A meteor shower was observed.

A rain of stars falling from the sky.

It made me realize anew just how many stars there had been in the sky of <Star Stream>.

The stars that forced scenarios on incarnations, cheered them on, laughed at them, mocked them, sponsored them, saved them, and were saved by them.

Those stars were setting.

Inside Han Sooyoung’s world, I looked up together with her at the scenery she had seen that day.

“Let’s begin.”

Everything flowed according to Han Sooyoung’s will. The constellations whose escape routes had been cut off by her scheme had no choice but to follow Han Sooyoung’s plan.

「First wave, Lightning」.

The one who faced the lightning shockwave was one of <Asgard>’s representative constellations.

[I am Thursday’s Thunder!]

Thursday’s Thunder, Thor.

[I never thought I’d end up matching timing with you.]

The thunder god-king, Indra.

And a fable-grade constellation belonging to the Ten Demons also joined the battle.

[Oooooooo!]

‘Lightning of Calamity and Bountiful Harvest’, Raijin.

It was a Japanese-side constellation that hadn’t properly revealed itself in the main story.

Kugugugugu!

However, the three of them couldn’t cancel out all the lightning shockwaves.

[We’ll join too!]

Murim people who had learned lightning-type martial arts, and even great person-grade constellations, lent a hand as well.

But despite the cooperation of those stars, the lightning shockwaves that spread out mercilessly swept through the universe of <Star Stream>.

Stars burning away without even being able to scream.

But there was no leeway to look back at them.

「Second wave, Scorching Heat」.

Without even a moment to catch their breath, the scorching heat shockwave followed. Stars panicked and began to retreat at the wave of scorching heat that had grown even larger than the lightning shockwave.

“Now it’s my turn!”

When Kim Namwoon, wrapped head to toe in [Black Flame], stepped forward confidently, the constellations also burst out shouts as if they couldn’t lose.

[Compared to a volcano’s flames, it’s nothing!]

The volcanic blacksmith, Hephaestus.

[It’s time to cover the strongest flames.]

‘Burning Tragedy’ Kagutsuchi and ‘Wandering Lantern’ Jack o’ Lantern.

What appeared behind them was a fire god whose entire body was engulfed in bright flames.

[I’ll block it.]

One of <Veda>’s Lokapala, ‘Purifying Flame’ Agni.

[This time, I can’t sit it out either.]

And likewise, another Lokapala, ‘God of Supreme Light’ Surya.

[Kgh, we’re being pushed back—!]

[Kuaaaaargh!]

Even so, the total amount of power was lacking. As the constellations grew stronger, the shockwaves the Apocalypse Dragon was spewing out were also growing stronger.

The moment Hephaestus and Agni, who had been enduring it in the front line, scattered into ash, terrified constellations screamed and fled.

But there was also a constellation that did not run away to the end and held its ground.

[Not yet.]

She was the last remaining archangel of the 1,863rd round <Eden>.

The demonic judge of fire, Uriel.

The wall of flames built around her blocked the scorching heat shockwave. How much time passed like that? With its manifestation, Uriel’s [Hellfire Lotus] began to split the waves of scorching heat little by little.

A disaster that, the moment it manifested, confirmed <Star Stream>’s destruction. Watching that disaster be neutralized in real time right in front of them, the constellations trembled.

[W-we did it. We did it!]

[This, maybe really……!]

Although the damage to planets other than Earth was enormous, the stars that had protected the Main Scenario region regained their morale.

But Han Sooyoung’s expression wasn’t very bright.

「The flow is bad.」

Because the scenery in front of her eyes right now was a scene she had already seen in a discarded hypothesis.

「Discarded hypothesis 87413. ‘Interference’.」

In that hypothesis, they had blocked the Apocalypse Dragon’s lightning shockwave and scorching heat shockwave far too easily, and as a result <Star Stream> met a horrific ending.

[The plausibility of <Star Stream> is moving.]

Han Sooyoung bit her lip hard.

[What is it, why is plausibility all of a sudden—]

[Damn it! That is……!]

The plausibility of <Star Stream> flows in the direction the watching stars want.

Even in this situation where countless stars were facing off against the Apocalypse Dragon, there were still stars enjoying the spectacle.

[How could myth-grade constellations……!]

The myth-grade constellations had already sacrificed their own fables and escaped from the disaster region. They were watching Earth’s destruction from the Final Scenario region.

[The myth-grade constellations of <Star Stream> ridicule ‘Director of the False Epilogue’.]

They did not want Han Sooyoung and the other constellations to block the Apocalypse Dragon’s disaster. If such a ‘fable’ were born, Han Sooyoung would gain power that could even topple the position of the myth-grade constellations.

「Third wave, Chaos」.

