Not A Regressor - Chapter 380

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 380
Sisters (4)
I didn’t hate her from the beginning.
When she was born, I was the one who rejoiced more than anyone else, thrilled to have a younger sister.
But.
As time passed and she grew older.
I came to realize that she was ‘different’ from me.
What I could never possess.
What I could never enjoy.
What I could never accomplish.
She held it all so effortlessly, as though it were only natural.
Ah.
No one could ever understand.
When I was trapped in a wheelchair as suffocating as a prison, my bones and muscles twisting in agony.
The moment I saw the flower crown she had made, watching her run through the Garden with that radiant smile.
The wretchedness that carved into me like a blade, the despair.
That hideous emotion, as ugly as a worm exposed beneath the sun.
How could I possibly express it with mere words.
-I will become your Heavenly Demon.
The day a single ray of starlight glimmered in a life as dark as the Black Sky.
The moment I encountered the ‘false Heavenly Demon’ who saved her from the voice of the Heavenly Demon consuming her mind.
Hope that I had forgotten long ago began to sprout within my chest.
Perhaps this time, I might finally obtain what I desired.
That’s what I thought.
But.
But.
But.
-I love you, Kwon O-jin.
That girl who had taken everything from me.
Shamelessly stood beside him now, tenderly resting her head against his shoulder.
‘That detestable woman.’
You’ve already taken everything.
Monopolized it all without exception.
That single starlight I barely found in a life where I could see nothing.
That salvation I yearned for so desperately.
You’re taking that too?
Why, why, why, why, why.
Why, exactly.
You have everything.
You can have it all.
We’re sisters, aren’t we?
The same blood flows through both of us.
So then.
Just one thing… even one single thing.
Why can’t I have it?
-Cassia!
But why was it.
The more that ugly jealousy and hatred festering in the depths of my heart grew and swelled.
-Hehe. I love you most, Elder Sister!
Why did your smile, shining brighter than wildflowers, become so vivid in my memory?
Why.
Do I…you….

