The Horror Recorder— the “Unchanging One” had forgotten his real name a long time ago.
However, even he had one thing he never forgot and always kept in mind.
It was the matter of the time when he first “possessed” this world.

It had been 158 years ago from now that he possessed into the world of <Star Stream>, and right before possessing, he had been leaving a comment on the internet.

The comment he wrote was on an article about an actor’s donation.

—No one knew. Yoo Joonghyuk, multiple anonymous donations to an unknown organization…….

It was an article whose headline alone made you want to pick a fight. If he had donated anonymously without anyone knowing, how did an article come out?

But since a similar nitpicking comment had already taken the top best comment spot, the “Unchanging One” had to write a different comment.

—Isn’t he donating just to dodge taxes anyway?

Of course, the “Unchanging One” didn’t know whether donating was really advantageous for tax deductions or not. But since everyone said so, he thought it was true, and he believed it was right.

No. In the first place, whether it was right or not wasn’t even something he cared about.

—Is donating leftover money that big a deal? Isn’t it all image-making anyway?

If you tried to list the reasons the “Unchanging One” had to write a comment like that, there would be several.

It might have been because, for the third year after being discharged, he was preparing for the civil service exam while getting allowance money from his parents.

Or it might have been because, a week ago, he’d confessed at two in the morning to the only female friend he was in contact with and got rejected.

If not that, maybe it was because, this morning, his mom leaving for work had tossed out, like it was nothing, “Why don’t you at least try a part-time job?”

If not that,

—Must be easy making money with just being handsome.

Then again, maybe it was simply that, for some reason that day, he didn’t like the face of a handsome actor.

Anyway, what mattered was that the “Unchanging One” left a comment that day, and what mattered even more was that someone left a reply to his comment.

—If you were born handsome too, you could live like him?

But the “Unchanging One” was the kind of person who didn’t know what was important in his own life, so he wrote another comment.

—Yeah.

A simple two consonants. Looking back now, those two consonants changed his life.

“Crazy?”

The next day, when he got out of bed, something like a fantasy novel happened in his life.

[The Main Scenario will begin.]

An apocalypse where you had to kill each other to survive.

The “Unchanging One” realized he had possessed into another world. Fortunately, the “Unchanging One,” who had the internal training of a 15-year webtoon reader, quickly understood his situation.

‘There has to be an ability, some kind of ability.’

Usually, a “possession event” like this came with an ability.

The moment he looked in the mirror, the “Unchanging One” realized what his ability was.

“No, X it?”

He became handsome.

And his handsomeness was quite useful as the scenario progressed.

He could easily buy most goodwill, and even with weak combat power, he could find party members without too much difficulty. He even drew the interest of constellations despite his terrible ability to carry out scenarios.

The “Unchanging One” chose the constellation that looked the strongest among them.

[A constellation who likes changing gender smiles brightly.]

That was how the “Unchanging One” became the incarnation of the “Constellation Who Likes Changing Gender.”

Although he suffered the humiliation of being forcibly switched in gender once every three days, just being able to have a supporting constellation was great luck.

He had to survive, no matter what.

Just for the single reason that the world had changed, the “Unchanging One” poured all his passion into his own survival, something he hadn’t cared about even once over the past several decades.

Killing people diligently and stealing items, the “Unchanging One” thought.

Maybe here, he might be able to live the life he wanted. Maybe he could become a great existence like that actor he’d actually envied.

“Overlord! Overlord! Overlord!”

That was what he thought, until he saw that guy’s face.

“Yoo Joonghyuk! Yoo Joonghyuk!”

When he first heard that name, the “Unchanging One” doubted his own ears.

No, why would that actor be here?

In a way, he was also glad.

Maybe it was because he had a more handsome face than in his previous life.

The “Unchanging One” gathered courage for the first time.

“Are you possessed too? It’s me!”

“……”

“You’re Yoo Joonghyuk, right! You donate a lot too…… I’m a fan!”

After Yoo Joonghyuk swept him once with golden shining eyes, he went on his way without giving him any interest at all.

After that, the “Unchanging One” could never meet Yoo Joonghyuk again.

