The Regressor Tests His Hypothesis
Yoo Dahui handed me a snack. “Come on, let’s go one by one. Yeah. Then it’ll be easy. You caught it too, didn’t you?”
“A proven method, huh?”
“That’s right.” Yoo Dahui offered me another snack. “Aaah, I’ll eat it.”
“…Am I a child?”
“I’m not calling you a child, but do you want me to pretend I’m feeding you like you’re still a kid?”
I obediently opened my mouth and let her feed me the snack. *Crunch. Crunch.*
‘Of course she brought my favorites in the middle of this. What a surprise.’
It was absurd.
“One by one, slowly. The first thing we need to think about. The exact moment Elena and Isilia remembered. Focus on that timing.”
Yoo Dahui’s words made me stay completely silent and listen carefully. She seemed pleased with how seriously I was paying attention and continued with a serious face.
*Crunch. Crunch.* While chewing the snack.
“Ever since you went up to the second floor alone, those two started remembering the previous loop. Right?”
Isilia didn’t react at all to the word “previous loop.” She probably thought it was some misunderstanding and would figure it out on her own.
‘Elena was already weird before, though.’
With each loop, Elena’s attitude started changing gradually. It still felt like she was spitting fire, but her submissive side had grown stronger than expected.
“After you reached the second floor, remember what you did. There had to be something different from usual.”
“…Sigh…”
“Of course, you only need to think about it in your head. If you spill that to your lips, your lips will meet my fist and then kiss me.”
What had I done? I had PK’d a bit, and I’d even given Elena some of my seed in her ass, and fed Isilia some as well…. But PK is something I do every day. It’s not special. Thanks to Elena, I finally got my anal virginity back? That couldn’t be it. Isilia’s throat opened wide and my seed dove straight into her stomach acid? Way more than just a blowjob.
‘Wait… no way…’
Yoo Dahui kept offering me snacks and stared at me intently.
“Is something catching? Your face looks like you’ve caught something.”
“It’s just a hypothesis.”
“What kind of hypothesis could change your face that much?”
Should I say it? What could I even say? Once I spoke, my head would probably explode.
“Well, should I just grab Isilia’s horn and forcibly shove my dick deep down her throat?”
“…”
“Joking, joking.”
Yoo Dahui patted my back hard.
It wasn’t a heavy slap, but I could feel the warning.
“Isilia. Tell me everything you remember now. Only the parts that are still crystal clear.”
Yoo Dahui’s order made Isilia dig through her memories.
“They’re all hazy… If I tell you, will you grant the Mana Oath?”
“If you listen well, maybe I’ll.”
“You expect me to believe that?”
“What else can you do? The Submission Oath owner is me, right? Should I command you properly?”
Isilia shut her mouth. Her pouty lips perfectly conveyed her complaints.
‘This brat suddenly went weird.’
Ignoring the unprompted change, I continued.
“Just think of it as a test. Dump every memory you have.”
At my words, Isilia answered.
“The first time I recognized your existence. I remember it clearly. I don’t know why, but I was rushing toward the shop with a swarm of people.”
“Next.”
“The moment you grabbed my horn…”
“Suddenly jumping there? There were so many things that happened in between, how can you skip all of it?”
Isilia sounded irritated. “Only the parts that are clear enough to tell someone. The rest feel hazy and hard to explain.”
“Anyway, after the horn? Any more memories?”
Isilia shook her head.
“There are a couple more. The first was recognizing you again. Suddenly the Mana Oath appeared. The subject was marked with a question mark, but because I grabbed your horn and you did whatever you wanted, I figured out the question mark was you.”
Same as Elena. Even with a question mark in the Mana Oath, she figured out who it was by looking at the situation.
“The second was when you were having sex with this human woman and making a baby. I remember every detail, even the part where the human woman masturbated and then came out…”
“Aaaaaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!”
Yoo Dahui let out a screech and strangled Isilia’s neck.
It was so urgent it felt like she was regressing.
“Ah, right. It was a secret.”
“T, this, this…! You…!”
A mana barrier spread around Yoo Dahui. I could barely feel that she was using mana at my level.
“───!”
“…….”
While they were arguing, it seemed Isilia was the one getting scolded.
After their short exchange ended, Yoo Dahui scattered the mana barrier into the air.
She stared at me with a serious look. “You heard it, right?”
“I heard, but I don’t know the details.”
“Aah, seriously…”
Yoo Dahui smacked her own chest in frustration.
Her eyes brimmed with resentment as she looked at Isilia.
I asked Isilia, “So after that, no more memories?”
Isilia nodded.
Isilia’s memories were all tied to me. And those memories were of me with someone—me or a man, maybe even Yoo Dahui. But what was different from Elena?
Elena’s chest was exposed, while Isilia only described it verbally.
In Isilia’s memories, nine-tenths were of me panting and thrusting.
‘Is fucking the key?’
I had to test this too.
The situation was killing me in every way.
‘I can even hear the sound of my pride swelling.’
I tried to ignore the hypothesis that popped up, but it was already too late.
Yoo Dahui asked, “So? What’s your hypothesis?”
“My hypothesis?”
It was simple. ‘The problem is my semen—a ridiculous guess.’
I didn’t want to think about it too deeply.
If it was a special change from that loop, it meant I had filled the two slaves with my seed.
And then the digestive tracts connected—one upward and one downward.
‘They’ll meet in the middle.’
The small intestine isn’t exactly the middle, but close enough.
I couldn’t bring myself to say it out loud.
No matter how I thought, it would just get me labeled a fool.
