This Regressor Does it for Free – Chapter 28

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Simzy
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Huruuku was hungry. He hadn’t had a proper meal recently because he was in the middle of turning all the humans into ghouls.

“Buh-heeik…I’m hungry.”

“Huruuku, you really need to stop stuffing your face so much.”

Nasen shook his head. He was amazed at his own lack of luck, wondering how he’d ended up with a partner like that.

Still, Huruuku followed his orders well, and the plan was progressing smoothly.

Nasen had gathered as many ghouls as possible from the nearby villages. In his heart, he wanted to wipe out a whole village, but that would be too conspicuous.

Then the blonde-haired one might notice he was coming and prepare for it. So he’d been going around the villages little by little, gathering ghouls bit by bit.

“Now, failure is really unforgivable. There’s a limit to how much we can lie to the higher-ups.”

“Buh-heeik. I know. But…those women are too strong.”

“Huruuku, if we fail this time, the higher-ups might send him.”

“Him?”

“Don’t you remember the Lion-Head?”

Huruuku’s face turned pale. The Lion-Head was dangerous. Huruuku had thoughtlessly challenged him once and had almost been eaten by him.

That guy was one of the organization’s high-ranking executives, famous for cruelly eating troublesome members.

Huruuku and Nasen were also aiming to become high-ranking members, so they couldn’t afford to cross him.

“I hate that guy. He’s scary! I’d rather run away than meet him again! Buh-heeik!”

“There’s no way you can run away. That’s why we have to succeed this time. No matter what.”

“Lion-Head is scary! Scary! I want to run away!”

“Calm down and listen to me!”

Huruuku finally seemed to have shaken off his fear and became quiet.

“If we succeed with this, the higher-ups won’t bother sending the Lion-Head. There are thousands of people in the castle. And we can’t miss that Victoria woman either. She’s supposed to be a great offering.”

“…I’m hungry. Buh-heeik. Come to think of it, we haven’t retrieved the White Witch’s Seal Orb either. At this rate, we’ll really get killed.”

“Yeah. So, you really need to do well, alright? If you just do as I say this time, everything will go well.”

“Okay! Huruuku is good at doing what he’s told.”

“Huuu.”

Nasen sighed. Huruuku was drooling as he looked at the ghouls.

“I’ll go scout the castle. When I give the signal, you charge with the ghouls. Got it? Huruuku.”

“Got it.”

With that, Nasen started moving towards the castle. When Huruuku looked like a small dot, Huruuku shouted urgently.

“Ghouls! Can I eat just one! Nasen!”

“Absolutely not! Don’t eat a single one!”

“Buh-heeik…”

Nasen started running towards the castle, trying to calm his stomach.

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Finally, the highlight of the event was beginning. The captain of the guard and Kerry.

Those two stood in the center of the training grounds.

Cheers erupted from the crowd.

“Whoa! Captain of the Guard! Live up to your size! I bet my entire fortune on you!”

“That foreigner is quite a size too, though?”

“Handsome foreigner, fighting!”

The men’s faces soured at the women’s cheers. Petty bastards.

The announcer started acting as the referee. It really felt like a proper match.

“Both fighters, salute each other.”

Kerry knew about salutes. It was a salute where you raised your sword in front of your body and then lowered it.

How did this thing become so big? Before I knew it, I was here.

Well, no matter. I had the results of special training. Now I didn’t even feel like I’d be outmatched by the captain of the guard.

“Husband, do your best! You can do it!”

Natasha’s bright voice rang out. I turned my head and saw Lina, Natasha, and the old woman cheering me on from within the crowd.

The male spectators glared even harder at Natasha’s cheers. If you’re jealous, you lose, you guys.

“Hmph. Judging by how you’re running around with women, I can already see what your skills are like.”

The captain of the guard was taunting me. We’d been exchanging barbs before we came up here, so it was nothing new.

“Just looking at your pretty face, it’s clear that you’re only playing at being an adventurer.”

He said that and proudly stroked the scar on his face. The way he was posing so awkwardly was pathetic.

