How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

74. Curtain Call (1)

1.

To be honest, I intervened vigorously, but it was a situation that could not be seen as advantageous.

Since it is said that the power of Libra does not have its effect on a large number of people, you don’t have to worry about that part. Unless I’m out of my mind, Libra can’t change the target of my powers from Adele to me.

The problem was the authority of Burgo, which he had only heard about.

For now, if I assume that Gemini’s power, which borrowed my body as it is, is equal to mine, it was Burgo’s intervention that could upset the balance of power.

Adele’s condition could not be said to be very good even with empty words. That she’s so exhausted that she can barely handle herself, she’ll find out if she brings in a dog from our previous life, with a little exaggeration.

The only consolation I can take is the fact that Adele ended one of Libra’s two escorts.

What should I do in this situation? What is the best number I can put?

Adele overpowers Libra’s escort and ties up Gemini while waiting for Libra to finish?

No, this doesn’t work. It’s not like disbelief in Adele’s abilities.

From a very realistic point of view, Adele defeating Elgenubi until she finishes retrieving the relics and retreats…

Yes, to be honest, it is close to impossible.

It will be difficult for Adele to open loopholes even if they just come out defensively from there right now. As time went by, it was Adele who was at a disadvantage.

In the end, my options were limited.

And there was only one that could be said to be the best choice.

“Adele.”

“Yes.”

“I mean Lake Lutinel. The scenery was too precious for me to see it alone.”

“Really…?”

Since we had our backs to each other, we couldn’t see Adele’s expression. But if I knew her, she would surely have a dazzlingly beautiful smile.

“If you are going to ask me out on a date, I wish you would do it a little more properly.”

“That is…”

Before I could even respond to Adele’s playful words, I felt Gemini standing in front of me trying to increase her mana.

“I guess I’ll have to wait a while.”

The reality is so harsh.

In the transformation scene of a hero or a villain, it is just something that can only be seen in movies or cartoons.

Similarly, people who leave their opponents chatting in the middle of a battle don’t exist in real life.

“Be careful, Adele.”

“…Chit. If Luke does that, he knows he will get scolded by me if he gets hurt.”

Perhaps it was because he couldn’t hear what he wanted to hear, his tone was strangely pouting. Although, in the content, Adele’s thoughts on me were clearly visible.

To be honest, Adele is scolding me, so it reminds me of the previous ‘bee’ and gives me a strange feeling. Wouldn’t this be a situation where being scolded by her would be so bad? I’m thinking…

“…I don’t understand.”

My thoughts are broken by the sudden disparate voice.

‘I’ in a miserable state, bleeding profusely from the middle of her chest.

But that is Gemini, the third member of the zodiac, who is just borrowing my image.

The voice that came out of that mouth must have been mine, but I couldn’t help but feel a bit alien when I became the one listening to my voice.

“Adele Ludmeyer. You… Knew from the start that I wasn’t Luke Isvant. But how do you do that?”

And it was unavoidable that I felt a little creepy at the sight of me standing there bleeding like that.

It’s a shame that it’s not midnight inside the shrine, but if it did, it might have given you a little goosebumps.

“…”

There was no answer to Gemini. It was because Adele, who began to focus all her energy on being wary of the movements of Elgenuby, who was confronting her, simply ignored the question.

“Even he declared it impossible to see through my power…”

He?

…Is this about Knox? When the apostles called someone like that, it was usually Knox, so maybe that’s right.

For some reason, I felt that this time it wasn’t like that.

“No matter how much you reach the realm of transcendence, in the end, you, who are only a short-lived species, cannot be superior to him, so what the hell is this?”

That’s because Adele is a regressor. Even if you think about it for a hundred days, you won’t be able to reach that conclusion.

Rather than that, it’s a short-lived species. It’s a strangely irritating word.

What should I say… I feel like I’m watching in real time a patient with second grade disease say something like ‘On the subject of insignificant people…’.

The only difference is that there exists a different race, which is often referred to as a short-lived species.

“It’s annoying. That is not the reaction I was hoping for.”

Like a ignited fuse, Gemini’s mana had reached a threatening level that would not be strange no matter when it manifested its magic.

