Beyond the swirling Great Hall, a shadow flickered.[Constellation ‘Bald Volunteer General’ wipes his head in horror!][Constellation ‘God of Naval War’ glares at the invading divinity!][Constellation ‘Pig Living in a Brick House’ hides inside his brick house.][Constellation ‘Dog Who Threw Himself Into the Flames’ retreats in panic.][Constellation ‘Demonic Judge of Fire’ furrows his brow.][Many constellations are horrified by the outer god’s intervention in the scenario!]Just that fleeting shadow was enough to stir every constellation in the channel.[A handful of constellations prepare to leave the channel.]Some were even getting ready to run.And it was understandable.The divinity now revealing its presence above the heavens wasn’t one of the nameless ones—it was unmistakably a Named.[Constellation ‘Great Sage, Equal to Heaven’ stares at the founder of the Absolute Throne.]The first master of the Absolute Throne—the creator of the throne itself.Once, Kim Dokja had raised the Four Calamity Execution Sword against that very divinity and destroyed the Absolute Throne.So that’s the kind of being Kim Dokja faced.Even Han Sooyoung didn’t know the details of the “Founder of the Absolute Throne.”Or rather—she had known, but she’d forgotten.Damn it. I shouldn’t have given him the [Annihilation Method].On the rooftop of the Theater Dungeon not long ago, when she met Lee Hak-hyun, she had handed him the version of the Annihilation Method she knew.That bastard… I wonder if he’s still alive.Lee Hak-hyun wanted to write this world’s story in her place.So she had given him the most important history she knew.【O O O O O O O O O】The terror of something once familiar turning into the unknown.Yet Han Sooyoung didn’t let the fear devour her.Even if she had forgotten the story, she was still a writer—an exceptional one.The air trembled, syllables themselves vibrating with divine resonance.Watching the shadow ripple beyond the hall, she gauged the level of this “outer god.”It wasn’t at the level of the indescribable infinities or the 999th-cycle calamities.But it was, at the very least, equal to “the One Who Eats Dreams”—perhaps even greater.Rrrrmmmble.If that thing were to descend over Seoul, the Korean Peninsula would perish.No—perhaps the entire planet would be destroyed.Even so, Han Sooyoung’s voice came out brazen.“Don’t posture. You can’t cross over anyway.”As if she already knew such an ending would never come.“Right?”Her words weren’t directed at the constellations in the sky, nor at the incarnations on the ground.“Are you really going to let it destroy your playground?”The next moment, from a point suspended between heaven and earth, a portal appeared—shaped like a comma, hanging in midair.From beyond it stepped a man in a black suit.The being who called himself Representative Kim Dokja.But Han Sooyoung knew his true name.“Asmodeus.”A faint spark flashed as “Representative Kim Dokja” frowned.A strange light welled in Han Sooyoung’s eyes.[Predicted Plagiarism.]Every line she had ever written or read projected across her vision, identifying the being before her.“How long are you going to keep pretending to be Kim Dokja?”[You…]The 32nd Lord of the Demon Realm—Asmodeus.Demon of wrath and lust.In Han Sooyoung’s worldline, he had been annihilated by Kim Namwoon of the 999th regression.[You seem to have lost many of your memories, yet my name still carries weight, doesn’t it?]Asmodeus’s gaze lingered on the sparks flickering over her body.Her memories were shattering between them.“I remember debts well enough.”[You’re no longer the Han ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) Sooyoung I once met.]Han Sooyoung raised her left hand.“Shut up and hand over the Four Calamity Execution Sword.”The Execution Sword.She didn’t know which worldline it came from,but in their last battle, Asmodeus had used that sword to sever her avatar link.“Give it to me, and I’ll give you what you want.”She thought:If I can just take that sword and cut the ‘constellation tether’ linking the Absolute Throne,the outer god will lose its connection to this world—and its descent will be canceled naturally.To do that, she first had to persuade the Asmodeus before her.[Do you even know what it is I want?]“You don’t want this worldline to follow its ‘original progression,’ do you?”From the first time she met him, Han Sooyoung had wondered:Why did Asmodeus leap from the 3rd regression to the 41st?Why attach himself not to another recorded line, but an unrecorded one?Asmodeus desired Kim Dokja, yet never obtained him.He used Han Myeong-oh’s daughter as his incarnation vessel.He wanted to etch his name into the Great Legend.He was a seeker of the Apocalypse.Countless lines of data about Asmodeus raced through her mind as Predicted Plagiarism activated—her consciousness flooded, analyzing, combining, rearranging.Asmodeus was a character who read the Annihilation Method.Han Sooyoung blinked slowly.“What did it feel like—to learn the truth of the world?”Asmodeus’s expression froze.And in that instant, Han Sooyoung read everything behind it.“You didn’t just read the Annihilation Method, did you.”A faint but unmistakable tremor crossed his eyes.Han Sooyoung was sure of it.Asmodeus hadn’t read only the Annihilation Method.He had read Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint as well.He had read every line written for Kim Dokja—even the part where his own death was recorded.Of course, he wasn’t the only one who had gone through that.The Kim Dokja Company had too.But Asmodeus was not part of the Kim Dokja Company.