Chapter 442 – Episode 442: Network 2
The situation has grown to the point where I wonder if this damn werewolf might have been aiming for it.
This is because our members, to be exact, excluding the new constellation Guardian of the Deep, were quite influential people than I thought.
The dream demon constellation, the helpless nightmare, is the only one in the world that allows you to study the magical power of dream demons.
It is the constellation of farmers and druids on the Eastern Continent, and the constellation of elves, botanists who are serious about breed improvement. A giant tree that never withers.
A loyal canine of the messenger constellation that assists the Avatar in all aspects, from supernatural powers to magic and incantation.
There is only one incarnation, but there is also a guardian of the deep whose main skills are rare amulets and spells.
‘If you put it all together like this, it’s like a lab, right?’
I thought we had nothing in common, but people from all over the continent started talking about the impact of our research.
Improvement of plants with the magic of dream demons, healing of soul wounds with plant therapy, messengers who assist incarnations in a wide and diverse range of ways will also handle the magic of dream demons, etc. Minor amulets are being developed into major ones through research. Will it come up in the ranks?
“Wow, there are so many things I didn’t even think about.”
“Isn’t the Constellation too insensitive in that regard?”
“Is that so?”
There are so many people who come to me with excitement about things I had never even thought about. I am enjoying the leisurely and lustful unemployed life with everything given to me by the Hwashins, but to other people, I have the image of a genius who is saving the world and the CEO of a research company.
Perhaps because it is a world where it is natural to give the glory of incarnation to the constellations, the research achievements filled with the blood, sweat and tears of Lee Ha-rin, Kim Ha-eun, and countless graduate student slaves were also my achievements.
Wouldn’t this be too much of a bravery for the sneaky monster who even created a duel arena just to have some fun? It wouldn’t be a bad idea to get our act together later and pass all this glory on to our elf sister. In any case, the world is backwards, and it is a neighborhood where it is common sense for men to help women and do housework.
There is nothing we can do about the research on the magic power of dream demons that Lee Ha-rin and Kim Ha-eun have collaborated on so far, but let’s leave all future results achieved through cooperation between Hwasin to my sister.
“Then, Holy See, will you reject all official interview requests?”
“Please refuse. I have no intention of saying anything officially.”
If the Hwasin cadets at the academy were making a fuss, I would tolerate it, but they secretly sent people to media outlets on each continent, so it was annoying.
When I went to watch the duel, I couldn’t help but get sick of the sight of reporters sitting among the cadets as if they were playing a game, trying to record on the recorder a single word I gave in a rough answer to the Avatars.
It was a world where there was no one who dared to point a microphone at a constellation, but there were a lot of reporters who sat in the duel all day long, wearing tape recorders, like shady stalkers, wanting to capture even a second of my voice.
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“Mr. Constellation, I have something to tell you about Miss Seoyeon.”
“If you are Seoyeon, then Park Seoyeon who entered the lab?”
“Yes. The incarnation of the Guardian of the Deep.”
I turned down all interview requests that were officially made to me, and the incarnations of the duel arena began to lose interest because I didn’t say anything. Ha-eun Kim sneakily approaches me at a time when the temperature difference between inside and outside the academy is extreme.
Ha-rin handles most of the lab-related work, so what’s going on that Ha-eun suddenly brings up the topic? After the shaman from the countryside of the Eastern Continent had a good time in the lucid dream, she would have gone into the position of Lee Ha-rin’s assistant.
“Well, I want to make the contract with Miss Seoyeon more clear. During the last research, I came in as an assistant, so there wasn’t a clear contractual relationship.”
“Then why not sign a contract?”
“Ah, I still need to get the Constellation’s permission. I want to study Miss Seoyeon’s talisman in earnest, so I plan to sign a contract as an Avatar of the Avatar, not at a research institute. But this time, I’m thinking about the gathering of the Constellations you mentioned. After this…”
Kim Ha-eun nodded her head appropriately as she spoke. I am a military student with no social experience, so I don’t know much about contracts, but it felt completely different whether the subject of the contract was the research institute and researchers or Hwasin University and Hwasin University. I don’t know why they even took permission from the Constellation to sign a contract.
Maybe it’s because I’m so active on the ground, but even if I give you legal representation and tell you to take care of it, they still come to see what I think. After all, if a general-level executive tells a soldier to rest comfortably, would a private who handles practical work really be able to rest comfortably?
