Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 369

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Counterattack

Ru, the current leader of the highest-ranking Celestials, was deeply troubled.

His younger sister, Shaiella, whom he thought was merely delayed in her return, had completely disappeared without a trace.

Her mission was to secretly move and raid the southern region of Hispania [the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal].

It was meant to be a surprise attack, not a full-scale war, an act to create shock. He had even instructed her not to overextend and to retreat to safety if she was followed.

Shaiella was quite eager for battle, but that was only because she found it interesting to ‘educate’ her opponents; she was not a battle maniac like the Dragonkins.

Therefore, he thought she would heed his command to retreat if things didn’t seem right, but she had been silent for almost a month.

‘I secretly investigated Hispania, but I haven’t heard any reports of our light descendants being captured and killed in the south.’

If Hispania knew about this, they would surely try to exploit it somehow.

They are treacherous enough to do that, but even they are silent.

Ultimately, the conclusion was that Shaiella and her Celestial subordinates had been completely eliminated by someone without leaving a single clue.

‘Who could it be?’

The first one he thought of was the Dragonkin woman.

He didn’t know why, but he had confirmed that she was siding with the humans and opposing them.

There was only one of her, but the Celestials and Demons all knew how powerful a Dragonkin could be, so Ru considered Ekaterina the prime suspect.

However, he soon shook his head.

‘The timing doesn’t match.’

Why else would they be called ‘Dragonkin’ and not ‘Dragon?’

Like the dragons in legends, they have huge tails, horns on their heads, and scattered scales, but they don’t have wings.

Except for monsters, only Celestials can fly through the sky, ignoring terrain.

Of course, some of the highest-ranking Demons had wings, but they had all been torn off, so it was meaningless now.

Anyway, the timing didn’t add up.

According to the report that had just arrived, three high-ranking Celestials and several mid- and low-ranking Celestials were defeated by a Dragonkin when the Holy Prussen army was attacked.

Based on various eyewitness accounts, he could conclude that it was the same Dragonkin, which naturally excluded her from the list of suspects.

‘If several high-ranking knights from the human side had set up an ambush in advance, it’s possible.

She might be at a disadvantage if she had to face several opponents at once, even if it was Hana.

But Shaiella wouldn’t be someone who couldn’t escape from that situation, and if humans were involved, the news should have spread widely.

But it’s too quiet right now.

It’s as if Hispania knows nothing.’

So, of course, Hispania was out too.

Perhaps it would be possible if skilled individuals from the Fairies or Beastkins were involved, but it was almost impossible because there was no explanation as to why they would be there in the first place.

Ru then suddenly remembered what he had said to Shaiella.

‘I will definitely educate that human man.’

‘Ah, what kind of screams will that man make when he is being educated!’

‘He is strong.

He is strong, but he can be reached with a little more effort.’

‘He is almost as strong as you, brother. Be careful, because you couldn’t even imagine him as a human.’

After further investigation, he found out that the human man’s name was ‘Kim Yu-hyun.’

He had received a knighthood in Hispania, but he was not born there, nor was he from Nudia or Holy Prussen.

Some say he came from a very distant place across the sea, but what is certain is that he was not from the continent.

Was that why he was so strong?

According to subsequent reports, there were several things that showed he was stronger than he could have imagined, and the most shocking part for Ru was that he had defeated Shaiella.

‘How could a human reach that level?’

Shaiella couldn’t have been careless.

That was not just his personal opinion as her brother, but the opinion of most Celestials.

She was one of the top Celestials, and she had more combat experience than most high-ranking Celestials, so she would never make such a basic mistake.

If she was defeated by Kim Yu-hyun, then he was the one who the Celestials should be most wary of.

‘But Shaiella said that she could catch him if she got a little stronger, and that a top-ranking Celestial could defeat him without much difficulty.’

It was a bit of a blow to his pride that a top-ranking Celestial had to deal with one human.

But if he was that strong, he could put aside such pride and deal with him, as the Celestials were in a rather urgent situation.

Things had changed far too differently from what they had expected and thought.

The Fairies and Beastkins seemed like they would give them their liver and gallbladder if they were descendants of light [an idiom meaning they would offer everything].

But at some point, they turned around, drove out their fellow light-worshipers, and joined hands with the humans who were hostile to the Celestials.

What about the humans?

Holy Prussen was their home turf, but they had not even completely occupied Hispania or Nudia.

