episode_0073

73. Revenge.

Her sudden confession of regression. John glanced at Deok-soo.

Dazed-

Deok-soo was somehow staring blankly into the air with a dumbfounded look.

“Huh, huh? What did you just say?”

“······.”

He didn’t even seem to register it. John turned his head again.

“Yes. I felt it too. Wasn’t it killed by that hoodlum who was ranked 1st in the tutorial?”

Deok-soo, who was next to him, looked as if he was saying, ‘What are you talking about?’ John and Sarah ignored him. He wouldn’t understand anyway.

Sarah nodded heavily. Her eyes were full of murderous intent. How on earth did she die like that? John felt a stuffy feeling at the rising question.

“Yes. It’s him. He wasn’t an ordinary player.”

“Hmm, what kind of ability was it, by any chance?”

John was still under the setting that his memory wasn’t fully intact. He started acting.

Around this time, the Tower began explaining the 3rd floor trial. Deok-soo listened intently, but the other two just continued their conversation. It was just a story they had already heard once anyway.

“It was an ability that increased combat power when you ate a heart, and you could eat up to 5. We both fought hard, but eventually lost.”

“A heart······. Can you only eat the heart you just killed?”

“No. He took it out of his inventory and ate it.”

John frowned as if he had heard an uncomfortable truth.

“That’s a shame. It’s too overpowered.”

“Yes. So I was thinking······.”

For a while, John and Sarah began discussing how to kill the hoodlum. It was quite a bizarre sight. The Tower was diligently explaining the trial, but the two men and women were lost in their own world.

Deok-soo watched them and thought to himself. He didn’t show it at all on the outside.

‘Tsk, tsk. You have to listen to the explanation carefully to get through the trial easily, but they’re just flirting. Sigh, I should listen carefully.’

Deok-soo’s eyes sparkled like stars as he listened to the Tower’s explanation. He was concentrating even harder than he did in his school days.

***

Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-

As soon as the Tower’s explanation ended, the marathon began, and John’s party was speeding through the wilderness on bicycles.

They didn’t start in a hurry. Rather, they started leisurely and pedaled leisurely.

Deok-soo demanded an explanation for this, but Sarah and John lightly crushed his opinion.

“I have a strategy.”

“That’s right. Listen to John.”

“······.”

Deok-soo looked at them as if he was dumbfounded. It was the fate of someone who was with regressors but did not understand regression.

Before long, Sarah, who was riding a unicycle next to him, spoke to him.

“We’re almost there. You said you vaguely remember this place, right?”

Although it’s not visible, they seem to have almost arrived at the car center. John nodded slightly.

“Yes. Isn’t it a place to buy cars?”

“That’s right.”

John and Sarah were passionately considering how to kill the hoodlum. There were two plans.

The first method was to pedal hard to overtake the hoodlum and then prepare a trap.

The second method is······

‘Buy an item at the car center to stop him.’

The two decided to choose the second plan. That’s why they deliberately started late. The faster you start, the higher the probability of attracting gnats. Until they met the hoodlum, they needed to conserve their strength.

John looked at the clock that appeared in his field of vision. There was a difference of about 10 minutes from before.

[11:45:11.9382]

That’s appropriate. This amount of time was enough for John.

This time, they decided not to massacre the moths that had gathered at the car center. They would just open the road to the car center. Sweeping them all away at once was convenient for the moment, but they decided to think about the future.

John slowly raised his magic power. The heart pierced by the hoodlum still seemed to ache.

And for a very brief moment, he saw the hoodlum devouring his heart. It was a fairly unpleasant experience.

***

Vroom-

It’s not a bicycle anymore. Inside the running car, Sarah said.

“It’s much easier than before.”

“Didn’t you say you killed them all before? It must be easier.”

John said that and glanced at the exterior of the car. It’s not the sports car that seemed to embody the flames from before.

The thick tires made a solid noise as they met the wilderness. It was a massive jeep that felt intimidating just by looking at it.

Of course, the speed was clearly different from before. The intensity of the wind felt was at a cute level.

