Absolute Regression Chapter 701

Episode 701: Does everyone know their seats?

The Seventeen Religions were afraid.
The ones who had captured them were none other than the faceless ones, the followers of the evil Soma.
If they were dragged away by them, a pain worse than death awaited them.

Usually, assassins hide poison in their molars in case they are caught, but the assassins of the Gain Church did not hide their poison.
It was the meaning of the leader, Chae-ran.
If you have the strength to bite the poison, bite your molars and try to survive until the end!

‘I shouldn’t have let my guard down.’

No. This is not a problem of carelessness. Even if you hadn’t let your guard down, the result would have been the same. The water cannon exposed to the outside was no different from a normal unmanned vehicle. And on top of that, it was a surprise attack.

‘How on earth did they find out about us?’

Are there any traitors? Even if they wanted to betray, they couldn’t. They didn’t even know where each other lived. But they recognized each other and came looking for them.

It was just then.

Peeeee, puff puff puff!

The sound of firecrackers exploding was heard not far away. They were firecrackers that made a peculiar sound.
The Seventeenth and Fiveth Sects exchanged glances. The firecrackers just now were signals used by the Gain Sect’s assassins to signal danger.

That means that these intruders are also moving towards them from the other side.
The intruder stuck his head out the window and looked in the direction of the firecracker sound.

‘How could you not even think of taking a look at us?’

If you’re a man, you might have seen it once. Are they really the ones who were raised in the Demonic Cult without any feelings?
Of course, she didn’t know. If the unseen guests looked at them, they would stare at them persistently.

The carriage slowly slowed down.
No matter who it was targeting this time, the two men had one wish.

‘Please hear the signal!’

It was just then that the carriage entered a deserted street in the outskirts.

Empty.

The horse-drawn carriage suddenly started to speed up as the driver of the carriage knocked hard on the back wall.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

I felt something flying and hitting the carriage one after another.
At that moment, the masked traveler opened the curtain on the opposite window to look outside.

Love liquid!

A flying insect flew into the window and flew out the opposite window.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The sound of the wagon being struck again was heard.
The wagon lurched as it turned sharply. One wheel lifted and it tilted to the side.
The faceless guest moved to the other side and pulled up his inner strength.
At that moment, the wagon that had lifted its wheels barely regained its balance.

Phaaaang!

A short arrow-shaped dark energy flew through the carriage wall. It was not an ordinary dark energy. It was a dark energy powerful enough to penetrate the carriage wall. And the place where the dark energy flew was where the Seventeen Religions and Five Religions were sitting.

The masked man struck down the dark arrows flying towards them with his dagger.

Kaang.

The force of the dark energy that flew in was so strong that my wrists felt like they would break, but thanks to that, the dark energy changed direction.
The dark energy flew past the back of the heads of the two women who were sitting.
If the faceless man had not struck it, they would have all lost their lives.

At the same time.

Phew!

A flying dagger tore through the arm of an unseen stranger who had exposed himself at the window to try to block them.

Blood spurted from his arm, but he had no time to tend to the wound.
Another dark weapon flew in.

Oh my god!

A longer sword flew towards where the women were sitting. It was faster and stronger than the sword before.
The masked man grabbed the two women and pulled them back to where he was.

Phaaaang!

The dark energy flew through the place where they were sitting.
Outside, indiscriminate attacks were being made. Seventeen and Five knew who the attacking woman was.

Palgyo (八橋), she was the most skilled in secret techniques in the Gain Church.

It had to be her.
Palgyo’s personality was selfish and ruthless. She was the type of person who would attack indiscriminately even if she knew that she was riding in the same carriage.

Chaeng! Chaeng!

The masked man knocked away the dark arrows that flew through the carriage again. One of them was the one that had hit the two women, but he blocked it at the risk of his life.

‘Why do you want to save us like this?’

The Seventeen Religions were inwardly suspicious. If we were to judge them as cruel and merciless, these ignorant people would be no less cruel than them.

The carriage ran smoothly despite the dark spirits pouring down. The masked guest on the coachman ran while using his wind to ward off the flying dark spirits so that they would not hit him or his horse.
Both his horsemanship and his skill in blowing the winds were excellent.

He gave a signal by tapping on the back wall, then stopped the carriage next to a tree where there was some cover.

The moment the carriage stopped!
The faceless man opened the carriage door, threw the women out, and then jumped himself.

Papapapak!

