My Younger Sister Reborn as a Star Sovereign - Chapter 96

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The Protagonist’s Younger Sister Revives as a Constellation Episode 096

Just as I was about to leave school after finishing all my afternoon classes, I received a call from Kim Soyun.

-Serin! Let’s go to a dungeon!

I was momentarily bewildered by Kim Soyun’s bright voice shouting with what seemed like a sense of liberation.

Jin Sehyeok lifted the dungeon ban today, but this immediately?

-Oops, we’re going on the weekend. We’re having a meeting today, want to come for a bit?

“Mm, I’ll do that. I’ll go right now!”

As soon as I entered the Association lobby, my eyes met with Kim Soyun who had been pacing near the entrance. The moment she saw me, her smile was brighter than anyone’s, but I suddenly felt a strange uneasiness.

She grinned as if she had been waiting and bowed at the waist.

“I was waiting for you. Today I’ll serve you properly.”

“…Unnie, what are you doing right now?”

“You’ll know when we go. Let’s go in.”

She guided me to the meeting room with exaggerated movements as if escorting a VIP.

Inside the meeting room I entered while feeling bewildered, hunters with deep fatigue written on their faces had gathered.

The gazes of five people who appeared to be on the same team as Kim Soyun focused on me.

“Is this the hunter the team leader mentioned?”

“That’s right. The angel who will pull us up from Illusion Hell!”

“Waaaah!”

“It’s an escape, an escape!”

Hearing Kim Soyun’s words as she placed her hand on my shoulder, those who were sitting let out cheers.

“What the…?”

“Now, now, let Serin sit first. Maknae, start the briefing!”

“Yes!”

Kim Soyun seated me in the head chair as I was flustered by the cheering, then stepped back behind me.

The man who answered her call vigorously handed over the report he was holding.

It was strange that he didn’t give it to other team members but came straight to me, so I unconsciously widened my eyes.

Kim Soyun, who confirmed my reaction, shook her head and signaled that it wasn’t necessary.

“This is already our third time.”

“Huh? Why?”

She waved her hands with a face that showed she was sick of it. Just what kind of dungeon was it?

The man who stood in front with a grave face began the briefing. Seeing his team members’ expressions of boredom, the man opened his mouth with burning eyes.

“Even if you’re bored, listen again. The name of this dungeon is ‘Overlapping Vision’ and it’s B-rank.”

When I turned to the next page, the dungeon’s characteristics were written. The man also pointed to that part and continued the briefing.

“It has the characteristic that vision is contaminated and monsters are invisible because they’re in a hidden state.”

The phrase that they had already failed to clear it twice caught my attention. The dungeon is B-rank and the raid leader is A-rank, how could this happen?

I tilted my head and checked the next page too.

‘So that’s why they failed.’

The report recorded that there were no paths.

The fact that monsters appeared certainly meant paths existed, but currently it meant that vision was so messed up that even traces were hard to find.

“It’s difficult for us to secure a path with our eyes, so we invited you, Hunter.”

“You’re the only one who can share vision without touching monsters, Hunter.”

So they wanted me, who could share vision with monsters via Bluetooth, to go in together and find the path.

The gazes filling the meeting room poured toward me as brightly as if they had met a savior.

The gazes were so burdensome they were almost stinging, making me feel like I would suffocate.

When I buried my face in the report to avoid those gazes, Kim Soyun let out a chuckle.

“I asked the higher-ups if I could enter the dungeon with you, but they refused outright.”

“That’s right. Our team leader, whenever she meets with the higher-ups and comes back, she lights fire in her eyes and starts cursing first, kek!”

Kim Soyun struck the neck of the man who was blabbering with her hand blade. He made a choking sound and rubbed his struck neck while pursing his lips.

She gestured with her eyes not to run his mouth unnecessarily, then continued speaking.

“I was about to try asking exactly ten times and if it didn’t work, throw it to another team!”

I was amazed by Kim Soyun’s persistence. I thought it would be at most three or four times, but she asked ten times – at that point, the employee receiving the request might approve it just from being fed up…

Then Baek Eun-je must have blocked this team’s request too. Since he had prohibited my dungeon entry.

Kim Soyun, who didn’t know that I had grasped the whole situation, smiled a victor’s smile.

