My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 45

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 045

 

When I turned around, Jin Sehyeok was standing there leaning against the wall. He couldn’t hear me coming because of his earphones.

 

I wonder from what point Jin Sehyeok started watching. If Kim Igyeol wasn’t visible, I could have lied and said it was YouTube.

 

I tried to squeeze out an excuse while recalling the screen I had been watching just moments ago.

 

“So, um, what this is, you see…”

 

“Why are you watching strategy videos? You don’t need to watch stuff like this.”

 

“Huh?”

 

That’s not right. Right now it’s showing Kim Igyeol leaving the dungeon, so it wouldn’t look like a strategy video.

 

Leaving me flustered, he earnestly advised me as if he had no interest in the tablet.

 

“Don’t even go near dungeons, and don’t go to them either. Got it?”

 

When I nodded absentmindedly, Jin Sehyeok smiled with satisfaction and handed me the shopping bag he was holding.

 

When I opened the contents, there were tons of egg tarts inside.

 

“You used to like these. It seems like you haven’t been eating much lately.”

 

He added that I used to eat these instead of meals often, and made a wistful expression as if recalling memories.

 

I nodded before I could unconsciously make an apologetic expression.

 

“Thank you.”

 

I like these too. I have quite a lot in common with ‘Jin Serin.’

 

Someone appeared through the roughly cut vines scattered on the ground.

 

A red-haired woman placed her hand on the space where the vines had been densely packed and shook her head.

 

“We’re one step behind again.”

 

“The Association doesn’t know about it. Is this Jin Sehyeok acting alone?”

 

The man, irritated about how many times this had happened, struck only the innocent ground with his black wings. The vines around him rolled around from his wing beats.

 

The woman replied to the man’s words with a face full of shock.

 

“He’s still going around looking for undiscovered ones? He’s really crazy.”

 

“Leave it for now. I’ll look into it.”

 

Jay, who had been quietly listening to their conversation from behind, lifted his mask and summarized the situation.

 

“The boss is going to move personally?”

 

The masked man dressed entirely in black, Jay, nodded at the question. Then he approached the short-haired woman who was silently digging through only the vines.

 

The woman, who stood up at the approaching footsteps, stared at Jay. When Jay entered her previously empty eyes, they came to life.

 

“En, why did you come here?”

 

“School’s closed. I had nothing to do, so I came to see.”

 

The woman called En reported that there were no major problems yet.

 

Jay nodded at En’s report and gave new instructions.

 

“We’re changing the plan. Let’s move up what we planted at the school.”

 

“The timing is still far off, so it might be difficult.”

 

“No, now is the right time.”

 

In Jay’s opinion, the hunter who had recently been deliberately interfering with them by selectively clearing undiscovered dungeons wasn’t Jin Sehyeok.

 

According to the person he had attached, today’s schedule was a meeting with the American Association, so there was no way he could have appeared here.

 

Jay, who had been touching the cross-section cut by a sharp blade, took off his gloves sticky with slime and handed them to the man grooming his wings. The man familiarly took the gloves and burned them.

 

Jay, wearing new gloves, placed his hand on En’s shoulder. As he slowly patted her, his silver-gray eyes flashed as he smiled.

 

“I have high expectations for En. Please, do well.”

 

The underlying meaning was: don’t make mistakes that would force me to dispose of you.

 

At the deadly warning, En obediently nodded her head.

 

The day after coming out of the dungeon, Kim Igyeol went straight to the Association and became a B-rank hunter.

 

Kim Igyeol’s first schedule as an official hunter was to participate in training. To the Association, he was a beginner who had just awakened, so he’d be a trainee for a while.

 

So now I didn’t need to peek in on him anymore.

 

This is how constellations are supposed to be. It felt like things were back in their proper place.

 

…Or not? Ah, whatever. What does it matter. Kim Igyeol just needs to become S-rank.

 

Anyway, while watching Kim Igyeol receive guidance from Association staff on screen, I decided to take time to deeply think about and organize the original work, since I could now temporarily stop worrying about Kim Igyeol’s growth.

 

I had a bad feeling that I needed to send Anser to Ilyzer quickly.

 

The moment I opened my notebook, I heard a knock.

 

“Let’s go get your school uniform fitted.”

 

After Jin Sehyeok insisted that school was starting soon and we needed to get it fitted now, I followed him to the uniform shop.

