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โฆHey, 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-eightโฆ No, wait. I was twenty-eight, and I was an employee of a game company. My hobby was reading web novelsโฆ"
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 amโฆ Yoo Joonghyuk, who are you?"
To me, Yoo Joonghyuk wasโsomeone 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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