Constellation of Black Stars (5)
“Hmm? Hahahaha! Everyone, don’t panic! “Koshiro and Yoko are not biological siblings!”
“yes?”
What does that mean?
As I looked at him with questioning eyes, Sakaki raised his eyebrows.
“There’s a story. “We are not related by blood, but we have been her siblings since she was young.”
“is that so.”
I didn’t really ask about the story.
Not only was it useless to find out, but I wasn’t in a position to worry about that right now.
There is only one thing that Ojin needs to do now.
“… what? “Tick your tail?”
“Tsk.”
Ha-eun’s shoulders tremble.
She cleared her throat with an awkward expression.
“Wow, I didn’t know it would be like this~”
“ha. Anyway… .”
“No, when you say that all you have is your own body, how can I not be mistaken!”
what.
To be honest, it was an expression that left a lot of room for misunderstanding.
“let’s go.”
“Okay. okay.”
Ojin and his group boarded a vehicle prepared by the Kuroshi organization and headed to the coast where the Hippocampus constellation first appeared.
Even after leaving the paved road, you have to go a long way further into the countryside.
We arrived at a quiet fishing village along a road filled with nothing but spreading rice fields and the sound of insects.
“eww.”
Before getting out of the car, Ha-eun let out a low moan and closed her eyes tightly.
A group of demonic beasts appeared in a village with less than 200 households.
Even leading them was the Black Star Constellation, which inherited the power of the Heavenly Demon.
It was an enemy that was questionable as to whether or not it could be fought even if the entire nation’s power was mobilized, and it was not difficult to imagine what a terrible ending ordinary people without even awakened people would have faced.
“… “I still have to go.”
Ha-eun took a deep breath and opened the car door.
Nothing would change even if I stayed here anyway.
Just as the world does not disappear when you close your eyes, turning your head away because you do not want to see it does not change what has already happened.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Is it because everyone expected to some extent the disaster that would have occurred in the village?
There was only heavy silence between Ojin and his group who got out of the car and headed towards the small fishing village.
Sakaki and Koshiro, who usually like to talk loudly, kept their mouths shut at this moment.
In the village we arrived at like that.
“Hey, where are you from? “It’s been a while since I’ve seen outsiders.”
An old man with dark skin was looking at Ojin and the others with a puzzled expression.
Basket in hand and fluttering fish.
Dark, tanned skin and a sturdy body that makes it hard to think of him as an old man.
No matter how you look at it, he was an ordinary fisherman living in the countryside.
“… Eh? what?”
Ha-eun looked around with a puzzled expression.
A small fishing village with a rural feel.
Outsiders who had visited the village for the first time in a long time were seen sticking their heads out between the old and shabby houses as if they were curious.
Sakaki also walked up to the fisherman, who was looking blankly in this direction with an expression of confusion, probably because he hadn’t expected this kind of situation.
“Hmm! I came from Kuroshi… .”
“Kuroushi? Hehe, what a fun name.”
“… “Are you sure you don’t know Kuroshi?”
Sakaki looked at the fisherman with wide eyes as if he couldn’t believe it.
Where is Kuroshi?
Even if it was originally a Yakuza organization, isn’t it an organization with such strong power and force that it can be said that Sakaki and Koshiro have risen to high-ranking awakenings and are now virtually ruling Japan?
“Yes? Where are the famous people? haha. We’re from the countryside so we don’t know much about that… .”
An old man shaking his head with an easygoing laugh.
Ojin and his group looked at each other and laughed.
“What I thought… “The situation is a little different.”
“It doesn’t seem like the walruses attacked this village.”
So what does this mean about the transport vehicle that suddenly lost contact?
“I want to ask you one thing.”
“Oh my. Well, I don’t know if I can answer in an ignorant way.”
“Isn’t there a car that comes here every week?”
“Hmm? iced coffee! When I asked where he came from, he said he came from the same company?”
The old man let out a short exclamation, then frowned and glared at Sakaki with somewhat fierce eyes.
“Why, if you don’t come for two days without saying anything, are we going to call it a joke? huh? “Do you have any idea how many fish we caught thanks to you have died?”
“… … .”
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“Anyway, it’s the company’s fault for being late without telling you, so you should definitely get the money you promised!”
From what the old man said, it seemed like the villagers didn’t know about the vehicle that was said to have lost contact.
Sakaki calmed down the excited old man and spoke calmly.
The information obtained after a short conversation was as follows.
1. The vehicle that regularly comes every week to deliver necessary food ingredients and supplies to the village and receive fish suddenly stopped arriving this week.
2. Even when I called the person in charge, I did not receive a call, and even when I asked the company, they said they would look into it, but there was no response yet.
3. For the past two days, not even the cries of animals, let alone demonic beasts, have been heard.
“Hmm… “Then where on earth are those horse-headed bastards hiding?”
Ha-eun frowned as if she had a headache.
