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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I remembered the moment I read a novel for the first time.
The texture of the soft paper touching my fingertips. The black letters blooming on a white field. The texture of the page I folded with my hands.
「 It isn’t important to read the letters. The important thing is where the letters lead you. 」
My mother, who loved books, used to say this. At least for me, it wasn’t just a saying.
The gaps in the black print. My own little snow garden lay in between the letters. This space, which was too small for someone to go into, was a perfect place for a child who liked to hide. Every time a pleasant sound was heard, the letters stacked up like snow.
In it, I became a hero. I had adventures, loved and dreamt. Thus, I read, read and read again.
I remembered the first time I was about to finish a book. It was like being deprived of the world.
The protagonist and supporting characters walked off with the sentence ‘They lived happily ever after’ and I was left alone at the end of the story. In my vanity and sense of betrayal, my young self struggled because I couldn’t stand the loneliness.
「This… is the end? 」
Perhaps it was similar to learning about death. For the first time, I realized that something was finite.”
― 전지적 독자 시점 1 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 1]
The texture of the soft paper touching my fingertips. The black letters blooming on a white field. The texture of the page I folded with my hands.
「 It isn’t important to read the letters. The important thing is where the letters lead you. 」
My mother, who loved books, used to say this. At least for me, it wasn’t just a saying.
The gaps in the black print. My own little snow garden lay in between the letters. This space, which was too small for someone to go into, was a perfect place for a child who liked to hide. Every time a pleasant sound was heard, the letters stacked up like snow.
In it, I became a hero. I had adventures, loved and dreamt. Thus, I read, read and read again.
I remembered the first time I was about to finish a book. It was like being deprived of the world.
The protagonist and supporting characters walked off with the sentence ‘They lived happily ever after’ and I was left alone at the end of the story. In my vanity and sense of betrayal, my young self struggled because I couldn’t stand the loneliness.
「This… is the end? 」
Perhaps it was similar to learning about death. For the first time, I realized that something was finite.”
― 전지적 독자 시점 1 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 1]
“I love you like all-fire.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping
“During the period of ten years, he'd get to finish reading a certain novel, and after surviving by reading that novel, he'd drive everyone he loved to utter misery.
That boy would grow up to become Kim Dokja.
"M-monster…"
The child was opening his mouth while looking at me.
"That's right, I'm a monster."
My appearance was reflected on the boy's irises.
That monster was this child's future.”
― 전지적 독자 시점 Part 5 01
That boy would grow up to become Kim Dokja.
"M-monster…"
The child was opening his mouth while looking at me.
"That's right, I'm a monster."
My appearance was reflected on the boy's irises.
That monster was this child's future.”
― 전지적 독자 시점 Part 5 01
“…Hey, Yoo Joonghyuk."
He stopped his actions when I spoke up.
"You probably know this already, but I'm not a prophet. No, I am as far removed from such a being as you can get."
Ever since we got into a tussle back on the Dongho Bridge, I had never introduced myself properly once. To Yoo Joonghyuk, I was the prophet, a man with a mysterious background.
"I'm not the 'Demon King of Salvation'."
[Story, 'Demon King of Salvation', has stopped its storytelling.]
"I'm also not the 'King of a Kingless World'."
[Story, 'King of a Kingless World', has stopped its storytelling.]
One by one, my Stories stopped their stories.
Excluding my own, everything else became dead still.
"My name is Kim Dokja."
The wings on my back disappeared, and the ballooned-up muscles shrunk back, too.
"Twenty-eight… No, wait. I was twenty-eight, and I was an employee of a game company. My hobby was reading web novels…"
As if I was talking to someone I met for the first time, I continued to tell my own story.
"It's pathetic, right? Well, this is who I am… Yoo Joonghyuk, who are you?"
To me, Yoo Joonghyuk was“someone I 'knew' since from a long time ago. To be more specific, he was someone I read about all by myself.
That was why I had never heard about his story in his own words.
He finally opened his mouth.
"I am Yoo Joonghyuk."
His blade slowly moved and cut me down.
"Yoo Joonghyuk, a former Regressor.”
―
He stopped his actions when I spoke up.
"You probably know this already, but I'm not a prophet. No, I am as far removed from such a being as you can get."
Ever since we got into a tussle back on the Dongho Bridge, I had never introduced myself properly once. To Yoo Joonghyuk, I was the prophet, a man with a mysterious background.
"I'm not the 'Demon King of Salvation'."
[Story, 'Demon King of Salvation', has stopped its storytelling.]
"I'm also not the 'King of a Kingless World'."
[Story, 'King of a Kingless World', has stopped its storytelling.]
One by one, my Stories stopped their stories.
Excluding my own, everything else became dead still.
"My name is Kim Dokja."
The wings on my back disappeared, and the ballooned-up muscles shrunk back, too.
"Twenty-eight… No, wait. I was twenty-eight, and I was an employee of a game company. My hobby was reading web novels…"
As if I was talking to someone I met for the first time, I continued to tell my own story.
"It's pathetic, right? Well, this is who I am… Yoo Joonghyuk, who are you?"
To me, Yoo Joonghyuk was“someone I 'knew' since from a long time ago. To be more specific, he was someone I read about all by myself.
That was why I had never heard about his story in his own words.
He finally opened his mouth.
"I am Yoo Joonghyuk."
His blade slowly moved and cut me down.
"Yoo Joonghyuk, a former Regressor.”
―
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