The Regressor Only Protects Me Chapter 20

#Episode 20. Guilt (1)

“Coolook! Coolook… … !”

I coughed twice and then couldn’t hold my body up properly.

Then Lee Se-beom came in one breath and supported me.

“Hey! Are you okay?!”

“Haa… … Haa… … .”

I leaned against him and looked ahead.

My vision was blurred.

But what was still clearly visible was that Jin Jae-hee was killing all the remaining Blue Team troops.

thank god.

If it weren’t for her, our Hong team would have been… uh… .

For a moment my vision blurred.

I couldn’t keep my mind still, as if the film was blacking out.

The protagonist, who was holding the gun, quickly came over and tended to my wounds.

I was out of breath.

It felt like my lungs were not getting enough oxygen.

It seemed like it was getting a little cold.

“Sebeom, lie down. Put something soft on the floor.”

“huh.”

“Hurry up!”

“I’m trying!”

Sebeom quickly moved, covered the floor with clothes, and laid me down.

All I could see was the dark ceiling.

The only other people visible were Lee Se-beom and Lee Joo-yeon.

The protagonist examined my condition and touched various parts of my body.

And he said to Sebeom.

“Shock. Secure the airway.”

At her words, Sebeom lifted my neck.

“Swoop… … ! Whoa… … Haa!”

Only then was I able to breathe and assess the situation.

The protagonist stared at my wounds, not knowing what to do.

Sebeom asked Jooyeon.

“Sister, what should I do?”

“… … Ka, I have to take the knife out.”

Lee Joo-yeon spoke about the needle still stuck in her thigh.

To be honest, I could breathe, but now I had a hard time even hearing their voices.

Lee Se-beom tried to grab the knife stuck in his thigh.

Then Lee Ju-yeon stopped him.

“Wait. If the knife hit an artery, you could die from excessive bleeding the moment you pull it out.”

“Then what should I do?!”

“We can’t just leave it as is because of the bleeding. In the end, we’ll have to take the knife out… …!”

“What do you want me to do!”

Instead, Lee Se-beom said with great anger.

Lee Ju-yeon shut her eyes tightly and shouted.

“I… I don’t know! I’m not a doctor! All I know is the first aid I learned in the military.”

“We have to do that! Or we’ll die!”

“what……?”

Jooyeon looked back at Sebeom in surprise.

Sebeom shouted in anger.

“Rule! Have you forgotten?! If the king dies, we all die too!”

“That’s… … not the problem. Sebeom, you.”

“Cluck!”

Their conversation was interrupted by my cough.

The protagonist couldn’t delay any longer and brought his face close to mine and whispered.

“Never lose consciousness. Keep breathing and don’t let go of your body. I’ll do my best to do something, so just hold on. Until the moment I let go.”

“Huh, huh… … huhuk… … !”

I nodded twice.

Now their voices were not heard.

I did my best to keep my wits about me, as she said.

When Lee Joo-yeon asked Lee Se-beom to do something, Lee Se-beom immediately ran to another place.

Lee Ju-yeon stayed by my side and held my hand tightly.

I also squeezed her hand with all my might.

Honestly, at this moment, I was really scared.

The fear of never seeing my brother was greater than the eternal sleep of death.

But I survive.

No matter what happens.

A little later, Lee Se-beom came running in a hurry and handed over the items.

I clearly saw the object, but my vision was blurry so I couldn’t confirm it.

Soon, Lee Se-beom grabbed the handle of the overhand grip.

Every time his hand shook slightly, unbearable pain would surge through him.

And the protagonist lifted his fingers and counted to me.

Three… … two… … one.

At that moment, Lee Se-beom pulled out the knife in one breath.

Then, a scream erupted.

It was an instinctive scream that could not be intentional.

“Ahhhhh!”

Lee Ju-yeon didn’t miss a beat and applied firm pressure to the wound with a clean rag she had picked up somewhere.

As if that wasn’t enough, he wrapped the bloody clothes close to his body and tied them tightly.

With all my might.

Kwuuuk-!

Lee Se-beom handed Lee Joo-yeon a needle and blue thread.

Yes, that’s right.

It was a needle and thread used for repairing clothes.

When Lee Joo-yeon said something about Se-beom, Se-beom grabbed my right hand instead of Joo-yeon.

With both hands free, Lee Ju-yeon now began to suture the wound.

