Cheon Sanho

The regressor left.
While I was struck by the regressor’s words, the conversation between Cheon Sanho and Han Sion progressed.
“Who was that person?”
“He’s someone named Yeon Taeseon, I just met him too. He just came out of nowhere and said he’d cure my younger sibling…”
The situation was this.
He was barely making a living with part-time jobs as usual, when that man showed up, somehow knowing about him.
“He said he was a disowned contractor like me.”
Although disowned contractors were rare, they were not nonexistent.
But it was a mystery why that disowned contractor had come to find another one.
“He said he had an item he wanted me to appraise. He said only I could appraise it… As I said before, I’m a disowned contractor. I told him I can’t do appraisals anymore. But he said if I did, he would cure my sibling. But he said it was okay even if it took time…”
“Is there something wrong with your sibling?”
“Ah, when my contract was terminated… the Constellation also put a stigma on my sibling.”
A stigma was a type of curse.
The stigma that is usually automatically placed on a disowned contractor is just having their grade sealed at around the upper F-rank, but if the reason for the contract termination is too serious, the stigma spreads to those around them.
“Since my only family was my sibling, the stigma went to him. …The problem is, my sibling was an ordinary person.”
An ordinary person cannot withstand a stigma.
How could an ordinary person withstand a curse that would drop an Awakener’s grade to F-rank, regardless of whether they were A-rank or S-rank?
“My sibling collapsed right away.”
His life was in critical condition.
He needed special life-sustaining treatment, which required a huge amount of money, but the money he had saved up was quickly depleted, and he had been keeping him alive with the support of the association.
“It’s only because I used to be an A-rank 90% Awakener that the association has supported me this much. But… now they say that’s difficult too. So…”
While he was looking for a way in every direction, Yeon Taeseon showed up.
“Well… it was cut short because Han Sion-nim came, but that person said he could erase the Constellation’s stigma. If the stigma is erased, my sibling will live.”
“He can erase the stigma?”
Only the same Constellation can erase a stigma.
I barely came to my senses and thought.
‘Since he’s a regressor, he must have had a way.’
There would be a way to deal with the Administrator, use a special item, or ask his Constellation.
Though that guy’s Constellation was annihilated.
Just then, Cheon Sanho, who had been unable to keep up with the flurry of stories and had been spilling his own story, snapped back to reality.
“But, why did you come to see me, Han Sion-nim…?”
“Ah, I…”
Han Sion was at a loss for words for a moment.
The scenario given by the Silent Calamity was to bring Pion here.
“My Constellation gave me a scenario…”
“A scenario?”
Cheon Sanho’s eyes widened as he asked again.
His lifeless eyes were still a bit scary, but I reminded myself that he was a kind-hearted child and manifested my will.

[The Constellation, Silent Calamity, proposes a contract.]
[Will you make a contract?]
A golden window appeared before Cheon Sanho’s eyes.
I did not doubt the success of the contract and thought.
‘His face is acceptable. There are no bad people among those who go this far for their sibling. I heard from Baek Jiye that he wasn’t a bad person even before the contract was terminated.’
On the contrary, the contract termination was said to have happened suddenly, and it was a hot topic because it seemed like it was not his fault at all.
I don’t know the inside story, but I didn’t think the reason for the contract termination was bad.
Should I call it a Constellation’s intuition?
‘It hasn’t been long since I became a Constellation, but still.’
I waited for the contract to be accepted.
But the notification that came back was something I could have never imagined.

[The contract is being established.]
[Warning! The stigma on the target is too powerful.]
[The contract establishment is canceled.]
‘What?’
While I was glaring at the system with wide eyes, Cheon Sanho smiled bitterly and said in a self-deprecating tone.
“Silent Calamity-nim, I appreciate the offer, but… as you can see, I can’t make a contract.”
“Did the Calamity propose a contract?”
“Yes. But it feels like I couldn’t do it because of my stigma.”
Han Sion resolved my stunned question for me.
“Is it a stigma from a being more powerful than the Silent Calamity?”
“Yes.”
I see.
Then it made sense why I couldn’t make a contract.
It’s like how a new employee’s proposal won’t be approved if the higher-ups reject it, no matter how much they push it.
‘No, who the hell was his Constellation?’
Although I was inexperienced since it hadn’t been long since I became a Constellation, there were things I was instinctively feeling as time went on.
For example, that I was an extremely rare top-tier Constellation.
‘If it’s a Constellation more powerful than me…’
It could only be the Administrator.
This guy was the Administrator’s contractor.
‘No, what the hell do you have to do for the Administrator to break a contract?’
In that case, I couldn’t erase his sibling’s stigma either.
It can’t be helped… I gave Han Sion the scenario completion reward as it was.

