My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 4

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 004

Ah, why is he worrying about this?

“Why are you suddenly acting like this?”

“Ah.”

Unable to hold back any longer, I poked Kim Igyeol’s arm repeatedly. Kim Igyeol hesitantly opened his mouth.

“Some constellation says it wants to make a contract with me.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

At my words, Kim Igyeol shook his head.

“That’s only true when your grade is high. My grade is low.”

He muttered worriedly.

Hmm, true. Even in the original work, hunters who became playthings of constellations occasionally appeared.

But I won’t be like that. Should I just tell him that constellation is me? I pondered for a moment.

And then I cleanly gave up. If I suddenly said I was a constellation, I’d just be treated like someone sick. How could a human become a constellation?

I need to coax and persuade him to accept it. I calmly presented another possibility to him.

“Still, you won’t know until you make the contract. It could be a good constellation.”

“That’s true.”

After briefly agreeing, he became quiet again. It was an unwelcome silence for me, who wanted to hurry up and make the contract.

In that silence, the sound of flapping wings came again. The sound was louder than before. It seemed like there were several of them.

With the mindset of fleeing first before worrying about contracts or anything else, I grabbed Kim Igyeol’s arm and ran. The winged monsters quickly pursued us from behind.

I barely managed to suppress the urge to tear at my hair.

What good does it do to know where the core is when I can’t attack!

At that moment, one leg flew between us. The thorns embedded in the leg scratched both my and Kim Igyeol’s arms again before pulling away upward.

Starting with that attack, the monster began swinging its legs as weapons.

As we grazed against the thorns, small scratches appeared all over mine and Kim Igyeol’s arms and legs.

While avoiding the monster, I caught my breath that was rising to my chin. If this continued, I’d die from exhaustion first.

I desperately shouted toward Kim Igyeol, who wasn’t in my line of sight.

“Can’t you do that constellation contract thing or whatever?!”

Even though I knew Kim Igyeol, whom I’d just met today, wouldn’t listen to me, I shouted anyway.

“Right now, you’re the only person I can trust!”

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’ whispers that don’t you want to get out of here, and that I can help you.

Though I was clumsy since it was my first time, I didn’t forget to send the constellation message.

While waiting for an answer, one second felt like ten years.

Just when I thought that the words of someone I’d just met couldn’t influence the contract decision.

“I’ll make the contract.”

Even though I was still far away from him, I could hear it clearly as if he was speaking right to my ear.

At the same time, I had the illusion that the world had stopped.

Ah, it wasn’t an illusion. The leg that was attacking me stopped right in front of me.

The window glowed, announcing the successful contract.

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’ and Awakened ‘Kim Igyeol’ declare to the entire universe that they will care for each other through faith.

After that, new information was listed in succession.

【Main Quest 1-Finding a Contractor】 completed. Reward will be given.

New skills are unlocked for the constellation who found a contractor.

Updating constellation profile.

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’

Contractor: Kim Igyeol(D)

Skills: 【Unwavering Tranquility】, 【Emotional Synchronization】

Unique Skill: …

At the end of the endlessly scrolling status window was a notification that made me doubt my eyes.

【Main Quest 2-My Contractor’s Growth is My Reward】

You found a contractor! Now shall we try making your contractor grow?

Criteria: Grade change (D→S)

Reward: 20% growth rate, 2000 points

Make a D-grade awakened grow to S-rank? Are they telling me to give up on the quest?

While looking at the updating information, I realized Kim Igyeol was being quiet.

When I shifted my gaze to where he was last located as time stopped, Kim Igyeol was standing a bit away from there with an even more dazed expression than mine.

That expression looked exactly like someone who didn’t know what to do next.

I felt the same way.

Just as I was pondering what to do next, a new status window appeared before my eyes.

Would you like to open the shop?

‘Shop?’

Even to my questioning thought, the shop appeared smoothly.

Along with text telling me to choose the item I wanted, what appeared in the window were two swords.

One was a simple longsword called ‘Well-Crafted Sword(A)’, and the other was two ornate longswords called ‘Unwavering Sword(SS)’.

-Well-Crafted Sword(A)

A sword made by a craftsman for practice.

Price: 1,000 points

-Unwavering Sword(SS)

A sword created by someone’s will

Price: 10 points

So those star points from earlier are like constellation currency.

The realization was brief as I was shocked by the prices. An A-grade costs 1,000 points but an SS-grade is that cheap? Isn’t this a scam?

With prices that seemed to obviously tell me to buy the Unwavering Sword, I purchased the item with half-belief.

As soon as the purchase completion notification appeared, I immediately delivered it to Kim Igyeol.

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’ gifts you the item ‘Unwavering Sword(SS)’.

The item I gifted materialized in Kim Igyeol’s hands. When the twin swords held in both hands materialized, I could see what I couldn’t see before.

Effects that looked like white smoke but contained splendor wrapped around the two silver swords.

If I think that suits Kim Igyeol well, am I already being too doting?

Giving an item doesn’t end my job as a constellation. In 【World’s End】, constellations had something called ‘unique skills’.

Unique skills are the powers possessed by constellations, converted into skills to make it easier to lend them to contractors.

When a constellation grants this to a contractor, it’s both permission for the contractor to use the constellation’s power and a token of trust showing that they’re backing them.

I granted him the skill I had noted when purchasing the item.

“What is this….”

Surprise spread across Kim Igyeol’s face as he checked the notification.

The skill I granted him was 【Litigation’s Argument(S)】.

It was a skill that, when the owner activated their weapon and recognized a target as something that ‘must’ be cut, would definitely realize that will.

The flow of air changed. Time, which the system had arbitrarily stopped for the contract to be finalized, began to flow again.

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’ shouts to look ahead.

I sent a message to the dazed Kim Igyeol and ducked down. One leg swept right over my head.

At the same time, I conveyed the location of the core to Kim Igyeol. When I tried to tell him directly, a notification popped up saying it violated the rules and transmission failed.

In the end, when I indirectly told him the location, he understood perfectly and swung his sword.

However, using unfamiliar twin swords with a body that had just awakened was an overwhelming task.

Perhaps judging that it was better to properly handle one weapon rather than awkwardly wielding two, he first put one sword into his inventory and swung at the monster with the remaining sword.

The monster easily dodged that attack. It swung its thorn-covered leg at him as he approached.

The thorn that barely grazed him drew a thin line across Kim Igyeol’s arm. I could see blood seeping through the cut.

If he had been just a little slower to dodge, the thorn would have pierced through his flesh.

Without even a moment to catch his breath, the sound of the moving monster’s wing beats echoed through the air like thunder. I even had the illusion that the ground was shaking.

I wanted to shout for him to be careful, but I held back, thinking it might provoke the monster.

Ah, constellation messages. That was an option.

…But how do I send them? Do I just think about delivering it?

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’ worries and tells you to be careful not to get hurt.

Oh, it was sent. I can see it too.

Thanks to the system that delivered it just from my thoughts, I transmitted a message to him. Though I wasn’t sure if he could check it while fighting like this.

After learning skills on his own, he defeated the monster in front of him and came toward me.

Clang!

Kim Igyeol, who blocked the leg that came at him, turned his head and shouted at me.

“When you see an opening, run behind there!”

Standing in front of me, he gestured toward a large rock nearby.

Reflexively, I was about to ask how I could do that. Then I remembered that I was just an ordinary person who couldn’t help in combat at all.

With apologetic feelings, I urged him to be careful.

“Sorry I can’t help. Be careful not to get hurt.”

He nodded in response and swung his sword toward the monster.

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