The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 1160

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Chapter 1160

‘I’ll just ignore them.’

I kept my eyes closed despite the gasps and screams echoing around me.

‘I’m going to sleep like this.’

Since arriving at the Training Ground, the foundation of my growth had shifted dramatically from before.

Rather than bone-grinding training or deep contemplation of swordsmanship, I had grown stronger by living a human life. Sleeping during training like Lunan Slion was certainly a worthwhile challenge to attempt.

-Hey! You bastard!

Wrath drummed my head repeatedly like a drum.

-Are you seriously insane? Did you get a hole drilled in your head or something?

He screamed, abandoning even the royal tone he normally used.

-Has someone else possessed you? Could it be Sloth? Should I chase them out for you?

Wrath swung his fists fiercely, unable to comprehend my actions.

“Raon!”
“Y-y-you really have lost it!”
“Ugh, my sleep is completely gone now….”

Burren Zigheart called out my name instead of the usual title, Martha stammered twice, and Lunan Slion clutched his head, saying his drowsiness had vanished.

“Wow, the sun will rise in the west tomorrow! This guy is actually being lazy?”
“B-but that’s definitely Raon, right? I’m certain?”
“Hmmm….”

Crain sighed repeatedly, unable to comprehend, Dorian opened his eyes wide with bloodshot intensity, and Mark Goeten couldn’t even form words.

‘Ugh, so noisy….’

Raon bit his lip slightly.

‘The surroundings are too noisy. I can’t fall asleep.’

He’d thought that if he didn’t respond, everyone would quiet down on their own. Instead, they seemed so astonished that he was taking a nap that they only crowded closer, making things even louder.

“R-Raon? Are you hurt somewhere?”
“Wow! This is the first time I’ve ever seen Raon sleep!”

He could hear Sylvia and Sia pressing close beside him, watching him sleep.

‘This won’t do.’

Raon sighed internally.

‘I need to block out external sounds.’

Unable to sleep properly, let alone learn from sleep itself, I deployed my aura to completely shut out the noise from outside. The people still surrounded me, but their voices no longer reached my ears.
The people still surrounded me, but their voices no longer reached my ears.

‘Now I can finally sleep….’
-Answer me, will you!

Wrath shrieked at the top of his lungs. Since our souls were connected, even though I’d blocked out external sounds, his voice continued to pour in relentlessly.

-Wake up to the truth! You’ve clearly caught some strange illness!

Wrath clenched his teeth, convinced that I was definitely not myself.

‘Sigh….’

I tensed my fingertips.

‘It’s not bad that he’s worried about me, but all that nonsense he keeps spouting….’

It was rare for Wrath to show concern for me, and it warmed my heart. But his constant babbling was frustrating.

‘I’m fine. Just be quiet for a moment.’

I finally gave in to Wrath’s incessant muttering and opened my mouth.

-Then say it!

Wrath raised his voice even higher.

-Why are you suddenly insisting on taking a nap!
‘I told you. Right now, living as a person matters more to me than swordsmanship or martial arts.’

I shook my head, explaining that I wanted to live as a person for a while, not as a warrior.

-Hmm….

Wrath tilted his head as if he couldn’t believe the explanation no matter what.

‘I’ll make sure you have a hearty dinner. Now be quiet.’
-Seeing you threaten with food as usual, it’s not possession….

He kept spouting nonsense like a chain, finding everything about this situation utterly fascinating.

‘Talk any more and there really won’t be dinner?’
-Hmph!

The moment I mentioned no dinner, Wrath clamped his mouth shut. Yet his suspicious gaze remained fixed on my brow.

‘It’s not just this guy who’s the problem.’

I felt the surrounding gazes had grown even more than before, and I pressed my lips together slightly.

‘There are more people now.’

Though I couldn’t hear them, more people had gathered around, chattering like a marketplace, finding it fascinating that I was sleeping.

‘I need to dull my senses.’

I sank all my senses deep into my mind and completed my preparations for sleep.

‘Now it feels a bit better.’

I could no longer feel any gaze upon me, nor hear any sound. Now, it seemed I could finally sleep peacefully.

‘Good, good.’

Satisfied with the newfound silence, I relaxed my body to take an afternoon nap.

‘….’

Yet even as time passed, sleep refused to come.

‘What’s this?’

Why wouldn’t sleep arrive?

I had dulled all my senses, and Wrath remained silent as well—the conditions were perfect for sleep, yet it eluded me entirely.

