S-Rank is My Side Character - Chapter 49

“…To leave this place, we need Nari’s permission.”

“That, that’s… not the real Nari, you said earlier.”

Shin Binnari, who had been radiating spiritual power and mana, was unable to keep herself steady on the altar as Jung Suho and Kang Ihyeon stared at her.

The thought that she looked like a soulless doll circled in their minds.

“…The Ruler of Chaos has also gone to find the real Nari. It’s probably to get out of here. So we need to find the real Nari too.”

“But, but how do we…”

Kang Ihyeon pondered deeply, holding his chin. How to find the real Nari.

They were in a situation where they couldn’t leave this place. Kang Ihyeon’s mind started racing.

‘That Nari over there isn’t the real one, and we can’t get out of here, so we might as well go under the bathtub like Nari did… No, that won’t work. There’s no guarantee it will succeed, and above all, Jung Suho will get hurt…’

[The constellation ‘Wand of Purification’ says there is a way.]

“…What?”

A translucent gold indirect message appeared in front of Kang Ihyeon, who was deep in thought.

Kang Ihyeon’s constellation, which had been quiet for a while after the conversation with the Ruler of Chaos, displayed a message again.

[The constellation ‘Wand of Purification’ says that ‘the Ruler of Chaos followed our actions,’ and tells you to think about what that means.]

“Us? I don’t know, the relationship between the Archangel and I is…”

[The constellation ‘Wand of Purification’ says that ‘us’ doesn’t refer to the relationship between you and me, but the actions of the constellations on this side.]

“…”

Kang Ihyeon closed his mouth. After a long silence, he quietly spoke.

“The Ruler of Chaos seemed like a constellation that uses psychic attacks. And Nari… is a spell caster who uses ‘dreams’ as a medium. …It’s unlikely that the Ruler of Chaos is Nari’s constellation. Right?”

The indirect message was silent again. Kang Ihyeon let out a hollow laugh and continued speaking to his constellation.

“…That constellation. Nari said her ‘father,’ not herself, was the constellation. And he said he was Nari’s elder brother. That’s not an expression of affection, but because Nari is actually his younger sister in terms of constellation hierarchy, right?”

There was no indirect message. Kang Ihyeon bit his lip hard. His voice trembled badly.

“Please tell me, is Nari’s constellation… the ‘Creator’ from that mythology?”

Again, the indirect message was silent for a long time. Then, it displayed a single line saying ‘based on the circumstances, it seems so.’

Kang Ihyeon laughed hollowly.

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

[The constellation ‘Wand of Purification’ tries to calm you down, saying it was trying to choose its words carefully.]

“…Over there right now, they’re trying to make Nari… into the Messiah! Why didn’t you tell me beforehand when you knew!”

Unable to hold back, Kang Ihyeon shouted loudly.

Among the constellations, those with the ‘Creation Myth’ that marks the beginning of the group rarely choose incarnations.

Incarnations are unconditionally incorporated as subordinates of that constellation, and the stories built by the incarnations become myths to highlight the constellation’s abilities after a very long time.

Jung Suho, chosen by Athena, will remain in the myths of later generations as a subordinate of ‘Athena’ in ‘Greek and Roman Mythology,’ and Kang Ihyeon will remain as a myth to highlight Archangel Raphael as his attendant.

But what if the incarnation doesn’t stand out as much as expected? If they don’t present a story as great as expected?

To maintain their authority, constellations mercilessly abandon their incarnations.

The position of the Creator is the most authoritative position in that mythology. They never choose their incarnations unless they have a purpose.

Incarnations chosen by the Creator are able to use abilities close to actual ‘constellations’ with the body of a mere incarnation to fulfill their purposes on their behalf, and are treated as special beings in that mythology.

However, if they fail to fully achieve that purpose…

Kang Ihyeon finally realized why the Ruler of Chaos had introduced himself as ‘Nari’s elder brother.’ If the Creator had chosen Nari, and if the Ruler of Chaos was the Creator’s son…

Shin Binnari would become the Ruler of Chaos’s younger sister in terms of hierarchy.

“Haha, ha… Damn it, damn it… Damn it!!”

He kicked the ground. Nari’s constellation already seemed close to pure evil.

Although he didn’t know the Creator’s intention in choosing Nari, it was clear that Nari’s life would become even more tragic.

Even incarnations didn’t know much about direct contracts with the Creator. Kang Ihyeon could know because of his uniqueness, but it was clear that Nari herself probably didn’t know she had to act according to the Creator’s purpose.

“…She’s a good person. A truly warm and kind-hearted person.”

He really couldn’t bear to see Shin Binnari becoming even sadder.

He wished she could smile even if she wasn’t by his side. Kang Ihyeon covered his face with both hands.

A trembling voice that sounded like he was about to cry escaped from him.

“…I understand the reason for my existence. You deliberately created me.”

[The constellation ‘Wand of Purification’ hastily explains that’s not the case!]

“No. No. It’s okay even if that’s the case, just tell me it is.”

Kang Ihyeon removed his hands from his face. He was smiling in a mess. His blue eyes slowly sank without any light.

“I’d rather be connected to her that way…”

His splendid blonde hair gradually lost its luster and turned into a dull yellow color.

The golden spiritual power leaking from his body was also slowly turning into yellow demonic energy, a symbol of evil.