 

The uniform could be fitted quickly, but the real beginning started after we left there.

 

Jin Sehyeok, who had been anxious about not being able to buy me things since we reunited, spread his wings as if he’d been waiting for this day.

 

I was amazed at how he tried to buy all sorts of items. I already had enough clothes, and I didn’t really need workbooks either.

 

I stopped him when he suggested going to a bookstore. Jin Sehyeok looked down at me as I declined, saying it was fine, and nodded as if he understood.

 

“College, ah. You’re not planning to go? That’s fine, you don’t have to go. Just stay home and relax.”

 

“No, that’s not it!”

 

“It’s okay, can’t your brother take responsibility for one little sister?”

 

Jin Sehyeok smiled brightly. He had no intention of being sarcastic and probably meant that his reunited sister could do whatever she wanted.

 

But I felt stubborn at those words for no reason. In the end, I stepped forward, entered the bookstore, and bought tons of workbooks.

 

I came home and organized them neatly on my room’s bookshelf. A brief sense of futility washed over me.

 

Anyway, I thought that going out together would end that day.

 

The very next day, Jin Sehyeok, showing no signs of fatigue, stuck his face through the door crack again.

 

“Play with your brother before school starts.”

 

“Aren’t you busy?”

 

“Yeah, but I have time to play with you.”

 

It must be my imagination that I seemed to see Baek Eun-je screaming behind him as he answered nonchalantly.

 

He wouldn’t budge from his position, saying he’d wait until I agreed to go with him.

 

When I reluctantly followed him, the place he took me was a traditional Chinese medicine clinic.

 

I looked at him with eyes that said ‘what is this’ at the hospital entrance. Even a 7-year-old wouldn’t be fooled like this.

 

“You’re too weak, you know.”

 

I’m a constellation now, not really human anymore. I might appear weak because synchronization isn’t complete yet, but that’s not actually the case.

 

I couldn’t tell him this fact, so I racked my brain for excuses before admitting it.

 

My current body is probably close to an ordinary person’s, so it might look weak to Jin Sehyeok, who’s an S-rank hunter.

 

Still, I didn’t want to go in, so I held my ground at the entrance. Jin Sehyeok persistently pushed me into the clinic.

 

When I entered the treatment room and had my pulse taken, the doctor tilted his head.

 

“You said she’s weak? And gets nosebleeds often?”

 

When Jin Sehyeok nodded from behind, the doctor kept saying “That can’t be right” and took my pulse again.

 

“You have a naturally healthy constitution. The nosebleeds might be from dry air around you.”

 

“That can’t be. She can barely eat.”

 

“Then I’ll prescribe herbal medicine that helps with loss of appetite.”

 

We left the hospital after being told to come back tomorrow to pick it up. I was stuck having to take herbal medicine.

 

Jin Sehyeok kept making various excuses to call me outside, as if he wanted to make full preparations before school started.

 

A week before school started, he took me to the Association.

 

“Today I’ll teach you how to use weapons.”

 

“…You’re going to teach me?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

Why? Don’t they teach that in survival class?

 

Reading the question in my expression, he explained that there weren’t many sessions in the second semester curriculum.

 

The self-defense lesson began while I was still bewildered. Jin Sehyeok’s expression looked demonic today as he suggested we lightly run 10 laps around the training ground.

 

And for good reason, since this training ground looked about the size of a school athletic field.

 

“I’m asking just in case.”

 

“Go ahead.”

 

“You do remember that I’m a civilian, right?”

 

“Your stamina is too weak.”

 

As he nodded and smiled nonchalantly, I could almost see devil horns sprouting from his head.

 

After I finished running around the training ground while panting heavily, Jin Sehyeok laid out various weapons in front of me.

 

When he told me to pick one, I grabbed a pistol. Jin Sehyeok organized the unchosen weapons with a proud expression.

 

“I knew you’d choose that.”

 

I froze at his words saying he had expected it. Did Jin Serin also like guns?

 

“You always enjoyed going to the shooting range.”

 

Even this was the same.

 

Withstanding the recoil wasn’t bad either, and when I took my stance, I felt a strange sense of familiarity.

 

After the brutal training session that was harsh only on me ended and I was leaving the Association, I heard my name called from behind.

 

“Jin Serin!”

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