Not A Regressor - Chapter 266

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 266
Snowy Field (6)
“Elder Sister…?”
In that instant.
As if the world had frozen, a chill raced down my spine, spreading across my skin like wildfire.
Ha-eun strode into the Hospital Room with purposeful steps, her eyes cold and piercing as she fixed her gaze upon him.
“You lost your memories?”
“….”
Had she already heard everything?
Kwon O-jin exhaled deeply and nodded his head.
“That’s right.”
“You…!”
Ha-eun clenched her fist and raised her hand.
Bracing for impact, I squeezed my eyes shut, but the blow never came.
“Why… why didn’t you tell me!”
Her eyes glistening with tears, she seized his collar with trembling hands.
Her shoulders and hands quivered uncontrollably.
Kwon O-jin gazed at her with bitter eyes, gently wiping away the tears that had gathered at the corners of her eyes.
Was there any other reason he had hidden it from her?
“Because I hated seeing you make that expression.”
“….”
Ha-eun bit her lip, her grip on his collar loosening as her strength faded.
She rose unsteadily and turned her gaze toward Isabella, who stood uncertainly, at a loss for what to do.
“Leave for a moment.”
“Sister, Kwon O-jin is suffering because of me….”
“Leave. Now.”
Her voice had turned glacial.
Isabella’s lips trembled as she looked toward Kwon O-jin with wavering eyes, as if trying to speak.
Kwon O-jin nodded lightly, as if to reassure her.
“…I’ll step out then.”
Click.
The Hospital Room door closed.
“….”
“….”
Alone in the Hospital Room.
A chilling silence descended, feeling strangely unfamiliar.
Breaking the silence that seemed to stretch into eternity, Ha-eun spoke softly.
“You said you lost your memories of me too, right?”
“Yeah.”
“…What memories were they?”
Ha-eun asked in a trembling voice tinged with anxiety.
Kwon O-jin gently grasped her hand, sensing how fragile she appeared—as if she might shatter into pieces at the slightest touch.
“The memory of Elder Sister being my lover.”
“…!”
Ha-eun’s eyes widened dramatically.
She pulled his hand toward her with sudden force, leaning her body closer to his.
“Then, then that means we’re dating right now…!”
“Just because a memory disappears doesn’t mean the feelings attached to it vanish too.”
The memory of being her lover had faded, yes.
But the emotions I harbored for her remained untouched.
Those feelings alone.
Would not be erased no matter what happened.
For all my emotions toward Ha-eun to disappear, every single memory from the day we first spoke on the Orphanage Rooftop would have to vanish as well.
“When exactly did this… Oh.”
A short exclamation escaped Ha-eun’s lips.
When Kwon O-jin had emerged from the Demon Realm.
The memory surfaced of when he suddenly said he needed to get some air, his eyes trembling with unease.
She hadn’t sensed anything particularly strange at the time, but now that she thought about it, his demeanor had seemed different from usual.
“…So all the memories before that disappeared? Every single one?”
“Not all of them. Just the memory of us becoming lovers.”
If that were the case.
“Did you forget my confession too?”
When she had been captured by Cheon Do-yoon.
Had he forgotten all those emotions she had confessed while kissing him, feelings she had kept locked deep within her heart?
“….”
Kwon O-jin gazed at her without answering, his eyes filled with sorrow.
That silence was answer enough.
“Ah….”
Ha-eun’s eyes glistened as if tears might spill at any moment, her gaze fixed on him.
A heavy, suffocating sensation, as if dark clouds had settled over her heart.
The thought that he had been carrying this burden alone all this time made her chest ache as if it were burning.
“…I’m sorry.”
“Elder Sister, what do you have to apologize for?”
“I… didn’t know. You must have been suffering, yet I….”
She had leaned on him without a care.
Completely unaware of what he was bearing alone.
-Now those Black Star Society bastards will be nothing but a breeze!
The words she had spoken when she first heard about the Heavenly Stream technique from Kwon O-jin flashed through her mind.
What emotions had he felt hearing her speak so carelessly, laughing with such ignorance?
“Elder Sister.”
Kwon O-jin gently caressed Ha-eun’s tear-stained cheek, offering a faint smile.
“Closing your eyes doesn’t make the world disappear, does it?”
He whispered words he’d once heard from Vega.
“…What are you talking about?”
“Even if you forget, it doesn’t completely vanish. Besides, losing your memory isn’t really that big of a deal, is it?”
“Not a big deal? What kind of nonsense is that…!”
“Do you remember what you had for lunch a month ago?”
“That’s….”
Ha-eun muttered that this was different.
“Ha. I suppose you’re right.”
Forgetting a lunch from a month ago was entirely different from forgetting the precious memories they’d shared together.
But.
“No matter how many times I forget, I’ll still be by your side like this.”
“….”
Ha-eun gazed at Kwon O-jin with trembling eyes.
She pulled their intertwined hands closer, drawing him into an embrace.
“From now on… promise me you’ll never use that technique again.”
“…Well.”
If a situation like this arose again, could I truly refrain from using Gaecheon?
“Kwon O-jin, you…!”
“Alright, alright. I won’t use it anymore.”
“…Is that a promise?”
“Yeah.”
Kwon O-jin chuckled softly and nodded.
Ha-eun gently stroked his back with sorrowful eyes.
After holding him in silence for a while, Ha-eun squeezed her eyes shut.
‘Get a grip.’
Wasn’t Kwon O-jin terrified of losing his memories?
