ALL NOVEL Chapter 17 - How This Fortune Teller Becomes Famous (5)
Chapter 17
How This Fortune Teller Becomes Famous (5)
『 Translator – Divinity 』
“…Just who is that bastard?”
Liu Yan, who had been watching the collapsing walls, glanced in the direction the Fortune Teller had run off to and sighed.
That’s what Namgung Min was to her. It hadn’t even been ten days since they met, but… she couldn’t figure him out at all.
Even when she looked at him with the
“…It’s going well.”
“What are you looking at?”
When she looked at this bitch next to her with the job skill
Depending on the size of that golden color, she could roughly tell the value of the target, the amount of money they could earn… It was the number one contributor that truly made Liu a billionaire.
Just activating this skill and going around antique shops once would easily net her hundreds of millions of won, and it was also the reason why she could maintain a unique position in the stock and investment markets all by herself.
Because she was someone who had succeeded entirely on her own, without relying on others, and continued to live alone to this day.
She had always trusted
‘Why can’t I see that bastard!’
Did she have to doubt even this now?
‘Damn it…’
Since long ago, and gradually,
Liu Yan, unaware that she was becoming exhausted from her own suspicion, turned her head to the side.
“…Hey, you bitch.”
“It’s Rain Arthur.”
“Yeah, you bitch.”
“Want me to blow your head off?”
Large stones, the size of a human head, floated around Rain, who was scowling.
But Liu Yan, scoffing at all of them, muttered,
“Whatever, why are you being cooperative with that Fortune Teller?”
“…Yes?”
“I didn’t mean to, but I’ve been watching you for a while. And the you I’ve seen so far is just a bitch who eats manners for breakfast. A bitch who loves to step on those weaker than her.”
“………….”
“And from your perspective, that Fortune Teller is definitely someone weak, right? What you value isn’t how competent someone is.”
“……….”
“You just blindly look at whether you can beat them in a fight or not, right? Last time, you punched some nouveau riche guy in the face. Just because he tried to hit on you for the first time. What’s different about this guy?”
Rain Arthur remained silent.
Normally, she would have retorted to Liu Yan’s words, but this time, she couldn’t.
Because if she answered Liu’s question, his strength would inevitably be revealed, and he was clearly stronger than her.
…Actually, seeing him actively stepping up and moving around like this made her wonder if he really wanted to keep a low profile, but an order from someone strong was an order.
Well, if she didn’t answer at all, that persistent and short woman wouldn’t be satisfied. What should she say?
“It’s just a whim.”
“What?”
“Isn’t it fun to watch? Isn’t it amusing to see that insignificant Fortune Teller, who can only talk, acting so presumptuously? It’s exhilarating to see him walking a tightrope, even though one wrong step would send him plummeting.”
“…Is that true?”
“Huh, didn’t you just call me a bitch? A bitch is just doing what a bitch does.”
Rain, who said that with a sly smile, was… enough to make even Liu a bit disgusted.
She wondered why this girl was being cooperative with someone she considered weak, and it turned out she was just malicious.
At Liu’s cold gaze, which conveyed the meaning of “Isn’t that a bit much?”, Rain turned her head away.
‘…Is this enough?’
It was better for Rain to take on more notoriety than to have the topic shift back to Namgung Min.
She knew that she was implicitly called a villainess anyway. And since the Arthur family also turned a blind eye to it, needing a scapegoat, she just accepted that decision.
She had a ‘strong against the weak, weak against the strong’ complex and had to absolutely obey the strong, which was her family.
“………….”
“……….”
The surroundings were noisy with all sorts of sounds, but an awkward silence persisted between the two.
Although they had known each other since childhood and could be considered childhood friends, they hated each other and kept their distance.
But both of them clearly realized now.
‘…Even though I’m suspicious of that guy, this bitch is truly malicious. That Fortune Teller should be crying and begging in front of me, not being trampled by this bitch. I should divert this bitch’s attention to me…!’
