D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115
“You want me to focus only on you?”
“I-I know it’s selfish to ask you to focus only on me, and I’m aware I don’t deserve that much from you.”
But you do deserve it.
Normally, a client receives the right to monopolize a Constellation only when the Constellation grants it directly.
Still, I didn’t bother pointing that out and simply listened to what he had to say.
After deliberating for a while, Ha Gyuhyuk continued.
“If there’s someone you’re concerned about, I’ll save them. If there are people you want to help, I’ll find a way. So please, let me be the one who saves them directly and helps them.”
“That still sounds like you’re asking me to focus only on you.”
I rested my elbow on the armrest of the chair and propped my cheek against my palm.
Realizing I was teasing him, Ha Gyuhyuk’s face flushed all the way to his ears.
But he never asked me to stop teasing him.
This obedience was one of the reasons I liked him.
The attitude that it was fine for me to tease him whenever I wanted, to torment him as much as I pleased.
His eyes held a gleam suggesting he’d be even happier the more I did so.
“Yes.”
Ha Gyuhyuk murmured in a voice that seemed to draw upon his last reserves of courage.
It was so quiet I could barely hear it myself.
“What did you say?”
“Y-yes… I wish you would focus only on me. Just me.”
“You’ll need my help to save people.”
“That’s why… I wish the Constellation of the Entangled Apocalypse’s Finalizer would focus on saving people, but Se-um would focus only on me.”
The Constellation of the Entangled Apocalypse’s Finalizer and Se-um were the same being.
Yet he was distinguishing between them.
The Constellation observing the world and the existence moving before him right now.
Unable to comprehend, I let out a short hum, and he hastily added more.
“Of course, I know it’s my own selfish desire.”
“I’ve never said I dislike you or asked why you’d say such things. Speak confidently.”
“I like it.”
“Hm?”
“N-no, wait! I misspoke! I’m sorry! I like that you focus only on me. That’s what I meant to say!”
For a moment, I almost asked who he was.
Was this really the man who had never made a single request of me until now?
“Right, right. What does anyone else matter? And even if you say you like it, why would I object? Especially not to you.”
“I was just… so surprised.”
He probably didn’t realize that fluttering about like that only made him look more suspicious.
I laughed as if exhaling a sigh.
Had I been too harsh on men lately?
I’d only meant to leave no room for misunderstanding, but it seemed I’d made even Ha Gyuhyuk cautious.
“….”
Ha Gyuhyuk lifted his head slightly to look at me.
As always, I filled his entire gaze completely.
Two eyes that held only a single star so purely that I wondered how it was possible to be so consumed by just me.
Then did I hold only that one star in my eyes?
The answer that yes, I did, didn’t come immediately.
“Se-um?”
How could someone like this maintain such an expressionless face and speak with such confidence in front of others?
Yet unable to hide even a flicker of emotion when facing me.
“Ah, sorry.”
Again.
Seeing that face made my chest flutter strangely again, as if I might retch.
The world seemed to sway unnaturally.
My heart raced. Every time I felt my body’s organs engaging in meaningless activity, a subtle discomfort washed over me.
Did the first emotion always arrive with this dull, queasy sensation?
“Se-um?”
Ha Gyuhyuk suddenly stopped and looked at me with concern.
I waved my hand lightly as if to say it was nothing.
“I think my body’s suddenly reacting to caffeine. Or maybe it’s not the caffeine—maybe something I ate earlier didn’t sit right. My stomach’s suddenly churning…”
“What?”
“If I’d only eaten a bowl or two, I could at least guess what caused it, but I just ate whatever I grabbed, so I have no idea.”
“Shouldn’t you go to the Hospital?”
“Me?”
Ha Gyuhyuk jolted upright with a bewildered expression, as if he couldn’t even remember what he’d just said.
He looked ready to summon a doctor for me on the spot.
But calling a human doctor wouldn’t help my current situation.
