154 – 31. The Fortune Teller’s Past
The couple visited all kinds of places.
Other people who said they often visited the fortune teller, bars and entertainment districts the fortune teller frequented, banks to freeze bank accounts, free law offices, etc.
The couple’s hopes were dashed, but they were a married couple and parents of two children at the same time.
Although we have made numerous efforts for the future of our children.
“……You can’t catch it?”
“We are doing our best, but he has changed his face through plastic surgery and even laundered his identity… He is a meticulous person. If you look at the precedents in other regions, he has already gone abroad…”
“Ah…Ah…”
“Hey, honey!”
My wife and mother of two children collapsed.
She was overcome with endless guilt.
“If only I hadn’t told you about the fortune teller…!”
“Honey, I agreed. It’s not your fault.”
“…Is there any money left…?”
“……I don’t even have money to pay the rent. Next week…I have to move out.”
“Minah…Jisoo…I’m sorry…”
Because I didn’t even have money to pay the monthly rent for the single room I was staying in.
Before paying the rent, I couldn’t even afford dinner today.
She was in despair.
My mother, who was working hard, became mentally ill and had difficulty even walking.
Her husband and father of two children did the best he could, doing difficult jobs, but nothing changed.
I knelt down and prayed to the landlord, but it was no use.
In the cold winter, your family was going to be thrown out onto the streets.
“Ah…Ah…”
“…Mom?”
“…Our Jisoo, our Min…Mom…I’m sorry…I really…”
“Dad, I’m really sorry to you too.”
“Oppa? Why are mom and dad crying?”
“…Well, Jisoo. You should sleep first.”
“Oppa?”
“It’s already late. I need to sleep to wake up tomorrow.”
“Yes…….”
Namgoong Min, who saw the father and mother kneeling in front of the two children and crying, covered their younger sister with a blanket.
The little sister didn’t know why her parents were crying.
Even though he was an elementary school student, Namgoong Min understood at least a little bit.
“…Are you that fortune teller?”
“Minah, how did you do that…?”
“I heard it several times while pretending to sleep. He said that thanks to that fortune teller, we would be able to eat pork cutlet again and go back to our old house.”
“……Yes, it was like that.”
“…Is it true?”
“…………That’s right.”
“You.”
“I know, it’s not something to say to an elementary school son… But he’s a proud son who took care of Jisoo and folded pizza boxes while we were at work. So… I should say it.”
“……….”
“Minah, mom and dad… Have failed. All our hopes and efforts up until now have been dashed. In a few days, we will be kicked out of this single room. Where should we go in this cold winter?”
“……………….”
“We don’t know, but you are innocent. So we tried to leave you in an orphanage, but…Even that requires money.”
“…Dad, Mom.”
“I’m sorry, son. We’re so…Tired. I’m sorry for being such an irresponsible parent.”
“……….”
“So, Min. Our son.”
“…Yes?”
“Let’s die together.”
The words poured out with tears.
I thought about it over and over again, and hesitated over it over and over again.
Kim Eun-ha, who was watching the whole scene from behind, gritted her teeth.
Because I didn’t know what I would do if I didn’t do that.
Kim Eun-ha watched and remembered her every moment clearly, shedding tears.
“……Mom.”
“I’m sorry, son. But I can’t leave you alone… Mom got sick, and Dad got his finger cut off while working. Now… It’s hard to hold on any longer.”
“……………….”
“So, let’s die together. Let’s go together…”
How do parents feel when they ask their beloved children to die when they are still young?
Kim Eun-ha inadvertently thought of her mother.
──My mother became increasingly crazy. And she tried to end it by killing you.
──Do you tie a knot? Brother, that’s……
──I was trying to kill you.
Kim Eun-ha’s mother went crazy and tried to kill her, but was killed on her behalf.
In other words, it was only after she became so crazy that she could choose to kill her daughter.
“……….”
She knows too. Her work and Namgoong Min’s work are not the same.
But if she felt a sense of kinship with Namgoong Min, was it because of her feelings?
The mother, shedding tears, tried to hold her son’s hand, saying she was sorry without stopping.
