This is Crazy

“I’m sorry, but our guild is a bit frugal.”
“Does that mean the person to be treated isn’t important? Frugal, you say.”
Emily’s tone changed.
It was a soft, gentle voice that subtly scratched at you.
I finished the last piece of the strawberry on my mini strawberry cake and floated in the air.
If one of the contractors fell for that provocation, I was planning to snap them out of it.
Especially Cheon Sanho!
“Not important, you say! More important than anything…!”
“Pikkuk!”
Thwack!
Cheon Sanho fell silent after being hit by my tentacle roundhouse kick.
It was a strike.
Emily glanced at Cheon Sanho and said.
“He must be important to this person.”
“Yes. He’s my younger sibling. My only blood relative.”
“Then I think you could give about 500 billion.”
The price more than doubled in an instant.
I was dumbfounded.
‘Is 500 billion some dog’s name?’
Well, she’s the world’s only Saintess, the world’s best healer, so her price would be high.
Isn’t she asking for this much because 500 billion is an amount that a large guild can afford with a little stretch?
‘The problem is that we’re not even a mid-sized guild, let alone a large one!’
I wanted to give her a smack on the head.
But I probably shouldn’t.
Because I’m a grown-up Constellation…
I had to understand the stubbornness of a mere human.
“We can’t give you 500 billion.”
“Why not? I’m a Saintess.”
Emily crossed her legs arrogantly.
Her expression showed pride, but it wasn’t an unpleasant one.
“I’m Emily Taylor, the world’s only Saintess whom the whole world is trying to recruit, the world’s best S-rank healer who can even bring the dead back to life.”
“I know.”
“Then you must know my price. I start at 300 billion.”
She rested her chin on her hand and smiled with her eyes.
“Because I know my worth.”
Although she was called a Saintess, that was a nickname that the public had arbitrarily given her after seeing her healing abilities.
Because Emily was basically a normal hunter, not a cleric.
She wanted to be free, and that’s why she didn’t join a guild.
But she knew that to be free, you needed a lot of money.
A lot.
“You’re trying to buy me, who starts at 300 billion, for 30 billion? It’s obvious what kind of response I’ll get, but I’ll hear you out.”
“Thank you for giving me the chance.”
“Pi.”
This was where I was supposed to step in.
I saw Jiye holding a file folder titled ‘278 Ways to Persuade the Saintess’, but there was no need to persuade her with over 200 methods when there was an easy way.
“Pippi. Pikku. Pikkupikkukku.”
“What’s wrong with Pion?”
“Wait, let me take out the translator.”
“No, isn’t that a mass-produced model? Does it even translate?”
“Yes. It has saved our lives several times.”
Ignoring Emily’s doubtful expression, Sion turned on the translator.

• Hospital!

• Let’s see!

• Hospital!

• Let’s see!

Those words appeared on the translator.
Sion looked at me.
I pointed at the Saintess.
Sion, who understood perfectly, continued.
“She says you’ll know when you go to the hospital.”
“You believe this? Really?”
“It’s worth a shot, so why don’t you give it a try.”
Jiye put down the file folder and contacted the limousine below.
The visit to the Hunter Association Hospital was proceeding smoothly.
The only one who was anxious about this situation was Cheon Sanho.
“Hmm.”
Emily looked a little displeased.
She must be wondering what that jellyfish is that the guild members trust it so completely.
But our trust was not extinguished by Emily’s mere displeasure.
Although she gave us a bit of a look, Emily was basically a good person.
In the end, she chugged the dungeon-grown orange juice that had just been placed in front of her and said.
“Alright. Shall we see the patient?”

“This is crazy.”
Emily’s face, which had been so confident until she crossed the threshold of the hospital room, turned pale.

