I Became a Fortune Teller in the Game My Little Sister Made – Chapter 235

Liu Yan’s mood had reached its peak in the past few months.

There was no wonder it had; she had been seriously researching every possible method to cross over to another dimension if Namgoong Min didn’t return, but here was the gracious fortuneteller who had come back on her own.

She didn’t regret kissing him as soon as they met, a little overly excited. Rather, if that hero hadn’t physically intervened, she would have made a move right then and there.

Feeling a bit regretful, Liu lightly handled a document.

What she would have brushed off on a good day had now turned into a mild case of embezzlement, just skimming some money.

“Who embezzled this?”

“The branch manager of the Canada branch.”

“Cut him off.”

“Yes, ma’am!”

And when she said her mood had peaked in the past few months, it also meant it wasn’t the case anymore.

‘Namgoong Jisoo… I’m really losing it.’

Namgoong Min’s younger sister. She hadn’t met her, but she felt some inner closeness through the multiple times she’d heard about her from Namgoong Min.

Though she wasn’t a complete target to suspect, seeing Namgoong Min’s face was enough to let her temporarily overlook it.

But Liu’s feelings and reality were different.

‘Is she really aiming for an incestuous relationship? What a crazy woman.’

When she first saw Namgoong Jisoo, she sensed it from the look in her eyes.

She was definitely not an ordinary girl.

An insanity beyond imagination and a proactive eagerness to exceed it burned in her eyes.

And she hid it completely from Namgoong Min, displaying cunning that only appeared before Liu and her peers.

It was a bit annoying, but Liu felt a certain kinship with Namgoong Jisoo.

To put it precisely, it was an emotion that could be called a hatred towards her own kind.

‘They say she spent decades as a <Hero> in the Gate. I heard it for the first time, so she must never have even set foot in this world. All alone in the Gate with no one to help her, depending solely on the words of that former god for decades.’

Thinking about it, even a normal person would have become a wreck by now.

If not, she was probably relying on the only conversation partner, that former god. He likely aimed for that too.

But Namgoong Jisoo had a mental dependency on Namgoong Min.

Even if a year passed differently in the Gate, just one day of meeting could bring her back to her senses.

And that thick bond of blood made her even more dependent.

‘Whether that emotion is love or possessiveness, I don’t know.’

At the very least, it was clear that Namgoong Jisoo extremely hated the thought of giving her brother to anyone else.

For the past several months, she had just stayed by Namgoong Min’s side, but lately, she had been contacting four female students, including Liu, to settle the score.

“………What the hell.”

Though it was called settling the score, it was no different from the start of a war.

For now, she held an advantageous position because of her status as a younger sister and because Namgoong Min truly cared for her, but if she really picked someone, none of them would agree.

More than anything.

Liu remained skeptical if Namgoong Jisoo would even choose someone.

‘Is she really going to pick herself?’

If that were to happen, Liu vowed to keep that woman away from Namgoong Min for his sake.

It was better to be taken by that vicious woman than to lose him to a real younger sister; it felt like she would die of anger.

…Now that she thought about it, getting taken by that vicious woman would equally make her furious.

‘If it’s not me, I will never accept it.’

And that would likely be the case for the other girls as well.

Perhaps that was why she formed an alliance with that vicious woman.

It was truly a bothersome, unsatisfactory, disgusting, irritating, and unpleasant thing, but if teaming up with someone like Rain could increase the chance of monopolizing Namgoong Min by even 0.1%, Liu would consider selling her soul to the devil… though her soul had long been sold to a fortuneteller.

“Liu? The documents you’re supposed to handle today are still…”

“Get lost. I’m feeling a bit uneasy.”

“Yes!!”

Liu glared at her quick-witted aides as they vanished into the next room and soon looked outside the base.

Down there, Namgoong Min was. His building was clearly visible from here. There was no way she had set up a rooftop with various long-distance artifacts such as a telescope for no reason.

…In truth, this kind of under-the-table negotiations were pointless.

Forget about talking, eliminating the competitor with a blade was the most straightforward way. How many people had Liu dealt with in that manner until she declared herself a rich tycoon? How many had sunk in the Yellow River?

Yet the reason they did not physically clashed, appearing to engage in a playful war of words, was a form of trauma.

“………Ah.”

Again, her hands trembled.

Unconsciously reaching for her dagger, an impulse surged through her, urging her to pierce this foolish hand.

Just before Namgoong Min left, she had executed a foolish stock maneuver to try to keep him in this world.

After revealing everything to Namgoong Min─ what kind of expression did he make?

The Namgoong Min who always seemed to forgive everything and smile, it was during the first time he rejected her.

“Huff, gasp. Cough… huff.”

Just imagining it made her breath become labored. That day, Namgoong Min’s rejection embedded itself in her mind like a brand.

Left almost completely alone after being rejected by Namgoong Min, Liu had no intention of repeating that day’s events.

She would never do anything that would make him hate her, for if he did, Liu Yan would mentally perish.

“Namgoong, Min…”

My love.

My eternity.

My everything.

…In the war to occupy the position next to him, there was no intention of stepping back.

But if it crossed the line.

If even a slight possibility arose that it would cause Namgoong Min to be disappointed in Liu again.

‘No way.’

