Absolute Regression Chapter 650

Episode 650: I’m still the best, right?

Mabul was cleaning up the weeds that were strewn across the yard.
He had already picked up all the weeds that needed to be picked up early, and only the ones that needed to be dried for a long time remained.

Then a voice was heard from behind.

“I will help you.”

When I looked back, I saw Geommuyang walking towards that place.

“Would you please do that?”

Mabul didn’t refuse. That’s because he knew. Coming here to help was also an effort by Geommuyang to approach someone.

The black cat walked over to him and watched him for a moment before starting to clean up the poisonous plants together.

“I’m not sure if I’m bothering you since you wanted to be alone.”
“Not at all. In fact, I was just getting a little bored.”

Geommuyang always felt that Mabul had a sharp edge when he saw him, but recently, he seemed so gentle that he felt like he was dealing with a different person. When Mabul saw him, would he also look that different?

“I didn’t know you were interested in herbs.”
“Actually, I’m not interested in herbs or poisonous plants.”

Mabul stopped his hands from organizing things for a moment.

“I discovered the joy of discovering herbs.”

There was a real, pure joy in finding herbs. The thrill of finding something that no one else had found and the pleasure of digging it up without damaging the root were the greatest pleasures in the realm of hobbies.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I would go out alone to gather herbs, so when I wasn’t interacting with the Poison King, I would focus on carving stone statues. However, it was nothing compared to the joy of gathering herbs.

And crucially.

“It’s more fun when there’s someone who likes you.”

Because no one loved the poisonous plants as much as the Poison King did.

“Your Highness, do you have any hobbies these days?”

I wonder what new hobby I could have, but when I thought about it, there was one thing I could answer.

“I’ve recently developed a hobby for work.”

Because I was working several times harder than when I was fighting for the successor, my reputation within the school actually improved.

“Should we say that this is retribution for losing the succession battle to the playful cult leader?”

While Ma-bul and Geom-mu-yang were squatting together and cleaning up the poisonous plants, Geom-mu-geuk glanced at the main gate. Geom-mu-geuk had gone out to the Myung-sim Hospital and had not yet returned.

“Are you worried about the young leader?”

I thought she would just shake her head and say no, but Geommuyang nodded.
Mabul said with a smile.

“No matter how talented your younger sibling is, he’s still your younger sibling.”

Geommuyang wasn’t just saying it, he meant it.

“If Mugeuk gets hurt, I won’t be ashamed to face my father.”

It was a separate issue from the fact that Geommu-geuk was far superior to him in martial arts.
He thought that he had to take care of his younger brother if they were together. To be honest, he didn’t want to disappoint his father. If he lost even that expectation… … .

So, if the person I was dealing with today hadn’t been a poisonous person, I would have definitely gone with them.

How could Ma-bul not know Geom-mu-yang’s heart?

“It’s not easy being the older brother when you have a younger brother who is so talented, right?”

What if my younger brother is a swordsman?

“Living in the shadows isn’t so bad.”

Ma-bul paused for a moment after hearing Geommu-yang’s honest words.

“I think it’s bad.”

There was something Ma-bul really wanted to say to Geommu-yang. He didn’t know that he would be saying this while drying poisonous weeds in the infinite front yard.

“The reason the Young Leader wanted to fight for the successor without shedding blood was probably not because he wanted the Grand Duke to live as his shadow.”
“!”
“Please be the older brother who keeps the Young Leader tense until the end. For the Young Leader and for the Grand Duke.”
Geommuyang was silent for a moment. Mabul, who had been his shadow for so long, was telling him not to become a shadow.
Mabul knew.

Living as the shadow of the infinite.
It may sound like a grand sacrifice, but it isn’t.

It’s a struggle to preserve one’s pride and a plausible excuse found at the end of one’s escape route.

The little man in front of him, Mabul, knows that he is not protecting him by becoming a shadow, but rather trying to hide by becoming a shadow.
This person is really looking straight at him.

The black cat, who had been silently looking down at the poisonous plants, spoke softly.

“Your Majesty, you are giving me a hard time until the very end.”

Mabul looked up at the sky and said.

“Don’t try to endure it, just live like a prince. Your footprints will surely remain.”

The gaze of the blacksmith also turned towards the sky.

‘Isn’t living my life more difficult than enduring it?’

But Geommuyang didn’t bring that up. He wanted to show his efforts instead of making excuses to someone who was trying so hard to be on his side.

‘Instead, we definitely need other footprints next to those footprints.’

A set of footsteps that were smaller than anyone else’s, but took incredibly big steps.
That one was enough.

The sword dance that came up from the underground secret room left So Jeong-rak’s residence.
The congressman was going back as usual as if nothing had happened.

The place where the sword dance was headed was the medical room where the sleeping patients were.
Everyone who had been sleeping in the medical room was awake.
I thought the doctors who had woken up here would be in chaos looking for So Jeong-rak, but surprisingly, everything was going as usual.