“We have to find out about that now.”
“For now, I will tell the villagers to evacuate.”
Sakaki came forward as a representative and warned the villagers that they needed to get out of this place quickly.
At first, the villagers questioned where they were going and left their homes, but when they saw the Kuroshi gang members stampeding out of the car, they remained silent.
Most of the village members were villagers who had lived their entire lives by fishing, but as yakuzas dressed in black suits stormed into the village, they must have had no choice but to obey quietly.
“Oh ya bung! “We have been contacted by the transport company that contracts with this town!”
“So, the location of the vehicle that lost contact has been located?”
“no. “The company said they had been looking for him for two days, but could not contact him at all, so they reported him missing.”
So, did the missing persons report from the company trickle down to the Kuroshi organization?
“Okay. “I don’t know where he is hiding.”
Sakaki scratched his short-cut head and frowned.
Ojin turned his head to Vega, who was sitting on his shoulder, and asked.
“Vega, can’t you feel the energy of the black star?”
[Hmm. I’m trying to find her real wife from earlier, but… I don’t feel any particularly unpleasant energy.]
“Regulus… ?”
[Okay. I don’t know either.]
Regulus, who was standing upright on Lee Woo-hyuk’s shoulder and looking sharply at his surroundings, shook his head with a short sigh.
[Ugh! You cheeky walrus! Don’t hide like a rat, come out! Come out and have a fight with this Aldebaran!]
Aldebaran kicked Sakaki’s shoulder and flew up, shouting in a loud voice.
Of course.
There was no answer back.
‘No matter how artificial it is, there are three constellations, but I can’t even feel the presence of the Black Star Constellation.’
Either they are far away from here.
or not.
‘He used a dark secret or something.’
If you use the power of the Black Sky to hide your energy, you will be able to hide yourself from the eyes of the constellations.
“Tsk.”
Ojin lightly clicked his tongue and turned his head towards Sakaki.
“First, let’s go to the coast where the video was first filmed.”
“I understand.”
Since I knew they weren’t attacking the village, there was nothing I could gain even if I continued to hang out here.
Ojin and his group got back into the car and headed to the coast where the first video was taken.
The distance is approximately 15 minutes by car.
Considering that this was a dirt road that was difficult for vehicles to travel on, it was not far from the village.
“It’s here.”
“yes.”
click.
After Ojin got out of the car, he activated his hunting position and looked around.
As if I was on the west coast of Korea, I saw wide footprints on the muddy mud flat, as if I had stepped on the ground wearing flippers.
Clap.
“Wow, the dirt is up to your knees.”
Ha-eun followed Oh-jin and stepped into the mud flat, frowning and looking down at her bridge submerged in mud.
If I had known the mud would be this deep, I would have brought boots, but I didn’t have time to bring them because I didn’t expect to reach the mudflats.
“That’s strange.”
Lee Woo-hyuk, who was examining the footprints next to Oh Jin, frowned and said.
“Is it strange?”
“Aren’t there footprints left here? “There are no signs of trying to hide it or anything.”
Lee Woo-hyuk pointed to clearly marked footprints.
As he said, it was a proud footprint with no intention to hide it at all.
Ha-eun, who was quietly listening to Lee Woo-hyuk’s story, crossed her arms and tilted her head.
“Well, is there anything strange about it? “Didn’t they just give up hiding it because there were so many of them?”
“No, if that were the case, I wouldn’t be hiding like I am now.”
If only there had been no intention of hiding the footprints in the first place.
It didn’t make sense for him to be lying dead and hiding like he was doing now.
Because they didn’t even attack villages that were only a few kilometers away from here.
“… … .”
A slimy feeling of discomfort running down my spine.
Ojin narrowed his eyes, looking down at the mud that was submerged up to his knees.
at that time.
‘for a moment.’
I felt a strange sense of discomfort.
“… Mr. Sakaki. “Can I watch the video you shot before again?”
Ojin, who had been quietly watching the noisy footsteps of the magical beasts, turned his head towards Sakaki.
“Oh, of course.”
“thank you.”
Ojin took the tablet from Sakaki and slowly looked at the video again.
A desolate beach with no one around.
A black crack opens and horse-headed beasts pour out.
And even Anceladus, the constellation of Hippocampus.
It was a video shot with the exact same composition as where Ojin is currently standing, except that there were no demonic beasts and constellations.
Just one thing.
There was something different from the video.
“Damn it.”
A harsh curse flows from Ojin’s lips.
“Why but?”
“doesn’t exist.”
“What do you mean there isn’t… .”
“It’s a mud flat.”
A muddy mudflat that sinks your feet up to your knees.
However, what was seen in the video was not a mud flat, but a pure white sandy beach.
To say that it was a difference in tides, the current time was at most 30 minutes different from the time the video was filmed.
and.
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The muddy mud began to sway like waves.
