A kingless world—that is the outcome Dokja chose as the price for refusing to rule as a godlike monarch. But even the omniscient reader could not have foreseen the depths of depravity human society can sink to when there is no force imposing order. And within the dark, lawless streets of what was once Seoul, Dokja encounters a person he knew from another lifetime, a trauma-inducing figure from beyond the fourth wall who shakes him to the core like no giant monster or shadowy demon ever could...