D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 83

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Chapter 83
A fateful love felt toward a client.
About 330 years ago, Tasha had fallen into the ennui that every Constellation experiences at least once.
The moment recruiting clients ceased to amuse her, and sponsoring them became tedious.
“Natalia, I heard there’s a competition today. Any interest in going?”
“Not particularly.”
An hour stretched on with little consequence, broken only by occasional visits from the distant Sungho next door, who would strike up conversation.
‘Usually, after about a hundred years of this, it becomes clear what will happen. Either I become a reclusive hermit locked away in my chamber without clients or karma, or I pull myself together and start anew.’
After living as a Constellation for a thousand years, this was something everyone experienced at least once.
‘If you’re bored, try random server access. It lets you enter any server at random, and there’s plenty of entertainment to be found.’
‘Really?’
‘Of course, I mostly end up in unpopular servers, so my success rate isn’t particularly impressive.’
‘…You said there’s plenty of entertainment.’
‘You’re not that interested in accumulating karma anyway.’
Though our relationship was distant, the Constellations who leaned toward goodness shared this pro tip with Tasha.
‘Natalia, excessive ennui is a direct path to self-destruction. You must deliberately observe the worlds.’
When I first visited countless worlds, I could access boundless knowledge.
That was what kept me alive day after day.
But my special ability to perceive the latent potential of existence, and my exclusive karma, made everything tedious.
The future that clients claimed was ‘unknowable’ was merely a calculable possibility to me.
‘No exceptions exist in this world.’
The moment I realized this, I drew closer to ‘dissolution’ for the first time.
The instant the desire to explore vanished.
[ Your star’s essence trembles. ]
[ Dissolution is a possibility. ]
But it was not the beautiful dissolution that Constellations typically anticipated.
To disappear having lost my own desires.
“Natalia, why are you so listless?”
“Germain?”
It was around the time when everyone, except Franson and Sungho who took unusual interest in other Constellations, had stopped visiting.
“There’s nothing I want to know.”
Because I already know everything.
“Is it such a problem to want nothing?”
“For me, it’s rather significant.”
Everything can be converted into data, and I’ve never deviated from the margin of error.
No world possessed enough uncertainty to capture Tasha’s interest.
Clients who contracted with Tasha wanted to know their futures or dangers.
But ironically, Tasha herself tended to be drawn to those who were ‘uncertain.’
Karma accumulated steadily from calculated data, and Tasha had become overwhelmingly wealthy even within Sungdo.
“Perhaps I should try random server access.”
“That’s not a bad option either… If you need help with anything, just reach out.”
“Got it.”
A prince with quite a bit of authority.
A curious Constellation who seemed remarkably unmoved by the death of his own client, despite everything.
[ Initiating random access. ]
[ You have connected to the 34R7h Server. ]
The world known as ‘Earth’ was in the midst of annihilation.
How could even the timing of my access be this ominous?
A commonplace hunter world, and a Gate that humanity’s current strength could not contain.
And one pitiful human caught within it.
– ….
Limbs thrashed weakly, barely clinging to consciousness as it slowly slipped away.
It must be a distant darkness where even pain could not be felt.
Blood trickled from the human’s lips.
– …I’m here, I’m…
It wasn’t even a plea for help.
The voice endlessly testifying to her own existence was drenched in sorrow.
A woman clutching a single sheet of ‘Hunter Registration Application’ paper, now reduced to small fragments.
[ Se-um, 23 years old. Human. Grade C Awakener. ]
It was a message sent out of compassion.
[ Do you want to live? ]
The human, not fully understanding the message that had appeared before her eyes for the first time, tilted her head in confusion even as she was dying.
It was truly ironic.
Only a single awakener was caught within that place, preventing the Gate’s opening.
With just a little system control, I could buy more time.
If this human chose ‘sacrifice’.
[ Purchasing ‘Voice of Oracle’. ]
Voice of Oracle.
