Absolute Regression

Episode 98 My world would be boring.

The two evil Soma eyes in the eye sockets were smiling brightly.

Would you have ever imagined that in exchange for lifting your ban, you would have to take off your mask?

He was angry but happy at the same time. I may be the first person who made him have two conflicting emotions coexist.

In my entire life, I’ve never seen anyone treat me so carelessly. Even my father didn’t treat the Mazons so carelessly.

I know. How much Extreme Soma loves to enjoy moments like this. Your blood will be flowing quickly and your heart will be beating like crazy. I think this too is some kind of illness.

“What if I promise to take off my mask and then later don’t keep my promise?”

“We have to rush in and forcefully take it off.”

“Now, let’s practice.”

In an instant, Extreme Evil Soma’s eyes sank. Ready to fight, he was a completely different person than he was a moment ago.

I waved my hand and pushed my chair back.

“If I do that, the skin on my face might come off.”

Extreme Soma answered his prayers and asked leisurely.

“Now, if you can’t force it off, what are you going to do now?”

I stared at him for a moment and then answered calmly.

“I won’t do anything.”

For a moment, Extreme Soma was shocked. I just said the correct answer that even the person involved, Extreme Soma, doesn’t know.

Do nothing.

This is the right answer for this tree frog-like extreme soma. He asked me with an expression of incomprehension.

“Does this mean you will trust me?”

“Honestly, I don’t believe it. “Extreme Soma is not a name that gives anyone confidence, is it?”

I laughed as if it was a joke, but he didn’t laugh.

“Now, please stand up. Soma, you should go and eat too.”

I didn’t explain why to him. Sometimes not saying anything works best. This is especially true when there is no particular reason, like this time.

Sometimes the other person exaggerates this insignificant thing and makes it into something plausible.

I stood up first, followed by Extreme Soma.

After leaving the pub, we went back the way we came.

He walked side by side with me for a while and then stopped.

“Please wait a moment.”

He went to the vendor selling masks. Then he bought a white mask there and gave it to me.

“This is a gift to commemorate today.”

I said to him as I accepted the mask.

“I suggested that you take off your mask, but instead you put a mask on my face.”

I obediently put on my mask.

“It’s frustrating. I guarantee that if you take off your mask and fight, Soma will fight twice as well. “How long does it take for this to become comfortable?”

“It doesn’t take as long as you think.”

“If so, the converse would also be true. “The time it takes to feel at ease without the mask.”

Visible through the eye holes of the mask, Extreme Soma was staring at me in silence.

You were looking at me like this.

He can now look at me only with my eyes in his eye sockets. Maybe that would be more disadvantageous for me. Because Extreme Soma has lived among numerous masked minions for a very long time.

I pulled the mask up onto my head like a hat.

“Write it like this. How comfortable and good is it? Put it on when you want to put it on, take it off when you want to take it off. “Just like this.”

With that, I tapped the mask above my head, looking at the sky, with my palm.

“This guy will feel good too. “If you look at the sky like this.”

Then, Extreme Soma looked up at the sky.

“Wouldn’t it be okay to do this? Then we will both see the sky.”

When Extreme Soma, who had been looking at the sky with empty eyes for a long time, turned his gaze to me, he had already made a decision.

“great. I will accept the conditions presented by Lee Gong-ja. “If you lift my restraints, I will take off my mask when we are alone.”

I don’t believe he will keep his promise.

This is the face I saw only once before my return and before I died. He won’t take off his mask easily.

But just making that promise is meaningful. Will I ever see his younger face?

“Thank you, Soma.”

The vertical line on the line drawn in my heart moved a little more to the right. There is still a long way to go. It won’t be until you get more than halfway through that you’ll be in a state where you’ll be wondering whether or not to kill me.

“If I meet these conditions, I can attack my father, right?”

We looked at each other and smiled. Neither he nor I expressed our true feelings at all, but we smiled broadly as if this laughter was a sign of this promise.

* * *

The next day, when I entered Cheonmajeon, Commander-in-Chief Sima Ming was also there.

After saying hello to his father, he joked with Sima Ming.

“I’ve been cornered by you lately, soldier.”

“What do you mean?”

“My father followed up with us, even though we were two houses apart.”

Only then did he understand that he was talking about baduk, and Sima Ming laughed.

“It’s because you were defrauded by a soldier who can’t play baduk.”

“You already heard it.”

This time I laughed. My father is blunt and doesn’t seem like he would ever tell the jokes we shared, but he does it all to Sima Ming. This probably means that Sima Ming is close.

After a brief exchange of greetings, I told my father the purpose of today’s visit.

“I came to see you because my father asked me a favor.”

“Say it.”

“Please lift the ban on Extreme Soma.”

My father wasn’t surprised. It’s probably because they’ve recently reported that I’ve been meeting with a very evil Soma.

Sima Myung stepped forward in place of my father who was silently looking down at me.

“May I ask why?”

“Geokaksoma came to me and asked me a favor.”

“Then can’t you just refuse?”

“If you refuse, I will kill your family! What should I do if someone threatens me? Ah, then I guess I will become the Heavenly Demon. Should I have accepted it?”

Sima Ming did not laugh at my joke.

“This is not something to joke about. Do you know why Extreme Soma was banned?”

“I know. “They massacred the Sapostolic Alliance warriors.”

“Soma is a person who cannot control his anger.”

