Not A Regressor - Chapter 361

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 361
A Third of a Vacation (7)
The Conjunction of Stars.
At first glance, it sounded like some astronomical term, but grasping its true meaning wasn’t difficult.
“…Uh, so you’re saying…”
Kwon O-jin stared at Vega with an expression as if he’d been struck on the back of the head with a hammer.
“Here? Right now?”
Kwon O-jin gazed at Vega in bewilderment, never having expected such a proposal from her—who was far more reserved than the other two women.
An outdoor encounter as a first experience, no less.
He found himself doubting whether those words had truly come from Vega’s lips, the same Vega who had blushed merely from holding hands.
[U-uh…]
Vega’s ears flushed crimson as she fumbled with her words, her lips trembling.
[Y-you and the two girls already have… e-experience, don’t you?]
Simply watching how Ha-eun and Isabella approached Kwon O-jin without hesitation made it easy to imagine what had transpired between them.
Kwon O-jin nodded, his expression conflicted.
“…Well, that’s true, but…”
It was natural for lovers to become intimate with one another.
After all, physical closeness mattered as much as emotional distance.
Vega turned her head slightly, her expression tinged with melancholy as she continued.
[Only I lack such experience… it feels a bit… lonely.]
“….”
Kwon O-jin’s pupils trembled as he gazed at Vega.
What madness was this.
Though he’d faced considerable seduction from Ha-eun and Isabella before, never had he encountered temptation that shook his heart so profoundly.
It was like receiving fastballs straight down the middle, only to have a curveball suddenly thrown his way.
‘Damn it.’
His breathing grew ragged.
His heart began pounding as if it might burst, heat flooding his mind.
[Why… why are you looking at me with those eyes…?]
Vega trembled slightly upon seeing Kwon O-jin’s eyes, bloodshot and burning with intensity.
Kwon O-jin took slow, deep breaths, desperately trying to cool his overheated mind.
He wanted nothing more than to embrace Vega right then, but there was one problem he needed to address first.
“But what if other Constellations show up? You said this place has that superstition, didn’t it?”
It was a baseless superstition with no logic or causality—the kind where kissing under mistletoe at Christmas brings happiness.
Yet such superstitions were actually believed and followed by quite a few people on Earth.
Certain spots had even become tourist attractions, drawing crowds of people every year.
‘Of course, what we’d be doing here goes far beyond a kiss.’
In any case, if it was a famous location as Vega had mentioned, there was a risk of other Constellations intruding midway.
Though the distance was considerable, he’d seen Constellations sharing intimate moments at Starlight Plaza just moments ago.
[D-don’t worry about that!]
Vega cried out with absolute certainty.
I regarded her with questioning eyes, wondering what grounds she had for such conviction.
[Well… um, you see…]
Vega rolled her eyes as she glanced around, then took a sharp breath and spread both arms wide.
Whoooooosh!
Brilliant silver light flowed from Vega’s body, illuminating the Grave of Stars with radiant clarity.
Sacred Domain.
The authority possessed only by Constellations spread widely across the surroundings.
“You’re… using Sacred Domain for this?”
I stared at Vega with bewildered eyes.
Even if the Star Palace was free from the constraints of Divine Law, deploying Sacred Domain just to conduct a star’s conjugation(?) seemed absurd.
It was the equivalent of buying an entire hotel because you couldn’t find a room—utterly insane.
[Haa, haa. With this, no one will be able to intrude, I assure you.]
Vega’s breathing grew ragged from having just deployed Sacred Domain. She swallowed hard and turned to face me.
Her two fists clenched tightly seemed to declare, “Now there’s nothing to worry about!”
“…Well, I suppose that’s true.”
I regarded Vega with an expression of utter disbelief.
I wondered if I should have just kept quiet about what would happen if another Constellation interfered, but now that Sacred Domain was deployed, there was nothing to be done.
‘What the hell, I don’t care anymore.’
My patience had reached its limit.
“Come here, Vega.”
[…Okay.]
I gently pulled her hand toward me.
I felt her hand trembling faintly in mine.
Whether the emotion trembling within her hand was anticipation or fear, even I couldn’t discern.
‘It must be her first time, after all.’
The kindest approach would be to make her feel safe and secure.
“Just a moment.”
I extended my hand toward the space around us.
Kurrrrrgh.
The remnants of Heukcheon gathered upon my palm.
Though they were merely hollow shells, all the energy that had dwelt within them long since drained away.
‘That’s why they’re so soft, I suppose.’
I gently squeezed the remnants of Heukcheon gathered in my palm.
Soft and fluffy.
The sensation spreading through my hand was as gentle as holding a ball of cotton.
“Lie down here.”
I gathered the remnants of Heukcheon into a round shape, fashioning a makeshift bed.
Just as I was about to guide Vega’s hand and lay her down as gently as possible on the bed.
[I… um, my… my child…]
“Huh?”
Vega’s face flushed crimson like an apple as she hung her head low.
[…you may.]
“What did you say?”
Her voice was too quiet to hear clearly.
Vega stammered and mumbled in a voice so small it seemed to crawl like an ant.
[A, a bit more roughly… is, is fine with me…]
“….”
Mm.
I couldn’t hold back anymore.
[Kyaaah!]
I pushed Vega down roughly.

