How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

40. Failure?

1.

The terrace on the first floor of the villa is arranged facing the beach. Since the entire wall in that direction is made of glass, it is also a structure that allows you to look inside from the outside.

Although it wasn’t as clear as Luke’s sense magic, it wasn’t impossible to tell them apart. It was because the presence of the assassins was almost invisible, and the presence was vaguely felt, whereas the presence of the family members was clear enough to be easily detected.

Among them, the presence of her mother, who was enjoying reading while drinking tea, sitting in front of a small table placed for relaxation indoors with the beach in the background.

My mother, the only ordinary person in the family who has no power to protect herself, would not be aware of it even after waking up from the dead. The moment I sensed it, I erased all hesitation.

Wow!

The entire glass wall is shattered, and the fragments are scattered into the air. However, the body, which has fully accepted mana while reaching the master’s level, is too strong to be damaged by shards of glass.

“…!”

The assassin, who had just been seated, began to fall from the ceiling, aiming for my mother’s neck, but unfortunately for him, and fortunately for me, I was not late.

An absurd situation where she was too preoccupied with Luke’s safety and almost lost her mother. While I was losing my cool, I owed a great debt to Luke, who was able to assess the situation and make a decision much more calmly than I did.

While throwing his body, he habitually turned his hand to his waist, but nothing was caught. It was because, of course, today was the first day I left the sword and went out.

However, even if you are a tolerable knight, you do not need to use a sword to subdue many ordinary people. Of course, it basically makes no sense to compare an extremely trained assassin with an ordinary person… Unfortunately for this assassin, the existence of an assassin who has already been revealed to the Master is no different from an ordinary person.

“Kkeok…!”

As soon as the mother raised her head at the sound of the window breaking, she snatched the assassin’s neck from the air with her hand and slammed it on the floor. And just like that, his neck is broken, and the assassin ends his life.

Belatedly, the dagger the assassin was holding drops to the floor and makes a noise. Glancing at the blade, I could see the poison that had been applied in case I failed to suffocate the target with a single blow. I just hope that no one has been poisoned.

None of the assassins who set foot in this villa today will ever get out of it alive.

I already know who is behind it, and I don’t have any information to collect. If you try to dig up information anyway, they’ll use the poison given to them to end their own lives, so there’s not much point in interrogating them.

The only thing I could give to those who had lived a seemingly pitiful yet sinful life, raised to be used as instruments of the Zodiac and Scorpio since childhood, was death. Because no matter what their circumstances were, they did not deserve to be forgiven by anyone. Giving them an easy death is too much for them.

“Mom, calm down and listen to me.”

The mother’s scream knocking on her eardrum a step too late reminds me that her life is intact and reassures me.

I’m really, really fortunate. After enjoying the thought for a very short while, I pushed it out of my head. Things were still going on, and the number of assassins was still nine… No, eight.

Fortunately, both my father and father-in-law were quite armed men, so it seemed that they had successfully subdued one of the assassins upstairs.

“Suck… Hoo, hoo. Adele, our daughter. Are there any injuries anywhere…?”

Her mother calmed herself down by catching her breath, her eyes watering very lightly, but at the same time she nodded her head at me with her eyes showing her determination. Did

Seeing her mother, who was so preoccupied with her child even in this situation, she couldn’t help but express her gratitude to Luke once again.

“Sure. Whose daughter am I?”

Should I say that she is like the hostess of a duke’s family? It was the first time I had seen her mother like this, so I was a little embarrassed, but I really liked it. It was hoped that the new side of her mother would be helpful in this situation, no harm done.

Once again, I focus on my senses and try to locate the assassins as much as possible. Excluding the two assassins who just fell, three of the remaining five are on the second floor. Hana seemed to have just stepped into the kitchen.

…I heard from Luke that there were seven intruders inside, but strangely, no sign of the last one was detected at all.

I didn’t think Luke misinformed me. No matter how good your senses are, if you’re using some kind of magical means to hide your presence, it’s not so strange that you can’t catch it.

