I Found the Regressor With My Reflexes

30 – Waiting Room (3)

Time passed, in front of the hotel.

All the geary climbers gathered.

A total of 14 people.

Three of me, Seol-i, and Han Seo-yeon.

Lee Seon-hwa and his party were six including Lee Seon-hwa.

Dae-San Kang and his party were five, including Dae-San Kang.

… Looking at it like this, Lee Seon-hwa had one more number.

‘It didn’t make sense that Seonhwa Lee was pushed back on the first day of the waiting room.’

It’s okay.

Because they are such people, they must have thought that way.

I carefully opened my mouth, being careful not to escape the cynicism inside.

“First, Seonhwa Lee, do you have something to say?”

“We didn’t steal anything.”

“This may be the last time. Do you really have anything else to say?”

“Really…I have nothing more to say. We really didn’t steal anything.”

Although she appealed with resentment in her voice.

To me, it sounded like a voice recorded on a doll.

Inorganic, insensitive.

After briefly listening to her talk about the importance of life and the destruction of humanity by the Tower.

I turned my head the other way.

“Daesan Kang, have you changed your mind about this case?”

“…No. It’s not even a parrot. They just say the same thing.”

“Is that so?”

Fortunately, Kang Dae-san and the others acted as I asked.

Now I just need to check if what Seol-i said is true.

“I’m sorry the situation has turned out this way.”

As soon as I finished my words, Kang Dae-san, who had prepared in advance, raised their weapons all at once.

“I wish both sides a good agreement.”

After saying that, the five of them, including Kang Dae-san, walked slowly with weapons in their hands.

Then, the six on Lee Seon-hwa’s side step back little by little.

Five versus six.

Considering that they all carry weapons and even have supernatural powers, the difference between one person is a huge difference.

Even though I learned weapon skills and learned magic.

No one raised their voice.

‘… It’s wrong.’

Compared to Kang Dae-san and his friends, who had the courage to attack when the fruit was stolen.

While the evaluation of Lee Seon-hwa and his party continued to go down.

Finally, one of the six stepped forward.

Of course, it was Lee Seon-hwa.

Holding her spear firmly, she steps forward and confronts her five.

At her appearance.

Though Kang Dae-san and his friends flinched as they were forced into battle at my request.

At the words of Kang Dae-san, who growled as if to listen, he immediately came back.

“I’ll take over. Kill them all in the meantime.”

“…Is that okay?”

“I am stronger.”

The formation started to spread widely as if it was about to escape Lee Seon-hwa.

Lee Seon-hwa hurriedly rolled her eyes, but of course she had no way to stop it.

“Wait a minute!”

And finally, the moment we’ve been waiting for has arrived.

“I know the culprit!”

One of the characters on Lee Seon-hwa’s side raised her hand and shouted.

The battlefield that seemed to collide soon stopped, and everyone listened to the man.

“Over there.”

The person who hesitated for a moment finally raised his finger ─.

“That’s him!”

Point to someone.

Amid the breathtaking silence.

I followed that fingertip.

“Ha.”

I just sighed silently.

Because the finger was pointing at Lee Seon-hwa, who was still wary of Kangdae-san.

Looking at that scene, I suddenly thought of the mafia game.

For some reason, people who were in danger of being eliminated by voting would come up with new facts or suspicious things.

Sometimes it was effective, but usually it was a hasty lie or cover-up.

The lie that it is only for oneself.

A lie to escape the moment.

Such loopy lies.

“No, that’s right.”

“That b*tch ordered it!”

“Please save me!”

“Not me!”

However, if someone suddenly defends such a lie.

I wonder if these humans are the mafia——and suddenly become suspicious.

Of course, everyone in the tower thought so.

Those who were lying were unaware.

I don’t know if they’re thinking of it as a trick or something.

Remembering the words Samin Seongho.

“Huh.”

But to me it was just a ridiculous skit.

If the situation goes strangely, let’s throw Lee Seon-hwa as the culprit─.

‘If the situation is urgent, the other four… He said he would name her sister as her culprit.’

‘That b*tch ended up eating the fruit they stole, so they said she was an accomplice….’

‘Pretending to be nice alone….’

—Because Seol-i told me everything the thieves were planning.

Since Seol-i said while half-crying.

I remember everything.

… Honestly, I think it’s a plan that works well.

Trying to touch other people’s things even when you’re not hungry.

But I have neither the ability nor the will to deal with it undetected.

Isn’t that what people who don’t want to develop despite being given the opportunity would do?

What’s even funnier is that they aren’t worried that they’ll be suspected while they’re being driven like this.

Did we deceive ourselves—that others, we would be fooled by such shallow and insignificant lies?

