D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90
Expelled by Ulrim, Kim Gyuwun returned to his room immediately.
The moment he stepped inside, his legs gave out and he collapsed onto the floor, pressing his forehead with his palm.
He’d nearly blurted out something ridiculous about suddenly liking him the instant their eyes met. His heart was pounding so hard it felt like it would burst from his skull.
Just thinking about how pathetic his expression must have looked today made him want to die of embarrassment.
‘Get out. Just get out!’
Ulrim had shouted those reproachful words while laughing as if genuinely amused.
When Ulrim laughed, Kim Gyuwun’s heart truly felt like it would leap right out of his head.
But at the same time, he understood all too well.
Ulrim was drawing a line between them—as if he already knew everything about Kim Gyuwun’s feelings.
Because he knew, he couldn’t accept anything. It was a gentle refusal, and Kim Gyuwun resented his own perceptiveness more than anything.
He crawled toward his computer like a newborn fawn, moving awkwardly across the floor.
The screen was filled with documents about Ulrim.
〔Honestly, everyone’s trying to figure out who Ulrim is lol so I got curious and ran searches on Outstar, the Handbook, and XYZ too
First of all, there are several people with the same name as Ulrim regardless of age
But so what?
The problem is they’re all still alive.
Oh, that’s an important issue.
You shouldn’t be alive.
Let’s learn about the actions that the Constellation should not take.
And that is
Survival~!!!!
Suddenly being alive would be awkward for everyone, right?
See you next time!!
lol
Since he was the only Constellation originating from Earth, it was natural that everyone wanted to know who he was.
What if Ulrim came from the same family as him?
What if they’d graduated from the same high school?
Wasn’t this nation one that tasted the sweetness of national pride simply from the fact that they’d once breathed the same air on the same land?
That’s why everyone was doing their utmost to uncover information about Ulrim.
Ulrim surely knew about all of this, yet he didn’t bother to stop it.
‘Ulrim! This is spreading like a challenge. They’re using the hashtag #UlrimFounding, apparently?’
‘Why would Koreans write “founding”? Let’s change it to #UlrimBurial.’
‘Oh my! That’s so Korean and wonderful! Would you like some sikhye?’
‘No? Give me an iced Americano.’
‘Yes! Such a Korean choice, sir!’
…He seemed to be actually enjoying it.
Yet in this age of information, all those people hadn’t found even the slightest clue.
Perhaps Ulrim knew they wouldn’t find him, which is why he left people free to search.
‘If you’re bored, try looking for me too,’ he’d even suggested directly.
Except for Kim Gyuwun.
‘Don’t look for me.’
‘Pardon?’
‘I’m serious—don’t look for me. You’d actually find out, and that’s… well, you’re just like that.’
It wasn’t a casual remark; he spoke with genuine conviction, as if he truly believed Kim Gyuwun would uncover his identity.
At first, I’d been pleased, thinking he simply trusted my abilities.
But perhaps it was something more than that. Perhaps there was something else troubling him.
From that day forward, as I turned over every word Ulrim had spoken, something began to nag at me.
‘That can’t be it.’
A Constellation from Korea.
‘Ulrim, if you’re Korean, when were you born? The way you wield that sword—it really seems like Silla…’
‘I was an Awakened when I was alive as a Hunter.’
I remembered how Ulrim had smiled gently, like a roof tile, and scolded me for calling him by his age as if he were young.
There was something that bothered me.
‘He called himself an Awakened, not a Hunter.’
There had never been a time when people referred to Hunters as ‘Awakened.’
Awakened was a collective term for people before they completed Hunter registration.
Yet Ulrim had deliberately called himself an Awakened.
At the time, I’d passed over it without much thought, but the more I dwelled on it, the more questions arose.
〔Constellation ★
1. (noun) A transcendent being who has ascended to the seat of stars by building a status beyond humanity. Or an equivalent position.
2. (noun) Those who observe various life forms, including humanity.〕
After learning of Ulrim’s existence, Kim Gyuwun spent much of each day researching Constellations.
It was the best effort of a man who had never voluntarily tried to grow close to anyone in his life.
He scoured documents about Constellations and even minor social media posts about Ulrim, desperate to learn anything at all.
And the more he learned, the more a small question took shape in his mind.
‘Could the Constellation actually be Se-um?’
〔Constellations are generally beings created by building a certain level of ‘status.’ However, opinions diverge on what ‘status’ entails.
