Not A Regressor - Chapter 260

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 260
A Date (2)
They say time flies when you’re having fun.
We visited the Arcade together, bought ridiculous hair accessories and wore them, laughing and chattering away—and before I knew it, the sun had set.
The Amusement Park, now shrouded in darkness, sparkled brilliantly with electric lights like stars embroidered across the Night Sky.
“Sigh.”
Isabella, gazing at the glittering Amusement Park with dreamy eyes, exhaled a soft sigh.
“It’s about time we headed back.”
Isabella, wearing a bittersweet smile, tapped the ground with her toes, reluctant to leave.
We’d been so caught up in having fun that the Amusement Park’s closing time was nearly upon us.
“Today was so much fun, Kwon O-jin.”
Isabella turned toward me with a bright smile.
“….”
I clenched my jaw as I gazed at her smile—so beautiful it felt as though the surroundings suddenly blazed with light.
My eyes were conflicted.
I exhaled a short breath and pulled her hand.
“We still have thirty minutes left. Let’s ride one more thing.”
“Huh?”
Isabella looked at me with wide, round eyes.
Without waiting for her response, I headed toward the outdoor area of the Amusement Park.
Where I was headed was the Ferris Wheel—an indispensable fixture of any Amusement Park date.
“Oh, the Ferris Wheel?”
Even Isabella, who had never been to an Amusement Park before, knew what a Ferris Wheel was, and she nodded with a bashful smile.
“Hehe. So you do have a romantic side, Kwon O-jin.”
She gently rested her head against my shoulder as I held her close.
Looking at Isabella with her head resting on my shoulder, my expression grew complicated.
Words I should have told her since the beginning of today’s date—or perhaps long before that.
It was time to face what I’d been avoiding, turning a blind eye to it.
“The Ferris Wheel is departing~!”
The Ferris Wheel began its ascent with the attendant’s spirited announcement.
The Night Sky, now draped in darkness.
As if the sky had been flipped upside down, waves of starlight flowed across the earth.
“…It’s beautiful.”
Isabella spoke in a dreamy voice as she gazed down at the beautiful lights visible through the window below.
“….”
“Kwon O-jin?”
“Isabella.”
I, who had been wrestling with my thoughts while keeping my mouth firmly shut, finally opened it.
“You know, but I’m dating Elder Sister.”
Because Ha-eun had given her permission, I was able to enjoy this date with her.
Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t have been in a position to enjoy a peaceful date with her.
“I’ll find a way to come up with 30 billion won. So from now on….”
“…it will be difficult for us to go on dates alone, won’t it?”
Isabella nodded with a faint smile.
She had known from the beginning.
No matter how much love she gave him, his heart would always belong to Ha-eun.
There had never been any room for her to wedge herself between them.
But.
But.
But.
“Is there really… no way?”
Isabella’s shoulders trembled.
She gazed at Kwon O-jin with eyes glistening with tears.
“Isabella?”
“Is there no place left in your heart for me?”
She carefully extended her hand and placed it gently over his chest.
A warm sensation.
At the ticklish feeling, as if feathers were brushing against him, Kwon O-jin’s shoulders flinched involuntarily.
“…Isabella.”
“I know that Elder Sister Ha-eun is your first.”
When he had saved her and she was trapped in the Demon Realm.
Isabella had resolved to become his first.
But such firm resolve crumbled in an instant.
No matter how brazenly she tried to seduce him, his gaze was always fixed on Ha-eun alone.
Yes.
It had been impossible from the start.
Becoming his first.
“I don’t need you to date me.”
Drip, drip.
Transparent tears streaming down her cheeks.
“You don’t have to hold me, you don’t have to kiss me.”
She pulled desperately at his arm.
“Just… could you allow me to be by your side? That’s all I ask.”
….
My expression hardened into stone.
What kind of person was I to reduce her to such misery?
“Isabella, you deserve someone better….”
“I don’t need anyone else!”
She cried out as if wailing.
“The only hope I have left now… is you.”
It had to be him.
I could no longer imagine living without him.
That day.
When I heard his sweet lies in the collapsed Mansion.
When the name “Kwon O-jin” bloomed as hope in my heart, withered and twisted like straw.
I had already fallen for him irreversibly.
“….”
Kwon O-jin closed his mouth firmly, watching Isabella with tears streaming down her face.
Throb, throb.
It ached as if a sharp needle were piercing one corner of his heart.
Had he asked if there was any room in his heart for her?
It was an ironic question.
Isabella’s presence already occupied a firm place within his heart.
‘What should I….’
What could I do?
How could I make her, Ha-eun, and myself all happy?
-Among Italian nobility, it’s still common for a man to have two or more wives
Suddenly, Roberto’s words flashed through his mind.
Kwon O-jin let out a hollow laugh and shook his head.
It was absurd.
Even if he were fine with it, there was no way Ha-eun would be.
Think about it the other way around.
If Ha-eun said she wanted to have two husbands, could he accept it?
‘Absolutely not.’
Yet here he was, wanting to have two lovers.
It was far too selfish a thought.
“Well, Elder Sister said it was fine.”
“What?”
At Isabella’s following words, Kwon O-jin’s eyes widened.
