I know who you are. You told me your story yourself.
[ The blade doesn't come closer... Niah merely settles somewhere with Jin in his mouth, touching glass again.
You are... Upset. Kim Dokja in his death, missing for years, had chosen to stay in the 1863rd wordline, the world where you've regressed 1863 times. Why? You swung your sword at him, heart chilled into ice, but it crumbles to each beat. Why would he do that? His family and friends are here. His wordline is here. How could he abandon all of that? For what?
Then the truth... Much like the Constellations that read your life for entertainment, the person you call your companion did as well. He read your story like a glutton because you are a "fictional character" in a "story." Did he ever try to know you at all? Reading someone is different from knowing someone and you had always thought... Kim Dokja understood you. Maybe you were wrong. No, he understood you as a "character."
You're right here, in front of him, but he only ever thought of you as a "character."
You never had companions.
Dokja, being pushed back by your attacks, starts speaking.
“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.”
“I’m not the ‘Demon King of Salvation’.”
His fables stop singing one by one as he lists them all off as things that do not make him who he is. These are the fables that brought him strength... These are the fables you got to witness during the years of fighting beside him.
“I’m also not the ‘King of a Kingless World’.”
The conclusion comes.
“My name is Kim Dokja. Twenty-eight… No, wait. I was twenty-eight, and I was an employee of a game company. My hobby was reading web novels…”
...
“It’s pathetic, right? Well, this is who I am…”
... Eventually, to Joonghyuk, Dokja's past didn't matter to him. He eventually understood the weight his story had on the other man... Because of his story, Dokja was able to live to this point in a normal and ruined world. ]
I trust you, but I cannot accept the ending you're going to give us. We are not going to settle for 49% of you.
[ More so them, the Yoo Joonghyuk and company that wait for Dokja on that train. ]
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[ The blade doesn't come closer... Niah merely settles somewhere with Jin in his mouth, touching glass again.... Eventually, to Joonghyuk, Dokja's past didn't matter to him. He eventually understood the weight his story had on the other man... Because of his story, Dokja was able to live to this point in a normal and ruined world. ]
I trust you, but I cannot accept the ending you're going to give us. We are not going to settle for 49% of you.
[ More so them, the Yoo Joonghyuk and company that wait for Dokja on that train. ]
You will be in our ending, all 100%.
[ He decided so long ago... ]