Chapter 454: Results and Evaluation (1)

Regressor Instruction Manual

The fun was over. I wanted to sleep right away, but I couldn’t do that. I still had many things to think about. The most important task I had to do right away was burning the evidence.

It would probably be better to say that Lee Ki-Yeon moved to another place rather than to make it appear as though she had never existed in the first place.

I exited the room and got rid of all the items I used a Lee Ki-Yeon. I contacted Lee Ji-Hye for the necessary administrative work, and the situation could basically be considered over by now.

Tomorrow morning, Lee Ki-Yeon would already be at the Union of Kingdoms.

‘Did I really need to go that far?’

At this point, it was better to be cautious and being a bit more thorough wouldn’t cost me extra money.

‘What’s more…’

I couldn’t imagine Kim Hyun-Sung throwing away the shoe that Bitcherella had left behind. He had confessed that he had some feelings for me, so there was a huge chance that he would visit me in the morning.

Of course, it would already be too late by then.

I thought about leaving him a letter, but cutting him off rather than giving him false hope was better and less painful for him.

‘Let’s leave it as a good memory. Hm, yeah.’

However, if he got too obsessed, then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to say that Lee Ki-Yeon died in a dungeon.

Anyway, it was probably best for me to forget all this because I had too many things I had to handle that were more important than this.

The gender-bending spell that had been blocking Jung Ha-Yan’s detection spell was gone, so I was sure that she would soon find out that I was here. It was already late in the night, so she was probably sleeping right now.

However, I was sure that she would come here first thing in the morning.

Therefore, I decided to wake up early and head over to the Rift Museum branch office of the Blue Guild.

“I’m going to sleep after freshening up. Ugh…”

Organizing the series of events in a big incident had already become a habit of mine. I wasn’t that smart, so I had to ruminate on what had transpired at least once. This way, I could decide on my next move.

‘First…’

I decided to start evaluating the Rift Land.

‘It wasn’t bad.’

The Rift Land was definitely a great place for Adventurers to grow. The reactions were also better than I had expected, and I felt that it was great overall. It was a bit pricey for me, but Rift Land had a variety of services for people to enjoy.

Personally, I would rate it four out of five stars. It still couldn’t be called perfect, but it was close to perfection. I would probably have to come up with other content and services, and I would also have to tackle the complaints about the drop rate.

Overall, the Rift Land was a great substitute for that annoying goddess.

The problem was actually the Friendship Clan. To be exact, the problem was the adventurers in Lindel.

I would probably have to investigate, but according to the Friendship Clan, they were one of the powerful rising stars of Lindel. I couldn’t help but sigh because they were too weak to be the rising stars of Lindel.

They weren’t the Blue Guild’s allies as well, so I was a bit worried about fighting them in the future.

‘They’re too weak. Actually, that’s not the problem…’

I got even more anxious when I recalled their embarrassing behavior. The Rift Museum would help them grow stronger, but I was sure that the Rift Museum wouldn’t be able to help them in other parts.

I thought about what happened in my past life, and I finally realized why I was anxious. I had no idea what had happened, but if my assumption was correct, it was likely that we went to war.

I had no idea whether the war was between nations or between foreigners and denizens, but I was sure that everyone fought until the bitter end. Lee Chul-Woo and Kim Tae-Geon of the Friendship Clan had to have participated in the war as well.

Their days had to have been filled with anxiety, blood, and pain. I was also sure that they had witnessed their comrades die right in front of their eyes.

This life was definitely better than my past life if I were to compare the overall situation, and it was all because I managed to reduce unnecessary damage and even made everyone unite under one common goal.

However, in some ways, the current situation wasn’t that great as well.

In my past life, I was focused on decreasing the number of people who could fight, but I had also trained useless people.

I was sure that the people who managed to survive and fight with Kim Hyun-Sung until the end were veterans who could take care of themselves.

It was actually an insult to compare those veterans to the adventurers I had seen so far because the latter couldn’t even consistently defeat epic-ranked monsters. Our lovely regressor had to regress after failing despite having veteran adventurers next to him.

In that case, there was no way we could succeed when the people around us were worse or just as strong as the Friendship Clan.

“This is a problem…” I mumbled.

It would be strange if I weren’t worried about all this. I had to find out exactly when and where the threat would start and emerge. However, I didn’t think the threat was about to appear because Kim Hyun-Sung didn’t seem to be in a panic or in a hurry.

The main issue was that there weren’t any events that could prepare the adventurers for the upcoming threat.

There would be no growth without war, conflict, and argument. The Rift Museum and the demon dungeons would definitely make the adventurers even stronger, but their minds would remain the same.

Chosen warriors wouldn’t appear during a crisis, and heroes wouldn’t be born after seeing their comrades die right in front of their eyes.

Why?

It was all because of the current world peace. Those situations would never happen in the first place if there were no wars or conflicts.

After all, heroes and tough men were born during hard times.

Yes, the quote sounded like a load of bullshit, but it was true.

I couldn’t help but feel that I had to do something—I had to spark a conflict.

