The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 108

108. Jeong Hyun-soo (2)

“…I want to sleep.”

The burning Player muttered.

And slowly walked.

As if taking a stroll, forgetting that this was a battlefield, they walked slowly.

At that sight, a soldier of Mangeong, trembling with fear, grabbed their pike and charged.

“Uwaaa!”

Thwack-!

The soldier’s pike pierced the Player’s heart area.

But such an attack did not work on the burning Player.

“…….”

“Ugh!”

That was because the Player’s body was already just bones, and the heart had burned away.

The Player grabbed the neck of the soldier who had charged at them with their hand.

Thump!

Flames erupted from their hand, and the soldier began to burn.

“Aaaagh! Aaaah! Aaaaagh!!!”

The soldier turned as black as charcoal in an instant.

The soldier’s corpse turned to ashes and scattered as soon as it fell to the ground.

The other soldiers were the same.

They were like lamps before the wind in front of the Player.

It was only a moment for four of them to fall.

While killing people without a care, the Player continued to mutter in a voice too small for anyone to hear.

“Just let me sleep. I want to sleep. In a fluffy bed. Until morning. Until evening. Until dawn. This is all meaningless. A waste of time. Sleeping is 100 times better.”

“You monster…!”

A soldier of Mangeong, watching the Player, fired bolts [crossbow arrows].

Thwack, thwack, thwack!

The bolts aimed for the burning Player’s thigh, neck, and left ribs in turn.

But all the bolts passed through the Player’s body.

And the Player, who had not suffered any damage, still muttered.

“I wanted to be a sloth. For quite some time. A life of lying in bed all day and just sleeping. Ah-. How happy would that be.”

Thwack-!

The Player picked up an arrow that had fallen to the ground and suddenly ran forward.

Thud-!

Ordinary soldiers could not cope with the Player, who suddenly moved quickly offbeat.

Incredible speed. Unpredictable movements.

Thwack, thwack, thwack!

Thus, the Player quickly stabbed the soldiers’ necks with the arrowheads.

While still muttering.

“Sleeping is the greatest blessing. When you sleep, you don’t have happy feelings, unhappy feelings, or lonely feelings. Just nothingness (無) [emptiness].”

Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack!

The Player began to indiscriminately massacre the soldiers with the small arrowhead in their hand.

Already 13 soldiers had fallen on the rooftop floor, screaming.

Now only 8 soldiers remained on the roof.

Among them were Jeong Hyun-soo and his father.

Everyone who looked at the Player trembled in fear on the spot.

The burning Player looked around at them and said in a strong tone so that everyone could hear.

“…So just die quickly. It’s meaningless. Die. That way I can go and sleep quickly.”

Thud-!

The Player now dashed forward.

To kill all the remaining soldiers without exception.

* * *

The soldier in charge of Jeong Hyun-soo and Hyun-soo’s father also stood up.

But Hyun-soo’s father grabbed him first.

“No!”

“Yes?!”

“My son! You take my son and run away. I’ll stop that monster!”

“Mister!”

“Please! Please!”

Hyun-soo’s father grabbed the soldier’s shoulders and shouted desperately.

“Run away! Please! Please!”

Hyun-soo’s father now pleaded recklessly.

Hyun-soo’s father, who had never shown tears in front of others, clung to the soldier like a child, crying his eyes out.

Before the desire to protect his child, he forgot all the beliefs he had kept and the attitudes that should be maintained.

His wailing echoed throughout the rooftop.

“Please go!!! Please go! It’s my lifelong request! I’ll give you anything! Hyun-soo. Just protect Hyun-soo! I. I’ll try to stop that monster, so please take my son and run away! Run away! Keuheoeoeoe…!!! Run away…! Please!!!”

Hyun-soo’s father cried like that for a long time before picking up a pike that had been discarded on the floor.

To clearly show what his intentions were.

He wiped away the tears flowing from his eyes and rushed towards the burning Player without hesitation.

“Uwaaaaaaaa-!!!”

Hyun-soo’s father’s all-out charge was bold.

But it was no match.

There was no way a 60-year-old man could be a match for the Player.

Thwack-!!!

“Keuheok…!!!”

The Player thrust their fist into the stomach of Hyun-soo’s father, who was charging at them.

Then the burning Player’s hand pierced through his body and came out of his back.

Hyun-soo’s father groaned as he was embraced by the burning Player.

“Ah… Ah… Ah…..”

“Just die quickly. Quickly.”

The burning Player said to Hyun-soo’s dying father.

Then, when they withdrew the hand they had stabbed in, a large hole appeared in the father’s stomach.

The area around the hole began to burn, and Hyun-soo’s father screamed in pain.

“Kahak! Aaaagh!!!”

Hyun-soo’s father wanted to collapse immediately, but he gritted his teeth and rushed in to grab the Player’s body.

The ‘burning’ Player’s body.

