The Regressor Only Protects Me Chapter 219

Episode 219. The Final Chapter (6)

As expected from one of the league's strongest players, Kang Jun-ho's recovery was quick.

Of course, his body had recovered, but he was trapped in Jin Jae-hee's protective shield and could only growl without being able to move.

“You. I won’t leave you alone.”

“Hold still. Do you want to get hit again?”

When Jin Jae-hee clenched her fist, Kang Jun-ho flinched and shook his head.

What is love?

If you get hit twice with love, you'll get punished.

As he stepped back, Jin Jae-hee unclenched his fists and nodded his head faintly.

“Yeah. Just stay quiet like that.”

At that moment, I felt a different power.

It was a familiar scent and power.

Jin Jae-hee turned his head and looked for him.

Kang Shi-on, who had been lying down until now, was now standing.

"Zion?"

“Brother!? Brother!!! Brother!”

Jin Jae-hee quickly sensed Kang Si-on's change of heart.

Jin Jae-hee's heart sank as he looked at Kang Si-on.

Sion had never shed a tear in his entire life. However, tears were clearly welling up in the left eye of Kang Sion standing before his eyes.

It was clear what had happened.

Jin Jae-hee ran straight to him. Although he was running in a hurry, she asked calmly.

"what's the matter?"

But he just looked around silently and didn't answer. She was worried about him and asked.

“Why… … . Why are you crying… … .”

When Zion shed tears, Jaehee didn't know what to do. When someone who never shed tears no matter what happened suddenly shed tears, the worry doubled. However, Zion bit his lower lip and suppressed his complicated feelings.

She didn't know. How miserable Kang Shi-on was right now. Jin Jae-hee had no way of knowing how it felt to have to let go of the friend in front of her forever.

But Jaehee couldn't have known. The fate that had befallen them both.

Zion asked with a slight smile, trying to hide his feelings.

“Am I crying?”

It was a strange answer. In this situation, it would have been okay to say, "I'm okay," or "I didn't cry."

Jin Jae-hee nodded and said.

“Yeah. I’m crying right now.”

“Oh, really? I didn’t know.”

Kang Shi-on wiped away his own tears. In fact, he didn't even know that he was shedding tears.

“Where did you go again like that time?”

Jaehee brought up the incident that happened in Bitnam. Just like that, Zion fainted, and something changed after that.

No, it has definitely changed.

Hot.

Jaehee secretly grabbed Zion's wrist. Her eyelids fluttered slightly. She didn't feel any artifact power from him.

"you……."

But Jin Jae-hee couldn't continue talking.

Because Kang Jun-ho, who was trapped in the protective shield, screamed.

“Hyung-!!!”

Zion and Jaehee looked in the direction where the sound was coming from at the same time.

Junho banged the shield with his hand.

His eyes and expression were completely different from before.

When the contract with the Absolute was forcibly terminated by Kang Shi-on's choice, Kang Jun-ho's spirit also returned to its original state.

Jun-ho's desire to become a higher-dimensional being even if it meant killing his brother was entirely a corrupt emotion based on a contract.

“Let me go! Let me go of this!”

Kang Jun-ho hit the shield harder.

Jin Jae-hee, who couldn't stand to watch, removed the shield, and as soon as the shield disappeared, he ran to Zion.

Junho shouted at Zion as he ran.

“Brother-! Get away from that woman! Brother is a tainted bitch! She’s a devilish bitch who’s trying to throw Brother into the pit of hell… …!”

Junho ran to Zion.

The moment Junho almost reached Zion.

Crack-!

A sharp sound rang out.

Zion slapped Junho on the cheek as he ran towards him.

Junho blinked his eyes blankly with his head turned away.

It was Zion who had never once laid a hand on Junho in 13 years.

Even though it was clearly Junho's fault, Zion chose to console him with words.

I thought that was the right way to do it.

But now I realize that was the wrong way to do it.

When it was time to scold him severely, he had to be scolded severely.

Now Kang Shi-on was disciplined strongly.

