The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 58

The Guillotine (2)

After the police officer murders, the remaining officers increased patrol sizes.

They also reinforced the barricades on the stairwell between the 5th and 4th floors, bracing for a potential citizen uprising.

However, the next incident originated from within the police force itself.

Thump-!

The chief’s office door on the 5th floor burst open, and a bleeding woman stumbled out.

The startled police officers stared at the woman emerging from the chief’s office.

The woman was covered in blood.

“Save me… Please, save me…”

“……!”

Kim Su-kyung, who was nearby, quickly took off her coat and rushed to the woman, covering her with it.

Kim Su-kyung asked in a trembling voice.

“Are you okay? What happened? What on earth happened?”

Hugging her, Kim Su-kyung examined the woman’s condition.

Bruises, as if she had been struck with a blunt object, were visible all over her body.

The woman trembled in Kim Su-kyung’s arms and continued to plead.

“Save me… Mister… Please, save me.”

Before Kim Su-kyung could respond,

Creak-.

Kim Su-kyung looked up at the sound of the hinges.

“……”

The drunken chief was standing in the doorway.

Blood dripped from his fists, and he was breathing heavily.

His body, clad only in underwear, was stained with blood.

Gulp, gulp.

The chief swallowed the entire bottle of alcohol.

Kim Su-kyung cautiously asked the chief, who was staring blankly at her.

“Chief. What is all this…?”

“That’s mine. Put it down.”

The chief commanded Kim Su-kyung, who was staring blankly at him, in a harsh tone.

“Chief…?”

“Put it down, Officer Kim.”

Thud.

The chief, drunk, stumbled forward step by step.

With each step, the chief’s head shook from side to side.

He looked like a broken machine.

The smell of alcohol filled the air as he approached.

“Put it down. It’s mine. Why are you touching it? Huh?”

“Chief… !”

Kim Su-kyung stood up and blocked the woman, positioning herself between the chief and the victim.

And she took out her baton.

Her hand holding the baton was trembling slightly.

The chief and Officer Kim Su-kyung faced off.

Three police officers were watching them.

No one stepped forward.

Only Kim Su-kyung was blocking the chief.

“Chief… This is a criminal act.”

At Kim Su-kyung’s words, the chief tilted his head and asked.

“…Crime? What crime?”

“Get a grip! What are you doing?”

“No. Ah… Uh? No, what crime? I’m the law, what crime…? Ah, wait. Officer Kim. Go get some water.”

“Chief! Please!!!”

“Huh? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No… !”

Ignoring Kim Su-kyung’s words, the chief suddenly started shouting.

“Why don’t you listen to me? Why? No. Listen to me… Do you want me to kill you too? Do you want to die? I told you to get some water! Water!!!!!!”

“…I’m arresting Chief for the crimes of rape, assault, and unlawful confinement.”

At that moment, Kim Su-kyung took out the handcuffs from her waist.

The chief dropped his gaze.

Even in his staggering state, he was fixated on the handcuffs Kim Su-kyung was holding.

“You’re trying to handcuff me now? Handcuffs… Handcuffs…?”

“Chief. You’re not in your right mind right now.”

“Right mind? Right mind? Are you saying I’m not in my right mind? Right mind… Right mind. Right mind. Ha… Right mind.”

The chief muttered incomprehensible words, staggered, and leaned against the wall.

The chief had finally lost it.

He was crying, laughing, and banging his head against the wall.

Thick saliva continued to flow from his lips.

Kim Su-kyung slowly approached the chief.

But the chief ordered, as if muttering.

“Stop.”

At that moment, a barrage of notification windows appeared before Kim Su-kyung’s eyes as she approached the chief.

[Decree by Park Gun-woo, the lord of the Manan 1st faction, Article 1, Paragraph 2]

[Article 1, Paragraph 2: All citizens inside the police station become ‘honorary police officers’ and are obligated to carry out the orders of Lord Park Gun-woo.]

[Penalty will be imposed if not performed within 60 seconds.]

“Ugh.”

