Martial God Regressed to Level 2

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Side Story 22

Seong Jihan stared blankly at the child in his arms.

Was she about three or four years old?

The child, with long blonde hair and blue eyes, was smiling brightly at Seong Jihan.

-Wow, so cute hahaha. She could be a baby model.

-But, did she just say Daddy?

-Yeah; looking at her eyes, it doesn't seem like she said it wrong...

-But, doesn't the child resemble Sophia?

-Ms. Sophia, you shouldn't do this here...

-No, but she really does look like her lol.

Whether it was here or not, BattleTube was working.

Viewers were very curious about the child, saying she resembled Sophia.

'She does look like her.'

Seong Jihan gazed at the child.

Usually, he didn’t think much of children, and didn't particularly find them cute.

'Hmm...'

But when he looked at this girl, he naturally felt emotions that he had never experienced before.

As he stared at her for a while.

Chu!

The child kissed Seong Jihan's lips and then smiled brightly.

“Hehe.”

Then, this time, the child pushed out her lips.

Was she asking him to do it this time?

While Seong Jihan hesitated for a moment, looking at the incredibly friendly child.

"Ellie! Daddy's tired! Get down!"

A middle-aged woman ran over from afar and stopped the child.

'...This person looks like Sophia, too.'

Could she be Sophia's mother?

As Seong Jihan was thinking that.

“Daddy~ are you tired?”

The child, called Ellie, held onto Seong Jihan’s neck and said that.

"No."

"Then! I! I want to ride a horse!"

“A horse?”

“Yes!”

And then the child grabbed Seong Jihan's neck, trying to climb up.

He realized what she wanted.

"Here."

Float!

When Seong Jihan released his hands, the child, who was floating up, soon settled down comfortably on his back.

“Wow~ Daddy! Like Barren!”

“You know Barren?”

“Yeah! Barren played space games with me a lot!”

That guy played with a kid?

As Seong Jihan was bewildered,

"Oh my, really... I'm sorry. You must be tired because of the relegation matches. Ellie really wanted to see Daddy."

The middle-aged woman approached him and gave him a friendly smile.

“Still, thanks to you, we survived. Just like last time, you saved humanity again.”

Saved humanity again, after the previous relegation matches?

As Seong Jihan was listening silently to those words,

"W-what is this...!"

Thump!

The door burst open, and Sophia came out, looking flustered.

“Mom! Daddy’s here!”

Then, the little girl waved cheerfully to her upon seeing her.

It seemed like this child was really their offspring.

“Mom?”

Meanwhile, Sophia looked at the three of them with a flustered expression upon hearing those words.

Then she looked at the middle-aged woman and quickly opened her mouth.

“Mom... Can you watch the kid for a bit? I have something to talk about with this person!”

“Really? Okay. Ellie, come to grandma!”

“Ah! Mom! Me too, me too!”

“El...lie? I’m sorry! It will only take a moment, okay?”

The child pouted at Sophia's request.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

But still, she was obediently held by the middle-aged woman.

“We have to finish quickly!”

And then the child went inside with her grandmother.

Once the two had moved some distance away, Sophia carefully approached Seong Jihan.

"So, then... you are the Martial God, right?"

"Yeah."

"It's difficult to talk here... let's go to my room."

When Seong Jihan nodded.

Sophia took the lead and walked to her room.

And when Seong Jihan went into the room,

Click.

She closed the door tightly and sighed loudly.

"Martial God... you may not believe this, but it seems like we are married here."

Then Sophia glanced at the wall.

There, a large family photo of Seong Jihan, Sophia, and the little girl from earlier, all smiling brightly, was hanging.

"It does seem like it. You even have a kid.”

“Yeah... and.”

Sophia touched her belly with a tearful face.

"...I think I have another child in my stomach."

"What?"

* * *

Seong Jihan was surprised by that and looked down.

It was clear that only Sophia’s stomach was bulging out.

Come to think of it, she seemed to walk unnaturally when entering the room earlier.

Was it because she was pregnant?

'Judging by the size of the belly, it seems like she’s quite far along...'

To be bulging out like that, she must be in the mid-pregnancy, or even the late pregnancy stage.

“I don’t even have a boyfriend, but suddenly I’m a mother of two... we’ll be able to go back, right?”

“We’ll be able to go back. I’ll find a way.”

“Ah... yes.”

Sophia sighed in relief at Seong Jihan's confirmation.

“But... why are the Martial God and I married here?”

She began to doubt the current situation.

"I don't know. Maybe you were involved with the original owner of this body, not the Martial God."

“The original owner of the body... was definitely Seong Jihan-nim, right?”

“Yeah.”

“When I looked at the information American First investigated, there were a lot of negative reviews though...”

Sophia pointed at the cellphone placed next to the bed.

"Can I look into it a bit?"

"Sure."

Then she sat on the bed and started looking for information on her phone.

"Humanity Ranking 3rd, the American Sword Seong Jihan... He was heavily criticized for getting the Saintess Sophia pregnant, but succeeded in reversing his image by playing a key role in the relegation match against Orcs..."

Seong Jihan could speculate how things had turned out by listening to what Sophia was reading.

'The American Sword, and Ranking 3rd... Ranking 3rd was originally Sophia's spot.'

