Not A Regressor - Chapter 388

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 388
Fate-Reversing Star (1)
“Finally….”
Standing before the entrance, Kwon O-jin’s eyes glistened with emotion as he gazed at his home.
Though he hadn’t been away for long, having endured the deadly psychological warfare between the two sisters all the way from Pyongyang with Isabella in tow, the foyer felt more welcoming than ever before.
“…Yes. Please do that, Roberto.”
Isabella, who had been following while on the phone with Roberto, hung up and released a deep sigh.
“What did Roberto say?”
“He wanted to increase security personnel tenfold immediately. I barely managed to talk him out of it.”
Given how flustered the usually composed Roberto had been upon hearing of Isabella’s abduction, it was a natural reaction.
“Well… honestly, increasing security wouldn’t make much difference anyway.”
“That’s true.”
Their opponent was a Constellation from the Serpens Constellation, once powerful enough to rival Polaris itself.
Whether they increased security tenfold or a hundredfold, it would be meaningless.
‘Isabella alone could sweep through them without even needing Mobius.’
What use would security personnel weaker than Isabella herself be?
“So I just asked him to provide maximum compensation to the families of the flight attendants and security personnel who died in this incident.”
Remembering the people who had been on the same plane, Isabella sighed with a darkened expression.
Though Isabella had been released from Mobius’s hands without a scratch, the others had not been so fortunate.
They had already been brutally murdered by Mobius before the plane even crashed in Pyongyang.
“Don’t dwell on it too much.”
“…Yes, I understand.”
At the touch of Kwon O-jin’s hand stroking her head, Isabella offered a faint smile and nodded.
Everyone aboard the Colgrand Family’s private jet had sworn to dedicate their lives to the family.
Casualties during security operations were inevitable.
For her, bearing the name of Colgrand, such losses were a familiar burden.
“Still, my heart feels heavy.”
Thinking of those who had died so meaninglessly at Mobius’s hands, a heavy stone seemed to press upon her chest.
“Our Bella still has such an innocent side to her.”
Cassia let out a soft chuckle, brushing back her long platinum blonde hair.
“How do you expect to properly lead the Colgrand Family if you’re shaken by every death of a security officer?”
“Hmph. Don’t you know that the best leaders cherish the lives of their subordinates? Oh, but then again, you were exiled from the family, so how would you know?”
“My, my, that’s rich coming from someone who thoughtlessly severed ties and lost subordinates without even lifting a finger.”
Isabella and Cassia glared at each other with murderous intent in their eyes.
“We’re home now, so both of you stop.”
Kwon O-jin shook his head as if his head ached and opened the entrance door.
Since the time he’d grabbed them by their hair and made them fight, the atmosphere between them had shifted somewhat, and he’d hoped they might have returned to their former closeness, but such manga-like developments rarely happened in reality.
“Elder Sister, I’m home.”
The moment he arrived, he immediately searched for Ha-eun.
“Hm?”
Ha-eun was nowhere to be seen.
Seized by the dreadful possibility that she too had been abducted like Isabella, I urgently searched for the communication relic that connected me directly to Ha-eun.
Whirrrrr.
Unlike a smartphone, the communication relic—capable of functioning even within a Gate—blazed with light.
-Huh? What’s wrong?
A hologram materialized from the communication relic, revealing Ha-eun with her eyes wide and round.
Kwon O-jin exhaled in relief and opened his mouth.
“Where are you right now, Elder Sister?”
-I’m at the Star Palace.
“Why the Star Palace?”
-Well, I figured you’d be with Bella all day, so I got bored and came here to chat and have some drinks with the old lady.
-Who are you calling an old lady!
Through the hologram, Vega appeared with an indignant expression.
In her hand was a beer can that Ha-eun had apparently brought along.
-Ah, come to think of it, shouldn’t I be calling you a grandmother based on your age?
-I, I told you not to bring up my age!
-Hehe, just kidding. Don’t pout, our Constellation.
-Hmph. I have no recollection of ever having an apostle like you.
Ha-eun was bantering with Vega in a carefree manner.
‘She hasn’t heard about Isabella being abducted.’
That made sense.
If she’d been at the Star Palace since the time I went to the Airport to pick them up, then Roberto would have had no way to contact her, since he lacked a communication relic directly connected to Ha-eun.
-By the way, why is she at our house?
Ha-eun narrowed her eyes as she looked at Cassia standing behind me.
No matter that she had been under the Heavenly Demon’s control at the time, Ha-eun could not view Cassia kindly—the woman who had killed Tamrang Star, who had once taught her how to wield the stigma.
Cassia stepped forward in front of me and bowed respectfully.
“It’s my first time introducing myself formally like this. I’m Cassia Colgrande.”
-Uh… yeah.
Ha-eun nodded with an awkward expression.
“I deeply regret the things I did while under the Heavenly Demon’s control. I’m sorry for the harm I caused to Ha-eun’s mentor.”
-Well, it wasn’t your will anyway.
How overwhelming the Heavenly Demon’s control was could be easily inferred from the suffering that Cassia and Isabella had displayed when we escaped from Niflheim before.
Of course, even if my mind understood, I couldn’t help but feel some emotion.
Still, I couldn’t hold her entirely responsible when she had been brainwashed into a state close to being a mere tool of the Heavenly Demon.
If Cassia was the blade, then it was the Heavenly Demon who had wielded the hilt.
