Regression Sword Apocalypse Reconquest - Chapter 85
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Episode 85
Cha Ye-seong looked at the person she fought with as a child and who was no longer her friend, with a bewildered expression.
Looking at that scene, Se-hyeok spoke to Cha Ye-seong.
“Then should I go somewhere else for a while?”
“No matter what, isn’t it better to stay together?”
Han Si-hyeon grumbles at those words.
A look of worry passes across Cha Ye-seong’s face, then her expression returns to a blank one.
“No. I think it would be better if you both went somewhere else for a while.”
Cha Ye-seong’s expression was sincere.
“No, but I don’t know what that woman is going to say! Let her go, I’ll go on my own feet!”
Sehyuk dragged Han Sihyeon, who was waving her arms wildly, and disappeared somewhere else.
But I don’t lose interest completely.
Se-hyeok sneaked a peek at what Ji-hye, the woman with whom he had an awkward relationship, was saying, pretending not to know anything and approaching Cha Ye-seong.
“We were both too young back then. I made a mistake in my judgment. I’m really sorry. I feel like I’m still worrying about you.”
A woman named Jihye makes a sad expression.
A college student who appears kind and good-natured at first glance.
However, Sehyuk found the hidden meaning in those words.
‘You’re saying that you were both young when you apologized? Doesn’t that sound like you’re saying that you’re also at fault?’
She is a woman who makes people feel bad in many ways.
“I know the wounds won’t be forgotten, but I hope we can be friends again like we used to. I’ll do my best to help you too.”
Wisdom that acts innocent and innocuous.
“When you’re young, you might fight with each other a bit.”
And then, a group of middle-aged women with a woman named Jihye started talking to the two of them in a very harsh manner.
The appearance of completely swaying the people around him.
Certainly, in Se-hyeok’s eyes, Ji-hye was a model student on the outside, and the epitome of a good daughter, bright and cheerful.
It has elements that may seem harsh to ordinary people.
However, Cha Ye-seong is quick-witted.
The uneasiness does not disappear from her expression.
“ah.”
Cha Ye-seong hesitates as if he wants to say something.
She looked distressed, but eventually spoke.
“I heard you say something in passing earlier, like, ‘I don’t want to be friends with that guy again.’”
Cha Ye-seong says that and observes the other person’s reaction.
The words that followed were clearly not the answer Cha Ye-seong was hoping for.
As soon as he heard that, Cha Ye-seong lowered his gaze.
“Was it like that? I didn’t even know that. I’m sorry.”
Sehyuk saw it clearly.
Tears briefly formed in Cha Ye-seong’s eyes.
However, Cha Ye-seong did not show it and did not say anything more about it.
“Okay. Then give me time to gather my thoughts. It was too sudden for me. I think it would be better if you went to the back first.”
“huh.”
After sending the woman named Jihye away, Cha Ye-seong returned to Se-hyeok and his group.
Se-hyeok and Han Si-hyeon look at Cha Ye-seong without saying anything.
Cha Ye-seong smiled at the sight of the two.
“Why are you two watching me?”
“I told you to call me Han Si-hyeon and speak informally to me? Anyway, then why don’t you look closely? You can tell just by looking at me that I’m dealing with a crazy person.”
“Okay, Sihyeon. Anyway, if we fight, I think I’ll win, so don’t worry about that. I suddenly feel bad seeing this.”
As they went upstairs, Cha Ye-seong called the two people together.
“Mr. Sehyuk. Mr. Han Sihyeon. Can you listen to what I have to say?”
After that, Cha Ye-seong revealed her past.
It was upsetting to be framed, but what was the hardest was that the people I thought were close to me thought badly of me.
It is said that a woman named Jihye was one of those people.
“They were definitely kids I liked because they were kind.”
After being accused of being a thief, Cha Ye-seong overheard her friends talking amongst themselves.
‘Cha Ye-seong, that guy has been so good to people with poor social skills, and now he’s doing this to us?’
‘It was already a bit rude and not very good.’
I think I heard something like this.
I get the feeling.
“Don’t listen to those guys. We’re all immature when we’re young. Those guys were really the ones who were really shameless kids.”
“Well, I know that too. It’s just sad that it’s not forgotten.”
Painful memories from childhood are not easily forgotten.
The feeling of helplessness that comes from not being able to do anything even when you have been treated unfairly.
That must have remained a painful memory for Cha Ye-seong as well.
I think I know a little bit why he was addicted to alcohol.
‘When you go through difficult times, you become dependent on something.’
Because when I drink alcohol, I forget the feeling of helplessness.
Being so absorbed in something that you want to forget about it is one of the biggest causes of dependence and addiction.
‘I think I know. Why was Cha Ye-seong such a cold yet hard-working person before his regression?’
I think there must have been a desire to prove one’s abilities.
“No, are you crazy? Why can’t I just sneak over and break that guy’s pot?”
Han Si-hyeon becomes indignant after hearing the whole story.
Cha Ye-seong calmed down with an awkward expression.
Sehyuk also does not agree with Han Sihyeon’s method.
“Then, that guy will die without even knowing what his mistake was. It’s better to let him realize his mistake first and then be punished.”
“Then how are you going to kill them? First, you have to kill them. You’ll feel better if you kill them. You have to eliminate the source of the pain.”
“My thinking is this. First, create the same situation and then throw it away.”
Cha Ye-seong makes a dumbfounded expression at the two’s fierce conversation.
“No, the person involved isn’t saying anything, so what are you two talking about? Let’s just focus on the fortress for now.”
