My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 20

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 020

That night, Kim Soyun returned home looking exhausted.

She immediately gathered us in the living room and gave us a stern warning.

“You two absolutely cannot go out alone for a while. Take me or him with you.”

“Why?”

“The Distortion Management Team requested a complete blockade around the library.”

Kim Soyun said the radius was 2 kilometers, and our house barely escaped being included, but it was still dangerous outside so we shouldn’t go out unless necessary.

“Even if it’s frustrating, just bear with it a little. It’ll be resolved quickly.”

“Why are they blocking it off?”

“I don’t really know either. According to those people, they couldn’t detect it until Seowoo mentioned it.”

Normally, abnormal distortions would appear before a dungeon burst, and the Distortion Management Team was responsible for identifying dangerous dungeons based on those distortions.

But if what Kim Soyun said was true, the situation seemed quite serious.

Kim Soyun emphasized not to go out and that she’d buy anything we needed, then left again.

I lost my only study space, the library. Where am I supposed to study now?

My worries deepened about what to do going forward. I went up to my room and whispered to Anser like grasping at straws.

“Anser, do you know dungeons well?”

⌈Oh. Well, that’s…⌋

Anser hesitated unusually. She always answered energetically when I asked questions.

The fox covered her face with her tail as if embarrassed and whispered shyly.

⌈I’m not as young as a baby, but I’m still young among the stars…⌋

In the end, it meant she didn’t know.

As for the internet, I don’t have a computer or laptop.

“Ah, I don’t know.”

I muttered to myself while lying on the bed.

Wouldn’t it be better to just register as an awakener? They’d be more professional than me anyway.

Just as my mind was leaning that way, a notification window appeared.

Granting the book ‘Dungeon Manual’.

A brown hardcover book suddenly dropped from thin air.

I sat up and picked up the hardcover. I could feel grains of sand on the cover.

The fox sniffed, then perked up her tail excitedly.

⌈It’s a familiar scent!⌋

“Huh?”

When I asked back, the fox brought her nose to the book. After sniffing around, her tail drooped.

⌈Maybe not? I’m not sure.⌋

I patted the dejected fox a couple times and opened the book. Unlike the books I’d received before, I could read all the text.

The first page listed F-rank dungeons and monsters.

As I flipped further back, the ranks got higher and some parts were written in special symbols, but it didn’t matter. What I needed was the low-rank dungeons in the front.

While skimming through, I spotted the undiscovered dungeon I’d been to before.

{Plant-type Dungeon – Deceptive Dungeon (F)

The most easily discovered dungeon. Though ranked F, the monsters’ toxicity is strong so the monsters are classified as E-rank.}

So that’s why it’s called ‘Deceptive’? I thought the monsters were too strong for F-rank.

I let out a hollow laugh and closed the book. I should put a cover on it and pretend to read something else.

Constellation ‘Noble Return from Death’ asks warmly how you’ve been doing.

I read through the dungeon manual the system gave me about twice. It was so thick it took a long time to read.

Even though I just read for understanding without memorizing, time flew by.

If I tried to memorize it all, the season would change. Since I have the book anyway, I can just check the dungeons I’ll use each day.

I immediately sent a message to Kim Igyeol and got an instant response.

-Why have you been so quiet? You even told me not to register as an awakener.

He seemed to have his own complaints.

The content was full of complaints, but it was the first time I got an answer immediately after sending a message, so I almost felt moved.

Even though we lived in the same house, it was so big and our activity areas were different, so I didn’t know what he was doing.

When I asked what he’d been up to…

-I was running outside.

Running, he said. I was surprised twice by his blunt answer.

Unlike the past when he never listened to me, Kim Igyeol was diligently doing what I told him to do.

Running every morning – he’s been doing it longer than I thought. I guess it suited him better than expected.

Thanks to that, the days when I felt anxious even using the Assimilation skill decreased.

There were even days when I didn’t assimilate with any emotions at all.

Since it said you can’t assimilate with positive emotions if your growth rate is low, the days I didn’t assimilate with emotions must mean Kim Igyeol was happy and joyful, right?

This was remarkable progress.

Constellation ‘Noble Return from Death’ asks why you kept running.

He chuckled at my question and replied.

