Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 32

The Land of Promise Overflowing with Political Maneuvering and Betrayal

“Young Lord Zion.”

This time, Lydo disappeared with a *poof*, like a magical girl!

I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts transforming with some strange music soon.

After that, Lucia spoke to Zion for the first time.

“If it’s not too much trouble, could I talk to you for a moment?”

“That’s….”

Zion was about to answer but reflexively looked at Lilith.

She kept being wary of Lucia, which didn’t suit her position as the Succubus Queen.

It was hard to see it as mere jealousy, as she was in an overwhelmingly advantageous position.

Lucia was also just watching Lilith closely and hadn’t actively approached Zion yet, so Zion couldn’t figure out why Lilith was so wary of Lucia.

“Why are you looking at me?

You have to decide. Why is a man like you looking at a woman’s face?”

However, Lilith coolly replied as if she had never shown such anxious eyes.

Wondering what was going on, Zion nodded and was about to say yes when…

“…”

Rishikida was glaring at Lucia with a very wary look.

It was like a house cat being very wary of a new cat brought into the house.

“Rishi.”

“Yes, Young Lord.”

“I’m going to talk to Lucia for a bit, can you wait?”

“Of course.”

The answer was like that, but her eyes were still flashing with wariness.

Zion was genuinely worried that she might be tailing him.

Suppressing that anxiety, he went to the garden inside the castle with Lucia.

Lucia moved silently, and Zion was lost in thought.

‘I’ve been so busy worrying about Lilith and Rishi that I haven’t been paying attention to Lucia.’

If things had gone as planned, he would have focused on advancing his relationship with Lucia right after the war.

But Rishikida suddenly came in, and he spent some time focusing on her.

“Is your injury okay?”

At Lucia’s question, Zion wondered what she was talking about for a moment, then let out a sigh.

“I’m fine.

Rather, thanks to Lucia, the enemies’ attacks were completely crushed.”

“That doesn’t erase my mistake.

My father was angry for the first time in a long time.”

“…”

*No*, isn’t it a bit much for an old man who beats enemies to death for fun to get angry over a magical mistake?

Zion scratched his cheek and repeated several times that it was nothing.

Her mistake was a bit big, but before that, she had already blunted the enemies’ sharp momentum with one attack, so it was more than enough to cover that mistake.

“More than that, it seems like you have something to say.”

“That’s right.

I had something to say.”

Lucia hesitated as if she was worried for a moment, then took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

“Am I a bit strange?”

“What do you mean by strange…”

“Everything about how I treat you, Young Lord.

To you, I’m just the daughter of a wizard named Lydo, but I keep wanting you to see me differently.”

“I don’t think it’s strange.

It’s natural when dealing with the opposite sex.”

“I’m apparently a bit weak for your style, Young Lord.

My father always said that.

He said I take after my mother and like weaklings.”

I see.

But, if that’s the case, Lydo is definitely not a weak man?

He has more muscles than a wizard should, not to the point of being burly, but definitely not the tall and lanky appearance that people usually associate with wizards.

“Ah, for reference, my father apparently hit on my mother 24 hours a day.

He’s proud of it, he kept pushing himself on a woman who didn’t like him!

He asked her to save him.

He said he felt like he was going to die because he loved her so much, but he couldn’t die because if he died, he wouldn’t be able to love her.

So he asked if he could just love her.”

“…”

That crazy wizard old man who had lost his mind was such a romantic man.

Zion felt goosebumps all over.

No, then what did that wife do wrong to marry such a man….

“But… my mother didn’t hate it either.

Honestly, she thought that if a man was that devoted, she could trust him and entrust her life to him.”

“…”

Okay, it’s not that couples resemble each other after marriage, but that people who are similar from the start get married.

That mother of yours must have been out of her mind too!

“In that sense, I think I take after my father.”

Wow, that was scary for a moment.

Zion felt a chill run down his spine.

What does it mean to take after her father?

Does she happen to be good at using her fists?

Is he going to get beaten until she says she’ll marry him?