Detection-type magic is certain in that respect, so from now on, we must move while considering the fact that there is one more assassin whose location has not been confirmed.

“…A raid by assassins. In my heart, I want her mother to wait outside like this for the situation to end, but I think it will be a little difficult because there are assassins camped outside the villa. There is also an assassin whose hiding place is unknown.”

My mother’s gaze turns to the body of the assassin lying on the floor, then back to me.

“…Yes, then waiting here would be dangerous too.”

Although she was a little surprised by her mother’s quick judgment of the situation, she quickly replied because the situation was the situation.

“Yes. I guess…”

“I can’t help it… Adele, you should take the lead.”

The moment I heard the words based on absolute trust that I would protect her, I made up my mind that no matter what, I would make sure that my mother’s body wasn’t hurt. She prides herself on not growing up to the point of failing to live up to her mother’s expectations.

I picked up the dagger lying on the side of the assassin’s corpse and held it in my hand. Of course, having a weapon is better than not having one, but for that reason, there was a place to use it, not a house.

As I stepped in front of her, I couldn’t help but admire her mother’s composure in my heart. How many ordinary people can be so calm in a situation where I witnessed the assassin’s target and my daughter killing the assassin herself right in front of her eyes.

I wanted to move as quickly as I could while heading for the stairs and take care of the assassins, but I couldn’t conclude that there was absolutely no possibility that the assassins waiting outside the villa would join me late, targeting my mother. Perhaps an assassin I had yet to find was still targeting her mother at this very moment.

I wondered if Scorpio himself might have stepped up to the existence of an assassin that was not caught by my senses, but I soon shook off that thought. If Scorpio had led the Assassins himself, he would not have launched the raid at such an ambiguous time.

…Wait. Come to think of it, why did they choose such an ambiguous time?

I have no idea why Luke and I spent several hours outside, and didn’t move until it was time for us to return.

The moment I arrived at the end of the hallway, right in front of the stairs, repeating such questions in my mind.

The dagger left my fingertips and shot like an arrow, piercing the eyes of the assassin hiding in the shadows of the kitchen on the left.

“Keuk…!”

Is it impossible for even the most well-trained assassin to endure the intense pain that came suddenly in an unexpected situation? An assassin trained to endure any amount of torture laughably puts his hand to his face, complaining of pain.

“Suck…”

Her mother swallowed her breath and turned her head away. It wasn’t because of the assassin who collapsed on the floor as she collapsed.

The chef, who was leaving the kitchen to assess the situation after hearing the sound of glass breaking, fell in front of us as if he had been attacked from behind. Looking back into the kitchen, I saw the bodies of servants who had been killed by throwing daggers that the assassin must have thrown.

Funny enough, the moment I saw that, the first thing I thought was that it was a relief that Loggia wasn’t here with her due to her personal circumstances.

After a while, the feeling of disgust towards myself for thinking such a thing overwhelms me like a flood, but I am reminded that I am not in a relaxed situation right now to be distracted by such a place.

First of all, let’s catch the rats that set foot in the house and think about it.

I go up the stairs, repeating only that thought in my mind. However, as soon as I reached the second floor, I felt a foreboding yet uneasy feeling. It was good to see it as an intuition.

And I have experienced this kind of situation before.

“…Mom, step back right now. Hurry!”

A colorless and odorless poison that is sprayed into the air and used only in urgent situations by the Assassination Brigade because it takes a very long time to make.

Due to the fact that it is colorless and odorless, it is not uncommon for mice and birds to be poisoned, and the risk is very high. If you get poisoned, you’ll suffer from acute pain that feels like fire spreading through your blood vessels, and you’ll die within a day.

Due to its nature, it is mainly used when assassins are in a corner or want to retreat, but once poisoned, detoxification is close to impossible.

Those who tried to create an antidote all lost their lives at the hands of the Assassination Brigade, and those who did not had to drink the ordeal. For some reason, even the priests and wizards failed to decipher this poison.