The wagon stopped, so the memo flew in even more accurately.
The masked man who got out of the wagon looked at the coachman’s seat. He had jumped somewhere, but his companion who had been driving the horse was nowhere to be seen.

Teeing! Shhh!

The moment when the dark energy that bounced off the wall flew into Sipsilgyo’s face.

Shh.

The maskless guest blew a gust of wind and repelled the dark spirit. He was the one who strictly followed the joke of the sword dance that said not to hit the face.

At that moment, the two women were trying to hide behind a tree.

Shuaaaaaaaaaah!

The secret rained down on them.

Champ champ champ champ champ!

The maskless guest was able to dodge by jumping on his own, but the Seventeen Religions and the Five Religions blocked his path and struck back at him with their dark energy.
Blood splattered on his white mask, but the maskless guest did not dodge.

The Seventeen Religions and the Five Religions silently watched his back as he tried to protect himself until the end. It was a situation where they really didn’t know who to root for.

‘You can’t stop it! It’s impossible!’

What Palgyo was unleashing now was no ordinary secret weapon. It was the Murim Alliance’s Golden Dragon Secret Weapon, and the Destructive Rain that she used when she was most in a hurry.

Blood spurted from the faceless guest’s shoulders and waist. Even though his limbs were injured, he somehow managed to block the blow while avoiding vital points.

Kaang!

With a final, cheerful sound, the masked man dropped his arms.
He let out a ragged breath. He was too exhausted to stop the dark spirits any longer. If only one dagger had come flying, it would have been the end.
But no more dark spirits flew at him.

When the maskless guest raised his head, he saw the maskless guest on the horse’s back on the rooftop far away, looking in his direction.
A woman was lying down next to him.
He had succeeded in subduing her while he was blocking the dark energy.

A moment later, three assassins sat side by side in the tattered carriage:
the Seventeenth, the Fiveth, and the Eighth.

Only then did the faceless guest properly treat the wounds.
Although they were not critical wounds, they were quite deep. With an indifferent expression, he pressed the acupuncture point to stop the bleeding, applied gold ointment, and wrapped a bandage.

“Ugh.”

Looking at the faceless guest’s eyes, which were grimacing in pain, Shichilgyo felt that even he felt pain, which felt unfamiliar.
There was a lot of blood on his mask. Most of it was blood that he had shed to protect himself.

Seventeen-Gyo thought that this time, the faceless guest would not tolerate it. Palgyo, who used the Golden Dragon Sword alternately, almost killed him. He thought that even if he didn’t kill him, he would beat him to a pulp.

The faceless guest simply looked out the window without uttering a single curse.

‘What on earth could he be thinking?’

Seventeen Bridges silently watched the scenery outside flowing through the broken carriage hole.

* * *

The women arrived at the guest house.
The women who gathered today to receive their seat assignments were women who had advanced to the preliminary round but were not included in the final seven. They
greeted each other and chatted with each other.

“You’ve come here again.”
“I thought I’d never come back.”

This was the very same guest house where we waited during the main competition.

“We were sitting here,” he said.
“At that moment, I thought I was going to make it to the finals.”

There was laughter here and there. The atmosphere was good. There was a strange sense of camaraderie because we had fallen together.

As the women all entered the guest room, a man wearing a bamboo hat followed them in and closed the door.

General Cho was waiting in the guest room.

“The reason we have gathered you all today is because of the seating arrangements for the final stage.”

One side of the guest room was decorated like a stage and chairs were placed at the back for them to sit on.

“Please make sure you check your seats carefully so that you don’t make any mistakes that day. Now, I will assign you seats.”

Director Cho called each person’s name and assigned them a seat. For some reason, he seemed more tense and stiff than usual, but everyone was busy checking their seats so they didn’t pay attention to that.

“Now, come out and sit in the seats with numbers on them. On that day, the chairs won’t have numbers on them, so don’t get confused.”

So they had each person sit down.
Each woman had her seat assigned, and they sat down and looked at the stage.
The stage was fake for the purpose of assigning seats, but their regret was real.

A sigh came out of someone’s mouth. Everyone could tell that it was a sigh of regret, thinking that maybe that stage could have been their stage. Because everyone let out the same sigh in their hearts.

At that moment, a clear voice flowed out. It was something that was hard to believe even after hearing it.

“You stupid bitch, why are you sighing? You were rejected because you’re ugly.”

Everyone’s eyes turned to the woman who had made the accusation. She was even the woman sitting next to the woman who had sighed. The woman who had sighed at her words opened her eyes wide in surprise.

