Chapter 6 : Awakener Assessment (2)

‘Chat?’
Do Constellations chat too?
Is this how they communicate with each other?
With no other Constellation to ask, I was a bit dazed and accepted the chat request without much thought.
Since it was person-to-person, I was a little nervous, but what could they do?
I was a master at ghosting people (it was more that I was too scared to reply).
And right now, I was a jellyfish!
I giggled, “pikkukukukuk” and waited for the chat to come in.

[The Crow’s Ruins: Hey]
[The Crow’s Ruins: You’ve got a pretty good contractor there, huh?]
What’s with this tone ?

[The Crow’s Ruins: Don’t you want to sell him to me?]
No.
On second thought, this was basically Craigslist.
Or was it a flea market?

[The Crow’s Ruins: Awakeners of that level are common. I’ll give you a good price, so won’t you sell him to me?]
[The Crow’s Ruins: No one will give you as much as I will.]
[The Crow’s Ruins: If his grade turns out to be B-rank, your coins will stop flowing, you know?]
Are you threatening me now?
I snorted.
My Sion, B-rank?
Not a chance.
He’s saying this because he didn’t see him slice a boss monster in half.
If he had seen that white trajectory himself, he wouldn’t be spouting such nonsense about him being B-rank.
Though, it could be that I’m just seeing him through rose-tinted glasses.
It could be that I’m misjudging him.
That I’m wrong again.
…
In a fit of anger, I sent a long rebuttal.

[Silent Calamity: Pikku]
No, that’s not it.
Wait a minute.
If I’m in minimal mode, can I only type “pikku” in chat?
Seriously?
I was momentarily stunned.

[The Crow’s Ruins: What?]
[The Crow’s Ruins: Are you mocking me? lol;]
[The Crow’s Ruins: That’s a bit much for a first meeting….]
[Silent Calamity: Pikku]
No.
I was definitely trying to send ‘That’s not it, and I’m not selling my contractor.’
But all that comes out is “pikku.”
What is this?
My hands trembled.
If this goes on… if this goes on…!
‘That Constellation will misunderstand me as a person with a flawed character…!’
It hasn’t been long since I decided I hated misunderstandings, and now I’m soon to be considered as a bad person!
It wasn’t even a swear word, I just typed “pikku”!
I sobbed “pikkukuk.”
Han Sion, who was entering the measurement room, was startled to see me suddenly crying.
“Pi, Pion. What’s wrong. Are you nervous?”
“Pikkuk. Pikkuk.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll get a good grade. The Constellation-nim is watching, so stop crying.”
“Pikkuk. Pikkuk.”
I am the Constellation!
My sorrow piled up.
As I continued to sob “pikkukuk,” Han Sion looked troubled and entrusted me to the guide.
He had to get measured anyway.
My contractor abandoned me!
But I understood.
I sobbed “pikkukuk” and sent Han Sion off.
Then I stuck myself to the ceiling and refused to come down.
I could see the guide was troubled, but why should I care.

[The Crow’s Ruins: lol;]
[The Crow’s Ruins: You’ll regret this.]
In the meantime, the chat continued to come up.
I was about to cry again…
“Is this it?”
“Pikkuk!”
I was roughly snatched by someone’s hand.
“Constellation-nim, is this it? Oh? Why the hell does it look like that.”
The guy who snatched me was a punk-looking guy with blond hair and golden eyes.
His face was acceptable, but he looked so much like a punk that I couldn’t even cry for a moment and froze.
“Oh? Its not crying. Did it like my face?”
I started crying again.
“Hey, hey? Stop crying, will you? Aish. Hey! Did Han Sion already go in?”
The innocent guide just nodded his head.
It was natural.
The person who dared to snatch Han Sion’s jellyfish in front of the guide’s eyes was the A-rank hunter, Yoo Cheong.
“Yoo Cheong?”
“Why is an A-rank hunter here?”
“Didn’t he come to ask him to join a guild? I heard the waiting room is full of scouts trying to get Han Sion.”
“Sending an A-rank to get Han Sion?”
“Which guild was Yoo Cheong in?”
“Crow, wasn’t it? But isn’t that a closed place that only accepts contractors of the same Constellation?”
The waiting room was filled with whispers.
Yoo Cheong spoke to the guide with an annoyed expression.
“Hey, tell him when he comes out.”
“Ye-yes?”
“Tell him I’m taking the jellyfish, so if he doesn’t want to die, come to the training ground. I’ll graciously let him use a weapon.”
After saying that, Yoo Cheong turned around and left the waiting room.
In the meantime, the hand holding me was squeezing too tight, and it hurt!
‘It really hurts!’
I continued to sob “pikkuk.”
“Ah, what’s wrong with this thing?”
Yoo Cheong tried to soothe the jellyfish in his own way (he didn’t loosen his grip on his hand. That bastard!) and headed for the training ground.
The distance between the measurement room and the training ground was quite far, so he didn’t hear the voice echoing from the measurement room.
“It’s an S-rank, S-rankkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!”

