D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 33

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Chapter 33
“Huh?”
I paused, releasing the grip around their necks.
I couldn’t hide my confusion as I studied Ha Gyuhyuk’s face. Had I constructed the Avatar form incorrectly?
Why did it sound like he was telling me not to kill those men right in front of us?
“Say that again.”
“P-please don’t kill them.”
He really was saying that.
It had been ages since I’d lost control of my Avatar’s expression. My face must have looked utterly vacant.
So he was asking me to spare people who could have killed him if I’d arrived even a moment later?
I stopped mid-action and turned to face Ha Gyuhyuk.
“How’s your body?”
“It doesn’t hurt at all.”
“That’s good.”
Of course—the moment I arrived, I’d purged all the hallucinations and skill effects from his body.
“I mentioned it because I wondered if you might still be trapped in the hallucination.”
Otherwise, he was speaking with a clear mind.
Ha Gyuhyuk avoided my gaze as I stared at him with eyes that screamed incomprehension.
“I’m not reproaching you, Ha Gyuhyuk. I simply don’t understand.”
“You mean… I’m actually stopping you from committing murder?”
“Yes. These are people who tried to harm you—people who have already harmed you. By human standards, they’re villains, aren’t they?”
Ha Gyuhyuk didn’t know.
These men handled dirty work not just for the Taemyeon Guild, but for other organizations as well.
They didn’t hesitate to harm people over personal grudges, money, or items.
And the compensation they received was pittance.
They claimed they did this for honor, out of obedience to orders, or for loyalty—but I knew better.
For them, orders and honor meant nothing.
“What reason could there possibly be to forgive those who take another’s life for mere money?”
To call it judgment would be presumptuous.
Humans don’t call it judgment when they sweep away bothersome dust from their sight.
Neither is this judgment for me. I’m simply removing what offends my sight.
But if Ha Gyuhyuk didn’t want this, I was willing to reconsider—somewhat.
He would need to provide a reason that could convince me.
“I appreciate your kindness, Ha Gyuhyuk. But that doesn’t mean you should be so merciful to others that you’d abandon me. That’s no longer kindness—it’s something else entirely.”
If it was simply because life is precious, or because legal judgment would be more appropriate, I couldn’t accept that.
At minimum, he’d need to say he wanted revenge himself, or that he didn’t want them to leave this world so easily.
If neither of those applied, he’d need to offer a third reason.
Ha Gyuhyuk, who couldn’t meet my eyes and was trembling, finally managed to speak.
“Because I’d feel sorry for you, Ulrim.”
“Me?”
Ha Gyuhyuk was so overwhelmed by my aura that he couldn’t even speak properly.
I hadn’t intended to release this much power.
I was only trying to intimidate those people in front of me, but I ended up suppressing my client as well.
I quickly gathered the energy that was flowing outward and met his gaze again.
“Ulrim came to see me, and I… I hope my first memory isn’t something this terrifying.”
“Terrifying?”
Ah.
He was frightened.
Now that I looked closer, Ha Gyuhyuk’s body was trembling like an aspen leaf.
Until now, I’d thought he was simply being crushed under the weight of my presence.
But thinking about it now, he’d been confined for ten days due to warnings about the outside world, and the moment he finally considered venturing out, he was kidnapped.
Though I had arrived, before that his life was being threatened, and just now he nearly witnessed a murder right before his eyes.
He had every reason to be afraid.
I lacked empathy.
“I just hope Ulrim doesn’t have to… soil your hands.”
Ha Gyuhyuk gripped my hand tightly.
His hand had grown cold from the tension he was holding.
I naturally let my warmth flow into him, warming his body.
When your body is cold, tension takes hold and your thoughts can’t flow properly.
Sure enough, as my energy flowed into him, he exhaled slightly, as if calming down.
“For me, this hardly counts as soiling my hands—but you simply don’t wish for it.”
“Yes, I’m sorry…”
“You have nothing to apologize for.”
Being naturally kind isn’t a flaw.
Those who try to exploit such good and gentle people are entirely at fault.
