My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 27

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 027

Kang Seo-u was the type of person who never avoided anything that brought him enjoyment.

I wasn’t sure if it would be the same here, but in the original work, he was perpetually ranked second because of Jin Sehyeok, so people thought of them as rivals.

Kang Seo-u following Jin Sehyeok around was also because he planned to take first place someday.

But neither of them probably thought much about it. Especially Kang Seo-u just followed him around because it was fun.

Jin Sehyeok was the protagonist, and incidents revolved around him, so there couldn’t be better entertainment for Kang Seo-u.

“As expected, following you around seems like it would be fun.”

“I’m going inside.”

I stood up from my seat, meaning to cut off any more nonsense.

As I gathered my blanket and was about to leave, a low voice from behind me held my feet back.

“Serin.”

“Yes?”

“Do you really not remember anything?”

I felt caught off guard by the unexpected question.

I nodded my head in affirmation.

Then Kang Seo-u said he understood and told me to go inside and sleep.

Hmm, did he figure out that I’m Jin Sehyeok’s sister? Or is he testing me because he can’t think of anyone I resemble?

I hoped it was the latter.

After that strange dawn encounter, I often went out to the living room at dawn to check if Kang Seo-u was there.

I might not have known before, but now that I knew, it was hard to pretend otherwise.

Somehow, after exchanging conversations with Kang Seo-u every dawn, we became close.

“Going somewhere? Should I come with you?”

I had finished preparing to go out and was sitting on the living room sofa when Kang Seo-u started hovering in front of me.

“Don’t go around dangerously by yourself, just use me.”

I looked up at him as he spoke with a confident face.

I suddenly remembered the day Kim Igyeol and I returned from the desert dungeon. Kim Soyun and Kang Seo-u had been surprised seeing mine and Kim Igyeol’s appearance.

We were covered in dust, clearly not looking like we’d just taken a light neighborhood stroll, so Kim Igyeol and I had a hard time making excuses that day.

“No? Oppa, stay home. I’m going out with unnie.”

I refused with a teasing bright smile.

“Serin, let’s go!”

With perfect timing, Kim Soyun came out of her room. Kang Seo-u turned his head toward Kim Soyun and frowned.

“Ah! I want to go too! Take me!”

“What, dude?”

Right, this is exactly what happens when these two meet. Whenever they met, they were two people who tried to revert to high schoolers, no, elementary schoolers.

I grabbed their arms that looked ready to swing at any moment. I separated the distance between the two.

“Where are you two going?”

As it got noisy, even Kim Igyeol came outside to assess the situation.

“Yeah, a girls-only date. Boys get lost.”

Kim Soyun firmly shooed away the two men and led me out of the house.

Kim Soyun never looked back even though she could hear grumbling sounds from behind.

“Is it okay to leave like this?”

“What’s wrong with it? I can’t let them interrupt my time playing with my cutie.”

Cutie, what? Is she talking about me right now?

“Cutie…?”

“You’re cute compared to those big guys.”

It’s ridiculous that those big guys are her real younger brother and friend, and the one she calls cute is someone she hasn’t known for long.

Kim Soyun, sitting in the driver’s seat, started the engine and asked me.

“Is there anywhere you want to go?”

I shook my head to indicate there wasn’t anywhere in particular, so she said she understood and drove off.

After passing through a quiet residential area, there were more cars on the road.

“But unnie, why are you so nice to me?”

“Huh?”

Honestly, I was a stranger she could ignore if she wanted, and she only needed to provide me a place to sleep, but I couldn’t quite understand why she was being this nice to me.

It was even more so because even while staying in the same house as Kim Soyun, we had barely any interaction time.

I had my own theories about the reasons.

Because I’m her brother’s friend, because I’m a minor without a guardian. These two reasons seemed most likely, but I still found it hard to accept.

“It was my lifelong wish.”

She even hardened her expression and spoke in a serious voice, so I tensed up thinking she was going to bring up something serious.

“A younger sister.”

“Yes?”

“Listen. I don’t even have a younger sister among my cousins. They’re all younger brothers.”

Kim Soyun poured out her grievances about how every time she heard about getting a new cousin, she desperately prayed it would be a younger sister, but it was always a younger brother.

Her hands gripping the steering wheel trembled.

