Not A Regressor - Chapter 220

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 220
Intermission – Reunion (2)
“What in the world have you been doing to end up in the Demon Realm? And you said it was a Dimensional Rift that you claimed was safe, Vega?”
Deneb chattered incessantly, his mouth never ceasing its movement.
Deneb burst into giggling laughter and nudged against Vega’s side.
“A Constellation who is supposed to protect children, yet you’ve put your own child in danger… How could you do such a thing? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm?”
[….]
Vega kept her eyes tightly shut, letting Deneb’s words go in one ear and out the other.
Or rather, to be precise.
She was pretending to let them pass.
[…I must endure. I must endure.]
With thick veins bulging across her fair forehead, Vega clenched her fists and muttered in a low voice.
“Hehehehe! Ah~ this feels so refreshing!”
Deneb stretched both arms wide and yawned.
Just as I was glaring at Deneb and suppressing my anger.
The ornately decorated temple doors swung open, and a young man and two women entered.
“You’re here?”
Deneb turned to look at Allen Oskal and the sisters Xiaolin and Xiaoran.
Allen, standing at the front, gave a barely perceptible nod.
His cold, lifeless eyes swept across Vega, Ha-eun, and Isabella before he turned his gaze toward Deneb.
“What’s this about all of a sudden?”
“I have a favor to ask of you, Allen.”
“A favor?”
“Go into the Demon Realm.”
“…The Demon Realm?”
Allen’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.
“Are you asking me to meet with Cheon Gwon-seong?”
“No. We’re going to rescue Noe-rang.”
“Noe-rang?”
“Noe-rang, you say?”
At the mention of Noe-rang, the eyes of the sisters Xiaolin and Xiaoran flashed fiercely.
As Deneb subtly turned his head and gave a signal, Vega stepped forward.
[How delightful.]
“We greet the Constellation of Lyra Constellation.”
Allen bowed with precise courtesy.
[Due to my negligence, my child has become trapped in the Demon Realm.]
“Trapped in the Demon Realm, you say…?”
Vega slowly explained what had happened inside the Demon Realm.
As the explanation continued, the expressions of Allen and the sisters Xiaolin and Xiaoran grew increasingly rigid.
“If they couldn’t escape from that situation, then they’re already….”
“Elder Sister, be quiet.”
Xiaolin hastily covered Xiaoran’s mouth.
“I see. I understand the situation well enough.”
Allen exhaled a short sigh and turned his gaze toward Deneb.
His eyes carried a reproach that seemed to ask, ‘You really agreed to that request?’
Deneb flinched and trembled before hesitantly nodding his head.
“…Sigh.”
Allen, releasing a deep breath, turned his body toward Vega.
“Understood. I will lend my strength to rescuing Noe-rang.”
He and Kwon O-jin shared neither the bond nor the loyalty that would compel him to venture into the Demon Realm at the cost of his own life.
[Thank you.]
“Because it is Deneb’s request.”
It was a request from Deneb, who was like a parent to him—no one else’s.
There was no reason to refuse.
“That’s our Allen! I knew I could count on you!”
Deneb’s eyes sparkled as he seized Allen’s arm and pulled him along.
“Ah, though it may be presumptuous to ask… there is one thing I would like to request.”
[Speak.]
Allen gazed down at Deneb, who hung from his arm like a dangling cicada, and offered a faint smile.
“Should Deneb ever find himself in a predicament like Lady Vega’s now, I would hope you might aid him then.”
“Ah! W-what are you suddenly saying!”
There’s no way I could ever find myself in such a situation!
Allen gently patted the head of Deneb, who was loudly protesting.
Vega gazed upon the two of them and wore a gentle smile.
[Of course.]
“Then, I shall depart at once.”
As Allen turned to leave, adjusting the sword at his waist.
“Ah, wait just a moment.”
Deneb, who had been loudly tugging at Allen’s arm, suddenly went rigid.
The frivolous atmosphere vanished in an instant, as if he had never been so carefree, and a sharp killing intent swept through the air.
“…Tch.”
That killing intent was directed at Isabella, who had been quietly standing behind Vega.