She immediately took a step back and cast a shaky gaze at her son.
“Minah…?”
“Mom, Dad.”
“Minah.”
“I’ll try it.”
“……What?”
“Even if it’s me… Jisoo, you don’t know anything. My younger sister doesn’t even know why mom and dad are crying. They promised to fry eggs tomorrow, so that’s all she’s looking forward to.”
“……….”
“Mom and Dad have already done a lot for us and given up a lot. So she won’t tell Mom and Dad to be more supportive.”
“…Son.”
“So, I’ll try something. I’m… His older brother.”
She heard words and promises that she never thought her son, an elementary school student, would say.
The parents, who had been crying endlessly, stopped crying.
I barely managed to smile through my trembling mouth, and I hugged my precious son with a hand missing a single finger and a sick hand.
“Minah.”
“……Minah.”
“……Yes, mom and dad.”
“We have a really great son.”
“I’m really…A proud son.”
“…Yes.”
“So Mom and Dad… I’ll give you everything I can.”
“I’d like to ask you… For Jisoo.”
“……………….”
Yes.
I couldn’t give the final answer.
Even Namgoong Min tried to speak as believably as possible.
Because I was sobbing and couldn’t even get the words out.
Click.
The light bulb went off. The light in the single room went out.
──The bodies of the parents who jumped to their deaths were never found.
“……Mom, Dad.”
With hands covered in scars from doing all kinds of side jobs.
Nam Goong Min personally collected the bodies of his parents and buried them in an empty lot that no one knew about.
“…Our people.”
And.
Kim Eun-ha shed tears.
*
“…The last one is me.”
Liu looked at young Namgoong Min with a confused expression.
Because I have seen the process of a once close family falling apart.
Liu recalled her old days.
Similarly, the past when her once happy family fell apart.
“I’m alone, that’s enough.”
All the parents who were supposed to protect us have left.
She was a woman who had to live alone, with only her job as
A wealthy person.
The difference is that Namgoong Min still had a younger sister to protect.
“……….”
Was it the final consideration for the child?
Namgoong Min and Namgoong Jisoo really became orphans, and without money, they were able to enter an orphanage with a very annoying director.
Namgoong Min consoled Jisoo’s whining about missing her mom and dad.
Jisoo was laid down in a small room at the orphanage where she could barely sleep.
“…Maybe soon.”
Namgoong Min secretly came out of her small room, took her kitchen knife from her kitchen, and walked out of her orphanage.
It was a risky move to leave her sister alone, but it was an unavoidable gamble.
Today will be the first and last time that ‘that man’ comes to the orphanage.
Namgoong Min opened his mouth in front of a man smoking a cigarette in the back of the orphanage.
“…You’re a fortune teller, right?”
“Go away you bastard.”
“You are a Taoist monk, right?”
“f*ck, how do you know that?”
“My parents had life insurance. The beneficiary was the director.”
“But?”
“Because you are wanted by the police, you cannot collect the death insurance money directly. You are here to receive it through the director.”
“……….”
“No?”
The fortune teller who was called a Taoist and revered by Namgoong Min’s parents laughed bitterly.
Liu, who was trembling with anger, looked at that smile in disbelief.
The smile of the con man fortune teller is so similar to Namgoong Min’s smile.
“I thought it was some kind of kid… So what?”
“Please just order anything.”
“You bold bastard? You know that your parents died because of me, right?”
“I know.”
“Still, you will follow me?”
“Because then Jisoo can live with me.”
“……You damn brat.”
The pseudo fortuneteller laughed. She laughed at the brat who boldly approached him.
It seemed like young Namgoong Min was trying to act as cool as possible.
Those two eyes were burning with anger and revenge.
Just in case, a kitchen knife that he had in his pocket was proving him.
I didn’t particularly feel guilty or afraid of this kid.
The pseudo-fortune teller saw ‘talent’ in Namgoong Min.
If you cultivate it well, you have a talent that will make you a lot of money.
After finishing the calculation, the pseudo-fortune teller laughed again.
