Asmodeus laughed, as if unable to believe what he had just heard.[Do you even understand what you’re saying right now?]Han Sooyoung didn’t answer. She hadn’t said it expecting to be understood in the first place.[Is that really why you were gathering the ‘fragments of Kim Dokja’? To bring back a Kim Dokja who may never return?]His voice rose, sharp with agitation.[Have you ever once thought about the extras you trampled on?]Trampled extras.Han Sooyoung frowned.[I mean the people sacrificed for your pathetic “cause” of finding Kim Dokja.]Asmodeus’s tone turned theatrical, almost mocking.[You’ve twisted the worldlines over and over. Do you truly think that was the right thing to do?]It was true. They had twisted many worldlines.But every world they touched had already been doomed to collapse, and the Kim Dokja Company had always moved to turn each “great tragedy” into a “smaller one” wherever possible.That was their first principle.[And what makes you think the Kim Dokja you’re seeking agrees with you? Do you think the countless Kim Dokjas stripped of their own selves during your collection would support you?]Han Sooyoung couldn’t understand what he was saying.While gathering Kim Dokjas scattered across the worldlines, the Kim Dokja Company had never once touched a living fragment.They collected only those fragments that had failed reincarnation and wandered the void—and the pieces of legend Kim Dokja had left behind.“I don’t know. I’m not Kim Dokja.”Even so, she didn’t try to defend herself. What would be the point? She was used to being misunderstood."Are you afraid people will still hate you even after you defend yourself?"Kim Dokja had been the only one who accepted someone like her as a comrade."I’m basically a terrible person.""Says who?"What would that Kim Dokja say if he saw her now?As if he already knew, Asmodeus sneered.[If you’re going to act shameless, you might as well keep it up to the end. First you planned to destroy the world as scheduled, now you want to change its progression?]“That’s—”[Did your mind change after seeing the 49% Kim Dokja?]Forty-nine percent Kim Dokja.Han Sooyoung’s pupils flickered. She hadn’t thought Asmodeus would know about that.[Did you feel sorry for the Kim Dokja you abandoned?]“…Abandoned?”Even Han Sooyoung, who rarely lost composure, couldn’t hide her reaction.It was the others who flared in anger for her.[Constellation ‘Insidious Strategist’ snaps: what do you know about it…][Constellation ‘Lotus Blooming Under Moonlight’ stares coldly…]“Igil-yeong. Yoo Sang-ah.”At Han Sooyoung’s voice, the indirect messages faded from the sky.She went on quietly.“Yeah. You’re not wrong. I never managed to save him.”Han Sooyoung remembered the legend of the 49% Kim Dokja.The one who had wished to be born as someone other than Kim Dokja.He’d achieved that wish, gaining a new name—Lee Hak-hyun.And yet, for some reason, he had returned to the world that had made him Kim Dokja."I can’t accept an ending like this."This time, he came back not as a reader, but as a writer.“What’s done can’t be undone. All I can add now are pitiful excuses.”[I don’t care about your excuses.]“Still, I’m the writer of this story.”What did it mean to write a story in this world?To change a single sentence—and bear the weight of the consequences that followed?Han Sooyoung understood that burden better than anyone.That’s why she had decided to pick up the pen before Lee Hak-hyun could.“I’ll destroy the Absolute Throne myself.”At the very least, she didn’t want Lee Hak-hyun to bear the guilt of opening another tragedy.“If the worldline twists or the universe collapses, I’ll take responsibility for it.”That was the only gift she could give to the 49% Kim Dokja—to the writer Lee Hak-hyun.[Hmm. Then I can’t give you the Execution Sword after all.]Asmodeus gave an exaggerated shrug, turning gracefully away.[Because this story isn’t yours anymore! Tell me, everyone—don’t you agree?]Han Sooyoung frowned.Regardless, Asmodeus kept speaking, his voice swelling with deliberate weight—as though someone, somewhere, was listening closely to every word.[Now you see, don’t you? What kind of person Han Sooyoung really is—how selfish, how dangerous she is to this universe.]The space behind him began to distort.Like a silver screen rippling before the wind, it flickered—until it revealed rows of theater seats. Hundreds of them.“You—”And in those seats sat dozens upon dozens of child Kim Dokjas.“You collected living souls?”Asmodeus answered her calm fury with a smirk.[Living? They’re all the readers you killed.]“What nonsense—”Han Sooyoung’s gaze swept the seats.Too many to count at a glance.Far more than existed in this entire worldline.No way.She turned toward Asmodeus to speak—"What if the first portal leads to another useless, half-baked Kim Dokja again? Would you still call him Kim Dokja?"A familiar voice echoed through the theater."And the fragments that imagined endings like that—I’ll hunt them down one by one until they think of a proper conclusion."They were her own words."I’ll drag him back, no matter what. Forty-nine percent, fifty-one percent, I’m done with those numbers. I won’t settle for anything less than a hundred."The child Kim Dokjas turned their faces toward her."Why did you abandon forty-nine percent?"Gooseflesh ran across her skin. A chill like ice filled her bones.It felt as though the entire world had turned against her.Han Sooyoung forced her voice out against that terror.I didn’t abandon him.She wanted to say it.But the words wouldn’t take shape.The Star Stream’s narrative logic held her tongue still.Asmodeus smiled.