By the way.

“The feeling I wanted to understand is like that- Ugh…?!”

I’m not stupid enough to watch my opponents chatter in the middle of a fight.

While Gemini is chattering, it momentarily crosses the space and occupies his back. As he kicked Gemini’s hamstrings from behind, Gemini’s knees bent and he was about to fall.

Raising his arm, Gemini continues his movement before he completely collapses.

“Keep, ugh…!”

A back choke wrapped around Gemini’s neck from behind. Theoretically, it is a dangerous technique that can suffocate the carotid artery and block blood to the brain, stunning the opponent within seconds, and even causing death if a mistake is made.

Of course, it was the first time in my life that I used such a terrifying technique myself.

Since the target is a monster that lives and breathes even after being stabbed in the middle of the chest with a sword, I give strength to my arms with the determination to crush the neck completely, not simply to cut off the blood.

Shortly, Gemini’s arms spring up and grab my arm, which is strangling my neck, but it’s not enough to untangle my technique of protecting my wrist while holding Gemini’s head with the other arm.

I try to pull down the arm I’m holding on to, scratch it, and make a fuss. Between people with the same physical abilities, if they lose a fight despite having such an advantageous situation, wouldn’t that be a problem in many ways?

In general, there are not many cases in which someone has kicked the hamstrings or experienced kicking them, but it is a very natural phenomenon for people to fall when they are kicked in the hamstrings.

Of course, there are many more fatal vital points for humans. However, aiming for a place like that with a slightly better-than-average level of physical ability, which is barely enough to not neglect exercise, is overuse.

As soon as it noticed the movement, Gemini would have reacted with magic. Anything that is possible with my ability is also possible for the current Gemini.

For that reason, it penetrated Gemini’s gaps primarily from the rear, which was relatively more difficult to react to. What followed was the final blow.

The best option out of the limited options I can choose from. That was just a quick turn.

Chaeng-Chaechaeng-

As soon as I moved, as if I had waited, I heard the sound of two blades clashing against each other. And at the same time, Adele and Elgenubi begin to fight swords.

However, I had no intention of losing sight of the situation that I had caught on. I cut my attention from the line of grasping the situation for a moment, and focus again on sealing the increasingly desperate movements of Gemini.

I can only pray that Adele will take care of herself.

“Keep off…”

But even after 10 seconds and another 30 seconds passed, Gemini’s struggle did not seem to subside.

It doesn’t really make sense that his vitality is getting tough just because he’s an apostle.

As such, there must be a different reason, but I couldn’t guess what it was.

Chitsutsutsu-

Rather than stop at the physical struggle, Gemini began to raise her magical powers once again.

Although the speed was still slow enough that I could immediately destroy the implementation of magic based on that mana, the speed at which the mana gathered was slowly but surely accelerating.

And I really don’t want to, but if Gemini’s magic realization speed goes beyond what I can destroy…

…No, that’s absolutely not acceptable.

In the first place, the speedy outcome I thought was already far away. Even if I couldn’t do it my way, I should have finished Gemini by now and helped Adele.

Of course, it was just a little bit later than I thought, and it was enough to finish it now. Libra, too, hadn’t finished retrieving the sacred object yet.

“Looking at it earlier, you seem to like the cold a lot… Then you will probably like this gift too.”

Incomparable to Gemini, it raises mana in an instant and realizes magic. Even though I’m a bit distracted by powering her arms, I’m bound to be much quicker than trying to manipulate her mana during a back choke.

“Ku, m…!”

Perhaps he sensed his own crisis, Gemini’s hand trying to pull my arm down felt as if it had doubled the power he had before.

But unfortunately, it’s already too late.

“If you don’t like it, you will die of love?”

As soon as cold air bursts out from under her feet, it swallows Gemini and me.

However, unlike Gemini, who was defenseless, I had time to prepare a way out of this situation in advance.

Returning to where I was standing before I knew Gemini’s back with magic, I saw the pillar of ice in front of her and involuntarily even whistled.

So someone said to freeze the whole door to bother cleaning up. Since this is all your work, take it kindly, Gemini.