I swallowed slowly, repeating the process of the needle piercing my flesh and coming out the other side.

I don’t know anything after that.

It was like watching a movie while being sleepy.

Their figures were clearly in my sight, but I couldn’t remember what they were.

All I could feel was the ceiling, Lee Joo-yeon, Lee Se-beom, and my body shaking slightly.

After some time had passed.

When Lee Se-beom let go of my hand, only then did I lose consciousness.

* * *

“Gaaaaak… … Aaaaak… … Puhhh…!”

Kim Dong-gil tried to spit out phlegm, but soon laughed.

He didn’t care even though the blade was at the tip of his neck.

Jin Jae-hee frowned and then cut his right shoulder in one breath.

Crunch! Pfft.

Blood gushed from his right shoulder.

Then Kim Dong-gil laughed again.

“My stomach is empty… … and just cutting off one shoulder… … what difference will it make… …? You stupid… … rookie… … .”

His speech was slow and sorrowful.

Then Jin Jae-hee put away his sword.

And said to him.

“I can make it even more painful. I can tear out your fingernails, your teeth, and even your eyes if you just say the word. You don’t even need your ears.”

Swish-.

Jin Jae-hee bent his knees and met Kim Dong-gil’s gaze.

Kim Dong-gil looked straight into Jin Jae-hee’s eyes, trembling.

“You must be in so much pain right now. I know. You must want to just die. You must be begging to be killed.”

Jin Jae-hee’s tone was as cold as thin ice.

There was no emotion whatsoever.

“I’ve killed a lot of people. A lot of people. So I know how to kill them all at once without making them painful… … From here to here.”

Jin Jae-hee kindly traced Kim Dong-gil’s neck with her finger.

“The cervical vertebrae are the loosest. If I strike this connected part with a blade, you will die without pain. This is the last mercy I give you.”

Kim Dong-gil stared blankly at Jin Jae-hee and then smiled again.

And then he spat.

“Whew.”

His thick blood mixed with blood stuck to Jaehee’s right cheek.

The saliva flowed thickly down his cheeks.

Jin Jae-hee spoke again without paying any attention.

“… … How many people’s guts, blood, and spit do you think I’ve gotten on this face so far? Do you think you can provoke me with just spit?”

Jin Jae-hee put the sword back in its scabbard and grabbed the dagger that was lying carelessly on the floor.

“I’ll cut off your ears first.”

“… … It looks like X God.”

“The king can’t be changed in the first place… … If you, who have been acting like the king until now, are not the king… … Are you hiding it on purpose to make me screw you? It’s only a matter of time anyway.”

Jin Jae-hee continued to ask, but Kim Dong-gil remained silent.

At that time, Kim Dong-gil thought.

If you can’t be the best, no one can be the best.

For him, there were only two endings here.

Does everyone live or does everyone die?

In the end, the ending was the latter.

Jin Jae-hee, who was about to cut off his ear, stopped dead in his tracks.

And to Jae-hee, who was living a second life following his previous one, that scene was so unbelievably bizarre and irrational that he couldn’t help but gape.

“Eungeungeungeungeungeungeung… … !”

Kim Dong-gil was sticking out his tongue.

He was biting it until it bled.

His lower jaw was moving left and right, and his two bloodshot eyes were glaring as if he was going to kill Jin Jae-hee at any moment.

At the same time, the corners of his lips slightly went up.

Boom!

He soon cut out his own tongue.

His eyes rolled back upwards, and soon he met death.

Jin Jae-hee could do nothing in the face of death.

He simply put the knife away from his ear.

* * *

The war between the blue team and the red team is over.

The Red Team suffered heavy casualties.

Of the 32, only 12 survived.

But the Blue team was all dead.

Every single person, including those who were trembling with injuries, was annihilated.

The Hong team won but was silent.

“Ugh… … I killed a person… … a person… … Ah… … .”

“Whoa! Whoa whoa!”

Most of the people were vomiting, and some of them were so desperate that they just sat there and sobbed.

Lee Ju-yeon and Lee Se-beom were taking care of Zion.

Most of them felt guilty about killing people.

Of all the beings alive here now, there wasn’t a single one who survived without being stabbed.

The only surviving female student among the three Hong Team students was holding a knife and silently staring at the corpses.

The bodies were of friends from the next school who I had met here and had developed a connection with.

The bodies of my friends were stabbed with knives and they were dead with both eyes open.

