Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 41

After mingling with the nobles for a reasonable amount of time, Zion left the royal palace before it got too late.

He felt that if he stayed there any longer, he might be surrounded by noble young ladies and subjected to some strange ordeal.

Estia kept looking at him with strange eyes, and Ludwig kept glaring at him as if he wanted to kill him while looking at Estia. Those gazes were quite tiring, but the biggest reason was something else.

“…”

The Princess had been staring at him the whole time.

Like a little kid who found something very interesting during a boring church service, she was only looking at him, not at anyone else.

‘If you have a complaint, say it! If you have something to say, then say it, damn it!

At this rate, she’s going to shoot laser beams from her eyes!

And then fizzle out.’

Eventually, Zion, fed up with the attention, announced that he would be leaving.

Many noble young ladies couldn’t hide their disappointment and tried to hold him back, but Zion smoothly replied that they would all be here tomorrow anyway.

Tomorrow is a party, and the day after tomorrow is also a party. In the first place, the royal party lasts for five days.

However, in the novel, an incident occurs on the third day of the party, the day after tomorrow, and it is interrupted.

“You’ve arrived, Master.

No, Young Master.”

Rishikida was still struggling between calling him Master and Young Master.

He wanted to tell her to just call him whatever she wanted, but Zion felt more comfortable with Young Master for now, since he was neither the Count of Klausen Fiefdom nor the publicly announced successor.

“How was the party?”

Lilith approached him as he entered the mansion-style villa prepared inside the royal palace.

As she casually linked her arm with his, a soft, warm, and squishy sensation touched his forearm.

Lucia, who was watching the scene with a very displeased look, opened her mouth instead.

“He forced his way out of the nobles’ grasp.

He said he didn’t want to stay in such a place for long.”

“Hmm?

Why?

Weren’t you secretly looking forward to this party?”

“I was looking forward to it.

But I was looking forward to something else.”

For nobles, the royal party is not just a place to eat and drink, but also a place to strengthen their alliances, make new friends, and gather information about the political situation.

Zion was fed up with the glittering eyes that were always looking for prey, so he just slipped out.

Lucia wondered what he had been doing in the royal palace all along, but it seemed that she had been caught by the magicians who were curious about Raido’s news and had been talking about this and that.

She was so fed up with their barrage of questions that she even uttered the curse ‘You crazy bastards!’

Lucia, who seemed quite tired, said she would go and rest first and went up to her room. Kim Yu-hyun glanced at Zion for a moment and then headed to his room, following Lucia.

Zion, who had confirmed that the two of them had disappeared upstairs, was about to open his mouth.

“Sniff, sniff.

Ugh, I smell other women all over Zion’s body.”

“…I didn’t do anything.”

“I know, I know.

I just mean that there’s a lot of the scent of women who covet you.”

“Lilith, what do you mean by that?”

“Rishi, really.

What else would I be if not a succubus? [A demon that seduces men in their dreams.]

If you look at someone with sexual desire, the traces remain.

How should I put it?

It’s like marking them with your saliva.”

“…That’s possible just by looking?”

“Not really, it’s just that the emotions remain.

And I can find that out more sensitively than anyone else.

Sniff, sniff, sniff!”

Lilith kept sniffing as if she were a drug detection dog.

Zion decided to change the subject right away, as the atmosphere seemed to be getting strange again.

“More than that, what about the work I asked you to do?

Has there been any progress?”

Lilith shook her head at Zion’s question.

Rishikida also just muttered, “I’m sorry,” and lowered her head.

It seemed that today was a bust.

“Simple exploration is not enough.

Unless I use my power.”

“You know that’s not possible, right?

Magic detection is very sensitive in the middle of the royal palace.”

“Of course I know.

That’s why I’ve been searching with my head buried in the ground like a human.”

Lilith sighed.

“Shall we go now?

In the middle of the night, those guys secretly…”

“No, there’s no need to do that.

They’re voluntarily working overtime, so let’s just leave them alone.”

“Huh?

Then why did you tell me to look for them until now?”

“It would be a little strange to visit them out of the blue.”

The unprecedented incident that will happen in two days.

The royal palace raid and the attempted assassination of nobles.

