Chapter 124. [Utopia. (3)]
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A cruel fate awaited those who were bewitched by stories.
I wasn’t talking about people who simply enjoyed them. I was talking about those who were bewitched. Crazed. They fell deeply again and again, and eventually, they gave up half of their lives to stories.
For them, reality was nothing but a world that could not be a story. There were no dramatic plot twists. No shocking endings. People were just people who could not be reborn as [characters].
Reality was a disappointment.
Humans were contemptible.
And above all else, they worshipped stories.
Disappointment, contempt, and worship made up the true identity of ‘those who were bewitched by stories.’ That was why they became fanatical when a story unfolded in real life and cheered when real people were reborn as characters.
They hadn’t actually lost the heat in their hearts.
They were just waiting for the right moment.