Not A Regressor - Chapter 239

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 239
Baptism of Stars (1)
“….”
“….”
An awkward silence settled over the room.
The thick stillness was so profound that I could hear the ticking of the clock’s second hand.
Breaking through the eternal quiet.
“Pfft.”
A laugh I’d been barely suppressing escaped from my lips.
“Ugh!”
Ha-eun, dressed in a white coat, moved with blinding speed.
Her long, slender legs lashed out brutally against my abdomen.
Crack!
“Gasp!”
A sound that should never come from a person’s stomach echoed out as my body flew upward and crashed into the wall.
Ha-eun glared at me with her face flushed crimson.
“D-don’t you dare! If you so much as crack a smile from now on, you’re dead! Understand?!”
My body, embedded in the wall, slid down and collapsed onto the floor.
“Kyahahaha! Oh my god, this is hilarious!”
Io—no, Rebecca—burst into uncontrollable laughter, clutching her stomach as she giggled.
“Ugh….”
Ha-eun trembled with her shoulders, biting her lip, apparently unable to kick a girl who appeared to be barely ten years old.
Her clenched fists quivered.
“So… this little brat is the Green Star Awakener?”
Ha-eun glared at Rebecca, who sat on the sofa kicking her legs with gleaming eyes.
I rose to my feet with a pained groan and nodded.
“Nice to meet you. I’m Rebecca Del.”
Rebecca smiled brightly and shook Ha-eun’s hand.
Ha-eun frowned and asked in an irritated voice.
“Why did the Green Star Awakener come here?”
“Hmm. Actually, I got a little interested in you, so I followed along… but I never expected to see something this entertaining.”
Rebecca gazed at me with an enigmatic look, her lips curved in a smile far too alluring for a girl her apparent age.
“…What? In-interested?”
Ha-eun’s eyes widened in shock as she turned to me urgently.
“You bastard. Now you’re messing with little kids too?!”
Ha-eun leaped with feline grace and grabbed my collar, shaking me roughly.
I choked and gasped while shooting a sharp glare at Rebecca.
“That’s enough joking around.”
“Hehe. Got it. Sorry, sorry.”
Rebecca shrugged and flicked her hand dismissively.
Broad leaves sprouted from a decorative potted plant in the room, coiling around Rebecca Del’s body.
Wrapped in the foliage, her form gradually expanded until she took on the appearance of an adult woman.
“What… what is this?”
Ha-eun stared at Rebecca Del with wide, astonished eyes.
With her deep green hair, she possessed a beauty so striking that even another woman couldn’t help but gasp in admiration.
“….”
Rebecca Del’s earlier remark about having an interest in Kwon O-jin left Ha-eun feeling distinctly displeased.
Rebecca Del shrugged and shook her head.
“Don’t worry about what I said earlier. I do have an interest, but I’m not so desperate as to pursue a man who’s already taken.”
Of course.
“Though if he were interested in me, that would be a different story, wouldn’t it?”
Rebecca Del gazed at Kwon O-jin with a suggestive look in her eyes.
Receiving her brazenly affectionate gaze, Kwon O-jin let out a soft chuckle.
“As you can see, I’m already spoken for.”
Kwon O-jin lightly grasped Ha-eun’s hand and lifted it deliberately, displaying their connection.
Rebecca Del crossed her arms with a slightly pouty expression.
“Oh, but relationships between men and women are unpredictable, aren’t they? Even if you’re madly in love now, feelings can fade later….”
“No.”
Cutting off Rebecca Del’s words, Kwon O-jin shook his head quietly.
“That won’t happen. Never.”
It wasn’t a vow filled with determination.
Nor was it a passionate declaration of intent.
It was spoken with a calm, measured tone—as if reciting the explanation to an answer already decided.
“…Interesting.”
Rebecca Del’s eyes sparkled with fascination.
Unlike Ha-eun, whose face flushed crimson as she fidgeted with her legs, Kwon O-jin’s gaze—while holding her hand—was as serene as a lakeside at dawn.
Only then could Rebecca Del be certain.
Turning this man’s heart toward her would be impossible—even if a Constellation itself came to try.
“I think I’m getting jealous.”
Rebecca Del turned to Ha-eun with a playful glint in her eyes.
“What exactly do you do to be loved so much by him?”
“W-what do I do to earn O-jin’s love? Well, that’s….”
“If you wear scandalous lingerie and stand at the entrance in a seductive pose, saying ‘Has our baby arrived?’….”
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
Ha-eun shrieked and lunged at Rebecca Del.
Rebecca Del burst into delighted laughter and bounded behind the sofa to escape.
“I told you to shut up!”
“Hehe. Teasing you is quite entertaining.”
Rebecca Del regarded Ha-eun as if she’d discovered a fascinating new toy.
Ha-eun narrowed her eyes and spoke with an irritated tone.
“Well, you must have gotten quite the kick out of it. Now, why don’t you head back to your room?”
“You’re right. I have no intention of intruding on your intimate evening together.”
Rebecca Del nodded and began to rise to her feet.
“Actually, there’s something I’d like to ask you.”
Kwon O-jin called her back.
“Hmm? What is it?”
“In a week, I’ll be undergoing the Baptism of Stars. I’m curious about exactly how the process works.”
“Ah, that.”
Rebecca Del nodded.
“Once you enter the Star Palace, the Constellations will guide you to a place called the Milky Way Spring.”
