I’m not a Regressor

I am not a returner Episode 353

Starlight (5)

[What…what…!]

Vega steps back with his eyes wide open like a startled rabbit.

Her cheeks turned bright red as she touched her lips in disbelief.

[What have you done!]

Vega shouted with a red face as if steam was blowing out from the top of her head.

Oh Jin smiled slightly as he looked at her struggling.

“If you’re not sure, can you do it again?”

[That’s it!]

Vega shakes her shoulders slightly, remembering the feeling of lips that remained like a lingering scent.

She lowered her head, touching her lips with her fingertips.

[Ha.]

My mind is dizzy.

So many emotions were mixed and tangled, and I didn’t know what kind of expression to make.

I looked at Ojin with trembling eyes, listening to the sound of my heart beating louder than anything I had ever heard before.

[You really…]

A faint smile spread across Vega’s lips as she was trying to say something.

Vega let out a deep sigh and approached Ojin.

He carefully reached out and placed his hand on Ojin’s forehead.

Ojin’s body trembled.

[Stay still.]

Ugh!

A brilliant silver light seeped into Ojin’s body, and his tattered body began to recover quickly.

The pain that had been felt throughout my body disappeared quickly.

[Are you okay?]

“Uh, yes. are you okay.”

Oh Jin nodded with a puzzled expression.

Vega gently stroked Ojin’s cheek with a faint smile.

[When I heard that Spica had given her heart to his child, I scolded him for being truly foolish, but there was something else that was truly foolish.]

Even though I knew that he had been deceiving me ever since they first met.

Even though I realized that the image of him that I had seen so far was a false image hidden behind a mask.

I couldn’t cut out my feelings for him.

‘You truly are a foolish woman.’

With a self-deprecating smile, he stroked Oh Jin’s cheek.

The warmth that passes through your fingertips.

Seeing him with his eyes wide open and avoiding his gaze as if he was embarrassed by the current situation, an indescribable feeling of happiness spread within my heart.

To borrow a cliché expression, I felt like my body was going to fly.

[I want to ask you a few things.]

“Yes, tell me.”

[Why did you lie to the woman you first met and say you were a returnee?]

“That’s…”

Oh-jin looks embarrassed.

[I said that because I wanted to hear an explanation, not an excuse.]

“Hmm.”

Ohjin continued to think for a moment and nodded.

“Well, I did it because I was scared at first.”

[The original girl? No, what is there to be afraid of?]

Vega looks at Ojin with a look of injustice.

“Because I didn’t know Vega well at the time. And… I thought there would be a misunderstanding that I killed Lee Shin-hyuk.”

[Lee Shin-hyuk…?]

Vega frowned at the name he heard for the first time.

“When you first met me, a man was dead, right?”

[Ah, I remember.]

“It wasn’t me who was the returner, it was him.”

[What?]

Vega opens his eyes wide at the unexpected twist.

Oh Jin smiled bitterly and slowly explained what happened with Lee Shin-hyuk.

While walking around the gate together, they encountered a group of Enthorns. Suddenly, Shin-Hyuk Lee suffered a seizure and died. At that time, the Black Heaven bloomed and absorbed the stigmata of Lyra that had been in Shin-Hyuk Lee.

[Ha.]

An absurd sigh flowed from Vega’s mouth after hearing the story about the subsequent misdiagnosis.

[How on earth could such a ridiculous coincidence happen…]

“To be exact, it’s not a coincidence.”

[Not a coincidence?]

Oh Jin nodded with a heavy expression.

“All of this was created intentionally by ‘Cheonma’.”

[…What does that mean?] Unlike

Ha-eun and Isabella, Vega, who stayed in the sanctuary immediately after the work in Niflheim, was never told about the identity and purpose of the Heavenly Demon.

“The Heavenly Demon is me, to be exact, me in my ‘past life’.”

[What?]

Vega’s eyes widened at the unexpected bombshell.

[What does that mean?!]

Vega approached Ojin and asked in an urgent voice.

Oh Jin calmly explained the identity of the Heavenly Demon.

[Such… this is ridiculous.]

The identity of the Heavenly Demon was Oh Jin in his past life, and he sent Lee Shin-hyuk to the past to bloom Oh Jin’s Dark Heaven.

Vega touched her forehead with a confused expression.

[For what reason did you do that…?]

“Hmm… I think this is going to be a long story.”

In order to properly explain the purpose of Cheonma, the story about Ha-eun could not be left out, and then the story had to start from her past.

[It’s okay. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, please tell me everything I haven’t told you until now.]

Vega held Ojin’s hand with hot eyes.

The truth that Oh Jin has been hiding all this time.

The thought of wanting to know his story that had been hidden behind the mask filled my head.

“okay.”

That’s how the story of misdiagnosis began.

Stories I couldn’t tell her all this time.

[…Ah.]

Vega focused on his story, letting out a short exclamation or sighing sadly.

“…That’s why Cheonma sent Lee Shin-hyuk to the past to protect his sister.”

The end of a long story.

[….]

After hearing the whole story, Vega looked at Ojin with trembling eyes.

