Not A Regressor - Chapter 354

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 354
Interlude – Three-Way Confrontation
“So….”
The living room, now spacious after the expansion construction.
Ha-eun, seated on the sofa, turned her gaze between Kwon O-jin and Vega standing beside him, her eyes narrowing sharply.
Whether you called it feminine intuition or not, she could easily sense that the atmosphere flowing between Kwon O-jin and Vega had shifted.
A sigh.
A deep exhale escaped Ha-eun’s lips.
“After Isabella, it’s Vega?”
“…Well, that is…”
Kwon O-jin avoided Ha-eun’s gaze and trailed off.
Ha-eun shot him a piercing look as he evaded her eyes, twisting her lips into a fierce sneer.
“You went off to the Sanctuary alone, and now you’re coming back as two?”
“….”
“If you two keep going in alone, will you come back as three?”
“Ahem.”
Like with Isabella, even ten mouths wouldn’t have enough words to explain.
Like a criminal standing before a judge, he bowed his head reverently, waiting for the verdict.
[No, no! It is not my child’s fault!]
Vega, acting as his defense attorney, raised her hand triumphantly to mount his defense.
“Hmm? It’s not O-jin’s fault, you say?”
[This one confessed her feelings first.]
“I see.”
[Even knowing that he was in a relationship with you, this one could not restrain herself. It is this one’s fault.]
Vega swallowed hard and her expression grew timid.
Ha-eun draped herself across the sofa as if her head ached, pressing her forehead with her hand.
“Sigh… Yeah, I had a feeling this would happen. I knew it.”
When Kwon O-jin had headed to the Sanctuary to apologize to Vega, she had dimly suspected it.
Perhaps his lover count would increase by one.
But there was a vast difference between knowing something intellectually and accepting it in your heart.
“Still… this is irritating?”
“I will accept any punishment you deem fit.”
Kwon O-jin, overwhelmed by guilt, bowed his head meekly like a criminal turning himself in.
[No, no! If there is to be punishment, this one shall bear it instead!]
“Our masochistic goddess should stay quiet.”
[…What is masochism?]
Kwon O-jin approached Vega, who tilted her head in confusion, and whispered the meaning into her ear.
Vega sprang up like a rabbit that had touched fire.
[No, this one is not such a shameless woman!]
“Is that so, my lady?”
Ha-eun twisted her lips upward and slipped behind Vega.
[W-what are you trying to do?]
“Shh. Just stay still for a moment.”
Vega had manifested in her true form rather than as a small avatar, and Ha-eun grabbed the hem of her dress with both hands, then lifted her skirt with the mischievous glee of an elementary schooler playing a prank on a girl she liked.
As the dress flipped up, the goddess’s pristine, plump buttocks were exposed to the world.
[K-kyaaaaaaah!]
A scream unlike anything I had ever heard erupted from Vega’s lips.
[W-w-w-what are you doing!]
Vega’s face flushed crimson with shame as her lips trembled incoherently.
Ha-eun gazed at Vega’s reddened buttocks and smirked knowingly, as if she’d expected exactly this.
“It looks like you two had quite the enjoyable time before coming here?”
[T-that’s not what happened!]
“Oh really? Then what are these handprints doing stamped all over your backside like that?”
[Y-you’re being disrespectful!]
“The disrespectful one is the goddess who’s been sulking with the door locked, acting all proud, and then the moment you make up, you’re shoving your rear end at him.”
[….]
A barrage of facts beyond imagination.
The cutting remarks were so sharp that Vega thought being beaten with a weapon would be preferable, and she collapsed with hollow, vacant eyes as if her soul had left her body.
[I… I didn’t… that’s not…]
“Vega.”
[Sob… What did I do so wrong…]
“Vega!”
There was no response.
She looked like a corpse.
“…Elder Sister.”
“Oh, I-I’m sorry. That might have been too much.”
When I gave her a reproachful look, Ha-eun laughed awkwardly and scratched her head.
Vega’s reaction had been so perfect that she’d unconsciously crossed the line.
Ha-eun approached Vega, who was sitting on the floor hugging her knees and trembling.
“Anyway, I’m counting on you to take good care of O-jin from now on.”
[Does that mean… y-you’re acknowledging me?]
Golden starlight sparkled in her previously vacant eyes.
Ha-eun let out a deep sigh and nodded.
“I already said I’d follow O-jin’s choice completely, so there’s nothing to acknowledge or not acknowledge.”
At least it was fortunate that she was bringing Vega, who had been with us all along, rather than some stranger she’d never seen before.
No, but it was still a bit galling to let it pass so easily.
“I should just cut it off completely.”
“…Cut what off?”
Ha-eun muttered something ominous and pinched my side hard.
The pain was so sharp it felt like flesh was being torn away, but since I had sins to atone for, I quietly endured Ha-eun’s venting with my body.
Click.
Then.
The entrance door swung open, and a woman stepped into the house.
A woman so beautiful that the surroundings seemed to brighten—an illusion born of her radiance.
Isabella neatly arranged her discarded shoes and entered the living room.
“I’m home~”
Her voice carried the warmth of a spring breeze.
“Hm?”
Isabella tilted her head upon spotting Vega.
“Oh my, have you two made up?”
“Made up? They’re practically dying of affection for each other.”
“…What do you mean by that, Elder Sister?”
Isabella’s eyes turned cold as she glanced between Kwon O-jin and Vega.
Ha-eun clicked her tongue and held up three fingers.
“Now there are three of us.”
“…Ah.”
A soft exclamation escaped Isabella’s lips.
[I… I’m sorry.]