‘If this paranoiac starts suspecting Namgung Min… it’s only a matter of time before she finds out, and then his order to keep a low profile will go down the drain. I have to focus this bitch’s attention on me!’
That they had Namgung Min in common.
And that it wasn’t a very good thing.
And that they had to divert each other’s attention to themselves to prevent the topic of conversation from shifting to Namgung Min.
“…Bitch.”
“…Short, delusional bitch.”
But the only way they knew each other was through provocative insults.
So they just kept cursing at each other.
***
First of all, after running, I realized something.
And there was one more thing I had forgotten until now.
[The job ‘Fortune Teller’ has a disastrous aptitude for physical activity, be careful even when running!]
“Was that… literally meant to be a warning…?”
The low physical ability combined with the disastrous aptitude for physical activity.
These two boasted a fantastic collaboration, making me stop running and collapse against a wall less than a minute after I started.
No, even a Fortune Teller is a job holder, so he should be superhuman, right? Even if he can’t run as fast as a car like a
This feels even worse than my physical strength in reality. Are you kidding me, a superhuman with worse stamina than a police academy aspirant?
Besides, I was fine when I was digging earlier. What’s the standard for physical activity?
“I should have just… asked other students…”
“Asked for what?”
“…Ha, haha. Is this what they call being lucky in misfortune?”
Although I wasn’t sweating because of the
Because the person I was looking for had come to me herself.
With a feeling of gratitude, I slowly exhaled and inhaled, calming my breathing.
Now, shall we smile?
“Huu… Greetings to Her Highness, the Princess of the Unified Korean Empire.”
“Even if we hadn’t met before, isn’t it funny to be so polite now?”
“We were in a group then, but now it’s just the two of us. It’s only proper.”
“Those are nice words. It would have been better if you hadn’t said them while sitting on the ground.”
“Haha, my legs gave out.”
“Pfft. Is that a joke about your legs giving out because of me?”
No, they really did give out. My legs are trembling right now, I can’t stand up!
…Since I couldn’t say that directly, beating around the bush was the best I could do.
“I was looking for you, Your Highness, to the point that my legs gave out.”
“But in the end, didn’t I come to you myself?”
“That must be my good fortune.”
“You’re quite eloquent.”
Princess Kim Eun-ha, arms crossed, chuckled.
Her arms looked so delicate… but knowing that a single swing from them could turn me into dried squid made my body tremble.
“So, why were you looking for me?”
“I need Your Highness’s power.”
“…Do you know what you’re doing right now? Gathering students and breaking down the maze walls, this is probably the first time in the history of Romance Academy.”
“I need Your Highness’s power.”
“I heard you have the Esper, the Billionaire, the Magician, and the Swordsman backed by Japan. With those and hundreds of students, you can push through any wall.”
“I need Your Highness’s power.”
“…You’re persistent.”
Trying to change the subject? No way.
It was scary to face violence, but it was foolish to forget your goal because of that fear.
Besides, Kim Eun-ha’s violence… or should I say, her trigger? It was very easily triggered by her brother, Kim Seong-il, but rarely by others.
Of course, it was ‘rarely’, so I had to be careful.
“Alright, let me tell you the conclusion first. I have no intention of cooperating with you.”
“May I ask why?”
Actually, I knew the reason, but it was polite to ask.
And the princess’s answer was obvious.
“There’s no reason for me to tell you tha–”
“–You were avoiding it, weren’t you?”
“…E-excuse me?”
That’s why I had to strike first.
Now, Your Highness. Will you really be able to not react?
“Actually, I did some fortune-telling.”
“…Fortune-telling?”
“Since I have weak stamina, I gave up on escaping this maze from the beginning. So I had some time to spare and did some fortune-telling.”
“………….”
“I asked, ‘What will I be doing after 12 o’clock?’, and ta-da! Surprisingly, the result was that I would be doing well without any problems. At that moment, I thought.”
“Ah, it’s okay even if I fail this.”