Despite knowing all of this, he had used Gaecheon.
To protect those he held dear.
She couldn’t simply demand why he’d resorted to such a dangerous technique.
If he hadn’t used Gaecheon, she wouldn’t be holding him like this now.
“…You said you were attacked by the Snake Zodiac Queen?”
“More precisely, the Snake Zodiac Queen being controlled by the Heavenly Demon.”
“Either way.”
He had just faced the Black Star Society’s top-ranked enforcer and returned alive.
She couldn’t let only dark and gloomy memories linger like at a funeral.
“Hmm, now that I think about it—when you used Gaecheon before, you lost all your memories of us dating, right?”
“Oh, yeah. That’s right.”
“Then… did you forget all your memories of our first time together?”
“What?”
Kwon O-jin stared at her with an incredulous expression, clearly not expecting such a question in this atmosphere.
“Well, I mean… the memory of us dating was erased, so I forgot everything.”
“So you lost your virginity twice?”
What is this woman suddenly saying?
“Hehe. So if Elder Sister does it one more time now, that makes the third time?”
“No, this time I didn’t forget….”
Thump!
Ha-eun, who had been embracing Kwon O-jin’s body, tightened her grip and pushed him down onto the bed.
Ha-eun straddled him, her smile sultry and inviting.
She leaned down until their noses nearly touched, pressing herself against him intimately.
“Then starting now….”
She reached out and gently caressed his chest.
“I’ll carve memories so deep you’ll never be able to forget.”
Ha-eun smiled warmly and pressed her lips against his.
“Wait, you crazy Elder Sister, what are you doing to a patient… Mmph!”
Creak, creak.
The cold air of the Hospital Room began to grow hot.
* * *
“Sigh.”
Late into the night.
After Ha-eun, who had clung to him since broad daylight without letting go, finally fell asleep with a satisfied expression.
Kwon O-jin slipped out of the Hospital Room and climbed up to the Rooftop.
As I stepped outside, the cool night air tickled my cheeks.
I gazed up at the stars scattered across the Night Sky and took a sip of the canned coffee I’d pulled from the vending machine.
‘The Heavenly Demon.’
Who exactly was this being?
‘For now, it’s likely a Constellation with power as formidable as Titan or Polaris….’
Without precise information about him at this moment.
I couldn’t make hasty judgments.
“Sigh.”
A deep breath escaped my lips.
In the past, even knowing the Heavenly Demon existed, I never felt this sense of despair since his movements remained completely invisible.
‘Both Cheon Joo-ryong and Cassia….’
As the Heavenly Demon’s movements gradually became apparent, a weight of burden and fear pressed down upon me.
“He’s not yet in a state where he can move directly.”
The only slight consolation was his current condition.
Seeing how he’d gone through the trouble of attacking me through Cassia, it seemed right to assume he still couldn’t move directly.
“Ugh.”
Kwon O-jin leaned against the Rooftop railing and swallowed hard.
At that moment, a gust of wind sent the empty can resting against the railing flying backward.
As I turned my body to catch the falling coffee can.
Slither.
A sinister sound, like a serpent moving.
A black snake with the empty can clenched in its mouth slithered across the ground toward me, its scales whispering against the floor with each undulating motion.
“There you are.”
Cassia emerged from the shadows draped in deep darkness.
I flinched, my eyes narrowing with tension as I studied her.
Cassia smiled faintly and let out a soft laugh.
“You don’t need to be so guarded. I have no intention of harming you, Kwon O-jin.”
With those words, Cassia glided closer and whispered near my ear.
“Not yet, anyway.”
“….”
Her eerie breath brushed against my earlobe.
“What are you doing here?”
“I stopped by before leaving. I also have something to give you.”
“Leaving? Where to?”
Surely she wasn’t saying she’d return to the Heavenly Demon’s side.
“Hehe. Why? Are you curious?”
Cassia laughed playfully, her smile mischievous.
“Don’t worry. I’m not going back to the Heavenly Demon.”
She gazed up at the Night Sky with a somewhat forlorn expression.
“It’s my own form of atonement, you might say? Though I’m not sure I have the right to even speak such words.”
Atonement.
Indeed, the blood on her hands from all this time was not insignificant.
But.
“Those were things you did while your consciousness was dominated by the Heavenly Demon.”
The Heavenly Demon had cunningly exploited her trauma, turning her into a puppet who followed him obsessively.
She likely moved in a haze of consciousness, following only his commands, unaware of what she was doing.
“Even so, those are still things I did.”
Cassia shook her head with a faint smile.
“But thanks to you, I now understand what I must do going forward.”
Cassia approached me with a beautiful smile in her eyes.
True to form as Isabella’s sister, the corners of her eyes resembled Isabella’s when she smiled.
“Don’t forget. The promises you made with me.”
Cassia carefully embraced me as she spoke.
“I won’t.”
I had promised to become her Heavenly Demon.
Even if it was merely a sordid lie born from a con artist’s will to survive.
I could not abandon the trembling girl in the Snowy Field and turn away.
“….”
Cassia held Kwon O-jin’s body close, trembling faintly.
Was she crying again in secret?
Both the younger and elder sisters were surprisingly emotional women.
Kwon O-jin offered a faint smile and patted her back.
“…Kwon O-jin.”
“Hmm?”
But.
Her next words diverged slightly from his expectations.
“You smell like another woman…?”
Cassia’s serpentine tongue extended, her eyes gleaming with an eerie emerald light.

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