Omniscient Reader

[ can"t take its eyes away from the Incarnation, "Yu Jung-Hyeok"!]
The will of the entire world was now paying attention to him .
[Absolute majority of Constellations watching the scenario have raised their wariness due to the existence of Incarnation, "Yu Jung-Hyeok" . ]
[Constellations of the "Final Scenario" are stunned by the Fable of Incarnation, "Yu Jung-Hyeok" . ]
[Portion of the Bureau"s Great Dokkaebis are demanding a ⸢Probability Suitability Evaluation⸥!]
[The "King of Stories" has rejected the demand . ]
[The ⸢Probability Suitability Evaluation⸥ is restricted within the applicable scenario . ]
Every single Yu Jung-Hyeok"s Fable that I knew felt "complete" now . This feeling couldn"t simply be described as him merely becoming stronger . This "Yu Jung-Hyeok" before my eyes was a different existence to the one I became familiar with .
I got a little tense as I asked him . "Our companions?"
"Safe . "
"You being here means the "Secretive Plotter" has decided to do me that favour, right?"
My final alternative plan in case even the plan B failed was to awake the sleeping Yu Jung-Hyeok .
[Incarnation "Yu Jung-Hyeok" currently has abnormally activated the "Disconnected Film Theory" . ]
Tsu-chut . . . .
[Film"s connection is incomplete!]
[The entire film may cease to exist if this connection is forcibly maintained . ]
The last-ditch method that I didn"t want to resort to if at all possible, yet simply had to when left with no other options – the greatest ace up our sleeve we currently possessed .
["Yu Jung-Hyeoks" of all the regression turns are now looking at you . ]
And I felt distant, numerous gazes coming from within him . Suddenly, I had this ominous foreboding . What if this Yu Jung-Hyeok wasn"t the "Yu Jung-Hyeok" that I knew of . . . . ?
"Excuse me, but which regression turn Yu Jung-Hyeok are you?"
He then stared at me . I could see the thick scar on his cheek, a wound the 3rd turn Yu Jung-Hyeok didn"t possess . I was about to ask something else, but then, several sentences flowed out from his body as if to shut my mouth .
⸢Terror of All Stars⸥
⸢Strongest Incarnation in Star Stream"s history⸥
⸢The Iron-blooded Conquering King⸥
⸢The Usurper of the Scenarios⸥
The history he had lived so far was floating up as the crude, coa.r.s.e sentences from the "Ways of Survival" . The sentences gathered to become a Fable, and that story soon became the man standing before my eyes, the existence that waded past 1864 lives .
"I am Yu Jung-Hyeok . "
He was not Yu Jung-Hyeok from any of the regression turns . Not from the 0th turn, not from the 1st, and not even from the 1863rd .
He was simply Yu Jung-Hyeok from all regression turns .
[[… . Captain??]]
The 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye dazedly looked at us, her eyes wide open in disbelief .
And then, another Yi Ji-Hye shouted out at that girl . "Master! Hurry! Take care of her! She"s trying to destroy our world-line!"

Advertis.e.m.e.ntShe yelled out with so much anger .
I was thinking of adding something there . However, such thoughts scattered away the moment I saw Yu Jung-Hyeok"s side profile . He didn"t bother to a.s.sume the attacking stance and simple stared at the two "Outer G.o.ds" present here .
[Character, "Master of the Sunken Island", is looking at the character, "Yu Jung-Hyeok" . ]
[Character, "King of Silverlight Heart", is looking at the character, "Yu Jung-Hyeok" . ]
And the two people from the 999th turn was staring back at him in return .
Yi Hyeon-Seong looked quite agitated at the moment . [[This fable . . . But, it can"t . . . Could it be, really . . . . ?]]
Just like how I was searching for the "Yu Jung-Hyeok" I knew from this particular Yu Jung-Hyeok, they were now looking for the "Yu Jung-Hyeok" they recognised .
