Absolute Regression Chapter 144

Episode 144 You look better even with a mask on.

“It’s him! It’s him!”

Chuseng shouted. He was half-mad when he saw the white mask.

“Run away! No, we have to run away!”

Chusaeng screamed as if he was having a seizure, probably thinking that he was scared by my still appearance.

“Even you can’t handle that guy! Let’s run away quickly.”

But when I stayed still, Chusaeng frowned and pulled out his sword.

“Damn it! Let’s join forces!”

“You are the kind of person who is suited to politics.”

“Are you crazy? What nonsense are you talking about in this situation!”

I could see why his father had left a will telling him not to trust people. He was the kind of person who would not run away even in these situations and would look after my safety.

Before we knew it, the man wearing the white mask had approached our seats.

The man in the white mask looked at us quietly.

Chuseng trembled. He had vowed revenge, but when he actually saw his opponent, his body seemed not to move as he would have liked.

I was the one who broke the heavy silence that flowed through the room.

“Why didn’t you show me this dangerous world before?”

Surprisingly, he was a truly evil soma.

When I first saw him, I naturally thought he was a fake evil spirit who had come to Wolpungmun.

But as I watched him walk towards us, I realized that he was truly the Evil Soma. It was a prayer that only the Evil Soma could show.

“Why on earth are you here?”

“Why is the scholar here?”

Chusaeng opened his eyes wide in surprise at our conversation.

He’ll be confused. Is it the real thing, or am I in cahoots with the fake?

I asked Chusaeng.

“Look closely. Is that the person who came then?”

Chuseng looked at the evil soma while trembling. After a while, he shouted.

“Ah! It’s different. It’s definitely different. You have a better face than that guy!”

“You’re wearing a mask?”

“That’s right. He’s definitely more handsome.”

I looked at the evil Soma with a smile.

“This guy seems to be able to see through Soma-sama’s mask.”

“Or maybe my mask looked better.”

I could see what Chusaeng meant. Not just anyone can wear a mask and give off this feeling of an extremely evil Soma.

Prayer, feeling, atmosphere. There is a certain unique feeling that is unique to the evil Soma. That is what Chuseng expressed as handsome.

“This person is truly an evil sorcerer.”

“Didn’t I tell you? He’s a fake. Now, say hello. I am the evil Soma, the Demon Lord of our school.”

Chuseng froze as if he had been struck by lightning. He didn’t know what to say. He looked at me and the evil Soma in shock and fear.

But the real surprise for Chusaeng was from now on.

“I came to see you at Akingok before you left school, but you left first.”

“I heard that there is an author who imitates me.”

With his extremely evil personality, he couldn’t just leave someone like that alone.

“But how did you know I was coming here?”

“I didn’t know a scientist was coming.”

A surprising answer came out of the mouth of the evil soma.

“Today, I came to this place to receive the silver coin.”

I was surprised. I was more surprised than Chuseng.

“The owner of the Eunwonjeon is Soma-sama?”

When the evil Soma opened his hand, there was a coin cut in half on his palm.

The moment Chusaeng took out the necklace around his neck.

“Huh? Huh?”

The coin on the end of the necklace and the floating doll were dragged away. The evil soma had grabbed him and pulled him into the air.

The coin in the palm of the evil Soma also floated up and met in midair with the coin hanging from the necklace. The coins merged exactly.

Chuseng, who was dragged to the very evil Soma, was shocked and looked back and forth between the combined Eunwonjeon and the very evil Soma. He really couldn’t have imagined that the person his father saved was the very evil Soma. I was the same.

With a careless hand, the evil Soma cut the necklace string and retrieved the remaining half of the silver coin.

I spoke to the evil Soma instead of the distraught Chuseng.

“I really couldn’t have imagined that the owner of the Eunwonjeon was Soma-sama.”

“It was a long time ago.”

It felt new to me that there was a time when I was so grateful to the evil Soma. It was even more surprising that he came here today to keep his promise.

“It is a pleasure and good thing to meet you, Soma-sama, but today feels like a trap.”

Indeed, before the evil Soma showed up, all the guests had already left, and even the owner had disappeared. No one was even passing by the inn.

“It doesn’t seem like a coincidence that he disguised himself as Soma-sama.”

I thought that it wasn’t just because he was a masked figure that he was pretending to be the evil Soma, but because he was originally targeting the evil Soma. If that’s the case, then does that mean that Cheonmyeonghoe was targeting the evil Soma?

