The Regressor is too Powerful in Martial Arts – Chapter 25

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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Right after Yeon Mi-rae dropped out of the school she had been attending, she naturally moved in next door to us.

She also transferred to the high school right next to the Awakener-specialized elementary school I attended.

Naturally, the high school welcomed her with open arms.

It was only natural that they would, if the recently famous youngest Aura Blade user said she would transfer to their school.

That wasn’t just the school. The residents of the apartment complex where we lived were the same.

‘When a celebrity and an Awakener strong enough to use an Aura Blade moved in, all the people living in this apartment complex were happy, saying that their house prices would go up.’

Though my mother’s reaction was a little different.

My mother was surprised when a celebrity who was being promoted on the news recently moved in next door, but after realizing that the celebrity herself was no different from an ordinary high school student in her daily life, she felt comfortable with her.

Moreover, it was quite famous that Yeon Mi-rae not only had no family, but she had also been ostracized or ignored at her previous school and at the Association’s market near her previous residence, so….

‘…She felt sorry for her situation and even told her it was okay to call her Mom.’

Of course, Yeon Mi-rae never actually called my mother ‘Mom.’ Nevertheless, it showed that my mother was that accepting towards Yeon Mi-rae.

Yeon Mi-rae also leaned on my mother’s goodwill and naturally blended into our daily lives.

This meant that if something were to happen, I could entrust my mother to Yeon Mi-rae when I wasn’t around.

Though, for the most part, that wouldn’t happen.

Not only that, but Yeon Mi-rae also quickly became close with Lee Ha-eun, who always came over to our house to play.

“Unni, unni. When we become high school students, can we eat a lot of delicious things like you, unni?”

“Of course~.”

There were several reasons why the two of them quickly became close, such as the fact that Yeon Mi-rae was a face that frequently appeared on TV recently, so Lee Ha-eun looked at her as if she were a celebrity, and the fact that Yeon Mi-rae’s financial situation had improved, so she often bought them snacks.

Though there was a more decisive reason.

“I’m looking forward to going to the amusement park!”

The biggest reason was probably that Yeon Mi-rae had volunteered to be our guardian in place of our busy parents and said that she would take us to an amusement park on the weekend.

“Though that’s only if you attend your academy well… is the condition….”

“That’s not fair! Geon-woo and Mi-rae unni don’t go to an academy, so why do only I have to go to an academy?”

As Lee Ha-eun and I moved up to the second grade of elementary school, Lee Ha-eun started attending an academy.

Unlike aura users, psionicists, or spiritmancers who used their abilities instinctively, for her who was a mage, attending an academy was as good as essential.

It might be different for low-grade magic, but for magic above a certain level, one had to perfectly understand and draw a magic circle to be able to use the magic properly.

Of course, there were also academies for aura users, but it was a bit much for Yeon Mi-rae and I to attend such an academy.

‘It’s just that we’re known as aura users to the public, but it’s not like we’re actually aura users.’

In the first place, even if we had been real aura users, it would have been impossible for an academy of an ordinary level to teach us.

In fact, it seemed like my mother had also thought about sending me to an academy when I became a second-grader, but there was no way I would try to attend an academy while paying the expensive academy fees when I had nothing to learn from there.

For that, I used Yeon Mi-rae.

“I’ll try teaching Geon-woo aura. Ah, don’t worry about the money either.”

“But…. Won’t it be difficult for you?”

“It’s fine. Rather than that, Geon-woo’s talent is so outstanding that I’m curious to see how much he’ll grow.”

My mother hesitated for a moment at Yeon Mi-rae’s proposal, but perhaps she was swayed by the fact that our family wasn’t that well-off and that she could attach a ‘privately tutored by an Aura Blade user’ to me, so she accepted her proposal.

Thanks to that, Yeon Mi-rae was able to visit my room in our house every day under the pretext of tutoring me.

And in my room….

‘The mana-gathering magic circle I drew is there.’

