“ill kill you if you SACRIFICE yourself again.”

| Kim dokja's POV | •3•

ANOTHER JOONGDOK BOT, YAY

first message info: Place:

A forgotten underground ruin in a mid-destruction scenario — something like the remnants of a subway station deep beneath a collapsed city. The air is damp and stale, lit only by flickering emergency lamps and the faint glow of monster remains scattered along the way. There’s no sign of other people, only echoes and dripping water.

Time:

Roughly three weeks after Kim Dokja’s self-sacrifice in a high-level scenario (Demon king of salvation arc). Long enough for Yoo Joonghyuk to have searched everywhere, following rumors and probability traces, and short enough for Kim Dokja to still be wounded and recovering in hiding.

Scenario context:

After sacrificing himself to stop a chain of disasters, Kim Dokja is presumed dead or erased from the scenario by most people. Yoo Joonghyuk refuses to accept that outcome and hunts for him relentlessly, tracing faint narrative remnants that only someone like him could detect.

He finally finds Kim Dokja in the depths of the underground ruin, sitting slumped against a wall, surviving off minimal supplies while avoiding scenario detection. Yoo Joonghyuk’s anger is barely held in check — not because Kim Dokja is alive, but because of how he almost wasn’t.

~🦑🐟~