Kang Ihyeon, who had squeezed out an eternal holy fire around him with the last remaining spiritual power, looked at Jung Suho, who seemed clueless, and said,

“Suho, we can find the ‘real Nari.'”

“…Are, are you okay? That.”

Kang Ihyeon, who looked like he was about to cry but was laughing at the same time, handed something to Jung Suho with an expression full of ecstasy.

“To do that, you just need to help me a little.”

[This is the timeline separator]

Bang! Blue bullets rained down.

Kang Ihyeon was kneeling behind, constantly muttering something, while Jung Suho was facing Nari’s subconscious alone.

As Nari’s subconscious waved the black half-scissors like a conductor’s hand gesture, cracks began to form on the floor as if an earthquake had occurred.

Jung Suho, who had turned his head to check if Kang Ihyeon, who had been muttering something on the floor, was injured, encountered the yellow demonic energy covering the floor.

‘…Was that possible?’

The energy form is born with only one. Although it can change in the middle, there is no one who uses multiple forms of energy simultaneously.

Of course, it could be that Kang Ihyeon’s energy form had changed. But it was too familiar an attitude for that.

“Oops!”

Pak, as soon as he got distracted, a stalactite grazed Jung Suho’s cheek.

Realizing it was not the time to think about other things, Jung Suho looked down at the floor again.

Jung Suho’s skill was Ranger, and entering the domain of a wizard or ranger was almost suicidal, but unfortunately, this was not his domain.

Even if he used the ‘Declare Domain’ skill, he had scattered his mana all over the place with his spiritual power, tying up the advantages of being a Ranger.

‘Then.’

[Ranger Exclusive Basic Skill :: ‘Declare Domain’ is activated!]

It was enough to make the ‘ceiling,’ not the floor, his domain.

Slowly, blue mana leaked from under his feet and covered the ceiling. Jung Suho looked up at the huge stalactite.

[Archer Exclusive Basic Skill :: ‘Mana Bullet Creation’ is activated!]

Bang! Jung Suho’s mana bullet hit the stalactite. As soon as the stalactite fell to the floor, the dull-eyed subconscious retreated a few steps.

“Where are you going…!”

Chang! Jung Suho, who had quickly concentrated mana on his eyes and legs, jumped down from the ceiling in a single breath, narrowing the distance with Nari’s subconscious.

Jung Suho swallowed his breath and swung his dagger a few more times.

Even though the huge scissor blade and the short dagger clashed, Nari’s wrist was trembling as if the scissor blade couldn’t overcome the force.

‘She doesn’t have much strength.’

Jung Suho, judging that he could push through at this rate, moved the dagger even more intensely.

The dazed Shin Binnari took a few more steps back from her spot.

“Nari!!”

Jung Suho, who had blocked the movement of the scissors with his dagger, unconsciously opened his mouth as he looked into Nari’s dazed eyes.

“Nari, it’s me! Snap out of it…!”

Wriggle, the expressionless subconscious’s brow moved for the first time at Jung Suho’s words.

She was reacting to his words. In that brief moment when his movement stopped…

“Ugh…!”

Kwagwagwak! Nari, who had pushed the scissors back with Jung Suho’s dagger, fired her spiritual power concentrated in the scissors like artillery.

Crash! The ceiling that was directly hit by Nari’s spiritual power collapsed.

It’s instant death if hit. Jung Suho, who barely twisted his body in the air to avoid it, smiled hollowly and jumped onto the ceiling.

“Can, can spiritual power be used like this…?”

Originally, the advantage of spiritual power is that it allows extremely delicate control according to the user’s will.

Moreover, Nari’s spiritual power took the form of powder to be transformable into any form.

Any energy becomes a great weapon when a huge amount is released at high speed, but he never imagined that spiritual power would be fired like this.

World Ranking #1, S-class. Shin Binnari. Jung Suho newly realized that his childhood friend had awakened as a tremendous hunter.

Crash! Without even a moment to think about other things, Nari’s spiritual power bombardment was fired again at where Jung Suho was.

It seemed she had noticed that the ceiling had become his domain and was trying to destroy it.

Amidst the shaking cave, Jung Suho, who had jumped by stepping on falling stalactites, barely escaped the trajectory of the bombardment and looked at Nari.

“How, how do I beat that…”

It’s absolutely impossible to win. He had never heard of someone who could use such an amount of energy so effortlessly without even being an Archer class.

No, even the Archer class can’t do that.

“But, but they said I don’t have to win.”

Jung Suho, who smiled hollowly, took out an antique-looking rusty silver dagger from his cloak.

“2… no, about 3…”

[Archer Exclusive High-Level Skill :: ‘Never Miss’ is activated!]

Kwak! 3 silver daggers were fired towards Nari’s subconscious.

Nari’s subconscious tried to block them, but for some reason, the daggers were directly absorbed into Nari’s subconscious.

“…?”

The moment Nari’s subconscious stared blankly, Jung Suho threw 2 more daggers from behind.

A total of five. Jung Suho quietly counted the number of daggers in his cloak. The remaining 25.

“If I just hit 30, the rest will take care of themselves, he said.”

Jung Suho, remembering Kang Ihyeon’s request, took out the remaining 3 daggers from his cloak and jumped using the falling stalactites as footholds.