I Became a Fortune Teller in the Game My Little Sister Made – Chapter 199

There was no doubt about it.

I couldn’t have seen it wrong.

I couldn’t have been mistaken.

“Good night, Rain.”

“Yes… Mom…”

The being sitting next to little Rain, gently stroking her hair, was…

The identity of the mother that had grown so faint, barely a memory now…

It was the Principal, without a doubt.

‘…How?’

My first thought was that it might be part of a mental attack…

The Principal was called the most powerful <Battle Wizard> in the world. A being that considered herself a special job.

Closing the entrance to the Dream Within a Dream and not having slept within it, she could certainly interfere with a Lucid Dream.

But Lucas soon shook his head.

‘There’s no reason for her to appear as my mother. It would be more logical for her to disguise herself as little Rain and exploit my weaknesses.’

Then why? Was there really a need for her to exist in this Lucid Dream as my mother?

If that were not the case… If the Principal had not interfered at all…

Could it really be…?

‘The Principal is my mother?’

I had hardly heard anything about my mother…

Lucas, strictly raised as the next head of the Arthur family, hadn’t seen his mother much when he was little, and after being expelled from the family as part of his education, he hadn’t seen her at all.

By the time he returned to the family, his mother had already disappeared.

Thus, he didn’t particularly hold any memories or longing for her. It was more of a feeling that there was someone like that.

However, it was different for Rain.

Under the harsh education of their father, Hector, little Rain had clung to her mother to endure day by day.

The mother who suddenly disappeared one day… she was a painful memory for Rain, but also a warm recollection.

A being who was…

Someone I had secretly assumed had probably died.

Was actually the Principal?

‘Then… that can’t be.’

I’m not talking about it in a moral sense. I’m not talking about it in an ethical sense either.

If the Principal were truly her mother…

If the Principal were truly the mother who had disappeared suddenly…

‘How could she act like that?’

As if she were a stranger, as if they were meeting for the first time?

Right now, Rain had fallen into a Lucid Dream due to the Principal’s surprise attack!

‘…Ha, haha.’

I wanted to scream.

Unable to accept the reality before me, I wanted to deny it vehemently.

But instead of expressing pointless anger or irritation, Lucas calmed his mind.

Suppressing anger, fervor, shock, and confusion, he steadied himself.

…Then.

Namgoong Min would surely have done something like this.

‘Right? My friend.’

What Lucas had to do now was not to rage or get angry.

He needed to take Rain and escape this Lucid Dream, rejoining Namgoong Min.

As for the Principal and the mother… they could be understood after that.

Therefore.

“Rain.”

“Yes…? O-older brother…?”

“Rain, it’s time to wake up.”

“O-older brother…! You’ve come back…!!”

“No, Rain. I haven’t come back… I’ve come to take you.”

“Huh?”

Little Rain. Little sister from his childhood.

It was then that Lucas realized that he had never seen little Rain before.

At this age, Lucas was rolling around outside the Arthur estate. He had been too young when he was expelled from the family, and when he returned, he was already grown up.

The sight of his little sister now… was something he had never seen, even among family.

That fact…

Suddenly came to mind.

“……No, Rain.”

“Mom…?”

“That isn’t your older brother. Lucas has gone out for training from the mansion. More than anything, Lucas is still a child. He isn’t that grown-up.”

“But… he looks just like my older brother…….”

“That’s just a dream, Rain. You’re still tired from it.”

“Oh, I see….”

The mother’s face, taking on the Principal’s form, was sweet-talking her again.

As she laid little Rain down once more, slowly closing her eyes.

Nevertheless, Lucas did not move to block the mother within the Lucid Dream.

He could only quietly whisper to his sister.

“I’m sorry, Rain.”

“I keep… hearing your voice…”

“It’s all a dream, Rain.”

“I… only thought of myself. I thought only I was struggling and suffering. I didn’t know what would happen to you under father’s care while I was rolling around in the streets.”

