Omniscient Reader

Han Su-Yeong definitely knew that guy . But even then, why was this? At least in this very moment, he seemed like a completely different existence to her .
" . . . . Are you really Yu Jung-Hyeok?"
He glanced in her direction, before spinning around towards the Pacific Ocean with a loud boom . She panicked and cried out .
"Hey, you! Where are you going?!"
[[After him!!]]
The 999th turn"s Uriel and Kim Nam-Woon chased after him next .
Han Su-Yeong only then realised what his intentions were . Yu Jung-Hyeok was trying to lure these Outer G.o.ds away from the companions .
"That crazy idiot . . . . "
"Su-Yeong-ssi, are you alright?"
Yu Sang-Ah came closer and supported her . The moment she leaned against her shoulders, Han Su-Yeong ended up vomiting all the blood flowing backwards inside her .
"Bleeergh-!"
Her head felt hot as if every blood vessel in it was burning up . Sparks went wild as if to scorch her frontal lobe . She endured the pain and shouted out . "Great Sage! Hades! Uriel! You must hurry and chase after Yu Jung-Hyeok! The rest of us will take care of this place, so please hurry! You mustn"t let that guy fight alone!"
[ has noticed your Fable . ]
[You have used a power that went against the Probability!]
"Keok . . . . "
Her vision dizzily spun around; her internals hurt as if they had completely overturned .
[Your Incarnation Body is being swept up in the storm of aftermaths!]
Han Su-Yeong detected a powerful force about to explode within her body and hurriedly shouted out . "Yu Sang-Ah! Get away!"
However, Yu Sang-Ah held Han Su-Yeong"s shoulders even tighter and shook her head . The power of Sakyamuni she had inherited was being transmitted through the hand touching the latter"s shoulder . The time and s.p.a.ce twisted, slowing down the growth of the aftermaths" storm . "Fight it . You can do it . I also fought it off and survived in the past, too . "
"G.o.ddammit . "
Muscles all over her body were moaning out . Faint terror seeped inside her amongst all the horrifying pain . She had been habitually muttering out about being careful around the Probability, yet here she was, making a critical mistake like this . She mistakenly thought that, since a fool like Kim Dok-Ja managed to survive until now, she"d somehow make it through this one, too .
Tsu-chuchuchut!
… . Was she going to die? So meaninglessly like this?
[Fable, "Predictive Plagiarism", has begun its storytelling!]
Advertis.e.m.e.nt.i.t was around here that the signs of the aftermath"s storm gradually softened .
Han Su-Yeong witnessed letters covering up her Incarnation Body . Those were words she wrote in the past – words she secretly wrote in the note pad so that neither Kim Dok-Ja nor Yu Jung-Hyeok could find out later . And now, those words were leaking out from the flapping pages of the note pad to wrap around her body .

However, there were some sentences she hadn"t written before mixed in among them .
⸢You"re indeed me, so your writing skill isn"t too shabby, I guess . ⸥
The voice sounded half-mocking and half-satisfied .
[Fable, "Predictive Plagiarism", is bearing the aftermath"s storm in your stead . ]
Tsu-chut, chuchuchut . . . .
As the storm of Probability"s aftermaths weakened, the letters began scattering away gradually faster and faster .
Han Su-Yeong wanted to ask . About these sentences, about what they actually were . Unfortunately, she didn"t have enough energy left to even ask a question anymore .
⸢ . . . . This is probably as far as I can go . Send the word out to Kim Dok-Ja . ⸥
[The vestige of another world-line permeating within your Fable has begun dissipating . ]
As her consciousness faded out, her Fable continued to speak to her .
⸢What waits for him in the "Conclusion" he wishes for is . . . . ⸥
*
While supporting Yi Ji-Hye, I stared at the two "Outer G.o.d Kings" .
They had lived in the same regression turn, and they also saw the same end of the world, yet they became two different beings .
[Great Fable, "Wanderer of the Eternal Horizon", has begun its storytelling . ]
[Great Fable, "Heart Sealing the Sorrow", has begun its storytelling!]
