Damned 13th Regression – 237



<Regression number 13 is damn right, episode 237>

These are difficult times for everyone. Hunters and humanity.

I don’t know about them but even Joo Gong-hyeok.

However Kane felt that his life was now unbearably painful.

He got up like a corpse walked to the tent and collapsed.

At dusk the Texas sun set over the horizon.

In the setting sun of the wasteland the sad shadows of orange saplings stretched long.

‘There’s nothing.’

Farming was ruined.

I was now completely penniless.

There is no money to eat wear clothes or build a house.

In fact farming had little meaning.

Just planting a few orange trees won’t change anything.

I can’t sell it.

The million-pyeong Hunter Farm is overwhelming both in terms of quality and price.

I just needed something to hold onto.

Kane’s eyes turned red.

“Chief Shimada what you said is correct.”

It’s hard it’s so hard.

There is nothing Kane can do here.

He is a member of the 3000-strong group that challenged the 88th floor with Joo Gong-hyeok and defeated the demon king Bel Marduk…

‘I can’t get a single part-time job here.’

The hunters that Joo Gong-hyeok introduced into modern society are employed somewhere and are living well.

The first year was 4000 people the next was 10000 people.

With the money they earned the hunter agency paid ‘return compensation’ to hunters including Kane.

The remaining 690000 people could not find any jobs.

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The handsome Joo Gong-hyeok said it was to prevent social collapse and inflation.

Hunters with battle avatars or hero avatars had nothing to do.

If I don’t have much to do I’ll go out and become a space miner.

Even that was only possible for those who were allowed to do it and it was not something Kane who had no background could do.

“Black….”

The man who was denied the rain and had no money or anything shed tears in his tent in the wilderness.

“Fuck… why the fuck am I like this…”

He was shining at Babel.

He was the company’s proud Titan pilot and he clearly shined in the life-threatening fight to protect humanity.

He believed that a better future would come as he protected his comrades and people in the fierce battlefield.

Day by day I waited for the dream-like day to return to Earth.

And of the 20 million hunters summoned to Babel only 700000 returned.

All the rest died.

In the hands of monsters in the hands of demons in the hands of beastmen.

and.

In the hands of the same Hunter.

“Ahh… ahhh!”

Kane cried loudly in the tent.

Survival rate 3.5%. Even this was a miracle.

Babel was a terrible place.

But the Earth he returned to was also terrible for him.

“I miss mom. mom….”

My father and brother were killed by monsters in the dungeon.

His mother went missing after he was taken to Babel.

It’s been 19 years since he went to Babel.

19 years ago the world was not this peaceful.

There were small nuclear skirmishes and numerous civil wars broke out.

People carried guns as usual and hunter-turned mafia roamed the city and battlefields.

My mother who hid somewhere in an abandoned building to avoid such danger would have rotted and crumbled on the spot.

How much must the mother have been shivering in the cold corner of the abandoned building as her only blood relative her son had disappeared and no one cared for her and she had run out of food.

“Mom… Mom… I’m sorry… I… came back late…”

What kind of despair did the mother die in when her son who was supposed to return did not return?

Did he curse his son who abandoned him or did he forgive him thinking it was the world’s fault?

I wanted to know that so I looked for traces of my mother.

We searched thousands of abandoned buildings and searched for people but all was in vain.

Kane returned to his fief penniless.

He will never know in what despair his mother died.

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“mom….”

cold.

Hunters cannot feel the cold as the weather is only a few degrees below zero.

But I felt colder and more lonely than ever.

* * *

Kane hasn’t eaten anything since that day.

I spent my days watching the sunset without lifting a finger.

Not a single seed sprouted in the barren unmanaged field.

“Are you lying down and sleeping again?”

“Aren’t you dead?”

It’s been two months since he came here.

The only people who came to Kane’s fief were children.

The approaching presence was clear even from 100 meters away.

Hunter’s senses kept track of what the humans in the area were doing.

The children are creeping up.

Nervous breathing. A stone in your hand. The child’s muscles flexed and contracted flexibly.

thud!

A rock fell on the tent.

“Hey! You beggar! Look here!”

Children threw sand and threw stones one after another.

It’s like throwing stones at the wild beast within us.

It was a test of courage for someone his age and a slap in the face for a child.

It must have been more thrilling because they were beasts that could kill them in an instant if they wanted to.

But the beast inside us did not respond.

Even if you threw stones and cursed at it to make it angry the beast lay quietly.