"stop."

"……brother?"

Only then did Kang Jun-ho look back at Zion.

“I think I’ve raised you wrong up until now. I think I buried my thoughts too much when dealing with you. Just as there is a person called you, there is a person called me. And as much as I cherish you… … . She is also precious to me.”

"……brother."

“I will decide who should be by my side. And I will decide my future. Just stay here. It’s none of your business.”

Jun-ho shook his head after hearing his brother's scolding.

“When I go back… … it’ll be like a cesspool… … .”

“Was the life you lived with me like a cesspool?”

At that moment, Kang Jun-ho was shocked and strongly denied it.

“Oh, no! I!”

“Then why do you say that the time we spent together was like a cesspool?”

"that!"

Kang Jun-ho glanced at Jin Jae-hee.

At this moment, Junho wished that Jin Jaehee would cover her ears.

Junho didn't like it.

A stranger who is not related to us by blood is interfering with our brother's affairs.

As Junho tried to explain, Zion took another step forward and shouted.

“I asked why!”

Kang Jun-ho's expression distorted at Zion's loud voice, and he soon shouted.

“That’s all natural. Poor and hard. That kind of life can’t be better than now. This… … . This isn’t something I insist on, is it? That’s something the world has decided. Our poor lives are decided by the world. Here, you’re above everyone else, and you have a lot of money? T-That! If we go back to reality, that’s something we can’t do! Here!”

“… …Have you tried it?”

At that moment, Zion's voice sank low.

Kang Jun-ho flinched in surprise. Sion asked again in a strong tone.

“… … Have you tried it? Have you tried it in that world? Have you failed? Have you not achieved your dreams? A life in the gutter? A life of a loser? Have you ever made money? Have you ever starved? Even though I couldn’t feed you expensive food like others, I raised you by feeding you good food, by feeding you healthy food. Was it not enough? Back then, you were only thirteen. Do you want to make a lot of money… …? Do it. Do it. Fame? Power? Anything! Do it. Your brother will help you. Didn’t you say you’d send you to college? What did I lack? To the point where you could call it a gutter?”

“… … .”

“Can you guarantee that you can’t do it without even trying? Can you be sure that that life will be more miserable than your current life? You haven’t done anything, Junho. You haven’t even entered society yet, or started studying? Have you taken a test? Have you had an interview? Have you failed in business? It’s not the world that decides it for you, it’s you that decides it for yourself.”

At Zion's words, Kang Jun-ho was stunned as if someone had hit him on the back of the head.

In fact, Kang Jun-ho was trying to choose only the easy way.

Even if it is the wrong path, we walk it because it is more comfortable and because we have already achieved it.

But this world was wrong. Kang Jun-ho also knew that. And Zion pointed that out clearly.

“If that’s what you think, then I have nothing more to say. … … Let’s go.”

Zion turned around coldly, grabbing Jin Jae-hee's wrist. Kang Jun-ho despaired at the sight of his brother.

“… … .”

Junho sat down on the floor and looked at the floor in despair. Jin Jaehee, who was walking next to Sion, looked at Kang Junho and asked Sion again.

“Are you okay?”

“… … .”

Zion didn't answer. He just walked forward without saying a word. In fact, there was no way it would be okay.

But it was a necessary process for the two brothers, especially Zion.

at that time.

“The bathroom that day!!!”

At Junho's words, Kang Shion, who was walking away this time, was surprised. Shion turned around and looked at Junho, who was sitting there in a daze.

Things in the bathroom.

That was something that Zion had tried to do alone. In the end, Jun-ho came out of his sleep, so Kang Zion stopped doing it.

The next day, Kang Shi-on asked Jun-ho about his guilt.

Forget about last night. But Junho, who was young at the time, said to Zion.

What happened?

So Zion thought that Junho would not remember because he was asleep.

But no matter how young he was, Kang Jun-ho always recalled that memory as if it happened yesterday.

Kang Jun-ho's face was distorted with sadness.

