My Students Regret It After I Retired - Chapter 89



88 – Hemina’s Identity Revealed

[Blood Waterfall]: Sweeps away all enemies within range with a blood waterfall imbued with the power of the Five Evils. After one use, it cannot be used again until enough blood has been recharged.

The Bloodforged Sword’s growth granted it an additional ability. The Bloodfall unleashed a torrent of blood, like a waterfall, surging towards the enemy.

Specifically, it was aimed at the four squads of the Gold Sword Guard: 9th, 8th, 7th, and 6th. The roughly 800 enemies desperately squeezed out their mana, trying to block Leo’s rapidly descending attack.

But just as it’s impossible to stop a natural disaster with human strength, those who tried to block Leo’s Bloodfall were annihilated, as if they’d been touched by lava.

“C-Commander! It’s no use! We can’t stop it! We have to retreat!”

Those at the back of the Gold Sword Guard desperately tried to flee, but the speed of the approaching Bloodfall was far faster than their escape.

In the blink of an eye, around half of them were dead. The Heavenly Order members, who had infiltrated the Gold Sword Guard, had already moved discreetly to the rear.

Without anyone ordering them, the Heavenly Order members gathered amongst themselves.

Roughly 25 Heavenly Order members exchanged glances for a brief moment, and then the highest ranking among them, Senrior, immediately commanded the others.

“Unleash all your power now. Don’t worry about being seen, use your abilities. That’s the only way we can stop that thing.”

“But Senrior-nim… if we do that, the surrounding Gold Sword Guard members will realize we’re using powers.”

Senrior looked at his subordinate’s face and said,

“Who? Do you think anyone other than our Heavenly Order can survive that grotesque ability?”

“…”

“Don’t worry. Even if we recklessly use our abilities and other Gold Sword Guard members witness it, they’ll be dead from Leo’s attack anyway. Oh, but even if they don’t die, it doesn’t matter. We can execute them after this is over.”

“If you say so, understood.”

As the low-ranking Heavenly Order member began using their power, those around them also began unleashing their own abilities.

Some conjured lightning and thunder, others created massive barriers. Some fired off insane water cannons, and still others desperately detonated bombs in the air, trying to change the speed and trajectory of the blood geyser. But nothing worked.

Senrior’s eyes grew wider as he watched the approaching Bloodfall.

“What… what are you doing?! I said to stop it! Use all your abilities right now!”

“We’re using everything we’ve got! We’re pushing ourselves to the limit!”

“Stop talking bullshit! Why are we being pushed back, then? We’re the Cheonsang Assembly. There’s no way dozens of Cheonsang members would be overwhelmed by a single guy…”

Senrior screamed, trying to unleash his powers to their fullest, but Leos’s fountain of blood showed no signs of stopping. Rather, the more he used his abilities, it seemed the blood devoured that energy, surging forward with ferocious momentum.

“Master of the Cheonsang Assembly… what the hell did you order us to fight?”

Senrior muttered as he looked at the approaching waterfall of blood, his last words.

“Master, you were wrong. You can’t control this calamity.”

With a *whoosh*, the members of the Cheonsang Assembly were swept away in the waterfall of blood. Those in the air were no exception either. The waterfall of blood soared into the sky as if a tidal wave had risen, engulfing even those who had fled into the air.

Nothing remained at the scene.

Even Keltazar’s undead were all swept away.

“This is ridiculous…”

Keltazar, standing next to him, just stared blankly ahead at the bizarre scene.

All that remained around them were the remnants of the crimson waterfall’s rampage. If someone who didn’t know what had happened saw this, they would surely say this:

They have received divine punishment.

Truly, a heavenly punishment that no human could control.

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Leos’s rod of judgment crushed every member of the Hwanggeom Division.

*

“Leos, what’s the situation?”

Rakart, who had been waiting nearby, asked Leos, and Leos spoke blandly.

“They are all dead. Now all that’s left is Squads 1 to 5.”

“6, 7, 8, 9… You annihilated four squads at once? Without a single survivor?”

“Yeah.”

