194 – 38. About yourself
Okay.
This restaurant is spacious enough to stay alone and, uniquely, has chairs for several people.
In a place where I would usually enjoy tea time or consult with others, I was shuffling cards alone.
“……………….”
I think the choice was a little quick.
Shouldn’t we have thought about it a little more?
I glance at the clock, which seems to be moving unusually slowly today, and randomly scatter the cards I had been shuffling.
That is something a fortune teller should not do. If that pseudo bastard had seen it, he would have kicked and cursed, saying, “f*ck you for doing something that shouldn’t be done.”
The angles are not adjusted, and some cards are even turned over.
I waved my hands in the air without paying attention to all that.
“.”
Come to think of it, I haven’t even changed my name yet.
I had worked hard to obtain a job skill name change ticket during the exchange meeting, but I forgot about it later due to church work.
‘They say the ox horn is also sweet…’ … ‘Yes.’
I rummaged around in the corner of the fortune telling shop and soon took out a thin piece of paper.
This is .
It is simple to use. Just tear it apart thinking you want to use it, and that’s it.
I tried to hold both ends of the change ticket and apply force right away.
Squeak.
“……………….”
…… The problem was that job-specific quest that kept flickering in the corner of my eye.
[Class-specific quest:
You are approaching the end of your destiny in the body of a fortune teller, and now the final door is in front of you.
Do you have any regrets about not being able to solve it? Do you have any regrets left? Is there anyone you see stepping on?
If you still have time left, it’s okay to stop for a moment. A door is just a door, just waiting to be opened.
But what if there is nothing left?
If you have given up even the slightest hesitation.
Open the door with the key.
That will be the end of the fortune teller.
Goal: Open Developer’s Visit (Once you achieve this goal, the next goal will be unlocked!)
Period: None
Location: Developer’s Room
Special note: It is recommended that you enhance the job skill of To the maximum.
Reward: ???]
Exclusive quest received while resolving the saint’s business at the church.
There too, something special bothers me.
‘What number of reinforcements was this? Was it the second or third time?’
Anyway, I think that’s about it, but the problem is that I don’t know what the maximum enhancement level for this guy is.
The maximum reinforcement level is different for each job and skill. What should I do?
‘More than anything, if you strengthen your job skills…….’
The probability will just go up and that will be the end. Ah, the name may change strangely.
In fact, even now that this guy’s Has become a , I have never seen the benefit of an increase in the probability.
Most of the time, I used the abilities of the job skills themselves, but I never looked at the real fortune and followed it.
‘Still…….’
…… Even if it’s just a game of probability, it’s better to strengthen it if you can.
I have already received the key to the developer’s room, but I wonder how much opportunity I will have to enhance my job skills.
Especially the most important thing.
‘Even if I change my name now…… If your job skills are strengthened, there is a high possibility that you will return to that strange name.’
That keeps holding back the right to change.
If you’re going to change it, wouldn’t it be better to change it after finishing strengthening and right before entering the real developer’s room?
…… No, if that’s the case, why change the name? You’re trying not to say things like “I see something scary” In front of others, right?
“After…….”
Could this also be said to be a kind of dilemma or contradiction?
I suddenly remembered Lily’s advice and laughed.
It was a worry of no value in the world, but thanks to you, it was a good way to kill time.
Thanks to that, it’s already time for the appointment.
“…Please come in.”
To be honest, I couldn’t sense any sign of popularity outside the door, but I was sure that the girls I knew would have arrived exactly on time.
I thought to myself and muttered, and immediately the door to the fortune teller opened.
Squeak.
“……………….”
“……………….”
“……………….”
“……We are here, our Min.”
Liu Yen, Lane Arthur, Eileen Teddy Bear, Eunha Kim.
They are the culprits of this incident── He gestured with his hand to the girls, who were hesitant compared to usual, and offered them chairs.
But unlike usual, the smile was gone.
Thanks to being thoroughly educated by the pseudo-bastard, I was able to wear a fake smile at any time, but I didn’t want to do that just now.
“……….”
Four female students sit on chairs prepared in advance. The chairs were crowded together rather narrowly around the round table, but they found their seats without anyone noticing, as if they had reserved seats.
