I’m not a Regressor

I am not a returner Episode 413:

War of the Stars (4)

– Now you can die according to the plan.

The first to react to orders like a cold-hearted commander in a military dictatorship was Lee Woo-hyuk, better known by his nickname ‘Black Lion’.

“Wow! “Ugh!”

Lee Woo-hyuk suddenly clutches his chest and complains of pain.

Without missing the opportunity, a demonic beast rushed forward and swung its sharp, sickle-like claws.

Sigh!

My chest was cut and blood spurted out.

A huge amount of blood soaked the floor, making one wonder if this was really the amount that could come out of a human body.

“Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! “Kruk!”

The demon beast cries out in victory as it looks at Lee Woo-hyuk, whose blood is pouring out.

Considering the vivid sensation felt when Lee Woo-hyuk’s body was cut with fingernails and the amount of blood pouring out, there is no doubt that it was a fatal wound.

Lee Woo-hyuk, who was wounded, swayed as if he would collapse at any moment.

-great. I don’t think the blood and wounds for camouflage were noticed, so just lie down.

I heard Ojin’s voice in my head.

“Ugh… damn it.”

In order to fool the enemy’s eyes perfectly according to the plan, it was necessary to put in a little more effort.

“After this battle… I was going to propose to her.”

-Mr. Woohyuk?

“I can’t believe I didn’t kill it…”

-Hey? Could you stop falling down?

“I’ll leave the rest to you guys.”

-Please shut up and fall down quickly.

What are you doing against demonic beasts?

“Ugh! “Wow!”

Lee Woo-hyuk fell to the floor clutching his chest.

I was worried that it would be perceived as acting because the movements were so exaggerated.

“Crrrrrrr!”

Luckily, it wasn’t a highly intelligent beast, so it quickly turned around after seeing that Lee Woo-hyuk had fallen.

“Hmm! “I can’t stand this any longer!”

“Kyaaaah. “I’m dying.”

-No, what about the elementary school school festival?

When I saw the acting skills that were not only awkward but terrible, I got a headache.

‘Whew. ‘Yes, I expected this much.’

In the first place, I didn’t even expect that beginners who had never acted before would be able to act properly.

-Please don’t talk and just open your mouth.

Ojin used Capricorn’s stigmata to create a fake scream.

The scream, which was extremely awkward, turned into a desperate scream that felt like it was squeezing out one’s soul.

“Keuheuk!”

“Kuhuhuhuhuh!”

The awakened people begin to fall one by one, screaming.

The fishy blood gushing out of their wounds was so similar to the real thing that even magic beasts with sensitive senses could not distinguish it.

‘Because Isabella made it herself.’

For her, who had the leech stigmata, creating blood that resembled real blood was not a task.

One by one, the demonic beasts screamed in triumph as the blood smelled different from the fake blood made from animal blood.

Originally, this would have been the time to enjoy the winner’s rights by eating the corpses here.

-Rurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

A loud roar echoed throughout the city and clouds of dust rose.

While the special team was acting as a decoy, the main unit led by Alina successfully entered Rome.

“Crrrrrrr. Enemy… attack.”

“The intruder… he’s here again.”

The demon beasts, who were mumbling in slurred speech as if they had just woken up from a sleep endoscopy, turned their heads in the direction from which the roar was coming from.

“Intruders… will be killed.”

A group of demonic beasts rushed out in the direction from which the roar was heard.

The group of demonic beasts that had been guarding the entrance to the sanctuary like an iron bar disappeared in the blink of an eye.

All that remains in front of the entrance to the sanctuary are the corpses of the awakened people who served as bait and sacrificed themselves bravely.

no.

Exactly.

“You can stand up now.”

They were awakened people who were pretending to be dead.

“Whoa!”

“Is it done now, little brother?”

“Hey, what kind of blood is this? “Did you really use human blood?”

One by one, the awakened people shook off the sticky blood that stuck to their bodies and let out a single word.

“Anyway, I didn’t know that this strategy would really work.”

Syaoran swallowed a laugh as if it was absurd and looked around at the place where the group of demonic beasts had escaped.

To be honest, when I heard the instructions to pretend to be dead in front of the demon beast, I thought that the bastard had regressed and even his intelligence had regressed, but the ‘double bait’ operation was more successful than I imagined.

