I Became a Fortune Teller in the Game My Little Sister Made – Chapter 121

The grotesque sight of the immediately slain monster and the hero who had effortlessly sliced through it.

He approached me, effortlessly wielding a greatsword that looked hefty just by glancing at it.

“………….”

“Uh, um. Hero?”

You’re not planning to swing that at me too, are you?

Sure, I usually said “die” or “please die” casually, but that was just a joke, right? Right!?

I need to somehow set Abel up with a girlfriend──

“………Really……yeah….”

“──Yes?”

“A strange you… appeared in my lucid dream….”

“……Strange me?”

Could it be…

The story of that enigmatic Namgoong Min?

“………Different from usual, so…I easily noticed….”

“Then what did you do?”

“I just… cut it down….”

Hmm.

You didn’t pour any emotions or frustrations into that cut, right?

I believe that’s not the case!!

“Anyway, thank you for saving me. I had a fake appear as well.”

Fake… or more like another version of me.

There’s no need to tell the hero that, bringing it up would only confuse him.

I’ll explain it later.

“……It seems like… something odd is happening….”

“Even though it’s a lucid dream, I can’t seem to control it right now. That fake seems to be manipulating our dreams at will.”

“………Skills…?”

“I already tried using <My Little Fortune Teller's Shop>. It was useless.”

“How bothersome….”

This is just speculation, but…

This isn’t my dream.

It’s more plausible that I entered a lucid dream of another me who was manipulating this space.

Setting aside how that was even possible.

The fact that I’m in a dangerous situation is still true.

“First, let’s look for the others.”

“………Others…?”

“I clearly fell asleep with Liu and Rain, so if you can meet me, that means you can meet others too. Since skill use seems restricted, I’m worried about those two.”

“……You didn’t realize….”

“Yes?”

“You… slept with me and the Crown Princess….”

“Uh, what? Really?”

“……Then… are you saying it was a lie…?”

Despite the sudden sleepiness, I thought I had grabbed those two, and it turns out it was the hero and the Crown Princess!?

Then the remaining one is the Crown Princess… um…

“I’m not worried at all.”

“……I’m more worried about the fake….”

“Isn’t it better than being sliced by a greatsword?”

“………Want to try getting sliced…?”

“I’ll shut up.”

Well, still, it’s possible that Liu and Rain got connected at the moment I unexpectedly entered another version of me’s dream.

Honestly, I’m not worried at all, but for the sake of my fragile self, joining up with the Crown Princess is the priority──

“……Oh no….”

“Yes?……What the hell.”

[Growwwwwwww.]

[Shhhhhh.]

[Kiieeeek!!]

──Monsters started to appear from all over the opened doors.

These monsters, made up of various types of fierce beasts, all had differing appearances.

A beast with the body of a lion and the wings of an eagle. A snake with the antlers of a deer. A spider with eight legs of various beasts.

Horrific and disgusting monsters forced their massive bodies through the doors, glaring at us.

“These guys look much stronger than that one from earlier, huh?”

“………Hide….”

“Yes!”

If it were the other side, a fortune teller who’s utterly useless in combat quickly hid between furniture.

Abel Legion, the hero, looked at the surprisingly obedient fortune teller for a moment before gripping his greatsword.

Those monsters are all strong.

If they actually appeared from a gate, they could easily be considered boss monsters.

No matter how skilled a combat job holder is, it’d be natural to escape alone, and even seasoned combat job holders would need to bring at least ten people each to have a fighting chance.

Even in large gates, it’s rare for three of those things to band together, so this is something possible only in the dream of a foe.

‘Then.’

These three are definitely not the end.

Feeling a presence from another door behind those three that give off overwhelming energy.

He is indeed a hero, the strongest in the first year of the Academy, but ultimately, he’s still a student.

So naturally, he has no choice but to resort to tricks on this side as well.

“……I’m going.”

Reviewing the conditions for using my job skill.

First, I must protect the world.

Second, it should be a fight to protect someone.

Third, it must only target evil.

Fourth, I must not show mercy to my foes.

Fifth, I must always act for the sake of good.

……All conditions satisfied.

Job skill, <Absolute Good>.

Nothing seemingly changed on the surface.

The sword didn’t envelop in light or exude a sacred aura like the usual skill <Holy Sword>.

However.

As I looked at the hero, I realized.

At this moment, he was a completely different being than before.

‘This… is <Absolute Good>.’

Thinking about it, the job <Hero> is quite ambiguous.

<Rich Tycoon>, <Psychic>, <Warlock>, <Royalty>, <Saint>. Other special jobs can be immediately understood in terms of what they do, but <Hero> is hard to define.

It’s not an era where the Demon King from fantasies actually exists, and it feels somewhat out of place.

Historically, there hasn’t been one, so many see it merely as a combat job that’s a bit stronger.

Of course, Namgoong Min, who had actually seen the ending as a <Hero>, knew its true identity.

To summarize <Hero> in one word:

As the name suggests, they are the heroes who fight for the world.

“……Come at me….”

[CRAAARRR!!!]

A monster with a lion’s body and the wings of an eagle lunges at him.

It was an agile movement that proved its pandemic strength, a stark contrast to its massive size.

In response, the hero raised his greatsword.

And he slashed.

That was the end of it.

[Crugh…uh…….]

Though his stroke was infinitely slower and less powerful than earlier, the once fierce roaring monster was split in half from head to tail, unable to resist at all.

As the hero gazed down at the slain monster, a horned snake made a surprise attack from the side──

“Show yourself….”

[Saaai!!!]

──The snake’s head rolls on the ground.

As the hero lazily swings the sword, the head of a snake, which could easily swallow a person, is cleanly severed.