Even so, Kim Soyun, who had been grinning happily, suddenly stopped laughing and looked at me.

“And I’m grateful that you get along well with Igyeol.”

“Uh…”

“That kid has a bad personality, so he doesn’t have anyone who genuinely gets close to him.”

“That’s not true. Igyeol has a good personality. He’s kind even to people he meets for the first time and takes good care of them.”

I continued praising him as if defending Kim Igyeol. Even if he was bad to constellations, he wasn’t a bad kid to people.

Kim Soyun let out a small laugh at my desperate words.

“He suddenly changed like that. After Igyeol almost died when he was young.”

I looked at her in surprise at the sudden content, despite her calm tone.

The car smoothly stopped at a red light. Kim Soyun lightly tapped the steering wheel.

“When we were young, we weren’t close and were awkward with each other. But we’re family, you know. He was captured by a monster and almost died, and when he came back covered in blood like that, he had no injuries but looked exactly like a dead person.”

Kim Soyun, who bit her lips hard as if recalling that time, muttered quietly that it was scary.

“I was relieved he was alive, and while crying, I awakened, and he became like that.”

Her face as she smiled brightly had no shadows.

“Our parents think it’s natural for his personality to change since he’s their child and must have had a change of heart. But I feel a bit sorry for him.”

“Why?”

“Because I’ve never seen him genuinely laugh.”

I recalled the moments when Kim Igyeol had laughed. Were those fake smiles?

Kim Soyun, who had been stealing glances at me as I pondered seriously, carefully opened her mouth.

“Don’t you miss your family, even if you don’t remember them?”

Kim Igyeol had apparently given his sister a hint before. Kim Soyun knew about my memory loss that I hadn’t mentioned.

Do you miss Jin Sehyeok? The short question made me fall into deep thought.

Even seeing me pondering, Kim Soyun said nothing and parked the car.

“We’re here. Let’s get out!”

“…Yes.”

I belatedly answered Kim Soyun’s question. I probably do miss him.

Unlike Kim Soyun, I was a bit scared that his face might be filled only with shadows since his sister died.

Even so, I didn’t feel like going to him. Why am I pretending to have memory loss?

Even though things had already changed a lot, the original work was still the original work.

I had to see the ending of this novel and finish my possession. To do that, it was best to follow the original work as much as possible.

It was better to know even a little than to know nothing about the future at all.

Moreover, even if everything else followed the original work, the information from the original was more important to avoid the ending of world destruction.

I planned not to interfere during the original work’s progression and only twist the ending.

Perhaps I had grown attached to this world, as it felt a bit regrettable to end it with destruction.

While sharing a meal and heading to a cafe with Kim Soyun, who had grown much closer after we shared our inner thoughts, the Association suddenly contacted us.

Kim Soyun grumbled about having her date interrupted, dropped me off at home, and went to work.

Kang Seo-u was nowhere to be seen, apparently having gone out, and Kim Igyeol seemed to be studying in his room, making the house quiet.

As I went up to my bedroom, I organized my complicated thoughts. Throughout our clothes shopping, there had been something bothering me, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

Kim Soyun and Kim Igyeol, my sister’s death and awakening.

I turned the door handle while thinking about each in turn.

“Ah!”

I let out a small exclamation. Why am I only thinking of this now?

‘Of course I would miss it, since that sister is alive!’

It wasn’t that she seemed familiar because she shared the same name as a character from the original work. It was because she was that very person.

‘Kim Soyun,’ whose sister died in the 1st Incident and who lived as a hunter after awakening, was a fairly significant character who had connections with Jin Sehyeok in the original work.

Kim Soyun was one of the comrades who worked hard alongside Jin Sehyeok to prevent destruction.

Like Jin Sehyeok, she lost her sister in the 1st Incident but awakened as an A-rank hunter a few years later. By then, Jin Sehyeok had established his guild, so she was immediately recruited.

Kim Soyun was also a tragic character who lost both a skill and all of her sister’s belongings when her house transformed into a dungeon.

“…But if Soyun unnie is Kim Soyun.”

Kim Soyun’s house is Kim Igyeol’s house. The dungeon that erupted in that house was closed by me.

When my thoughts reached that point, I got goosebumps.

I decided not to change the original work, but I was already diligently changing it.

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