How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

35. I will not forgive an apostle who dares to stir up alienation!

1.

As we live, there are moments when we realize that it is not always easy for a person to remain still without any movement while maintaining the same posture.

Maybe it’s when you’ve been given a joke, or it could be the moment you’re exercising that requires you to maintain a certain posture for a certain amount of time.

In my case, when I was an elementary school student in my previous life, there was a time when I was a bully in my class. At that time, the incident became widely known to parents under the leadership of the homeroom teacher at the time, and I experienced a scolding by my father because of it. It became.

At that time, my father said, It is a personal choice to see and pass over injustice, but if no one else steps up when the target becomes you, it will eventually be your karma.

Perhaps at that time, I stood with my hands raised and looked at the wall for about three hours, pondering my father’s words.

Well… But that doesn’t mean that I just listened to that and wandered all over the place. But I have become a person who can say that this is not something I want to do.

Returning to the starting point, even if it’s not necessarily a burden on the body, if you stay still, your body itches and you want to move. Aren’t there quite a few people who say that even simple meditation is boring?

However, the situation I am in right now is a little different.

The fluttering excitement that only couples in the early stages of dating can feel is so sweet that it makes people smile spontaneously just by touching their fingertips.

A relationship where each other’s feelings can be conveyed just by holding hands. That is the reality of the relationship that exists between Adele and me right now.

Two men and women looking for each other’s hands whenever they had a chance like that, having to hold each other tightly for three or four hours without a slight movement was a difficult task in a slightly different sense from being physically burdened.

Perhaps even that would not have been so difficult to endure if we had closed our eyes.

Yes, if you had your eyes closed.

“Hey, Mr. Giselle… How long do you have to keep your eyes open…?”

Adele couldn’t stand it and finally raised her arms and asked a question. It was the point where about two hours had passed since the work on the painting had begun.

Me and Adele stared into each other’s eyes for two hours without saying anything except blinking. The hands we were clasping together had been sweaty for a long time, and Adele’s hand, gently touching my face, trembled intermittently.

Adele’s Autumn As I stared into her sky-blue eyes, it wasn’t just once or twice that I almost kissed her as I closed my eyes as if bewitched by her.

…To be honest, though, whenever I gritted my teeth and resisted such an urge, the disappointed look I used to secretly shoot from Adele’s side was the hardest to bear.

Anyway, that’s not polite to the painter. It’s absolutely not that I don’t like to say it.

It was Adele who awkwardly rolled her eyes while waiting for Giselle’s answer, but at such a close distance that even each other’s breath felt heavy, they couldn’t avoid each other’s eyes.

This is a fact that I have already tried many times and know from experience.

“Ah… Sorry! Could you please bear with me for just 10 more minutes?”

“Yes…!”

10 Minutes. Adele’s expression suddenly brightened at the thought that she would have to endure it for another 10 minutes. Even though she had kept her smiling face all this time, she found it strange in many ways that it was evident.

And the change in Adele’s expression was enough to touch my pride, which was going through a very difficult time just like her.

“…Don’t you like it too much?”

“Uh, huh…?”

“It hurts my heart to see you like me that much.”

“Now, wait a minute. Luke? This, I mean… It’s not what Luke thinks it means…”

The playfulness naturally springs from Adele’s bewildered appearance, which has recently become difficult to see enough to feel a little rare.

It’s nice to see Adele, who is always full of mature charm, confident and proactive.

The unique cuteness that comes out when she is embarrassed or when she shows her absurdity can be said to be her heart bomber itself.

Besides, isn’t it natural for a man to want to see my woman’s lovely side for even one second longer? It would be nice to see this as a kind of force majeure.

Unfortunately, I crossed a line that shouldn’t be crossed in the process. And by the time I realized that, it was already too late.

“The world stole my heart with a heartfelt confession of love, are you tired of it already?”

“Hey, Luke?”

“I see…yes, well it could be. I was the only one who was sincere.”

The moment those words came out of my mouth, Adele’s eyes suddenly changed. Realizing that I was joking, her mouth was clearly smiling, but her cold eyes showed no signs of laughing at all.

“Luke, I can tolerate everything else.”

Adele’s voice pierced my ears, embracing the chill of the cold wind of midwinter.

“Doubting my heart, no matter how funny it is, I just can’t get over it…?”

Koo-wook-

“Ugh?!”

As soon as I lowered my eyes to the tingling pain rising from the back of her hand, I saw Adele holding the back of my hand with her nails raised.

“If you have any doubts about my sincerity, I will prove it with my actions. Will that work?”

Adele said that, rather than saying that she was angry, she was putting on a mischievous expression as if she were trying to be mean. Her eyes reminded me of a cat playing with a ready-to-eat prey, and I involuntarily cringed.