The women who met each other like that…… It was small.
My sitting height was really low because I had my head and shoulders down.
“Hmm…”
I flinch.
Even as I was wondering for a moment whether I should tell them not to flinch like that, they were flinching.
It moves in response to every gesture or word I make.
From a position where I know these strong-willed women well…… It must be proof that they are also taking this matter seriously.
Anyway, I have to start.
After rolling the words around in my head for a moment, I opened my mouth.
“I thought a lot about it.”
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“……….”
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“I also received advice from other people I know.”
I can’t thank Samuel Lipson and Lily Whiterose enough.
Who would have thought that in the game, they were just comedy characters to brighten the mood, and that they would give me such advice?
At least, I wasn’t the one who thought of Lily as simply a ‘comedy character with the concept of chivalry’.
Lily’s advice contained such sincerity and shock.
“It was a short period of time, but my worries lasted a long time. I kept worrying about it at the academy, in class, and at the base…”
‘That worry is also the way forward.’
It may be obvious and cliché, advice commonly seen in books or on TV. It may be a quote from someone whose identity is unknown.
But I didn’t know anyone named Lily Whiterose.
I didn’t know that before she became the woman she is now who pursues chivalry, there was a sickly girl who was ostracized by her family.
And because she is a person with such a past, she is someone who thought about herself and changed herself, so her advice was special.
It is difficult for people to empathize unless they have experienced it.
“And, we have come to a conclusion.”
Lily Whiterose said she would support me and Namgoong Min until the conclusion.
It wasn’t a voice filled with chivalry, nor did he call me an external advisor or junior…… She sympathized with me because of the pain she had experienced.
I was able to come to a conclusion only after listening to her.
I.
“I forgive everyone.”
“………!!”
In the end, I can’t hate them.
In some ways, it may be a frustrating and heartbreaking decision.
This was a decision I made entirely.
“I told you about my past. To be honest, aside from that pseudo-bastard and Jisoo, you are the people I have formed the deepest connection with in my life.”
“…I heard that.”
“And I can’t throw away that relationship. It’s meaningless to say that I achieved it once and I can achieve it again. To me, all of you here right now are everything.”
“Namgoong Min…”
“So, I forgive you. I was angry and I was hurt… But I still forgive you.”
“……Our people.”
Okay, this was my conclusion.
I became closer to Liu, solved Lane’s struggles, calmed down the galaxy’s anger, and saved Eileen’s life.
I was already intertwined with their lives, and they are intertwined with my life as well.
‘Nevertheless, we were not honest with each other.’
I didn’t honestly tell them about the ending or my worries about leaving this world.
They tricked me to keep me from leaving.
It was just as Samuel said. I thought it was my fault, but I thought that was too far gone.
So I forgave them.
However.
“But please keep one thing in mind. I hope you respect me as much as I value you. Something like this…Once is enough.”
Wouldn’t it be a little different from the relationship we had until now?
I will no longer unilaterally depend on them, and I will firmly shake off their dependence as well.
‘I don’t know if this is the right path.’
In the end, they are the first friends I made, and the first relationship outside of my family…… Maybe I’m overreacting too much.
But what does that matter?
‘This may also be the way forward.’
Like a girl whose life became an inflection point when she picked up an old chivalric novel as a child.
I just hoped that my choice today would be a path that would help me and my relationships move forward.
“Now, let me ask you this for the first and last time. Are you hiding something from me?”
They were no longer small. He raised his head, straightened his shoulders, and was looking at me properly.
Some people had tears in their eyes, some sighed in relief, some closed their eyes and reflected, and some finally smiled.
Although I smiled involuntarily at the different reactions, I waited for an answer.
And.
“That’s…”
“…I’ll tell you. Fortune teller, first of all…Thank you for forgiving me.”
“These are difficult words to hear from Mr. Liu.”
“Anyway!…There is one thing I was hiding.”
…… First of all, I asked, but was it really there?
I looked at Liu who was confessing with a trembling voice, even though he was slightly hurt.
What on earth is that?
“It’s a story about the principal…And a dream.”
