Accidentally Becoming a Great Prophet?!

The superhumans were momentarily taken aback by the sight of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Essence’s guardian, the white furball, slipping, but their surprise was brief, and there was no prolonged hesitation.

In high-level superhuman fights, even a single opening can have a huge impact. As such, in a situation where so many S-ranks were gathered, slipping and falling flat on the ground was a fatal mistake tantamount to handing over one’s life to the opponent.

Therefore,

“It’s interesting, but… for now, stomp on it!”
“Let’s think after stomping!”
“No, really, how does that even work??”
“We can ask for it to be done again after we kick it!”
“Yeah, let’s stomp it first!!”

They started enthusiastically beating up the furry guardian.
They looked so excited stomping on it that they even seemed to be enjoying themselves.

“Wow, that’s ruthless…”
“How often do you get the chance to gang up on a monster of that level? It’s fun to enjoy such a rare positive situation.”
“Is that so?”
“That’s just how it is. There are no easy opponents at the S-rank level.”

Lee Suyeon, who was giggling while hitting only the head of the furry guardian with incredible skill using a pistol loaded with rubber bullets beside me, gave some additional explanation.

It seems it’s a rare opportunity… I don’t really understand, but I thought if that’s what they say, it must be so.
Isn’t there something that only superhumans who directly fight monsters can feel? I’m just an ordinary fortune-teller after all.

“Well… isn’t it quite contradictory to call yourself an ordinary fortune-teller at the point where you’ve taken down a monster that seems to be around S-rank level with just words?”
“Ah, that’s not really that amazing.”

It might seem impressive because I just knocked it down with a word… but it’s not really that amazing.

“Just because I knocked it down by speaking doesn’t mean I can kill it with words.”

In other words, even if I said “Die” to that furry guardian, it wouldn’t just die.
It’s almost like a prank… anyway, I can’t do anything that amazing.

“Ah, that’s where you’re mistaken, teacher.”

But it seems Lee Suyeon had a different opinion.
Having already fired all her bullets, she changed the magazine and continued firing rubber bullets as she spoke.

“Do you know how amazing it is to be able to create such a big opening so easily! And against an S-rank, without any restrictions, so simply! The reason that furball monster is being so miserably beaten is thanks to you creating that opening!”

“But you would have won easily even without me.”

“Killing it might have been simple… but we wouldn’t have been able to tie it up so neatly and play with it like this?”

At those words, I looked at the furry guardian again.
The one that was being thoroughly stomped on the ground was now tied up against the wall and being beaten while limp.

Oh, it even looks a bit pitiful…

“And we’re not just beating it for fun. Since you’ve used it once, wouldn’t it be better to use it more?”

Oh, are they being considerate and letting me experiment more with my ability? I’m a bit touched??

“It’s better to soften it up so it can’t resist, that way it’ll be easier to use. Right?”

“That’s correct, but somehow it sounds creepy?”

Anyway, after beating it up a few more times and perfectly completing the binding, the superhumans who had been thoroughly beating the creature came back.

“Alright! We’ve got it all set up, now show us again!!”
“What do you call that thing from earlier? Since it comes true when you say it, should we call it ‘word command’?”
“It really felt novel… it’s not magic…”

It seems what I showed was more interesting to them than I thought.

“But is it that interesting to just make it slip?”
“Of course it’s interesting!”
“Superhumans of our level don’t make such silly mistakes and slip while fighting. There’s a reason we’re called superhumans, and if you’re at S-rank, you’re at a level worthy of being called a superhuman among superhumans, but to make such a being slip with just a word… how can it not be interesting!”
“Among the magic that magicians use, there are spells that make the ground slippery and such. But those don’t work on us. If you think we’d fall for such simple magic, that’s underestimating us too much. In that sense, being able to make something slippery in an instant… it’s more amazing than you might think. It means you can create a gap that could take a life in an instant. And even against S-rank superhumans or monsters.”
“Ooh…”

Listening to them talk, it does seem amazing.

“Since you probably won’t need to step forward much… isn’t it a perfectly fitting ability? If we were to classify it… at least an S-rank supporter?”
“Never mind that, just show us one more time!!”
“Okay, okay! I was going to try it again anyway.”

Since I didn’t need to get close to use it, I looked at the monster from where I was standing and read through its face.

In that moment, the furry guardian’s fur suddenly shrank as if tightening around its body, and it succeeded in escaping its bonds, falling to the ground.

Ki, kiik?!

“Wow… it succeeded in escaping but it’s more surprised than anyone…”
“What’s the principle behind that??”
“Principle? Actually, I don’t really know either… let me try one more time.”

Ah, this is more fun than I thought now that I’m using it.

