The Regressor is too Powerful in Martial Arts – Chapter 23

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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Yeon Mi-rae came to school as usual.

No, the phrase “as usual” might not have been fitting.

Because the usual her always kept her head bowed low, avoided other people’s gazes, and attended school quietly.

‘…Just as they did two days ago, the other students have also been openly insulting me.’

If Yeon Mi-rae had been an ordinary student with low grades, she might not have been bullied at all.

It would have ended with everyone just feeling sorry for her, seeing that she couldn’t use aura despite having awakened.

But Yeon Mi-rae was a genius, and she showed ability close to a perfect score in all areas except for those that used aura.

For that reason, the other students whose ranks were pushed down by her were jealous.

That jealousy had led to them openly ostracizing Yeon Mi-rae.

‘And it wasn’t just the students. The teachers also just stood by and watched.’

Thinking that, Yeon Mi-rae gritted her teeth.

What good was it if she was a model student with high grades?

Since her future after graduating from school was bleak, the teachers didn’t help her either.

Because helping her wouldn’t lead to an improvement of their own performance records.

‘But now… they can’t hold me back anymore.’

No, rather, they would become her stepping stones so that her fame could rise endlessly.

As she thought that, she walked with her head held high.

“…Who’s that?”

“She’s pretty. Was there someone like her in our school?”

Yeon Mi-rae, who had already been a beautiful girl, had gone through Complete Body Reconstruction, and things like blemishes had disappeared, giving her clear skin.

Moreover, unlike before, she was walking confidently, so her current vibe was completely different from the Yeon Mi-rae of before.

Thanks to that, the students who were coming to school at a similar time as Yeon Mi-rae didn’t recognize her and just thought that a beautiful girl they didn’t know was coming to their school.

“……”

Yeon Mi-rae felt the gazes of the other students.

A gaze different from the usual looks of disgust, contempt, and jealousy.

It was a gaze filled with admiration, envy, and lust.

The lustful gazes were a little unpleasant, but Yeon Mi-rae, who decided to just let it go for now, headed straight for her classroom.

Drrrk.

There were quite a few students who had come early to the classroom today.

But not all the students were there, and this scene was unfamiliar to Yeon Mi-rae…

Because she had always tried to avoid contact with other students as much as possible and would arrive at the classroom at the last minute, right before the school start time.

So to her, who had only ever seen the classroom with all the students present unless a student was late, the sight of some empty seats was unfamiliar to her.

‘…It doesn’t matter… who is here and who isn’t.’

Yes.

The students in her class were all either perpetrators or bystanders anyway.

There was no need to give them any more attention.

Thinking that, Yeon Mi-rae found her seat and sat down.

“…Hm?”

“What?”

The other students who saw her felt that something was strange.

A girl they didn’t know coming into the classroom could have been thought of as just someone who had come to find someone she knew in another class.

But the sight of that girl confidently walking in and sitting in a seat was, no matter how you thought about it, out of place.

“…Ah…?”

“Wait a minute, is that Yeon Mi-rae?”

And a few students finally recognized her.

Although her vibe had completely changed, her features themselves remained.

“……”

“……”

And no one tried to talk to Yeon Mi-rae.

Because they loathed her?

Because they despised her?

Because they were jealous of her?

No.

‘What is… this feeling….?’

‘That’s the Yeon Mi-rae we know… right…?’

In the first place, most of the students in the class had never even had a proper conversation with Yeon Mi-rae.

There was no way such students could try to start a conversation with her just because Yeon Mi-rae’s vibe had changed.

Yeon Mi-rae’s aura itself wasn’t one that invited conversation.

And above all….

“……”

“……”

“……”

The biggest reason was that everyone in the classroom was overwhelmed by the energy that Yeon Mi-rae was implicitly emitting, so no one approached her carelessly.

“…Damn it… Of all people, Yeon Mi-rae….”

“A mere half-wit….”

There were also those who didn’t look favorably to her change.

They were mostly those who had met Yeon Mi-rae at the market two days ago and had been humiliated for some reason.

They were convinced that the culprit who had humiliated them at that time was someone related to Yeon Mi-rae.

And for good reason too. The people who had flocked to the restroom were all people who had been there when they were insulting Yeon Mi-rae.

It was more difficult to think that it was unrelated to Yeon Mi-rae.

‘Of course, there’s no way that half-wit who can’t even use aura did something herself.’

Yesterday, they had no choice but to take a leave from school because the aftereffects of the incident two days ago remained, so they had intended to interrogate her as soon as they came to school today, but they couldn’t even properly talk to Yeon Mi-rae because of her unusual vibe today.

And since they were people who had always looked down on Yeon Mi-rae, their pride was hurt by the situation where they had to be wary of her.

“…Damn it, do we have no choice? Hey, there’s a sparring class during today’s classes, right?”

“There is, but… what are you trying to do?”

Honestly… we can’t win even if we all jump her.

“Shut up. And it’s not like we’ll be fighting her directly.”

A student said that and sent a message to someone.

A message asking them to rough up Yeon Mi-rae a little today….

“…Hey, don’t tell me….”

“No matter how much it’s Yeon Mi-rae… do you think a kid who can’t use aura can beat an instructor? And this instructor is sponsored by our guild, so he can’t do anything against my words.”