“Okay, I’ll pamper you to your heart’s content.”
“…Yes.”
“……Plague disease.”
To survive, bow your head to your enemies.
This was something Liu himself had done several times.
So he knew that feeling well.
He openly tries to take advantage of himself and doesn’t even hide his intentions. It clearly means that you are looking down on it.
To survive despite being treated like that.
‘There is an opportunity called .’
There is either something that needs to be protected.
For example, like my younger sister.
“But…The fortune teller doesn’t have a younger sister…?”
Yes, that is the problem.
Even Liu had no room for suspicion because the background investigation and search of official documents had already been repeated several times.
Then is this past just a past created by the mediator?
“From now on, I will teach you the skills of a con artist. In short, a fortune teller.”
“Fortune teller…”
“Keep in mind. A fortune teller is a person who commits fraud, not someone who is swayed by fortune telling.”
“……….”
“The first time is to smile.”
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“Smile…?”
“Yes.”
Whoops!!!
“Kahak!?”
“What are you doing? Smile.”
“Su, my breath…….”
“It doesn’t matter, just smile.”
Puck! Puck! Wow!!
“Wow…!”
“No matter how much you get hit, even if you are ignored and spat in front of your eyes, even if your life is threatened, you must smile. If your smile falters, it can be fatal.”
“Heo-eok……heo-eok….”
“What do you think? Can’t you do it?”
The face of the pseudo-person who said that was smiling to the point of being unpleasant.
Even Liu, who had seen all kinds of human beings as a wealthy person, shuddered in disgust.
But Namgoong Min was waking up.
She vomited sour fluid and gastric juice because she didn’t eat anything, and her nose was bleeding.
I woke up like that.
Smile.
“……Hoo.”
That was definitely not a smile.
It was a smile full of pain and groans, with only the corners of the mouth slightly raised.
As if that was enough, the pseudo nodded her head.
It was only then that Liu became sure.
‘This is definitely Namgoong Min’s past.’
Otherwise.
Her murderous intent won’t boil over like this when she sees a fake that forces her to laugh.
A wealthy man named Liu Yan doubts everything, but he believes in himself more than anything else.
So Liu made his judgment based on his own feelings.
‘The mediator and this pseudo bastard.’
Both.
I will erase you from the world in the name of a very wealthy person.
Right after I swore that oath.
Everything.
Going back.
*
“This…Is our people’s past.”
“It’s such a tragedy.”
“…Namgoong Min.”
“What is here?”
It may not have been that long in terms of time, but it felt like these four were meeting again after a long time.
Namgoong Min’s past has ended with the return of Liu, the last observer.
As if to prove it, a glowing door appeared on one side of the dark space.
“Go over there…Get out.”
“If you go out, that mediator b*tch will be there, right? First, I will tear her limbs apart with my supernatural powers.”
“I’ll hit you in the solar plexus while the non-believer is holding on.”
“Oh, it works in this respect again?”
“You are truly a non-believer.”
“…No.”
Liu muttered as he passed Lane and Eileen, who were planning a murder and extermination.
She was not looking at a shining door, but a space filled with darkness.
“Here… Wouldn’t it be possible?”
“You suspicious b*tch, what do you want to say?”
“Princess, doesn’t the mediator have skills related to subspace?”
“Nothing.”
“Then this space comes from that diary. I couldn’t use it, but it’s probably an artifact too.”
“Wait a minute, now that I think about it, where did you get that diary?”
“In the slums of the Korean Empire, in the house where the fortune teller lived. Anyway, after all, this is inside the artifact, right?”
“Unbeliever, what do you want to say?”
“There is no one in this world who knows artifacts better than me. Not even the Who creates artifacts.”
“So, you usually go around messing around with artifacts, right?”
“So, princess. A space like this can be destroyed from the inside.”
“……What?”
Ignoring Lane’s shocked question.
After looking around, Liu spilled the artifacts she was carrying in her arms on the floor.
Rumble!
“…Are these all artifacts?”
“They are all useless in this space. But you can destroy them and take their essence.”
