How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

48. I don’t know who cares about who.

1.

Scorpio… You are truly, horribly disgusting and disgusting monster.

How can all the apostles of the zodiac be so disgusting? As I was knocking out a girl with shoulder-length gray hair who was coming at me with her dagger, I was knocked out by a blow on the back of the head.

Except for Taurus, who was crazy about fighting, all the apostles were dead and only ate. An exception would be Luke in this round, but considering the madman in the previous round, well… I wanted to.

Looking at this, it’s safe to say that Nox’s ability to pick out human delinquents and make them apostles is truly unrivaled.

Even among the normal, one-less apostles, there were three other trash people who were so different from each other that they had no rivals.

Leo. Scorpio. And Capricorn.

It’s clear that Libra is a guy with a ton of problems, but when you compare her to the other three, she doesn’t feel a bit faded.

Anyway, I don’t remember seeing these kids when they came in the last episode. Did he finally officially become a member of the Assassination Brigade in those few years?

Shusyuk- Shyuk-

I instinctively turned my body to avoid the sound of dozens of needle-like feet flying through the air. Even I don’t know exactly where Luke is, but I didn’t want him to be harmed by blind memorization.

After swinging my sword like that and clearing the memorized spells, this time I could see an incomparably greater number of memorized spells targeting me. Since young children are subtly clever, it was clear that they had judged that the way they gnaw them from a distance would have a higher chance of winning rather than directly touching me.

In normal cases, that’s the right decision. However, no matter how good a decision is, there are opponents who do not work.

Unfortunately for them, this was the case now. If the opponent is an opponent who is overwhelming in terms of experience, skill, and even pure military force, the meaning of these small techniques will fade.

The existence of an assassin is basically the most threatening when you have the right to attack in a situation where the opponent is not aware of it. It is also a story that does not apply to the guys in front of me now.

Even Scorpio, the head of the Assassination Brigade, cannot completely hide his presence from me unless he borrows the power of the Night Veil. If I was caught off guard by these young children who had no real combat experience, it would probably be entirely the result of my mistakes.

By the way, even if you’re young, you’re too young. If those kids were about the same age as me or Luke, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have mercy in my hands. There was no way that a guy who didn’t have blood on his hands until he reached that age could survive in the Assassination Brigade.

But these kids were different. I didn’t feel the slightest bit of killing that flowed naturally from those who were born to kill or those who had the experience of killing someone. Even just a few days ago, Luke had been in such a state, so it was felt more clearly.

So I had no choice but to hesitate. Since these children have not yet committed a mortal sin, shouldn’t they be given a chance to enjoy a new life? With that thought in mind, I finally withdrew the aura that was about to form on the tip of the sword.

After that, grab the handle of the sword firmly with both hands and swing it with all your might to create a sword wind. The memorized words that were swept away by the wind were neutralized at once and lost their power, and then fell to the ground like rain. It was almost at the same time that I knocked out three of the last-resisting children in succession.

Looking at these kids waiting to attack here, I don’t know when exactly, but it’s clear that Scorpio and Luke knew that Luke and I were here.

Pair! Match! Match!

“Excellent. Very good I have seen your double-edged side, taking the lives of my men upstairs without hesitation and showing mercy to these bastards.”

Especially seeing him so confidently appearing in front of me and spitting out sophistry, it seemed that Scorpio had prepared something while those kids were taking their time.

Just looking at their well-organized spirit reveals that they are of a higher level than the assassins who attacked me from upstairs. Like Scorpio, eight assassins with their hoods pressed down deeply and their faces covered with masks line up behind Scorpio, creating tension. .

“Ha, there is no need to make such an admiring expression, right? You will soon be following your subordinates.”

“Kuh. Ha ha! Yeah, you’d never be so confident. I will admit that much.”

I don’t know who will admit who. There was no need to waste time, and the moment he was about to move his body, thinking that I would make sure that he would never open his disgusting mouth again, Scorpio opened his mouth again.

“Do you know? Our Assassination Brigade has taken the lives of a total of four Masters from its founding until now.”

