Chapter 534
Han Su-Yeong continued to write .
The short period of time given to her during the wee hours was completely devoted to Kim Dok-Ja .
"Hey, Dokkaebi King . "
"Yes, my dear god . "
" . . . . I told you to stop calling me that . Anyways . The 'Ways of Survival' will be published seven in the evenings from now on . The website doesn't have the feature to schedule the chapter releases ahead of time yet, so you hold onto the manuscript and upload them on time for me . If I upload them during dawn, that kid is going to stay up late and wait . He won't get any sleep . "
"I shall do as you command . "
Han Su-Yeong spat out a lengthy groan and shifted her gaze back to the manuscript she'd been working on .
⸢Yu Jung-Hyeok examined the events of the previous regression turn . ⸥
She couldn't possibly write a life that lasted for 1863rd regression turns . 3149 chapters were simply too short to contain a life lived for 1864 times . She had to omit some regression turns, while some others had to be greatly reduced in length .
She knew that life didn't really work that way . But at the same time, she had to acknowledge that some lives could only be written in such a manner . Once she came to accept that, writing those lives didn't prove to be too difficult for her .
The life of 1863rd turn Yu Jung-Hyeok was given to her in its entirety, while she also possessed information from the 3rd turn Kim Dok-Ja, as well . Most importantly, though, she was an excellent writer .
The margins she couldn't fill up, they would instead be lived out by Yu Jung-Hyeok himself .
Yu Jung-Hyeok, who'd take his breaths among the flowing contexts of the words, and step above the hard ground covered by the pitch-black letters .
All she could do was to deliver such Yu Jung-Hyeok's story .
Every time she wrote a single chapter, Kim Dok-Ja's life was extended by yet another day . As one sentence after another was compiled and recorded, her own time also ticked forward little by little .
The 13-year-old Han Su-Yeong became 14 . Then, 15 years old .
⸢A serialisation that would last for ten long, arduous years had begun . ⸥
It was tough . She didn't have enough stamina, and her young body was simply too frail . Even then, Han Su-Yeong endured . She thought about Kim Dok-Ja beyond the computer screen, also getting older like her . Kim Dok-Ja, who hadn't died, hadn't given up, and was still enduring his life .
- Dear author-nim, Today, Jung-Hyeok did . . .
Are you really enjoying a story like this?
Although half in doubt, Han Su-Yeong still continued to write the story .
⸢"The information I gave you will come in handy later down the line . So, take a look whenever you have time . "⸥
The story would not end as long as someone was reading it .
That's how it was with the 1863rd regression turn, once thought to be the last .
- Author-nim . I've been thinking, how about creating a new character by using this opportunity . . . . ?
She checked the comments Kim Dok-Ja left behind every day . As she was active only around the early hours, communicating with him in real-time was difficult, but she did reply to the questions that seemingly required one .
- Should I create another main character?
- If possible, might as well as make her a pretty female character . . .
- Aha, you mean a beautiful young girl .
⸢Facial features more than enough to slap Yu Jung-Hyeok's cheeks twice . A beautiful young boy with brilliant blonde locks glared at Yu Jung-Hyeok and shouted out . "Hey you, dumpling man . "⸥
- … . But, author-nim??
Kim Dok-Ja, 16 years old . 17, 18 .
He'd consume this story and grow older, and eventually, become the 'Most Ancient Dream' . Despite knowing that fact, Han Su-Yeong still enjoyed this time period . A world of a pure-white snowfield where letters were wandering around freely . Above this world existed Kim Dok-Ja, and so did Han Su-Yeong .
- Author-nim . I was wondering if Jung-Hyeok-ee is suffering way too much lately . . .
Sometimes, she'd put Yu Jung-Hyeok through the wringer . It only happened because of her desire to realistically copy and paste the story she already knew . While writing the novel in this manner, she'd fall into a pit of confusion every now and then .
Did this event really happen in the past?
Couldn't it be more like, it happened because I wrote this?
Whatever the truth was, she still gave it her all . She took pride in her work . But at the same time, she had to admit that it was impossible for her to completely rule over her own work .
⸢With a pair of seething, boiling eyes, Yu Jung-Hyeok glared up into the heavens . ⸥
Sometime in the future, Yu Jung-Hyeok created by the tips of her hands would meet that Kim Dok-Ja for real . Just thinking about that event nearly made her go crazy from time to time .
- Unprecedented hit novel! ⸢⸢SSSSS-grade Infinite Regressor⸥⸥!
Around that time, the 'daytime ego' began working as an author in earnest, as well . Of course, she had stolen the nighttime Han Su-Yeong's talents wholesale, so there was no way that her novel would fail . Not only that, the 'daytime ego' even went to the trouble of creating an anonymous account to leave behind a toxic comment on the 'Ways of Survival', too .
- I'm really worried about the life of the dear author-nim actually writing this junk .
… . What was even more flabbergast-inducing was Kim Dok-Ja's DM .
- Author-nim! Do know about the novel called SSSSS-grade Infinite Regressor? That novel's setting is exactly the same as the Ways of . . .
Han Su-Yeong smirked and began typing her reply . She thought, right, the dude writing a DM like this accused me of being a plagiarist during the 1863rd turn, did you?
- I'm happy that my viewcount has gone up thanks to the exposure, actually .
When she was finished typing the reply, the faint rays of the daybreak had cast onto the world outside the window . Starting from a while ago, she didn't feel refreshed even after waking up . She'd often use up all of her allotted time on writing the novel, and there were times when she couldn't endure the fatigue anymore and fall asleep despite the self-regulated activity period not having ended yet .
To make matters worse, her memories were gradually deteriorating, as well .
Information she heard from Yu Jung-Hyeok, and received from Kim Dok-Ja – she couldn't recall them well . Things that happened back in the 1863rd turn were getting blurrier . And also . . .
[Your Fable is being consumed . ]
Even the length of her self-regulated activity period was decreasing gradually .
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The time continued to tick by, and Han Su-Yeong continued to write almost every day .
At times, she couldn't wake up and ended up wasting an entire day . And due to the worsening fatigue, the number of days she couldn't read Kim Dok-Ja's comments increased as well .
- Author-nim . I'll be joining the military the day after tomorrow . Looks like I'll be sent to the frontlines .
- It's Kim Dok-Ja . I'm here at Yanggu .
- Jung-Hyeok-ah . . . I wonder, have you ever shovelled snow before?
20 years old, 21, 22 . . .
371st turn, 621st, 972nd . . .
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