Deneb narrowed his eyes and glared at Isabella.
“Who are you?”
Crack, crack, crack!
With a light gesture, ice pillars erupted from the temple floor, forming a dense prison that trapped Isabella inside.
“….”
Isabella stared at the ice pillars that confined her, her expression hardened into stone.
[Stop.]
Vega stepped forward, blocking Deneb from approaching Isabella.
[I shall personally guarantee this child’s identity.]
“…Are you in your right mind, Vega? He’s an apostle of the Black Star.”
[I am well aware.]
“Hmm.”
Deneb nodded lightly before snapping his fingers with a sharp click.
The towering ice pillars that had surrounded Isabella crumbled and collapsed.
“Well, if you vouch for him like that, I’ll trust you.”
With Vega Star herself stepping forward to guarantee his identity, there was no reason to press the matter further.
[Thank you.]
“Ugh! I told you to stop treating me like a child!”
The moment Vega reached out to pat his head, Deneb trembled as if seized by convulsions and fled.
Ha-eun let out a hollow laugh and pressed her forehead with her palm.
“My image of the Constellations is completely shattering.”
“We don’t have time for this. If we don’t leave as soon as possible….”
Isabella chewed nervously at her nails, her expression taut with anxiety.
“Don’t worry about it.”
Ha-eun flashed a grin and pulled Isabella’s shoulder, drawing her away from her nail-biting habit.
She gently patted the trembling back of the anxious woman and continued.
“Kwon O-jin isn’t the type to die so easily.”
“…Yes, I know.”
Isabella, who had been nervously gnawing at her nails, suddenly came to her senses and hid her flushed cheeks.
She felt Ha-eun’s hand on her back trembling slightly.
“…You’re scared too.”
“Huh?”
“No. It’s nothing.”
Isabella’s expression brightened considerably as she offered a faint smile and stepped away from Ha-eun.
She turned to face Allen and the Xiaolin sisters and spoke.
“Is it alright if we depart immediately?”
“Yes.”
“But how do we get to the North Pole? There’s no Sanctuary nearby.”
Xiaoran tilted her head curiously as she asked.
“I’ve arranged a private aircraft from the Colgrand Family. We can move to the Sanctuary in London first and then fly from there.”
“Perfect! Then let’s hurry and drag that bastard Kwon O-jin back by the hair!”
Ha-eun shouted with spirited determination and turned her body toward the exit.
Vega approached Ha-eun as she moved to leave the Divine Temple.
[I entrust my child to your care.]
“Got it.”
Ha-eun turned back to Vega with a confident smirk.
“I’ll definitely bring him back.”
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The First Rift.
A colossal Gate spanning fifty kilometers in diameter, situated at the North Pole.
“So this is… the First Rift.”
Isabella gazed upon the vast black Dimensional Rift stretching across the Arctic ice shelf, swallowing hard.
Despite maintaining considerable distance from the Rift itself, it sprawled so immensely that even turning her head could not reveal its far edge.
Isabella advanced with an urgent expression.
“Wait a moment.”
Ha-eun seized Isabella’s arm and surveyed their surroundings.
Around the Dimensional Rift, which connected directly to the Demon Realm, high-grade monsters that were rarely seen on Earth casually prowled about.
“…Is this really the place where monsters roam the least?
“Yes.”
Allen nodded.
“I traveled through this route when I visited the Demon Realm before.”
“You’ve been to the Demon Realm and returned?”
Ha-eun regarded Allen with an expression of surprise.
Allen nodded silently.
He slowly drew his sword from his waist and continued speaking.
“The critical factor is speed. The moment we delay, packs of demonic beasts will come rushing at the sound of commotion.”
“They won’t follow us inside the Demon Realm?”
“No. Once we enter, we should be safe.”
“…Is it like a gatekeeper of sorts?”
“You could say it’s similar.”
The fact that they had someone with experience of having ventured into and returned from the Demon Realm brought a glimmer of reassurance to Ha-eun and Isabella’s eyes.
“Besides, if this team couldn’t even enter the Demon Realm, there would be a serious problem.”
