My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 12

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 012

However, since nothing came to mind immediately, I didn’t think much of it and shook the extended hand.

After a brief greeting, Kim Soyun, who had brought me and Kim Igyeol to the command tent, immediately went into field command.

So she was a Hunter. No wonder she had good instincts.

Access restriction lines were set up around the apartment.

The dungeon break that occurred at dawn had turned an entire building complex into a dungeon, centered around Kim Igyeol’s house.

I could hear people saying it was unusual that there were no casualties despite a residential area becoming dungeonized while everyone was asleep at dawn.

That was probably because I purified(?) Anser.

Although there were no casualties, Kim Soyun said they decided to evacuate the entire building complex to prepare for any possible situations.

“Ugh, why did it have to be our building?”

While watching an ajumma grumbling as she came down, I recalled the name of the dungeon where Anser had been. Naturally, my gaze also fell on Anser on my lap.

‘The Last Home of the Baby Fox.’

It was a dungeon that didn’t appear in the original work. Same with Anser.

I was confident I knew all the content, but unknown things kept popping up.

I was trying to review the original content when apartment residents began gathering at the command tent one by one.

“Oh my, isn’t that the college student from 503? What brings you home?”

“I didn’t pull an all-nighter and came home for the first time in a while…”

The ajumma who had been complaining earlier was now talking with a woman with dark circles under her eyes.

The ajumma patted the back of the woman who answered gloomily and continued, saying it was fortunate anyway.

“The association will provide compensation, so you should go to a hotel today and rest.”

An unfamiliar word from the residents’ conversation stuck in my ears. Even though I was covered with a blanket, my spine felt chilly.

No way, surely not. I tried to take out my phone but remembered I didn’t have one right now. I had no choice but to ask Kim Igyeol sitting next to me.

“Excuse me, what association gives compensation?”

“Association? Oh, the Hunter’s Association.”

Perhaps my question was out of the blue, as he slightly raised his eyebrows.

Hunter’s Association, that sounds like something from a novel. Oh, but this is inside a novel, isn’t it?

“The Management Bureau, I mean the Hunter Management Bureau disappeared and a new organization was created.”

What, why did the Management Bureau disappear?

That was the mid-boss of the original work!

Before I could fall into more confusion, Kim Igyeol’s kind explanation continued.

“But the work they do is almost exactly the same as the Management Bureau, the only difference is they have a bit more money?”

Thanks to that, I was able to escape the shock a little.

The work, right. If the work is the same, it should be fine.

The ‘Hunter Management Bureau’ that Kim Igyeol just called the Management Bureau was an organization that measured awakened individuals’ grades and handled phenomena that appeared after the upheaval, from dungeon conquest to management and prediction.

And most importantly, the Management Bureau was the place that had a one-sided bad relationship with Jin Sehyeok in 【The End】.

The Management Bureau would deliberately omit supplying potions they made or nitpick every word Jin Sehyeok said when forming conquest teams.

If you wanted to live safely, you should prostrate yourself before Jin Sehyeok, but why did they do that? There was one reason.

‘Because the bureau director was a non-awakened person.’

The director was originally a civilian who treated awakened individuals and Hunters like monsters. He became a government department director by riding the right lines, but his abilities were trash.

Since the higher-ups were like that, the employees below weren’t much different.

Why don’t they realize they’re living safely thanks to those awakened individuals and Hunters? Even thinking about it again, they were people who were too well-fed.

What stopped my continuing thoughts was Kim Igyeol’s urgent shout.

“Jin Serin, you have a nosebleed!”

“Huh?”

Only then did I feel warmth under my nose. I reflexively wiped under my nose. Blood came off on my hand.

What the. Why is this happening again?

I plugged my nose with the tissue Kim Igyeol gave me. The tissue quickly became soaked.

Anser was looking up at me with teary eyes.

⌈Do humans normally bleed this much from their nose? B-but baby isn’t human? Huh, why is this happening? Are you okay?⌋

A fuss mixed with questions entered my head. Perhaps confused himself, he frantically asked about my well-being.

My head spun from the worry echoing in my head and the fox’s crying sounds.

“I’m fine, Anser. Stop crying, okay. That’s right.”

When I patted Anser’s back with my hand that didn’t have blood on it, he gradually began to calm down.

“Let’s go to the hospital first. Get examined first.”

“No. I think it’s just because I haven’t been resting well. I don’t need to go to the hospital.”