According to records from a Constellation approximately 380 years ago, status appears to be connected to how many lives one has influenced in saving.
The minimum threshold to become a transcendent being is saving hundreds of millions of lives—a level that is difficult even with full support from a Constellation.
In fact, not a single Constellation has ever originated from Earth.
This document was last updated 197 days ago!
It has been revealed that the recently accessed ‘Constellation of Spectation and Care’ is from Earth (Korea).
Ulrim document 〈Go to page〉〕
〔Ulrim (Constellation/Alias)
Before Epithet Reveal: Constellation of Spectation and Care
After Epithet Reveal: Constellation of the Entangled Apocalypse’s Finalizer
Age: Unknown (estimated over 100 years old)
Gender: Female
Hunter Rank: SS
Affiliated Guild: Touch One
Client: Ha Gyuhyuk 【Direct Link】
A Constellation who logged into Earth for the first time in 317 years. She uses a female-form avatar with purple hair and golden eyes.
She personally revealed herself to be a Constellation from Korea, and her favorite food is ramen with sliced blue peppers.
She hasn’t disclosed a preferred brand, but it’s known that she favors spicy foods.
She has a good rapport with Ha Gyuhyuk, a D-rank Hunter (currently re-evaluated to A-rank).
She registered as an SS-rank Hunter while pretending to be human, but soon revealed her true identity directly.
Apart from her own client, she displays compassion toward all humans.
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Reference Documents: 【S-rank Dungeon Constellation Collision Incident】 【SA Dungeon Mid-Clear Crisis】
Related Documents: 【Ha Gyuhyuk】 【Touch One】 【Kim Gyuwun】 【Constellation of Probability and Life】 【Constellation of Infinite Inquiry】
This page receives frequent visits. Would you like to add it to your bookmarks?〕
I’d taken a screenshot because I liked seeing my name in the related documents of a Constellation.
Since defeating Ha Gyuhyuk was impossible, I at least wanted to rank higher than Touch One, so I visited the page daily and clicked my name ten times each time.
But I still hadn’t surpassed them.
‘Well, at least Chae Hunter and Beom Hunter don’t appear at all, so I should be satisfied with this….’
In the end, I made peace with myself.
Anyway, setting that aside, this wasn’t what mattered.
Synthesizing the small clues like “Finalizer of the Apocalypse” and “Awakened One,” Ulrim’s true identity was more than suspicious.
Se-um—the only missing person from 330 years ago.
Kim Gyuwun, who’d harbored doubts when first researching Landquake, rushed to the Professor with that document in hand.
‘Professor, I have a question about Landquake. I’d like to reference it for my thesis.’
‘What is it?’
‘The information about this C-rank Awakened One listed as the only missing person is too sparse. No body was ever found, and didn’t Landquake disappear at the same time as the disappearance?’
To the question of whether there must surely be a connection, the Professor laughed and flatly stated, ‘That’s impossible.’
At the time, Landquake possessed magical power that couldn’t be contained even if all S-rank Awakened Ones were gathered together—how could a C-rank Awakened One have possibly stopped it?
‘It’s more reasonable to think there was intervention from a Constellation we don’t know about.’
Whether searching alone or consulting various sources, the only information about that C-rank Awakened One was the three letters of the name ‘Se-um.’
No one paid attention, so there was nothing to find.
Why wasn’t anyone paying attention?
If an S-rank Awakened One had gone missing along with the Landquake Gate, would everyone have reacted this way?
There was no way.
So Kim Gyuwun concluded alone that Se-um was the person who had stopped Landquake.
I wanted to know.
I wanted to ask.
Whether or not Ulrim was the same person, if there was a Korean who could save over a hundred million lives….
“You’re sharp.”
And then an arm gently landed on my head.
Ulrim was staring at him, his face buried against Ha Gyuhyuk’s crown as if using the top of his head as an armrest.
‘So close…!’
It didn’t matter that he was being treated like nothing more than a sofa armrest.
What mattered was that Ulrim had initiated contact first.
Ulrim glanced at the rigidly tense Kim Gyuwun and laughed.
“I’m telling you, I can’t even drink water easily in front of the kids.”
“Pardon?”
“So, how does it feel.”
“Uh, well, it’s close….”
“Not that.”
Ulrim laughed loudly and pulled his head back.
“Want to rewrite your graduation thesis based on firsthand testimony from the person involved?”

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