How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

65. Selection (2)

1.

Contrary to my disturbed mood, the night air I encountered as I left the inn couldn’t be clearer. As the circumstances were, contrary to the clear air, even the distances I would normally have leisurely strolled with Adele felt uncomfortably long.

At this moment, Adele would have been following me without a word.

This uncomfortable silence between us bothers me so much that I want to talk to her, but I think it would be better for both of us if we didn’t, so I shut her up again.

Because both I and Adele went on the road with their own resolutions. In addition, I don’t think there is a need to create a situation where each other will have a harder time by doing useless things.

Originally, the inn where we stayed and the cathedral were only a 10-minute walk away. As I travel such a short distance, arrogant thoughts run through my head and disappear. Seriously, the word disturbing couldn’t be more appropriate.

As it was late, the cathedral door was firmly closed, and the paladins were standing guard in their own way. By wearing the veil of night, Adele, who was immune to most detection methods, let alone the naked eye, and I, who were at least prevented from being caught by the naked eye using invisibility magic, never got discovered.

I wouldn’t know if I was stepping directly into the interior of the cathedral, but on the way to the small chapel of the saintess around the outskirts like this, there was an infinitely low chance of getting caught in a sacred barrier and being discovered.

No. To be more precise, it was safe to say that there was no way I would ever be discovered by the divine barrier in a situation I didn’t want.

Since when? Perhaps from the moment I became aware of Nox’s holy power dwelling in my body, my body became quite sensitive to the existence of the holy power. It must be a feeling similar to magic.

In that respect, it was not too difficult to discern whether the divine barrier that was passed just a moment ago was based on Nox’s holy power or Lux’s holy power.

Adeleya, who hid herself using the veil of night, wouldn’t get caught on either side, but getting caught in the barrier made up of Lux’s holy power was problematic. It was because the existence of the intruder was known to the faithful church members, not the apostates within the Lumineria Church.

However, the divine barrier I just went through was based on Knox’s holy power, which I could say was familiar, although it was a little unpleasant to put it this way. In other words, this meant that there was a very high probability that this was a barrier that Burgo had set up through an object imbued with Nox’s holy power.

In the first place, what the high-ranking members of the Lumineria Church were mainly concerned about were the main hall of the Cathedral and the facilities they desperately needed to hide from outsiders, so there was no particular reason to set up a sacred barrier in these outskirts. After all, the Paladins would stand guard in the small chapel.

Until I reached the entrance of the small chapel where Burgo was waiting for me, it didn’t happen that my senses caught on to the sacred barrier.

“Hmm?”

“Why is that?”

“No, nothing. I guess I’ve become too sensitive these days because of my children’s problems… I guess…”

“Senior, sir…? Eww…”

After putting the two guarding paladins to sleep with magic, I leaned against the wall appropriately and walked into the building.

Should I call it misfortune or fortunately? Burgo seemed to be waiting for me.

The moment I passed through the not-so-short corridor and stepped over the wide-open door, the door slowly closed with a squeaking sound.

Kung-

“I didn’t know that I would come by myself just because I had asked for a long time. Is this something naive, or is it just stupid… I guess he plays differently than he does with his hair?”

Even though I was still using the invisibility magic, Burgo spoke to me first. She no longer needed to maintain her magic, so she responded to her provocation by canceling the invisibility spell.

“Okay. People usually call this confidence. Rather, is it okay for you to provoke me like that?”

“Huh… What is it? You were so polite last time, isn’t there anything like that today? Where did you throw away the dignity of nobility as a pair of lovers?”

Giggling, Virgo steps in front of the statue of Lux in the center of the room and gestures to her as if inviting me to come here. In front of it was a small table and two chairs.

“This is just a pun… Come on, sit down. Didn’t you come all the way here at this late hour for a deal? It’s the same as being both busy, so let’s get right to the point.”

Pulling out one of his chairs, Burgo sat on it, crossing his legs and pointing across from him. At Burgo’s beckoning, I slowly headed there without losing my guard. Adele will intervene if there is a major problem, but even so, there’s nothing wrong with me keeping my guard up.

After sitting on the chair across from Burgo, Burgo kicks his legs and bursts into laughter.

“Certainly he was handsome. How about it, will she give it a shot now that she’s not even Kim? Even if it’s my first time with this body, I have the confidence to show you the kingdom of heaven.”

“…A crazy b*tch.”

“Oh, isn’t that too harsh? It wouldn’t be such a bad suggestion for you either… Well, if you don’t like it, that’s fine.”

But wait. First time with this body…? What kind of nonsense bullsh*t is that?

“To get to the point, there were two prices for the deal I proposed, maybe? First of all, the first condition is to curse…”

Burgo, who has blurred his horse’s tail, raises his hand and puts it behind his neck.

Tick-

At the same time as the sound of something unraveling, an invisible necklace falls from her neck.

It wasn’t until Burgo picked it up that he could properly check the shape of the necklace. Unlike jeweled necklaces commonly used by aristocrats for adornment, the end of the necklace was a plain black hourglass.

However, the sand inside the hourglass was not so ordinary. The sand grains shining in different colors look like…

“Let’s start with that. Only then will you be able to properly understand the second condition I am going to present in a little while.”

Yes. The grains of sand seemed to contain the Milky Way in the night sky.

“The Milky Way of Oblivion. This is the most powerful of the sacred objects given by our god. Even if you can’t use this holy relic even once, you have to wait a hundred years before you can use it again. And the effect is very simple.”

