Not A Regressor - Chapter 365

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 365
The Black Star Constellation (1)
After three days of leave ended, my busy daily life resumed once more.
As always, Kwon O-jin woke early in the morning and headed to the private training facility that Isabella had purchased—an entire colosseum arena—just for him.
The training that began at 4 AM ended around 8 PM.
I steadily climbed to ten stars while digesting a devastating 16-hour training schedule, thoroughly mastering the power of the Lyra Constellation stigma within my body.
“Well then, I’ll be going now, Kwon O-jin. I’ve prepared various side dishes and stored them in the refrigerator, so please help yourself.”
“Ah, yes. Thank you.”
I wasn’t the only one managing a hectic schedule.
Isabella was equally busy, traveling across the globe to manage dozens of businesses operated by the Colgrand Family while pursuing her own training.
“You said you’re going to Italy this time, right?”
“Yes, that’s correct. I’m planning to visit the family estate.”
“How long will you be there?”
“Well… there’s quite a lot to handle, so I think I’ll need to stay longer this time.”
Isabella spoke with a noticeably dejected expression, clearly troubled by the thought of being apart from Kwon O-jin for an extended period.
Her slumped shoulders made her look like a drenched puppy, and I couldn’t help but let out a soft chuckle.
“What? Don’t tell me you actually enjoy being apart from me?”
Isabella shot me a sharp look as I chuckled.
I shook my head and gently caressed her cheek.
“That’s not it.”
“Sigh. If I had my way, I’d abandon the businesses and everything else.”
Isabella gazed at me with longing eyes before exhaling a deep sigh.
Truthfully, if I could, I wanted to abandon all business management and cling to Kwon O-jin, meticulously overseeing every detail of his diet, schedule, and nighttime activities.
‘For Kwon O-jin’s sake… I have to endure this.’
The vast wealth and power generated from operating dozens of businesses would be invaluable to Kwon O-jin, who had no backing except for the Association.
Even in a world where dimensional rifts connected to the outside realm had appeared and demonic beasts swarmed, the power of capital remained formidable.
“While you’re away, I’ll make sure to take good care of Kwon O-jin, so don’t worry.”
Ha-eun grinned mischievously and subtly patted Kwon O-jin’s buttocks.
Isabella’s eyes sharpened.
“Elder Sister…!”
“I’m joking, just joking. You know I’ve been busy lately, right?”
“Well, that’s true, but….”
Isabella bit her lip, clearly displeased.
I understood that Ha-eun was also swamped with training to harness the Dragon God’s soul she had obtained from the Demon Realm.
“…Still, that’s unfair.”
At least she didn’t have to travel abroad like I did.
Isabella sighed deeply and shook her head.
With everyone so busy, I couldn’t keep acting childish and sulking.
“I’ll be going now, Kwon O-jin.”
“Yes. Travel safely. Keep in touch.”
Kwon O-jin gave Isabella a light kiss as she departed, waving his hand in farewell.
“I’ll see you off, Miss.”
Roberto, who had been waiting outside the foyer, and the attendants dressed in black suits departed with Isabella.
Watching Isabella’s retreating figure, Ha-eun clicked her tongue disapprovingly.
“She really does seem busy these days.”
“Well, I suppose so.”
No matter how exceptional her business acumen, managing dozens of enterprises couldn’t be easy.
Even if most of the operational work was handled by subordinates, there would still be many decisions that required her personal attention.
“Ugh. I should start getting ready to head out too.”
“Let’s go together, Kwon O-jin.”
While Ha-eun didn’t spend sixteen hours a day buried in the Training Grounds like Kwon O-jin, she was nonetheless diligently devoted to her own training.
Whenever she had a chance, she would eat the lunch boxes they’d brought along or assist with Kwon O-jin’s training.
“Wait, let me call Vega first.”
Unlike Ha-eun, who helped Kwon O-jin whenever she had spare time, Vega was systematically instructing him in the techniques of wielding the Lyra Constellation stigma.
