My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 9

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 009

Due to the continuous noise, I had no choice but to ask again.

“What? There are parts in the middle I can’t hear well, so I don’t understand.”

⌈&◆.⌋

The fox kindly repeated itself, but I still couldn’t hear it. Rather, the noise echoing in my head was painful, so I slightly covered my ears.

Seeing my action, the fox pondered briefly, tapped the floor with its tail, and began to speak.

⌈First, should I say home? This way the baby can hear too!⌋

“This place is home? Fox, your home?”

Surprised by the word “home,” the fox nodded in response to my question.

I definitely moved to the dungeon that Kim Igyeol entered.

“The system told me this place was a dungeon though?”

I pointed at the system window glowing in the air.

Though many letters were corrupted, it was marked as a dungeon.

⌈Yeah, it is my home though… I don’t know why.⌋

The fox muttered apologetically that it couldn’t be of help. Its perked-up ears had drooped down at some point.

Its mental fortitude is at sunfish level. Is it because it’s still a baby?

When I gently scratched under its chin to show it was okay, its large ears slowly rose up.

“I have something I’m curious about, can I ask?”

⌈Anything!⌋

I had gained skills twice.

First was the unique skill that appeared in the system window when I first awakened as a constellation.

And second were the skills 【Unwavering Tranquility】 and 【Emotional Synchronization】 that opened when I completed the contract with Kim Igyeol.

I couldn’t understand why the unique skill and newly opened skills were separated, nor why skills suddenly appeared after contracting with Kim Igyeol.

I thought the reason would be written in that damn 【Read This and You Too Can Be a Constellation!】 book, but the book only showed me one sentence.

Maybe this fox cub that made similar noise to the book would know the reason.

Constellation ‘Noble One Who Returned from Death’

Contractor: Kim Igyeol (D)

Skills: 【Unwavering Tranquility】, 【Emotional Synchronization】

Unique Skills: …

I brought up my status window again and asked the fox what I was curious about.

“I have unique skills and regular skills, but I don’t know what the difference is.”

The fox’s expression changed subtly.

⌈You have other skills besides unique skills? Why?⌋

What am I supposed to do if you ask me that?

The fox rolled its eyes around trying to find a reason.

Perhaps its head wasn’t working well, as the fox jumped down from my arms and spun around in place.

Unable to find any reason, the fox made an expression of incomprehension.

⌈Really, why?!⌋

If I knew that, wouldn’t I not have asked? I could only smile awkwardly.

⌈I only have unique skills. Probability inference, wise moment…⌋

It tapped the floor with its front paws and rattled off its unique skills.

After hearing about five of them, thinking this would go on endlessly, I cut off its words.

“Yeah, I get it. Originally there should only be unique skills, right?”

⌈Yes!⌋

What exactly are these ‘skills’ that even constellations don’t know about?

I haven’t tried 【Emotional Synchronization】 so I don’t know, but I felt my emotions become calm when 【Unwavering Tranquility】 activated.

That said, it didn’t activate randomly. There probably are separate conditions, but I don’t know exactly what they are.

I wish the system would tell me clearly, but it tends to be rather self-centered.

Look how quiet it is even now. I shouldn’t have expectations.

Since even the fox I had hoped would know doesn’t know anything, I’ll have to look into it more later.

“Sigh…”

Now was the time to find Kim Igyeol, whom I had forgotten about. I had spent more time than expected in conversation with the fox.

I turned my steps that were heading toward the door.

The sound of a tail sweeping the floor that followed every step I took held me back.

I approached the fox and crouched down. I met eyes with the fox’s silver-gray pupils.

“Fox, I’m going to look for my contractor now. Do you want to come with me?”

⌈Oh, yes! I want to go with the baby!⌋

The fox that had been hopping around followed me. I watched such a fox for a moment, then opened the door.

No, I tried to open it.

I tried turning the doorknob and pulling it, but it wouldn’t budge. It was firmly fixed as if the door had been glued to the frame with adhesive.

As I struggled with the doorknob, the fox that came close examined the door.

Taking its eyes off the door and looking at me, the fox asked.

