The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 125

125. End of War (3)

“You don’t have to find her, Brother.”

That was a lie.

I had to find my sister.

“Instead, give me something else. Something else that is worthy of what you promised.”

I wanted to know my sister’s location.

I desperately wanted to know.

I wanted to mobilize all of Myeongyeong’s forces right now to find my sister.

But now was not the time.

Then, I heard K’s trembling voice.

“Who… is going to do that for you?”

“I kept my promise to you.”

“…The reward for that was to tell you the location of your sister.”

“I’ve changed my mind. I’ll ask for something else.”

“That’s impossible.”

“No, I didn’t ask you.”

“Pardon?”

“I’m asking your higher-ups. You have no power. You’re just replacing them.”

At that moment, K’s shoulders flinched.

I was testing her.

Based on the information he had obtained through his conversations with her, Sion had made his own assumptions about the situation.

That she would make him a star, that he should stand out more.

The administrator is just a messenger from the intermediate world, and there must be a higher-dimensional organization that oversees this league.

Wouldn’t those high-ranking people watch and enjoy the slaughter of humans, and pick their favorite people to support?

The Earth is a kind of coliseum run by God.

And if everything K proposes is actually an order from that higher-dimensional being, then it would be possible to suggest changing the reward.

Changing the reward wouldn’t harm the gods, so they would proceed with the league in a way that would make them more interested.

Of course, everything is just an inference.

Because I have never actually seen or felt them.

Besides, after meeting Park Ji-soo, I couldn’t trust K anymore.

That he is the main character, that he will never be in danger, that she will help him.

Park Ji-soo’s words, they were clearly about K.

But the promise was not kept.

That was the decisive reason why I couldn’t trust K.

If K had kept his promise with Park Ji-soo, he would have stopped me by any means.

But K did not directly intervene in the story.

Only indirect intervention was made according to the established rules when selecting the king of the 1st round or Myeongyeong again.

Also, only those who violate the rules are deleted or items are prohibited.

So they can’t directly make players with their own power.

‘In the end, everything K says is a lie. Administrators are not to be trusted.’

The very act of leaving to find my sister as K wants is moving away from my sister.

In the first place, if the administrator had the power, he could have made me and my sister meet right away.

But she doesn’t, she only tells me the location.

That itself was a contradiction.

Until now, K had been playing with me.

K clearly said that she would give me a reward related to my sister, but that doesn’t mean that I actually got closer to my sister.

I didn’t want to be played by K anymore.

I have no intention of responding to any of her suggestions now.

I can’t find my sister by relying on K.

Because the higher-dimensional beings won’t want me to meet my sister.

I was madly angry at that fact, but now is the time to hold my breath.

Like an alligator in a swamp.

I have to wait for the prey to slowly come to the water’s edge.

I looked at K.

Her face was contorting.

Judging from the reaction, it seems that my reasoning was correct.

Then, K started talking to someone.

* * *

“Yes? No… Still, this is a case… Ha, but! No… Ah… Yes… Yes. I understand. Yes.”

K talked to someone and turned back to Sion.

Her expression was unusual.

The corners of her mouth were slightly lowered, and she sighed one after another.

And soon, she opened her mouth to Sion.

“Okay. I’ll give you another reward. Anyway, you kept your promise to unify Anyang, and I have to give you a reward. But there are conditions.”

“What is it?”

“It must be a lower-level reward than the reward for telling you the location of your sister. They are holding you accountable for your choice. Those people.”

Sion nodded at K’s condition.

“I don’t care.”

Sion was rather calm.

Even if the level of reward was lowered, he didn’t care.

K frowned.

“You won a pretty big war, but are you satisfied with a slightly lower reward? Did I misjudge you? You wouldn’t be that kind of person?”

K said quite aggressively.

But Sion didn’t care.

Because he knew K’s intentions now.

Sion said calmly.

“The reward is enough for the war reward. The world I wanted to build is complete.”

“…What?”

“Anyang City is geographically the most stable in Seoul and Gyeonggi [provinces in South Korea]. Because there are Gwanak Mountain to the north, Cheonggye Mountain to the east, Gwanggyo Mountain to the south, and Suri Mountain to the west. Now that I’ve unified Anyang, I can secure the stability of my forces. There will be no more wars between forces.”

Sion looked around.

In fact, Anyang was a plain area located between four mountains.

It was a geographically treasure-like terrain.

If only Anyang is unified, it will be a natural wall that can prepare for other forces.

This means that Sion no longer needs to expand his territory through unreasonable conquest wars.

Sion now had a plan to manage state affairs in a way that discouraged war.

The number of people that Myeongyeong can accommodate will be between 100,000 and 200,000.

In the apocalypse, that many people will not flock to Myeongyeong, and if we protect our territory well, Myeongyeong will not collapse in the future.

K retorted at Sion’s words.

“You say war won’t happen. Shouldn’t you, the lord of Myeongyeong… no, the king now, expand your power through war? That is a natural duty as a king.”

Sion answered without looking at K.

“I don’t need it. Not anymore.”

“Yes?”

K was startled and scanned his face.

He doesn’t need the throne.

Is that what a person who has worked so hard to fight a war and reached the top of a force should say?

K couldn’t understand at all.

It was different from the ‘Kang Sion’ he had known.

What on earth is he thinking?

Suddenly something flashed.

“You don’t tell me….”

Sion looked at K.

“Are you going to give up the throne?”

“It’s a different meaning.”

“Then what is it? Seriously. You’re not giving up the throne, but you don’t need the throne?! Are you kidding me?”

“Are we…”

At that moment, the air became heavy.

Sion looked at K and lowered his voice.

“Is this the time to joke around?”