Kim Su-kyung stopped abruptly at the appearance of the notification window.

The chief was still leaning against the wall, panting.

He couldn’t come to his senses because of the alcohol.

“You… You. If you move even one step further from there… You’re dead… Are you dead? Kahhhhh!”

Thwack.

The chief spat and slowly approached the woman.

Then he grabbed her hand and tried to drag her back into the chief’s office.

Clang!

At that moment, Kim Su-kyung handcuffed the chief’s wrist.

Kim Su-kyung had disobeyed the chief’s order, or rather, the system’s order.

“……”

The chief looked at the handcuffs on his hand, then looked up at Kim Su-kyung.

“Chief. I’m arresting you as a criminal in the act.”

“……”

Officer Kim Su-kyung’s voice was calm.

She was scared, but she couldn’t condone the chief’s criminal behavior in front of her eyes.

The chief looked at the handcuffs again.

Then he looked at Kim Su-kyung again.

Then he dropped his head and muttered.

“Ah, wait. Wait… This is Sujeong… What was Sujeong… Ah, Sujeong. Sujeong is…”

The chief let go of the woman’s hand, slammed his forehead against the wall again, and continued to mutter.

His muttering didn’t last long.

The chief’s wrist was still handcuffed, and the chief said to Kim Su-kyung.

“You, just die.”

“Yes…?”

It was that moment.

Crackkkkkkkkkkkkkkk-!!!!

“Kaaaaaack! Keoooooooock!”

A black substance wrapped around Kim Su-kyung’s body, and her body began to twist.

Squeak, squeak!

The other police officers who witnessed the scene were frightened and stepped back.

Kim Su-kyung’s whole body, who had handcuffed the chief, began to twist strangely and floated into the air.

The chief screamed, twitching his lips as if crying or laughing.

“If you disobey… If you disobey my orders… You die… That’s how I fixed it… !!! Ahahahahaha!!! Mom, did I do well? Huh? Uh? Hey, you guys know too, right? You too? Huh?”

Crackkkkk-!

Kim Su-kyung’s body began to twist like a pretzel, and soon all the bones in her body were crushed and all the blood began to gush out.

Thud-!

Soon Kim Su-kyung’s body fell to the floor, and a bright red stream of blood began to flow along the hallway.

The chief, holding the woman’s hand, looked at the other police officers who were witnessing this scene and said.

“T, t, this. Clean it up. Over there. Where is it… Take it to the 3rd floor and throw it away. Make it look like the citizens killed her… Got it? T, t, and tomorrow, p, pick one of the citizens and m, mold them as the leader and e, execute them. Huh? Got it? Uh, Mom. Mom told me to! …AHAHA.”

Now there was no one to refuse the chief’s words.

Creeeeeeeeak- Thump.

The woman was dragged back into the room by the chief.

All the police officers there felt an overwhelming fear at the sound of the door hinges, as if that sound was so chilling.

* * *

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Why me!!! Why me!!!”

These days, the biggest change when I wake up in the morning is the screams.

The screams that I wouldn’t have heard before now echoed unconditionally when I opened my eyes in the morning.

It could be a woman, an old man, or a child.

So people are afraid to fall asleep these days.

Because it was clear that someone would be dead again tomorrow.

And the corpse left by that someone who died is discovered by someone else, who screams.

Screams corrupt people’s hearts.

In particular, cries or desperate shouts were easily contagious.

“I didn’t kill him?! Uh!!! I didn’t kill him!!! You X bastard! I didn’t kill him! I didn’t kill him!”

Two police officers were arresting a man.

Around him, citizens were huddled together, just watching the arrest scene.

No one helped.

They couldn’t help.

Because the police officers nearby were now glaring sharply, as if they were about to swing their batons at any moment.

Everyone already knew what would happen if they were taken to the detention center.

They wouldn’t just die.

They would die in pain.

The trust between the police and the citizens had long been broken.

“Save me… Please save me… Yes… ! Yes…? Heoooong… !”

And the citizens here have learned one new thing while living in the police station.

