Not A Regressor - Chapter 130

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 130
Night Falls at Noon (6)
[Ah, ugh.]
Trembling.
The owl, crushed beneath an irresistible force, lay pathetically flattened against the ground.
[How… how is this level of power possible within the constraints of Divine Law?]
Noctua gazed up at the Silver-haired Goddess with terror-stricken eyes.
Despite being of the same Constellation, she couldn’t even twitch her wings.
Pinned like an ant beneath a fingertip, she could only prostrate herself on the ground, her body quivering uncontrollably.
━The gap was so overwhelming that even the word “overwhelming” seemed laughable.
[This is… the Constellation of Lyra.]
Three stars among all those shining in the night sky, said to gleam most brilliantly.
I could painfully, devastatingly comprehend just how wondrous the power wielded by the Constellation known as Polaris truly was.
[Didn’t I tell you not to run your mouth carelessly?]
Vega’s eyes had turned cold as ice, fixed upon Noctua.
A soft tap.
Beneath her dress, a pristine bare foot gently struck the ground.
[Krraaaaaaagh!!!]
A giant’s arm burst through the ground in response to her call.
A limb dozens of meters long, composed of azure lightning, seized Noctua’s body with brutal force.
[Disappear.]
Her voice was emotionless—neither burning with rage nor dripping with murderous intent.
Like a judge pronouncing sentence from a written verdict to the condemned.
She commanded coldly.
-Crack! Crunch!
[Ugh! Gack! Kyaaaah!]
The giant’s arm, wrought of azure lightning, forcibly grasped and tore the owl’s wings.
[Wh-what are you gawking at?! H-help me at once!!]
She shrieked pitifully, her beak clicking as she cried out to her apostles, but when the giant’s hand seized her beak and wrenched it away, she became a creature incapable of even begging for aid.
-Crunch!
The giant’s arm tore away Noctua’s head as a final act.
Noctua’s presence was completely erased, and the blessing she had bestowed vanished without a trace.
[Phew.]
Vega exhaled deeply and wiped the cold sweat from her brow.
Since Noctua had not manifested in her true form, I could not completely annihilate her existence, but with her consciousness so thoroughly shredded, her true body would have suffered grievous damage.
‘She will no longer be able to bestow blessings upon her apostles.’
Yet banishing Noctua did not resolve everything.
The power of awakeners who bore stigmata would not disappear simply because their Constellation was gone.
To protect Kwon O-jin, I would need to bring down Cheon Do-yoon, the Owl King himself.
‘Time is running short.’
Vega bit her lip, her expression fraught with anxiety.
Even in this moment, the constraints of Divine Law intensified, shrinking the Sacred Domain she had manifested.
If the Sacred Domain disappeared entirely and Divine Law’s constraints overwhelmed her, she herself could not fathom what price she would pay.
‘…Perhaps.’
Just as Noctua had said.
In the worst case, my very existence could be ‘annihilated’.
[….]
Vega gazed down at Kwon O-jin collapsed on the ground with sorrowful eyes, then slowly shook her head.
‘Even if I am annihilated, I shall complete all that I must do before I vanish.’
Her gaze, now ice-cold, turned toward Cheon Do-yoon.
“Ah, aah.”
Cheon Do-yoon, unable to believe the reality unfolding before his eyes, stood with his mouth agape, feeling Noctua’s blessing dissipate.
“W-what in the world is this….”
This is the power of the Constellation known as Polaris.
Trembling violently, he was crushed beneath an overwhelming majesty so vast he could not move even a single finger.
[Wicked one.]
Vega’s pure white bare feet scraped across the ground.
As she approached Cheon Do-yoon, she slowly raised her hand.
[Receive your pun—.]
The moment she began to bring her raised hand down.
-Crack!
Blue sparks erupted from her body.
[Ugh!]
Vega’s expression contorted in agony.
The constraints of Divine Law pressing against the Sacred Domain suddenly intensified.
[Ah, there should still be time left…!]
Though the exact cause remained unclear.
The constraints of Divine Law bearing down on the Sacred Domain grew rapidly stronger.
