D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 30

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Chapter 30
So up until now, things had been going well.
I couldn’t begin to describe how thrilled I was at the thought that I could rush to Ha Gyuhyuk right away.
But then another problem arose.
Creating a seed meant I had to rebuild my Avatar form from scratch.
“Se-um, you usually use that Avatar form, don’t you?”
Tasha looked at me with an expression of confusion.
Right, normally I would have used the same Avatar form I always did. Something similar to my current appearance.
I twirled my pale purple hair around my finger.
“I was planning to do that until yesterday. But something just doesn’t feel right.”
“What, what doesn’t?”
There was a subtle discomfort that couldn’t be explained away by mere reluctance.
My current form was nothing more than the appearance of human Se-um with only the color slightly altered.
When one became a Constellation, many would freely change their appearance.
Some transformed into entirely new forms every day, to the point where you’d have to ask who they were each time you saw them.
Those who despised or rejected their past appearance remade themselves into their ideal form.
I had deliberated on this extensively as well.
‘It wasn’t that I hated my appearance, but I didn’t cherish my life either.’
Born without a single connection to anyone, I spent my entire existence desperately scheming for ways to survive.
I became a mere C-rank Awakened, only to meet a hollow death before I could even bear the name Hunter.
Throughout my life, I had doubted the saying that those who work hard receive their reward.
It felt as though the world was mocking me. The world truly was irrational.
“Se-um?”
Tasha, who had somehow returned to her tentacled form, wore an expression of concern.
I hurriedly laughed and shook my head.
“I suddenly remembered what it was like to be human and got a bit melancholic.”
“You looked sad.”
“I know, I thought 300 years would have made it all feel indifferent by now.”
But it couldn’t possibly feel indifferent.
I had desperately tried to forget just how unjust my death had been.
Of course, I could have easily looked up the records from back then if I wanted to, but I deliberately didn’t.
No matter how strong one pretends to be, everyone has things they wish to avoid.
I didn’t want to know the truth about that day. I only knew this one truth: that the body of human Se-um had blocked Landquake.
“Is it the Avatar form that’s making you feel bad? Don’t you like that form?”
“No, that’s not it. It’s just… I have this feeling that even if I go down in that form, no one will recognize me.”
No one would remember human Se-um.
The more than twenty years I spent struggling and clawing my way through existence as a human left no trace of me in the world.
A single victim erased by Landquake.
The only footprint human Se-um ever left behind.
“Would you want to be recognized?”
“That’s not quite it.”
I’d searched too, but not a single photograph of my face remained. They said I didn’t even have my high school graduation photo.
‘How desolate.’
“If you’re unhappy with your Avatar form, I could help you create a different face.”
“No, at my age, I can’t complain about the Avatar I have.”
“….”
‘How many Constellations do you think are far older than you and change their Avatar forms every single day?’ I turned away from Tasha, who was staring at me with that same expression.
Compared to other Constellations, three hundred years was remarkably brief, but I had endured all that time in this form.
Even if it meant nothing to others, maintaining this concept felt genuinely important to me.
As I adopted a solemn expression, Tasha’s body trembled with laughter, as if she didn’t understand but found it amusing nonetheless.
“If that’s what Se-um wants, I won’t try to stop you.”
“Anyway, I’m heading down soon. Oh, but how’s the Server?”
“Don’t even mention it. You told me to access it from all over the place, and apparently word spread that it’s quite the fascinating world.”
Tasha teased me in a playful tone, as if to say I’d brought this entirely upon myself.
So many Constellations were desperately trying to access the Server I’d personally opened up.
It was both gratifying and absurd.
The thought that I might not be able to access the Server I’d worked so hard to create began to make me anxious.
Would that really mean I’d spent my own Karma just to benefit others?
“No, I need to access it quickly too.”
“But first, shouldn’t you send your Avatar form down to Earth?”
“Oh, no—I need to check Ha Gyuhyuk’s condition first.”
“Se-um, you’re so scatterbrained…. Though that’s why I like you.”
I settled Tasha on my lap and hurriedly turned on the monitor.
Fortunately, since I’d installed this Server myself, it prioritized my access over other Constellations.
I think other Constellations had to wait forty days in Earth time.
Now I remembered what they’d said about how the Server’s owner gains this top priority access.
Since I’d never been in a position where I needed to worry about such things before, I’d never even considered how special a privilege this was.
As soon as I connected to Earth, I began rapidly reviewing the records from the past ten days.
“Se-um.”
“Mm?”
“Your client—he stays indoors more than any client I’ve ever seen.”
“I agree.”
I’d encountered countless clients who were supposedly introverted up until now.
But Ha Gyuhyuk was truly the first of his kind.
I had instructed him not to go outside if possible, but I never intended for him to sever all external connections and live like this.
It was touching and impressive, but also somewhat frightening.
“Usually, if someone stays inside this long, wouldn’t they start wanting to go out?”
“For a typical client, that would be normal.”
Tasha said she’d never seen such a being before either, her expression bewildered.
She said that no matter how much someone loves their home, they’d normally want to venture out at least briefly to the convenience store in front of their house, and she couldn’t understand how he didn’t.
I agree.
“I think I just stayed put because you told me not to go out.”
“I’ve never met a child who listens to me this well.”
Others would always think there was a better path, or assume my words weren’t the best option, and do as they pleased.
Even those unexpected actions were one of the joys I could experience while raising a child.
So I accepted all those sudden situations with a certain tenderness.
I’d get excited thinking “He didn’t listen to me again this time!” and use those stories as conversation topics in Sungdo.
“Who knew that obedience could be this bewildering.”
“Right?”
Ha Gyuhyuk moved back and forth as if the entire world consisted only of home and the Dimensional Space.
And messages he’d been saving up for me came flooding in.
Most of them were about what he’d done today, what he’d eaten, and how much he missed me.
Even saying that everyone else thought I’d disappeared, but he alone believed I would return.
‘Listening to him talk, you’d think I’d gone dark for ten years, not ten days.’
Watching his flustered state as if separation anxiety had struck him, I laughed like a sigh.
When I see him being this foolishly endearing, I don’t know what to do with myself.
It felt different from humans desperately trying not to offend a god’s temperament.
Wasn’t he treating me as if he were watching the mood of someone he genuinely loved?
“Se-um, but here.”
I was laughing at his attitude without realizing it when Tasha’s expression turned serious, unlike before.
Her demeanor was unusual.
Tasha rarely interrupted my enjoyment or my thoughts so abruptly.
I rewound time rapidly.
It was truly a fleeting moment. Of all days, Ha Gyuhyuk had gone outside on a day with torrential rain.
That much was just bad luck.
“The ones who disappeared for two days have shown up again.”
“Not shown up, but rather….”
“Right.”
They’d been lurking nearby the whole time, equipped with concealment items.
Ha Gyuhyuk is a Hunter with exceptional mental fortitude but still weak in other stats.
I watched helplessly as he was abducted before my eyes.
I’d thought that those who knew Ha Gyuhyuk was my chosen one would never dare touch him.
Humans are inherently foolish.
Still, I believed they’d developed at least slightly during the 300 years I wasn’t watching them.
But that was my arrogance.
They hadn’t changed at all.
“Se-um.”
“I’m going now.”
“Are you angry?”
“No.”
Rather, my blood ran cold. I placed my hand on the monitor with a slight smile.
The Constellation on the white horse departs. Now.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————