The king, who had been completely under their control, was overthrown, and after a new king and a new force came in, there was a subtle movement to distance themselves from the teachings of light, which was fatal.

Hispania, which was even further away, was completely the worst, needless to say.

Even though they sent their fellow Celestials, they did not waver; instead, they cursed the Celestials and claimed that they were the light, good, and justice.

“…We were too hasty.”

Things were not going as planned, so they had no choice but to become impatient.

And as they became impatient, they lost their composure, and as their composure disappeared, all their actions and words became thorny and sharp.

Those things were directly reflected in their words and actions without filtering to Holy Prussen, the Fairies, and the Celestials themselves, so those who thought they would naturally follow the teachings of light said, ‘This is not the light I imagined,’ and turned their backs and ran away or began to resist.

Even the territory of Nudia, which was supposed to be cleaned up, had many problems, and some of the Holy Prussen army had to be deployed in various places to deal with it, and the Fairies, as well as the Celestials themselves, had to move busily.

Thanks to this, the Nudia army was able to continue to defend its line, and Hispania succeeded in reaching Nudia.

And the Demons were still watching from behind, biding their time.

“Hoo.”

Where did it all go wrong?

Who on earth ruined all their plans?

Who is that person who seems to know everything from the beginning, as if there is a traitor inside, and who brings everything to his will from the very beginning to the end?

Ru was about to close his eyes and ponder when a voice spoke.

“Ru, I’m coming in.”

A man entered with a low-pitched voice.

He was a man with several pure white wings like Ru, and his eyes were flashing with light.

“Welcome, Cha.”

At Ru’s greeting, the man called ‘Cha’ glanced around and sat down roughly.

Then, he stared at Ru and gestured as if he had something to say.

“What is it? Is something wrong?”

“I caught them while repelling the Demons.”

“What are you talking about?”

“That bitch. The Demon you were once obsessed with and lost your mind for a while.”

Ru’s expression instantly hardened.

He was reminded of his foolish and stupid actions in the past that he never wanted to recall.

Ru was recognized as the leader of the top Celestials and was truly the center of the Celestials, but he had once gone astray.

‘Lilith.’

In a fight where one of the Celestials and Demons must die, a strange heart bloomed.

Even Ru, the most powerful of all, felt a desire he had never felt before when he faced Lilith, the highest-ranking Demon.

He still doesn’t know why.

Whether the desires he had been holding back until now exploded by force because of Lilith, or whether he himself was momentarily corrupted with Lilith as an excuse.

“You made a lot of mistakes when you met that bitch.”

“…”

“You even divulged some of our fellow Celestials’ secrets.”

“Shut up, Cha.”

Cha brought up Ru’s past mistakes, which only the top Celestials knew about, and Ru frowned and hardened his expression.

Cha smiled at Ru’s openly displeased appearance, turned his head to look outside, and said, ‘Bring her in.’

Soon after, five high-ranking Celestials, covered in wounds, dragged in a woman.

The woman’s condition also looked quite bad, but she couldn’t hide her alluring appearance and figure.

Thud!―

“Well, I’ll give you two time to talk. Let’s think about what to do with this bitch after that.”

Cha chuckled and got up from his seat.

He pretended not to, but he was unhappy that Ru was staying in their leader position.

In the past, he was fascinated by the figure of a Demon woman and divulged some information, and then he dragged on the situation to such a difficult moment, saying that he would draw a perfect picture when he could have just pushed it away with force, so he couldn’t have good feelings.

The reason why he didn’t kill Lilith this time and captured her alive was to stimulate Ru.

At the same time, he wanted to create a gap in Ru, push him back, and put a very aggressive person in the leader’s position and completely push him away without looking back.

“…”

Ru closed his eyes and bit his lip slightly.

It was as if he had already returned to the past of a hundred years ago, and the scent lingering at the tip of his nose was so fragrant.

If he reached out his hand right now, he felt like he could touch her soft and smooth skin.

“Long time no see?”

A sweet voice gently reaches Ru’s ear.

Ru, who escaped from the illusion of the past at that sound, opens his eyes and looks at the woman kneeling in front of him.

“…Lilith.”

“Hello, Ru.”

The clothes she was wearing were torn here and there, her body was covered in wounds, and her face was dirty because she hadn’t even wiped off the blood properly.

Nevertheless, the Demon woman’s insanely beautiful figure could never be hidden.