-Anyway, what’s going on at our house?
“There are circumstances that brought me here.”
-Circumstances? Did something happen?
“Um… I’ll explain in detail once you return to the Star Palace.”
Explaining Isabella’s abduction over video communication would have been far too tedious.
-Alright, alright. I’ll hear the rest when I get back later.
“Yes. I look forward to working with you going forward, Ha-eun.”
-Huh? Going forward?
“Hehe. It’s nothing.
Cassia stepped back with a faint smile playing on her lips.
Ha-eun watched her receding figure with an inexplicable sense of foreboding.
Kwon O-jin stepped forward with a soft cough.
“When is Elder Sister coming?”
-Huh? Oh, I’m planning to stay a bit longer. Our Constellation seems to have been quite lonely on his own, so he keeps clinging to me.
-Who said anything about clinging?!
-Well, I’ll contact you when I head back later.
“Got it.”
The communication cut off amid the noisy exchange.
“…I’m relieved you understand, at least.”
Had she been harboring guilt over killing Cheon Sang-gil?
Cassia exhaled a breath tinged with relief and pressed a hand to her chest.
“I already told Elder Sister beforehand that it wasn’t of your own will.”
“Thank you, Kwon O-jin.”
“That said… I have some questions about Mobius.”
I continued, recalling the Constellation with those ominously gleaming emerald eyes.
“Do you happen to know what this ‘purpose’ Mobius mentioned is?”
A purpose I’d heard of even in Lee Shin-hyuk’s memories.
Of course, I couldn’t be certain whether his purpose in his past life matched his current one.
But I was curious—what exactly was the purpose of one said to rival the Heavenly Demon?
“No. I don’t know about his purpose either.”
“Really?”
“All I know is… that he despises Constellations terribly.”
“He despises Constellations terribly?”
“Yes.”
Cassia nodded.
“Hmm.”
It was difficult to infer Mobius’s purpose from merely knowing he hated Constellations.
As with Anselladus, the ‘satellites’ expelled from the Star Palace fundamentally harbored resentment toward Constellations.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help.”
“No, it can’t be helped.”
Cassia continued with a self-deprecating smile.
“Truth be told, I don’t know much about Mobius either. I received the stigma of the Serpens Constellation, but… I was never acknowledged as his ‘child.'”
“You weren’t acknowledged as his child?”
Kwon O-jin tilted his head in confusion.
Fundamentally, Constellations referred to humans who received their stigmata as their ‘children.’
Of course, while the title remained the same, each Constellation treated their “child” differently.
“Yes. There is only one person that he has called his ‘child’.”
So there was another Serpens Constellation awakener besides Cassia.
“Who?”
“All I know is that her name is ‘Eve’. Beyond that, I’m not certain.”
The awakener who bore the stigma of the Serpens Constellation was named Eve.
Naturally, a scene from the Bible surfaced in my mind.
“Hmm. You’ve never met this awakener named Eve?”
“No. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t.”
“Couldn’t?”
“I heard she died a long time ago.”
Ah.
A low exclamation escaped between Kwon O-jin’s lips.
“I heard that this awakener was the first to receive the stigma of the Serpens Constellation.”
“So aside from this awakener named Eve, no one else is acknowledged as his ‘child’?”
“That’s what I understand.”
“…I see.”
I would have appreciated more information about this awakener named Eve.
Kwon O-jin set aside his lingering regret and shelved his thoughts about Mobius for now.
Right now, there was something more pressing than Mobius’s intentions.
‘This confirms that the Black Star Constellations are actively moving on Earth.’
It wasn’t just Anselladus and Mobius.
The Felis Constellation I encountered in the Demon Realm, along with the other Black Star Constellations, must have manifested on Earth as well.
‘I need to grow stronger, and faster.’
The current pace would never be enough.
Faster and more certain.
I needed a method to accumulate power.
‘First, I need to master the deployment of the Sacred Domain.’
A Sacred Domain spread thinly around my body was insufficient.
Only by deploying a Sacred Domain as powerful as the ‘Dragon Palace’ that Anselladus used—one capable of transforming the surrounding environment itself—could I truly face the Black Star Constellations in proper combat.
‘To achieve that.’
My gaze turned toward Isabella and Cassia.
“I have a favor to ask of you both.”
“Just say the word, Kwon O-jin.”
“Hehe. You don’t have to ask—you can give us orders if you’d like?”
Both women nodded readily without even hearing what the favor was.
“Help me train my Sacred Domain.”
“Hmm… What kind of help are you asking for specifically?”
“Start with some simple sparring.”
To properly train the Sacred Domain, I needed an awakener with enough power to pierce through the ‘Sacred Domain’ that a Constellation possessed.
“Hehe. If it helps you, Kwon O-jin, I’m more than happy to oblige. Shall I face you first?”
“No. I’ll take you both on simultaneously.”
With the need to master Sacred Domain deployment as quickly as possible to face Constellations, I couldn’t afford the luxury of ordinary training like before.
‘Without even drawing the Heavenly Sword, facing both Isabella and Cassia Colgrande at once would be impossible.’
Precisely because it was impossible, I needed to push myself all the more ruthlessly.
“My, facing both of us at once… You certainly are strong~”
Cassia’s cheeks flushed crimson as she writhed her body like a serpent, swaying closer.
“….”
What is she doing now?

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