The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 19

I don’t know how to shoot a gun.

I don’t know anything about guns.

I didn’t even know how much a gun weighed until now.

I didn’t know the bullets were bigger than I thought.

I didn’t know aiming a gun was harder than I thought.

So I had to be careful.

I decided it was better to kill the enemy decisively up close rather than trying to hit them from afar.

I waited until the very last moment before I could barely bring myself to pull the trigger.

Bang-!

The heavy gunshot echoed loudly throughout the store.

Ting-.

My ears went numb for a moment.

I didn’t realize gunshots were this loud.

When you see them in movies or dramas… they’re really quiet.

But one thing.

I knew one thing for sure.

Guns are the most reliable and powerful weapon humans have for ending an enemy’s life.

I pulled the trigger a second time.

Bang-!

As expected, with the heavy sound of gunpowder, the head of the woman who was running towards me exploded.

Literally exploded.

The bullet penetrated her brain, colliding with the hard skull bone and breaking into several fragments.

It was a brutal scene.

But I didn’t care about such brutality anymore.

I turned the gun.

A man was climbing over the barricade.

The moment he saw the gun, he screamed like a child who had seen a ghost.

“Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!”

Bang!

I pulled the trigger to match his scream.

The man was shot in the heart and fell backward.

That’s three.

Seven bullets left.

There were still many enemies.

“Sion!”

At that moment, a voice came from beside me.

I tried to clear my dizzy mind and looked back.

There, Kwon Gyeong-soo was covered in blood, running towards me.

He shouted.

“Give me the gun! I can use it better! Trust me!”

He said urgently.

He was definitely a former Special Forces NCO [Non-Commissioned Officer].

But even in my dizzy state, I knew I should never hand him the gun.

Because even while fighting Team Blue, I was constantly thinking about ‘Team Black’.

In the end, two of the three kings die.

That is the rule.

I ignored him and turned the gun towards the front again.

I’ll end this fight.

I can’t pinpoint the enemy’s king yet.

But if I kill Kim Dong-gil, the situation will definitely turn in my favor.

Click.

I turned the gun towards Kim Dong-gil.

His torso came into view in the sights.

But soon the gun shook like crazy.

The distance to Kim Dong-gil was about 20m [approximately 66 feet], not too far to shoot, but my condition was worse than I thought.

I had a concussion from falling headfirst from the barricade, and blood was constantly flowing from the knife stuck in my thigh.

I sensed it instantly.

Aiming at him would be a waste of bullets.

At that moment, Team Blue members rushed at me with kitchen knives.

‘Tch……!’

I immediately turned the gun and aimed at the people running ahead.

I fired two shots in a row.

Bang, Bang!

The fourth bullet hit the enemy and knocked them down.

But the fifth bullet flew into the air due to the recoil.

It would be nice if the gun’s accuracy was 100%, but it’s not 100%, so it’s only human.

I immediately aimed the sixth bullet at Team Blue.

“Uwaaaaaaah!!!!!”

Two people rushed at me in a row.

I shot without hesitation.

Bang!

“Ugh!”

“Argh!”

The two people were hit by the bullet and fell on top of each other.

The person behind seemed to have been barely hit in the arm.

But it’s a gun.

Being hit in the arm alone renders the enemy unable to fight.

I prepared the seventh bullet.

It was that moment.

“Yaak!!!”

Thud! Bang!

A middle-aged woman suddenly jumped out from the side and knocked me over.

I fell to the side and dropped the gun.

The gun slid across the floor and stopped.

“Argh…… Ugh……!”

I groaned.

My thigh was burning with pain.

The wound on my thigh seemed to have widened as I fell.

“Ugh…… Uh…….”

My mind was faint.

The pain was so severe that I felt like I was losing consciousness.

In the meantime, the woman who knocked me over climbed on top of me and swung her fists wildly.

“Die! Die! Die!”

Pow, Pow, Pow, Pow!

The woman’s fists were focused on my face.

The adult’s murderous punches were very painful.

I was busy covering my face with both hands.

Then the woman brought my hand to her mouth and began to bite it.

“Eugeuk…… Ugh…… Eueueueugeuk……”

She chewed on my hand as if it were meat.

Whack!

I swung my left fist and slammed it into the woman’s side.

“Agyaak! Ack!”

The woman screamed and retracted her teeth.

But I didn’t have enough strength to counterattack.

Because the concussion made my whole body weak.

“You son of a bitch!”

The woman crawled over and tried to put two fingers into my eyes.

I resisted fiercely, but her fingers were almost there.

It was the moment I closed my eyes tightly.

Stab!

“Ugh. Keuheok.”

The mop spear pierced her neck diagonally.

