The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 116

The regressionist only protects me – Episode 116 (116/221)

116. The Last Desperate Struggle (1)

After Park Ji-soo’s attack on Ilbeonga failed, the commander of Doan established a defensive strategy and deployed a large number of troops to Beomgye Station.

However, at the most crucial moment, the lord of Doan, Park Ji-soo, was nowhere to be found.

“Where is our lord……! Where on earth are you!”

“I can’t find her no matter how hard I look……. Ah……. It’s all over……!”

“What should we do……? Without the lord’s decree, it will be difficult to rally the scattered troops……!”

The supreme commander of Doan listened to his subordinates and considered the situation.

The absence of the lord.

The impact was significant.

Until now, Park Ji-soo had been involved in every decision.

The Doan army without Park Ji-soo was, in a word,

nothing more than a staged children’s play.

Doan had now completely collapsed.

It was Park Ji-soo who had barely managed to maintain the warriors’ wavering morale through the past few wars.

But now Park Ji-soo is gone…….

That meant only one thing.

The supreme commander of Doan clenched his fist.

And with a highly agitated expression, he muttered.

“Run…… away.”

Because Doan was finished.

* * *

The downtown area of Doan, where the command structure had collapsed, was truly a lawless zone.

The warriors had become bandits, stealing supplies indiscriminately or fleeing.

In the midst of all this, a woman walked along the asphalt.

Her path was sparsely marked with bloody footprints.

The woman wearing a tattered coat was the lord of Doan, Park Ji-soo.

Her surroundings were fluctuating.

The solid asphalt was bubbling as if water was boiling.

And it began to devour all the warriors around her.

“From the beginning……. The method was wrong.”

Park Ji-soo thought and thought again.

About the dream she originally wanted to achieve.

And about the man she had finally met.

“Just that man…… is all I need……! Just him…… and me…… in a place where no one else is……. Yes. Like a deserted island……! Creating our own world. If that happens……? If that happens……?”

Park Ji-soo’s artifact devoured not only the people around her but also the surrounding buildings.

The path she had walked turned into barren land as if civilization had never existed there.

“……I’ll be happy. Finally.”

Park Ji-soo walked.

Toward a deserted island in the city.

Toward a space to build her paradise.

* * *

The ogre’s advance speed was far greater than Doan’s bus trains.

In fact, it was more like plowing through everything than simply advancing.

Kang Si-on’s subjugation force, which had entered Beomgye Station, easily demolished Doan’s defense lines.

In addition, they hastened their advance toward the Hogye-Pyeongchon area and occupied most of it. As a result, Doan lost all the territory it effectively controlled to Mangyeong.

Mangyeong, despite its numerical inferiority, destroyed Doan’s strongholds one by one with its superior firepower.

It was all thanks to Kang Si-on’s strategy and the ogre with its immense destructive power.

Some of the warriors who lost the war scattered, but most were captured by Mangyeong soldiers.

The procession of prisoners being dragged to Mangyeong was long enough to fill an 8-lane road.

Nevertheless, Park Ji-soo and her guards, who had decided to fight to the end, retreated to the edge of Anyang City, their last defense zone.

Anyang Prison.

Surrounded by a 3-meter-high iron fence, this place was a natural fortress even greater than Mangyeong.

It was an area that Park Ji-soo had struggled to conquer until the end when she took Hogye, and after occupying it, it became Doan’s last defense base.

And Kang Si-on, having received intelligence that Park Ji-soo was at Anyang Prison, hastened his advance.

As the sun rose to the middle of the sky, giant ogres in the city walked toward it according to their master’s command.

Thump, thump, thump……!

The ogres’ footsteps caused vibrations so great that they could be felt from afar.

* * *

Inside the prison yard.

The commander of the warriors shouted to the remaining troops.

“Rather than becoming dogs of the damn police bastards, kill as many as you can! Remember! All of you are here thanks to our lord! Take revenge! Kill them!”

“Uwaaaaaaa-!”

“Euaaaaaaa-!”

The surviving warriors roared.

It was a unity that might be their last.

However, it was useless.