“The approval came through at the very end?”

Kim Soyun pointed at me with her finger and winked with one eye.

Looking around at those who now even had their hands clasped together, I opened my mouth without hesitation.

“Good. Let’s go!”

“Yes!”

The most excited was the woman sitting to my right. She also had the darkest circles among them.

She threw her fist toward the air, then banged her head on the desk with a thud. Then a drowsy sound leaked out softly.

“Oh my, did she stay up all night again?”

“That’s right, well.”

The team members shook their heads looking at the woman who had fallen asleep as if fainting. This seemed to happen quite often.

Just as pity was about to sprout, Kim Soyun’s angry shout fell.

“That damn game, really! Just let me meet Kang Seo-u, teaching my team member such games!”

…Aha. Kang Seo-u does like games.

He must have made gaming companions at the Association too.

And on the weekend.

When we moved to the dungeon entrance, Kim Soyun handed me a small earpiece.

“Put it in your left ear, and when you speak, lightly touch it while using the radio.”

Following her explanation, I put on the earpiece and learned how to use it.

The other team members finished putting theirs on skillfully and waited for us at the dungeon entrance.

“Alright, shall we go for Serin’s debut battle!”

Debut battle meant the first dungeon a hunter enters.

Naturally, I couldn’t reveal the dungeons I had secretly entered alone, so my official debut battle would be recorded here.

You have entered dungeon ‘Overlapping Vision (B)’.

Vision confusion is applied due to dungeon characteristics.

The dungeon name I saw in the report appeared. I was about to skip past it habitually when a yellow system window different from others appeared below.

Warning! Constellation powers are reduced according to this dungeon’s characteristics.

What does this mean now?

Before I could understand the meaning of the sentence, the back of my neck became heavy. The energy flowing through my whole body felt slightly muddied.

It wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t move, but fatigue like wearing light sandbags washed over me.

I tilted my head slightly then turned off my attention and examined the dungeon.

As recorded, the space with a cliff ahead and walls on both sides was quiet as if no paths or monsters existed.

I briefly closed my eyes and used the 【Connected】 skill.

When I synchronized with the monster’s vision, the path that wasn’t visible was clearly revealed.

The creature seemed to be lying flat on the ground, as the angle of its gaze looking up at us was quite high.

“The path is to the left from here. The monster is ahead, about ten steps? It’s on the ground.”

At the sound of someone running toward that spot, I stopped the skill.

Bang! Along with the dull striking sound of stomping the ground, the earth shook enough to send thrills up through my soles.

Trying hard to ignore the grating vibration, I squinted my eyes. Black blood spread like filth between the cracked ground.

“Oh, there really was one! Serin, you’re the best!”

Someone exclaimed in admiration as if this was the first time they had found one so easily.

Even when I activated the skill, it didn’t change to a monster’s vision, so it seemed there were no monsters left here.

As I approached the left wall to find the next monster, I heard a voice behind me trying to stop me.

“That’s a wall though?”

“It’s fake. I can see a path beyond it.”

What a mischievous dungeon, where a passage that’s perfectly open to monsters appears as a solid wall to humans.

The team members cautiously followed behind me as I walked forward without hesitation.

As my body passed through the wall, exclamations rang out once again.

“Huh, well. It really is a path….”

Even after moving to the next space, the 【Connected】 skill performed its worth perfectly.

Blue lines were drawn clearly like a guide over the confusingly spread terrain before my eyes.

“Upper right, three. One under the left foot.”

Following the tip of my finger, the team members swung their weapons toward the invisible monsters.

Crack, crunch!

The sound of something being crushed echoed under our feet, but all we could see was black blood.

Time passed as if relieving the stress we’d received in this dungeon so far, and we were moving forward when it happened.

“Oh, wait! There’s a black hole ahead! Isn’t that a Black Hole!?”

The voices I’d been hearing from behind suddenly disappeared. When I quickly turned around, the people who had been following me were gone.

No matter how much I looked around at this sudden change, it was pitch dark, let alone any people.

I calmly put my hand to my earpiece.

“Soyun unnie?”

Even after waiting for some time, no answer came back from Kim Soyun or any of the others.

“Oh….”

Am I lost right now?

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