Death of a Contractor

“No.”
I answered cleanly.
The Crow’s Ruins blinked at the completely tensionless answer.
“I hate spaces like this.”
This place had nothing but a sea of blood.
It’s true that a Constellation’s space, a nebula, is sometimes like this.
But a nebula is like my home.
Everyone, no matter who, tries to decorate it at least a little.
To think of living together in a space with only a black sky and a sea of blood.
I sincerely disliked it.
The Administrator’s nebula was at least pretty.
And most of all.
“I don’t like you.”
No matter how cute and adorable a boy he looked, I didn’t want to be with a guy who was so gloomy, narrow-minded, and filled with nothing but anger.
I’m already a handful for myself.
I didn’t want to take care of him.
‘Yes, I’m doing this because of Lilac.’
I crossed my arms and looked at the empty sky.
Even that pretty and innocent child had grown up like that, so I didn’t even want to look at the face of The Crow’s Ruins, who was a class apart from the beginning.
Ah, come to think of it.
‘The Constellation War… Yeon Taeseon said something about that, right?’
Then am I with a Constellation who will bring about destruction in the future?
Is it because I don’t know much about the Constellation War that I don’t feel any sense of crisis?
But I was a little annoyed.
“Administrator.”
As if he were listening, a black hole opened in the air.
The starry sky was visible beyond the space.
“The Crow’s Ruins has no coins.”

“Yes. He has no hidden assets either.”
Can you even hide assets?
The starry sky is a scary place.
I should hide mine too.
The Crow’s Ruins was quiet.
He seemed to be watching what I was doing with a displeased expression.
“Then why is it possible for him to interfere in the mortal world?”
“I’m surprised you have so many questions when the swindler couple took all my coins so I couldn’t interfere.”
The Crow’s Ruins spread his hand.
Charrrr…
Several broken golden gears fell.
I had seen those before.
They were fragments of the ‘Returning Hourglass’ that I had used to save Daisy.
“I paid a just causality.”

“So you didn’t have any hidden assets, but you had physical goods.”
The Administrator spoke in a feigned pitiful tone.

“Calamity, there’s nothing I can do for you.”
The Administrator basically had to be fair, and even if he wasn’t, the scales shouldn’t be tipped too much.
Unlike last time, when there was the pretext of an ‘agreement’, there was no room for the Administrator to intervene now.

“I’m sorry, honey.”
“Yes, husband. You’re useless, so go and work.”
The Administrator’s window closed.
I got up, cleaned the blood off my clothes and body with a clean magic, and stretched.
I was perfectly fine.
Hmm.
Actually…
‘When you’re at the peak of your anger, you don’t have any thoughts.’
I was so pissed off.
I could understand his desire to get Han Siyoon back.
But I could vaguely read another purpose underlying his intentions.
‘I’ll kill at least one of your contractors.’
‘Keep enduring.’
‘Let’s see if you can say that after seeing the corpse of your contractor.’
I had no intention of playing into this arrogant Constellation’s schemes.
And I certainly had no intention of killing my contractors.
And just as there is a Lilac over there.
I also had a card that I hadn’t revealed.
I turned my eyes to the person Sion was carrying.
I whispered.
Like a feather.
As if I would die soon.
“Daisy. You have to wake up.”

Daisy responded to those words.
The greatest magician in history.
A person who loved children, was happier than anyone else at the development of the world, and was delighted to be able to realize his ideals.
The benefactor who helped me escape that terrible world.
The moment he heard his friend’s voice, which sounded as if she would die soon.
His vermilion eyes, which resembled the sunset, flashed open.

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, proposes a contract.]
[Will you make a contract?]
Daisy looked at the golden system window before him as if he were possessed.
“A god…?”
“Are you awake?”
Daisy realized that he was being carried by a white-haired man.

