Not A Regressor - Chapter 77

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 77
The Genius Awakened User’s Stream (6)
-So cute lololol sparkling lololol
-Username Legeno lololololololol
-Looking at that reaction, isn’t that username like your older sister’s?
-Lmao this is hilarious
A username so shockingly embarrassing was laid bare before hundreds of thousands of viewers.
“…Sister.”
Kwon O-jin looked up at the username that had confidently appeared at the top of the voting board and spoke softly.
“That’s not me.”
Then whose is it?
“Look, it’s just not mine!!! If I say it’s not mine, then it’s not, you bastard!!!”
Ha-eun cried out, her eyes glistening as if tears might spill at any moment.
She was clearly mortified.
‘Well, of course.’
If such a username had been exposed before hundreds of thousands of people, anyone would be embarrassed.
“Aah.”
Watching her tremble pitifully with tears welling in her eyes.
‘━This is hilarious!’
A surge of exhilaration welled up inside me.
I smirked and approached her.
“Smooch?”
“Eek!”
Ha-eun flinched and trembled.
“So you wanted to smooch that badly?”
“N-no, I-I didn’t say that. W-what are you talking about, this sister doesn’t understand?”
“Really~? I understand perfectly well.”
“S-shut up!!!”
Why is my sister’s reaction so adorable?
“Hmm, lizard woman. Did the stigma perhaps consume your consciousness?”
That’s when Riak approached her with a deadly serious expression.
But suddenly asking if the stigma consumed her?
What was he trying to say?
“…What?”
“Doesn’t that mean you’ve developed a desire to lick another human and swallow them whole?”
“….”
“If so, that’s quite a serious condition. You are an Awakened User of the Dragon constellation. If the stigma consumes your consciousness, your instincts will also follow that constellation’s….”
Riak continued his advice with an utterly serious expression.
With each word he spoke, Ha-eun’s cheeks flushed as red as apples.
“Shut up.”
“No! I’m seriously worrying about you, and that’s what you call being rude?”
“Shut up.”
“Hmph! Though our time together has been brief, I, Riak, cannot simply overlook a comrade’s crisis as a warrior….”
“Please… just please shut up….”
Ugh.
Ha-eun crouched on the floor, burying her face between her knees.
She covered her ears, unable to endure any more humiliation.
“Uh, yeah.”
Even Kwon O-jin, one of the parties involved, looked at Riak with reproachful eyes.
“You messed up here, buddy.”
“What did I even do?”
“Not knowing makes it worse.”
The more seriously these things were handled, the more unbearable they became.
-LMAOOOOO humiliation content LMAOOO
-Wow she’s already taken LMAO
-Must be Noe-rang’s girlfriend?
-So jealous fr fr
Why am I the only one left out, even losing my girlfriend to Polaris’s scars…
-SHOOT HER!! SHOOT!!! SHE’S THE ENEMY!!
-Stab her to death!!
The viewers who saw Ha-eun’s username assumed she was Kwon O-jin’s girlfriend.
The chat began overflowing with conversations about Kwon O-jin and Ha-eun, to the point where it no longer felt like Jerry Kim’s broadcast.
‘It’s actually fun watching the reactions in real time like this.’
Kwon O-jin chuckled as he read the rapidly scrolling messages, barely keeping up with his eyes.
He hadn’t considered doing his own broadcast.
But appearing as a guest like this didn’t seem so bad.
‘Still, I should probably wrap this up soon.’
I’d already achieved everything I set out to do.
Or rather, I’d gained more than I’d aimed for.
‘I cleanly proved the five-star rating.’
Over a thousand constellation stones and massive betting money on top of that.
Honestly, I’d earned more from this single broadcast than most people would from winning the lottery jackpot.
‘I should pay back some of the debt I owe Manager Han.’
I’d received a lot of help from him over the years, so I wanted to repay that kindness.
“Well, since the bet is over, let’s end the broadcast here.”
“Ah.”
Jerry Kim, lost in disappointment, let out a regretful exclamation.
Though he’d lost quite a bit to Kwon O-jin, he’d still achieved record-breaking viewership numbers because of him, so he wanted to keep him around a little longer.
“Please don’t do that. Just a bit more….”
He tried to stop Kwon O-jin as he gathered his things to leave.
“SCREEEEEEECH!!!!”
“SHRIEEEEEEK!!!”
“SCREECH!!!”
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud.
The tunnel trembled as a horde of Neglish creatures came thundering from the far end.
“H-how many of these damn things are there?”
Jerry Kim’s jaw dropped.
The swarm of Neglish pouring through the tunnel easily numbered over thirty.
“…We’ll need to deal with them first before we can leave.”
Recognizing the dire situation, Kwon O-jin swiftly raised his spear.
[My child. Do you require my blessing?]
“No. That won’t be necessary. Just provide support.”
[Hrmph! Trust in me!]
