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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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Chapter 486: Episode 92: The Final Scenario (5)

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My companions looked dumbfounded as they checked the Scenario.

“Dokja-ssi... That...”

The Clear Conditions were absurdly easy. Easier than any Scenario we had faced until now. All we had to do was board the Ark as the Great Dokkaebis instructed and leave this worldline.

[Why are you hesitating? There is no better Scenario for you.]

The voices of the Great Dokkaebis echoed through the air.

[Many Constellations even opposed choosing you as the seeds. We defied the flow of those stars and chose you.]

Bihyeong stood among them with his head lowered, biting his pale lips.

My thoughts were a mess. Why had the King of Stories suddenly offered us a Scenario like this? I couldn't tell.

Still, one thing was certain. If we listened to them, my companions' survival would be guaranteed.

「Kim Dokja Company's fables would be recorded on the Final Wall, alongside the other fables they had hated.」

When I turned around, my companions were looking at me.

“Everyone.”

I barely managed to speak, but the words that should have followed wouldn't come.

The easy path was right in front of us. If we chose it, my plan might not even be necessary.

None of my companions would die. They wouldn't become Outer Gods. We could board that ship, cross into another worldline, and live a new story as though none of this had ever happened.

We could take our fables and become rulers of a new worldline.

Like the supreme gods of Olympus and Asgard, we could enjoy the pleasures of Scenarios and live in comfort.

“Dokja-ssi.”

I turned and met Sangah's gaze.

「But could we happily buy a big house there?」

Jihye tightly gripped the keychain hanging from the Twin Dragon Swords.

「Could we smile and celebrate Jihye's graduation?」

Yuseong and Gilyeong clutched each other's collars.

「Go to a PC cafe with Gilyeong and play games.」

「Could we go to the Han River with Yuseong and eat pizza?」

Finally, Junghyeok looked at me.

「Could we act as if everything that happened to us meant nothing, as though we were erasing graffiti from a wall?」

The apocalypse had already happened, and it couldn't be undone.

[The Constellation Demonic Judge of Fire awaits your choice.]

Just as the dead Agares and Metatron wouldn't return.

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon watches your choice.]

[The Constellation Secretive Plotter watches your choice.]

Just as we couldn't undo the Apocalypse Dragon's resurrection,

or change the rounds Junghyeok had already lived through.

「All these worlds were already part of us.」

Suyeong spoke.

“Kim Dokja, why are you hesitating? You know what you have to do.”

Hyeongseong, who had approached before I knew it, placed a hand on my shoulder.

As if he knew what I was about to say.

“I think the same as you, Dokja-ssi.”

The fables we had built were telling our story.

They were telling us about those who would be left behind.

The people of Earth. My mother and the Wanderers. Those who had shared our story but weren't here with us now.

[All the fables of the nebula Kim Dokja Company are looking at you.]

[The Fourth Wall trembles violently!]

Once, Secretive Plotter had told me.

【When we meet again, I hope you'll have become the true master of that Wall.】

Hayoung had the Wall of Impossible Communication, and Sangah had the Wall of Reincarnation she inherited from Shakyamuni. Agares and Metatron had the Wall that Divides Good and Evil.

Every Wall had a fable that would be recorded on it.

「Then what fable should be written on [The Fourth Wall]?」

[The Fourth Wall] spoke.

That I was the final piece of the Final Wall.

「The grand finale of all these fables.」

As I began to speak, I looked at my companions one last time.

I checked to make sure this wasn't the wrong choice.

I didn't know. There was no way to know something like that. Still...

「Do what you want, Dokja-ssi.」

「Mister, when we die, we die together. You know that, right?」

「A righteous end is better than a shameful life prolonged.」

My companions' voices gave me courage.

The fables boiling up from deep within me allowed me to speak a constellation's declaration.

[We will not board the Ark.]

It felt as though I could almost see the full stop to the story I had agonized over for so long.

The Great Dokkaebis stared at me with frozen expressions.

Every Constellation in this worldline was focused on me alone.

Feeling each of those gazes, I was overcome by a profound sense of liberation.

「And at that moment, Kim Dokja realized which story had not been written in TWSA.」

I had read every round of TWSA. I remembered every story.

But there was one thing even I hadn't been able to read.

「Epilogue」.

From the 0th round to the 1,863rd.

Every fable I had read was gathering. The stories of the star streams flowing through the sky were converging on this worldline.

I could sense the Constellations stirring in the distance. Something was approaching us.

[Do you understand what you have just said?]

The Great Dokkaebis asked.

Some looked as though they had expected this, while others looked flustered.

In truth, neither mattered. To them, everything was simply a fable.

To them, this was the will of the Star Stream.

[The Star Stream presents your final Great Fable name.]

[You may select one of the presented conclusions.]

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1. Wanderer of the Ruined Worldline

2. Ruler of Despairing Starlight

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The names of the final Great Fable we had completed rose before me.

I looked at the conclusions I had been given.

Every option had a grand name.

「Yet none of them could fully contain their story.」

[I will not accept the fable names you have presented.]

[The Constellation Demon King of Salvation has rejected every option presented by the Star Stream.]

Tzzzzzt!

[I will not complete the conclusion you speak of.]

Slowly, I drew Unbreakable Faith from my waist.

Perhaps this moment had been destined from the first time I held this sword.

[All the fables of the nebula Kim Dokja Company begin their story!]

Junghyeok drew the Black Heaven Demon Blade, and Suyeong unwrapped the bandage around her left hand.