Thanks to her guidance, the technique he was currently focusing on—fusing the power of the Lyra Constellation stigma with Heukcheon—was advancing rapidly with each passing day.
In the past, receiving training from Vega on weaving Heukcheon and the Lyra Constellation stigma together would have been unthinkable.
But now that Heukcheon’s true nature had been fully revealed, there was no need to hide his training from Vega’s eyes.
Whoooosh!
As I channeled magical energy into the pendant hanging around my neck, a silvery aura burst forth.
[I am here, my child!]
Boom!
Vega appeared in the same stance as me, materializing without warning.
She surveyed Kwon O-jin and Ha-eun, both now dressed in training clothes, and let out a short sigh.
[Are you going to train again?]
“Of course.”
[Sigh. You trained so intensely yesterday that you were nearly torn to shreds… I worry that your body will be destroyed.]
“If I get injured, I can just soak in the pool for a bit and recover.”
Since the Training Facility had been created by completely renovating the Colosseum Arena, it contained a spacious swimming pool equipped for underwater training.
Of course, Kwon O-jin’s primary use of the Training Facility’s pool wasn’t for underwater combat preparation, but rather for simple healing purposes.
[You said the technique that absorbs water to heal the body is called Hydro Affinity?]
“That’s right.”
[But that technique only heals external wounds, does it not?]
“Well, that’s true, but…”
Still, having external wounds healed completely was better than nothing.
“As Heukcheon’s awakening stage increased, it started healing internal injuries to some degree as well.”
It was only ‘to some degree,’ and it wasn’t an ideal skill for treating internal injuries.
‘Even if I drank an entire Elixir, wounds wouldn’t regenerate this quickly.’
While limited to external wounds, the Hydro Affinity skill’s healing power was comparable to the legendary Elixir—the potion said to resurrect even the dead—in terms of pure regenerative capacity.
‘Thanks to this, I can train without worrying about destroying my body.’
With sufficient water, even the most severe external wounds could regenerate as if I were an immortal slime, making Hydro Affinity the perfect recovery skill for someone like me who enjoyed training at torturous intensity levels.
[Sigh. I really can’t take this anymore.]
Vega pressed her forehead as if her head were throbbing.
Riak, the Holy Spirit who inherited a portion of her soul, was also a training fanatic to a degree similar to Kwon O-jin, but at least Riak didn’t train so recklessly that his body fell apart like Kwon O-jin did.
“Then let’s head out soon.”
Today, she couldn’t leave early in the morning because she was seeing off Isabella, who was departing for Italy.
As the hour grew late, she thought she should stay a bit longer and opened the entrance.
Bzzzzzzzz.
The smartphone in her pocket vibrated.
“Who’s calling?”
“Hold on.”
When she turned on the smartphone’s screen, Han Jun-man’s name appeared.
“Yes, Manager.”
-Huff, huff! O-jin, is it okay to talk right now?
Han Manager’s voice sounded unusually urgent.
-Could you come to the Association right now?
“What’s the matter?”
-I’ll explain once you arrive.
“Hmm. Yes, understood. I’ll head right over.”
-Thank you!
Han Manager hung up without even properly saying goodbye.
“What’s going on?”
“I’m not sure. His voice sounded really urgent though.”
“Hmm, really?”
“I should go check it out.”
“Oh, wait. I got a call too.”
Soon Ha-eun’s smartphone began to vibrate as well.
It seemed Han Manager was calling all the Awakened Users connected to the Association, not just Kwon O-jin.
“Yeah, Manager. I heard from O-jin, so I’ll go with him.”
After a brief call with Han Manager, Ha-eun headed to the Association together with Kwon O-jin.

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“Oh, you’ve arrived!”
When I reached the Association, Han Manager was waiting at the entrance, beads of sweat glistening on his brow.
Kwon O-jin approached Han Manager and asked in a hushed voice.
“What’s happened?”
Unlike Han Manager’s anxious expression, the staff and Awakened Users moving about within the Association appeared calm.
In other words, the matter Han Manager was about to relay hadn’t yet been announced within the Association.
