The Regressor is too Powerful in Martial Arts – Chapter 53

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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‘The next major event was….’

It would be the fact that I had reunited with the Manifestation psionicist Ryu Ah-yeong at the training camp we had gone to when Lee Ha-eun and I became fifth-graders.

Well, Ryu Ah-yeong was also the same age as me, and the elementary school training camp was an event that was held twice, in the fourth and fifth grades.

Although she hadn’t known our names until then, Ryu Ah-yeong, who felt grateful to me for teaching her how to properly use her psionic power of Manifestation, had recognized us right away and had asked for our names first.

Next, she had even exchanged phone numbers with us, learned which school we attended, and was said to be in the process of persuading her parents, saying she wanted to attend the same middle school as us.

‘And Ryu Ah-yeong’s parents are even receptive to the idea, right?’

Since it was widely known that our neighborhood was where Sword Blossom… that is, Yeon Mi-rae lived, it seemed like they had thought that it wouldn’t be bad to move to our neighborhood for their children’s safety.

I also had no reason to object, as it would be nice if the person who had been my friend before my regression moved to the same neighborhood as ours.

And finally….

‘It would be the fact that my combat power has become higher than my doll’s.’

My doll had an unbelievably high body strength because a branch of the World Tree and ten-thousand-year-old cold iron had been used as its materials.

For that reason, the doll had been stronger than my main body all this time, but that wasn’t the case now.

Although internal energy flowed well for the doll, in the end, due to the limitation of being a doll, the handling of internal energy wasn’t as clean as in my own body.

But my main body was different.

From the moment I was born, I had been changing my body into one solely suitable for my martial art, the Divine Art of Harmony, and as a result, using martial arts with my own body was so comfortable that nothing could be better.

Not only that, but in the process of accumulating internal energy with the Divine Art of Harmony, my body had also naturally become strong, so now, I was even sturdier than the doll.

‘I had expected that a time like this would come someday, but still, to think it would happen before I even graduated from elementary school.’

For that reason, if an enemy that the doll couldn’t handle were to appear, I could now consider my main body stepping up directly as an option.

In the first place, I didn’t think there would be an enemy in Korea that my doll couldn’t handle, but isn’t insurance something you get in preparation for the unexpected?

Of course, I didn’t think the day would come when I would have to use it.

‘Anyway…’

Other than that, it was on a certain day when I was spending ordinary days attending school or training and teaching Yeon Mi-rae and Lee Ha-eun.

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“Everyone knows that there’s a school trip in two weeks, right?”

“Yeees!”

“Yes!”

Right after the test ended, the homeroom teacher asked that while looking at us who were self-grading.

Although it was self-grading, it was just the children taking the test paper of the one who was first in the class, that is, me, and comparing it to theirs.

‘Since it’s just a test, they could have just looked at the book and compared their test paper there.’

Well, since the children had seen me get a perfect score every time, it wasn’t strange for them to think that my test paper was as good as the answer key.

‘A school trip….’

Although it was called a school trip, I only had memories of sightseeing and playing around during this time from before my regression.

Actually, there were probably a lot of things that had happened, but it might have just been that my pre-regression self wasn’t very interested in the news, so I had just let them pass by without me taking note of them.

As I was thinking that, the teacher handed us a family newsletter.

The family newsletter contained information related to the school trip we would be going on in two weeks.

‘Let’s see… Gyeongju….’

It was the same place as before my regression.

Although the school I was attending now was different from the school I had attended before my regression, in the first place, even if the schools were different, the thoughts of the schools in the vicinity would be similar.

After all, not only was it a place with many cultural assets from the Silla period, but it was also a place famous as a tourist destination.

‘And we’ll be spending 3 days and 2 nights there….’

I thought that while looking at the schedule written on the family newsletter.

“I’m looking forward to it.”

“What are you going to bring?”

Before I knew it, the children who had been self-grading had stopped and were now talking about the school trip.

I could also occasionally see them deciding where to go during their free time.

‘…Going around with the other kids… would that be impossible?’

My pre-regression self had a similar sensibility to the other children, so I hadn’t been very impressed even when I saw the cultural assets at the tourist sites.

But the current me was different.

I wanted to see with my own eyes the religious colors contained in the cultural assets and what was called ‘the wisdom of our ancestors’.

‘Because the more you know, the more you see.’

However, unlike me, the other children would probably focus on playing around rather than enjoying the sights in Gyeongju.

So, going around with the other children would be impossib—

“Geon-woo! Of course, you’re coming with us during free time, right?”

“……”

I had been thinking that, but Lee Ha-eun approached me as if it were a matter of course and asked that.

With the other girls who usually hung out with her…

They were looking at me with sparkling eyes.

‘Hmm….’

Well, would it matter?

“Yeah, let’s do that.”

We’d probably see the cultural assets enough times when we looked around the tourist sites under the teachers’ guidance.

Thinking that, I turned my gaze to the schedule.