In the middle of the royal party, a huge explosion suddenly rang out, and one side of the royal palace’s solid walls completely collapsed.

It was the first royal palace raid in the history of the Kingdom of Hispania, and the first attack on the royal palace in almost 200 years.

The Knights were immediately deployed, but the intruders, taking advantage of the gap, managed to enter and attack the nobles who were watching the situation.

Fortunately, there were no noble deaths.

No one in the royal family was hurt.

Some of the attackers escaped, and the rest took their own lives.

The problem started right there.

At first, those who were alive breathed a sigh of relief, but as time passed, they began to ask the question, ‘Who attacked me?’

The moment when the person who had survived with you in hell until yesterday becomes a son of a bitch who may have been plotting to kill you.

The subtle power struggles between the nobles that had been going on without anyone knowing, and the checks and balances against each other.

The nobles’ unkind gaze towards the royal family, and the noble families that were suspicious of the royal family.

All of that combined to quickly plunge Hispania into a cold war.

‘I just threw a stone, but they fought over that stone, saying it was your fault or my fault.’

Why is there a story in Greek mythology like that?

When a stone is thrown among soldiers, they fight over it, saying it’s you or me, and then they all die.

What will happen in the future was exactly like that.

Someone else will ask.

No, aren’t they idiots and don’t suspect other external forces?

What crazy person would attack a party where they are also present?

‘Originally, a real show requires risking one’s own life.’

If you receive an assassination attempt, your approval rating will rise.

The divided public opinion becomes one.

It’s an obvious story, an obvious development, but the situation flows differently.

If it’s not a personal matter, but all sorts of political factors are mixed in, then 1 plus 1 is not a situation of 2, but a situation of shit.

‘As revealed later, the royal palace bombing was committed by those who had been brainwashed by the fairy race.

And the fairies who used that brainwashing were the action leaders of the extremists.’

The race that follows the Celestial Race the best on the continent is the Fairy Race.

They, who call themselves the descendants of the angels, were the first to come forward and help the Celestial Race when the Celestial Race’s continental purification war broke out later.

Of course, the Celestial Race muttered, ‘Yeah, you’ll be purged too,’ and burned them all to ashes.

‘I wanted Rishikida and Lilith to find the forces that support those extremist IS… no, the Fairy Race, as much as possible… but if this is the case, should I just step in?’

Zion already knows who is supporting them.

However, if he went to them as soon as he started and said, ‘I know everything, so tell me everything,’ he would definitely be treated as crazy bastard number 1, so he tried to find a suitable excuse.

“I’ll ask you one more time tomorrow.

Lilith, and Rishi.”

“Okay.

Well, it wasn’t bad to see how humans live.”

“Master, I mean, Young Master, I will just follow your orders.”

If there were no good results tomorrow either, Zion was thinking of visiting them before the incident in two days.

Of course, he has no intention of persuading them with all his heart.

Rather, he was worried about making them commit the crime and using it in reverse.

‘You could say that the list of people to kill is roughly complete….’

He roughly made a list of those who were harmful to the survival of Hispania.

Zion was agonizing over choosing the one who could be buried most cleanly.

‘Hmm?’

He came up to the upper floor where his room was, and he saw someone standing in front of his room.

At first, he thought it was Lucia, but she was too tall to be her.

Above all, the eyes that flashed even in the darkness were truly eerie.

Who else went up to the second floor besides Lucia and himself?

As Zion thought about it, he suddenly remembered a man and froze in place.

‘Damn it!’

It’s Kim Yu-hyun, it must be Kim Yu-hyun.

Why is that terrifying guy suddenly standing in front of his room?

In an instant, all sorts of imaginations ran through Zion’s head.

‘Is he trying to take care of what he didn’t like all this time in this dark night?

Like, Lucia is my woman, so if you touch her, I’ll make sure you never see your little thing again, something like that?

Or did he notice that I’m not from this world?’

Kim Yu-hyun was definitely not at the party earlier.

So, he slightly changed ‘A Firefighter’s Prayer’ to a soldier’s letter and read it in front of the nobles in a very sad and poignant way, didn’t he?

‘But there’s no way that the nobles didn’t blab about the contents, and that Kim Yu-hyun didn’t hear it.’

Thinking about it that way, Zion’s heart became eerie.