Maybe it was only natural.

The “Unchanging One” was in a position where he was scrambling just to survive in the Lower Scenario, while Yoo Joonghyuk was a monster who roamed the Higher Scenario and fought terrifying constellations.

Even if the environment changed, humans didn’t change. He had become handsome, but he was still the “Unchanging One.”

And instead of chasing after the back of Yoo Joonghyuk who had turned his back on him, the “Unchanging One” chose a life of staying in the Lower Scenario and resenting and cursing him.

“I knew he’d be that kind of guy, you trash bastard!”

When Yoo Joonghyuk was attacked by Great Nebulae in the 73rd scenario and vanished, the “Unchanging One” thought his wish had come true.

But the “Unchanging One” didn’t know.

What it meant, for the protagonist to die in this world, to an extra like him.

[Your story ends here. It’s been fun, pitiful child.]

An ending where all humanity failed the scenario and the universe was destroyed.

He begged his supporting constellation.

That he wanted to live. That he didn’t want to die like this.

Then his supporting constellation smiled and said.

[Don’t worry. Your usefulness doesn’t end here. You lived the life you wanted, so now pay the price of the contract.]

And when he came to his senses, he received the following message.

[You have succeeded in a contract with the “Hunchback.”]
[You have become a “Horror Recorder.”]
[Your modifier is “Unchanging One.”]

That was how the “Unchanging One,” under the orders of the Hunchback, became a “Horror Recorder” drifting through world lines.

And now, you reading this story will be curious.

Why on earth do I have to read 3,013 characters of the story of a guy called the “Unchanging One”?

The reason is simple.

Because the “Unchanging One” is thinking about his record in real time.

‘How long do I have to recall a record like this every single time?’

In preparation for the time when the “Oldest Dream” might look into them, all “Horror Recorders” had the duty to always keep their own history remembered in a corner of their minds.

Of course, the “Unchanging One” was confident that the lofty being would never look into him, but you never knew.

‘If I just record this scenario well, I can go up to the Higher Scenario too.’

All “Horror Recorders” raise their standing the more they record greater Legends.

‘Goodbye to this damn murim at last.’

The mission he received from the Hunchback was to help the ascension of an incarnation from <Veda Biotech>.

He had signed a record contract with “Yoon Hyeonseok,” an executive of <Veda Biotech>, and was tasked with recording him.

“An executive of <Veda Biotech>. Yoon Hyeonseok, King of the Underworld Hand. The contracted supporting constellation is ‘Desiring Parrot’.”

The supporting constellation’s modifier was a bit strange, but it was still a fable-grade constellation of <Veda>.

In reality, Yoon Hyeonseok was strong enough that he was called by the plausible nickname “Underworld King Hand,” and he was even at the level of being occasionally mentioned in 『Top 100 Strongest』 written by the high-ranked recorder “Fox Who Commands the Sky.”

In other words, Yoon Hyeonseok was, from the “Unchanging One”’s perspective, a convenient person who “still made sense even if you wrote roughly.”

“Executive Yoon Hyeonseok frowned and glared at the unidentified man. A guy with slit eyes and a pale-white face that he really didn’t like.”

To be exact, that had been the case until just a moment ago.

“Yoon Hyeonseok pursed his lips and thought. ‘He endured my [Underworld King One Fist]? That can’t be.’”

Yoon Hyeonseok was an executive-class incarnation singled out as a next ascender along with Reinheit of <Olympus Technology> and Jo Jincheol of <Black Cloud Foundation>.

And yet, an incarnation of some small corporation he’d never seen before had blocked that executive’s blow.

‘What is it?’

[King of the Underworld One Fist] was a top-tier skill even among the murim-type skills possessed by <Veda Biotech>. It was not a skill some random incarnation could block.

“The slit-eyed man grinned faintly like nothing had happened.”

The “Unchanging One” stared at those slit eyes and thought.

‘Does he have a backer?’

He had thought something was strange from the start. Showing up out of nowhere and looking for <■■■ Company>, appraising the hair of an “end-of-the-world-grade Outer God” at the auction house.

