My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 72

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 072

I was dumbfounded by the torrent of words pouring out. I had no idea where to start asking questions.

As her lips parted as if she still had more to say, I covered them with both hands.

“No, wait a minute.”

“The past me who liked that bastard is now dead— why?”

Her face seemed to ask if that was enough, leaving me speechless.

There wasn’t time to ask questions slowly. I decided to ask about the urgent matters first and opened my mouth.

“What do you mean the dungeon will burst? Again?”

“Ah. They told me to move the dungeon to the training grounds.”

Seo Naye spoke in a calm tone as if reciting tonight’s dinner menu, but the content was anything but calm.

Dungeons usually couldn’t be moved once they formed in one place.

That’s why the Hunter’s Association, upon discovering a dungeon, couldn’t eliminate it before it burst and instead had to guard or partially close off the surrounding area in preparation for the entrance expanding.

But they could move such a dungeon? If it were possible to relocate an established dungeon, the Association would have done it long ago.

No, wait. If it was made by them, it might be different.

I thought that if it was an artificially created dungeon, it might not be entirely impossible.

“But my brother didn’t say anything about it.”

If even the slightest dungeon fluctuation had been detected, Jin Sehyeok was the type of person who wouldn’t hesitate to change the training grounds location regardless of cost.

There was no way such a safety-conscious person would send me to such a dangerous place.

Seo Naye stared at me with a puzzled expression and asked back.

“Who’s your brother?”

“Hunter Association President Jin Sehyeok.”

“Huh?”

At my answer, she opened her mouth with a stunned expression.

Wow, she must not have looked at my student records.

Unaware that Jin Sehyeok had tampered with the documents beforehand, I was slightly amazed that Seo Naye hadn’t looked into my information.

“So the one who interfered with my path at every turn was your brother…”

Seo Naye’s jaw muscles bulged as she clenched them tight.

She applied so much force that an unpleasant grinding sound came from between her clenched teeth.

Realizing it was spilled milk, she revealed what she had been hiding.

“Of course the Association wouldn’t catch it. It’s not there yet.”

“What do you mean?”

“Because it’s not a natural dungeon. It hasn’t even been opened yet.”

“Like the art classroom?”

Ah. So they’re going to release an artificial dungeon there, is that it?

As I nodded as if I roughly understood, Seo Naye let out a hollow laugh.

She seemed deflated since I knew about what she had been proceeding with in secret.

If I weren’t a Constellation, I wouldn’t have known.

Muttering that this much should be okay to talk about, Seo Naye gestured with her hand.

“Over there, they call the dungeons they create ‘traps.'”

“Traps?”

“Despite the name, they only install them in places where many people frequent.”

Seo Naye’s face twisted fiercely as she spoke. She muttered something incomprehensible like “so it starts from here.”

Then she spread her index and middle fingers and waved them.

“There were two traps in the art classroom. One is gone.”

She pointed at me with her chin as if asking whether I knew better.

I had been wondering why the dungeon clearing method was too easy compared to the period the fluctuations had been planted, and indeed there was such a hidden story.

Seeing that they were planted in the same location, the statue dungeon seemed to be a kind of smokescreen.

“Then there’s still one left in the art classroom?”

“Right. They’re telling me to move that to the training grounds.”

With those words, Seo Naye closed her mouth.

As if she had slightly touched upon the prohibition, a red line appeared around her neck and then disappeared.

If she can’t even talk about this much, I need to quickly release that first.

Just as my thoughts were about to wander in a strange direction, I grabbed her and asked about a doubt that suddenly crossed my mind.

“You’re the one doing that, teacher?”

“Well, I install it in advance, and ahem! I just need to go there when opening the dungeon.”

Seo Naye coughed and rubbed her neck uncomfortably. The red line I saw earlier appeared again.

That dungeon is the one where Seo Naye dies. I had that feeling.

Let’s stop here for now, and I need to confirm what Seo Naye said afterward too.

“Then what did you mean about liking someone?”

“…My dark history that I’ll take to the grave.”

Seo Naye finally spoke after a long silence.

