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“I didn’t know you liked these kinds of novels.” Satan says as he looks at Mammon’s phone.
“Me neither. Found them interestin’ cause of the main character.” Mammon ruffled with Satan’s hair as he continued to read.
“What was his name again?”
“Kim Dokja.”
Satan hummed in acknowledgement, placing his head on his older brother’s shoulders.
“It’s summer, you know you shouldn’t stick with me.” Mammon reminded Satan that the second oldest has the warmest body.
“You’re hot.”
“Excuse me?”
“As in temperature. Jeez, now I know where Asmo got that from.”
“Cheeky Tans.”
The relationship between the two brothers has become great. They’re as close as last time.
“Mammonnnnnnn” Satan dragged out his older brother’s name as he rubbed his head against Mammon’s shoulder like a cat.
“Satannnnnnnn” Mammon did the same thing to Satan but didn’t tear his eyes away from his phone.
“You lost the bet we made a century ago and you have yet to buy me that book.”
“Sly kid.”
“I’m older than one thousand!”
“And I’m almost in my six thousands! Can’t beat me can ya?” Mammon grinned and finally placed his phone down.
Mammon rested his head on Satan’s for a bit. He has a weird gut feeling but it’s probably the spicy food that he ate for breakfast. Satan had a cat-like grin. Making Mammon smile nervously.
“I’ll get yer book.” Mammon said as he got up, his hand ruffling Satan’s hair.
“Grab me a cat on the way back!” Satan yelled from the couch in the living room.
“No promises that it’ll be normal!”
“A feline is a feline big bro!”
Mammon left the house with a smile on his face. His younger brother was so stupid and cute.
The avatar pulled out his DDD and went to read again.
“Ah…”
Mammon stared at his phone.
The words, “Chapter 551: Epilogue 5 - The Eternity and Epilogue (Complete)”
Mammon has spent his days crying to his brothers (mostly Satan) about this novel. The novel has interesting characters, plot line and fine babes.
The story is depressing though. That’s the truth man. Mammon has sobbed on Satan’s shoulder so many times while reading it. And whenever the younger one asked why he still reads it, Mammon only answered with, “I can’t seem to stop.”
Mammon began walking across the long lonely streets of Devildom while reading.
He wanted to cry to be honest. He has been reading this novel for about one or two months. It’s pretty popular in the human realm.
Mammon sometimes wants to be apart of the novel. Silly right? A demon like him…wanting to be in a fictional world.
Mammon realised…he couldn’t scroll down any further.
He read the sentence,
“This story is for just that one reader.”
And nothing else was there.
Mammon stood in the middle of the road. He has done a grave mistake…
He was supposed to finish the novel while talking to Satan…he was supposed to get that, “I just finished something depressing so I get to slack off from my chores to cry” coupon!
Who made it? No one knows.
Mammon stood there thinking. Either he pretends he stopped reading it or reread it and cry. To be honest it’s a bad idea to reread the epilogues of the novel.
But Mammon has never really made a good choice so…
“LORD MAMMON!!”
Sudden screams of his names? Mammon looked behind to see a few citizens yelling at him to move?
He looked in front of him and a huge truck which was shining bright lights at him was coming straight towards him.
Mammon is the fastest demon in devildom. No one can catch up.
Why did he freeze?
Was he gonna die?
That can’t be! He’s the third strongest under his older brother and Lord Diavolo!
He still needed to get a book and a cat for Satan…he still had things to do.
Mammon can’t die.
Not like this.
And certainly not here.
The truck didn’t stop.
—
Mammon opened his eyes, gasping. He remembered and felt it all.
He remembers how he gasped for air on the ground, people crowding around him, Satan yelling for help. He remembers blood trickling down his head and he remembers how his consciousness faded away.
How is he alive?
“Uhm…sir?”
A woman’s voice called out. When Mammon looked around, he was on a subway.
IN KOREA.
“U-Uh so-sorry I don’t know…Korean” Mammon stuttered.
“But sir…you’re speaking Korean…?”
“…”
Mammon began blushing red in embarrassment. He forgot that because of him being from another realm, he’s able to speak and understand different languages.
“Haha! Work must’ve been tiring, right sir?”
Mammon chuckled as he nodded, “yes. I have to take care of six siblings as well.”
“Wow! Are they troublesome?”
“Very. Two of them likes to play pranks on the eldest and I have to get them out of trouble. The rest of them are troublesome in their own way.” Mammon smiled as he talked about his family.
Wait…
Why is he on the subway?
And why is he talking to this woman?
“Dokja?”
The woman turned away from Mammon and began talking to—
Dokja…?
Kim…Dokja…?
Mammon slowly looked to the side…his eyes widened when he saw the man.
Kim Dokja, the main character of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint.
Then the woman must’ve been…
Yoo Sangah, one of Kim Dokja's colleagues.
“Ah! Sir, I’m sorry for talking to you so suddenly! I couldn’t help but notice you were panicking…” Sangah suddenly began speaking to Mammon again.
