Not A Regressor - Chapter 387

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 387
Interlude – Still
“I… cannot accept this.”
Isabella bit down hard on her lip, her glare fixed on Cassia.
“Does it matter whether you accept it or not?”
“You deceived Kwon O-jin and brought him all the way to the Black Star Constellation!”
For reasons unknown, Mobius had withdrawn without pressing the attack, so Kwon O-jin had not suffered grievous wounds.
But it had been a situation where his very life could have been forfeit with a single misstep.
No—even if he had somehow survived the battle against Mobius, Kwon O-jin would have been forced to use ‘that technique’.
And I knew all too well the price exacted by using such a technique.
‘Kwon O-jin’s memories… they might have been erased again.’
Even if those memories had nothing to do with me.
Knowing how much suffering he would endure internally from having his recollections forcibly carved away, I could not bring myself to treat it lightly.
“That was…”
“For my sake?”
A cold sneer played at the corners of Isabella’s mouth.
“If you truly did it for me, you shouldn’t have done it like this, Elder Sister.”
Cassia must have understood just how precious Kwon O-jin was to her.
Yet she had deceived him and lured him to this place.
To a trap as perilous as they come, where the Black Star Constellation lay hidden.
“…”
“What? Did you think I’d be grateful because you saved me?”
Isabella’s eyes burned with venom as she glared at Cassia.
It was not the attitude one should show toward an elder sister willing to sacrifice her own life to rescue a kidnapped sibling.
But for Isabella, what Cassia had done was something she could never forgive—not with a simple “thank you”.
“Why did you even try to save me in the first place? Weren’t you the one who said you despised me terribly and wanted me dead?”
“That was…”
Cassia paused, searching for words, then let out a deep sigh and shook her head.
“…I don’t know.”
“You don’t know? What do you mean you don’t know?”
“I’ve forgotten why I tried to save you?”
Cassia offered a faint smile and shrugged her shoulders.
Isabella bit down on her lip, her brow furrowing.
“…What is that supposed to mean?”
“Well, in any case, the outcome turned out well, didn’t it? You’re safe, and Kwon O-jin didn’t suffer serious injuries.”
“So as long as the outcome is good, that’s all that matters?”
“Isn’t a good outcome better than a bad one?”
The gazes of Cassia and Isabella crossed.
The sinister killing intent emanating from the sisters filled the Abandoned Building to the brim.
“Enough.”
Kwon O-jin, who had been quietly waiting for the two to resolve things between themselves, let out a deep sigh as if to say this wouldn’t do.
The gazes of the two sisters, locked in tense confrontation, turned toward Kwon O-jin.
“Let’s organize the situation first. Cassia, how’s your body?”
“Ah….”
Only then did Cassia, realizing she was in a state of serious internal injury, shake her head with an awkward smile.
“Since I haven’t been using mana, the pain is less than before… but I wouldn’t say it’s good.”
“Come here.”
“Huh? …Kyaa!”
Kwon O-jin wrapped his arm around Cassia’s waist and seated her on his thigh, then placed his hand on her left chest.
“O-jin… sir?”
“W-what are you doing?!”
Cassia, her cheeks flushed like a girl struck by first love, averted her gaze, while Isabella rose sharply from her seat with an indignant expression.
The two sisters’ voices, tinged with conflicting emotions, rang in his ears, but now was not the time to concern himself with that.
“Stay still. I’m not used to using the Aquarius Stigma often, so bear with me.”
Kwon O-jin placed his hand over the Serpens Constellation Stigma inscribed on Cassia’s left chest, precisely where her heart lay, and activated the Aquarius Stigma.
The Aquarius Stigma was specialized in crafting potions and medicines rather than direct healing, but it wasn’t entirely without healing capabilities.
‘And to maximize this healing ability.’
With his eyes gently closed, he slowly drew forth the power of Heukcheon.
‘Sacred Domain deployment.’
Uuuuuuung!
A soft luminescence enveloped his body.
Creating a Sacred Domain with the Aquarius Stigma was his first time, but the principle itself was similar to when he had created a Sacred Domain with the Lyra Constellation Stigma.
Along with the sensation of vast mana draining away like an ebbing tide came an exhilarating sense of omnipotence that made his spine tingle.
“Ah… the internal injuries….”
Mana as clear as water droplets flowing through the Stigma.
He could feel the chaotically torn mana circuits gradually healing.
After the Aquarius mana made one complete circuit through Cassia’s body.
“Phew.”
Kwon O-jin, his expression clearly showing exhaustion, deactivated the Sacred Domain.
The soft luminescence that had enveloped his body scattered into the void and vanished.
“I couldn’t heal it completely, but the pain should be much better now.”
“…Thank you.”
Cassia looked up at Kwon O-jin with eyes hazy as if intoxicated.
The sensation of the Aquarius mana lingering like an afterimage within her body.
Where the pain had diminished from the healing, a ticklish happiness filled the void.
“Then….”
“Wait.”
Cassia grasped Kwon O-jin’s hand as it tried to pull away from her chest and pressed it firmly.
The frantic beating of her heart transmitted through her palm.
“Just a little longer… please stay like this.”
Cassia smiled brightly as warmth spread through her chest from his touch.
Unlike her delicate hand, his was broad—unmistakably masculine.
The heat radiating from his palm was so comforting that she found herself wishing time would freeze in this moment forever.
“Uh… you want me to stay like this?”
Kwon O-jin let out an awkward cough, his expression flustered.
When he’d placed his hand there for healing purposes, it hadn’t bothered him much.
But now, keeping his hand still, he could feel through his palm the soft sensation of her delicate frame—which, despite its slenderness, seemed to be asserting itself with quiet determination.
“A little longer? What do you mean a little longer? If the treatment’s done, shouldn’t you get off already?”
Isabella, sitting on Kwon O-jin’s lap, yanked Cassia away from him, her expression turning fierce.
Forced to separate, Cassia gently touched her left chest where his hand had been, as if reluctant to let the moment go.
“That was such a wonderful moment… wasn’t it, Kwon O-jin?”
“Hmph, what’s so good about a clingy pest?”
“…What did you just say?”
Cassia’s emerald eyes gleamed with an eerie light.
“What do you mean what? I just called a clingy pest a clingy pest.”
Isabella smirked and crossed her arms.
Above her crossed arms, two massive peaks radiated an overwhelming presence.
“Tch…”
Cassia’s figure wasn’t small for her frame, but that was only by ordinary standards.
Compared to those extraordinary peaks, what she possessed was merely a speed bump.
“So the best you could come up with is bragging about physical differences? It’s so childish I don’t even feel like responding.”
“Yeah, clingy pest.”
“Seriously, where did you pick up such manners? You really haven’t changed one bit from when you used to run wild in the Garden, Bella.”
“Your next clingy pest.”
“This, you…!”
Sometimes the most childish provocation was the most effective.
Especially between siblings, such primitive and crude provocations always proved their worth.
“You disrespectful brat!”
“Says the older sister who clings to her younger sister’s husband?!”
At this point, there was no more pretense or dignity to maintain.
The two sisters rushed at each other and began fighting, pulling at each other’s hair.
“…”
Unable to bear watching the spectacle before him, Kwon O-jin quietly rose and left the Abandoned Building.
Moonlight hung solemnly in the Night Sky, casting its glow upon him.
“Sigh.”
I want to go home.