After that, the Apocalypse Dragon’s third wave swept over the constellations.

[Aaaaaaagh!]

The stars that took the chaos shockwave at the front vanished with death screams.

The chaos shockwave was fundamentally different from the lightning shockwave and scorching heat shockwave that came before it. An attribute that only those who possessed both the traits of good and evil, or those who bore the protection of an ‘Otherworldly Divinity’, could deal with. However, this also did not mean there was no way to clear it.

Because if the ‘Absolute Good’ and ‘Absolute Evil’ constellations who had participated in the Holy Demon Great War joined forces, and if they could reproduce the great fable of the ‘Holy Demon Great War’, it was possible to implement the attribute of chaos arbitrarily.

But.

[Some constellations receive the protection of a ‘nebula’ and withdraw from the scenario!]

Taking advantage of a gap where the scenario’s restrictions weakened, the fable-grade constellations of ‘Absolute Good’ and ‘Absolute Evil’ who had received the protection of a nebula began withdrawing one by one.

In an instant, only one fable-grade constellation remained at the front.

“Uriel! No!”

Along with the flames of [Hellfire Lotus], the incarnation body of the archangel who had thrown away everything scattered into ash.

The balance of the battlefield collapsed, and great person-grade constellations soaked in fear wailed. Everything across the area was being swept away by the Apocalypse Dragon’s chaos shockwave.

But Han Sooyoung did not give up.

「I expected even this far.」

Staring at the incoming chaos shockwave, Han Sooyoung pulled out <Eden>’s sacred fruit from her bosom. The moment she bit into the ‘fruit of good and evil’, the power of chaos surged up from her entire body.

[The power of the ‘fruit of good and evil’ seeps into you!]

[All constellations of ‘Absolute Good’ are aghast at your choice!]

[All constellations of ‘Absolute Evil’ are aghast at your choice!]

[Some myth-grade constellations mock that enduring the ‘chaos shockwave’ alone is impossible.]

Han Sooyoung knew too.

Eating the fruit of good and evil was nothing more than a means to use her body as a ‘pathway’ for chaos.

To block the approaching disaster, she needed the support of a powerful being that could check the Apocalypse Dragon.

The first thing that came to mind was ‘Inexpressible Remoteness’. But if she summoned ‘The Nameless Mist’, which was a disaster like the Apocalypse Dragon, as the price, Earth would also be erased.

Her hesitation wasn’t long.

“Great ancient being who governs primordial fables!”

A ring of chaos began floating around Han Sooyoung’s entire body.

[Nebula, <Papyrus> warns you!]

[Nebula, <Olympus> issues an order to the terminal incarnation bodies!]

[Nebula, <Asgard> glares at you!]

The terminal incarnation bodies of the nebulae all rushed at Han Sooyoung at once. A resolve to stop Han Sooyoung even if it meant self-destruction.

The myth-grade constellations of the 1,863rd round had thought it. If they did not remove Han Sooyoung here, then Han Sooyoung would become their greatest threat in the future.

In front, the chaos shockwave was coming, and behind, the nebula’s incarnation bodies were charging.

Even so, Han Sooyoung was smiling.

“I knew it all.”

This was the final fable of <Star Stream> that she had planned.

「Hypothesis 88876. ‘Great Chaos’.」

The Apocalypse Dragon’s chaos shockwave covered Earth.

[The protection of the ‘great ancient being’ settles upon you.]

While no star dared to utter a true word, the Apocalypse Dragon’s chaos shockwave began being sucked into her hands.

But even borrowing the power of the ‘great ancient being’, it was impossible to fully bear the chaos shockwave. So instead of receiving it head-on, she chose to twist the chaos shockwave’s trajectory and knock it aside.

And in the direction she twisted the chaos shockwave’s trajectory.

[The myth-grade constellations cannot hide their shock!]

The ‘myth-grade constellations’ of the Final Scenario were there.

Kugugugugugu!

The constellations’ screams. As countless true words covered the sky, the Apocalypse Dragon’s chaos shockwave swept over the constellations.

[The myth-grade constellations aboard the ‘Last Ark’ roar!]

All around was covered in pitch-black darkness. The universe flickered, and day and night alternated as they came.

The shining starlight faded away, and the number of indirect messages began decreasing one by one. Thick darkness fell, and the universe was covered in silence.

After a while, when even that darkness retreated, Han Sooyoung slowly opened her eyes.

What could be seen in the sky was the Apocalypse Dragon, as if tired, curling its body back into the seal sphere, and the ‘Last Ark’, split in half and embedded into the atmosphere.

[All constellations of <Star Stream> will forever not forget ‘Director of the False Epilogue’.]

The scenario ended.

She blocked the Apocalypse Dragon’s shockwaves.