To somehow stop the Player from heading towards his son.

The Player looked at the burning father, who was grabbing them, and said.

“Why… Why are you doing this? Just die quickly. I’m sleepy now.”

Thud-.

The Player grabbed Hyun-soo’s father’s face and forcefully pushed it aside, and Hyun-soo’s father, who had stopped moving, collapsed weakly to the side.

Thump-!

The Player started walking again.

Towards Hyun-soo and the soldier.

“……!!”

At that sight, the soldier hesitated.

Rather than being scared, it was because Hyun-soo’s father’s earlier request lingered in his mind.

According to the lord’s orders, he had to stop the Player along with his other comrades.

But he could not ignore Hyun-soo’s father’s dying request.

After a moment of conflict, the soldier made a decision.

“……!”

Thud-!

The soldier, carrying Hyun-soo on his back, began to run towards the bridge.

He could not let Hyun-soo’s father’s death be in vain.

Of course, he would keep the lord’s command.

He would leave only Jeong Hyun-soo, the company commander, to the opposite defense force, and then face that monstrous Player again.

Thung-!

The soldier’s first step, powerfully striding onto the bridge, rang out loudly.

The bridge was narrow and shaky, but the soldier ran as hard as he could.

On the other side, they were preparing to dismantle the bridge.

To prevent the warriors of Doan from crossing over the bridge.

“Huk. Huk. Huk!”

Hyun-soo’s body, carried on the soldier’s back, shook violently.

Thanks to that, Hyun-soo gradually began to regain consciousness.

In the middle of the bridge between the rooftops of the high-rise apartments, Hyun-soo slowly opened his eyes.

* * *

Hyun-soo had a short dream.

A dream from before the world was destroyed.

At that time, his father was more patriarchal than anyone else.

He valued his children’s education and emphasized strict family rules and disciplined living.

He was a father who did not hesitate to use corporal punishment for the sake of his children’s education and proper character, and always lived with a solemn appearance.

Hyun-soo hated such an oppressive and taciturn father.

He secretly hugged his blanket and even wished to God that his father would die.

But after the world was destroyed, he no longer wished for his father’s death.

After the world was destroyed, his father did his best to protect his family in his own way.

His father, who had seemed so strong, became weak after the destruction.

Wherever he went, he bowed his head to others and knelt down. All to protect his family.

He knelt like a child in front of the powerful and begged, clasping his hands together, asking them not to touch his family.

Round 1 apartment, Round 2 police station, Round 3 Mangeong.

He tried desperately, but his father could not protect his family.

After losing his mother and two younger siblings, his father changed completely.

From then on, he bowed his head and begged even more easily. He knelt down on his heavy knees to save the only child he had left.

Hyun-soo frowned as he watched his father.

His father, who had seemed so strong, had completely changed.

His father, who had been so solemn and taciturn, begged and pleaded so many times, becoming a talkative nightingale.

He could not understand it, and he did not want to understand it.

He could not accept his father’s weakened appearance.

He couldn’t bear it.

That’s why he acted so coldly.

“…Keuheok!”

The soldier carrying Hyun-soo on his back fell forward.

Thanks to that, Hyun-soo also rolled forward.

The battlefield was still burning, and Hyun-soo’s vision was blurred due to the flowing blood.

He felt like he was about to lose consciousness, and his mind was blank.

He heard the soldiers’ desperate cries.

“Stop them!”

“Shoot bolts! Finish him off!”

“Aah! We’re all going to die. We’re all going to die!”

“The lord will come! Trust the lord!”

“Cut the bridge! Hurry…!”

“Save me…! Save me!”

“Fight back! For our city!”

“Everyone! Commence battle! The target is the Player of Doan!”

“Bring more bolts! Is the support force not here yet?!”

Hyun-soo slowly raised his head.

The soldiers on the rooftop were moving in an orderly manner, firing bolts at the 206 building rooftop where he had been until just now.

Hyun-soo struggled to get up, grabbed the rooftop railing, and looked at the opposite rooftop.

“…….”

And Hyun-soo saw it.

The burning rooftop, his father lying there.

“Ah.”

He was half-burnt and blackened, but he could recognize him at a glance. Because the protective clothing he was wearing was so familiar.

The Player of Doan, standing next to him, was brutally burning Hyun-soo’s subordinates one by one.

Now, after killing all the defense forces of the 206 building, the Player was looking at this rooftop.

The Player now started running.

It seemed like they were planning to jump between the rooftops.

And the ominous prediction came true.

The Player, who was running with light movements, kicked off the railing as if diving into a pool and soared into the air.

Thud-!

As if all the time in this area had stopped.

The burning Player was floating in the air.

Like a blazing flame, the Player began to fly towards this side, drawing a trajectory in the air.

Everyone could only stare with their mouths open at the horrifying sight.

