Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 254

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Our protagonist has changed!

As Sion slowly approached the mass of blood, Kim Yu-hyun, who had been standing still, subtly shifted to the side, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword, ready to draw it at a moment’s notice.

Adding to that, he wasn’t wearing his usual blank expression but rather a sharp look. Sion couldn’t help but feel tense as he looked at Kim Yu-hyun and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“It’s for safety.”

“Safety?”

“Yes. Safety.”

“···.”

*Seriously*, what safety precautions are needed when you’ve already severed all her limbs?

Sion looked bewildered. Kim Yu-hyun shook his head, emphasizing that the bloodied mass was more dangerous than Sion realized.

It was strange to see someone who usually had a blank face now wearing such a serious expression.

‘What on earth is wrong with him?’ Sion wondered as he approached what *used to be* a Yongin [a powerful, regenerative demon-like race].

‘What the hell?’

He almost grabbed the sword from Kim Yu-hyun’s waist and wielded it himself.

Clearly, with all limbs severed, the body should have suffered a tremendous shock. At the very least, she should have lost consciousness, and normally, she should have been in a near-death state.

So, he expected to see something lying there like a corpse.

But instead, he faced a creature thrashing about like freshly caught fish.

“Kkeueueup!

Eueup!”

A monster with bloodshot eyes, screaming as if it would attack at any moment.

If it weren’t for the gag in her mouth, she might have spewed out curses or tried to bite Sion or Kim Yu-hyun with the fangs visible through the gaps.

What was especially absurd was that, according to Kim Yu-hyun, he had cut off all her limbs very cleanly. But in reality, both arms and legs were there, right up to the wrists and ankles.

“Kim Yu-hyun. Did you only cut off the wrists and ankles?”

Kim Yu-hyun shook his head. “I cut off the arms completely above the elbows, and the legs below the knees.”

“What? But the current state is···.”

“She regenerated in just one day of being brought here.”

“Regenerated?”

“If it’s just that much, it’s a slow regeneration. When I first fought her, no matter how much I cut, she would become perfectly fine at some point and rush at me again.”

Come to think of it, one of the many characteristics of the Yongin was their tremendous regenerative ability.

Any cut or pierced wound would be restored to its original state with just a little time.

But he had never imagined that the Yongin’s characteristic would allow them to recover in just one day, even after cutting off their limbs as if pruning branches.

“···Kuaaah!

Ahahaha!

What are you doing, human! Why aren’t you killing the one who lost the fight! Kill me quickly! Or I’ll kill you! So hurry up and end it. Or am I coming over? Ahahaha! Hurry, hurry, hurry!”

In the meantime, the woman, who had finally chewed through the thick rope with her teeth, screamed.

It was quite frightening to see her covered in blood all over her body, but what Sion found most terrifying was that her voice was filled not with resentment, hatred, or curses, but with the anticipation of being killed immediately, and the excitement that she could fully recover her body and fight again if she just waited a little longer.

It was absurd.

It was ridiculous.

How could she smile so brightly and shout when the enemy who had cut off her limbs and driven her to near death was standing right in front of her?

Normally, other races would scream with anger and try to tear them apart right away.

“Shut up.”

Of course, Kim Yu-hyun immediately approached her mercilessly and began to stomp on her mouth like crazy with his foot.

Not just to tell her to shut up, but as if he was going to kill her by stomping on her like that.

Crunch!

Thud!

Soon, blood splattered and teeth broke and scattered. The face, already covered in her blood, was drenched again with newly shed blood.

But Ekaterina, the Yongin being trampled by Kim Yu-hyun, showed no signs of humiliation or anger.

She was just overjoyed with all of this.

“Ahahaha!

Keuk, kill. I said kill me? Keuk! Kkeueueuk! Kick, keok!”

“Don’t worry. Killing a crazy bitch like you is nothing if I say the word.”

It seemed he had suffered quite a bit fighting Ekaterina.

Kim Yu-hyun was showing considerable animosity and anger, unlike his usual self.

He seemed to have had enough of the Yongin’s ridiculous regenerative ability, and he kept stomping as if he was really going to stomp her to death, as if he was going to crush her like this.

“Keok!”

Then, Kim Yu-hyun slowly suffocated her, stepping on her neck accurately.

