D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 172

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Side Story 1-2
After that day, Ha Gyuhyuk no longer spoke to me about his clients.
So naturally, I had completely forgotten about it.
It didn’t feel like such an important matter to me anyway.
“Se-um, aren’t you going to Earth?”
“Earth? Why?”
“Touch One apparently opened Training Ground No. 3. I thought you might want to see it.”
“Oh, really?”
As I stared at him with an expression that seemed to ask “But why does that matter?”, Ha Gyuhyuk fidgeted and rolled his eyes.
“Ah, you want to go, don’t you?”
Unlike Constellations, High Priests have restrictions on creating avatars and entering the Server.
They require a Constellation’s accompaniment or permission to move about.
“Hmm…”
I was about to sample another world, but since my boy wanted to see it, I had no choice.
I went to Earth with him that day.
‘Se-um…’
‘What.’
‘I…’
‘What.’
I ignored Kim Gyuwun and Dan Yibum, who seemed overwhelmed with emotion the moment they saw me and couldn’t continue speaking.
It hadn’t been many months since Ha Gyuhyuk became a High Priest, and I’d been sending messages the whole time.
More than anything, Kim Gyuwun heard from Franson almost daily.
After seeing the opening of Touch One’s third branch, I ate with the Guild members for the first time in a while.
By then, Tasha and Franson had rushed over too, making it a very lively time.
‘Come on, I’ll pay.’
‘No, Se-um. I’m your Constellation, so I should pay in a situation like this.’
‘So why can’t you two split it fifty-fifty?’
‘Franson doesn’t even say he’ll pay.’
So in the end, I deferred payment to Franson and got a free day.
Only after returning to Sungdo and holding Ha Gyuhyuk in my arms did I remember.
“I was supposed to visit a new Server today…”
“You can do that tomorrow.”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
It wasn’t anything particularly important.
Neither Ha Gyuhyuk nor I needed sleep anymore.
Over that long time, we shared many stories.
About the lives of stars, about the eternal future that remained for us.
After that day, Ha Gyuhyuk found himself entangled in various minor incidents.
Not just talk of going to Earth, but I also helped him when he fumbled with his duties as a High Priest.
When he expressed curiosity about Sungdo, I descended to the lower levels with him to look around, and I even introduced him to Delta Constellation.
Did you find inspiration from Irina and me?
I wouldn’t call it inspiration so much as finding a solution. It certainly helped, so thank you.
Ha Gyuhyuk received abundant affection from countless Constellations and was frequently whisked away by them for makeovers.
It seemed he wanted to look pretty in my eyes.
Our child doesn’t really like that sort of thing, you know.
No, Se-um. I’ll be quick about it, so could you wait for me?
Hm? If you’re fine with it, then I suppose it’s alright…
For a while after that, I spent my time watching Ha Gyuhyuk’s little performance show.
The task of logging into a different Server kept getting postponed.
Every day was enjoyable, but a moment arrived when I began to wonder if I could truly continue like this.
I spoke while lying down beside Ha Gyuhyuk.
Tomorrow I really need to enter a new Server.
What?
I need to accumulate Karma, don’t I? Or rather, I’ve been having so much fun playing with you that I didn’t even notice my Karma running dry and just kept loafing around.
I shook my head in dismay.
Once you get caught up in something, time really does slip away mercilessly.
Time passing doesn’t bother me, but running short on Karma became a problem.
I was still supporting Touch One, and Ha Gyuhyuk received a substantial settlement after becoming a High Priest, but that wasn’t permanent either.
Living as a Constellation originally meant spending eternity earning Karma.
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And then one day, Ha Gyuhyuk suddenly made a new proposal.
Se-um, how about you spend some time with Tasha Constellation today?
With Tasha? I already spend every day with her as it is.
No, just the two of you without Franson Constellation.
He spoke calmly.
Since the Constellation-client relationship had only lasted a few seconds, he suggested I take this opportunity to spend time with her as a client.