“You guys are free to do whatever you want. I have no intention of refusing what you ask me to do as long as it doesn’t harm me.”
“It’s not something that will harm you.”
“That’s what they say, he really is…”
Even though people are startled by my joking comments and have become more comfortable, there seems to be a line that cannot be crossed. In fact, if you look at the relationship alone, the relationship between the Avatar and the Constellation is worse than the soldier in front of the general. No matter how many incarnations have become a man-woman relationship with me, it is something that cannot be helped.
As I laid down on the sofa and waved my hand to give Kim Ha-eun a cursory answer, telling her to take care of it, the Hwasin flocked into the dorm.
I was on my way back to my lodging after finishing everything I had to do around sunset, and judging by the annoyance on my face, I guess I was really bothered by reporters. In fact, it would be easier to deal with an Avatar, a human being, than a Constellation, a divine being.
“Ah… I’m just a security guard.”
“What happened?”
“Constellation! The reporters are crazy!”
The first to open her mouth was Yeji Han. The other incarnations dispersed in silence, unpacking their bags and going to wash up, as if they were trying to pass by silently like women, but Ye-ji Han came to the sofa where I was lying and snuggled up to me.
If you think about it, it seems clear that she is the one who has no choice but to suffer the most. Lee Ha-rin and Kim Ha-eun will be inside the research center, so reporters will not be able to easily access them, and in the case of Song Yena and Alexandra, they will be involved in exchanges of swordsmanship and duels using real swords for class, but they will not be able to access the microphone.
In comparison, Yeji Han is a security officer who inspects the academy’s security facilities along a set route and is dispatched if there are any suspicious signs. She’s not in a classified area, she’s not giving a swordsmanship demonstration that can’t be revealed, and she’s not in the middle of a bloody fight.
“Why are you so excited?”
“No, they just asked me strange things like receiving the Catherine Medal and researching this collaboration with the Holy See.”
“Really? The Catherine Medal, that’s Harin and Haeun’s research.”
“That’s right! They asked me about the simplification of the magic spell and the transmission loss rate, using jargon, and when I told them honestly that I didn’t know, they asked me if I was keeping a secret!”
Thanks to this, Han Ye-ji becomes the target of excited reporters and vents her resentment. The girl who lost her parents and spent her school days working part-time at her convenience store instead of studying as the head of the household asked her questions about her Nobel Prize-level thesis? I can indirectly feel how excited the reporters are.
When she answered that she did not know what Yeji did not know, the reporters thought that she had been ordered by the Holy See to maintain confidentiality.
From then on, she appears to have been followed throughout her working hours by her army of reporters, eager to hear a word from her, even if only in a roundabout, metaphorical response. Among the patrol routes, areas where outsiders can enter are followed by walking behind, and when entering areas where outsiders are not allowed, they wait in front of the academy security team’s lounge.
“I shouldn’t have passed that on to someone else.”
“Even if Harin and Haeun said they knew, about half of them still stayed…”
“For some reason, reporters were suddenly stopped when they tried to enter the lab. Did you send them?”
“Is this what I sent? They’re just running around!”
As Han Ye-ji’s complaint is coming to an end, Lee Ha-rin, who must have just washed up, approaches her, wiping the moisture from her curly short hair with a towel.
As it is an ultra-luxurious lodging for a constellation, there is a hair dryer, and there are similar magic items for drying hair, but it seems like they are too lazy to just put a towel on their wet hair. As a result, the water on the ends of her hair wets the shoulders of her thin shirt, revealing her skin subtly.
While listening to Han Ye-ji’s story, I was momentarily distracted by the defenseless appearance of the Hwasin-
“Um, Constellation? Guests, guests have arrived…”
“Guests? Is there anyone who will come to see me in a group?”
Kim Ha-eun, who had been away for a while to process documents related to Avatar shaman Park Seo-yeon, comes running in a hurry.
Seeing everyone rushing around in a hurry, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary person has come to have fun. Why did a big guy like Svetlana come to see me? Thinking about that, I looked at Haeun Kim to ask her to explain, and she caught her breath and opened her mouth.
“Well, regarding the Constellation Union, other Constellations have sent me all kinds of invitations and my direct incarnation…”
Come to think of it, is that so?
If you were to create a gathering of constellations, the people who would be most interested would be the constellations, not the academy officials or the incarnations.