An item that could send my voice to a client instead of an incantation—a tool I had deliberately avoided using because of its considerable cost.
“Se-um, your body will never be found. If anyone comes to retrieve your corpse, this apocalypse will resume.”
– ….
“Unless a god exists, humanity’s strength alone cannot stop it. But if your sacrifice alone can prevent it… where could there be anything more sublime than this?”
It might seem absurd to speak this way from the position of a god, but this was a cold assessment.
“However, if you wish it, I will save you.”
And let all humans join their strength together to prevent the apocalypse.
In truth, the probability that Earth’s current forces could stop this Gate was less than 0.1%.
They were still unable to gather their strength, and they were weak.
But this human was a victim without any sense of mission to save the world—an utterly ordinary person.
And rather than bear the weight of the world’s destruction, she might choose death.
– Is there… no way for both me to live and the world to be saved?
[ It doesn’t exist. ]
Tasha was not the sort of Constellation to answer “yes” to a mere 0.1% value.
Se-um’s trembling hand quivered as she squeezed her eyes shut.
‘In the end, she’ll choose death.’
It was an unsurprising conclusion.
Just as Tasha was about to abandon the Server, overwhelmed by returning ennui, Se-um spoke again.
– Find a way for me.
“What?”
– You’re a god, aren’t you?
You’re a being who makes the impossible possible.
You have the power to change an ending that everyone believes is already determined.
At those continuing words, Tasha paused.
The power to change a predetermined ending? To herself—a god who predetermines endings more than anyone else.
A mere human was making a ‘demand’.
– Even if I can’t survive, please make sure that I existed… that my existence doesn’t disappear.
It’s so unfair to be forgotten like this, and so terribly lonely.
Tasha gazed at the screen.
All those countless outcomes she had witnessed, this being demanding she shatter the error values she had derived and produce an unexpected result.
Presumptuous yet desperate.
Tasha typed a message, even forgetting the habitual task of assessing her client’s potential.
[ Then make a contract with me. ]
[ I’ll find a way. ]
For the first time, Tasha acted on impulse.
Perhaps that was when she fell in love.
[ Contract with client ‘C-Rank Awakener Se-um’ has been established. ]
[ One client confirmation right is consumed. ]
“Remember this—your death will be compensated.”
– …You promised.
No further words followed.
Having barely clung to consciousness, she would not remember what came next or the conversation that continued.
[ Client perishes. ]
[ Intervening with the client’s corpse. ]
[ Massive causal adjustment consumes karma. ]
The karma accumulated thus far was depleting by the second.
Divine power is arbitrarily infused into the corpse to delay the Gate’s opening.
100 years, 200 years, 300 years….
Up to 700 years.
Preserving humanity’s existence for 700 years.
Through the sacrifice of a single soul. Finally, as all the karma Tasha had accumulated was exhausted, countless windows materialized.
[ Client ‘Se-um’s karma is settled. ]
[ The Constellation System grants Client Se-um the qualification to awaken the trait ‘One Who Caught the Eyes of the Divine’. ]
[ The Constellation System grants Client Se-um the qualification to awaken the trait ‘One Touched by the Divine Hand’. ]
[ The Constellation System grants Client Se-um the qualification to awaken the trait ‘One Beloved by the Divine’. ]
…
…
[ The Constellation System grants Client Se-um the qualification to awaken the trait ‘One of the Constellation’. ]
[ Congratulations! ]
[ Your Client Se-um has been chosen by another star! ]
Brilliant light erupted, and fireworks burst across the sky.
Tasha bolted outside without a moment’s hesitation, racing toward the Constellation System’s gate.
She threw open the doors with both hands and stepped inside, her expression dazed as she surveyed her surroundings.
Pale violet hair and golden eyes, with a black hair ribbon dangling from her wrist.
She caught sight of Tasha and flinched, then slowly parted her lips.
“Um, well, hello there?”
“…Hello.”
My beloved client.

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