I don’t wanna commit Suicide!

The era of destruction where the Constellation War took place.
Awakeners who had contracted with a Constellation were rare.
Because almost all of them had their contracts with their Constellations terminated.
At first, the people who had cried out, “What did I do wrong?” realized when the sky turned black and countless stars fell.
It wasn’t that the Constellations had terminated their contracts.
It was that the contracts were automatically terminated because the Constellations had died.
A red, one-eyed creature with a thousand wings revealed in the sky announced the destruction.
Although humans did not know what the Constellation War was, they instinctively realized that the Constellations had been defeated by that powerful being.
And so, the era of Awakeners came to an end.
Monsters that had never been reported in the academic world poured out randomly.
Reddened gates exploded, pouring out monsters.
The Awakeners who had contracted with a Constellation, after their contracts were terminated, either burned their last to protect the people, or ran away somewhere, unable to bear the tragic reality.
The destruction had arrived.
Now, although there are many contract breakers, it is difficult to even hear a rumor of a contractor.
But a contractor.
The soldier, whose mouth was agape in surprise, looked at the lined-up dolls.
Of course, the opponent is a puppeteer.
Although a puppeteer was no different from a white elephant, that was a story for when civilization was intact.
The status of a puppeteer, who could create an infinite number of self-moving laborers, had risen sharply long ago.
And they could also provide mental care for the survivors with their cute appearance.
So, a nobleman had come to the soldier, Lee Hyeono.
He shouted without hesitation.
“Open the gate…!”
“Kiiiiiiiiiiii!”
A creepy sound was heard.
A shining white dot in the sky was gradually getting closer.
The being in the form of a beautiful woman was playing a grotesque-sounding harp and was rapidly flying towards the survivors.
“Damn it, it’s a harp player! Get your bows!”
Even now that their contracts with the Constellations were broken, most people preferred bows over guns.
Because the arrow of a contract breaker was more effective than the bullet of an ordinary person.
As if this had happened once or twice before, the survivors nocked their arrows on their bowstrings in an orderly manner.
Seoah also requested of her teddy bears.
“Any dolls that can shoot a bow?”
All the small teddy bears raised their hands.
One of the large teddy bears also raised its hand.
“The equipment… do I have to give it to them? How…”
But Seoah, who had never been a puppeteer who led such a large army, was a little confused.
As if to tell her not to worry, the size of the teddy bears shrank a little, and a bow-shaped doll appeared in everyone’s hands.
And a silver arrow was nocked.
As if they would shoot at any time if ordered.
Seoah, who had received that will better than anyone else, looked at the soldier.
Since cooperation between survivors is important, she had judged that it would be better to follow the orders of the soldier, who was the leader of the camp.
Lee Hyeono, the soldier, nodded at her rational judgment, which was unlike her young appearance.
And when the harp player had come close to a certain extent.
“Shoot!”
All the bowstrings were released.
Occasionally, a person with some spare strength would gather a tiny bit of mana and even shoot a fireball.
As many as dozens of arrows were shot for just one monster.
However, only a little over half of the arrows that reached the monster were all.
Among them, only the arrows shot by the dolls pierced the player.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaak!!”
The harp player writhed, letting out a creepy scream.
A few arrows grazed the harp, and the strings broke, and blood flowed.
The beautiful harp player, who was shedding tears, looked at the dolls that had wounded her harp.
She began to tear the remaining harp strings with her sharp nails.
“Kiiiiiiiiik…”
“Aak!”
“Tsk, hold on! If we shoot just one more time…!”
“Aaaak! Aaaaaaaak!”
The harp player is a mental attack-type monster.
For the surviving survivors, nothing else is important.
It was just the mental strength that allowed them to endure reality while being aware of their survival that was important.
To such humans, the harp player was like a natural enemy…
But for dolls, which have no mind, it was a sound that didn’t work at all.
Another doll next to her picked up a branch.
It was a conceited doll that even snorted.
Saaaaaa…
Ice formed above the doll’s head.
The ice quickly gathered and soon formed the shape of a giant spear.
Seoah realized that it would be shot if she just gave the command.
“…Shoot!”
There was no need to think.
The ice of the doll, which was shot immediately, accurately hit the harp player.
It split the player’s torso.
It was instantly split in two.
She can’t play anymore.
Lee Hyeono stared blankly at this powerful Awakener.
“Kuhk… Ugh, it’s a little better now that the sound is gone, huh?”
“Blood from my ears… what, what is this?”
So he realized it late.
The fact that the body of the shining woman, the harp player, who was floating in the sky, was not falling but was wriggling.
The thing that was wriggling like a snail infected with a parasite, soon shot out a snow-white, giant snake from its severed waist.
Towards Kim Seoah’s head.
“…Huh?”
It was a speed that no one could react to.
The snake opened its mouth, and, dripping venom and saliva, it ate Seoah’s head.
No, it tried to.
If the snake hadn’t been split in half with a sharp sound.
It was a brief moment.
The snake coming out of the player’s body, trying to eat Seoah’s head, and it being split.
It was a moment comparable to the time it takes to blink once.
Splatter.
The white snake, split in half, collapsed to the floor, scattering blood.
Only then did Seoah, who understood what was about to happen to her, have her legs give out.
Fortunately, Mina, in her arms, had her eyes tightly closed and seemed not to have understood the situation.
“It’s a parasitic snake. It lives hidden in a monster’s body, and when the host dies, it swallows the one who killed it and lives anew.”
A low, beautiful voice echoed around the quiet camp.
Yeon Taeseon, who had wiped the blood from his silver sword, put the longsword back into his subspace.
“You should consider yourself lucky, Kim Seoah.”
There was only one answer Seoah could give here.
“…Who are you?”