I calmly muttered the lie and observed Kim Eun-ha. As if sensing something ominous, she met my gaze fiercely.
I was going to reveal her most hidden secret. A secret she would want to silence even if it meant killing me.
“Then there would be no problem even if I just sat here. But I moved.”
Compared to Kim Eun-ha, I lacked in everything. Stamina, ability, status, fame, money, everything. But even if she was a princess, she couldn’t kill me or erase me from the academy.
Because Namgung Min, the Fortune Teller, had already left a strong impression on all the new students. Even if she could silence those from the Unified Korean Empire, she couldn’t silence students from other countries like Rain or Liu.
But recklessly exposing her secret and becoming her enemy was also a big problem.
So what should I show her?
“I gathered the students. We formed a group, a crowd, and started breaking down the walls of the maze.”
“…That’s quite a leap in logic.”
“What does the process matter? The result is what’s important. Anyway, as we broke down the walls like that, other students gradually started cooperating, and the number increased.”
But then,
“But Your Highness wasn’t there.”
“Well, I was in a different direction.”
“Haha, Your Highness. From the moment you met me like this, that’s meaningless. Can’t you hear that sound? The sound of walls collapsing, buildings being destroyed? How can you say you don’t know when you can hear it so clearly?”
“……….”
“You said it yourself at first, Your Highness. That you had no intention of cooperating. And that’s exactly what you did.”
If I hadn’t found the princess, I would have just given up. If the princess had really gone far in the opposite direction, she might not have heard the sound.
But we met after running for a little over a minute. That meant the princess had been intentionally avoiding us.
But then, a question arises.
“Then wouldn’t that be fine?”
“Then why did you come looking for me?”
You kept avoiding me, and now? You came all this way?
“………….”
“It would have been easy to not meet me. But then why did you come to see me in person like this? At the very moment I left that group?”
“…………….”
“The answer is simple. The reason why Your Highness doesn’t want to cooperate isn’t because of… ‘me’, but because of ‘that group’.”
Princess Kim Eun-ha. She had a secret.
A secret that was shared only with her family, a secret that would have already exploded if it weren’t for her brother, Kim Seong-il.
“Why is that?”
“…”
And here,
“…………….”
“………….”
“……………….”
“…………?”
Suddenly, I fell silent.
At the highlight of the story, the climax of the conversation, at the most important part of uncovering the secret,
I closed my mouth.
“…What is it? Why aren’t you saying anything?”
“Your Highness, I won’t say what comes next.”
“Ha. Are you asking me self-deprecatingly why, and then saying you don’t know the answer?”
“No, I know the answer. It’s just that, as Your Highness knows well, it’s something that shouldn’t be said.”
“…………….”
I won’t say it. But I already know it, even if I don’t say it.
The princess’s eyes gradually turned cold. She was probably thinking about what to do with me.
If I really knew the ‘answer’.
It was a secret she had to hide more than anything else.
“So, would you like to have your fortune told?”
“…Fortune-telling?”
“Yes. A simple tarot reading.”
I created and shuffled the tarot cards in the air. During that brief time, I clearly saw the princess’s fist clench and unclench.
The princess had to confirm whether I really knew her secret. That’s why she wasn’t choosing the option of just ending the conversation and leaving.
And for a moment, she thought of a very simple solution, but then gave up.
A solution that could be considered the secret itself.
“Please draw any card you like.”
“………….”
The princess must be thinking of just playing along.
She was probably going to have someone kidnap me or something as soon as this conversation was over. It was a secret that could deal a huge blow to the imperial family itself, to the point where she had to resort to such coercive measures.
So, her mind preoccupied with other thoughts, she drew a card without much thought.
“………!!!”
“…Major Arcana number 8,
That’s why she was even more shocked.
“What do you think, Your Highness?”
“………….”
“Is my fortune-telling correct?”
Princess Kim Eun-ha. She…
had beaten someone to death with her innate ‘violence’.