Worthless Regression Chapter 265

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[267] Baeksogo (2)

Those words of sorry.

Lee Seong-min was silent for a moment due to the remorse and guilt in Baek So-go’s repeatedly muttered apology.

What Baek Sogo was pouring out was part of the emotions that had sustained her for many years.

Righteousness and morality, that sense of justice. morally correct. It’s more than just them being piled up together. Feelings for the priest within such a mass. I had no choice but to leave it to the priest.

Whether it was intentional or not, he felt guilty and regretful about his choice to leave the priest alone in that situation and have no choice but to turn around.

Baek Sogo was that kind of person. Because I’m nice. I remember what Baek Sogo said with a smile on Mt. Mushi.

Because he’s nice. So, you feel guilty and suffer from it. Seongmin Lee slowly raised his hand and wrapped it around Sogo Baek’s shoulder.

“… … “Didn’t you say it was okay?”

Lee Seong-min laughed bitterly. Baek Sogo was still shedding tears. Lee Seong-min patted Baek So-go’s shoulder as if comforting a child.

Although I couldn’t completely sympathize with her guilt, I knew that the person she felt guilty about was none other than Lee Sung-min and herself. Lee Seong-min spoke to her from the bottom of his heart.

“that day. In that dungeon, I made the choice to save my sister, just as I had hoped. I have never regretted it, and if I had to go back to that time, I would make the same choice. So there is no need for my sister-in-law to feel guilty towards me. “I’m not even dead.”

“… … At that time, I was helpless. Even with the priest behind me, I had no choice but to turn around. that is… … I’m sorry. “Because I was too weak.”

“it’s okay.”

Seongmin Lee grabbed Baek Sogo’s shoulder. The distance between the two decreases slightly. Baek Sogo looked at Lee Seong-min with her tear-filled eyes. Two eyes colored with gold.

“On the mountain of Mshi. I was weak. I had no idea when I would die. The asceticism I had started without realizing it was beyond my imagination, and I was in a situation where I did not know when I would die due to the foolish and arrogant prohibition. “Sister, it was you who saved me.”

“About that… … There is no need for a priest to feel grateful. I was just behaving like myself. I am… … “Because he’s nice.”

“Me too.”

Lee Seong-min laughed as if he was embarrassed.

“I also made my own choices. “I’m not as nice as my sister-in-law.”

Baek So-go could not say anything at Lee Sung-min’s words. Baek Sogo, who stared at Lee Seong-min’s face with blank eyes for a moment, let out a bright smile and lifted his hand to wipe his eyes.

“… … “I’m glad I was able to meet a priest like this.”

“I also think so. … … But. “Why are you here?”

“Because the priest is here.”

After wiping away all the tears, Baek Sogo took a deep breath. He poured out his guilt.

However, the reason Baek Sogo came here was not just to deliver an apology. From Baek So-go’s words, Lee Seong-min knew what she had come here to discuss.

Seongmin Lee slowly nodded his head.

“We have good drinks.”

[You, no way.]

“Drinking in my room… … It might be a bit like that. “Let’s choose a suitable spot and have a drink.”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s the priest’s room.”

[When this old man asked me to drink, he took it like that!]

‘What’s good is good.’

Heoju grumbled, but Lee Seong-min ignored Heoju’s words. Baek Sogo muttered with a faint smile.

“This is my first time drinking with a priest.”

“Because I was too young when I was on Mt. Mshi.”

Seongmin Lee smiled and accepted Baek Sogo’s words. Because Baek So-go said it didn’t matter, Lee Seong-min brought Baek So-go to his room.

In fact, it is too big to be called a room. Thanks to his position as the successor to Sima Lianju, Lee Seong-min was using the entire annex.

It was a place that I didn’t use much because I kept going out not long after I came into Simalian.

“huh?”

Lee Seong-min’s steps, which were about to enter the annex, stopped. He wrinkled his nose at the artificial smell in the air.

Although it wasn’t a familiar smell, it wasn’t an unfamiliar smell either. ah. Seongmin Lee sighed after understanding the situation.

“I did something.”

Lee Seong-min grumbled, opened the door to the annex, and went inside. The inside of the annex was filled with the smell of reagents, and the mana in the air was moving according to an artificial flow.

