The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 203



Chapter 203 – Side Story: What Have You Been Doing?

“I am so happy to meet you again like this.”

A woman dressed in a neat suit from head to toe bowed to us. Behind her, heavily armed women stood like bodyguards. Judging by the weapons they were holding, they all seemed to be hunters.

Even though his posture was angular, he couldn’t hide his curiosity, and he kept glancing at me, pretending to look straight ahead.

“I heard you had a hard time with an unidentified monster. Are you feeling okay?”

“It’s okay. How are things going now?”

Nika, who was wrapped up in a coat, answered the question. The inside of the thick coat was, of course, the same as the Succubus Queen’s outfit. At least, it was fortunate in many ways that the inside of the coat had never been revealed to the outside.

“13 minutes ago, seventeen A-3 rank monsters emerged from outside the gate and were just defeated. According to the dungeon break prediction formula, the dungeon boss or an S rank monster is expected to emerge in the next 10 minutes.”

“I understand that there is still a lot of time left until the initial calculation for the dungeon break. Is it because I miscalculated or because something unexpected happened?”

Nika seemed quite overbearing and cold, unlike when she was with me. She was the same when she appeared in the palace as a succubus queen, so I guess I should say she knows how to clearly distinguish between public and private matters.

“It’s the latter. Didn’t you receive the report that the dungeon break times for all gates have been mixed up since the dormant gate activity incident?”

There’s no way I would have received it. I’m the main culprit behind the dormant gate activity initiation incident. After that, I was busy hanging out with him in the guild building, so how could I have had time to receive a report?

“I was busy.”

“Yes. I expected that.”

It’s probably a lot different from what the woman in the suit expected, but it’s not wrong.

“So, there are growing voices calling for a re-creation of the dungeon break prediction formula, so we will be able to fix it soon.”

Additionally, it is still unclear what happened inside.

The gate collapsed, leaving no clues, and the eldest son and secretary of the Chasan Group, who were found unconscious in front of it, both refused to give statements.

‘I can’t help it.’

I just messed up my hair a little bit so that it wouldn’t be known about me. Even though there was a misunderstanding, I was the one who was attacked first.

I didn’t even touch his mind or anything. I just sent him away with his memories intact, but he’s the only one who’s been traumatized and is shaking.

He was such a weakling, calling something that touched his brain a trauma.

“But who is that… … person?”

The woman in the suit who had been calling me that urgently used a respectful title. Nika was glaring at me from the side.

“This is my summons. If you call it that in vain, I won’t let you off easy.”

“Are you talking about the summoner… … Yes, I understand. I apologize for the inconvenience.”

Her head bowed slightly towards me. Although I should have been furious at having to pay respect to a summoned beast, not even a human, the woman remained calm.

Well, if there was a person who would reveal something like that in front of my eyes, I wouldn’t have sent them here.

-Summoner? Did you put those clothes on on purpose? With your fashion sense.

-Shh. Listen.

-You can’t hear it from this distance.

A few reporters were whispering to me. In fact, Nika didn’t seem to hear them because they were quite far away, but I didn’t.

I couldn’t understand why he was saying such things. He was wearing a mask on his face, his entire body was wrapped tightly in a coat, and he had a hat pulled down to his eyes.

The only visible part is the right hand, but even that is completely covered by a thick glove that reaches down to the elbow, so you might wonder what that is.

‘I can’t help it.’

At first, they were going to deal with him as a mysterious hunter who was hiding his identity. However, given the nature of the Eternal Guild, it was too late to allow male hunters to be active, so they came up with this as a last resort.

There’s no problem with not revealing your identity quickly, so you can take your time and think about other options.

The person who would take me outside as my ‘owner’ was chosen through rock-paper-scissors. At first, Leona, who had been called, tried to take me out, but was stopped by the other six.

‘Looking at the gate, at 7 o’clock, distance is about 80 meters.’

Of course, being able to understand and remembering a face were two different things. I would have let it go if it was just this one time, but he was the one who had been mumbling one word at a time since a while ago, so I wondered what he was complaining about.

-Gurrrrrr… … .

While the nearby hunters were glancing at me, a sound like drainage could be heard from somewhere, and the gate began to shake. The surroundings became busy in an instant.

“Dungeon Break signal! Everyone, be on guard!”

However, despite being busy, it didn’t seem that tense or desperate.

Judging from the murmurings, it seemed like Nika was right next to me. Everyone seemed to know how much fame I had built up so far. And how much effort I had put in while I was away.

-The owner will do it, right?

A voice echoed directly in my head. Nika was staring at me.

If you look at it from the side, it might seem like he’s roughly giving orders. He nodded and approached the gate, drawing his Dragon Sword.

“Aren’t you going to step forward yourself?”

The woman in the suit asked, as if she was worried. Nika snorted.

“You can do it on your own, so just keep your eyes open and watch. This is your first real test, but I can guarantee your skills.”

“Oh, I see. Okay, I understand.”

The hunters nearby looked uneasy when they heard that he wasn’t going to come out and even did a real test. Well, whether they were uneasy or not, they just had to show it right away.

“I’m coming out! I’m the boss entity!”

A yellow beak suddenly poked out from inside the gate, and soon a large bird’s head popped out. It was a creature without any fur and with bleary eyes, looking just like it had just been hatched from an egg.

The size is definitely not like a newborn baby though.