Above all, I don’t like the cold. That doesn’t mean I like hot things, but anyway, it’s the fault of the one who made me feel that cold in the summer.

“Then, now before I go to help over there…”

[Luke Isvant, is that all?]

The voice that resonated directly in my head, not through training, was not my own voice, unlike before.

The tone of the voice is cold and hard with no pitch, a voice reminiscent of a robot.

Surprisingly, Gemini’s tough string is still somehow attached.

[If that’s all there is to it, I have nothing to say except to say I’m disappointed. Was I wrong for judging that it was a magical ability comparable to Mr. Herebredich? Then-]

“No, that is absurd. Who is judging whom?”

However, I expected this to some extent. That would also be the case, because common sense makes no sense for a human being to live and breathe like that in a situation where he should have died dozens of times before.

The sudden mention of the name ‘Herebredich’ reminds me to discuss it with Adele later, so I keep it in my memory.

“You are not some kind of idiot, and I know for sure that you are not an ordinary human being. Barely locking it in ice can’t be the end. Is not it? Homunculus.”

[How to do that…?]

It was one of the two if it was a human being with a knife stabbed right in the middle of his chest, his carotid artery drowsy for two minutes, and being fine even after being imprisoned in a pillar of ice.

A demon in human form.

Otherwise, an artificial creature made of magic, a homunculus.

It’s hard to see that there would be demons in Nox’s camp, so in the end, only the homunculus remained.

Since the location of the internal organs of the homunculus can be arbitrarily determined by the creator, it is explained that Gemini survived even after being pierced through the heart by Adele’s sword. He never died because his heart had never been pierced in the first place.

I don’t really know why he survived after being drowsy and trapped in a pillar of ice. Since the production of homunculus was banned in the magical world for a long time, not much is known about it these days.

But if one thing is for sure. Even such a homunculus has no way to avoid death when its body is completely destroyed.

[Br]

In an instant, black thorns protruding from the bottom of the pillar of ice pierced Gemini’s body.

The identity of the thorn is the shadow.

The amount of mana consumed to create a shadow that is not restricted by the physical laws with magic that can exercise physical influence at exactly the moment I want was far greater than I thought. Still, if I can finish Gemini without any major variables, I think it’s worth it.

“So if you had the energy to talk there, you should have been talking about it after you came out.”

[Here, Bradych… I’m sorry…]

With those words, Gemini’s body pierced with black thorns began to change.

Blonde is achromatic white hair.

Green eyes are golden.

The tips of my round ears have become pointy.

The overall shape is different from my face, but the moment my sculpted face was revealed, I could understand it.

The fact that the basis for this homunculus was an elf.

“Herebradyh… Wow, I feel bad for whoever gave it to me.”

After turning her head away from Gemini’s corpse, which is so terrifying that it wouldn’t be strange to appear in a nightmare, you can see the two swordsman’s confrontation, which are still competing fiercely.

Adele, with sweat dripping from her forehead like rain and dripping from the tip of her chin, didn’t look very relaxed.

Perhaps her body is close to its limits, or it has already exceeded its limits.

Her appearance was so beautiful that it took her breath away.

No, the idea of being cool has gone by. It was Adele who proved with her whole body that a picture comes out in any situation when the original version is released.

After imprinting the image of Adele in her mind once more that she may never see again in her lifetime.

“Kuu…?!”

Without using magic that consumes a lot of mana, Elgenubi changes the sword he is holding into the form of a snake and wraps around his arm.

Losing her weapon in an instant and limiting her movement, Elge Nubi’s fate was obvious.

Without giving her a chance to let out her deathbed, Adele’s sword cuts Elge Noubi’s throat.

At the same time, as if her tension had been relieved, Adele sat down in her seat and smiled slightly as she looked at me.

“Thank you. She was counting on Luke to help. If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t have made it.”

“I’m rather sorry for being late. Well, I’m taking a break for now. The other two apostles-“

“Kwaaaaah-!”

The scene reflected in Adele’s and I’s eyes as we turned our heads in the direction of Libra and Burgo was unbelievably embarrassing.

Burgo with a dagger stabbed Libra from behind her.

What kind of situation is this…?