My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 57

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 057

 

【Hidden Quest – Recovering Someone’s Story Fragments (In Progress)】

 

Fragments containing someone’s life are scattered throughout the dungeon. Collect the fragments to recover the memories!

 

Each fragment can be exchanged for one memory orb.

 

Note that story fragments can only be collected by the Quest performer. They are absorbed by the dungeon’s boss monsters, so be careful.

 

Well then, good luck.

 

True to being hidden, even the window composition was different from the main quests. My eyes widened slightly at the Quest window that spoke to me as if addressing me directly.

 

So now the search for ‘Jin Serin’s’ memories begins. Right, it’s about time to drop the memory loss concept.

 

I couldn’t bear to watch Jin Sehyeok get dejected every time I called him uncle anymore. Lately, I’d been either omitting titles entirely or just poking at him, which was quite frustrating.

 

I let out a deep sigh as I read the Quest again. Being hidden makes it pretty tough.

 

The ‘performer’ mentioned here must refer to me, right? If only the performer can collect them, I can’t ask Kim Igyeol, my contractor, to do it – it means I have to enter the dungeon myself.

 

But I’m currently a civilian? Should I fake an awakening or something?

 

I heard that sometimes people try to deceive with items, so they added lie detector functions to the identification AI.

 

You have 2 memory orbs.

 

Would you like to view them right now?

 

A notification even appeared before my eyes saying I had 2 memory orbs from who knows where.

 

But checking the hardcover book was more urgent than the memory orbs. I waved my hands to dismiss the window and opened the book.

 

On the endpaper, someone had written in cursive script: ‘Wishing you luck.’

 

It felt like an inexplicable longing was washing over me.

 

I tilted my head and turned the page.

 

I read through the entire thick book, losing track of time.

 

Even though I remembered reading this as text several times, the act of ‘reading’ it as a ‘book’ felt strangely unfamiliar. Maybe because it had been so long.

 

Still, the jumbled timeline was somewhat organized now.

 

I opened my notebook and arranged the episodes in chronological order.

 

I marked episodes whose timing had moved up with yellow highlighter, and episodes whose timing had been pushed back with pink highlighter.

 

I left the normal episodes as they were.

 

I paused while writing about the lion statue dungeon episode. Wait, this is the Art Room Dungeon. This was an event that needed a yellow underline.

 

‘It never appeared this early before.’

 

I recalled what Jin Sehyeok had muttered at school that day.

 

In 【The End of Destruction】, the statue dungeon actually appears in the mid-to-late stages. How did Jin Sehyeok know this?

 

Looking back, he often made meaningful remarks.

 

Establishing the Hunter’s Association instead of the guild ‘White Night’ was also a markedly different move from the original.

 

Taking preemptive action to bring down the Administration Bureau chief would have been nearly impossible without knowing the future.

 

I heard he completely crushed them so they couldn’t even get a foothold in this industry – unless he had a grudge, there’s no way he’d push that hard, right?

 

The more I thought about it, only one conclusion emerged. Brother, don’t tell me you regressed?

 

Among the siblings, the brother regressed and the sister was possessed? How perfectly it all works out.

 

My head seemed to throb, so I pressed firmly between my eyebrows.

 

I shoved the 【The End of Destruction】 hardcover and episode summary into subspace and lay down hugging Anser.

 

Now that the original has changed this much, even more perfect preparation is needed.

 

I quietly buried my face in Anser’s fur and softly called his name.

 

“Anser.”

 

⌈Yeah!⌋

 

“We’ll have to part ways soon.”

 

There wasn’t much time left until the estimated period when Ilyzer would have died.

 

Finding him would obviously take a long time too, so I knew I should send Anser right away, but I couldn’t.

 

Since Anser had been materialized and going around with me, it would be problematic if he suddenly disappeared.

 

What would be the most natural method? I couldn’t say I lost him because someone would make missing pet flyers.

 

I carefully stroked the fox’s perked-up ears and muttered.

 

“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t come up with a method.”

 

⌈Anyway, Baby always tries to shoulder everything alone.⌋

 

Anser suddenly jumped down from the bed and started licking his fur.

 

Watching him twist his body this way and that, struggling to lick himself, looked cute but difficult.

 

“What are you doing?”

