Epilogue. As at the Beginning, Forever
It was morning.
At the gentle touch of sunlight, Baek Dohyun opened his eyes. He felt strange. As if waking from a very long nightmare……?
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Baek Dohyun sprang upright.
He hurriedly looked around, and a familiar-looking room came into view.
To be precise, his old place.
Not the newly built apartment where S-rank Ranker Baek Dohyun had lived, but a split studio near the university district.
‘Did I…… come back?’
Blank-faced, Baek Dohyun stretched out a hand and picked up the digital clock.
March 3, 20xx.
Four days before the 40th Tutorial, and…… the date of the Seolleung Station incident. It was also, right after [Regression], the day he first met her.
‘……Ah.’
Right.
That crazy Star ‘spun it’ again.
‘In the end, Jioh died again.’
So the foreign god who couldn’t bear to watch her final death had spun this world once more. Both Kairos’s words and Kido’s words had all been true.
‘Then……’
When he closed his eyes that last time, the message on the status window that he’d been resurrected by someone else’s sacrifice wasn’t a dream……
Baek Dohyun clapped a hand over his mouth against a surge of nausea. He staggered into the bathroom, but even when he retched, nothing came up.
His head…