I held Choi Ji-hyuk’s face with trembling hands.

It was just like then.

The suspicious streaming broadcast,

When I decided not to come in and ignored him.

Choi Ji-hyuk was always like this and barely breathing.

“Hey, get a hold of yourself. Why… Why…”

Choi Ji-hyuk’s bloodshot eyes turned to me.

The statue pulled out the sword that attacked him and turned his head toward me casually. There was no change in eyes or expression, but it seemed to warn me that I was next.

Choi Ji-hyuk smiled as if he were in despair and collapsed.

“Hey, Choi Ji-hyuk. Wake up. Open your eyes. Why are you closing your eyes? Choi Ji-hyuk!”

[SYSTEM]

– Warning! -60 seconds later, the incarnation

of evil will wake up.

-Get ready!

To make matters worse, the system was warning that there would be a boss match soon. My heart pounded.

I tried hard to hold back the tears coming up and pressed Choi Jihyuk’s stomach. Treatment needed to be done.

You can’t die like this.

“Oh, please don’t do that to me.”

Please, get it together…

Choi Ji-hyuk struggled to open his eyes to tell me if my petition worked or not.

“…Just one more time, one more time.”

Choi Ji-hyuk’s blood-stained hands trembled and grabbed my forearms.

“One more time, one more time, please be on my side.”

“I’ll do it. I’ll do anything, so don’t die. Wake up, please.”

And the corner of Choi Ji-hyuk’s mouth went up.

(3rd person pov)

-[If you do not listen to the constellation ‘Ferrari Rocher’, there will be no sponsorship for a week!]

Was it the karma from him ignoring the warning that day?

It was always the same playful message with the same pattern anyway, so Ji-hyuk ignored the warning sent by his constellation.

After all, his constellation always came back the next day and gave him a gift that overflowed the wrath.

Ordinary constellations push the incarnations to the limit with a plausible bait that they will develop.

If the incarnation is ruined by that, they would just be thrown away and the constellation will look for a new one to awaken.

Therefore, Ji-hyuk thought that his constellation was very different from other constellations.

From the beginning, he was the most useless F-Class Awaken. A humble person no one coveted.

So, the constellation that chose him who was trivial and useless from the beginning must be very strange and unique.

No, he thought so.

Until his constellation really forsake him.

At first he waited like a lost dog.

He was afraid of being alone and waited impatiently.

The constellation contract wasn’t broken, so it’d be back someday.

However, even after a week or a month, the familiar message he was waiting for did not come.

Ji-hyuk was terrified.

Was it so wrong that he disobeyed the constellation?

Because of the relationship between the constellation and a common incarnation, it was very rare for him to refuse a command.

He had climbed too far.

So he begged alone in the air that he was wrong, pleading for it to come back.

Saying that he’ll go crazy because he was scared of being in this damn world alone.

Even after a month, a full moon, and a year passed, his constellation did not appear.

In the meantime, his world had collapsed beyond imagination, and the peaceful world it used to be, no longer exists.

Society has collapsed, and the country has collapsed.

In such a hellish world with nothing left around him, he survived alone.

He somehow needed a goal to live with, because he was still afraid of death. So he didn’t even know he was clinging to such a stupid goal.

That stupid obsession to see the face of the constellation that abandoned him.

In fact, it was nothing more than an obsession to live.

Without that damn goal, he wouldn’t have the confidence to live.

So, he got into the SS class dungeon and got the wish that many people coveted.

By that time, Ji-hyuk had gone beyond his tenacity and his anger towards the constellation had reached its peak.

His constellation must have played with him.

Maybe it didn’t just disappear, but it was still giggling at him at that moment.

In return for playing with him, Ji-hyuk decided to bring down his constellation and finish it with his own hands.

[SYSTEM] -Item: King Eldrich’s Wish Scent

will be activated!

-Warning!

– Penalty will be added due

to item application error. -Penalty: Two pains and opportunities

are triggered. (Regression) -Watch out for the mental shock!

But was his wish too presumptuous?

Due to the penalty effect of the items he obtained, Ji-hyuk was repeating the life he thought was hell.

He was stuck in the past. (t1/n: yooo whoever in the comments from a previous chapter guessed that he regressed was freakin spot on.)

His consciousness was alive, but as if he had lost control of his body, Ji-hyuk was unable to do anything.

Although he knew the future, he could not stop his father from committing violence.

He could not prevent the death of his mother, who eventually gave her life in the end of the hard life.

On the day of the ‘first doom’, the beginning of all these calamities, he screamed for his life before his eyes and could not reach out to his brother who was eaten by monsters.