Isabella, her face flushed, gripped the hem of her clothes.
“When Kwon O-jin was trapped in the Demon Realm before… I asked Elder Sister if it was okay to like you.”
“What did my sister say?”
“She said she would respect your decision.”
“….”
My decision, she said.
Kwon O-jin gazed at Isabella with trembling eyes.
“What about your heart, Kwon O-jin?”
Isabella looked at him with an anxious gaze.
She gently tugged at her clothes, her voice wavering with moisture as she continued.
“Am I… not allowed to be by your side?”
My head burns as if it’s on fire.
The throbbing pain in my chest spreads throughout my entire body.
Where my heart truly desires.
My honest feelings are.
“I don’t want to let go of either of them.”
Call me selfish if you must.
Call me shameless trash—I don’t care.
Ha-eun and Isabella.
I didn’t want to lose either of them.
I wanted to hold both in my own hands.
“That’s my honest heart.”
“Oh, Kwon O-jin….”
Isabella trembled as she gazed at me, her entire frame quivering.
It was difficult to contain the overwhelming surge of emotion threatening to burst forth.
When Isabella rose from her seat and tried to embrace me.
“But.”
I shook my head, stopping her.
Though I had revealed my honest feelings.
“I need to talk to Elder Sister first.”
She had said she would follow my decision, but that didn’t mean I could make this choice without consulting her.
My feelings mattered, but so did Ha-eun’s.
If Ha-eun rejected a relationship with Isabella, then no matter how much I didn’t want to lose either of them, I would have no choice but to refuse Isabella’s feelings.
“…I understand, Kwon O-jin.”
Isabella sat back down and nodded.
“I’ll tell Elder Sister myself.”
“That’s something I should—”
“No. Since I’m the one intruding between you and Ha-eun, it should come from me.”
Isabella shook her head with a faint smile.
She didn’t yet know whether Ha-eun would accept or refuse.
“For now… knowing your feelings is enough for me.”
Isabella smiled with incomparable tenderness and took my hand.
The mere thought that she held a place in my heart made her chest flutter with overwhelming joy.
‘It’s strange when I think about it.’
To become this happy simply because a man who already has a lover told her, “I love you too.”
If it were someone else’s situation, she would have laughed at how pathetic it was.
“Hehe.”
But what could she do?
Whether it was the first or the second.
She had heard him say he didn’t want to let her go.
Isabella couldn’t suppress the corners of her mouth rising upward as her shoulders trembled with barely contained joy.
“….”
That’s cheating.
I muttered under my breath as I approached Isabella.
“Kwon O-jin…?”
I gently grasped her chin as her eyes widened in surprise, then pressed my lips against hers.
“Mmph!”
Isabella’s breath tickled my lips.
She remained rigid, her eyes darting about in bewilderment.
But only for a moment.
“Mm….”
Isabella wrapped her arms around my back, carefully slipping her tongue between my lips with the delicate precision of a sparrow pecking at seeds.
The sweet kiss continued in full bloom.
-Clunk!
The Ferris Wheel came to a stop.
“Ah….”
Isabella let out a wistful sigh, gazing at me with longing.
“Ahem. W-we should probably go. It’s getting close to closing time.”
I stood up, my face flushed crimson.
Isabella, equally flushed, lowered her head as if to hide her embarrassment and followed behind me.
Perhaps because closing time was approaching.
Not a single soul was visible in the Amusement Park.
“Um… O-Kwon O-jin.”
Isabella carefully tugged at the hem of my shirt as I walked ahead.
“Hmm?”
“T-there’s no one around.”
Isabella glanced up at me and hurried to my side with quick steps.
“Before we leave… p-please kiss me just one more time.”
She rose slightly on her toes, her eyes squeezed shut.
“….”
How could I possibly resist such an enchanting temptation?
I swallowed hard and gently pulled Isabella closer by the waist.
As the distance between us narrowed to mere inches and our lips were about to meet.
-Slither, slither.
As if.
A sinister sound echoed through the air—the sound of something serpentine moving.
“So you were here.”
A voice, low and hollow.
The voice resonated as if intoxicated, drowsy and distant, and I turned my head.
The empty Amusement Park.
From beneath the dark shadows, a woman in a black dress staggered forward.
“I’ve been looking for you.”
Her gait was stiff and jerky, like a broken wooden puppet.
Cassia stared at Kwon O-jin with eyes devoid of light.
Her forked tongue flicked like a serpent’s, and a suffocating killing intent radiated from her form.
“Why are you….”
Cassia was supposed to be in South America handling the Fly Constellation Faction—so why had she suddenly followed him to the Amusement Park?
And.
‘That’s….’
Kwon O-jin’s gaze fixed on Cassia’s forehead.
Embedded in the center of her brow was a black jewel the size of a thumb, burrowed deep into her flesh.
A jewel he had never seen before.
“…Ah.”
Kwon O-jin was not the only one shocked.
Isabella’s eyes widened in disbelief as she spotted the staggering figure of Cassia approaching.
“Cassia…?”
Her gaze held the expression of someone who could not believe what she was seeing.
She was looking at her Elder Sister, who had vanished without a trace ten years ago.

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