No matter how old a middle-aged man is, how virtuous he is, how kind an old woman’s expression is, how benevolent a young man is to others, how burly a soldier is, or how full of justice a police officer is, they are all the same.

In the face of death, everyone equally reverts to being a child.

They wet their pants, cried, and begged to be saved.

The morning roll call yard of the police station where snow is constantly falling.

In the middle of it, the guillotine that the work crews had built overnight on the chief’s orders was erected.

It was just a makeshift guillotine, but its purpose was to effectively cut off human heads.

Now everyone was gathering there.

It was the first execution here.

* * *

The appearance of the guillotine was simple.

Because it was made from materials picked up from nearby cities, its appearance was different from the guillotines of the Middle Ages.

Although it was made of crude materials, it was certainly suitable for performing the task of ‘execution’.

A huge blade was connected to a pulley and raised precariously, and underneath it was a locking device that could bind a person’s neck.

Sion looked at it and thought that the workers’ skills were truly outstanding.

They had created an execution device in just one day.

Of course, the execution ceremony being held now was not in his plan.

However, it rather became an opportunity to further incite the anger of the citizen forces.

A man who had been arrested from the west was dragged over.

A gag was in his mouth, so even though the man was screaming, no sound came out.

Two police officers dragged the man over, placed his neck on the neck rest, and secured it with a fixture.

Then they put handcuffs on the ring to prevent him from moving.

The chief walked out.

Waddling with an arrogant posture.

The chief, the only one in this building who boasted a plump belly, approached the guillotine.

The chief shouted.

“This man is the one who killed the police last night, and from now on, severe punishment will be given to those who harm or threaten the police.”

“Ah, it’s really well made.”

That was the chief’s first words as he looked at the guillotine.

He had a cigarette in his mouth and looked at the police officer holding the chain once.

Then, after looking around at the gathered citizens, he looked at the police officer holding the chain again.

His movements were not those of an ordinary person.

“Wait a minute.”

The chief squatted down and whispered to the man under the guillotine.

He whispered only to the man so that no one could hear.

“Smile now. I’ll save you if you smile now.”

The man stuck in the guillotine tried to look at the chief while whimpering, but it was impossible.

But he nodded vigorously as if he understood.

And he raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.

The chief, who was staring blankly at the sight, whispered to the man again.

“That’s a smirk… Smile. Huh? Smi-le. Lift your head and say it out loud. Then I’ll really save you.”

The man forced the corners of his mouth up and showed a smile to everyone gathered there.

“Su- Ma- Ile-”

The man, who spoke awkwardly with a gag in his mouth, smiled.

“Hehehehe… Ugh… Puhuhuhu… !”

The chief looked at the man’s appearance, covered his mouth and laughed, then looked at the police officer holding the chain and nodded.

At the chief’s signal, the chain was released.

Charrrrrrrr- Thud!

The man’s head fell off smiling.

The severed head rolled and rolled to the front of the people.

“Congratulations. You have become the first person on Earth to be executed on the guillotine while smiling.”

The chief straightened his back again and smoked a cigarette.

Fear.

That was the biggest weapon the chief had.

The chief has a decree stipulated by the system.

As long as there is that absolute monarch’s authority, everyone gathered here could not easily stand up to the chief.

Using that advantage, the chief was now instilling fear in the citizens.

The chief gestured with his cigarette-holding hand and ordered.

“Disperse.”

The chief took a delicious puff of his cigarette and walked back into the police station.

After that, two police officers clumsily cleaned up the man’s body.

The citizens slowly began to disperse.

And their patience had already reached its limit.

Everyone was waiting for one man’s decision.

The rumor that the man spread quickly spread within the narrow building.

All the citizens who had gathered here already had the same thought.

As the chief entered the police station, the gazes gathered in one place again.

It was where Kang Sion was.

Sion watched the execution ceremony from beginning to end, then muttered to himself.

“The preparations must be perfect, right?”

At that voice, Choi Myung-joon bowed his head and replied.

“Of course.”

There was no more delay.

(Continued in the next episode)