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“Haa, haa.”
“Ugh… what on earth is this?”
After an intense battle (?) had concluded, the two women lay sprawled on the floor of the Abandoned Building, breathing heavily.
“…Pest.”
“Oh my, does this lump of fat actually have a mouth?”
Sisters glaring at each other while lying on the floor of the Abandoned Building.
A murderous aura flickered between them as though they might hurl themselves at each other at any moment, yet neither made the first move.
“Haa.”
“…What are we even doing?”
They say all wars end in emptiness.
The two women turned their backs to each other in silence, overwhelmed by the weight of exhaustion.
It was Isabella who broke the quiet first.
“Elder Sister.”
“What?”
“Why were you trying to save me?”
“…I told you I forgot.”
“That’s a lie.”
Cassia’s shoulders trembled slightly.
She felt Isabella’s piercing gaze from behind.
“You hate me, don’t you?”
“I do.”
How could I not?
What she could never possess, Isabella held as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
“Then why….”
“Still.”
Cassia turned her body around.
She stroked Isabella’s hair and offered a faint smile.
-Hehe. I love you the most, Elder Sister!
A memory she had tried to forget but could not.
A cherished moment she had tried to erase but could not.
Worn, tarnished, and faded though it was.
“You’re my sister, after all.”
Recalling that precious time, Cassia smiled warmly.
“….”
Isabella’s expression went blank as though she’d been struck by a hammer, her mouth falling open.
Her lips trembled as if she wanted to say something, but she soon turned away, her face flushed crimson.
“Ahem. Well then, shouldn’t we get up soon?”
Breaking the awkward silence, Cassia rose to her feet.
Retrieving a small hand mirror from within her dress, Cassia frowned at the sight of her disheveled hair and ruined makeup.
Thinking that this was the result of a hair-pulling brawl with my own sister, I felt a shame beyond words.
“I’ve never felt this pathetic before.”
Isabella turned to look at the grumbling Cassia and pouted her lips.
“That’s what you get for throwing yourself at someone else’s husband.”
“Anyone listening would think Kwon O-jin is actually your husband. But aren’t you just second anyway, Bella?”
“That, that’s not…!”
“And it seems like that Silver-haired Constellation joined recently too.”
“…Ugh.”
Watching Isabella bite her lip hard, Cassia burst into quiet laughter.
“The first is always the hardest, isn’t it? The second should be easier. Or is it the third now?”
“Are you out of your mind? We’re sisters!”
Isabella shouted indignantly.
“Oh my, is there some law that sisters can’t like the same man?”
“No, that’s… it’s just weird.”
“There are actually some advantages to being sisters, you know?”
“…What do you mean by that?”
“Well? What do you think I mean?”
Cassia burst into delighted laughter and shrugged her shoulders.

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