[3rd turn"s "Yu Jung-Hyeok" is remaining silent . ]
[41st turn"s "Yu Jung-Hyeok" is remaining silent . ]
[362nd turn"s "Yu Jung-Hyeok" is remaining silent . ]
[666th turn"s "Yu Jung-Hyeok" is remaining silent . ]
There was no point in becoming one anymore as Yu Jung-Hyeoks were being torn apart within those gazes . They were searching for the "Yu Jung-Hyeok" they recognised and were shoving away other "Yu Jung-Hyeoks" in the process . They eliminated those they couldn"t understand and tried so hard to find that one "Yu Jung-Hyeok" they recognised .
And so, how long pa.s.sed by like that?
[999th turn"s "Yu Jung-Hyeok" is slowly opening his eyes . ]
And one of them finally discovered something among the patchwork of "Yu Jung-Hyeoks" .
[[Capt . . . . !]
Just before the "Master of the Sunken Island" could take a large stride forward, the air before her split apart with a single ray of light . Accompanied by choking heat, a blinding beam of light crashed down like a lightning bolt .
Yu Jung-Hyeok lightly swung his [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] to deflect that beam of light .
[[That man is not the "Yu Jung-Hyeok" that you remember . ]]
There was no need to ask who it could be .
[[He"s simply the "Outer G.o.d" who stole the "Yu Jung-Hyeok" we know of!]]
The "Living Flame", 999th turn"s Uriel, cried out .
She lived only for the purpose of killing the "Secretive Plotter" . And she came this far to finally have her vengeance . The conflagration became even more vicious on her [Flames of Retribution] .
The one to try and stop her was the "Master of the Sunken Island" .
[[H-hold on . Stop, Uriel . That "Captain" is . . . !]]
[[Don"t be fooled . The "Secretive Plotter" is permeating within him . Meaning, he"s the sworn enemy we"ve been searching for after all this time!]]
And right next moment . . .
[[Holy s.h.i.+t, so that"s the captain from this world-line? Been a while, but still, he"s so d.a.m.n scary . . . . ]]
Finally, even the last "King" arrived in the location .
He took a look around the battlefield, then spoke with his eyes almost bulging out of his face . [[T-there are two Ji-Hyes here?!]]
… . It was the "Monarch of the Great Abyss", the 999th turn"s Kim Nam-Woon .
[All "Outer G.o.d Kings" have gathered in one place!]
[Every Constellation in is paying close attention to this battlefield!]

[Every Nebula in is fearful of the advent of the fallen beings . ]
[A large number of Constellations are revealing their animosity!]
They simply ignored whatever the stars were saying and quietly studied each other .
⸢The "Living Flame" that rises up from the east . ⸥
⸢The "Master of the Sunken Island", the calamity of the world in the west . ⸥
⸢The "Monarch of the Great Abyss", the ruler of the northern universe . ⸥
⸢The "King of Silverlight Heart", the ruler of the interstellar s.p.a.ce in the south . ⸥
⸢And the "Great Plotter" that crawls from the place of nothing . ⸥
The plan I began cooking up bit by bit ever since I discovered their names within the book written by the "Recorder of Fear" and deduced their ident.i.ties . . .
I sneaked a glance at Yu Jung-Hyeok . The original plan A was actually supposed to begin from here .
- Yu Jung-Hyeok .
My signal prompted him to step forward .
The Chaotic aura of an Outer G.o.d enveloped him, and he spoke in the true voice . [[Everyone has gathered, I see . ]]
Those words contained emotions that I couldn"t even fathom . However, someone present here still managed to do just that .
[[Captain . I knew it . It is you, right? But how . . . . ]]
[[You dare to use yet another underhanded method . . . !!]]
The [Flames of Retribution] scythed past the air and flew in . The [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] containing the power of the Transcender rose up to deflect the flames .
As the friction noises loudly tangled up with waves of magical energy, Yu Jung-Hyeok raised his voice . [[Been a while, Uriel . My old comrade-in-arms . ]]
[[Shut up! You are not Yu Jung-Hyeok! You are . . . !!]] The 999th turn"s Uriel shouted out as if she had been made fun of just now . Conflagration of destruction spread out everywhere and ignited the oxygen in the air . Within this h.e.l.l of choking, hard-to-breathe dry heat, she continued to speak . [[The Yu Jung-Hyeok I knew died in that place . ]]
Her Fables growled like a wounded wolf . Her expression could only be made by someone who lost something far too precious to her . And while carrying such an expression, she pointed her sword at us .
