The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 120

120. The Flesh Prison (3)

Alright… I’ve figured it all out.

‘Heart, stomach, left knee, right foot’s middle toe, right elbow, large intestine, navel… That’s it. Those are the places where the cores are hidden.’

I descended to the floor and looked around.

If I could escape the location of the brain and destroy the cores in those seven locations, Park Ji-soo’s artifact would crumble.

“No… It can’t be. It can’t be happening… No, no. How? Did you not see my memories? Didn’t you see all of my memories? Did you not understand? Lee Se-beom died in tears of sorrow… You only saw 1/10th of it… Aren’t you sad? Aren’t you sad? You, you, you.”

“…Aren’t you sad?”

I tried to take a step forward, but I had no strength.

My whole body slumped.

I didn’t feel sadness, but I was so physically exhausted that I couldn’t even lift a finger.

Of course, Park Ji-soo’s emotions, directly entering my brain, did evoke some feelings in me.

‘But at best, it’s just a monkey’s tragedy. A cockroach’s sad epic.’

No matter what kind of life a monkey has lived, it only stirs my emotions slightly; it’s not enough to corrupt me.

It’s like when a stray cat I often see on my way to work is found dead one day. It’s sad, but that’s it.

Animals are animals, and humans are humans.

Park Ji-soo is an animal to me.

A female monkey.

Just because a monkey is sad, should I be sad too?

No matter how miserable a monkey’s life has been, I can’t understand it.

Whether its parents were killed by poachers, it was sold and cruelly treated in a circus for life, or its brain is eaten alive on a dining table in the end, it’s none of my business.

‘I just need to find my brother.’

I’m only one step away now.

I couldn’t stop here.

Park Ji-soo was still sobbing.

She lay on the floor, desperately pleading with me.

“And… you should have had your head explode… 14 million memories…? They say even accepting a hundred would drive you crazy…? You… you’re not human…? What is your brain…? Ah, you… you were my last hope… It’s too much… It’s too much…!”

“…”

I knew how to cancel her artifact, but the problem was that I didn’t have the strength to even lift a finger.

‘I might be able to manipulate the artifact, but destruction will be impossible. In the memories… it didn’t break even when three strong men hammered at it all day.’

As hard as a diamond.

A hardness that ordinary people could never break.

‘Ordinary’ people, that is.

Then, Park Ji-soo, who had been crying, suddenly vomited blood.

“Ptooey…!? Ugh-!”

Slurp.

Bright red blood splattered on the floor.

Looking at Park Ji-soo’s vomit, I knew.

She had come.

* * *

“Why are you laughing?”

The White Blood Cell asked.

But Jin Jae-hee covered her face with her hands, laughing.

“Hehehe…”

The White Blood Cells looking down at Jin Jae-hee were all silent.

She was still covering her eyes with her hands, laughing.

She kept laughing.

Laughing more than ever.

Laughing as if there was no tomorrow.

Then, she finally burst out laughing.

“Pwahahahaha-!”

Jin Jae-hee had never laughed so loudly since her regression.

But in this empty space, she was laughing to her heart’s content.

Now, she covered her face with both hands and laughed.

The White Blood Cells had no idea why she was laughing.

Even when she took her hands off her face, Jin Jae-hee was smiling like a child.

Like a child who had everything in the world.

“Ah, it’s funny… Isn’t it funny?”

At that moment, the White Blood Cell’s face twisted.

It wasn’t just the White Blood Cell that Jin Jae-hee was looking at.

The White Blood Cells who were laughing, the White Blood Cells who were crying, the White Blood Cells who were making strange expressions, all frowned at once.

“What?”

“…”

“Are you crazy? Are you crazy?”

“Why, why are you laughing? Why.”

As the White Blood Cells asked, Jin Jae-hee still giggled and said.

“No, well… Just barely playing the role of a lord in one city. Mistaking yourself for the strongest in the world…”

“…”

“You’re nothing. Really. The rounds to come, the monsters, and the players. It’s a shame you can’t see them. You should despair. You should be trampled mercilessly in the face of a desperate power gap.”

Then, Jin Jae-hee slowly raised her upper body.

There were still countless White Blood Cells around her.

Jin Jae-hee spoke in a still laughing tone.

“You think you have an amazing story? No. You’re just nothing, less than a cockroach. The way you’re mistaken that you’re something… Pwahaha! It’s funny! Ahahaha!”

This was an expression of Jin Jae-hee that no one had ever seen.

And naturally, she stood up and looked down at Park Ji-soo in the front row.

Jin Jae-hee was tall for a woman, so Park Ji-soo had to look up at her.

“…And Kang Si-on is yours now?”

Step.

Jin Jae-hee took a step towards the White Blood Cell in the front row, and at the same time, the White Blood Cell unconsciously took a step back.

“You can’t even imagine what kind of person Kang Si-on is…”

Another step.

“He’s not someone you can possess.”

Another step.

“I’m telling you. One year after the artifact was opened. That is, long before this war broke out.”