‘Is that his attempt at trash talk?’

The conversation on the training grounds was drowned out by the crowd. He was using that to try and taunt me.

‘Tsk tsk. How pathetic.’

Growing up in a country where people ask about your parents’ well-being over a minor game, I was practically immune to that kind of trash talk.

“Hey. Why are you getting so worked up over women?”

“…”

The captain of the guard’s expression began to turn nasty.

“Oh, are you upset because you can’t even hold a woman’s hand? If your mother knew her son couldn’t hold a woman’s hand, she’d be so sad, right? Or, wait, I should ask first whether you even have a mother?”

“Wh-what? You little bastard, are you talking about my mother right now?”

The captain of the guard got so worked up that he was about to come at me, but the announcer stopped him.

The announcer had been talking to Victoria for a bit, so he hadn’t heard our conversation.

“Calm down. You can do that once the duel starts.”

The captain of the guard kept fuming even with the referee’s restraint. How pathetic, not even immune to mother jokes, but still trying to win against me with trash talk. It was a foolish choice.

As I took my position, the crowd cheered for us to start. And then, a whistle cut through the noise.

The duel had started.

It was a duel with wooden swords, but when a guy the size of the captain of the guard was holding it, it looked like a fearsome weapon.

The captain of the guard seemed to have been really annoyed by my comments about his mother, so he charged as soon as the whistle went off.

“You son of a bitch!”

Whoosh!

The wooden sword narrowly passed by Kerry. But it wasn’t difficult to dodge just because it narrowly passed by.

Rather, his attack was so straight forward that it was easy to dodge. The less you move, the easier it is to do the next attack.

‘He’s more worked up than I expected.’

The captain of the guard didn’t seem to have a good personality to begin with, but now he looked like an enraged boar.

All I did was ask about his mother, but it had more effect than some kind of powerful provocation skill.

Whoosh!

The wooden sword passed Kerry again. I’d been so nervous because he was the captain of the guard. What was this?

I thought he was a heavy cart, but he was a noisy empty one.

‘Compared to Lina… He’s a total beginner.’

Maybe he looked more like that because he was so worked up. Anyway, Kerry was leisurely dodging the captain of the guard’s wooden sword.

Lina nodded as she watched. The special training had paid off. If it was Kerry before the training, he would have been in trouble with the captain of the guard’s reckless charge.

“Running away like a little girl! Now that it’s finally starting, are you finally scared?”

“Dude, your lines are so third-rate.”

There was a reason why Kerry was just dodging all the time.

Although his attacks were straightforward, the destructive power of the wooden sword coming from his huge body was real. It was a duel, but he was just swinging his sword around like a brute.

‘It’s not easy to slip in like Lina.’

Although the captain of the guard was swinging his sword around like a brute, getting in between the gaps was difficult for me, who had only been learning swordsmanship for a couple of weeks.

‘But I can do it.’

It was all thanks to the captain of the guard getting worked up. His physique was better than mine. He also seemed to have quite a bit of real-world experience. He wasn’t hesitating to strike at people. In fact, he was filled with malice.

‘This is perfect for testing the technique I learned from Lina.’

I had to give him a taste of his own medicine for only relying on brute strength.

Lina called the technique she taught me a cheap trick, but I didn’t think of it like that.

For me, who knew nothing about swordsmanship, it was a cool and powerful swordsmanship technique from another world. So, I even gave it a name.

Its name was…

Lina-Style One Sword!

‘I’ll show you the spicy taste of my high-priced private lessons with a regressor!’

Kerry, who had just been dodging, suddenly charged at him. The captain of the guard, who had been chasing him, was startled by the force.

But that was it.

‘What’s he going to do by charging at me! A pretty boy like him!’

The captain of the guard was confident in his strength. Kerry was big too, but not as big as him.

The captain of the guard intended to crush Kerry who was coming at him with his wooden sword.

The two wooden swords clashed. The sound that rang out was so dangerous that it made you wonder if it was a real fight.

The crowd gasped.

