#great plotter

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Next to me, Uriel finally stopped muttering something with a serious face only to fall into a snore-filled slumber. Meanwhile, the ‘Secretive Plotter’ was half-leaning against her, also unconscious.

Both the bad and good things you've done won't be overlooked. It will take some time but, "reach and you shall find."

But— that's just me, that's just something I learned from this ^ ^

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I put the book down and looked outside the window. It was circular-shaped, just like the circular room it was in.

Sunlight poured in faintly. I spotted the ‘Outer Gods’ enjoying the sunbath in between the forest’s dense foliage. Some of them discovered me and waved their tentacles about. As if I was looking at a scary scene from a fairy tale or something, I continued to stare at those tentacles. It could very well be that their outer appearance didn’t reflect their true nature.

Now that I took a closer look, their movements seemed to be rather graceful, too.

AHA!!! wait- so Kim Dokja was the one who erased their memories?

wait- one more question, are the recorders actually <Kim Dokja's company> or the first 2 readers of twsa that Kim Dokja encountered? (I don't remember their name but they died when the group was in Peace Land)

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⸢A few Recorders of Fear who had encountered the ‘Great Plotter’ came to learn that he was searching for the ‘Most Ancient Dream’…. (Omitted)…. Those lucky Recorders were able to ask the Great Plotter about the identity of the ‘Most Ancient Dream’.⸥

⸢[It is the beginning of this universe and the master of the gigantic cogwheel. My oldest mortal enemy and my parent. And the one who decides the end of everything.]⸥

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I spoke up as if to rebel against that hollowness. “….Your life saved someone else’s.”

To someone who had lost so much, the truth of saving a kid whom he didn’t even know the name of wouldn’t be much of a consolation. The boy was someone completely unrelated to him, after all. That boy was not his comrade or his family member.

I tried to open my lips several times, yet I still couldn’t say anything else. The life I lived was no help whatsoever in the quest to save this guy.

(1863rd round where Secretive Plotter zipped Kim Dokja and Yu Junghyeok is wholy tamed by Kim Dokja vibes.)

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I spoke with a grin on my face. “It feels like that story is still continuing on even right now. And maybe, it is really continuing on. I feel relieved, actually.”

[[You….]]

“Because, I’m a Constellation, you see.” As the Plotter’s expression hardened, I added something else with a cold voice. “Constellations are creatures like that.”

'Outer Gods' are beings from other dimensions that weren't saved. That would explain why Kim Dokja became an Outer God.

Now, I have 3 questions:

1. If OD's/KDJ's 'story' started when he first read the story, what were the memories all about before he turned 15? (Is the trauma he had fake or an image/illusion caused by what happened during and after 15? Or is it from another dimension when his soul got seperated and spread across the universe?)

2. The author and reader ended the novel in 10 years so why start at 15 when it ended at 28? (Is it a time jump? World skip? If so, then he didn't exactly read it for 10 years nor did he know the full story of the original Yu Junghyeok. That would also explain why therr's some parts about him that he doesn't understand. It just "seemed" like he read it for 10 years. It's either he read it for a longer or shorter time)

3. Why did he reincarnate at 15? (He started reading TWSA at 15, right? Kim Dokja often said that the novel "saved" him. So– why 15 and not younger when nothing saved him? Is it because that's the limit the <star stream>can do? Or is it because that was the age Han Suyeong knew about?)

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These memories lacked any obvious starting point, and they were not consistently linked to each other, either. However, I was able to follow them. As if I was connecting the constellations that couldn’t be connected previously.

Perhaps only I was able to connect them in this world.

And in that moment, I understood.

I understood what the ‘Outer God’ was, why Yu Jung-Hyeok from the original story had to become one willingly.

….And, why he had no choice but to become the ‘Secretive Plotter’.

Remember theories like Parallel Universes, Wormholes, the Egg theory, Reincarnations, and even countless interpretations of Heaven and Hell?

Somehow, everything is just one loop that already ended but still continues. There were tons of moments were mankind was supposed to go extinct. In some universe, that already happened, but like in this universe, the story of 'humans' continues along with other beings.

There is no end nor a beginning. Even the creation of Stars and universes are just one big loop.

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[[My Fable has already come to an end.]]

“….And then?”

[[….There is no ‘then’. That is what it means to end.]]

“Some stories can only begin anew after coming to its end. Back in the world I lived in, there was this guy who repeatedly said that his story would end that year, but he kept it going for over ten years.”

And that very story was what helped me to survive.

“I think I heard that the story was supposed end at around the 500th chapter, but before I knew it, it went past 1000th, and then, it shot past 2000 chapters.”

[[….What is it that you want to say?]]

Secretive Plotter is a little boy and the kkomas are protecting him and the snall outer god are protecting the kkomas 🥰.

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Soon, the ‘Secretive Plotter’ that lost his Status had morphed into the figure of a boy.

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... (Secretive Plotter and Kim Dokja is kinda similar. They both don't really want to give up the original story fully and always feels like they're alone even though they have comrades.)

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The history that the ‘Secretive Plotter’ had lived through – every part of the ‘Ways of Survival’ he lived through was now protecting him.

[DontkillhimDontkillhimDontkillhimDontkillhim]

They were stories that got discarded because they failed to reach the ‘Conclusion’.

I moved Yu Jung-Hyeok’s body again and lowered my posture towards them. When I reached out, one of the small Outer Gods bit the extended finger. Crimson blood formed on the tip of the bitten finger.