Geommugeuk walked to a corner of the room
where a man was lying on his back, getting acupuncture needles.

“No, what are you doing here?”

Then the man answered while lying down.

“My back hurts these days because I’ve been digging up poisonous plants.”
“I think Ma-bul-nim dug up all the poisonous plants.”

The one who pretended not to hear was none other than the Poison King. He was the one who woke up all those sleeping here.

When Geommu-geuk came to the hospital, he also came with him. Even though he was invincible, Geommu-geuk did not let his guard down against So Jeong-rak, who was a master of poison. He could have died while injecting mass slaughter poison.

“I thought there would be chaos when the members of parliament woke up, but it’s quiet.”

The Poison King spoke while still lying face down.

“I told you. Congressman So went to treat some old masters of the martial arts world and was away for a few days.”

There were many people who saw him going with Magyeomgun and Baekgolhonma while going from the hospital to So Jeong-rak’s residence.

“I lied that the masters wanted to treat people in secret and put them here. I told them not to worry because the patient was a senior master of the Murim Alliance. If you want to confirm, tell the Myeolma Dae.”

Everyone was relieved to hear that. By the time his disappearance became an issue, all of this would have been settled.

“If you look closely, you are really smart, Your Majesty! How do you handle things so well? Do you go around the Central Plains without people knowing? Do you have many lovers all over the Central Plains? There are some in Chongqing and some in Hubei!”

The Poison King laughed to himself while lying face down. Saying that he was smart and talking about that ridiculous woman were things he could only hear when he was with Geommu-geuk.

The sword dance slowly sat down on the bed where the Poison King was lying.

“If you want to get acupuncture, get it from the devil.”
“That guy would only go when he loses an arm.”

Amazon has pride, so he said he couldn’t go because his back hurt.

Speaking of the Sword Dance Theater, I realized that the Demon’s main map has been around for a long time. No matter how much I decide to take care of everything, reality always leaves me with many things I miss. Now that I think about it, I was so busy being the temporary leader that I couldn’t even have a drink with Jo Chun-bae before I left the church.

The sword dance was visible through the window, and the pure white clouds were flowing slowly but steadily.

“You don’t ask what happened.”

The Poison King answered the words of the Sword Dancer while prostrating himself.

“I don’t care if you ask.”

It was a statement that showed his pride in his poison, and at the same time, his belief in the Geommu Theater. That’s why he didn’t ask about So Jeong-rak or the two Normas who had disobeyed the Geumma Ryeong.

“But why were you rolling around in a pile of poisonous weeds and fighting? What is that smell?”

Only then did the Poison King raise his head and look towards the Geommu Theater.

“uh?”

He saw the Hyuknang that Geommu-geuk was holding so carefully. The Poison King opened his eyes wide when he saw the poisonous plant leaf sticking out from the end of the Hyuknang.

“Snow dream flower?”

Swish swish swish swish!

The needles stuck in the Poison King’s waist came out on their own.
The Poison King sat up abruptly and began to smell in earnest.

“It also smells like black smoke grass.”

Geommugeuk opened the chest and looked inside.

“Oh, that’s correct.”

The Poison King also arranged the things below him in order.

“From vaporization to sound wind!”

Geommu-geuk looked back and forth between the inside of the Hyuknang and the Poison King with a surprised expression. There were these things inside the Hyuknang, and it wasn’t easy to guess them, but surprisingly, the Poison King recited them one by one in the order they were placed.

“From the seven-colored chrysanthemum to the moon shadow grass!”

He could even identify the poisonous plants at the very bottom of the bag just by smell.

“Happiness grass is really hard to obtain.”

These were truly precious poisonous plants that So Jeong-rak had been collecting for a long time.

As the Poison King slightly reached out and tried to grab Hyuknang, Geommugeuk quietly placed it to the other side.

“I’m telling you this now, but I was disappointed. Wasn’t I originally the person you loved the most, Your Majesty?”
“That’s right, you.”

The Poison King swallowed his saliva and looked at Geommu-geuk. Of course, his gaze was directed at Hyuk-nang.

“I don’t think that’s the case these days.”
“It’s definitely you.”
“Really?”

The Poison King nodded.

“You must speak clearly in front of our second gatherer. You are next to the Sogyoju! Can you do it?”

The Poison King was seen flinching.
Geommugeuk held back laughter at that sight. The teasing of the friendship between the two ended here. Geommugeuk handed the Hyuknang to the Poison King.

“So Jeong-rak asked me to tell you that this is a gift to the King. I truly respect you.”

These words were enough to inform that So Jeong-rak had died from the poison of the poison king.

The Poison King opened the pouch and smiled broadly in delight. Could this poisonous herb be this good?

“Is this really that good?”
“With these, I can try making a new poison I designed.”