[[And it was you b.a.s.t.a.r.d who killed him . ]]
Her Fable was crying out now .
⸢[I"ll kill him . I"ll definitely kill him . Without a doubt, I shall make sure to kill him . ]⸥
The 999th turn"s Uriel held onto Yu Jung-Hyeok"s Incarnation Body wasting away due to the "Other World Pledge" and cried in sorrow .
⸢[Regardless of what needs to be done, even if that means crossing world-lines, I will definitely avenge you . Even if I end up leaving the side of Good to become Evil!!]⸥
And so, the "Demon-like Judge of Fire" became the "Living Flame" . She was an Archangel who chose to become an "Outer G.o.d" for the sake of her vengeance . That was her reason for being here .
[["Yu Jung-Hyeok" doesn"t die . Only the regression waits . ]]
[[Shut up! Such words won"t . . . . !]]
Yu Jung-Hyeok deflected some more flames tinged with boundless rage and continued on . [[He awoke again, and lived through the 1000th turn . He then died, only to move onto the 1001st . And so, he continued to live on and on . And on . ]]
I too know of that life . A life that no one remembered, a life that he couldn"t share with anyone else . Yu Jung-Hyeok continued to live such a life all alone .
[[And eventually, he became me . ]]
Uriel pounced, looking as if she had heard something she shouldn"t have . She swung her [Flames of Retribution] in desperation, cutting his side, then slicing into his stomach . And in a blink, her blade circled around and took aim at his neck . He didn"t try to stop her, as if this was the just punishment he"d been waiting for . And then . . . .
Like magic, Uriel"s blade came to a halt .

[[You, you, you . . . . are . . . . ]]
Uriel probably knew this, too – that her vengeance could never be fulfilled . Because, the one who stole away her most precious comrade-in-arms happened to be the very same comrade, that"s why .
Yu Jung-Hyeok spoke to her . [[If you want, go ahead and kill me . The "Secretive Plotter" who took your world-line away is none other than me, after all . ]]
Uriel howled out in anguish, then cried out loudly .
Just as her sword moved again, the ocean exploded along with the loud "Kboom!!"
Her sword was flung in the air . The Flames of Retribution stabbed into the ocean, and slowly sank beneath the waves while vaporising the water .
Yu Jung-Hyeok wasn"t responsible for that .
Shu-wuuuu . . . .
The cannon smoke rose up from the other side of the waves . It was the 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye who fired a sh.e.l.l .
[[That"s enough, Uriel . ]] Her voice was thickly tinged with joy and madness as she carried on . [[Yes, we know it, too . We already knew it all too well . . . . ]]
She staggered across the ocean"s surface and approached this side . Yu Jung-Hyeok didn"t avoid her pale hand .
[[Captain . You"re inside somewhere, right? You"ve become something else now, but you as you are definitely inside, right? You"re still alive, right??]]
Rather than tears, Chaos flooded out from Yi Ji-Hye"s eyes like fine powder seemingly made out from the pitch-black darkness . He looked at her and nodded his head .
[999th turn"s "Yu Jung-Hyeok" is looking at his old comrade-in-arms . ]
The 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye grasped onto his sleeve and slowly crumbled .
I could only look at his back . His back, where I couldn"t read his expressions at all .
⸢It was the trickery of the world-line that caused Yu Jung-Hyeok to become many . ⸥
Yu Jung-Hyeok who lived during the 0th turn became the 1st turn"s Yu Jung-Hyeok, then he became the 2nd turn"s . And the 2nd turn went on to become the 3rd – and then, the 4th .
Abnormal events of the past and future interfering with each other ran rampant and made everyone forget that crucial fact, but this was the undeniable truth .
⸢A regressor actually doesn"t regress . What actually regresses isn"t him, but everything else excluding him . ⸥
The time for everyone else would rewind, but his own time would continue to march forward .
Even though the world-lines had split up and some became the 1864th turn"s Yu Jung-Hyeok while someone else became the "Secretive Plotter", but still . . . .
