I stared blankly at the audience like an actor who had forgotten his lines.What had I just heard?[You have no idea how fortunate I am that you came to this worldline. Don’t you all agree?]The Child Kim Dokjas gave no answer. They only looked at me, neither positive nor negative.Representative Kim Dokja smiled as if even that pleased him.[Surely you still do not know who you are?]At Representative Kim Dokja’s single sentence, languid sighs drifted from pockets of the audience.[Seolhwa, ‘Recorder of Vanishing Things,’ will begin the story.]I turned toward the screen. The stories I and the readers had lived through were being displayed on the screen.But not every story was there.Like shadows cast on a cave wall, some scenes were grotesquely exaggerated, and some scenes were cropped out.The stories on the screen were more vivid than the reality I had felt; they were inflamed, and a clear object of fury had been presented.A moral tale where good and evil were made plain.“Have you been screening our story like this until now?”At my question the footage on the screen stopped. While the Child Kim Dokjas murmured among themselves, Representative Kim Dokja stepped forward.Come to think of it, I still did not fully understand Representative Kim Dokja’s purpose. I did not know why he had brought the readers here, nor did I know the real reason he opposed .[That is correct. Because we must write a ‘new story.’]A new story.Representative Kim Dokja was looking at Yu Joonghyuk, who lay collapsed on the floor.[And a ‘new story’ requires a ‘new protagonist.’]With a beep, the image on the screen changed.[I remember the first time I saw you.]The screen showed the scene at Kumho Station.The very first scenario I knew well— the scene of ‘Proving Value.’“Pffft,” the sound, and Kim Cheolyang’s head exploded.People at Kumho Station, the Ten Evils’ Kim Cheolyang and the Life Cult, were dying after being deceived by [Incite].The screen cut to a close-up of my face at the exact moment they died—my expression filled with an inexplicable exhilaration.I had no words for a moment.Clearly the footage on that screen had been edited. Yet that expression was unmistakably mine.[Your coming was not part of my plan, but now I think it may be for the best.]The footage continued to change.The scene where I meet Bang Chulsoo’s gang and change the course at Kumho Station.“‘Prove it to me once.’”Meeting the 41st-cycle Yu Joonghyuk and falling beneath the bridge over the Han River.“‘So you really are Cheon Inho. Then this woman need not concern you even if she dies.’”The scene of escaping from the belly of an eel with Jeong Heewon awakened as the ‘Annihilation Judge.’“Character ‘Jeong Heewon’ blossoms with the trait ‘Annihilation Judge (Hero).’”Meeting the KillerKing siblings, killing the ‘Dark Watcher,’ and acquiring ‘Recollections of Almost Everything.’“‘S—jo!’”Finding Anna Croft in the Illusion Prison and confirming the 40th-cycle Cheon Inho.“‘The moment you press the reset button, this world does not vanish — it becomes eternal.’”Meeting Ye Hyunwoo and Gong Pildoo of the Seven Apostles at Chungmuro.“‘So this is what Cheon Inho looks like… much better-looking than I read.’”Saving the grasshopper Max during the ‘Emergency Defensive Battle.’“If the monsters here had not died, would this story have been interesting?”Clearing the theater dungeon and losing reader Jeong Jaewoo.“‘I don’t want to die.’”Finally climbing to the theater’s rooftop and facing Han Sooyoung.“‘Really, Han Sooyoung?’”For a while I forgot even my own situation and immersed myself in the memories. It struck me how many things had happened in such a short span.Between the scenes there were missing memories. They were not written anywhere, but they remained whole in my head.The footage stopped again and Representative Kim Dokja spoke.[You are, above all, the most suitable being to end their story.]I could not tell who ‘they’ referred to.Did it mean the characters who had died in this cycle, or—When I turned my head the Child Kim Dokjas were staring at the screen with mouths slightly open.What was recorded was not everything.But that did not make what they had seen a lie.The Child Kim Dokjas had a look of homesickness.I drew a shallow breath and spoke.“The protagonist.”It was a ridiculous notion.If they made a film with me as the protagonist, it would be a hundred percent doomed to fail.“If you were secretly making such a film, shouldn’t you at least get my permission first?”At my brazen voice Representative Kim Dokja’s eyes went wide.“If you are going to do something like that, pay the price first.”I didn’t know what making me the protagonist would accomplish, but from my perspective the best course was to use the situation to the fullest.My current objective was to destroy the Absolute Throne.Since matters were already as they were, if I could at least obtain the Medium of Faith and awaken the Execution Sword—[Ha ha—]“……?”[Aha ha— ahahahahaha!]A laugh that seemed seized by madness. Representative Kim Dokja was not the only one laughing; a few of the small Child Kim Dokjas wore pleasant smiles.[Sorry. It’s just such a hateful and yet nostalgic reaction.]“What?”[Very well. Pay the price. Is this sufficient?][You have acquired 300,000 coins!]Coins poured from the air all at once. I looked up at the suddenly scattering golden cascade, stunned. I felt as if something was wrong.