Isabella, an executive of the Black Star Society’s third rank; Allen, a member of the Seven Stars; the Xiaolin sisters, who held the fourth and fifth positions among Deneb’s 12 Apostles; and Ha-eun, a high-tier awakened of the Draco constellation, which rivaled the Zodiac Twelve Palaces.
If such a force could not even penetrate the Demon Realm, the very existence of the Demon Realm would never have become known to the world.
“I shall take the lead.”
Allen drew his sword and stepped forward.
With sharp eyes surveying the packs of demonic beasts prowling around the black Dimensional Rift, he lightly planted his feet.
Crackle, crackle, crackle!
His form dissolved into the void like melting into empty space.
Following the lightly swung blade strike, pristine frost spread widely, and the demonic beast pack froze solid in an instant without even managing a single shriek.
“Wow….”
A soft exclamation escaped Ha-eun’s lips.
“How about that? How about that? Our Allen Oskal is amazing, right?”
Xiaoran gazed at Allen Oskal’s back leading the way, squirming with delight.
Xiaolin narrowed her eyes and glared at Xiaoran.
“There are other people here, so show some restraint, Elder Sister.”
“Oh my, what’s gotten into you? Usually you squeal and make a fuss just seeing Allen’s face?”
“Hey, Elder Sister!”
Xiaolin cried out with a flushed face.
“Silence.”
At Allen’s quiet command, the two women flinched and clamped their mouths shut.
“I will advance slowly.”
“Didn’t you say speed was important just now?”
“First, I’ll approach as close as possible to the First Rift without being detected, then we’ll run.”
Allen turned from the ice-frozen monster and moved toward the First Rift.
The remaining distance to the First Rift was approximately 10 kilometers.
Even for beings who possessed bodies that transcended humanity, covering that distance in one breath was difficult.
As they slowly approached the First Rift, silently dispatching the swarms of monsters while holding their breath.
“…What is this?”
Allen, whose expression rarely changed, furrowed his brow and glanced around.
“This is…”
Isabella, who followed behind, also seemed to sense something suspicious, her delicate features creasing.
Ha-eun looked around and asked.
“What? What’s wrong?”
“The movements of the demons are strange.”
Allen turned to look at the swarm of demons he had turned to ice statues.
He had surely eliminated them quickly without even giving them a chance to cry out.
“The surrounding demons have begun converging in this direction.”
“What? Why all of a sudden?”
“I don’t know.”
Sensing the presence of demons rushing from all directions, Allen tightened his grip on his sword.
He couldn’t understand how the demons had detected them and were now rushing toward this route.
“I’ll break through the front!”
Since they were already discovered, there was no other option.
“Hup!”
Boom!
Allen stamped his feet roughly and charged forward.
Crackle, crackle, crackle!
A cold aura incomparable to the Arctic chill slashed through the bodies of the converging demons.
“Kiiiirrrrgh!”
“Krgh? Krrrgh?”
The demons converging from all sides began shrieking at Allen’s appearance.
In the eyes of the flustered demons, panic and shock were intermingled.
‘They weren’t detected?’
Allen furrowed his brow with an expression of incomprehension.
If they hadn’t been detected.
Then what was the reason the demons suddenly converged in this direction?
‘There’s something else.’
Now that I thought about it, I had heard it in passing from Cheon Gwon-seong when I visited the Demon Realm before.
The demonic beasts guarding the perimeter of the Demon Realm were exiled entities that failed to belong to the ‘King’s’ faction.
And.
Most of the exiled demonic beasts had been seduced by the Snake and now followed her like a king.
“…Surely not.”
Allen’s expression hardened like stone.
Demonic beasts gathering like clouds beyond the Snowy Field.
No matter how many intruders appeared, the demonic beasts guarding the Dimensional Rift across such an enormous range of 50 kilometers would never converge in one place like this.
Only one circumstance.
When their master, the Snake, made a direct descent to Earth.
“The Snake is… crossing over to this side right now?”
Allen gazed at the vast horde of demonic beasts filling the expansive Snowy Field with trembling eyes.

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