Hyun-soo’s two pupils flickered as he made eye contact with the Player floating in the air.

Hyun-soo sensed death.

“…….”

But death did not come.

An entirely unexpected situation had occurred.

Hyun-soo’s father, who had been thought to be dead until just now, appeared right behind the Player.

Hyun-soo’s father, who had regained consciousness when the burning Player was leaping, barely managed to stand up and ran after them.

His father had already resigned himself to death, so he was able to exert superhuman strength, and in the end, he achieved his goal.

Thump!

His father, who was crossing the space between the apartment rooftops, grabbed the Player’s ankle with his right hand and gritted his teeth.

Even though his stomach was pierced and he had suffered a fatal wound, and half of his body was burned and he had suffered severe burns, his eyes shone coldly.

He squeezed out his remaining life force and grabbed the Player’s ribs with his remaining left hand.

At the same time, the Player plummeted to the ground.

“Uwaaaaaaa!”

The two people, tangled together, fell down, drawn by gravity.

Hyun-soo knelt down, grabbed the rooftop railing, and looked down at the sight.

When a bright light shone from the ground, Hyun-soo’s tears fell.

The tears followed his father and fell towards the deep ground.

* * *

Immediately after Hyun-soo’s father grabbed the Player and jumped.

A downpour began to fall on the burning apartment complex.

Swish swish swish-!

“Tha, that’s a relief!”

“…We bought time!”

“Prepare defenses from the lower floors! Hurry!”

“Yes!”

“It’s raining too!”

“Good! The flames will be extinguished! Strengthen our defense force as it is!”

The company commander quickly ordered the defense of the lower floors, and the troops on the rooftop immediately went down using the stairwell.

And he discovered Hyun-soo, who was looking at the opposite rooftop from the railing, and approached him.

“Hyun-soo. You.”

Thud-.

The company commander grabbed Hyun-soo’s shoulder, and Hyun-soo naturally raised his head.

The company commander couldn’t help but be surprised when he saw Hyun-soo’s face.

Because he was shedding tears without any expression.

Like someone who had lost everything.

Not only that.

A strange energy was swirling around Hyun-soo’s body.

The company commander knew what it was.

It was the power that only appeared to ‘Players’.

“Hye, Hyun-soo… You?”

“…….”

The power surrounding Hyun-soo’s body began to swirl even more strongly and became uncontrollably strong.

Kwaaaaaaaang-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Uwaaaaaaagh!!!”

“Aaaaaaaa-!!!”

Kwaaaaaaaang-!!!!!!

An indescribably powerful wind blew on the rooftop, and a red pillar poured down on him from the sky.

“Hyun-soo-!!!”

The company commander shouted as loudly as he could, but Hyun-soo could not hear him.

Only the word revenge was engraved in the mind of Hyun-soo, who had just awakened as a Player.

Hyun-soo’s face, who had lost his father, was distorted.

Lightning struck around his slowly rising body.

When he held out his left arm, the lightning turned into a bow, and at both ends of the bow, a sacred light swirled as a bowstring.

Hyun-soo grabbed the bow and pulled the string. Then, a lightning arrow was naturally created on the bowstring.

The tip of the sharply swirling lightning arrow was aimed at Doan.

“Everyone…….”

Kwang-!

As the rain intensified, lightning struck everywhere.

This was not a natural phenomenon.

It was due to Jeong Hyun-soo’s anger.

“Everyone……!”

Kwajijijijijik-!

Hyun-soo, who had pulled the bowstring all the way back, immediately released the string.

Kwajik!

A small spark flew, and a huge lightning bolt flew towards Doan.

Cutting through the dark night sky at the speed of light.

The lightning, which flew with Hyun-soo’s anger, directly struck the center of Doan.

Kwajijijijijijijik! Kwang-!

With a roar that seemed to turn the world upside down, a tremendous light struck Doan.

The lightning completely collapsed the center of Doan and the surrounding area.

The buildings hit by the lightning could not withstand the pressure and exploded, collapsing like sandcastles.

The tallest building in Anyang, which had been standing for the past 3 rounds, was no exception.

The giant building, which had its side pierced by another lightning bolt, collapsed helplessly, and the surrounding buildings were pushed by the debris and fell like dominoes.

Kukwang-!

The sound of buildings collapsing shook the heavens and the earth.

Jeong Hyun-soo did not stop.

He pulled the bowstring again and aimed at the Doan area.

“…I’ll kill them all.”

His goal was to kill everyone in Doan. Hyun-soo would not stop attacking until he achieved that goal.

Class A Ranker, Jeong Hyun-soo.

In his previous life, he was one of Kang Si-on’s powerful Big 3, along with Choi Hyun-ji.

It’s just that Jin Jae-hee didn’t recognize him because he was still too young.

“Not a single one… Without exception…..”

Kwajik-!

Electricity sparked from Hyun-soo’s hand.