Not A Regressor - Chapter 399

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 399
Interlude – Fate Flows Like a Rapid Current (2)
“Come now, open wide for me, Kwon O-jin.”
A voice as warm as a spring breeze tickled my ears.
The rich aroma of sesame oil wafted from the abalone porridge held in the spoon, assaulting my senses.
I stared at the spoon hovering before my mouth, forcing an awkward smile.
“I can feed myself, you know.”
“Ab-so-lute-ly not.”
Each syllable she enunciated carried an unwavering resolve that brooked no compromise.
“You haven’t forgotten, have you?”
Isabella smiled sweetly as she brought the spoon closer to my lips.
Her mouth curved upward, but her eyes remained cold—one more refusal and she’d shove the spoon straight in.
“Fine.”
I quickly surrendered, opening my mouth obediently to accept the abalone porridge.
“There we go~ Such a good boy~ Does it taste good?”
What am I, a three-year-old?
I wanted to protest as she tenderly stroked my head, but given my past transgressions, I swallowed the words that had reached my throat.
By the time I’d finished the porridge like a baby bird receiving feed,
“How are you feeling, Kwon O-jin?”
The door opened and Cassia slipped inside.
“He’s still eating, so leave him be.”
“Hmm, though it looks like he’s already finished?”
Cassia glanced at the empty bowl and approached me on the bed.
Slither, slither.
With a sound like a serpent crawling across the floor, Cassia glided onto the bed and extended her long tongue, licking my forehead.
“…What are you doing?”
“Checking if you have a fever.”
With her tongue instead of her hand?
“Snakes can distinguish temperature with their tongues, you know?”
“I’m aware of that, but…”
“And my tongue can sense mana levels too.”
With that, Cassia moved her tongue deliberately, licking my forehead, cheeks, and the nape of my neck as she worked her way down.
The ticklish sensation of her tongue against my skin was beginning to conjure rather inappropriate fantasies when—
“Enough.”
Isabella struck Cassia’s extended tongue with her spoon, the one that had been licking my body relentlessly.
Cassia retracted her long tongue back into her mouth, her brow furrowing.
“Can’t you see I’m checking Kwon O-jin’s condition?”
“Yes, but you need to know when to stop! How long were you planning to keep licking?”
“Sigh, it was just getting good too. What a shame to be interrupted.”
Cassia smacked her lips regretfully and brought her mouth close to my ear.
Warm breath tickled against my earlobe.
“We’ll save that for next time.”
What exactly comes next?
“Sigh. So how’s your condition, Kwon O-jin?”
“My magical energy is much more stable than yesterday.”
“Is that so?”
Isabella’s face brightened with relief, as if a weight had lifted from her shoulders.
“Then….”
“But you’re absolutely forbidden from training for a while! Understood?”
“Yes.”
It seemed best to stay away from the Training Facility until my body had fully recovered.
‘I definitely pushed myself too hard these past three months.’
With my cultivation realm rising noticeably day after day, how could I not have overexerted myself?
Though I hadn’t reached a satisfactory level yet, the fact that I’d collapsed from overtraining meant I should heed Isabella’s advice and rest for a while.
“Fine. I’ll take it easy at home this week.”
“Hmph. If you sneak out, I’ll have Roberto shut down the Training Facility.”
“Come on, I wouldn’t do something that petty even if I tried.”
Tsk.
So I’d been caught.
“By the way, has anything noteworthy happened while I was away?”
Focusing entirely on training had meant cutting myself off from outside news, so I had no idea what was happening in the world lately.
“No. Recently, even the named beasts have been quiet, and there have been almost no instances of beasts pouring out of the Gates.”
“What about the Black Star Constellations?”
“They’ve been sending out The Snake to search, but… we can’t figure out where they are or what they’re doing.”
Cassia sighed and shook her head slowly.
“So things are in a lull for now.”
From my perspective, that wasn’t necessarily a bad situation.
I still lacked much before I could face the Black Star Constellations.
“Speaking of which, where’s Elder Sister?”
“She’s at the Star Palace.”
“The Star Palace?”
It’s not like the Star Palace is her home, yet every time I ask, she’s there.
“She’s been training with Riak lately, or so I heard.”
“Ah.”
Over the past three months, it wasn’t just me who had devoted myself to training.
Though they hadn’t maintained the insane schedule I had, the other women had been steadily growing stronger through consistent practice.
“So don’t worry, Kwon O-jin. Just get plenty of rest.”
Isabella pressed down on my chest and forced me to lie back on the Bedroom.
“Oh, Kwon O-jin. Would you mind lying face down for a moment?”
“Why?”
“Let me give you a massage.”
“…A massage? Out of nowhere?”
“There’s nothing better than a massage for relieving fatigue, is there?”
“Well, that’s true, but….”
The thought of receiving a massage from Isabella stirred more embarrassment than anticipation within me.
“Come on.”
“Mm.”
Swept up in an irresistible atmosphere, I turned around and lay face-down on the Bedroom.
Isabella slipped off her slippers and climbed onto the Bedroom.
“Then… I’ll remove your shirt.”
“Wait, why the shirt?”
“It’s easier to massage without it, isn’t it?”
Removing it didn’t mean stripping completely bare.
As Isabella pulled off my t-shirt, she gazed down at the taut musculature of my exposed back and swallowed hard.
“Ha, ha ha….”
How long had it been since she’d seen my bare skin like this?
Her lips parted naturally, and a dazed laugh escaped her.
Isabella placed her hand on her flushed cheek and shook her head.
‘Oh my! How is this possible?! My Kwon O-jin is so incredible!’
A physique honed by extreme training and strict diet management, utterly devoid of unnecessary fat.
The firmly sculpted back muscles formed a perfect shape, as if carved by a master artisan.