“Is it somewhere within the Star Palace?”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
Kwon O-jin tilted his head in confusion.
She must have been there before, so how could she not know?
“It’s kind of like a warp. Multiple Constellations gather and chant an incantation to transport you to the Milky Way Spring.”
“I see.”
So you don’t walk there directly—you’re warped instead.
“Once you’re in, you immerse yourself in the Milky Way Spring for about ten minutes or so. Your patron Constellation will recite a blessing directly for you.”
“That’s it?”
“Yes.”
It seemed simpler than I expected.
“What about the awakening of the stigma’s power once you enter?”
“Ah, that varies from person to person.”
“Varies?”
“Once you immerse yourself in the Milky Way Spring, an enormous amount of mana fills the surrounding area.”
It was natural for such an abundance of mana to accumulate in a place where three dragon veins intersected.
“Then, depending on how brightly the Milky Way Spring shines, the amount of mana flowing into the awakened ones immersed within varies.”
“Hmm.”
So the mana one could obtain differed based on how brightly the spring shone?
“How brightly does it shine?”
“For me, it was about as bright as a fluorescent light?”
Was that considered very bright?
“Well, I don’t know all the other Seven Stars well enough to say for certain, but I’ve heard that Allen’s spring shone with about the brightness of a torch.”
A fluorescent light was brighter than a torch, so….
“So the spring shone brighter for you than for Allen?”
Still, Allen Oskal was also a Constellation of Polaris, so I thought there must be something more special about him.
“Well, I’m kind of a special case, aren’t I?”
Rebecca Del stuck her tongue out slightly and shrugged her shoulders.
Now that I thought about it, Han Manager had mentioned the Green Star Awakener a few times before.
‘So the Green Star Awakener became a high-tier awakener in just two years.’
It was an extraordinary growth rate that didn’t fall far short when compared to my own.
“Though not quite at your level, sir.”
Rebecca shook her head with a wry smile.
She too had heard countless words around her—genius, blessed by the stars, and such.
But there was no comparing herself to Kwon O-jin.
He had demonstrated such absurd talent that people would believe it if they said he was the Creator who had forged the Constellation, Titan himself, reincarnated in human form.
“Anyway, even if you’re just as bright as a fluorescent light, that’s still shining quite brilliantly, right?”
“Yeah. Thanks to receiving the blessing there, I reached the 10th star.”
“…What?”
She reached the 10th star there?
‘Then… if I do well enough…’
Could it mean I might reach the 9th star after receiving the blessing of the stars?
‘Waiting a week is going to feel like an eternity.’
I barely suppressed my rising excitement and lifted the corners of my mouth into a smile.
“Are you done with your questions now, sir?”
“More or less.”
“Hehe. Then I’ll be heading out. Let’s stay in touch later, okay?”
“Ah, one more thing before you go.”
“Hmm?”
It wasn’t particularly important, but.
“What title will I be receiving then?”
Since Tamrang Star and Cheonson Star had become vacant, I’d be receiving one of them.
“Hmm… the Constellation members will decide that separately. If it were you…”
Rebecca, who had been about to continue, shook her head while wearing a playful smile.
“Never mind. I’ll keep that as a surprise for later.”
“…?”
I furrowed my brow at her knowing expression, but I didn’t press further.
“Well then, this intruder shall vanish~ You two enjoy your time together~”
“Ugh.”
Ha-eun swallowed hard, watching Rebecca’s retreating figure as she turned to leave.
“I don’t like her.”
Ha-eun gnashed her teeth fiercely, glaring at the firmly closed door.
“Still, there’s no harm in being friendly with her.”
Building personal connections with a member of the Seven Stars was something nations couldn’t easily accomplish even by pouring budgets into it.
Well, I myself had become one of the Seven Stars this time, after all.
“Sigh. Why do only women keep gathering around this guy?”
Ha-eun sighed and pinched my cheek.
“Still…”
She leaned against me with a faint smile.
Ha-eun pecked Kwon O-jin’s cheek lightly, like a sparrow.
“Did what I said earlier touch your heart a little, Elder Sister?”
Kwon O-jin gazed at Ha-eun’s radiant smile and slowly reached out his hand toward her.
He gently lifted the hem of the white gown she wore.
“Now that I think about it, what did you say back then? Did you call me your baby?”
“Ack! Hey, you said you wouldn’t bring it up, you bastard!”
He caught Ha-eun’s waist as she stumbled backward in shock and pulled her close.
“Besides, there’s no one watching us now, is there?”
“W-well, I suppose…”
Ha-eun averted her gaze from his, her words trailing off.
Kwon O-jin embraced her and pressed his lips against hers.
“You said you’d give me a special reward when I become one of the Seven Stars and return, didn’t you?”
“…Mmm.”
Ha-eun bit her lip gently, her head bowed low.
Along with an indescribable sense of embarrassment, the plan she had buried deep within her heart quietly began to surface.
“Sigh.”
Ha-eun steadied her trembling heart and caressed Kwon O-jin’s cheek with an expression of feigned composure.
“S-so, what gift does our baby want from his Elder Sister?”
The words squeezed out with effort.
Kwon O-jin swallowed hard at the sight of her—so endearing it made his heart skip a beat.
He gazed at her tenderly and opened his mouth softly.
In this moment, there was only one thing he could say.
“Goo goo.”
I’m baby Kwon O-jin.
Give me milk.

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