“Is there anything I can do?”

“Excuse me?”

“I know very well that you don’t have any feelings for me, Young Lord.

That this is all just my own ridiculous imagination, and that the end will probably not be good.”

Lucia was anxiously pressing down on her clasped hands.

It was obvious at a glance that she was taking a lot of courage to say these words.

“That’s how people’s hearts are.

The one who falls in love always loses.

The one who likes is wrong.

But still, I want that person to look at me at least once.”

“Lucia, that’s…”

“I just want you to smile at me sometimes, walk together more often, and smile only at me very rarely.

Is that too much to ask?”

Zion unknowingly let out a groan.

Lucia’s line was the same line she would later say to Kim Yu-hyun!

He felt a bit strange because it felt like he was taking someone else’s woman, but it wasn’t bad.

No, rather, he felt a strange sense of pleasure.

Is this what some readers were talking about when they said NTL [Netorare, a genre involving cheating or infidelity]!

‘Damn, was I this kind of guy?

Maybe there’s still some residue of Zion Claussen left?’

It didn’t feel like this when Lilith was flirting with him, or when Rishi called him Master.

Ah, of course, having a relationship with Lilith is an exception.

Zion wondered if this was the excitement that came from an immoral relationship.

Of course, Kim Yu-hyun and Lucia getting together was a long way off, but as Zion, who knew the contents of the novel, it already felt like it had happened.

“Lucia.”

“Yes, Young Lord.”

“This question is quite awkward for me to ask.”

“Don’t worry and ask.”

“What part of me do you like so much?

I don’t understand.”

At those words, Lucia looked worried for a moment.

It was an unexpected question, and the reason was that she suddenly became shy when she tried to answer.

“At first, it was just a simple crush.

Then, I felt interested in the different aspects from the rumors, the way you humbled yourself for something?

Then… when I heard that speech.

Something hit me hard.

Ah, this person doesn’t take anyone lightly.”

At the word speech, Zion mentally smacked his forehead.

No, he didn’t know that Lucia would have a sensibility that only those who had served in the military could understand.

“Honestly, I thought it was just a fancy speech that nobles usually make.

But that day.

In the middle of the battlefield that had become a sea of fire due to my mistake, the moment I saw you jumping into that hell for a soldier you didn’t even know, I suddenly had this thought.

If I had been lying there instead of that soldier, would you have come to save me?”

She’s saying something obvious.

He would have gone to save her no matter what.

If it wasn’t a situation where he was 100% going to die, he would have jumped in.

If Lucia was hurt or died, he didn’t know how Lydo would go berserk.

He had to prevent the future where he would go crazy before the war with the Celestial Race even started.

“And.

I still can’t forget.”

“What can’t you forget…”

“The day you and I first met.

Your eyes when you defeated my knight and looked at me on that very day when I was about to be in a difficult situation.

How worried you were about me, your eyes that even showed a little fear that I might have been greatly surprised.”

“…”

The moment he heard those words, Zion couldn’t bring himself to say, ‘Actually, it was because I was really scared because of Kim Yu-hyun.

Damn, I was so moved that I was about to cry.

I was relieved that my arms were okay and, above all, that I was alive.’

“Is that enough of an answer?”

“It’s enough.”

Lucia wasn’t the type to have a pink atmosphere with Kim Yu-hyun from the beginning of the novel.

The two men and women simply started from the relationship of a father’s disciple and a teacher’s daughter.

Then, as time slowly passed, Lucia felt a reversal of charm in Kim Yu-hyun’s tough exterior and the way he felt bad for hurting people, and she felt sorry for him and got closer to him.

I remember that Lucia Coin started to rise sharply from that time.

However, after that, this body, Zion Claussen, relentlessly aimed for Kim Yu-hyun’s weakness and eventually separated the two, and eventually killed Lucia.

‘The line I shouted then was, ‘You should try it too.’

Damn….

What should I try, what should I try.

Crazy.

I was the one who went crazy and got beaten up, and then I went crazy on my own!’

Fortunately, that kind of thing wasn’t going to happen now.

