Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 393

393

This Opportunity

Kim Yu-hyeon was mortified.

Seriously, utterly mortified.

He had just finished guiding Charles and returned to rest when, without warning, Ekaterina and Shaiella burst into his room.

Even before entering, they were bickering, yet they stubbornly presented something to Kim Yu-hyeon.

“…What is this?”

“Open it. It’s very important.”

Ekaterina replied with a confident smirk.

Kim Yu-hyeon found her behavior and tone irritating, but he didn’t have a good reason to refuse, so he reluctantly accepted the offering.

‘Let’s see what it is that makes you so smug.’

He took it and opened it, then blinked at the words scrawled on the page.

“…”

“Hehehe! Judging by your expression, that human man named Sion really kept his promise. He’s definitely a decent human!”

“…You.”

“Now, come out quickly and let’s have a proper fight, just like it’s written there. This time, let’s really do it right. Don’t worry about my life, just show me your real power, even if it’s just once! Like you did with that Celestial being before!”

Kim Yu-hyeon stared blankly at Ekaterina, who was practically vibrating with excitement, then slowly turned his gaze to Shaiella.

His look seemed to say, ‘She’s like that, but what about you?’

Just as Shaiella was about to speak, Ekaterina cut her off.

“When I said I was going to have a serious fight with you, she begged me, groveling. She asked if she could join, saying she would serve me as the great Dragonkin from now on, and if there was anything she could do.”

“…Shaiella?”

“I couldn’t help it! Yu-hyeon hasn’t been treating me harshly since that day!”

“Seriously, these two are…”

Kim Yu-hyeon couldn’t hide his bewilderment.

Although his encounters with Ekaterina and Shaiella hadn’t been particularly pleasant, and neither of them was exactly altruistic in their motives, they were still doing their jobs in their own way, so he couldn’t just kill them off.

It was like they were a bit of a burden to keep, but too valuable to discard.

“Hoo.”

Kim Yu-hyeon sighed and looked at the note Ekaterina had given him again.

He reconfirmed Sion’s words written inside, groaned, and slowly stood up.

“Alright. Come with me. I’ve already found a place to cause a ruckus anyway.”

Originally, he should have gone to a remote location with no people around, but considering that the enemy might attack again while he was away, Kim Yu-hyeon chose a relatively close location.

In addition, he planned to put on a show of force in a somewhat visible place as a warning to those who were surely watching this place.

“Oh, really? Are you really going to do it properly this time?”

“Just don’t regret it. You crazy woman.”

“I’m already crazy, what are you talking about? Right, Shaiella?”

“I’m perfectly fine. I just want to know more about Yu-hyeon’s power.”

“You say that, but your face is flushed and you’re so excited you don’t know what to do?”

“Shut up, Ekaterina.”

Shaiella tried to sound composed, but her face betrayed her anticipation and excitement.

“…”

‘How did I end up taking in these beasts?’

Kim Yu-hyeon sighed deeply and left the barracks without any special equipment, holding only his sword, as usual.

Immediately after, he didn’t even check if Ekaterina and Shaiella were following him and just took off into the sky.

‘They’re not the type who can’t even follow this much.’

He figured that even if they couldn’t be as fast as him, they should at least be able to keep up to some extent in order to withstand his attack.

Even though Sion had said something, it was an extremely dangerous task, and although the purpose was a bit strange, they were women who had worked hard in their own way, so he didn’t want them to die in vain.

Ta-tat.

Kim Yu-hyeon arrived first on a field with just the right distance.

He was about to time how long it would take for them to arrive when he felt a presence right behind him and involuntarily exclaimed, “Oh!”

A woman who had been following him around, pestering him to fight.

Ekaterina.

It seemed that she had improved her skills in keeping up with Kim Yu-hyeon without even realizing it.

It would have taken her two or three times longer than this before, but now she was following him without much difficulty.

“Hoo, hoo! Damn it! You’re so damn fast!”

Of course, Ekaterina was breathing heavily as if she was about to collapse, as she had been running like crazy instead of pacing herself like Kim Yu-hyeon.

Shaiella, who appeared a little later than her, also had an expression that seemed to say, ‘What kind of man is this?’

Even the highest-ranking Celestial being was cut down without a change in expression, and he was also too fast.

It was so unfair that she couldn’t help but think that it was cheating.

“I’ll start right away. No time to catch your breath, Ekaterina. Step back if it’s too hard.”

“Damn it! Just wait a minute! Hoo, hoo! …You’re really a monster.”