Ekaterina looked up at him with a smile, feeling delighted that she would soon be killed by the enemy who had defeated her, even as her breath grew ragged.

“What should we do?”

But Kim Yu-hyun looked at Sion, not even giving a glance to the Yongin under his feet, and asked for his opinion.

Meaning that if you tell me to kill her, I will either suffocate her like this or break her neck.

But if he had intended to kill her from the start, he wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble to bring her here.

Seeing that he had made the choice to cut off her limbs even at the cost of quite a bit of injury to himself, and then went to the trouble of bringing her all the way here as a rolling mass of blood, it seemed that Kim Yu-hyun was trying to leave the disposal of this woman to Sion.

“Kkeureureuk···.”

“Don’t worry about this crazy bitch. I cut her neck in half, and she regenerated it again. I don’t think she’ll ever die unless you completely separate her body and head or extract her heart.”

“···How did you figure that out?”

“I kept fighting her. How much I could cut before she could regenerate. How long she would keep fighting and attacking, and what the limits of that being were.”

“So, the answer?”

“As you can see, even if you cut off her limbs and make her bleed, she regenerates even that at a very fast rate. The only way to capture her alive was to cut off her limbs as quickly as possible before she could regenerate, and cut them off again before she could regenerate. Of course, I paid a small price for that too.”

Perhaps that ‘price’ was the trace of the injury on his abdomen.

Kim Yu-hyun, who had never been seriously injured fighting anyone, even the Cheon Clan [a powerful and influential family].

But killing and capturing alive are completely different concepts.

It was only natural that capturing a Yongin, whose life goal was to fight, kill, and die in battle, would be several times more difficult than killing them.

In the novel, Kim Yu-hyun tried to bring her to his side, but he couldn’t and ended up killing her.

‘That means the current Kim Yu-hyun is several times stronger than the Kim Yu-hyun in the original novel.’

Unexpectedly, Ekaterina, the White Plague [a notorious Yongin known for spreading chaos and destruction], appeared and played the role of a combat power measuring device very well.

That Yongin, who was crazy about fighting, that ‘White Plague’ who killed thousands and tens of thousands with a smile, was injured but managed to prune her and capture her alive.

That alone was enough, but in fact, Sion gained an even greater advantage than measuring the protagonist’s combat power.

That was the fact that Kim Yu-hyun valued Sion’s judgment more than his own.

He didn’t kill her even though she was an opponent he could have killed, and he went to the trouble of doing this to ask someone else’s opinion.

Kim Yu-hyun’s very desirable change.

To be a little more honest, it was a particularly desirable change for Sion.

“Don’t kill her for now, just make her lose consciousness. She’ll be noisy again if she opens her mouth.”

“It’s not difficult, but as fast as she regenerates, she regains her senses quickly. More than anything, by that time, she will have regenerated all her limbs and will be looking for someone to fight again.”

“···That means.”

“Until we find a solution, I’ll have to keep suppressing her.”

It sounds nice to say ‘find a solution,’ but isn’t it just about cutting off her limbs every time she wakes up, knocking her out again, and keeping her locked up somewhere?

It was a terrifying story to even imagine, but in fact, there was no other good way.

As Sion nodded, Kim Yu-hyun tightened his grip on Ekaterina’s throat just enough to knock her out.

“Kkeueuk, keok!

Ki, kill···.”

A crazy woman who, to the very end, felt joy at the thought of dying like this instead of anger or hatred.

Finally, as the Yongin, who was crazy about fighting itself, lost consciousness, Kim Yu-hyun let out a ‘Hoo’ sigh.

That sigh contained quite a bit of fatigue, unlike Kim Yu-hyun.

“I never thought there would be such a being.”

“I understand. I get tired just looking at it.”

“Like a blood zombie··· excuse me. Anyway, should I say it’s a being that lives only to die and kill without any reason? That’s exactly what it felt like.”

That’s right, this Yongin race is exactly like that.

Of course, they are not like the blood zombies you are talking about, who kill all living things in front of them, but a race that only picks and chooses those who they think are strong and want to fight.

Sion swallowed those words and just nodded as if agreeing with Kim Yu-hyun.

“Sion Gongja [a respectful title], look there.”

“What··· Ah.”