Before she knew it, Liu’s dagger was on the brink of piercing her own hand.

If such foolishness were to occur, she might as well cut off this hand. Was that how her heart subconsciously expressed itself?

Liu casually clothed her bleeding hand and wiped the bloodied dagger before tucking it into her robes.

It was a familiar sight.

And it was a sight she would continue to see in the future.

*

<A new student in the Fighter class, Leni, let out only moans.

For her, Romance Academy was nearly a paradise in itself. There were a few slightly different realistic reasons, but still.



Recently, the hero had eliminated the source of the Gate incident, preventing further incidents, but they had only just recovered a tiny part of their original territory.



With time, surely it would slowly improve. The Americans were filled with hope.



Leni’s arrival at Romance Academy was part of that line. The American provisional government had sent talented individuals to the Romance Academy for faster recovery.



Of course, it was an investment that was only possible because the Gate incident had been resolved.



Among those, only a few passed the entrance exam, and Leni was one of the lucky ones.



A small Gate near the Canada-U.S. border had been where Leni barely scraped by, and now this airborne city appeared to her as heaven.



“I wonder if I can also…”



Could I become like a hero here? Maybe I might even get to meet him directly?



Honestly, it was too grand a dream. Right now, she was too busy.



“Leni, have you secured a base?”



“Not yet… what should I do?”



“Sigh.”



The realistic reason behind her moans was that: securing a base.



New students at Romance Academy had to find their base to live in for the next four years before the entrance ceremony started. Naturally, Leni, who hadn’t known that fact, was already in a place where she had nowhere to stay after the ceremony.



She had spent a few days in the Fighter friend’s base she met at the entrance ceremony, but that was up until today.



With no money initially, she knew she couldn’t secure a proper base; even semi-basements and studios were already full.



In despair, Leni moaned again.



“What to do…”



“…Leni, we definitely have to secure a base no matter what, right?”



“That’s a given. I can’t stay at your base forever.”



“Then… I do have one method.”



“Really!?”



In the Romance Academy, where prices and population distribution were seriously crazy, was there really a way to secure a base, especially now that it was extremely late?



Not counting the powers of wealthy tycoons or crown princesses among the second-year seniors, how could there be such a means?



“Do you remember when we had the Battle Royale at the entrance ceremony?”



“I can’t forget.”



That event was the moment that brought Leni back to reality, overwhelmed by the excitement of having entered Romance Academy.



It was hard to believe there was only a one-year difference, but the second-years displayed fighting abilities of an entirely different level. Especially the special class… just one of them seemed to match the power of all the freshmen combined.



But why was that?



“Back then, I made friends with one of the fighter seniors. Their way of speaking was a bit odd, but they were kind… They shared several stories with me, including how to tackle problems like this.”



“Really?”



“Absolutely! Shh, just hear me out… You know there are a lot of buildings on the outskirts of Romance Academy, right?”



“Of course.”



“Well, among those, there’s an incredibly special building. Do you know what it is?”



“If I knew, I wouldn’t be asking.”



“It’s a fortune teller’s shop, a fortune teller’s shop! And it’s the one run by the representative of the second year…!!”



“…There’s such a place?”



The second-year representative, that’s none other than the <Fortune Teller> Namgoong Min, a person no freshman could possibly not know.

According to rumors, his predictions were so accurate that he became practically a student in the special class despite not being one, and he acted as an actual leader even amongst them.

He was the representative during the Battle Royale, making him a real leader.

Though they heard he was utterly dominated by their own representative.

“If you go to that fortune teller’s shop and have a fortune told, your base problem could be resolved right away.”

“…So, you mean we should have a fortune told to solve it?”

“Isn’t it a matter of trying? It should be much more efficient than continuing this meaningless running around. After all, it’s the Namgoong Min!”

That was… true, but.

Leni tilted her head.

“But don’t you have to pay for a fortune? I don’t know much about Eastern divination, but I don’t think it’s too different.”

“Um… I guess so?”

“More than that, if he’s really that successful, there must be other clients…”

“So, what are you hiding now?”

“…Not hiding.”

“Then go! Check it out and decide!”

………Yeah.

After all the time she doddled around the Romance Academy without gaining a single thing.

True, it felt a bit suspicious to rely on a fortune, but it was Namgoong Min, not some random guy.

The fee she had to pay flickered in her mind, but as long as it was something she could somehow repay, it was no problem.

Without a base, she might have to live homeless for all four years, and even though Leni had become used to the idea of living on the streets from the border, it was only possible because it was a life with no tomorrow.

She was going to experience all sorts of training, exams, and encounters at Romance Academy over the next four years; there was no way she wanted to remain homeless.

More than anything, if she ended up homeless after passing, she felt like she would go insane!

“Let’s go!!”

Why would anything happen?

*

“Is she… a new student?”

“…She seems to be from the U.S…”

“Impressive that she found this fortune teller’s shop.”

“Please don’t all look at me like that; it makes me feel uneasy, ladies.”

“Everyone, please quiet down. Now, dear customer? Please sit in front of me.”

“Ah…”

The head of the Arthur Family.

The hero, idolized by all Americans.

The Emperor of the Daehan Empire.

The Saint of the Church.

And even the fortuneteller who treated all of them lightly.

Leni wanted nothing more than to run away from here…