The 3-meter-high prison fence, which seemed high enough for humans, was just a low wall for the ogre.

At that moment, with a deafening roar, the iron fence shattered and scattered.

Kwaaaang-! Thududududuk.

One ogre easily broke through the iron fence and entered.

And immediately snatched a warrior and began to tear her apart.

The woman caught in the ogre’s hand screamed in terror.

“Eek! Aaaaaaack……!”

Soon after, the human body was easily torn into two pieces.

Deudeuk……. Ttududududuk-!

The ogre, holding the woman’s body split in two, roared at the warriors.

-Kuaaaaaaaaaaaak!

As the ogre shouted, saliva and blood spurted from its mouth in all directions.

The sight was truly terrifying.

In addition, the stench and the smell of blood filled the prison.

The warriors gathered in the yard looked up at the monster with agitated expressions.

And the commander of Doan gave the warriors their final order.

“……Charge! Everyone!”

“Kill them!”

“Euaaaaaaa!!!”

The warriors rushed forward.

At that moment, Mangyeong’s soldiers, led by the ogre, also began to rush into the prison.

The armies of the two camps roared.

The sound filled the prison sky.

Soon, the two groups met in the center and engaged in a massacre.

“…….”

In the middle of it all, Jin Jae-hee calmly walked toward the approaching warriors.

Her black hair fluttered in the wind.

Her calm gait.

It was in stark contrast to the urgent situation in front of her.

“Die-! Die!!!”

Then, one of the warriors discovered Jin Jae-hee and rushed at her.

She looked at the warriors rushing toward her and held out her hand.

Soon, a silver flash appeared in the air along with the Holy Sword, and she shot the sword at the warrior in the front.

Pook-!

“Ugh……!”

The Holy Sword immediately pierced the warrior’s body.

The warrior spat out blood and fell forward, and the Holy Sword returned to Jae-hee.

The Holy Sword moved on its own.

This time, three swords floated around Jin Jae-hee.

Again, the swords were fired forward.

Pook, pook, pook, pook, pook, pook-!

“Kakh……!”

“Keuheok……!”

“Eek……!”

The Holy Sword pierced the warriors one after another and did not stop there, flying around the battlefield.

Like skewering several pieces of meat with a skewer, her Holy Sword did not stop and pierced the bodies of the warriors.

A warrior grabbed an iron pipe and rushed at Jin Jae-hee.

“You son of a bitch!”

The warrior swung the iron pipe at Jin Jae-hee with all his might.

Bwoong-!

But the warrior’s iron pipe cut through the air.

Ducking her head to avoid the warrior’s attack, Jae-hee immediately kicked the warrior’s abdomen.

“Keuheok……!”

The first warrior lost his balance and staggered.

Jin Jae-hee pulled out the dagger from her waist and immediately stabbed the thigh of the second warrior rushing at her.

Pook-!

“Kkeuaak……!”

It was such a fast movement that the second warrior could not even react.

Her black hair fluttered violently with her dynamic movements.

Jin Jae-hee did not stop.

Grasping the second man who was about to fall, she blocked the arrows flying from the front.

Pook, pook, pook!

The arrows continued to hit the warrior’s back.

At that time, the first man who had fallen forward rushed at Jin Jae-hee again, and she pushed the second man at him, knocking them both down.

“Ack!”

And the Holy Sword that flew in from somewhere pierced the bodies of the two warriors at the same time.

Pook!

Even though she had brutally killed people, Jin Jae-hee moved her eyes to the front again without a change in expression.

Then she rushed at the third, fourth, and fifth warriors.

Like a wild beast fearlessly jumping toward a herd of herbivores, she mercilessly swung her sword.

Again, she slit throats, twisted joints, and tripped legs.

Then she crushed faces with her shoe heels, stabbed sides, and then slammed a straight into the abdomen, and kicked the jaw of the warrior who was aiming for her from behind with a turning kick.

Peoeok-!

The lower jaw of the warrior hit by her back foot was separated from the upper jaw and became tattered.

“Hoo……!”

Jin Jae-hee exhaled the breath she had been holding in until now, and then took a deep breath again and ran forward.