I could see the cross-section of the Fable laid bare within the sparks dancing in the air . The story they compiled together line by every line with their blood – this was the story from the regression turn that I loved the most . The one that I had read many times over .
⸢"Captain Yu Jung-Hyeok . It"s a relief that you are a regressor . "⸥
The "King of Silverlight Heart" glanced in my direction .
The 999th turn"s Yi Hyeon-Seong – the sorrow contained within his Fable was being transmitted to me through my [Reading Comprehension] .
⸢"It"ll be okay for me to stop being sad, yes? You"re going to die, anyway . Even if you die, we"ll be able to meet again in the next turn . And you"ll continue your story in that place . . . And, you"ll get to restart this journey once more, won"t you?"⸥

The Fable of Steel was crying .
⸢"I"m sorry, Yi Hyeon-Seong . "⸥
The forged steel expanded with loud noises and swallowed up his words . Tears that should"ve flowed out remained frozen within his eyes, dyed in the silvery light .
⸢"There"s no need to apologise . We"ll be seeing the Conclusion before you, after all . The end you wanted to see, the promises you couldn"t keep, all of them, I"ll carry them all without missing a single one . "⸥
The 999th turn"s Yi Hyeon-Seong was looking at me . He was not the "Yi Hyeon-Seong" I knew, but even then, he was definitely "Yi Hyeon-Seong" .
- You resemble that person greatly . Even more so than what I heard from my Sponsor .
The voice of the 999th turn"s Yi Hyeon-Seong entered my head . He even smiled gently, as if he knew what I was thinking about already .
How could this be? How could a man who had to endure such tragedies, be able to form that kind of expression?
- And that"s why I won"t let you die .
I knew that he didn"t hold any hostilities towards us . But I didn"t think he"d go this far to side with us, either . Just what kind of a Fable did the "Master of Steel" hand over to him as he died?
[[Hyeon-Seong ahjussi . ]]
The one to cut the flow was the 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye .
[[It"s been a long time since you called me that . ]]
[[I have no plans of hurting you . Get out of the way . ]]
Two neverending Fables intertwined with each other .
Yi Hyeon-Seong spoke, sounding as if he was reminiscing about an ancient memory . [[I"m sorry, but I can"t do that . ]]
[[Why are you stopping me? Ahjussi, you refused to be summoned as the "calamity", didn"t you? It was us who negotiated with the Bureau of this world-line, not you . ]]
… . So, I guess it really was the Bureau who summoned the 999th turn"s beings as calamities .
Yi Hyeon-Seong maintained his silence for a bit before replying coldly . [[Never negotiate with the . That was our promise . ]]
[[So? What happened to us as the result of that promise?]]
[[… . . . ]]
[[We destroyed the Bureau, we fought the Dokkaebi King . Then, after we clashed against the "Final Wall" . . . I"m asking you, what happened to us after that?]]
The Final Wall – it seemed that they had witnessed that wall, as well . The "Wall" that the "Yu Jung-Hyeok" of the original had eventually reached, too .
The 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye shuddered before continuing on . [[Just like you said, our story has ended . The world-line we used to live in was destroyed, and it"s just us four that became "Outer G.o.ds" after surviving that destruction . ]]

[[We promised to overcome the "Final Wall" even if we become the existences outside the scenarios . ]]
[[That wall isn"t something we can overcome . You also know this . ]]
[[In this world-line . . . . ]]
[[Stop it with "this world-line" nonsense! What"s so special about this world-line, anyway? This place is exactly the same as the one we used to live in . It"s a world-line that"s going to end soon . ]]
Yi Ji-Hye of this world-line staggered as I supported her . Her lips were trembling ever so slightly .
The "Master of the Sunken Island" continued on . [[The Great Dokkaebis that got in contact with us said this, that they were going to abandon this world-line . That they are planning to recycle it and use it as the start of a new story . ]]
Those words caused the "King of Silverlight Heart" to change his expression . The previously-warm aura dissipated and the sensation of cold metal spread out .