Yeon Mi-rae absorbed the mana gathered in my room and quickly accumulated internal energy.

My own internal energy accumulation speed had decreased due to that, but this level of loss was worth enduring.

In any case, it was impossible to block the Black Fog’s full-scale attack in the future with my strength alone.

So, it was necessary to invest in Yeon Mi-rae to some extent.

‘I’m absorbing the mana gathered in the much larger magic circle at school anyway.’

Ah, I guess that was the same for Yeon Mi-rae at her school too.

Then Yeon Mi-rae would be absorbing even more mana.

Moreover, she had said that her growth rate would also increase if she was near me, so her internal energy accumulation speed might be above mine.

Of course, a martial artist’s realm wasn’t determined solely by the amount of one’s internal energy.

“Today, I’ll teach you about the lightness technique.”

“Yes.”

Besides that, I also went to a nearby mountain and taught Yeon Mi-rae various techniques.

Mainly weapon arts other than swordsmanship, combat arts, and other types of martial arts like the lightness technique.

Because the Heaven-Defying Divine Art I had created for her was, in the end, an internal energy cultivation method.

It meant that she had to learn separately how to use the internal energy accumulated through the internal energy cultivation method.

Fortunately, since she was also a genius, she absorbed the numerous weapon arts, combat arts, and miscellaneous techniques I taught her like a sponge.

Seeing that, I got greedy and also taught her about magic and psionic powers, but unfortunately, she couldn’t absorb those properly.

“The weapon arts, combat arts, and the lightness technique are all about moving the body, so I think I can follow them somehow… But for magic and psionic powers, I really don’t have a clue where to start.”

“Well….”

Although she was a martial artist who used martial arts now, originally, she was a proper aura ability Awakener.

As such, while she was a genius when it came to using her body, it seemed that she didn’t have talent for completely separate fields like magic and psionic powers.

Although she had memorized all the theory into her head, putting it into practice was like moving a non-existent body organ….

Still, thanks to her desperate efforts, she became able to use a few of the word-command magics I had modified somehow.

“Purification and Cleanliness….”

Just these two.

I could roughly understand why.

Since she used a sword, she couldn’t avoid close-quarters combat, and if she engaged in close-quarters combat, she couldn’t avoid monster blood splattering on her.

If she pulled back before the blood splattered, she could prevent it from staining her to some extent, but then the efficiency of the hunt would drop.

For that reason, Yeon Mi-rae had desperately learned the magic that could immediately erase blood even if it splattered on her.

‘Well, even I only used magic related to cleanliness before my regression.’

Only after regressing did I use various magic spells to supplement my lacking physical ability or martial arts, but when my realm rises, I probably wouldn’t even use these.

Because martial arts were more efficient than magic.

It wasn’t that magic was inefficient. This just meant that martial arts were more comfortable for me to use than magic.

Anyway…

“Hoo… Good work.”

“Yes, you too.”

Although we went out under the pretext of Yeon Mi-rae teaching me about aura, in reality, it was me repeatedly teaching Yeon Mi-rae.

Thanks to that, Yeon Mi-rae’s realm was rising quickly, and….

I was receiving that reward through the Awakener System.

It was as if the Awakener System was compensating me for not being able to increase my own internal energy because I was making Yeon Mi-rae grow.

Though it was a reward, since I received it in the form of points, which I also got as a usage fee every time other people used the techniques I had registered in the Awakener System’s database, the amount was minimal.

This probably meant that the Awakener System also had no idea how to make me grow further.

‘My body is already tailored to the Divine Art of Harmony, so it’s tricky to touch, and although my internal energy can be increased, if it tries to modify the internal energy to match the Divine Art of Harmony’s internal energy and then inject it into me, the efficiency will drop.’

And if it tried to touch the martial art itself, well… My martial art, the Divine Art of Harmony, was growing in real time too.

Because the Divine Art of Harmony was a martial art in which all of my experiences were accumulated.