“Because their intelligence has degenerated.”

“You say it’s degenerated?”

“When under the ‘domination’ of a snake, even demonic beasts with some intelligence will have their intelligence degenerated to the level of an infant. “Like someone under hypnosis.”

“…How on earth do you know that?”

I only found out because there was someone with experience controlling a group of real demon beasts next to me.

“Didn’t I tell you I was a ‘regressor’?”

“Ah…”

Only then did Syaoran nod his head with a low exclamation.

The ‘real power’, including Allen and Rebecca Baekmugang, who were waiting inside the entrance, came out one by one.

“…It was really successful.”

“yes.”

Allen looked at the empty entrance and blinked in disbelief.

When the special lease unit was first created, there were two tasks given to them.

One is to act as a decoy so that the main force can easily enter Rome.

And the remaining one.

“Now let’s go catch the ‘snake.’”

Killing the Black Star constellation Mobius, who can be said to be the mastermind behind this incident.

For that purpose, it was necessary to turn the attention of the Demonic Beast Corps towards the main force.

‘But that makes it impossible to achieve our first goal, which is to act as bait.’

The assassination mission, which involved entering secretly and beheading the enemy leader, and the decoy mission, which required making as much noise as possible to draw the enemy’s attention, could not mix like water and oil.

Of course, it was possible to take on the role of bait at the expense of the main team.

‘Then the entrance to the sanctuary wouldn’t have been so empty.’

The reason the demonic beasts guarding the entrance to the sanctuary left was because they thought that all the awakened people who came out of the entrance were dead.

If it weren’t for that, no matter how low their intelligence was, all the troops guarding the entrance to the sanctuary would never have escaped.

‘No, if you think about it now, isn’t that true?’

Although I had heard about it from Cassia, the intelligence of the magical beasts under the control of the ‘snake’ was lower than I had imagined.

It feels like playing a game against a computer AI.

It felt like I couldn’t even think about doing anything other than what I had been instructed to do in advance.

“I said there was no need to use such complicated methods, right?”

Cassia, who came out of the entrance, touched the corpse of the demon beast lying on the floor with her foot and spoke in a low voice so that only Ojin could hear.

“The orders that can be given to a magical beast whose mind has been controlled by the stigmata of Ophiuchus are extremely limited. “These demonic beasts are probably only carrying out orders such as ‘Kill the intruder.’”

“It seems so.”

Well anyway.

More is more, so having too much is better than not having enough.

‘How has everything worked out so far?’

The problem is next.

We had to defeat ‘Mobius’ and rescue the people captured by him.

“We’re moving slowly.”

“Do you know the location of Moebius?”

“I have to start looking for it now.”

Of course, I had no intention of wandering around the city ignorantly looking for it.

“Please, Vega.”

[I understand!]

Vega appeared in a artificial body and flew into the air.

[We will also help.]

[Leave it to us to find Moebius!]

In addition to Vega, the constellations that appeared in artificial bodies, including Regulus Spica, Aldebaran, and Aris, all flew into the air.

Faint waves of light spread out from the bodies of the constellations, like stars rising in the night sky.

If Vega had been alone, he would have had a hard time finding Moebius’s presence, but the number of constellations gathered here was in the dozens.

It was no exaggeration to say that all the constellations that could manifest in artificial bodies had been gathered together.

When the constellations joined forces, it was easy to detect the presence of Mobius without being restricted by the ‘law’.

[It’s over there.]

Vega came down and sat on Ojin’s shoulder and pointed the direction with his hand.

“Let’s go.”

The special rental unit moved at high speed in the direction indicated by Vega.

Perhaps thanks to the main unit’s ability to attract aggro, we didn’t encounter any other groups of demon beasts on the way.

The place we arrived at was a square whose name I do not know.

“Please save me!”

“It’s here! here!”

“Hwaaaaaaa!”

In the center of the square, children who appeared to be less than 10 years old were tied up.

“Tsk…!”

Isabella, seeing the captured children, tried to approach them while chewing her lip.

“wait a minute.”

Seeing the children gathered in the center of the large square like that, there was a high possibility that it was a trap.

As I activated the stigmata of the constellation Canis and looked around, a pure white snake glided out from among the rubble of the collapsed building.