[And what of it?]He had never cared for Kim Dokja, nor dreamed of an ending with him.A demon like him coming to this worldline could mean only one thing.“You want to escape our story. Don’t you?”[…]“But if you stop me here, this worldline will collapse.”Even if this world’s process wasn’t recorded, its future was fixed.In the 41st regression, Yoo Joonghyuk fails,and the worldline is destroyed.And Yoo Joonghyuk’s seizure of the Absolute Throne marks the beginning of that destruction.“You don’t want that either, do you? So help me. Work with me for a moment. I’ll destroy the throne—just give me the Execution Sword.”[I don’t understand your scheme.]At last, Asmodeus spoke again.[Why change the progression now? Wasn’t your goal to destroy this world?]“…”[So that your own worldline would remain safely preserved. So that the Kim Dokja you sought could return.]Han Sooyoung was taken aback. She hadn’t expected Asmodeus to see that far already.[Is it because you saw that fragment? The fragment of Kim Dokja you all abandoned and ignored?]“You’re talking too much today. So, are you giving me the Execution Sword or not?”[How absurd. Why concern yourselves now with the Kim Dokja you once discarded? He wasn’t even the Kim Dokja you wanted, was he?]“Say one more word and—”[The Kim Dokja you want is the Demon King of Salvation, isn’t he?]Asmodeus’s words rippled, and legends flared around him.[He was the Watcher of Light and Darkness.]Kim Dokja, who ended the Great War of Saints and Demons, and became the Watcher of Light and Darkness.[He inherited the title of ‘Prisoner of Gehenna.’]Kim Dokja, who became the youngest disciple of the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven.[And at last, he dreamed of this world—until he became this world itself.]Kim Dokja, who remained alone in the subway, becoming the oldest dream of all.[You mean to gather all those Kim Dokjas? Do you think that’s possible?]“…”[You, of all people—using avatars—should know better.]Han Sooyoung fell silent.But others in the Kim Dokja Company raged in her stead.[Constellation ‘Lotus Blooming Under Moonlight’ glares at Asmodeus.][Constellation ‘Insidious Strategist’ releases a quiet fury.]Asmodeus mocked them.[Are you still chasing Kim Dokja’s illusion by your own will?]There could never be a “hundred percent” Kim Dokja—just as she herself was no longer a hundred percent Han Sooyoung.It wasn’t about avatars.Every human forgets a little, changes a little, becomes someone else with each passing moment.The very idea of “hundred percent” was a fantasy.So what, then, were they pursuing under the name Kim Dokja?[Or is it the will of the legend that dwells in you?]Han Sooyoung looked down at her hand—the hand that had written countless stories.A legend rested there.[How are you any different now from the constellations you once despised?]The legend spoke in her place.[Legend ‘Kim Dokja Company’ looks at you.]The Kim Dokja Company was the legend of those who loved Kim Dokja.People who gathered for him,people whose happiness depended on his existence.And because of that, those who bore this legend could not help but seek him.“We’re long past the stage of arguing about that.”Han Sooyoung clenched her legend-imbued fist.“I already know there’s no such thing as a hundred percent Kim Dokja.”Of course she knew.She, who wrote the story—and her comrades, who lived through it with her—couldn’t possibly not know.[Then why keep doing something so foolish? Why continue a story that’s doomed to fail?]When you lose someone, humans go through steps to accept the loss.They despair over the fact that the person will never return,then slowly accept it,and eventually live on after that absence.That is the natural order of the world.Ordinary mourning works that way.But Kim Dokja—and they—were never ordinary humans.“I know Kim Dokja’s story.”Kim Dokja had died, and returned from death, countless times.Was the resurrected Kim Dokja the same as before?If a human is dismantled down to particles and reassembled, is he still the same?Han Sooyoung didn’t know the philosophical answer.She only knew this:Kim Dokja died for his companions,and lived again to protect them.That will—that resolve—was Kim Dokja.That will was the legend of Kim Dokja.[Constellation ‘Insidious Strategist’ nods.]That legend lacked coherence.It had holes, contradictions, frayed edges everywhere.[Constellation ‘Lotus Blooming Under Moonlight’ closes her eyes.]But that imperfect story was what sustained the Kim Dokja Company.It was what let those who were saved give up everything of themselves to complete a single ending where all survived.How could people like that ever perform an ordinary mourning?Those who had seen miracles with their own eyes,who had lived through a story born of miracles,could never quietly accept a final chapter.Just as Kim Dokja had tried to save every member of the Kim Dokja Company,the Kim Dokja Company too could only seek every version of Kim Dokja.“You’re right. Maybe we’ll fail in the end.”Even if their choice led them into an endless loop.Even if this story continued forever for the sake of one man alone.If it was for Kim Dokja—“Then we’ll keep failing. That’s how we honor him.”They would remain, forever and always,the characters of this story.

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