The Regressor and the Blind Saint

When I had an unbelievable experience, when I did something I had been dreaming of for a long time, there was a reaction that usually follows.

none other than insomnia.

‘Maybe everything that happened today is a dream.’ I can’t sleep at all because of thoughts like that.

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Of course, Renee was also a person who did not deviate from such a universal sensibility.

Renee, who stayed up all night in the memory of those moments when he spent time with his head resting on Vera’s shoulder, walked hand in hand and walked with a limp movement.

Just right. Just right.

The sound of the stick was creating an irregular beat somewhere.

It was an accident that occurred on the first day of my treatment service, because I couldn’t control my emotions even though I had to do everything in my best condition.

If it was Renee as usual, I would have twisted my body with guilt… , it was different today.

A shy smile hung over Renee’s face as he scrambled forward.

‘It’s not a dream.’

It was because I was so happy that all the events of the previous day were real.

I’m in bad shape

However, there was no problem with the schedule.

Because he can survive with this happy energy alone. I’m going out on the streets today with Vera.

He was able to overcome the coming drowsiness without hesitation.

So, Renee, who had been spreading happiness all around, opened the door, and immediately afterward, Vera’s voice rang out.

“Did you cough?”

Startle-.

Renee’s body trembled.

Even though he knew Vera was standing in front of him, the voice he heard reminded him of what had happened the day before.

My cheeks were getting hot again.

Renee licked her lips for a moment at the rising heat that crossed between shame and excitement, then answered Vera’s words.

“Good morning. Vera.”

“… Yes.”

Vera’s attitude in answering with his head bowed was also different from usual.

Vera couldn’t sleep either.

The only difference from Renee is that there is no change in condition. How was it normal? Wouldn’t it be more ridiculous if Vera’s body, which spanned the realm of superhumans, collapsed to the extent of staying overnight?

Vera struggled to clear the tremors and beats.

Although she hides her identity, it was the idea that René had to come to her senses as it was the first activity as a saint in the Empire.

However, there was one thing that could not be hidden, and that was the gaze treatment.

Vera had been serving Renee from the moment he opened the door, staring at the hard floor and serving him.

It was because his composure was broken just by the thought of facing Renee directly.

“Shall we go?”

Renee’s words. hands outstretched together.

Vera shuddered and folded his hands under him.

What follows immediately is entanglement. Renee’s fingers began to dig between Vera’s fingers.

It was a move to do it shamelessly, as it should have been, as it has always been.

Vera felt his heart drop with a ‘thump’. I felt like someone was squeezing me inside.

However, it did not resist the movement. Vera simply followed Renee’s movements and pinched his fingers.

It was supposed to be an implicit rule.

Clap your hands when you hold them.

No one said anything, but such a promise was being engraved between the two of them.

“where are you going?”

Renee spoke in a tone as brazen as the movement of my hand. Vera also gave him a blatant answer.

“I’m going to 11th Street. As it is a district for low-income commoners, it is a place where people who are burdened with receiving medical treatment from healers are often seen.”

“Ah, the healer… .”

“Yes, I have to spend quite a bit of money to get medical treatment from them because they are treated as high-level personnel.”

“… Yes, then let’s go there.”

“Yes.”

The conversation didn’t go any further.

There is a mysterious atmosphere that is hard to describe, and there are emotions that come and go even when you just keep your mouth shut.

The two walked with their mouths shut as they did the day before.

*

A private residence on 11th Street in the Empire.

In the plaza there, Renée began a healing service.

It didn’t do much publicity.

However, there was already a long line in front of Renee.

That’s what the uniforms did. The gold cross embroidered on the shoulder over the white priest’s uniform clearly showed the purpose of the two men coming here, so there was no reason for those seeking treatment not to line up in front of it.

Renee radiates pure white divinity. A young boy holding hands in front of him widens his eyes. What was reflected in the boy’s gaze was the sight of his long torn arm being healed in an instant.

“Wow… .”

“Aren’t you in pain now?”

“yes… .”

Renee smiled in the tone of the dull boy. It was because I could feel the joy that was in it.

“Are you going to see your mother now? I think you should look after the people behind you.”

“Yes, thank you!”

“Goodbye, don’t get hurt again.”

There was no answer coming back, but Renee burst out laughing at the sound of footsteps moving away with a bouncing beat.

Vera looked up at Renee’s back smiling so much, and began to raise a dazed look.

Should I be happy? Vera felt reassured for some reason in this composition in which he was standing behind Renee.

If you stand behind here, you can hold onto your composure as much as you can’t see Renee’s face.

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Of course, there is still a bit of heat left, so I can’t say it’s exactly the same as usual, but it was much better than the day before.

It was thanks to the stability given by the puffy priest’s uniform and the long white veil that covered his head.

The outfit that makes her a saint rather than a woman is what makes Vera’s heart comfortable.

Briefly, a breath escaped Vera’s mouth.

‘… Concentration.’

Vera made up his mind.

Even though it was the capital of an empire with good security, there were certainly crimes that took place.

Moreover, since 11th Street was not far from 13th Street where the gutter is located, criminals flowing from there were occasionally seen.

I mean, you shouldn’t be with a broken heart.

Vera knew.