 

⌈I need fur…⌋

 

The fox hung his head low as if embarrassed. His pink tongue darted busily over his fur.

 

Why does he suddenly need fur? I propped my head up with my arm and lay on my side.

 

Watching the fur form into round ball shapes reminded me of the fur clump I had stored somewhere in subspace.

 

I immediately went and retrieved the fur clump.

 

“Is this not enough?”

 

⌈No! It’s enough! But is this my fur?⌋

 

“Yeah. I picked it up when we first met.”

 

The fox was surprised to see the fur clump and raised his tail straight up.

 

Anser took the fur in his mouth and closed his eyes. Light enveloped the fox and fur clump as if he was using a skill.

 

After a moment, a fox that looked exactly like Anser appeared. That fox naturally climbed onto my bed.

 

The fox curled up in a ball just like Anser usually did. It moved as if it were truly alive.

 

⌈This way it’ll be fine!⌋

 

“Whoa, you knew how to do this too?”

 

⌈Ahem. I’m a star that’s lived quite a long time, you know!⌋

 

When I praised him in surprise, Anser lifted his head proudly and looked pleased. When I gently patted his head, Anser let out a small cry.

 

Who would have thought the fur clump I brought before would be this helpful?

 

But this means I have to send him now. I hid my loneliness and hugged Anser tightly.

 

“Be careful out there. That person is good at hiding without a trace. It might take a while to find him.”

 

I hoped Anser would find Ilyzer right away without wandering, but realistically that seemed difficult.

 

Still, I held a small hope that he could find him quickly using the fox’s skills or by communicating with other constellations.

 

“Don’t push yourself too hard. If you can’t find him, just come back. Got it?”

 

⌈Yeah! I’ll go and come back! I’ll be back soon, so wait just a little bit.⌋

 

Anser rubbed his nose against my shoulder and released his materialization. He returned to a translucent state and immediately disappeared.

 

I stroked the fox Anser had created for me. It looked identical, but maybe it was just my imagination that the fur felt less soft.

 

With Anser, who had always been by my side even without words, now gone, I already felt lonely.

 

I slapped my cheeks a couple times to snap out of it, then examined the memory orbs I’d received as a Hidden Quest reward.

 

Looking at the memory orbs’ information, one was from the dungeon where I made a contract with Kim Igyeol, and the other was from the Art Room Dungeon.

 

I thought they were just simple lights. So ‘Jin Serin’s’ memories are in here?

 

When I lightly tapped the orb, the message window I saw earlier appeared.

 

Would you like to view it?

 

When I said yes, it said preparation materials were needed and requested my bracelet.

 

When I removed the bracelet from my wrist and placed it next to the orb, the orb was absorbed into the bracelet.

 

The star-shaped pendant that absorbed the orb glowed and engulfed me.

 

I closed my eyes against the intense light, and when I opened them, I saw a residence.

 

As if enchanted by the familiar feeling, I moved my feet. I stopped at a door with a sign that read ‘Serin’s Room.’

 

I hesitated, then reached for the doorknob. Like with Cassiopeia, the doorknob passed through my hand without being grasped.

 

Ah, okay. I just pass through then.

 

When I passed through the door, the scene inside the room became visible.

 

The first thing I saw was a mobile. The mobile installed next to the baby crib turned slowly.

 

I approached closer to the crib. A newborn baby was sleeping there.

 

“How unusual that it’s showing memories from when she was a baby.”

 

Usually people don’t have memories from this early, right? That should be the same for other people too.

 

Then the door quietly opened and ‘Jin Serin’s’ parents came in with young Jin Sehyeok.

 

“Say hello, Sehyeok. This is Sehyeok’s little sister.”

 

At his parents’ words, Jin Sehyeok with his expressionless face rested his chin on the baby crib railing.

 

After staring quietly for a long while, he opened his mouth.

 

“Why is she so small?”

 

“Because she was just born? You were like that too, Sehyeok.”

 

Jin Sehyeok obediently nodded at his parents’ words and stared intently at his sister.

 

His mother gently smoothed his hair and hugged Jin Sehyeok tightly.

 

“Since our Sehyeok is the big brother, you’ll take good care of your sister, right?”

 

“I will.”

 

With a slightly flushed face, Jin Sehyeok slipped out of his mother’s embrace.

 

“Hello.”

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