D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 81

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Chapter 81
“Honestly, I’d prefer if you didn’t go, but that’s not possible, is it?”
“It’s not possible. It’s just that….”
“I understand….”
I could tell he’d grown by the fact that he could whine in front of me—not that he was on the verge of reaching S-rank.
Watching a grown man still clutch my single hand with both of his, fidgeting with it, was honestly….
“Adorable.”
“Pardon?”
“I said you’re adorable. But you still have to go.”
For the past few months, I’d been quite busy putting Touch One into orbit through orthodox methods.
The Constellation System wouldn’t collapse just because I was away for a few months, but it was time I returned and assessed the situation.
This avatar body needed rest too.
Ha Gyuhyuk seemed to accept that whining further wouldn’t change anything, and he released my hand.
“When will you come back down?”
“When this country faces an enormous crisis?”
“You won’t come if things are peaceful?”
“That depends on what you do.”
I could see him clearly deliberating: ‘I can’t arbitrarily create a crisis for the country.’
I smiled softly and ruffled his hair affectionately.
Since spending day and night with him had become routine, I suspected I’d find it somewhat lonely once I returned.
He’d grown so accustomed to sleeping nestled against me that perhaps he couldn’t sleep without it.
“Still, it’s not like we won’t be in contact at all, so just reach out if you miss me.”
“Yes…. Please be careful on your way.”
“I’m just going home—why are you telling me to be careful?”
I laughed heartily and pulled him close by wrapping my arm around his nape.
He leaned down without resistance, closing the distance between us.
Naturally, I pressed my lips to his cheek once, then pulled back. My soft, innocent client.
“See you later.”
“…Yes.”
Ha Gyuhyuk reflexively touched where my lips had been, murmuring as if entranced.
Every time I kissed him out of affection, he’d give me this dazed reaction—I couldn’t help but tease him.
As Ha Gyuhyuk gradually receded from view, the surroundings shifted instantaneously to the Constellation System.
“Phew….”
“Se-um! You’re back?”
“Franson, I trust you’ve been well.”
Franson, lounging casually in my room eating snacks as if it were the most natural thing, waved his hand.
It might be rude to say this about a fellow Constellation, but he really does seem like a wastrel.
“Where’s Tasha?”
“She said watching only Earth was boring, so she went sightseeing elsewhere.”
“Franson, have you no interest in sightseeing elsewhere?”
“I find Earth quite enjoyable, so it’s fine.”
He genuinely seemed to have taken a liking to Earth.
In particular, he found the medical insurance system of South Korea fascinating, and he often descended to lurk around hospitals in his corporeal form.
He could simply check through Constellation messages, yet he insisted on observing the emergency room vicinity in his avatar.
“The fact that you’re now Constellation Franson has become common knowledge on Earth.”
“That’s exactly what I don’t understand. I don’t even have wings.”
“Ordinary humans of the 24th century don’t float through the air.”
As I spoke gravely, as if revealing the world’s truths, his jaw dropped.
His expression was truly dreadful.
It was only natural—he had never manifested while paying attention to another world’s culture.
I shrugged and settled down beside him.
“Is this that snack?”
“Yeah, it’s unfortunate that when a world perishes, its food disappears with it.”
Franson, naturally extending the snack box toward me, gazed at the screen.
Multiple hospitals were displayed simultaneously on the screen.
Some showed surgical scenes, while others displayed medical volunteer work in different countries.
“It might be a good idea to have Healers as clients as well.”
“I’m karma-poor.”
“I told you to diversify your investments like I did. You should have listened instead of being stubborn.”
“Stop nagging me.”
This was the primary reason I had returned to Sungdo.
In the past, I had established clients across various worlds to accumulate karma.
I had set them up to automatically provide support within a certain budget when needed, and left them unattended.
“You came to check on your clients?”
“Yes, I set up alarms for major changes, but I thought it would be better to visit in person at least once. Besides, some of them are apparently on the verge of death.”
“It’s truly lamentable that each client has a different lifespan.”
I agreed.
Regardless of sudden illness or natural disasters, there are always those who die of old age.
While I cannot be present for every moment of my clients’ lives, I wish to be at their side at the end.
“Honestly, I can’t shake the thought that I’ve exploited them.”
“There would be countless people who’d want Constellation support even if it meant being used. I was one of them.”
Franson came from a world where Constellations had never accessed.
So after learning about Constellations and the Constellation System following his death, he apparently accomplished nothing for about a hundred years.
Because of the resentment that such beings existed, yet so many of his people died without receiving their attention.
Of course, he eventually moved past it, concluding that he should have handled things properly himself.
I still don’t know if redirecting his resentment toward himself was the right way to resolve it.
“Still, I only know their basic personal information and mechanically provide what they need.”
“Some clients need warm communication, or so the saying goes?”
“Yes.”
I had been that way.
I shrugged and examined several windows.
[ Your client in world ‘685Dd’ has prevented a war. ]
[ Your client in world ‘de56te6’ has built a happy family. ]
[ Your client in world ‘poe543’ has overcome their lover’s death and now stands on the threshold of a second awakening. ]
After reviewing several such windows, I selected a few worlds that displayed the message: ‘Your client’s lifespan has reached its limit.’
Some had succumbed to illness, while others had chosen noble sacrifice.
“The Constellation’s clients treat sacrifice like it’s nothing—it terrifies me.”
“Exactly. When I return to being human, if I knew this future….”
I started to say I would never sacrifice myself, but stopped mid-sentence.
If I had the choice and didn’t need to make that sacrifice back then, would I truly have chosen a different path?
At that very moment, Ha Gyuhyuk’s face flickered before my eyes.
My client—someone I could never have met if I hadn’t become a Constellation.
“If you knew?”
“I figured there’s no point dwelling on it, so I stopped thinking about it.”
“Se-um can be too rational sometimes. Even Constellations need a certain level of delusion. Lately, I’ve been dreaming about what would have happened if Prince Franson had a Constellation.”
Franson, who had been nagging, shook his head.
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I watched as the saintly client, who had saved an entire world through sacrifice, began to fade away.
She gazed upon the countless worlds and futures she had saved, and smiled radiantly.
– Lord, thank you for showing me at the end that the path I walk is not wrong. I shall never regret it, nor shall I look back.
“She won’t become a Constellation either.”
“I expected as much. Besides, the future she saved won’t last very long—the dark sorcerer is scheduled to invade again soon. She lacks karma and harbors no regrets.”
Still, she accumulated karma equivalent to a High Priest, which is a shame.
[ The path you illuminated yourself may wind, but it has never once been wrong. ]
[ You’ve worked hard. ]
Though I was a Constellation who couldn’t properly look after her, I’m grateful she believed my guidance helped save her world.
Perhaps history will record the saintly one’s footprints as profoundly beautiful and noble.
The saintly one who accepted my words smiled as she faced death.
I don’t truly understand what kind of life allows one to greet death with a smile.
“Our world also had someone with divine power.”
“What happened to them?”
“They caught the plague first.”
“That’s unfortunate.”
That’s about all the sentiment I can muster. Franson nodded in agreement and opened a new box of pastries.
The pastry crumbled crisply in my mouth.
It’s a taste that makes me agree once again—it’s sad that food disappears along with the world’s destruction.
I chewed mindlessly, repeating the same motions, when I suddenly opened my mouth.
“It’s really strange when you think about it. All those beings who rushed forward trying to save the world—none of them became Constellations.”
“What’s strange to me is Se-um’s country. How did only one Constellation emerge from such a land?”
I gave a light shrug.
“A land filled with fools who throw themselves in the way to block great calamities before they arrive.”

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