Han Sion, who came out of the measurement room, heard a ridiculous story from the guide.
“Pion was taken?”
“I’m sorry. I was too weak to stop him…”
The guide, who hadn’t even tried to stop him, lied smoothly.
Han Sion’s face hardened.
From what the guy said, Pion was the bait, and the real target was him.
But why?
‘The Constellation-nim is saying nothing.’
It must mean he has to rescue Pion with his own strength.
Unlike other Constellations who gave out scenarios at the drop of a hat, the Silent Calamity lived up to its name and had not given a single scenario so far.
So its contractor began to interpret the Constellation’s intentions on his own.
‘I have to save Pion.’
He didn’t know what the guy wanted to do with him, but whether he had to beat him up and save Pion or give him an eye to get him back, he had to save Pion.
As he headed for the training ground, thinking of rather extreme methods, many scouts tried to stop him, but no one could say a word in the face of his murderous aura and just whispered.
“Crazy. What’s with the aura?”
“Did he get B-rank?”
“Really? There were even S-rank rumors.”
“Rumors circulate all the time.”
But the whispers gradually died down as the high-ranking members of the association rushed to the measurement room.
They sensed that it was no ordinary grade.
They exchanged glances.
‘S-rank?’
‘At least A-rank.’
After confirming with their experience, they immediately called their guild superiors.
‘We have to get him!’
‘We have to get him even if it means getting more budget!’
But regardless of all that.
Han Sion, who came face to face with the guy who took Pion, was on the verge of losing his temper.
The monster chosen by the Constellation-nim, Pion, was caught in the guy’s hand and crying pitifully.
Our Pion’s body is weak, and he cries in pain when squeezed like that, but the guy didn’t seem to know that.
“You bastard.”
“You bastard?”
“Let go of that hand. He’s in pain.”
“Well, I will. What are you going to do about a jellyfish being in pain?”
A vein popped on Han Sion’s forehead.
If that jellyfish were a pet he had brought on his own will, he wouldn’t be this angry, but that was a monster chosen by the Constellation-nim, and it was his Pion.
It was Pion, given by the Silent Calamity!
“Hand it over.”
“What if I don’t?”
“Your goal is me anyway. Did your Constellation give you a scenario or something?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Yoo Cheong confessed readily.
His contract Constellation, ‘The Crow’s Ruins’, was famous for giving out many trivial scenarios, and this time, a scenario to crush Han Sion had been given.
The scenario said that he would be an A-rank at best, so the high-ranking A-rank Yoo Cheong, with his outstanding experience, should go and crush him himself.
The reward was 500 coins.
It was an amount sufficient to move Yoo Cheong.
‘It’s possible to exchange coins for cash, but the reverse is impossible. The more coins, the better.’
With 500 coins, he could buy stats, or even give the guild another C-rank dungeon.
And he would get that just by crushing that brat.
It was a good deal.
“The Constellation told me to beat you up. Did you do something to offend him?”
“I didn’t.”
Han Sion was confident because he was sure he hadn’t done anything to be guilty of.
On the contrary, the one who was guilty was me.
‘Because I said pikku!’
Because of me!
The guilt-ridden jellyfish cried and generated a scenario of apology.
The fee was 300 coins.
Of course, it wasn’t about bowing his head and apologizing.
Tiring!

[NO.1 Save Pion!]
Pion is currently caught in the hands of a heinous villain and is crying pitifully. If you defeat the villain and save Pion, the Silent Calamity will be very satisfied.
Success: 300 coins
Failure: Pion’s distrust