But Kerry didn’t waver at all. He received the captain of the guard’s powerful strike, and diverted it.

‘Huh? What? Suddenly the wooden sword…’

Kerry started imitating the technique Lina had shown him. It was as if Lina was showing in Kerry.

When the captain of the guard came to his senses, Kerry’s wooden sword was pointing at his neck.

The duel was over there. Kerry won.

The townspeople cheered at what looked like a flashy victory.

“Whoaaaa! He’s pretty good! That foreigner!”

“The captain of the guard was good too, but the foreigner was better.”

“Damn it! I lost all my fortune. How are you going to take responsibility? You big, good for nothing boar!”

“Handsome foreigner, you’re so cool! Kyaaaa!”

Kerry slowly lowered his wooden sword. The captain of the guard was still frozen in shock, not understanding what had just happened.

“Honey!”

Natasha ran into the training grounds and hugged Kerry. It was as if she was showing off that he was hers.

Lina and the old woman also smiled happily at Kerry.

The celebratory mood was then broken by a knight’s shout.

“Lady Victoria is speaking. Everyone, listen!”

Victoria had been watching from a good seat in the distance. Sitting comfortably in a chair.

She got up from her chair and started walking towards us. A noble’s authority is absolute.

If you say the wrong thing or incur their displeasure, you don’t know what kind of trouble you’ll get into. That was the unreasonable reality of this world.

“That was fun. Your name was Kerry… was it?”

“Yes.”

“You won the bet.”

‘I know that much.’

The commoners watching didn’t know this, but this event started with a small bet. They just made a whole mess out of it.

“Then… can we trust that you trust us now?”

“Hahaha. You speak amusingly. Why wouldn’t I trust someone as strong as you? If you wanted, you could have conquered this castle already.”

“…”

“You even hid your strength from the captain of the guard until the very end. I was impressed by your thoroughness.”

“No… That’s not…”

Kerry gave up trying to explain.

Victoria pretended to be a noble with weight, but she was surprisingly clumsy. No matter what I said, she probably wouldn’t believe me.

“I’d like to officially hire you as my escort. Of course, I’ll give you a generous wage. If I can hire people like you with money, I wouldn’t mind at all.”

She said she’d give me a generous wage. Coming from a noble who prioritizes appearances, “generous” meant she’d pay really well.

Because if she didn’t give an adequate amount, she’d lose face.

Then Lina tried to step forward. With Lina’s personality, she would surely say she didn’t need money. But, no way.

“Thank you! Lady Victoria. I will gladly accept your offer.”

Kerry purposely spoke loudly so everyone could hear him. Lina seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then returned to her place quietly.

‘We should definitely take what we’re given. No matter how much money the regressor has.’

“Haha. You are quite an interesting man. How about it? How would you like to duel with me next time?”

“…”

Did she plan to kill me now that she knew I was only interested in money?

Looking at Victoria’s expression, I could tell she was just joking. But of course, I refused. There’s no way I’m going to risk my life in a duel.

Hearing Victoria say she’d give me a generous wage made me forget all my frustrations.

‘She’s not such a bad person after all.’

She was our Lina’s former comrade. She couldn’t be a bad person. Victoria’s antics had made things a little difficult, but there was no harm in learning swordsmanship, so I decided not to hold it against her.

“Then shall we return to the castle to continue our discussion? First, let’s have a party to celebrate your victory, and then we can slowly hear about the people who are targeting my life.”

I looked at Lina, and she nodded her head as if to say it was okay.

The townspeople were still in a celebratory mood. The captain of the guard, on the other hand, was looking like he was going to die while letting out a huge sigh.

I didn’t know what kind of punishment Victoria would give to the captain of the guard, but it seemed like his future was going to be very dark.

‘Serves him right. Hehe.’

We were about to head to the castle with Victoria when a guard came running over in a panic.

The unusual look on his face drew all the attention of the townsfolk.

Victoria and us were the same.

The guard ran over in a hurry, bowed to Victoria, and started speaking urgently.

“Hundreds of ghouls have appeared at the front of the castle!”

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