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The Countdown gives the world one week — 168 hours.
Generally human reaction is predictable. Panic and hoarding and reclusion. Denial and cable-watching and shrugging over potluck dinners, though next week’s plans are suddenly a little tentative. Pilgrimage to holy places and proselytizing on big stages and a good number drink bleach. People sell their homes, quit their jobs, kill their bosses, spend lifesavings on life-long dreams or feed it into a machine, and the economy braces at the tickle of a devastating sneeze. As the days drip away, Christmas lights go up, the rich leave in spaceships, neighbours sing hymns in the street, cities burn, a dog curls up and falls asleep.
Before all this — six days before the clock hits zero — Byun Euijoo steals his mother’s car, leaves in the night with just his phone and a grade 12 essay that he never submitted, and Wang Nicholas sets out hitchhiking.
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05 Jul 2026
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devastating. i love open endings, so im not upset about it at all actually, gives you more to think about. euijoo you poor soul. Im just glad they were together. I hope it’s like that for me too. also, i love finding the theme of destiny within every ncej fic, the writing is beautiful. I’m tired so this is probably a little haphazard but I don’t need the words to translate perfectly because I can feel the feelings in my heart and that is enough. READ!!!
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It was irritating, at first. Irritating to love Taki and want him at the same time. It chafed his pride—after all, he could have anyone. Yudai had made sure he became someone who could have anyone, and then he ended up like this: fucking Taki four nights a week, wanting him the other three. Wanting nothing else, no one else.
The lifecycle of an oyster and the pearl it made.
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12 Dec 2025
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I don’t think I’m going to stop thinking about this for a very very long time
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Euijoo writes a bucket list in order to leave Japan with as few regrets as possible. Someone writes “confess to my crush” on it.
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01 May 2026
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this was genuinely such a wonderful experience to read. the author has a special way of making them feel like real people, in a real friend group, in a real group chat, in a real little japanese town. I haven’t read a fic that made me feel like this in a long while. beautiful beautiful writing that I will be thinking abt for a while.
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NICHOLAS
Does he need me? Will it do him any damage if I move on?HARUA
Ask him, not me.NICHOLAS
He’s never here. He never picks up his phone, he never calls, he never asks me to come over.HARUA
Tell him that when you see him next. Or don’t. Time will pass all the same.Or: Euijoo sets off for space without telling anyone. Nothing is the same when he returns.
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12 Mar 2026
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holyyy fucckkkk. wiju is such an asshole and needs to grow a spine before he ever thinks abt going near nico ever again. this format lowkey fucked me up at first but it’s so interesting and compelling that you just end up reading straight through the confusion. we need more media like this. phew
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in the sleepy seaside town of samidare bay, kei and fuma's relationship fell apart.
five years later, they keep a practical distance, live and work separately — but not unhappily, you know, muddling along.
now, thanks to the altruistic and only moderately power-crazed parent-trapping team of romantic washouts, mischief-makers and children of divorce — that is about to change.
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25 Jan 2026
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holy shit. will any other fic ever replicate the feelings i felt during this.