[Do you understand now?]The sound of the film reel turning filled the air,and the question of the child Kim Dokjas echoed like a broken refrain.Why why why why why why why why why whyYou abandoned him you abandoned him you abandoned him you abandoned himHan Sooyoung realized the truth.[It seems our ancient dreams agree with me.]This story had been following Asmodeus’s script for a long time."They aren’t Kim Dokja anymore. They lived other lives in other worlds. They had their own stories."“…”"But you called them back, didn’t you?""I didn’t."The things she hadn’t done."Do you think the countless Kim Dokjas stripped of their selves during your collection would still support you?"Things the Kim Dokja Company had never done."That one can’t be the Kim Dokja we knew."One grain of truth mixed into the lie—and the story completed itself.“What the hell did you do.”Han Sooyoung staggered, staring at the seats.[Legend ‘Kim Dokja Company’ begins to tell a story.]She wanted to tell them—What you saw isn’t the whole truth. Those words didn’t mean what you think they did."That one can’t be the Kim Dokja we knew."She had said that."Just like the me from the 1,863rd regression isn’t the Han Sooyoung you know."To face the 49% Kim Dokja properly,she had needed to acknowledge that he wasn’t their Kim Dokja.That was, to her, the only way to treat him as a true individual.Those were lines never written in Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint.Whether one percent, forty-nine, or fifty-one—for the Kim Dokja Company, there was no Kim Dokja who wasn’t precious.She could have said it again and again:that believing one Kim Dokja existed in this world didn’t mean rejecting the others.But Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint never wrote that.Because it wasn’t a story meant for a single Kim Dokja alone.And the 49% Kim Dokja—"I’m sorry."—had wanted, desperately, to be the one Kim Dokja."I’m sorry, Han Sooyoung."Unable to become that, he had left them.He had stopped being Kim Dokja.“Kim Dokja, I—”For the first time, Han Sooyoung opened her mouth to defend herself.They were Kim Dokjas too. They would understand.They would listen to her.If they heard her legend, they would change their minds.Tchhh—She had to tell the story.She had to write down the sentences she’d left unwritten back then.But she couldn’t remember them.Han Sooyoung stared blankly at the place where the story had once been.The [Avatar]’s disappearance had taken her memories with it—the only words that could have convinced them.She had lost them forever.[This world is that kind of story. Do you understand?]Asmodeus was laughing.[This world doesn’t want you. You’re the villains here.]The child Kim Dokjas were fragments of Kim Dokja—pieces of the oldest dream.What they read and believed became this world’s law—its plausibility.Tchhhh—A radiant aura poured from the theater, gathering in Asmodeus’s right hand.[So please, die now.]Han Sooyoung looked at him—and ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) beyond him, at the readers.And thought of one person who must be watching all of this.“Perfect.”Han Sooyoung smiled.“I’ve always been the villain anyway.”Her breath came shallow; her broken body screamed.She had little plausibility left.[Constellation ‘Lotus Blooming Under Moonlight’…][Constellation ‘Insidious Strategist’…]But she was still a writer—and her story wasn’t finished yet."What if Kim Dokja’s taste has changed?""What if he doesn’t enjoy your story anymore?"Recalling Lee Hak-hyun’s words, Han Sooyoung gripped the unbroken conviction Kim Dokja had left behind.What kind of story did Kim Dokja want to see when he came here?She didn’t know.Maybe even Kim Dokja didn’t know.He was only a god who could do nothing but read—the most powerless god in the universe.“Come on, Asmodeus.”Han Sooyoung began her last story—a story for her god.“This time, I’ll cut your throat for good.”+rlaehrwk37: save Kim Dokja+I ran through the storm.Black and blue lightning split the sky without pause.My head spun with thoughts.What if I’m already too late?If I’m not—how can I stop Yoo Joonghyuk?My legs burned as I ran,trying to recall the Annihilation Method—the same way Kim Dokja always did whenever a scenario reached its limit.[This skill cannot be activated at present.]The Annihilation Method was sealed. Why?A chill of dread crawled up my spine.Thunder cracked, shaking the air apart.Bolts of blue light poured down in torrents—the backlash of immense plausibility.At the storm’s center, I caught a glimpse of a figure.Her name left my mouth before I realized it.“Han Sooyoung?”Her body, charred black, was falling toward the ground.

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