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Yoo joonghyuk, the supreme king, regressor,he has many names. He’s been feared, ridiculed, worshiped and praised.
A man of divine looks with an ego to match it. People used to throw themselves to his feet to become close to him in his gamer days.
He however knew that once they got to see the man behind the mask they would quickly get bored so he never put in an effort to get close to people. This did not bother him in the slightest as he was content with his social circle.
After all no one could understand him and his journey of repeating his life over and over and over again.
The curse of dieing over and over and over again while seeing those you care about die every time. After all that was only the fate of the damned and cursed that he alone bears.
—-Oh great plotter-—-
This was ofcourse what he thought before that one sacrificial bastard came into his cursed life…
Kim dokja, king of a kingless world, demon king of salvation, ###### #####, he’s been called many names. Affectionately and hurtfully.
A simple reader—dreamer-— whose favorite novel became his reality. His past was just as disorienting as his face—why can’t I remember it-—.
A child born from a loveless marriage spending his life behind the comfort of a book hoping that just maybe, maybe if he read enough it would be able to block the screams and shattering of glass that serves as background music in his house. Son of a women who went through hell and finally saved herself and her son from her husband. But a murderer will always be a murderer and her son always the son of a murderer. Life did not go easy on him, relentless bullying causing suicide to be his only option, but of course… useless dokja couldn’t even kill himself right. He survived to his and his relatives dismay.
After that his only solace was TWSA. Now when he finds himself and his world in the same novel he read for years hoping that he could borrow just a once of strength from his beloved protagonist. Kim dokja did not believe that he could be loved.
——the most ancient dream-——
This was of course until a certain protagonist and a certain group of people entered his life.
Two lost and wounded souls find solace together even during twisted and tough times.
Chapter 2: A lost sword and denials
Summary:
A quiet melody rings in my ears. It is as haunting as the cries of those I have forgotten.
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“Yah yah Yoo joonghyuk don’t sulk I’m sure we will find your sword”, a irritated Kim dokja called out to the regressor facing the wall with a stormy look on his face glaring at it for the past 20 minutes. ‘He’s sulking like a child, I already told him heewon and jihye went to find his sword’.
“…….”, Yoo joonghyuk just stared at the wall silently brooding. What happened was Gilyoung and yoosung were playing with bugs and animals when one of yoosungs animal took Yoo joonghyuks sword that was resting there as said man was taking a water break from training.
A tearful yoosung and a regretful gilyoung stood by dokja’s side, guilty that they had been the reason his sword was missing when they had a scenario coming up soon
“Ajusshi will master be alright”, shin yoosung asked.
“This big baby will be fine, heewon or jihye will find his sword”, replied an exasperated dokja. “You’re not gonna sulk there the entire time till they come will you?….”
[constellation ‘demon like judge of fire’ is giggling at the actions of incarnation ‘yoo joonghyuk’]
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[constellation ‘abysall black flame dragon’ tells incarnation ‘Yoo joonghyuk’ to stop sulking and to act like a man]
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[constellation ‘prisoner of the golden headband’ laughs at the situation]
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“See even the constellations agree that this is stupid”, he glares at the sulking man. ‘This guy I swear….he’s so cute thou- wait what no why am I thinking he’s cute’.
“Oi ajusshi we found masters sword”, Lee jihye said walking in the room with Jung heewon behind her holding the missing sword. “master here’s your sword-“
Yoo joonghyuk swiftly walked across the room and grabbed his sword mumbling a thank you.
“Finally this big baby was sulking so much are you happy now yoonghyuk-ah”, the endearing tone slipped out without him realizing it. Jung heewon simply raised an eyebrow before leaving.
“What? Did I say something wrong?”
“…”, yoo joonghyuk just glared at him while leaving the rest of them also following him leaving kim dokja behind. Dokja swears that he saw that the tips of his ears were red but in the end blamed it on the lighting.
‘This bastard always glaring at me thinking he’s better huh, what am I saying, I should be grateful that a perfect man like that even acknowledging me. All this unconditional love is making me forget to be grateful.
‘After all… Im just dokja, these wonderful people thinking of me as their leader were scammed into the false confidence.’, he thought walking out to the living room before hearing a loud crash. ‘What the-’
A disgruntled Han sooyoung was held up by the scruff of her neck by a furious yoo yoonghyuk. A shocked yoo Sangah was trying to make the larger man let go of the cat like women
“BASTARD LET ME GO, YOU CANT DO THIS JUST BECAUSE YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH”, yelled out Han sooyoung.
Dokja stepped into the room and immediately her razor sharp eyes caught the movement.
