Regressor Instruction Manual (PART 1)

Chapter 22. Design

"I'm not sure if Kim Hyun-Sung is alive," Park Deok-Gu said.

"I'm sure he is," I answered.

Park Deok-Gu started talking once he broke through some of the monsters that were around us.

He seemed a bit worried. After I told him that Park Hye-Young wasn't coming back, I guess he started feeling restless because Kim Hyun-Sung basically took all the monsters with him, so Park Deok-Gu was worried that he might not come back, just like Park Hye-Young.

But even if Kim Hyun-Sung was on the defensive side, it was difficult to imagine him getting ripped to shreds by the monsters and once he actually started moving fast, it was difficult to follow him with the naked eye, so I was sure that he wouldn't have any trouble losing a group of monsters. I was certain that he had escaped from that area by now and there was a good chance that he was worrying about the same thing as me.

We put in a lot of effort for this hunt, so if we returned to the shelter with one of us dead, it would surely dampen the morale of the others back there.

This expedition had to be successful no matter what. Of course, Kim Hyun-Sung was still unaware of the fact that Park Hye-Young died, but I was certain that this incident alone would give him a headache.

"It's unfortunate. I wasn't exactly close to Park Hye-Young, but she seemed like she was always trying her best..." Park Deok-Gu said.

"We could have all died because of her, so we got off pretty easy," I commented.

"T-That's true, but."

"Right now, we need to be thankful for the fact that we are still alive. There isn't much that we could do since she didn't listen to us, it was her fault for getting aggroed after acting wildly and she was the one that kept on screaming as if she wanted all the monsters to hear her. To be frank, if you or Ha-Yan died instead of that woman, I wouldn't have been able to forgive her," I explained.

It wasn't as simple as 'not being able to forgive her.'

I might even want to kill her myself since Park Deok-Gu and Jung Ha-Yan were precious cards to me.

When I slightly glanced over, both Jung Ha-Yan and Park Deok-Gu looked at me with strange expressions. Jung Ha-Yan looked as if she was touched and Park Deok-Gu looked as if he was slightly embarrassed.

"Oh..."

"Well, I-I probably would have done the same thing," Park Deok-Gu said.

Even though Jung Ha-Yan was the one that killed Park Hye-Young, I didn't want to think about that.

Excluding Kim Hyun-Sung, these two people were the only ones that I could really rely on. Park Deok-Gu was a meatshield whose endurance and stamina stats were high, while Jung Ha-Yan had potential that was difficult to measure as a mage. The fact that these two were relying on me was a disadvantage, but in some ways, it was an advantage. The problem was that one of them was like a bomb that I couldn't control, but based on her nature, there was a good chance that she could be of use to me.

"So how are you going to explain this to the people back at the shelter?" Park Deok-Gu asked.

"There's nothing to explain. There was a mistake, a person died and that's it. If they get scared because of this..."

"If they do get scared?" Park Deok-Gu asked.

"No matter how much help we provide them with, they'll eventually die. You have to keep in mind the fact that we're in a tutorial. We should assume that things will become even more dangerous once we enter the actual game," I explained.