“Does anyone have any guesses?”

After thinking for a moment, the evil Soma spoke with a troubled expression.

“How could there be only one person? There are about fifty people just thinking of them.”

When I laughed as if I was dumbfounded, the evil soma also laughed along. Chuseng was still surprised by this situation and seemed unable to adapt, so he just silently listened to our conversation.

“Is there anyone else besides Soma who uses the Blood Ancestor?”

“!”

For a moment, I felt the evil Soma flinch.

“Why do you ask that?”

“The traces left by the fake on the wall of the Wolpungmun Gate were very similar to Soma’s bloodline. It was such an elaborate method that it could almost be said to have been left by Soma.”

After a moment, the evil Soma answered.

“There’s more.”

I didn’t ask any more questions, because I knew that he gave me that answer specifically because it was me.

“Maybe our match is not an ordinary one.”

The evil Soma nodded at my words. He clearly had an inkling of who was behind it.

As our conversation paused, Chusaeng asked me.

“But you call yourself a scholar. Surely you are not?”

I asked him back with a meaningful smile.

“Or who in the world could have this conversation with Amazon at such a young age?”

“Are you really the blood relative of Cheonma?”

“exactly.”

“Ah! The day has come when I will see the blood of the Demon Lord and the Demon Lord in one place!”

If you were an ordinary person, you would have never seen people like that in your entire life, all at once.

“I expected you to be of an unusual status. In fact, you are the kind of person who would not be at all strange if you said, ‘I am a thousand-horse.’ I would have believed you to be a thousand-horse who had turned back the clock. You are truly… … No, from now on I should call you Mr. Lee Gongja.”

The evil Soma smiled softly as if he knew what was on Chuseng’s mind.

“Don’t be difficult for me and treat me comfortably as you have been.”

“Is that okay?”

“It’s okay. If I wanted special treatment, I would have revealed my identity in the first place.”

“Okay, I understand. No, I understand.”

After our conversation ended, the evil Soma spoke to Chuseng.

“No matter what the situation is, I have to repay the debt I owe you. Now, what kind of help do you need? Speak carefully. The silver coin can only be used once. This is a favor I am asking for your father, so choose carefully.”

Chusaeng glanced at me after thinking for a moment.

“The request will be handled by Lee Gong-ja.”

He entrusted me with the use of the silver coin.

“Why are you leaving it to me?”

“Hearing from both of you, it seems like this isn’t just a matter for our family. Is this something that can be resolved by simply asking for revenge? In my humble opinion, it doesn’t seem like it. I don’t know what to ask of you, Soma-sama, right now. That’s why I left it to Lee Gong-ja.”

I thought it was a wise decision.

Yes, Chuseng-ah. Please continue to use your brilliant mind well in the future.

I said to the evil Soma with a smile.

“How about it? Would you accept my request on your behalf?”

“I originally decided that I would only accept requests from my immediate family, but since you are a scholar, I will make it special for you.”

“Thank you.”

I thought about it for a moment and then said to him.

“Please make me the successor of our school.”

Chusaeng, who was startled, shouted as if questioning.

“Why are you asking me to do your work with my silver coin?”

“You left it to me, didn’t you?”

“No, but that’s true. I never thought you’d ask me to do something like this. I should ask you to avenge my family.”

It was at that moment that Chusaeng was asking questions. The evil Soma answered.

“Okay, I accept it.”

What he accepted was not Eunwonjeon’s request, but my prank.

On the other hand, Chusaeng was anxious.

“No! This is invalid! Invalid!”

The evil Soma looked at him with cold eyes.

“Who are you?”

Chuseng was startled by the attitude of the evil soma who said that his work was now finished.

“Who are you? Why have you been loitering around in front of me all this time?”

He looked back and forth between the evil soma and me, sighing and reproaching himself.

“I think my temperament is a selective sanguine temperament. The patience that overflowed even when I was dealing with a small pebble does not overflow in front of this person. It seems like it would not overflow even if I poured the ocean in.”

I said with a smile at the self-deprecating sigh.

“You lost the Silver Coin, but didn’t you gain the Heavenly Horse of the Future instead?”

At those words, Chusaeng looked at me with a surprised face.

“I’m sorry for joking around. Now, let me introduce myself formally. I am the Cheonma Shingyo’s Lee Gongja, Geommugeuk. I will avenge your family in my name.”