A monster, a monster.

Yes.

He was definitely feeling that way now.

Kim Yu-hyeon himself admitted it at the very moment he effortlessly cut down the highest-ranking Celestial being.

The most powerful beings in the world, the highest-ranking demons and the highest-ranking Celestial beings.

Kim Yu-hyeon himself had absolute superiority, no, a perfect victory against both of them.

At this point, he could only nod and smile even if they called him a monster.

“I’ll give you one warning, Ekaterina. Shaiella.”

Kim Yu-hyeon slowly placed his hand on the sword hilt and spoke.

His voice, which usually didn’t have much inflection, was already a bit eerie, but when the light disappeared from his eyes and he showed no emotion, Shaiella was the first to gasp in surprise.

Following her, Ekaterina also swallowed hard without realizing it.

“You might die, so be prepared.”

“…What preparation? I won’t die. I know what you do. You only put your heart into one attack, right? I can withstand that much, is what I’m saying.”

“It’s okay to be painfully hurt… but I don’t want to die here because I want to know even more pain than that.”

They were really saying strange things.

He wanted to get rid of them quickly and spend some quality time with Eos, but somehow Eos and Ekaterina had become quite close while he was away.

When he asked Eos why, she said they just became friends because they both started with ‘E’?

Of course, that was a lie.

Even if Kim Yu-hyeon was a bit clueless, he wasn’t so foolish as to nod and accept that.

‘If I push Ekaterina a little harder, she tends to spill the beans, so I can ask her how she approached Eos and became friends. Shaiella is…’

Compared to Ekaterina, who always wants to fight, she is, if anything, on the milder side.

At least she doesn’t try to get close to him at every chance, and unlike Ekaterina, she respects Kim Yu-hyeon’s situation.

But that doesn’t mean Shaiella is any more normal.

Ekaterina has an understandable reason for wanting to fight, but Shaiella is just a woman who enjoys being hit by Kim Yu-hyeon’s hands and feet, and being cut by his sword.

So, does she not resist?

That’s not true either.

She resists as much as she can, but she desperately wants and desires the feeling and atmosphere of being broken and tormented by someone stronger than her.

‘Thinking about it like this, it’s even more hopeless.’

Kim Yu-hyeon even muttered that Sirien, the fairy he had met before, was a hundred or a thousand times better if it was a woman who liked him.

He didn’t know how women with such incomprehensible tastes were increasing one by one.

“What are you doing? Are you sleeping! I said, are you sleeping! Are you not going to fight soon? Am I going in first?”

“Yu-hyeon! Please attack me quickly!”

“…Just shut up and wait, both of you.”

Anyway, they were quite troublesome women, but also those who would be killed.

They were beings that he, Sion, and everyone fighting the Celestial beings regretted.

Sion’s warning that if he foolishly pushed away those who followed him all the way here and said they would work hard as he told them to, they might become the most troublesome enemies in the future, came to his mind, so now they had become women he couldn’t even throw away even if he wanted to.

‘The 8th Form is too dangerous. Ekaterina is dangerous, but Shaiella will definitely die.’

It was a form that cut through even the perfect defense of the highest-ranking Celestial being in one blow.

Kim Yu-hyeon himself didn’t usually use the 8th Form because that one blow had the power to end everything.

‘But if I fight with the 5th Form, I’ll only give them mediocre damage like last time. Ekaterina’s personality would make her even more excited and rush at me, and more than anything, it would be disobeying Young Master Sion’s orders, so I can’t do that.’

The 7th Form focused more on other aspects than attack.

Then the only one left was the 6th Form.

‘It’s a good thing I’m attacking, so it fits the situation.’

For reference, he had never used more than the 5th Form on Ekaterina.

He didn’t need to go that far, as she would eventually collapse on her own just by using basic swordsmanship or even unarmed combat to beat her up.

“Be nervous. This isn’t just a saying, it’s a warning.”

If Kim Yu-hyeon said something like that, it meant they really had to be nervous.

Ekaterina and Shaiella knew that very well, so they immediately closed their mouths and prepared to defend themselves, ready to minimize the damage from any attack that came from anywhere.

Tak, tak, tak.

In the meantime, Kim Yu-hyeon slowly moved his feet.

At first, he seemed to be moving very slowly, as if he was just taking a walk, but soon his figure became blurred and he closed the distance to the two women in the blink of an eye.

“…?”

Too fast!

What is that!

It was a sight that made you exclaim involuntarily.

