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[Alexandr Korol]

everything that people go through, here, in the fifth volume, I begin to truly feel death. I start to feel concretely that I am nearing the end, that as soon as I finish the fifth volume, I will die, that once I decipher everything, that’s it—I will die. That I will simply be killed because almost all of these heroes were killed. And the Mystic-Old-Man confirms that I will actually be buried. He says, “Of course, you will still be somewhere, doing something,” because I am someone, not just an ordinary character. But for people, I will be dead, and this is unavoidable. Big Alexander says the same thing. And I think, “Wonderful.” Naturally, I become so immersed in this that I begin to see it happening — I start telling everyone about it, and I begin to notice how people’s attitudes toward me change completely. Those who are selfish immediately start thinking about how they will survive without me and how, while I am still alive, they can take some advantage. Others, on the contrary, become deeply concerned and start doing everything they can for me. And I begin to remember people in a completely different way. Knowing that you are going to die and have only a month left is an unbelievable feeling. I physically experienced it, felt it in my own skin, and embedded this code into the writing of the fifth volume—it is directly woven into it, so that when the reader reads it, they will feel it too. And I realize that I started working on the fifth volume immediately after the fourth, in September 2024 — that’s very recent. And I understand that maybe I will die before my birthday since I am 33, and my birthday is on September 12. Then I start thinking that no, maybe I will die on December 21 or 25 instead. And I think, well, if I make it past my birthday, then the next time to fear and expect death is December — leap year, all of that, this is the time. And if not then, then I will definitely die in March. Because when I went through all the archives, I read that they all became something before they died. That is, they became someone — let’s say, a demigod or god. They first had to become some kind of god for people in December, and then in March, they were killed and resurrected — all these gods. And again, you see, they resurrected after death. They resurrected three days after dying, and it had to be during a full moon in March. But the paradox is different — it has to happen either now, in this period of time, or in any other year: maybe in four years, maybe in eight, maybe in sixteen. I don’t know, but it will definitely happen. You know what the reader doesn’t take into account? That all these books are not written from the perspective of the present time. They are written in advance,