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    When one grows up with the same group of people year in and out, they begin to feel less like friends and more of a family. A big, fluctuating family. You like some a little more than others, and there’s the problem child of the family, but at the end of the day, you have each other’s backs. Marinette quite appreciates her class dynamic.

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    Kim Dokja is back and left to ponder such things like fitting in and making amends. None of this proves easy. He was dead for too long and it's common knowledge that resurrection is a lengthy process. Especially because Kim Dokja was someone who buried himself at the age of 15 and didn't hope for anyone to care.

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    22 Sep 2025

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    It hadn’t been a big deal, Kim Dokja had thought, when he started feeling a little under the weather. It’d just been a sneeze. A cough. Maybe a bit of a runny nose. It still wasn’t a big deal when he’d gotten the fever later. These things happen. It’s not like he’s spent how-ever-many years taking care of himself and somehow never run into a cold. He’s made it work, dragged himself to work, and has done so multiple times over the course of his life. Shocker of shockers, he’s never died even once throughout this entire process. He can take care of himself.

    Kim Dokja’s Company doesn’t seem to think so.

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    17 Sep 2025

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    “Do you think you deserve this?” the Oldest Dream asks.

    Dokja is exhausted, miserable, shaky in his own skin. He’s so tired of being tired. “I’m starting to think I do,” he says.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    Yoo Joonghyuk is absolutely certain he’s never met this “Kim Dokja” before. But the man acts like he knows Yoo Joonghyuk. He isn’t showing any fear, instead babbling about the future, the forty sixth scenario, and normally Yoo Joonghyuk would have already thrown the anomaly to the monsters under the bridge, but now he’s hesitating.
    Could it be?..
    No. Demon King of Salvation hasn’t contacted Yoo Joonghyuk after giving him his stigma. Moreover, he promised they’d meet after 1863 regressions, so why now?..
    And yet…
    What else could be the source of the anomaly’s knowledge? The man is not a prophet, of that Yoo Joonghyuk is certain. He must have received the information the same way Yoo Joonghyuk did in his first round: from his sponsor.
    There’s only one constellation foolish enough to give away something so valuable for free.

    Or: Yoo Joonghyuk remembers round zero and assumes his sponsor has taken another incarnation, namely Kim Dokja, behind his back. Yoo Joonghyuk is not bitter about it (he is).

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    16 Aug 2025

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    Kim Dokja grasps at his hands desperately. “Joonghyuk-ah. Was this not the world you wanted?”

    “What?”

    “Did I dream it wrong? Is that it? Is that why you’re so sad all the time? Do you—do you want me to dream it differently?”

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    (Post epilogue, Kim Dokja gets too caught up in his own head. He thinks that maybe, he should never have been here at all.)

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    15 Aug 2025