⸢4th day of drifting.⸥
Yu Jung-Hyeok barely managed to regain his consciousness and discovered a sharp piece of debris stabbing him in his abdomen. He calmly got rid of the debris and checked the status of the vessel's hull.
⸢6th day of drifting.⸥
He realised that the ark had completely lost all its functions. The navigation system was unresponsive, and he couldn't see a single thing nearby. As a matter of fact, he couldn't even see a single planet nearby.
⸢11th day of drifting.⸥
With several of the safety systems installed within the ark destroyed, abnormality began manifesting in Yu Jung-Hyeok's body.
[System's homeostasis is currently broken!]
[Power of chaos is eroding your entire body.]
[Your Fable is crumbling away little by little.]
Some kind of a problem must've occurred somewhere, because all the abilities realised through the system had become completely paralysed. Yu Jung-Hyeok remained calm as he inspected the Fables currently with him. Thankfully, his Fables were all safe.
[Fable, 'Hellscape of Eternity', is enveloping you.]
The flames of hell protected him from the bitter coldness.
⸢21st day of drifting.⸥
The spacesuit Anna Croft made him wear really did come in handy. If it weren't for the built-in protective functionality of the suit, the rate of his body crumbling away would've been so much faster.
Yu Jung-Hyeok did whatever he could to repair the ark's power source. Although the job performed wasn't of professional quality, the vessel still started moving again. Unfortunately, the collision caused the fuel tank reserved for a rainy day to blow up, and the ark needed his Fable energy to operate.
He failed to repair the self-navigation system and the auto-pilot, though. Meaning, he had to pilot the craft personally.
⸢34th day of drifting.⸥
He needed to somehow find his original route.
⸢42nd day of drifting.⸥
As the days of his Fable needing to be exhausted increased, fatigue began accumulating in his body. Instances of him briefly losing his consciousness happened more and more frequently. The darkness was eating away at his mind.
….Why did I come this far?
There were moments when his purpose would become blurry, uncertain. He came this far to carry out his mission. To deliver a 'story' to the reincarnated Kim Dok-Ja. To revive the 'Kim Dok-Ja' his companions remembered.
Why, though? He still had something he simply had to ask Kim Dok-Ja, that's why.
….But what was the question?
⸢58th day of drifting.⸥
The moment he saw a wane face reflected on the ark's window, Yu Jung-Hyeok recalled the forgotten question.
– In a world where the scenarios have come to an end, what should he do to continue living on?
That's right. That's what he wanted to ask Kim Dok-Ja. Because that guy knew everything.
Kim Dok-Ja, always thinking about the end. The man who planned for everything, and didn't hesitate to sacrifice his own life to see the conclusion of a certain story.
A fool like that should know, he thought.
If it was Kim Dok-Ja, then he should know more about Yu Jung-Hyeok than Yu Jung-Hyeok knew about himself. That's what the latter thought.
The regressor who stopped regressing – just what would become of him?
Yi Ji-Hye said that she suffered from nightmares every night.
But for him, his life had been a constant nightmare for the longest time. The only reason why he managed to endure until now was because he still had a goal, an aim, which he hadn't achieved yet. However, that goal was now no more, and the scenario had ended, as well.
The regressor Yu Jung-Hyeok was free.
But as he stood before the hard-earned freedom, he couldn't figure out what exactly he had finally earned.
⸢83rd day of drifting.⸥
As his directionless drifting went on and on, the Fables covering his skin decreased precipitously. The amount of Fable scattering into space gradually increased.
His voyage continued on, but he didn't even know where he was heading to.
⸢102rd day of drifting.⸥
Chapter end
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