Chapter 138 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 138

The narrator and Oh Dok-seo consult Obsidian Qin regarding the diary of 'Kuro,' a Japanese survivor from a past tutorial dungeon. Qin reveals that Kuro was not a powerful figure but a social outcast in her group, ignored and treated as sacrificial bait. Qin notes oddities: Kuro slept deeply despite the danger and her arm progressively grew hair, suggesting degeneration from using an anomaly like the Monkey's Paw. Qin’s group subdued Kuro to confiscate a monster’s hand she carried; the hand attacked with supernatural strength, causing Kuro to flee and disappear. Qin denies that a large number of Japanese players died during that tutorial, contradicting rumors. After the interview, the narrator realizes the diary is a 'dream diary'—a notebook recording the dreams of a regressor—because entries from a previous cycle (specifically the phrase '[Old Man Scho is a fool]') were erased in the new cycle. This confirms the narrator’s regression and the diary’s non-anomalous nature. The narrator explains the true mechanics of the Monkey’s Paw, now called the 'Total Luck Law': it grants wishes but forces an equal amount of misfortune to maintain balance. Kuro’s three wishes had catastrophic, unintended consequences. Wish 1, to avoid side effects, caused her to exist in a dream state with luck but no misfortune in reality. Wish 2, to remove the limit on wishes, removed the three-wish cap for all humanity, meaning everyone now trades infinite luck for infinite misfortune. This explains why hoarding luck is impossible in the current world; any advantage brings immediate, catastrophic backlash. The narrator expresses relief that he has countermeasures for this law. The chapter concludes with an epilogue where the narrator visits the southern coast of Korea. He observes Kuro, now a monstrous figure with long black hair covering her face, rolling a mountain of severed human heads down Seongsan Ilchulbong. This is the 'inevitable misfortune' granted by her third wish to prevent 'accidental' misfortunes like falling rocks; she is crushed by the sheer weight of her own hubris, endlessly rolling heads in a reversed Sisyphus-like fate.

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