Rather, her disheveled appearance seemed to maximize her beauty even more.

“…I thought you retreated with the Demons.”

“Ah, shut up. I got caught trying to save a damn bitch.”

“Are you talking about Bahamut?”

“You know?”

“You used to curse Bahamut a lot.”

At Ru’s answer, Lilith smiled playfully, ‘Is that so?’

Because that smile was so fatal, Ru coughed and tried to be careful not to fall for her figure like before.

“What? I thought you would laugh and say you liked it like before.”

“I didn’t know exactly what kind of being you were back then.”

“Idiot. How could a top Celestial not recognize that I was the highest-ranking Demon and fall in love with me? I was so dumbfounded, do you know how funny it was to see a Celestial being unable to do anything even though I was a Demon and just liked me?”

A long time ago, when Ru and Lilith accidentally ran into each other.

Even though they knew they were each other’s enemies, the two men and women did not fight properly.

To be exact, Ru fell in love at first sight and couldn’t fight properly, and Lilith didn’t fight properly on purpose to play with Ru.

Ru knew that she was a Demon, but he didn’t think that she was Lilith, the highest-ranking Demon.

In addition to Lilith’s acting, the biggest reason was that he fell in love with her beauty at first sight, so his ability to identify the opponent became dull.

“I still remember. Hey, what did you say? Did you say that you wouldn’t kill me if I let you touch me once? Do you remember how much I laughed back then?”

“…”

A top Celestial faced a Demon.

Of course, it was right to punish their sworn enemy, but Ru tried to make a deal instead.

He wanted to hold that beautiful flower in his hand, even if it was just once.

He wanted to breathe in the scent and put a petal on his lips.

How beautiful and fatal it was, he thought that there was a being that could shake him, the top Celestial, so much.

“…Let’s stop with the old stories.”

Ru muttered in a voice that was twice as cold as usual.

The only weakness and mistake that he, the top Celestial who had to be perfect, had.

His face flushed as it was brought up again, and he felt annoyed for no reason.

“Why? I miss it quite a bit. I was going to have a good time back then, but your good-for-nothing fellow Celestials and younger sisters came and interfered. Ah, if it weren’t for those bastards back then, I could have been the first Demon to eat a top Celestial.”

“…”

Clearly, Ru had the power of life and death over Lilith in the current situation, but when she spoke, it seemed as if Lilith had the power of life and death over Ru.

Suddenly, Ru stood up from his seat and walked over to Lilith.

Then, he looked at the extraordinarily fatal, poisonous beauty of the Demon woman for a while, knelt down in front of her, and gently lifted Lilith’s chin.

“It’s different from then. You are our enemies, and if you weren’t there, we could complete our task faster and more reliably.”

“That’s good. That task, task. I’m tired of hearing it. When I first met you, you said you were going to purify the continent and create a new world on it, but you’re still doing this.”

“This is the purpose of our descendants of light.”

“Don’t lie. The purpose of living things is just to live. No being lives to die.”

Lilith turns her head away as if rejecting the man’s touch!

Ru stared at her for a while, bit his lip, and grabbed her chin again.

Then, after hesitating for a while, he slowly began to stroke her cheek with his other hand.

“Really, you’re an evil woman.”

“…”

“Just meeting you once shakes me up like this; this is too much of a foul.”

Ru’s touch goes further and further down.

Starting with her cheeks, passing her chin, continuing to her neck, and finally to the woman’s plump breasts.

At that moment, Lilith looked into Ru’s eyes and soon let out a sigh, ‘Ha!’

Even though they are always talking about light, good, and justice, it seems that their true nature is inevitable.

She accurately caught the desire and greed that flashed inside.

“I’m sorry, but I won’t be excited by your touch.”

“…I don’t know if a Succubus [a demon in female form thought to prey on men] can do that.”

“Don’t worry. I’ve already made a contract, so I can’t feel anything unless it’s that man.”

“What?”

Just as Ru was about to ask a question and demand an answer, a sudden explosion was heard, and soon red flames and flashing lights covered all sides.

The explosion felt like it was meant to block all the senses here rather than to attack.

Because none of the Celestials had anticipated the surprise attack on the base, even Ru, the top Celestial, was momentarily flustered and didn’t know what to do, and the voices of women were faintly heard from beyond the explosion.

“…You bitch! What are you saying… and acting up…”

“…You came to do… hurry up and… solve it…!”