The Regressor and the Blind Saint

iron-.

Muddy water splashed and made a sticky noise. The muddy water splashed back and forth fell again, screaming ‘clump’.

Vera looked at the scene for a moment, then looked up.

A dark red landscape was seen. Standing on the gloomy earth are black and red planks, and shredded pieces of cloth covering them.

The air that touched the skin was damp, and the smell that penetrated into the nostrils contained a stench so strong that it made me nauseous.

The imperial capital 13th Street gutter.

Returning to his old hometown, Vera captured the sight in his gray pupils.

Although there must have been some things that had changed since he disappeared, this landscape did not change and took the form as Vera knew.

As Vera was looking at the scenery, he suddenly felt a strange feeling come to his mind.

Even though he had been away from this place for a long time, the impression that came to mind as if he could not erase the long past was taking the form of ‘familiarity’.

Having lived here, he will come face to face with the evil deeds he has committed based on this place.

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Muddy water splashes again. The bottom of the robe becomes dirty with a dark red liquid. The permeating stench spreads throughout the body.

All the strange and tickling feelings that had lingered in me until today were disappearing.

Filling in that void is melancholy and irritability. Vera let out a brief breath of emotion, then bit his teeth tightly.

It was because of the thought that there was no time to be filled with unreasonable emotions.

‘… Not anymore.’

He is no longer the Vera of Shigung. It was Renee’s escort knight, Vera, the Apostle of the Oath.

The reason I came here was to investigate any possible danger.

Vera made up his mind with that thought and moved on diligently.

I entered the deep and deep pit. He went into the burrow where an even worse stench flowed out.

The scenes overlapped on the landscape were passed by with a smirk.

Then, Vera stopped walking.

His gaze was directed towards a shack that was about to collapse.

… At the end of her last life, it was the same house she lived in with Renee.

A place where everything about yourself has changed. A place where the promise was finally broken and a new way was put on top of it.

Facing the place, Vera, who had a blurred face, suddenly moved and opened the door of the shack.

Kick-.

The sound of the sound and the scene revealed was a cold and cold space, with nothing changed from the past.

‘… Is the house still empty?’

Since there are no signs of life, that must be correct.

Vera left the house for a moment, scanning where he had always been lying and where René was sitting next to him.

I walked aimlessly. At the end of his life, he was walking along the same path he had crawled in the ugliness of his life.

At the end of the steps that had taken him to a healthy body different from the previous life, Vera met a dark alley.

It was the place where Renee died.

The place where the gloomy colors spread like paint was still muddy water.

Vera knelt and ran his hand over the muddy water.

The oath engraved on his soul was burning faintly as if welcoming the place where he was born.

[I will live for the saint.]

The oath that would be the beginning and the end of this life was speaking to Vera.

Don’t let Ren’s blood flow again in this place.

Even if you do everything you can, make her face a brilliant end.

Vera got up, wiping the slimy, muddy water he reached with his fingertips over his robes.

‘Know.’

You know what you have to do, so don’t try to explain.

Vera answered the oath he had engraved and moved on again.

After all, it was a step towards a deeper palace.

*

Thinking of a way to investigate the gung’s trends, Vera didn’t bother.

It was because there was someone who could explain the palace to him at once after he disappeared.

“Ouch!”

bang!

Vera’s hand was placed above the head of the middle-aged man who had been thrown to the floor with a sound.

“Doran.”

Vera looked at him with gloomy, sunken gray pupils.

The leader of the beggars who persecuted him long ago. A man who broke his throat with alcohol in his last life. In this life, a man who is living his miserable life somehow.

Vera had come to the deep alley to hear from Doran Lee about the direction of the palace.

There is no better way to find out the situation in an unknown area than to get help from the locals.

“I came here because I had a question.”

Kook-.

Vera’s hand pressed harder on Doran’s head.

“Geek-!”

Doran’s eyes widened. A suppressed moan escaped from his mouth.

Doran barely uttered those words, looking at Vera with trembling movements, eyes crushed by fear.

“Who, who… !”

The words this unknown man uttered because he could not understand why he was intimidating him so much.

At that, a smirk escaped Vera’s mouth.

“I can’t remember… .”

There was a bit of anger, but Vera didn’t push Doran.

It was definitely because Doran had forgotten about it.

Too much has changed to match who you are with Vera, the f*cking bastard of Shigung.

First of all, the height is taller than the average adult male. The body, which was carefully crafted, was clearly showing off its presence even when it was tightly wrapped around it.

Aside from such secondary problems, from Doran’s point of view, he was already one of the missing limbs 7 years ago, so it would be more surprising to remember them one by one in a gutter where people die day by day.

After thinking about it, Vera quickly decided that there was no need to reveal his identity, so he relaxed his hands.

“Kek! Whoops!”

Then Doran, breathless, shuddered, trying to get out of Vera.

Puff-!

The movement was stopped by Vera’s kick.

“Wow!”

“Escape is difficult.”

Vera continued, looking at Doran with cold eyes.

“Didn’t you say I came here because I have a question. Are you an idiot who doesn’t understand what you said before?”

“Ouch… .”

Doran’s body curled up. It was a posture that hugged the stomach that had been kicked before.

The accident was tinged with horror.

to die like this Is this kind of unfamiliar monster killing you by slitting your throat? Thinking of doing it for a while.

The survival instinct, which began to burn, moved Doran’s body to create a posture of bowing down.