Seoah, who had said a foolish thing to her savior, and Yeon Taeseon, who had saved her, entered the camp with the little child Mina.
Even from inside the camp’s fence, their fight was so large that it was visible.
The arrow that had pierced the harp player, the ice spear, and the sword strike that had split the snake that had come out from there.
Even if only a few people had witnessed it properly, you can’t help but be thrilled when you see the situation.
The soldier, who had guided the three to a relatively clean place, said.
“I am Lee Hyeono.”
“Yeon Taeseon.”
“I’m Kim Seoah. And this is Han Mina.”
“Hello!”
Lee Hyeono bowed his head and expressed his gratitude.
“First, thank you for readily stepping up to stop the monster. We were dealing with it calmly, but if a player had swept through once, our available forces would have been reduced, and it would have been a big problem.”
“You’ve survived well with a motley crew. For a soldier, you’re capable.”
“In this situation, what can’t we do. We have to, to survive. Seoah-ssi, you seem to have come to this camp to seek refuge, is that correct?”
Seoah quickly lifted her head.
She had forgotten in the confusion, but the sense of mission that she had to entrust Mina to this camp, if not herself, came to her.
“Yes, yes! If it’s not possible for both of us, then Mina at least…!”
“Don’t worry. Both of you can come to this camp.”
A contractor is precious.
And in Lee Hyeono’s eyes, she was an Awakener who looked to be at least A-rank to S-rank.
Even if not, a puppeteer is very useful.
He doesn’t make them do things that are ethically wrong.
Lee Hyeono was that kind of person.
A rare leader in this era of destruction, who protects human rights and also makes them do legitimate labor.
“But Yeon Taeseon-ssi is…”
“I came here to find a comrade.”
Yeon Taeseon glanced at the empty air.
A blue system window.
A scenario that had arrived after a very long time.

[NO.7 The Virtual Comrade]
The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, commands you to find a ‘useful’ contractor here.
This scenario will be of great help later on.
Success: Acquire a virtual comrade
Failure: No change
‘I don’t know what this Constellation wants, but…’
His Constellation would not make a judgment that would be harmful to h0
“Lee Hyeono.”
For that, even if it’s a guy who is so stubborn that he’s frustrating, if he has the ability, he has to be taken.
“With me, to tear down that damn wing…”
“I’m sorry.”
Lee Hyeono smiled brightly.
“If you’re talking about that unidentified monster floating in the sky, I’d like to say that I don’t do things like suicide.”