However, the time to wrap up Cha Ye-seong’s past came sooner than they thought.
* * *
Get ready to go up to the top floor.
Before going up, Sehyuk said something to the people.
“This is the last section of the area, so those who are desperate to survive should stay here. You might have to fight the strongest monster.”
It’s a warning in case something happens.
At those words, one person steps forward.
“What about the reward?”
It was the man wearing glasses who took Sehyuk’s side at the entrance.
“According to the contribution.”
At those words, quite a few people, including the man in glasses, follow.
Among them was a woman named Jihye who had been irritating Cha Ye-seong.
The top floor was completely white.
Oddly enough, the upper floor was very spacious for a fortress of its size.
It looks like a huge steel cavern cavity.
Hourglass-shaped steel columns support the ceiling.
Between the pillars, a slimy substance similar to that seen on the steel tree below flows out.
The endless darkness of the cave extends to both ends.
If you look closely, it feels like something will come out.
And in that darkness, the sphere we saw earlier slowly comes into view.
Sehyuk looked at the sphere.
“Now that you’re here, why don’t you show me your top-tier powers?”
[I came to show you anyway.]
The cave vibrates as if someone is approaching.
Monsters crawl out of the darkness.
A snail-shaped monster that appears to have steel bones.
A monster resembling a giant fish or eel, with no eyes, peeling skin, distorted teeth all over its body.
Countless disgusting monsters pour out.
After that, a legion of bipedal mechanical monsters with mechanical devices and wires hanging from them slowly walk out.
[Are you ready to give up being a worthless human and join us?]
A mechanical sound echoes through the room.
When people hear that, they become thoughtful and begin to murmur.
“What does that mean?”
People who want to find out.
“I have another thought, so wait a minute.”
thud!
Han Si-Hyeon calls the wooden soldiers and briefly blocks them.
Taking advantage of the gap, Sehyuk started the engine.
“But, it’s not as good as you thought?”
He tilts his head slightly, expressing his doubts.
To extract the information you want.
“What you were talking about were beings with transcendent power and perfection, right? But this is too shabby. It’s bizarre, not beautiful, and there aren’t many of them.”
[This is the end for now, but it will change as more power is gathered. My utopia has not yet been realized.]
As he said that, the sphere made a short march in formation with the monsters.
[Moreover, these guys are completely efficient under my control. They don’t act as they please like humans.]
There is much to refute, but no further refutation is necessary.
‘Okay.’
The judgment is over.
It seems like the boss fight will proceed just as Han Si-Hyeon said before the return.
‘If this is the power of this guy, it can be done.’
This is why I have tried to please him and have a conversation with him up until now.
To measure how much power there is.
And that information allows Sehyuk to completely block the variables.
The next step is simple.
“I’m sorry, but I have to try it myself. You’ve been talking but not showing me anything.”
Break!
As soon as he spoke, Sehyuk’s sword cut the sphere in two.
[Hey, this guy!]
A sphere split in half, falling without any strength.
Despite this, the voice is still heard.
‘As expected, it wasn’t the main body.’
Sehyuk also didn’t expect this to be the real thing.
Then wouldn’t the fight be too pointless?
Perhaps the true body of the sphere is associated with the core that constitutes this building.
Ultimately, truly purifying this area is the only way to defeat the monster.
‘It doesn’t matter. Seeing as the main body doesn’t come forward directly, it seems like the main body’s power isn’t as strong as before the regression.’
A new season unfolds in his hands.
The sword radiates light.
The accumulated history was transferred to the sword.
The sword, which is like a clone of himself, accepts his history and forms a world.
And Sehyuk quickly threw the sword and stuck it in the middle of the monsters.
After that, no one knows exactly what happened.
Because all that happened was a flash of glitter covering the area.
Cookies, cookies, cookies!
The ultimate battle of swords and magic is a small world.
The possibility of a new world is born and extinguished, and the enormous energy that is born within it is turned outward.
That’s the finishing move.
‘Explosions are art.’
* * *
After there was light in the community.
On the floor, only the white steel bone tombs of monsters remained.
And then, in the shared darkness, a strangely glowing sphere encased in a steel shell slowly rises.
It is the core of this region.
A white sphere that must have been perfectly smooth and perfect.
The round sphere was broken and cracked here and there.
‘His original pattern was to kill the monsters he ruled, and then destroy their cores while he shed his skin and replenish his forces.’
It’s a structure where you get pushed back by the number and combined attacks of the powerful monsters that he handles.
But now Sehyuk has destroyed everything.
Could this be the last struggle?
The shell surrounding its core is cut away, creating what appears to be the last steel slug.
Bam!
Even that one was torn to pieces in an instant by Sehyuk’s hands.
Looking at the sight, the sphere creates a twisted mechanical sound.
[Surely, according to my calculations, I would have been the top predator in the food chain, surpassing humans?]
The voice was full of a feeling of not understanding.
“The reason is simple. Humans… .”
However, Sehyuk’s words did not end.
While people were speechless and gaping at the majesty of Sehyuk who blew away a group of monsters with a single swing of his sword.
“Hey, I can’t get anything like this! This is unreasonable!”
With someone’s shout, several people jumped out of the crowd of people and rushed forward.
Some to the sphere, some to Sehyuk.
Although the reason was unclear, Sehyuk couldn’t hide his feeling of disappointment.
At best, they may think that now is the time to get rid of Sehyuk, or they may be greedy for Sehyuk and the powerful items here.
Among them was Jihye, the woman who had been harassing Cha Ye-seong.