“It’s done.”

A barely-held sigh spilled out.

The disaster ended. The hypothesis had succeeded.

But where Han Sooyoung slowly turned her head to look, a scenery that had not been in her 「Predicted Plagiarism」 unfolded.

“Ah.”

There, the main characters she had to protect were collapsed powerlessly.

「Hypothesis 88876. ‘Great Chaos’.」

Lee Hyunsung, Kim Namwoon, Lee Jihye, Lee Seolhwa, Shin Yoosung. And…….

「Development failed.」

The scenery in front of my eyes began being torn away as a whole. Like erasing a wrongly written sentence, the scenery was blurring at a mercilessly fast speed.

「It had to remain a hypothesis.」

Between the torn-away scenery, only sentences that would not be erased to the end drifted.

「It was a story that must not become reality.」

I stared blankly at those sentences.

「He probably didn’t want to see a story like this.」

Han Sooyoung’s voice and system messages came in fragments. Inside the torn scenery, Han Sooyoung was moving her collapsed comrades.

Critical injuries that couldn’t be revived even with a life-and-death pill.

「No one can die.」

Her 「Predicted Plagiarism」 was going out of control. Fables that billowed out wrapped the group.

Otherworldly power began swallowing everything across the area. The dead people, the destroyed headquarters, were covered over.

And only now did I realize how the scenery I had seen was made.

That’s right. The people I met too, the Gwanghwamun base too, all of it was Han Sooyoung’s—

“Kim Dokja.”

When I snapped my head around, Lee Seolhwa was gripping my wrist.

“We have to go back now.”

“I still haven’t met the real Han Sooyoung.”

“The captain doesn’t want to meet you. Because…….”

“Because I learned the whole truth.”

Looking at the hesitating Lee Seolhwa, I added.

“That’s why I have to meet her even more.”

“Sooyoung—”

“Han Sooyoung must not use [Avatar] anymore.”

I know what Lee Seolhwa is trying to say.

The ability to cover Gwanghwamun with her own [Avatar]. This wasn’t a kind of miracle that an ordinary constellation could pull off.

Han Sooyoung might have become a being that had left humanity behind. Stained by the power of the ‘great ancient being’ she had contracted with, she might have become an Otherworldly Divinity.

“There’s something I absolutely have to say.”

Even so, I couldn’t give up.

“Don’t be greedy.”

“…….”

“It’s the captain’s choice. Making this world, making us into avatars, all of it is the captain’s choice. It isn’t something you get to argue about.”

“…….”

“You can just pretend you don’t know. Just experience this world the captain made, and go back to your original world like a reader who read one entertaining story. Then—”

I shook off her hand and began moving forward.

“Kim Dokja!”

Lee Seolhwa’s voice grew distant, and my vision was covered in darkness again. Each time I moved my steps, the darkness rippled noisily.

Before long, I realized that this darkness wasn’t simply the absence of light.

「Failure.」

「It failed.」

「This story failed.」

This darkness was the debris of 「Predicted Plagiarism」 she had left unfinished.

I called Han Sooyoung’s name.

“Han Sooyoung!”

Discarded hypotheses. Abandoned memories weakly caught at my feet.

At the edge of the debris, there was a single old door.

I read the small sign attached to the door.

‘In Progress’.

The moment I raised my hand to knock on the door, darkness that sprang out from behind grabbed me. ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) As if telling me not to interfere, pitch-black sentences pulled at my hands and feet as if binding them. Not long after, my hands and feet caught by the darkness began turning black.

“Han Sooyoung!”

Instead of an answer, the sound of a keyboard kept coming nonstop from inside the door. The fact that I could hear this sound meant that Han Sooyoung could hear my voice too.

“Kim Dokja has already read your story!”

I had to make her open that door herself and come out.

“The story you wrote saved Kim Dokja!”

Maybe my words might twist the foundation of the universe. To save one person in front of my eyes, I might be throwing the universe into ruin once again.

「I don’t know why she’s obsessed with the ‘reader’ to this extent.」

But I thought about Han Sooyoung’s life.

「Maybe it’s a setting value she received, bound to the role called ‘writer’.」

I thought about the countless sentences she wrote and erased, and I thought about the vast yoke of eternity laid out in front of her.

「She has the right to know the truth of this world. Just like Yoo Joonghyuk did.」

To save a single person, I thought about the writer who devoted her life, and I thought about the one reader who read that story again. I thought about the two people who couldn’t face each other to the end, yet saved each other. Some salvation might be enough even like that. That world might not need an after story.

Even so, wouldn’t it be okay for them to be allowed just one sentence. Even if it was nothing more than an addendum, even if that addendum changed everything in this world.

“You are tls123.”

The keyboard sound stopped.