⸢From the beginning, he was just "one person" who kept walking on one continuous, unbroken path . ⸥
However, could these people be able to handle the truth?
⸢Someone only lived on for the sake of her revenge . ⸥
Uriel, still raising her flames .
⸢Someone only lived on for the sake of continuing on with his will . ⸥
Yi Hyeon-Seong, who couldn"t shed tears anymore .
⸢Someone only lived on for the sake of fighting him one more time . ⸥
Kim Nam-Woon, standing askew in the air and glaring daggers in this direction .
⸢And someone only lived on for the sake of reviving those times she lived alongside him . ⸥
Yi Ji-Hye, currently crumpled, looking vacant .
Yu Jung-Hyeok told them that "regression couldn"t change anything" . However, his regression did change someone"s life . The "Yu Jung-Hyeok" was the world to these people . A world that helped them live on even after their own world-line was annihilated .
⸢Kim Dok-Ja"s plan was precisely about this "world" . ⸥
If, by any chance, these people still remembered their world even now . . .
And, if they accepted this "Yu Jung-Hyeok" once more as their captain, then . . .
⸢If so, then there might not be a reason to continue with this battle . ⸥
[[If you"re really the captain, then . . . You must know what I want, then . ]] The 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye smiled brightly . [[Let"s go back, captain . Let"s start from the beginning again . ]] She held onto his wrist and spoke . [[Let"s destroy this world-line together . Ng? We made a deal with the Dokkaebi King, you see? If we destroy this world-line, he will send us back . He will get in touch with your Sponsor, the "Most Ancient Dream", and . . . . ]]
I hurriedly looked at him .
- Yu Jung-Hyeok .
He must never stimulate them negatively here . No, he definitely needed to use the most suitable words to win them over . Even if he had to lie, he needed to agree, before it was too . . . .
"Yi Ji-Hye . "
Yu Jung-Hyeok looked at her and spoke . Not through his true voice, but with his physical voice .
The 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye shrunk her shoulders when subjected under his gaze . Just like on that day when she first learned to wield her sword from her master .
"Is that what you really want?"
[[… . . . ]]
"Do you believe that you"ll become happy if everything reverts to how it was back then?"
[[The captain I knew, he . . . . He"d never say things like that . ]] The 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye bit her lip and let go of his hand . [[He"s someone who regressed 999 times . He didn"t falter even when living through that inordinate amount of time . That man, he"d never say something so weak, and . . . . ]]
"A man who regressed 999 times can grow tired by the 1000th," said Yu Jung-Hyeok in a voice so honest that even I was left stunned . "Even if one endured 1000 lifetimes, one can still give up during the 1001st . "
The voice was so thick with boundless fatigue that even I became dazed by it .
[[There"s no way . . . That"s not possible . The captain I remember is . . . . !]]
"He would not give up . Indeed . However, if that"s everything you remember about "Yu Jung-Hyeok", then . . . . "
I needed to say something . I need to tell him that he must not say these things . But I couldn"t .
" . . . . Then, that Yu Jung-Hyeok is dead . "
That was his heart laid bare . A man who lived 1864 lifetimes, a man who had never truly expressed himself, had finally bared his soul .
Yi Ji-Hye cried out, sounding more like a shriek . [[Not true! That can"t be true!!]]
"He shall not regress anymore . "
I saw some things sparkle in the distant sky – they were stars .
[Constellation, "Demon-like Judge of Fire", is scanning the vicinity with an anxious face!]
[Constellation, "Most Ancient Liberator", is asking about his maknae"s well-being!]
[Constellation, "Abyssal Black Flame Dragon", declares that he will use both of his hands this time!]
Stars that watched our stories from a very long time ago were approaching this side . And beyond them, our companions were also rus.h.i.+ng towards us .
Han Su-Yeong, Yu Sang-Ah, Jeong Hui-Won . . . The people from who had lived with us in this world . Within the darkness brought on by the fading sunset, they looked like one giant constellation .
Yu Jung-Hyeok, now as one person, took in that sight and raised his voice .
"I can"t go back . My final regression turn is this one . "
Fin .