In this round, that guy doesn't exist…
As soon as I read this sentence, an electric current flowed from my head to my toes.
…Perhaps, no, it couldn't be. Of course not. There were many people who could be called 'that guy' by Yoo Jonghyuk. In the previous regressions, there were a few 'guys' that Yoo Jonghyuk met…
Then I remembered Yoo Jonghyuk's thoughts that often appeared and my mind became complicated.
「 Yoo Jonghyuk had a thought. 」
「 'Don't think it will improve by repeating the regressions.' 」
「'There is only my birthday in this life.' 」
「 'I don't know if I can do it. Still, I won't give up.' 」
Shit, by all appearances, these were my words. I quickly scrolled through the pages towards other scenes. The words 'that guy' often appeared. He never wrote the name 'Kim Dokja but it was clearly me.
Of course, I couldn't be sure 100% because I didn't remember everything I said. Even so, I couldn't imagine anyone else saying these words to Yoo Jonghyuk. If someone else had spoken such cheeky things, Yoo Jonghyuk would've cut off their heads.
“…I'm having a psychotic break.”
[The constellation 'Prisoner of the Golden Headband' is wondering about your words.]
I ignored the message from the Great Sage the Equal of Heaven and slowly took a deep breath. I needed to organize my thoughts. There was still time. Unexpectedly, the Fourth Wall helped me.
「 Kim Dokja thought: In short, this is the current situation. 」
Yes, tell me.
「 One, the first revision of Ways of Survival had arrived. 」
「 Two, the revision started from Yoo Jonghyuk's fourth regression. 」
「 Three, a person presumed to be 'Kim Dokja' appeared in the recollections of the fourth regression Yoo Jonghyuk. 」
It was a very straightforward organization. These three facts were proof of only one thing.
「 Yoo Jonghyuk failed the third regression. 」
I couldn't think of anything else, no matter how I looked at it. If Yoo Jonghyuk and I reached the end of this world, he wouldn't have moved onto the fourth regression.
This was the most logical reasoning. The third round that I intervened in was a failure. The time after the failure was newly recorded in the revision of Ways of Survival.
I wondered how it was possible but this was a world where many impossible things had already happened. I let out a brief sigh and searched Ways of Survival again.
One question was resolved but many more opened. Through the Fourth Wall, I tried to sort out the questions that came up one by one.
「 Why don't I exist in the fourth round of Yoo Jonghyuk? 」
No matter how I thought about it, I couldn't get an answer. It might be because I wasn't a character or it might be due to other problems. In any case, it was obvious that 'I' no longer existed from the fourth regression onwards. There was a second problem I had to focus on.
「 If the first revision is a depiction of future events, could there be a second revision depending on my actions? 」
Nothing was certain. Maybe this first revision couldn't be ruled out as a 'definite future.' Still, I was certain that it wasn't a high probability. If this was a 'definite future', the author wouldn't have sent it to me.
I didn't know why but the author was giving me an opportunity through this 'revision.' If I kept going along this path, the third regression would end in failure. Then in the fourth regression, Yoo Jonghyuk would repeat things alone.
The author was sending a warning. Of course, the author might have a terrible stench but… in any case, I decided not to consider it because there was no answer.
“The first step is to read all of this again… my head will hurt.”
I pressed a hand against my temple and kept reading Ways of Survival. Some places were the same while some were changed. Anyway, I felt numerous emotions as I read the story.
'That jerk Yoo Jonghyuk, he is still like this despite everything I told him.”
The next moment, the body of darkness revealed itself with a tremendous aura that burst the bodies of the incarnations in the area.
[You are in a place like this, Demon King of Salvation.]
TL: Rainbow Turtle
Chapter end
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