Absolute Regression Chapter 684

Episode 684 I’m the One Who Kills

A dazzling light flowed from Cheonhwaruju’s two eyes.
Looking at her gaze as she looked at him, Geommu-geuk felt various emotions.

Surprise, fear, horror.

The final emotion created by the mixture of those negative emotions was hesitation.

“What did you see of me?”

Cheonhwaruju did not answer Geommugeuk’s question. Instead, she avoided Geommugeuk’s gaze.

Ian felt ominous at her reaction. What could he not say in this situation?

‘What on earth did you see?’

The evil soma stared at her without saying a word. He should have said something to the cult leader.
He didn’t force her to speak, but simply waited for her choice.

The sword dance livened up the gloomy atmosphere.

“Let me guess the prophecy. Did you see me at the forefront of the Demonic War? Attacking the Martial Arts Alliance, the Sadomasaki Alliance. Attacking here and there. Did I unify the Martial Arts Alliance? Were there tens of thousands of warlords prostrating themselves and worshiping me?”

Then Cheonhwaruju slowly shook her head as if it was not true. She still could not face Geommu-geuk.

“That’s great. I was honestly worried that you might see it.”

The sword dance guessed again.

“Then you must have seen this. You must have seen me slowly climbing the stairs. At the top, there must have been a Taesa throne. When I sat down on that throne, you could finally see the surrounding scenery. Corpses piled up everywhere, blood flowing like a river. At the end, I must have looked at the corpses and laughed coldly. Right? You saw this scene? That’s why you can’t say anything?”

But Cheonhwaruju shook her head as if that wasn’t the case.

“I wish I had seen that instead.”

In an instant, the smile disappeared from the face of the sword master. Ian and the evil soma also became tense. Her words meant that there was an even more horrific scene.
With everyone’s eyes focused on her, Cheonhwaruju spoke softly.

“The cult leader was killing someone.”
“!”

It was a remark that could not be included in a joke. Who on earth had killed him that he preferred a scene with numerous corpses lying around?

“Who was I killing?”

If he had been killing the evildoers passing by, Cheonhwaruju wouldn’t have been this serious.

Her gaze slowly turned to one place. The person she was looking at with trembling eyes was the evil Soma.

“I was killing my brother.”
“!”

At that moment, everyone was shocked. A heavy silence brought about by surprise and shock.

‘I’m going to kill Soma? No way!’

The sword dance was absolutely certain that this would never happen. It was a truly absurd prophecy.
Then, a thought suddenly occurred to me.

‘By any chance! Have you seen that sight?’

The moment I killed Soma in my life before regression!

I thought that maybe that was the case.
Otherwise, I would never kill the evil Soma. The evil Soma would never do something to deserve such a thing.

But the prophecy of the Shrine Maiden was clearly meant to show the future. It showed the past, and the past before the regression? He couldn’t understand it either.

Geommugeuk broke the silence with a laugh.

“What on earth have you done? Or are you planning to do?”

Even the evil Soma took the joke of the sword dance drama lightly.

“Please let me die without any pain.”

The two of them were smiling as they looked at each other.
They were relaxed, but Ian couldn’t be.
He knew it was rude to say this, but he couldn’t help it because no one said it.

“Can prophecies be wrong?”

Then Cheonhwaruju answered with a sunken look in her eyes.

“Prophecies may not come true, but they are not wrong.”

Words that I didn’t want to say or hear continued.

“What I saw will definitely happen.”

If that’s really the case? Ian’s heart began to beat rapidly.
At this moment, she was more worried about the sword dance than the evil soma, although she felt sorry for the evil soma.

What if that happens?

Could Geommugeuk just let go of killing the evil Soma? It would be a lifelong scar. No, it could change Geommugeuk. In a very dark and depressing way.

“Fate can be changed, right?”

At her words, Geommugeuk nodded vigorously.

“Yes, you can change it.”

Geommugeuk confidently spoke to Cheonhwaruju.

“That won’t happen, so don’t worry.”

Cheonhwaruju lowered her head and showed no reaction. Perhaps because her mind was complicated, she still did not look at Geommu-geuk.

“You must be tired from receiving the prophecy. Rest. We will go get some air.”

Geommu-geuk got up from his seat and left the room, and Ian followed him.

As the two people left the room, the evil Soma asked the Tenkaruju.

“Would you like a drink?”
“Yes.”

The evil Soma got up from his seat and brought some liquor from the cupboard. There was a liquor he liked and a liquor that Cheonhwaruju liked, so he brought the liquor that she liked.

Again.

