The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 250



Chapter 250 – Side Story: Synchronization – 2

“Eeeeeeeee! Eeeeeeeee!”

He has blank, unfocused eyes, a voice that sounds like his vocal cords are being ripped apart, and even though he is clearly a magic hunter based on the weapon he is holding and the armor he is wearing, he has the strength to blow people away with his bare hands.

All of that matched the characteristics of the killer in my memory exactly.

“Ahhh! My arm! My arm!”

The woman tore off one of the Hunter’s arms, which was lying on the floor. Red blood gushed out, and a terrible scream echoed. The woman greedily licked the blood off her hand.

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Only then did the onlookers who had figured out the situation start to run away, but even in the midst of this, some people were seen staying behind and taking videos with their smartphones. There were also people who watched from a distance as if it was none of their business.

“What are you doing! Run away! Run away! You little shits! Don’t take pictures and run away!”

The healer, who had escaped from a distance, shouted at the people still remaining to run away. No one seemed to be listening.

‘I guess I’ll have to break it all down.’

If someone’s limbs are ripped off right before your eyes and you don’t run away, you wouldn’t have anything to say even if they were to break while you were filming.

Nika, who had grasped the situation, confirmed that she had used a perception-obstructing magic on her surroundings to kill their presence, then cast a perception-obstructing magic on herself and ran forward. Just before the woman could completely kill her fellow hunter, she stopped as if blocking the way.

“Keuuu,” unfocused eyes scanned me. I could hear a clicking, clicking sound nearby.

‘Okay, take as many pictures as you want.’

There won’t be anything left anyway.

“Kkaaah!”

The woman ran toward me, screaming. I clenched my fists. I pretended to get into a stance and stepped on the ground with all my might. With a “kwaang!” the ground split open, sending debris flying in all directions.

I aimed for the smartphones of those who were holding their cameras in this direction, deliberately sending the debris farther away by detonating the shockwave at the right time. The sharp pieces of asphalt passed right through the cameras.

“Whoa! My phone!”

“That little b*stard broke my phone!”

The cries of people whose smartphones were broken could be heard from all directions. It was a shame that even if I insisted for a hundred days that I broke it, nothing would be shown on the CCTV.

I ignored it and magically melted the memory card. It would have been cheap if it ended up with just one storage space in a situation where I could have easily died.

He hit the head of the woman who had rushed right in front of him. The woman fell headfirst to the floor. He lifted the woman who was on the floor, grabbed her mouth, and looked around.

‘There are a lot of eyes watching. I have to subdue them as quickly as possible and get out.’

I don’t want to start a debate on the Internet about who I really am. After roughly remembering the faces of the people around me, I hit the woman again. Her body spun around.

If it was an ordinary person, it would be enough to kill them. However, the guy was fine, except that his body was spinning in the air. With a thud, the woman’s body fell back onto the floor.

He grabbed my right arm and twisted the lower part of my elbow while pressing my shoulder against my knee.

-Thud!

“Keep going!”

My shoulder dislocated and my arm rotated nearly 270 degrees, tearing all the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. I made sure that it was physically unusable and I turned my body half a turn.

He struck down with his opposite foot and broke the woman’s left leg. Her femur was shattered and her thigh was crushed flat. Judging by the twitching of the area below her knee, it seemed like she wouldn’t be able to move without healing magic.

I released the right arm that I had been twisting, grabbed the left arm, pulled out the shoulder, and then went in vertically starting with the hand. The bone pierced the skin and popped out. The entire arm shrank, and the wrist and shoulder came into contact.

Just then. He grabbed the woman’s right leg, which was still intact, and twisted it. With a sound of her pelvis being shattered, her knees went back, her shins went forward, and her leg twisted perfectly 180 degrees.

“Kurrrrrrrr! Kyaaah!”

I let go of her legs and got up. The woman was struggling to bite me with her mouth, completely oblivious to the fact that her limbs were shattered to pieces. Her front teeth were chattering as if they were breaking.

The voices that were muttering that this was an overreaction to the sight of such a woman have disappeared.

“Who is that guy? Is he a hunter?”

“I don’t know. But why do I feel like I can’t see it even though I’m looking at it?”

“It’s not magic?”

“Is there such a magic?”

“No, why are you hiding your body? Why can’t you just tell me to expose it?”

Instead, they were focused on me. The perception-obstructing spell seemed to be working properly, as they didn’t notice my appearance despite all this attention being focused on me.

But there must be a limit to that. Now, I took out my smartphone and burned out the internal circuits of those who tried to take pictures of me, then ran into a nearby alley.

“Hey, hey! He’s running away! Catch him!”

As soon as I opened the dimensional gate and joined Nika, someone shouted for me to be caught. Several hunters hurriedly headed to the alley where I had disappeared and loitered around in front of it. It was a foolish thing to do.

Beatrice was looking at me with wide eyes. I guess she had never shown me such cruelty before.

The god of heaven and the god of the devil were talking to each other with worried expressions on their faces. Rather than being surprised by my attitude, it seemed like there was something different about it.

“Why are you suddenly doing that, Master?”

“I became a murderer. I thought it was something that could only be seen in the other world… … I never thought I would see it on Earth too.”

Come to think of it, even though I hadn’t killed any monsters in the second world, the moment I saw Geomseong, I was extremely wary and let out a murderous aura. I wonder if it was because the karma still stuck with me even after I returned here.

“Nika, I think you should step up and take care of things first. Take those hunters to the hospital, and bring the killer to the guild building. Oh, and take care of the guys whose phones just broke and the guys who didn’t run away and were just watching.”

“Yes. Leave it to me, Master.”

Nika walked out of the barrier. The guild leader of the Eternal Guild suddenly appeared, causing an uproar in the area.

