Absolute Regression Chapter 534

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Jaein stared intently at Geommugeuk’s face.

‘That face looks like it has a lot to say?’

Jaein was surprised that the man was much younger and more handsome than he had expected, but the man was seeing something he had not seen.

“Look at those eyes.”

Jaein looked into Geommugeuk’s eyes as the man said.

His eyes are clear and deep, unlike mine.

“Aren’t these the eyes of a meddler who would meddle in all sorts of matters in the martial arts world?”

“… … Is that so?”

“It’s a really annoying look, like leading a perfectly good successor to the Apostolic Alliance to a dance.”

Why is the Apostolic Successor suddenly here? Dancing? What kind of dancing?

Jaein looked at the man with a bewildered expression. He didn’t know that this person was such a strange person. He wanted to say, “Stop talking nonsense and just kill me,” but he was not the type of person to say such things to.

“Hearing it, it seems like it would be very noisy and annoying.”

When Jaein tried to please him, the man laughed out loud as if he felt relieved.

Then, Geommugeuk, who had been listening, asked Chohee, who was sitting next to him.

“How is it? Have I been talking a lot since you came here with me?”

“No, you were quiet.”

Cho-hee was nervous as she answered. Unlike before, the fact that the other person was blocking her path so openly meant that he was confident in his abilities, didn’t he?

But for some reason, the two of them were just having an inexplicable conversation.

“Have you heard? I’m a person who is naturally reserved. But everyone else is so speechless. They should be able to say what they want to say, but they hold it in. They put it off until later. It’s so frustrating that I can’t help but say something, right? Silence is the best way to avoid misunderstandings, but aren’t you all misunderstanding because you don’t speak properly? Even So Maeng-ju is like that. When you see him not talking, you get the impression that he’s thinking hard about who to kill. But when you actually listen to him talk, he’s so cute. And… … .”

“stop!”

The swordsman shut his mouth at the man’s scream.

Jaein was inwardly bewildered by the unexpected situation. He had never dreamed that he would come with this man to kill this guy and have this conversation. Who is the So Maengju he keeps mentioning?

Anyway, at least one thing was certain.

‘What a talkative person you are!’

Jaein spoke carefully to the man.

“Please kill that talkative man and make him shut up.”

Then the man sighed lightly and said.

“That won’t do.”

Jaein was surprised to hear that it was not possible.

“What are you talking about?”

The person who answered the question was Geommugeuk.

“We know each other. We’re even close.”

“We’re close!”

The man was none other than the evil one, one of the Seven Great Masters of the Apostles.

The last time I saw you was at the trilateral talks, and now we’re meeting again like this.

Rather, Jaein could feel the evil attitude of denial.

‘They are close!’

Jaein was overcome with despair. Who on earth is that young man?

“What are you doing here?”

“What are you doing? I came here to kill you.”

Geommugeuk said with a smile.

“Then kill him.”

The evil spirit stared at the sword dance quietly.

“It’s harder to kill now.”

I noticed that his skills had improved even more through the gaze and prayer of Geommugeuk.

“I was asked to kill just one mine. I was supposed to receive enough money to last me a lifetime. What a pity. It was my chance to become rich.”

That is not true.

The reason I got involved in this case was because of the Geommu Theater. I thought that if he was a man of that caliber, he must have deep ties to the Geommu Theater. I wondered who these people were going to kill. I tried to stop them in advance.

But I never dreamed that the mine would be a sword dance.

“You escort a courtesan alone? That’s very like you.”

The evil spirit asked Jaein.

“Do you know who that talkative looking man is?”

“Who are you?”

“That person is a cult leader.”

“!”

Jaein was shocked. The young master escorting the gisaeng was the leader of the Demonic Cult? That man who talks a lot? No way!

But there was no lie in the expression on the monster’s face as he looked at himself. There was no reason for him to follow him here and lie.

“No matter how good the money is, you’re not asking me to kill the leader of the Demonic Cult, are you?”

Jaein could now understand why this matter had not gone so well. Why was the net of the loser, who had accomplished much more difficult things through art, so sloppily riddled with holes?

Jaein greeted him politely, waving his hand.

“I have not seen you before.”

He tried to remain calm, although his chest felt tight and his mind became complicated. The only good thing was that the leader was really young.