‘On the first day, we’ll go to a steel mill, and after that, we’ll look around the tourist sites, and then we’ll write about what we saw or felt there in a field trip report?’

Ah, another diary-like assignment has come up.

I, who had grumbled inwardly, looked at the children who had roughly finished their talk about the school trip and had started self-grading again, and spoke.

“Put it on my desk when you’re all done looking.”

I didn’t know if any of the children had heard, but the last one to self-grade would probably put it on my desk.

Thinking that, I left the classroom and headed to the training room.

To absorb the mana gathered at the school today and convert it into internal energy.

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“A school trip? Ah, it’s already that time of year.”

“Yeah! How was it when you went on your school trip, unni?”

At the clearing we always used.

There were Lee Ha-eun, who was looking forward to the school trip, and Yeon Mi-rae, who was listening to her.

“Uhm… I don’t remember well, but we definitely went to Gyeongju too, right?”

And Yeon Mi-rae answered Lee Ha-eun’s question like that.

As expected, all the schools think the same.

“A school trip….”

“…When did you get here?”

Before I knew it, the doll Rachel had made, Arthur, was standing next to us.

“Why are you so wary of me, Mr. Artist? We’re companions who have broken the necks of criminals together.”

“Don’t say such things in front of a child.”

And are you really a doll?

Actually, is only your body a doll, and your brain is really a human brain?

Why are your expressions so colorful?

“More importantly, a school trip… What are school trips in Korea like?”

“Well, it’s just about going around and seeing the tourist sites. What’s it like in England?”

Suddenly curious, I asked Arthur that.

Because although Arthur wouldn’t have memories from before he was made, I thought he would still have knowledge about school trips in England.

“It was different for each school. The high school Rachel attended used to gather applicants in advance and then go on an overseas trip during the vacation.”

“Oh….”

At those words, I was a little impressed.

Did he mean that they went overseas for their school trip?

“Ah, of course, that was because the school Rachel attended was a prestigious high school. Usually, they would go within England.”

“Hmm… so? Which country did they go to when Rachel was attending?”

“Japan. After all, at that time, people thought that there was more to see in Japan than in Korea.”

Japan.

Well, people from America or Europe were more familiar with Japan than Korea.

‘Because Japan is a country adjacent to the Pacific Ocean where the Black Fog is.’

In effect, since it was as good as one of the countries on the front lines in the war against the Black Fog, it was inevitable that it was famous.

“Still, these days, Korea has become more famous with the emergence of special Awakeners like you, Mr. Artist, and Yeon Mi-rae.”

“Hmm….”

I pondered while listening to Arthur’s words.

‘…Japan….’

As if she had heard my and Arthur’s talk, Yeon Mi-rae asked us.

“Come to think of it, didn’t they say that some students from Japan are coming to our country for a school trip this time?”

“Ah, there was such news.”

I remembered that many high schools in Japan were preparing to come to Korea for a school trip under the pretext of expecting an exchange between the future generations.

I remembered seeing a picture of Japanese high school students arriving at the airport, saying that some schools were already on their school trip.

Though their faces were mosaic-processed because of portrait rights.

“Then maybe when Ha-eun’s group goes to Gyeongju for their school trip, they might see the Japanese high school students?”

“No way. No matter how much they say it’s an exchange between the future generations, the Japanese side will probably send all their students to Seoul.”

Would they really send Japanese students, who probably didn’t even know Korean history well, to Gyeongju?

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But it seemed that my thought that the Japanese students wouldn’t come to Gyeongju was just my own delusion.

“Geon-woo, aren’t those people Japanese?”

“…I think you’re right.”

I affirmed Lee Ha-eun’s question like that.

In the place where Lee Ha-eun was pointing at, there were indeed Japanese high school students in uniform walking around.

Listening to their conversation, it seemed that several schools had come to Gyeongju for their school trip since there was a Japanese-style accommodation facility, a ryokan, in Gyeongju.

…If they liked ryokans, they could have just enjoyed their school trip within Japan. Why did they have to go to another country to find a ryokan?

‘…Though I can roughly understand.’

A Korean school trip for Japanese high schools, which hadn’t existed before my regression.

The cause, of course, would be my butterfly effect.

I thought that I was the direct cause of the sudden increase in Korea’s fame and attention, as Arthur had said.

‘Well, it has nothing to do with us, though.’

…Don’t tell me something is going to happen just because the Japanese high school students came to Gyeongju?

…It can’t be, right?

I suddenly became anxious.

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T/N – Come on, MC. You should know that the last part is just you raising a flag and tempting fate. Now something will definitely happen (as if narration saying ‘a certain day’ wasn’t enough of a clue).

Also, it’s wild that the MC’s main body is now stronger than his doll. I think the MC is now 12 or something if I was keeping track of his age correctly. A 12-year-old that’s tougher than a doll made from a branch of the World Tree and ten-thousand-year-old cold iron… Still, the MC raised a flag there yet again. He keeps doing it 😅

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