Regina Lena – To the Unforgiven - Chapter 74

You Saw Me

Translated by Wook
Edited by Wook

Rena opened her eyes in the dark.

‘What happened?’

As soon as Rena came to her senses, she traced her memory.

Hiems Gracia. She tried to capture the king. She was then shocked by the unknown and missed the chance.

So? What happened? Did she lose consciousness after that…?

Rena, who remembered the last memory, came to her senses. Then she busily looked around.

‘Am I still trapped?’

The place where Rena was standing was dark and humid as if it was underground. All sides were covered with gloomy plaster walls, and torches of cheap oil were burning, creating thick shadows.

‘This is…’

Rena soon noticed where this was. She had only been there once, but she remembered it clearly.

Because this was the place where she first met Uni.

This was the outskirts of the empire. It was a small town on the western border where the number of people dying of starvation and murder was increasing equally every day, with worse security than the battlefield.

It was a hopeless place. Those who could afford it left immediately, and the administration of the empire had already given up on the place that faced hell.

It was a place where there was no hope. Those who could afford it have left, and the empire’s administration had already given up on this place in the face of hell.

They were abandoned by the world, so they also abandoned the world. Instead, they served what suited them. For example, swords, money, thugs, and the dead.

It was the same the moment Rena met Uni.

Fear-stricken humans held a ceremony in front of the altar to gain the power of the dead. They even prepared food for the hungry dead and their existence with their own blood.

But, sadly, it was not the dead who answered their call.

The one who came to them before the dead was Rena Ruber, who had lost her way and completely alone.

‘It was right after Regina disappeared.’

Rena felt bittersweet and looked into her younger self, who had empty eyes.

In those days, Rena was like a broken clockwork doll.

It was a time when she knew all the secrets of the world, and in return she had no more of her heart left, and decided that she would rather sink to the bottom of the Tomb and die.

It was a very small whim for Rena to come back to earth. A trivial interest, a trivial curiosity.

A girl could be seen through the rift made by blood and altar. It was a child in the exact same situation as her past self.

So Rena came out without even realizing it.

But it was just that.

The air, which she had not drunk after a long time, felt awkward to Rena, and the infinitely weak humans felt unfamiliar to her. Added with the situation where a child was caught by them and waiting for death, everything just felt bizarre.

All of that was confusing, so Rena muttered without knowing what she wanted to do.

“…I saw you in the Tomb.”

“I came to see you, just because I saw you…”

“However. No one came for me.”

Ah. I see.

Rena realized only after saying so. Rena came here because no one came for her.

No one came for me.

She had had someone by her side, but eventually, she was alone.

Even the last existence she believed in betrayed and left like her parents.

So she was drawn to it without realizing it.

She was upset because the girl was in the same situation as her.

Young Rena looked at Uni crying with such thoughts, and grown-up Rena sighed one step behind them.

‘Why do I have to remember this…’

Rena was tongue-tied because of her bad luck caused by Hiems Gracia. She couldn’t believe he made her remember such useless things. What an unpleasant man.

‘Did Hiems Gracia disappear?’

Rena turned away from the scene in front of her and looked for Hiems.

However, the traces of that shrewd person were not easily revealed, and this only made Rena even more upset.

It’s been a while since she was in trouble. Rena realized again in this grim crisis.

It never comes to me. Help and salvation.

Now that my parents have abandoned me, who will find me?

Even God may have turned a blind eye to me.

But it’s okay. It doesn’t matter. This time again, I’ll do it by myself, somehow, on my own.

Rena thought so and took a deep breath. Of all times, what she saw was the most confusing period in her life, so perhaps she was buried in that emotion.

Now she needed to pull herself together.

‘…What?’

She saw something.

A little farther away stood a man who could not have been here.

Rena thought it was impossible. So she rubbed her eyes to erase the illusion, but the man was still there.

His presence was so clear, so Rena mumbled without realizing it.

“Mr. Lynn?”

Then the man looked at her.

“Rena.”

And called her.

He even started running her way.

When Lynn, who suddenly appeared, ran to her, Rena was so surprised that she backed away without realizing it. In fact, she wanted to face him, but she couldn’t dare to.

She was afraid that her outstretched hand would grab the air.

So while she was dazed, Lynn stepped over her dark memory and stretched out his arm.

“Rena!”

Rena held her breath at the vivid cry.

No way. No way.

She needed confirmation. If that hand touched, and the clear touch and warmth were transmitted, she thought she would be certain at that time.

So, as she waited silently for Lynn who was approaching, a soft voice rang in her ear.

— I didn’t think an intruder would appear.

The moment Rena was startled by the sound, before she had any time to react, her feet felt numb.

“Ugh!”

The space crumbled like a broken mirror.

Rena, who was standing still, fell as she was, and Lynn, who was running towards her, lost his balance and moved away again.

“Mr. Lynn!”

Only then did Rena come to her senses and call Lynn. Then Lynn shouted to Rena.

“Wait for me!”

At those words, Rena froze again. But Lynn was completely unaware of that fact, and cried again in the encroaching darkness.

“I’ll pick you up!”

Rena was more confused with the words than the broken space.