Finale – To Reach A Star

[The Silent Calamity is eagerly awaiting return.]
[This system message cannot be sent due to an error.]
[The Silent Calamity is eagerly awaiting return.]
[This system message cannot be sent due to an error.]
[The Silent Calamity is eagerly awaiting ret…]

A flood of red errors popped up.
The Administrator, who had been clearing away the notifications that failed to reach their contractor, let out a deep sigh.

【This is killing me, seriously.】

Along with the human world, the starry heavens had also stabilized.
The Constellations that were hit were unavoidable, but in the end, the Silent Calamity had won.
The Constellations that had cowered in the emergency nebula began to act shamelessly, as if nothing had ever happened.
It was the same old starry heavens.
Just without a single Constellation.

【Calamity.】

[The corresponding Constellation is in an out-of-bounds area.]

【Calamityyyy.】

[The corresponding Constellation is in an out-of-bounds area.]

【…….】

It had been a long time since he had been able to contact the Silent Calamity.
The Administrator chewed on a stardust cigarette he didn’t even remember lighting.
His gaze turned to a corner.

• Administrator….

• It’s about time you answered, Administrator….

Cheon Sanho.
The Administrator’s contract-breaker.
The regressor, who had been calling out much more frequently in the past month, began to pray earnestly again today.

• Please. Do something about our Constellation. The contractors keep coming to me, and I feel like I’m going to die. Please, for the sake of our past contract, just do something.

But no matter how much he prayed, there was nothing he could do.
It wasn’t that the Administrator didn’t want to answer, but that he had intervened too much when the Silent Calamity went after Distorted Revenge.
The scales of the stars had tipped and showed no signs of returning.
At this rate, it was difficult to even send a system window, let alone respond to those pleas.
Cheon Sanho was a contractor just like the Silent Calamity.
Of course, the rank he had accumulated was minimal, so he ended up as an A-rank Awakener, but he was probably the human most closely connected to the Administrator.
That’s why the Administrator was paying attention to him like this.

【Actually, the solution is simple.】

The Silent Calamity was trying.
She was just one step short.

【All they have to do is run up to that star again and reach out.】

Then the last step will be filled.
But he couldn’t let them know this.
Because the causality he had accumulated for tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of years, had been blown away in that one moment.
His gaze turned to Yeon Taeseon, who was standing nearby with his arms crossed.
Even as a Constellation, his handsome face was marred by dark circles, full of exhaustion.

• Administratoooor…

• No answer?

• I told you it wouldn’t work….

Cheon Sanho, who had been grumbling about how the Administrator wasn’t as easy as he thought, lay down.
It meant he was done trying.
At that moment, a pink system window appeared.

[The Constellation, ‘The Seventeenth Love,’ has been resurrected! Wow!]

As he read the tacky pink system window, the scales shifted slightly.
As the Constellation who had been asleep due to the aftereffects of its descent awoke, causality was restored, albeit slightly.
And with this causality, a direct bypass was possible.

【Sweet Seventeen Love.】

[Wow! What’s up?]

【There’s something you need to do.】

[The Constellation, ‘The Seventeenth Love,’ rushes over, saying there is romance here.]

“What the.”
Yeon Taeseon muttered irritably.
It was a phony Constellation he had seen once before.

[The Constellation, ‘The Seventeenth Love,’ makes a fuss, saying the star of love has risen.]
[The Constellation, ‘The Seventeenth Love,’ says to run there immediately.]
[The Constellation, ‘The Seventeenth Love,’ asks if it’s okay to run in the hallways…]

Since it was a personal message that bypassed the system, it was impossible to block.
Yeon Taeseon ignored the messages as they came and headed for the rooftop, when he suddenly noticed the commotion outside.
“What is it?”
“Isn’t that a heart-shaped star?”
“It’s pink?”
“Is something else happening?”
“It’s sparkling!”
People who had been busy going to work had all stopped to look up at the sky.
As soon as Yeon Taeseon looked at the sky, the pink star that had been blinking as if it were waiting…
It had a strange pattern.
‘Morse code?’
A language that didn’t need to be spoken was saying words.