[But now I must check whether I have hired a proper actor.]When I hesitated for a moment, his cool voice pierced my heart.[Kim Dokja.]Just those three syllables.Why did that name — a name I had called, read, and written innumerable times — sound so painful now?[Trait, ‘One Who Gazed into the Abyss’ has been activated.]Dizziness hit me instantly.As if someone had grabbed my ankle and yanked me downward, my body felt sucked toward the depths.I recalled the time not long ago when they had incited me as ‘Kim Dokja.’I had a similar experience then.My soul had been drawn like a bottomless pit into the deep sea, and there I listened to the readers’ stories.But what I heard there was not only the readers’ stories.The footage on the screen shifted.“‘The one to read my novel… is not you.’”A familiar, bitter voice. ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) With a spurt of blood that leapt from the screen, the Kim Dokja in my memory spoke.“‘Han Sooyoung. Sorry, but I really can’t remember well. These days I don’t even read the Annihilation Method…’”I thought,Perhaps, I really might not be ‘Kim Dokja’ after all. said,“‘Reader, could you please get up for a moment? If you keep lying down your back will get ruined.’”“‘How about doing some corrective exercise with me?’”“‘Sir, will you be okay like this? I’ll fetch a Seolhwa pack for you.’”Memories from the 1,865th cycle spent with them.“‘Wow, it’s the method the reader wrote, isn’t it?’”“‘This recipe was taught to me by an uncle.’”“‘Brother always did all this alone, I wonder.’”At the end of that scenario the reader spoke.“‘Another me might not have wanted this. That story… ended there…’”I thought again.“If I could be born again, I hope I would not be Kim Dokja.”A distant meteor streaked by with a trail of light. The world widened and narrowed in an instant.A pale blue planet.The meteor fell.A child born at the place the meteor struck began to cry.I watched for a long time as my newborn self screamed in my parents’ arms.[Do you still intend to deny who you are?]“…….”[Does it not make you angry? Why must you suffer so much? Why be labeled a ‘fake’ and have your place taken away?]His voice was like narration heard from among distant stars.[Do you not think you should take revenge on them?]Memories rose even as I sought to deny them.When several of the Child Kim Dokjas nodded, sparks flew in the air. With a tsutsut sound Representative Kim Dokja said,[Now it is your turn.]His eyes burned as if he had waited only for this moment.[Prove that you are ‘real.’ Defeat , and free this ‘worldline’ from their long, tedious tale. Make the paradise of extras you once dreamed of.]Just then the collapsed Yu Joonghyuk twitched faintly on the floor. He seemed to be slowly regaining consciousness.[Stop Yu Joonghyuk. I will lend you the missing plausibility.]I had come here to stop Yu Joonghyuk. To prevent him from taking the Absolute Throne, and thereby to stop the destruction of this world.[This is your last chance to change the underpinning of the universe that suppresses you.]The underpinning of the universe.At the sound of that phrase I gradually regained clarity. Han Sooyoung’s words surfaced in my head.“‘I came to bring closure to all of this. To stop this damned tragedy that never ends no matter how many times you shut it.’”At the time I had reacted angrily to Han Sooyoung’s words.I wanted to ask why she tried to stop me when she and the others had just as much twisted the worldlines through the Annihilation Method.People in this worldline deserved happiness.The extras in this world deserved to pursue their own lives.Even if the end of this world were fixed, I wanted to say it was not a world they could casually destroy. But—Why did Han Sooyoung want to destroy this worldline?Not everything that happened in this worldline had been recorded.All that occurred in this world filled the empty links between the Annihilation Method and Jeondoksi.But what would happen if this worldline’s ending were changed?[Now, break the universe of .]I looked down at the theater floor. The floor was braided with the countless footprints of the small Child Kim Dokjas.[Break the foundation of the that has so nauseatingly governed your fate — the ending of the world that only the ‘real’ Kim Dokja knew.]A coldness settled in a corner of my chest.Perhaps my thinking was wrong.Even if I changed the ending of this worldline, ’s universe might remain unscathed.It might simply end with the birth of a new branch of parallel universes.But if it were not so—If in exchange for changing the ending I destroyed every worldline of Omniscient Reader.And if that were the reason Han Sooyoung tried to stop me?I slowly lifted my head. Representative Kim Dokja was before me.On the palm of his outstretched hand gleamed a sword radiating brilliant light.[Take it.]A sword to change the ending of this world.Not my unawakened Execution Sword, but a fully awakened relic Execution Sword.It shone on a constellation engraved with abundant Seolhwa, an item that could, at any moment, cut down the Absolute Throne.[It is time for you to end their story with your own hands.]

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