Absolute Regression Chapter 94

It’s the 94th time, so let’s fight.

Before going to meet the evil soma, I stopped by the residence of the bloodthirsty soma. I had something to confirm with him.

Hyeolcheondoma was sitting by the window, reading a book in the warm sunlight.

“You really read books on a regular basis.”

“You’re just showing off. When I hear your footsteps from afar, I run to the bookshelf.”

He asked, putting the book down.

“What brings you here?”

I stood outside the window and spoke to him instead of going inside.

“I came to ask you about one person.”

“who?”

“Do you know about the evil Soma?”

For a moment, I felt the blood clots flinch.

“Why are you asking him?”

“I was trying to get you to join our side.”

The expression on Hyeolcheon Doma’s face slightly frowned.

“Damn. You’re such a mouthy woman.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Don’t be a jerk.”

Hyeoncheon Doma was so quick-witted that he realized that Ilhwageomjeon had mentioned this fact. Since he wasn’t the type of person to go around talking about this anyway, I spoke casually.

“It was Geomjon who first told me that it was you, not me, who had to be persuaded. It was for your sake.”

“Not for me. I have moral obsessions.”

“Why do you fight so much when you know each other so well?”

“Where do strangers fight? That’s why they fight.”

It was an undeniable statement, so I just chuckled.

“So what do you want to ask?”

“How did you convince the evil Soma?”

The reason I met Hyeolcheon Doma today was to ask about that.

Then a surprising fact was revealed.

“He came to me first.”

“The evil Soma came first?”

“Yeah. Why would I have gone to that annoying guy and asked him for something?”

“Senior Sword Master was wrong.”

“What did you say?”

“I said that since they were both villains, persuasion would have worked.”

“What? You’re lumping me in with that guy?”

Bloodthirsty Horse jumped up in frustration.

It may seem like I’m just talking nonsense, but this is also part of my effort to reconcile the two people.

We have to keep mentioning each other like this. That we haven’t forgotten each other. That we still hate each other. That way, when the time comes, all these pieces will come together and we can reconcile. Reconciliation doesn’t happen overnight.

“What conditions did you set?”

“He said he would take a picture of the blue line, so that I could ask for help later.”

“Did you accept it knowing what you would ask for later?”

“You’re going to do something for me. If you ask me to do something ridiculous, I won’t listen to you.”

“Why didn’t you show off to me? I have a debt to pay because of you. What should I do? Why did you just stay?”

“What are you talking about!”

When I first met Hyeolcheon Doma, he seemed like a very calculating and meticulous person. He was the kind of person who would put on all kinds of show and receive everything.

But when I opened the door to my heart and went inside, there was another bloodthirsty man. A man who threw away all the extravagance and enjoyed reading books under the sunlight.

“Elder, you have to show off your skills so that the other person will understand.”

“You don’t have to know. And it didn’t feel like you were specifically asking me to do something for you when you helped me with this. Why would the evil Soma ask me?”

Hyeolcheondoma looked at me with an expression that said, “Even you can see, that’s not true.”

If that hunch was true, why did he help us?

“Thank you anyway, I’ll go and meet the evil Soma.”

As I said goodbye, Hyeolcheondoma opened the book he had closed as if he had been waiting for it.

“Aren’t you worried about going to meet the evil Soma?”

“Who? You? Or the evil Soma?”

I turned around with a smile.

After leaving the Bloodthirsty Demon’s residence, I headed to the Valley of Evil People, located to the northeast of Naewon.

As its name suggests, the valley of Akingok was a valley.

It was not a natural valley, but an artificial valley, and there were large and small dwellings for homeless people lined up on both sides of the stream.

Although it seemed to have been built randomly and randomly, it was a kind of fortress that was built according to the skills and status of the intruders and with thorough planning to protect against external invasion.

When I told them that I had come to find the evil Soma at the entrance to the Akin Valley, a masked man wearing a white mask guided me.

The subordinates of the evil Soma are called the Maskless. They all wear masks, which are white masks with only eye holes.

The shape of the eye sockets was like a crescent moon lying down, smiling. The shape of the eye sockets was smiling, but the real eyes inside were not smiling, so looking at that disharmonious mask gave me an eerie feeling.

Deepest in the valley was the dwelling of the evil soma. The building was modeled after a white mask. The only window was where the eyes were, so it seems that this was the dwelling of the evil soma.

I felt like I was being swallowed by the evil Soma and walked in with a mouth that wasn’t on my mask.

As I climbed the spiraling stairs, I found the room of the evil Soma.

The feeling I got the moment I entered his room was one of eeriness.

The walls and floor were all painted white, but there was nothing in the room. There was no table, no display case, not even a chair or cushion.

In a space where there was absolutely nothing, there was only the evil Soma standing there.

He was wearing a white robe and was staring at the wall. If it weren’t for the black hair showing at the back of his head, you wouldn’t even know he was standing there, he was so immersed in the space.

Even though I came in, he continued to stare at the wall, so I slowly walked over and stood next to him.

“What are you looking at?”

The evil Soma turned his head towards me. He was wearing a white mask like the maskless ones, but his eyes inside the smiling eye sockets were clear and cold.

The specially made mask of the evil soma was made so that his eyes could not be seen from the outside, but my divine eye technique allowed me to clearly see his eyes through the darkness.

Only then did the evil Soma answer.

“I wasn’t seeing anything.”

His soft, deep voice was pleasant to listen to, and his tall stature and long limbs gave him the impression of being a tall and muscular man. And he was polite, which didn’t match his name, Extreme Soma.