He muttered that and laughed unpleasantly.

He thought that Yeon Mi-rae’s vibe may be strange today, but that too would return to normal after today’s sparring class passed.

And….

“……”

Yeon Mi-rae’s ears heard all of their conversation.

‘An instructor….’

She thought of the few instructors at the school and did some image training.

She checked to see if the current her could beat them.

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A few hours later.

It was time for the sparring class that those who wanted to give Yeon Mi-rae a hard time had been waiting for.

“You all know the drill since you’ve done it many times, but you just have to go up to the sparring grounds in pairs of two.”

The instructor in charge of this class said that.

He was the strongest instructor among those employed at this high school.

Of course, being the strongest instructor didn’t mean he was an Awakener with considerable skill.

Although he was a veteran, among his peers, his skills were below average.

‘People with truly outstanding skills aren’t employed at a high school like this, but at an academy that teaches combat arts in earnest.’

Even so, this Awakener instructor had skills that high school students couldn’t dare to look down upon.

He lightly scanned the students in Yeon Mi-rae’s class.

And he spoke.

“An odd number.”

The total number of students in Yeon Mi-rae’s class was an odd number.

Naturally, if they paired up in twos, one person was bound to be left over.

“……”

And this, naturally, had to be Yeon Mi-rae.

Because Yeon Mi-rae, despite not being able to use aura, had the skill to subdue all the students in her class.

The other students who wanted to get a good evaluation score in sparring wouldn’t point to Yeon Mi-rae as their opponent.

The other students who didn’t want to have a sparring match where they would only lose overwhelmingly also wouldn’t point to Yeon Mi-rae as their opponent.

Above all, since there was no one close to Yeon Mi-rae, there was no student who would point to her as their sparring partner.

For that reason, Yeon Mi-rae was always without a partner.

The instructor, who knew that fact well, said to Yeon Mi-rae.

“Yeon Mi-rae. You’re with me. Any objections?”

“No. I have none.”

“?”

At Yeon Mi-rae’s answer without any hesitation, the instructor showed a slightly puzzled expression, but it was only for a moment.

Because it was convenient for him if Yeon Mi-rae didn’t particularly object.

In the first place, he had received a request to rough up Yeon Mi-rae, so he had to make her face him somehow.

Having thought that far, the instructor opened his mouth as if he had forgotten.

“…Ah, and during today’s class, people from the Association, scouts from each guild, and people from broadcasting stations will be visiting the sparring grounds. They’re here to see the third-years who have sparring class right after this, the ones who are graduating next year, so you guys don’t need to be nervous… but still, don’t be too loud.”

A certain boy’s eyes lit up upon hearing those words.

It was the boy who had asked the instructor to rough up Yeon Mi-rae.

To that boy, it seemed that this could be used.

The boy quietly sent a signal to the instructor, and the instructor just nodded his head silently.

Because the instructor was also thinking of something similar to the boy.

It must have been to humiliate Yeon Mi-rae in front of all the visitors.

‘Well… no matter how much I try to humiliate Yeon Mi-rae, in the end, since it’s a match between an instructor and a student, it doesn’t seem like Yeon Mi-rae’s evaluation will drop by much….’

A sparring match between an instructor and a cadet….

It was rather natural for the cadet to be defeated in this sparring match.

So even if Yeon Mi-rae was defeated, and even if she was defeated overwhelmingly, her evaluation wouldn’t drop.

‘No, he said to just rough her up, so maybe the evaluation she receives doesn’t matter.’

Pretend to go easy on her so that her evaluation itself could be high, but make it humiliating.

The instructor, who judged this to be a pretty good idea, thought about how to humiliate Yeon Mi-rae.

‘Since she’s a girl, shall I just rip her clothes a little?’

The instructor thought that and proceeded with the sparring class.

…In fact, the level of the class itself was low.

In the first place, what could instructors who were veterans but had below-average skills teach the students?

It would be a relief if they didn’t ruin talented students by giving them wrong pointers.

The instructor’s role was just to stop the students’ sparring from getting too rough.

In the first place, even if it was an Awakener-specialized school, the sparring classes at the high school level were conducted with the intent of getting the students used to the act of sparring and the certain degree of pain that came with it.

Thanks to that, except for the sparring of a few students with really high levels, most weren’t worth watching.

And even then, since there were no particularly high-level students in Yeon Mi-rae’s class other than Yeon Mi-rae herself, the instructor just roughly supervised the sparring class and passed the time.

After some time had passed like that, other people began to flock to the sparring grounds.

They were the guests from outside that the instructor had mentioned earlier.

“Next, Yeon Mi-rae, come out.”

The instructor who saw that didn’t delay and called Yeon Mi-rae to the sparring grounds.

Then, Yeon Mi-rae went up as if she had been waiting.

Because it wasn’t just the instructor and the student who had requested it who had been waiting for this time. Yeon Mi-rae too had also been waiting for this.

‘Based on this sparring match, all the evaluations of me will change.’

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T/N – Damn, I didn’t know I was actually translating a chinese web novel? Where did this face-slapping sequence come from all of a sudden? Jokes aside, I do hope the author doesn’t go too wild with the face-slapping. I had enough of that in my cultivation novel phase that I now feel sick whenever I try to read a chinese cultivation web novel.

If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.