‘Should I wear a mask?’

A ridiculous idea came to mind, but the continent would probably thank me for creating an artificial conflict. The conflict had to be in danger for heroes and tough men to be born, but the issue was how I could create a large-scale issue.

‘Should I release a mythic-ranked monster from the museum?’

Forget it…

There was no way that I could suppress those mythic-ranked monsters if things went out of hand, so it was like saying that one should start hunting bears first so that they would be prepared to hunt tigers.

‘Should I start a war?’

It was a worthwhile idea. The only problem was that stitching a wound and then ripping it again wouldn’t look so good, so I decided to abandon the idea.

I didn’t have a guideline about what type of people should be sacrificed, and the last thing I wanted to do was ruin the current situation.

The continent was becoming one, and I also couldn’t hurt the patient I had just treated with my own hands just to create conflict.

‘How about I cast Belial? Would it be difficult?’

Belial was a demon, so I had a feeling that he would cooperate. However, the idea made me feel anxious because I could still remember how Belial had backstabbed me back then.

I thought of many different ideas, but I eventually got a headache. I threw myself on the bed because I still couldn’t think of a good idea. No, it was more like I couldn’t make a decision on my own.

“I need Hyun-Sung.”

I had to talk to Kim Hyun-Sung because I had to know exactly what was going on. I also had to know what he thought of the current situation as well as why he wasn’t in a rush to do something.

I also had to ask him if he had any solution to improve the current situation. He seemed like he was focused on becoming even stronger right now, but I was sure that he had a plan.

If possible, I wanted to live the rest of my life comfortably and leave everything to Kim Hyun-Sung, but he lacked experience when it came to something like this, so I couldn’t just leave him alone.

“I also can’t trust him too much.”

It was an obvious answer upon recalling Kim Hyun-Sung’s behavior all this while. I was worried that he would nod his head and think that everything was perfect. I really wanted him to feel anxious because it would be better for me.

Anyway, the issue was that I had limited information.

The best-case scenario was Kim Hyun-Sung revealing the fact that he was a regressor.

I knew it was a difficult decision to make, but I still couldn’t help but feel disappointed about how he still hadn’t told me that he was a regressor. He was still suspicious of me as well, so I would actually be thankful if he decided to discuss his thoughts with me.

‘If he confesses that he’s a regressor and tells us the upcoming events…’

It would make things a lot easier.

‘Shit. I can only dream about it…’

I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to confess that I had Mind’s Eye, but this wasn’t the right time to do that. Therefore, I had to somehow extract information from Kim Hyun-Sung by talking to him.

‘I’m going to talk to him soon, anyway.’

Kasugano Yuno was on my side as well, and even though the information she could see was limited, I could still make use of that information to decide on my next move.

I walked around the room in deep contemplation. Eventually, I stopped my pointless walking and took a hot shower before lying on the bed once again. I thought I only closed my eyes for a moment, but it was already morning when I opened my eyes.

‘Shit… I feel so stiff. I really went overboard…’

I was tired, but I was relieved that I didn’t have a hangover.

It was still early in the morning, and for the first time in a while, I felt like I had a dream about Jung Ha-Yan. Unfortunately, I couldn’t remember it. All I know was that it was a pretty lewd dream, which was a bit embarrassing.

I wasn’t exactly frustrated, so I thought that the dream was a side effect of returning to my male body.

“Achoo! Ugh…”

To make things worse, I felt like I was having a cold. I looked to the side and saw that the window was open. I couldn’t really remember it, but I had to have opened it last night and forgot to close it before sleeping.

“I got too lazy. Damn. What if an assassin came in? Lee Ki-Young, you dummy.”

I wasn’t hurt, so it was fine.

After washing my face, I drank tea and looked out the window. I felt like I was getting better beneath the warm rays of the sun, and I started to calm down a bit. While I was spacing out, I suddenly recalled last night’s dream, making me blush.

‘I emptied myself today. I-I’m empty.’

What kind of bullshit dream was that? I shook my head, but the blurry images became more vivid, which made me blush even more. I wasn’t sure what kind of side effect I was experiencing, and I actually became suspicious if another spell was cast on me aside from that fairy disguise spell.

While I was thinking about it, I heard a knock and a voice from outside.

“O-Oppa…”

“Is that you, Ha-Yan?” I asked.

“It’s me,” Jung Ha-Yan replied.

“Are you alone?” I asked.

“Yes.”

I opened the door slowly and saw Jung Ha-Yan. It had been a while since I saw her, and she had to be in a good mood because she was smiling.

For some reason, I felt uneasy when I saw her smile, but I started smiling as well when she came up to me and gave me a hug. All this was normal and had long become routine for me, but the problem was that I felt strange.

‘What’s wrong with me?’

I had never felt this way before.

‘Why… does she look so sexy?’

No, I couldn’t really call it an emotion. I felt like I was getting tamed. My mind couldn’t understand it, but my body was reacting to Jung Ha-Yan.

‘I have never felt this way before…’