Huiwon raised the Sword of Judgement, while Jihye gripped the Twin Dragon Swords together.

Sangah unfolded the Lotus Pedestal, and Yuseong's Chimera Dragon roared.

Pildu deployed [Armament Fortress] faster than anyone, and Hayoung stood atop it, radiating the Status of a Transcendent.

Hyeongseong stood before me as if to protect everyone.

They spoke through their actions.

That was why I could speak.

[I will not let any of you abandon this worldline. Watch the destruction of the story you created. Watch closely... Watch what end the world you created will meet.]

The Status of the fables exploding from my entire body surged through Unbreakable Faith.

[Stop!]

The horrified Great Dokkaebis moved to block my Status.

Twice, then three times, I sent waves of fables at them.

[The Star Stream responds to your actions.]

[The Plausibility of the Administration Bureau has activated!]

Even as intense sparks constricted my whole body, I didn't retreat.

Amid the pain that felt as if my Incarnation body would be torn apart, every fable we had created roared.

[The Great Fable Spring of the Demon Realm begins its story!]

[The Great Fable Holy Flame That Devoured Myth begins its story!]

[The Great Fable Season of Light and Darkness begins its story!]

[The Great Fable Liberator of the Forgotten begins its story!]

[Your unnamed Great Fable begins its story!]

What determined a story's conclusion was the introduction, development, and twist it had built up until then.

Nothing else could determine its conclusion.

I swung my fist at the sparks before me again and again.

I threw Unbreakable Faith into the dazzling wave of backlash.

[The Star Stream, in response to your actions...]

[The possibility of a predetermined conclusion...]

[■?■■……■?■■?]

The predetermined letters before my eyes were shattering. Sentences I could read turned into unreadable things, like pale dust.

When the dust finally cleared, I saw the destroyed bow of the Ark.

Kwoooong!

I knew what would happen if I did this.

[The King of Stories is looking at you.]

[The King of the Hunchbacks delights in your actions.]

Even so, this was the best answer I could give.

「A way to find a conclusion that didn't exist in the original.」

「A way to save everyone while resolving twisted Plausibility.」

We couldn't reach this world's end through the predetermined structure of introduction, development, twist, and conclusion.

In the end, introduction, development, twist, and conclusion were the form of a predetermined ending. It wasn't a story that could cross the Final Wall.

「Therefore, Kim Dokja rejected the conclusion he had been given.」

A vast rupture was spreading through the world.

[The rules of the predetermined Scenario collapse because of your actions.]

[Some plots of the Star Stream collapse!]

[The Star Stream's emergency sequence has activated!]

The scenery around us was changing. I could feel the Star Stream struggling to force me into its conclusion.

「In the end, everything becomes a Scenario again.」

Perhaps the Great Dokkaebis didn't know. Or perhaps they did, yet had no choice but to act as they had. Within this enormous Scenario, even Streamers were only part of the Scenario.

[The Star Stream is pleased by your actions.]

[The Star Stream's final fable has awakened!]

Just as a Scenario that broke away from the Scenario was still a Scenario in the end.

But if everything was only a Scenario in the end, then I would choose which Scenario to live through.

So... Watch closely.

[The Main Scenario has been updated!]

“Dokja-ssi?”

The companions standing around me stared at me blankly.

My Incarnation body crackled as it changed. An ominous sense of exclusion spread across it.

I knew exactly what Scenario this was.

[Youngest.]

The battlefield unfolded before my eyes.

Constellations were being summoned across from us.

I could see our enemies, as well as the companions who had fought alongside us.

Anna Croft. Peihu of China. Rannvir Khan of India. Asuka Ren and Michio Shoji of the Japanese Alliance. Constellations from great nebulae, including Olympus, Asgard, and Emperor, were manifesting under the Plausibility of the Star Stream.

「Every Constellation of the Star Stream was gathering.」

The stars gathered and gathered, burning as though they would illuminate the entire universe.

They shone upon me as if they would not allow even a speck of darkness in this vast cosmos.

「This was the Star Stream's final battlefield.」

This was the very stage where the 1,863rd-round Yu Junghyeok had fought.

Where he had faced the swarming Outer Gods and the Outer God King.

The difference this time was simple.

The enemy was not the Outer God King.

[The Constellation Demonic Judge of Fire...!]

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon...]

[The Constellation Goryeo's Top Swordsman...!]

Indirect Messages rang out from the flickering stars.

I could hear the constellations' declarations from Uriel, Black Flame Dragon, and Cheok Junkyung. I could also hear my companions calling to me.

The chaos filling my vision made me dizzy. Covering my ringing ears, I slowly closed and opened my eyes.

[The Main Scenario has been updated!]

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Category: Main

Difficulty: Immeasurable?■

■?■?■?!■?■?■■■■■■…….

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The Scenario message was being reconstructed in real time.

I couldn't properly see its contents, but everyone here would have instinctively realized it. If this Scenario failed, the Star Stream would be destroyed.

Then, after a moment, the Clear Conditions everyone had been waiting for appeared.

As I read the condition slowly rising before me, a sentence from TWSA came to mind for some reason.

「There are three ways to survive in a ruined world.」

My companions shouted something as they looked at me.

The author of TWSA had said there were three ways to survive in this terrible world. Three ways.

I thought.

「Just because there are three ways doesn't mean only three people can survive.」

Looking at my companions, I gave them a small smile.

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Clear Conditions: Kill Enemy of the Story, Outer God King Kim Dokja.

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At last, this world's epilogue had begun.

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