I Became a Fortune Teller in a Game My Sister Made

8 – 3. The mysterious fortune teller

What is the most important thing in self-employment?

Sectors? location? sales strategy?

Of course, all of that is important to be a successful self-employed person.

“Of course, the most important thing is capital.”

So, wouldn’t it be possible to choose a good industry, set a good location, and devise a good strategy only if you have money?

But I, Namgoong-min, am broke, not even having money to buy dinner right away, let alone capital.

What do you need at this time? Of course, he is a kind person who can generously give money to people in need!

“So, could you give me some money?”

“……what?”

So ‘give’.

give me money

“………… Namgoong Min, I think I misunderstood.”

“Oops, what’s wrong with you?”

“You asked for money so naturally, you thought I borrowed money from you.”

Liu Yan muttered, a good man who had been ‘give me the money’ by Namgoong Min who suddenly came in.

Inside the romance academy, in the office that was marked out in advance, Liu Yan met some uninvited guests.

Namgoong-Min, who came to her casually with a smile, asking her for money very naturally, as if he were looking for money he had entrusted to her.

Liu Yan was so dumbfounded that he had to leave.

“Ask? From me? Money?”

“of course.”

“…ha ha ha.”

Is it because of Namgoong-min, who answers with a smile?

Liu Yan, smiling after him, brushed back his long straight hair and opened his mouth.

“My name is Namgoong-min, 20 years old this year. My birthday is July 17th. I was born into a middle-class family in Seoul, the capital of the unified Korean Empire, and had a job as a ‘fortune teller’. Around the age of 19, his parents committed suicide. After that, he was left in an institution where he grew up until the age of 18. At the age of 19, he passed the GED and entered ＜Romance Academy＞ this year.”

“………….”

“Anything more to say?”

sh*t.

After speaking, Liu Yan smiles viciously. Well, after the background investigation of the suspicious person is over, it will be refreshing to expose it to the suspicious person.

Her doubts may not have been fully resolved yet, but she should have lessened her doubts now that she knows that I’m not the hidden instructor of the academy or the helper of those who oppose her.

uh, well okay. Listen to that and find out what to say… …

“Um, are you fast?”

“………what?”

But that’s a bit difficult.

Excessive suspicion of Liu Yan is a problem, but diminishing suspicion is a bigger problem.

The only thing she suspects is someone who can cause her ‘damage’, and if my suspicions diminish here, there is a high possibility that I will be dismissed as ‘an idiot who knows how to do fortune-telling’.

‘I thought about it many times in the game… … It’s really annoying.’

Contrary to her beautiful appearance, she is indeed a troublesome woman. Once you doubt without asking or questioning, and if it turns out to be harmless, you are treated as an idiot, and if there is something, you doubt it more intensely?

The fundamental reason is that she unconditionally classifies people as either idiots or suspicious bastards… … You cannot seek a middle way between them.

No, even Lucas Arthur, who has been a childhood friend since childhood, is less likely to do so, but he continues to doubt it?

To be honest, the character event that heals that suspicious disease is just amazing.

Fortunately, it wasn’t too difficult to raise her doubts again.

“Then you probably know that I’m an only child, right?”

“Ha! Of course not.”

“That’s all right.”

“………….”

You just have to pretend to see something.

Liu did a background investigation and bragged about it in front of me, but I just shrugged my shoulders and replied that I knew it?

Her suspicion circuit will not heat up again, and it will flare up. Perhaps they are suspicious of the possibility that my background investigation was wrong, the possibility of disinformation, or hidden information.

‘Honestly, I didn’t expect to investigate the background so quickly.’

In the game, when the ‘suspicion level’, which only exists for her, reaches a certain level, an event is created in which Liu investigates the player’s background.

But it’s a game, and seeing it in real life, it’s not even 2 hours since I met you, and in the meantime, I’ve been investigating my entire life? It’s not natural to freak out.

Even though that life was similar to my life in reality, I was more embarrassed.

‘There’s no mention of that pseudo bastard.’