The snake soon changed its appearance into a human and leisurely sat down on the fountain in the center of the square.

“haha. “I didn’t know that the main unit was the bait.”

“…Moebius.”

Considering he didn’t know anything, he seemed quite relaxed.

“I was counting on you to come. ‘Star of the inverted sky.’”

Mobius stood up, placed his hand on his chest and bowed politely.

“Are you the constellation of Ophiuchus?”

Allen stepped forward, pulling a sword from his waist.

The stigmata of the Cygnus radiated light and a sharp murderous force spread along with white frost.

“Release the children immediately. Otherwise…”

“Yes, of course.”

“…what?”

Before Allen could finish speaking, Mobius released the ‘snake’ that was binding the children.

“uh…?”

“Can I go?”

The released children also looked around as if they could not believe what was going on.

Mobius smiled brightly as he looked at the children.

“Go quickly.”

“Uh…”

I hesitated for a moment.

The children who were caught in the square began to run towards Ojin and his group with watery eyes.

The number of children held captive was in the hundreds.

The quiet square was immediately engulfed in chaos as the children started running at once, just like the front gate of an elementary school after vacation.

“Dangerous!”

“It must be his trap! Everyone, stay away from the kids!”

Some awakened people decided that it made no sense to release the children so easily and pointed their weapons at the approaching children.

“Hi!”

“We didn’t do anything!”

The children who were running trembled and stopped.

Moebius smiled as he looked at the awakened people who had drawn out their weapons.

“It’s not a trap or anything, so you can rest assured.”

“….”

Even if it wasn’t a trap, how can we be at ease since the person who said that was the one who captured the children?

The awakened people looked at each other without raising their weapons aimed at the children.

“I’ll go and check.”

The one who broke the silence was Rebecca, the awakened star of Gemini.

Rebecca stepped forward and chanted lightly.

Her stigmata glowed green, and clones that looked exactly like Rebecca were created.

Rebecca’s clones approached each child who stopped and examined them.

“…I don’t think they did anything.”

Rebecca, who had carefully inspected the children, frowned as if she could not understand.

How could they so obediently release the hostages they had captured?

To begin with, you might think that he was showing mercy, but the person who massacred hundreds of thousands of people living in Rome overnight was Mobius.

“Huh….”

“You are the Awakened, right? “Please save my dad!”

“Home… I want to go home.”

The children hugging Rebecca’s alter ego began to shed tears.

It would be natural for him to burst into tears as he would have lost his home and parents overnight and been held in an unknown place for more than a week.

“Are you okay? You were very scared, right? “Have you done anything bad?”

Rebecca’s clones hugged each child and asked in a kind voice.

“Oh no.”

“I didn’t do anything bad.”

“I ate delicious food at the bar.”

The children who were released seemed to be in very good condition, whether they had been starved or abused.

“….”

Ojin narrowed his eyes and turned his head towards Moebius.

“…What are you thinking?”

“What are you thinking?”

“Why did you release the children?”

No matter how hard I try to think of a reason.

There was no benefit for Moebius to gain by releasing the hostages so easily.

“ha ha ha. “You don’t have to take it so seriously.”

Moebius shook his head with a gentle smile.

“Well, they’re children, right? Pure and unspoiled. “You can’t hurt kids like that.”

His gaze passed through Ojin and towards the constellations.

“You all think so too, right?”

[Hmm.]

Vega frowned and crossed her arms.

Of course, releasing the children could not absolve him of what he had done.

[It looks like at least some conscience remains.]

“It’s more of a duty than a conscience.”

[…Duty?]

“Isn’t it the duty of the Constellation to protect the balance of the world and protect the precious soil where the stigmata will sprout… that is, humans?” [A person who knows so well could commit such a terrible act?]

Vega glared at Moebius as if scolding him.

“Haha, of course.”

Mobius bursts out laughing as if it were someone else’s business.

“Then, are those Constellations keeping their duties well?”

[Of course. If I had forgotten my duty, so many constellations would not have appeared here.]

“Haha. Yes, yes. But…”

The vertically slit pupils of the green eyes staring at the constellations were shiny.

“Then why did you do that then?”

A terrifying deadly force encroached on the surroundings as if exploding.