In my case, thanks to my body that held mana to the limit, I was immune to quite a few poisons, so there was no big problem. But my mother, who is a normal person, and the other three who must have already been exposed to that poison…

Just then, I heard someone running out of the room. I already knew who the owner of the footsteps was, so I also hurriedly moved.

“Adele? Mother?! Danger here-“

My older brother, who must have moved when he heard the sound of breaking glass and my mother’s screams from downstairs, seemed a little taken aback by the appearance of my mother and I as soon as we came out.

“Older brother, never leave your mother! There are still assassins left, so back down as far as you can!”

“…I got it.”

At first glance, the older brother’s complexion did not look very good. Blood gushed out of his habitually chewed lips, and the fishy taste of iron occupied the inside of his mouth.

Thanks to my older brother who came out at the right time, there is nothing to shy away from. With his back leaning against the wall of the corridor, he gazed at the deceased knight’s corpse, then moved his body to enter the room, which was sure to be filled with poison in the air.

The first thing I saw was the cards spread on a circular table in the center of the room and the assassin lying face down on it.

…So you’ve been doing that while we’re gone.

The next thing I saw was a large knight lying entangled with another assassin right next to the door.

Of the four assassins who must have entered this room in the first place, two had already lost their lives. My father, holding a sword presumably belonging to a knight, was pushing the remaining two as far as he could while trying to escape with a ferocious expression rather than an angry expression.

But as I entered, the only remaining escape route for the assassins, the window that should have been open, was covered with thick ice made by my father-in-law’s magic.

There was no way for them to escape, and I had no intention of letting them escape in the first place.

Aiming for his father’s neck from behind, he kicked down the ankle of an assassin wielding a claw, a weapon resembling an animal’s claw, and then trampled his neck to prevent him from rising again.

“Adele!”

As if seeing my father shouting and casting his eyes at me seemed like an empty spot, the last remaining assassin threw a needle-shaped memory, but my father-in-law left it alone and couldn’t see it.

In an instant, the memorized words that collided with the shield magic standing in front of my father lost their power and fell to the floor. And the magic of the father-in-law that didn’t stop there wrapped around the assassin, and he was completely locked in ice, leaving only his head.

Unlike me, who knows that there is no point in capturing him alive, let alone who is behind the assassins, my father-in-law, who did not know that much, decided to capture him alive for the purpose of interrogating him. If these people were just idiots who moved only for money, then the father-in-law’s judgment would have to be right.

“Kkeureuuk…!”

“…Huh.”

My father-in-law sticks out his tongue at the sight of the assassin spewing foam out of his mouth and dying.

The elite of the Assassination Brigade, like no one else, were trained to take their own lives if they failed in their mission. Whether or not they have regrets in life is out of the question in the first place. They’ve been trained to be brainwashed, and they just believe they have to do it.

“Let’s go downstairs first. It’s not quite over yet.”

“…Yes, I will.”

That was when she joined her older brother, who was guarding her mother in the middle of the stairs and was vigilant in all directions, and came downstairs.

With a wave of chilly magic that spreads throughout the villa.

Dalgrak- Kung!

At the stairway, the last assassin’s presence was revealed, and the sound of him collapsing was heard.

At the same time, I was taken aback by the sight of my mother and brother collapsing like dolls with broken threads, but I hurriedly helped them and carefully laid them on the floor before checking their condition. The father-in-law also sat with his back against the wall, supporting his father.

“…Are you asleep?”

“Your poor son’s skills have improved considerably. Enough to digest magic of this scale without too much pressure…”

Even the father-in-law who said that was greatly affected by the poison, so perhaps it was difficult to resist Luke’s magical power, and in the end, he was swallowed up by the magic that put everyone to sleep, and dropped his head.

A villa where everyone is asleep, with only me and Luke awake. Inside, I just sat there, idly by, until Luke himself took the lives of the assassins outside the villa.

I failed to protect my family again.