[Ah, ugh.]
Crack! Crackle!!
Blue sparks erupted ceaselessly.
Vega writhed in pain, her expression twisted in torment.
“Ve… ga.”
Kwon O-jin, sprawled on the ground drenched in blood, reached out his hand toward the convulsing Vega.
But before his hand could reach her, Vega’s body began to fade gradually.
[Ah, this cannot be…!]
Vega cried out in anguish, gazing down at her own body as it slowly vanished.
[Ah, I still have so much left to do…! Ugh! S-stop! I said stop!!!]
She struggled to muster strength and resist Divine Law’s constraints, but as if mocking her pleas, the constraints grew ever fiercer, forcing her back toward the Star Palace.
[Aaah! My… child, no….]
Vega’s body swayed unsteadily.
Even as more than half of her form dissolved into nothingness, her voice grew fainter as she reached toward the fallen Cheon Do-yoon.
[I’m sorry… I, couldn’t…]
With those final words.
Vega’s body vanished completely.
“Gasp! Ha! Ha!”
Cheon Do-yoon, who had been pinned to the ground beneath Vega’s overwhelming presence, gasped for breath and pushed himself upright.
After confirming that the goddess’s aura had completely dissipated, he clutched his abdomen and burst into laughter.
“That’s right! That’s right! No matter how much of a Constellation of Polaris she was, she couldn’t defy the laws of the universe!!”
His weathered lips twisted upward as he released a triumphant laugh.
“Hehehehe!! Well then, the Constellation that protected you has vanished!”
He approached the fallen Kwon O-jin and swung his foot down viciously.
Crack!
Kwon O-jin’s body tumbled pathetically across the ground, leaving a long trail of blood in its wake.
“Phew. Now let’s finish this.”
The shock of what had just transpired seemed to weigh on Cheon Do-yoon, and he wiped the cold sweat from his brow with a slightly anxious expression.
Though Noctua’s blessing had vanished, the mana contained within the dragon’s heart and the power of the Owl Constellation stigma bestowed by Noctua remained entirely intact.
With Kwon O-jin sprawled broken across the ground, the outcome between him and Cheon Do-yoon was already decided.
“Ah, ugh.”
Kwon O-jin, trembling and drenched in blood, gritted his teeth and pressed both palms against the ground.
-Thud!
He struggled to push himself upright, but.
The arm supporting him gave way without strength, and his face crashed into the ground.
“Ha… ha… ha!”
Ragged breaths mingled with the stench of blood.
Like an insect, he writhed and crawled across the floor.
“Hehehehe! What a pathetic sight!”
Cheon Do-yoon looked down at the fallen Kwon O-jin and laughed with cruel satisfaction.
“You should have known your place and kept quiet.”
He poured out words of mockery at the writhing Kwon O-jin and slowly advanced his footsteps.
Black feathers coalesced into the form of a sharp spear, which he grasped in his hand.
“Now━ pay the price for your insolence.”
With a bright smile, he raised the spear to strike downward.
-Clang, clang, clang!!!!
A deafening metallic screech pierced the air.
“…Don’t… touch him.”
“Hm?”
“Don’t you dare lay a hand on O-jin, you bastaaaaard!!!”
Ha-eun thrashed violently, her voice fierce and raw.
In that moment.
-Whoooooosh!!!!
A small crystalline flame formed in the empty air and hurtled toward Cheon Do-yoon.
“Tch!”
Though it was merely the size of a coin.
Sensing the immense power condensed within it, Cheon Do-yoon’s eyes widened as he urgently rolled away.
-Kabooooom!!
The ground where he had stood vanished without a trace.
Staring at the earth that had disappeared without even leaving dust, Cheon Do-yoon’s jaw dropped.
“H-how could she create a dragon orb with just her eyes, without even possessing a heart….”
A dragon’s eye was ultimately nothing more than a control device that channeled the vast mana contained within a dragon’s heart.
It should have been impossible to create a dragon orb with just a single dragon’s eye.
“Haa, haa!”