“O-Oh! No worries, it’s alright!” Mammon was freaking out internally.
How the fuck did he transmigrate into omniscient reader!?!? He was only joking when he said he wanted to be apart of it!
“My name is…Mammon Morningstar! Just call me Mammon for short” Mammon grinned.
He should’ve seriously picked another name. Mammon forgot that some people may fear or hate him for his name.
Well not just his name, since he is a demon himself.
“Mammon? I wonder why your parents named you after Avatar of Greed…could it be because your parents wanted you to be an alchemist?”
“Hmm…I am good at alchemy and chemicals so maybe?” Mammon lied.
He is the avatar of greed.
But there’s no way he could say that he’s a demon that transmigrated into his favourite novel!
Mammon would be yelling his lungs out and wanting to go back.
But he would probably get arrested for disturbing the public.
“I’m Yoo Sangah! I work at the same company as my colleague, Kim Dokja!” Yoo Sangah shifted her position so that Mammon could see Kim Dokja.
Kim Dokja looked up and saw Mammon, he looked a bit stunned that Sangah introduced him and he nodded shyly before looking back at his phone.
“Are you…reading twas?” Mammon asks, Kim Dokja froze.
Shit.
Mammon wasn’t supposed to say that.
“Have you read it as well?” Kim Dokja finally spoke to Mammon.
“Yep, unfortunately i became busy and was unable to continue reading past episode 100”
“Oh! Are you two talking about a book?” Yoo Sangah asked, interested in the conversation.
“Hmm yeah! It’s a novel.” Mammon smiled.
Kim Dokja looked back at his phone and looked confused.
Ah…
Mammon realised this action.
It’s about time isn’t it?
The subway’s lights went out.
The subway’s wheels made a loud screeching noise as it was forced to stop.
People lost their balance and some yelled in a panic.
Mammon, however, sat there. Neither shocked nor confused.
It was all according to the novel.
Sangah gripped onto Kim Dokja’s arm. Dokja asked, “Sangah are you okay?”
“Y-Yes, what do you think is happening?” Yoo Sangah questioned as she looked around.
“Don’t worry, it’s probably nothing—”
Mammon stared at Kim Dokja, watching his every move. Everything is according to the novel. Dokja would see that the time is 7pm and…
“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE.
P-PLEASE, EVACUATE….EVACUATE…!”
A loud ‘beep’ was heard throughout the train.
“Dokja, what’s going on…?” Yoo Sangah stared in shock.
The subway came to a halt and the entire cabin grew dark until…
Kim Dokja looked to the side, a flashing red light was at the front of the cabin.
“THE FREE SERVICE OF THE 8612TH PLANETARY SYSTEM HAS COME TO AN END.”
“THE MAIN SCENARIO WILL BEGIN NOW.”
Mammon bit his lip. Should he be excited? Scared? Confused?
What a messed up universe…
Kim Dokja and Yoo Sangah stood up, looking at the light. Mammon stood up and stood behind the two.
A figure appeared out of the light.
“A Dokkaebi?”
Yoo Sangah said as she looked at the dokkaebi, shocked.
“Sorry?” Kim Dokja looked over at his colleague.
“You might be thinking it’s impossible, right Dokja?” Mammon grinned and stepped forward, placing a hand on the latter’s shoulder.
“It’s gonna become hell.”
People whispered, “What is that?” Or “what’s happening?”
Mammon grinned devilishly.
It’s hell.
That’s what the planet is gonna become.
Murmurs filled the room. People whispered and mumbled in the cabin.
“ Two small horns.
A downy creature wearing a straw garment was floating midair.
It was too peculiar to be called a fairy, too malicious to be called an angel, and too innocent looking to be called a devil. ”
“So we called it a dokkaebi.” Mammon smiled as he recited a line from the novel that Kim Dokja read. A drop of sweat trickled down his face.
“@!-$:$$!!”
“%*&$¥£€!!.!”
The Dokkaebi spoke. People stared at it, confused.
“What’s that thing saying?”
“Ew! It’s so ugly!”
“Is this even real?”
Some people genuinely wanted answers, some people thought they were dreaming.
Kim Dokja glanced at Mammon who was smiling nervously.
”No one knew what was going on…except for me”
Mammon has to apologise to Kim Dokja because…
He knows even more than the main character himself.
“I think it’s speaking Spanish. Should I try talking to it?” Yoo Sangah asked, she was nervous too.
“You don’t even know what that thing is. Are you going to ask it to lend you money?” Kim Dokja's joking but panicky voice chuckled.
“W-Well, no. But…”
Mammon laughed softly, covering his hand with his mouth. Before Kim Dokja nor Yoo Sangah could speak, the dokkaebi started speaking.
“Testing. Testing. Can everyone hear me?”
“Gosh. The language patch was malfunctioning for a bit.”
“CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME NOW?”
The dokkaebi raised it’s voice.
