The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 61

#61. Checkmate (2)

Sion’s rook leaped over the station chief’s pawns, beginning to hunt down the chief’s core forces.

Following the path cleared by the rook, Sion’s bishop, knight, and pawns advanced.

The station chief’s left flank completely collapsed.

However, the station chief wasn’t just passively taking it.

Even in his drunken state, the station chief enjoyed playing chess.

So, he was well aware of how to respond.

The station chief began to surround Sion’s rook using his knights and bishops.

The two men’s chess match continued.

Now, there wasn’t even conversation.

In the office, the sound of them moving chess pieces continued.

* * *

Screams and desperate cries erupted from all directions.

Choi Myung-joon, who had been massacring people after breaking through the police line, was now struggling.

Thwack…!

A knife pierced Choi Myung-joon’s side.

The policewoman who stabbed him said, sobbing.

“Die… you monster…”

Soon, two or three police officers clung to Choi Myung-joon, aiming their knives at him.

However, Choi Myung-joon remained calm.

Thump-!

Instead, he grabbed the hair of the policewoman who had stabbed him in the stomach.

“Listen here. When a person gets a hole in their body… shouldn’t their legs give out normally… ?”

“H-Hik…!”

“But… damn. After experiencing this a couple of times… you get used to it. So… it’s bearable.”

Stab-!

Choi Myung-joon stabbed the policewoman in the neck.

Then, he twisted it.

Splat- Splaatt!

The policewoman struggled, trying to block the stream of blood gushing from her neck with her hands.

“Guh…! Heo-eok…!”

“Next…”

Choi Myung-joon, with a knife stuck in his back, slowly approached the other police officers.

Three police officers, knives in hand, hesitated.

Then, a brave young policewoman charged at Choi Myung-joon first.

“You think that’ll work?”

Swish- Stab!

Choi Myung-joon quickly subdued the policewoman charging at him and stabbed her in the neck again.

As the policewoman fell instantly, the male police officer next to her charged.

“No, damn it… you think it’ll work.”

Thump- Graaah!

Choi Myung-joon easily subdued the male police officer and pinned him against the opposite wall.

Bang!

As Choi Myung-joon was about to stab the man, he looked at him closely.

He was the guy who had been particularly hard on him while he was on duty in the detention center.

“Ah. You…?”

Choi Myung-joon smiled even as he gasped for breath.

Seeing Choi Myung-joon smiling, the man spat out blood and shouted.

“Y-You criminal bastard. You son of a bitch-!!! You maggot!!! You cockroach! You all deserve to die! Huh!!!!”

“Ah, blood splattered. Don’t shout.”

Choi Myung-joon wiped the man’s blood from his eyes and grinned at him.

“You didn’t know this would happen? You knew this would happen. You knew you’d die like this? You knew you’d die so miserably, right?”

Stab…….

And Choi Myung-joon’s dagger slowly pierced the man’s stomach.

Choi Myung-joon was still smiling, revealing his bloodstained teeth.

“Scared. Are you scared? Tell me you’re scared. Want to cry? Huh?”

Even as he slowly stabbed him, Choi Myung-joon didn’t lose his smile.

That’s when it happened.

Clang-.

Something caught on Choi Myung-joon’s wrist.

Choi Myung-joon stopped stabbing and looked down at his wrist.

The man had put the handcuffs connected to his wrist on Choi Myung-joon’s wrist.

He sobbed, but bit his lip and provoked Choi Myung-joon.

“Even in death… you son of a bitch… even in death… I’ll follow you to the end… I’ll follow you to the end. Until your life is cut short… you demon…!!”

To his desperate cry, Choi Myung-joon grinned and replied.

“…Crazy bastard.”

“You’re the crazy bastard. You demon.”

“Puhahaha…! Wow. I like your spirit. …Okay, then die.”

Slash-!

Choi Myung-joon slashed the man’s neck in one swift motion.

He collapsed to the side, spitting blood from his neck.

Choi Myung-joon’s bound hand was dragged along.

The man wasn’t dead.

He was just slowly spitting out blood.

“Damn… son of a bitch. So annoying.”

Choi Myung-joon began searching his fallen body for the handcuff key.

Behind him, citizens and police were still locked in battle.

