⸢Hospital room, 9:12 AM⸥
医院病房，上午9:12
Gather in front of the Complex's eastern entrance 19:00 tomorrow. We'll go rescue Kim Dok-Ja beyond the [Final Wall].Jeong Hui-Won received that text message last night. The sender was Han Su-Yeong. As always, her text came across as rather curt.
明天19:00在大楼东侧入口处集合。我们要去营救金道子，越过最后的长城。郑慧媛昨晚收到了那条短信。发信人是韩素英。像往常一样，她的文字给人的印象相当简单。
After receiving that text, she dazedly stared outside the window for a long while.
收到短信后，她茫然地盯着窗外看了很长时间。
⸢Jeong Hui-Won didn't want to go back to the scenario.⸥
郑慧媛不想回到那个场景
She fought harder than any other Incarnations. She wished to save Kim Dok-Ja more than anyone, and also badly wanted to end the scenarios, too. And eventually, she reached this place.
她比其他任何化身都更努力地战斗。她比任何人都更想拯救金道子，也非常想结束这种局面。最终，她来到了这个地方。
⸢The Final Wall she saw at the closing pages of the scenario.⸥
在剧本的最后几页，她看到了最后一堵墙
Even now, closing her eyes brought back all those vivid memories. The memories of fighting alongside Kim Dok-Ja after he became the 'Enemy of the Story'.
即使是现在，闭上眼睛也会勾起那些生动的回忆。金道子成为“故事的敌人”后与他并肩作战的回忆。
She survived the horrifying flood of Fables by cutting down many things over and over again. They destroyed the wall, and she reached her own last stop.
她通过一次又一次地砍掉许多东西，从可怕的寓言洪水中幸存了下来。他们摧毁了围墙，她到达了自己的最后一站。
⸢However, Han Su-Yeong was now telling her to get on that train one more time.⸥
可是韩素英现在却叫她再上一次火车
She was telling her to go to where the [Final Wall] was once more.
她告诉她去[最后一道墙]再次出现的地方。
She was saying that they had left something behind in the train as they disembarked.
她说他们下车时在火车上落下了一些东西。
"Hui-Won-ssi."
「许媛诗」
Jeong Hui-Won only then noticed her trembling hand gripping the curtain.
郑慧媛才注意到她颤抖的手抓住窗帘。
"Hyeon-Seong-ssi, did you also get it?"
“贤成思，你也拿到了吗?”
"Yes."
“是的。”
"What do you think?"
“你觉得怎么样?”
"….Dok-Ja-ssi we remember is right here with us."
“...我们记得的Dok-Ja-ssi就在我们身边。”
The 'Kim Dok-Ja' they remembered was currently asleep. His lashes that forgot all the tragedies of this world quivered a little. Jeong Hui-Won quietly placed her hand over his eyes.
他们记得的“金道子”现在正在睡觉。他的睫毛，忘记了这个世界上所有的悲剧有点颤抖。郑慧媛静静地把手放在他的眼睛上。
Some tragedies would end up disappearing just because they weren't seen.
有些悲剧最终会因为没有被看到而消失。
⸢This Kim Dok-Ja was the 'Kim Dok-Ja' they remembered.⸥
这个金道子就是他们记忆中的“金道子”
Kim Dok-Ja that survived Geumho Station, Chungmuro, Gwanghwamun, the Demon World, Olympus, and the Journey to the West, and even the Final Wall together with everyone, was right before her. He remembered the name of Jeong Hui-Won's sword, and he also remembered Yi Hyeon-Seong's trauma. He remembered the promise he made with his companions.
从金道子火车站，忠武路，光化门，恶魔世界，奥林巴斯，西游记，甚至最后的长城和所有人中幸存下来的金道子，就在她面前。他记得郑惠元的剑的名字，他也记得李贤成的创伤。他记起了他对同伴们所作的承诺。
So, technically speaking, this was the 'Kim Dok-Ja' they loved, and the one she wanted to protect.
所以，严格来说，这就是他们喜爱的“金道子”，也是她想要保护的人。
One would wonder if it was fine to divide a person so conveniently like that, but this problem wasn't about the issue of 'Avatar'. From the get-go, the meaning of liking someone was that you liked certain parts of that person.
有人可能会想，如此方便地分割一个人是否合适，但这个问题与《阿凡达》无关。从一开始，喜欢一个人的意思就是你喜欢那个人的某些部分。
The blood staining Kim Dok-Ja's wound emitted 'Pa-susu' noise and evaporated into smoke.
染着金道子伤口的血发出“啪苏苏”的声音，然后蒸发成烟雾。
The crumbling Fables wandered in the air, before scattering outside the windows and into the sky above. Jeong Hui-Won didn't know where those Fables were heading off to. It might be that they were extinguished forever, or perhaps they could be returning to other Kim Dok-Ja.