While I was laughing at them, Lee Seon-hwa finally looked back and realized that the situation was strange.

In the end, he found the spears stabbing himself.

… All I can see is my back.

Look at how the momentum that was sharp is broken.

It must have been quite a shock.

However, the fact that they didn’t say anything seemed like a kind of gap to them.

“That b*tch ordered everything!”

“Kill it!”

They started to argue more and more violently.

He started screaming at me.

At this point, I have finished my evaluation of them.

He is parasitic for the goodwill bestowed on him, but he is unaware of it.

Things that still want more.

It’s nothing more than a thief, so there’s no trust.

… Climbing the tower from now on will only become a burden.

I suddenly felt that he was talking like someone who had climbed the tower for a long time.

At least the tower I know was like that.

‘… Did I hang out with Han Seo-yeon for too long?’

Maybe it’s because he rolls too hard compared to other people.

I almost died a couple of times.

Thinking that way, I will finally stand next to Seonhwa Lee.

Their cheers and cries reached a climax.

I heard executions were the best spectacle in the past.

Do you think I will execute Seonhwa Lee?

‘How did they gather only those people?’

I checked her face with deep sympathy.

It was empty, as if something important had been lost.

“…I’m sorry.”

“Sister…!”

After conveying consolation, albeit insufficiently.

After entrusting her to Seol-yi, who had been following her, she looked at Kang Dae-san and his party, who were a little farther away.

Then Kang Dae-san clicked his tongue so blatantly that he could tell when he saw it, and nodded his head.

A sign of positivity.

After hearing Seol-i’s story in advance, he must have made the same judgment about these people as I did.

It’s just that I don’t like it because I hate killing people.

‘It’s not like I don’t have resistance.’

But behind me was a regressor with bloody eyes.

A regressor who wants to cut them down right now.

Okay.

I hate this much too.

A regressor who has gone through all the hardships in the tower must be sad.

I heard the especially chilling sound of Han Seo-yeon, who had followed me, touching her sword.

I needed to stop.

“I’ll take care of it.”

“You don’t have to.”

“Later… Will there be no need to kill people in the tower?”

“….”

“Then you’d better just try it now.”

At my words, Han Seo-yeon removed her hand from the sword.

I expected it.

If you climb the tower from now on, you’ll kill people, and you’ll kill things that look like people.

‘That’s why Han Seo-yeon became like that.’

… If you look at the emotions you often show, I think there must be times when they were normal.

Maybe.

‘Let’s just think about this.’

He quietly raised his sword and breathed his magic into it.

─ Killing people.

Are you brainwashing that new fact?

The mind has been sharpened even more.

… It was as if something in his mind had been cut away in the process.

As if expressing a sharpened spirit, my sword was covered with sharp and elaborately woven magic.

Compared to what Han Seo-yeon showed me, it’s a bit disappointing.

That’s it, you just need to hone your skills.

I looked down at the sword that glowed even cooler with magical energy.

I finally rushed at them after grasping the situation.

The process wasn’t that complicated.

With one swing, one person dies.

It was fortunate that no one raised a weapon at the moment of death.

If you showed a plausible appearance at the end, it would have been quite uncomfortable.

Just.

I was puzzled as I calmly wiped the blood off the sword.

Even though humans don’t even have acid.

Why is it that human blood is more bitter now than when covered with formic acid?

… Such was the sentiment of the massacre.

I was organizing my thoughts like that.

Suddenly, I remembered the biggest victim of this case.

‘I wonder if Seonhwa Lee will be okay.’

Will she be able to climb her tower?

I think it will affect Seol-i’s mentality quite a bit.

“Whoa.”

I can only hope that Seol-i will comfort me well.

* * * * *

I can’t come to my senses.

‘Where did it go wrong?’

I don’t know.

Should I have been suspicious when they smiled and held out the fruit?

Even though I wondered inwardly at that time.

Did it happen because I tried to erase my doubts?

‘Why did you steal it?’

Afraid of the goblins who wielded the treaty weapon.

Why weren’t humans with better weapons afraid?

‘Why?’

Why me at the end?

A me who went out for everyone?

Why?

‘Kill!’

‘Kill!’

‘Kill!’

… Why do people

Even though I entered such a dangerous tower.

Think only of yourself.

Aren’t you just trying to serve your own group?

If everyone joins forces.

I could have gotten better results.

… I thought so, so I wanted to be a guide.

I wanted to become a human being who could serve as a milestone for others to follow.

But really.

My light is.

Because not a single person could lead it properly.

‘I am.’

But there is light in this tower.

There is a person who has the power to lead everyone.

Yourself, Seonhwa Lee.

… I definitely know someone like that.