Vega, sensing the gravity of the situation, darted through the air with a whoosh and conjured lightning bolts.
‘First, the vanguard.’
I swept my spear in a wide arc toward the fastest-approaching creature.
“SCREEEECH!!!”
The leading Neglish shrieked and tumbled across the ground.
[Kneel!]
Crackle-crackle-crackle!!
Vega’s lightning bolts ensnared the legs of two creatures following behind.
With the vanguard collapsed, the pursuing Neglish tangled with one another and rolled across the floor.
“Hgh!”
There was no time to savor the victory.
The Neglish numbered well over thirty.
I had to defend against the relentless barrage of attacks pouring in.
‘Here it comes.’
One creature leaped over the tangled mass and charged toward me.
Its violent musculature rippled menacingly—
“SCREEEECH!!!”
It rushed past me and continued onward.
“Huh?”
It wasn’t heading toward Jerry Kim and Ha-eun, who were providing support from behind.
The Neglish were charging frantically toward the tunnel entrance.
“Wait, what?”
Jerry Kim looked equally bewildered, turning his head in confusion.
“Something’s off.”
“Yeah.”
Their behavior had seemed strange from the moment we first encountered them.
“They weren’t trying to attack us.”
━I had been running away.
From something whose identity remained unknown.
-KUUUUUUUNG!!!
The entire Tunnel trembled.
As if something absurdly massive were thrashing about.
A deafening roar echoed from deep within the Tunnel.
-KUNG!! KRRRGH!!
“O-O-jin! The, the wall!”
The impact from moments before had caused the wall leading toward the Tunnel entrance to collapse in a thunderous cascade.
“It’s fine! There’s a gap over there!”
Ha-eun, who had removed her blindfold to examine the collapsed passage, cried out.
True to her words, there was indeed a gap just large enough for a single person to squeeze through.
“Whatever it is, we need to escape through there quickly, Kwon O-jin!”
Jerry Kim spun around urgently toward me.
“Wait a moment.”
“What are you doing at a time like this?!”
“Someone’s coming.”
“What?”
From the direction where the Neglish creatures had been charging, people now began rushing forward in a torrent.
Roughly twenty of them.
They appeared to be an Awakened User party that had ventured deep into the Tunnel to hunt.
“KYAAAAAAAH!”
“S-save us!”
“Why, why is such a monster inside the Gate?!”
They charged toward the entrance with faces drained of all color.
“The, the entrance is blocked!!”
“Damn it!! F-find another entrance! Search for another way out!!”
The Bearded Man turned his head frantically, his expression frantic.
“W-what’s inside there?”
“Huh?”
When Jerry Kim approached and asked, the man’s face twisted into a scowl.
“Damn! You think we’d know?”
He continued irritably.
“A-a Hydra! It’s a Hydra inside!”
The answer came from elsewhere.
It was a woman who had been screaming as if her eardrums would burst.
“…A Hydra, you say?”
Ha-eun’s expression twisted harshly.
A Hydra.
A formidable creature classified as a ‘boss’ even among Seven-Star Monsters.
The mere appearance of such a creature in a Gate dominated by five-star monsters was nothing short of catastrophic.
“Here! There’s an opening here!”
Someone had discovered the crevice that Ha-eun had found, and they cried out with jubilant fervor.
“What?”
“Hurry, hurry! We need to move now!”
The Awakened Users surged toward the opening like a tide.
But the passage was so cramped that barely one person could squeeze through at a time.
With over twenty people rushing at it like starving demons, no one could possibly get through.
—Boom! Crash!!
As the chaos continued unabated.
The tunnel trembled violently, and a colossal monster emerged from the far end.
“H-help!!”
“Hydra!! It’s the Hydra!!!”
Rumble! Boom!
The Hydra tore through the tunnel walls and revealed itself in full.
An overwhelming mass nearly twenty meters in length.
Green scales enveloped its entire body, and nine heads writhed with menacing intent.
The oppressive aura it radiated was on an entirely different level from those steroid-enhanced fish-men.
‘Why is the Hydra here?’
Kwon O-jin furrowed his brow as he gazed up at the creature.
It was common enough for elite or boss-class monsters to appear in Gates, but this was different.
‘The Hydra has no connection to the fish-men whatsoever.’
Elite Neglish or Neglish Kings—if those had appeared, I could accept it.
But the Hydra’s emergence was far too unexpected, too out of place.
‘The Hydra isn’t even a marine creature, for that matter.’
Why on earth would a Hydra crawl out of a Gate inhabited by fish-men?
“O-jin! What are you doing!”
Ha-eun’s cry snapped me from my thoughts.
She was right.
This was no time to leisurely ponder why the Hydra had emerged here.
“Ahhhhh!”
“Don’t push!!”
“Get inside, now!!”
I glanced back at the entrance, now a scene of pure pandemonium.
