Chapter 183 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 183

In this chapter, the protagonist, Go Yuir, reflects on the concept of infinite regression and the 'Never Ending Story' hypothesis. He discusses with Yu Ji-won a persistent anomaly: a magic mirror resembling the one from Snow White, which automatically announces 'die' to anyone who approaches it. Yu Ji-won, panicked by the anomaly's prescience, suggests killing it, but Go Yuir explains that destroying it triggers the 'broken windows effect,' causing an exponential rise in other anomalies like voids. He notes that the mirror has evolved its responses over hundreds of cycles. From cycle 117 to 430, it commanded him to 'stuff all newly born lives' and then die by infection with the Udumbara virus. Go Yuir realizes 'stuff' refers to his Time Seal ability, which traps subjects in a happy loop while erasing their existence from memory. He interprets the mirror’s nihilistic advice as a misguided attempt to grant 'ultimate happiness'—non-existence—akin to the myth of King Midas and the half-man, half-beast sage, who taught that the best fate is never being born. Concluding that the mirror, or 'The Sage's Mirror,' wishes for its own silence, Go Yuir covers it with an airplane blanket provided by Yu Ji-won, causing it to fall quiet. The narrative jumps to cycle 593, following the defeat of the Infinite Metagame. Go Yuir checks the mirror in Yu Ji-won’s room for the first time in a long while. Instead of commands to die or seal lives, the mirror simply states, 'Keep living.' When Yu Ji-won enters, Go Yuir hides the change, covers the mirror again, and cheerfully invites her to a barbecue, signaling a profound shift in his outlook.

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