Chapter 288 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 288

Yu Ji-won returns to the underwater tunnel forty minutes late, having used the delay to apply psychological pressure, claiming the breach of her twenty-minute promise was intentional to test the Undertaker’s mental fortitude. She enters wearing a gas mask to protect against the potent pink toxic gas Uehara Shino created. The Undertaker immediately reacts, grappling with Ji-won and flipping her to the ground in a sudden burst of physical aggression. Despite being subjected to a powerful sedative and the toxic gas, the Undertaker reveals he has been circulating his Aura to resist the drug’s effects, noting that Shino’s formula was flawed for his specific nature. A brutal wrestling match ensues. The Undertaker, relying on decades of hellish physical training under Old Man Scho, overcomes Ji-won’s superior Aura-based combat skills. He breaks her limbs and dislocates her joints, rendering her completely immobilized. Ji-won surrenders, acknowledging her failure to account for the Undertaker’s immense physical conditioning and mental resilience. Exhausted, they lie in the tunnel. Ji-won reveals her true objective: she seeks to create a variable for the Undertaker by identifying Awakeners with teleportation potential. She argues that if they can find a teleporter, they could establish stronghold cities and reduce the suffering inflicted on ordinary people in future cycles, sparing them the reset trauma. The Undertaker rejects this utilitarian approach, explaining that as a regressor, he retains his memories and conscience. He fears that if he began justifying torture and betrayal as temporary, he would become a Corrupted Anomaly, losing his humanity and the meaning of his existence. In a shocking confession, Ji-won admits that the Undertaker is the only reason she has never become a serial killer. She lists several high-profile figures—including Dang Seo-rin, Cheon Yo-hwa, Lee Ha-yul, and others—as prey she has desired to kill, but reveals that the Undertaker’s presence has been her sole restraint. She concludes by asking him to live long, solidifying her complex, dark allegiance to him.

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