‘I am a person who learns to design conspiracies for the doomed. Let’s keep calm.’

Youth always comes with immaturity and mistakes, so there will definitely be gaps.

The monster felt sorry for him because he could guess what he was thinking.

‘He is the one who casts a net ten times or a hundred times larger than the one you cast. If he had known who was caught in that net, he would not have done such a thing in the first place.’

Geommugeuk asked Jaein in a soft tone.

“Are you the one who planned this?”

No matter how he looked at it, his attitude didn’t seem like that of a demon, so Jaein still couldn’t believe that the other person was the leader of the Demonic Cult.

“I’m still learning.”

“To whom?”

It was at that very moment that Jaein hesitated to answer.

The evil spirit spoke to the swordmaster.

“There is a person called the loser.”

I didn’t know that the monster would reveal his identity so readily.

Jaein tried to find a way to survive by provoking the evil spirit.

“If you do this for the sake of your elders, wouldn’t it be against your principles?”

It was something he said to try to lead others to save him, even if it was because he felt sorry about that.

The monster looked at him and smiled.

“My name includes both the word ‘monster’ and the word ‘evil’. Are you trying to reason with me like that? And I’m not in a relationship with a loser because I’m talking about money, I’m in a relationship with a loser because I’m talking about morality.”

From these words, Jaein was certain that the evil spirit would never attack the leader of the Demonic Cult.

“Who did you send to Cheonhwaru?”

Jaein flinched for a moment at Geommugeuk’s question.

“How did you know?”

“He asked who sent it.”

Even though his eyes and tone were calm, Jaein felt fear. They were trying to destroy the main group of Cheonhwaru, where the leader of the Demonic Cult was trying to take away the gisaeng.

“I sent a slaughter party.”

Cho-hee’s heart sank as she heard the word “Gwisaldae.” It was a name she had heard many times from guests. Every time she heard of the things that name had done, she frowned and felt afraid. It was said that Gwisaldae had gone to Roo-ju.

Compared to her, whose heart was pounding, Geommugeuk only nodded once and didn’t ask any more questions.

“Why don’t you ask about the results?”

The moment when Jaein decides to take Cheonhwaru hostage and survive in this place.

“Since they failed, aren’t they trying to mobilize Senior Go here too?”

Jaein could finally feel it. Although he was asking softly, the other person was seeing right through him and the situation.

“Do you want to live?”

“I want to live. No, I want to live.”

Jaein acted as politely as possible.

“Who is behind this request?”

“You didn’t tell me. It’s true!”

“Where is the loser now?”

He couldn’t answer. If you betray a person who is doomed, you will suffer extreme pain and die a miserable death. The person he knew was like that. He was the one who wove a tight net to ensnare the betrayer.

“Are the losers scared and I’m not scared?”

“That’s not it.”

“Well, at times like this, we need our leader’s face. If it were in front of that guy, he wouldn’t have taken me lightly.”

The non-attendant visas were continually being called out.

“But fortunately, there is someone more fearsome than So Myeong-ju in Cheonhwa-ru.”

At that moment, Jaein opened his eyes wide with an expression asking what that meant.

The sword dance blew a gust of wind, suppressing his internal energy and suppressing his blood transfusion.

The swordsman loaded the sleeping Jaein into the back of the carriage. It was a small carriage with little space for luggage, but there was enough space to lay Jaein down.

“Would you like to go together?”

“Who’s there?”

The swordsman drew a smiling face after sweeping his hand from his forehead to his chin.

The evil spirit could tell that the evil spirit Soma was there.

The monster waved his hands and shook his head, saying that he was disgusted by the demons.

“See you next time.”

As he was about to leave, Geommugeuk spoke to him.

“thank you.”

“what?”

“I know you deliberately gave in to their demands for my sake.”

The monster answered without looking back.

“I told you it was because of the money. It makes my stomach hurt when I think about it, so let’s stop talking about that.”

The monster flew away and disappeared.

Looking at him, Geommugeuk smiled faintly.

‘Why do you talk so much? Isn’t this the place I was planning to meet you at today?’

Because they have come to know each other’s true feelings, the evil spirit has come to help him today. If he had been silent, how could they know each other’s feelings?

In a world where it’s becoming increasingly easier to break off a relationship, there’s still a reason why the Black Pearl is so talked about.