He was in pain.

His head thought he could stop it, but his body didn’t move.

In the end, there was nothing he could do in the face of the great misfortunes that were to come.

His helplessness was like a warning the system was giving him.

‘You can’t change anything.’

“Brother, save, save…”

When the last breath of the only family he had left in front of his eyes was in the monster’s teeth, only then did Choi Ji-hyuk manage to move his body on his own.

Ji-hyuk closed his eyes and bit his teeth tightly.

It was a very, very, terrible, painful trap.

Even on the day before his return, he was unable to save his brother from being attacked by monsters.

He’s afraid.

Because he doesn’t want to die.

He lived with guilt all his life.

And he still couldn’t save his brother.

What made the constellation so great that it caused him to suffer such terrible pain for trying to bring him down?

Ji-hyuk touched my neck.

He wanted to die.

In the end, nothing was accomplished.

There was no constellation that he was determined to kill.

Ji-hyuk blankly recalled his goal in front of his dead brother’s corpse.

Why was he so angry with the constellation for leaving him?

Why…

Only once, he nearly died after signing the constellation contract.

In any case, it was true that they needed the help of the constellation to survive in this world, but in the end, the incarnation was nothing more than a consumable item for them, so they did not expect anything from the constellation in the first place.

They were discarded when they became useless.

It was a natural flow.

“Ahhh.”

Jihyuk remembered his eccentric constellation.

It wasn’t the first time his constellation had forsaken him.

One week.

There was a period of just one week when his constellation became indifferent to him.

But at that time, it was immediately after Ji-hyuk realized that he could grow.

He was drunk on the fact that he could have greater power, and he almost lost his life in a dungeon that didn’t even fit his rank.

It was his strange constellation that saved such a foolish man like him.

Who would invest a large amount of money in an incarnation that has just become an E-class to sponsor a healing item?

If it had been an ordinary constellation, it would have mercilessly abandoned him and found another incarnation.

But strangely, from then on, his constellation watched him with utmost sincerity for four years.

So, it was natural for him to feel betrayed by his constellation to this extent.

‘If you’re going to leave like this, why worry in the first place?

Unlike other constellations that want to drive the incarnation into a dangerous place and have them grow, his constellation has always pursued stability

His constellation always granted his request, and made him fall into the strange illusion that it cared for him.

It was like some kind of hopeful torture.

So, what did the constellation do when he was opening his heart?

It disappeared.

Leaving Ji-hyuk alone in that terrible world, it disappeared.

‘[Item: King Eldrich’s Wish Scent vibrates.]’

‘[Your wish will come true! Get ready!)

Ji-hyuk frowned at the system message that appeared in front of him.

What? Now?

Why?

[SYSTEM]

-Caution!

– The system is reset due to the item penalty (regression). -6 hours 52 seconds to reawaken and unlock the system.

With a system notification, the space warped, and someone fell in front of him.

It was a woman.

Choi Ji-hyuk blankly stared at the woman who had fallen in front of him.

It was ridiculous.

‘This is my constellation?’

The woman had her eyes closed and her body curled up as if she was afraid of something.

“Who are you?”

Ji-hyuk tried to deny reality and approached the woman, who slowly raised her eyelids at his voice.

And when those clear eyes looked at him, Ji-hyuk seemed to have stopped breathing and could not think of anything.

Revenge?

He did not know.

This woman could not have been the constellation that had left him miserably.

How could such an ordinary woman…

Something was wrong.

It couldn’t be like that.

“So, she almost got hit by a car while looking at her phone to look after me, and I accidentally summoned her to the place at the perfect timing, was that what happened?”

The complex emotions and events that had been scattered were gradually putting the puzzle together.

It was a car accident

‘Weren’t you holding on to the hidden boss?’

The point the woman spoke of was the same as when his constellation disappeared.

His mind had been wandering

He quickly realized.

It was all his fault.

His constellation was watching him right before it disappeared, and it was Choi Ji-hyuk himself who contributed to the accident.

Only then did he realize the reason for the error in applying the item.

Why did his constellation appear in front of him now, about a year before he made a constellation contract?

Now, his extraordinary young constellation was right in front of him, and there was no way she could exist in his future.

Choi Ji-hyuk wiped his bloody mouth with the back of his hand and grabbed a pipe that fell on the floor.

[SYSTEM] – The incarnation, Choi Ji-hyuk, has awakened!

Soon after, dozens of system windows emerged around Choi Jihyuk.

[SYSTEM]

-Warning! – The evil that had been sealed is awakening!