As far as Lee Seong-min knows, there is only one person in Sima-ryan who can do this.

“Are you back?”

Scarlett stuck her head out from the end of the hallway. Her red hair was a mess, and there were dark circles under her eyes.

“Why is Scarlett here?”

“They said they needed a place for experiments, so they asked me to stay here. “Your kind master.”

“… … Kind?”

“You’ve been very nice to me, right? “Every time I tell you about the magic ingredients I need, I get them right away.”

Scarlett glanced at Baek Sogo as she said that.

“ah. You also met Baek So-go. Do you have many stories to share? “I’ll be quiet, so don’t think about me and just have fun.”

“… … “This is my home.”

“Your teacher told me to use this place. “I can’t leave right away, so please understand.”

After saying that, Scarlett disappeared from the other side of the hallway again. It seemed like he was busy experimenting with magic. Lee Seong-min sighed and looked back at Baek So-go.

“… … “Let’s go to the pavilion in the back.”

There were few stars in the night sky. It wasn’t a nice night sky, but I liked the cool night air.

Lee Seong-min called the servant who was waiting and asked for something to eat as a snack, then went up to the pavilion and sat across from Baek So-go.

“Have you already met Scarlett?”

“I never thought she would be here. huh. “It’s been three days since I came here, and we already met and said hello on the first day.”

Baek So-go said that and bowed his head to Lee Seong-min.

“I wanted to thank the priest for that too. I am… … Because she couldn’t go to save her. “She even promised to help Scarlett in times of danger.”

“I guess each person had their own circumstances. “Nothing has happened to Scarlett, so you don’t have to thank me.”

“Each individual’s circumstances.”

Baek Sogo muttered in a low voice. Lee Seong-min, who was taking out Heo-ju’s bottle of alcohol from his subspace pocket, froze when he heard Baek So-go’s muttering.

Meanwhile, a servant came up with snacks and glasses. Baek Sogo continued his words while looking down at the glass of wine in front of him.

“I trust the priest.”

There wasn’t even the slightest lie in those words.

“No matter what the situation may be. I trust the priest. Even if everyone in the world calls the priest a liar, I will believe him. Not because the priest gave up his life to save mine. Because the priest is my priest. Yeah, that’s it.”

Lee Seong-min lifted the gourd while listening to Baek So-go. He slowly poured the drink into Baeksogo’s glass.

“I believe even if the priest lies. Even if the lie is so obvious that there is no room for doubt. Still, I will trust the priest.”

“I have no intention of lying.”

Lee Seong-min filled his own glass with alcohol. It had been a long time since he had had this drink since the dwarven village, so He Ju was ignoring the atmosphere and making excited noises in his head.

“Do you think I am a demon?”

“I don’t want to believe the rumors are true.”

“What would you do if I were actually Mine?”

“If the priest is someone who goes against my beliefs and needs to be corrected. maybe… … “I will act like that.”

That was the reason that allowed him to endure the harsh penance in the mountains of Mshi, and the reason that allowed him to endure for a thousand years in the mental world of Denir.

A belief that one believes to be upright. Even if what constitutes upright beliefs is a collection of countless curves that are tangled, bent, and twisted.

Even if others see it as nothing more than a lump of narrow-minded stubbornness.

Baek Sogo has no choice but to follow it.

“… … “There were a lot of misunderstandings.”

Seongmin Lee sighed and began speaking. The first thing to talk about was the relationship between Lee Seong-min and Wi Ji-ho-yeon.

Only by talking about him will he be able to answer for stopping the Iron Armored Shinchang to save Wijihoyeon, saving her, and ultimately killing the Iron Armored Shinchang.

“Is Socheonma Wijihoyeon a demon?”

Seongmin Lee asked Baek Sogo that question. Baek Sogo did not answer right away. She understood the relationship between Lee Seong-min and Wi Ji-ho-yeon.

All I did was stop the armored sword to save my friend who was in danger, and stand up to him when he risked his life to attack me.

“She didn’t commit any obvious evil deeds.”

Baek Sogo muttered.

“Even when Wijihoyeon was making a name for himself as Socheonma. She didn’t come forward and commit her evil deed. Those who were interested in her inaction challenged her, were defeated, and died repeatedly. “The name Socheonma was created because of her merciless hands.”

