Not A Regressor - Chapter 134

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 134
Interlude – The Heart of the Dragon
“S-so, what I’m saying is….”
Ha-eun’s eyes, widened to the size of a lamp flame, fixed on Kwon O-jin.
Her gaping mouth stirred something peculiar within him.
‘Hmm.’
After a moment’s hesitation, Kwon O-jin couldn’t help himself—he jabbed his index finger directly into her open mouth.
“Ack! Ptooey, ptooey!! What the hell are you doing, you crazy bastard?!”
“No, just….”
You seemed so shocked I thought I’d help snap you back to reality.
“How could you NOT be shocked after hearing that?!!”
Ha-eun seized Kwon O-jin by the collar and shook him roughly, her voice rising.
“Phew. So what you’re saying is… you’re a regressor… right?”
“More like I’m pretending to be one.”
“Yeah, that’s what I thought.”
Ha-eun pressed her palm to her forehead as if her head were throbbing.
“So… that Lee Shin-hyuk guy was originally a regressor, and when you absorbed his stigma with that Black Heaven thing or whatever it was, Vega mistook you for a regressor too?”
“Exactly.”
“What kind of absurd….”
Her words trailed off, her expression dumbfounded.
Well, this reaction was only natural.
“What even is this Black Heaven thing? Is it like that weird gas bomb you used back then?”
“When you put it that way, it sounds pathetically weak.”
Though it did have all sorts of impressive credentials—the power to destroy the world and whatnot.
“I don’t exactly know what Black Heaven is either.”
“You’ve been using a power you don’t even understand?”
“Do you know exactly what a stigma is and how it works when you use yours?”
“Uh….”
Ha-eun’s words caught in her throat.
She scratched at her reddish-brown hair and clicked her tongue.
“You’ve got a point there.”
Though they called them Awakeners—those who comprehended the stars—no one truly understood the nature of stigmas.
Not a single person possessed that knowledge.
“Anyway, is this Black Heaven thing like a stigma or something?”
“No, it’s completely different from a stigma.”
Kwon O-jin explained the various functions embedded within Black Heaven to her.
“…How is something that broken even possible?”
Ha-eun stared at Kwon O-jin with an expression of utter disbelief.
Kwon O-jin gave a light shrug.
“I don’t know either.”
“Sigh.”
“Anyway, to keep Vega from finding out that I possess the Black Heaven, I need to act like a Regressor in front of her.”
“…What happens if she finds out?”
“Who knows.”
Kwon O-jin let out a dry laugh and shook his head.
“Well, the Constellations firmly believe this is the power to destroy the world, so I doubt they’ll take it well.”
“But, but there’s no way you’d actually destroy the world, O-jin!”
“Is that so?”
I have no memory of it, but I’ve already destroyed the world once before.
Of course, right now I had no intention of destroying the world whatsoever.
“You never know. If I hadn’t saved my sister this time, I might’ve gone completely insane and done who knows what.”
“Eek.”
Ha-eun flinched and trembled at the shoulders.
Her cheeks flushed slightly as she fidgeted with her fingers.
“Y-you’re exaggerating.”
“Well… honestly, even if destroying the world is an exaggeration, it would’ve been hard to maintain my sanity.”
“Mm.”
Ha-eun sighed and shook her head.
“So you’re asking me to help you act like a Regressor?”
“I don’t need your help.”
As long as you don’t interfere, that’s enough.
“What, you don’t trust your own sister?”
“Your thoughts show all over your face. You can’t hide anything.”
“No, that’s not true!”
“See? You’re doing it again.”
Kwon O-jin gazed at Ha-eun, who was pouting indignantly, and offered a faint smile.
“Anyway, you don’t need to worry. I’ll handle it myself.”
“…”
Ha-eun pushed out her lips in a pout.
“Always saying you’ll do everything alone.”
While she found his reliability reassuring, part of her felt left out.
Kwon O-jin approached Ha-eun, who was grumbling.