When she absently poked it with her fingertip, she felt the sensation of solid rock.
This time, spreading her palm flat and caressing my back, the warmth radiating from beneath that firmness traveled up through her palm.
“Sigh.”
A wistful breath escaped between Isabella’s lips.
A burning thirst consumed her, and the desire to drink my blood filled her mind completely.
‘I must endure.’
Kwon O-jin had only just awakened after collapsing from overwork.
I couldn’t drain his blood when he needed relief from fatigue.
Isabella suppressed the surging impulse and straddled my back like mounting a horse.
“Then I’ll begin.”
Press, press.
As Isabella’s thumbs pressed into my back, a pleasant languor spread throughout my entire body.
“Ahh.”
A sound escaped my lips like that of a man entering a sauna.
“Does it feel good?”
“Yeah, it’s perfect.”
Who wouldn’t feel wonderful having their beloved lover massage them with such care?
A sensation as if my entire body were melting, coupled with the drowsy bliss of drying off after a shower, spread through my spine.
‘I must have accumulated quite a bit of fatigue.’
I thought I’d slept enough, but drowsiness crept over me again in no time.
As I was nodding off while receiving Isabella’s massage,
“I want to do it too.”
Cassia’s sudden declaration of participation.
Cassia, who had been glaring at Isabella with a sullen expression as she sat atop my back, quietly climbed onto the bed.
A new weight settled on my back.
“What are you doing, Elder Sister?”
“Hmph. No wonder you’re so greedy. Trying to monopolize him all to yourself again?”
“There’s not enough room for both of us, that’s the problem!”
“Then why don’t you move?”
The two sisters, still perched on my back, began to quarrel with each other.
“Move, Elder Sister.”
“I don’t want to.”
Their gazes crossed.
The two women, who were emanating a murderous aura so intense that an ordinary person would have lost consciousness on the spot, moved simultaneously as if they’d coordinated beforehand.
Thud!
They began pushing each other on my back as if playing a balance game.
“Move… now!”
“Really… ever since… you’ve been nothing but greedy!”
A fierce struggle ensued as they pushed and pulled each other’s arms, trying to dislodge one another from my back.
“Hey, hey, wait a moment!”
For me, pinned beneath the two sisters, this was an unexpected calamity.
Creak, creak!
The bed began to groan and creak as if it would fall apart under the sisters’ wrestling.
“Ugh! Cough! P-please stop!”
Though both appeared delicate and slender on the surface, they were actually possessed of monstrous strength capable of lifting an eight-ton truck with a single hand.
From my perspective, being crushed beneath them, it felt as though two elephants were rampaging across my back.
As accumulated fatigue and pressure compounded, my consciousness flickered and dimmed.
-In any case, absolute rest is mandatory for the time being! Do you understand?!
Before my consciousness faded, Isabella’s cry suddenly echoed through my mind.
‘Absolute rest… she said….’
Before a final cry of indignation could escape my lips,
my consciousness sank completely into darkness.
“I finally got some alone time with Kwon O-jin after so long…! Why are you interfering?!”
“You get to see him often enough with that excuse about needing blood! I’ve been running around planting The Snake everywhere and haven’t even gotten a proper look at his face!”
“You’re not even dating Kwon O-jin, so what does it matter if you don’t see him?”
“My goodness, is that how you talk to your Elder Sister?”
“What? Manners? You’re the one wagging your tail at your little sister’s boyfriend!”
Isabella glared fiercely at Cassia and extended her arm.
Cassia scoffed dismissively and swatted Isabella’s arm away.
“You’re one to talk—you were flirting with someone else’s boyfriend the same way!”
“That’s, that’s different!”
“Different how? When Kwon O-jin lost his memory before, didn’t you go to him and lie about being his first?”
“H-hey!”
The moment I brought up that dark chapter of her past—still her worst source of shame—Isabella’s movements froze entirely.
She stammered out words, her face draining of color.
“W-where did you hear that?”
“Hehe, Ha-eun told me everything?”
“Ugh! That scatterbrained eyepatch woman!”
Isabella spewed out crude language she’d never normally use, the wound of her exposed shame cutting deep.
Cassia was laughing triumphantly when—
“What’s all this noise?”
The door swung open and Ha-eun walked in.
She let out a hollow laugh at the spectacle before her.
“…What are you two doing?”
“H-Ha-eun?”
“Oh, when did you arrive?”
“Just now.”
Isabella quickly scrambled off Kwon O-jin’s back, forcing an awkward smile.
“We were just giving Kwon O-jin a massage to ease his fatigue together with my sister. Right, sister?”
“Y-yes. That’s right.”
The two sisters exchanged glances and nodded in unison.
A massage.
Ha-eun’s gaze turned toward Kwon O-jin, who lay limp as a corpse.
“He’s passed out?”
“He seemed so pleased that he fell asleep. It’s common for people to doze off during a massage, isn’t it?”
Isabella had regained her composure in that brief moment, shrugging her shoulders and answering naturally.
“Hmm, is that so?”
“It seems Kwon O-jin had accumulated quite a bit of fatigue.”
“True. He pushed himself so hard he collapsed from overwork.”
“Sigh. Really… I understand his feelings, but it seems excessive.”
“Right, right. This guy deserves a scolding.”
Ha-eun nodded in agreement.
Isabella smiled softly, gazing down at Kwon O-jin with warm eyes.
“That’s true. But… since I know he’s doing it for us, I want to help in whatever way I can.”
“Bella, you’re really kind.”
“Oh, you too, sister.”
“But why did you do that?”
“Pardon?”
Ha-eun draped her arm across Isabella’s shoulder with a broad smile.
“Who dares call me a scatterbrained blindfolded woman?”
In that instant.
The air in the room froze solid.

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