Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 25

The Rebirth of a Dedicated Reader – Episode 25 (25/439)

To cut to the chase, Nudia’s forces retreated without much resistance.

They could have laid siege, but they didn’t bring many siege weapons, and they couldn’t secure their supply lines.

On top of that, the soldiers’ morale plummeted.

“You’ve arrived, Young Master!”

Ever since Gongmyeong’s trap worked.

No, ever since he risked his life to save a single soldier on the battlefield, the attitude of the knights and soldiers towards Sion changed 180 degrees.

Sion felt nauseous from the way they looked at him, as if he were a war hero or a saint.

“You’re working hard.”

“Not at all!”

Sion glanced inside and stroked his chin.

The trap he had set up just for show unexpectedly caught a big one.

Even someone he had wanted to catch!

‘I didn’t expect this.

As expected of Zhuge Liang’s class [referring to the legendary strategist’s level of skill].

Awesome, amazing, let it go.’

Sion moved and stood in front of the iron bars.

He didn’t feel any presence, but the sound of breathing from inside told him that someone was there.

“Rishikida Amshel, right?”

“…”

As expected, there was no answer.

If the knights of the Frontier Count were standing next to him, they might have shouted that he was being disrespectful.

But Sion seemed to have expected it and sat down in front of her without a word.

The female knight inside flinched when the second-in-command of the Frontier Count nonchalantly took such an action in front of the cold prison.

“I’ll ask you something.

Why did you come into the castle?

And all alone?

You didn’t think this wasn’t a trap, and you’re too high-ranking to be here for reconnaissance.”

“…”

“You’re not going to answer?”

“…”

“Rishikida Amshel.

Were you thinking of dying?”

That was the crux of the matter.

Sion felt her flinch and look at him, and he was sure that his guess was correct.

‘Rishikida Amshel.

The author pushed her as if she would become Kim Yu-hyun’s powerful rival in the future, set her up, and subtly promoted her within Hispania.’

But her end was just one line.

Purgatory for participating in the rebellion!

That was all.

It was like a sudden purgatory, a sudden purge.

Many people were taken aback, but the author purged the disgruntled forces with an afterword saying that the Nudia Kingdom originally had many internal problems.

In fact, she wasn’t a heroine, and she never crossed swords with Kim Yu-hyun, so it was difficult to keep complaining to the author that this wasn’t right.

That’s how the character Rishikida Amshel disappeared from the novel in an instant.

No one except the author knew why.

‘But after following that woman inside and interrogating the captured knights, I found the answer.’

He didn’t have to torture them.

When Lilith went next to them and rubbed against them a couple of times, they were charmed and lost their minds to the point where they blurted out the location of their emergency funds that they had saved up for years, and even the story of how they squatted down while pooping.

Rishikida Amshel was a knight from a noble family in Nudia that guarded the border.

With her skills, personality, and even appearance, her future seemed bright, so much so that the head of the family was even trying to marry her off well.

But one incident shook her life to its core.

She stopped by the royal palace for personal reasons and caught the eye of the King of Nudia.

A monarch who was so blinded by women that he had already taken many women as his concubines.

He forced Rishikida, who refused, into his bedroom.

‘The real problem starts here.’

Originally, she should have become a concubine as soon as she entered the king’s bedroom.

But the next day, Rishikida left the palace still in her knight’s uniform and as a knight.

She returned to her family and said.

That nothing happened, that she was just by the king’s side.

But things don’t always go smoothly.

The world is always the same, and there was no difference in this world.

Even if a man and a woman use the same room at night, all sorts of strange things come out, but she went into the king’s bedroom and came out the next morning.

Immediately, Rishikida was plagued by all sorts of rumors, and her family was not spared from those low-level whispers.

‘Rishikida’s master was furious.

He thought that she had abandoned him and wagged her tail at the king in pursuit of greater power and sold her body by taking off her clothes.’

If the royal palace had called her to be a concubine, it would have been different, but the King of Nudia said nothing.

Ah, to be exact, he did send a message.

To the family she belonged to, not to Rishikida, ‘Your knight insulted me.’

Rishikida’s master, who had been a powerful family on the border, became a fallen aristocrat who had been targeted by the king, and after that, he cursed Rishikida, telling her to just die.

He screamed that if the king had called her, she should have accepted it quietly and become a concubine, or just killed herself.

Why are you living and causing me this damage?

‘···The thing that’s certain is that the owner is a moron.

I can’t explain it otherwise.’

The owner can’t even protect his people, but he tells them to go out and die.

He muttered to the woman he once had in his heart to accept another man or commit suicide.

‘Suddenly, I want to see that owner’s face.

Face reading is science, and it was obvious that a trash bag blown by the wind was whining like that.

Even just hearing the story from the knights, the ridiculous sense of inferiority is conveyed.”

“Rishikida.”

“…”

“Do you know who I am?”

At Sion’s question, the female knight nodded slightly.

She had heard his voice once on the battlefield and once when she was caught and thrown to the ground.

Above all, the knight guarding the dungeon had openly said, ‘Young Master!’

“You’re still not answering.”

“…”

“Okay, whatever.

I wanted to have a conversation with you one last time, but if that’s the case, I can’t help it.”

Sion got up and moved.

Rishikida was about to prepare for the silence that would come again after listening to the sound for a while.

“Take her out.”

“Yes?”

“Take that female knight out.”

“What do you mean by that…?”

