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Okay I thought of crazy and fun theory from your comment!
What if the villagers already do look like 'zombies' but since they're undead maybe they aren't mindless and still have very functioning consciousness and act like normal human beings and teacher sees them as humans but Guwon doesn't because that might explain why Guwon doesn't see them as humans and equals and only thinks teacher is like him solely because of appearance and maybe that's why time loop happens, because the teacher and Guwon are anomalies and regardless of dying they don't turn into 'zombies'
okay i read the extra and they said they wanted to keep the prologue bc of the chap being labeled as chap 00 which looks similar to the infinity symbol (which wow honestly great intuitive from the author i would have never thought/guessed that)
after i reread it and honestly it made some parts of the story click for me and also raise a lot of questions.
like for example the dead were coming back alive but it was pointed out they were harmless, however, the ppl killed later just stayed dead and never revived. because in the prologue like a kid in hospital had died then later revived as an undead person, so how come the ppl that died in the story (villagers etc) didn’t revive?
and why like the hidden village was the only one that werent affected? since in the prologue it didnt go into specifics but i assume that ‘nature’ or ‘being’ decided to destroy man-made cities to further ensue chaos.
other than that i really like how the author introduced like the concept of revival by showcasing someone jumping because it ties back on how guwon and jinwoo were able to repeat that timeloop
honestly genius the author really put a lot of thought into this as well as incorporating greek mythology and philosophy (in a way)
im so excited for the next season(≧∀≦)