Only then did Chuseng realize that it was a joke and was moved. A promise more certain than a silver coin was made.

Even the most evil Soma appeared there.

“This matter concerns me, so I will handle it. So don’t worry and go back.”

“Thank you. Thank you so much.”

“I am deeply sorry that your family has become entangled because of me. If I had known it would turn out like this, I would never have given your father the silver coin.”

He didn’t say sorry, but I could tell he was sorry.

“No, how could that be your fault, Soma?”

“This is not your place, so go back.”

“yes.”

I asked worriedly.

“Can I send it alone?”

It was already clear that the enemies were nearby, so I was worried that I might get hurt if I went back alone.

“You don’t have to worry.”

It was an answer that seemed to indicate that he knew the person behind this incident.

After Chuseng came out and gave a prize to the evil Soma, he turned around. He turned around in front of the door as he was about to leave the guest house.

“I’m telling you this because I don’t think I’ll be able to see you again. Maybe after this incident is over, the main body will belong to the political faction. That’s why I’m telling you this. If there’s a political war in the future… … please spare our family.”

I took his joke as a joke too.

“Then you have to save me once. I’ll cut a coin for you.”

Chusaeng smiled brightly.

“I am certain. My father has sent me a precious person. Your Majesty, please become a heavenly horse who does not cause a war like the Jeongma War. Then, I look forward to seeing you again someday.”

Chusaeng left after saying his final goodbyes very politely.

The two men in the guest house were the only ones who spoke in the most evil manner.

“The scholar-official should give up Cheonma.”

“I even wrote a silver coin, so what are you talking about?”

“Live like this, wandering around the central plains. Meet people like Chuseng, and live like this, smiling. This suits you better.”

I could tell that the evil Soma was being sincere.

“Did you by any chance receive a bribe from your brother? Did he join you while you were not looking?”

The evil Soma laughed loudly.

As soon as Chuseng left, the enemies began to show up one by one as if they had been waiting. As expected, today was definitely the place to summon the evil Soma.

The first people to appear were three old men.

They were old men of similar age, but strangely enough, they were wearing matching red armor. I could tell who they were just by their attire.

The three armies of the bloody road.

They were once ronin who struck fear into the martial arts world and would accept any kind of contract if they were paid. They killed children and adults alike, and were known to even kill their own parents if they were paid.

Eventually, after his evil deeds became so extreme that he was branded a traitor in the martial arts world, he disappeared from the world of martial arts, but he has now appeared here today.

They had been notorious in their middle years, but now they were old men. Their wasted muscle mass was replaced by the wickedness of a man who had been through many hardships. They sat far away from us.

Once again, a middle-aged woman appeared in the guest house, waving a pink fan. She was wearing a gorgeous palace dress and heavy makeup, and her body looked as if it would burst.

Paradise Fairy.

She was a great villainess who sucked the vital energy of countless men and made her internal energy. Her skin and body, which did not match her age at all, were created by taking the vital energy and lives of countless men. She was also once a person who ranked first in the martial arts world. There was a rumor that she was killed by a great lecher and had her internal energy sucked out, but she showed up alive and well.

She sat cross-legged on the table, exposing her white legs.

Next, a middle-aged man came in.

He had a straight sword on his waist and showed his prayers like a wild beast wandering the wilderness.

Blood Wolf Sword.

He was the one who sought out the masters of the Central Plains in order to become stronger. He did whatever it took to win, and even fought against opponents who didn’t want to fight. That’s why so many masters died unjustly to him.

In the end, he was also branded a martial arts master, and there were various rumors about his end. He died fighting an elder of the martial arts alliance, he died challenging the Demon Lord, he died by an unknown hermit master. He drank from the kettle at the entrance, making all these rumors meaningless.

The last person to appear was a man wearing absolutely black clothes and shoes, as well as a black robe.

Lord Yeomra.

He may seem fine now, but he was once a madman who went crazy and slaughtered people in the martial arts world. He believed that he was a messenger sent by the King of Hell and that he was the god who ruled over life and death. He was also a person who was branded a martial arts master and caused a huge stir before disappearing.

It didn’t feel real because the villains who once shook the martial arts world appeared all at once. Furthermore, the mastermind behind the fake story had not even appeared.

It wasn’t the time to be leisurely, but I couldn’t help but say this to the evil Soma.

“What on earth have you been doing?”

The evil Soma answered awkwardly, looking at the villains who were breathing life into him.

“They are all people you know.”