I Became a Fortune Teller in the Game My Little Sister Made – Chapter 201

The girl realized her uniqueness when she was young.

Born as a job holder, the girl was not blessed with a favorable environment. Even at a young age, she had to earn money through hard labor while enduring abuse.

Thanks to being a job holder, it wasn’t too difficult, but it hurt. Physically and emotionally. A lot.

It was the people of her village who saved such a girl.

They drove away her abusive parents and took care of her warmly. It was a deeply comforting memory for the girl.

But soon, the girl came to understand.

She and the villagers were ultimately different.

*

“……..Where is this?”

“It must be in your mother’s… Lucid Dream. But it doesn’t seem like a complete lucid dream.”

There’s only one way to share the same lucid dream within a dream.

You have to fall asleep while in contact with that person. So, Lucas and Rain held the principal’s hand and fell asleep after dispelling the insomnia magic.

When I finally gave in to the overwhelming sleep and closed my eyes, I was here.

In a remote mountain, a very small Settler Village.

The principal was there.

“…How did you know?”

“What do you mean?”

“That the principal… is your mother.”

“Well, she’s also my mom, you know? I only found out not long ago.”

“Really…?”

“I was eavesdropping on the conversation between my mom and you earlier with my Superpower.”

…Ah.

I didn’t pay much attention to the considerable distance… Was that really the reason?

Lucas bit his lip in guilt.

“I’m sorry… Rain.”

“What’s there to apologize for? At least regarding Mom, you don’t have to apologize to me. But I still want to ask something.”

“What is it…?”

“If I hadn’t heard it with my Superpower, were you planning to keep it a secret for life?”

“…………….”

“…That’s a sufficient answer. Consider yourself lucky, brother. If it had been discovered, I would have genuinely resented you.”

“Rain…”

“I can’t just keep chasing after mother for the rest of my life. Now… it’s time to face it.”

Clenching her Fist as she said so, Rain, remarkably trembling, moved beside her.

A girl was running toward them.

…There was no way they wouldn’t recognize her.

“…That figure is.”

“Definitely… it’s mother.”

The principal, looking no older than ten, was smiling brightly among the villagers.

Despite her young face, Lucas couldn’t imagine the principal smiling so purely, and he instinctively took a step back.

He suddenly realized that the principal wasn’t dreaming.

“Why isn’t she dreaming? With the principal, or rather, mother’s mental strength, she shouldn’t fall into dreams.”

“………I think I know.”

“Rain?”

“But for now, I want to quietly watch.”

“…Alright.”

Why wasn’t the principal dreaming? In fact, such a question was merely an additional element.

Ultimately, what Lucas wanted was to see her purpose within the principal’s lucid dream.

Instead, he found it a favorable situation, so Lucas remained silent. Like Rain, he focused solely on the principal’s childhood.

It was as vivid as reality, but—to prove that it was a dream in the end—

The quaint and warm scenery of the Settler Village suddenly transformed.

From that warm image, into something fearful.

*

The girl was a Wizard. Among them, she was a “Battle Wizard” rumored to be special.

The notion of her being special was merely a side note from the village chief, but it was joy itself for the girl.

In truth, how much did the village chief know about job holders? He merely inflated some vague rumors he had heard in the past as though they were truths.

However, thanks to that, the girl smiled brightly, as if she owned the entire world, making the truth irrelevant.

She knew she was a “Battle Wizard,” but she couldn’t use any magic, so even after realizing that, she took on the laborious tasks.

And just like that, a year passed.

Right next to the girl’s village,

a Gate appeared.

*

“…It’s small.”

“It really is small.”

Amidst the changed village scenery, Lucas and Rain moved shortly onward before finding the cause.

In a mountain neither far nor close from the Settler Village—there was a Gate.

However, it was hardly larger than a single person, a size that couldn’t even be compared to <Dream Within a Dream>.

This small Gate would only allow monsters of a similar level to emerge.

‘However, for such a Settler Village, it could spell disaster.’

The monsters pouring through the Gate were concerning not just for their strength but for their numbers.

There’s a reason humanity, which has fought off Gates throughout its long history, particularly regards job holders as special.

No matter how advanced new weapons or military technologies became, they simply could not match the efficiency achieved by a single job holder.

As science and technology evolved, so too did the skills and methods of job holders naturally develop.

“This Gate… what will happen?”

“Isn’t it obvious, brother? It’ll burn that Settler Village down, and mother will end up in despair.”

“…Rain.”

“It’s bound to be… a predictable past. For sure.”

Although Lucas somewhat sternly chided his younger sister, Rain did not mind.

Her gaze remained solely fixed on the young principal with intense, bloodshot eyes.

…Well, she would be the most emotionally conflicted right now.

Lucas wisely chose silence.

*

The Settler villagers, seeing the Gate and the monsters emerging from it for the first time, trembled in terror.

Fortunately, as it was a small Gate, the monsters were weak. The girl managed to kill them somehow.

With this, a few courageous young men from the village stepped in, but—the results were tragic.

That day, the girl realized.

The one who could protect the people she loved and wanted to save was only her.

For the girl was a special Wizard.

However.

That was just what the girl believed.

*

Everything was on fire.

