Theatrical Regression Life - Chapter 192
Episode 192:
Of course, Jaeheon Lee’s goal was not to escape the park from the green algae monster, but to kill the green algae monster. To be precise, his goal is to escape the other side of the world through death.
However, I could not tell others about Lee Jae-heon’s intentions. Although I know that I can escape from the other world by killing some strong monsters, I cannot explain why it is that green algae monster. I had to kill it completely while pretending to avoid the immediate crisis.
To do that, it would have been better for Lee Jae-heon, the best bait in the world, to step forward.
‘Is there anyone here who is as good at work as me?’
I couldn’t let any more people die here.
Through Lee Jae-heon’s adaptation, the current main character is in a distorted state after receiving a huge shock while trying to go down a bad path. Later, I may be able to regain my senses through some self-reflection outside the other side of the world, but that was only if the current situation was maintained.
Lee Jae-heon didn’t want him to take regression for granted.
‘But if even the third regression happens this way… that’s a bit dangerous.’
So, Lee Jae-heon wanted to step forward and handle the matter, but the oversensitive survivors were still preventing ‘Lee Jae-heon’ from coming to the forefront. As expected, it was a foolish job done by chicks. The good news is that the green algae monster is being prevented more stably than expected.
The green algae monster eventually invaded, as if it was worth it to me to live alone while this happened.
“Mister, uncle… uncle, what should we do?”
To be exact, it was just loitering right in front of the entrance to the pavilion.
It seemed like the idea of protecting ‘Lee Jae-heon’ had disappeared because something happened at any time when I didn’t want him to come forward. Lee Jae-heon walked forward as he saw Park Da-young running after him and hiding behind him as I called him, and Park Da-hoon looking confused while holding a wooden block.
“What are you doing Park Da-hoon?”
“I mean that. “I…”
“Why don’t you come back quickly and ask me what I’m going to do?”
“…Ugh.”
Lee Jae-heon eventually moved first, as he hesitated but did not back down.
“I told you to come here.”
“Ahh…!”
Continue.
Jaeheon Lee grabbed the back of his neck and dragged him inside, and Dahoon Park was helplessly dragged out.
‘On a tense topic.’
If Park Da-hoon, who was inexperienced in attack and defense but had good strength, was pulled out so easily, it was probably because his legs were not strong enough. What can you do when you stand in front of someone who is so pale and just shaking his head? Jaeheon Lee couldn’t understand.
And then I stared at the green algae monster approaching the entrance to the pavilion.
“….”
“….”
I don’t know if it was my mood, but it felt like our eyes met.
‘…I think that’s really my goal.’
Last time, it was more like just something I said, but seeing it like this made me understand. This means that Lee Jae-heon is the goal.
The green algae monster that was wandering around did not bother to enter the pavilion and just stood there. Perhaps because some time had passed, he reached out his dry hand and grasped the upper part of the entrance, and quietly lowered his head, perhaps to look at the humans smaller than himself. It was a slow and dull movement, like a turtle, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t threatening.
There was a fear in it that calmly suffocated people.
“…Hibb.”
Minhong Choi took a deep breath as if he was hiccuping, and another child held his hand. Azalea held the children, who had become close to each other in the meantime, in her arms with her usual dry and silent hands. Yunbyeol Lee just covered his mouth with both hands.
For some reason, green algae fell little by little from the monster. Even though it wasn’t slimy, it felt like I was standing in front of a mangled monster, and even though it was a faceless monster, I could feel it licking my lips or staring at us with an alien gaze. The monster, which was over 2 meters tall, was intimidating enough on its own.
A short period of time passes without anyone moving…
“….”
“Manager! “Avoid the manager…!”
Kwon Yeon-hee’s voice was heard from quite close by.
“Everyone is coming this way now, so don’t come out from inside…! “Either run away!”
Jaeheon Lee let out a sigh of relief.
‘Run away, you fluffy chick.’
He reflexively checked Kwon Yeon-hee’s appearance.
Dust clung to her hair, which was already disheveled, and leaves were stuck here and there. He didn’t know where he had left one of his shoes, but he was stomping on the ground with only his socks on, and various wounds were visible all over his body. Blood flows from the wound and stains clothes that are not even in good condition.