“Okay, let’s go too.”

“yes!”

Cho-hee silently watched the sword dance of the carriage driver.

The same goes for the monsters and the demon slayers. Those scary names were being replaced by everyday names when they came to this cult leader.

And another conclusion she came to.

The leader of the Demonic Cult is not a man of many words. The way he is driving the carriage, looking straight ahead, is much more suitable than the talkative appearance he had shown before.

* * *

Finally, the two arrived at Cheonhwaru.

I could see the Cheonhwaruju journey ahead of me.

Tears welled up in Cho-hee’s eyes when she saw Rouge, who she had been worried about, doing well.

“Your Majesty Rouge!”

Cho-hee, who saw the journey, tried to bow deeply on the spot, but Yeo-jeong came first and grabbed her hand.

The journey took her and made her sit in her seat. Then he brought her water and gave her a drink.

“First, drink water. Slowly.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

After calming down her excitement, Yeojeong examined her body first.

“Where are you hurt?”

“it’s okay.”

Despite her answer, Yeojeong calmly examined her body. Even though it was painful, he knew she would say that it was not painful, so he examined her carefully.

I would have asked her what kind of information she wanted first, but she took care of Cho-hee’s body first.

Chohee’s gaze deepened as she looked at the natural rouge.

“You did this to me that day too.”

“That day?”

“The day you saved my life.”

The journey saved her from being sold into slavery to pay off her father’s gambling debts. It was truly a chance encounter on the road.

At that time, Yeojeong sat her down, who was crying and rebelling against the men’s arms and saying she would not go, and made her drink water like today. After calming her down, he asked her the whole story.

After paying off Cho-hee’s debt on the spot, Yeo-jeong set off on his way.

If he had saved her and made her work at Cheonhwaru, she wouldn’t have respected Yeojeong so much.

“When he left, he told me that since your parents abandoned you, you shouldn’t be tied down to your family anymore. He told me to leave home and pursue my own dreams.”

That day, Cho-hee followed Yeo-jeong. Even though she was told that if she followed him, she would become a gisaeng, she bet her fate on Yeo-jeong.

“Did I do that?”

Although he said that, Yeojeong vividly remembers the events of that day.

“It wasn’t me who saved you, it was fate that saved you.”

That relationship has continued to this place today.

“Thank you for coming.”

The moment she heard those words, tears that she had been holding back flowed from Cho-hee’s eyes. It could be said that it was a miracle that she came here alive.

“Are you okay, Lady Rouge?”

“I’m fine. Aren’t there people out there protecting us?”

Only then did Cho-hee look around. There were masked men standing everywhere, guarding the gate.

As the two men arrived, they came out of the room and started guarding the place. Their mission had changed.

“Could it be them?”

Chohee also knew. Whose mask was that?

Naturally, her gaze turned to the Sword Dance Theater and the Evil Demon Theater, who were having a conversation a little further away.

‘Then that person must be that terrifying, evil soma.’

Chohee saw the evil Soma for the first time. Was it because she thought it was the evil Soma? The smiling white mask felt particularly scary.

The sight of Geommu-geuk laughing brightly in front of that extremely evil soma felt unreal. She felt once again that all dangers become routine once they pass through the cult leader.

“If it weren’t for the little cult leader over there, I would have died.”

The journey smiled faintly.

‘It was the same here too.’

Chohee continued speaking.

“The Sogyoju said so. He said that he and Luju are so close that he would go through all the martial arts world to find them.”

Then, Yeojeong’s gaze turned towards the evil Soma.

“It’s not because of me, it’s because of him.”

Cho-hee could feel the depth of their relationship through the gaze of Yeo-jeong looking at him. It was a woman’s intuition.

‘ah!’

Now I understand. What he meant by he came not for the journey but because of the evil soma? Since the journey is deeply related to the evil soma, the little cult leader came running for Rouge!

Cho-hee, who had been looking at the two people, looked back at Cheonhwa-ru-ju. Now it was time to tell her why she had risked her life to come here.

“I have something to tell you, Lady Rouge.”

She spoke in a soft voice so that only Cheonhwaruju could hear.

“A great event that will turn the martial arts world upside down will occur at Cheonhwaru!”

She spoke in a lower voice.

“And the person who committed this crime is… … Lord Rouge.”