Ekaterina, who had fought Kim Yu-hyeon countless times compared to Shaiella, gritted her teeth and tried to find his figure, but his sword was much faster.

‘6th Form.’

The sunlight shattered from Kim Yu-hyeon’s sword, which was drawn from its scabbard.

At the same time, the light that had been pouring in one place suddenly poured out in all directions, shattered, flew around, and began to dance like crazy.

“I.”

Tuwoong!

Tuwoong!―

It sounded as if countless arrows were pouring out from the sword Kim Yu-hyeon was wielding, and they were all hitting the sword and bouncing off.

And all the fragments of light that bounced off instead of arrows flew straight towards Ekaterina and Shaiella.

“Ugh?”

“Aaaaa?”

The two women could only scream in the dance of the flashes that seemed to deflect light, with an enormous surge of magical power they had never felt before.

‘Young Master Sion, I have definitely carried out your orders.’

For reference, inside the note that Ekaterina had happily handed over, saying that she only needed to see Kim Yu-hyeon.

―Kill them until they’re on the verge of death.

―

Sion’s eerie phrase was included to relieve Kim Yu-hyeon’s stress and to teach them a good lesson that they shouldn’t mess with him.

―

“Lord. This is Lion, the commander of the Knights.”

“…Come in.”

At Lord Lichten’s permission, Lion carefully opened the door and entered.

He always showed respect to his eternal master, Lord Lichten, but now he was speaking and acting even more carefully than usual.

“…Are you still doing that?”

The reason why Lion, the commander of the Knights, said that.

Since a letter had been delivered a few days ago, he had been silent, taking out a sword and staring at it intently.

Those who didn’t know the situation would react by saying they didn’t know what was going on, but Lion, the commander of the Knights, who had lived in the territory of Lord Klauzen for a long time, knew what it was.

‘The sword that Marquis Volko Ledenen sent to Lord to celebrate his victory a long time ago.’

The sword looked very ordinary on the outside, but in fact, it was a sword that Marquis Volko Ledenen had taken from the commander of the opposing side in a duel when he went to war in the past, and Marquis Volko had presented his trophy and the item commemorating his victory to Lord Lichten.

Even though they seemed to be in a subtle conflict when they met, and were seen by others as uncomfortable, they were allies and reliable friends who recognized and trusted each other in their own way.

‘It’s only natural that Lord was quite shocked by the news that such a person had died in battle.’

It was said that the commander-in-chief, who was supposed to be in charge of commanding from the rear, not the knight at the front, had died in battle.

Sion Klauzen had said that he had left safely after sending the advance team, but Marquis Volko, who was supposed to leave with the rest of the Hispania forces later, had been angered.

“Foolish man. Did he still think he was a vigorous thirty-year-old? He should have known how to step back when he thought it was dangerous.”

Lion, the commander of the Knights, smiled bitterly at Lord Lichten’s muttering.

Lord Lichten himself was someone who never retreated in the face of the enemy.

For such a person to say why he didn’t think of retreating to survive meant that he was very saddened by the news of Marquis Volko’s death.

“But if it hadn’t been for Marquis Volko Ledenen, all the soldiers who had to go to the second defense line would have been chased and annihilated, and Young Master Sion would not have been able to buy time to hold out.”

“…The Marquis knew that, so he held out until he died. The knights and soldiers under his command would have understood the will of such a commander and fought to the death.”

Lord Lichten sighed, closed his eyes, and leaned deeply into his chair for a moment.

Even in a situation that was already difficult enough due to the refugee problem, the news of his friend’s death was added, and he seemed to be overwhelmed with fatigue.

Lord Lichten, who had been drooping for a while, took a breath as if trying to pull himself together and slowly opened his eyes.

“You must have come to me because there is other news. Tell me, Commander of the Knights.”

At Lord Lichten’s words, Lion, the commander of the Knights, handed him the letter he was holding.

The Lord, who received it, could only tilt his head in confusion after a while, as if something was wrong.

“This is…”

Most of the letters that were usually delivered to Lord Lichten came from Hispania, or from Sion, who was fighting on the Nudia front.

However, the letter he received this time was completely different from the outside, and it was a letter from the Nudia royal family.

“Nudia, it seems to have the royal seal on it.”

“That’s right. It is said that the King of Nudia in the territory of Count Basura sent it to the Lord.”

“…To me? The King of Nudia?”

This was the first time such a thing had happened, and it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

However, with the king located less than a day away, it was no longer impossible.