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biggiedraws · 19 days

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thinking about joongdok in the early chapters......

rereading the orv novel and seeing things from yjhs perspective is so. augh. the first time you read it its soooo easy to trust kdjs perspective when he reads yjhs mind. his skill even tells him! "your understanding of this character is very high" surely hes interpreting him correctly :) then you read it again and realize how much kdj is filling in the gaps...... he expects yjh to be more callous, more jaded, more hardened than he actually is. hes been through 1863 regressions with yjh but this yjh is still only on the 3rd. and of course kdj learns this lesson himself much later on, but hes been misinterpreting yjh from the very beginning. hes just very good at justifying it.

this scene for example. (i am talking about the novel btw i just have. way more webtoon screenshots on hand. you understand.) kdj thinks it would be out of character for yjh to consider him an actual companion, so he rationalizes it. but once youre able to take yourself out of kdjs perspective, its really obvious by this point that yjh considers them companions??

he tested him with the sea monster (and waited by the river for 3 days for him to emerge, btw), and then again with the monsters in chungmuro. yes, he thinks about killing kdj quite a lot (out of caution) but its not like he ever follows through on it (something yjh from a later regression would be much less hesitant about). i havent gotten very far with my latest reread, but from memory - when hes paralyzed by poison he specifically asks for kdj. they fight side by side on several occasions, and specifically, kdj saves yjhs life multiple times. yjh criticizes him fairly often, but hes not needlessly cruel - just blunt. pointing out his flaws so he can work on them (and to keep him humble, lets be real). and of course, he desperately tries to save kdj when he gets blasted by 41!sys, and then flies into a mindless rage when kdj dies in his arms.

yeah, yjh isnt exactly upfront about his feelings, hes often off doing his own thing, and he gets PISSED when kdj manipulates him into doing his bidding (which happens fairly often in the early chapters) (he just wants you to communicate with him, damnit!) but like. its very very clear if you know where to look. and kdj DOESNT. but he thinks he does!!! augh i cant wait to get to the scene where they reintroduce themselves....... especially since its not like yjh knows kdj any better - he still thinks hes a prophet! there are so many levels of miscommunication going on here, but the important thing is. they care about each other. thats always what it comes down to, isnt it? they love each other. they want the best for each other. they would do anything to save each other. aughhhh orv.....

#ill never be normal again #orv #orv spoilers #lol i just remembered i had this in my drafts..... if i dont post it now ill forget about it again #kinda unpolished. not really sure if it gets any kind of point across. but anyway. enjoy

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lee-hakhyun · 4 months

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it couldn't get any worse after that last chapter, right?

as his story begins, it starts to take control over his consciousness. as he fights for his own mind, he hears the introduction to orv. the words that he once wrote have returned as a curse. seeing an image of hundreds of thousands of meteors in a shower, another line comes to mind

「if i cannot be kim dokja」

「then i wish that no kim dokja would exist in this universe instead」

those are lines he wrote. han sooyoung would have never written that. but if this story has that. kim dokja...

lhh's friends are approaching him. thoughts of almost anything was changed into samyeongdang's bamboo stick, as his story continues to control him. he tells it to shut up. when he declared he would be kim dokja it was to bear the duty of kim dokja, not listen to unreasonable stories. he tells his story to listen to him,

but it doesn't. he cannot handle this story. he isn't strong enough to wear kim dokja's name. thr story takes control of his arm, and prepares to attack his friends and consume them. this can't happen. if he can't control the story, he'd rather—

shin yoosung notices something is wrong and grabs on to lhh. begs him. he tells her it's alright, and changes the bamboo stick to broken faith. with blade of faith, he resists the story's control, and

stabs himself in the stomach...

even through the pain, he refuses to pass out snd let his story take control of his body. he hears voices through his barely aware consciousness, people trying to save him, blasts, a sudden scenario...

...

the midday tryst line is restored. dkos tells lhh to get up. lhh can feel that the story's control has disappeared. did he do it?

dkos is speechless.