“The longer we keep him tied up, the more angry he will explode.”

Even Sima Ming could not refute this statement.

My father, who was listening, suddenly asked.

“Can you take responsibility?”

“Why am I responsible? “The person who caused the accident should be held responsible.”

“If a dog off leash bites a person, how can the dog be solely responsible? “The person who released him must also be held accountable.”

“Of course, but.”

“If you accept the condition that you will take responsibility, I will lift the ban.”

“You can’t just support that person forever, can you? “When the ban is lifted, he will be immediately excommunicated, and I will only be responsible for what happens during that expulsion.”

“good night!”

Unlike his father, who readily gave his permission, Sima Ming once again emphasized it with an anxious look on his face.

“There must have been a lot of Extreme Soma accumulated over the past two years of being confined to the main school. “If you go out to the midfield, you could commit a massacre.”

“I will keep this in mind and look closely.”

Lastly, he expressed his gratitude to his father.

“Father, thank you for your permission.”

Of course, my father did not accept the greeting without any hesitation.

“Is this really something to be thankful for?”

From the perspective of Cheonmajeon, it was impossible to ban extreme soma forever. At a time like this, my request would have been enough to give my father an opportunity to lift the ban. As a result, this incident also became a kind of successor test.

father. I’m sorry, but I will have the advantage in this matter. I already know what Extreme Evil Soma is planning to do after he leaves the church.

* * *

After leaving Cheonmajeon, I went straight to the evil song to visit Extreme Evil Soma.

“Did you really get permission?”

It seems that Extreme Soma didn’t know that I would get my father’s permission in just one day.

“yes. The ban will be lifted tomorrow. An official document will arrive from Tongcheongak sometime tomorrow.”

Admiration flashed in Extreme Soma’s eyes.

“I had no idea we could do it this quickly.”

“Now you know why you should support me and not your brother, right?”

“I’ll have to think about it seriously. But did the religious leader just allow it?”

“Is that possible? “My father put a condition on it.”

“What are the conditions?”

I let out a somewhat exaggerated sigh and then spoke to him.

“If Soma causes trouble, I will take full responsibility for it.”

“Ohh! “You risked your position as successor for me.”

“That’s the way it is.”

Extreme Soma did not hide his expression of surprise.

“Is this worth it?”

“Seeing Soma’s face? “I think it’s well worth it.”

“The Duke of Lee risked too much just to be flattered like this.”

“Then, since you’ve already been caught, I’ll do one more thing. Becoming friends with a very evil soma is something no one will ever experience in their lives. “It’s a condition worth walking on.”

The evil soma stared at me as if it were staring me in the face. You might want to find out what my intentions are, but you won’t be able to know me just by looking at my eyes and facial expressions. In the past, now and in the future.

“In other words, I can have as many accidents as I want. “The scientist will be responsible.”

“It’s really crazy.”

“Couldn’t you have hidden it? You don’t want me to tell you that you promised to take responsibility, right? “It would be a weakness for a scientist.”

“I have to say it. “Aren’t most of the problems we face caused by not speaking up when we should?”

Extreme Soma smiled strangely. It is a different type of laughter than the habitual laughter.

“I have no intention of ignoring Soma. “I don’t think that something will happen if I hide it.”

“Whenever I heard rumors about Lee Gongja, I thought they were exaggerated. But now I see it has shrunk a lot.”

“Maybe it’s because he’s Soma-sama.”

“What do you mean?”

“Even if you report the same thing, the content will sound different depending on how you feel. However, in front of Lord Soma, even his subordinates will have no choice but to become rigid. Only dry reports that exclude personal opinions or emotions as much as possible will be included. “I wouldn’t have been able to properly convey who I am.”

“That makes perfect sense.”

The laughter sounded different again. Soma smiles like that when he has a lot on his mind.

“Instead, please promise me one thing.”

“What is it?”

“If you need to leave school, you must come with me. “If you break this promise, you will be banned again and you will probably have to start over from the beginning.”

“Let’s leave school tomorrow without any promises of a later date.”

The person who makes this kind of impromptu decision is a very evil person. So dealing with him is difficult.

I also answered without hesitation.

“I’m looking forward to my trip with Soma.”

I deliberately described my departure from church with him as a trip.

“We are not going on a trip.”

“If you go with friends, isn’t it a trip no matter where you go?”

I have to do my best to prevent him from getting into trouble during this journey, so I don’t want to approach him this anxiously.

I’m really going out with the mindset that I’m going out to have some fun with Extreme Soma. If a friend fights, you stop him, and if he falls into danger, you save him. With just this much heart.

“Then I’ll just leave.”

“I’ll see you tomorrow morning, Mr. Lee.”

As I was about to open the door and come out, Extreme Soma asked me from behind.

“Is there somewhere you want to go?”

I turned to him and said.

“a lot. But during this mission, I want to see Soma’s world. “Please show me around.”

“My world would be boring. “Maybe even more than Magachon.”

“You may feel that way because it is your world, but if someone else sees it, it will be different.”

He laughed and I laughed along with him.

When you meet Soma, you often laugh. Whether the smile is forced, whether there is a dagger in the smile, or whether it is sincere. Anyway, I end up laughing. They say that if you laugh often, you will live longer. There are also good points like this.

As I opened the door again and was about to leave, I added another word.

“Truly, Maga Village is not such a trivial place. People make a living by selling masks to evil demons, right?”