‘Time to test.’
The slaves of Pluto, the Mana Oath, and so many other hypotheses.
The idea that my semen was the problem was just another new hypothesis.
‘Completely irrational.’
I calmed my heart and looked at Yoo Dahui.
Before I could speak, she said, “Doesn’t that make you embarrassed to think about it?”
“What?”
“Thinking about it in that direction? That’s why you can’t say it.”
A ghost. She saw right through my thoughts.
But I tried to play it cool.
“Not at all?”
“Well…”
“If you tell me the truth, I’ll help.”
Yoo Dahui dangled the bait like she was tempting a snake.
I raised my middle finger and said, “…Yeah, about 10% right.”
“That’s… really?”
Yoo Dahui let out a deep sigh.
“Just assuming won’t help. You’re planning to test it, right?”
“…You’re not bothered at all? I don’t think I’d feel okay with it.”
My words acted like hitting a nerve, and Yoo Dahui glared at me.
“You already know, don’t you?”
“…I know…”
“But there’s no choice. If this hypothesis is correct, we can regress people we can trust. It’s not a proper regression, but just knowing about the previous loop is already a huge help.”
Yoo Dahui’s energy overflowed.
“We have to clear it as fast as possible. That way, the Pluto slaves and the weirdos won’t bother us as much.”
“But we can’t just pick anyone…”
Sex wasn’t the answer to begin with. If it was, Elena would have already experienced something similar and shown strange symptoms.
It wasn’t sex, but something close to it—the overlap of what I did to Elena and Isilia.
“Feeding my semen…”
“Eh?”
Yoo Dahui looked at me like I was a disgusting bug.
I explained my conclusion again, this time trying to convince her.
“Listen. The truth is… to clear the Tower of Struggle.”
“Yeah, go ahead and try.”
“That day—the day I left you on the first floor and went up with Elena and Isilia—I came on them. Here, ‘came on’ means shooting my seed, but can you let my head off for a second? It’s kind of painful.”
“You can’t touch below. Keep going.”
It would be perfect if she gave me a cigarette. Unfortunately, Yoo Dahui was a non-smoker.
I could’ve done it myself, but I decided to stay silent this time.
“Clearly there were dramatic changes right before and after that day, but I didn’t have sex that day?”
“You’re so bold.”
“…So….”
“So what you came up with is to feed them your semen.”
“Right.”
“Huu… Annoying, so annoying. How can someone as pretty only do pretty things? Jinwoo, you’re something else.”
The hand that had been gripping my hair slid down.
Yoo Dahui pinched my left cheek and tugged it, like she was holding my balls instead.
“I really want to rip it off. Right?”
“Aaah! It hurts…!”
“Hey, I didn’t even push hard. Why are you acting like it hurts?”
The cleaning was done.
What needed testing now was feeding semen. I would choose someone I trusted and who would benefit.
‘It’s so contradictory, though.’
If I was going to feed semen to anyone, it would be to the ones I wanted to feed my pride to.
“Elisha, Eloin, Elbaren. When the three of them are there, I’ll try feeding them.”
“Eloin and Elbaren too?”
“Why? You only want to feed women? You pervert.”
“No, the words have to be straight. It’s not that I want to feed women, it’s that I feel bad feeding men… honestly…”
It would be better to just kill them.
The thought crossed my mind.
“Feed them while riding in the car. No one will know.”
Yoo Dahui started saying cruel things without hesitation.
She didn’t seem to feel any guilt.
‘Psychopath…’
“Hey, what’s that weird thought?”
Yoo Dahui suddenly appeared.
I tried to hide my expression.
“It’s all visible. Anyway, is this the end?”
“Yeah. Only the test remains.”
“Then let’s go rest. Since the ownership of Wang Gohan’s house transferred, let’s head there.”
After buying a few small things at the shop, we entered Wang Gohan’s house, Safe Zone #215.
I felt like I’d missed something.
Half a regression because of the other half meant I hadn’t done the things I needed to.
*Awakening.*
Before I headed to the second floor boss monster, Giant Lava Worm, I had to reach 3-Star at all costs.
That way, the attacks would hit harder.
I could handle it with 2-Star, but 3-Star would make clearing much smoother.
It would be 3-Star when I went up to the third floor anyway.
It was better to set the awakening conditions in advance and leisurely defeat the boss.
I knew how to awaken on the second floor.
But I wouldn’t tell anyone about it. That would be trolling.
Instead, the player who would hear was sitting right in front of us, legs crossed and acting arrogant.
“Isilia, how do I get 3-Star?”
“3-Star? Isilia’s 3-Star?”
Yoo Dahui’s eyes widened at the word.
Isilia let out a snort.
Her usual arrogance was slowly rising.
‘Command mixed in?’
I would hold off just a little longer.
“3-Star. If I just had the will, I could have gone up to the third floor. But I just stayed here. I turned the whole island into my lair…”
“I’m not interested in that. Just tell me how to reach 3-Star.”
“…….”
Isilia looked at me with the same stubborn eyes.
“Don’t play dumb. Hurry up.”
“…There’s a cliff cave on the eastern side of the island. Catch the Imugi living there.”
The important thing was to catch it one-on-one.
“Let’s go right now.”
Yoo Dahui’s eyes sparkled as she pulled me up.
“It’s almost sunset. Can’t we do it tomorrow?”
Riding Isilia would get us there in no time, but I didn’t feel like moving anymore.
“Yeah, if it’s too hard, then it’s too bad.”
Yoo Dahui cheerfully postponed today’s task to tomorrow.