Liu just said that his parents committed suicide after their business failed, but he didn’t say anything about the f*cking fortune teller who took control of his parents.

As long as my job is a ‘fortune teller’, if I had known that it was ‘another fortune teller’ who drove my parents to suicide, I would have used it as an unconditional provocation due to Liu’s personality.

But not saying it means that Liu doesn’t know either.

‘That godfather, Liu Yan, investigated, but didn’t know? It probably means that the pseudo bastard didn’t approach me in this world.’

In other words, even if you do a background investigation, the only thing you can find out is a life story similar to mine.

I didn’t know about my past, but shouldn’t I be grateful for telling me so kindly?

‘What’s more, I’m an only child?’

I have a younger sister, Namgung Ji-soo, who is bloody kin even though she is a b*tch and has a lot of complaints and is very picky about topics.

If I had a younger sister here, I would have been a bit scared… … Come to think of it, he’s the developer of this game, so there’s no way he’s here.

‘There’s nothing to be afraid of even if you do a background investigation.’

Rather, do your best to investigate. there won’t be anything more coming out.

Then, the more he did, the deeper Liu’s suspicions would be.

“Rather than that, could you give me some money?”

“……Why do I have to give money to an asshole like you when you keep saying money, money, money?”

“So you got points from me?”

“But what?”

“Then you should give me a blessing.”

Liu looks at me with a blank face as I still smile and make a money-shaped gesture with one hand.

To be honest, looking at it from the front, it was pretty. It’s a problem that the huge downside of being suspicious is covering up all of that.

“Bok, Chae?”

“Of course. If you’re Chinese, there’s no way you wouldn’t know, right?”

Bokchae (卜債). Money given to fortune-tellers or fortune-tellers after fortune-telling.

In the case of the Orient, the birthplace of divination can be generally said to be China. Basically, this is because the oriental fortune-telling started from the theories of yin-yang, the five elements, the eight trigrams, and the heavenly branch, and the birthplace of these theories is China.

Even Confucius, who is called the 4th sage, also studied the Book of Changes (周易), a type of divination, and based on this, the famous four zodiac characters (四柱八字) appeared.

In China, which can be said to be the origin of oriental divination, fortune-telling has developed that much, and bokchae is well known.

Yes, of course, Korea now… … No, even in the unified Korean Empire, it is basic to pay fortune in fortune telling, whether it be tarot, contemplation, or fortune telling, but the fortune we are talking about now has a slightly different meaning.

“Are you sure you won’t?”

Points are fundamentally questions and answers. The customer asks the fortune teller, and the fortune teller answers.

However, if this is all, the customer gets an answer to the question, but the fortuneteller gets nothing.

So the fortune teller tells the guest. ‘If you don’t pay a fair price, I will take your blessing’.

In the East, fortune-tellers were more like agents serving supernatural beings such as gods and ancestors, so they could use their authority to get paid.

‘That’s why not paying fortune even after reading fortunes means ‘it’s okay even if disaster comes to me~’.’

In the case of the West, the meaning is a little different, but… … After all, as long as Liu Yan is Chinese, it is difficult to escape from the above notion.

What if she cut her belly? It’s an ancestor, a god, and it wasn’t a real divination in the first place, so it won’t be a problem even if I don’t pay fortune, and my plan will be completely wrong.

But I wasn’t too worried.

“…No, I’ll give it to you.”

“thank you.”

If it was Liu Yan, a patient with a severely suspected disease, there is a very high possibility that he would come to the conclusion that he should just pay for his fortune.

If you pay the fortune teller, it is a natural transaction between the customer and the fortune teller, but if you do not pay the fortune teller, you should be more suspicious, saying you don’t know what the fortune teller will do.

Liu Yan wasn’t stupid enough to make the choice to further arouse so many suspicions.

“How much do you need? 10,000 yuan? 20,000 yuan?”

“Don’t worry, it won’t be long.”

