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Gyundok

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scholars-were-machine-original-creators-kept-as-agentsThe narrator confirms that the four scholars — Gyundok among them — are the machine's original creators, kept apart from the shroud soup with their wills dominated but their minds left partially free, held in reserve for exactly this kind of irregularity. They were sent to Yumi's town as agents with a secondary mandate to fix whatever was wrong with her, no matter what that required.STD:YNP:Ch 40

STD:YNP:Ch 23 First time on-page: paces among the cushions issuing orders, insists the father machine's power was never the problem, and finally has someone else prime the smaller one when no one will volunteer.
STD:YNP:Ch 24 Lifts the captured spirit before the crowd, transforms it into a useful object via printed inputs, and replies to Liyun's yoki-hijo numbers with the threat of a machine in every village.
STD:YNP:Ch 31 Holds the boxy detection device and points it directly at Yumi as their stacking summons a spirit — not pleased with the theft his colleagues are pulling off, but concerned. He *knows* she is here.
STD:YNP:Ch 34 Steps out of the tent unsurprised, dons goggles that let him see Painter, calls him *the descendant of the nomads* and asks what he thinks is happening. When struck with a rock his head bleeds away into wisps of darkness — still wearing the goggles — and his eyes become hollow bores into nothing. He seizes Painter, slams him against the machine, and apologises before the switch.
STD:YNP:Ch 40 Lead of the four nightmare-scholars who block Yumi at the gate of Torio City; forced back into human shape, collapses, weeps for what they did, and tells her the machine cannot be turned off.

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