Another step.

“I already had the power to devour all of your forces. But I didn’t. Why?”

Another step.

The White Blood Cells hesitated and retreated.

They didn’t even know the reason themselves.

Why they had to avoid Jin Jae-hee as she approached.

Jin Jae-hee was bleeding, and she had more wounds.

The situation was clearly more favorable for the White Blood Cells.

Why?

“Why didn’t I?”

And Jin Jae-hee took another step closer.

“Right now. No, no. You are.”

Tap-.

Jin Jae-hee poked the White Blood Cell’s solar plexus with her finger.

“You’re his practice dummy. Got it?”

Tap again.

“I’m raising Kang Si-on right now. Not competing with you in the league.”

This time, she punched.

Thwack!

The White Blood Cell in the front row fell backward powerlessly.

Thud-!

And Jin Jae-hee approached the fallen White Blood Cell, squatted down, and made eye contact.

She slowly swept her hair up.

Pulling her bangs all the way back to reveal her forehead.

“…Ah, right. You asked if I’ve gone crazy?”

The fallen White Blood Cell’s breathing began to quicken.

His whole body was being crushed by an unknown sense of fear.

His shoulders trembled, and his lips couldn’t even part.

“H… H…!”

Jin Jae-hee tilted her head, diagonally down.

“…Sorry, but I was always a crazy bitch.”

Swish-.

As she tilted her head diagonally, her hair naturally fell down.

“It’s on a different level from you guys who went crazy after the apocalypse.”

At that moment.

Whoosh-. Swish swish swish-!

Like various vegetables being ground in a blender, the White Blood Cells surrounding Jin Jae-hee were disassembled.

Three holy swords began to orbit among the disassembled flesh.

Whoosh-. Whoosh-. Whoosh-.

Jae-hee, who was thought to have exhausted her strength, stood up again.

No, in the first place, she had never used ‘strength’.

After the artifact was opened, the regressor Jin Jae-hee became stronger faster than anyone else, and already had top-tier combat power within the league.

While Kang Si-on was building his forces during the last round, Jin Jae-hee was increasing her power to help Kang Si-on.

Faster than anyone else.

To the extent that others couldn’t dare to follow.

However, the reason why she hadn’t used her original power was for a simple reason.

The first was that she left Kang Si-on to solve the problem himself and grow.

The second was that engaging in combat without opening her power provided tremendous experience in accumulating the stats needed for the artifact.

Jae-hee’s hair slowly turned silver.

Shalalalak-.

“A bug…”

It wasn’t submerged in water or fluttering in the wind, but her silver hair was fluttering in all directions.

Silver lights poured into all the spaces surrounding her.

Inside the dark body, crystals emitting light as beautiful as the Milky Way fluttered.

Sword Saint.

A splendid and beautiful sight befitting the title.

This was the true form of the Sword Saint.

Awakening 2.

The three holy swords that wield the power of silver stars, the pinnacle of the sword.

A sword as long as a spear was held in her right hand.

Jin Jae-hee held the huge and long silver holy sword.

She gave the White Blood Cells a strange smile.

“…I played with you a little, and you’re trying to climb on top of me.”

* * *

“Ah… Waa, waa-ack!”

Park Ji-soo vomited blood again.

The ground where she was standing was already filled with bright red blood, having been vomited on several times.

Park Ji-soo couldn’t even support her body properly and collapsed to the floor.

‘No way… There’s someone enduring inside my body…? Who is it, who is it!’

Even if you kill one or two White Blood Cells, the number of White Blood Cells is overwhelmingly large.

There are so many that you can’t even count them.

But someone was breaking through those countless White Blood Cells, destroying all of her organs.

And it was just one.

‘Who is it? Who is it. Who is it! Who is it!! Who is it!!!’

That’s when it happened.

Thwack, Swoo-sh!!!

The huge flesh that made up the inner wall of the brain was split in half, and silver light began to spring from the gap.

In an instant, the flesh split to both sides.

And a wave came crashing in.

Rumble rumble rumble!

The corpses and blood of White Blood Cells poured in like a wave through the split flesh.

The being that came out through the huge wave of corpses was a goddess.

Despite having fought countless battles, there wasn’t a single bloodstain on every corner of her body.

A silver-haired goddess emitting brilliant rays of light and wielding two silver holy swords.

At least, that’s how it looked to Park Ji-soo.

“Ah…!”

An unapproachable, overwhelming absolute being.

In front of her, anyone can only realize that they are just insignificant creatures.

Park Ji-soo was the same.

Just looking at her, she was mesmerized by her beauty, leaving her mouth open and staring like an idiot.

Just looking at her was a sight that warmed her heart as if she were ‘receiving’ her.

The blood washed in like a tsunami, colliding with the silver shield.

Before she knew it, a shield surrounded Kang Si-on.

Thanks to this, he was able to avoid the blood pouring in like a tsunami.

But Park Ji-soo was slowly being soaked in her own blood.

Everything was dyed bright red.

