I’m not a Regressor

tacking suffocated him.

“Huk! Huh! Huk!”

He needed to catch his breath.

The vast amount of mana he’d obtained from becoming a 9-Star Awakener was disappearing like it was getting sucked out by a sponge.

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Translator – Maccas

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‘Shouldn’t it be over now…?’

Cheon Doyoon had no way of finding out where Ohjin was hiding, but he had poured out so many attacks in all directions that it wouldn’t be strange if a mountain had disappeared without a trace left behind.

With that much power, Ohjin should’ve been caught up in the attack and killed, even if he was in a recovered state.

“There should be no room to avoid…”

When he was subconsciously looking around with a faint smile on his face—

Crackle—

—a clear sound was heard once again.

“—Ah.”

It was different from the previous times when he couldn’t determine where the sound was coming from.

And that was because… the sound came from right under his chin.

“Wh-What?”

He quickly lowered his head.

A pair of azure fen fires were burning ominously right in front of him.

“A-Ahh.”

stagger—

He took steps backwards.

Goosebumps started to spread all over his skin.

While he was shooting feathers like crazy, had the Lightning Wolf continuously been… 

…staring up at him from right below?

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“Ah, uh.”

Fear sucked the color out of his face.

Once he imagined the possibility that Ohjin had always been next to him within arm’s reach, irresistible fear crashed down on his mind.

“Aahhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Cheon Doyoon threw away his dignity as a king and pathetically fell on his bottom.

He could feel something wet between his legs.

“Y-You bastard!!!”

With his sense of rationality lost, he flailed his arms.
Black feathers rained down in the direction of the azure fen fires.

“T-Ten Thousand Black Feather Blossom! Ten Thousand Black Feather Blossom!!!”

It was an unsightly attack that was shot while he wet his pants, but he was an Awakener who had achieved the realm of 9-Star that only the select few out of an uncountable number of Awakeners could achieve.

The raging black feathers containing destructive force shot at the azure fen fires.

However—

Bzzzzzzzzzzt!!!—

—with a thunderclap, lightning stormed out.

Not the blue lightning the Lightning Wolf always used, but black lightning that looked like it was combed with darkness.

Pitter-patter— 

The feathers containing destructive force suddenly lost their strength and fell to the ground.

“Eek!!”

Cheon Doyoon clenched his teeth and extended his arm forward.

Crackle—

A strand of black lightning grazed past his extended arm.

Plop—

“…Huh?”

Cheon Doyoon could no longer feel anything beneath his left elbow.

“A-Ahh.”

A suppressed groan escaped Cheon Doyoon’s mouth.

Immeasurable fear spread out like ink diffusing in water.

“Why… just why…?”

Because his arm was cut off in vain?

Because blood was gushing out of the cut surface?

“Ah, uah.”

That wasn’t it…

That wasn’t the reason why he was shaking in that much fear…

“Uaaaaaaaaaahh!!”

It was because he couldn’t feel any kind of pain, despite having his arm cut off.

“S-Stop!!! Stop it!!”

Engulfed in fear that drove him crazy, he cried out.

“I-It’s my loss!! I’ll give up on the Dragon Eye… and even the Dragon’s Heart!!”

They were treasures he had always longed for, but they no longer mattered at that point.

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“S-So please!! Pleaseeeee!!”

He didn’t need the Dragon Eye or the Dragon’s Heart.

Following the orders of the Queen of Snakes was meaningless.

“Get me out of this place!!! Please!!!”

If he could only escape from that demented darkness, those things didn’t matter.

Plop—

Black lightning sparked, and that time, he lost sensation in his right arm.

Nonetheless, he couldn’t feel pain.

“A-Ahh.
S-Stop.
Stop…”

—Have you imagined it before?

—The fear of suddenly losing each sense one by one inside of a pitch black darkness like switches were turning off.

—A mental despair that made you feel like your existence itself was being erased from the world.

Plop—

The sensation in his two legs disappeared.

Plop—

The sensation below his hips disappeared.

Plop—

The sensation in both of his shoulders disappeared.

“No… no… please…”

Cheon Doyoon pleaded as he bawled his eyes out.

 

“Do you want to leave this place?”

 

At that moment, a low voice was heard inside the pitch-black darkness.

Cheon Doyoon opened his eyes wide and nodded his head like crazy.

“Y-Yes! P-Please get me out of this place!! I’ll do whatever you ask me! S-So please!!”

He had no idea why the Star of the Weaver Girl’s apostle had such an abominable ability. 

But what did that matter?

If Ohjin was willing to take him out of that mental darkness, he would even lick his foot.

“Then let’s make a deal.
You like deals, don’t you?”

Flinch—

“If you listen to my one request, I’ll let you out of this place.”

Like the temptation of the devil, Ohjin’s sweet voice rang out.

“A-Are you being serious? Will you really let me out of this place?”

Light of hope shone in Cheon Doyoon’s eyes.

Holding onto the rope dangling at the edge of a cliff, he bowed deeply and looked up at the devil.

“Of course, I’m being serious.”

His pure white teeth could be seen beneath the ferociously burning azure fen fires.

“After all, I don’t know how to lie.”

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