I am not a returner Episode 365:
Constellation of the Black Star (1)
After the three-day vacation, busy daily life began again.
As always, Ojin woke up early in the morning and headed to the personal training facility that Isabella had purchased and built an entire stadium for him.
The training started at 4 a.m. and ended around 8 p.m.
He went through a devastating training schedule lasting 16 hours and steadily mastered the power of the Lyra Stigmata, which raised him to 10 stars.
“I’ll just leave then, Mr. Ohjin. “I made as many side dishes as possible of each type and put them in the refrigerator, so take them out and eat them.”
“Oh yeah. thank you.”
Oh Jin was not the only one with a busy schedule.
Isabella was also spending a busy life traveling around the world to manage dozens of businesses run by the Colgrande family, along with personal training.
“You said you were going to Italy this time, right?”
“Yes, that’s right. “I’m planning to visit my parents’ house for a while.”
“How much do you have?”
“Well… I have a lot of work to take care of, so I’ll probably have to stay a little longer this time.”
Isabella speaks with a sullen expression, perhaps because she thinks she will have to stay away from Ojin for a while.
The sight of her with slumped shoulders made me feel like a puppy getting caught in the rain, and I smiled involuntarily.
“what? Are you sure you want to stay away from me?”
Isabella shoots a sharp look at Oh Jin, who is laughing.
Ojin shook his head and gently stroked her cheek.
“It’s not like that.”
“ha. “I feel like I want to get rid of everything, including the business…”
Isabella looked at Ojin with anxious eyes and sighed deeply.
I really wanted to give up everything I had to do to manage the business and stick to Oh Jin and carefully manage everything from his diet to his nightly schedule.
‘For the sake of Oh Jin… I’ll have to endure it.’
The enormous wealth and power that comes from running dozens of businesses will be a great help to Oh Jin, who has no backing of any kind except the association.
Even in a world where cracks leading to the outside world were created and demons were infested, the power of capital was still enormous.
“Don’t worry, I will take good care of Ojini while you are away.”
Ha-eun grinned, raising the corners of her mouth and subtly groping Oh-jin’s buttocks.
Isabella’s eyes turned sharp.
“sister…!”
“I’m kidding. I’m kidding. “You know I’m busy these days too, right?”
“Hmm. That’s true, but…”
Isabella bit her lip as if she didn’t like it at all.
I know that Ha-eun has been very busy lately, concentrating on training to manipulate the spirit of the Dragon God obtained from the Demonic Sutra.
“…Still, it’s disgusting.”
At least you don’t have to go abroad like you did.
Isabella sighed deeply and shook her head.
We couldn’t keep complaining like children when everyone was busy.
“I’ll go, Mr. Ohjin.”
“huh. Have a safe trip. “Get in touch.”
Ojin lightly kissed Isabella and waved as she left.
“I will take you to my lady.”
Roberto and his attendants dressed in black suits, who had been waiting outside the entrance, left with Isabella.
Ha-eun clicked her tongue as she watched Isabella leaving.
“You seem really busy these days.”
“I guess so.”
No matter how talented you were, running dozens of companies couldn’t have been easy.
Even if most of the practical work is handled from below, there will be many things that require her to make decisions.
“Okay. “I have to get ready to go out soon.”
“Let’s go together, Ojina.”
Although Ha-eun was not confined to the training center for 16 hours a day like O-jin, Ha-eun was also working hard on her training.
When I have free time, I eat the packed lunch I brought with me or help Ojin with his training.
“Please call Vega first.”
Unlike Ha-eun, who helped Oh-jin whenever she had time, Vega was quite systematically helping Oh-jin with training to deal with the stigmata of the Lyra constellation.
Thanks to this, the technique of fusing the power of the Lyra Stigmata and the Black Sky, which Ojin is now focusing on, was developing rapidly every day.
In the past, I would never have dreamed of receiving help from Vega in the training of weaving the Black Heaven and the Lyra Stigmata.
Since the identity of the Black Sky was revealed anyway, there was no need to train while avoiding Vega’s eyes.
Wooooow!
As I poured magical energy into the pendant around my neck, a silvery glow came out.
[It’s the real girl!]
Bababam!
Vega appeared in the same posture as me.
She looked around at Oh Jin and Ha Eun, who had changed into training clothes, and let out a short sigh.
[Are you going to train again?]
“Of course.”
[ha. Yesterday, you trained for such a long time that you became a rag… I am worried that your body may be ruined.]
“If you get hurt, just take a good dip in the swimming pool.”
As it is a training facility built by remodeling the entire stadium, there is also a large swimming pool inside for underwater training.
Of course, Ojin’s main purpose of using the training facility’s swimming pool was for simple treatment, not training for underwater combat.
[Did I say that the technology that absorbs water and heals the body is called water affinity?]
“That’s right.”
[But doesn’t that technology only treat trauma?]
“That’s true.”
Still, there is something about trauma that can be completely healed.
“But as the flowering stage of Heukcheon increased, the internal injuries were also healed to some extent.”
Although it was literally only ‘to a certain extent’, it was not a skill suitable for treating internal injuries.
‘Even if you pour a bucket of elixir, the wound won’t regenerate this quickly.’
Although this is limited to trauma, in terms of simple recovery, the water-friendly skill was not at all inferior to the legendary potion elixir, which is said to be able to revive the dead.
‘Thanks to you, it’s nice to be able to train without worrying about damaging your body.’
As long as there is enough water, no matter how serious the injury, the wound can regenerate as if it were an immortal slime. For Ohjin, who enjoyed training so intense that it was almost torture, there was no better recovery skill than this.