He was a man who gave off this feeling of being creepy yet polite.

“It’s been a while, sir.”

In fact, you could say that this is the first time in my life. It’s the first time I’ve met you in person, other than seeing you from afar at an official event.

“Elder? I am still young, so treat me like a friend.”

“How many people have passed away so far after being deceived by those words?”

The evil Soma laughed. He was a man who laughed a lot, just like his name.

“What about the people with science and engineering? Are they usually the ones being deceived? Or are they the ones who deceive?”

“If I had to be specific, I would say I pretend to be deceived.”

The evil Soma laughed habitually.

“Isn’t it hard to always smile like that?”

For a moment, a strange light flowed out from his two eyes through the gaping holes.

“Why is it hard to smile?”

“Isn’t it harder to laugh than to cry? It’s easy to live while crying, but it’s hard to live while laughing, isn’t it?”

“Finally, someone has appeared who understands my hardships.”

And yet he laughed again. This time, his laughter was loud and exaggerated, like that of a street actor.

I don’t believe his laughter.

That smile is like a tentacle attached to the head of a deep-sea fish. If you are dazzled by the colorful tentacles that sway in the wind, you will soon find yourself being sucked into the large mouth.

Never forget, you are not smiling because you like it.

“Lee Gongja, why did you come to see me?”

I couldn’t reveal that Ilhwageomjon broke the rules and told me the contents of the vote.

“I’ve never had a conversation like this with you before, sir. That’s why I came to see you to learn what kind of person you are. To be honest, I came to see you because I wanted you to support me, not your older brother.”

“Shall we take a walk?”

The evil Soma slowly walked along the white wall.

“When I need to organize my thoughts, I walk like this.”

I followed him. The string that tied the mask dangled from the back of my head. No one in the world of martial arts could untie that knot, even if a child pulled on it.

He spoke as he walked.

“If you could answer one question, I would consider supporting the science and engineering students more positively.”

“Please speak.”

“How did you kill the Demon Lord?”

He asked this important question casually, and I followed suit and answered calmly.

“I didn’t kill the Demon Lord.”

“No. You definitely killed him. What I’m curious about is not whether you killed him or not. It’s how you killed him.”

He was convinced that I had killed him.

“Lee Gong-ja, I will keep this a secret from everyone else. Just tell me. I will give you another vote, just like I did with Cheong-seon.”

“I tell you again, I did not kill him.”

Then, the evil Soma suddenly stopped walking, turned around, and walked briskly towards me. He came up to me and held out his hand.

“Let’s be friends.”

I know very well that he is a man who acts impulsively like this.

And this is the second time I hear this from him.

When I returned to the school to find the materials for the Great Return Law, I had a connection with the Evil Soma. He had said the same thing to me back then.

“I don’t like it.”

“Why don’t you like it?”

Because everyone who was friends with him is dead, except for one.

“There are three reasons why we can’t be friends.”

“Oh, there are three reasons?”

He actively expressed his curiosity.

“What is the first reason?”

“If we act like friends, I will make mistakes one day. Comfort eventually leads to rudeness. Respect will prevent me from making mistakes.”

“What if I make a mistake?”

“Yes, it would be okay as long as the opponent isn’t an extremely evil Soma.”

The evil Soma laughed loudly.

“Our Lee Gong-ja is even more interesting than rumors say. Then what is the second reason?”

“Because the Emperor of the Underworld and the Evil One don’t get along.”

“Evil and good are like two sides of a coin. If you learn evil from me, it will help you to protect good.”

“Perhaps that is a statement made up by the evil side.”

“What does it mean?”

“How can good and evil be so closely related as the two sides of a coin? Evil is at the bottom of the bottomless pit, and good is at the top of the high mountain. It is just a word that evil people have made up to justify themselves.”

Of course, what he said earlier is a metaphor used to mean that good and evil can coexist in a person’s mind. However, I only talked about good and evil and intentionally kept them far apart.

“Then the scholar will think of me as a hypocrite.”

“That’s not true. How could someone who proudly calls his nickname by its name be a hypocrite?”

“So do you think I’m cool?”

“Evil can never be cool. The only time evil is cool is when it overcomes other evils.”

He laughed. He laughed heartily, but his eyes in their sockets were cold and sunken. If it weren’t for the new eye technique, I wouldn’t have known.

It’s amazing that he can laugh so heartily and have such a calm look in his eyes.

“The rumors were true.”

“What are you talking about?”

“There is a rumor that the engineer has become an old-fashioned and stuffy political idiot.”

“If you feel that way, it’s probably because of this. At some point, we became worse than those old-fashioned, stuffy political idiots. So, I think it’s time to fix that.”

The evil Soma, who had been laughing softly, asked.

“Is this the new magic that the scientist dreams of?”

“You could say that.”

“Then you can never coexist with me. I will continue to support the Grand Duke.”

“I guess there’s nothing I can do. Then I’ll go back now.”

I greeted him politely and turned around.

Then he asked from behind.

“By the way, what’s the third reason?”

I stopped walking towards the door and turned to him.

“I don’t make friends with people who wear masks.”

It was a moment that should have made him laugh, but he didn’t laugh.

I saw.

He didn’t laugh out loud, but his eyes were smiling in their sockets. That meant he was really angry.

Up until now, he has never taken off his mask in front of anyone. So naturally, no one has seen his face behind that mask. No one knows what he looks like or how old he is. Taking off the mask is a taboo and a sore spot.

But even he showed his face to others only once in his life.

To me, before my regression, who came to obtain Dafa materials. To me, who became friends with him and was the only one who survived.

I saw the face behind that mask.