— yjh doesn't control his stories like that

"this was the only way" <- no it was not

— incite?

"that might not have worked" <- i get not taking any chances, but...

— so you put a hole in your stomach?

"i'm a little more like kim dokja now" <- WHAT THE FUCK

— oh my

dkos's voice sounds happy. lhh smiles bitterly. i am losing it.

as lhh gets up, he feels extremely fragile. like if someone touched him, he would break into pieces. like his entire self was faltering. is this how 49 felt? hearing sounds and screams in the distance, he asks dkos what's going on. a scenario.

the window pops up then, and it's a sub scenario. dragons are invading... where's yoo joonghyuk? looking around, he can't see him. dkos tells him he was summoned to the final part of the seventh scenario. ...right, lhh was supposed to go with him. yjh's companions and the readers aren't here either. they probably all went with him. so the people left... those who weren't chosen to go to the 7th scenario. lhh can see the people fighting. faces he knew.

bang cheolsoo, dayoung and her mother, jungsa kim and jung eunho, shin yoosung. and jung heewon, in the center of the battlefield. she takes down a dragon, and heads directly to the next one. even when it roars and the incarnations around her collapses, her [madness] attribute from the crazy butcher peotects her. she commands the people to stand up, and they do. even when they clearly can't continue to fight.

lee hakhyun doesn't understand. this sub scenario, it doesn't have a failure penalty. gwanghwamun can be safely abandoned. so why?

it's not...

— that's right.

there was a circular formation around his tent.

— they're protecting you.

taking a closer look, all the faces were familiar. people he had passed by at the geumho, chungmuro, and seoul stations. a man notices him, and calls out for him. a groll bites into his neck, and he falls as he yells to alert everyone else. a woman cries out and holds the man, before they're both swarmed by grolls.

lee hakhyun has to do something. holding broken faith, he tries to incite as anyone. yoo joonghyuk. jung heewon. kim dokja.

incite can't be activated. his body is unstable. a message appears again. and even as the story was driven away, his penalty still remained. he has 5 minutes to collect a new kdj fragment. he wants to save them, but he can't think of a way. he can't do it.

— yoo joonghyuk made you a companion.

dkos' voice

— and yet he left you behind. why would he do that?

the reason why he was left behind. did he think lhh could solve the scenario? dkos is silent.

there is no yoo joonghyuk here. people are dying. he has 3 minutes left. in order to use his skills, he has to clear this penalty first. a penalty that will only be cleared when 'kim dokja' is consumed.

"heir to the eternal name."

there's only one thing he can use to feed this story.

he brings his right arm to his mouth.

"eat 'me'".

#responses to asks will be delayed a little longer #orv side story #orv spoilers #side story lb #side story spoilers

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rlaehrwk-37 · 9 months

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I love that the people LHH saved (Bang Cheolsoo and the other Chungmuro people) made a group named Inho Gang ‘인호파’.

Lee Hakhyun you’re doing so good. This round will be better. This round will be worth saving, even if it was meant to be doomed anyway. You can do this!!

#orv #orv side story #also Bang Cheolsoo (the guy who kdj called similar to him and then proceeded to kill him….) is now the Gangster King!#so many new developments omg #orv spoilers #lee hakhyun

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ye-xiu · 20 days

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#exact copies #actors representing chungmuro

#bros on foot #두 발로 티켓팅 #ticketing on two feet #ha jung woo #ju ji hoon #kvariety #kactoredit #kdramaedit #kdramadaily #asiandramanet #kdramasource #dailyasiandramas #userjinki #*gifs #too cute ;;

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k-star-holic · 2 years

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'Propofol dosing Fined' Ha Jung-woo, 'no self-reliance and no position', returns at high speed..."Narco-Saints" exceptionally long

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

#Narco-Saints #Propofol #Actors #9th day #Park Hae Soo #Dominican Republic #Yoo Yeon-seok #Netflix #Game #Jeju Island #Ha Jung-woo #Chungmuro #Yoon Jong-bin #Hwang Jung-min #Yun