[ha. I really can’t live.]
Vega touched her forehead as if her head was pounding.
The Holy Spirit Riak, who inherited part of her soul, was also a training fanatic similar to Ojin, but at least Riak did not train ignorantly to the point that his body was damaged like Ojin.
“Then let’s leave quickly.”
Today I couldn’t go out early in the morning to see Isabella off to Italy.
When I opened the front door, I thought I should stay a little longer as it was late.
Jiiiiiiing.
The smartphone I had in my pocket vibrated.
“Who’s calling?”
“for a moment.”
When I turned on the smartphone screen, Manager Junman Han’s name appeared.
“Yes, Manager.”
-haha! Oh Oh Jin, is it okay to talk to you right now?
The voice of a manager who seems somewhat urgent.
-Well… could you come to the association right now?
“What’s going on?”
-I’ll explain that when you come.
“Hmm. Yes, I understand. “Let’s go right away.”
-thank you!
Manager Han hung up the phone without even saying hello properly.
“What’s going on?”
“well. “It sounded like something very urgent.”
“Hmm, really?”
“I guess I should go first.”
“Oh wait. “They called me too.”
Soon Ha-eun’s smartphone also started vibrating.
It looks like they are calling not just one person, Oh Jin, but all the awakened people who are connected to the association.
“Yes, Manager Gorilla. “I heard about it from Ojini, so I’ll go with you.”
After a short phone call with Manager Han, Ha-eun headed straight to the association with Oh Jin.
* * *
“Oh, you’re here!”
When I arrived at the association, a manager, sweating profusely, came to meet me at the entrance.
Oh Jin approached Manager Han and asked in a quiet voice.
“What happened?”
Unlike Manager Han’s anxious expression, the expressions of employees and awakened people walking around the association looked calm.
In other words, the fact that Manager Han is trying to convey is an incident that has not yet been made public within the association.
“That’s…”
Manager Junman Han looked around and then turned around.
“Just follow me first.”
The place we arrived at after Han Jun-man was a conference room within the association where only the association president and other high-ranking executives could enter.
Oh Jin tilted his head at the feeling of popularity he could feel inside.
“hmm? “Who came first?”
“Oh yeah. “He is the guild leader of the Valhalla guild.”
Valhalla Guild?
When I narrow my eyes to a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
“It’s been a while, Mr. Ohjin.”
The door to the conference room opened and Lee Woo-hyuk appeared.
“Ah… yes. “It’s been a really long time.”
Oh Jin shook hands with Lee Woo-hyuk and remembered the last time he met him.
‘Is it Living Armor time?’
It was so old that I barely even remember it now.
‘hmm?’
At that time, I saw something the size of a doll being placed on Lee Woo-hyuk’s shoulder.
A man with prayers as heavy as a sharply forged blade.
However, since it was so small that it barely exceeded the palm of your hand, much of its unique intimidation had disappeared.
[It’s been a while since I last saw you, Pagunseong.]
The doll-sized man sitting on top of Lee Woohyuk opened his mouth.
He gave a light greeting to Ojin, then turned towards Vega, who was sitting on Ojin’s shoulder, and bowed his head politely.
[I see the star in the constellation Lyra.]
[Aren’t you… Regulus?]
Regulus.
It was the constellation of Leo, which was responsible for one axis of the 12 signs of the zodiac.
[How could you come to Earth…?]
[After the power of the restriction weakened, I was able to manifest in a prosthetic body.]
[Ah.]
A low exclamation flowed from Vega’s mouth.
I had heard that constellations could appear outside after the restrictions were weakened, but this was the first time I had seen it with my own eyes.
‘Did the constellation of Leo choose Lee Woo-hyuk?’
He already said that he was keeping an eye on him, but it seemed like he chose to stay by Lee Woo-hyuk’s side.
“Let’s say hello later… Manager?”
“Yes, please come inside.”
A manager opened the door to the conference room and went inside.
“First of all, I already told awakened Lee Woo-hyuk, but… Please take a look at the video here.”
An image appeared through the beam projector.
The video showed a desolate beach with no people.
“This…?”
“This is a video sent by the Kuroshi organization.”
Kuroshi was a yakuza organization that had previous ties to Ojin.
Ohjin nodded and focused on the video playing in front of him.
-Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Black cracks forming on the beach.
I could see something rushing out of it.
“…Demon beast?”
Its head resembled that of a horse, but it walked on two legs and had webbed arms and legs that protruded from its body.
And another feature.
‘horn.’
It has two horns growing on its head, which looks similar to a horse.
It was similar to the horns on the foreheads of the demons I had seen so many times in the magic world.
“What’s important is what comes next.”
A manager quickly rotated the video.
After hundreds and thousands of horse-headed demonic beasts walked out of the crack.
-Write it down. This is Earth.
A horse-headed monster walking out of a black crack.
However, unlike the horse-headed demon beast that had appeared so far, an indescribably strong sense of intimidation was radiating from him.
Neither a demon beast nor a demon.
A distant sense of encountering a transcendent being far beyond common sense.
Coo goo goo goo goong!
As soon as I lightly stepped on the sandy beach, the surroundings shook and the sea water violently churned as if an earthquake had occurred.
[That author…]
[That’s right, Vega.]
Regulus nodded, looking back at Vega, whose eyes were wide.
Regulus spoke quietly, frowning at the corner of his right eye where a sharp sword was engraved.
There is one thing you can learn from this short video that is less than 10 minutes long.
[The constellation of the Hippocampus constellation…Anceladus.]
The constellation of the black star.
Appeared on Earth.