I Became a Fortune Teller in the Game My Little Sister Made – Chapter 133

In a beautiful, peaceful country, there lived a splendid Emperor and a wise Empress.

They prospered the nation and had a brilliant son, living happily together.

As the first son was a blessing, the second born was a daughter.

The Emperor and Empress were happy, vowing to live joyfully with their two children.

However, there was just one problem.

Their daughter was so frail that she could have died the moment she was born.

Thus, the Empress made a resolution.

No matter the cost.

She would save her daughter.

…………

………

……

…

However, there was something the Empress miscalculated.

The cost was far more brutal than she ever imagined.

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“……Mother………you say?”

“Yes.”

A past altered from the original game, along with changed character events.

Despite this, the way I figured out the dark secret was quite simple.

It was through elimination.

‘The only people who can approach the newborn Crown Princess are limited.’

At most, it would be the Emperor, the obstetrician, and the nurse, along with the Empress.

This narrowed down the candidates.

‘And… the one who could lead the Empress to her death.’

A mere obstetrician and nurse would never manipulate the Empress into killing Kim Eun-ha.

Thus, the only ones left were, of course, the Emperor and the Empress.

Admittedly, it was a ridiculous deduction. It was simply a guess, disregarding third-party intervention or various other variables.

But for me,

I had ‘evidence’ that only I could see.

Common Skill <Observation>.

I gazed at Kim Eun-ha, whose right pupil was constricted and trembling in panic.

And behind her… was a manifested presence of <Desire to Kill>.

[Common Skill: <Desire to Kill>

Desire to Kill, Murderous Essence, Homicidal Obsession.

This skill has been known by various names and is perfectly normal!

Enjoy your happiness by merely killing one person a day!

* If you don’t kill someone within 24 hours, you’ll suffer from <Madness>.

* Physical abilities are extremely enhanced.

* This state was granted by ‘Iha-neul’.]

<Observation>.
The general skill that allows you to know the information of visible targets.

It was a skill I gained after getting dragged to the guardhouse while digging up the flower beds when I first entered the Academy.

It was almost an essential skill in the game, but after using it a few times in this reality, I realized something.

While it was certainly a useful skill, it wasn’t necessarily essential.

Being able to see the information of artifacts or skills is helpful, but seeing the owner of a skill does not grant you sight of their skills. It only shows their height, weight, and such.

Thus, if I wasn’t seeing <Desire to Kill> materialized behind Kim Eun-ha, it would have been impossible.

It was clear because I had confirmed it multiple times in an indeterminate loop.

So I knew the culprit. I knew that the Empress, Iha-neul, had granted <Desire to Kill>.

And I could tell from the Emperor’s attitude that, unlike before, he was an accomplice as well.

Knowing the culprit from the beginning made it an obvious fact that even someone like me could easily grasp.

“What do you mean………? Mother has………?”

“Iha-neul, the Empress, granted <Desire to Kill> to her.”

“……….”

Kim Eun-ha fell silent.

She stared blankly at the floor, lowering her head.

Even though it would be much easier for her not to believe my words and to doubt them.

She believed in me. She trusted me.

Thus, without denying the reality, she despaired in silence.

“………….”

“……………Why.”

“……….”

“Why………?”

What eventually came was a voice choked with tears.

Since the day her mother was killed, she had never cried once.

Now, she shed transparent tears and opened her mouth.

“Why……… does my mother……… why…”

“………….”

“Why………?”

Drip. Drip.

Tears fell to the ground, washing away the crimson blood-stained floor.

She sobbed, despaired, and wailed endlessly before me.

I got up from my chair.

‘The reason why the Empress granted <Desire to Kill> to Kim Eun-ha.’

Of course, I knew.

In the original game, it was a secret the Empress kept to herself.

If the dark figure was indeed the Empress, then the reason wouldn’t have changed either.

But.

“Crown Prince.”

“…………….”

“Will you really just listen?”

“………I said I would leave it to you, Namgoong Min.”

“Are you truly willing to leave everything to me?”

“………….”

“Didn’t you apologize to the Crown Princess? You want to untangle the emotions that were intertwined in the meantime, right?”

“………I won’t listen anymore.”

“We’re family.”

“………….”

“There’s no way you really want to leave everything to an outsider.”

With heavy footsteps, I left the room, shutting the door behind me.

Standing beside the entrance, the Crown Prince, with a rigid expression, leaned against the wall.

“You’re just afraid, aren’t you? Telling your younger sister the truth now.”

“……Eun-ha trusts you much more than she does me. It would be better if you told her.”

“Then everything will be resolved.”

“If that’s the case……….”

“However, the family bond will surely shatter.”

“………….”

“Lastly, I will ask you, Crown Prince.”

In a position not swayed by others.

In a position to sway others.

I had obtained a position to wield the Royal family, but I had no intention of holding and wielding it even slightly.

“Will you abandon the conversation of family.”

“………….”

“──And hand it over to an outsider?”

“………….”

“……At least, I don’t think that’s like you.”

“………?”

“Eun-ha!!!!!”

“Catch her! The Emperor is escaping!”