“Hey, what do you think you’re doing?”
Mammon facepalmed. Of course, there’s a stupid person that gets themself killed.
“Pardon?”
“Are you filming a movie? I have to go to my audition.” The person said as he crossed his arms, brows
furrowed.
“Oh, an audition at this hour, huh? Haha!”
“I guess I should’ve done more research. They told me I would have the most customers if we put up the paywall at around 7pm.”
The dokkaebi crossed its arms and sighed. Though it was still smiling.
“What? What on earth are you talking about?”
“Okay, everyone, please calm down. Why don’t you take a seat and listen? I have something very important to tell you all!”
The dokkaebi raised his arms but people began yelling at the creature.
“What is it?”
“Just start the train already!”
“You can’t do this without consent!” (Consent is important, kids!)
“How are you going to compensate for this!?”
Mammon looked over at Kim Dokja. He smiled nervously.
“Sangah, don’t move.” Kim Dokja said as he placed his hand on the girl’s shoulder, moving forward.
But before the latter could do anything, the dokkaebi started talking again.
“Haha.”
“It sure is noisy here, isn’t it?”
“I…”
“TOLD YOU…”
“TO BE QUIET!”
Blood.
Blood splattered from a man’s head. The man swayed as blood continuously fell. Then, the body fell. The head was no more.
People screamed in horror as more bodies dropped on the floor and more blood splattered.
“We’re not filming a movie.”
The seats had blood on them as well.
Mammon almost pitied them. But they’re fictional characters. So he doesn’t feel that bad.
“This isn’t a dream.”
People covered their eyes and ears as person by person died. It was so quick and fast no one could catch it.
“Or a novel.”
Ironic. That’s what Mammon thought, holding in a scoff.
“And it certainly isn’t the reality that you all are familiar with! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!”
Yoo Sangah looked horrified, a hand over her mouth and her eyes widened like she’d seen a ghost. (Well a dokkaebi in this case)
“All of you have had quite a cushy life until now, haven’t you?”
The dokkaebi grinned, sharp teeth glinting and murderous eyes.
“You were able to breathe, eat, excrete and reproduce without paying any costs! HA!”
“YOU’VE ALL BEEN ENJOYING PRIVILEGED LIVES!!”
Mammon wanted to yawn. It’s like the novel. This scene used to make Mammon’s stomach twist but experiencing it kind of makes him giggle.
‘What does the devil’s tango gotta do with freedom’
(Author is unfunny btw.)
“BUT IT'S ALL OVER NOW.”
“NOTHING IS FREE IN LIFE, ISN’T THAT RIGHT?”
Mammon would’ve made a disgusted face. Dokkaebi…Mammon literally spends money everyday, seriously everything has a price.
Perhaps this is the price Mammon has to pay for being such a scumbag. Or maybe it’s just that the universe hates him.
Mammon suddenly remembered the epilogue of omniscient reader’s viewpoint.
He grinned.
He has a crazy ambition.
Suddenly, he heard a sound of flame. He looked up to see a side character. Han…something, he wasn’t important. The credit card…was burned.
Mammon wanted to cry.
Goldie….
WHY DID HE LEAVE GOLDIE BEHIND!?!?
“…I won’t bother explaining it to you. It will be faster for you to try and earn the money yourselves.”
Mammon covered his mouth as the dokkaebi opened its channel. He’s already sticking out like a sore thumb.
White hair, blue-gold tinted eyes and not to mention he’s grinning in such a life threatening situation.
Citizens were confused as a blue tinted screen popped up in front of them.
THE MAIN SCENARIO HAS ARRIVED.
MAIN SCENARIO #1
[PROVE YOUR VALUE]
KILL ONE OR MORE LIVING ORGANISMS.
CATEGORY: MAIN
DIFFICULTY: F
TIME LIMIT: 30 MINUTES
REWARD: 300 COINS
PENALTY FOR FAILURE: DEATH
“I expect to see an interesting story.”
Mammon smiled.
You’ll fucking get a amusing one, that’s for sure.
Why?
The avatar of greed, an actual demon, is in the midst of chaos. Chaos…his very own specialty.
“Dokja.”
Kim Dokja looked over at the white haired, looking confused as to why he’s smiling.
“I’ll give you a suggestion, come close.”
Mammon whispered into the main character’s ears. Kim Dokja’s eyes widened slightly when he realised how that’s a good idea.
But suddenly, his face darkened when Mammon finished talking.
“Throw it upwards. Not all can survive but it’s not like you are the one to pick who gets to. So, either all of us die or some of us gets to live.”
“Life is never fair Dokja.”
The demonic grin.
Kim Dokja can’t forget what this side of Mammon is like. He never will.
Mammon then turned to Yoo Sangah, trying to let her calm down. Kim Dokja suddenly placed his hand on Mammon’s shoulder. His brows furrowed and eyes showing a state of confusion.
“Mammon…who are you?”
“A reader.”