Broken Possessors of Infinite Regression Academy

I met the former Sword Saint at a cafe near the Eternal Guild.

Since the guild headquarters was strictly off-limits to men, it had become an unspoken rule that when a non-guild member met with a female Eternal Guild hunter, they would use cafes nearby.

I could have just walked in, but I didn’t want to make a fuss about it.

“You look like you’re about to die, Sung-ah.”

Kang Rahe, who had become completely accustomed to the language of this world, smiled and said so.

As Kang Yuna and I had become quite famous as hunters, slaying Gates together, the public’s perception of us had changed from suspicion and doubt to admiration and awe.

“Do I look that bad?”

“I want to ask what happened to make you look so bad.”

“I was kicked out because they said they needed to prepare for my birthday party.”

I expressed myself as vaguely as possible, considering the place where eyes and ears were everywhere. If I said this much, it would sound like I was being kicked out to a rented place while they prepared for my birthday party.

Kang Rahe, who knew the inside story, widened her eyes slightly.

“Oh, it’s your birthday, Sung-ah? Why didn’t you tell me sooner? I’m a little hurt.”

“I didn’t have time for that.”

“…… That’s true. We didn’t have time to celebrate birthdays, you or me.”

When we first crossed over to this world, we decided to make the day the Gates appeared as Kang Rahe’s birthday, so there really was no time to celebrate in that world. As for me, my birthday in this world had already passed.

“But an arm is not a bad price to pay. Birthdays will come again next year, so what does it matter?”

Kang Rahe waved her arm, which had once been there. Many rumors had been circulating about that severed arm. Most of them were jokes about how she had left it in another world or something.

However, hunters who had awakened sword-related abilities suggested that she had originally been right-handed but had been forced to use her left hand due to circumstances, based on her various habits.

“Isn’t it inconvenient?”

“I’ll get used to it.”

She still seemed determined not to fix her arm. Thanks to that, there were all sorts of rumors circulating about her, involving her missing arm and her eye.

“But isn’t this a good thing? If they’re kicking you out, it means they’re preparing something big. It’s a good thing to receive grand celebrations.”

“I didn’t want to celebrate my birthday on such a large scale. I just wanted to invite a few people and have a simple cake.”

“That’s not like you. You should aim higher. You have the qualifications to do so.”

“…… I know, but I think they’ll show me more than I can imagine.”

The main reason I was feeling this way was because I had no idea what they were planning.

My parents had gone crazy over my first birthday in 18 years, and they wouldn’t listen to anything I said. Diana and Trisha were so enthusiastic that they were about to explode.

“Are you very worried?”

Kang Rahe’s question made me smile bitterly. However, her question had a very different intention than I had expected.

“Then I can’t lose. I should show my face after a long time, too.”

“…… What?”

“I said I should show my face after a long time, too.”

“…… Why?”

It was a surprising statement. If the former Sword Saint, who had been missing for a long time, reappeared, it would not be strange for even the Emperor to move. The name of the Sword Saint carried that much value.

“I can’t just celebrate your birthday with words, can I? We’re in a relationship, after all.”

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As I was telling her what Karna wore as a swimsuit during the school trip, her smartphone vibrated. The words “Yuna’s younger sister” appeared on the screen.

“Hold on. Yes, Yuna. What’s up?”

-Where are you, unnie? I don’t see you on the first floor of the headquarters.

“I’m at the cafe we always go to.”

-Cafe? What’s with you, unnie. You never go to places like that alone.

“I’m here with Sung-ah right now.”

-Huh? Sung-ah? What business do you two have together… Alright, I’ll be there soon.

She was the complete opposite of her gentle and even frail older sister from the other world. I thought she would get along well with Trisha.

Kang Rahe put down her smartphone and exclaimed, “Oh!” as if she had a good idea.

“What if we invited Yuna to the other world too? That would be fun, right?”

“That girl?”

“Yeah. Is that okay?”

