Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 331

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Who is the Light?

A polite request to just disappear already.

Normally, the nobles, who call themselves ardent followers of the Light, would have risen up again, but in the current situation, even they couldn’t recklessly speak out.

‘Because I’ve silenced the pigeons.’ [Referring to suppressing dissent or opposition.]

‘While the Celestials are frowning and unable to speak, what guts do those guys have to speak for them?’

Among the nobles of Hispania, there are none here who would spout nonsense about not being able to live without the doctrines of the Light, like the fanatics of Nudia.

Compared to Nudia, they were less influenced by the doctrines of the Light. Because of that, the influential nobles who even attend the royal palace meetings still had at least a shred of sanity left.

Of course, they used the doctrines of the Light to their advantage, but if they thought it was no longer profitable, if they thought all the sweetness was gone, they were the ones who would immediately cut ties. Until just now, they were excitedly flapping their mouths, but suddenly they became mute as if they had swallowed honey, just watching the situation.

‘Don’t worry.

I hold grudges like crazy.

I’ll torment you so much that you’ll regret not taking the Celestials’ side and causing more trouble at that time.

You, ice cream bars.’ [A playful, yet menacing, insult.]

Sion meticulously wrote down the names and faces of the nobles who had tried to pressure him by taking the Celestials’ side in his mental Death Note [reference to the popular manga/anime series], and then looked at the Celestial, Richel.

“…”

He seemed quite resentful of the fact that he had been given an eviction notice by a mere human, not hiding the flames burning fiercely in his eyes as he glared at Sion.

In addition, he was subtly glancing at the nobles who were keeping their mouths shut, seemingly quite angry that the human nobles who had been excitedly taking his side had immediately cut ties when the atmosphere became strange.

Sion was inwardly snickering as he looked at Richel.

You should trust someone you can trust. Did you really think that even if the atmosphere reversed, they would still take your side and say that it’s wrong to be rude to the descendants of the Light, or that you should follow the will of the Light?

A person without a sense of the situation can never have a place in politics. Still, these are people who have grown up understanding the atmosphere, so they are the ones who can attend the royal palace meetings like this.

Until just now, the Celestials were the trend, but when Sion stepped in and subtly revealed the future actions of the Celestials in the novel, which only he knew, Richel was pressured and went into no-comment mode.

It’s scary when a person who was originally quiet closes his mouth, but when a person who was excitedly flapping his mouth until just now suddenly shuts his mouth and only lets out sighs, he is immediately ignored.

That was the world of humans that the Celestials said was so ugly.

“…Is that truly the will of Hispania?”

It was only after a while that Richel finally opened his mouth.

He seemed to have judged that he couldn’t win with words, so he was trying to change the atmosphere by picking the easiest opponent, but Sion was definitely not going to let that happen.

“Is this truly the will of the Light?

Shut your mouth and just follow the instructions.

If you don’t, you will all become sinners and be judged.

Is this the will of the Light?”

“I asked the question first.”

“The answer to that question varies depending on the answer to my question, so that’s why I’m doing this.

I followed the Light, piercing through the darkness, but there are crimson flames blazing. Who would continue to follow that?”

“I don’t understand why you keep referring to flames.

Sion Claussen.”

“If you didn’t like that word, you shouldn’t have said words like judge or army of light either.

Are you uncomfortable because you threatened me first, and now you think the threat is dangerous?”

“…”

Sion is most confident in being sarcastic, and at the same time, it becomes a scathing criticism that shuts the opponent’s mouth in a conversation like this.

You can never win an argument by always speaking logically.

Sometimes you have to raise your voice, be stubborn, pour out baseless criticisms, and make the opponent get angry and eventually fall into their own trap.

That’s how you win a fight.

“…If you haven’t committed a crime, you should be confident, but the fact that you keep mentioning that part means you’re hiding something.

Sion Claussen?”

Oh, so now you’re switching to framing because you can’t do anything else?

Sion clicked his tongue inwardly, thinking that he was indeed an ugly race.

Framing only works when the atmosphere is good. Otherwise, it only increases your enemies.

He should have raised questions about that part as soon as Sion appeared, and poured out attacks when his allies still had the strength to open their mouths.

An attack that is launched after losing momentum only reveals more gaps.

“Richel-nim.