“Ah… where is it. The key. Huh? Where is it. Huh? Huh? Ah… annoying. So annoying.”

Choi Myung-joon gave up searching the man’s pockets and gripped the dagger in reverse.

Stab! Slash, slash.

And he began to cut his own wrist.

Until then, the man was still alive.

Jerk-!

Only after finally breaking the man’s wrist bone did Choi Myung-joon’s hand become free.

The man’s hand, connected by handcuffs to Choi Myung-joon’s wrist, dangled.

The man, even as he was dying, raised his eyes to look up at Choi Myung-joon.

Then, Choi Myung-joon smiled and said to him.

“How many of those pathetic provocations do you think I’ve received so far? Do you think I’d be intimidated by something like that now? The guys dying in front of me… there were two types. Guys who pissed their pants while dying. And… guys who resisted and died like you.”

And Choi Myung-joon slowly approached him and whispered.

“But… you know what? Once you die, there’s nothing. You moron. You lost to me. You lost.”

That was the last sound of the world the man heard before he died.

There is nothing after death.

It was a truly cruel thing to say to the man, who was a devout Christian.

The man’s eyes, filled with fear, mouthed something before taking his last breath.

His death completely shifted the momentum to the citizens’ side.

But it wasn’t a complete victory.

The coup had now entered a new phase.

The police who had been defeated on the 3rd floor were preparing for their last stand.

Armed police officers marching down the stairs at the end of the hallway in formation.

Step, step, step.

In the center was their leader.

The head of the arrest team.

Sergeant Lee Chung-chun.

Unlike the preceding police force, who were only carrying shields, these were heavily armed police forces in full gear.

The main force of the police.

And also the station chief’s ‘queen.’

Choi Myung-joon stood up and looked at them.

He still had the wrist from earlier dangling in his hand.

Choi Myung-joon wiped the blood from his eyes.

“Haa-. Damn. A little tough.”

The citizens who had defeated the police force behind Choi Myung-joon gathered again.

They were all exhausted.

But the battle wasn’t over.

The police headquarters took their positions, staring at the hallway filled with blood and corpses.

In the silence that followed, Lee Chung-chun said to Choi Myung-joon.

“Surrender now and drop your weapons. Then, I’ll put you in a detention center and finish it with legal procedures. If you refuse, I’ll kill you.”

Of course, it was a lie.

The citizens who had brutally killed their colleagues.

They just wanted to kill them all.

And Choi Myung-joon felt the same way.

Choi Myung-joon laughed at Lee Chung-chun’s words and replied.

“Fuck off. You son of a bitch.”

Snap……! Swish-!

Choi Myung-joon pulled out the hand that was handcuffed and threw it at Lee Chung-chun.

The wrist of the young police officer that flew through the air hit the police shield.

Lee Chung-chun didn’t even flinch.

Clatter-!

He simply unfolded his baton.

“Then, die.”

And soon, he launched an assault.

Choi Myung-joon took a deep breath in front of the police force charging at him.

“Hoo-.”

Soon, the two forces clashed again.

* * *

Swish- Thwack!

The station chief’s queen devoured Sion’s pawns one by one.

Clatter, clatter.

The station chief placed the pawns he had captured into the cup ramen container one by one.

“It seems a bit noisy downstairs?”

Sion asked, moving his bishop.

It was a deliberate act.

It was to pretend that he knew nothing about what was happening below.

The station chief, staggering from the alcohol, moved his queen and devoured Sion’s bishop.

“Eh… well… the… citizens have been causing a lot of riots at night these days… maybe it’s because of that. Don’t worry about it. This has happened often in the past week. Anyway, the police force has… such a strong force to suppress them.”

The fact that the station chief didn’t suspect anything was all as Sion had planned.

Recently, Choi Myung-joon had been leading riots on a regular basis at night.

The fact that the station chief didn’t take what happened below seriously was ultimately what Sion had intended.

Gulp, gulp!

The station chief drank the wine bottle whole.

He was already drunk.

To the point where it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed at any moment.

The station chief wiped the wine flowing from his mouth and asked.

“But Manager. Is this really your first time playing chess? You’re quite… good?”

“Yes. Well.”

Sion began to move his rook and knight to threaten the station chief’s queen.

The station chief immediately countered Sion’s move.

While protecting the queen, he steadily approached Sion’s king.