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Where the death and birth of stars intersect.
After the ‘Stellar Convergence’ ended in the space covered by the remnants of Heukcheon.
[….]
Vega lay collapsed on a makeshift bed constructed from Heukcheon’s remnants, sleeping as if unconscious.
Snore, snore.
Soft snoring pleasantly tickled my ears.
I recalled the intense Stellar Convergence that had just occurred and swallowed dryly.
‘I knew Vega had those kinds of preferences(?), but…’
I never expected her to demand such passionate intimacy on her first experience.
‘At this rate, it wasn’t a Stellar Convergence but a Stellar Collision.’
While entertaining such idle thoughts, I gently caressed Vega’s sleeping cheek.
[Mm… I, I’m sorry, my child… this one was wrong… p, please forgive me.]
Was she recalling the stellar impulse from moments ago in her dreams?
Vega exhaled contentedly and squirmed restlessly.
“…If my sister found out about this, she’d cause a commotion.”
She’d probably tease me relentlessly until Vega locked herself back in the Divine Temple and barricaded the door.
Part of me wanted to see Vega teased until she whimpered and cried, but no matter what, I couldn’t tell Ha-eun about this intimate night between us.
‘I guess I’ll wait a bit until Vega wakes up.’
I rose to explore the Grave of Stars more thoroughly in the meantime.
“Ugh!”
Ssshhh!
A searing pain spread through my left chest.
A burning sensation as if branded by a red-hot iron.
It wasn’t an unfamiliar pain to me.
I’d experienced it nine times already.
‘Wait, could this be…?’
Kwon O-jin’s eyes flew wide open.
He unbuttoned his shirt and looked down at his left chest.
“This is insane.”
The tenth stroke, clearly etched beside the Lyra Constellation stigma.
The moment the tenth stroke appeared, the stigma’s mana began surging violently through my entire body.
‘Did I… just become a 10-Star Awakener?’
A situation that defied belief even as I witnessed it with my own eyes.
Rather than joy at reaching the 10-Star rank—something only a select few among Awakeners could attain—bewilderment at the situation itself struck me first.
The only thing I’d done moments before was engage in passionate intimacy with Vega.
‘No, that can’t be it. There’s no way.’
Even if Vega was the Lyra Constellation, did it make any sense to reach 10-Star simply because I’d been intimate with her?
Kwon O-jin wondered if perhaps this space called the Grave of Stars possessed some special power.
‘The Canis Major Constellation stigma.’
I pushed my senses to their maximum and scanned the surrounding space like a radar.
A low rumbling sound.
Beyond that, I even spread Heukcheon’s clouds and absorbed everything within reach to test it.
And the result was.
“…No.”
The remnants of Heukcheon filling the surroundings, the corpses of stars illuminating the darkness—
They were all nothing but hollow shells.
Reaching 10-Star with such depleted energy, like discarded shrimp shells, made no sense.
Then only one possibility remained.
“Did I… really reach 10-Star by being with Vega?”
What kind of absurdity was this?
A hollow laugh escaped between my lips.
No matter how much I denied it as impossible, honestly, there was no other explanation for reaching 10-Star.
“…Now that I think about it, the Lyra Constellation stigma’s power suddenly grew stronger after I became Vega’s lover.”
There had been signs.
I had noticed the Lyra Constellation stigma’s power growing noticeably stronger since becoming Vega’s lover.
But even so, I hadn’t believed the cause was truly becoming her lover.
As Vega had said before, Constellations couldn’t directly assist an Awakener’s growth.
‘I thought it was because of Heukcheon.’
I’d assumed it was the Lyra Constellation’s energy released as Heukcheon underwent its tenth bloom that had caused the sudden surge in power.
It seemed my hypothesis had been spectacularly wrong.
“Sigh.”
A deep sigh escaped my lips.
Reluctant as I was to admit it, with such clear cause and effect established, I could no longer deny the truth.
‘Every time I grow closer to Vega… the Lyra Constellation stigma’s power strengthens.’
Whether that was Heukcheon’s influence or a unique property of the Lyra Constellation stigma itself, I couldn’t determine.
To verify it, I’d need to compare it with someone else, but only the Heavenly Demon possessed Heukcheon besides me—so how could I even confirm anything?
‘Moreover, I’m the only awakener bearing the stigma of Lyra Constellation.’
In a situation where samples for analyzing the phenomenon were critically insufficient, there was nothing to do but accept the truth before my eyes.
“So I grow stronger every time I’m with Vega….”
In Isabella’s case, she became stronger each time she drank Kwon O-jin’s blood and squeezed him to her heart’s content (?).
“What kind of adult fantasy setting is this….”
Kwon O-jin let out a deep sigh and clutched his head in frustration.

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