The children increasingly thought of wild beasts easily.

Even though it was an extremely dangerous act to set off fireworks in a powder keg my senses were paralyzed when not a single explosion occurred.

Sigh!

An angular stone stuck in Kane’s temple.

“and! “You got it right!”

“One more time! “One more time!”

I heard something snapping in my head.

I knew it.

What kind of trajectory will the stone fall after leaving the child’s hand?

Even though I knew it.

For some reason I couldn’t stand it today.

Palak-

He closed the tent entrance with a hole in it.

I saw surprised children holding stones.

A haze close to murderous intent flowed from Kane’s wide eyes.

“Get off my land. “You rats.”

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

The children quickly ran away.

One guy sat down and urinated and one guy coughed as if he was choking and crawled on all fours.

Kane closed the tent entrance again.

“You bastards that make you urinate just by looking at their eyes.”

Seeing the kids running away in fear felt cool for a moment but then I got annoyed.

‘Damn it the sheriff bastard is coming for me again.’

The kids were like ‘Ugh! Mom the beggar outside the village said he was going to kill me!’ It was obvious that if it was over-exaggerated the sheriff would come at once and cause an uproar.

‘Either it or not.’

I don’t care what the sheriff says when he comes.

I didn’t want to worry about all that stuff.

“Just leave me alone….”

Argh!

A child’s shriek was heard.

The sound of a cliff rolling and even the crunching sound of a child’s soft bones breaking.

Paang!

My body was faster than I thought.

The tent flew away and Kane caught the falling child’s body.

‘this….’

The child’s neck was clearly bent at a right angle as if he had hit his head on a rock while falling.

Nosebleeds were flowing from the nose and the 3rd 4th and 5th cervical vertebrae were completely shattered making it impossible to breathe.

The child’s heart was beating frantically due to rapid bleeding and excitement.

“Damn it!”

Kane took urgent action.

He stopped the bleeding and adjusted the cervical spine with the skill of a doctor secured the airway and forcibly maintained the child’s breathing.

However Kane was helpless as he had no way to replenish the lost blood or treatment skills to prevent cerebral hemorrhage.

The child’s heart slowly stopped.

Sheriff Billy’s uniform was visible in the distance.

He came running when he heard a child crying from the stranger’s residence.

“Hey you. “What did you do?”

The closer he got the colder the sheriff’s face became.

The child’s heart completely stopped.

Kane was holding the child who was now a corpse.

The urinating child ran to the sheriff.

“Ugh! Uncle Billy! That beggar! Shouting that the beggar is going to kill us! “Terry Terry was running away and fell down there….”

Sheriff Billy glared at Kane with anger.

“Is it true?”

“under.”

Kane let out a laugh.

I didn’t mean to do this.

Who would have thought that if I swore at a kid throwing stones he would get startled by his own grass run towards me slip off a cliff and die.

‘Even that damn bastard Joo Gong-hyeok can’t predict something like this.’

Pow!

The sheriff’s bat hit Kane on the head.

Billy asked through gritted teeth.

“I asked if it was true. “You fucking murderous bastard.”

Kane turned his head and glanced at the sheriff.

“Fuck.”

“what? “What did you say just now?”

puck! puck! Poop—!

“What did you say! “Tell me again!”

The bat repeatedly hit Kane’s head.

Blood splattered from my temples and around my eyes.

“Tell me the killer bird….”

Kwasik!

“Sipaaaaaaaaaaal!!!”

The floor caved in around Kane.

The bat bounced and the sheriff’s fingers were bent in the opposite direction.

It was the activation of the passive skill “Fortress of the Punishment Knight (S)”.

“Fuck! “Look at me and say what should I do? Ohhhhh——!!!”

Kane cried.

A strong current swirled around him.

“I just came back! There is no mother! The manager is dead! The world sucks! “Why are you being so shitty——!”

“Aaaah!”

The children ran away without even looking back.

Sheriff Billy was sweating and clutching his sore fingers.

“This bastard has turned! I still think it’s a barbell! Shall I do it like a barbell? “If you had my temper during Babel you would have been chased as soon as you came to town!”

“….”

“Are you scared? Anyway the company bastards only reveal money and do nothing properly…

“you.”

Kane pointed his finger at the sheriff.

Blood-stained eyes looked directly at Billy.

“you. “Where are you from?”

“It’s De Deus!”

“Deus which unit?”

“The frontline assault force led by Ben-Hur…”

“Don’t begrudge me. “You bastard.”