The criminals in the gutter did not hide their true nature even if they came out. This is because the life of the gutter has already been ingrained into the body, and the moral concept is broken, and even after committing a sin, they do not recognize it.

I knew it because it was Vera, who rolled all the criminals in that gutter long ago.

Maybe that’s all, Vera also knew how tasty he was now.

Since he and Renee are dressed as a regular priest, and the purpose of coming here is pure medical practice, they will definitely show their teeth.

Vera looked around based on that thought.

First, a long line of patients in front of Renee. It was a procession that, as a rule of thumb, would last for several hours.

‘There is no double.’

If it’s normal, then it’s normal. There was no way he could be involved as he would be beaten up by the residents of 11th Street before himself if he had been mixed here.

The next thing I saw was the alleys that were immediately visible. Vera looked at the alley like that for a while, thinking that there is a strong possibility that if there are people who are aiming for Ren, they will hide in such an alley.

‘… Nothing is visible right now.’

There was nothing to see.

Vera’s eyes narrowed. There was a sense of wonder inside.

‘I couldn’t have been so quiet… .’

They wouldn’t be able to sit still with such a delicious prey.

I didn’t think there would be any who came out of the gutter.

Because it was an absurd idea.

A gutter is a space that cannot be supplied by itself. Naturally, if they wanted to continue living there, they had to supply supplies from other blocks nearby.

If it didn’t go through that process even for a single day, the gutter rats who knew best that all the structures of the gutter would collapse would have come out.

Suddenly, Vera’s expression began to grow serious.

Then something started to come to mind.

The fact that I didn’t really think of it was so natural that I felt like a fool.

‘… It is different from the previous life.’

The gutter of today is different from the gutter of previous lives.

The gutter from his previous life, the gutter from this period at that time, had already been taken over by himself. It was time to rewrite all the rules and start doing business based on them.

So, of course, the gutter today will be different than it was back then.

‘… How are you rolling?’

The power structure of the five cartels and the new foreign organizations will all have changed.

The thought continued again.

‘what if… .’

If the reason the wolf rats are not seen is because of the change, what are the things going on inside?

Vera’s gaze began to turn to the left side of the square.

At the end of the line of sight, beyond that is 13th Street, which is called the Imperial Goreum.

It was a gutter.

*

In the end, the rats in the gutter did not show up until the moment they turned around after completing their treatment.

Vera eventually had to return to the mansion with unanswered questions in his arms, and it was late at night.

Accommodation in Vera.

Vera sat at the table there and pondered with a serious look.

‘weird.’

Clearly, there was a problem that could not be overlooked.

No matter how much I thought about it, it made no sense to think that the gutter rats were trapped inside.

‘Have you built your own production line?’

in that gutter?

I’ve thought about it again and again, but the answer is that it’s impossible.

It was an answer that could be given because it was Vera who had thought more about this problem than anyone else.

It is impossible to grow crops in the gutter due to the nature of the section that does not receive sunlight.

Naturally, it is impossible to raise livestock due to the worst sanitary conditions.

Interaction with other compartments is also prohibited. It is because there is nothing to give in the palace.

Isn’t it a rare garbage dump that even the imperial family abandoned their hands on?

The result of a vicious cycle that continued for hundreds of years, which started when the floating horse tower Oriak blocked the sunlight reaching 13th Street, was a gutter.

A hell of a person who can’t even find productivity, but can’t get enough of it to get rid of it, so it’s just drying up.

‘By the way… .’

How are those rats holding up on the inside?

All the systems in the palace would collapse in one day without suppliers, so why didn’t they see them on 11th Street?

tock. tock.

Vera, who had his arms crossed, tapped his index finger.

The gray eyes that were exposed through the hair were making the gloomy look darker.

‘… If you don’t know.’

You should go and check it out.

I wanted to ignore it, but I couldn’t.

Renee had to go to the healing service from now until the start of the National Day celebration banquet, and the section that Ren had to go was from 8th to 12th streets.

All of them are places not far from the gutter.

It wasn’t just that.

The rats are bombs that don’t know what to do.

As such, if the person who controls them really plans a terrorist attack, the situation would be nothing compared to detonating a bomb in the middle of the imperial capital.

Now Vera knew it was not right to turn away from such a threat.

Vera thought again, this time culling those who might now rule the gutter.

‘… Five Cartels.’

If the movement inside the gutter is controlled systematically, they must have been integrated into one.

I don’t know who the leader is, but since all five of them are called madmen, it was right to conduct a thorough investigation.

Vera didn’t hesitate to put on the black robe he had hung in a corner of the room.

You won’t be able to sleep tonight, but that shouldn’t be a problem. The body of a superman does not collapse to that extent.

“Whew… .”

Vera took a long breath, closed his eyes for a moment, and took control of his mind.

This situation of having to go to the gutter on my own feet was not pleasant at all, so it was an act of exhorting myself.

‘… That’s what we have to do.’

Vera quietly opened the window of the dormitory and looked out.

A black night without a single star shining. The magic lamps lined up quite far apart end up illuminating the dark city.

It was the very sight that I felt so nostalgic for, that I had been tired of seeing in my past life.

Vera quickly suppressed his thoughts, then leapt through the window.

It was Vera’s homecoming after about seven and a half years.