Dec 28, 2025
Very minor (but relevant enough for us to note (lol)) edit to Volume 3's Authors' Note.
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Very minor (but relevant enough for us to note (lol)) edit to Volume 3's Authors' Note.
Kim Dokja gets nearly beheaded and was the most scared he's been in the entire story thus far because he couldn't be completely sure Yoo Joonghyuk wouldn't kill him, and upon being spared he does this.
Not even fear can overcome the urge to be a fanboy simp for your bias.
One of the best scenes.
Part 1 Volume 3 Notable Ebook Changes
Since it was requested, we will give a brief summary of the significant changes our team noticed between the serialized version of ORV P1 V3 and the ebook. As we have said in the past, many changes are minor and too numerous to recount, but there are some standout ones.
In this volume, most of the significant changes are characterization-based, so they have been incorporated into our document. In cases where they are a little too big of a difference but we thought it was reasonable to apply some of it, we tried to blend the two together a bit.
The first change of note is in chapter 48. Kim Dokja has a line in the serialized saying how there weren't really any descriptions of Yoo Joonghyuk except that he was handsome. The ebook changes this to say there were quite a few descriptions of Yoo Joonghyuk, and there was a focus on his handsomeness. We decided to blend these two. The ebook also removed the "artistic liberty" line.
In chapter 50, Jung Minseob is questioning if Kim Dokja is Yoo Joonghyuk based on handsomeness. In the original version, he simply doubts based on the fact the author's description of Yoo Joonghyuk and implying Kim Dokja is not handsome. In the ebook, it expanded on the line to mention that Kim Dokja is kind of "blurry". We have included this.
The conversation and scene between Yoo Sangah and Gong Pildu in chapter 55 was altered in numerous ways. We have taken the ebook version because it felt like the authors were going back to course correct many characterizations of these two after they had a better grasp on both characters and their relationship. The conversation flows the same, but the tone is different. In the original, Yoo Sangah's questions feel probing and pointed (as Gong Pildu's narration points out, characterizing Yoo Sangah as someone with a sharper edge than she shows). Gong Pildu, as well, has very bland responses that are very straightforward and gruff.
In this version, it's softened. It's revealed through an extra line that Gong Pildu isn't obsessed with land itself, but rather collecting it for the sake of his family. This was shown in the original, but it's given more emphasis and shows us a rather revealing side to him. Yoo Sangah, instead of having her questions be pointed, picks up on this and feels more like a sympathetic ear wishing to genuinely learn more about him. The entire scene is softer and a bit somber before the Apostles attack.
Kim Dokja and Yoo Sangah's conversation is a bit different when they first leave Chungmuro together to go to the surface in chapter 61. Originally there was a line about Kim Dokja needing to take a firm hand with her (metaphorically) even if it hurt her feelings, and him scolding her about how her repeated self-deprecation will drag them down. This line was removed in the ebook, and we agreed. It felt like the authors correcting Kim Dokja and Yoo Sangah's relationship dynamic (he never shows to be cruel to her ever. The only exception was in volume 1 when he calls her a deadweight, and even that was only in his head). We also made this change because it tracks with his relationship dynamic with her as early as volume 4, so we feel this was a purposeful correction.
There are a few additional lines throughout Episodes 13 and 14 that shows more of Yoo Sangah's good points, and highlights them. For example, when she appeals to Kim Yushin in chapter 65, this line was added in the ebook (and we kept it in ours) "She wore the expression of one confident in what she did best."
In chapter 67, there are some changes to the dialogue between Lee Gilyoung, Kim Dokja and Yoo Sangah when Lee Gilyoung declares he'll kill the enemies in Kim Dokja's place, and then later when they have to do just that. We have mostly kept the original version because the changes were significant enough that our team veto'd the changes, but there are a few instances where we blended or added.
In the ebook, Kim Dokja doesn't really encourage Lee Gilyoung to make the kills either before ("Do as you wish, but..." was removed) or when the kills are to be made ("I said to Lee Gilyoung, "Take care of it.""). Instead, he leaves it up to Lee Gilyoung's agency.
In turn, this changes how Yoo Sangah reacts to Lee Gilyoung doing the killing (since it's no longer on Kim Dokja's explicit permission/order, but rather because he's simply not stopping him). She takes a firmer stance in stopping Lee Gilyoung herself and insisting she'll do the kills instead. She also has her "breaking an egg" analogy removed that we have kept. We have included the line about her tone trying to remain resolute and detached.
In response to ordering Lee Gilyoung to make the kills and Yoo Sangah stopping it, Kim Dokja originally has a line about how he feels like Yoo Sangah probably hates him now and that he's glad that he can't read her mind. This is removed in the ebook. We kept it.
When the group meets Cha Sangkyeong for the first time, Yoo Sangah makes the not coughing joke first in the Group Chat before we see the joke again in the Attributes Window. Her line was removed in the ebook, possibly to get rid of repetition. We kept it. (It also just feels like the two of them sharing the same sense of humor, which tracks for a line later in the series where Kim Dokja says Yoo Sangah is the only one who laughs at his lame jokes)
The last major change is the conversation between Han Sooyoung and Kim Dokja in chapter 68. It mostly cleans up, expands on and adds to the dynamic between the two while also making it more explicit about Kim Dokja being aware Han Sooyoung is the First Apostle where the original was more vague. The dialogue is significantly more engaging and interesting. We have completely incorporated the ebook version into ours.
A lovely example of Kim Dokja lying to himself in the narration. He claims he hates the feeling, but the context around it tells us he's thrilled by the experience. He is a reader immersed within the scene. The writing in this scene caused us to become immersed as well.
We love to see Kim Dokja's personality as he messes with Yoo Joonghyuk shine through.
One of the more subtle but exciting changes we've been enjoying while retranslating is being able to really flesh out the dynamics in interactions between characters, as well as get subtle line changes that both add to the scene but also flesh out a character just a bit more.
For example, the dialogue between Min Jiwon (the King of Beauty) and Chu Wangin, the incarnation of General Gyabaek, who is in a rival nation from the King of Beauty. Here are some MTL to ReTL comparisons. (MTL on the left, ReTL on the right)
But another one that is a more subtle change but absolute affects the view of both Kim Dokja's feelings toward Min Jiwon (and continues with his view on society as a whole) as well as changes Min Jiwon a bit is this interaction.
This was one our editor particularly liked, as it changes Min Jiwon from "Someone who never attended high school/Never graduated" to "rarely attended because she had to work" and thus "learned the ways of society" (in Kim Dokja's words). Very different!
Kim Dokja is more respectful to women, but when they've annoyed him enough he becomes an equal-opportunities asshole.