The type of car was different, but more than anything, the performance of the parts was different. They were pursuing something other than speed.

“How long do we have to go this way? I can’t see anything.”

“The direction is good now. Keep going straight.”

That’s how we’ll meet that hoodlum. John swallowed the rest of his words.

Deok-soo sighed at the incomprehensible answer. Yes, being weak is a sin. A sin.

“Sigh······.”

At that moment, Sarah said coldly.

“Wait.”

“Huh, huh? I just yawned. A yawn!”

Deok-soo was frightened for no reason and was flustered. Her tone and actions were strangely eerie.

Fortunately, Sarah wasn’t scolding Deok-soo. The corners of her mouth stretched out in a long line.

“······Found him. John. It’s him.”

“Oh, finally. I understand. I’ll prepare.”

John and Deok-soo couldn’t see anything in their vision. But Sarah could see.

The hoodlum’s car was gradually approaching. He was frivolously flirting with the women in the passenger seat. Sarah gritted her teeth.

She would definitely kill that trash who dared to steal John’s heart.

“······.”

Before long, it seemed that they had also spotted John’s party. After a while, they slowly began to slow down. The corner of Sarah’s mouth tilted upwards.

Their intentions were clear. Just like before, their plan was clearly to annihilate John’s party. As expected, even if you regress, human nature doesn’t change easily. Sarah was pleased with that fact.

That’s how she could crush the hoodlum’s thoughts miserably. Sarah said eerily.

“Deok-soo. Speed up a bit.”

“Ah, I understand.”

Deok-soo shuddered. He pressed down on the sole of his foot, which was on the accelerator.

Vroom-!

John and Sarah loosened their fingers as if they had planned it. Now, it’s time to repay them.

***

Inside the car, a bald man was sitting behind the wheel. The bald man said.

“Boss, it looks like they’re after us too?”

The hoodlum, who was kneading the women’s bodies like rice cakes in the back seat, replied.

“What? Heh, that’s bold of them.”

“Should I slow down a little faster?”

“Do it. Those cocky bastards. How dare they try to steal someone else’s property? The country is having a hard time because of guys like that.”

He was the epitome of hypocrisy. He glanced at his inventory and looked back. A jeep that looked heavy was approaching at full speed.

‘I have enough hearts······. Well, I’ll win even if I don’t eat them.’

The hoodlum wore an arrogant smile. He was ranked 1st in the tutorial, achieved top-tier results on the 1st floor, and conquered all areas on the 2nd floor.

His confidence was soaring right now, and even more so when he ate a heart. No matter what pleasure he brought, it couldn’t match the pleasure of victory.

He remembered a knight on the 1st floor who made him feel like there was a wall. If he could eat 5 superior hearts, it wouldn’t be difficult to beat that knight.

The hoodlum spoke to the man sitting in the passenger seat. The man’s lower body was particularly thick. It was like looking at a bodybuilder who hadn’t done any upper body exercises.

“Get ready. You said you played soccer in society?”

“Hehe, of course. Boss. Trust me.”

The man said that and put strength into his quadriceps. Chwa-reuk, the front of his lower body split like precisely crafted diamonds. It was like looking at an old tree.

The hoodlum’s party killed time by having idle conversations for a while. They seemed to lack tension, like people with safety insensitivity. It was all thanks to the existence of the hoodlum and the lower body man.

The person with the highest combat power in the group was definitely the hoodlum, but the lower body man was also a sufficiently threatening force. He was a man who could become a leader even if he went somewhere else.

······Eventually, John’s party came within their firing range. The lower body man contracted and relaxed his hip joint this way and that, and then said.

“Boss. I’ll be back.”

“Okay. Give them a cool one.”

“Trust me. Hehehe.”

Immediately afterwards, the lower body man grabbed the door of the car. He jumped into the air with light movements and then stretched out his right foot like a whip.

His job was [Martial Artist]. He was a man whose whole body was a weapon.

Whoo-oong-

A noise that seemed to tear the air was heard. The moment his quadriceps contracted to the maximum, the hoodlum felt the surging wave.

Kwaaaang-!