Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 6

It was nothing; he had simply gone out for some air because he felt stifled and returned late.

After explaining that he would clarify everything once his thoughts were organized the next day, Sion barely managed to escape Lichten’s grasp.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, Lichten didn’t seem to have him followed this time. He simply told Sion to return to his room and rest, promising to discuss it again the next day.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

He thought he had made a pretty good start, but he had made a mistake in an unexpected area.

In the original story, Sion at this point doesn’t know who Lucia’s daughter is, nor who Raido is.

Only later, as time passes, does he learn that the woman he tried to assault was once the only daughter of someone who had risen to the great position of court magician.

Thanks to this, Sion suffers a spiteful revenge from Raido right there at the grand banquet hall and becomes the laughingstock of many nobles gathered there.

There were many other reasons for his twisted personality, but that incident was also a significant factor.

But this time, things are flowing strangely.

Lucia returned with Kim Yu-hyun without any incident.

Even the way she looked at him was unusual, and he even mentioned Raido’s identity to her.

He revealed a truth that only his father, Lichten Clausen, knew in this frontier territory.

‘I was showing off like a know-it-all reader, and now I’m about to get reamed.’

He thought he would be unconditionally advantageous because he knew the entire novel, but as he became insensitive to the story’s flow, the information he knew came out of his mouth too quickly, potentially causing things to go awry.

Sion resolved that his first and second priorities would be to watch his mouth as he descended the stairs.

“Young Master.”

Sion was about to have a heart attack, thanks to Sebastian, who called out to him without a sound, approaching from who knows where.

It’s normal for an ordinary person to be surprised when someone approaches without a sound, but the shell appears to be just an elderly butler, while the core is a monster capable of fighting the protagonist to some extent. It was a natural consequence that a person with a normal heart would be horrified.

He wanted to shout at him to at least make some noise, but Sion shook off the temptation with superhuman patience.

No, to be honest, it would be more accurate to say it was superhuman survival instinct.

“Sebastian.”

“Yes, Young Master. Is there anything you wish to say?”

As he said that, the look in his eyes was shining so brightly that it seemed excessive.

The original Sion would have scolded him around this time to stop wasting time and go do his job, but the current Sion, who knows Sebastian’s true nature, couldn’t dare say such a thing.

He might get his head chopped off at any moment if he acted carelessly in front of this old man.

Wishing to escape from the terrifying old man as soon as possible, Sion smiled and said.

“It’s late today, so I’d like to rest for now.”

“Ah, please forgive my absent-mindedness. I am sorry, Young Master.”

He wished he would just step back at this point, but Sebastian insisted on escorting Sion to his room, even urging him to hurry along.

Sion wasn’t some outside guest, and there was no reason to need an escort to find his own room.

‘Please just get lost! Damn it! You’re freaking scary!’

He was a prosecutor with a different kind of crazy disposition than Kim Yu-hyun.

So much so that even when he was working in the Royal Secret Guard Knights, he didn’t like it and kicked off the honorable position.

He was a man who was more comfortable with ambushes or using schemes, to the point where the expression ‘assassin’ was more fitting than ‘knight’ or ‘prosecutor’.

That scary old man now had a beaming smile on his face, urging him to come quickly and cackling like a nice old grandfather.

The words, ‘Stop acting like a fool and go swing your sword!’ rose right to the bottom of his throat, but Sion succeeded in suppressing it this time with his superhuman survival instinct.

‘Please, just go away somewhere…’

Starting with Kim Yu-hyun, and then Sebastian.

He had already met and experienced two of those who were said to be in the top ten in terms of power in the novel.

Sion was seriously worried that he might die of a heart attack right away.

Thump—thump—thump—

‘Huh?’

He heard the sound of something bouncy bouncing off the floor and approaching.

The sound grew closer to Sion, and soon a small ball bumped into his instep and stopped there.

Sion was just thinking, ‘What ball?’ and was about to pick it up when…

“Ah!”

A sigh like a scream was heard.

Sion turned his head and faced a small child, blinking his eyes and standing still, frozen in place.

‘That kid… could it be Aden?’

Sion Clausen’s half-brother, Aden Clausen.

The original mistress of the Clausen estate and Sion’s mother had passed away early due to illness, and Frontier Count Lichten had lived alone for quite a long time without marrying another woman.

Then, seven years ago, he married a daughter from a noble family due to some event, and another boy was born between them.

That child was Aden Clausen.

‘Sion was said to be very jealous, wary, and hateful of his young brother.’

In the first place, there is a 15-year age difference.

Even though Aden’s mother is not a concubine but the legal wife, Sion is not a son of a concubine but a legitimate son, and if there is a large age difference between the children like this, the heir position naturally goes to the elder.

Sion had a lot of suspicion and jealousy, even though he had no abilities or achievements.

In the end, he committed all sorts of threats and cruel acts against his half-brother, and eventually Aden fled the frontier territory as if running away.

He was only 12 years old at the time.

‘…Asshole. He must have been quite a pain in the ass to that young kid from the start.’

Aden’s eyes were shaking as he looked at Sion.

As if he had met a fierce and persistent wolf while walking down the street.

“Playing ball in the castle.”