“Well, that is…”
Han Jun-man glanced around nervously before turning his body.
“Please follow me for now.”
Following Han Jun-man, I arrived at a conference room accessible only to the Association President and high-ranking executives within the Association.
Kwon O-jin tilted his head at the presence he sensed inside.
“Hmm? Is someone already here?”
“Ah, yes. It’s the Guild Master of Valhalla Guild.”
Valhalla Guild?
My eyes narrowed at hearing a name I hadn’t encountered in so long.
“It’s been a while, Kwon O-jin.”
The conference room door opened, and Lee Woo-hyuk appeared.
“Ah… yes. It really has been ages.”
Kwon O-jin shook hands with Lee Woo-hyuk while recalling the last time they had met.
‘Was it during the Living Armor incident?’
It was so long ago that the memory had grown hazy.
‘Hmm?’
Then I noticed something doll-sized perched upon Lee Woo-hyuk’s shoulder.
A man possessed of a weighty aura as sharp and honed as a finely whetted blade.
Yet his diminutive stature—barely exceeding the span of a palm—had stripped away much of his characteristic oppressiveness.
[It’s been quite some time, Regulus of the Lyra Constellation.]
The doll-sized man perched atop Lee Woo-hyuk opened his mouth.
Having offered a light greeting to Kwon O-jin, he turned his body toward Vega, who was perched upon Kwon O-jin’s shoulder, and bowed respectfully.
[I greet the star of the Lyra Constellation.]
[Are you not… Regulus?]
Regulus.
The Constellation of Leo, bearing one pillar of the Zodiac Twelve Palaces.
[How have you come to Earth…?]
[Since the constraints have weakened, I have become capable of manifesting in avatar form.]
[I see.]
A soft exclamation escaped Vega’s lips.
I had heard that Constellations could manifest outside after the constraints weakened, but this was my first time witnessing it directly.
‘So the Constellation of Leo chose Lee Woo-hyuk.’
It seemed he had chosen to stand beside Lee Woo-hyuk, just as I had heard he was keeping a watchful eye on him before.
“Let’s skip the pleasantries for now… Manager?”
“Yes, please come inside.”
Han Manager opened the conference room door and stepped through.
“I’ve already given Lee Woo-hyuk a heads-up, but… please take a look at this footage.”
An image materialized on the screen via beam projector.
A desolate beach landscape devoid of any people flowed across the display.
“What is this…?”
“This is footage sent by the Kuroshi Organization.”
Kuroshi—the yakuza organization that had connections with Kwon O-jin.
Kwon O-jin nodded and focused on the footage unfolding before him.
-Crrrunch, crunch!
A black dimensional rift materialized on the beach.
Something surged forth from within it in great numbers.
“…Demonic beasts?”
The head resembled a horse, yet it moved on two legs, with webbed appendages sprouting from its torso and limbs.
And there was another distinctive feature.
‘Horns.’
Two horns protruded from the horse-like head.
They resembled the horns that sprouted from the foreheads of demons—creatures I’d grown weary of seeing in the Demon Realm.
“The important part comes next.”
Han Manager fast-forwarded the footage rapidly.
After hundreds, thousands of horse-headed demonic beasts had emerged from the rift,
-Sssso… this is Earth.
A horse-headed monstrosity stepped out from within the black rift.
Yet unlike the horse-headed demonic beasts that had appeared thus far, an indescribable, overwhelming pressure radiated from this creature.
Neither demonic beast nor demon.
A distant, vertiginous sensation—as though confronting a transcendent being far beyond comprehension.
Boom!
With a light step upon the sand, the ground trembled as if struck by an earthquake, and the seawater churned violently.
[That… that being….]
[Indeed, Vega.]
Regulus turned to face Vega, whose eyes had widened in shock, and nodded.
Regulus furrowed the area around his right eye, marked with a sharp blade scar, and continued in a low voice.
What could be gleaned from this brief footage—less than ten minutes—was singular.
[The Constellation of Seahorse… Anselladus.]
A Constellation of Black Star.
Had manifested on Earth.

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