Regress and Eat

When I returned home, struggling to defend Kim's baptism of questions, I locked the door of the room and pulled Iponia out of the case.

“Ahhhh! Ahhhh! ”

I pull my hair up and show my teeth. I was surrounded by the desperate energy in his green eyes.

“Oh, relax. Kid."

In case you were wondering, there was a suggestion by the manager of Ogawa called "Be careful what you touch with your bare hands," but I didn't care.

With both hands on the man who was running to the corner of the case, Iponia struggled against him with no strength. Meanwhile, I scratched my forearm and had a little vivid tingle, but immediately a blue light came out of the bracelet, triggering the auto-heel, and the scar disappeared without a trace.

“Here, I'll put it on the floor. ”

A situation where you feel threatened by the worst conditions without eating quickly. Like the marketplace, he was exposed and his overly bright environment made his nerves sharper.

On the ground, Iponia stumbled on her four feet and hid in a dark place underneath the bed without even looking back.

I felt sorry that I couldn't even run properly when I ran away.

“Let's feed him, too. ”

I found the Guild Supply Department's contact information on the handset and placed a call. "Yes, yes! ’Only repeated.

And exactly 30 minutes later, I had a few skill cards in my hand that the person delivered to my room.

“I can't believe you gave away your guild assets in one phone call. It's like a private organization.”

Of course, if what I asked for were more valuable weaponized artifacts, I would have needed the Guild Master's approval, but I think this is fine.

There is also a reason why it was so easy to get one phone call. Examine the face of the card.

“Good choice. ”

It looks like one chapter is a pilgrimage.

“I picked up some really useless stuff. ”

That was my request.

One of the common people's illusions around this time is that skill cards are very expensive and precious and useful in some way.

Most of the skills known through the media were glamorous swordsmanship, magic spells, or mysterious special abilities, so they were misleading.

However, if you look at the skill cards found in the dungeons, most of them will be ignored and unused by Class F Hunters. When used, only limited skill slots are eaten.

These so-called garbage skills.

There are usually two types. 1. Either it's not useful at all 2. With some crazy conditions such as "300,000" (up to 50,000 manna barrels of earth officially recorded in a previous life), human beings can never use this skill.

The latter is usually kept separate when found, but the former is literally rubbish.

The things that are in my hands today are also in the first category. I handed them over one by one.

[Self-blind (Rank: F, Active)]

- Temporarily lose sight of the caster. Mana Consumption: 6

A typical rubbish skill. If you don't want to see something, simply lower your eyelids, close your eyes, and you won't have to waste six Mana.

I handed over the card.

[Promote Promotion (Rank: F, Active)]

- It creates multiple roots on the skin surface of the subject, allowing the body hair to grow in abundance. Mana Consumption: 7 per 1.9 sqm

I could have used it commercially if I had just returned a little more to the past, but hair loss has long been conquered in this era. Okay, next.

[Luering Quevados (Rank: F, Active)]

- Casting a skill gives a very luscious scent that seduces the Quevados for a certain period of time, and the Quevados favors the caster. Mana Consumption: 25

If for any reason Quevados is needed, this skill may be useful.

Only, the problem is that there are no Quevados on Earth, and no one even knows what kind of organism it is.

The rest of the cards were similar.

Now · · ·.

Hiding under the bed, he looked at me with a cautious look.

“You're hungry, right? Let's eat. ”

Quietly cast your gaze to the inside.

The small amount of Mana that was activated had almost been consumed during the afternoon event, but had recovered naturally over time.

I only hold one card in my hand and then concentrate Mana there.

Immediately, the skill card reacted.

Weeing!

The card disappears into light and the blue dry crystal remains in the palm of the hand, creating a specific pattern and circulating.

The Mana Crystal will be absorbed into the body, combined with my active Mana, and then engraved with a unique pattern. As a result, a new skill is saved in the skill slot. Following that, Mana moves and activates the skill based on the information stored.

But I didn't intend to.

Woohoo! Woohoo!

I created a repulsive force using Mana to prevent spontaneous absorption. Then he squeezes the Mana a little more and wraps it around the crystal.

And...

Degur!

