“I don’t want to dieeeeee!”
A deafening scream echoed through the boss room.
Everyone inside clamped their hands over their ears.
“Wha-what?”
“Hey, you, the jellyfish!”
“Huh?”
The jellyfish that Im Yeongjun had been holding in his hand had disappeared.
They looked around with pale faces and soon found it.
A snow-white figure helping Han Sion up.
She helped Han Sion up and whispered in his ear.

“I don’t want to die. I want to save you. I want to live happily. I’ll give you a chance. I’ll give you three chances. I’ll give you thirteen chances. I’ll give you one hundred and twenty-one chances. I’ll give you an eternal chance.”
A creepily beautiful voice echoed.
It was clearly just a whisper, but strangely, it echoed in everyone’s ears.

“My first contractor. Stardust.”
“O Silent Calamity…?”
Han Sion, who had opened his eyes at the whisper, looked at the Calamity.
A breathtakingly beautiful snow-white figure.
A soft light, even without touching.
Eyes like the clear blue sky and an angelic face.
An inhumanly beautiful form.
He knew instinctively.
This was the Silent Calamity, and she had come to give him a chance.
She bestowed a blessing.
She cast a curse.

“You will be happy with me. I liked your prayers. I liked your cries. I liked many things about you. I wanted to tell you, but I couldn’t. From now on, you will rise to the highest position. You will be with me forever. Let’s build my tower. Let’s build a tower that will never fall. Let’s build a white tower where no one’s head can fall.”
“O Silent Calamity, what does that mean…”

“You just have to answer. Now, how about it?”
An answer immediately came out of Han Sion’s mouth.
It was an immediate reaction, unrelated to his own will.
“Yes.”

“Good boy.”
With those words, the last bit of disbelief remaining in him disappeared, and faith began to fill him.
It wasn’t a normal change of emotion.
It was like an emotion created by someone wishing it to be so.

“Take the sword.”
Han Sion did not doubt.
He could not doubt.

“Swing it.”
SWOOSH─!
As he grabbed the empty air and swung, a sword made of starlight appeared.

“Now, do as ‘I’ please. My crafted contractor.”
The doll-like figure made of starlight put strength into its broken leg and stood on the ground.
“O Silent Calamity.”
He pointed the tip of the brightly shining sword at the two who smelled of crow’s stench.
“I will follow your words.”
“Don’t make me laugh—!”
A Constellation.
That was definitely a Constellation.
The two of them moved their bodies, which had been frozen at the fact that a Constellation had descended to the ground.
‘He’s just an injured person. We can handle him.’
We can find the jellyfish later.
First, that guy—
A wind blew.
A warm liquid wet his cheek.
“Huh…?”
Sejin’s head, who was next to him, was gone.
His center of gravity tilted.
When he checked, his right arm, which had held the sword, was also gone.
“Ugh, uwaaaaaaah!”
Im Yeongjun belatedly collapsed and crawled backward.
‘Wha-what. What happened.’
The guy who was on the verge of death had cut off Sejin and his own arm with a single swing of the sword.
He hadn’t felt any movement.
Just a wind blew, and blood scattered.

[The boss has been defeated.]
[An escape gate will be created.]
Looking in the boss’s direction, Han Sion, holding a sword made of starlight, was staggering and looking this way.
The Constellation was stuck to Han Sion’s back as if controlling him, watching his every move.
“S-Stay Away!”
The Constellation smiled.
Han Sion also smiled.
“I said Stay away!!”
Im Yeongjun felt a fear he had never felt before in his life.
When an irresistible calamity strikes, humans feel a sense of wonder and fear at the same time.
He was in awe.
At the same time, he was terrified.
“Don’t come any closer…”
CRACK.
The voice he didn’t want to hear was no longer heard.
From the bisected corpse, a golden gear rolled out with a clatter.
Han Sion knew.
He had to offer this gear to his Constellation.
His instincts were whispering.
“To the Silent Calamity.”
Sion picked up the gear and knelt on one knee.
Despite his messy appearance, his posture was flawless.
“Repenting for my past mistakes, I offer this to my Constellation.”
The gear floated into the air.
Soon, it scattered into light and disappeared.

