chapter 19
19 – 4. How this fortune teller became famous
“Give me the money, pay the debt, pay the price instead. Isn’t this a perfect angel?”
“An angel or something, please return to the original Mr. Liu…”
“……This bastard is pissed off? What the hell did you think of me?”
“Would you like to hear?”
“No. If you do, I’ll beat you to death, so I’m quitting.”
“………….”
“Look how this bastard gets quiet right away… Anyway, it was really close. I think it was the longest minute of my life.”
“Huh? Mr. Liu, didn’t you know?”
“You don’t know? What?”
“What is it? The academy has things to notice.”
“……what?”
*
In fact, to begin with, escape is a failure.
The reason is, of course, the time limit.
“…More than a minute?”
“Of course. It must have taken well over a minute for the students to escape after the princess punched her.”
“under……….”
Liu sighs as if he is losing his pulse at the fact that it will ultimately be a failure. Seeing that he kept looking at the sky as he leisurely walked toward the exit with me, it must have been lingering regret.
But why is he so sentimental? Like that strange sound earlier, I can feel the difference between Rio in the game I knew and Rio in front of me.
… … Is this really a good change?
Considering Liu Yan’s character events, such hasty changes are more likely to be poisonous… …
‘I just don’t know.’
Hey, how much will Rio have to change? I’m doing this because I’m being sentimental for a while now. When I go back to my daily life, I’ll go back to that eccentric personality.
In the first place, I am weak in human relationships. After her parents died in middle school, she lived with her younger sister, Ji-soo, and passed high school through her GED, so she didn’t know.
Unlike Jisoo, who made a lot of friends in the midst of that, I didn’t have a single common friend because I had a series of part-time jobs for the GED.
‘So please go back to normal.’
you’re really scared of something
The kid suddenly smiled and said he would pay off the debt or give me money, but I had no idea what the plan was behind.
“……But why didn’t it fail?”
“Didn’t I tell you earlier? In that situation, the academy isn’t so ignorant that they immediately call it a failure just because it’s 12 o’clock.”
Is that right? At the moment when there was only one minute left in the last minute, a dramatic success situation came out, but in fact, it was time over hahahaha.
This isn’t a midterm or final exam, it’s just a personality test, so I just closed my eyes and moved on to the academy.
Even in the game, if it wasn’t related to exams, it was the romance academy that was quite loose.
“Sheesh, something is a little futile.”
“Um. Didn’t you rather not tell me?”
“That’s right. It would have been better not to listen at all… Ah, that’s right.”
Liu, who was walking aimlessly with his hands in his pockets, suddenly looks to the side.
… … why are you looking at me like that
“Hey, fortune teller bastard.”
“yes.”
“You don’t go near that b*tch.”
“……A b*tch?”
Who is a b*tch by Rio standards?
There’s Rain, there’s a secretary-style girl who helps Liu by his side, and inside, the princess curses at her for being a b*tch… … also… … Ah, the principal of this romance academy is also a b*tch.
Too many b*tches?
“That psychic b*tch.”
“Mr. Lane? Why is he…”
“Ah, that’s a long story. Just don’t approach me if you don’t want to approach me. Did you understand?”
“I’m going to go to the special job class anyway, but how can I not approach you?”
“Then just don’t look at them and don’t talk to them. That’s really bad.”
… … what? Are you suddenly introspective?
No matter how objectively you look at it, it feels strange when the most vicious suspected patient calls Lane vicious.
Is this what the eyes can only see?
“Hey, what are you thinking about?”
“No. Absolutely not.”
“Don’t be chewed. It’s only time when you don’t laugh.”
“……How does Mr. Liu know about that?”
“……forget it, bastard.”
how can i forget that… … If you look at it with those eyes, you can’t help but forget it.
I thought I would physically delete it if I didn’t get rid of it from my memory, so I just calmly nodded my head.
After small talk with Liu, it was not long before we walked slowly to the front of the exit.
“If you go beyond this, is it an escape?”
“Maybe?”
I’m trying to do something I couldn’t do in the game. It feels good.
Just before stepping into the romance academy seen through the collapsed wall.
“………….”
“What you looking at?”
… … Come to think of it, how did I get to talk to Liu like this?
It was definitely not like this when I received blessings from Liu a week ago.
A feeling of being tickled in the chest.
“…….”
“Hey, fortune teller bastard, why are you doing that!”
I thought about the change in Rio earlier.
If you think about the future, the original Rio is better, but… … I feel much more comfortable talking to Liu now.
In fact, this could all be Liu’s acting. The girl I saw in the game was a character who would never let go of deep doubts on the inside, even if she laughed on the outside.
