Absolute Regression Chapter 5

Episode 5 Wild beasts do not hide their claws.

The hunting ground didn’t have to be far.

The mountain behind our school was famous for being rugged, and defensive positions and engine formations were set up here and there, so no one could enter in the first place. The only people in this deserted place were my father and I.

‘Oh, there must be three.’

My father’s bodyguard, Hwi, must be following sowhere in hiding.

I called him Uncle Hwi. I saw it often when I was young, but as I got older, I had less opportunity to see it. Hwi is a reception guard that his father absolutely trusts. If I have Ian, my father has Hwi.

I raised my flag and looked around, but could not find any sign of Hwi. Indeed, he is a skilled person who has reached the highest level in the art of hiding. Of course, this kind of Hwido… was killed by Hwamugi that day.

The first words my father said to that day were these.

“What is all that crazy burden?”

I was carrying a leather bag as big as my body.

“This is what you need for a few days.”

“few days? “I plan to co down after just one day.”

“You don’t know, right? “I’m sure you’ll enjoy hunting with and want to do it for a few more days.”

My father blatantly showed his inner thoughts on his face, wondering if that was even possible.

“Your dream is too dreamy.”

Although I had been with my father for less than half an hour, I realized one thing I had not known. The point is that my mories of my father were quite distorted.

I rembered my father as soone who rarely spoke. But my father said more than I thought.

“It’s a lot bigger than I thought.”

It was an evaluation of his performance against Koo Pyeong-ho in the fight. It was a move without any skill, but it must have revealed the skills I had accumulated in my life before returning, so I did not try to fool my father.

“I was hiding my skills.”

“It seed so.”

A joke added to pick up the mood.

“I am not a snarling cat, but a wild beast with hidden claws.”

My father stopped and looked back at .

“You’re a wild beast, so why do you hide your claws?”

“Oh, I never thought about that perspective.”

“So you are a cat.”

My father, who was about to turn around, suddenly asked.

“What level has the Flying Heavenly Sword Technique reached?”

Bicheongeombeop is a martial art that is passed down to the Heavenly Demon’s blood relatives. Although it cannot be compared to the Nine Fire Demonic Arts, which are taught only to Heavenly Demons, it is an extrely advanced martial art that is evaluated to be on a similar level to the martial arts learned by the Demon Lords.

Of course, learning a high-level martial art does not necessarily an you are stronger. Depending on who is using it, even a weak martial arts attack could kill soone with strong martial arts skills.

I decided that I couldn’t fool my father, so I answered honestly.

“It was a great success.”

That mont!

Peeing!

A ray of wind from the tips of my father’s fingers passed by my cheek. If I hadn’t instinctively turned my face to avoid it, I would have had a hole in my cheek.

My father asked with a surprised face.

“What a success!”

I asked as if I was shouting while touching my cheeks, which were hot from the force of the wind.

“oh my god! You didn’t even believe , but you threw up an earth-shattering storm. “What if I couldn’t avoid it?”

“You pay the price for lying. “If you achieve great success, you will be able to avoid it.”

“Scars do not suit this handso face that resembles my father!”

After snorting once, my father walked away.

‘It was worth being scared of at the ti.’

What father in the world would throw a scolding punch at his child without hesitation? Even on your face! I wouldn’t have died, but it was an attack that would have seriously injured if I hadn’t avoided it.

My father, who was walking ahead, said without turning around.

“At your age, Daesung… is amazing.”

In my last life, I achieved great success only after I was well into my thirties, so it is natural for my father to be surprised. In any case, my father was sincere when it ca to martial arts, so that complint was high praise.

“thank you.”

Afterwards, we rode the mountain without talking for a while.

If there was no conversation like this in one room, it would be suffocating. But the act of climbing a mountain was different. I felt like I was having an unspoken conversation just by walking quietly.

I was the one who broke the silence for a long ti.

“Who did you learn about hunting from?”

After a mont, my father spoke.

“I learned it from my older brother.”

“Did I have an uncle too?”

“dead. “He died by my hands when he was about the sa age as you.”

There was silence for a mont. Instead of polite words of comfort, I spoke my honest thoughts.

“Well done.”

My father stopped and looked back at with harsh eyes.

“If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have been born.”