You roll the crystal in your hand like a bead into the floor, tuck it under the bed, and then lean back and look inside.

The two eyes of Iponia, who were distracted by me, are firmly fixed to the Mana crystal that rolled in. The eyes of the exhausted one became intense as if they were on fire.

How long has it been since I've seen food?

“I'm sure she's got a belly skin on her back, but she won't eat it. ”

You must be very hungry. You have a lot of patience.

I kept talking to Iponia.

“Eat a lot and be healthy. Enough to digest my specialty. ”

Seo Jin-wook, who really wants to feed him, has a mysterious existence, and his cursing skill is still sleeping inside his body.

After it collided with the eyes of the successor, it was silent, and since then, I have never heard a whisper to induce my actions, but I do not know when to trigger it again.

Just because I was okay now, I couldn't live with the curse forever.

That's why I need Iponia · · · SSS-grade skills. It's hard for him to swallow right now and requires some work in advance.

In addition to Iphonia's stamina regeneration, we will also apply preliminary application of spines and bones to the prey.

Instead of staring at him constantly, I sat back down at my desk. I have starved for a long time, so there will be limits to my endurance. If he feels safe, he'll talk to you.

*

The next day, as soon as the sun came up, I called Kim's assistant. And I asked him to start the most important thing that I had to do.

Kim's secretary beyond the handset asked curiously.

“Angeli · · · What? What's your name again? ”

“Angelica Heard. ”

He said his name thoroughly.

I searched on my own until late last night, but still nothing is up.

I need professional help.

“Then I will work with you on the task of identifying the people who attacked us from outside the company. ”

“Yes, tell me everything you can, in as much detail as you can. Without limiting the category, literally everything about the person named Angelica Hudd. ”

Her awakening is a year from now. Now he will live as a civilian. That's why they don't search and come out.

I have really little information about what Angelica was doing in this age. She didn't like to talk about the past before the awakening.

It was strange when I thought about it. Even if you were reluctant to talk about it, how could you avoid documented information to such an extent? About the past of a man named Angelica Hurd.

At first, he understood it was a measure to protect her with the rare gift of prophecy. In the unlikely event that personal information leaks out and accidents involving family or neighbors become difficult.

However · · · It is strange that I hardly found any documents related to her past even after I reached the highest rank of the guild. Given the circumstances, there were traces of intentional information loopholes.

However, if the information that was released to the media at the time and her own words were true, Angelica would now be living in a coastal city in Portugal. I've given all the clues I know at this level to Kim's assistant.

“Oh, and... ”

“Yes, go ahead. ”

I hesitated to commission an additional investigation into one person.

It's about a hunter called Choi Seung Hyun.

I didn't just do a search for Angelica yesterday.

It has been decades by my standards, but I have tried several times on the internet using information from my previous life that remains clear in my head.

I looked back at all the traces I had left on the Internet, from checking the accounts I had opened in my name at the time.

But there was none.

As if the country had never existed, there were no traces in my memory that could not be wrong.

There was no family, so I also looked up a few acquaintances at the time. Of course they existed, but at least there was no sign of me being with them in their daily lives that were public on the Internet.

Choi Seung-hyun's regression changed the past not only for the individual named Seo Jin-wook.

In response, Choi Seung-hyun probably disappeared.

“No, thank you. ”

Instead of leaving this part to Kim's assistant, I decided to check it out later myself.

The situation is almost certain, but I still need to see it with these eyes.

“Then take good care of her. ”

I think after hanging up the phone.

If I had, it would have meant something to me to come back to this body and at this point.

It naturally comes back to me. The source of all this.

“Angelica.”

A fanatic who pretended to be Earth's Savior and pushed the Earth into a mirage of destruction at the crucial moment.

“We need to secure our position now, before we awaken. ”

What happened on the 100th floor of the Choice Tower in front of me grew up in front of my colleagues' final moments.

I sharpened my teeth.

“Why the hell did you do that? ”

I have a lot of time left before the future occurs, but if I come in contact with her now, I may get my questions answered.

No, it doesn't matter if you don't get an answer. The first thing is to prevent it from happening, even if we don't know the motives.

So...

I clenched my two fists, silently shining my eyes.

End