It was truly cruel to the enemies, but it was a truly amazing scene for Mangyeong’s soldiers.

She was swallowing everything alone like a hurricane.

The warriors who received Jin Jae-hee’s sword or were hit by her fist flew like pieces of paper and crashed to the ground, and their bodies were cut and killed.

She continued to fight several times, but Jin Jae-hee ran forward again without any signs of fatigue.

Thump, thump, thump, thump!

At that time, the ogre rushed at her.

-Kuaaaaaaaaaaa!

The ogre was moving toward the main building to devour more warriors.

Jin Jae-hee did not miss the opportunity and climbed onto the ogre’s calf.

Then the Holy Swords she had scattered returned to her, and the ogre immediately ran to the main prison building.

-Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The battle ends when you capture the king.

Jin Jae-hee, who was on the ogre’s shoulder, fell onto the roof of the main prison building at the right timing.

Tuk.

Lightly landing on the roof, Jin Jae-hee slowly looked around.

The dozens of warriors who were shooting arrows from the prison roof were startled and raised their heads stiffly.

The warriors hesitated at the sight of the woman who had suddenly rushed onto the roof.

“Uh……?”

“Wh, what?!”

“Hey, hey. Hey!”

Jae-hee wiped the blood on her cheek with the back of her hand and ran forward again.

* * *

Deep inside the prison.

This was a space where executions used to be carried out.

Since 1997, when South Korea effectively stopped carrying out executions, this place had been neglected for a long time.

But there were still nooses tied here, and there were also chairs for death row inmates.

Park Ji-soo was sitting in that chair, drinking soju [Korean distilled rice liquor] straight from the bottle.

Glug, glug-.

Already, numerous soju bottles were scattered around her.

Park Ji-soo barely managed to steady her staggering head and stood up from the chair.

Park Ji-soo weakly dropped the soju bottle she was holding.

Taeng-. Taenggeureureu…….

The soju bottle rolled weakly and collided with another soju bottle.

Park Ji-soo staggered again and leaned against the iron bars.

Numerous shouts could be heard from outside the prison.

The sounds of monsters could be heard, and the voices of her parents calling her when she was young could also be heard.

Park Ji-soo rubbed her face against the iron bars and said weakly.

“Open the door…….”

At the lord’s words, a man with one arm walked silently and opened the iron bars with a key.

Kkiiiiiik-.

A loud creaking sound echoed inside the prison, and the lord slowly walked and collapsed on the table.

This was a corridor leading to the execution chamber, but now there was a long table.

Park Ji-soo, who had collapsed on the table, barely managed to raise herself and sat back in the chair.

“Hoo……. Hoo…….”

Perhaps because she was so drunk, she breathed heavily.

Park Ji-soo’s guard, who was watching the weakened lord, frowned.

That guard was a woman who had been by Park Ji-soo’s side since the 2nd round.

Although one of her arms had been cut off by Jin Jae-hee before, she was still working as Park Ji-soo’s closest aide.

Park Ji-soo trembled, slumped over the table.

Although winter had passed, the wind was still chilly.

The guard instructed a nearby warrior to bring a blanket, received the blanket from his subordinate, and carefully covered Park Ji-soo.

Park Ji-soo seemed to tremble a little more, but soon became quiet.

Inside the dark prison.

Only the candle on the queen’s table was dimly illuminating the surroundings.

“Um……. Excuse me.”

At that time, two warriors next to the guard spoke.

The guard looked at the two warriors.

“Shouldn’t we…… run away? It seems like…… it’s really over now.”

“That’s right……. Even our lord, the lord who was so confident, couldn’t do anything in the end. It’s over now. Doan-gu is.”

“…….”

The guard lowered his head at the two warriors’ pitiful voices.

Then he asked instead.

“……Where to?”

“Yes?”

“Where are we going to run away to? Uiwang? Gwacheon? Seoul? Suwon? Where. Where are we going to go? Japan? China? Are we going to America? Tell me.”

“That’s…….”

“There’s nowhere to run. In the end, the only options are to die or to die struggling.”

“…….”