“You can’t call it an evil act.”

“yes.”

Baek Sogo answered in a small voice and closed his eyes.

“… … “It was the Murim Alliance that tried to monitor and control Socheonma.”

“Murimmaeng?”

Seongmin Lee chuckled and laughed. Lee Seong-min also had a lot to say about the Murim Alliance.

Seongmin Lee told us about the events that took place in the Forest of Delusion, which largely contributed to the nickname Gwichang being known to the world as Mine.

In order to make Baek Sogo understand the story about him, he had to also talk about a group called Cheon Oecheon.

Baek Sogo had a long silence. She did not know about the group called Cheon Oecheon.

The Murim Alliance, which she considered to be a just group, was ultimately just a subordinate group of a group called Cheonoecheon, and the fact that the Murim leader himself belonged to Cheonoecheon was enough to render her speechless.

Also, given the circumstances, it was definitely the Black Dogs of the Murim Alliance that killed Zhuge Taeryeong and Mo Yong Seojin, and such actions of the Murim Alliance were also linked to the death of Ironclad Shinchang.

“In order to put pressure on the priest, the Murim League forced the death of the armored priest. He murdered Zhuge Taeryeong and Moyong Seojin and laid the blame on the priest… … .”

“Do you believe it?”

“The priest is mischievous.”

Baek So-go laughed bitterly at Lee Seong-min’s question.

“I said I would unconditionally believe what the priest said. and… … What the priest said just now. There is no particular part that I suspect is false. Cheonoecheon, Cheonoecheon… … .”

Baek Sogo raised his glass. The wine in the gourd that Heoju was anxious about remained untouched right after pouring it into the glass.

Baek Sogo continued speaking while lightly shaking his glass.

“Eliminate all outsiders from this world and create a human world.”

“What do you think, sister-in-law?”

“I don’t sympathize with their ideals.”

Baek Sogo said so.

“Not all strangers are evil. “It is undoubtedly true that most humans prey on humans, but there are some humans that do not prey on humans.”

[What a narrow-minded bitch.]

Heoju grumbled.

[Aren’t you using the standard of right and wrong as whether you prey on humans or not? In the end, from a human perspective, we can only distinguish between the two as we please.]

‘Because your sister is human.’

Lee Seong-min brought a glass of alcohol to his mouth to comfort Heo-ju, who was complaining.

“I can understand the priest’s position. It was an action taken to save Socheonma… … In the process, I became Cheon Oecheon’s enemy. huh. “It’s a common occurrence in Moorim.”

Baek Sogo brings the glass to his lips. She looked a little surprised by the scent of her alcohol, and was surprised again by the taste of the alcohol that passed down her throat.

She looked at her empty glass for a moment and then shook her head.

“… … Priests. I thought a lot when I came here. About the world I know. About what I have seen and what I believe in. okay. “The standards I set as my beliefs and the standards for dividing right and wrong may be narrow and unjustified in the eyes of others.”

[I’m glad I figured it out myself.]

“but.”

He Ju muttered, and Baek Sogo immediately added.

“Even if it’s narrow-minded and unjustified. I intend to act as I wish. Even if it is selfish self-righteousness. Live righteously. Walk the path. That is… … “Because those were the last words of my teacher who lived like that.”

Baek Sogo had never heard of his teacher. He had asked several times, but every time Baek Sogo heard such a question, he would smile bitterly and avoid answering.

“I don’t think priests are evil.”

Baek Sogo slowly stood up.

“But I think the group called Sima Lian is evil. okay. Even within this group, there are people who are not evil. Just as not everyone in the political faction, the Murim League, was a chivalrous member.”

“… … “What does your sister want?”

“Eradication of evil.”

Baek Sogo answered without hesitation. It was such an absurd answer that Lee Seong-min had no choice but to ask back.

“… … yes?”

“To eradicate all evildoers from this world. “That’s what I hope for.”

[ha ha ha!]

Heoju burst out laughing loudly.

[What a novel idiot!]

In Heoju’s crazy laughter, Lee Seong-min couldn’t help but sympathize with Heoju’s laughter to some extent.

fantasy,