“Oh my, what could you possibly apologize to me for?”
Isabella shook her head with a gentle smile.
“It’s awkward to say myself, but my position isn’t so different from Vega’s, is it?”
Even knowing that Kwon O-jin and Ha-eun were lovers, Isabella had inserted herself between them—she was equally at fault.
[I… I see. Thank you for saying that….]
“However.”
Her lips smiled, yet her eyes remained utterly devoid of warmth.
“I believe these matters require a clear hierarchy.”
[…Hierarchy?]
“Simply put, it’s about rank.”
“What rank are you talking about?”
Kwon O-jin, who had been listening quietly, tried to interject in bewilderment.
“Kwon O-jin, please stay quiet.”
Shut down instantly, Kwon O-jin shrank back into himself.
“First, undoubtedly, it’s Elder Sister Ha-eun. You met Kwon O-jin first, and you became lovers before anyone else.”
“Hmm, well, yes, that’s right.”
Ha-eun puffed out her chest with unwarranted pride.
The sight resembled a puppet emperor stripped of all authority by his prime minister.
Isabella gently hooked her arm around Kwon O-jin’s and held up two fingers.
“And second, that would be me.”
[Well… if we’re going by the order in which we became lovers, then yes.]
Vega nodded as if she had no particular interest in such rankings.
“So that’s it.”
Isabella flashed a mischievous smile and pressed herself snugly against Kwon O-jin’s arm, which was wrapped around her.
“There’s no space left beside Kwon O-jin.”
With Ha-eun occupying the other side, there truly was no room remaining on either flank.
[Hmm. Was that what you wanted to say?]
Vega’s eyes narrowed to slits as she observed Isabella clinging to me like a territorial puppy.
Whoooosh!
Her form shimmered with light, transforming into a palm-sized avatar.
[Then I shall claim this spot as mine.]
Vega fluttered gracefully and alighted softly upon Kwon O-jin’s shoulder.
It was her exclusive seat—one from which she could tug at my earlobe or caress my cheek whenever she pleased.
“Ah, I see. That was quite clever.”
Isabella swallowed hard, her expression showing she’d been outmaneuvered.
Unwilling to let the matter rest, Isabella pondered for a moment before snapping her fingers with a sudden inspiration.
“And from now on, Vega, you must call us ‘Elder Sister.'”
[…What?]
Vega’s expression hardened instantly.
A Constellation—and not just any Constellation, but one of the Polaris, standing at the apex among hundreds of Constellations—was expected to use the honorific “Elder Sister”?
It was far more grotesquely inappropriate than a defense minister calling freshly enlisted soldiers “hyung.”
“Oh, come on. Just try calling us Elder Sister once?”
[Why… why are you doing this too?]
Ha-eun’s eyes gleamed with amusement as she poked Vega’s ribs repeatedly.
“….”
Watching the two women tease Vega with sparkling eyes felt like witnessing senior soldiers hazing a fresh recruit.
[My… my child.]
“Ahem. Well… it’s not really my place to interfere.”
Honestly, I wanted to hear it.
The moment those words left Vega’s lips.
[Ugh…]
Vega scrunched her eyes shut and clenched her teeth before carefully opening her mouth.
[Deep breath… exhale.]
She took one deep breath.
[I… I look forward to working with you… E-E-Elder Sisters.]
“Pfft!”
“Hehe!”
Ha-eun and Isabella simultaneously covered their mouths and writhed as if insects had crawled into their clothes.
“Kyahahaha! She said it! Elder Sister! Did you hear?!”
“Hahahaha! It’s even more awkward than I imagined!”
Ha-eun and Isabella burst into laughter, teasing Vega mercilessly.
[S-So I told you I didn’t want to!]
Vega’s face flushed crimson as she burst out in protest.
Isabella wiped away the tears glistening at the corners of her eyes and patted Vega’s shoulder reassuringly.
“I’m… I’m so sorry, Vega. I honestly didn’t expect something like this to look so unfitting on you.”
“Ugh, now I’ve got goosebumps all over.”
Though I offered belated consolation, the pride of a Constellation that had already crumbled could not be restored.
[How utterly disrespectful of you all!]
Vega adopted a stern expression and transformed back to her original form from the diminutive vessel.
[No matter how casually I deign to treat you, I am a Constellation!]
Vega unleashed a torrent of words, as if releasing all the grievances she had accumulated.
[A Constellation is a divine being born from the Primordial Giant at the dawn of creation…!]
Ha-eun and Isabella exchanged glances with expressions of those who had stepped on a landmine, listening to the nagging that had begun in earnest.
“Um, Kwon O-jin?”
“Where the hell did that bastard go?”
Both women cast desperate, pleading looks toward Kwon O-jin, but by then, he had already vanished like a phantom.
[Hey! Where are you looking! I’m explaining the very genesis and history of the Constellation right now!]
The deep sighs of the two women caught by Vega echoed faintly through the air.
‘At least it worked out well in the end.’
The moment Vega looked ready to explode, Kwon O-jin had slipped away and concealed his presence using the Shadow Veil, now gazing at the three women with a faint smile.
-A man who couldn’t even protect a single person… and yet he dares to be greedy?
Suddenly.
The gaze of the Heavenly Demon, burning with hatred as she glared at me, surfaced in my mind.
I let out a bitter laugh.
‘Perhaps you’re right—maybe I am being presumptuous with my greed.’
But.
What does greed matter? What does selfishness matter?
‘I won’t give up.’
Unlike you.
Never.
With that firm vow etched into my heart, I approached the three women—no, the three people I loved.

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