A chilling voice came out from the forged steel"s lips . [[… . What kind of a deal did you make with the Bureau?]]
[[If this world is about to sink underneath the ocean, it"s fine for us to destroy it personally, right?]]
[[Ji-Hye-ya . ]]
The 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye was smiling, but I wasn"t sure whether I could truly describe that expression of "smiling" or not .
[[The "Dokkaebi King" of this world promised us that if we destroyed this world-line, then he"d revive our own world-line . He"d get in touch with the "Most Ancient Dream" and allow us to start our stories again . ]]
Yi Ji-Hye"s shoulders were trembling . I too was also sharing in that shuddering .
That was the reason for the 999th turn"s beings to cross into this world . Even at the cost of destroying another world, they wished to regain theirs .
The "King of Silverlight Heart" replied . [[Our goal wasn"t to regain our world, but to find the true culprit of all these tragedies . ]]
[[What will change even if we did?]]
[[If we wish to carry out our captain"s wishes, we . . . . ]]
[[Even if we eliminate the source of the tragedies, the time we lost won"t come back . Our dead comrades won"t come back to us . The world we lived in, it"s not going to come back . . . . . The 999th turn"s Yu Jung-Hyeok who died there, he"s never coming back . ]]
Ku-gugugugu .
Something was approaching this location from afar while tearing through the horizon .
The "Master of the Sunken Island" spoke again . [[That"s why we don"t have a choice but to end it all and start again . ]]
The tsunami waves that lost its vigour began rising up once more .
The 999th turn"s Yi Hyeon-Seong hurriedly started the [Steel Transformation] and protected us with his metal . However, the force behind the waves was stronger and faster than the metal"s growth speed .
[[You can"t stop me . I told you this before that I"m not the only one here . ]]
Kwkwakwakwakwa!
The crimson sunset cast from behind us was burning up the heavens . That was the power of the "Living Flame", the 999th turn"s Uriel .
And the meaning of her approaching here meant . . .
"Ahjussi, it can"t be . . . . ?!"
Yi Ji-Hye grasped my sleeve .
I looked into her eyes and rea.s.sured her . "Don"t worry . Things you"re worried about will not happen . "
I was also saying to that myself .
"Our story, it"s not as weak as you fear . "
[Constellation, "Demon King of Salvation", is revealing his Status . ]
[Constellation, "Watcher of Light and Darkness", is revealing his Status . ]
[Constellation, "Prisoner of the Constrictive Headband", is revealing his Status . ]
The "Demon King of Salvation", the "Watcher of the Light and Darkness", plus the third Modifier I earned by putting on the constrictive headband – all of my Fables were emitting light at the same time .
I walked over to Yi Hyeon-Seong standing before us . "Thank you for helping us out . However, it"s alright not to push yourself . "
[[It"s dangerous . You must hide behind m . . . . ]]
"This isn"t the 999th turn . "
In front, the "Master of the Sunken Island" . And at the back, the "Living Flame" . There was no place to run now .
The shadow cast by the ma.s.sive battles.h.i.+p dawned upon us . And while standing on the top of that huge wave, the 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye muttered out as if she was mocking someone .
[[Everything will go back . Just like what the captain told us, we"ll also regress . We"ll go back to the past, and start everything from scratch . When we do . . . . ]]
The waves rolled in and crashed into us . I used the power of the "Great Fable" to deal with that Status . I felt searing pain from both of my hands defending against the wave .
I saw the horizon where the sun and the ocean met just beyond the rumbling walls of the foams . The boundary that we could never reach no matter how far we run .
Kwaaaaaah!
And then, that boundary split apart right before my eyes . A single blade was actually cutting that boundary down .
As she fell hard from the wave"s highest-spot, the 999th turn"s Yi Ji-Hye was looking at us .
More correctly, at a man standing next to me .
"You can"t change anything with regression . I needed a very long time to realise this . "
Fin .