Aden’s body flinched as Sion’s mouth opened.

Sebastian, who was standing behind Sion, clicked his tongue inwardly at the already frightened appearance.

‘This brat is going to pounce on his brother again. Where is the Countess, and how did the little young master end up wandering around alone and running into this guy?’

If left unchecked, this guy with sharp teeth will tear his brother’s chest indiscriminately again, so Sebastian decided to step in.

If he could divert his attention, he might be able to buy Aden enough time to escape quickly; that was Sebastian’s intention.

“Come here.”

But Sion opened his mouth before Sebastian could even step in.

It would be better to run away as it is, but Aden was too scared of Sion, or perhaps he couldn’t refuse the words of this so-called brother, so he hesitated but eventually came to Sion’s front.

“….”

The difference felt even more severe as a twenty-year-old young man and a five-year-old child stood facing each other.

Sebastian was about to brave the rudeness and stop Sion, wondering if something really big was going to happen.

‘Hmm?’

Sebastian had to doubt his own eyes.

Sion slowly knelt down and lowered his waist to match Aden’s eye level.

“Since you hit this brother with a ball, you’ll have to be punished.”

“B, brother. Th, this is….”

“Tomorrow, you’re playing ball with this brother. I’m going to play with you so much that you won’t even think about playing ball in the castle, so you’ll have to come prepared.”

Aden’s eyes, which looked like they were about to shed tears at the word ‘punishment’, widened rapidly.

In addition, Sebastian’s eyes, who was standing next to him, also widened to the size of a full moon.

‘Am I hearing things? Am I dreaming? Am I going to die tomorrow?’

All sorts of thoughts came to mind, but this was neither a hallucination nor a dream.

Well, he might die tomorrow, but at least it was certain that what was happening now was not an illusion.

“Hurry and take it. This brother’s arm hurts.”

Sion handed the ball to Aden, who was standing blankly.

As Aden hurriedly received the ball, the eldest son of the Clausen estate smiled and began to move his feet again.

Aden was staring blankly at the sight, and Sebastian was fiddling with his chin, groaning, and quickly caught up with him.

“….”

And all their conversations were being watched silently by a noblewoman.

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“Rest in peace, Young Master.”

If you want me to rest in peace, please get lost!

Sebastian barely closed the door and disappeared before Sion exploded.

Sion, who was finally alone, threw himself on the bed as if all the strength had been drained from his body.

“Phew….”

Only a little over two hours had passed.

But those hours felt longer to Sion than an eternity.

Just yesterday, he was an extremely ordinary young man in Korea who lived for the pleasure of reading novels, but after receiving the author’s absurd reply, he had become a villain in the novel.

Moreover, he was the worst and weakest villain who constantly interfered with the protagonist and ended up kidnapping Lucia, who was a heroine, with his constant patheticness, despite not having the ability or effort.

“What the hell is going on….”

He really did all sorts of things and said all sorts of things in that short amount of time to survive.

Just now, he even pretended to be a good brother, thinking that if his relationship with Aden was amicable, it might have a beneficial effect on Sion’s life.

He himself is an only son with no siblings!

Sion, who had risen from the bed, swept back his hair and thought carefully about what would happen in the future.

‘First of all, a war will break out with the Nudia Kingdom within the next month. Here, Kim Yu-hyun appears with a bang! And thanks to the protagonist buff [plot armor], he goes on a rampage and goes to the center, that is, the royal castle, thanks to Frontier Count Lichten, which is the original flow in the novel.

But after that, Frontier Count Lichten is injured by Nudia’s surprise attack, and the territory becomes a mess. And in the meantime, he even commits patricide….’

It was truly Sion Clausen’s chronicle of evil.

‘The flow of the novel is not important. It’s important that I survive first. But if I arbitrarily change the progress of the novel, the probability that the place or time of occurrence of all the events I know will be distorted is high. So I can’t interfere recklessly….’

If he could just live, he wanted to change everything, saying, “Fuck the novel.”

But if he faced an event he didn’t know at all because of that, the damage would be returned to him as it was.

And if that happens, he might not even be able to stop it properly then.

Let’s think, think, think, think, think….

Once again, dreaming of increasing his intelligence, Sion was about to burn all his calories in brain activity.

“Heh heh heh. What are you so worried about?”

Seriously, damn it!

Are these novel characters taking turns on a tour!

Sion, who jumped up from his seat, turned his head to where the voice came from.

In that place, an old man was chuckling and staring straight at him.

“Hoo, you’re quite handsome. Of course, not as much as me, but you look like Lucia would like you.”

Lucia?

As soon as that name came out, Sion immediately recognized his identity.

‘Raido!’

Former court magician, currently residing in the frontier territory.

Some call him an excellent magician, and others say that although his personality is eccentric, he is definitely a wise man, but Sion knew his identity very accurately.

‘Why is he here!’

The reason Kim Yu-hyun served him as a teacher?

It was because he learned murderous martial arts from him, not magic-like tricks.

Magician (physical), a man whose fists come before magic.

A crazy magician on the battlefield who beats enemies to death with a magic wand.

A fighting genius who should have become a martial artist rather than a magician.

The man who had all sorts of bizarre nicknames despite being a court magician was standing right in front of him.