The girl who was looking at it asked.

“What happens to us now…?”

I wasn’t asking anyone specifically.

I just wanted someone to answer.

But there were no longer any ‘adults’ here as defined by society.

They were just weak beings.

No one answered the girl’s words, only sobbed or covered their heads in confusion.

At that time, there was a lot of noise in one corner of the store.

“Heeeeeeek! Sa, save me! Save me!!!”

It was the guy from the Blue Team who was pretending to be dead in the pile of corpses.

Kwon Kyung-soo was standing in front of him.

The man appeared to be in his forties and had no injuries on his body.

The man grabbed Kwon Kyung-soo’s trouser leg and e**culated.

“Please save me, please save me… …! Please save me! I, I, I, I, I have a daughter in middle school. I, I.”

Kwon Kyung-soo couldn’t bear to look the man in the eye.

Then he closed his eyes tightly and avoided eye contact.

Then the man shouted even more sadly.

“Wow, woo, let’s not do this… … Yes? We’re citizens of the same country, the Republic of Korea. Really… … Does it have to be this way? Yes??? Huh.”

The man began to cry like a child.

I cried like a child who cries in front of his parents because they didn’t buy him a toy.

“Ugh! Ugh… … Please… … Please… … !”

Kwon Kyung-soo thought with his eyes closed.

Is it really necessary for us to fight like this?

The situation is over anyway.

Isn’t that so?

Kwon Kyung-soo tried to wake the man up.

At that time, Jin Jae-hee approached the man.

Blood dripped from her sword.

Kwon Kyung-soo, who felt alive, stopped Jin Jae-hee.

“Wait a minute! Is it really necessary to do that to an opponent who has already lost his will to fight?”

“Intent? Until just a moment ago, it was murderous intent. Have you forgotten? If the circumstances were reversed, that man would have held a knife to your throat.”

“But that situation has not come to pass. The reality is that this is the situation now. Any more unnecessary killings… … ”

“Unnecessary killing?”

The air became heavy as Jin Jae-hee retorted.

Jin Jae-hee took a step closer to Kwon Kyung-soo.

She spoke straight.

“Don’t act so nice. You killed someone just a moment ago, didn’t you? Did you have no choice? And this was unnecessary killing?”

“iced coffee…….”

Kwon Kyung-soo’s face became thoughtful.

A little while ago, the situation.

Jin Jae-hee single-handedly took down dozens of Blue Team members.

Kwon Kyung-soo also saw the sight clearly.

The woman in front of me was a being that transcended humanity.

I couldn’t help but be afraid in front of that presence.

And Jin Jae-hee drove the wedge in.

“Don’t make me laugh. You just want to relieve your guilt in this way.”

“… … .”

Kwon Kyung-soo was helpless in front of those words.

There was no answer, not even an excuse.

Jin Jae-hee wiped the blood next to his lips with the back of his hand and continued speaking.

“If you understand, then get out of the way. I’ll be the one killing them.”

Jin Jae-hee passed him by.

That was the moment.

Tamar-!

Kwon Kyung-soo grabbed Jin Jae-hee’s hand.

Jin Jae-hee stopped in his tracks and glared at him.

“Yes. I won’t make excuses for the unavoidable murder. I won’t make excuses even if it’s to relieve my guilt. Just, just stop now. No more killings. I can’t tolerate it!”

“… … Go play your childish hero game somewhere else. Let go of my hand or I’ll cut you.”

“I can’t let go. You might as well cut my hand.”

“Do you think I can’t do it?”

Jin Jae-hee clicked his tongue.

It was easy to escape his grasp.

Jin Jae-hee tried to force himself out.

And he really tried to cut off Kwon Kyung-soo’s arm.

But at that moment, there was someone who made everyone stiffen.

Phew!

“Keuk! Ugh… … Kkack… … !”

When I turned my head to look, there was already a man from the Blue Team trembling with a knife stuck in his neck.

And the person who stabbed him with the knife was none other than the surviving female middle school student from the Hong team.

The girl stabbed the man and then walked away as if nothing had happened.

Then he walked over to the corner display case, sat down there, and bowed his head again.

Soon the girl began to cry quietly.

It was a desperate, sorrowful, and miserable cry.

Everyone present was silent at the sight.

Everyone was already a monster.

A murderous monster without any compassion or sympathy.

(Continued in the next episode)