“I’m going to kick her out.”

An order that bewildered not only the knights of the Frontier Count but also Rishikida, who was imprisoned.

She wondered if she had misheard something, but soon Rishikida realized that was not the case.

After something quickly passed, she came to her senses and realized that she was surrounded by knights and was really leaving the prison and heading outside the castle.

What the hell is going on?

While she was trying to figure out the situation, all the restraints that had been restricting her movements disappeared, and she was standing in front of the castle gate leading outside the Claussen territory.

With the sword she used and the horse she was riding earlier all returned to her.

“Leave.”

“Yes?”

“What, are you finally opening your mouth now that you’re being kicked out?

This is going to ruin the cool image.”

“What, what are you talking about?”

“Leave.

I don’t want to kill people who are crazy about dying, and I don’t want to catch them and feed them and put them to sleep.

I don’t want to waste time or money, or even calories.”

Rishikida was dumbfounded.

She is clearly a prisoner of war.

Among them, a knight who can receive the most ransom.

She is even a high-ranking knight who is highly valued in Nudia.

To release a hostage who could receive gold equal to her weight just by holding her?

It was impossible and should not have happened.

“Are you letting me go now?”

Still, just in case, there were cases where prisoners were released without any conditions, so Rishikida opened her mouth and asked about that.

But what came back was the youth’s expression full of cynicism and a voice that was chillingly sharp.

“Let you go?

Hey.

You seem to be mistaken, I’m not letting you go, I’m kicking you out.

I told you?

I don’t provide a service that ‘cuts you off in one shot without pain’ if you come here wanting to die.

If you want to die, pay the fee, customer.

Then I’ll send you off to paradise without pain with after-sales service.”

There were some strange words mixed in, but to sum it up, the Claussen Frontier Count side had no intention of killing her, who had rushed in to die, so they were telling her to just get lost.

“What are you doing?

Hurry up and get out.”

At Sion’s words, Rishikida unknowingly took a step and grabbed the saddle.

And the moment she saw the sword hanging next to it, she realized what situation she was in.

‘I am···.’

I can’t go back, I shouldn’t go back.

The last order given by the one who used to be called, followed, and believed to be the master.

Go and die.

Die and never come back.

“Young Master.”

“What.”

“I··· I can’t go back.”

“You can’t go back?”

“Yes, so if you’re going to let me go, then rather···.”

“I’m sure I told you?

Rishikida Amshel.

This is not a place where you can come if you want to die and get ‘cut off in one shot without pain’.

If you wanted to die in the first place, you should have fought to the end and died, why did you get caught and make things so tiring?”

“That’s···.”

Just as Rishikida was about to open her mouth, Sion stopped her with action.

He grabbed her sword that was tied next to the saddle and threw it in front of Rishikida’s feet.

“Do it yourself.”

“···Huh?”

“You want to die.

Then do it yourself.

Isn’t it good?

You can die as you want, and we can just throw the corpse into the fire without any effort.”

“···.”

“Die if you want to die.

Don’t beg others, do it yourself.”

With those words, Sion crossed his arms and stared at Rishikida as if he was going to wait.

“···.”

Rishikida, who had been staring at the sword that had been thrown in front of her feet for a while, knelt down on the spot.

Then, she stared at the sword and reached out her hand.

Swish―.

The silver sword that reflected the light with a cool sound revealed its appearance.

The edge was so well sharpened that even just looking at it, she could feel the sharpness.

Rishikida, who had been looking at the sword for a while, slowly raised the hand holding the sword.

Soon, the cold sensation of metal was transmitted to the vicinity of her neck, and when she gave it a little more force, she felt a burning sensation and felt a liquid flowing down her neck to her collarbone.

“If you give it a little more force, your arteries will be cut and you’ll die from excessive bleeding.

But it’s not a bad way to die, just feeling everything fading away without much pain.

Ah, it might be very cold.”

Let’s die.

I have to die.

That’s the only way to escape this difficult time.

I have to end it, end it···.

‘I am···.’

Do I really want to die?

Do I really have to die?

Without a shred of regret, happily.

Can I close my eyes like that?

“Ah···.”

Something blurry, whether it was a sigh or a sob, flowed out of Rishikida’s mouth.

How did this happen?

I never thought of this kind of life.

I just wanted to be loyal to the owner who cared for me, like other knights.

“If it were me.”

At Sion’s voice that suddenly came, Rishikida looked at him with eyes full of tears.

“If you were my subordinate, I would have killed you with my own hands.

No owner would tell their subordinates to go out and die on their own.

I’d rather kill them with my own hands, because I can’t stand seeing others benefit.”

“What, what does that mean···.”

“You can’t even properly protect your subordinates, and you can’t even properly punish your subordinates, so what’s the point of talking about the owner?

That’s just a cowardly pervert.

Sick bastards who just want to hear the sound of master, master.”

Sion grabbed Rishikida’s trembling hands.

Then, as if to help, he made her hold the sword and brought it to her neck again.

“I’ll help you if you want to die.

But keep this in mind.

Just because you die here doesn’t mean that the owner will care at all.

···Ah, come to think of it, he’s not even the owner, is he?

He abandoned you, and now you’re no longer my subordinate, so of course the relationship between owner and subordinate can’t be established.”

“That’s···.”

“You’ve been abandoned, Rishikida Amshel.

Without a shred of doubt, you’ve been completely abandoned.”