You don’t seem to know humans very well, but we humans are most angry when we are unfairly suspected, and we feel insulted, and as a result, we have the most intense antipathy.

I’ve been doing these things so far, but if you don’t acknowledge them and instead drive me into a strange corner, most humans will be disappointed.

If you drive me, who has been working hard for this great country of Hispania, into that corner, wouldn’t it be stranger if I just nodded my head silently?”

It is human nature to shout out when you feel wronged.

A person who is suspected but keeps his mouth shut and waits for the truth to be revealed is no different from sticking out his neck and saying, ‘Please eat me.’

In other words, to other nobles, Sion’s sensitive reaction to Richel’s words is not because he has something to hide, but because it is an act of self-defense that any human would show.

“And if you say that, I will answer like this.

Unless you’re stupid and so stupid that you’re a complete blockhead, where would you find someone who would show such an intense reaction while revealing their inner thoughts like this?

Even though it’s obvious that you’ll be suspected.”

“…”

Richel didn’t have anything to say to Sion’s answer.

If he was really a sub-par human, it would be one thing, but looking at what he’s done so far, he’s actually one of the smartest humans. He wouldn’t do something stupid like not noticing the possibility that he would be driven into a corner like this and openly disliking the suspicion against him.

When Richel didn’t open his mouth and remained silent, Sion looked back at Vanessa as if to say that this was enough, and smiled slightly.

Vanessa nodded at that and opened her mouth in her usual restrained voice.

“Celestial.

It seems that this is all we, Hispania, have to say to you.”

“…I think so.”

“Our Hispania loves good and desires peace.

That’s why we have never blocked the entry of the doctrines of the Light, and we have maintained a good relationship with the Holy Prussen.

In the meantime, although we temporarily went astray due to very ominous events, the destination is the same in the end.

However, if the descendants of the Light, and those who follow them, pressure Hispania, we will not remain silent.”

“The moment you say that, the paths diverge and you will never meet again.

Human Queen.

I will ask you one last time.

After the task in Nudia is completed, when the army of Light arrives, will you light up the darkness and greet them, or will you be in the darkness, glaring with vigilance, in a form that can never be welcomed?”

He was clearly trying to drive Hispania to the axis of evil until the end.

From the choice of words, he was openly trying to cause a division among the nobles and make them like Nudia.

I wanted to give him a scolding for talking nonsense, but the baton had already passed from me to Vanessa.

Even if I made the counterattack, it was most certain that the end would be made by her, the owner of Hispania and the queen of all the nobles gathered here.

“…If what comes to Hispania is truly warm light, it will save us who are floundering in the darkness, and if it is crimson flames, it will burn us all along with the darkness and become even more fierce.

Isn’t that so, Richel?”

Vanessa, as befitting a queen, easily crushed Richel’s last threat by using the stepping stone of reversal that Sion had prepared.

Even though she was becoming more like Sion, her answer was mixed with the words that if Hispania became a sinner, it was not because we really had a sin, but because they forcibly passed on the sin to us.

“Keueung.”

Richel, who had ruined everything at once after things were going well.

Sion’s eloquence was so brilliant and aggressive, but his actions of reflexively trying to hide that part, as if he knew everything, were a misstep.

He should have continued to push with the offensive he had seized once, but because he couldn’t, all that was left was to be dragged here and there after being pushed back.

“Good.

I know the will of the Kingdom of Hispania well.

Of course!”

Can’t you just disappear after saying that?

Sion wanted to kick that guy’s butt as it was, but he had no choice but to endure it because hitting him with facts and hitting him with fists were different dimensions of the problem.

“I don’t think that the answer that came out today is the common answer of all the humans in Hispania, and the others who are living together in this land.

We are aware that there are those who still follow the light in their hearts and always want to go in the right direction, and we are waiting.”

In other words, it was a message to betray us whenever you have the intention.

It meant that they would treat the traitor as a meritorious person, so think carefully.

The moment Richel’s words ended, Sion openly glared at some of the nobles who had been nodding their heads and agreeing with the Celestials’ words until just now.

Are you guys the ones who will fall for those words?

It was an unspoken question of whether they would betray this country and the royal family that had allowed them to receive and take everything they wanted in the name of the will of the Light.

“Keuheum!”

“Heum, heuheum!”