After a quick glance, I got a sense of what the situation was.
‘I was wondering why I couldn’t see any other survivors… I guess I’ve reached my limit.’
Somehow, without a single person taking a break, they gathered together, made a lot of noise, and then jumped out. If Kwon Yeon-hee, who was not considered a combatant, got to that point, and even though the green algae monster came this far, and there were no other survivors to be seen, it meant that the situation was that urgent.
It doesn’t look like he’s dead, but he’s running out of space.
“You really can’t come out of there…! “You know what I mean, boss.”
“….”
“Because we can really, really take care of it ourselves…!”
Kwon Yeon-hee screamed and threw the two caterpillars she was holding tightly in her hands at the monster.
As the blood coming from her torn hand and the smell of the caterpillar’s blood reached her body, the green algae monster snooping around the entrance looked at her, and Kwon Yeon-hee took a step back, as if instinctively realizing that their eyes had met even though they had no eyes.
“….”
But he took a step forward again.
“…Ugh.”
It was a stiff movement, as if someone was pushing it from behind.
There was nothing in Kwon Yeonhee’s trembling hands. A guy without a monkey wrench, a pipe, a piece of wood, or even a thin branch at the very least came to the front without even knowing the subject.
“Huh.”
It was absurd.
“All of these chicks really don’t listen…”
“…Uncle?”
“You stay here.”
Dayoung Park reflexively grabbed her arm, but Jaeheon Lee ignored her and turned his head to look inside the pavilion. Two kindergarten students were struggling to hold back their tears, and Azalea, who was holding the two children in her arms, was looking at me with her characteristic dry gaze.
she asked.
“Where are you going?”
It’s a simple question without a single worry.
Jaeheon Lee rolled his eyes and looked at the green algae monster.
“….”
Kwon Yeon-hee and the monster were still in a standoff.
‘But the vines caught my ankle.’
I could see him trembling in pain as if his teeth were digging into his calf.
After thinking for a moment, Lee Jae-heon took off Ha Seong-yoon’s dark gray coat from around his shoulders and walked in front of the children. Lee Jae-heon, naturally ignoring Azalea’s gaze as she stared at him, wrapped coats that had already been dirty for a long time around the two kindergarteners.
Their small bodies are completely covered by their coats, hiding the children.
“Ha Seong-yoon’s coat is a bit cold.”
“Draw.”
“I left my coat… I’ll have to go get it.”
“Then you should do it.”
“It was probably near a big lake.”
“If you want to do it, you should do it….”
A hollow laugh came out.
“I want to do it.”
Even during this time, I was happy that I liked the other person, Jin Dal-rae.
‘Because I like good people.’
‘Azalea’, who appeared as the driest and calmest character in the story, loved kind and weak things. Although Lee Jae-heon committed a few things while remembering her past life, her tastes themselves would not have changed. ‘Lee Jae-heon’, who has a pretty kind heart but has become weak, must have really fallen in love with Jin Dal-rae.
He turned his gaze again and looked at Kwon Yeon-hee.
“Huh….”
“….”
“Ugh. “Hmm…”
I could see a person frozen and unable to move, as if I was a rabbit in front of a tiger, and I could hear the voices of survivors running urgently from afar. Someone seemed to have been seriously injured and there was a smell of blood, and someone else screamed as if they were unable to escape the monster. It felt strangely vivid.
No one died, but anyone could die.
“….”
Lee Jae-heon, who lightly patted the heads of the children shaking in the court, straightened his crouched legs and approached the siblings. The two students looked at me with round eyes. There was a clear obsession in his eyes, but his expression was as gentle as porcelain.
“I am coming?”
This is the face of someone who has given up.
‘If I die here, it will be a problem for them too.’
Children who had given up dozens of times were better at accepting reality than their peers, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t difficult. If we go back anyway, it will be like nothing happened, but since that is impossible and one of these two could become the ‘last survivor’, I felt like I had to be careful.
After thinking, Jaeheon Lee nodded.
“See you later.”
“really?”
“That sister… Even though she looks like that, she is a highly qualified person. Do you think it would be easy to become a full-time employee at our company? “Did you understand what he said?”
“Do you understand?”
Park Da-young rolled her eyes and then grabbed the hem of her sister’s clothes and said.