“Are you talking about magical power? Are you crazy? Even if you extract magical energy using this ignorant method, it will only be 1% of the original internal capacity!”
“I don’t care. This is for a fortune -teller, and it’s a f*ck of that unlucky year.”
The artifacts taken out were worth approximately 1 trillion won.
Coincidentally, it was a similar amount to the debt Namgoong Min owed to Liu.
‘Should I hang up all of this too?’
The more she ties her up with debt, the more likely it is that Namgoong Min will never escape her grasp.
Liu, who was thinking of getting down on her knees and begging a fortune teller, threw the artifact to the princess.
“Please destroy everything.”
“…There will be no claim against the Korean Empire, right?”
“We will only charge Korean citizens.”
“My poor Min.”
Kwasik.
While shaking her head, the princess, who destroyed the artifact given by Liu with only her grip, gave Rain a magical power that was at the edge of inefficiency.
At this point, you have a sense of what you are doing.
Rain glared at Liu, who was casually rolling around expensive artifacts.
“You’re planning to destroy this entire space.”
“If we do that, the diary will be destroyed, and we will naturally go out. It’s a bonus that there will be a huge backlash against the unlucky b*tch who activated this diary.”
“I guess the goal is to get a bonus?”
“The harder you break it, the greater the recoil. You know what I mean, right?”
“Okay. It’s for Namgoong Min, so I’ll cooperate.”
Wow.
Liu takes out the artifacts from his pocket, Eunha destroys them and removes only the magic power, and Rain, who received the magic power, develops superpowers.
Was compressed so densely that it was barely visible, but it was vibrating more and more and trying its best to burst.
Rain, who controlled the By replenishing magical power that reached the edge of inefficiency, continued to compress it.
And then he glares at Eileen, who has her hands clasped together with her eyes closed next to her.
“You too, help the princess destroy the artifact. She is as strong as a gorilla.”
“…No, leave it alone.”
“What’s wrong with the suspected patient?”
“It’s noisy, and it’s best to leave it as is.”
“What is that…?”
Rain and Eunha looked at Eileen and Liu alternately as if they had no idea what was going on, but Liu just closed her mouth and took out her artifact.
Leaving Eileen, who seemed to be praying, behind, Lane continued to develop her superpowers by repeating a series of processes.
Wooooow!!!!
“Slowly…The limit…!!!”
“I’m out of artifacts.”
“Okay, evil b*tch. Make a big splash!”
“Ha, leave it to me…!!”
Pure supernatural power floats the lumped, compressed, and mixed sphere high into the dark space.
If you explode that thing like this──
“──Will it have that much power?”
“What? What kind of b*tch stayed still…?”
“Shut up and just watch, you non-believers. If it’s you… I think it’s okay to show it to you.”
“What are you saying…?”
General skill .
Flutter!
The brilliantly shining Halo and Eileen with two wings spread fly above the dark space.
No matter how dark the place is, wherever she goes, light follows.
Liu snorted as if he knew that would happen, and only then did Lane and Eunha realize Eileen’s identity, their eyes filled with shock.
“Saint…?”
“The saint exists…?”
“How about a second saint? That saint is on our side.”
“Did you know…?”
“By chance.”
Now, Eileen, who has not hidden that she is a saint, adds her hand to the sphere of her supernatural power.
The supernatural power wrapped in sacred light rises high into the darkness──
“Unbelievers! Gather under my wings!”
──It explodes.
───────────.
There was no explosion or vibration.
At best, the explosion was far beyond the shock that the world inside the artifact could handle.
The entire world was destroyed.
And.
“Kuhup!?”
Phew!
At the same time, the mediator, who had been flipping through the diary alone, spewed out black blood from his eyes, ears, mouth, nose and skin.
“It’s relaxing, Mediator.”
“Ah…The aftereffects of supernatural powers…”
“A non-believer, you are prepared to die, right?”
“I finally met you. You unlucky, damn b*tch.”
“……hahahaha, everyone. Hello…How are you?”
The four girls looked down at the arbiter with cold eyes.
It was time to get my karma back.