“Wait a minute. To the Underground Prison……!?”

“Let’s pursue them for now!”

Bang! Kaboom!!

A thunderous sound erupted from the entrance of the Underground Prison.

Soon, a figure emerged from the pitch-black darkness.

“……Your Majesty?”

“Crown Prince! And the Fortuneteller!!!”

“Greetings, Your Majesty.”

“You Fortuneteller!! How dare you harm Eun-ha!!!”

“Why are you so angry?”

“Of course─”

“If you truly love your daughter, you should express it directly to her.”

“…………….”

“The Crown Princess is in the room. Please enter alongside the Crown Prince.”

“………!”

“Whether it’s a power struggle for the throne, faction, or political battle, no matter what term you use… family is family.”

Blood is thicker than water.

In a positive sense or a negative sense, family is family.

Therefore.

“Either leave everything to the unknown fortuneteller or stop making excuses and go in to meet the Crown Princess.”

“………….”

“…………….”

“If you don’t want to, then I will reveal everything. What will you do?”

There was no answer.

Roughly pushing me aside, the Emperor entered the room, already answering sufficiently.

As the Crown Prince watched the Emperor enter the door with trembling eyes, he waved away the approaching soldiers.

“……Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.”

Following the Emperor, I entered the room.

I sat down right there and then.

I was so exhausted, so tired.

Even amidst it all, I could quietly hear the sounds coming from inside the room.

“Older Brother……? Daddy………?”

“Eun-ha.”

“Eun-ha, how’s your body……?”

“………Yes, but what about Namgoong Min?”

“The one who granted <Desire to Kill> was your mother.”

“………….”

“Father………?”

“Crown Prince, no……seong-il. Did you already know?”

“………When I was young, I overheard Mother and Father talking in their room.”

“Was that all?”

“Also, Mother’s monologues.”

“……You knew everything.”

“What do you mean?”

“Eun-ha, you were born weak.”

“Pardon?”

Kim Eun-ha’s character event, <The Stigma of Incest>.

Since the Daehan Empire was involved and the Crown Princess was the main character, it was expected that there would be a colossal conspiracy lurking around.

But it was actually somewhat different.

“Though you were born with the job of <Royalty>, you were so weak that you couldn’t breathe properly after being born. You were born with the umbilical cord wrapped around your neck.”

“………….”

“Your mother… Iha-neul couldn’t accept that. That’s why, at the very moment you were born, she tried every artifact that could grant skills.”

“……….”

“And eventually…… she reached for <Desire to Kill>.”

Kim Eun-ha was both lucky and unlucky.

Thanks to being born a princess, she was saved at birth by numerous artifacts.

But at the cost of having to live with <Desire to Kill> and <Blood Demon>.

“I didn’t know that. At first, I thought you had been born with <Desire to Kill>. I thought so because Iha-neul… my wife said that.”

“………….”

“Whether you were born with <Desire to Kill> or <Blood Demon>, you were still my daughter. That’s why, under the Crown Princess Palace, I built an Underground Prison… and raised you there.”

“……….”

“Your mother truly cherished you. Because of that, she neglected to care for her son, which made Seong-il sulky. Though I had some doubts seeing you play with the prisoners’ hearts… still, I thought it was a happy time.”

“…………….”

The mother who granted <Desire to Kill> to save her daughter.

The daughter who must kill to survive as a result.

The father who still loved his daughter.

Even the son who remained silent, knowing all the truths.

Though it was an infinitely twisted and horrifying situation.

They were still family.

A family that cared for each other.

However.

“Then, a year passed, and two years passed, five years passed… seven years have gone by.”

“……….”

“My wife, Iha-neul began to suffer more and more.”

Maternal love is indeed great, yet it has limitations.

Facing a daughter who joyfully ran around covered in blood after killing someone every day was tormenting, no matter how much of a mother she was.

“Then one day, something happened. Eun-ha, you accidentally broke your mother’s finger.”

“………Ah.”

“From that day, Iha-neul feared holding you. Little by little, she began to fear you.”

Especially when realizing that her daughter could kill her at any moment.

If she were to meet her daughter without resolving <Desire to Kill>, she could end up with her heart ripped out, just like the prisoners.

The mother, who had forced others’ deaths to save her daughter, was now aware that she could also die.

“Iha-neul became increasingly obsessive, started to go insane, and eventually… eventually…”

“……Mother tried to kill you.”

“Kill me……? Older brother, that’s…”

“………She tried to kill you.”

“…………….”

“What I overheard were those words.”

Despite resolving to pay any cost to save her daughter and live together,

The mother who managed to save her daughter eventually went insane, consumed by the price.

To kill the daughter she had saved herself.

To resolve the seed she had sown.

Iha-neul took the sword.

“The day my wife… left to kill you… she left a letter in my office.”

“………….”

“Eun-ha, the <Desire to Kill> you possess was not intrinsic. It was a result of what she did to save you from your frail body.”

“……….”

“And she said that what she set in motion must be resolved by herself.”

“…………….”

What followed was something that Kim Eun-ha was well aware of.

The mother who tried to kill her was instead killed by her daughter.

