Han Su-Yeong's demanding tone prompted Yu Jung-Hyeok to start with his story. However, his tale sounded incoherent and he repeated himself over and over again. Ten minutes passed by like that – she eventually stopped listening quietly and spoke up.
“Okay, that's enough. I think you're not in the right frame of mind here, so let me organise everything you said for you. You just indicate to me if I got it right.”
Now normally, such a one-sided declaration would've elicited a strong reaction from him, but Yu Jung-Hyeok simply chose to nod his head, his expression dark, gloomy.
Han Su-Yeong immediately began her job. “You went to rescue Kim Dok-Ja. But then, someone else showed up first to snatch him up. And that someone was whom we all know, the 'Secretive Plotter'.”
Yu Jung-Hyeok nodded again.
“However, that guy had the exact same face as you and was wearing a white coat.”
“Correct.”
“What are the odds of that being a fake? I mean, that guy's so hard to believe, right? It's possible that the 'Secretive Plotter' disguised himself to look like you.”
“No, it couldn't have been a fake.”
“How come?”
“He used the Fable that the me from the 1863rd regression turn possessed.”
“….You mean, that Immortal whatever chuuni-sounding Fable?”
Han Su-Yeong went “Thought as much,” and nodded her head. Her irises expanded ever so slightly as her Fable kicked into gear once more.
[Fable, 'Predictive Plagiarism', has begun its storytelling!]
The only one left out of the loop, Jeong Hui-Won, tried to say something, her voice sounding confused. “What are you two talking about? Are you saying that the 'Secretive Plotter' looks like Jung-Hyeok-ssi?”
Han Su-Yeong glanced at her for a bit, before replying with a long sigh. “Simply put, there are two Yu Jung-Hyeoks in this world-line.”
“….Is that even possible?”
“No reason why it can't be, if Yu Jung-Hyeok from another world-line has crossed over to this one.”
“You can do that?”
“Well, Kim Dok-Ja went to another world-line through a similar method, didn't he? Now, the problem here is, just how powerful a being is he, when he's capable of doing something like this….?”
Even the highest-ranked Constellations from either
Jeong Hui-Won's jaw dropped slightly as she muttered. “Just from which world-line could he….”
“There is only one with the highest possibility, actually. The one Kim Dok-Ja went to, the 1863rd world-line.”
The 1863rd regression turn. The final world-line for Yu Jung-Hyeok as it was written in the 'Three Ways to Survive a Ruined World'.
Yu Jung-Hyeok looked at Han Su-Yeong and asked a question. “How much do you know about that world-line?”
“A bit.”
“At the end of that world, the me of the 1863rd turn divided into two and fought against each other. One of them died, and the other regressed.”
“I know. I saw it in my dreams several times already.”
“….Your dream?”
As if she was sick and tired of the whole thing, she vigorously waved her hands about. “We don't have the time to get into the details. In any case, you think the current 'Secretive Plotter' is you from the 1863rd regression turn. Am I right?”
Yu Jung-Hyeok spoke up, his face full of dissatisfaction. “It's not a definite thing. There are a few points that don't add up.”
“Such as?”
“The strength of the 'Secretive Plotter' far exceeded that of 'me from the 1863rd turn' that I read about.”
“And then?”
“Then….” Yu Jung-Hyeok chewed on his lips for a while. “….I also got the feeling that he was hiding something from me. Such as, his white coat.”
“The white coat?”
“My Stigma, 'Regression', doesn't send the items I possess alongside me when I regress. Meaning, there's no reason for him to be wearing that coat.”
“Maybe, he likes the white colour?”
TL: Since the TL note section isn't working, I'll revert to leaving the notes here. The 'Conclusion/結' is the last letter of the 'kishotenketsu/gi-seung-jeon-gyeol' that I mentioned in the chapter 409.
Chapter end
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