Tak!

Virgo set the hourglass she was holding in her hand so hard that it rang quite loudly, so my gaze turned to it.

The hourglass was upside down.

“All living beings under the night sky. It causes complete oblivion of a particular object from their memory. However, our apostles are not included in that target. So, we focused the power of this relic on one person and cursed it. You know who the target is, even if you don’t tell me, right?”

“This crazy-, keugh…?!”

I was about to open my mouth at the contents that made my face frown, but I had no choice but to shut my mouth again due to the sharp pain that suddenly felt like being stabbed by hundreds of needles inside my head.

As it is, I hit my head halfway down on the table, waiting for the pain to subside. Burgo’s voice is heard again.

“How do you feel when you see your lover in pain? Are you sick just the same? Our poor saintess is begging us to stop. Kick kick…”

As Adele predicted, Burgo seemed to have guessed that she would follow her using her night veil. Like that or not, I just clenched my fists until my nails dug into my palms and held on.

“Hey, it’s no fun because there’s no reaction. If you really don’t come, it’s not that bad. How are you, Leticia? The moment of reunion you’ve been waiting for is just around the corner. Normally, you clenched your teeth and held on, but today you seem weak. Kyahaha!”

Leticia.

The moment I heard that name, my mind went completely white.

2.

“This, f*ck…”

“Are you finally coming to your senses? How are you feeling?”

I was relieved at the sight of Luke holding his head and raising his head. During the short time that Luke lost consciousness, only about 5 minutes, I thought about whether to go out now or not dozens of times.

However, with the words of Burgo, who kept muttering something as if he were talking to himself, he seldom got a chance to step out. Because what she said about her was as shocking as it was.

When Burgo tried to seduce Luke, what she said was the starting point. I couldn’t help but feel that something was strange from the fact that it wasn’t the first time with this body.

Starting with saying ‘I know you’re here, so stop coming out’ of me, Burgo mockingly calling someone Leticia was truly unfamiliar. That’s because there was literally no crazy b*tch.

However, the climax was reached.

‘If you suffer that much to the point of seeing your little brother in pain, what are you going to do when he regains his memories after a while?’

It was a bizarre figure of Virgo, with tears flowing from her eyes while she was smiling cruelly.

“You, you dog… I will kill you with my own hands no matter what happens… Definitely!!!”

“Oh, I am scared. Then kill me sometime.”

Luke screamed and got up from his seat as if he would attack Burgo at any moment, but Burgo didn’t blink an eye at Luke’s appearance and threat. Luke has the absolute belief that no matter what happens, he will never be able to harm himself. And he deserved it, in fact.

I don’t know what kind of English it is, but…

“By the way, can you really kill me? In fact, your sister became a wolf, and your mother died! After all, it’s because you were born with the fate of an apostle! Ahahaha!”

As for Burgo… No, now, Burgo’s body was Luke’s sister, whom everyone had forgotten even existed…? Is not it?

It was a situation where his head was complicated by itself.

So, Saint Aster, whom I knew as Burgo, is actually Luke’s older sister. Burgo seemed to be possessed by that body. In addition to that, Luke’s mother was short-lived, as she lost her life at the hands of the Zodiac.

If this is true, questions about what Burgo has been saying all along will be cleared away.

“When you’re done figuring out the topic, why don’t you sit down again? I hate looking up at anyone.”

“…”

The sound of grinding teeth came from Luke’s mouth, his eyes bloodshot. There were large veins on the back of Luke’s trembling hand. Seeing him so full of energy that he wondered if he was bleeding at all, even I got a fever.

After staring at Burgo for a long time, Luke very slowly sat down again. Then she opened her mouth again, letting out her sneer, as if Burgo knew it.

“The second condition of the transaction. I will return your sister’s body, which I am currently borrowing, to your sister in an intact condition when this work is over. Exactly two days later at noon, on the shore of Lake Lutinel, south of the Holy Land. You just have to wait and go back the way you came with your sister. Isn’t it simple?”

“…Are you saying that now? I wouldn’t accept a deal like that-“

“Tsk tsk, that’s all bullsh*t. And were you in a position to throw up on me now? There’s no way I wouldn’t know that rolling this body around until your sister’s mind collapses in a red light district somewhere is a very simple thing if I set my mind to it. In such a situation, if you offered these conditions, wouldn’t it be right to bow down and thank me right away?”

“Ha, f*ck…!”

Is it a family or a lover?

For Luke, apart from getting off, even thinking about it was a painful option.

I don’t like to put myself down. However, it is not for nothing that they say that blood is thicker than water.

So, to expect that the value of a person as a person to Luke is greater than a family connected by blood is nothing but greed.

“Listen carefully, Burgo. I hate you terribly, and these f*cking Knox bastards like you.”

“Oh my, the same bastards talk too much.”

“…You won this time, but you’d better put aside the idea that your luck will last forever. Those with the tag of the Zodiac, without a single exception, I will catch them all with my own hands and beat them to death.”

After that, Luke got up from his seat and began to move his steps toward the outside of the chapel.

“Huh… You should figure it out and do it well. Anyway, this is the deal.”

Yes, it was only natural that this would happen from the start. There is no need or reason to be hurt by just having something like this. Because it was natural.

But why does my heart throb over such an obvious thing?

“Put… Should I say that a child is a child? Didn’t you know that you would go without even getting notarized by God, even though there was a statue of a god in front of you?”

However, even that selfish heart ran away when he heard Burgo talking to himself only after Luke disappeared.