• To the

• star

• Reach

• out

• Waiting

• Waiting

• Waiting

“She’s waiting.”
Han Sion, who had appeared beside him at some point, muttered.
A single pure white wing fluttered.
One by one, those who had read the Morse code gathered.
“She says she’s waiting.”
“Don’t you think we’ve been too complacent?”
“We’ve only been looking at the star.”
“We should have thought more proactively. Humans have strived to reach the stars their entire lives.”
“Even if the target is a Constellation and not a planet, there’s no reason we can’t do it.”
“A Constellation is a star too.”
“So we just have to reach it?”
“It’s saying we can bring her out if we reach her.”
“Then….”
We just have to reach her.
The remaining contractors began to move.

I don’t know how much time has passed.
Originally, there is nothing better for wearing down one’s mental strength than trying to measure time in a void of nothingness.
“How many magic circles is that? It seems to have surpassed five digits.”
The once black space was filled with white and blue magic circles.
It was an attempt to somehow thin the dimensional wall of this black space.
It was filled with everything from layered magic circles to linked magic circles and single magic circles, and they were all in operation.
It was the first time since becoming a Constellation that I was preparing a large-scale magic spell, pouring out my mana without restraint.
After meticulously calculating my remaining mana, I drew the last, small magic circle.
‘I need someone from the outside.’
It has to be a contractor connected to me.
I had tried and tried and managed to make this dimensional wall as thin as an apple peel, but it was difficult to get out on my own.
I was just one step short.
‘If only someone would reach out to me.’
Then I could grab on and get out.
There was nothing more I could do.
Lying on the floor, consuming mana just to make the dimensional wall like an apple peel was all I could do here.
At least an apple peel is delicious.
‘I miss them.’
Sion, Jiye, Yeon Taeseon, Daisy.
Jiye is probably alive.
Whose heart is she a downgrade of, after all?
Just by killing Distorted Revenge, I should have prevented her from shedding her human shell.
I have to make a contract with Emily too, and it would be nice to rebuild the world.
Ah….
“This is annoying.”
How long had I been lying here like this?
In the middle of falling asleep, waking up, and repeating the cycle.
Ting.
Something was thrown into the space.
‘What is it?’
A small… jellyfish-shaped jewel?

• Constellation?

• Constellation!

• Here! It’s here!

It was Cheon Sanho’s voice.
The voice, filled with excitement, was telling me some coordinates, but trapped in this space, I had no way of figuring out where that was.

[The Administrator squeezes through a crack.]

A small bit of starlight seeped in from somewhere.
It was probably from a crack somewhere where the jellyfish-shaped jewel had fallen.
The magic circles, reacting to the flowing starlight, burned a little brighter.
‘The output has been enhanced.’
With just one small intervention from the Administrator, the darkness began to recede.
As if a dark cellophane sheet had been attached, the outside looked blurry.
A brilliant single wing was visible.
A swarm of spectral jellyfish was visible.

• Two people have reached it!

It was Yeon Taeseon and Han Sion.
They were enduring the storm of starlight, the sharp beams of light, and coming towards the sky beyond where I was.
Finally.
Finally.
Finally!
“Yeon Taeseon! Sion!”
I knew you would come someday.
I never doubted it.
I was worried you might come when I was an old lady, but I’m glad that’s not the case.
I couldn’t stop laughing.
The human figures I saw beyond the dark wall were such a welcome sight.

• Grab… on…!

Static mixed in with the jewel-shaped communication device.
It seemed to be a modified artifact, so of course, it wouldn’t last long.
I should praise it just for breaking through this black space.
A hole forms in Han Sion’s single wing.
A part of the spectral swarm breaks off.
“Lee Seonbaek!”
“Oh, Constellation!”
They reached out their hands,
And touched the star.
And soon, the wall came crumbling down.
I saw their battered faces.
Faces full of blood drops and small scratches.
All of it was welcome, and funny, and it brought tears to my eyes.
Finally, as I fell into the arms of the two, they, having lost the strength to float in the air, began to fall.
The clear sky, the refreshing wind, the many buildings, people, starlight, everything I owned, visible as my vision turned upside down.
The place where I will set my feet and live.
“I missed you!”
It was a return.

<A Strange Yet Romantic Return Report>

The End.

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