#okay rereading 0th turn and i realise that yes yjh didnt

[mhaynoot]

[ORV spoilers]

yjh still searching for kdj after achieving all his wishes and "happy ending"

after discovering all the answers to his questions, after discovering his origins, who tls123 is and who kdj is too, who his sponsor is, why he regressed, and having truly and fully reached the end of the terrible story with the star stream destroyed and most constellations completely wiped out, and had even lost his regressor ability, the start of his 1864 lifetimes of tragedy

he had protected his little sister, reached the end as a human being, and all of his companions had survived and they can all live a peaceful life

and yet still, still, yjh reaches out to kdj

he spends years and years and even more years searching and trying to save that fool, scattering kdj's story to all the fragments of his one reader just for the hope and miracle and chance

he could have settled down with lsh and have tens and tens of children, looked after his sister growing up and meet up regularly with his companions as they all finally grew old together and have another perfect world like in the 0th worldline but, exactly like in the 0th worldline, yjh chooses instead to continue chasing kdj and reaching out to save that rat bastard

because they save and have saved each other, because they are and will always be "life and death companions", because yjh could not function in a world without kdj, could not simply move on in his "happy ending", had been completely dishevelled in the years following that failed 1865 group regression

yjh was not a regressor anymore and he was not a character either, he had become the editor and fellow the writer of his companion's story

and he decided to write, to continue to save him who was saved by him.