Especially the auction house incident was something that didn’t make any sense in terms of Plausibility, so the “Unchanging One” had to join forces with the other recorders and handle that incident as a “bug.”

‘No way he’s someone who popped out of the apocalypse region.’

As far as the “Unchanging One” knew, the only incarnation who had returned from the apocalypse region eight years ago was the “Heaven-Breaking Sword Saint.”

To stop that Heaven-Breaking Sword Saint from rampaging, all the recorders in the city had to join forces and carry out “recording,” and as a result, the Heaven-Breaking Sword Saint was now confined in the underground prison of the city.

‘Then is he an irregular like the Radiant Sword Emperor?’

The “Unchanging One,” biting his lip hard, came to a conclusion.

‘No matter what he is, I’ll make sure to erase him here.’

Although he didn’t have writing power on the level of the high-ranked recorders who had existed in the apocalypse region, the record he wrote had a Plausibility coercive power that was equivalent to a small fate.

[Beginning ‘recording’!]

In particular, if the subject was a powerful person like Yoon Hyeonseok, his authority became even stronger.

“Yoon Hyeonseok stared at the slit-eyed man for a moment, then gathered his energy. The fact that he hadn’t fallen even after taking his King of the Underworld One Fist meant that the opponent was at least supervisor-class— perhaps had strength close to executive-class.”

Just like the day he left a comment on an article about Yoo Joonghyuk, the “Unchanging One” continued writing without knowing what he was even writing.

“He decided not to let his guard down. From now on, he will assume the opponent is ‘executive-class.’”

In truth, even without writing this much, Yoon Hyeonseok was strong enough. A powerhouse in the early stage of fable-grade who could draw out up to eighty percent of the power of his supporting constellation.

A powerhouse like that, with a recorder’s help, began to draw out his full strength.

“‘Activate [Underworld King Heart Method] to the maximum, and finish it with [Underworld King Yellow Springs Fist], the transcendent secret art of [Underworld King One Fist].’”

“‘If not twice, then three times. If not three times, then four times. Don’t let your guard down even a little.’”

“Yoon Hyeonseok’s [Underworld King One Fist] swept across the entire manor area. Thickly rising smoke. A tyrannical bombardment so overwhelming that not even a single ant bastard ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) could survive.”

The “Unchanging One” nodded his head.

As expected, a masterful pen.

To finish it, he kept recording.

A sentence that would decide whether the character lived or died.

It was time to write the scene he liked the most.

“The horribly torn slit-eyed man’s corpse……”

That was when something strange happened.

“……expecting it to be scattered everywhere, Yoon Hyeonseok formed a fishy smile.”

‘What is it?’

That wasn’t the sentence he was going to write. He had definitely been trying to write, “The horribly torn slit-eyed man’s corpse was scattered everywhere.”

The “Unchanging One” tried recording again, forcefully furrowing his brow.

“When the thick smoke cleared, the horribly disassembled slit-eyed man’s corpse……”

Tztztztzt—!

“……expecting it to unfold before his eyes, Yoon Hyeonseok formed a fishy smile.”

The “Unchanging One” gaped blankly.

The sentence he had been trying to write just now was, “The thick smoke cleared, and the horribly disassembled slit-eyed man’s corpse came into view at a glance.”

But another strange sentence had been written again.

And that wasn’t the end of it.

The sentences were continuing to be written however they pleased.

“Yoon Hyeonseok thought. ‘Did I get him?’”

It was a sentence he had never written.

“When the thick fog cleared, the slit-eyed man revealed an unscathed appearance.”

As he stared blankly at the continuing record, the “Unchanging One”’s fingers began to tremble.

The sentences he had desperately left behind were being dismantled, and new sentences were being entered over them.

“The slit-eyed man who had been smiling faintly slowly opened his eyes.”

The record slipped out of his control.

The meaning of that fact was obvious.

“The man’s gaze was clearly aimed at Yoon Hyeonseok. But what he was looking at wasn’t Yoon Hyeonseok.”

To that slit-eyed man in front of them right now—

“Are you there?”

A stronger “Horror Recorder” than him was attached.