My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 42

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 042

 

Anser, who had been diligently pretending to be a pet fox even without Jin Sehyeok around, made a sound for the first time in a while.

 

⌈Baby.⌋

 

“Hm?”

 

⌈Cassiopeia is calling. She says she’s ready.⌋

 

It was perfect timing since Jin Sehyeok was away from home conquering a dungeon.

 

As I was about to open the subspace and enter, Anser snuggled into my arms and whined.

 

⌈It’ll be over quickly, right? You’re not going to get hurt again, are you?⌋

 

I patted Anser’s back as she looked at me with teary eyes, as if she’d cry at the slightest touch. From the fox’s perspective, I probably looked like I was about to die at any moment.

 

After comforting her that nothing like that would happen, we moved to the subspace together. Antares, who had already been given notice, was there too.

 

Cassiopeia was sitting in a chair, resting her chin on her hand while looking at the screen.

 

Kim Igyeol had attended the training room as promised with me.

 

To raise one more grade in a short time, he would need to go to a C-rank dungeon.

 

Cassiopeia is always watching that thing. Is it interesting?

 

[You came?]

 

“You’re calmer than I expected.”

 

[Well, I’m returning to the stars after all.]

 

“But you have to receive punishment.”

 

Though I asked innocently, Cassiopeia glared at Antares.

 

She scolded him for telling the child all sorts of things, then smiled brightly. It was a gentle smile with all the venom completely drained.

 

[For the stars, it’s but a fleeting moment.]

 

Is that so? Will there come a time when I too can let time flow by so calmly?

 

Seeing my mysterious expression, she winked playfully.

 

[I’ll show you specially, baby, my memories.]

 

It’s okay to peek. Cassiopeia quietly closed her eyes. I activated 【Fair Judgment (S)】 for the first time in a while.

 

Judging the subject’s actions and hidden inner thoughts.

 

A phrase that wasn’t there before appeared. What’s this about?

 

Before I could think deeply about it, the light surrounding Cassiopeia also enveloped me.

 

I reflexively squeezed my eyes shut. Wrapped in tension, I clasped my hands tightly together. When I opened my eyes again, it wasn’t my subspace but an unfamiliar city.

 

The people’s clothing was different too. They wore draped garments as if their bodies were wrapped in a single cloth. It looked like something you’d only see in ancient myths.

 

“Ah, is this Cassiopeia’s memory?”

 

Muttering to myself, I started walking aimlessly. Before I knew it, my clothes had become the same as the people on the street.

 

However, I passed through people. Buildings, objects – there was nothing I could touch. They couldn’t see me either, as they walked right through where I was standing.

 

I walked along following the direction people were walking. Arriving at the royal palace, I met Cassiopeia walking down a corridor.

 

“You followed well.”

 

She smiled slightly when our eyes met. Since this is Cassiopeia’s memory, she can see me.

 

She gestured as if telling me to follow.

 

She stopped in front of a door. Cassiopeia opened the door with the brightest smile I’d seen from her so far.

 

Inside the room, a woman around my age was sleeping.

 

“She’s my daughter.”

 

As she gently stroked the sleeping woman’s hair, through the window behind her, day quickly turned to night.

 

“You’re seventeen in human years, right? You’re exactly two years younger than my daughter.”

 

She really is my age. She’s the same age as Kim Igyeol.

 

Cassiopeia turned her gaze to the window where the sun was beginning to set.

 

In the quickly darkening outside, orange lights began appearing one by one. Soon hundreds of lights were rushing toward the castle.

 

Watching this scene intently, Cassiopeia spoke in a gentle tone as if telling an old story.

 

“The goddesses were jealous of my daughter’s beauty.”

 

The people’s shouts mixed anger and excitement. Their breath spread like smoke, and the torch flames flickered in rhythm with their screams.

 

“Offer the sacrifice! Carry out the oracle!”

 

“They spread false rumors. That my daughter was prettier than the sea god’s daughter, making it seem as if I had said it.”

 

Ah, so that’s why she asked if I was pretty in the dungeon. Now I understand what she meant about becoming like herself in the ‘story.’

 

She continued the story in a calm voice. She held her grown daughter like cradling a newborn baby.