My father stared at coldly for a mont and then took another step.

What father doesn’t have the scars left behind by the bone-to-bone conflict? I’ve seen it a lot in my past life. The stronger a person appears on the outside, the deeper the wounds in his heart.

That’s why I spit it out like I was squeezing out pus.

There is a lesson I learned from my past life.

Bury the body, but don’t bury the wounds in the heart.

That’s probably why I heard these words from my father.

“At the ti, I… couldn’t find a way.”

I knew what it ant. He couldn’t find a way to win the battle for succession without killing his brother.

My answer was resolute.

“Don’t expect anything from either.”

My father glanced back at . His eyes were colder than before, but I said what I wanted to say.

“I can’t do what my father couldn’t do. And you should give a brother who is worth thinking about and say those things. You know, right? “How an and cruel my brother is.”

“You often curse behind my back.”

“Even if I get criticized, it’s okay.”

Actually, this is not enough. When I think about what my older brother did to beco his successor in the future.

“I’m having a hard ti in the outskirts, but you’re swearing in a comfortable place.”

“If you beco a Grand Duke of the Heavenly Demon Church, you will not suffer even if you are locked in the last room of the underground prison rather than the outskirts.”

My older brother was currently working under my father’s orders. At that ti, my older brother had not yet revealed his true colors and he had outstanding abilities, so my father trusted him more than . Not only that, but many demons in school tried to keep in line with their older brother.

“My brother will never give up his position as successor. “It is foolish and conceited to want to save your brother and beco his successor.”

The expression on my father’s face as he looked at contained the emotion, ‘Were you this kind of child?’ My eyes responded resolutely. ‘yes!’

My father took a step again.

I was not married in my last life. So, I don’t know exactly what feelings the existence of a child brings to a man.

So I’m curious.

What kind of person am I to my father?

How many mountains did you climb like that?

“Shh.”

I raised my head at my father’s signal. My father was pointing his finger straight ahead.

“Do you see it?”

I opened my eyes wide, but I could only see the dense forest and nothing else.

“I can’t see it.”

“I see.”

“What is there?”

“Dinner.”

“Then you should catch it.”

When I took out the bow hanging in my leather bag, my father stopped my impatience.

“How can you catch sothing you can’t see? First, close your eyes and feel your surroundings.”

“yes.”

When experts understand their opponents, they use the waves of the surrounding air to understand them. This is what is commonly referred to as the other person’s prayer.

The only prayer I can feel around is my father’s prayer. calm. So I’m scared. I know better than anyone how fierce this prayer becos when it gets angry. In that peaceful sea, a typhoon that will turn the world upside down is sleeping.

“Now let out a ray of energy. “It’s just one ray.”

I did as my father told and released a ray of energy.

“Slow down and don’t cut off your energy. “Think of your body as a skein of thread, and pull it out slowly, like pulling a thread.”

In my life before regression, I had never sent forward such a thin energy. There is a clear reason for releasing energy. To suppress the opponent’s montum with my prayers. But now, he was unleashing his energy in a way I had never imagined.

“Slimr. It must not be cut off!”

This was the first ti I realized that the energy released from the body could travel this long.

“More more more.”

If I hadn’t had my father by my side encouraging , I would never have been able to exude energy for this long.

And the next mont, my energy touched sothing.

“Did you reach it?”

My father realized as quickly as I did that my energy had touched sothing.

“yes. “I can feel it.”

“What do you think it is?”

“It looks like a tree.”

Surprisingly, I had a feeling for what it was. I don’t know how to explain this because it’s such a feeling. It was definitely a tree.

“Look around there. slowly.”

It seed as if all the threads tied to the skein had co loose and would fall down at any mont. But I didn’t lose focus.

I extended my energy even longer and explored the surroundings. Then, I discovered a living energy under the tree.

“Are you a wild boar?”

When my father didn’t respond, I slowly opened my eyes. My father was looking at with a surprised face.

“Or is it a bear? “It looked like a wild boar, with stiff fur and an elongated body.”

“It’s a wild boar.”

I looked at where my energy had reached. It was still invisible to the eye. They found a wild boar in the forest far away.

“It’s not easy to hit it in one go from this distance.”

My father found it hard to believe even after experiencing it himself.