After all, is a godfather a godfather? It’s amazing to see the money coming out lightly like taking out a coin, such as 10,000 yuan (about 1.8 million won) or 20,000 yuan (about 3.6 million won).

Of course, it’s not 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, but the price of the bokchae has already been set.

“Yes, how much do you have to eat like a pig to be satisfied—”

“One million yuan.”

“───What?”

“No more, no less, just one million yuan.”

I answered lightly and shrugged my shoulders.

One million yuan, roughly calculated… … About 180 million won?

That’s the right price for the blessings I thought I would receive from Liu. It was a lot of money, but it wasn’t too much money for Liu.

So just take the money and go straight to the shopping street… …

“Are you insane?”

“……Hmm? I don’t know what you mean.”

However, contrary to Namgoong Min’s expectation that he would lightly pull out 180,000 from his wallet and throw it away, Liu, whose face was red with anger, glared at him.

Hey, you come out pretty brazen?

“A million yuan for a prank on kids who can only guess what’s inside?”

“If it ended up being a joke, 1 million yuan would be a joke, and 100 yuan would be enough.”

“Then that’s it.”

“But didn’t it end as a joke? You used me, didn’t you?”

“…….”

“You didn’t think I wouldn’t know, did you?”

… … Did you really think I didn’t know? Really, that’s a bit disappointing.

I turned my head to Liu’s left hand, which seemed a bit disappointed and stiff in embarrassment.

On that hand, there is no ring on the ring finger.

“He showed me the ring he was originally wearing on his ring finger… and I told him there were several small gems in it.”

“…….”

“Didn’t you remove all the jewels inside and sell them? Other than that, didn’t you check the value and dispose of them by showing them things like magic-treated boxes and broken pendants that won’t open?”

“…”

“If you add them all up, it should be 3 million yuan, but I conscientiously tried to only get 1 million yuan… but you’re deceiving me too much.”

If I earned 3 million yuan, roughly 600 million, thanks to my fortune (not), isn’t it moral to have to give it back?

However, since I cheated with game knowledge, not real points, I conscientiously asked for a third instead of half.

“You’re too petty for a godfather.”

far away fast.

“Then, let me ask you again.”

Adduk. fast.

Although I was a little disappointed by Liu’s pettiness… … Still, don’t people have a chance to regenerate?

I smiled as innocently as possible at Liu, whose teeth were making strange noises.

“Can you give me some money?”

Adduk. hard.

fast. up

far away

*

“……Come and see me.”

The sun is setting, and only the moonlight enters the office.

In the middle of the office, which was a mess with broken and scattered parts, Liu Yan murmured softly, breathing heavily with bloodshot eyes.

Sigh.

As soon as she finished speaking, the door to the next room, which had been firmly closed, opened.

“…you called.”

“I know.”

“…yes?”

“That fortune teller bastard. Nam Goong-min. Come find out everything about that bastard.”

“……Are you saying that we should investigate the background again?”

“no.”

Liu Yan tilts his head toward the other side of the door. Red bloodshot eyes shine in the middle of the dark office.

Eyes overflowing with ferocity, madness, and doubt.

“Approach that bastard. Coincidence, friend, lover, s*x or whatever. Approach and find out everything about that bastard. Past, personality, way of speaking, history, occupation, habits, everything.”

“…….”

Aside from his habits and history, why is it that he asks me to find out his past, occupation, and personality, which I have already found out enough through background investigations?

But someone on the other side of the door, having made the wise decision not to ask, was silent.

“If you do that, I’ll get rid of all your debts. You’re also a cadet at the Romance Academy, so can you?”

“…All right.”

Click.

With only a short answer left, the door to the next room closes and only a creepy silence remains in the office.

Leaving only the faint moonlight and silence beside her, Liu focused her red eyes on one spot.

Namgoong-min’s profile, which he received from an official at the academy, and the contents of Namgoong-min’s background investigation, which he ordered idiots to do.

Staring at the picture of him stuck between them.

“………….”

Liu Yan as usual.

I began to doubt and doubt again.