Seong Jihan was stuck at Rank 7 in the past because he couldn’t receive a citizenship bonus.

But it seems like he had managed to rise to Rank 3 and even participated in humanity’s relegation matches after marrying Sophia.

'The ending where he was crushed by the Orc warriors has been changed, and now he’s on life support?'

Seong Jihan recalled what Sophia's mom said earlier.

She had said that just like last time, he had saved humanity again.

Which meant.

'It seems like humanity is still in the relegation zone.'

Well, they somehow won against Orcs, but it's not easy for a league's last place team to escape the relegation zone the next season.

It seemed that humanity was currently barely hanging on.

"…According to the love story that I found in the articles, it says that I was following you, Martial God-nim, no, Seong Jihan-nim, everywhere.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes…”

Then, Sophia looked up at Seong Jihan.

She slightly turned her head and muttered softly.

"To be sure, his appearance might be my type..."

“Really?”

“Ah! D, did you hear that?”

“You were saying it loud enough for me to hear.”

When he chuckled, Sophia's face turned red.

Just as she was looking back at her phone to avoid Seong Jihan’s gaze,

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Click...!

Suddenly, the lights went out.

And not long after,

Thump!

“Daddy! Mommy! There’s another power outage!”

The door opened, and the girl ran in.

“I’m scared!”

The child, not sounding scared at all, stuck to Seong Jihan.

“Daddy. Are you done talking? Let’s play, let’s play~ I. I want you to do space games with me!”

She began to talk non-stop.

-Are children normally that energetic...?

-Yeah, that's their default...

-She doesn't seem scared of the power outage at all lol

-More than that, I can’t believe Barren was the one doing space games with her.

-Fr lol. It seems he hates kids.

Even though the power was out, the child didn't mind and was jumping up and down on the bed, asking them to play.

The viewers were having a vicarious experience of parenting.

"Okay."

Meanwhile, Seong Jihan lifted Ellie and began to slowly spin her in the air.

"Wow! Space games!"

Then, the child who was laughing while floating,

“Higher, higher!”

“Spin me around!”

“Mommy’s tummy! I want to go to my sibling!”

Began to give non-stop instructions.

‘She’s energetic.’

And yet, Seong Jihan was fulfilling all the child's requests.

After having fun with space games for a while,

"Daddy, I’m sleepy..."

“Okay, let’s sleep then.”

“You come too, Daddy.”

Thump, Thump.

The child, who was lying on the bed where Sophia was sitting, patted the mattress, telling Seong Jihan to lie down next to her.

“Okay.”

When Seong Jihan laid down next to her.

“Hehe...”

She snuggled into his arms, and soon, the child fell asleep.

Seong Jihan stared blankly at her.

She really was a child that resembled Sophia, even when looking at her again.

And she was also a child that trusted him completely.

‘…Noona said Sophia was her sister-in-law when she was the Witch of the Void. Did she see this kind of scene?’

There was a possible scenario where he had gotten Sophia pregnant and married her early, and was living in America.

As he was lost in thought.

“…You’re good at looking after a child, aren’t you?”

“Really? It’s my first time.”

“Really? You seem so familiar with it... the child even likes you more than her mom.”

“You must have shown more awkwardness than me.”

“Was I really that awkward?”

Sophia, scratching her cheek in a slightly embarrassed manner.

Slowly caressed her belly.

“When we go back... what will happen to the children?”

“I don’t know…”

His daughter who called him Daddy.

They hadn’t even been together for a few hours, but Seong Jihan was experiencing a new sensation that he had never felt before.

‘I had this side to me too.’

He almost never thought anything was cute.

But looking at this energetic child, a smile naturally appeared on his lips.

Seong Jihan looked at the sleeping child and slowly opened his mouth.

“Even if we go back, the original owners of the bodies will get back to their senses and look after the children.”

“...I guess so?"

“Yeah. Don’t worry too much.”

Sophia stared blankly at him in response to Seong Jihan’s answer.

"Martial God-nim... you're kind."

"Me?"

“Yes. I thought you were a cold and heartless, scary person...”

Then she turned her gaze to the child.

“You're good with children too. And you’re being nice to me too.”

“Hmm? I don’t particularly remember being nice to you.”

“Is that so?”

Sophia asked back with a soft expression.

Her former attitude of being wary and cautious of the Martial God had mostly disappeared.

-Uh… Sophia's eyes have changed somewhat;

-Why is she so quick to fall in love. lol

-She only acts like this to Seong Jihan-nim. lol

-Seeing her act like that here too, he must really be her type...

While the viewers were chatting about Sophia.

Knock knock.

There was a hurried knock at the door.

"I-it's a disaster!"

It was Sophia's mother who opened the door and came in.

"What happened?"

"O-outside the living room window... there's something weird...!"

Something weird?

Seong Jihan put the child down and went out to the living room.

'This house is really spacious.'

After passing through the house, which was wider than the Sword Palace,

Seong Jihan immediately recognized what Sophia's mother meant by "something weird."

Beyond the living room window, where the city of New York was visible,

"..."

An old man wearing a black robe.

Dongbang Sak was slowly stroking his beard as he looked at Seong Jihan, who had come to the living room.

He had a large Taiji symbol floating behind his back.

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