Cheonhwaruju drank her wine in one gulp.
Was it because she was worried that Geukak Soma might die? She drank her wine in succession.
Geukak Soma silently refilled her empty glass.

Then, after being lost in thought for a while, a determination appeared in Cheonhwaruju’s eyes.

“Brother.”

Cheonhwaruju opened her mouth with difficulty, her voice trembling. This was the first time in her life that she had felt so afraid.

“Brother, I lied. I said something different about the prophecy.”

Even with the shocking confession, the eyes of the evil Soma behind the white mask were not surprised at all.

“Did you know?”

Surprisingly, the evil Soma nodded.

“How did you know?”
“How could I not know when I know you?”

In fact, there was a decisive reason. He saw himself dying, but Yeojeong was too calm. The Yeojeong he knew was not that kind of person.
Especially since he was someone who believed that prophecies would definitely come true, he probably thought that his own death was also inevitable.

I couldn’t meet the gaze of the cult leader there. It wasn’t that I didn’t see it because he was the one who killed the man I liked, but I could clearly feel that he was sorry.

“Perhaps the young sect leader noticed it too. He is such a smart and quick-witted person.”
“I’m sorry, brother.”
“It’s okay. There must have been a reason.”

The evil Soma asked again as he filled the empty glass of the Thousand-Haired One.

“What did you see in the prophecy?”

Now was the moment when the true prophecy she had received was revealed.

“He wasn’t a cult leader.”

After a moment’s pause, shocking words came out of her mouth.

“My brother killed the cult leader.”
“!”

Through the eye sockets of the white mask, the two eyes of the extremely evil Soma were visible.
He had laughed when she said she was going to die, and he had laughed when she said she was lying. But he wasn’t laughing now.

“My brother stabbed the leader of the sect in the heart with a dagger.”

* * *

Geommu-geuk and Ian took a walk around Cheonhwa-ru’s inner garden.
It was such a beautifully decorated place, but Ian didn’t notice a single thing.

“If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have come. I ran away to avoid trouble, so how could I have known that trouble like this would be waiting for me?”

She was worried about the fight between Iljo and Ijo, but Geommugeuk started to worry about killing the evil Soma.

“That’s why you have to look around the world. When you come out, those worries aren’t that big of a deal, right?”
“Not that big of a deal! It’s a conflict within the direct command of the successor to the Heavenly Demon Sect! The worries here are just too serious!”

The sword dance was funny and he laughed, but Ian didn’t laugh.

“Why? Are you really afraid that something like that will happen?”
“Then you’re not afraid?”
“Don’t worry, it won’t happen.”
“Of course it will.”

What bothers her is that the person who made the prophecy was Cheonhwaruju.
If it had been someone else, she would have thought, “What nonsense!” and not believed it, but isn’t she the type of person to make absurd prophecies?

“Ah! Let’s go back in and ask.”
“What?”
“Where is the place where the master kills Soma? Then we should never go to that place. Then our fate will change.”
“Oh! You’re smart?”
“If we were smart, we would have asked earlier. We always pass by and do that then. Let’s go, go and ask.”

But the sword dance didn’t move from its spot.

“But what if your fate changes if you go against it like that?”

When Ian flinched, Geommugeuk spoke with deep eyes.

“If I die to Soma-sama, what will you do then?”

For a moment, Ian was speechless. The sword dance was going to die? At the same time, it would be the moment when his world would end as well.

“What are you going to do? Now is liberation, let’s shout hurrah.”
“Then that’s enough.”

Geommugeuk smiled and walked away, and Ian followed him.

‘What’s the point? If you die, my lord, I will die too! So, for my sake, you absolutely must not die!’

When the two of them returned after making a round of the inner chamber, the evil soma and the heavenly lord were waiting in front of the residence.
Even when they left the room, it didn’t seem like they would be meeting again so soon.
The evil soma spoke to the sword dance.

“This person says he has something to say to the young cult leader.”

Then Cheonhwaruju knelt down on the spot.
Geommu-geuk and Ian were surprised by the unexpected action.

“I lied to the cult leader. The prophecy I saw was different.”

This time, he told the truth without avoiding the gaze of the blacksmith.

“The prophecy I saw was a scene where my older brother kills the cult leader.”

The moment he heard those words, Ian froze in shock.

“I was so shocked and flustered that I lied in the moment. I’m sorry.”

The sword dance was neither surprising nor angry.

“Please get up.”

The swordsman quickly lifted her up.

“I understand. I would have done the same thing.”

Cheonhwaruju could be known by Geommugeuk’s calm reaction.

‘As you said, the leader of the small group also knew.’