The woman slumped down and collapsed.

It was Lee Se-beom who was standing there holding the spear.

He had also fought several battles.

He looked very tired, and his breathing was heavy.

Lee Se-beom held out his hand to me, and I took his hand and stood up.

Lee Se-beom pointed the spear to the other side and said nonchalantly.

“Your thigh.”

“It’s okay……! I’m okay…….”

I hurriedly looked for the gun I had dropped.

Because it was dark, there was little chance that someone had picked it up, but at the same time, it was difficult for me to find it again.

But soon I was able to find the gun again not far away.

I was relieved for a moment, and I limped over and tried to grab the gun.

But someone else grabbed the gun first.

At that moment, my heart sank.

Even if they are on the same team, it was quite dangerous for someone else to have the gun.

I looked up at the person holding the gun.

“…….”

Lee Joo-yeon.

She was holding the gun and looking at it.

She was also a former soldier.

She would have handled guns much more than I had.

And my heart was pounding fast.

People were clinging to each other and continuing the fight nearby.

But even in that noisy situation, my eyes were only fixed on the gun.

I paid attention to her next words.

At that moment, Lee Joo-yeon raised the gun.

“Take good care of it.”

“…….”

Whoosh-.

Lee Joo-yeon threw the gun to me without a word.

The gun was thrown to me in a parabola.

I barely caught it.

She grabbed a spear and came to my side.

Lee Se-beom was behind me, back to back.

I stared blankly at the gun, then looked at her.

I could trust her because of what she just did.

As she approached, I immediately handed her the gun.

Lee Joo-yeon looked back at me, a little surprised.

“Can you hit one shot?”

“…….”

I don’t know about guns.

Lee Joo-yeon knows more about guns.

Lee Joo-yeon held the gun and stared at me blankly, then nodded.

I left her and urged her.

“You have to hit it.”

“Who is it?”

I pointed with my finger.

Lee Joo-yeon’s eyes followed my finger.

The opposite view.

People were going back and forth, fighting fiercely, blocking the view, but there was someone who stood out.

A man in a suit with disheveled hair.

Black horn-rimmed glasses and a square jaw.

Kim Dong-gil of Team Blue.

“That man.”

“……I’ll try. But give me time to aim.”

Lee Joo-yeon held the gun and aimed forward.

It was a stable posture.

Unlike when I did it, she was holding the gun with both hands, and her eyes were only focused on the sights.

She took a deep breath and held her breath.

In the meantime, Lee and I had to protect her from external dangers.

I grabbed the spear she was holding and aimed it forward.

Lee Se-beom was guarding the other side.

“Are you okay?”

Lee Se-beom asked again, as if worried.

I said.

“It doesn’t matter.”

I can endure this pain as much as I want.

I could feel the blood flowing every minute and second, but I had to do it.

Everything is for the victory of Team Red.

“You son of a bitch, you monster!”

A young man approaching suddenly spat out swear words.

He was breathing heavily, and there was a clear trace of a knife cut on his left arm.

The man almost sobbed.

“From the beginning…… just……! If everyone except your king had joined Team Blue and survived……. Why, why! Why do we have to fight like this?”

“…….”

I was silent and focused only on the man’s arm.

“I just…… got a job, damn it! I could have taken care of my grandma now! I…… I can’t die here. I can’t…… you monster bastard…….”

The man was trembling, but he was holding the knife tightly in his hand.

He could rush at me at any time.

“If we had just caught your king……. Everyone could have lived. Ah…….”

The man sobbed, but I couldn’t sympathize with him.

As a result, he is right.

I am the king of Team Red.

If only I had given up my life and died, everyone in Team Red and Team Blue could have lived.

But I wanted to return the words the man had said.

I can’t die here.

More than this man, who is a job seeker and a filial son who cherishes his grandmother.

More than a kindergarten teacher who always has a bright smile while teaching children.

More than a righteous prosecutor who puts criminals in prison after graduating from law school.

More than a college student who volunteers in his spare time on weekends while being busy every day……!

My life.

My younger sibling is more precious.

Your precious life, a valuable life that I have never felt or seen before, is much more precious to me than my younger sibling.

He is right.

I am a monster.

From the moment I became king, I gave up being human.

No, maybe from that day.

From the moment I sat as the chief mourner in front of my parents’ portraits, I couldn’t be human.

That’s my damn life.

And I still can’t die.

“Uwaaaaaa!!!”

The young man who had just gotten a job screamed and rushed at me with a knife.

I stabbed the mop spear I was holding in both hands as it was.

Stab!

The spear that pierced the young man’s chin went straight through his head.

The young man, stabbed by the spear, stopped with tears in his eyes.