He lightly tapped her protruding lips with the tip of his finger and broke into a giggle.
“Okay, okay. I’ll tell you if I need help.”
“…Promise?”
“Yep.”
“Sigh. Honestly…”
She pressed her forehead as if it ached, then grabbed his cheek and stretched it.
“Aaahhhhh.”
“After something like this happened, you didn’t even tell your sister? Huh? Did you do wrong or not?”
She pulled my cheeks taut, then carefully pressed her lips against them.
“From now on, I’ll help you, so don’t suffer alone like that.”
The sight of her averting her gaze in embarrassment was utterly endearing.
“Oh right, take this, noona.”
Kwon O-jin pulled out a fist-sized blue crystal from his pocket.
It was the dragon’s heart he’d obtained after consuming Cheon Do-yoon.
‘It said it would exhibit the greatest power when used by an awakener of the Dragon Constellation.’
Then it was right for her to use it.
“W-wait, isn’t that… a dragon’s heart?”
“Yeah.”
“…You’re giving this to me? Just like that?”
Ha-eun stared at Kwon O-jin with wide eyes.
The elixir she’d received from him as a gift before was certainly precious, but a dragon’s heart was an artifact of an entirely different caliber.
A sacred relic whose value couldn’t possibly be measured in money.
And he was handing it over so casually, as if he’d just bought chocolate from a convenience store?
“Why, do you want something in return?”
Kwon O-jin grinned and stepped closer to her.
“W-what?”
Ha-eun stumbled backward in confusion.
Then, as if realizing something, her cheeks flushed red and she stepped forward.
“…What do you want?”
She asked in a seductive tone, slightly revealing her cleavage.
His gaze was drawn without his knowledge to a small mole on her left breast.
Faced with her body language—sultry and unlike anything he’d seen before—it was Kwon O-jin who found himself flustered.
“C-cough! N-no, I was joking.”
He barely calmed his racing heart and took a deep breath.
‘What is this.’
Normally, if he made such a joke, it would be Ha-eun’s turn to panic and fumble.
But he’d been caught completely off guard by an unexpected counterattack.
“Anyway, you keep this.”
“Yeah. Thanks.”
Ha-eun accepted the dragon’s heart with a bright smile.
“But how do you use this? Don’t tell me it’s like that senile old man did—shoving it into your chest?”
“I’m not sure. I think there might be another way.”
There was no way the crude method of jamming a jewel into the center of one’s chest—this wasn’t some Iron Man movie—could be the proper way to handle the mana contained within a dragon’s heart.
“Right? No matter how precious this sacred relic is, I don’t want to end up with Lightning Boobs.”
What even was Lightning Boobs.
“What if we try holding it against your stigma?”
“Oh, that’s not bad.”
Since a being with the Dragon Constellation’s stigma could handle a dragon’s heart best.
If I place the dragon’s heart against the Constellation Mark, something might change.
“Hmm.”
Ha-eun, who had been staring intently at the dragon’s heart in her palm, suddenly brightened as if struck by inspiration.
She extended the dragon’s heart toward Kwon O-jin with a mischievous smile.
“Then you do it, O-jin. You place it against my Constellation Mark.”
“…What?”
“If I do it myself, I might accidentally drop it if some kind of mana resonance suddenly occurs, right? If something like that gets interrupted midway, it could be dangerous.”
“…”
It was true that if the power of a genuine elixir or sacred artifact was interrupted unintentionally during absorption, there was a risk of side effects like demonic possession.
‘But she doesn’t look worried about that at all.’
Ha-eun’s eyes sparkled with anticipation as she handed over the dragon’s heart.
“Sigh. Fine.”
“Yes!”
I exhaled and accepted the dragon’s heart.
Ever since her confession, she had been displaying a boldness that even caught Kwon O-jin off guard.
“Well then…”
Gulp.
Ha-eun swallowed hard, then slowly pulled down her clothing to reveal her left chest.
Skin as pale and smooth as freshly fallen snow.
Upon it, the dragon’s Constellation Mark imprinted like a footprint.