“It’s not like it’s not possible. I’ve asked her a few times if she wanted to see the other world, but she always turned me down.”

“If you say it’s your birthday, Yuna won’t be able to refuse. I’ll help too. If she knew how the other world prepared for your birthday, she’d be truly surprised. What do you think? It’ll be fun, right?”

“……It doesn’t sound bad. Let’s do it.”

As soon as I was convinced, I asked Kang Yuna as soon as she arrived if she wanted to come to my birthday party in the other world.

At first, my sister was hesitant, but when I said that Kang Rahe was coming too, she said she might be okay and hesitated, and then she whispered urgently as if she had thought of something.

“Wait a minute. Sung-ah, how can you say that in front of Rahe? Are you crazy? It’s a secret.”

“You told her I’m from an other world”

I started lying as we had planned.

“……Huh?”

Kang Yuna froze. Her lips, which were moving meaninglessly, barely formed words.

“Me… I said that? To Rahe unnie? When?”

“When you came back drunk last time.”

“……Really?”

Her eyes pleaded with Kang Rahe to deny it. But as she nodded, Kang Yuna, who had been dazed for a moment, looked at me timidly and apologized with a dejected face.

“I… I’m really sorry. I never thought it would turn out like this… I’m really sorry…”

“I won, Sung-ah.”

“What do you mean… Huh? Won? Unnie, what are you talking about?”

Kang Yuna raised her head in the middle of her apology. Then, with a bewildered face, she looked back and forth between Kang Rahe and me, who were barely holding back our laughter.

“Wow. I see you differently now, Kang Yuna.”

“Differently? What do you mean?”

“Because we planned this together.”

I revealed the truth. We had planned that I would pretend that she has revealed the secret when she was drunk, and if Kang Yuna acted shamelessly as if to say, “So what?”, we would pretend that it was true and sincerely apologize if she truly apologized.

Even I, who could evaluate Kang Yuna the most objectively on Earth, could tell that her apology was sincere. I had lost the bet by betting on her acting shamelessly.

“……”

Kang Yuna, who had been dazed for a moment, soon rushed over with a fierce look on her face and swung her fist.

“You! How dare you! I… I…”

“Why are you hitting only me when we did it together?!”

I took the punches obediently. Since she had apologized sincerely, I was indeed in the wrong.

“You’re such a jerk.”

Kang Yuna sat down, still not satisfied after arguing for a while, and trembled with her fist. She gulped down the iced tea I had been drinking. The ice cracked ferociously.

“……So, if it wasn’t me who said it, you said it? Can you just say that? You used to say that I was the only one you could trust and that’s why you told me.”

The questions came out like machine gun fire. It seemed like a good time to reveal another truth.

“It doesn’t matter. Since unnie Rahe is from the other world too.”

“Oh, that’s right…… Huh? Huh?”

Kang Yuna, who had been about to accept it, suddenly screamed and asked.

She had reacted similarly when I told her that I had been possessed and returned, but people don’t change, do they?

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“Okay, so…”

After sending Mira back to Earth, a somewhat serious meeting was taking place in the club room.

Thanks to Mira’s investment of money and magic during the temporal stop, the soundproofing of the club room was superior to that of any high-ranking noble’s mansion. Moreover, it was large and spacious, making it a suitable place for a meeting.

“Let’s each reveal what birthday present we plan to give to the child. We should at least try to prevent overlapping among ourselves, right?”

Erestika said with a smile and rubbed her lower abdomen.

“By the way, I plan to call the child ‘baby daddy’. It’s the biggest gift for a birthday, right?”

“Pffft?!”

“What?!”

“Ah, ah ah ah ah…”

A collective gasp of shock filled the room. Karna and Leona were so shocked that they froze with their mouths wide open, and even Laura and Eluciel couldn’t hide their surprise.

Seeing their chaotic reactions, Erestika laughed lightly.

“I was just joking. Don’t worry.”

“……When you say it, it doesn’t sound like a joke at all.”

No one disagreed with Latina’s muttered complaint.