If anything, my mind grew only sharper.

‘Come to think of it….’

I swallowed hard, tension gripping my throat.

‘I don’t think I’ve ever taken an afternoon nap in my entire life.’

In my past life, I was kidnapped by Derus Robert and raised as an assassin, so I never had the opportunity to nap. In this life, from infancy I divided my sleep time to operate the Ring of Fire, and after growing up, I naturally never napped due to constant training.

‘But more than that….’

I realized I had forgotten something crucial and clutched my head.

‘How do you even sleep?’

Since ascending to the highest transcendence, I had never needed sleep to avoid fatigue, so I barely slept at all.
Sleep was one of the most distant concepts from my existence, and a chill ran down my spine.

‘This is….’

I forced my eyes shut as they threatened to open, drawing a sharp breath.

‘This seems harder than fighting the Archangel.’

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“What’s so special about someone taking a nap that everyone’s gathered around like this?”

Valdemar muttered in confusion, furrowing his brow.

“Isn’t that right?”

He tilted his chin toward Karun beside him, seeking agreement.

“That’s not right.”

Karun shook his head briefly.

“Huh? What do you mean…?”

Valdemar turned to Karun, his eyes widening.

“As far as I know, the Room of Self has never taken a nap before.”

Karun nodded, acknowledging that it was only natural for such a commotion to arise, given that Raon had never taken a nap.

“What? Never taken a nap even once?”

Valdemar’s mouth fell open.

“Really? What kind of monster does such a thing!”

He stammered with an expression of greater astonishment than when Raon had ascended to transcendence.

“That’s right. Other than losing consciousness, there’s nothing else.”

Karun nodded with certainty.

“He’s insane. No wonder so many people are gathering around him.”

Valdemar let out a long breath, finally understanding.

“Our nephew certainly doesn’t sleep much.”

Aris Zigheart wedged herself between Karun and Valdemar, smiling faintly.

“But how did you know that? I didn’t even realize Raon never took afternoon naps.”

Her eyes gleamed with a cool, investigative intensity.

“I conducted an investigation.”

Karun lowered his gaze calmly.

“To research how to destroy and kill the Room of Self’s master.”

He nodded plainly, explaining that he had learned everything about Raon in order to bring him down.

“Huh? Wha—what?!”

Valdemar’s mouth fell open.

“I’ve… I’ve never actually thought about killing my nephew?”

His large hands trembled as he spoke of how even when his own son’s arm was severed, he had never imagined Raon’s death.

“Uh…”

Valdemar glanced nervously at Aris Zigheart, who cherished Raon, worried about what she might do after hearing Karun’s words, and quietly took a step back.

“…”

Karun simply closed his eyes without a word.

“Hmm.”

Aris Zigheart watched the composed Karun and curled her lips upward.

“Seeing you admit such shameful things without hesitation—it seems you’ve truly reformed yourself.”

Smack!

Rather than explode in anger, she brought her palm down hard against Karun’s back.

“I’ll let it slide with that.”

Aris smiled brightly, shaking out the hand that had struck Karun’s back.

“From now on, I can think of you as my younger brother.”

She waved her hand, telling him not to do such things again, then walked toward Raon.

“Wow….”

Valdemar stared at Karun again with his mouth hanging open in astonishment.

“Brother really has changed. For Sister to say something like that….”

He tilted his head in wonder at how a person could change so much.

“I didn’t choose to change.”

Karun watched Raon’s shoulders trembling slightly as if sleep wouldn’t come, and let out a soft laugh.

“There’s someone who changed me.”

He wore a gentle smile, as if he had completely shed all his past regrets and hesitations.

“That foolish bastard.”

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‘This won’t do….’

Raon gritted his teeth and shook his head.

‘I can’t fall asleep!’

Despite my efforts to drift off, more than three hours had passed without a single moment of sleep.

Having spent my entire life active during the day, my mind wanted rest but my body stubbornly refused.

‘This is just wasting time.’

I sighed and slowly opened my eyes.

‘Everyone’s gone now.’

Since I wasn’t responding with my eyes closed, the others had lost interest and returned to their own spots to continue their training.

‘I should ask Lunan how to… wait!’

As I turned my gaze to the right to ask Lunan about sleeping methods, an entirely unexpected person had linked her arm through mine.

“You’re awake?”

Evelyn. She, who should have been resting at the Annex Building, smiled brightly and hugged my arm even tighter.
I hadn’t sensed her at all because I’d dulled my senses to try sleeping.