“Did you think I wouldn’t remember… … ? I remember… … . Every night… … Every morning! I remember it. Since when… … Whenever my hyung was gone, I would open the bathroom door first. In the morning and evening. Even since the league started, it’s been a habit!!! I’m afraid my fu*king hyung might be dead… … .”

Junho wiped away the tears that were pouring down like a waterfall. Moreover, his words became slurred due to his crying.

That memory was Junho's trauma.

A trauma that can never be erased.

Junho thought that the reason his brother had no choice but to make such an extreme choice was because of money.

Because I have no money, because I am of a low social class, because I have no idea what I will do in the future, because I am so scared of the future.

So, Junho desperately wanted to increase his social status and earn a lot of money.

So that my precious brother will never make that choice again.

“My brother… … . My precious family… … . I was afraid of losing them. Why don’t you understand how I feel? Why do you only think about this woman? I do everything for you, brother. I want to make a lot of money so that I can eat delicious food with you every day, and I want people to respect me because I have a lot of fame! I want people to stop being cruel to me because I have power. … … What’s so bad about that? What the heck is so bad about that? Tell me.”

Zion remained silent as he listened to Kang Jun-ho's words.

This is… this is something that Zion would apologize to Junho for a hundred times over.

It was too naive of an idea.

What Junho thought he wouldn't remember. That in itself was what Zion thought was convenient.

But Zion ultimately denied it.

Junho continued.

“I… … I… … have never been unhappy living with you for even a single moment. I was happy. But… … . But I just thought this world was a better world for us brothers. That’s all… … . I’m sorry, hyung. I’m really sorry. I’m sorry I swore at you back then. I’m sorry I threw a tantrum over nothing. I’m sorry I treated someone precious to you so rudely. Back then. I’m most sorry that I made you shoulder everything… … I made you take full responsibility… … It must have been hard for you too, hyung. But I… … .”

Bam-!

At that time, Kang Si-on hugged Kang Jun-ho.

Kang Jun-ho opened his eyes wide and looked at his brother in his arms.

"Sorry."

It was just a short sentence.

But for two brothers who share the same past, it was a word filled with rich and complex emotions.

Kang Shi-on hugged Jun-ho tighter. And then spoke again.

"sorry."

Junho's two arms fell limply to the floor. Zion confessed his true feelings to his younger brother.

“I shouldn’t have left you alone in that room. I didn’t know that you went to the bathroom because of the trauma you had as a child. How hard it must have been for you. I’m sorry for showing you such a bad side of yourself. No matter how much money you had, I should have taken you out of that house full of trauma. I only thought about money. My petty thoughts made you like this. It’s my fault. It’s my fault. I regret not buying you even a common smartphone, and not giving you any allowance. I should have bought you chicken once a month. I should have bought you jajangmyeon. I should have bought you nice sneakers and dressed you in nice clothes. Junho. I don’t want you to be oppressed by money anymore. Both of us. Just… … Let’s live happily without worrying about anything. Money isn’t important. Fame, power. Can’t we just be content with the life we’ve been given and live happily? Hyung. Even though I’m such a loser. I’ll do well.”

Kang Jun-ho suppressed his emotions in his brother's arms.

Not at all. No. Not enough.

Rather, he is a brother who is too much for him. In fact, money is not a problem at all for Kang Jun-ho. In fact, Jun-ho wanted to help his brother's life, which was always worried about money.

I wanted to earn a lot of money to save my brother who was torturing himself for money.

I wanted to save my brother, who was submitting to power because of money, with an equally stronger power.

I wanted to save my brother, who was looked down upon by others because he had no honor as a middle school graduate, an orphan, and a day laborer, by giving him a higher honor.

That's it.

How much evil feelings did the little brother, who had no older brother in the world, harbor?

The thirteen-year-old Kang Jun-ho only made the current Kang Jun-ho.

Only then did Kang Jun-ho hug his brother more tightly.

He started to sniffle, pressing his nose against his brother's forehead like he did back then.

(Continued in the next episode)