I was about to decapitate Scorpio, lightly ignoring what I already knew from the previous episode, but something happened that forced me to stop the trail of the sword midway.

“…!”

A child. Scorpio pulled out his arm from the inside of the cloak that covered his body, and in Scorpio’s grasp, a child was held by the scruff of his neck. And that, too, with the tip of my sword cutting his throat lightly, and blood trickling out little by little.

If I had been a bit late in stopping the sword, the child would have been killed by my own hands.

“Let me introduce you. This guy’s name is number 18. Oh, and I don’t even know you.”

Are you dating me? What the heck is that…

Ah, that’s right. I was able to recall it only after seeing the child’s hand belatedly.

The child Scorpio held out as a shield was definitely the child who had been beaten by a gangster in a back alley the day I visited the secret library of the imperial family with Luke. I remember unknowingly stepping out to help, only to stop when Luke pointed out that the child’s left little finger was missing.

“If you notice, you must remember? If it had not been for the report from No. 18, It would have been a little difficult to find out who you really are, the one who went against the laws of heaven. If you look at it that way, this guy has built a pretty big ball.”

“…So, as you said, you’re using the kid who made such a great achievement as a mere meat shield? That’s not even funny.”

“Hmm? This kid definitely got an award for that job. For a guy who made the choice to run away in the middle of his education, he was an undeserved prize. Are you curious about the contents?”

As I was thinking of an answer worthy of being shot at, I suddenly felt an ominous feeling. The authority of Scorpio, which he had experienced in previous episodes, was evident.

“Well, I don’t think I’m going to tell you such trivial things.”

The moment he noticed that Scorpio was about to use his powers, he hurriedly reached out with one hand and grabbed the child’s clothes, and with the other hand swung his sword, forcing Scorpio to let go of the child’s hand. . Then quickly put his body back.

“Ughhhhh?!”

“Keep it off…!”

Chiik-! Chizuzuzuk-

Something black, resembling a scorpion’s tail, protruded from within Scorpio’s shadow and pierced the place where I had been standing before, as well as the bodies of the men behind him. The assassins, who lost their human form in an instant due to the poison injected from the tip of their tails, soon took on the form of a purple scorpion.

As if the tails of Scorpio weren’t satisfied with that, they didn’t stop there and shot at the children I had stunned.

No matter how much you do, you dare to commit such a dog-like thing in front of me. I must have looked rather silly.

Kieiik-!

As the aura on the sword scattered brilliant light and tore off the black scorpion tails as they were, the remaining tail returned to Scorpio’s shadow with a roaring sound.

“Ha ha ha ha! What a masterpiece! If you’re fighting while protecting those kids, then I don’t have any intention of stopping you either… Even if you get stabbed in the back, I don’t know!”

Certainly, fighting against Scorpio’s authority while protecting these children is a bit daunting. As Scorpio is one of the oldest of the Zodiac’s Apostles, he had a feeling that this was going to be the case from the moment he faced them with those children behind his back, but…

Above all, it is a little regretful to have created a situation where ten other children could die while trying to save one child’s life.

“I don’t know who’s worried about who right now… If you had time to worry about me, you’d better spend that time saying goodbye to your proud god?”

But unlike the previous episodes, I wasn’t alone. It’s true that I tend to be a bit overprotective, hoping to keep Luke out of harm’s way, but I fully appreciate Luke’s skills.

To be honest, it’s because my opponents so far and in the future are the apostles of the zodiac. And the recent growth rate of Luke is also amazing, so it might be possible to compete with the Apostle on an equal footing in the near future.

“…Today I will personally rip off the muzzle that dared to utter such blasphemous words.”

After saving the child from Scorpio, put it down next to the other children as if tossing it halfway, then remove the clothespin from the inside of his sleeve and drop it on the floor. It was a signal that he needed Luke’s support, which he had arranged with Luke in advance in case of an unexpected event.

I feel relieved to think that Luke will support me from now on.

In the face of eight scorpions made up of dark purple venom that would not yield to even a reasonably sturdy horse, he took a stance, holding his sword straight with both hands.

I had absolutely no doubt that Luke could provide me with the perfect opportunity.