“Why… why are you here!”

I trembled all over and stumbled backward.

“I came to observe! I missed you, and your mother, and the young lady!”

Evelyn stepped closer as I retreated, her eyes crinkling into crescents as she smiled.

“Ugh…”

I swallowed dryly and stared at my wrist.

‘Wrath! Why didn’t you tell me Evelyn was here!’
-You said you wouldn’t feed me if I told you!

Wrath furrowed his brow, saying that he too had struggled to suppress his screams.

‘Sigh…’

I felt a sudden wave of exhaustion wash over me and clutched my head.

‘Is this the moment?’

My head ached so much that sleep seemed within reach, so I closed my eyes again.

But as expected, sleep merely brushed past me without taking hold.

‘This won’t do.’

I opened my eyes once more.

“Awake again?”

Evelyn stood at a slight distance now, gazing intently at my face. She made no effort to hide the smile blooming in her eyes, clearly delighted by this alone.

“I can’t fall asleep.”

I shook my head, my brow furrowed.

“I think I’ve forgotten how to sleep altogether.”

I sighed and glanced to my left.

Snore.

Lunan Slion lay sleeping with her back against the wall like a vagrant. From the look of things, it seemed Evelyn had thrown her over there.

“I should ask Lunan Slion about this.”

I approached Lunan Slion to wake her when—

“Would you like me to teach you how to sleep?”

Evelyn blocked my path, thrusting her chest forward.

“You?”

I widened my eyes in surprise.

“You don’t sleep well either, do you?”

Evelyn had spent her entire life fleeing from pursuers, so I’d rarely seen her sleep. The idea that she could teach me how to rest properly seemed unexpected.

“No, when it comes to sleep, I’m more of an expert than he is.”

Evelyn lifted her chin slightly, insisting she was better at it than Lunan Slion.

“Hmm….”

I smacked my lips while studying Evelyn.

‘Well, there’s no harm in trying.’

If her method didn’t work, I could always ask Lunan Slion again. There was no real downside.

“Show me.”

I nodded at Evelyn.

“You won’t regret it. First, sit down.”

Evelyn lowered herself to the ground first, extending her hand downward.

“It’s not difficult.”

I didn’t hesitate and promptly sat down on the floor.

“Then relax your whole body. You need to release not just physical tension, but mental tension too, so your aura will settle down.”

Evelyn demonstrated first, shrugging her shoulders.

“Got it.”

Following her lead, I slowly rotated my arms and wrists, loosening the tension in both body and mind.

“What comes next is crucial. You have to trust me.”

Evelyn’s eyes gleamed with crystalline clarity, as if to emphasize the gravity of her words.

“Trust you, then…”

Raon met Evelyn’s gaze, his eyes narrowing slightly.

“I already trust you.”

I nodded calmly, confident that Evelyn would never do anything to harm me.

“Really?”

Evelyn’s cheeks flushed with warmth at those words, her expression brightening.

-Something feels off about this, doesn’t it?

Wrath’s shoulders trembled with concern.

“Yes. No matter what you say, I’ll believe you.”

Unlike Wrath, I placed my hands on my knees, ready to follow whatever instruction came next.

“Close your eyes now.”

Evelyn gestured toward my eyes, saying we were almost there.

“Well, you have to close your eyes to sleep.”

I lowered my eyelids with a slight nod.

“Take three deep breaths, one last time.”
“Mm.”

Following Evelyn’s instruction, by the second breath, drowsiness began to settle over my body, and a warm heat blossomed in my chest.

‘The third breath.’

I was drawing in one final deep breath to fully savor that warmth when it happened.

“Slumber, swordmaster of the Training Ground. Sleep.”

With Evelyn’s incantation, a surge of mana crashed through my mind like a severing blade.
Under normal circumstances, I could have blocked it with my aura, but I’d followed Evelyn’s instructions without resistance, leaving myself defenseless.

‘This… this shouldn’t happen.’

I tried to force my eyes open, but Evelyn’s sleep magic—amplified several times over—was irresistible.

‘Sleeping like this won’t help at all!’

“Ufufufufu!”

But there was no time to worry about that. Evelyn’s sinister laughter reached my ears—the sound of someone who had finally achieved her goal.

‘Damn it….’

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“Ugh….”

I opened my eyes. The sun had already set beyond Bekmang Mountain, and the Training Ground was illuminated by magical lights.

‘How much time has passed?’

