Chapter 255

It was difficult to say whether the fight was ongoing. Strength seeped out of my fist and my arm trembled. I was so weak that I could barely stand. Tae-Yoon from the opposite side was heaving on the ground.

“Haaa...haa...haaa...” My heart thumped roughly. In this space, me and the other person were just humans with ordinary physiques in the end. We couldn’t surpass the limits of the human body to move or fight. Yet, we still fought without rest for the past couple of hours. It was difficult to endure as a normal human.

“Haa...haa...” I distanced myself from the other Tae-Yoon as much as possible to collect my breath. I dragged my heavy legs and took a couple of steps. Unfortunately, my quickly sank into the floor and didn’t move. In the end, I collapsed to the ground like that. My heart beat rate didn’t decrease and I tasted blood in my mouth.

My breathing became more coarse, and I heard air escaping out of me like something ripping in the wind. Perhaps, it was better for me to never get up like this. Tae-Yoon from the other side approached me. While wearing a loose, white shirt, he grabbed onto my collars. He had also lost most of his strength like me, and a powerless fist pounded on my face. It had been a while since I didn’t feel pain.

I saw myself reflected on the thin surface of water fluctuating on the floor like a mirror. My face was all swollen up, bruised, and bloody. My members would be shocked to see me in this state, but I thought it was ridiculous for me to think about such things right now.

Punch—!

The other Tae-Yoon struck my face with more force this time. With it, my body leaned to the side and collapsed. Both I and the other Tae-Yoon fall together. It was too pitiful to be called the final strike. This was just nothing more than a dogfight. I felt as if my heart was beating right beneath my throat.

The sky here was especially white. There was no sun or moon and I wondered where the light came from. Did its light come from the remains of the crumbled planet? I felt pathetic for thinking such thoughts right. I was in a space where I didn’t know whether I was in reality or not. Since the other side finished attacking, it was my turn to go.

“Fuu....” I clutched my knees and got up. This place’s ground was floored with shallow waters. Because of that, the sky and the ground reflected off each other so that it looked like there was no above or below. If I wasn’t caught in the situation I was in, I would’ve thought it was quite a neat and cool place.

I clutched the other Tae-Yoon’s collar and struck his face a couple of times. My weak punched failed to make any significant impact and my body twisted with my opponent and we both fell together. I choked the other Tae-Yoon’s neck. Because I couldn’t choke him with strength, I was putting my weight on him.

Rather than choking him, I was pressing my body onto him. Though it didn’t target pressure around the respiratory tract as well, it was enough to pain on my opponent. The other Tae-Yoon under me floundered. He must not even have an ounce of strength left in him, but he struggled with all his might and looked up at me. He raised his fingernails and scratched my arms.

I had no intention to let go. I thought I could Tae-Yoon like this and felt a sense of thrill filled my heart. Yet, expectations often turned to disappointment.

“Ahhhh!” The other Tae-Yoon let out a battle cry and flipped me over. Our situation reversed and the other Tae-Yoon choked my throat. Yet, unlike me who simply pressed down on him, he was really putting pressure and force around my throat. I couldn’t breathe, and my legs and arms meaninglessly floundered on the ground. Perhaps, things would become comfortable if I continued to endure like this.

I raised my head and looked at the other Tae-Yoon. There was a sense of strange exhilaration circling around his face. We would only be able to escape this place if one of us died. It appeared the other Tae-Yoon had sensed this boring fight would finally end. I gave up on resisting. I was too tired to do anything more. Yet, the moment I tried to five up, I recalled my members’ faces.

This was almost cheating. How was I supposed to give up like this?

“...Ahhhhh!” I flipped the guy again. Then, I climbed on top of him and punched. I didn’t even have the strength to choke someone.

Punch—!

“Finally.” The reversal system showed a response. My body became more faint while the reversal system took a definite form. Afterwards, a blinding light enveloped the entire universe. The rules changed. Left became right and up became down. The universe had lay its decision. I became the reversal system while the reversal system became the main system. Usually, the main system and the reversal system wouldn’t change roles just because I flipped the worldline over.

This was only possible with the universe’s intervention. Yet, I was satisfied that I had fulfilled my minimum goal to flip the worldline. This space was no longer mine. The system now floated me up into space and looked at me with machine-like, empty eyes. Then it began to reorganize the twisted, messed-up worldline. The world had become quite a mess while I was flipping the worldline. Many worlds overlapped while past, present, and future was happening at once.

Rather than immediately punishing me as the system, it prioritized spreading the world that was on the brink of collapse. After completely reorganizing the worldline, the system stared at me again. It didn’t open its mouth but simply told me in an alarm.

[You aren’t permitted to approach.]

It was saying that I wasn’t permitted to exist in this space like this. It was as it said. The reversal system didn’t exist in the universe but designated someone as its incarnation to stop the regressors. The worldline had returned to normal and the system was operating normally. Then, I also needed to fulfill my role as the reversal system.

[Designating Incarnation.]

I looked at the ends off the worldline—the world that was currently progressing. I needed to find my incarnation there, and there was no easier decision I could make.

[Will you choose Bong Tae-Yoon as your incarnation?]

Though I didn’t need to say the words out loud, I still said it, “Of course.”

[Reversal system is operating. Input your mission to your incarnation.]

This was the mission my incarnation would need to receive. The original goal of the reversal system would be to kill all the world’s regressors—the Siren members—and flip the world again. Yet, I certainly didn’t wish for that.

[Work with Siren members and watch their last.]

[Upon success, death.]

[Upon failure, death.]

[Mission period: 100 years]

What kind of reversal system would give a mission like this? But whatever anyone, I was the reversal system now. Who could stop me when I was the one who gave out the missions? I closed my eyes. It was now time for me to ascend to this world as the reversal system’s incarnation.