Chapter 208 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 208

The narrator, Go Yuri, reflects on the nature of anomaly abductions, explaining that anomalies seek to strip victims of their 'humanity'—specifically their logical structures and moral frameworks—rather than their lives. This process turns rational individuals into entities that commit atrocities with the same nonchalance as simple arithmetic, rendering them incapable of human conversation. The narrative then shifts to the current situation in the 'Inner World' of the Reversal anomaly, where Go Yuri and Fairy No. 264 assess the population. Fairy No. 264 reveals that the anomaly has abducted millions of people from reality, including characters from their dreams, causing the Inner World's population to skyrocket past ten million. Go Yuri observes that this is a 'Great Void,' a rare anomaly type requiring concepts as vast as World War I or Korea's obsession with apartments to sustain such a scale. The anomaly's strategy is revealed to be a perceptual inversion: it has declared the harsh reality of the real world to be 'hell' and its own constructed Inner World to be the true reality, while framing reality as the afterlife. In the plaza of Seoul Station, a middle-aged evangelist wearing a vest reading 'Goddess = Heaven! No Goddess = Hell!' rallies the entranced crowd. The residents of the Inner World, their eyes hollow and dark, drop to their knees in unison, worshiping the 'Goddess.' Beneath them, the asphalt turns transparent, revealing visions of their pasts. For some, it shows their real-life selves suffering in an endless cycle; for others, like protesters in Busan, it shows scenes of conflict with the National Road Management Corps. The narrator realizes this is a manipulation of perception: the anomaly forces victims to view their current, stable existence as heaven and their traumatic reality as hell. Go Yuri looks up to the sky, expecting a sun, but discovers a massive, blinking eye replacing it. The Eye fixes its gaze upon Go Yuri, identifying him as an anomaly or outsider. The heat intensifies, and Go Yuri's skin begins to melt. Fairy No. 264 sacrifices half her body to trigger an emergency escape, ejecting Go Yuri from the dream. Go Yuri wakes up in the real world, gasping. Noh Do-hwa and Jeong Ye-ji stand over him, covered in a jelly-like substance that resembles the fairy's flesh. Fairy No. 264 lies beside Go Yuri, holding his hand, with half her body missing. Do-hwa reports the fairy's severe injury but notes it will survive if healed by Sim Ah-ryeon. Go Yuri confirms the existence of protests outside, validating his dream experience as a simultaneous connection to the Inner World. He dismisses Do-hwa's concern about the damage to their safe house, focusing instead on the nature of the enemy. He identifies the deity worshipped by the Inner World residents as Nut, the Goddess of the Night and an Outer God, signaling a confrontation with a powerful, non-human entity manipulating human perception on a global scale.

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