He tried to forcibly awaken his slow mind with mana and grasp the situation, but as soon as he saw the mouth-torn Lilac, he quickly understood the situation.
“Daisy!”
Lilac laughed as if he were screaming.
“It’s been a long time. It’s the first time since you shot a fireball at my head.”
“…You were dead.”
Daisy got down from Sion and stood on his own two feet.
His gentle eyes held a sharp light.
“Is that state also thanks to your ‘god’?”
“They say it’s a Constellation! I only found out after I woke up.”
Lilac deflected the incoming stiletto.
Haha!
He laughed, then suddenly cried, and screamed, scraping at his soul.
The man who was fighting him was already a mess.
Yeon Taeseon, who had spit out blood, deflected the fanged whip that was coming down on him.
“Hey.”
“Daisy Rune.”
“Yes. You, what voice did you hear to wake up?”
A starlight was briefly visible in Yeon Taeseon’s eyes.
The familiar white starlight was the starlight of the Silent Calamity, and it was easy to see that she had done something to Daisy.
Daisy nodded.
“My friend’s voice.”
“What did that friend say?”

[Take my hand.]
“She said to take her hand. But there’s nothing in front of my eyes…”

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, proposes a contract.]
[Will you make a contract?]
[Will you make a contract?]
[Will you make a contract?]
The golden system window in front of him flickered as if to say, ‘What nonsense are you talking about.’
Daisy corrected herself.
“The Silent Calamity is proposing a contract.”
“Accept it. Quickly!”
“What is your relationship with The Crow’s Ruins?”
Daisy remembered that before he died, Lilac had said, ‘A god has chosen me’ as he brought down the camp.
He knew that the name of that god was The Crow’s Ruins, and that many people had died because of it.
So, as long as he knew that Lilac had contracted with a being called a god, he had to be wary of their relationship.
Han Sion answered.
“An enemy.”
“Alright.”
Daisy accepted the contract.
The feeling of a certain connection of the soul being formed was vivid.
A magician who had reached a certain level could feel soul magic in some way, and this was something much higher than that.
A feeling of his level being forcibly raised and soaring several stages.

[The contractor Daisy Rune acquires the ‘unique skill: Tattered Constellation’!]
A magic he had never imagined was engraved in his mind.
Daisy raised his hand as if possessed.
And starlight descended upon that hand.

Many Constellations make a mistake.
That I only have the Word of Power.
Just as I have the Word of Power, each Constellation has their own unique authority.
Probably the same for The Crow’s Ruins in front of me.
They become intoxicated with the authority they gained by becoming a Constellation and lose the abilities they had honed in their lifetime.
But.
I am a Constellation in a fetal state, so to speak, who doesn’t even have a nebula.
I am still bound to the specter of the past, and so I am not intoxicated with my authority.
I started with magic and rose to a Constellation as the progenitor of all magic.
Daisy’s unique skill, ‘Tattered Constellation’, symbolized the history of returning from death by weaving together my soul fragment and the fragments of other Constellations.
The effect was simple and fraudulent.
A temporary Constellation-ification.
Therefore.
It was no big deal to pass my small starlight to a contractor who could accept it.
The Crow’s Ruins shouted urgently.
“Lilac! Kill everyone right now!”
Lilac’s mouth opened.
A scream gathered like a swarm of bugs.
And the starlight was faster than that.

Seonibaek Lin… Silent Calamity, should I just break it?
He didn’t listen to the answer.
And I also felt no need to answer.
A single branch appeared in Daisy’s hand.
It was a raw branch of the World Tree, and Daisy was a strange one who used the entire branch as a staff without even processing it.
But the branch was quite fond of Daisy, and knew how to act according to Daisy’s will.
Crack.
A crack appeared in the black space made of Han Siyoon.
A scream was heard.
It was impossible to tell if it was Han Siyoon’s or Lilac’s attack.
Yeon Taeseon blocked Lilac’s attack, Sion cut the incoming whip, and we showed no mercy.
The core in the center shook precariously, and The Crow’s Ruins watched with an expression of disbelief.
Wajangchang…!
The core made of Han Siyoon shattered.
With the complete death of a certain contractor.
The Crow’s Ruins had lost its most important power.