Going to the hospital would be a disaster. For me, who didn’t want to inform Jin Sehyeok of my survival, places like hospitals were locations I absolutely had to avoid.

Moreover, the current ‘Jin Serin’ had no identity. To be precise, the record would obviously show someone who had already died.

Jin Sehyeok would have delayed and postponed it, but according to Korean law, 5 years of disappearance is considered death.

If 10 years had really passed since that day, it would have been automatically processed from missing to deceased, and by now Jin Sehyeok would probably be searching around hoping to find his sister’s body somewhere.

Since he’s also human, he would fall into helplessness around the 7th year of disappearance, and Kim Soyun would comfort such Jin Sehyeok… Wait.

I stopped thinking and turned my gaze to Kim Soyun who was on the phone with someone.

It’s probably just someone with the same name, right? Maybe this is why the name didn’t feel unfamiliar.

I looked at Kim Igyeol again and replied.

“I’m really fine. I’ll go later if it happens again.”

“…Really? Are you really okay?”

After a short silence, Kim Igyeol spoke with suspicious eyes looking at me. What are you going to do by looking at me like that?

I hid my inner thoughts and slightly lifted the corners of my mouth.

Ah, it might have looked a bit horrifying because of the nosebleed.

I went to the nearby commercial area restroom with Kim Igyeol to wash the blood off my hands and returned to headquarters.

As soon as I sat down, he quietly spoke to me.

“You know.”

“Yeah?”

“Can you keep my awakening a secret for now?”

Right, I need to keep quiet about it. I was waiting for when you’d bring this up.

Kim Igyeol closed his mouth after saying exactly those words concisely. It seemed he didn’t intend to give any particular explanation.

Well, I didn’t give any explanation first either.

Still, I should ask here so it won’t be obvious.

“Why?”

“Um, just because.”

Even Kim Igyeol who brought it up had a questioning expression.

Should I be grateful that he follows well without questioning the Constellation even though he doesn’t know the exact reason?

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’ smiles contentedly saying you’re doing well.

I never smiled contentedly. Why do they convey it like that?

Kim Igyeol’s brow was slightly furrowed as he checked the message.

It’s probably just my imagination that it felt like he was scolding me for where I’d been and why I was appearing now.

Putting the uncomfortable feeling behind me, I answered his words.

“Yeah, I don’t have anyone to tell anyway.”

“Didn’t you tell your family about getting caught up in the dungeon break?”

Kim Igyeol made an expression like he realized he’d made a mistake after bringing up the topic himself.

“You don’t have to talk about it.”

“I don’t remember well.”

My answer and his words overlapped.

“You don’t remember?”

Kim Igyeol asked back as if dumbfounded.

I was the most flustered one. Of all things, why did the random words I threw out have to be about memory loss?

However, it was already spilled water. Let me clean up first.

“Where I lived, where my family is, I really don’t….”

He lowered his gaze as if he truly didn’t know and trailed off.

“Then where were you for three days?”

“Three days?! Ah… oh, right. Three days have passed. Just here and there….”

I was only in the subspace for a moment, but it seemed three days had passed outside. I’m glad I found out now at least.

My voice cracked at the new information, but I managed to muddle through it.

“Then you should have at least contacted me. I gave you my number.”

“Oh, I don’t have a phone.”

“What? Ah. I guess that makes sense.”

This was something I could say confidently. I don’t have a phone, the essential item of modern people!

Maybe it would be in the school uniform I wore the day I parted with Jin Sehyeok. Of course, I don’t have that uniform anymore either since it disappeared somewhere.

Why does Kim Igyeol accept this so casually? Do I look poor?

I looked down to examine my outfit.

I was wearing the same clothes as when I first met Kim Igyeol. Come to think of it, I’ve never changed clothes.

No phone, that’s understandable….

As each question returned an absurd answer, Kim Igyeol let out a sigh.

“I’ll tell my sister, so come with us.”

Why would I leave my cozy subspace to go anywhere?

I wanted to object, but since I couldn’t say any of that, I just opened and closed my mouth.

As if heaven was helping Kim Igyeol, Kim Soyun, who had finished cleaning up the scene, was coincidentally approaching us.

“Sister, this guy has no memory and nowhere to go.”

I made a strange expression at Kim Igyeol’s words as he pointed at me.

Tsk, it’s true, but it feels oddly annoying.

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