‘Damn.’
Heat rushed to my face, burning intensely.
With trembling hands, I lifted the dragon’s heart and carefully brought it against her Constellation Mark.
-Uuuuuuuuuung!!!
“Ugh!”
In that instant.
Tremendous mana surged forth as the dragon’s heart ignited with blue light.
The mana resonance I had mentioned in jest was actually happening.
“Sister?”
“Haah! I’m, I’m fine!”
Ha-eun bit her lip firmly, enduring the force surging through her body.
The dragon’s heart, radiating fierce blue light, gradually melted like ice cream and was absorbed into her Constellation Mark.
A phenomenon distinctly different from when Cheon Do-yoon had used the dragon’s heart.
-Click.
Ha-eun removed the eye patch covering her left eye as if shedding restrictive clothing.
“Hah, hah, hah!”
Her dragon eye gleamed with ferocious light, radiating brilliance.
Sinews like tree roots spread from her left eye across her cheek and down to her neck.
“Ugh! Aah! Haaah!”
“…”
I wanted to say something encouraging to her as she let out pained moans.
‘I have to trust my sister and wait here.’
The moment my concentration broke, I could fall into a state of demonic possession, unable to withstand the inflowing power just as Lee Shin-hyuk had.
‘If that happens.’
Kwon O-jin’s eyes gleamed sharply.
I readied the Black Heaven in my other hand to prepare for any emergency.
If she couldn’t endure the magical power contained within the dragon’s heart, I planned to immediately use the Black Heaven to absorb the excess mana.
“Haa, haa. Whooo.”
But as if to dispel Kwon O-jin’s worries.
Ha-eun’s breathing, which had been releasing pained moans, gradually calmed.
The thick tendril of power that had covered her neck began to spread its reach further, extending all the way to where her stigma was located.
And then.
-Whoooosh!!!
The stigma blazed with fierce light as crimson flames unfurled like a curtain.
Though called flames, they were not the savage fire that would incinerate everything around it, but rather a warmth that felt strangely comforting.
“This is….”
Kwon O-jin looked around in astonishment.
Even though the flames flowing from her engulfed both me and all the furniture in the house, nothing was burning.
A gasp of admiration escaped me at the surreal scene, like something from a fairy tale.
-Uuuuuung!
When the dragon’s heart held in my hand completely melted and was sucked into the stigma.
“Haah!”
The warm flames that had enveloped the surroundings were drawn back into her body.
The grotesque tendril of power that had extended from her neck to her left chest gradually diminished.
“O-jin….”
“Are you okay, sis?”
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
Ha-eun swayed with a somewhat dazed expression.
I grasped her shoulders and gently pulled her into an embrace to keep her from falling.
From Ha-eun nestled in my arms came the sound of steady breathing.
“Did you absorb all the magical power from the dragon’s heart?”
“Yeah, I absorbed it, but… I don’t think I can fully control it yet.”
She gently touched her chest as she continued speaking.
“It feels like there’s a lump of it remaining below my stigma.”
“Like you got breast implants?”
“What kind of comparison is that, you punk? Breast implants?”
Ha-eun laughed with a snort.
“Your sister’s chest doesn’t need implants, does it?”
“Well, well.”
“Indeed, indeed.”
I’m going crazy.
“Are you hurt anywhere? Feeling unwell?”
“No, nothing like that… Huh!”
Ha-eun, who had been examining her body, suddenly furrowed her brow.
-Whoooooosh!!
Her Constellation Mark, which had fallen silent, blazed to life with brilliant azure light.
“Sister?!”
Kwon O-jin hastily reached toward her but froze upon noticing something.
“…Huh.”
The Dragon Constellation Mark etched on her left chest.
A new stroke was forming beside the eight existing strokes.
“Oh, oh my.”
Ha-eun stared down at her chest, her mouth agape in disbelief.
“I… I think I just became a 9-Star?”
It was the moment Ha-eun became a high-tier Awakener.

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