Evelyn was nowhere to be seen, and the swordmasters were finishing their training—it seemed evening had already come and gone.

“Damn it!”

I examined the state of my body and mind, then bit my lip.

‘As expected, nothing has improved at all.’

I hadn’t changed through my own will—I’d borrowed magic’s power, so there was no transformation whatsoever. The only thing was that I’d slept well and felt good.

-Ugh…

Wrath was trembling his jaw as he looked at me.

‘Why? What did Evelyn do?’

I tilted my head in confusion as I looked at Wrath.

-It, it would be better not to hear about it.

Wrath shook his head with his mouth firmly shut, saying it would be better if I didn’t know what Evelyn had done to him.

‘Hmm…’

I was curious about what Evelyn had done, but his reaction made me a little afraid.

However, there was something more urgent right now.

“Lunan.”

I shook Lunan awake, who was sleeping in the exact same position as before.

“Huh…?”

Lunan rubbed her eyes and sat up, as if asking what was wrong.

“I trained today…”

She muttered an obvious lie out loud, having slept all day.

“That’s such an obvious lie… No, never mind that.”

I waved my hand at Lunan.

“Teach me how to sleep well.”

Since Lunan was the most skilled person when it came to sleep, I asked with my hands clasped together.

“Ah, I see….”

Lunan Slion’s lips curved upward in a faint smile, as if pleased that I had found my way here.

“Watch carefully.”

She told me to observe, then closed her eyes.

Three seconds passed.

Grrrrr.

Lunan Slion’s head drooped forward as she began snoring, already lost to sleep.

“L-Lunan Slion?”

I called out to her, but she had already sunk into deep slumber and gave no response.

“Lunan Slion!”

I finally shook her awake.

“Mmm….”

Lunan Slion blinked her eyes open and looked at me.

“You saw it, right…?”

She nodded as if I simply needed to replicate what she had just shown me.

“Saw what? What are you talking about?”

My mouth fell open in bewilderment, my confusion laid bare.

“Huh…?”

Lunan Slion tilted her chin in the opposite direction, equally confused.

“What did I show you? I didn’t show you anything.”

I let out a hollow laugh as I met Lunan Slion’s determined gaze.

“Alright, let me show you again….”

Lunan Slion waved her hand as if to say watch carefully, then closed her eyes.

Three seconds passed.

Grrrrr.

She fell asleep again, snoring softly.

“Sigh….”

I slapped my forehead with my palm as I stared at Lunan Slion, who had fallen asleep in just three seconds.

“Is this even a talent?”
-Now you know how it feels!

Wrath chuckled and wagged his tail.

-Every time you said that swinging a sword was all you needed, the other children had exactly that expression on their faces!

He curled his lips upward, saying that I was finally becoming a real person.

“This can’t be….”

I struck the ground with my fist.

“Lunan Slion could never replicate this.”

I never expected to feel the gap in talent in a place like this. Lunan Slion’s talent for sleep far surpassed the martial talent I had cultivated all this time.

‘Should I give up….’

It was then that I grabbed my head and bowed it.

-Then….

Wrath approached me quietly and grabbed my shoulder.

-Why not learn from the True Demon King?
‘You? You’re not even human, and you’re a Demon Lord.’
-I’ve told you before—I’m far more human than you are!

He shook his head vigorously, insisting he would never yield to me when it came to humanity.

‘Well, you do sleep well enough.’

I regarded Wrath with a wry expression.

-No, not that.

Wrath wagged his plump fingers back and forth.

‘Hmm? Then what…?’
-The three essentials of human life are food, clothing, and shelter. And I shall teach you about the most crucial one—

He licked his drool-soaked tongue as if he’d been waiting for this moment.

-I shall instruct you in the art of culinary appreciation!
‘Ah…’

I stared at Wrath with a cold, lifeless gaze.

-Why the reluctance? Isn’t it true? You wanted to live as a human! Savoring food is important too!

Wrath gestured frantically, as if bewildered by my lack of understanding.

‘You just want to eat, don’t you…?’

I sighed and lowered my hand, then lifted my head.

‘I suppose it’s not entirely wrong.’

Rather than struggle against sleep that wouldn’t come, pursuing meals with at least some promise seemed the better path.

‘Fine.’

Raon nodded as he looked at Wrath.

‘Go ahead and tell me what you’re planning.’
-Hehehehe!

Wrath let out a sinister laugh and thrust his chest forward.

-I’ve been waiting for those words!

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