But the problem was that even if he didn’t act like a moron with this body, the world was already going to fall apart like a moron.

“Isn’t it possible, Young Lord?

I just want to get a little closer.

If it was uncomfortable…”

That line was the same as what I saw in the novel.

Thinking that even if the timing of the events was different, the content of what they said could be the same, Zion made up his mind.

He felt sorry for Lilith, but Lucia had something to prepare for.

“If you promise not to set me on fire again, Lucia.”

“Ugh!

Th, that was a mistake.

I’m sorry.”

“Don’t worry.

Lucia’s magic was definitely powerful.

And perhaps Lucia’s talent isn’t just about handling magic.”

“What do you mean?

That my talent isn’t just about handling magic?”

She would never know now, but Zion knew very well.

Unlike her father, Lydo, who had even been a court wizard, Lucia had a lot of mana and used magic well, but in most cases, she couldn’t handle the output.

The wizard was supposed to control the magic, but the magic was controlling the wizard, and this was a fatal weakness.

Because of this, Lucia was in charge of the nuisance role in Kim Yu-hyun’s party for a while.

Thanks to this, the party members in the novel poured out their eyes, and the readers poured out their swear words as a bonus.

‘Then, during the battle with the Celestial Race, she awakened and finally gained enlightenment.

She was kidnapped by Zion not long after and went through a terrible experience before eventually retiring….’

Zion thought about that part.

Perhaps the reason the author retired Lucia like that was for the sake of the order of this world.

Lucia had an enormous ability that would have plunged the already collapsing power balance into the abyss.

―

The war with Nudia officially ended.

After that, unlike the Lichten Border Earl, who was watching with half expectation and half worry, Zion was busy preparing to go to the royal palace.

“Do you really think the Basura County will keep that agreement, Zion?”

“Don’t worry.

Earl Disse will have no choice but to fulfill that agreement.”

Zion had countless weaknesses of Earl Disse.

He even knew how to use them to completely plunge him into the abyss.

Earl Disse wanted to shout, ‘How does a Hispanian nobleman know so much about the internal political strife of the Nudia Kingdom?’ but he couldn’t bring himself to do so.

Zion’s wickedly smiling smile seemed to be asking, ‘Can you handle hearing the source of the information?’

“I told the royal palace about your achievements, but I’m still worried.”

“Because my mana sensitivity is zero?”

“That’s quite a big weakness in this world.”

Zion also knew that.

Kim Yu-hyun in the novel also said that this world had overwhelmingly more Qi [life energy], that is, surrounding mana, than the Murim world [martial arts world] he originally lived in.

That’s why he said there were many strong people.

So it was easier to use that power appropriately, but Zion couldn’t do that at all.

“Don’t worry, Father.

Some people will fight directly with swords, but I’ll fight in other ways from behind.”

He has no intention of giving up his strengths and going on a rampage like Kim Yu-hyun.

It’s a bit disappointing that he doesn’t have the minimum force to protect his body, but it wasn’t urgent right now.

“Have you decided on the personnel?”

“Rishi will be in charge of escorting.

In addition, there will be Lucia and Kim Yu-hyun, who will follow as her escort, and Lilith.

I’m thinking of filling the rest with knights and soldiers.”

“Okay, that should be fine.”

*Fine, my ass, fine is all dead.*

This is not a fine level.

One high-ranking knight, one skilled person who will soon surpass that level, and the highest-ranking demon.

It was understandable that this was almost a terrorist going to blow up the royal palace.

‘The real start is from now on.’

In the novel, Claussen Border Earl was only in the early stages.

The real stories and incidents were just beginning, and he would meet all kinds of people.

Above all, the subject was Kim Yu-hyun at that time, but now Zion Claussen, he would take that place.

‘Let’s go!

To the land of promise where political maneuvering and betrayal are everyday life!’

[Author’s Note] From Sunday 4 consecutive chapters to today’s 4 consecutive chapters….

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If there are many recommendations, will I do another consecutive chapter….

Will I?