The Poison King, who wanted to return to his residence, left the hospital right away, and Geommugeuk followed him.
After walking for a while, the Poison King suddenly said.

“Thank you for bringing it.”

The two people’s gazes met for a moment in the air. The Poison King seemed genuinely grateful. Geommu-geuk smiled faintly, and the Poison King responded with the same smile.

And this was an opportunity that the Sword Dance Theater could not afford to miss.

“I’m so glad you understand. Oh my, now that we’re on the subject, do you know how much effort I put into taking this while fighting the Magimu and the Baekgol Honma? While engaged in a bloody battle with the two demons for over three hundred seconds, I ran in between to take the poisonous herbs to my Hyeoknang. The Magimu’s long sword dissolved my self-defense energy, and the Baekgol Honma’s Baekgwi reunited and revived five times. If it weren’t for my sole concern for the Poison King, I wouldn’t have been able to take it.”
“…….”
“…….”
“To be honest. How many moves did it take you to win?”
“I said three hundred moves.”
“…….”
“Two hundred moves. No, one hundred moves.”

As the Poison King continued to stare, Geommugeuk finally spoke honestly.

“It’s a one-second meal.”

The Poison King nodded without being surprised.

“I knew it.”

The sword dance could tell that the Poison King had achieved something in his martial arts.

Is the Poison King’s poison also growing?

The Poison King walked again, and Geommugeuk followed him.

“Even though I brought it easily, I’m still the best, right?”
“I’ll buy that guy Ma-bul’s favorite dish on the way.”
“Why are you suddenly talking about Ma-bul?”
“He should be the one getting the spit.”
“Did the first one change in the meantime!”

As the two walked down the street in front of the doctor’s office, joking around, they felt women passing by glancing at them.

“Do you feel those gazes? Before we go back, let’s have a drink with the Infinite Heroines.”

At that moment, a woman who had been glancing at them from time to time walked towards the two of them.

“excuse me…….”

The woman blushed as if she was confessing shyly.
She raised her head and said, Of course, I expected her to say, “Let’s have a drink, let’s have a cup of tea.”

“Go back to the Demonic Cult, Sword Dance Theater.”

In an instant, the expressions of the swordsman and the poison king hardened.
The woman’s eyes and expression were no different from when she had walked over earlier. It was not as if she was possessed by something. However, the woman was clearly under the spell of seduction.

She put her hand into her bosom and took something out. To her surprise, it was a fake advance.

It wasn’t like I was trying to make a quick surprise attack. I was just taking it out very slowly.

I’m going to take out my weapon and attack now.

It seemed like he was trying to tell me this.

Before she could attack, Geommu-geuk blew a gust of wind and subdued her demon blood.

That moment!

The woman’s eyes rolled back and her whole body began to tremble.
The veins on her forehead swelled as if they were going to burst. If she left it like this, she would surely lose her life.

The sword dance quickly blew a gust of wind and subdued the blood transfusion. It seemed like it would be better to just put it to sleep. However, it was no use.

“Eeeeeeeee!”

The woman’s veins swelled even more.
She was under the spell of a subduing technique that would end her life the moment she was subdued. This was the first time I learned of such a subduing technique.
If subduing the blood vessels didn’t work, then striking her to knock her out would be the same.

The sword dance drama once again released the blood and blood transfusion.

Then the swollen veins subsided, and the woman came to her senses.
She slowly aimed her advance.
She moved so slowly that it seemed as if she was saying, If you want to live, kill this woman.

There were many people coming and going, so if you avoided the advance, the person passing behind you could die.
Since there were too many people coming and going around to build a large wall, Geommu-geuk blocked the poison king and grabbed the handle of the black magic sword.
Although it was a close distance, he planned to strike the dark spirit of the advance with his sword. Knock them all down to the ground!

The aiming advance. The moment his eyes met with the woman’s beyond.
The woman slowly put the aiming advance back into her arms.
Then she looked at the sword dance and said.

“……My companions are over there. Would you like to have a cup of tea with them?”

The woman had no idea what she had done just a moment ago. She probably didn’t even realize that there was a man in her arms.

There was no change between her other two actions.
No change in her eyes, no dark aura.
The two actions were so natural. It was as if the woman was just acting out a role.

Geommugeuk said with a smile.

“That’s too bad. I have somewhere to go right now. Let’s have a drink next time.”

The woman lowered her head as if embarrassed and ran into the crowd.

“It’s an amazingly skilled sorcery.”

The Poison King silently nodded at the words of the sword dance. There was no sign that the woman had been under the spell of seduction. It was clear how difficult this enemy was.

“It’s a warning to go back.”

Of course, I thought that Geommu-geuk would be like that too.

“No, it sounded different to me.”

The gaze of the swordsman deepened.

“They know I won’t go back to these threats.”

But why did it turn out like this?

“There is something else going on.”