If that man asks, ‘Hey, you, where are you from?’ how should he answer?

I don’t know what you’re talking about, this Zion Klausen doesn’t know.

Should I answer that?

Or should I say that I was actually an ordinary young man from Korea?

“Young Master Zion.”

The moment he heard the low voice, Zion’s spine turned cold.

It wasn’t because his voice was scary, or because he had a strong murderous aura.

Right now, Kim Yu-hyun was speaking without any negative emotions, in a voice that wasn’t particularly anything.

In that case, it’s unlikely that he’ll say, ‘Don’t wag your tail at Lucia, you bastard,’ or ‘Where’s your house?’ but why is Zion getting even more nervous?

‘Damn it!

I’m more scared of this situation right now!’

Excluding the two possibilities, it feels like ‘maybe’ is becoming real.

Why Kim Yu-hyun had been a stone statue in front of so many female characters, and why he had only destroyed the hearts of women and was leisurely himself, was a situation that was fully expected.

He just thought that the author didn’t like the scene where the overpowered protagonist had countless women on his side, but he never knew that he was hiding such a secret!

‘You, you bastard.

You’re not impotent, you just don’t like women!’

Zion instinctively took a step back in disgust, and Kim Yu-hyun tilted his head.

‘Get away, you crazy bastard!

I like women.

I don’t like men, damn it!’

He thought that this handsome face was still a good part, but if his appearance was shining even in this situation, Zion really just wanted to kick it.

“There’s something I want to ask you.”

“…What is it?”

Kim Yu-hyun continued, looking at Zion, who was showing a strong sense of vigilance towards him.

“I heard a story that you said something like that at the party.”

Then Zion felt a sense of throbbing in his heart again.

That guy, does he know A Firefighter’s Prayer?

He doesn’t remember that Kim Yu-hyun has a setting that he knows this and that like him?

Kim Yu-hyun, who didn’t know anything about Zion’s worries, stared at the other person with sunken eyes.

“That even though you won the war, you’re not happy, you’re not happy.

That you witnessed the war directly and that everything is useless, that word, I mean.”

“…So?”

Zion wanted to say something to the effect that if you answer ‘Were you serious?’ with that kind of expression, wouldn’t anyone come and answer ‘Yes! I’m serious!’

Thinking that he really hated guys who killed the other person with their expression without shedding a single drop of momentum, Zion opened his mouth as if it was obvious.

“You think I lied?”

“…”

“I was there too.

I fought with them, and I overcame the crisis of dying together.”

“…”

“Those who say that war is amazing and wonderful should be thrown into the middle of it.

That’s how they’ll realize it.

The most amazing and wonderful thing in the world is to eat a full meal at home, chat with your family, and fall asleep on a cozy blanket.”

Kim Yu-hyun was silent for quite a while at Zion’s sharp answer.

With the words that he would go in first if he didn’t have anything more to say, Zion passed by Kim Yu-hyun with a confident gait, without any trace of his previous appearance.

Of course, while passing by, he muttered in his heart, ‘Don’t move, don’t open your mouth, just don’t do anything until I leave, damn it.’

“Let me ask you something too.”

Before entering the room, Zion looked at Kim Yu-hyun and opened his mouth.

Then Kim Yu-hyun turned around and looked at him.

He seemed a little nervous, wondering if he was going to ask a question on a heavy topic.

“How’s the princess?”

“…?”

In an instant, Kim Yu-hyun wondered if he had misheard something.

Why is that kind of question suddenly coming out in this atmosphere?

“I know that the princess went to Lucia once before the party.

Since she’s Raido’s daughter, everyone must be curious and wanted to meet her.

Of course, you must have seen Princess Vanessa.”

“I saw her.”

“That’s right.

How was the princess?

What was your first impression, something like that.”

Kim Yu-hyun, who blinked his eyes for a moment, just answered because he couldn’t understand the intention of this question itself.

“I don’t know.”

“Oh.”

But Zion seemed to have misunderstood that answer in a slightly strange direction.

Zion smiled, saying he understood, and went into the room.

Kim Yu-hyun just shrugged his shoulders, looking at the Young Master of Klausen Fiefdom with strange eyes for a moment.

And the second day of the royal party arrived.