However, even though the game had progressed quite a bit, Sion’s queen hadn’t moved.

Sion’s queen was silently guarding the king from the side.

Feeling strange about it, the station chief asked.

“Aren’t you… using the queen?”

“In a game that’s already won, is there a need to use the queen?”

“Puhaha… you’re arrogant.”

And soon, the station chief’s queen was surrounded.

At the same time, the station chief shook his body even more violently due to the alcohol.

“Euheo… I’m drunk. Yes.”

The station chief tried to drink water, but there was no water around him.

Jin Jae-hee had hidden it in advance.

“It’s your turn, Station Chief. Make your move.”

“Ah… yes. Yeeess… I understand. Th… ah….”

The station chief staggered and barely grabbed his queen.

The station chief’s fingers holding the queen were shaking violently.

The station chief’s pupils, looking at the chessboard, were also shaking.

There was no breakthrough.

No matter what move he made, the station chief’s queen would be captured on the next turn.

In chess, having the queen captured meant that defeat was near.

Thud.

The station chief was silent for a moment, then moved the queen.

Swish- Thwack!

Sion immediately used his rook to capture the station chief’s queen.

With this move, the victory completely tilted to Sion’s side.

Now, capturing the king was only a matter of time.

“Ah… I lost this one. Puhaha… you’re amazing. Even though I’m a little… confident in chess.”

“Still, let’s finish it.”

Thud, thwack, thud, thwack, thud, thwack.

The station chief and Sion continued to play chess in silence.

Now, the only chess pieces left for the station chief were at most one bishop, one pawn, and one knight.

Of course, Sion’s forces also suffered considerable damage.

But Sion had protected all of his core forces, and besides, the queen hadn’t even moved.

Sion made his last move.

Thud.

“Checkmate.”

“It’s… ov… er….”

“Yes, it’s all over.”

“…Ah. I lost.”

“Yes, Station Chief, you lost.”

The station chief hung his head and couldn’t come to his senses.

Sion silently grabbed the station chief’s king.

This was the end.

It took quite a long time to get here.

Coo-thump-!!!

The station chief finally slammed his head on the desk.

Then, he began to sleep, drunk.

It was almost like he had fainted.

Creak.

Only then did Sion get up from his seat.

But he soon staggered.

Thump-.

Jae-hee quickly approached and supported Sion, who was staggering.

Jae-hee asked worriedly.

“Are you okay?”

“…Yeah. It’s nothing.”

In order to make the station chief drunk, Sion also had to drink a lot of alcohol.

What had been holding Sion’s mind, who had never drunk alcohol in his life, was his mental strength.

“Haa… haa….”

Thud.

Sion leaned on Jae-hee’s body, breathing heavily.

Jae-hee fully accepted Sion’s weight.

To make him as comfortable as possible.

“You’ve worked hard. I’ll go check the situation downstairs.”

“…No. They’ll come on their own.”

Sion ordered Choi Myung-joon to come to the station chief’s office as soon as the situation was resolved.

So, if he had won the battle, Choi Myung-joon would lead his forces and come on his own.

Sion, supported by Jae-hee, walked to the sofa on one side of the office.

Thump!

Sion sat down on the sofa as if collapsing, and took a deep breath.

From the shopping mall to the police station.

He didn’t know how many months had passed.

The concept of time was no longer necessary for Sion.

But it felt like it had taken a really long time.

With this, Sion’s control of the police station was over.

And now, it was another beginning.

The forces of Dong-an District.

In any case, his brother is currently in Anyang City.

It would be difficult to find his brother unless he either co-opted or defeated the forces of Dong-an District.

All preparations were complete.

All that was left was to continuously send reconnaissance teams to find his brother.

He wouldn’t walk the same path as the station chief.

Sion had his own way.

Jae-hee was silently guarding Sion’s side, who had closed his eyes.

Then, a scream was heard from the hallway.

It seemed that Choi Myung-joon had arrived.

Jin Jae-hee turned her head and looked at the office door.

Thump-! Rumble!

The sound came along the hallway and soon began to be heard in front of the office door.

Bang-!

Several groups of men hurriedly opened the office door.

Jin Jae-hee’s pupils shook as she saw the men.

It was none other than the police who opened the station chief’s office.

(To be continued in the next episode)