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“Hmm…”
“……Principal, why are you doing this?”
“Well, where can I tell my story? My ears are itching for no reason. Ugh, do you really hate getting older?”
“……Yes.”
A space shimmering with rainbow colors.
In the deepest part of Gate’s ‘Dream in a Dream’, a man and a woman who were fine despite falling asleep like crazy were talking.
“But how is your condition? Do you think you’ll sleep soon?”
“Thanks to the magic you cast on me, I wake up every time I try to fall asleep. Thank you so much.”
“Thank you? You are a good test subject. It’s hard for me to know how effective the magic I developed is. To be honest, I don’t know what side effects it will have, so you can’t test it on me, right?”
“…The term ‘experimental subject’…”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I guess those words were a bit painful for a failure?”
Crazy year.
Another Namgoong Min, who bit his teeth invisibly, somehow managed to calm himself down.
If you even glare at the principal here, you are a b*tch who will immediately slap you in the face. He had already experienced it many times, so his body was familiar with the movement.
Fortunately, since I was in a dream, it wasn’t difficult to calm me down. Even at this very moment, I would surrender my body to the rushing beasts for a moment, and when I woke up, my head would turn white.
As he was managing his facial expression like that, the principal snorted and turned his head.
“What day is it today?”
“…Oh, it’s 10 days today.”
“Hmm, I was worried what would happen if I didn’t sleep for 10 days, but it’s not as big of a problem as I thought. Is it because this is inside the gate?”
“Maybe so.”
“It doesn’t matter. This Is sleeping well.”
…… Are you sleeping well? Do you really think that way?
Yes, he is sleeping. He closes his eyes, relaxes his entire body, puts his head down, and just breathes.
But the figure in front of my eyes no longer looked like the
Arbitrator.
That being that seemed to be swimming in a lucid dream was infinitely disgusting.
“Ha, you nasty old man. Now that you have 2 trillion dollars, you don’t need it anymore? How can that bastard be the Pope? I still don’t understand. Even though he has power similar to mine, he doesn’t go to the gate, is a utilitarian, and is rotting quietly. What a mess…”
“Well, didn’t you have insurance?”
“Huh? Oh, that serial killer they put in prison? He definitely intended to use it as a threat to blow up the Vatican if the negotiations broke down… But he blew himself up while he wasn’t paying attention. It’s a fitting ending, isn’t it?”
“That…….”
“What?”
“Oh, no.”
A serial killer who attempted to escape by stealing skills from the Romance Academy through a skill thief.
I heard that because the daughter of the Arthur family was the victim, she was taken in directly by the Arthur family, interrogated, and tortured.
‘How did they get the serial killer out of Arthur…? … ?’
Surely he has a connection to Arthur?
Do you have enough connections to take out the culprit who attacked the young lady?
What on earth does the principal have to do with Arthur?
“What is this little bastard thinking? Like an idiot.”
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“Huh? Oh, I’m sorry.”
“Tsk, tsk, anyway, the stuff called … Your original work is all cheesy. I tell you that I personally give supplementary classes, but don’t you get upset? Don’t you think of other things when an adult is in front of you?”
“I’m sorry…….”
“That’s the only thing he knows how to say, right? Well, what can you expect from a failure?”
The principal, who was clucking his tongue and being sarcastic, walked up to the ‘mediator’ with a disapproving expression and placed his hand on his head.
The ‘S job skill, , Was cast and his hands glowed brightly.
‘…… Originally, it would have been a skill that could destroy an entire building, but to control it in a very small way and apply it to a human experiment…….’
While holding and swinging the missile, it is only at the level of hitting small insects.
Regardless of the fact that the principal is a crazy old man, delusional about himself as a special profession, and a crazy b*tch with a sense of being the chosen one, her skills have undoubtedly reached their peak.
‘Well, so I guess we can make something like this…….’
“Good night…Arbitrator, consider it an honor. If this experiment is successful.”
The principal with a twisted smile.
On the contrary, he strokes the mediator’s head with a very gentle hand.
“Because you will become a being who can literally live forever.”
And that.
It will be a bridgehead to realize the principal’s wishes.