“Well done. My doll.”
Han Sion’s doll-like face was filled with joy.
“Thank… you…”
He couldn’t finish his words.
Although he had stood up with the Constellation’s power, in the end, it was his own stamina that was being consumed.
His stamina had run out, and his eyes began to close.

“Sleep well.”
A steady breathing sound was heard.

“But when you wake up, let ‘us’ not remember anything.”
Laughter echoed in the room full of corpses.

“Because it’s embarrassing.”

I woke up three days later.
‘What?’
There was a sword right in front of my eyes, but when I opened them, I saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
Another reincarnation?
Is this my third life?
I frantically looked around, and next to me was Han Sion, wrapped in bandages from head to toe, sleeping with steady breaths.
I was relieved.
‘It’s not my third life.’
But how am I alive?
I carefully retraced my steps.
The sword had stopped right in front of my nose, and while Sion was fighting, he had protected me like an impenetrable wall, so I came out of the gate without a single scratch.
After looking around, I realized.
This was the emergency room inside the association.
‘Did we escape from the gate? How?’
“Pion!”
Hong Yuon, who had just come in, found me looking bewildered.
She said she was worried and went back into the hospital room to explain the situation to me.
I returned to my human form with the veil on and asked about the situation I couldn’t understand.
“First, an association staff member got you out of the gate. It was strange that you didn’t come out after a while, so we entered with a support team, and the only survivor was Han Sion-nim. He was also in critical condition, but he’s stable now.”
“How.”
“I’m not sure what you mean by ‘how’, but if you’re talking about the two from Crow, they are dead, and we couldn’t confirm the process of their deaths.”
“Why.”
Hong Yuon’s explanation was this.
The supervisor’s camera had miraculously survived the blue electric shock and had recorded the situation where Crow tried to kill us.
“But the recording stopped from the moment Sion-nim was defeated and the Calamity was captured.”
To be precise, only a white screen continued.
Hong Yuon judged that the Calamity had done something, and classified the recording from the moment it turned white as a top-secret and disposed of it.
It was just a white screen no matter how you looked at it, but it was better to be thorough.
“I don’t know what happened. But from what could be seen, Crow’s fault is clear.”
The association deliberately spread the edited recording everywhere to maximize Crow’s attempted murder.
It was a skill worthy of a top-notch media company.
“Crow is now being condemned from all sides and will not be able to operate properly for the time being. The association is also pushing for heavy disciplinary action.”
She then showed me the articles that had been published over the past few days.

[Crow tries to murder S-rank hunter inside a gate…]
[Suddenly stronger? What kind of blessing can a Constellation bestow?]
[Is this okay? A summary of the suspicions against Guild Crow.]
[Flood of protest calls to Guild Crow]
Even I, who didn’t know how to respond in such a situation, felt that the association was doing a good job.
I nodded and continued.
“Your Point?”
“Pardon?”
“The price.”
But it was too much.
Even if one of the only three S-ranks in the country was in danger, it was a burden for the association to respond with media-like skills that seemed to want to bury a guild that had quite a bit of influence in the country.
‘She wants something.’
This was my conclusion.
And as if to prove my conclusion right, Hong Yuon fidgeted and continued.
“Well…”
“…”
“My niece has finished that… strange method this time. I was wondering if you could make a contract with her now…”
So she was hesitant to ask me, who had just woken up from a serious injury (though I was fine), because she was sorry.
She had also done a huge favour to make it difficult for me to refuse.
Well, it was good.
In fact, this incident had made me feel the need for a party member to travel with.
Especially a magician.
‘If there are two of us, it’ll be harder for them to harm us even if something like today happens.’
I pulled the veil on both sides and gestured with my chin.
“Guide me.”