“You…”

“If you, who are higher-dimensional than humans, don’t understand my purpose, then just stay like that. I don’t want to explain it to you. Now tell me the reward I want. Give me the reward quickly and get out of here. I don’t have time to play around with you.”

Sion turned around and walked away.

But K grabbed Sion.

“Wait…”

K couldn’t understand.

I couldn’t understand at all.

The league is divided into three jobs from the start.

A small number of leaders who rise to the position of monarch.

Players who coordinate the game.

Wanderers who do not belong anywhere and freely roam the world, creating variables.

The most valuable job among them was the ‘Monarch’.

Because as history proves, the power of the monarch is overwhelming.

Besides, Kang Sion won the first conquest war and was promoted from lord to king.

A position that everyone drools over.

He doesn’t need that position anymore.

K couldn’t understand Kang Sion’s words, who would do anything for his own purpose.

She was an ‘administrator’, but she wanted to ask the human she was managing what he was thinking.

“Tell me. Why did you make that decision? Convince me!!!”

“……?”

Kang Sion looked at the wailing K.

It was the first time.

An administrator showing her emotions and getting angry at a being called a disruptor.

“I can’t understand. Why does someone as smart as you not need the throne? Convince me. This is what I’m asking you as an administrator.”

Normal players would be afraid of the administrator and follow her demands, but Sion was different.

He realized it while working with her for the past three rounds.

That the administrator is ‘nothing’.

That’s why he wasn’t afraid.

“What if I don’t want to?”

“……!!!”

“Why do I have to convince you?”

“……You.”

“Everything in the world has something to go and something to come. Information is also a resource. If you want to know my thoughts, give me the appropriate price.”

“……Wh, what?”

Sion said, leaving K asking that.

“……Present an item that will satisfy me. Don’t ask me.”

“Ugh…! Ugh…!”

And K trembled.

But K had no choice but to agree.

Administrator network.

From the direct connection between the administrator and the beings, the beings were constantly instructing her to find out Kang Sion’s choice, no matter what ‘reward’ they gave him.

“Kyaaaaaaak-! Kang Sion…! Ugh…! Kang Sion!!!”

K was furious and started screaming so loudly that her eardrums hurt.

K couldn’t help but be angry at the player who didn’t move according to her will.

However, the authority of the beings is absolute.

Beings exist, so there are administrators.

“…….”

K barely calmed down and said.

“……Okay. I’ll give you a very satisfactory reward that no one can complain about… In addition to the reward for this war that you requested.”

After that, K opened her inventory.

* * *

After the war, at the same time.

Anyang Station Subway Line 1 platform.

Soldiers with torches went down there.

The Anyang Station subway had been abandoned for quite some time.

Kang Sion, the king of Myeongyeong, was also negative about the usability of the subway, so it was still used as a simple warehouse or to store military supplies.

Besides, there was an unknown stench here.

It was a smell several times worse than the smell of rotting corpses.

The reason why the soldiers went down there again this time was to wipe out the remaining soldiers of Dong-an who were hiding in various parts of the station.

“Damn…! The smell. I really can’t get used to it.”

“Would these sons of bitches be hiding even in a place like this? Team leader, can we just find them quickly and go up?”

“What, you son of a bitch?”

The leader of the extermination team, who was walking in front, turned around and looked at the soldier who was talking nonsense.

“The lord has ordered it.”

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to resist the lord. I was just wondering if the warriors would bother to crawl into a place like this…”

The leader of the extermination team clicked his tongue and shouted.

“If it weren’t for the lord, we wouldn’t have survived in this ruined world. You! You haven’t forgotten the miracle that the lord performed during the cold wave in the 2nd round.”

Boiler.

It was a legendary story passed down to the citizens who joined at the end of the 2nd round.

Besides, those involved in the 2nd round thought of Kang Sion as a savior.

A savior who saved their lives.

He saved everyone who was about to freeze to death, so Kang Sion was a miraculous being to them.

“If you say that kind of thing even once, I will punish you according to military law. Do you understand?”

“Yes. I was short-sighted.”

The leader held up the torch again and moved forward.

They knew why Kang Sion’s approval rating was 98% without having to talk about it separately.

The human corpses that died in the 1st round froze in the 2nd round, and then melted again, giving off a terrible stench.

The corpses were damaged enough to make them frown, and goblin corpses were often seen in various places.

The extermination team searched every corner of this subway platform, but they could not find the warriors of Dong-an anywhere.

“It doesn’t seem to be there….”

They couldn’t find it even after searching for several hours.

Only then did the leader nod.

“Okay. Let’s go up.”

The faces of the team members lit up with smiles at the leader’s words to go up.

They were leaving the subway station again.

However, ‘signs of people’ were heard in a space that no one had expected.

Coo-goong… Coo-roo-roo….

The surprised leader held up a torch and shone it here and there.

Surprisingly, the place where the signs of people were heard was the railroad track where the subway runs.

The Seoul side had originally collapsed and was blocked.

But there, some people were crawling out wearing gas masks.

“Th, get ready for battle.”

At the appearance of the people, the extermination team members held out their weapons forward.

The leader slowly approached them.

The people who came out of the railroad tracks had portable flashlights and K2 rifles [standard issue rifle of the South Korean army].

The people shone flashlights on the soldiers.

The ‘Republic of Korea government’ that they thought had collapsed, that they had firmly believed in.

Sion had consistently said that the ‘government’ had collapsed from the 1st round until now, and he was sure that the rescue team would not come.

That was actually the case, and the government had been neglecting the citizens during the past rounds.

But what was in front of them now was a rescue team dispatched by the government.

The soldier shouted to the soldiers.

“Are you survivors…? Are you survivors? We are a rescue team dispatched by the Republic of Korea government! Drop your weapons!”

(Continued in the next episode)