Keeping my gaze fixed on Ha Gyuhyuk, I released the magic that had been strangling the humans behind me.
They rolled across the ground, pouring out anguished groans and gasps.
I’d left them alive, but their breath was gradually being squeezed from them.
“Don’t even think about getting up now and ambushing me, or trying to escape. I am not human.”
Even without eyes in the back of my head, I could see this entire world at a glance.
Without turning around, I could sense how they were breathing, how consumed by terror they were, how utterly crushed beneath my presence.
“Well, Ha Gyuhyuk. I’ve spared them, but now what should I do with them? I can’t just let them go.”
“…Where should they go? Should we turn them over to the Hunter Association?”
The standard procedure would be to hand them over to the Hunter Association.
Three hundred years have passed since my awakening, and the system is far more organized now than it was then—it’s a reasonable choice.
When I was alive, we couldn’t handle the sudden surge of Gates and Awakened individuals, so everything was done haphazardly.
“You belong to Kim Gyuwun’s Guild, don’t you?”
“…”
They didn’t answer.
It wasn’t that they were deliberately ignoring me—they were so consumed by terror that they’d forgotten how to speak.
They were undoubtedly more terrified of me standing before them now than any punishment they might receive from the Guild Master or the Hunter Association for the operation’s failure.
It was only natural.
Even the Guild Master and the Association Chairman himself would have to kneel before me.
“You will be handed over to the Hunter Association immediately, and your Guild won’t escape consequences either.”
“Ulrim….”
“I won’t cut off those children’s heads or anything like that, so don’t worry. But simple forgiveness is out of the question.”
And pressing further than this was something Ha Gyuhyuk himself wouldn’t accept.
Ha Gyuhyuk hesitated as he witnessed my stern demeanor. He understood that I was already being remarkably lenient.
I positioned him behind me as if shielding him, then swept my gaze across those collapsed on the ground.
“Three curses will be placed upon you. First, the Curse of Silence.”
Having seen me here, you cannot reveal it anywhere, and if you attempt to tell anyone, you will experience the agony of your limbs being torn apart.
Well, they might actually be torn apart.
“Second, the Curse of Erasure.”
The skills you used to harm people will gradually disappear.
Day after day, you will taste another flavor of terror as you feel the power that sustained your status and safety slowly vanishing.
“And finally… the Curse of Death.”
“The Curse of Death?”
“Yes.”
Ha Gyuhyuk looked at me with a bewildered expression.
It was understandable for him to be confused—after hearing that I wouldn’t kill them, such a statement would naturally perplex him.
Silence and Erasure are debuffs quietly circulating on Earth right now.
But the Curse of Death does not exist.
It is a divine authority I wield as a Constellation, directly interfering with their very lifelines.
[ Karma is being consumed. ]
Just as they could resolve everything with money, I could resolve everything with karma.
So I should accumulate plenty of virtue in life.
“If this child standing behind me faces a mortal crisis, your lives will disappear in their stead.”
“…Ah.”
I felt Ha Gyuhyuk’s body jolt violently with panic.
I chuckled softly and moved closer. As the distance narrowed, they let out sharp, piercing screams.
Gently, very tenderly, I brushed my fingers through their hair while whispering.
“How do you like this divine selection? Does it please you?”
“No, no, no.”
“We’ll live as if dead. Please, please!”
The sight of them so terrified, tears and snot and saliva streaming down their faces, was truly a spectacle.
In the end, humanity is such a species.
I myself was once human who trembled in fear before divinity, so I know better than anyone.
“There’s no need to tell the Guild Master. I’ll convey that message directly.”
“Yes, yes.”
“Go to the Hunter Association and confess every crime you’ve committed.”
They nodded frantically, understanding that I was offering them their lives.
In an instant, I hurled them into the deepest recesses of the Hunter Association.
Until their dying breath, the auditory hallucination I had planted would echo in their ears.
My voice, whispering: “I’m watching you.”
I turned my head away with a refreshing smile.
“Well, forgive my late greeting—I was busy with the cleanup. Shall we introduce ourselves properly? My precious human.”

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