⌈You said this was a dungeon, right?⌋

The question that came out of nowhere was bewildering.

I nodded in confusion. The fox’s face looked troubled somehow.

⌈I appear as a monster to the baby. Am I perhaps a boss?⌋

“That’s right. You, fox, are the boss monster.”

The fox nodded as if understanding and walked trudgingly to its basket. It went inside and curled up into a ball.

The fox, hiding its face with its tail, spoke quietly.

⌈Then it’s right that it won’t open.⌋

“Why?”

⌈Because it’s a boss room. You can open it and enter from outside, but you can’t leave. It only opens when the boss dies.⌋

The fox’s voice was calm, but small sadness seeped through it.

⌈So the baby has to kill me.⌋

The fox told me in a tearful voice. It was a voice resigned to death.

Though we met for the first time today, I had already grown attached. I couldn’t just leave it to disappear like this.

“Isn’t there another way?”

⌈As far as I know, there isn’t.⌋

The fox weakly drew out its words and rubbed its body against the basket. Because of that, the fur that had fallen in the basket got tangled on the fox’s body again.

I sat down beside the basket and groomed the fox’s fur. It wasn’t seriously tangled, so it quickly returned to its original state.

‘…Return?’

Suddenly, a brilliant idea occurred to me.

“What if you returned to your original state?”

⌈Huh?⌋

“You’re a star.”

I explained my idea to the fox.

Even in the strategy window that appeared whenever I made eye contact with the fox, the core’s location didn’t show up.

Since there was no core to begin with, it couldn’t tell me about it.

If the fox returned to being a star and the boss monster naturally disappeared, couldn’t this place that was a boss room also return to being an ordinary room?

The fox, understanding my thoughts, pointed out what I was missing.

⌈You mean purification? But that’s the goddess’s ability…⌋

Leaving the fox’s muttering behind, I hurriedly opened my status window.

I remembered seeing something suitable while looking through the unique skills list.

Not this one, not that one either.

There are many skills, but I can’t see the one I’m looking for.

“Oh, there it is!”

【Fair Judgment (S)】.

A skill that provides an opportunity to live a new life based on the target’s good and evil.

If the target is evil, they are annihilated, and if they are good, they get a chance to return to their original form. However, it was noted that the scales determine good and evil.

The target goes on the left scale, and the ‘weight of good and evil’ goes on the opposite side. In that state, if the target goes down, they’re good; if they go up, they’re evil.

That wasn’t the end of it. There was also a warning that even if the target was good and got a chance to live again, their life would be taken if they performed evil acts.

I hesitated at the skill that could potentially take the fox’s life.

“I don’t like this…”

I muttered to myself and looked at other skills, but there was nothing suitable. That skill was the only one I had that was close to purification.

⌈Baby, what’s wrong?⌋

The fox, reading my hesitation, spoke to me. I told the fox about this situation in a hesitant voice.

⌈Why are you worrying?⌋

After hearing my story, the fox widened its eyes and asked. At its expression of incomprehension, I just blinked.

Seeing my constantly changing expression, the fox let out a short sigh. It felt more like affection than disdain.

A red light flowed from the fox’s body. I watched the mystical sight with my mouth agape.

“What are you doing right now?”

⌈I’m using my ability! Baby seemed to be worrying too much.⌋

With those words, the fox closed its eyes. As I watched from beside it, the light gradually disappeared.

The fox, having returned to its original appearance, spoke firmly.

⌈Good and evil are simpler than baby thinks.⌋

Though it was nothing special, it was the words I needed as I wavered back and forth.

Just worrying like this won’t clear the dungeon. Having gained courage, I confirmed the fox’s intentions.

“It’ll really be okay, right? You’ll be fine too?”

⌈Of course! It’ll work out well.⌋

Having received a positive answer, all that remained was activating the skill.

I placed my hand on top of the fox’s head. Soft fur touched my palm. I stayed still like that for a while.

Since I had only given unique skills to Kim Igyeol and this was my first time using one myself, I worried whether I could use it properly.

The fox watching me giggled.

⌈Baby is such a baby. So cute!⌋

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