Regina Lena – To the Unforgiven - Chapter 75

Dawn Approached

Translated by Wook
Edited by Wook

I will kill him.

Rena was a little surprised at her own expression.

She had no idea that it would be so easy to declare that she’d kill people.

At the same time, she was inwardly relieved after spitting out what she had been worried about.

— Rena.

When Rena turned around with a calm look, Regina came down to the side and blocked her.

— Are you serious?

“Do you think I’m kidding?”

— Stop it.

“Why?”

Rena asked back without any expression.

“He’s a human being who deserves to die.”

As Rena said so, she pressed her feet against the rod on the floor.

It was a royal scepter adorned with gold and precious stones. It was the heart from the snake king’s chest.

Rena dragged the king’s scepter with her feet and murmured.

“No matter how much I play with dolls like this, it’s useless.”

Yes, this was a doll game. A doll game that constantly repeated, rubbing things that neither die nor disappear.

Humans who had pushed her into hell were living well outside, while her own heart was burning up from playing with dolls like this.

“I will kill them. The person who sold me, and the person who dropped me here.”

— That’s not why I taught you how to fight.

“I’m grateful to you.”

Rena said so and picked up the scepter she was touching with her toes.

As long as this scepter existed, The King with Many Hearts would rise again. Conversely, if she destroyed it, the snake king would be destroyed forever.

Rena didn’t want to see the snake king anymore, but she didn’t break the scepter. This was because Regina opposed it.

The kings of the dead in the Tomb had already been defeated by the emperor. So, instead of a real heart, they were living a servile life with this kind of fake heart.

So Regina said she should keep them alive.

If they disappeared, a new king with an intact heart would be born, and the earth and the Tomb would be much more chaotic than they were now.

So, as Regina had said, Rena did not break the snake king’s heart and left it intact.

Because of this, she had to fight this disgusting bastard dozens of times, and in the end she even got a nonsensical proposal, but she persevered.

Because it was Regina’s request, because Regina was the only one who protected her.

“No matter what, I can’t do as you said this time.”

But even Regina couldn’t stop Rena now.

“It’s so unfair. I did nothing wrong.”

Rena bit her lip as she said that.

She suddenly remembered those moments. When she was taken to the Western Castle, when she stood in front of the red rift, when she first fell into the Tomb, when she waited in the attic of a brothel.

Rena begged and asked whether she had done something wrong. But she hadn’t done anything wrong no matter how much she thought about it, but still, she begged for forgiveness.

Rena couldn’t stand it anymore.

As Rena tightened her chin and clenched her teeth, Regina, who was watching, whispered.

— I know how you feel.

“Then don’t stop me.”

— No, that’s why I have to stop you more. I can’t let you be like that.

But those words made Rena even crazier.

“Can’t be like what?”

— Like them. You shouldn’t be like them.

“Why?”

Rena forced a smile and asked with eyes almost crying.

“Why am I the only one who can’t? Why am I the only one who’s stopped by you? You stayed still when they did such a thing!”

Rena shouted as she stared at Regina through her ferocious eyes.

“No one stopped them! No one! No one cared when I was beaten! So why isn’t it working for me? What qualifications do you have to stop me now? Why?!”

Rena poured out her frustration like an exploding volcano. But it wasn’t towards Regina. It was more like a cry out to the world.

Regina knew that too, and she responded more succinctly.

— Because you still have a chance.

“What chance?”

— A chance not to do something wrong.

A smile formed on Rena’s lips at Regina’s words. It was an obvious sneer.

“Then what about you?”

Rena asked with a smiling mouth and angry eyes.

“What did you do when you had the chance?”

— I took the chance.

“So why am I the only one…?!”

— Because I’m afraid you’ll be like me.

At Regina’s confession, Rena was at a loss for words.

As Rena paused, Regina reached out her hand and grabbed Rena’s cheek, which was still young, but full of fresh scratches.

Then she whispered, hoping that this girl, overcome by evil, would rather sit down and cry.

— I can’t stand you becoming like me.

Rena’s eyes shook once at Regina’s sincerity. Her lips were also very chapped.

However, Rena’s despair was too deep to be filled with Regina’s voice.

“…Don’t ask me to do what you couldn’t do.”

In the end, Rena shook off Regina’s hand. Then she threw the scepter she was holding and turned around.

When Rena acted as if she would leave right away, Regina grabbed her arm.

— No, Rena.

“I can’t do this one thing. No matter how much you ask.”

— I’m not asking you.

“Then?”

— …It’s an order.