Looking at the distraught Eun-ha, the father, who knew the whole truth, decided to seal <Desire to Kill>.

Only after the mother had been killed and Eun-ha felt disgust toward her own <Desire to Kill> was she able to resolve it.

Whether maintaining <Desire to Kill> or sealing it,

For either option was a painful decision for a father to a daughter, a husband to a beloved wife, and an Emperor of a nation.

“After everything was over…”

“………….”

“I couldn’t look at you properly, Eun-ha. I hesitated to talk to you and avoided meeting you.”

“……….”

“Every time I looked at you, I remembered my maddening wife… and despite knowing it was selfish, I ran away from reality.”

“…………….”

“Yet eventually, here I am, speaking all the secrets.”

“………….”

“There is now only one thing I can say to you.”

“……Is it an apology? Just like my older brother?”

“Don’t be silly. I was not a good father, and I can’t return to a happy family now.”

“………….”

“Just… don’t hate your mother.”

“…………….”

Kim Eun-ha’s character event has no colossal conspiracy surrounding the royal family, no political fights, nor struggles for the throne.

There is only the story of a family.

A story of a mother who would bear any cost to save her daughter.

It’s something you can often find in fairy tales.

But unlike fairy tales, it ended in tragedy.

“………I see.”

“Eun-ha.”

“Eun-ha…”

“Mother hated me… She wanted to kill me…”

“………….”

“……….”

“Father, and Older Brother. Thank you for telling me everything now.”

“And I hate you. For revealing all of this to me now.”

“So for a moment.”

“Please, follow me.”

The Crown Princess led the way, followed by the Crown Prince and the Emperor.

They left the room.

Passed through the Underground Prison.

Crossed Kim Eun-ha’s room.

Walked to the lobby of the Crown Princess Palace.

I quietly stopped following them somewhere in the lobby.

Before the portrait of the Empress.

“……Mother.”

Kim Eun-ha clenched her fists tightly.

As if she could swing at any moment, shaking with enough force that it drew blood.

Her mother’s heart that had tried to save her.

The childhood that forced her to kill because of that.

The mother who began to go insane.

And the fact that this mother had tried to kill her.

That she had actually killed this mother.

And the painful life she lived afterwards.

What surely began with a heartfelt desire had become so tangled that it was already in tatters.

She stood at a crossroads of choice.

Will she break the portrait of her mother?

Or will she leave it as it is?

And.

Kim Eun-ha said.

“……Namgoong Min.”

“Yes, Crown Princess.”

“Do you perhaps have something to say?”

“………Yes, there is one thing.”

── Son, my dear Min.

── I’m sorry, but I can’t leave you and Jisoo behind. So.

── Let’s all die together.

── We are family, so let’s go together…

“Whatever form it may take.”

“……….”

“A mother always loves her children.”

“……I see.”

Even in the moment of saving her frail daughter.

Even as she descends into madness in fear of death.
Even when she tried to kill her own daughter.
And even when she suggested to her son to die together.
Despite being twisted and askew.
Parents always love their children.
At my reply, Kim Eun-ha closed her eyes for a moment…

……and made her choice.

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“……Fortuneteller.”

“Your Majesty.”

“I still can’t understand you.”

“That’s too kind of you.”

“Knowing about Eun-ha’s <Desire to Kill>, you still let it out? That’s like releasing a blood-crazed monster in the middle of a city.”

“Not a blood-crazed monster, but Your Majesty’s daughter.”

“……I can’t turn back now. But if it’s Seong-il, he can probably get along with Eun-ha.”

“………….”

“It still leaves me with a poor impression of you, but since you helped Eun-ha, I’ll owe you something.”

“What do you mean by owe?”

“………Another Namgoong Min has disappeared.”

“……!!”

“You must have already talked with ‘that being.’ Even if we want to share knowledge, we can’t right now. It wouldn’t be surprising if our heads burst at any moment if we spoke carelessly.”

“………….”

“Be careful, Namgoong Min.”

“……….”

“Another you has gone mad over fate.”

“……Thank you for the precious debt.”

“If you understood, now leave my office. Now……….”

“It’s time to polish my wife’s portrait.”

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[Kim Eun-ha’s character event goal has been achieved!]

[Goal: ‘Enter the Underground Prison of the Crown Princess Palace’]

[Kim Eun-ha’s character event goal has been achieved!]

[Goal: ‘Completely subdue Kim Eun-ha’]

[Kim Eun-ha’s character event goal has been achieved!]

[Goal: ‘Reveal all truths to Kim Eun-ha’]

[Hidden goal: ‘Conversation between family’ has been achieved!]

[Congratulations! You have cleared the character event <The Stigma of Incest>!]

[Kim Eun-ha’s favorability has reached its maximum value! Your relationship with Kim Eun-ha is now ‘Lifelong Partner’!]

[Your rapport with the royal family has reached its maximum value! Your relationship with the royal family is now ‘De facto Power behind the Throne’!]

[You have obtained the common skill <Absolute Power>!]

[Warning!!: If favorability exceeds maximum value, a bad ending may activate, so be cautious!]