“I’m sorry, but I think we’ll have to postpone our sightseeing for a while. I’m sorry to you too, Beatrice. Let’s come back later.”

“I understand, Young Master. I am fine, so please do not be too upset.”

Beatrice also quickly said the word ‘Master’ as if she had just heard Nika call her ‘Master’.

The god of heaven and the god of magic were still thinking about something.

“… … He must be a murderer. I never wanted to see anything like this again.”

Former Sword Master Rachel, now an A-class Hunter Kang Ra-hye, stuck out her tongue. She had just come back from seeing the wizard hunter trapped in the basement of the Eternal Guild.

It was natural that the memory of the murderer would remain as a terrible trauma and dark history for Geomseong as well. The trauma was related to Karna, and the dark history was related to me.

“If karma continues to exist on Earth and even accumulates, then all Hunters will become nothing more than time bombs.”

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire Earth would be torn apart the moment the full story of this incident was revealed. The fear that all Hunters would explode at any moment, anywhere, and in any way would engulf people.

“The good news is that there is a solution… … .”

I looked at the two people who had come to me in a hurry after receiving the call. They were Latina and Leona. Geomseong smiled happily at Leona, whom he was seeing for the first time in a long time. Leona also waved her hand slightly.

“I understand the situation. What should we do, Mira?”

“If possible, I would like you to try the ‘Soul Purification’ magic. I’ll try it on Rosaria later, but it’s an incredibly difficult magic to learn even with a clear mind, so trying it on her in her current state would be useless.”

When I brought the two people over and checked, the five who had a drinking contest with Erestica were still drunk. There was no way they could learn the magic of the first world in that state.

“Is that it?”

“That’s more than enough. It’s harder to explain it in words than to experience it yourself, so I’ll show you first. Now, repeat after me from the first line. La- sumo- la.”

“La- sumo la.”

“Wrong. You need to pull the next one a little bit.”

“… … .”

Latina’s face hardened slightly. If such harsh criticism came from just the first word, she must have guessed how serious the situation would be in the future.

“Let me ask you something. How long is the window?”

“It wouldn’t be fun if I told you now. Okay, back to you. Ka- That’s it.”

“Ka-Gna… … I’m just asking you to wait a moment. Why are you saying something different than before? Did you move on right away?”

“No, isn’t this your first time?”

“… … ?”

A question mark appeared on the heads of the three people who were listening to that. It must start with this concept. After a long time of explanation of ‘magic language’, I gathered my thoughts for a moment and opened my mouth.

“You know, Latina, that the magical language used by the nobles is completely different from the language we think of, right?”

“I’m from that world too, so of course I know. But I’ve never seen a magic that changes from the first syllable.”

“Of course. It’s a magic that was considered a miracle even in that world. I was just simulating the magic words in my head— No, that’s enough. After you, Latina, die. Again, Nag- Pa- Tala.”

“… … .”

Leona and Latina’s expressions began to rot beyond being strange. Leona cautiously raised her hand.

“I, Mira. I don’t understand, but if it’s the same magic, why is the pronunciation different? There has to be a reason.”

“Um… … Well, if I had to make an analogy, it would be something like this. It’s not exactly the same, so just take it as a rough idea. Do you both know the English alphabet?”

“I know.”

“I know that too.”

“The alphabet has several pronunciations for the same letter depending on its position.”

There was no point in teaching those two people in detail, so I decided to just say that their pronunciation would change and move on.

“… … Let’s assume I understand for now. What does this have to do with Yeongchang?”

“That’s the same. It feels like the pronunciation has changed in that way. As I said earlier, it’s not exactly the same, but if I had to make a comparison, it’s like that.”

“Even though I didn’t do anything in particular?”

“that’s right.”

“What are the rules?”

“None. You just have to memorize everything. You don’t really do things like breathing, blinking, swallowing, or adjusting the position of your tongue, right? It’s the same thing.”

I could hear the swordsman next to me trembling, going “Ugh… …” after being struck by my unexpected attack, but it wasn’t something I needed to worry about right now.

“… … In short, you have to recite a spell from beginning to end without making a single mistake, which has no rules for change, is extremely long and has complicated pronunciation, and once changed, it sounds like a completely different word?”

“If you go later, you can skip the spell. The magic will come out even if you just memorize it in your head anyway.”

There’s a reason why I memorize Soul Purification as ‘the highest-level abnormality removal magic’ instead of its name.

Rather than remembering it in the language of this world and causing confusion, it was much easier to bury the related memories and memorize them only in magic language.

“What do you want us to do about that? I can’t do it. I’ll just lie down here, so you can eat me or not, Mira-ssi, as you wish. I would appreciate it if you personally eat me.”

Latina collapsed on the floor. Leona, who had been hesitating, timidly crouched down next to her.

‘The reaction was as expected.’

When I first heard the explanation, I had a similar reaction to these two people. It was a situation where my life was on the line, so I gritted my teeth and did it. If not, I would have given up and beaten them long ago. I didn’t lie down on my stomach though.

“Is there any other way, child?”

“I plan to do some more research. I need to find out if the conditions are the same as those in the other world, or if they have been alleviated or strengthened. If that doesn’t work, I want to let you know that you should try this method as well.”

“You’re saying that as long as the research goes well, it’ll be fine? Even if you have to harass the kids below you, you’ll get results.”

“No, there is no need for that.”

Suddenly the door opened and the Heavenly God and the Demon God walked in. It seemed like they were trying to show off some kind of majestic appearance, but it only came out as a show of solemnity.

“You don’t need to do that?”

“It means we will solve it, human.”

“how?”

Masin raised his tall, proud hand.