How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

41. An Unpleasant Miracle

1.

I had to invest more than half of my magic power to construct a barrier for the entire villa. If it had been me a month ago, there was a high probability that I would not have succeeded properly. It was a fairly advanced magic.

To draw the image of forcibly putting people inside the barrier into a state of sleep. And to make my magic strong enough to suppress their psychic resistance.

The former was more difficult than I thought, and the latter was unexpectedly easier than I thought.

Like that, one by one, the people inside the barrier began to be devoured by the scourge of my magic. In the end, only Adele and I were left who were still conscious.

I didn’t even think that my magic could lead even Adele to sleep, but it was a bit unexpected that my father, and no one else, fell asleep under the influence. However, it was just an unexpected situation, and if you were tired of dealing with assassins, you thought it would be possible enough, so you decided to skip it for now.

I decided to leave the situation inside the villa to Adele, and first of all, I decided to finish off the assassins who shouted that I would take care of them.

The assassins waiting outside did not lose their balance on the roof even though they fell asleep. It’s not some kind of bat, though I was a little curious as to what the heck was going on.

To be honest, I’m not really interested in it, I just wanted it to die gracefully.

I wondered if their bodies would respond to external stimuli on their own while they were already asleep, so I lifted them up with magic and brought them together. I wondered if I had read too many novels or movies, but I wanted to refrain from being careless and losing my throat.

Like that, I placed the three assassins on the sand and evoked a pillar of flame that could swallow them whole.

Effortlessly ignoring the hot heat and the smell of burning flesh stinging my nose, I walked into the villa.

It was the first murder.

It wasn’t a very pleasant experience to put an end to someone’s life with my own hands. If it hadn’t been for the purpose of harming Adele’s family, I would have been very hesitant to kill them.

From the moment I realized that I had been reincarnated in a place that only appeared in a fantasy novel, I thought that this day might come someday, but it was a story that was so far away from me before Adele, so I was somewhat relieved. I was doing it, but it ended up like this.

I just did what I had to do, regardless of right or wrong. And by their death, someone who might have been killed by them would have saved their life.

I justified my actions while thinking that in my heart, but I couldn’t help but feel that my taste was bitter.

However, it did not take long for my thoughts to change.

It is only when I see with my own eyes that those who were still alive just half a day ago are turned into cold corpses, and I realize belatedly how meaningless the remorse I felt was.

The thing that surprised me the most was,

“Luke… I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”

Adele, who was on her knees with a devastated expression, shed tears as soon as she saw me, repeating only her words that she was sorry for me.

I couldn’t understand why Adele was doing this. Was there anything else she could have apologized to me for?

Leaving behind the rising doubts, I decided to calm Adele first. He sits down in front of Adele, hugging her and stroking her back gently with his hand.

To the disgrace of my efforts, Adele’s condition showed no signs of improving at all. On the contrary, the sight of her holding me tight enough to make me feel a bit stuffy, as if she wouldn’t let go of me, gave me a hunch that the current situation might be much more serious than I thought.

“I failed again…”

For the first time, another word came out of her mouth as she repeatedly apologized to me. Feeling the ominousness that comes from the word failure, I asked myself involuntarily.

“…Failure, what do you mean by that? You succeeded in stopping the assassins before they could harm Adele’s family. But a failure…?”

After hearing my question, Adele tightened her hand that was holding me to increase her distance from me, then lifted her head and met her eyes with mine. Then he told me in a trembling voice.

“…My father is going to die today?”

I couldn’t believe what she said.

No, I just don’t want to believe it.

She asked her again, hoping that what she said to me was a lie, that it was just a nasty prank on her part.

Adele, who was reflected in her eyes, finally nodded her head with her sorrowful expression.

2.

I wasn’t young enough to take out my anger on petty Adele just because I heard something I didn’t want to hear. A tantrum rose from deep within her body, but Hanshi was not so discerning as to burst it in an urgent situation.

“Luke, the poison cannot be detoxified without an antidote…”

“That, I will judge after I try it myself.”

I wasn’t even annoyed with Adele, who spoke to me in a melancholy voice.

As she is also in a situation where her own family is intertwined, she would have been more desperate than me, but not less desperate. And yet, she said it, which, from Adele’s knowledge, meant that it was true, so I couldn’t do that to her.

