How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

45. Sloppy♥

1.

…It’s an unfamiliar ceiling.

Well, it was only natural that today was the first time I slept in the guest room at the Ludmeyer family’s mansion.

Seeing that the surroundings were dark, it seemed that he had slept very well until late at night. Anyway, the Assassination Brigade’s stronghold was supposed to be attacked tomorrow night, so it was fortunate that we didn’t have to switch between day and night yet.

After getting up from the bed, I relaxed my body with simple stretching and contemplated my body condition.

I used my mana to the limit last night, and because of that, I even thought about using my body’s natural vitality. That’s why the amount of magical power that would have been recovered in a short period of time, less than a day after that, would have been only about 50%, even if set a little higher.

“… Huh?”

Something was strange.

I want to see if this is correct, so I take a look again. I’ll take another look to make sure it’s real. I couldn’t believe it, so I looked at it one last time.

I was able to confirm that my mana had been fully restored, and that the total amount had increased considerably compared to last night.

I wondered what the hell this was all about, so I wondered if it was about six years ago when I was studying magic at the Mage Tower? At that time, the memory of taking a class about the research result that the total amount of mana increases partially when all mana is completely consumed without leaving any left came back to me.

I remember that it was a class worth taking, which I hadn’t had many times, and taught me useful things, apart from my notion that magic was not a study.

However, intentionally doing this method, which seems to only yield good results, is a taboo among mages. This is because if you try to increase your mana in this way, you will have to deal with more than one side effect.

One of the aftereffects was that not too long ago, my father passed away after returning to the territory after failing to subdue the orcs this year.

It is common to lose consciousness for a short period of time, and some wizards who have repeatedly reached this state of magical energy exhaustion have suffered permanent damage because their body itself, which is supposed to receive magical energy, has not been able to overcome the burden and has been damaged. I had to live with the loss of human magic.

If you’re unlucky, even the control over your magical power may be weakened, and in severe cases, you may even lose your life.

Cultivating slowly and carefully over a long period of time is the standard way to grow magical power.

However, blinded by the shortcut of rapid growth of magical power, it is common for young wizards who tried to increase the total amount of magical power by overexerting themselves, and the talent of young wizards fades without blooming. It teaches you not to try.

And it’s been hundreds of years since it became established as an established theory.

Even in my case, the number of times I squeezed my mana to the limit and used it was so small that I could count it on one hand. Of course, if this had happened in a situation that hadn’t happened a few times, there was no way I wouldn’t have known about it.

Then, what is the difference between my situation now and the situation then?

You don’t even have to think deeply about this part. Nox’s holy power, which must have been in me ever since I visited the Imperial Library with Adele. Because there is nothing else to guess at all.

I don’t know if there is anyone other than me who has personally experienced this phenomenon, but this one thing is certain. The fact that my mana recovered at an unbelievable speed and that my body did not have any abnormalities even though I drew and used mana to such an extent that the total amount increased was definitely related to Nox’s holy power.

If this situation is not a one-time thing, I might be able to relieve the thirst for growth in the helpless part of myself, which I have recently felt more intensely than before.

…Come to think of it, I heard from Adele that none of the followers or apostles who follow Nox can actually handle Nox’s holy power, but unlike them, I was able to control Nox’s holy power at will.

Originally, the stronger the belief in God, the greater the amount of holy power, and the stronger the effect. However, against that common sense, I would rather trust stones rolling down the road than to trust Nox. The fact that I was given Nox’s holy power, well…

If I were one of Nox’s followers, I’d feel full of spirits, but those humans might pass it off as saying that even this our god has a deep meaning in everything he does.

To be honest, the fact that I, a body without even the slightest bit of faith, could handle Nox’s holy power was a bit unpleasant.

Whether you want it or not, you are one of my apostles after all. I couldn’t get rid of the feeling that Knox was just talking to me. So the taste was a little bit too much.

Though that made me want to keep Knox from achieving my goal even more.

Getting off the bed, magic creates a light source to replace the lantern.

“…Let’s go wake up Adele first.”

2.

The moment I set foot in Adele’s room to wake her up. Receiving the soft moonlight through the window like a spotlight, seeing Adele literally shining, I froze as I opened the door.

“Hello, Luke. Did you sleep well?”

Adele, who was sitting on the bed reading a book, looked in my direction and said, It was a reaction that could come out because I knew from the beginning that I would come. If she had been awake before I came, there’s no way she wouldn’t have heard me walking.

“Yeah, well… I think I slept too well, so I’m going to wear a mask.”

Responding to her question reflexively, I was still watching her with my eyes. If this was Earth, it was a picture I liked enough to want to take a picture of it as it is and save it as the wallpaper of my computer.