“Older brother…?”

“It’s a dream, Rain. Go back to sleep.”

“When we met again, it was already too late for both of us. I was a selfish fool pretending to be cold, and you were too deeply influenced by the strong-weak dynamic, almost like a villain.”

“I… a villain?”

“How could that be? Rain is a good child.”

“We never reconciled. I never regarded you as a proper family, and you struggled to gain my recognition. We were on different paths. We’re family. Just the two of us siblings…”

“Siblings….”

“Sleep, Rain. You must sleep, Rain. You have to, Rain.”

“I was a coward, so I never recognized my own mistakes. From the time we first met, from the time I enrolled in the Romance Academy, I was foolish and stupid and a coward until the end.”

But.

“We met Namgoong Min. Scrawny and always smiling, wearing a strange suit… but the best fortuneteller, reaching out sincerely to everyone, the coolest and most advanced guy.”

“Namgoong, Min.”

“Rain, sleep. Rain, sleep. Rain, you need to sleep. Rain, don’t you understand? You need to sleep!”

“He freed you from the grip of the strong-weak dynamic, defeated father in a duel, and made you smile again. All of that… was supposed to be my duty, but as a coward, I couldn’t do it.”

“Oh…”

“Rain!!!”

“That day, I found courage for the first time. I thanked Namgoong Min and apologized to him. Fortunately, he was… understanding enough to accept a friend like me.”

“Older brother.”

“Raaaaaiin—“

“Let’s wake up now, Rain. We’ve been cowardly ambushed, and Namgoong Min is fighting alone. We don’t know what the situation is like. Naturally, we have to go.”

“………”

“Why, Rain! Why are you! Why are you all!!!”

“Because we are Arthur.”

Arthur.

There were times I hated it, sometimes regretting my birth, and it was a painful place. But.

It was where I could help my friend, where I grew up, where I was able to be myself.

And where I could be bound together with my precious younger sister and family.

My home, my family.

“I am Lucas Arthur. The next head of the great Arthur family and a friend of Namgoong Min.”

“…also my older brother.”

“Rain, what is your name?”

“Why are you asking something so foolish?”

Little Rain got up from the bed. No, she was no longer looking like a child.

She stood there as herself, not a child in a Lucid Dream.

“I am Rain Arthur. A prominent figure of the great Arthur family, a Psychic, and the wife of Namgoong Min.”

“…Isn’t that a bit early?”

“What does it matter? It’s going to happen anyway.”

“Ugh, fine. Let’s go rescue my brother-in-law.”

“Yes. That’s that, but keep your hands to yourself.”

With a quick flick, Rain brushed aside Lucas’s outstretched hand and walked towards the doorway.

Now she was starting to seem like Rain again, Lucas muttered quietly to himself, smiling as he followed her.

“Raaaaaiin…”

“………”

On the bed remained the shadow of “the mother.”

The remnants of the Lucid Dream Rain had experienced. An obstacle preventing her from waking.

If Rain were to see that──

“……She looks like her.”

“………Rain?”

“Nothing, let’s go. Older brother.”

“……Alright.”

But… for some reason, Rain’s calm reaction… why was that?

As Lucas stared in surprise at her eerily expressionless face, he reached for the door.

Job Skill <Master of Magic>.

He activated the Job Skill.

“What… how can you do that within a Lucid Dream?”

“I had set something up before sleeping.”

It was fortunate, as it seemed Namgoong Min had sensed something.

When he had been ambushed, he fell asleep while activating <Master of Magic>. If the Principal had caught that, it would have been the end, but fortunately, it seemed Namgoong Min skillfully diverted attention.

Though it could have gone differently… at least it allowed them to escape from the Lucid Dream.

“But older brother.”

“Yes?”

“About what you said earlier, are you really sorry?”

“…….Yes.”

“……Thank you.”

“Ugh.”

“Geez.”