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wangmiao · 1 year

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Ha Jung Woo and Ju Ji Hoon’s first night in New Zealand: #chungmuro actors #same sleeping position #same bed hair BROS ON FOOT (2023) ep 1.02

#bros on foot #kdramaedit #asiandramanet #kdramasource #kdramadaily #ha jung woo #ju ji hoon #ha jungwoo #ju jihoon #along with the gods #kactor #kvariety #ticketing on two feet.#ticketing with two feet.#userkunedits

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starupabove · 1 year

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The Accidental Monarch

Romance. Action. Thriller. Chungmuro actress Yoon Seri has done them all and is about to take on the role of a lifetime: Queen of South Korea.

Available to read on Archive of Our Own & Wattpad

Story Cover by chummychurri

#crash landing of love #crash landing on you #fanfiction #fanfic #kdrama #korean drama #riri couple #ri jeong hyeok #yoon se ri #son ye jin #hyun bin #binjin

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chasing-after-the-abyss · 2 years

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Alas for us non-Korean ORV fans over here in the English speaking bit of the fandom, there's a lot of specific cultural references that we miss while reading the novel or the webcomic. For example, given that Jurassic Park 'Birassic Park' is a real movie under a slightly different title, y'might have figured that 'The Battle of Myeongnyang' from Lee JIhye's awakening in Chapter 40 / Episode 40 is also very real. Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) is still the most-watched movie of all time in South Korea and thanks to that popularity, the likes of you and me can watch it with english subtitles on Amazon and then immediately get kicked in the face with why the Duke of Loyalty and Warfare might be so inclined to like Kim Dokja.

ANYWAY.

Speaking of other details an English speaker might miss, the Korean phrase translated as 'Duke of Loyalty and Warfare' is Chungmugong. Does that sound a little bit familiar? It should, because among our beloved naval constellation's many stories, South Korea went and named a street after him, and that street has a subway station. That's right. Lee Jihye, who shows up in Chungmuro Station? She starts in an area that's literally named for her sponsor. Truly, Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World is that sort of contrived novel. And as someone who enjoys digging up and appreciating the little details in stories? I'm a fan.

#this has been your entirely unscheduled lee jihye posting #orv #lee jihye #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader #the indescribable cultural distance of translation #yi sun-sin looking at fellow self-sacrificing leader KDJ and going 'ah yes you need my stigma': perfectly sensible in context #movie also very briefly features Lee Jihye's ancestor and the Maritime War God being a softie about his friend's kids #characterization: extended #next up: perhaps a post about where Biyhung's name came from #my posts #meta

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leibal · 9 months

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TENT_2nd is a minimalist whiskey bar located in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Plainoddity. Much like how whiskey acquires varying hues and flavors while maturing in an oak barrel, the bricks used in the structure differ based on the composition of the soil and their baking process. In a departure from the whiskey-themed aesthetic of the first store, the second store was conceived to mirror the backdrop of the Chungmuro locality

#minimalism #minimal #minimalist #minimal interior #interior design #leibal

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lee-hakhyun · 4 months

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691-694 (long)

so! the hunt is over. the survivors in gwanghwamun begin to recollect themselves. there were quite a few deaths... but everyone is calmer than expected. the incarnations obediently follow bang cheolsoo's orders, but they're not following him because they respect cheolsoo. this efficient atmosphere was forged by yoo joonghyuk over the past 45 days, and the incarnations follow bang cheolsoo under yjh's shadow. which gets lhh thinking. what kind of ending does the 41st dream of? he never asked. he's about to think about it more, but bang cheolsoo comes forward.

