Jealousy

Tadadat-
Just then, I saw Cheon Sanho with a strangely blank expression and Baek Jiye with a sharper expression than usual running from a distance.
Yeon Taeseon shouted.
“Baek Jiye, contact the association president!”
“Electronic devices don’t work here!”
“You must have communication magic! Use that!”
“Do you know how difficult that is—”
“Can you only do something when a Constellation helps you?!”
Baek Jiye stopped in her tracks.
Her trembling magenta eyes turned to the blood-soaked veil.
Fortunately, she was quick to grasp the situation.
“What kind of potion do you need?”
“At least top-grade.”
“I don’t know if communication magic will work because it’s blocked by a barrier. But I’ll give it a try—”
“Oh, wait a minute!”
The last person to speak was Cheon Sanho.
As time was of the essence, he spoke without hesitation.
“I have a top-grade potion in my inventory. Yeon Taeseon-nim, you said you had a way to remove my brand, right? Can you do it now?”
Yeon Taeseon, though urgent, carefully removed the key from Lee Seonbaek’s neck.
The key, which seemed to have been two, naturally separated.
“Han Sion, you do it.”
“What is this?”
“It’s a key that can remove that guy’s brand.”
Han Sion’s eyes widened.
A key that can remove a brand, if such a thing existed, it would have been sold for a fortune.
But he soon calmed down.
Because he had seen with his own eyes that the source of this necklace was that white, blood-soaked woman.
“You must have a scenario given by the Silent Calamity. Am I right?”
“That’s right.”
“It must be a scenario related to this brand. There’s no time to hesitate.”
“Yes.”
Han Sion immediately snatched the key and approached Cheon Sanho.
He looked nervous.
“Cheon Sanho, I’ll ask you.”
“Y-yes!”
“Will you join the Silent Calamity’s guild, Nate? This is a necessary procedure for the scenario.”
Han Sion said in a stiff voice, looking at the key in his hand.
Cheon Sanho looked at Baek Jiye.
He also looked at the blood-soaked white woman.
He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them and answered.
“Until the day my life ends, I will never betray you.”
The Silent Calamity was his benefactor.
It wasn’t just because he had experienced his first love thanks to her.
From what he had heard, that woman, who seemed to be the incarnation of the Silent Calamity, had come to him with a way to remove the ‘brand’.
And these two must have helped him find that way.
But then he was suddenly kidnapped, and things got complicated…
And in the end, she appeared before him, covered in blood.
Cheon Sanho also looked at Baek Jiye and Han Sion’s clothes.
Their clothes were also soaked in blood.
They must have gone through unspeakable hardships.
‘She is more than my lifelong benefactor.’
And there was still one more key left.
‘The other one is probably for my sibling…’
Where in the world is there a Constellation who takes care of their contractors like this?
He had to offer not just his life, but his soul.
After hearing Cheon Sanho’s resolve, Han Sion touched the key to his heart.
Click.
The key disappeared.
A golden message appeared before Cheon Sanho.

[Congratulations! You have successfully removed the Administrator’s ‘brand’.]
[There is ‘1’ contract-related offer.]
[The Constellation, Silent Calamity, proposes a contract.]
[Will you make a contract?]
Cheon Sanho nodded without hesitation.

[The contract has been concluded.]
[Please be loyal until death.]
With the unfamiliar phrase, a cool breeze blew.
It was a cool breeze that would blow on a clear day, on a field where wolves run.
Saaaa….
Cheon Sanho’s black hair turned indigo.
His eyes were a vivid pink.
It was a re-awakening due to the re-contract.
“Potions!”
Cheon Sanho poured out all the potions from his subspace inventory.
Low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade potions all tumbled out.
Yeon Taeseon picked out only the top-grade potions, then lifted the veil so the contractors couldn’t see.
The inside was a mess.
Her face was barely visible due to the clotted blood, and her white hair had turned a dark red.
‘What a mess.’
Yeon Taeseon opened the cap of the top-grade potion and poured the contents into Lee Seonbaek’s mouth.
The contents regurgitated with blood.
“…”
It can’t be helped.
‘This is a medical act.’
He eventually held the potion in his mouth and poured it into Lee Seonbaek’s mouth.

Han Sion was troubled.
It wasn’t just because of the scene before him.

[NO.6 The Kidnapped Appraiser]
The great Pion has worked hard to find a way to remove the ‘brand’. But oh no! The appraiser has been kidnapped. At this rate, the Constellation will be disappointed.
Rescue the appraiser and accept him as a guild member.
The scenario was completed.
Is the reason it’s not completed right away because he hasn’t officially registered with the guild yet, or because the incarnation is in that state?
It was an unknown matter.
Han Sion focused on one part of the scenario.