“When did Adele wake up?”

After moving her body to close the door, she asked as she slowly moved into the room.

“Me? Uhm… Well? When did you wake up?”

Adele smiles and laughs while showing off her unique playful and lively expression, which she has become accustomed to. Hearing that laugh often makes me feel like I’m addicted to it.

“It just happened, didn’t it?”

“Uh…? That’s right. How did you know?”

If she doesn’t answer even after looking at Adele, who asks with her eyes wide open, wouldn’t she have committed a sin in itself?

But if you joked about it first, you should be prepared to get it back.

“Don’t play around.”

“A. How can you be so mean?”

“Where is it? It’s here.”

Before I could even pull out the ‘Jang’ character for the joke, Adele knocked the player out, so my excitement went cold. She obediently answered her question, vowing to punish Adele for enjoying herself alone. It’s also very honest.

“I just filmed it.”

“…What, was it like that? Again, I thought it was just teasing.”

Seeing Adele closing the book with a bashful smile, I don’t think she even needs to punish her… No, no. This is all Adele’s trick to distract my resolve. Otherwise, people can’t smile so prettily.

“But you were reading with the lights off, right? Then, can you see the writing…?”

“Huh? Of course you can’t see it Being a master doesn’t mean your night vision gets better, right? It wasn’t even the angle at which the moonlight reached the inside of the book.”

“…Yes?”

What the hell did I just hear?

“Then why were you opening an invisible book?”

I threw her question at her, bursting out with her blank laugh that escaped her lips against her will.

“Whoops… Do I really have to say that?”

Adele, still smiling brighter than before, put her book down beside her, then she got herself up from the bed and started walking toward me.

The smile on Adele’s lips as she approached me with her slow steps changed into a confident smile that could be said to be captivating.

When Adele came up to my nose, I unknowingly even swallowed her saliva. Maybe it was because she was wearing thin pajamas, but the atmosphere around her somehow felt even more erotic.

“Can you tell me?”

“…Yes.”

I nodded as if I was possessed, as I felt Adele’s hand, so soft that no one would believe it was unmanned, gently wrapped around my cheek. I wonder if the sailors who were enchanted by the voice of the siren in mythology felt like this. At this point, the charm was no different from irresistible violence.

Ever since my relationship with Adele developed into a lover, I feel like I’m losing myself over and over again seeing her getting prettier day by day. Still, I think there was a bit of push and pull before, but these days, I should say it feels like I’m just being pulled one-sidedly.

“I felt like if I did that under the moonlight, I would be able to draw a picture with a sense of its own. I originally intended to read this book before falling asleep, but I opened it after hearing you coming.”

The moment I heard her words, I realized that I was in my previous life… No. In my previous life, I wondered if I had saved at least one world, not just a country.

She lost her words and just stared at her blankly, then Adele moved her hand, biting her lower lip as it was her habit.

With Adele’s hand moving to the back of my head in a snake-like movement, her face is also gradually approaching. Her breath tickles my throat, and I try to burn her longings.

“You still don’t know? I just did it because I wanted to look pretty to you, you fool.”

…It wasn’t that I didn’t answer because I didn’t understand that.

But no time was given to answer her words. At the same time as she finished her own words, Adele, who put strength in her hand, pulled me towards her, and she brought her lips to me with a movement that made me feel a little rough.

In line with Adele’s movement, I also moved her hand. He placed both of her hands on her waist and responded a little more aggressively to her kiss.

“Haa… Seriously, you, Luke… Why did you become so good…!”

Adele pouted and grumbled as her lips dropped.

“My practice partner was really bad, so I tried my best.”

“…Luke? I will return those words to you right now, so be prepared.”

Looking at Adele, who lit her twin wicks in her eyes and attacked me like she was going to eat me, I thought it wouldn’t be bad to tease her in this way from time to time.

No, it might be better.

But I soon had to change my mind. Adele, who used her endless stamina as a weapon, held her for an hour without a break, and I had no choice but to raise both hands and declare her surrender.

“…A crap.”

“…Ha, that’s absurd.”

It is obvious what Adele, who is boasting with a mean expression on her face, is thinking. It must have been that she was thinking of hurting her ego the way I did, but there was no way…

“I can’t kiss you. Totally clueless-, uh…”

“Whoa… Whoa… Whoop…”

Is this a loss or a win? In the midst of such doubts, instead of the passionate kiss that continued just a moment ago, he expressed his timid rebellion by cutting short kisses as soft as possible.

Actually, Adele, whether I did it or not, was just as good as I was.

After all, it wasn’t until much more time had passed that we started discussing tonight’s business properly now that it’s well past midnight… No, it’s well past midnight.