In less than ten seconds, two powerful monsters fell to their demise.

[Kiieeeeeee……!]

The last remaining spider, unable to believe it, stepped back.

But the hero merely turned his head, gazing at the spider with indifferent eyes.

Swish.

[Kiieee…….]

Casually slicing the air with his greatsword, the spider that had been trying to flee was halved.

Yet even after all three of the monsters had perished, other monsters came rushing in from beyond the door.

The number was in the dozens; their strengths far greater than those of the three monsters just now.

As if a child was throwing a tantrum, it was an absurdity only possible within a dream.

Standing alone before the incoming waves of monsters, the hero simply—

“…….”

Swung his sword.

Even with weak strikes, the formidable monsters were being pulverized as if they were tossed into a blender.

And I was watching it from the front row.

‘Insane.’

<Hero> is indeed strong. That’s for sure.

But no matter how strong, there must be a limit.

With skill <Holy Sword> being wielded freely and honed in swordsmanship since childhood, Abel Legion is certainly the strongest among the first years, but—

That’s only comparable to Lilly White Rose.

Naturally, such strength cannot achieve such a massacre.

Even bringing Scarlet Redfield, the strongest character in the universe, wouldn’t accomplish that.

……However, there are always exceptions.

The hero’s job skill <Absolute Good>.

A cheat code even Jisoo acknowledged.

‘Like how Exodia was summoned.’

Just as you’d win at once by assembling five specific cards, <Absolute Good> works similarly.

By fulfilling five stringent conditions, you can always win against your enemy.

That’s a skill of that nature.

‘In the game, it was a cheat code that allowed skipping battles after winning.’

The hero who activated <Absolute Good> gains a sort of ‘buff.’

That is, ‘always become stronger than the enemy.’

In that state, no matter who the enemy is, the hero becomes stronger than them.

However, within the game, it could only be used at specific events, so I haven’t seen it many times.

‘But seeing it in action confirms its effectiveness.’

Even now, the number of monsters was continuously increasing, and shockingly, they were becoming increasingly stronger.

Before long, the house disappeared, this space filled solely with white, from which monsters emerged that were giants over 20m tall, three-headed dragons, armored rhinos, and other creations of fantasy—

Yet all those absurdities were annihilated by a single greatsword.

Even if skills are sealed, there’s nothing one can do against <Absolute Good>, backed by the world’s support.

For several minutes, the bodies of the monsters piled like mountains, bodies rising again, being slain again, and even the rushing monsters all met their end.

Now…… no monsters appeared anymore.

“………It’s over….”

“Y-Yes, it is.”

Surrounded by bodies of monsters, I stuck close to the hero, checking for any movement in case something might still be alive, while he silently thrust his greatsword into the white space.

With that, he moved the blade to tear through the space and gazed through the gap.

“Where is this?”

“……Could it be….”

On the other side of the torn space was a splendid landscape.

It resembled… a palace.

*

“Instructor Redfield? It’s about time….”

“It has been quite a while. I guess it’s time to wake them up.”

Scarlet Redfield, yawning as he grabbed his trademark greatsword, approached <Dream Within a Dream>.

“But Instructor? If you go in there to wake them up and end up falling asleep yourself….”

“Hm? Is this your first time here?”

“It, it’s my first time.”

“Then watch closely. Let me show you how to wake them up.”

With the bewildered assistant stepped back a bit, Redfield momentarily glared at the fracture of <Dream Within a Dream>.

“Right, over there?”

He seized the greatsword.

And swung it.

Kucchijijijijijij!!!

“Wah!?”

Although the blade of the greatsword didn’t even touch <Dream Within a Dream>, a crack materialized in the air as if it were a gate.

Originally, <Dream Within a Dream> was enormous, rivaling a high-rise building, but the fissure created by Redfield was even larger.

The gate and the crack intersected in a cross pattern with ominous sounds, and the overlapping parts began to spin rapidly.

“W-What is this…?”

“Of course, if I entered the gate and something went wrong, it’d be a disaster. So I’m using a safe method.”

“Safe method…? You mean this?”

“By creating a fracture in space, I forcibly triggered the gate. Normally, doing something like this would cause all the monsters inside the gate to burst out and lead to annihilation, but as you know, there are no monsters inside <Dream Within a Dream>….”

“……There are no monsters.”

“Then there’s only one thing the gate can spit out.”

──Only the students who had entered the gate.

Since it’s close to being forcefully ejected, they would likely experience motion sickness and vomit right after, but in any case, it wouldn’t harm their bodies.

“Urgh.”

“Waaahhh….”

Indeed, Liu and Rain, who were ejected like that, could only weakly retch without being harmed.

As Redfield smiled while watching the two of them, who were prideful as a Rich Tycoon and Psychic, he looked back at the assistant.

“Now, we just need the hero, the Crown Princess, and the fortune teller to come out, right?”

“Ah, yes. That’s right. Is there usually a time difference in when they come out?”

“Actually, there’s barely any difference. The Rich Tycoon and Psychic came out simultaneously. It should be time for them to come out now….”

However.

As time passed and the crack made by Redfield began to heal, no one appeared from the gate.

With a grim expression realizing there was an anomaly that hadn’t been encountered before, he took hold of his greatsword once more.

“………Instructor?”

“……Oh no.”

Understanding the gravity of the situation, Redfield gripped the greatsword tightly, and thankfully, someone burst forth from the gate.

Hurrying over, Redfield supported him.

“………Cough….”

“Is that the hero? Did you see the fortune teller and the Crown Princess!?”

“………Namgoong Min is…….”

“What?”

“Namgoong Min is…… in danger….”

“……The Crown Princess is… going berserk….”