Leos entered the tent, looking exhausted. Rakart, watching him, spoke from behind.

“I’ll guard the perimeter, so rest for a while. You must have spent a tremendous amount of energy.”

“That would be nice.”

*

Leos entered the safe zone tent and immediately closed his eyes. He repeated countless times that he shouldn’t sleep, but there was no way to stop his eyelids from automatically shutting.

It was because he had consumed an immense amount of energy.

His whole body felt like it was being torn apart, but at the same time, he felt a rush of insane energy surging through him.

‘Is it because of the Bloodletting Sword?’

He hadn’t directly killed people with the Bloodletting Sword, but he had killed hundreds using its ability, the Waterfall of Blood.

The Bloodletting Sword was a weapon that grew stronger with every enemy it killed. It didn’t just make the weapon stronger, but also enhanced Leos’s abilities – a type of simultaneous growth weapon.

[The Bloodletting Sword is fully charged. It’s in an overloaded state, so it’s currently unusable. After 24 hours, the delayed growth will be settled at once.]

Words like ‘settled’ and ‘overloaded’ floated around, but Leos wasn’t in a position to care about such things. He was exhausted.

He felt like he might die if he didn’t fall asleep right now.

Leos immediately closed his eyes and fell asleep for more than 24 hours.

*

Creak…

Creak…

Leos opened his eyes roughly 28 hours later. He had woken up to the creaking sound, and when he looked beside him, Hemina was dozing off. She held a damp cloth in her hand.

“Unnecessary work.”

Leos said this, but even so, he moved towards the rocking chair where Hemina was sitting, intending to put a pillow behind her so she could sleep comfortably. That was the moment.

“Leos-nim… you’re awake…”

Hemina, rubbing her eyes, slowly got up and approached Leos. She looked him over, checking him for injuries.

“What are you doing?”

“I was worried, so I checked you over. You were out for so long, I was afraid something really bad happened. If you hadn’t mumbled in your sleep, I might have gone crazy.”

“Mumbling?”

“‘I don’t want to lose anyone else…’ you were saying things like that.”

Leos was suffering from severe trauma after being betrayed by Belin and losing all his comrades. He kept dreaming of someone always leaving him, consumed by the fear that any relationship could shatter in an instant.

It was the same now.

He was terrified of losing the companions beside him, whether by their choice or by force.

“Now get out.”

As Leos spoke coldly, Hemina shook her head and asked,

“We haven’t had many chances to talk, have we? You were always busy, and we haven’t known each other that long. I waited over a day because I wanted to talk to you… of course, I was also here to tend to you, but there was something I really wanted to say.”

“Say it then.”

“Among the companions you don’t want to lose… am I included?”

Hemina gently took Leos’s hand and looked at him with pleading eyes.

Leos was momentarily flustered. The reason was simple. It was true that he had saved Hemina, but she hadn’t really done much that would have caused her to form an attachment to him.

To be precise, Hemina had worried a lot and kept talking to him, but it had been one-sided, not a mutual exchange of care or feelings.

Even so, Leos couldn’t easily bring himself to say no.

The reason was simple. He knew he had a significant impact on Hemina’s life. He was the benefactor who had avenged her parents, killed by the monster.

Leos clearly understood how Hemina viewed him.

And then Hemina suddenly grabbed his hand, even revealing the reason for her acting this way.

“Hemina, what are you doing?”

“I’m curious if I am special to you, Leos-nim.”

“In what way?”

“In every way.”

“I understand you’re grateful for what I’ve done, like avenging your parents in the past, and helping you when you were getting beaten up recently. But that’s where it ends. I’m sorry to say this, but unlike your feelings towards me, I’ve barely had any opportunities to interact with you or build any kind of emotion.”

Leos spoke clearly, telling Hemina not to cross the line.

Hemina understood his words, and revealed a story she had been hiding until now.

“No, Leos-nim. We’ve already interacted a lot.”

“…?”

As Leos looked at her questioningly, Hemina added, as if she had made up her mind.

“I am the manager of the Leos Gallery… and the actual operator of Interluner… that’s me.”