#final scenario arc

[immortal-tale]

What the duck? Please tell me this isn't the beginning in how Kim Dokja's 51% got...no

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Although its content couldn’t be seen, everyone instinctively knew.

They knew that, if this scenario ended in failure, the <Star Stream> would be destroyed.

A short while later, the ‘clear condition’ everyone’s been waiting for finally showed up. For some reason, I couldn’t help but recall a certain sentence from the ‘Ways of Survival’ when I read the condition slowly rising up before my eyes.

⸢There are three ways of surviving a destroyed world.⸥

Comrades were shouting something while looking at me.

The author of the Ways of Survival did say this – there were three ways of surviving this horrible world. Three ways.

I began thinking.

⸢Three ways didn’t mean that only three people would survive in the end.⸥

I looked back at my companions and grinned brightly.

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Clear condition: You must kill the ‘Enemy of the Story’, Outer God King Kim Dok-Ja.

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Finally, this world’s epilogue had begun.

[immortal-tale]

Han Suyeong is like Kim Dokja's reassurance. Oh~ it's not romantic, nor friendly, it's platonic.

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“Kim Dok-Ja.”

“What is it?”

“You may not be this world’s protagonist nor a really cool side character.”

“…”

“However, you have read it with all of your heart. I know that.”

[immortal-tale]

Honestly, I'm starting to think Han Suyeong x Kim Dokja is canon. I mean, they're always 'communicating' in a way. Like, read at this scene:

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While watching them carry on, I spoke up as if to voice my thoughts. “Han Su-Yeong?”

“What is it?”

“If this world was a novel, which volume do you think we are in right now?”

She seemed to ponder this quandary for a bit before making her reply. “Not sure. Depends on who wrote it, I guess.”

But, of course.

Some might write a whole book out of what had happened during a single day, but some would condense everything that happened in 100 years into a single sentence.

Han Su-Yeong continued on. “If it was me, we should be past at least the 20th volume.”

“….That’s a lot.”

“It should be. Lots of things happened, right?”

Indeed, lots. Without a doubt, it had been a long journey.

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But at the same time, I think it's more like friendship rather than romantic relationshio.

[immortal-tale]

Han Suyeong x Kim Dokja moment 😎🥰

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“You haven’t forgotten about the promise to read my novel, have you?”

“Huh?”

“We promised. You forgot?”

I looked into her blazing eyes, and finally recalled the conversation we had in the past. Right, while exiting from the ‘Kaixenix Archipelago’, Han Su-Yeong did tell me that.

She said that she wanted to write a novel once all the scenarios had ended, and when the time came, she wanted me to read it.

“You were being serious back then?”

“You think I’ll lie about something like that?!”

I could only grin wryly. “I’ve got a high standard, so will it be okay with you?”

“Oh, a dude with a high standard kept reading trash like Ways of Survival for ten years straight??”

“I might end up writing a bad review, though? Pointing out that it’s got no probability, and say stuff like I’ll be dropping this series in my comments, you know?”

“Go ahead. You’ll see what happens next.”

I quietly stared at Han Su-Yeong’s face. She looked back at me with a serious face, not a hint of backing down visible on that expression. Right, she was originally like this, wasn’t she?

“….I might end up nagging you for more chapter uploads.”

“Not a problem. I’ve written ten chapters in a single day before, so it’s fine.”

My sense of reality seemed to weaken after I continued this tit-for-tat with her still holding my collars. The first time I met her, I never imagined that we’d end up as comrades like this. Han Su-Yeong who was once the ‘king of the prophets’.

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Aww~ 🥺🥰 A mother and son bonding moment ☺️

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I smiled nonchalantly while staring at her. “You’re here.”

She nodded as a bout of silence filled the room. I stared at the TV within this silence. The darkened screen reflected both my mother and myself.

A faint aroma of perfume wafted past my nose, making me feel rather strange in the process. Once upon a time, she was the one person I just couldn’t understand.

But now, I didn’t even need to resort to [Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint] to figure out what she was thinking about.

“I’m fine, mother. Please don’t worry.”

A soft sigh could be heard next.

“I’m sorry, son.”

“But, you haven’t done anything.”

“This time, it….”