摇摇欲坠的寓言在空中徘徊，然后散落在窗外，飘向天空。郑慧媛不知道那些寓言要去哪里。也许他们会永远消失，也许他们会回到另一个金道子身边。
⸢Kim Dok-Ja who remembered the 'Ways of Survival', who always loved that one single story.⸥
金道子记得“生存之道”，他总是喜欢这一个故事
Jeong Hui-Won didn't know anything about such Kim Dok-Ja.
郑慧媛对这样的金道子一无所知。
No one could love something they didn't know much about.
没有人会喜欢他们不太了解的东西。
"Hyeon-Seong-ssi."
“贤成思。”
"Yes?"
“什么事?”
"If Dok-Ja-ssi was us, what would he have done?"
“如果Dok-Ja-ssi是我们，他会怎么做?”
Yi Hyeon-Seong didn't reply for a long time.
李贤成很长时间没有回复。
*
⸢Hospital room, 1:31 PM⸥
医院病房，下午1:31
As if many people had come to visit already, lots of flowers and gifts were neatly placed on top of the hospital room's table. They were gifts prepared for the moment when Kim Dok-Ja finally woke up.
就好像很多人已经来看过他们一样，许多鲜花和礼物整齐地放在病房的桌子上。这些都是为金道子醒来时准备的礼物。
Jang Ha-Yeong fidgeted with the flower petal for a bit, before slowly making her way towards Kim Dok-Ja.
张夏艳摆弄了花瓣一会儿，然后慢慢地向金道子走去。
"You're the Kim Dok-Ja I remember, right? Kim Dok-Ja who saved me back in the Demon World."
“我记得你是金道子，对吧?金道子在恶魔世界救了我。”
The clock placed near his head was ticking by.
放在他头上的钟在滴答滴答地走着。
The man who made the 73rd Demon World's frozen time flow forward again.
那个创造了第73个恶魔世界的时间冻结的人再次向前流动。
The man who made her, despairing before the wall of potential, move forward again.
使她绝望的那个男人，在潜能之墙前，再次向前走去。
The Demon King of Salvation.
救世主魔王。
"Actually, I didn't want to come back to Earth back then." Jang Ha-Yeong smiled bitterly and spoke. "I didn't have any good memories of this place, you see."
“事实上，我当时并不想回到地球。”张夏勇苦笑着说。“你知道，我对这个地方没有任何美好的回忆。”
She was a dimension traveller.
她是一个空间旅行者。
As was the case with most dimension hoppers, the process itself was uncertain. One day, as she was working overtime deep into the night like always, she collapsed while sensing a sudden crippling pain in her heart. The moment her breathing cut out, she thought 'I've lived too hard', and if there was next life, she swore inwardly that she'd never 'work hard ever again'. And when she opened her eyes, she found herself in the Demon World.
和大多数维度跳跃者一样，这个过程本身也是不确定的。一天，她像往常一样加班到深夜，突然感觉到心里一阵剧痛，就晕倒了。当她停止呼吸的时候，她想‘我活得太辛苦了’，如果还有下辈子，她暗自发誓再也不会努力工作了。当她睁开眼睛的时候，她发现自己进入了恶魔的世界。
Jang Ha-Yeong watched the residents of the Complex rushing somewhere to eat their lunch and murmured. "I ended up working hard again because of you."
张霞映看着大楼里的居民匆匆赶往某个地方吃午饭，喃喃自语。“因为你，我再次努力工作。”
*
⸢Hospital room, 6:24 PM⸥
医院病房，下午6:24
"Toss it. It's my turn now."
“扔掉它，现在轮到我了。”
Along with Yi Gil-Yeong's words, Shin Yu-Seung flipped a 100 Won coin upwards. It spun around in the air and landed back on the back of her hand. It was heads.
随着李吉英的话，申玉升抛出了一枚100元的硬币。它在空中旋转，又落在她的手背上。是人头。
"How many times did we toss this thing?" Yi Gil-Yeong asked.
“这东西我们扔了多少次?”李吉英问道。
"99."
“99”
"Then, it's 49 against 50."
“那么，就是49对50。”
Yi Gil-Yeong dusted his hands and stood up from his spot, prompting Yi Ji-Hye sitting on the guardian's bed to ask. "You guys, you're still making that wager? That wager about Dok-Ja ahjussi still being alive if it's heads or something?"
易吉荣掸了掸手上的灰尘，从原地站了起来，这促使坐在守护者床上的易吉赫问道。“伙计们，你们还在打赌吗？那个关于Dok-Jaahjussi还活着的赌注，是人头还是别的什么?”