 

“And through an oracle, they said to offer my daughter as a sacrifice.”

 

“Let’s offer the sacrifice before the god becomes angrier!”

 

She said she hated those people who would easily dispose of her precious child, whom she wouldn’t hurt even if put in her eye, just because she was human. The quietly added words were heavy.

 

I couldn’t easily speak. To be precise, I didn’t know what to say.

 

Bang! Those who roughly opened the door separated Cassiopeia from her sleeping daughter. Even when she cried and pleaded, it was useless.

 

Cassiopeia struggled to go out to witness her daughter’s final moments. I quietly followed behind her.

 

“Child, though it was a god who gave the oracle.”

 

A murky voice spoke to me.

 

The gentle tone was gone now. Because those people had taken away the mother who was guarding her daughter’s bedside.

 

“It’s humans who carry it out.”

 

The world stopped with the final image of Cassiopeia having to just watch her daughter being devoured by a monster.

 

I didn’t see what happened after, but I know. The story of Cassiopeia from mythology.

 

Her daughter Andromeda survives thanks to Perseus who was passing by. The two get married and live happily ever after.

 

“…Still, becoming a monster was wrong.”

 

[Hah. I knew you’d say that. I know too.]

 

“You didn’t kill people, but Cassiopeia suffered more while she was a monster.”

 

Knowing her circumstances, I couldn’t simply judge her choice to become a monster as unconditionally wrong.

 

⌈Who is the most beautiful in the world?⌋

 

The line she gave me when we first met as a monster was essentially created from hatred and resentment toward humans.

 

That didn’t mean her choice was right though.

 

The wounds remaining in Cassiopeia and the fear of nearly losing her child would have gradually faded over the long years.

 

The one who rekindled those embers must be the owner of the name I couldn’t hear.

 

Ah, I need to work harder. Using someone’s weakness to manipulate them is cowardly.

 

The angry crowd taking Cassiopeia’s daughter away grew more and more distant.

 

As the scenery before my eyes gradually blurred, it seemed Cassiopeia’s memory was coming to an end.

 

Returning to the subspace, I activated the judgment skill again.

 

The 【Fair Judgment】 skill moves the scales as I, the skill’s owner, perceive the entire story.

 

The gray weight gradually became transparent and the scale Cassiopeia stood on tilted. Good.

 

Permission granted to activate skill as subject is judged to be good.

 

A clear energy enveloped Cassiopeia. Her silver eyes changed to brilliant blue ones.

 

Granting new life to monster ‘Lady of the Snowy Plains.’

 

The light that had brightly illuminated the subspace faded away. The energy that had been gradually draining began to fill up again.

 

Even so, I couldn’t avoid the overwhelming sleepiness, and slowly closed my eyes.

 

“Baby, I hope you have no regrets about your choice.”

 

I fell asleep feeling the gentle hand stroking my hair.

 

Wow, I fainted and slept again!

 

I bolted upright. Unfortunately, the scenery I saw was identical to before I closed my eyes.

 

I slept in the subspace. Rolling my stiff shoulders, I opened the subspace door.

 

I held out only my hand while holding the phone. The date written on the brightened screen showed two days had passed.

 

I also checked if there were any contacts from Jin Sehyeok. Fortunately, there were no messages, perhaps because he was still in the middle of clearing dungeons.

 

“Antares.”

 

“Only you can open the door.”

 

As soon as I called Antares’s name, an excuse came tumbling out first. I looked at him puzzledly, then shook my head.

 

“I’m not trying to blame you. Did Cassiopeia go back?”

 

“No, she’s here.”

 

Cassiopeia waved her hand from behind Antares. Gone was the arrogant attitude from when we first met, replaced by a plain demeanor.

 

Even so, the noble smile that still graced her face remained unchanged.

 

“What are you going to do now?”

 

“Hmm, probably go to Sellas?”

 

Having finished speaking, she glanced at Antares who was sitting apart from us. Ah right, she said she’d report back.

 

Antares ignored the gaze that seemed ready to bore holes in his face.

 

After glaring at him to her heart’s content, Cassiopeia quickly changed to gentle eyes.

 

“I have something to give you.”

 

Cassiopeia placed her hand over my head.

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