The Kidnapping

At first, the association staff member took it seriously, but as soon as he found out that the target was a contract-terminated F-rank Awakener, he became indifferent.
No, a person was kidnapped, and that’s how it is?
The angry Jiye contacted the association president directly and dispatched an investigation team.
The taste of power was delicious.
The investigation team, dispatched in a small group because the crime scene was not large, looked around the room and said.
“This is not the work of a novice. They even blocked the escape route with a teleportation stone.”
“Then is there no way to find them?”
“While the residue of mana remains… unless we tear open the space that was torn by the teleportation again, it seems impossible. What we can do is figure out the skills and weapons the criminals used.”
Then, the investigation team leader held out a notebook.
The criminal uses a dagger, is about 180 cm tall, and shows a tendency to disregard defense.
However, given that no traces were left, it suggests the possibility of a defense-type magician accompanying them.
The notebook was briefly written like that.
At the words that they just had to tear open the teleportation gate, Baek Jiye made a troubled face.
She must be feeling a sense of responsibility as a magician.
Even though that level of high-level magic was not something Baek Jiye, who had just become an Awakener, could do.
“I understand. You’ve worked hard.”
The investigation team, who worked as hard as they could to finish the investigation quickly and meticulously until nightfall, returned to the association.
In the messy room, Baek Jiye was lost in thought.
‘Tear open space, huh…’
But spatial magic is top-tier magic.
There was no way the baby Awakener Baek Jiye could do it.
She fiddled with the sealed Hexagram equipment for no reason.
It’s impossible.
It was the same even with the help of the sealed Hexagram equipment.
You might ask how something sealed could be of help, but at that grade, there’s always an aura leaking out from between the seals.
That aura alone is enough to be of help.
But who am I?
Former White Magic Tower Head, one who has seen the end of magic, a magic revolutionary, and the current Silent Calamity.
If my contractor wants to do something, I have to make it happen.
“Piik!”
“Pion?”
I stood exactly in the space where the residue of mana remained, put my hands on my hips, and looked at Jiye.
Instead of the momentarily dazed Jiye, Sion, who understood my actions perfectly, spoke.
“She says to do it.”
“What?”
“Tearing open space, I mean.”
Jiye looked back and forth between Sion and me with a horrified expression.
“It’s impossible! Do you know how high-level that magic is?”
“Pion says to do it.”
“But it’s impossib—!”
“Are you ignoring our Constellation?”
Sion’s golden eyes shone chillingly.
As they say, it’s best to avoid fanatics, so Jiye, who had shut her mouth, closed her eyes tightly and seemed to think for a moment, then soon made a determined face.
“I don’t know. Let’s do it!”
Let’s gooooooooo!
Jiye took out the unidentified Starlight Staff.
Since it was unidentified, the effect would be halved, but that was enough.
SS-rank was great.
I sat on Jiye’s head.

[The scenario has been updated.]
[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.
Success: Recruit a Companion
Failure: The Silent Calamity’s Disappointment
“The Calamity also says we can do it.”
“Calamity-nim! I really believe in you! Jaemen! Please let me succeed!”
The side effects of failing a space-tearing magic are not to be taken lightly.
Should I say that you get torn as much as the space you tear?
‘But don’t worry, Jiye. I used to teleport as easily as breathing.’
During my time as the White Magic Tower Head, various countries were so insistent, asking me to teleport here, teleport there, and track things down.
It was so annoying that I eventually started a magic revolution with teleportation gates.
Thanks to that, I had reached the pinnacle of spatial magic, especially teleportation.
Failure is not an option.
A wind blew.
The spatial magic circle that Jiye had frantically memorized appeared on the floor.
I drew out a very small amount of knowledge from the sealed Hexagram, like a speck of dust, to reinforce the magic circle and adjust her mana.
Jiye flinched slightly at the mana moving slightly differently from her will, but she soon calmed down.