As if she didn’t want to mention or even think about it anymore, this was the most fierce expression I’d seen from Seo Naye so far.

When I looked at her with incredulous eyes, she shrugged and pointed at me with her index finger, poking me.

“The past me is dead. Don’t ask anymore. Not even you.”

At her firm statement, I was about to nod but hesitated.

Unlike with Cassiopeia, the skill said it “cannot judge the target.”

Seeing that the words about good and evil were erased, maybe the real cause was that it couldn’t properly recognize the “target.”

Since Seo Naye herself separates her past and present selves, maybe the judgment was difficult because there was no past on the scale?

To Seo Naye, who still had a stern face, I made the most apologetic expression possible and carefully spoke.

“The feeling of not wanting to dig up dark history, I know that well too, you know? So really, I’m truly sorry, but…”

“Why, what.”

“You’ll need to revive that dead past self.”

“Hey!”

Seo Naye shouted angrily. She then raged, asking if I, someone who said I’d help her, was trying to kill her by burying her in embarrassing memories.

I covered my ears at the sharp voice echoing in the subspace.

Jay came out of the restroom, toweling his hair dry.

He leaned against the sofa and turned on the TV. He passed through meaningless channels and fixed it on the news channel he wanted.

This was his habit of ending the day.

Watching the world that continued to turn unchanged even if someone disappeared, Jay could remember his resolution.

‘Very slowly, make the world die.’

Rushing would go against the revenge he was carrying out. Leisureliness was an essential requirement of his plan.

Just as he felt bored with today’s same flowing news and reached for the remote, red subtitles appeared.

-Breaking news. Heaven’s guild leader, Hunter Baek Chang-gil, has been found dead after being missing for over 50 days.

“Hmm. He was disgustingly persistent.”

Watching the news, Jay frowned and recalled the day he pushed Baek Chang-gil into the ‘new’ dungeon.

There was one reason he chose Baek Chang-gil, a spatial-type hunter.

It was to check if there were any loopholes in the new dungeon his Constellation had carefully created.

If Baek Chang-gil came out alive, it would be a failure; if no news was heard, it would be a success.

“But they managed to find him?”

Since he was found dead, it was half a success. Jay raised the corner of his mouth as if finding it interesting.

Should I send multiple people rather than just one after all?

An ominous silver window appeared before Jay’s muttering eyes.

Constellation ‘Advent of the Undying Touch’ suggests killing strong hunters first from now on.

At the Constellation’s words, he firmly shook his head.

“No way. Don’t you know that heroes are born from crisis?”

Someone who knew well scolded him for being so impatient.

Just then, the news ended and Jin Sehyeok’s press conference was broadcast. Jay smirked as he watched Jin Sehyeok in his neat suit.

‘That’s exactly the case.’

A hero who appeared one day in a world thrown into chaos by the First Incident.

Jin Sehyeok, who awakened during the First Incident, ran wild without knowing mistakes or failures. He killed monsters, saved people, and eliminated dungeons.

Thinking he was just a human after all, they didn’t guard against him much, but Jin Sehyeok was different from Jay’s expectations.

As if he knew something, he cleared away everything that stood in his way. The Hunter Management Bureau Chief, who was one of Jay’s confidants, was also cleared away like that.

The Administration Bureau disappeared and Jin Sehyeok established the Hunter’s Association. Under Jin Sehyeok’s command, hunters and awakened ones found their system.

Because of that, when the Second Incident occurred worldwide, South Korea suffered little damage.

Crack, crackle!

As Jay fell silent in contemplation, the sound of twisting bones filled the space.

Constellation ‘Descent of the Undying Touch’ clicks their tongue, saying the feeling is unpleasant.

“Why? Because of Jin Sehyeok?”

Jay’s constellation had been wary of Jin Sehyeok since he was a hunter belonging to the Administration Bureau.

No matter how strong an S-rank hunter he was, he was just a mere human compared to a constellation, yet they reacted particularly sensitively to Jin Sehyeok alone.

Of course, looking at Jin Sehyeok’s actions, it was inevitable.

Constellation ‘Descent of the Undying Touch’ mutters that a familiar scent comes from that human.

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