Yu Jitae

* Yu Jitae
* Chapter 106

Yu Jitae is the main protagonist of the *Kidnapped Dragon* series.

## History

Yu Jitae is a man who holds one of the Seven Godly (EX) authorities, [Vintage Clock (EX)]. He is an orphan whose parents died in the Great War. He grew mostly alone, his only friend was his authority, [Vintage Clock (EX)], who was like a parent to him. It talked to him, taught him many things. It even warned him and lead him to live a good life. [Vintage Clock] has been with Yu Jitae no matter the iteration, helping him, welcoming him, keeping him sane.

But due to his authority, he is forced to regress whenever Earth is in a state of 'Apocalypse' (95% of humanity dies) or he died

During his multiple regressions (iterations), he has done different things. He sometimes worked as a soldier, others he was a terrorist. In order to grow, it has also been stated that Yu Jitae went on a [Sovereign Hunt]. He went to different worlds - dimensions - and killed their Sovereigns. Due to this, he was able to steal their authorities such as [Shadow of an Archduke], [Punishment of an Archduke], [Eyes of Equilibrium], among others. He has also been stated to have done many things for power, even if he needed to sacrifice his own body.

Due to being forced to regress, Yu Jitae became cold, apathetic and detached from many things. He did no consider his deeds, he did not care. He killed many people, he could be judged as 'evil' due to the deeds he committed in later Iterations. After countless Iterations, Yu Jitae has reached the absolute power allowed for a Human. He is capable of even smashing Dragons.

It was only in the 7th Iteration that Yu Jitae slowly became more human thanks to the help of Bom, Yeorum, Kaeul, and Gyeoul. As he spent times with them, helps them grow, improve, he slowly regains his lost emotions. But due to this, the guilt, pain, and countless other emotions usually appear on his face as he gazes at the baby dragons.

This is due to the fact Yu Jitae in the '+Iterations' experimented on the baby dragons and used them as test subjects. Adding to that, during his true Iterations, Yu Jitae didn't care about the baby dragons, he beat them, hit them, tortured them and led some to suicide due to imprisoning them.

His guilt is slowly breaking him due to this.

## Iterations

### **First iteration:**

* Yu Jitae’s age: 46. Ranking: 9917.

During the war against the demons, fighting under the Korean banner, the empress of pop culture, Luna who had given a significant musical shock to the entire world while coming out on the top of the billboard, committed suicide, which marked the beginning of the attack of the dragons. Thus came the end of the world.

Yu Jitae once went to a B- Rank dungeon and drank some water that he thought was clean but had microorganisms that affected superhumans and he had diarrhea for four days

### **Second iteration:**

* Yu Jitae’s age: 32. Ranking: 847.

He fought against a catastrophe-level demon during the war and lost his lover in the process. After returning to the camp Yu Jitae couldn’t fight his PTSD, from killing his lover by being a puppet, and committed suicide which marked the end of the world’s timeline.

### **Third iteration**:

* Yu Jitae’s age: 45. Ranking: 45.

After 18 years of living in the dungeons with his back turned against the world, while he was half-crazily killing monsters and demons, the actress of the century, Ieyeta G.D. committed suicide and thus started the raid of the dragons which ended the world’s timeline.

### **Fourth iteration:**

* Yu Jitae’s age: 46. Ranking: 3.

The start of his psychopathic mentality even to the point of killing innocent people. Got the [Seven-headed Dragonification] (S-) skills. The best musician BY (gold dragon) was guarded by Yu Jitae.

**4th+ Iterations**: he researched chimeras and dissected dragons to get and make use of the Origin Fragment.

### **Fifth iteration:**

Yu Jitae locked the dragons up, red dragon went crazy from no fighting and killed herself.

**5th+ Iterations:** He got killed 1100 times to develop the [Shapeless Sword (SS)] authority.

### **Sixth iteration:**

* Yu Jitae locked up the dragons while he went around killing demons and any other threats to the dragons while the captured dragons suffered in the labyrinth. The green dragon repeatedly begged Jitae to let the red dragon fight as per their nature but Jitae refused everytime and slapped the green dragon when she kept being persistent. The blue dragon killed herself out of grief for not making any good memories to keep which made the green dragon curse Jitae and ending the 6th iteration.

### **Seventh Iteration:**

* Where the main story takes place. Yu Jitae takes care of the four baby Dragons after enrolling them in Lair.

### **Eight Iteration:**

* Where the ending takes place. After dying (unclear) in the Non-Providential World, Yu Jitae meets Yu Bom again in the 8th Iteration in the end of the story.

## Personality

Yu Jitae was a cold, detached, apathetic person who cared little about his deeds. He killed and ruined many worlds simply to get stronger. Although he hates the Black Dragon Race for their destructive nature, Yu Jitae knows he is worse than them as he has caused more ruin than them. At first, Yu Jitae was shown as someone who found many things trivial. During the 7th Iteration, however, with the help of the four dragon hatchlings, he slowly became more human. He began to feel emotions for the hatchling. He began to care about them and slowly regained his humanity.

In reality, it was only thanks to the Vintage Clock that he remained 'human'. It was the only existence that has been with him throughout everything. To Yu Jitae, the Clock is his friend, his teacher, his sibling - his everything.

Bom has stated a few times Yu Jitae is quite shy and easy to perplex. Thus she enjoyed doing so.

Due to his newly rising emotions after countless years, Yu Jitae finds it hard to 'describe' what he feels.

## Appearance

It is stated that due to the countless blessings on his body, his body is quite good, but the gloomy, hazy look on his face makes him appear scary. His voice is described as dry and his eyes as 'hazy'.

## Trivia

* The Korean name "Yu Jitae" (유지태) is composed of three syllables: "Yu" (유), "Ji" (지), and "Tae" (태). The surname "Yu" (유) means "abundant" or "rich."
	+ The given name "Jitae" (지태) is composed of two parts. "Ji" (지) means "will" or "ambition," and "tae" (태) means "greatness" or "achievement." Together, "Jitae" can be interpreted as "one who has great ambition and achieves great things."
* Yu Jitae's true number of Regressions is over +1,100.
* Yu Jitae has been stated to be a 'Transcendent'. He is someone who has reached the peak of power allowed for any Human. He is stronger than Sovereigns which has been proved by the fact he went on a [Sovereign Hunt] and killed many Sovereigns and stole their Authorities.
	+ In the [Sovereign Hunt], Yu Jitae hunted [Demon Archduke Baal], [Black Dragon Lugiathan], [Monarch of the Highest Heavens Gaum], [Immortal Shin], [Destroyed of World Tree Yutahn], and many other Sovereigns. By killing all Sovereigns near him, he absorbed their powers and reached the limits allowed for a mortal.
* Yu Jitae is strong enough to defeat adult Dragons.
* BM was killed by Yu Jitae in the 5th and 6th Iterations, committed suicide in the 3rd and 4th.
* Yu Jitae did not have any parents growing up.
* Realized his "romantic feelings"
* According to the novel, since Yu Jitae is so powerful, learning new skills does nothing in increasing his strength.
* Due to the fact he cannot grow stronger, the only ways to 'measure his power' was by the quantity of killing intent and the existence of [Conceptualization (EX)].

1. ↑ Ch.146
2. ↑ Ch. 168
3. ↑ Ch.245
4. ↑ Ch.237
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