Ha-eun pushed herself up, breathing heavily and ragged.
Clank!
The iron chains binding her body emitted a harsh metallic sound.
“Hngh!!”
Crack!!!
When she brought the dragon orb close to the chains, what had seemed unbreakable shattered pathetically.
“This… this can’t be…!”
Cheon Do-yoon’s expression filled with bewilderment.
Ha-eun ignored Cheon Do-yoon’s stunned gaze and approached Kwon O-jin, who lay collapsed on the ground.
‘O-jin.’
The young man lying on the ground, drenched in blood.
Precious.
Her treasure that could not be exchanged for anything else in this world.
“….”
Until now, I had only received protection.
Hiding behind his back, I could only hope he would shield me from the raging tempests.
But.
‘This time… I’ll be the one protecting you.’
Ha-eun clenched her fists tightly and stood before Kwon O-jin, shielding him.
“Y-you… hurry, run away….”
“Shut your mouth, you bastard. You ignored me when I told you to run earlier too.”
Ha-eun bent down and gently tousled the hair of the collapsed Kwon O-jin.
“Hehehehe! What a touching sight indeed!”
Cheon Do-yoon approached her with a grotesque laugh.
Though he had been momentarily startled by the unexpected dragon orb, it did not change the current situation.
The gap between Ha-eun and Cheon Do-yoon was not something a single dragon orb could bridge.
“But it is futile.”
He declared coldly and raised his arm.
Hundreds, thousands of black feathers unfurled like a curtain behind her back.
“You think that’s useless?”
Ha-eun gazed at Cheon Do-yoon and smiled wickedly.
She raised her right arm and manifested a Dragon Orb above her palm.
And then.
She brought the Dragon Orb to the corner of her left eye.
“Still think it’s useless?”
“W-what are you doing?!”
Cheon Do-yoon screamed in horror.
The Dragon Orb was a formidable force that annihilated everything it touched.
The moment it made contact with her eye, her face would be obliterated without a trace.
“Look at you getting all panicked. What? Does this scare you?”
“You bastard…!”
“Not happening, you punk.”
Ha-eun shrugged and brought the Dragon Orb even closer to her eye.
“You said earlier that if I plucked out my own eye, you’d back off, right?”
“…What?”
“Sister…?”
Both Cheon Do-yoon and Kwon O-jin’s gazes turned toward her.
Ha-eun lifted the corners of her mouth in a smile and nodded.
“Fine. If that’s what you want, I’ll give it to you.”
“Hehehehe! You truly mean to pluck out your eye?”
“Yes.”
She glanced back at Kwon O-jin and continued.
“But only if you let him escape safely from here.”
“Hmm.”
“Don’t you dare say another word!”
Cheon Do-yoon fell into contemplation, his eyes narrowed to slits.
The Dragon Orb and the wolf of Lyra Constellation.
It wasn’t difficult to choose where his desire lay.
“Very well. I accept your proposal.”
“Accept my ass…!”
Kwon O-jin gritted his teeth and tried to push himself up, but immediately lost his balance and collapsed back to the ground.
“…O-jin.”
Ha-eun looked down at Kwon O-jin writhing on the floor and offered a faint smile.
“Don’t you dare say another word…!”
“What’s with the attitude toward your sister, you brat?”
She bent down and gently stroked his hair.
If she lost her eye, she would be trapped once more in that endless darkness.
She might never see his face again.
“It’s fine.”
Closing one’s eyes doesn’t make the world disappear.
Even if I can’t see what lies ahead, as long as I’m with you, that’s enough.
“Fine? What do you mean—!!”
“Kwon O-jin.”
Ha-eun gently pressed her lips against his forehead.
Words she’d kept hidden in her heart for so long, words she’d never dared to speak aloud.
She whispered them to him.
“I like you. Not as a younger brother, but as a man.”
“…What?”
Kwon O-jin stared up at her with a dumbfounded expression.
“So if I go blind again, you’re responsible for taking care of me, got it?”
Ha-eun turned her body toward Cheon Do-yoon with a sly smile spreading across her lips.

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