Kudangtang!
Kueeek…!

The guardian, trying to do something after escaping, just rolled on the ground.

“Oh… if it had tried something, I was going to freeze it…”
“Wow, this really works??”
“Kya… where is the limit of fortune-telling!”

Using it was fun, but hearing their reactions was quite odd, so I unconsciously scratched my cheek.

“Well, if you’re done experimenting, should we kill it now?”
“I don’t have anything else to see…”

I only intended to experiment to see if it really worked or not, so I didn’t plan to torment it further. Rather, I was more surprised that this worked on such a powerful monster.

Anyway, the furry guardian, who unfortunately met us and was miserably beaten, soon ended its life as it was split in half by Cheon Ryuhwa’s axe.

“Ah, I’ll process the byproducts later and send them to your account, teacher!”
“Oh, that would be very kind of you.”

Masanari said he would process and handle the guardian’s byproducts since it was caught in Japan, taking only a small commission fee and sending the rest. He said he’d send any useful materials separately too.

“Now! All that’s left is to simply take the divine medicine, but before that, please explain! I’m really curious!”
“Is it that interesting?”
“It’s as curious as how all your strange fortune-tellings always come true!”
“Is it to that extent…”

Anyway, an explanation… how should I explain this? Actually, I don’t really know either.

“At some point, I suddenly felt like I could do it. Since that time we met the meteor monster in Mongolia. The principle is…”

Hmm, how should I explain the principle…

“It’s a bit like physiognomy, you could say? When I look at the target, I see a lot of things, and I choose one of them and say it.”

Should I say I say what I can say… anyway, it’s something like that.

“Oho… I don’t understand, but I can tell it’s an amazing ability!”
“It seems like an even more awesome ability than I thought??”
“Even so… I can only do simple things like making them miss or slip like earlier.”
“Unless it’s someone who can revive perfectly even after being cut up, just that simple mistake is enough to have a huge impact!”
“By the way, isn’t this also a kind of awakening? If we test again, you might be able to get rid of that F-rank label, teacher!”
“What? Teacher, were you F-rank in Korea, not even S-rank?? That’s even more surprising than what we just saw… just looking at your fortune-telling, it seems at least S-rank even at the lowest…”
“Honestly, with a 100% fortune-telling accuracy, isn’t it not just S-rank but more like EX-rank? And now you’ve even gained such a cheating ability.”
“I wonder if this would work on EX-ranks? I’m really curious about that too.”
“Maybe we could ask Dokma to help if we meet him later? He’d probably be curious too.”
“Before that, we can’t just call it ‘that’… let’s decide on a name for that ability, teacher! If a strange name gets attached, that’s going to bother us in its own way!”
“Is that so??”

So we had a brief time to decide on a name before collecting the divine medicine, and it was decided on the simplest and most intuitive name, ‘Verbal Command’.

There were a few candidates like Fate Fixation, Definite Prophecy, Fate Determination, Branch Point Fixation, Ultra-short Term Prophecy, etc., but it was decided on that. The method of decision was very democratic, by vote.

Names like Fate Fixation or Branch Point Fixation seemed to fit best when looking at how this power works, but it felt a bit off, so we just chose the simplest one. Actually, considering that it comes true when spoken, ‘Verbal Command’ fits too.

But after making it, I thought we won’t be saying the technique name to use it anyway, so how much will we even use the name we decided on… hmm.

Anyway, after many things happened like that, when we went further in beyond what the guardian was protecting, we saw something pure white that was stored as if it were a very precious thing.

“Hooh… ice essence was blue, but is it different because it’s Ten Thousand Year Ice Essence?”
“Does the word ‘ten thousand years’ make even the color different… anyway, Arin! Go eat it!”
[I will proceed to take the Ten Thousand Year Ice Essence.]

Anyway, the Ten Thousand Year Ice Essence, which was sitting on an elegantly carved pedestal emitting white light and cold air, was absorbed by Arin who rushed out.

Nothing particularly special happened. It didn’t take long either.

Just as Arin approached, a pure white light exploded, then melted and was absorbed into Arin, disappearing.

“…Less happened than I thought?”
“Yeah. I thought something more intense and special would happen, or that it would take longer.”
[There were many changes, even if it doesn’t look like it. It just didn’t take long… First, I feel a sense of breaking through and overcoming some wall.]

Oh, it seems something was achieved at least. Arin wouldn’t lie right now anyway.

“Arin does seem to have gotten a bit colder…”
[…I think that’s just the temperature of this room dropping…]
“Oh, is that so??”

Anyway, after absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Ice Essence into Arin without any particular incident and experimenting with the newly gained ability, we left this space that was slowly starting to melt.