“Sa, live… . Oh, I’ll tell you everything I know… !”

“Who is going to kill you?”

Vera chuckled. Doran lifted his head slightly, looked at that smile, and then banged his head on the ground again! and pounded

Vera looked at Doran of the ugly mourner, and felt a sense of gladness at the sight of his subservient posture, and asked a question in a hoarse tone.

“I want to know how the cartel in the gutter works now.”

“that that… .”

Doran had no doubts about the question. A state filled with only the desire to quickly answer and leave.

Doran hurriedly picked up the things that came to mind and spit them out of his mouth.

“Hey, Croden is building drugs! Formil is selling the organs out, and Zeze is catching the youngsters and handing them over to the slave traders! Again, again… .”

Information pours out one after another with a tap.

Vera said, ‘This guy’s still very stubborn.’ As I listened to the thought of what I was saying, I spit out such a question in response to a sudden question.

“What about Delic?”

In the following words, there was no word about the head of the Scavenger, so the question was asked.

Doran’s body trembled at him.

Vera said as he saw Doran roll his eyes with a look of embarrassment, swiping his dagger out of his arms.

“I want to hear what happened to the Scavengers.”

“No, it’s ruined!”

The answer comes right out.

Vera frowned at those words.

“What?”

“No, it’s ruined! Both Delic and the Scavengers are dead!”

“Don’t say anything that doesn’t sound like a word… .”

“Gee, it’s real!”

What lurked in Doran’s cry was a profound resentment.

Doran shook his chin and spoke quickly.

“Chi, about seven years ago… . All of a sudden, several of the Scavengers’ branches were annihilated, and their power had weakened. Taking advantage of that opportunity, other cartels devoured the land… .”

Vera remembered one thing he had just forgotten about in the series of words.

‘… Come to think of it.’

Before leaving here, he had beaten and killed all the Scavengers with his own hands.

Did the actions taken in the name of anger at the time lead to such a result?

Vera, who had a slight sense of embarrassment, still did not understand something, so he asked Doran again.

“Didn’t the Scavengers reappear after that?”

The scavengers were weeds. They must all be exterminated, and at some point they will grow back and regain their territory.

But how do you keep them down?

Doran wiped his face once, answering Vera’s question.

“Well, a new cartel has entered their vacancy… .”

“Who is it? Coco? Sarah? Girgan?”

It was the names of the new cartel heads who flowed into this place in the past life.

If there are people who can take a vacancy in the changed power structure, they must be one of them.

… I thought. The answer that came out of Doran’s mouth was different from the names above.

“Mommy, I don’t know. No one knows who the chief is.”

Doran’s head went deeper.

“They came out of nowhere one day. They’ve started supplying outside supplies, and other cartels are doing business with them.”

“Are you making a deal? Aren’t you stealing it?”

“Well, they didn’t expand their territory… . More, thanks to you, I was able to sleep with my legs stretched out… . Because they also provide ships and rations.”

Sorin that doesn’t even sound like a word.

It was Vera’s first thought as he listened to Doran.

‘why?’

Can such guys exist? Guys with that kind of ability can live in a gutter without even fighting for territory?

“Where are you?”

“Yes?”

“I asked where they were.”

I needed to check this.

Vera knew better than anyone what kind of people that crawled into the gutter and created the realm.

‘I have a plan.’

it was certain

I never came here to volunteer.

If you were a volunteer, you wouldn’t have done business with those cartels. Do you have any doubts about the fact that you are a group that trades organs and drugs and is responsible for distribution?

Vera’s eyes darkened. As a result, Doran’s trembling intensified.

“Oh, the junkyard… . I heard that you see them from there sometimes.”

it’s a junk It was a place where we had to go further inside to get out.

Vera frowned and exhaled.

‘I think I’ve heard everything I can hear.’

what to do with this guy

Vera continued his thoughts as he looked at Doran.

I thought I wanted to kill him, but I wondered if there was any reason to kill me here, something that Vera in his previous life would never have done.

tock. tock.

Vera’s index finger tapped the dagger’s handle.

Doran’s body trembled to the beat.

“Sa, live… .”

So, the moment when those words of plea came out of Doran’s mouth.

“Stop.”

A new voice overlapped the space.

Vera and Doran’s eyes looked in the same direction at the same time.

At the end of the line of sight are two Inyeongs who covered their whole bodies with robes.

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One appeared to be a fairly tall adult male, and the other was Inyoung, who was short enough to fit on a man’s shoulder.

Judging by the fact that the voice I heard just before was a little younger, it must have been the shorter one who spoke.

Tension rose through Vera’s body.

Suddenly, the dagger was pulled out of its sheath.

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While the atmosphere was sharp, the taller one in the middle stopped suddenly.

When the stopped man whispered a whisper to the little guy, the little one shook his head and stopped.

It was a sudden action.

Naturally, Vera’s expression as he watched it began to frown.

‘What are you doing?’

As the thought ran through Vera’s head, Little Inyeong took off the hood of his robe.

‘… !’

Vera’s eyes widened.

This is because the revealed identity of In-young is a person she knew.

Gorgeous blonde curly hair. Geuman, which holds light even in the gloomy gutter below it. For a man, he has thin lines, and white skin.

‘Albrecht… .’

Albrecht van Frich.

The second prince of the Empire and a knight of Kyungae.

In-young’s identity revealed through the hood was him.