When I thought about it, the technique from before was not just a catching technique needed for hunting. Aweso secret technique that can be applied martially.

“Originally, you were going to make fun of by watching fail.”

“Of course it should have failed.”

“I am your son.”

“I couldn’t get it right at first either.”

“Aren’t I the body of Heaven and Earth?”

When Cheonmujiche was ntioned, my father’s eyes changed slightly.

At that ti, I had this kind of regret towards my father regarding the body of heavenly muji.

―Why did a person who pursues strength so much, even holding a martial arts competition to find a strong successor and looking for a talent who can destroy his children, neglecting like that? Why don’t you push ?

I even thought that my father might be jealous of . Yes, your I was that petty.

But now I know.

That things in the world don’t always go according to my wishes.

It is not that you should treat special as I am a person of all abilities, but that you should make good use of your body of all things and beco a special person yourself. Now I know that only when everyone’s expectations and aspirations are reflected in that specialness, the heavenly body becos a blessing from heaven.

“What are you doing? Are you planning on skipping dinner?”

I fired my arrow vigorously at the place where I felt energy.

Peeing.

A bonfire was burning in the darkness, and on top of it, well-cut wild boar at was cooking.

“When did you learn how to prepare animals?”

“I learned from books.”

“For sothing like that, you’re pretty familiar with it, right?”

Father, the wild boars I killed and ate must have been in the hundreds.

I quickly changed the topic.

“The thing you are laying down was prepared for flattery. “It was worth the struggle.”

My father was sitting on the tiger fur that I had brought in a leather bag.

My father’s lips curled up slightly at my condescension. It’s difficult to fit a sneer like that on a person’s face, but my father pulls off that difficult task well.

“The reason you wanted to hunt with is because you want to look good on and beco my successor?”

“no. “I know very well that it won’t work for my father.”

“I’m glad you know.”

“Being selected as a successor can be accomplished without your father’s help.”

“You’re confident.”

“Of course, my greedy, cruel, and nasty brother will interfere with .”

“You’re criticizing from behind again.”

“I have to ask. “How often do you get the chance to openly criticize the judge who scores the score?”

Father, if you really wanted a peaceful brotherhood between families, you should have decided that from the beginning. Don’t think nonsense about who the successor will be. Even if it is decided that way, isn’t the succession dispute the cause of fighting, killing, and chaos?

“Why did you say you wanted to hunt with ?”

“There are two reasons. First, I want to learn sothing and beco stronger. I think the first one was a success.”

“What if I beco stronger?”

I quickly responded to my father’s provocative look, asking if he was going to take my place.

“The reason I want to beco strong is not because I want to beco the Heavenly Demon. My father is still correcting , but I don’t want to waste my youth by riding Cheonma. “As long as I can beco the successor and learn the martial arts of the Heavenly Demon, I will be satisfied.”

Considering my age, in my father’s eyes, my older brother and I still seem inadequate to beco successors. In fact, my father chose my older brother as his successor about ten years from now.

Now, I can’t wait ten years. A small weight is not enough. It’s ti to take out the awl from your pocket and stab it here and there.

So, you must learn the Nine Fire Demonic Arts as quickly as possible and achieve great success. No, you have to reach a higher level than that. Even my father, who achieved the Twelve Saints, was defeated by Firearms, so I must achieve the Twelve Saints.

“I imagine it sotis. In my life, I co across a person I really want to kill, but I feel so bad when I can’t. “I don’t want to end up like that, so I want to beco stronger.”

I couldn’t tell what my father was thinking because his expression didn’t change.

“The second reason is?”

“I wanted to spend ti alone with my father. “It’s your first ti, right?”

The mockery on my father’s lips deepened again.

“It’s just a cheap sentint that’s worth dying for.”

“How could it be cheap to be with the best person in the world? If you sing, it will be the best song in the world, and if you drink it, it will be the best drink in the world. Even if you poop…”

“That’s it.”

“yes! “I will keep my mouth shut for one hour.”

My father and I made eye contact and I smiled happily. This may be the first ti you smile in front of your father. My father coldly turned his head away.

‘When I thought of my father, there was nothing to rember. The mories of being scared aren’t mories, right? In this life, my mories won’t be so bleak. But don’t like it. It’s not for your father, it’s for .’