Chapter 296 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 296

Two months after arriving in Busan, the Undertaker (mc) arranges a meeting with Kim Ji-soo (704th cycle). He brings Oh Dok-seo as a 'bystander' and Awakener. In a café, the Undertaker explains his identity as a regressor and details the horrific past cycle where Ji-soo was abducted, tortured, and forced into an Awakener path, eventually committing suicide. Ji-soo reacts with rational detachment, rejecting the emotional burden of vengeance and stating she intends to live a happy life rather than inherit her past self's trauma. She views the past self's misery as incomprehensible and refuses to adopt her will. The Undertaker reveals that the 703rd cycle Ji-soo anticipated this rational rejection and devised a workaround. He asks the current Ji-soo to close her eyes while a melody plays—Seo-rin’s Cursed Song Incantation, modified with vocal modulation and illusion techniques. Through the song, Oh Dok-seo uses her 'Side Story Creation' ability, fueled by the Undertaker’s Complete Memory of the 703rd cycle, to perfectly embody the previous Ji-soo. Dok-seo, appearing as the 703rd cycle Ji-soo, greets the current one. The narrative flashes back to explain the pact: the 703rd Ji-soo realized her hatred could not be conveyed through words alone to a future self who might reject it. She spent a week with the Undertaker and Lee Ha-yul, imprinted her personality, emotions, and answers to every possible question into the Undertaker’s memory, which Dok-seo then acted out. The chapter concludes with the 703rd Ji-soo (via Dok-seo) inviting the current Ji-soo to ask anything, opening the 'time capsule' of memories within the regressor’s mind.

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