-You sent me so I wouldn’t fight with my sister every morning, right?

Constellation ‘Noble Return from Death’ says that’s not it and secretly wipes sweat.

-I thought it might help me. You would have calculated even that, right?

This perceptive kid. Isn’t he actually the constellation pretending to be human and contracting with me?

-The reason you didn’t come all this time, you must have had your own thoughts about it.

From his tone that suggested it had to be that way, I could almost hear the words he left unsaid.

How fortunate that I couldn’t see his face since there was no screen when I spoke from my room instead of the subspace.

I don’t know if other constellations are the same, but when I sent messages, I could hear his responses in real time.

Instead of responding to those words, I rummaged through the shop and purchased an item.

Its name was ‘Movement Item (A)’.

Despite the simple naming sense, its performance was decent.

It had the drawback of needing to engrave a destination on the item, and once engraved it couldn’t be modified, but it was fine since Kim Igyeol just needed to go back and forth to the subspace.

When I activated the item, text appeared asking me to set the destination.

“In novels, these things are usually set with coordinates.”

I don’t know about that stuff. No need to input it complicatedly.

“Set it to ‘My Astral Space’s Training Room’.”

I immediately sent the item to Kim Igyeol.

He smiled wryly upon receiving the item.

-The name is quite straightforward.

Tranquility activated again, and with a calmed mind I told him to use the item.

I also opened my subspace and moved to the monitoring room.

Shortly after, Kim Igyeol appeared on screen, having moved to the empty training room.

-There’s nothing here.

He muttered to himself and looked around. He knocked on the wall separating the monitoring room where I was from the training room and spoke.

-What is this place connected to?

What do you mean what – it’s my subspace. But you wouldn’t know that.

Constellation ‘Noble Return from Death’ grumbles that you don’t need to know and tells you to focus on training.

I instructed him to run 5 laps around the training room as a light warm-up exercise. Whether it was true that he had been running every morning, Kim Igyeol ran with steady breathing.

Now that his muscles were warmed up, I had him swing at targets to get familiar with the sword. I generated a wooden sword and a dummy that could count the number of hits.

Kim Igyeol took his stance and swung at the dummy.

Swoosh, swish! The wooden sword cut through the air rapidly. I didn’t know who he was imagining as his opponent, but his momentum was fierce.

His hit rate was somewhat low, landing about 5 hits out of every 10 swings. Watching him continue moving, I muttered.

“Still, not bad.”

Who would have thought the survival class would show its effects here.

Considering he had never properly trained with a longsword, the results were decent. His posture had also improved compared to when he first held a sword.

This time, I generated a monster-type mannequin and told him to use his skill on the marked spots.

Instead of the wooden sword, he infused his skill into the ‘Unwavering Sword’. It was a skill designed to cut through anything, but his accuracy still seemed lacking.

He grazed the mannequin, so it wasn’t terrible.

Constellation ‘Noble Return from Death’ announces that this time it’s review training.

At the same time, I summoned the monster we had encountered in the undiscovered dungeon—the Bowstring Hemp. As the monster appeared, the surrounding environment also changed to resemble the dungeon we had seen then.

Kim Igyeol bit down hard and readjusted his grip on the sword.

Constellation ‘Noble Return from Death’ nods, saying that review is true learning.

After checking the window, Kim Igyeol let out a short, incredulous laugh and charged at the monster.

With a much more relaxed expression than last time, he cut through the vines.

His learning speed was definitely fast. If his rank hadn’t been so low, he might have been flying around like Jin Sehyeok.

Unlike before, Kim Igyeol easily killed the monster without sustaining a single wound.

I asked him if it would be okay to continue training in this order from now on.

After thinking for a moment, he swung his sword through the air a few times. Soon he shook his head and responded.

-I want to start with basic training. When I asked my sister, she said the Association starts with that.

What kind of day is this? Kim Igyeol making requests—what’s going on?

I thought he would skip it since he learned it in survival class. I guess he wants to solidify his fundamentals.

Constellation ‘Noble Return from Death’ waves a cheering stick, saying to let my contractor do whatever he wants.

Seeing that message, I looked at my hands. Without realizing when I had grabbed it, I was holding and waving Anser’s tail.

Does a tail count as a cheering stick too?

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