cheolsoo says he's okay, but he's badly injured. a stab wound from the neck to the chest, and wrapped wounds on the thighs and arms... but he's still standing strong. kdj takes notice and compares him to lhs, muttering something about having to rewrite his power balance chart. lhh agrees to share the 5th grade monster's loot with geumho station, while he takes the 4th grade for himself. kdj talks to bihyung to put that on the dokkaebi exchange, and comes back saying it was sold to some people in the united states. america... kdj confirms it's who lhh was thinking of. lhh and jhw, the main contributors to the scenario, also got a low grade dragon's heart as a reward, which can be seen as some kind of elixir. kdj recommends finding a specialist to help absorb it. the heavenly beggar is busy, but kdj says he knows someone outside of korea who lhh can meet soon... i wonder who that could be. surely not the girl with [elixir maker].

anyway, kdj's words cut off and lhh goes to check on jhw. she's still asleep after taking ellain's forest essence, and there's a few messages

[The character 'Jung Heewon' is relying on you.] [The target's 'Madness' is currently quiet.]

lhh wasn't able to prevent jung heewon from becoming the crazy butcher. but she seems a little different from the original crazy butcher, who was a person obsessed with the family she had lost... <- i.. i don't think lhh is realizing the impact he is having on jhw..?

a notification of the exchange transaction comes in, and lhh gets 150,000 (!) coins in advance. kdj comes back, and after making sure nobody else is in the room, takes out the kdj fragment doll. kdj says that lhh has already collected 6 fragments, which confuses lhh. when did he collect all those fragments? then, some scenes come to mind.

saving max at chungmuro station, changing the fate of bang cheolsoo and the people of geumho station, meeting the 41st shin yoosung, fighting the beggars sect's sect leader, and when making dansu ahjussi the king of no killing...

the 'loss' he had collected. it was all fragments. some of them had gotten stuck, fallen asleep in the stories they had wanted to see. that also explains why his skills leveled up so quickly, and how he [sentence reinforcement] and [omniscient reader's viewpoint] after collecting the loss... the more fragments he collects, the closer he'd get to a complete 'kim dokja'. but there's no time to delay now, kdj warns that the black hand would come back again. is that hand the reason why kdj is split up? kdj dodges the question. he might remember when the doll is absorbed. he reaches for the doll, and.

「“Nice to meet you. I’m Kim Kyungsik. Do you remember the messages I sent you before?”」

「“Ah, I’m an old man here so I’ll speak like an old man.”」

this doll was someone he knew. kim kyungsik. the old man he had met at the theater dungeon, who had read orv 6 times. what will happen to him when he absorbs this fragment? kdj gives a warning, as the air sparks as a sign that the crack in the air was returning. lhh asks if there's a way to save him, and kdj says maybe. but he had to get his soul back first. lhh doesn't have a choice. he offers the doll to htten.

The Story moved to consume the fragment as it had before. But it was different from the last time when it had greedily consumed the Story Fragment. There was a feeling of the doll being very gently enveloped, as if swallowing a brittle cookie. At the last moment, the doll secretly opened its eyes and looked at me. 「"At last."」

absorbing the fragment, there's a series of messages. 20 days are added to his time to live, and kim kyungsik's exclusive skill, [smoke man]. a skill that lets him turn into smoke with a smoking pipe. and then, a voice rings out from behind lhh

"You... what did you just do?"

the door was open, and someone was standing there.

it's... koo sunah. the reader who had been with kim kyungsik in the theater dungeon. how much had she seen? all she should have seen was him with the kim dokja doll, right..? then sunah asks how he has that skill. skill? lhh looks down. oh... his fingertips are smoky... this is a misunderstanding. lhh tries to talk this out, but orv activates, and lhh sees how kks had died. him and sunah were attacked by the misreading association, and he had been poisoned. kyungsik told her to run, and she did. she had buried her emotions, but seeing his skill, the guilt she had been turning away from came back. she runs off, and kdj stops lhh from chasing her. this isn't something he can't solve.

they have to prepare for the next scenario. lhh had originally planned to participate in the end of the 7th scenario with yjh, but, well, things happened. and now things may have gone badly. 41yjh's regression depression is worse than usual, and kdj says that he might kill anna if lhh gets there too late. but, the way he said anna's name... and jung heewon and lee hyunsung as well. he's not referring to them in a friendly manner. is it because he doesn't consider this world his own? or is he purposely trying to distance himself? lhh calls out to kdj and asks. who the hell split up kim dokja?

kim dokja dodges the question. says his memory is still missing when pushed. and then midday tryst overloads. luckily, coins can be paid for extra probability. lhh waits for kdj to start talking again... but he doesn't speak. is he not talking because he doesn't want to pay the coins..??? lhh decided to not do anything to see what happens.

