The Regressed Young Master’s Guide to Living on Easy Mode

Chapter 78 : Their Respective Circumstances (2)

Eun Ga-yeong stopped as she was secretly following the Sword Emperor. No! She had no choice but to stop.

Because the place the Sword Emperor had just entered was the main headquarters of the Heavenly Demon Cult, which was called an impregnable fortress.

Why is the Sword Emperor going there?

Is he going to die? Or for revenge?

A short while later, the Sword Emperor's figure disappeared.

As she got closer, she could feel a formation being spread through her qi sense.

Eun Ga-yeong's doubts deepened.

By the time a day had almost passed, a huge wave of qi was felt.

It was a kind of power that she could not dare to do anything about.

She had thought that there would be nothing above the Profound Realm, but that was arrogance, a delusion, and ignorance.

What would have happened if that power had been directed at her?

She could not see any way to live.

Therefore, Eun Ga-yeong was now worried. Because it was not difficult to guess who the owner of that power was, and to whom it was directed.

That place is the Heavenly Demon Cult. In the Heavenly Demon Cult, there are only two people who possess such power.

The Grand Elder or the Heavenly Demon.

And the opponent who was receiving that power now was very likely to be the Sword Emperor.

Eun Ga-yeong had decided on the direction of her life by observing the Sword Emperor.

It was as if she had just unfolded a blank canvas to fill with something.

She hadn't even taken out the ink yet.

Of course, she hadn't even held the brush.

As she thought that the Sword Emperor, who would fill it, was going to die, her heart felt empty again.

She couldn't think of anything.

This situation of having to think and choose something on her own was so unfamiliar.

Just then.

A single stream of qi was felt in the huge energy.

Its size was extremely small.

To make a comparison, it was like a firefly and the sun.

But the firefly was clearly emitting its own light even in front of the sun.

It was revealing its presence.

Flash!

A thunderbolt struck.

However, it was not falling from the sky to the ground, but was connected from the ground to the ground.

Eun Ga-yeong focused her energy towards the thunderbolt. What she had thought was a thunderbolt was a person. The reason she had mistaken it was because it was that fast.

And although the distance was far, a faint heat was being transmitted to this place.

Its identity was the Sword Emperor.

He had changed again while she hadn't seen him.

In just one day.

She had lived without thinking that she was particularly behind anyone in martial arts.

It was like that when she saw the Heavenly Emperor, and it was like that when she saw the Divine Monk.

But she had never dreamed that she would have the same thought twice today.

One was, of course, the owner of the huge energy she had felt just now, and the other was the man she was looking at now, the Sword Emperor.

It felt like she was looking at an unidentified creature with no fixed form.

Ugh!

The Sword Emperor, who had stopped, suddenly began to vomit what was inside him. It was a very natural result.

He had shown a movement of that speed just now. The human body is weaker than you think. No matter how much you protect it with internal energy, you cannot transcend the set limits.

Well, sometimes there are those who transcend that limit in the world.

A class of people born with something special, like her own Heavenly Martial Body.

But the speed just now was such that even she would have felt a burden.

He had done that with an ordinary person's body.

Still, since the Sword Emperor, who was at a fairly high realm, had performed it, it had ended with just that, but if it had been an ordinary person, all the bones in his body would have been broken by now, and he would have died instantly.

He must be experiencing a feeling of his insides being turned upside down right now.

Stagger. As expected!

"Ugh!"

The Sword Emperor, who had vomited again, crawls to the side and leans against a tree. He then closes his eyes.

A short while later, he was not moving at all.

Only his chest was rising and falling powerlessly.

Eun Ga-yeong, killing her presence, approached the Sword Emperor.

When she put her hand close to his nose, she could feel his breath.

That's right. The Sword Emperor had fallen asleep like this.

"Is he... really sleeping?"

She said it out loud, but the Sword Emperor showed no signs of waking up.

Is this possible?

To say it again, this is enemy territory.

The Heavenly Demon Cult is in seclusion, the gate that had just opened was closed again, and the huge energy had also completely disappeared, but!

This was a distance where if the Heavenly Demon Cult were to fall, their nose would touch. If they hadn't been in seclusion, it was the optimal place to be caught and have their limbs torn apart.

And it was even wide open.

Snore, snore.

He's sleeping well. He's even drooling.

Eun Ga-yeong had never been particularly interested in others, except for herself.

The Heavenly Emperor had said that this was the same principle as her being so outstanding that she didn't pay attention to her surroundings.

She had just listened to such words and had let them pass.

But now, for the first time, she was curious about something other than herself.

The first thought that came to mind was this.

Is he human?

If he were human, could he sleep soundly in a situation like this where his life was on the line?

The answer came soon. Impossible.

Even if he had used all his strength to show the movement just now!

Still, if he were human, he shouldn't be sleeping in a defenseless state right in front of the enemy's nose.

But he was sleeping.

"Is this the freedom you spoke of?"

Freedom is what?

Not thinking about the front and back, just doing what you want to do.

Freedom!

Thud. Eun Ga-yeong sat down next to the Sword Emperor. The Sword Emperor's head tilted to the side and leaned on Eun Ga-yeong's shoulder. One shoulder was heavy, but she didn't bother to shake it off.

Instead, Eun Ga-yeong also slowly closed her eyes.

It wasn't to sleep like the Sword Emperor.

The reason she had sat here was to protect the Sword Emperor from any danger that might come.

The wind blew.

The ends of her hair tickled.

The sunlight, half-hidden by the leaves, was warm.

The smell of grass was transmitted from the field.