Half-opened eyes turned to me. The bird’s head, which had been rolling its pupils revealed under its eyelids, ignored me and tried to pull away. It seemed like it had no instinct to figure out how strong its opponent was.

The Yong-A Sword’s blade was imbued with mana. As the blade glowed blue, a startled voice was heard from behind, saying, “Sword Aura!”

First of all, this isn’t an aura. It’s just preparing to cast a swordsmanship spell by surrounding yourself with mana. The first world seemed to be heavily centered on magic, so there was a magic swordsmanship spell, but no aura.

I ran forward using both physical strengthening and acceleration. The bird’s eyes slowly followed me, but they couldn’t catch up completely. I approached the b*stard and raised my Dragon Sword as if I was going to decapitate him.

-Polarity twist.

The mana contained in the sword rotated in opposite directions and slashed down at the bird’s neck. With a “kwajijijik!” sound, the entire neck was ripped off.

“Ugh?!”

I twisted my arm in confusion at the feeling of being cut much more easily than I thought. The dragon sword stopped in a precarious spot. I almost broke the asphalt.

The severed head rolled on the floor with a thud. Blood spurted out like a fountain from the neck that was halfway through the gate, soaking the severed head. The cut surfaces of both were tattered like rags.

“… … .”

The roaring sound suddenly stopped.

‘It’s nothing special, compared to what I thought.’

At this point, there was no need to go to the first world. Even in the second world, he was only in the middle of dreaming of becoming the Demon King without even knowing the topic, and was attacked and killed by another demon.

If a mere guy like this is an S-rank, you can roughly see how big the gap between worlds is. Even if you take into account that Earth was not originally the same place, but rather changed as fragments of other worlds were mixed in.

As I was trying to pull out the body blocking the gate, I saw the blood gushing out and a good idea struck me.

I checked the direction and pretended to pull the body, pulling out a piece of flesh. The flesh flew almost in a straight line and hit the face of the guy who was grumbling earlier, spraying blood.

“Kkaaak!”

This time, a scream that even Nika could hear rang out. While the commotion at 7 o’clock was going on, I pretended not to notice and grabbed the rest of the body and pulled it out.

When the tail came out all the way, it was roughly the size of two buses combined. It was definitely big, really big. I threw the body away and wandered around inside the gate. There didn’t seem to be anything else that could stick out.

-Is this the end?

-I think he’s hesitating because the boss died before he could come out thanks to the master. This time, it seems like they’re not monsters that just try to kill humans, but ones with survival instincts.

This time, does that mean there are people who ignore their survival instincts and rush to kill humans? I don’t know how to go inside, but then I got a good idea.

-Nika. If you say you’re a summoned creature, do you think people will accept your strength to some extent?

-Hmm… … It should be okay to subdue an S-class gate on your own. We’ve already dealt with hundreds of S-class gates. It doesn’t have to be. I’ll make it so that you can’t help but be convinced no matter what.

ㅡ… … You don’t have to go that far.

I lightly stopped Nika from saying something creepy for no reason and put my left arm inside the gate. As I drew a wide-area annihilation magic circle on my palm, a huge amount of mana was sucked out.

The magic circle grew hot and a wide-area annihilation spell was activated. A tremendous amount of heat burst out and a storm of flames swept through the inside of the gate.

He used the same magic once more to multiply the flames. The flames multiplied and exerted incredible power, engulfing the entire gate. Yet, strangely enough, not a single spark escaped from the outside.

“Hey, the gate?!”

Not long afterwards, the gate began to crack open. I pulled my arm out. The gate, which had begun to collapse from the inside, disappeared without a trace.

It meant that the chicks inside were burnt to a crisp, making for a visually stunning failed roast. The dumbfounded faces of the people on the other side of the gate caught my eye.

“Are your doubts gone now?”

No one could answer.

“Nika, an S-rank hunter from the Eternal Guild who has made an official appearance for the first time in three years, introduces a new summoner. What is the identity of the summoner who has been guarding her side? Nika maintains a ‘no answer’ policy. A humanoid summoner, but strong enough to seem inhuman. The summoner’s personality, is it not the master’s fault…? What is this?”

News articles that came up a few hours later all had headlines about me.

Originally, it should have been at least the next day. There wouldn’t be any reporters who would risk their lives to cover an S-rank dungeon that was about to have its dungeon break.

However, thanks to Nika’s return, there was an unusually large crowd of reporters, and naturally, the speed at which articles were published increased.

“How was it, master?”

“It was nothing special.”

I’m not trying to belittle you, I’m being honest. If we weren’t here, I wonder if we could have stopped even one of the Demon King’s legion commanders, let alone the Demon King himself.

“I see. We were confused at first too.”

“Because it’s too weak?”

“Yes. Because the standard of our strength has always been our master.”

“… … .”

I shouldn’t be the standard. I turned off my smartphone in a shaky manner.

If you think about it, in a world where both humans and monsters were weak, there would be no way that a monster as powerful as the Demon King’s army commander would suddenly appear.

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-Wow… … .

My turned-off smartphone vibrated. It was Laura.

“why?”

“The investigation into your family has been completed. Your parents are both safe and sound, and there are no major difficulties, so you can rest assured. However, your older sister… … .”

“Why, sister?”

In the brief moment that Laura paused, all sorts of thoughts crossed her mind. She might have died during the Gate incident, or died as a Hunter, or suffered an unspeakable fate.

“… … He’s a hunter from our guild.”