Man...

This chapter gave me some frustration for the previous theory I made. So, my previous theory was that Guwons death was the start of loop. The idea being that his time would restart regardless of anything else. Unfortunately, the time loop starts with Jinwoo on the floor and his father dying. Meaning that any idea or possibly of Jinwoo being able to change the series of events prior to his father's and others deaths is not possible.

This could be that everyone's loop has a different restart time or that everyone's loop restarts when Jinwoo's does. It seems the author is hard leaning for the latter, and I am far less excited than I was last chapter. I'll explain.

If everyone had their own restart, Guwon would be a far more complex case of how much the human subconscious can take before it snaps, Guwons og death would be much harder to pinpoint, Jinwoo could have had far more complexity by making him a more gray character rather than just a victim of Guwon, Jinwoos father could have been given character deeper than the baseball bat in his skull, and every single character in the series would not only make more sense, but be equally as complicated as the MCs.

Something about Guwon still isn't adding up though. He recalls crawling out from beneath the collapsed building, then just walks straight to the town where he set up base. I am once again gonna need to reread this, just to refresh my memory, but I don't think he mentioned just wandering or trying to survive for a long time. He is also shown arriving at the town barefoot in the same clothes, and the town is empty. But, why? Like, when he resurfaced from beneath the rubble, there were other people running around in the background, showing this to be the start of when shit hit the fan. And given how he seemed to lack any injuries and was in the same clothes, why would a town that was cleary defensible already be abandoned? Hmmmm.

Please hold while a man rereads this series all over again.