“LETS ASK THE MAN HIMSELF SHALL WE- hmphmmppphhhhhh!”, she was silenced by sangah covering her mouth and finally getting her out of yoonghyuk’s iron like grip.
“That’s enough sooyoung-ssi”, a tight lipped sangha replied.
‘What the hell did I walk into…’, thought Kim dokja.
Notes:
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Chapter 3: Confrontations
Summary:
Infinite stars but your not one of them
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
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After settling down he raised one eyebrow at them waiting for an explanation.
Yoo joonghyuk just glared at han sooyung from his place besides dokja, leaning on the wall.
Han sooyoung was torn between cackling at all of this obliviousness or pulling a sun wukong and ripping her hair out
yoo sangah sat with perfect poise and looked ready to kill everyone there if they made a ruckus again.
"ugh fine I'll talk, well to start it off our lovely, emotionally constipated, bastard, asshole-"
"Han sooyoung."
"Tsk, well our stupid protagonist sunfish over here was acting as dumb as you"
"What..."
[ Ki M Do KjA iS D Umb]
(Kim dokja is dumb)
'very helpful right now'
"I said-"
"No I get what u said sooyoung, but what is he doing that makes him apparently so dumb to you?"
"Not confess-fgvdgjj"
"I think this conversation is over for now dokja-ssi", said sangah giving a tight lipped smile.
Yoo joonghyuk just grunted and left the room.
[Constellation 'The last timekeeper of forgotten hours' thinks this whole situation is ridiculous and points out communication is key]
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"So.... Does anyone know why master is sulking right now?"
"No but I can guess it", replies heewon stabbing her carrots imagining it was their companies two idiotic leaders.
"Poor dokja-ssi looks like he so confused", said hyunsung, his imaginary tail dropping down.
Yoosung was blasting bad desire by enhypen to annoy gilyoung in the background
"Well let's just see what happens..."
"Seolwha? I guess even you with your infinite patience can't bear this courting disaster
Notes:
Ik it's super small and I didn't disappeared for like a million years but lifes been hard and I've had no time but I wanted to put smt out.
Check out my other fic 'ropes and binds'!
Chapter 4: Thoughts and prayer
Summary:
Even in a burning building I'll still reach for you, like I have all this time
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
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Kim Dokja stared at the wall of their newly secured headquarters, but he wasn't seeing the chipped plaster.
He was seeing the words of his companions, specifically the partially blocked rant from Han Sooyoung.
Not confessing—
It kept repeating in his mind, echoing louder than any of the usual Star Stream notifications.
"What exactly was he supposed to be confessing?" he murmured, rubbing his temples.
He tried to logically deduce what she meant because disecting emotions was a necessary to prevent unwanted confrontation's and a personal shield. One he's honed from years of solitude.
She must have meant that he confess he failed a scenario. No, that is impossible. Yoo joonghyuk failing a scenario? Unheard of.
Maybe she meant he should confess about a skill? Unlikely, if he was hiding a skill important enough to fuss over then there must be a important or connected to his sponsor or regression ability.
Maybe it is related to a scenario that he must complete by confessing something
Kim dokja does what he does the best in times like these. Read.
He opens up the TWSA draft and reads it, his body and mind easing due to the routine of this action.
After finishing reading it, he realised something
Yoo joonghyuk has deveated so much from the original story line that he can no longer get any substantial understanding about him from TWSA.
The little notification alerting him he has understood the character more does not appear.
[Yo O JO oNg h Y uk iS n O lo Ng er a char EC ter yUo can Un dEr s tanD fU ll y f roM tHe N ove L]
(Yoo joonghyuk is no longer a character you can understand fully from the novel)
'i understand that..'
[constellation 'The last timekeeper of forgotten hours' says that incarnation ----constellation---- kim dokja----'the demon king of salvation'---- should stop overthinking]
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[constellation ‘demon like judge of fire’ sighs in frustration at your obliviousness]
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[constellation ‘abysall black flame dragon' agrees with constellation 'demon like judge of fire' for once]
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[constellation ‘prisoner of the golden headband’ is pulling his hair out in frustration at your obliviousness]
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[constellation 'secretive plotter' is getting a headache because of this scene]
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"Instead of being frustrated, you could be happy if you just tell me what I'm missing"
[constellation ‘demon like judge of fire’ says that you must figure it out yoursekf to prove your companioshio with incarnation 'yoo joonghyuk']
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"I'll never figure this out"
[constellation 'The last timekeeper of forgotten hours' helpfullu suggests you to talk to incarnation 'yoo joonghyuk' about this matter]
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"Fine, I'll go see the sunfish"
Notes:
Update tmr also!