Not only my pre-regression experiences, but also my post-regression experiences were continuously being accumulated in it, so the Divine Art of Harmony was continuously growing.

So it would be difficult for the Awakener System to give me a reward in a form other than points.

‘Even the Eyes of a Grand Master I received as a reward before is being altered by the influence of the Divine Art of Harmony.’

Therefore, I fully understood why the Awakener System couldn’t give me a reward in a form other than points.

Although the Awakener System was basically omnipotent, it wasn’t an omniscient being.

Ah, still, if I told it what part to strengthen and how, or specifically explained what item I wanted, it could give them to me as a reward by deducting points.

“What are you thinking about?”

“Just thinking about how the Awakener System is not an omniscient being.”

At my words, Yeon Mi-rae shut her mouth.

Yeon Mi-rae knew as well…

That the Awakener System was giving me an abnormal amount of special treatment.

That she herself, my disciple, was also receiving some of the Awakener System’s special treatment.

She didn’t know the reason because she didn’t know about my regression, but she must have judged that the relationship between me and the Awakener System was at least not something she should interfere with.

“Let’s head back soon. It’s time for dinner.”

“Yes.”

Having organized my thoughts, I said that to Yeon Mi-rae, and the latter, who was catching her breath, came down from the mountain by following me.

And we headed straight for our house.

…Ah, you don’t have to find it strange that Yeon Mi-rae naturally comes to our house.

“Are you two both here? Wash your hands in the bathroom before you eat.”

“Yes.”

“Yes.”

Because Yeon Mi-rae lived alone and often ate poorly, my mother had insisted that she have dinner with us at our house.

It was probably because she felt sorry for Yeon Mi-rae, who was tutoring me without receiving any tutoring fees.

…In reality, it was actually me tutoring her, but my mother didn’t know that.

“Geon-woo, what did you learn today?”

“Today? I learned how to run fast and dodge!”

“Is that so?”

Though I was the one who taught, not the one who learned.

Every time my mother asked me what I had learned today like this, I agonized inwardly.

Mainly because of the guilt of having to lie to her.

“It’s partly because I went easy on him, but Geon-woo followed well. As expected, his talent is beyond mine. I really wonder whose son he is….”

“You… You’re just saying that to make me feel good, right?”

Of course, Yeon Mi-rae also lied naturally.

Fortunately, her lie wasn’t obvious, and thanks to that, my mother didn’t suspect us.

After eating dinner like that…

“Then I’ll be off to work.”

“Okay, take care.”

Yeon Mi-rae always returned to her house next door, got her gear, and left our apartment complex.

“I’ll go in and do my homework too.”

“You know you can only play games after you finish all of your homework, right?”

“Yeees~.”

And I returned to my room while my mother was doing the dishes.

After that, I took out the doll from the subspace and sent it to Yeon Mi-rae.

“…You’ve come.”

“Yes. Which dungeon shall we clear today….?”

And so, Yeon Mi-rae and my doll, who had met outside, went straight to clear a dungeon that had been discovered in advance.

With just my doll and Yeon Mi-rae, it was possible to clear most dungeons within 30 minutes, so we cleared an average of about 3 dungeons a day. And then we headed straight to the nearby Association market to dispose of the byproducts.

Since Yeon Mi-rae’s status was different from before, no matter how many monster byproducts she processed, no one found it strange.

Because to other people, for a person who used an Aura Blade, it wouldn’t be difficult to clear about 3 dungeons alone.

My doll and Yeon Mi-rae, who had processed the byproducts in that way, would return home before midnight.

My and Yeon Mi-rae’s recent days would end in this way.

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Then one day, an incident occurred.

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T/N – Well, not much happened in this chapter. One thing that bugged me is that Yeon Mi-rae immediately went to be next door neighbors with the MC. I mean, that looks pretty suspicious, not gonna lie. But I guess without any hints, no one would be able to connect the dots. Still weirds me out though.

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