"What are you talking about? Ahjussi is alive right here, isn't he?"
“你在说什么?大叔还活着，不是吗?”
"Okay, so what wager is it this time?"
“好吧，那这次赌什么?”
The children didn't reply. Yi Ji-Hye frowned. "You two, do you really believe that claim?"
孩子们没有回答。易智慧皱起了眉头。“你们两个，你们真的相信这种说法吗?”
"What do you mean?"
“什么意思?”
"That story about the existence of another Dok-Ja ahjussi that we don't know about. About how he didn't leave the subway train…."
“关于另一个我们不知道的Dok-Jaahjussi存在的故事。关于他怎么没有离开地铁...”
The two kids didn't reply again. Yi Ji-Hye, dazedly looking at Kim Dok-Ja, suddenly jumped up from her spot and pointed at him. "This ahjussi is the Dok-Ja ahjussi I know of, okay?"
两个孩子没有再回答。易智慧茫然地看着金道子，突然从她的位置上跳起来，指着他。“大叔就是我所知道的大叔，好吗?”
"…."
"...."
"He's the ahjussi who saved you and me, got that?"
“他就是那个救了你我的大叔，明白吗?”
"We know."
“我们知道。”
"You think that's all?"
“你以为就这样吗?”
Yi Ji-Hye continued to mouth off why this Dok-Ja was the real deal.
易智慧继续说为什么这个Dok-Ja是真的。
But strangely enough, she felt Kim Dok-Ja was getting even further away from her as her arguments continued on.
但奇怪的是，随着争吵的继续，她觉得金道子离她越来越远。
"And, and also…."
“还有，还有......”
Yi Ji-Hye grasped Kim Dok-Ja's pale hand tightly.
易智慧紧紧地抓住金德子苍白的手。
It just didn't feel real to her. She barely managed to grow older along with the owner of this hand. She learned of losing someone precious, and was taught the values she needed to protect. And she somehow managed to start breathing again in this messed-up world.
这对她来说感觉不真实。她勉强和这只手的主人一起变老。她学会了失去一个珍贵的人，也学会了她需要保护的价值观。在这个混乱的世界里，她设法重新开始呼吸。
Kim Dok-Ja too, must've learned all those from someone else.
金道子也是，一定是从别人那里学来的。
Shin Yu-Seung muttered out. "…Ahjussi must've had a childhood too."
申玉升咕哝着说:“大叔一定也有过童年。”
The founding Fable for the 'Demon King of Salvation' in <Star Stream> was the 'King of a Kingless World'. However, that was the beginning of the 'Demon King of Salvation', not Kim Dok-Ja's.
星河“救世魔王”的创始寓言是“无王世界之王”。然而，那只是“救世魔王”的开始，而不是金道子的开始。
⸢Most likely, the human Kim Dok-Ja's beginning wasn't as grandiose.⸥
最有可能的是，人类金道子的开始并没有那么宏伟
In order to exist with the name of Kim Dok-Ja, what kind of stories did Kim Dok-Ja have to live through?
为了以金道子的名字存在，金道子经历了什么样的故事？
"Eonni." Shin Su-Yeong asked again.
“荣妮。”申秀英又问道。
"What now?"
“现在怎么办?”
"Are you planning to go tomorrow?"
“你打算明天去吗?”
"We agreed not to, didn't we?"
“我们说好不说的，不是吗?”
"But, you're still going, right?"
“不过，你还是会去的，对吧?”
"No, I won't. I don't want to go back to the scenarios again."
“不，我不会。我不想再回到那种情况。”
Yi Ji-Hye looked at the heads of the children from above that had grown taller before she even realised it.
易智慧从上面看着孩子们的头，在她意识到之前他们已经长高了。
They were kids she still had to look after.
他们都是她还得照顾的孩子。
Shin Yu-Seung and Yi Gil-Yeong quietly looked up at her, before the girl extended her hand out.
申玉升和易吉英静静地抬头看着她，然后女孩伸出了手。
"Noona, you want to try it?" Yi Gil-Yeong asked.
“努娜，你想试试吗?”伊吉英问道。
Yi Ji-Hye wordlessly stared at the coin gripped in her hand. Then, slowly tossed it up in the air. It spun around and her palm grasped it again. However, she was unable to open her hand.
易智慧一言不发地盯着手里的硬币。然后，慢慢地把它抛向空中。它转过身来，她的手掌又抓住了它。然而，她无法打开她的手。
"Eonni?"
“ Eonni? ”
The sensation of the coin captured in her hand; she couldn't tell whether it was heads or tails, but without a doubt, the coin did exist.