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“What are you doing right now?”
Kwon O-jin felt the sharp fangs pressing against the nape of his neck and glared at Cassia with eyes sunken deep in their sockets.
“Why, you ask? Can’t you see for yourself?”
Cassia shrugged her shoulders with a brazen smile playing at her lips.
She flicked out a serpentine tongue and whispered in a sultry voice.
“Haven’t you figured out yet who kidnapped Bella?”
“….”
Kwon O-jin’s gaze fixed on Isabella, who hung suspended in the air, unconscious.
A black snake coiled around Isabella’s entire body, binding her completely.
It bore the exact same form as the snake that had crawled forth from within his own shadow.
“…Why?”
The question escaped his lips naturally.
If Cassia was the one who kidnapped Isabella, there had to be a reason.
At least, Kwon O-jin couldn’t fathom any logical motive for Cassia to suddenly abduct Isabella.
“Because Bella possesses everything I could never have.”
Cassia turned to regard Isabella, bound by The Snake, a faint smile gracing her lips.
“A healthy body, exceptional talent, the family’s recognition… everything I so desperately wanted, that child grasped without lifting a finger.”
Delicate fingers traced across Kwon O-jin’s cheek.
“And one more thing.”
A sensation cold as serpent scales traveled down his cheek.
“You.”
A chilling murderous intent gleamed in Cassia’s eyes.
“Quite the greedy child, isn’t she? Having everything and yet refusing to yield even one thing to me.”
“…So you kidnapped her?”
“Hehe. Do you need any other reason?”
Cassia smiled wickedly and shrugged her shoulders.
I stared at Cassia with narrowed eyes.
“….”
The dissonance I’d felt moments ago.
That nauseating, twisted sensation.
It churned through my mind in a chaotic, tangled mess.
“So what is it you want right now?”
There had to be a reason she’d kidnapped Isabella just to lure me here.
“Well, of course….”
“Don’t tell me you’re about to spout some nonsense about sparing Isabella’s life if I come to you?”
“Oh, that won’t work?”
“Is that even a threat?”
I regarded Cassia with an expression of sheer disbelief.
Even if she weren’t in her right mind, she had to know that such an absurd threat would never work on me.
“What a shame.”
She seemed to know it too, her face perfectly composed as she licked her long tongue without a hint of genuine regret.
And then.
“Kugh!”
Whoosh!
The shadow blade pressed against my throat barely grazed past my neck.
If I hadn’t twisted my body on pure instinct, my entire throat would have been torn away.
I pressed my palm against the blood welling up from my neck and stared at Cassia.
Cassia licked my blood from the blade’s edge, her smile grotesque and chilling.
“Then if I can’t have you… I’ll simply have to destroy you.”
Emerald eyes gleaming with madness.
I glared at Cassia, my eyes narrowed.
‘She’s not under the Heavenly Demon’s control… is she?’
I could barely sense the aura of Heukcheon—the symbol of the Heavenly Demon—emanating from her.
Her eyes weren’t glazed over as if intoxicated, nor was her voice trembling.
If that was the case…
“…What in the world are you doing?”
Cassia was trying to kill me with a clear mind, acting entirely of her own will.
‘Why on earth?’
My relationship with Cassia had never been as intimate as with other women.
But I’d never thought we’d reach a point where we’d draw blades against each other like this.
“Bella is the problem.”
Slowly, slowly.
Cassia walked toward me leisurely as she continued speaking.
“She shines so brilliantly that I feel like I’m burning away.”
A child born with everything I could never possess.
To her, Isabella was nothing less than the sun itself.
“I don’t want to think this way… but you keep making me remember, again and again.”
If Isabella was the radiant sun, then she was the shadow cast beneath it.
A shadow where hideous, repulsive creatures hid from the light of day.
Every time I saw Isabella.
Every time the bright sunlight illuminated the shadow.
I became acutely aware of how sordid and revolting the desires and jealousy I harbored truly were.
Even when I didn’t want to think about it.
I couldn’t help but think.
“….”
I bit my lip as I watched Cassia approach with eyes so precarious they seemed ready to shatter at any moment.
Gripping the spear, I unleashed the stigma’s power from Lyra Constellation.
Azure lightning blazed, coiling around my entire body.
I fixed Cassia with a cold gaze and opened my mouth.
“So… with that body of yours, you think you can kill me?”
No matter how many times Heukcheon had bloomed—eleven times now.
Under normal circumstances, it would have been impossible to fight and defeat Cassia, but as I’d confirmed just moments ago, her body was currently suffering from internal injuries.
Injuries so severe that it wouldn’t be strange if she collapsed coughing blood at any second.
“Oh my, I thought I’d hidden it rather well. However did you know?”
“How I found out hardly matters right now, does it?”
“Hehe. You’re right about that.”
Cassia nodded lightly and raised her hand toward me.
Whoosh!
A single black serpent erupted from the shadows, launching itself at me.
Crack!
I twisted my body lightly and flicked the spear upward as if tossing it.
The spear blade wreathed in azure lightning cleaved the serpent’s body in two.
“I’m afraid you’re mistaken.”
Cassia snapped her fingers lightly, a bloodthirsty smile playing at her lips.
“Even in this condition, dealing with just you, Kwon O-jin, is hardly a problem.”
With those words as the signal.
‘Here it comes.’
Hisssssss!
Dozens, hundreds of black serpents crawled forth from Cassia’s shadow, surging toward me simultaneously.
While their speed was considerable, the durability of each individual serpent was not particularly robust.
“Hah.”
The stigma of Lyra Constellation inscribed on my left chest blazed brilliantly, and immense power spread throughout my body.
I concentrated the azure lightning engulfing my entire form at the spear’s tip, then grasped the shaft with both hands and swung it in a wide horizontal arc.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crack!
A fan-shaped bundle of lightning surged forth like a tidal wave, incinerating the black serpents rushing toward me all at once.
The serpents’ bodies shattered into fragments upon contact with the lightning, raining down onto the floor with dull thuds.
‘She’s definitely weaker.’
Compared to when I fought Cassia at the Amusement Park before, I could feel her power had diminished considerably.
She wasn’t fast enough to be uncatchable, nor strong enough to be unstoppable.
“Hmm. You’ve grown stronger again?”
Cassia’s eyes gleamed with interest as she gazed at me.
“Well, you did swallow Anselladus whole, after all.”
“…Cassia.”
I slowly lowered the spear I’d been pointing at her and shook my head.
“Let’s stop.”
“Stop?”
“This meaningless fighting.”
Even if I were to wage a life-or-death struggle with her here.
Who could possibly become happy from it?
“Meaningless, you say…”
Cassia burst into laughter and nodded.
“You’re right. This is a fight where no one can be happy.”
Regardless of victory or defeat.
The three of us gathered here have only things to lose in this fight.
No one can smile.
No one can be victorious.
A foolish and stupid fight.
“But you see.”
Isn’t this the most fitting end for the ugly desires hidden beneath the shadows?
“Doesn’t it seem delightful when you imagine it?”
“…What’s delightful about it.”
“If… if, just imagine.”
Humming a tune, she spun around as if dancing, spreading both arms wide.
“When Bella opens her eyes and sees your corpse right before her… doesn’t it bring such joy imagining what expression she’d make?”
Kya kya kya.
Crazed laughter echoed through the abandoned building.
“….”
I bit my lips firmly and raised the spear tip again, pointing it at Cassia.
My mind was still in complete chaos and confusion.
But one thing became crystal clear.
‘This can’t be resolved with words.’
I’d have to subdue Cassia first and then find out why she suddenly resorted to such extreme actions.
‘She claimed it was inferiority complex toward Isabella.’
Could inferiority complex alone drive someone to such extremes?
And at such an unexpected timing?
“You have that look in your eyes, as if suspecting there’s another reason.”
Cassia nodded in understanding, her serpentine tongue flicking out in a deliberate, sinuous motion.
“Unfortunately, there’s nothing like that, Kwon O-jin.”
The shadow pooling beneath her feet erupted outward, spreading explosively to engulf the interior of the Abandoned Building.

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