“What did you just say?”
“Are you deaf? You’ve been acting all high and mighty since the preliminaries, but now you’re looking good.”

match!

The woman who had been sighing slapped me without mercy.

“This bitch hit me?”

Two women started fighting, grabbing each other by the hair.

It was a situation that should have been stopped, but another woman who was watching them shouted.

“Kill him quickly!”

What is this? The women’s gaze turned to the woman who had ordered her to be killed. As if it wasn’t a joke or a prank, she shouted at him again in a fierce tone, “Kill her.”

The woman who criticized him, the woman who slapped him in the face, and the woman who shouted at him to kill him were all abnormal.

There were already many cases where three abnormalities appeared, but now there are more.

“You’re falling down. You’re such pathetic bitches, you’re falling down. I can’t stand you.”

In response to another woman’s words, the woman in the back row hit her head without mercy.

“You bitch, you’re the most pathetic!”

This time, two women got into a fight and got on each other’s shoulders.
General Cho was surprised and ran over.

“Stop! Why are you guys doing this!”

I tried to stop them, but they were so excited that I couldn’t see anything.
The fight spread quickly. It wasn’t someone who started the fight. It wasn’t like they were fighting by splitting up into two sides.

I just fought with the person next to me, I fought with people I had feelings for from previous competitions, and I even fought with people I had never talked to before.

There was chaos, shouting and swearing from all sides. Everyone was yelling and swearing at each other as if they had been waiting for this moment.

There were women who swung their fists, scratched, tore clothes
, pulled hair, bit, and others who sat down and cried. There
were women who cursed their parents and lamented their fate, and there were women who screamed that they were the most beautiful people in the world. They were literally saying everything they had never said before and kept hidden.

General Cho’s mouth dropped open at the scene that unfolded in an instant. This was truly the first time he had ever seen something like this.
No matter how much he had fallen in the finals, how could a person act like this?

I couldn’t believe that these were the noble and beautiful women I had seen when I first came in. It was as if they had suddenly become mad and gone mad as a group.

Of course, there were women who stood there and watched the scene, so it wasn’t a contagious disease.

Anyway, I couldn’t just sit by and watch this chaos unfold.

“Stop it! Stop it!”

As General Cho’s shout rang out,
the noisy space began to quiet down as if it were a lie.
Even General Cho, who had shouted, was surprised.

Everyone suddenly stopped fighting.

He released the hand that was holding his collar, and also released the hand that was pulling his hair.
The women looked around in confusion. They straightened their torn clothes, fixed their messy hair, and wiped their nosebleeds.

They didn’t look like the people who had been fighting like crazy just a moment ago.
Instead, their expressions were like this.

What did I just do? Was it worth fighting for this much?

Everyone looked embarrassed.

“What are they doing?”

Only after General Cho’s shout did the women who had been fighting bow their heads.

“sorry.”

Some women bowed their heads and said they were wrong, others hid behind people in shame, and there was even a woman apologizing to someone she had just spat on and sworn at.

At that moment, the bamboo man standing at the entrance walked forward.

The women were suddenly frightened. They were making a fuss and even fighting before an important stage. The Shinwha Hall could have punished them or spread rumors about them.

The bamboo man raised his hand and pointed at the women. He pushed the women he pointed to one side. They were all the women who had been fighting excitedly just a moment ago.

In addition, he pointed out several women who were just watching without fighting.

After separating the women in this way, the bamboo grove warrior spoke to General Cho.

“Take him out.”

As they left, the women were puzzled. Wouldn’t it be normal to send away the women who didn’t fight and leave the ones who did fight to scold them?
But they sent away all the women who fought.
Oh, of course, there were a few women who didn’t fight. They couldn’t figure out what the criteria were for sending them away.

General Cho took them out without saying a word.

Now there were only twenty women left.
The remaining women looked at each other with serious expressions.
It was understandable, because there were people who should not be in a group like this.
They were the Cain cult assassins.

The highest of them was Samgyo. She couldn’t understand this situation. Among so many women, in this chaos.

‘How on earth did they leave us behind?’

The gazes of Samgyo and the other assassins turned towards Jukrip Muin.

The bamboo-lipped man stepped forward.
He picked up the chair that had fallen during the fight and sat down on it.
Slowly taking off his bamboo-lipped robe, a wicked soma wearing a cotton robe was revealed.

“Does everyone know their seats?”

The soft voice of the evil soma echoed through the hall filled with assassins.

“First, sit down.”