[The Constellation, The Blooming Spring Flower, says it’s impossible.]
“You’re telling me to treat this now? Silent Calamity, are you out of your mind? I’m a healer, not a god!”
Emily screamed at the empty air.
I didn’t even pretend to hear her.
Honestly, it was a reaction I had expected.
Because it was impossible for a human to delicately touch the soul of another human.
‘I’m not asking you to do it all by yourself.’
Of course, I had no way of conveying that right now.
“500 billion? Don’t make me laugh. I couldn’t do it for 1 trillion. This is beyond my ability.”
“What exactly is her condition that you’re saying that…?”
Cheon Sanho asked carefully.
Emily then began to explain the condition of Cheon Seona, which she had seen with her own eyes but which I, as a jellyfish, could not explain.
“The brand is on her soul…?”
Cheon Sanho’s face was filled with despair after hearing the full explanation.
Unlike me, who had just said it was impossible, the more Emily explained in detail, the darker his face became.
“Is it… completely impossible?”
“It’s impossible unless there’s a Constellation.”
Emily was firm.
Sion’s gaze turned to me.
I tilted my head and pretended to know nothing.
For whatever reason he interpreted that, Sion suddenly opened his mouth.
“Pion, stay here.”
“Pi?”
I was planning to stay, but why is he suddenly acting like this?
When I tilted my head, Sion helped up Cheon Sanho, who was about to lose strength in his legs.
“Vice-Guild Leader, let’s go out for a bit.”
“Wait, what about me?”
“Saintess-nim, please stay in this hospital room for a while.”
Sion looked at the empty air.
He must be looking for me, the Constellation.
Even though I’m right next to you.
“It seems the Calamity has something in mind.”
Drrrk- tak.
The door closed, and in the end, only me in my jellyfish form and Emily Taylor were left in the spacious private hospital room.
A grumbling sound mixed with the beeping of the medical equipment.
“Well, I’ll be. What am I supposed to do here.”
Emily looked down at Cheon Seona.
A young, innocent face.
A body that couldn’t wake up.
An age where she had a long life to enjoy, and it all ended in an instant.
Honestly, it was a pity.
‘But it’s beyond my ability.’
Emily knew the limits of her abilities well.
She could save a dying person, but she couldn’t bring a truly dead person back to life.
She could see souls, but she couldn’t touch them delicately.
That was the realm of the Constellations.
She knew her place well.
‘So I can’t do it.’
Just because she was blind to money didn’t mean she was blind to life.
This request is rejected.
It was then.
Tiring.
The proposal was updated before Emily’s eyes.

[Proposal]
…
Reward: Starlight Flower, Fragment of Soul Magic
Rejection: Proposal Terminated
The content hadn’t changed much.
But a reward had been added.
‘A fragment of soul magic?’
What, what is this?
Emily is not a magician.
Of course, she can’t use magic.
She stared at the empty air and said.
“Are you kidding me?”
It was a rather blasphemous thing to say to a Constellation.
“I don’t know what you think of me. But I’m not a magician. I can’t really gauge how much of a reward soul magic is, but I won’t be able to use it.”
No, she could gauge it.
If it was a reward that a Constellation had added, it must be something amazing.
Maybe it was something better than a Starlight Flower.
Because Starlight Flowers are expensive, useful, and hard to get, but she had never even heard of soul magic.
“I’m crazy about money, but I’m not crazy enough to get someone else’s life involved. So I respectfully decline this proposal.”
Emily bowed respectfully to the empty air.
She didn’t know if the notoriously eccentric Constellations would forgive her for the bow of a mere human.
‘No, they probably won’t forgive me. I should prepare to be pestered for a while…’
“Pikkuk.”
Hey, Emily.
Didn’t you forget I was here?
I sat on the head of Emily, who was looking somewhat troubled.
Emily’s hand went to me, as if she had felt the light weight.
“Pion?”
“Pikuk.”
You grabbed me steadily without snatching me.
They say you can tell a person’s character by how they treat small animals.
‘And she has a conscience that prevents her from getting others involved in her greed.’
Since Emily Taylor was the only one who could save Cheon Seona, I wasn’t in a position to be picky about people, but…
She passed in many ways.
For the first time in a long time, I opened my mouth as the Silent Calamity and sent a message to Emily.

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, says to cooperate with ‘Pion’.]
Emily’s eyes widened at the message from the Constellation, which had never been sent before, even after she had sent the proposal.
“With Pion? What can this little monster do…”
“Piik.”

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, says it’s a capable jellyfish that she guarantees.]
“Just how capable is this jellyfish…”
I grabbed Emily’s hair and gently led her towards the bed where Cheon Seona was sleeping.
Emily was gently pulled along, and she looked at the sleeping Cheon Seona and sighed deeply.
“The Constellation-nim told me to do it, so it’s not my responsibility. I’ll tell the contractors that too.”

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, affirms.]
“Pikuk.”
It’s good to be sure.
I nodded my head.
Soon, I led Emily’s hand to Cheon Seona’s chest, and I also sat on that hand.

[The proposal has been accepted.]