None of the stories were shocking, but the most shocking of them all was the story of what happened in the Kingdom of Niflheim.

[So… you gave up the opportunity to kill the Heavenly Demon to save your wife?]

Vega asked, holding the hem of her dress tightly.

Oh Jin avoided answering with an embarrassed expression.

[…My child.]

Tears flowed down Vega’s cheeks.

How on earth can I put this feeling into words?

A torrent of complicated emotions stole Vega’s voice.

“Don’t worry, I will stop him.”

Although he spoke with a confident expression, Vega knew how big a burden Ojin was carrying.

‘If I died at the hands of the Heavenly Demon.’

The Black Sky would have disappeared, and all the black star constellations and demons threatening the world would have disappeared.

Ojin turned away from the opportunity to end everything.

To protect yourself.

[Bonnyeo Bo… didn’t know.]

In the past, she made a promise to the Heavenly Demon and decided to destroy the Dark Heaven by dying to him.

Would you have dared even imagine it?

The truth was so shocking that I felt like my hair was going to turn white.

‘Then Oh Jin revealed the truth at that time…’

Was it to save himself?

[….]

Vega put her hands together and placed them on her heart.

It hurt.

My heart throbbed as if I was cutting it with a sharp knife.

‘She didn’t even know that…’

Just because Oh Jin had deceived her, she was alone in the temple and vowed to never meet him again.

[Ah ugh.]

My head feels hot.

I feel like my heart is breaking with a searing sense of guilt.

What a foolish and selfish woman who only cares about herself.

‘I can understand why Oh Jin deceived his wife.’

Oh Jin said it was not something that could be helped, but if you think about it from his perspective, it was actually closer to an ‘inevitable situation.’

To the constellations, the Black Sky is the most evil force that brings about the destruction of the world.

It was something that had to be eliminated first and foremost at any cost.

Ohjin couldn’t have known that either, but would he have been able to confidently tell the constellations that he was crazy about the North Star, which was at the top of all the constellations, and that he possessed the Dark Sky?

[Isn’t it true that it couldn’t be helped…]

Vega shed tears and hugged Ojin.

[It is she who should apologize.]

I could not even imagine that Oh Jin was carrying such a huge burden alone.

[It must have been a lot… very difficult.]

Vega shed tears as she stroked Ojin’s head as she hugged him.

[I’m sorry. Without knowing anything… you complained for no reason, claiming that you lied.]

“No, no matter what the reason was, it is true that I deceived you.”

Ojin shook his head and carefully got away from Vega.

“I wish I could have told you sooner… but I was scared to tell the truth.”

Because that’s how I lived.

Because I didn’t know any other way than to live like that.

He continued to hide the truth from her.

“I will never deceive you again.”

[…My child.]

Golden eyes filled with tears.

Vega asked, carefully placing her hand on Ojin’s left chest.

[So, does that mean there is a dark heaven like the Heavenly Demon inside this?]

Strangely enough, even though I put my hand on it, I did not feel the energy of the dark heaven at all.

All that Oh Jin can feel is the energy of the Lyra stigmata that he himself gave him.

“It’s not exactly the same. “Because I have your stigmata.”

According to the Heavenly Demon’s expression, Ojin’s Black Heaven was in a ‘complete’ state.

I don’t know if I can really say that it’s complete, seeing as it’s been running wild these days.

[…I see.]

I wonder why.

When he realized that Ojin was not controlled by the power of the Black Sky thanks to his stigmata, a smile appeared on his face with a sense of pride.

‘Until now, I didn’t even know that the stigmata of Lyra contained the power to control the power of the Black Sky.’

anyway.

The reason Ojin can stay fine even with the Black Sky now is because he is confident.

[….]

I was so happy that I couldn’t bear it.

[I swear on the name of Orignyeo Castle.]

Vega placed her hand on Ojin’s cheek and slowly pulled his face closer.

[Even if the black sky is sleeping inside you.]

Gently kissing Ojin’s forehead.

[She will become the starlight that illuminates the black sky and shine on you.]

Forever.

I engraved an unchanging oath in my heart.

“…Vega.”

[Hehe. If other constellations knew about this, they would be deprived of their position as the North Star.]

Since they swore in the name of the star to protect the owner of the Black Sky, it was a serious treason that would not be surprising if they were expelled from the sanctuary like the ‘satellites’ of the past.

“That will never happen.”

Ojin said with his eyes shining sharply.

[I will trust you.]

Vega nodded with a faint smile.

[And. One more thing.]

“Huh? why?”

Vega blushes and slowly turns her head.

He moved his fingertips and opened his mouth in a hushed voice.

[Didn’t she commit a crime against you?]

Without knowing Ojin’s circumstances, she locked herself in the temple and put him in trouble just because he had been deceiving her.

Is that all?

He unilaterally refused to talk to Oh Jin and even hurt him greatly.

[Woah, doesn’t this require ‘punishment’?]

The goddess approaches closely with shining eyes.

As the distance became unnervingly close, Ojin hesitated and took a step back without realizing it.

“…also?”

No, why do you always want to be punished, this goddess?

Ojin swallowed dry saliva and naturally moved his gaze to Vega’s butt.