The Settler Village, which trusted the girl and the young principal, lay devastated in ruins.

“……….”

“……….”

Sobs, sniffles.

And in the very center,

the principal stood there, crying as she held the corpses of the village chief and villagers.

Surrounded by countless monsters.

Torn to shreds, her body carried the wrath and resentment of the principal.

The burning Settler Village was filled only with the bodies of monsters and people.

—I couldn’t protect, I couldn’t…

Well.

From Lucas’s perspective, it was simply too many for the principal to fend off alone.

Even if the young principal faced them one by one, she could have defeated them all, but while some of the monsters caught her attention, many rushed toward the Settler Village.

That was the outcome.

‘…Rain.’

The “predictable past” that Rain had spoken of.

But Rain merely looked at the weeping principal with complicated eyes.

Eventually, the principal, still crying, began to move.

She dug into the ground, buried the corpses, and trampled over the monsters in anger several times.

After spending days in that wasteland, the principal finally began to move.

With eyes that were entirely vacant.

Toward the source of all these happenings, the small Gate.

—I’m supposed to be special…

The principal mumbled as if she were insane.

Repeating only the words special, special, and special.

With a body riddled with blood, bruises, and wounds, she crawled toward the Gate.

“…Let’s follow.”

Honestly, seeing this dream, I didn’t like the idea of witnessing the principal’s past. Lucas thought so.

What he wanted to know was if the principal really was his mother and what her purpose was. He didn’t want to learn everything in such a tedious manner.

If he had been alone coming in here, he probably would have brushed it off… but with Rain beside him.

Rain stopped Lucas, who had been about to enter the Gate first.

“Wait.”

“Rain?”

“Do we really need to… see more?”

“…What?”

What did that mean?

When Lucas hurriedly turned back, he saw Rain.

Her expression was filled with complexity.

“W-We should stop looking. This is just a predictable past, right? What does it matter what happens next?”

“……….”

“Let’s just skip it. It would be fine if we only check whether the principal is really my mother… right?”

Rain was.

Afraid.

The most visible emotion amid her complex expression was fear.

‘…I’m afraid I’ll end up sympathizing.’

Who could have known that the principal’s past was filled with such tragedy?

Thus, Rain tried to downplay it by using the term “predictable past,” doing her best to dismiss it, but she was gradually beginning to sympathize with the principal.

That was something Rain herself couldn’t acknowledge.

She didn’t pity her like a younger sister would, but since Lucas was indifferent about it, he agreed with Rain’s words.

However.

‘What if it was Namgoong Min?’

Would there be another opportunity to enter the principal’s lucid dream in the future?

Could there still be a way to learn the principal’s inner thoughts, the truth, if not now?

In such a situation… what would Namgoong Min have said to Rain?

“………….”

“O-Brother.”

The assertive demeanor she had earlier had vanished, and now Rain was pleading like in bygone times when she had clung to him in weakness.

Because he saw that look, Lucas was able to make a decision.

“Let’s see it.”

“Brother…?”

“I already told you. Namgoong Min said to check it out properly. Are you really thinking of ignoring my brother’s words?”

“……….”

“Rain, I understand what you’re scared of. The principal, my mother has attacked Namgoong Min. But at the same time, she’s the one you’ve desperately been searching for. While watching her past, you’re scared of sympathizing or understanding her, right?”

“…You know that.”

“I’m saying it knowingly. Has Namgoong Min ever been wrong? He’s the best Fortuneteller in the world. If he told you to watch it properly, it’s assuredly beneficial and not harmful.”

As he said this, Lucas couldn’t help but let out a smile.

He never expected that he would harbor such trust and goodwill toward a friend he had known for only a year.

Nor did he expect his sister would also develop feelings for that friend and come to seek salvation.

Maybe the two siblings shared a rather peculiar relationship. They didn’t exist solely as family or siblings, for each being indispensable to their bond, they wouldn’t have been able to get along this well without Namgoong Min.

So, it posed no problem for Lucas to mention Namgoong Min when he did.

Just as Namgoong Min was precious to Rain, he was also Lucas’s best friend.

‘You probably would’ve done the same, right?’

Namgoong Min would have surely kept Rain from turning away and escaping.

He would have helped her face the principal.

For it was something Namgoong Min had done once.

“So let’s go. You said you would confront her properly earlier, right? We have to keep our promise.”

“………Okay.”

“That way, I can also show Namgoong Min that I have a devoted little sister who keeps her promises.”

“What… does that mean?”

Hehe.

At Lucas’s little joke, Rain chuckled a bit, took a few deep breaths, and straightened her trembling body.

The gaze she turned back to Lucas still wavered, but it was firm nonetheless.

“I just showed a little weakness. Forget it, brother.”

“Sure, I’ll remember.”

“Oh dear…….”

Gathering her feelings, she looked at the small Gate.

After nodding, just as she was about to step toward it.

“…Huh?”

Before her, the young principal emerged from the Gate.

She looked much paler than when she entered and was limping, but still, she had returned alive.

And.

“To the sky…?”

The young principal looked up at the sky as if someone up there was calling to her.

—I will follow your words.

—I’m special, after all.

Muttering to herself.

The principal’s eyes were filled with something.

…With a gleaming belief.