I say again, the alternative is not the Holy Prussen.

It’s not a world where the doctrines of the Light are everything, and it’s not a place where the royal family takes the lead in bowing their heads in front of the doctrines of the Light and exclaiming, ‘Ooh ooh!’

They just accepted a part of the doctrines that had been passed down and twisted them little by little to suit their tastes, and that’s all they talked about the Light with the intention of using it.

It’s not a sincere heart like the followers of the Light, and it’s not a crazy following like the fanatics.

‘Using it when it’s advantageous, and wanting to cut ties immediately when it’s disadvantageous.

Isn’t that the life of our politicians?

In that sense, this time, the Celestial coin is crashing.

At least in Hispania.’

If the army of Light had rushed right in front of the gate, the Celestial coin would have soared instead of crashing.

However, the Celestials had just begun to put pressure on Nudia, and even that was blocked by the newly established King of Nudia and his strong supporting force, Ive.

In this case, the Celestials must now make a decision.

They can stop the offensive and show a good cop act like before, trying to persuade them with words.

Or they can think that they have endured enough and accumulated enough, and push it as it is.

Whatever it was, if they hesitated any longer, the image they had built up could be severely damaged.

And if that got worse, the worst thing that could be said was, ‘What’s the difference between them and the demons?’

“…I am very disappointed, Hispania.”

He was a pigeon who left behind a grudge until the end.

He put on the hood he had thrown on the floor and left the conference room, leaving behind words that were neither a request nor a threat, saying that he hoped to meet again in a good place with good intentions.

Perhaps after that, he will leave the royal palace and head to the sanctuary where he started.

“…”

“…”

“…”

After Richel left, only a heavy silence lingered in the conference room.

Vanessa, Marquis Volko, Marquis Joaquin, and Marquis Estia.

All of the other nobles of Hispania who had made a name for themselves could not open their mouths.

All the situations that had just unfolded were so enormous and unbelievable that they could not easily speak.

“Heum.”

Except for only one man.

“I heard it somewhere, but there is a saying like this.”

A voice that doesn’t care at all what happened until just now, or what threats the Celestials made.

Sion continued to speak with his usual relaxed expression.

“If you want to distinguish between enemies and friends, you have to be successful.

Then the enemy will be jealous and try to sabotage you in any way, and the friend will be jealous, but still congratulate you and try to get along better.”

“That means.”

“Those who I thought were the most trustworthy suddenly come and look for criminals, and those who I thought were uncomfortable neighbors are still reaching out to each other to get along better even now.

In this situation, if you’re a sane human being, isn’t it obvious who to grab and who to throw away?”

Sion was openly suggesting to completely switch to a friendly attitude towards the Suin [Beast-people] and the fairies in the royal palace conference room.

Until recently, it was a stage where they were cautiously getting to know each other again, and the reality was that Hispania was also watching to see if the fairies or the Suin would harm the kingdom.

‘It’s better to give trust all at once than to give it little by little.

That way, if you’re betrayed, you can mercilessly destroy them, and if not, you can show off later.’

In addition, it was because he could clearly predict what the Celestials would do next.

If they shook Hispania but the solidarity was stronger than expected, there was a very high possibility that they would challenge again with ‘a method of creating cracks using different races’, which was part of their original plan.

The method the Celestials will use is simple.

Just like now, they suddenly appear in front of them with a 짜잔! [Korean onomatopoeia for “ta-da!”]

And if they show off their sparkling appearance and flutter their feathers a few times, which makes their noses tickle just by looking at them, they will quickly fall over.

That’s what the pigeons were probably thinking.

‘But, it won’t be that easy.

Pigeons.’

The fairies are unknowingly sending suspicious glances at the Celestials due to the Kim Yu-hyun 투하 [Korean term for “dumping” or “dropping”] operation.

The Suin have already been interacting with Hispania for a long time, and decisively, the heads of each tribe, who should have all lost their lives in the novel, are still alive and well, and they all have quite a liking for Sion.

‘Whether it’s life outside or life in the novel, it’s not much different.’

It’s natural to lean towards the side that has at least some connection with them, rather than helping those who they have never even seen properly.

Jiyeon (地緣) [A Chinese term referring to geographical ties or connections], that’s what it’s used for at times like this.

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