[Your sponsor is looking at you.] [Your sponsor is looking at you.] [Your sponsor is looking at you!] [Your sponsor is looking at you!] [Your sponsor is looking at you!]

lhh pays the coin cost.

a portal appears in the center of gwanghwamun, and out steps some people who weren't korean. and someone shouts out that they're here for the 4th grade's parts.

it's selena kim!! as expected, it was zarathustra who bought the 4th grade monster. lhh goes over and they greet each other, and she seems to have met yjh before as well. another person butts in as well, a girl with faint pink hair who's slightly shorter than selena kim. lhh doesn't know who this is, but she's rude. lhh isn't nice in return, but she doesn't seem fazed. and then lee hakhyun sees the pocket watch in her hands. and he can't look away. activating incite, he realizes what item it is. the 'pocket watch of eternal sleep'. and only one incarnation in wos had that item... the finger snapper, christina page. who was previously mentioned once before in the early chapters of season 1, as the other incarnation who cleared the scenario through incitement killing

even though he used incite to protect himself, his ability was lower, and as his skills were sealed for just two seconds due to that. but with just those two seconds,

"From now on, you..." With Christina's smile, a chilling sensation ran down my spine. "...will fall into a terrible sleep." Along with the sound of fingers snapping, my stream of consciousnesses abruptly cut off.

lee hakhyun gets hypnotized and passes out right where he stands.

selena questions christina. this wasn't planned? christina says that there was a reason anna sent her, and she taps cheon inho's forehead. just look at him. she's been in the fbi for a few years, and that guy just looks like a criminal. she's going to just go on without him, but someone grabs her finger.

why is cheon inho still awake? her hypnosis should have knocked him out for at least a full day. and... why is she immobilized from just her finger being grabbed? cheon inho complains about having to use coins, and christina is frozen by the status emanating from him.

[The constellation 'Demon King of Salvation' is staring at you.] She couldn't turn her head. She felt as if someone terrible would face her if she turned her head. A pale, cold hand lightly grabbed her shoulder. "I was only going to take 500,000 coins, but... you guys, I can't." Together with a light spark, a cold breath like the whisper of a devil touched the tip of her ear. "Go tell Anna to show her face."

hi dkos

selena can't understand what's unfolding in front of her. the former fbi agent and the brain of zarathustra, christina page, was currently bending over backwards for this random guy, as he haggles the price of the 4th grade monster up to 650,000 coins. and there's something even weirder. this guy, who was so cold to christina, was nice to her...

and you know who is even more bewildered? lee hakhyun, currently watching from outside his body. the coins being sponsored to him was going directly to the person currently possessing his body. and kdj can't leave, because if he did the hpynosis would just cause him to fall asleep again. how did he even get in, anyway? it's only the seventh scenario and he definitely doesn't have the probability... or was it [omniscient reader's viewpoint]. but it only works on 'characters'... by any chance...?

nah. it's cheon inho. right, what the hell happened to cheon inho? where is his soul?? when 3rd sys left 41st sys's body, 41 sys came back, so the same should have happened here... but he didn't come back. another question to throw on the pile.

christina hands over the 650k coins, which kim dokja happily takes. and says again that he's leaving with them to go meet anna. didn't you hear from joonghyukie? he was coming to the us as well. selena agrees for the both of them, and kdj leaves a note for jhw as he leaves for america. heading to the portal, lhh asks if kdj has ever been to america. lhh has never been outside korea, and he didn't expect his first time overseas would be like this. but i guess to a constellation going abroad is no big deal. going through the portal, they end up in a desert, the outskirts of las vegas.