The young man’s blood flowed down the trembling spear and touched my hand.

The blood was hotter than I thought.

Thud!

The young man collapsed and muttered.

“Grandma…… Grandma…… Hal…… Muh…….”

The young man died without finishing his words.

And soon the eighth gunshot was heard.

Bang-!

It was Lee Joo-yeon who pulled the trigger.

As soon as I heard the gunshot, I looked at Kim Dong-gil.

Kim Dong-gil was still hitting people from Team Red with an ax.

* * *

Smash! Smash!

Kim Dong-gil thought as he chopped people with an ax.

The brutal scenes he had seen in movies were actually cute.

He was so focused on killing the creatures in front of him that he didn’t even realize what he was doing.

“I can do it. I can do it……!”

He muttered those words like a habit and looked around to find his next prey.

He wiped the blood splattered on his glasses and swung the ax.

It was then.

Thwack!

A bullet pierced his left arm and left side.

After that, a gunshot was heard.

Bang!

“……!?”

Thump!

Kim Dong-gil staggered and fell.

He was lying on the floor, in pain.

He couldn’t breathe, as if he was about to die, and he couldn’t even think of breathing through his nose.

He felt like his stomach was on fire, and soon bright red, hot blood began to fill the floor.

“Aeo…… Eoeok…… Eoeo…….”

Words did not come out.

He wanted to say something, but he couldn’t speak because he couldn’t breathe.

In his visible view, a woman who had already died was lying down with her eyes open.

People from both teams were running around, stepping on the woman’s corpse.

At that moment, a desperate thought flashed through Kim Dong-gil’s mind.

‘Am I going to die?’

He had a premonition of death.

He couldn’t move his body, and he could barely move his hands.

He didn’t even know it hurt, but he touched his stomach and put his fingers into the hole.

At the end of his fingers, he felt something slippery like pig intestines.

When he took his finger back and put it in front of his eyes, his finger was covered in bright red blood.

Kim Dong-gil had hated blood since he was a child.

He even hated nosebleeds.

In the midst of all this, it was difficult to endure mentally when faced with blood.

If he was going to die, it would be better to die quickly.

At this moment, the feeling of dying was so painful that he couldn’t bear it.

“Aaa…… Aaaa…… Aaaaaaak!!!”

Finally, a loud voice came out of his mouth.

Kim Dong-gil barely raised his body and leaned his upper body against the collapsed display stand.

‘I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to die!’

Kim Dong-gil blocked the wound with one hand.

But no matter how hard he tried to block it, the blood gushed out even more fiercely.

Kim Dong-gil was desperate.

He struggled to take off the clothes of the man who was lying next to him.

Then he strongly pressed the wound.

‘Why am I dying? There’s no reason for me to die. I’m a socially successful person……! If someone is going to die, someone else should die, you bastard. Why do I have to die? Why me……!’

Kim Dong-gil strongly pressed the wound.

Then his scream, as if tearing apart, echoed throughout the shopping mall.

“Aaaaaaaaaaak!!!”

His mind was hazy.

His eyes rolled back, and he felt like he was about to faint.

But Kim Dong-gil mustered superhuman strength with the desperate feeling of ‘I want to live’.

He just needs to survive now.

Just now.

If he endures this situation well, he can go out again from here.

Go out, go out.

He must get out of this hellish shopping mall.

“Argh!”

“Ugh!”

“Kyaaak!”

At that moment, screams erupted one after another.

Listening to those screams, Kim Dong-gil laughed like a madman.

‘Look at this! Look at this! We’re winning. We won.’

Until then, Kim Dong-gil’s eyes were still fixed on his wound.

Kim Dong-gil gathered the blood that was coming out with his hands and put it back into the wound.

He kept putting in the things that kept flowing out.

Later, he even put dirty, blood-stained clothes into the wound.

Thud.

At that moment, something sharp touched his chin.

“Ha…… Haaa…… Haaa……?”

Kim Dong-gil trembled and raised his head.

There.

Jin Jae-hee was holding a sword.

Her sword blade was slowly raised, lifting Kim Dong-gil’s chin.

Jin Jae-hee said in a low tone.

“It’s over. Stop resisting.”

“Haa…… Haa…….”

Kim Dong-gil looked around in that state.

The screams he had been hearing since earlier.

Those screams were all from Team Blue.

They were all lying on the floor, cut by swords.

They were lying down from the escalator entrance on the opposite side to here, like dominoes falling.

Jin Jae-hee had killed them all.

And the surviving Team Red soldiers were breathing heavily and looking at Kim Dong-gil.

Jin Jae-hee said coldly, leaving Kim Dong-gil behind.

“Where is he? Your king.”

(To be continued in the next episode)