“Hoo… Ugh-!”

Park Ji-soo began to cry pathetically like a child who had lost her parents.

She looked around, searching for someone to save her.

But there was no one around.

No one.

Only blood and dead cells floating in the blood were rushing in.

“Hoo… Uaaaaaaah… Why, why-!!! Why!!!!”

Park Ji-soo waved her arms around, trying to escape the sea of blood.

She cried and screamed for help.

Kang Si-on looked at her with an indifferent expression, floated up, and soon positioned himself next to Jin Jae-hee.

After a while, the blood that filled the room began to drain.

Park Ji-soo’s body, which had been almost submerged, reappeared.

After all the blood had drained away.

Park Ji-soo sat down powerlessly in the place where the corpses of White Blood Cells were piled up.

“…”

Like a ruined person.

* * *

Jin Jae-hee flew to Kang Si-on’s side.

And looking at Si-on, she asked.

“Are you okay?”

“…Yeah.”

Si-on answered, looking down at the sobbing Park Ji-soo.

“That’s a relief.”

After those words, Jin Jae-hee turned her head forward and glanced at him out of the corner of her eye.

His body, without a single thread of clothing, was exposed.

His body was so emaciated that his ribs were visible.

Despite being the lord of a force, it was because of his habit of always eating small meals.

His right hand was shaking violently, but he didn’t seem to be aware of it himself.

‘Is he cold?’

All of Jin Jae-hee’s nerves were focused on Si-on.

She increased the strength of the shield even more so that he wouldn’t notice.

With this level of shield, she could block even field boss-level mass destruction skills.

In fact, there was no need to use this level of skill to deal with Park Ji-soo.

But because it was necessary to raise the temperature inside the shield, Jin Jae-hee strengthened the shield.

Certainly, Si-on’s trembling gradually subsided.

Jae-hee’s prediction that Si-on was trembling because he was cold was correct.

In fact, even though this was inside a person’s body, it was so cold that you could see your breath.

It was because of Jin Jae-hee’s skill.

Her Sword Saint artifact creates certain silver crystals around her.

These crystals have self-awareness and are a kind of spirit that only follows the caster’s commands.

And the crystals are as cold as ice, lowering the surrounding temperature.

Then, Si-on looked at Jae-hee and asked.

“How is it now?”

Si-on asked her again.

“Can you still fight?”

Jae-hee swung the silver sword outwards and answered.

“Of course.”

Whoosh-.

A light and agile sound of air friction rang out.

Si-on seemed to be organizing his thoughts a little, then began to explain.

“I don’t have the strength to lift a finger. But I’ve figured out the weaknesses of her artifact. A total of 7 places.”

Si-on explained to Jin Jae-hee what he had seen in Park Ji-soo’s memory.

Jin Jae-hee’s eyelids fluttered slightly.

The stories she heard were more and more amazing.

“…But I don’t have any strength left to move anymore. You have to do it. But as you know, even if you go to that place, you’ll only be doing useless things if you don’t know the exact location.”

Park Ji-soo was still screaming in agony.

She was covering her head and staggering around like a drunk person.

Jae-hee nodded as if agreeing and answered.

“…That’s right. Even if it’s a specific part, the area is wider than most soccer fields.”

In short, this ‘room’ seemed to be inside Park Ji-soo’s brain, but its size was larger than a soccer field [a standard measurement, roughly 105 by 68 meters].

To put it simply, the Flesh Prison has the room structure of this prison, but the size and interior are completely different.

Kang Si-on and Park Ji-soo had become that much smaller.

So, even if the weakness is in the heart, you couldn’t know exactly where in the heart it was.

All Kang Si-on saw was the location.

Jae-hee gripped the hilt of the holy sword tightly and said.

“Don’t worry. I’ll slaughter them all.”

Her eyes became sharp.

But Si-on shook his head.

“Even you won’t be able to.”

“…Even me?”

Jae-hee was startled and looked back at Si-on.

“The remaining time on your artifact is about an hour based on the last time we worked together. Exactly 58 minutes and 12 seconds. But no matter how powerful you are, it’s impossible to cut everything in this infinite space and find the 7 weaknesses. Besides, even the method I’ve come up with now doesn’t have enough time. Even if you break all the remaining weaknesses in the shortest route, the remaining time is… 5 minutes and 12 seconds.”

“…”

Si-on looked back at Jae-hee and said again.

“…5 minutes and 9 seconds.”

Si-on explained in detail about the limits that Jae-hee herself didn’t even know.

Si-on was calculating everything.

Even in that moment trapped in Park Ji-soo’s memory, he was calculating the power that Jin Jae-hee had left behind to derive the best result.

“Don’t worry. I’ve thought of a way.”

And as always, Si-on came up with the answer.

His sphere floated in the air.

The sphere met the silver shining crystals and began to glow on its own.

Si-on’s sphere headed somewhere in a line.

Si-on began to control all the artifacts here and send them to various parts of Park Ji-soo’s body.