这枚硬币在她手里的感觉，她分不清是正面还是反面，但是毫无疑问，这枚硬币确实存在。
"Are you alright?"
“你没事吧?”
Yi Ji-Hye felt the texture of the coin in her hand for the longest time.
易智慧在她手里摸了很长时间的硬币的纹理。
*
⸢Hospital room, 10:48 PM.⸥
医院病房，10:48PM
The first person to open her mouth was Yu Sang-Ah.
第一个开口的是余相娥。
"The Fable level is still dropping lower."
“寓言级别仍在下降。”
As if the break down of a lifeform that should've normally taken several decades was happening at once, Kim Dok-Ja's blood continued to evaporate. Yi Su-Gyeong asked. "Seol-Hwa-ssi, is there any way to….?"
仿佛一个本该持续几十年的生命形态的分裂一下子就发生了，金道子的血液继续蒸发。李素京问道。“Seol-Hwa-ssi，有没有办法...?”
"As of now….."
“从现在起......”
"Can't we go with the method used to save both of us? Such as, repairing the Fables."
“难道我们不能用那种可以同时救我们两个的方法吗?比如说，修理寓言。”
Yi Seol-Hwa sighed softly and spoke while shifting her gaze in Yu Sang-Ah's direction.
易雪花轻轻地叹了口气，把目光转向余相娥的方向，说道。
"We chose the Fable repair method for both Su-Gyeong-ssi and Seol-Hwa-ssi because the <Star Stream>'s system was functioning properly back then."
“我们选择了寓言修复苏京西和Seol-Hwa-ssi，因为星流系统当时运作正常。”
It was a world where skills and Stigmata existed. Everything in the world acted as the components of stories. And so, the 'treatment' in such a world was all about repairing the Fables.
这是一个技能和圣痕存在的世界。世界上的一切都充当着故事的组成部分。因此，在这样一个世界里的治疗就是修复寓言。
"Recently, the skills or Fables have stopped activating as before. Even Aileen-ssi and I are gradually losing our powers," said Yi Seol-Hwa "….Is that because the <Star Stream>'s influence is disappearing?"
“最近，技能或寓言已经停止激活像以前一样。“甚至连我和艾琳都在逐渐失去我们的力量，”易世华说，“......是不是因为星流的影响力正在消失?”
"With how things are like now, that's the likeliest possibility."
“就目前的情况来看，这是最有可能的。”
"The reason why Dok-Ja-ssi's wounds aren't healing must be of a similar nature."
“Dok-Ja-ssi的伤口没有愈合的原因肯定也是类似的。”
Kim Dok-Ja before their eyes was an existence created out of the [Avatar] skill. And the [Avatar] was a skill belonging to <Star Stream> system.
在他们眼前的金道子是一个由[阿凡达]技能创造出来的存在。而《阿凡达》是属于星流系统的技能。
Yi Seol-Hwa made her final diagnosis. "Dok-Ja-ssi will eventually disappear if he remains in this place."
李世华做出了最后的诊断:“如果他还留在这个地方的话，独子思最终会消失。”
Yi Su-Gyeong wordlessly stared at Kim Dok-Ja.
李秀京一言不发地盯着金道子。
The world he spent all of his life to establish was now killing him. As if, the world where the stories had ended no longer needed Kim Dok-Ja.
他一生所建立的世界正在杀死他。好像故事已经结束的世界不再需要金道子了。
Yi Su-Gyeong reached out and touched the sleeping Kim Dok-Ja's cheek with her hand. "….If I knew you'd end up like this, maybe I should've stopped you back then."
李秀京伸出手，用手摸了摸睡着的金道子的脸颊......如果我知道你会落得这个下场，也许我当时就该阻止你。”
The moment her extended hand touched his cheek, a Fable bloomed between the two. It was the story of two people fighting inside the [Dark Castle]. Yi Su-Gyeong still remembered what happened back then.
她伸出的手一碰到他的脸颊，一个寓言就在两人之间绽放了。这是一个关于两个人在黑暗城堡里打架的故事。易素京还记得当时发生的事情。
His face looking back at her through [The 4th Wall] between them; a wall always existed between the two. However, Kim Dok-Ja knocking on that wall before she could was the first time he had ever done that.
他的脸透过他们之间的第四道墙回望着她，两者之间总是有一道墙。然而，KimDok-Ja还没来得及敲那面墙，就敲了敲，这是他第一次这样做。
Even if she turned back the clock, she'd still fail at stopping her son.
即使时光倒流，她也无法阻止她的儿子。
Yi Su-Gyeong stared at Kim Dok-Ja for a long time before holding her son's hand, a hand that always loved books. Most likely, the other Kim Dok-Ja was still busily 'scrolling' with these very hands while riding on the subway.
