My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 1

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 001

No matter how I think about it, this is definitely overprotective.

I thought this while facing three people who were looking at me coldly from the front.

“Yawn.”

A yawn escaped without me realizing it.

Though my body doesn’t know fatigue, mentally I feel as tired as if I’d stayed up for three nights straight.

I had just laid down comfortably on the sofa, thinking I could finally rest a bit, but they came looking for me right away.

“Jin Serin. I told you to stay home quietly.”

The first to break the continuing silence was my older brother, Jin Sehyeok.

He frowned deeply, but his expression was filled with worry and relief.

The bewilderment he must have felt when he met his sister, whom he had earnestly begged to stay home, in a dungeon would be indescribable.

“Mmm, our Serin was bored again. I see, I see.”

This person smiling brightly is Kang Seo-u.

He’s smiling like that, but it was obvious he was thinking sinister thoughts about how to keep me stuck at home again.

He said he hated being overprotected too, so I can’t understand why he’s like this to me.

However, I had to consider the previous two people as just a warm-up.

The person as scary as a hidden boss is this one.

“Choose. I suppose soft fabric would be better?”

Kim Igyeol, my contractor, holding handcuffs in one hand and fluffy fabric in the other with an expressionless face.

Kim Igyeol had once warned me that if I secretly went to a dungeon again, he would tie his hand and mine together completely.

When I heard it then, I thought it was a joke, but apparently it wasn’t.

‘But that fabric, that’s an item I sponsored to you, isn’t it?’

I clearly remember giving it to him to use when fighting boss mobs.

I didn’t give it to him to use on me.

I just gaped in bewilderment.

⌈If they knew you were a Constellation, they wouldn’t be able to act like this.⌋

The three people couldn’t see him, but Antares clicked his tongue behind them at the absurd situation.

Ah, exactly! I’m honestly stronger than these humans! I won’t die easily under normal circumstances!

As I kept my mouth shut tight in frustration, sighs burst out simultaneously from above my head.

Yeah, excessive. Definitely too much.

Still, the reason I couldn’t say anything was because there was already a precedent.

…It wasn’t just once, but seems like it was quite a few times?

As I fell into contemplation, reflecting on the past, a heavy statement dropped over my head.

“Don’t make us lose you again.”

It was the magic words that made me shut my mouth.

Everyone must have thought at some point that they wished the world would change.

“Jin Serin! Get a grip!”

Was my wish that desperate? I had a dream where the world changed.

People running away desperately, the smell of blood from the injured, countless corpses piled up on the streets.

For a dream, it was a scene that felt too vividly real.

I looked at the man holding onto me.

The man with a confused face seemed familiar somewhere, but I couldn’t immediately recall who he was.

Between the two of us, someone pushed me aside and ran past.

“Move! Don’t just stand there stupidly blocking the way!”

I staggered and almost fell, but managed to stay upright thanks to the man still holding onto me.

“Damn it, Jin Serin! Are you planning to follow our parents too?”

Since I kept standing there dazed, the man mentioned our parents.

Just now I, no, he. No, is it ‘we’? I don’t know.

“No, sorry. Your brother misspoke. You’re not doing this because you want to either.”

The man carefully looked after me even while he himself was in chaos.

From the way he referred to himself as ‘brother,’ it seemed ‘I’ was this man’s younger sister.

I looked back and forth between the man presumed to be my ‘brother’ in the dream and the surroundings.

Me wearing an unfamiliar school uniform and a man with military-short hair.

The man beside me was anxiously urging me on, but I had no intention of moving. Maybe because it was a dream, it didn’t feel real at all.

“Serin, please. I know it’s hard. But shall we just try going to the Safe Zone, okay? Come with your brother.”

He who had been scolding me now calmly coaxed me. I could feel trembling transmitted through the hand on my shoulder.

That trembling brought the world back into sharp focus in my unfocused eyes.

The man who met my gaze brightened and clasped our hands together. As he started walking, he spoke in the calmest tone possible.