Clearly, Ekaterina had fainted, unable to withstand Kim Yu-hyun’s pressure.

No matter how Yongin she was, if she couldn’t breathe for a certain amount of time and her consciousness became blurred, she would inevitably lose consciousness as a result.

But the arms and legs that had been cut off by Kim Yu-hyun’s sword were still regenerating little by little.

Clearly, Ekaterina herself had lost consciousness and was lying there with her tongue sticking out, but her body was returning to its original state on its own.

“If we leave her like this, the royal palace will be in chaos. I think I’ll have to take her out of here and suppress her a few more times before we find a solution.”

“Are you okay? You seem to have suffered quite a bit.”

“Isn’t there any other good way? If that crazy thing wakes up again in a normal body and causes a ruckus, frankly, there won’t be many people who can handle it.”

Lilith is currently away, and Zhan is the only one among the remaining people who has a chance.

Even if the rest of the people are skilled and growing rapidly, they are a crazy race that is on a different level from the start.

It is difficult to fight on equal terms with the Yongin, who are masters of combat and are literally no-backs themselves.

More than anything, Ekaterina doesn’t care who she’s fighting against, or even knows what a sparring match is.

For them, fighting is sacred and the only way to take the life of the opponent or give their own life, so it is natural for them to do their best.

‘Zhan is a bit dangerous too. More than anything, Ekaterina has that ridiculous regenerative ability, not just her skills. The only way is to cut off her limbs and suppress her like Kim Yu-hyun, but even Kim Yu-hyun had a little trouble with it.’

Sion organized his thoughts and nodded, realizing once again that Kim Yu-hyun was the only one who could handle Ekaterina.

Of course, he didn’t forget to say ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘Thank you’ as a matter of courtesy.

He would have had nothing to say even if Kim Yu-hyun had simply removed Ekaterina and returned.

But the protagonist went to the trouble of suppressing and bringing back an enemy who had shown clear hostility towards him.

Our protagonist has changed!

He’s thinking about others, even if it’s just a little!

What a tremendous progress!

That’s what I wanted to say.

But Kim Yu-hyun shrugged as if it was nothing to Sion’s words.

If it were his usual personality, he would have coolly acknowledged that and nodded.

“Kim Yu-hyun?”

“Actually, you don’t need to apologize so much.”

You don’t need to apologize?

“I might seem a little strange if I say this, but I had a lot of fun fighting.”

“···Huh?”

“Originally, if you were hit by such an attack, even a strong person would no longer be able to use their body and would either retreat or accept death calmly. But that crazy woman was different. Thanks to her ridiculous regenerative ability, both she and I were able to fight to our heart’s content.”

“···.”

“Hmm. What should I say? She’s not a significant threat to me, but she has the skills to sufficiently evade my attacks or minimize the damage. What’s more, no matter how much she’s hit by my attacks, she endures and keeps pushing in. Above all, I was quite impressed by the way she laughed and screamed and rushed at me as if she couldn’t help but enjoy the fight.”

It seems like I have to cancel the statement that the protagonist has changed.

It seemed like he had changed, but it wasn’t, it just seemed like that for a moment.

“Master [referring to Raido] has been bored these days, so I should just take her to him and find a way to suppress her together. I’m sure he’ll want to fight, given his personality, but···.”

“Please stop that. Raido-nim isn’t in his former physical condition.”

The only human who can hide their age in the world is just one.

That’s Kim Yu-hyun, the protagonist with those fraudulent specs, standing in front of Sion.

Other than that, no matter how skilled or strong they were, they couldn’t overcome the years and were gradually eroded by the winds of time.

Raido also used to fly around in the past, but he doesn’t have the same movements as he did back then.

Even in the battle with the Cheon Clan, they pushed him with numbers, so even if it was okay at first, eventually the stamina problem caught him and in the end, he tried to help Kim Yu-hyun a little by holding on to as many enemies as possible and self-destructing.

“Anyway, I’ll try to stop Master from doing anything. After all, with a woman like this, he can satisfy his enthusiasm in other areas besides beating her up. For example, doing something to her body before she regenerates so that she can’t move easily even after the regeneration is over.”

What on earth are you thinking?

Why are your eyes shining like a mad scientist?

Sion wanted to ask that question, but he couldn’t bring himself to say it.