Kane stood up and carefully checked Billy’s face.

“Don’t you know? “All but three of them are dead.”

“What?”

“I searched everything.”

Kane grabbed his collar and shouted angrily.

“Everything was lost due to the runaway photon power source of the Gishin tribe! The two that survived were on my side. Do you know what their faces looked like back then? Do you know what his expression was like?”

“….”

“Do you know what it was like—!!”

Billy looked to the side unable to make eye contact.

Kane’s red eyes twinkled.

“Whether this is Babel or not people like you are not the kind to impersonate.”

“No I…”

“Don’t say it. I can clearly see your abilities. You don’t know my abilities right? But I can see well. “You are much weaker than me.”

Billy was not a Class A hunter but a Class B.

A citizen who has never actually fought on the front line.

He was a half-dead hunter who had never been above the 20th floor.

“If you had a good temper at Babel you would have gone right back? “Fuck the campaign because this guy who I wouldn’t have made eye contact with if I met him at Babel is wearing a sheriff’s armband.”

“….”

“If this was the Babel you mentioned I would have grabbed him by all means dragged him to the bathroom when no one was there cut him into pieces and killed him. “You know that right?”

The sheriff swallowed.

It reminded me of the barbaric law where power rules.

Billy realized how foolish he had become.

“Please forgive me…”

“ha ha ha!”

Kane let go of his collar and laughed heartily.

“no. no. This is not it. This is Earth not Babel right? you are right That’s what sheriffs do. The kid heard me yelling and ran away and died right? Moreover he insulted you the sheriff by calling you ‘fuck’. “Giggle.”

Kane held one side of his face and laughed.

“But I don’t know. There’s something so unbearable about it. What the fuck should I do? “What am I supposed to do in this fucked up world?”

“….”

“FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!”

Kane who had been swearing repeatedly cried out to the sky.

Crumbling—!

Lightning struck from the sky.

His new brother disappeared out of sight.

Billy looked to the east where raindrops and shock waves were exploding with a mesmerized look on his face.

The red blood from the child’s body flowed through the rainwater to Kane’s field.

* * *

I could see the sandy beach and the sea.

Kane who had covered 900 km at supersonic speed was out of breath on the southern coast of Texas.

“Huh huh….”

He sat on the guardrail of the coastal road and watched the crashing waves.

Somehow my mind calmed down a little.

Rather than being physically exhausted my mind was completely exhausted.

Kane looked at the white crashing waves with a blank face.

Squeak—

Someone sat next to him.

“Hey.”

Kane’s gaze turned to the side.

There was a middle-aged man with his dress shirt and tie undone like an office worker coming home from work.

This was a man whom Kane knew well.

“Manager Jeong Hyeon-do.”

“It’s been a while. hey.”

Kane looked at the sea again.

And then he quietly opened his mouth.

“Me. “Have you come to kill me?”

“….”

Head of the Solver Division of Goyu City Company.

At the same time Special Task Force 0 and Unit Leader Jeong Hyeon-do.

He was a key executive and high-ranking executive of the Hunter Agency.

“No dude.”

Click!

Jeong Hyeon-do took the lid off the beer can he took out of the bag.

He asked while drinking the rising bubbles.

“It’s a barbell thing. Do you want to drink too? “You don’t take anything from the Earth.”

“….”

Kane said nothing and looked beyond the horizon.

Jeong Hyeon-do also quietly passed the beer.

As the sun set and the stars rose Kane slowly opened his mouth.

“Chief. “Do you remember when we all took a picture together after killing the demon lord?”

“then. “I remember.”

Kane took out an old photo from his arms.

It was a photo of everyone in the company with their arms around each other and smiling brightly.

Jeong Hyeon-do who saw the photo burst into laughter.

“Wow it reminds me of the old days. “Everyone said it was a miracle because no one from our 0 department died at this time.”

“So?”

Kane asked in an exasperated voice.

“So where is everyone now?”

“….”

“There’s no one anymore.”

Jeong Hyeon-do kept his mouth shut.

Kane stroked the photo.

“How did it get twisted? Many of my friends died on Earth. When we came down we all waved and said we would meet again. “I walked one step and looked back and there was no one there.”

“There is no one. There’s that guy Shimada. Would you like to go see it now? “I’ll have a drink.”

“Didn’t you know? Dead. “Three months ago.”

“….”

slam-

Waves hit the breakwater below the guardrail.