The great Pion has worked hard to find a way to remove the ‘brand’.
Pion.
The scenario clearly stated that Pion had found a way to remove the brand.
But the one who actually had the key was the human-form incarnation.
‘Don’t tell me…’
Is that woman Pion?
He thought of the carefree jellyfish that always flew around him.
The white and blue jellyfish that particularly liked milk crepe cakes.
‘They do look a bit similar.’
Of course, his Pion was not that mysterious.
She was a little foolish, cute, smart, and not that strong.
Although Han Sion hadn’t seen her when she was passed out and a part of the Constellation descended, he could feel that this woman was ridiculously strong.
So strong that he wouldn’t be able to win even if he died and came back to life.
But what was important now was not this woman’s strength.
‘If this woman is Pion…’
Why didn’t she show us this form all this time?
Why did she only help us indirectly all this time?
Why all this time….
Why…
‘Did she not trust us?’
It was a thought that suddenly came to him.
Pion doesn’t trust her contractors.
That’s what he thought.
‘If.’
If that was really the truth.
If Pion didn’t trust us.
If the Constellation, apart from liking us, didn’t trust us.
We.
I.
‘What on earth should I do…’
“The critical phase is over.”
Yeon Taeseon’s thick voice broke Han Sion’s thoughts.
Apart from the blood-soaked veil, she was breathing quite steadily.
“It’s a good thing the top-grade potion worked. It was able to heal even a damaged incarnation.”
“When will she wake up?”
“I’m not a doctor. Especially if the subject is a Constellation.”
Baek Jiye asked carefully, but Yeon Taeseon drew a firm line.
“What are you to be with her?”
It was a question that popped out of Han Sion’s mouth.
You could call it jealousy.
This man… Yeon Taeseon, he had said.
The man he had seen for the first time in his life, and whose first impression was not very good.
It was jealousy that Pion trusted this man more than them, who had been through thick and thin with her, and had shown him her human form.
Yeon Taeseon smirked.
“Curious?”
“Yes.”
“I can’t tell you. It violates causality.”
“…Are you joking?”
“It’s not working.”
The rather large man continued to make unfitting jokes.
“I am a being closer to and farther from the Constellation than anyone else.”
“You have no intention of telling me.”
“I am also a being who exists to prevent future events.”
“If you have no intention of telling me, I’ll be going now.”
Han Sion strode forward and was about to lift Lee Seonbaek.
Yeon Taeseon stood in front of him and stopped him.
“…”
“…”
Sparks flew between the two.
“I’ll take her. She is related to our Constellation.”
“A fanatic who only knows how to worship a Constellation has a lot to say.”
“The critical phase is over, so we’ll take it from here.”
“Do you even know how to treat her?”
“She is our Constellation.”
“She is my collaborator.”
The atmosphere became strange.
Han Sion looked like he was about to draw his sword at any moment, and Yeon Taeseon also had his hand in his pocket as if to take out a weapon.
It was then.
Grab.
Lee Seonbaek, with her blood-soaked hand, grabbed Yeon Taeseon’s clothes.
And then she pulled him and hugged him tightly.
“Incarnation-nim…?”
Han Sion, who couldn’t bring himself to call her Pion, called her by another name.
But the answer that came back was merciless.

[Sorry.]
“Baek Jiye, contact the association and arrest everyone here…”
Poof.
The word ‘sorry’ written in the air and Yeon Taeseon’s urgent voice disappeared.
They had teleported.
Baek Jiye muttered.
“Crazy… such a fast and accurate teleportation?”
It was even impossible to track.
It was a top-level teleportation that was unimaginable to have been created in such a short time.
“Get out of the way! I have to get out!”
“There might be an exit here!”
“Give me back what I won!”
Baek Jiye, who had been making a fuss, calmed down at the sound from outside.
She immediately tried to use communication magic to contact the association.
For some reason, perhaps because the incarnation who had cast the magic had done something, her magic reached the association, Hong Yuon, with an ease that didn’t match its difficulty.

• Oh my god, we were tracking that place too! Jiye, you did well. A special team will be dispatched immediately. It’s going to be a late night today.

• “I’m sorry, unni.”

• Sorry for what. All my worries have disappeared. Hoho!
  While Baek Jiye was communicating.
  Han Sion just clenched his fists, looking at the place where the two had disappeared.
  ‘Yeon Taeseon…’
  Burning with an unprecedented jealousy.