[The Constellation, Silent Calamity, tells you not to worry.]
Although some coins were consumed, Jiye seemed noticeably calmer with this one sentence.
A purple light gathered at the tip of the staff, and a purple line began to appear in the air.
Jiye’s face turned pale from the massive mana consumption.
‘At this rate, it’ll be mana exhaustion.’
I also inserted myself into the magic circle’s mana source.
Perhaps because it was a Constellation’s incarnation, the mana was very abundant.
Or because it was me.
But perhaps because it was a jellyfish’s body, the mana was greatly restricted.
Damn it!
‘This is going to be close.’
The line drawn in the air began to tear open like a sewn cloth being ripped apart, with a tearing sound.
Finally, when it had opened to a size that one person could enter.
“Sion, run! I’m going too!”
“Be careful!”
Sion jumped into the teleportation gate without hesitation.
Soon after, Jiye also jumped into the gate.
I didn’t jump in.
Because the moment Jiye left the magic circle, the teleportation gate would close.
Either Jiye or I, one of the mana sources, had to remain and maintain the magic circle.
PZZZZZT…
The torn space closed again in an instant.
The magic circle on the floor also disappeared.
I was exhausted and flopped down on the floor.
So this is the disadvantage of not being in human form.
I felt a sense of lamentation at the jellyfish’s meager mana pool and deactivated the minimal mode.
As my tentacles turned into human limbs, my mana pool also increased.
A little better.
‘And the mana recovery speed is fast too.’
At this rate, I could recover all my mana within 5 minutes and teleport with a single gesture.
I crouched in a corner, closed my eyes, and felt the rising mana.
It was then.
Creeeeak…
The unoiled hinge made a creepy sound, and the old door opened.
The sound of heavy footsteps followed.
Someone came in, paused, and then seemed to look around.
I stealthily opened my eyes.
I wondered who it was.
And then I found an unexpected opponent.
“…A Constellation?”
It was the Regressor, Yeon Taeseon.
“Why are you here…”
Yeon Taeseon was clearly flustered.
He was looking at me in my human form and the teleportation gate, which was slowly closing and now only a thin line remained.
‘Did Cheon Sanho’s kidnapping happen even before the regression?’
That was the only reason I could think of for Yeon Taeseon to be here.
To confirm that Cheon Sanho was kidnapped and immediately go to rescue him.
He must have judged that Cheon Sanho would feel favorable towards him then.
The Constellation War or whatever… it would be the best choice for the Regressor who had to gather future talents for it.
Even if Cheon Sanho suffered because of it.
‘He probably thought it didn’t matter since I would solve the brand problem.’
When Yeon Taeseon met me, he was sure that I had met the Administrator because of the key around my neck.
For him, a great worry was lifted.
I looked at Yeon Taeseon with a sullen expression.
‘A lazy Regressor who leaves everything to others.’
A Regressor who doesn’t even care about the suffering of others.
Yeon Taeseon and I stared at each other for a long time.
Yeon Taeseon seemed a bit stiff, or was it just my imagination?
…It was a little later that I realized I wasn’t wearing the veil.

Yeon Taeseon had no intention of falling in love.
No, it was more that he couldn’t.
A red sky, a day when blood fell like rain, when his comrades died, his parents died, everyone was dying, and the Constellations cried out as the stars fell from the sky.
Remembering that time, how could he think of falling in love now that he had regressed?
But someone said.
Love is like a lightning bolt.
Thump. Thump.
Yeon Taeseon was feeling his heart beat, something it had never done in his entire life.
‘Why am I like this?’
No, the reason was clear.
It was because of the Constellation in front of him.
‘Silent Calamity…’
A Constellation he had never heard of before the regression.
And yet, a strange Constellation that turned everyone she contracted with into an S-rank.
And…
Yeon Taeseon looked down at the Constellation’s face.
Gentle eyes.
Long, white eyelashes, a short white bob that looked like an untrodden snowfield.
Her eyes were a refreshing sky blue, as if they held the dawn, and the Sun’s Eye within them added to her mystique.
Delicate features, a face that would make anyone turn their heads if she walked down the street.
He wondered what the blue line on her neck was, but Yeon Taeseon, who was engrossed in the sight of the Constellation he was seeing for the first time, couldn’t think that deeply.
Yes.
Yeon Taeseon was seeing the Constellation’s unveiled face for the first time.
The Constellation, Silent Calamity─Lee Seonbaek didn’t know, but the veil given by the Administrator also had the function of completely hiding one’s appearance.
Yeon Taeseon wiped his face.
‘With a face like this… it’s understandable that she’d hide it.’
But it was strange.
He felt a sense of déjà vu.
‘Where have I… seen this before?’
He thought hard.
This Constellation’s face is out of the ordinary.
Once you see it, you can’t forget it.
Where have I seen this before?