Enovels

New Contractor

Chapter 14 • 1,475 words • 13 min read

Leaving Han Sion sleeping soundly, I transformed into my minimal mode and perched on Hong Yuon’s head.
“Association President, that jellyfish…”
“Ah, don’t mind it.”
Hong Yuon casually waved away the association members and explained to me as if talking to herself.
“Her name is Baek Jiye, she just turned 20 a few days ago. She’s well-versed in magic theory but can’t get a contract, so she’s a bit hysterical right now…”
“Pikkuk.”
Yeah, I get it.
In the world where I was the White Magic Tower Head, commoner magicians would despair when they entered the Magic Tower and realized they had Mana Disharmony Syndrome.
There was nothing I could do, so I had to leave them be.
Elves, celestials, divines.
Easy to say, but they weren’t races you could easily meet.
But I was a Constellation.
I asked the system, and it said I was a different race!
“Here we are.”
Hong Yuon opened the door to a private room.
The first thing I saw was a chaotic scene of a floor and desk covered in magic circles, scattered ink and broken pencils, and a mess of disposable items and cup noodles.
As I stood stunned by the pile of trash, the blanket on the side began to stir.
Soon, a woman with reddish-brown hair and thick, round glasses, looking like a blanket worm, lifted her head.
“What’s that? That stupid-looking jellyfish?”
At her first words, Hong Yuon froze.
‘This person is a Constellation!’
I, on the other hand, didn’t think much of it.
At least she didn’t reek of alcohol and tobacco, so she passed.
Her appearance under her unkempt hair was also acceptable.
Baek Jiye, who had met the minimum requirements, glared at Hong Yuon with a venomous expression.
“Why are you here again, unni? I told you, no Constellation will contract with me, right? I’ll just be a scholar. You can become a doctor without being an Awakener.”
“J-Jiye, that’s not it…”
“Even if you are my aunt, I’m sick of it now!”
Baek Jiye, who had shouted abruptly, burrowed back into the blanket.
Even though she said that, I could see that she was still desperate for a Constellation contract.
Thick traces of massive mana flow and a history of entering gates remained on Baek Jiye’s body.
This would be visible to the magician Hong Yuon as well.
She must have entered gates like a Scavenger, hoping to be chosen by a Constellation.
Whether she was accompanied by an escort or joined a raid team.
Hong Yuon approached the blanket worm and gently patted her.
After a while, the blanket stirred and was thrown off, and Baek Jiye, who emerged from it, abruptly hugged Hong Yuon.
Then she began to cry fat tears.
“Hwaaaaaaaaah.”
“Jiye.”
“Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.”
Seeing her cry so sorrowfully, Hong Yuon looked troubled.
I watched them, wondering how far this would go.
Honestly, seeing a grown woman cry so sorrowfully did break my heart a little.
“U-unni, you know, right? You know I failed, right? You knew I was going in and out of gates, right?”
“…Yes, I know.”
“I knew you knew. I know too.”
Tears streamed down from under Baek Jiye’s glasses.
“I know that a Scavenger or a normal person being chosen is like winning the lottery! I, I’m even less likely. But I want to be an Awakener. Unni. What do I do?”
“Jiye.”
“This method failed too. What do I do?”
“You can do it.”
“Don’t give me that empty talk! I want to know the reality now. I want to be an Awakener. But I don’t want to be one. What should I do?”
Hong Yuon’s heart ached.
A distant memory of Baek Jiye speaking with a sparkling expression overlapped, and she also choked up.

“Auntie, I’m going to be an Awakener!”
“I’m going to save lots and lots of people as an Awakener! And become a great magician!”
Ah, those were innocent times.
People around her praised her as a genius, and renowned scholars and great magician Awakeners tried to take Jiye as their disciple.
The clever Jiye had said at that time.

“I’ll become a great magician with my own strength!”
But that wish did not come true.
At the young age of 7, Jiye was diagnosed with Mana Disharmony Syndrome.