“Escape is no longer an option.”
No.
Even if escape were possible, I had no intention of fleeing.
‘Boss-class monsters drop the highest-quality star stones, or so I’ve heard.’
And since this monster appeared within the Gate, there was a chance it carried not one, but two star stones.
‘I cannot afford to miss this opportunity.’
A grin spread across my face.
Kwon O-jin’s lips curved upward brightly.
Thump, thump.
My heart pounded as an electric thrill raced down my spine, tingling with exhilaration.
“O-jin… you’re thinking of fighting?”
“How could I pass up an opportunity like this?”
“Sigh. I swear, I can’t handle you.”
Despite her exasperated sigh, Ha-eun was already loosening up her body with practiced ease.
“Fine, whatever. Let’s give this a shot. Running from some nine-headed idiot doesn’t sit right with me anyway.”
Ha-eun grinned wickedly as flames erupted around her.
‘This sister of mine… she acts all worried about me, but she loves fighting.’
Then again.
If she’d feared combat, she never would have reached 7-Star rank.
It’s wise to flee when facing an opponent you can’t handle, but when the enemy is manageable, there’s no reason to retreat.
‘And Hydra isn’t an opponent I can’t handle.’
If someone else heard this, they’d question what nonsense a 5-Star was spouting about facing a boss-class monster on par with 7-Star creatures.
But I’d already proven countless times that it wasn’t nonsense.
‘However.’
I narrowed my eyes slightly.
Even against a manageable opponent, I couldn’t afford to be careless.
Especially not in a Gate where the bizarre phenomenon of doubled core stones was occurring.
‘I wish I had some bait to test things out with.’
There’s nothing quite like a sacrificial pawn to gauge danger.
Lost in such thoughts,
“P-please, everyone calm down!! At this rate, no one will escape!!”
Jerry Kim’s urgent voice rang out toward the crowd.
“Huh? That person… I feel like I’ve seen them before?”
“Isn’t that Jerry Kim?”
“That streamer?”
The eyes of those scrambling through the narrow entrance fixed on Jerry Kim.
A bearded man strode toward Jerry Kim with heavy steps.
“You! You’re that famous streamer, aren’t you?”
“Ah, yes. W-well, yes, I am.”
“Then go buy us some time!”
“What?”
Jerry Kim asked back, bewildered.
He was busy escaping himself, and now they wanted him to stall?
“You’re an Archer, right!! You’re the strongest here, so hurry up and buy us time!!”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
“Nonsense? Did you just call that nonsense?”
The man’s expression twisted into something ugly and menacing.
His gaze fixed on the orb hovering behind Jerry Kim.
“Everyone! This streamer here doesn’t give a damn about anyone else’s lives!!”
“When did I ever…!”
“You all heard it, right? He’s being a coward, trying to save only himself, telling us to get lost and not block the entrance!”
The man bellowed with a ringing voice and shoved Jerry Kim’s shoulder.
“You bastard….”
Jerry Kim froze mid-curse, unable to continue.
If the broadcast were off, it would be different.
With tens of thousands of viewers watching, he couldn’t curse him out and start a fight.
“Shouldn’t a public figure like you take care of others? Huh? Did I say something wrong?”
“Tch.”
The man, fully aware of Jerry Kim’s predicament, relentlessly pressed on the point of being a “public figure.”
“Wait, isn’t that Noe-rang over there?”
“Noe-rang came here too?”
As the quarrel continued, attention shifted to Kwon O-jin as well.
“What? Noe-rang—isn’t he the one the Association’s been pushing hard lately?”
The man’s eyes gleamed as if he’d found excellent prey.
“We’ve got two famous people gathered here!! Oh my! Please, I beg you, save these pathetic, worthless worms!”
He shoved Kwon O-jin and Jerry Kim toward the Hydra while shouting.
“That’s right!!”
“Please help us!!”
“You’re famous, aren’t you!!”
Others joined in, beginning to shout as well.
“Ha.”
A hollow laugh escaped from Kwon O-jin’s lips.
He couldn’t understand what fame had to do with helping anyone.
But it was true—the masses wielded a particularly sharp moral standard against so-called “public figures.”
You’re famous, so you must sacrifice.
You’re famous, so you must be exemplary.
I’m allowed.
But you’re not.
“You’re full of it, you bastard.”
Kwon O-jin turned to face the man, a smirk playing at the corner of his mouth.
“You’re the one I’ve chosen.”
“…What?”
He whispered in a voice only the man could hear, then flicked his finger lightly so the camera wouldn’t catch it.
—Crackle, crackle, crackle!
A faint thread of lightning, barely visible to the eye, crawled up the man’s ankle and burrowed deep beneath his pants.
And then.
“What are you talking about━ Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!”
The man’s eyes widened as a blood-curdling scream tore from his throat.
“Krrrrrrgh?”
Nine pairs of eyes turned toward the man.

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