“They say my aunt is a shaman.”
“huh?”
suddenly?
“…so.”
“I don’t know if it will work, but when you die, I’ll call you at least as a good thing.”
“Student what?”
“I’m going to put it in a cute cat doll and display it on my lace pink bed for the rest of my life. When I die, I will ask you to bury me with you. “If I don’t escape here and die, I will die holding your corpse.”
“scared.”
Those words came from the heart.
Jaeheon Lee was so scared in so many ways that he was at a loss for words. What was even scarier was that the expression on Park Da-hoon’s face, who was listening quietly next to him, was also the same. Lee Jae-heon could not help but break into a cold sweat at the unspoken agreement.
“Don’t say that even as a joke.”
“That’s right, it was a joke.”
“….”
“…Please be careful.”
Following Park Da-young, Park Da-hoon also lightly nodded his head.
“Have a safe trip.”
It may seem like it was made up, but compared to Park Da-young, who looked upset, Park Da-hoon, who just looked up with a blank expression on his face, had a great sense of discomfort.
“Kwon Yeon-hee…!”
“How the fuck did you get here!”
The voices of detective Hong Gyeong-jun and student Seo Jang-hwa were heard.
“Huh….”
“There are no caterpillars? Oh, don’t cry! A grown adult!”
“Oh no….”
“What are you doing, detective! “Don’t move fast!”
“Tsk.”
Hong Gyeong-jun clicked his tongue and dragged Kwon Yeon-hee away at the shout of Seo Jang-hwa, who must have gotten quite close while working together and had come nearby and shaken off the vine that was bothering Kwon Yeon-hee. Blood was dripping from the ankle, wearing only socks, that had been caught by a vine.
Then, our eyes met with Hong Gyeong-jun.
“…uh.”
“….”
“Wait a minute, Jaeheon Lee.”
This is why I don’t like quick-witted police officers.
“Take care.”
Percussion!
Jaeheon Lee gave a brief laugh and ran out of the pavilion.
The green algae monster, which had barely moved despite all this commotion, finally followed Jaeheon Lee. Contrary to the news that his movements had slowed down due to the length of time he had been out of the water, he was walking quite quickly, and Jaeheon Lee ran while adjusting his speed so that the green algae monster could follow me. He heard Hong Gyeong-jun and the rest of the group shouting, but skillfully pretended not to notice.
I also saw Jeong In-ho, who seemed to have barely managed to jump in the middle, and said,
“…Manager…!”
That, too, was none of Lee Jae-heon’s business.
Perhaps because he was resting alone while the other survivors were running hard, Jaeheon Lee’s physical strength was in good condition. Apart from that, I can’t say that my mental state is fine, but what can I do? Even if Lee Jae-heon goes out like this, there isn’t a single survivor who can afford to stop him.
If you messed up, you really should have tied it up.
‘You bastards are better than your karma for tormenting me.’
Of course, it was Lee Jae-heon who actually harassed him and the rest of the survivors who suffered, but if he had the conscience to take that into consideration, he wouldn’t have come this far. Lee Jae-heon ran, adjusting the distance based on the sound of the green algae monster jumping and thumping.
As it was slowly getting dark, Jaeheon Lee picked up a fan that seemed to have been left behind by one of the survivors. He touched the lighter in his arms and muttered unconsciously.
“It’s hard to make a living.”
I knew it would end up like this anyway.
‘So I guess you didn’t take this lighter either.’
If I really thought Jaeheon Lee would stay still, I would have taken his lighter.
That’s because a lighter is a really useful tool for survivors who don’t have any light. If possible, it was right to bring it so that those who run outside could be safer. But that wasn’t the case, and the meaning was clear. It means that Lee Jae-heon knew that he would move arbitrarily like this.
Lee Jae-heon smiled slightly, recalling the protagonist’s vain expression on such a topic.
“…All you have to do is survive.”
That’s it.
* * *
After such a complete night, if we were to be realistic, it was around 3 am.
“…Mr. Garam Yoon?”
“…Boss.”
Lee Jae-heon, who found a resting place to avoid the green algae monster, found Yoon Gar-ram hiding.
Behind that tear-filled face, I could see the doctor covered in blood.