This lie was so big that even if the leader of the Cheonma Sect were to kill himself, he would have nothing to say.
Because it was a lie that put the leader of the Cheonma Sect’s life at stake.
But he had already noticed it and was pretending not to know. If he hadn’t told the whole thing, Geommu-geuk would have pretended not to know until the end. The same would have happened to the evil Soma. Anyway, these men.

“Whether I kill Soma-sama or Soma-sama kills me, it’s the same thing. There’s no need to distinguish between them.”

The eyes of the evil soma were smiling. It was because they felt the same way.

If you think about it, it was also a matter of the fate of all four of them. If one person died, the aftermath would shake all three of them.

“Thank you for telling me the truth.”

Instead, Cheonhwaruju bowed her head to the swordsman who was saying thank you.
The evil soma walked over and lightly patted Cheonhwaruju on the shoulder. If there had been no one watching, she would have hugged him.

A little while ago, in response to her question in the room as to whether she should inform the cult leader, the evil Soma said this.

-What I learned from the cult leader was how to create relationships without misunderstandings.

So Geommugeuk told him everything. This time, when he returned from his exile, he told him everything that happened in the Murim Alliance.

You have to know to win. Problems always arise when you don’t know.

The evil soma told her about the theory of such a sword play.

―The moment we decide to handle it ourselves, things will get complicated.

At those words, Cheonhwaruju immediately got up from her seat and came out here to wait for the sword dance.

The sword dance drama guessed that the evil Soma was behind this quick confession.

“Thank you, Soma-sama.”
“I’m the one who’s going to kill. You don’t have to thank me.”

Geommu-geuk smiled at the joke of the evil soma.
The two men were relaxed, but the women were not at all.
Cheonhwaruju looked at Ian. Ian stood there with a pale face and no words. Cheonhwaruju knew better than anyone how she felt right now. After all, he had lied for the evil soma.

Cheonhwaruju approached Ian and said.

“I’m sorry.”
“No, I’m sorry.”

Ian felt really sorry for the two of them. When they heard that the evil Soma was going to die, they weren’t that shocked. He shouldn’t have shown such selfishness in front of them, but that didn’t work out as planned.

Cheonhwaruju held her hand tightly without saying a word.

At that moment, the evil Soma took out a dagger from his bosom. It was the eternal dagger he had received from Geommugeuk.

“Was this the knife that killed the cult leader?”

Cheonhwaruju nodded slowly.

The evil Soma looked down at his dagger.
At this point in time, when he had received the gift of the Eternal Blade and the secrets of the Sohyang Secret Art, the scene of him killing Geommu-geuk with the dagger was foretold.

The evil Soma couldn’t just ignore it, so he handed the dagger to Geommugeuk.

“Please take care of it for a moment.”

Ian’s expression brightened as Geommugeuk accepted the dagger.

“Ah! If the dagger is on the young master, that will never happen.”

But Geommugeuk thought differently.

“Wouldn’t that lead to worse results?”

Because he knew better than anyone that fate is not that easy.

The swordsman returned the dagger to the evil Soma and said.

“If Soma-nim and I are entangled in one fate, we will confront it head on and resolve it. Even if I get stabbed by that dagger, I will survive.”

The evil Soma looked at the knife. He saw the character for laughter (笑) that Geommugeuk had personally carved.

Yes, just like it has been so far.

The evil Soma smiled and accepted the dagger.

“I am ready.”

Ian knew he couldn’t stop them. They weren’t people who could escape fate. So he said to himself, “I’m ready, too.”

Geommugeuk asked Cheonhwaruju.

“Do you know where the place you saw in the prophecy is?”

Cheonhwaruju closed her eyes for a moment and recalled that scene.

“It was a high platform with a lot of people watching.”
“Was it off-stage?”
“I think so, but I’m not sure. What I saw was that there were a lot of people there.”
“Fortunately, it wasn’t a lonely death.”

Just as Ian was glaring at the pointless jokes of the swordsman,
a man came in and was the general manager of Cheonhwaru.
He approached and handed a letter to the head of Cheonhwaru.

“What is this?”
“This is an invitation to invite Lord Rouge as a judge.”
“Me? As a judge?”

If it’s something that needs to be judged, then it’s a competition.

Cheonhwaruju unfolded the invitation. Her eyes widened as she checked the contents.

“Where did this invitation come from?”

In response to the question of the sword dance, Cheonhwaruju held out the invitation so that everyone could see it.
Only then did everyone understand. Why Cheonhwaruju had been invited as a judge? The name of the competition was written at the top of the letter.

The World’s Best Beauty Contest.

Fate has sent you an invitation to face yourself head on.