“Even if you’re scared, just endure it a little. If you get too scared, make sure to tell your brother.”

“Okay.”

Our clasped hands still hadn’t stopped trembling.

Since I wasn’t trembling, the owner of this trembling must be this man. He’s taking care of his sister while being scared himself.

As the surroundings gradually came into view, I thought I knew where this was.

I already know this man. No, I ‘read’ about him.

Jin Sehyeok, the protagonist of the novel 【At the End of Destruction】. The tragic protagonist who had to lose his sister as the price for awakening.

The only human to survive until the end of destruction, Jin Sehyeok was a character who awakened through his sister’s death.

The reason I read 【At the End of Destruction】, commonly called 【End of Destruction】, was simple. A friend recommended it because the protagonist’s sister had the same name as me.

Of course, it was false advertising. The sister ‘Jin Serin’ only appeared in flashbacks after appearing in episode 1.

That Jin Sehyeok from 【End of Destruction】 is my brother? It seems I’ve become that dying sister.

It’s not even a novel I read before bed, so I don’t know why I’m suddenly having this kind of dream.

Anyway, if this is a dream and I’m the sister who has to die soon, then when I die, I’ll wake up from this dream, right?

Even though I thought I had to die, strangely I wasn’t afraid. I was usually a coward who got scared even seeing bugs.

[Kieek!]

The crying sound of something strange was heard nearby.

Jin Sehyeok stopped walking and suddenly turned to look at me, calling my name.

“Serin.”

“Yeah?”

“From now on, we’re going to keep running.”

Hearing Jin Sehyeok’s words as he looked at me with a hardened expression, I couldn’t help but realize.

‘It’s almost time to wake up from the dream.’

Jin Sehyeok, who couldn’t know my thoughts, readjusted his grip on our clasped hands and ran.

I didn’t know whether I should be happy about having the amazing dream of meeting Jin Sehyeok, whom I’d only seen in text, or feel sorry that I met him in this kind of situation.

During our journey to the Safe Zone, there were many crises where I almost fell.

Building debris scattered on the ground, people pushing each other around.

But the tightly held hand never let me go. He firmly led me as we ran.

“Jin Serin, don’t let go of my hand. Hold tight!”

Feeling the strength leaving my hand, he gripped my hand more strongly.

With the Safe Zone right in front of us, the identity of those strange crying sounds, monsters, were chasing closely behind us.

My stamina had long since hit rock bottom, and I was just being dragged along by Jin Sehyeok’s strength as he led me.

I realized it instinctively. This is it.

I slowly drained the strength from our clasped hands. As if the strength was naturally leaving.

Then, with good timing, my foot caught on something. My body swayed and I fell forward with a thud.

When Jin Sehyeok lost his grip on my hand, he looked back.

It happened just as he set foot in the Safe Zone.

Tsk, that’s quite cruel. Now I understand why Jin Serin is Jin Sehyeok’s trauma.

Because of the hand he lost right in front of the Safe Zone, Jin Sehyeok would live his whole life with the guilt of having driven his sister to death.

“Jin Serin!”

The panicked Jin Sehyeok tried to approach me to help me up, but faster than that was the monster’s movement.

As if not wanting to miss this moment, the monster’s grotesque arm grabbed my ankle and dragged me toward itself.

“Ugh!”

My body scraped against various surfaces as I was dragged along. Unable to bear the pain, a groan escaped my lips.

Even though this was a dream, I could still feel pain—such a naive thought crossed my mind.

While being dragged by the monster, I lifted my head to look at Jin Sehyeok.

He tried to come toward me but was restrained by the soldiers in the Safe Zone.

‘I’m, o, kay.’

I wondered if he could see me from this distance… but I smiled faintly.

I could no longer see Jin Sehyeok’s face either. So I couldn’t tell if he was frowning or angry.

He was clearly someone unrelated to me, yet why did I feel so concerned about him?

Filled with unnecessary worry, I watched him grow more and more distant.

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