“Did you think you could live? Since the league has started? That’s funny.”

“…….”

“Everyone is going to die anyway. Except for a very small number. But we are not that small number. This girl, you guys, and me too.”

The guard took out a cigarette from his inside pocket and put it in his mouth.

He lit the cigarette with a candle and took a deep breath.

“This woman saved us. Remember the way you were wallowing in the snow, begging to be saved. And this woman gave us the opportunity to live freely. True freedom.”

At his words, the other two warriors were silent.

Silence flowed between the three for a while.

It was no exaggeration to say that all the members of Doan’s forces were saved by Park Ji-soo.

Park Ji-soo’s greatest ability was to understand the emotions of people driven to the brink and make them her own.

Park Ji-soo herself knew how it felt to be on the edge of life, so she was able to comfort them.

And those who had their lives saved by Park Ji-soo tried to stay here until the end and die with their lord.

The same was true of all the hundreds of warriors in the prison.

The guard concluded with a determined voice.

“Don’t try to live. We just have to die for our lord.”

And it was then.

The screams of warriors echoed from the nearby corridor.

The screams gradually came from a closer place, and the guard grabbed the kitchen knife on the table.

Deopseok-!

His face was distorted wildly.

His heart rate quickened, and his breathing became rapid.

The guard put the cigarette he was smoking into his mouth and chewed it.

It didn’t matter how hot the cigarette butt was.

“Yeah……. Everyone is going to die. All of them. But I’m not going to die just like that. I’m going to let the guy who kills me know exactly what I’m doing. What kind of guy I am. I. I’m not going to die easily. I can’t die easily. I have to leave something behind. I have to remain in the memory of even one person. Huh?”

At that time, the iron door leading to the corridor opened.

Kkiiiiiik…….

There was a man with his back to them, and he soon collapsed backward, spitting out blood.

Cheolpeok-!

The person who stabbed the man and came here alone was none other than Jin Jae-hee.

“…….”

Jin Jae-hee took a deep breath and looked at Park Ji-soo and the three warriors.

She had cut down all the dozens of warriors without missing a single one and arrived at the lord’s room.

At that moment, the corners of the guard’s mouth twitched as he looked at Jin Jae-hee.

“It seems like God has given me a final gift……. Revenge…… it’s revenge.”

In the past, the guard had one of his arms cut off by Jin Jae-hee.

To be driven to the brink and meet his enemy, the guard thanked God for giving him this opportunity.

Jin Jae-hee stepped into the corridor without any signs of fatigue.

Jin Jae-hee’s eyes were only directed at Park Ji-soo, who was sleeping on the desk.

“Let’s protect our lord!”

“Euaaaaaaa!”

The two warriors rushed at Jin Jae-hee.

The guard, who was looking at Jin Jae-hee, bit his lower lip until it bled.

He had cut down countless players so far.

His ability was to strengthen his physical abilities instantaneously.

Although the duration was short, his destructive power and speed were comparable to the Goblin Mask and Lord Park Ji-soo.

The guard, who had made up his mind, rushed forward with the kitchen knife in his hand.

Taat-!

The guard approached Jin Jae-hee at a speed that no human could have imagined.

Jin Jae-hee was busy dealing with the two warriors right now.

She certainly wouldn’t have time to pay attention to him.

The guard concentrated all his energy on his speed and left hand.

Right now, his blade was so powerful that it could cut even thick trees just by touching them.

‘No matter how strong that bitch is……! One hit is enough! If I get just one hit……! If I get just one hit……! First, I’ll chew up that pretty face of hers……!’

The guard swung the kitchen knife he was holding toward Jin Jae-hee’s neck.

And at that moment.

Hwirik-. Seogeok! ……Tuk. Tuktureureure…….

* * *

“…….”

The guard’s head spun once in the air and fell to the ground and rolled.

Next to it were the bodies of the warriors who had been instantly cut into pieces.

The eyes of the beheaded guard looked up at Jin Jae-hee.

“…….”

Jin Jae-hee did not even look at the bodies of the fallen warriors and approached Park Ji-soo.

(To be continued in the next episode)