“Auntie… what do I do?”
The scene of her coming out of the association’s examination room, sobbing, was still vivid.
At that time, Hong Yuon couldn’t say anything.
Mana Disharmony Syndrome was the most fatal disease for a magician, it was incurable, and although Hong Yuon had power, she didn’t have the ability to solve it.
After that, the love calls that had been coming to Baek Jiye stopped abruptly.
She was also branded as an unfortunate genius.
What’s the point of being well-versed in theory, when you can’t even use a speck of magic, yet you want to be an Awakener?
She was subjected to all sorts of ridiculous ridicule.
At that time, Baek Jiye gritted her teeth.
No.
I can be an Awakener.
She tried to catch the eye of a Constellation, never missing the top spot in the Awakener’s written test for 5 years, but it was all in vain.
Sometimes she tied for first place, but the other person who tied for first place was chosen by a Constellation, while she received no offer.
Finally, at the young age of 12.
She realized the reality and confined herself to her room in the association.
But a genius was a genius.
She completed all her GEDs in her small room and received the youngest university diploma, and since then, she has devoted all her time to magic.
Most of the renowned papers in the academic world were born from the hands of the young genius.
But she was not chosen by a Constellation.
“Is Mana Disharmony Syndrome that bad?”
It was indeed fatal.
So fatal that such a genius was not chosen.
Hong Yuon met Baek Jiye’s eyes with a tear-streaked face.
“What if I say you can?”
“That’s impossi-“
“What if it is possible!”
Hong Yuon, who now looked more like an older sister than an aunt due to her constellation’s reverse aging ability, grabbed Baek Jiye’s shoulders and spoke.
When Hong Yuon was chosen by a Constellation, her niece, with her unchosen body, had sincerely congratulated her.
She remembers the first bouquet she received with her wrinkle-free face.

“Congratulations, Auntie… or should I say unni now?”
This time, she wanted to give the bouquet.
“What if I say you can, what will you do?”
She wanted to give her a very expensive and fancy bouquet and say congratulations.
The sobbing Baek Jiye screamed.
“I want to be one!”
The Constellation, who was reading the flow of emotions between them, turned her head at the scream.
“If I can, I’ll do really well.”
Yes, you look like you will.
You are a genius.
My mind was made up.
“I’m going to be a great mage. I want to be one!”
You will be.

[The Constellation, Silent Calamity, proposes a contract.]
[Will you make a contract?]
Baek Jiye, who saw the golden message window, muttered blankly.
“…A dream?”
It’s not a dream, you brat.
But seeing her hands steadily pressing ‘yes’, it was now time for me to work hard.
My second contractor was born.
I instinctively touched the lock of my authority.

[Deactivating minimal mode.]
[Beginner mode is temporarily lifted.]
I don’t know what happened between them.
But the flow of emotions between them was deep and thick.
Did they say that a great magician who had reached a certain level could see not only mana but everything in the world?
In the Constellation’s Sun’s Eye, memories and emotions like a film were fluttering.
Baek Jiye, who saw me appear, muttered.
“An angel…?”
Yes, I did have an angelic appearance.
Looking at Baek Jiye’s swollen eyes, which seemed to not think of me as a person, I opened my mouth.

“Sleep.”
Sleepiness poured into her blinking eyes.
20 years old, still a young age.
It wouldn’t do to stop her from doing what she wants.
I could feel Hong Yuon’s surprise, but it’s better for her to sleep for the treatment.
‘She seems like a good kid, she’s tenacious, she has the guts to go into a gate, she’s pretty, and she’s kind.’
All the conditions were met, so there was no reason not to make a contract.
First, let’s fix that damn Mana Disharmony Syndrome.

“Deploy.”
PARARARAK!
The entire room of Baek Jiye was filled with a blue magic circle.
In addition, the form of the magic circle was engraved on her body from her fingertips and toes, soon covering her whole body.
“What… is this…”
If you don’t know, just watch.
Even though I was wrongly framed, the skills of the White Magic Tower Head are not dead.


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