[Scenario completed.]
[Reward Received.]
With the message that the scenario was completed, the conversation with Cheon Sanho came to an end.

The regressor, Yeon Taeseon, who had left Cheon Sanho’s house, thought.
‘Silent Calamity. A name I’ve never heard before.’
There was no such Constellation before the regression.
There was no way a Constellation that produced two S-ranks would not be known, so that means that Constellation didn’t exist before the regression.
And what about Han Sion and Baek Jiye?
He had never even heard of Han Sion.
Baek Jiye had walked the path of a scholar due to her Mana Disharmony Syndrome, but she had ended her own life due to their cliquishness and her broken heart.
It was the same for Cheon Sanho, whom he had just found.
Before the regression, no one had found him.
After the association’s support was cut off and he lost his sibling, he also disappeared.
They were all people who had never been okay.
‘So I was trying to make them my allies this time…’
He could pass on Han Sion since he had never even heard of him, but he had tried to make Baek Jiye and Cheon Sanho his allies.
Because those two were geniuses, or talents comparable to geniuses.
He clenched his fist until the veins popped.
‘The Silent Calamity ruined everything.’
The crows that filled the sky, the red Azure Sky, the falling or leaving stars, the blood-filled corpses…
Yeon Taeseon remembers everything.
He remembers the words his Constellation, ‘The Overturned Hourglass’, left behind as it was annihilated.

[You are the world’s only savior.]
Then, it gathered its annihilating power and gave it to the dying Yeon Taeseon.
Now, Yeon Taeseon was a half-human who had received the power of a Constellation.
He had lost the ability to regress, but he had inherited some of the Constellation’s abilities.
And he recalls the ‘Constellation’ he saw with those eyes.
‘That jellyfish was definitely a Constellation.’
And from the circumstances, it was clearly the Silent Calamity.
A Constellation roaming the earth in a jellyfish incarnation was an unprecedented situation that had never happened before the regression and would never happen again.
‘And…’
It looked inexperienced.
The annihilated Constellation, The Overturned Hourglass, was the owner of the Sun’s Eye.
Yeon Taeseon thought of the appearance of the Constellation he had seen with the ‘Starlight Eye‘, the lower eye of the Sun’s Eye that it had given him as it was annihilated.
It had the appearance of a jellyfish, but the form that was faintly visible on the side.
White hair that melted the stars, a peaceful sky, a gaze that held the sparkling sun…
And an endlessly gentle soul.
A soul that he didn’t know why it had received the modifier ‘Calamity’.
Recalling that, Yeon Taeseon chuckled.
‘I’m thinking of all sorts of things.’
Did he fall in love at first sight?
With a Constellation?
He scoffed at himself.
This wasn’t the time for that.
‘I have to settle things with the Administrator.’
Fortunately, that beautiful Constellation had not yet gotten her hands on Cheon Sanho.
No matter how top-tier a Constellation she was, she couldn’t be higher-ranked than the Administrator, so even if she tried to make a contract, it would naturally be nullified.
‘I have to make him my ally before that.’
He would leave the Silent Calamity and her contractor as a joker card.
That was Yeon Taeseon’s plan.
‘Or I could contract with that Constellation myself.’
He was serious about wanting to become the Silent Calamity’s contractor.
Since his Constellation had passed on its power as it was annihilated, he now had S-rank abilities without a Constellation, but… there was a big problem.
‘I have to find a new unique skill.’
Since he had no Constellation, he had no unique skill.
To an Awakener, a unique skill is like their life.
No matter how high their abilities are, without a unique skill, they can’t even exert half of their abilities.
In that sense, the Silent Calamity, who gives powerful unique skills, was not a bad choice.
She was pretty too.
Recalling her fine and delicate face, though it was in soul form, Yeon Taeseon quickened his pace.
She looked weak, so she would probably agree to a contract if he threatened her a little.
She also looked inexperienced, so there might be other variables, but he thought he could handle it.
‘I can just visit her tonight.’
The orange sky was setting.