Chapter 145 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 145

The Undertaker discusses the escalating crisis with Noh Do-hwa, who notes that Go Yuri has consumed the 'Ya-o-yorozu no kami' anomalies in the Japanese archipelago, effectively becoming a minor god. Worried about her expanding power, the Undertaker decides to scout the Korean Peninsula. He pilots a Savoia S-21 seaplane, an anomaly resembling the aircraft from Studio Ghibli's *Porco Rosso*, toward the peninsula. Upon arrival, he finds Busan devastated. The Black Wall from Manchuria has consumed North Korea, and alien lifeforms have fused with Monster Wave entities, becoming grotesque and numerous. A spectral reenactment of the Korean War unfolds, with no living humans remaining, only anomalies. The Undertaker fails to locate key allies like Jeong Ye-ji or Yu Ji-won. Spotting hostile aliens, he retreats to Saipan, where Noh Do-hwa waits calmly in a beach hut. In the 590th cycle, the Undertaker, seeking maximum misfortune to test the Monkey’s Paw and the 'Hate Pill,' has tormented himself mentally, believing his choices caused the collapse. He finds solace in Noh Do-hwa’s presence, cooking for her and walking despite the chaos. Over the year, Noh Do-hwa becomes his sole source of happiness, her demeanor softening as they share domestic routines. On their one-year anniversary, she greets him warmly, only to suddenly strangle him with her hands. She reveals she tampered with his prosthetic limbs beforehand, rendering him immobile. Noh Do-hwa confesses that she quit the National Road Management Corps to exploit his self-imposed misfortune. She recounts how his regression has ruined her quiet life, dragging her into endless suffering across hundreds of cycles. Declaring that she hates him and that he ruined her life, she demands he die. As the Monkey’s Paw thrashes to eliminate this source of misfortune, the Undertaker chooses not to resist, accepting his 590th death as sufficient 'misfortune' for the anomaly. The epilogue reveals the Monkey’s Paw accepted this outcome, neutralizing the Total Luck Law threat. In the 591st cycle, Noh Do-hwa casually notes the Undertaker is going bald—a sign of the misfortune finally catching up to him as he begins to age and lose his hair after a decade of peace.

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