Now that I heard it, it made some sense.
Is that so…? But if we exclude Franson, he’ll be terribly disappointed.
Franson is an incredibly sensitive Constellation.
He’s the type who worries about this world’s future whenever the weather turns gloomy and gets sentimental about it. But Ha Gyuhyuk already had a confident expression, as if he had a countermeasure ready.
Lately, Franson Constellation has been saying he wants to become closer with Kim Gyuwun the Hunter, so I agreed to help him with that.
I see.
It was certainly true that Kim Gyuwun was the client Franson was currently devoted to.
As I nodded in understanding, Ha Gyuhyuk’s face brightened immediately.
But isn’t Tasha quite busy managing Chae-ah?
I asked her, and she said spending a day with you wouldn’t be bad.
You really did make the rounds while I wasn’t looking, didn’t you?
Thinking about how this small creature had scurried about arranging a date between Tasha and me, I felt nothing but admiration.
After he’d gone to such lengths to set it up, there was no reason for me to refuse.
I nodded and prepared to meet Tasha. Ha Gyuhyuk, who had picked out my clothes and even adjusted my appearance, stared at me for a moment.
“Why? Because you’re impossibly beautiful today as well?”
“Yes….”
He laughed with his face flushed slightly.
I considered abandoning all my plans and confining him to bed, but I let it go.
Today was the day I had to yield Ha Gyuhyuk to Franson. I turned him around with a grin.
“Still, come back before it gets too late. Don’t listen to everything Franson tries to say.”
“Don’t listen to everything?”
“Right, Franson is a Constellation who never stops talking once he opens his mouth.”
When he brings up something he’s interested in, he’s truly a Constellation who continues the conversation endlessly and forever.
After escorting Ha Gyuhyuk to Franson’s room, I headed straight to Tasha’s chamber.
Familiar tentacles were waiting for me in the room.
“Se-um, you’re here?”
“You’ve been spending so much time with Chae-ah lately. Is it okay that you’re not today?”
“Of course. Chae-ah is the type who does well on her own. Every so often, there’s room to turn my attention to a client who needs more care.”
So to Tasha, I was an anxious client who required more attention and care than Ji Chae-ah.
Looking at Tasha with a shocked expression, she burst into laughter and pulled me in with her tentacles.
I was dragged along and buried my face in Tasha’s embrace.
“But what kind of time do a client and a Constellation spend together?”
“Your client prepared this time himself, so use it well.”
“Even if you say to use it well….”
Right now there was no crisis to resolve, nothing to manage immediately.
“Tasha, honestly, I’m not sure what I should be doing.”
“Just do what you normally do.”
“I don’t have any clients to manage these days, and I haven’t entered any Server besides Earth.”
Tasha, who had been naturally patting my head with her tentacles, laughed softly.
“Why?”
“Well, Ha Gyuhyuk kept saying he wanted to do this and that, so I got caught up in it. He’s not the type to usually say things like that.”
“He doesn’t usually do that?”
“Right, he just did whatever I wanted to do and went wherever I wanted to go… that’s how it was. But now that he suddenly says he wants to do something, I just want to listen to him.”
“Why do you think that suddenly happened?”
Hearing those words, I fell into thought for a moment.
It probably wasn’t that some suppressed desire suddenly manifested in him.
Actually, lately Ha Gyuhyuk seemed less like he was coming up with what he wanted to do and more like he was figuring out things I might want to do.
It felt like he was squeezing out his creativity to create things we could do together.
Why would he do that?
“What do you think?”
Tasha spoke up at just the right moment.
“I think he doesn’t like it when I enter other Servers. More precisely, when I create other clients?”
Even before, he didn’t seem to prefer it much.
Was this possessiveness?
Only when my thoughts reached this point did everything finally make sense.
“Is Ha Gyuhyuk scheming because he’s afraid I might turn my attention to another client?”
Tasha laughed.
“Yeah, he even asked me to keep you close to him.”
This is absolutely infuriating.

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