they get in a ride to the city center, where anna and yjh are. kdj comments on the car, and then... asks christina if he can take a nap. kdj explains that [orv] has a time limit and costs probability, so he's conserving time by limiting his time. lhh takes this time to confront lhh on the coins kdj stole from him. kdj ends orv. maybe he signed a contract with the demon king of 9 won...

why '9 won'? this is a pun salvation = 구원(guwon). 구(gu) = 9, and 원 = won, south korea's currency

anyway, kdj seriously goes to sleep. christina and selena talk a bit, and <asgard> comes up. the whole of asgard can't be contacted, which is odd. something big must have happened to take all their interest. and then christina says she was able to get in contact with one of them, who said something strange. asking about a demon king.

<asgard> knows about dkos?

how?? information from readers would have filtered, and it's not likely that they would have been the ones that killed kim dokja... another unanswered question. whatever. hypnotists have a greater sense of spirit than other incarnations, which is probably why christina was able to catch on that kdj was dangerous. they continue their conversation in group chat, so lhh can't listen to any more.

looking at cheon inho's face, there's times when it actually does look like his face. christina called it the face of a con artist... but shin yoosung called him handsome... maybe he should get [preserve humidity] like kdj. thinking of it now, kdj is rather thorough abt self management, huh. just look at cheon inho, with the turtleneck tidied up and the neck pillow he got before sleeping...

...neck pillow?

lhh checks the item information. sss grade neck pillow, made by mass production maker with a cute dokkaebi on it, which costs... 10,000 coins... kdj chooses then to wake up. and they argue about the neck pillow. kdj also mentions that yjh and ysa also used it. yjh???? anyway, lhh is eventually convinced. as the city of las vegas comes into view, two system messages appear. the 7th and 8th main scenarios... are occuring at the same time? something's wrong. the 7th scenario is monster invasions, and the 8th is unknown. it was the strongest sacrifice in korea in the 3rd turn, so hopefully it's not as bad here.

the constellations aren't impressed by las vegas. the whole world is a place to gamble on incarnations for the constellations, why would they be drawn to a place where humans gamble? but this is the zarathustra's home. as they open the door to the vehicle, there's a crowd that greets them. but it's not their group. kdj seems to know who they are, remarking that the las vegas civil war seems to have not ended yet. usually there would have been a unification of power under a single king, but it looks like america's 'absolute throne' also lost its power after lhh killed the founder of the absolute throne. anna probably had some trouble with that. the leader of the group comes forward, a hispanic man with a cowboy hat and silver cross necklace, jacob martinez. the king of north las vegas.

martinez talks to selena, saying that he wants to meet with anna, demanding compensation for the damage to his group after the subjugation of the fourth grade (apparently one appeared here as well). they argue some more, until christina frowns and comes in. things escalate, with martinez taking out a pistol and christina holding her pocket watch. and suddenly, there's two of him. christina puts her hands in the air and drops her pocket watch. lhh is impressed, and asks how he did that. avatar? is martinez also a writer? kdj says that martinez is a 'magician'.

holding the gun to christina and aiming at selena, says he'll count to three. if anna is really a prophet, she'll come out on her own. either that, or she doesn't value them. counting down to one, he motions to pull the trigger.

but someone was faster. kim dokja, with his hand on the pistol, says that anna won't come out. because she can't see the future. everyone is stunned, as nobody here had seen him move.

[The Story 'Pebble and I' has stopped its storytelling.]

martinez belatedly comes to his senses and pulls the trigger, but. the pistol doesn't fire.

[The Story 'Pistol and I' continues its storytelling.]

taking the gun, kim dokja aims the gun toward the sky and pulls the trigger.

she can't see the future, because he's here.

a celebration of their las vegas debut begins with a bang.

#las vegas arc! las vegas arc!!#sorry for the delays!!! i totally wasn't in a depressive slump #orv spoilers #side story spoilers #side story lb #orv side story

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