“Hey, I’m sorry to say this, but… it’s interfering with my work, so could you refrain from talking if possible…?”

“Oh, of course. Sorry to disturb you!”

Answering Giselle’s question with a smile, Adele lightly pinched my cheek and whispered so softly that only I could hear.

“Don’t even think about closing your eyes while you’re here.”

Every word she said to me seemed to set my heart on fire.

“Just try to avert your eyes. Because I will never let you go.”

It feels as if an invisible finger is poking me in the pit of my stomach.

“You can’t help it that you want this so much, can you? So don’t carelessly look at me. Then I will look at you as well.”

The conclusion of the clumsy prank was a truly disastrous sinking.

“I don’t know even if I feel like I’d rather be fed up with it like this?”

It was all I could do to chew on the bitter taste of defeat and promise myself that next time I would repay this humiliation double.

“…That’s what I was hoping for.”

With a smile that was too bright to be a forced smile.

2.

Adele and Luke’s date lasted long into the late evening.

After many twists and turns, the two finished the portrait work, and returned to their true nature only after having dinner at a luxurious restaurant that they had reserved separately.

Things that happened in the process narrowed the gap between the two men and women who were getting closer at an extremely fast pace by five steps.

After the two returned to the castle after such a meaningful day.

“I’m asking a bit more seriously this time, but wouldn’t spring be a good date for the ceremony? Aria and I also got married in the spring. For Isvant’s spring is the most appropriate season for a celebration.”

“So, lady, how far have you progressed? Now that you can’t keep your hands off each other, maybe even a deep kiss… Huh? What is that awkward reaction…? Really?! Alas! Hurry up and tell Roselia-sama this news…!”

Luke had to endure the most merciless teasing from his father, the Duke of Isvant, and Adele from her exclusive maid, Loggia, respectively.

Perhaps it was the power of love that helped them both laugh and pass it over.

As time passed, the streets of Isvant Castle fell deep into the night.

Once again down the street, this time there was a woman walking alone with her.

‘I think it was probably around here…’

The identity was Adele, who had sneaked out of the castle to avoid the eyes of the family members of the duchy.

“…Found.”

At first glance, this is an ordinary inn with nothing special about it. However, in reality, it was a secret base prepared by the El Acrave Merchant, directly managed by Libra, the 7th Apostle, within the Isvant Territory.

Adele, who already knew her existence and her approximate location, was looking for this inn with her senses sharpened while enjoying her date with Luke.

Actually, the reason why Adele came here alone at night was because of Luke, who almost crossed the threshold of life and death trying to do something of her own.

If she had been a little more aggressive in trying to stop the Zodiac, it wouldn’t have happened that would have cost Luke his life. For her part, she couldn’t easily get those thoughts out of her head, and in the end, she decided to take care of her last apostle in Isvant by herself.

But it was only when she realized that Adele felt that something was wrong with her, that she didn’t feel her presence at all inside the inn. No matter how late she is, it is well past her midnight, but it is unusual to not feel the presence of people in an inn, which is basically a place where people stay.

She moved her steps inside the inn and took less than 30 seconds to find Adele’s trapdoor, which was hiding a staircase leading to her basement.

As if she had no intention of hiding it in the first place, the attic door located behind the counter at the inn was left open. The table she must have originally covered was set aside.

“…Could it be a trap?”

Even as she said that, Adele intuited that the current situation was not a trap.

After a moment of hesitation, Adele went down the stairs and frowned at the musty smell that lingered throughout the basement and the vaguely mixed smell of blood.

On both sides of the long aisle in the middle, there were small iron cages that could only be about 2 pyeong in size. The disgusting traces that were openly left inside indicated that these cages had been used to imprison someone until recently.

At the end of the aisle, where an unpleasant atmosphere descended, Adele found a thread hanging from the ceiling and a note hanging from it.

Awesome-

“…I should have dealt with Libra first.”

Adele, who was reading the contents of the note, gnashed her teeth and closed her eyes.

I commend you for almost succeeding in sabotaging the plot even after eating two of the lively baits.

Well, you failed in the end.

Unfortunately, by the time you are reading this note, I will probably not be in Isvant. You could say that you were a hair’s length late out of consideration for you, but I feel like I have to tell you a bit of a pity today.

You’re late at the very least.

Thanks to that, the relics in the Holy Land are well received!

Oops, look at my mind. I’m going to take a big heart and give you a piece of advice.

If you get too into love games, you won’t see anything good. It’s good to be careful. After all, he is also one of our apostles.

Mana surged from Adele’s fingertips as she read the note to the end, and she roughly tore up the scraps of paper that contained only unpleasant content.

“You play a joke…”

After starting her relationship with Luke, it was the moment when Adele’s sense of purpose, which had loosened, was ignited like wildfire.