But that never meant that I would give up on her like she did.

With her family’s life at stake, she couldn’t give up without even trying and doing the best she could.

I let go of Adele, who was looking at me with a dumbfounded expression, and moved to her father’s side.

Contrary to the calm face of her father, who had been forced to sleep, her cold sweat was visibly forming on her father’s body. She lightly put her hands on not only her father’s forehead, but all over her body, and her whole body was hot like a ball of fire.

There was nothing good because it took her too long, so I used her magic to detoxify the poison that had penetrated her father’s body.

“…Damn it.”

It failed miserably without being able to properly detect the existence of the poison.

In the first place, magic itself is close to omnipotent, but it is not omnipotent.

I don’t know exactly what kind of poison is driving my father to death, but if a guy like me who has no experience in detoxifying someone with magic could easily detoxify it, then magic might have been truly omnipotent. .

Once or not, I don’t attach much importance to the first failure and raise my magic power once again. I wish I had succeeded at once, but that’s okay. Because there is still some leeway in magic power.

But when not only the second attempt, but also the third and fourth attempts in succession failed. I was impatient to the point of gnashing my teeth without even realizing it.

Adele, who was watching me from the side, carefully expressed her concern, but she couldn’t stop there.

Not only my father’s life, but also the lives of my father-in-law and Sien-hyung were at stake.

“Ah…”

But in the end, the moment came when my magic power ran out. And even then I had only failed. It didn’t even come close to success.

“Really, f*ck…”

The swear words that I had almost taken out of my mouth while living a new life naturally come out. No matter how many times I tried, I never got anywhere near success.

“Why the hell is it not working…! Damn, it’s time to get it right!”

After a bout of anger, powerlessness filled his body. A sigh escaped his lips in despair.

To lose your father in vain like this? How could I not have one bite?

Don’t be funny.

“Wait! Luke, stop…! Stop now You did the best you could, huh?”

Observing what I was about to do, Adele hurriedly hugged me from behind and tried to stop me somehow. But I’ve already made up my mind.

It is normal for a wizard to be unable to express any more magic from the moment his magic power runs out. But it’s just that it’s normal, and it’s not like it can’t manifest at all.

If you look at the martial arts novels in your previous life, there were occasional settings like Jinwonjingi or Seoncheonjigi. Unlike ordinary internal energy accumulated through training, the energy of life itself, which is said to be innate to humans from birth.

There is nothing different about magic. It is quite common for wizards whose lives are on the verge of using their lives as fuel for magic instead of magic when they run out of mana. It is up to the wizard himself to take care of the aftermath.

I also had that in mind.

Because I was born with the memories of my previous life, when I was really young, there were times when my parents in this life just felt awkward. However, I grew up receiving the same unchanging love from the two of them, and I came to accept the fact that they are also my parents.

And when my parents were dying right in front of my eyes, I thought that if I tried just a little bit more, I could save them. No child will ever choose to give up.

With such a mindset, the moment I tried to draw out my natural vitality by digging out the bottom of a well that had already been exposed, what reacted to me was something completely different.

“Is this…?”

Different from when I didn’t even know it existed in me, I felt it so clearly, unlike my mana that felt like cold water, a holy energy that held a heterogeneous heat.

It was unmistakably holy power.

The holy power in response to my will flowed into my father’s body, scattering a pale indigo color, and began filtering out the poison, which at some point began to be felt clearly, as if removing a foreign substance with a sieve.

When the poison spread in my father’s body was entwined with my holy power and gathered together, the holy power that had simply burned away the poison that I hadn’t been able to touch properly until now, did its best and scattered.

…I was dumbfounded.

I didn’t even have time to think deeply about what had just happened. Adele carefully placed her hand on my shoulder and handed me a favor.

“There are so many things I want to say right now… But no. We’ll talk about that later, but can I ask my father and older brother first…?”

In the process of erasing the poison that had settled in the bodies of my father-in-law and Sien-nim with holy power, I was certain.

The reason I was the only one able to decipher the poison used by the assassins under Scorpio was because their poison also had holy power.

The holy power of Knox, a god called the Celestial God in the distant past, that I can now handle.

It was truly an embarrassing miracle.