* * *

Heavenly Demon was relieved that he wouldn't be beaten up wherever he went, as he had shown just now.

"Second Elder."

At the Heavenly Demon's call, a person popped out of the air.

It was the former commander of the Heavenly Demon Guard, who had recently taken the vacant position of the Fighting Demon.

"Chung!"

Although his position had changed to the second elder, his work was the same as before.

"What did my nephew do here?"

The Heavenly Demon had already known what Yoo Jae-ha had done, but he had asked anyway. This was a denial that came from a sincerity of not being able to believe what he had seen, and it was a complaint that came from a heart that did not want to admit it.

The second elder, who had no way of knowing such a thing, just thought that this was also an extension of the test that the Heavenly Demon was giving him and answered sincerely.

"He went to meet Jegal Myeong, a disciple of the Heavenly Demon Cult whose affiliation is not clearly defined at present."

"Yes. He dared not to come to see me, but went to see that child."

As expected, the Heavenly Demon had asked even though he knew everything.

And the second elder now thought that the child named Jegal Myeong would die. Because in the Heavenly Demon Cult now, there was not a single person who had survived after being out of the Heavenly Demon's favor.

The proof of that was the very quiet situation of the Heavenly Demon Cult.

Everyone was cooped up in a corner, hoping that the Heavenly Demon's anger would not reach them.

If they were lucky, they would survive, and if they were unlucky, they would have to face the Heavenly Demon's visit.

At the latest, the Heavenly Demon would go to find Jegal Myeong tonight. And not even a corpse would be left.

"Help him implicitly."

"Yes?"

For a moment, the second elder asked back. It had been over 20 years since he had served the Heavenly Demon. In all that time, he had never once questioned the Heavenly Demon's words...

That was broken today.

"You're not going to kill him?"

At that moment, the Heavenly Demon looked at the second elder intently. The second elder immediately recognized his mistake.

"A lowly servant has dared to question the master's order. Please kill me."

Now, he was sure to die, just as the previous Fighting Demon had.

"Don't make a fuss. I'm in a very good mood right now."

He was saved. And the fact he realized was that the Heavenly Demon was a little strange right now. The Heavenly Demon he knew was by no means a person who would show mercy for a mistake.

"Jegal Myeong, if there is something that child wants to do, help him in every way you can. Do you understand?"

It was the same this time. They were words that the original Heavenly Demon would never have said.

As a loyal subject, he couldn't help but ask.

Because if something happened to the Heavenly Demon, it was directly related to the problem of the Heavenly Demon Cult.

"May I ask the true meaning of the order just now?"

A statement he would never have made normally.

The answer probably wouldn't come.

Instead, a sword would fall on his neck. Even if he were to die today, he had no regrets.

Because this was his proof of having lived for the Heavenly Demon Cult his entire life.

To die while serving the god of the Heavenly Demon Cult would be the greatest honor.

"I don't know how to appease my nephew when he's sulking."

"Yes?"

He had asked back again.

"My nephew has grown up well. He's reliable. Don't you see it that way too?"

"Yes?"

Is the person in front of him the Heavenly Demon, or a nephew-parrot?

"And keep what happened today a secret. I don't want to share the sight of my nephew with anyone."

"Ah... yes."

It was the second elder who answered weakly, unlike usual.

* * *

The Sword Demoness was keenly feeling her weakness in the Gansu Province battle this time.

She had by no means been lazy in her efforts.

She could be proud that she had spent every day without regret since that day three years ago. But the reality she had faced was that even that was not enough.

In the end, the pasts she had thought were satisfactory were nothing more than her own self-satisfaction.

"I am still lacking."

Because she was lacking, she had lost her family.

"I am still weak."

Because she was weak, she could not fully protect her younger siblings and Yoo Jae-ha.

The Sword Demoness was swinging her sword as she had done in the past.

But now she knows. That she can never develop in the way she has been doing so far.

And yet, since this was all she could do, the Sword Demoness continued to swing her sword.

Just then.

A presence was felt at the entrance.

This is the elder's hall where she lives.

It was not a place where anyone could enter recklessly.

Especially when she was training, it was an unwritten rule of this place not to let anyone in. The only cases where that was broken were when an urgent mission came down from above or when a superior came in person.

The Sword Demoness wiped her sweat and threw her gaze at the entrance, and there, a person she had seen for the first time in a long time was standing.

"Demonic Brain?"

She was surprised by the unexpected person. And she could not find the dazed appearance she had seen from the Demonic Brain all this time.

His half-closed eyes, which were usually difficult to distinguish whether they were open or not, were now clearly open.

"You want to become stronger, don't you?"

His speech was also not slurred, but clear.

Although it was a sudden question, it was also the answer she wanted to hear most in this situation.

"What is it?"

"Go to Botaam. The answer you want will be there."

"Botaam?"

"Ah! Before that, can you do me a favor?"

"What favor?"

"This is a secret, but since we're partners from now on, I'm telling you specially. The captain is alive."

Did she mishear? Has the Demonic Brain finally gone crazy?

"The captain is alive?"

"Yeah. You must have known since you met him in person. I recognized him at a glance, but don't tell me you didn't recognize him."

She couldn't understand what he was saying.

"We met in the Gansu Province battle. He even praised you for becoming much stronger."

A single person comes to mind.

The white-haired man who had cornered the Young Lord.

"It seems you've finally noticed."

Was that the captain? She still couldn't believe it.

The Demonic Brain continued.

"It's a message from the captain. He said you have to push the Young Lord even harder than now."

This situation too.

(End of Chapter)