Ah, Lilith and I are here too, so I can’t say humans.

Anyway, they’re all weird!”

Ria included herself, showing that she still had some conscience.

At Ria’s words, Zion chuckled and looked at the sea again.

He never knew that the flames, burning so brilliantly, sometimes crimson and sometimes tinged with orange, could be so beautiful.

This is why watching a fire is the best sight, and why a certain thief was so desperate for a southeast wind [reference to Zhuge Liang’s strategy in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms].

‘She must be completely exhausted and collapsed by now.’

In the novel, Trisha showed at least twenty times more destructive power than this.

Of course, that was because her brother had died, she had no one to rely on, she was completely broken, and her eyes were completely turned, and all the Celestial beings had appeared and the seal of the Stigmata had been released, so the situation was completely different from then, and it was much earlier, so Trisha herself was still weak.

Just in case any surviving pirates managed to board the ship and try to harm Trisha, or if she was too tired to come to her senses and fell into the sea, Zion had asked the strongest of those by his side, who also shouldn’t be caught by the Celestial beings, to take care of her.

To take good care of that pyromaniac woman.

“···Ugh!

This is my fate!

Hey, you!

Wake up!”

“Ugh···.”

And currently, Lilith was scolding Trisha, who was almost half out of her mind like someone drunk on alcohol, while also struggling to support her.

She is a demon, and what’s inside this woman is none other than a Stigmata.

They are beings who are quite uncomfortable with each other, so honestly, it wasn’t a welcome situation.

Whoosh―.

See, the Stigmata inside Trisha is immediately burning with dissatisfaction, as if it doesn’t like the situation where Trisha is being supported by Lilith.

“Do you think I like doing this?

If it weren’t for Zion’s request, I would have thrown you into the sea already.”

···Whoosh.

The Stigmata replies, saying that if it’s a request from Zion, that human man, then it can’t be helped.

At that, Lilith let out a sigh of disbelief and immediately revealed her fangs.

“Don’t even think about it.

That man is mine.

If you touch him, I’ll really cut off all this woman’s limbs and make her roll around, so be prepared.”

The Stigmata, realizing that the warning Lilith, the Succubus Queen, the Queen of the Nightmares, was giving was by no means a joke, immediately shut its mouth and remained silent.

The human woman who currently holds her was in a state of complete exhaustion due to the backlash from using her power unnecessarily before the time had even come, so Lilith’s support was absolutely necessary.

And, to be honest, the Stigmata also liked that human man named Zion, so it had no intention of burdening him carelessly.

‘Ugh.

Why is it so hard to protect my man?

It would be better to fight with the Celestial bastards!

Aghhhhh!’

Lilith threw Trisha, who was like laundry flying in the wind, over her shoulder and looked around.

Fortunately, no one seemed to have seen Trisha’s outburst.

Hemon, the man who had hastily brought the ship to this point at Zion’s command just before the incident, and the crew had already disembarked to defend the port and had gone ashore.

‘···Still, he’s really brilliant.

That’s why I can’t give up on Zion, that man.’

Zion had a lot of fun with Trisha, and he diverted the attention of the world, which could have been focused on him and become annoying, to the mage Raido, who was currently staying in the south.

If it were daytime now, it would be different, but since it was night after the sun had set, no one would know who was standing on this ship in detail.

In that situation, if you say, ‘Actually, the one who caused that huge flame was the former court mage, Raido!’ then anyone would nod and believe it.

Of course, the old mage Raido, who would later learn this fact, would surely tear his hair out and get angry, wondering what kind of prank this was.

‘Well, Lucia will definitely subdue him right away, though.’

Humans say that parents can’t win against their children, and that was exactly the case.

Thinking about it, Lilith had a strong feeling that Lucia would soon grow up to be even more terrifying than she had expected.

She thought magic would be enough, but after hearing Zion’s words, Lucia suddenly started researching a different route, and Lilith wondered if that might really happen, and it really did.

Come to think of it, Lucia was definitely moving on some kind of mission.

Lilith carried Trisha on her back and leaped towards the place where Zion was waiting, wondering, what was it?

It must have been something very important and cool.

‘Ah, right.

Headhunting.’

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Splash!

Splash!

“Cough!

Cough!

Ugh!”

The Captain barely managed to get out of the water and onto the shore.

After spitting out the seawater that had filled his body, he first checked the sea.

The pirate ships that had been rushing towards Sardinia so confidently were now burning as huge bonfires, beautifully decorating the night sea.

‘What the hell, what the hell happened···.’

He felt many emotions, but what dominated his body was still anger at this situation.

He just wanted to take revenge, but what kind of being was interfering like this?

The Captain wanted to ask if they were such a great being.

···Swish.

At that moment, the Stigmata sleeping inside the Captain finally opened its eyes and spoke.

If he was curious, wouldn’t he like to go find out with him?

Wouldn’t he like to break their limbs and ask them why?

‘Zion Klausen.’

It was definitely that name.

The name of the nobleman that the informants he had planted in Sardinia had told him.

The one who created this situation was definitely that man.

That man with the ridiculous, unlucky title of war hero, the kingdom’s saint!

“Ugh!”

The Captain clenched his fist so hard that his nails dug into his palm and blood flowed.

Each time, the Stigmata inside him slowly increased its influence.

Something colder than cold, so cold that it made him shiver, completely different from Trisha.

Originally, he should have been flustered because something was changing in his body, but the Captain accepted it willingly, as if he didn’t care anymore.

Yes, whether it’s the whisper of a demon or whatever, it’s fine.

He would definitely take revenge on those bastards who had pushed him into this worst situation.

He would smash all their heads and kill them, and···.

“I found you.

So you were here.”

A voice that felt very soft, gentle, and articulate.

At that, the Captain raised his head and looked forward.

And soon, he could see the woman standing in front of him, looking straight down at him.

“You seem to be the one leading these pirates.

Is that correct?”

Blonde hair tied back tightly, a very neat aura felt from her body.

The Captain, and the Stigmata inside him, instinctively realized.

That the woman in front of him was the messenger of hell who had come to crush him in the end.

Swish―.

The Captain drew the dagger he always carried in his arms.

At that, the blonde beauty with simple clothes and white bandages on both hands sighed.

“I wish I could say that I would like you to surrender willingly, but you won’t let me.”

Swish―.

The woman took a stance in response to the Captain’s attack posture.

Even though she had to face an opponent with a blade with her bare hands, no fear was felt in her eyes or gestures.

“Annoying.”

The eyes that were always gently curved went up.

The smile disappeared from her lips, and a cold aura took its place.

Raido, who was watching the scene from afar, unknowingly blurted out a word.

“···Just like my mom.”

―――――――Author’s Notes―――――――

Wife is scary!

Daughter is even scarier!