If I had to pinpoint the reason, it seemed like my Avatar body was malfunctioning. Ugh, I feel so strange.
“What do I do about this?”
“Wait, I’ll summon a new Avatar.”
“What? You’re going to summon a new one?”
“Yeah, I’ll just remove this one and summon a fresh one.”
As I waved my hand dismissively, Ha Gyuhyuk’s face went pale.
He seemed to have interpreted “remove” as “kill.”
An Avatar was just a temporary puppet I used and then discarded anyway—what was there to die or live about?
He blocked my path as I stood up urgently.
“Usually when something hurts, people think about treating it, not removing it and making a new one.”
“That’s because most clients can’t summon a new one if they remove it. But I can summon, right? So getting a fresh one is completely beneficial, isn’t it?”
The Server wasn’t glitching like it used to.
I was about to explain that this was all normal when the nausea subsided again in the meantime.
Was it the atmosphere?
I’d never heard of an Avatar’s condition being affected by the atmosphere before.
“No, I’m fine now. I don’t think we need to get a new one.”
“…That’s a relief. But please don’t say things like that again if you get hurt anywhere else.”
“So you want me to keep using a broken Divine Form even though I have the wealth to replace it?”
“….”
Why was the kid being so stubborn?
But Ha Gyuhyuk, with his lips firmly sealed, showed no sign of changing his mind.
Rather than persuade him, I’d just maintain the Divine Form adequately over the next hundred years.
“I understand, so stop making that sulky face. It’s making my heart ache.”
“I’m sorry….”
Living long enough to see everything, I suppose.
Even having a client who makes my heart sink over something so trivial.
Even if I make contracts with other kids in the future, would I ever meet one who gives me these feelings?
That would depend on whether Ha Gyuhyuk could reach the position of Constellation.
If he died before reaching that seat, I think I would suffer for quite a long time.
I’m not as dependable as Sungho the Constellation, nor can I shake off the emotions after a client’s death as calmly as Franson.
And because he’s become someone who means something to me on this Earth.
“I think you’re making me feel queasy.”
A sudden realization took shape in words without any filter.
Ha Gyuhyuk blinked slowly, momentarily flustered.
He seemed to be trying to understand what he had just heard.
But even if he agonized over it this desperately, how could a clear answer emerge?
I myself didn’t fully understand what emotion this was, just blurting it out recklessly.
“…Did you perhaps consume me, Se-um?”
And after a long pause, Ha Gyuhyuk’s answer was absurdly ridiculous.
How did such a kid fall right in front of me in this world?
Sometimes when I saw what he was thinking, I couldn’t even grasp it.
I burst out laughing and lifted his chin with my index finger.
“Be careful. You never know when I might eat you up.”
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“Actually, I’m not sure what the problem is. Can’t we just build a training ground in that building?”
That evening in the Touchone Conference Room.
The three of us—myself, Kim Gyuwun, and Ha Gyuhyuk—sat together.
“Yes, well, that’s the thing.”
“Is it perhaps because it used to be the Taemyeon Guild building that you’re hesitant?”
“No, it’s not a matter of personal feelings being involved.”
Kim Gyuwun waved his hand, insisting he wasn’t such an amateur.
This seemed like a slightly different problem than amateurism, but since he said it wasn’t, so be it.
“I think we can just push forward with our regulations as our regulations. After all, we’re not a public institution….”
The point was that we didn’t need to move based on complaints from the public.
Even if we maintained the stance of accepting only below A-rank at Training Ground 2, there shouldn’t be any major issues.
Actually, I shared the same opinion.
I couldn’t fathom why Kim Gyuwun was being so reluctant.
“The one leading the complaint is Cinea.”
“Who was Cinea again?”
My brain, which erased anything I had no interest in, had done it again.
The other two men looked at me with expressions suggesting they’d grown accustomed to this by now.
Their attitude made it clear they didn’t even expect me to remember, which somehow wounded my pride.
“She’s the former Guild of Hunter Dan Yibum.”

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