But even if all of this is acting, if I’m good right now.
Maybe good is good?
… … I do not know. Being friends is very difficult. Namgoong Jisoo This year was amazing.
“…….”
“Hey! Hey Namgoong-min! At least he smiled! Why are you looking at me with that expression!”
Liu Yan is seen. A small girl with straight black hair, a doll-like face, and lots of accessories.
In the game, she, like Rain, harasses the female protagonist throughout, but turns to her ally after a character event.
in other words… … Until there was a character event, it was a character that I couldn’t get close to no matter what I did.
“I’m going first! I’m really going!
I just knew and treated Liu that way. I believed only what was shown in the game.
But the Liu Yan I see looks different from her in the game.
I wanted to know. what is her true face
“You son of a fortune teller! What the hell are you thinking!”
“… Mr. Liu.”
“Um, huh?”
“Maybe I… don’t know you very well.”
“………what?”
It’s a foolish choice, but I don’t know the only way. just saying it out loud
I’m not good at talking round and round, so what?
“I thought I knew Liu Yan to some extent. That’s why I was able to talk to you during the entrance exam, and I was able to visit you afterward.”
“………….”
Liu Yan was listening to me with his arms crossed.
what is she thinking?
“I defined Liu Yan as being such and such a person. It didn’t seem like there was anything wrong with that, but… it didn’t fit perfectly.”
“……Ha, why are you saying that now? You know it’s been less than 10 days since we first saw each other, right?”
“Of course I know. I know… but I still want to know.”
“what?”
“Who is Liu Yan? What is he really like?”
“That sounds funny.”
Liu, who had summarized his sincere words in one word, looked at me with a smile on his face.
Originally, when you hear a story like this, it’s normal to be suspicious of Rio in the game.
In reality, she is a bit different.
“That’s why you asked? What is my true self?”
“………yes.”
“Hey, be honest. You don’t have a single friend? You’re just asking this outright?”
“yes.”
“… Just admitting something like this is like a bastard called you… Well, whatever.”
Liu scratches his head a little and then puts on a pathetic expression.
“You are similar, my baby.”
“yes?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Do you think I’ll tell you that? You’ll have to observe and find out for yourself, bastard.”
“That, that’s a bit…”
“What’s wrong with that? You have to watch and recognize people in your own way so that you can understand yourself too? To be honest, if I say, what am I doing right now, would you believe it?”
“…….”
Why?
Liu’s words towards me were also heard as words towards himself.
“Hey, fortune teller bastard.”
“Ah, yes.”
“You follow me starting today.”
“………yes?”
“Take care of me. You said you want to know what kind of person I am? Then shouldn’t you be watching from nearby?”
… … Is that how it works?
But if you listen to it, does it sound right?
On the day I was contemplating with my eyes wide open, Liu hit me with his elbow.
“This is funny. If you say <Daily Wealth>’s name is a truck, a bastard who bows and comes in is a truck dude. What’s a bastard who wears the same clothes because he doesn’t have money worrying?”
“Ooh, give me some time…”
“Time? You said well. I’ll give you one week, so decide within that time, okay?”
“yes…….”
“answer.”
“yes!”
“good.”
Liu, who seemed satisfied with a clear answer, walked to the exit first.
I started walking along with her and calmly organized my thoughts.
‘There are many things to remember today.’
I don’t know where it went, but <Saint> is targeting me.
Escape the labyrinth that will leave a good impression.
I was able to talk to Lucas, Rain, and Sasaki separately.
To the deal with the princess.
Even deciding whether or not to become Rio’s Thakari within a week.
“Now it’s past the morning of the first day…”
what is so much
Still, there are no classes today, so it’s just fortunate that I have time to go back to the base and sort things out.
As if the cleaning was a lie, today there are no classes after 12 o’clock and students who must have suffered in the maze were given time to rest for a day, so there will be no problem going back as it is.
“…is gone.”
If you look ahead, Rio has disappeared somewhere.
She must have been tired because she worked pretty hard. Even when I look around, I can’t see the other students. It seems like everyone has gone back.
Although I feel like going to the base and resting like a chimney.
‘I still have work to do.’
On the day of the entrance exam, I made a promise to Instructor Charles Teddy Bear.
I have to go see his daughter.
*
“……Did you call, Liu-sama?”
“Uh, yes.”
Inside Romance Academy, Liu’s office.
A female student was kneeling in the slightly messy office, just like when Namgoong-min came in last week.
However, Liu, who did not even look at her, fluttered the papers with her legs crossed.
“Do you have the background check on the fortune teller I ordered?”
“Yes. First of all, I followed Namgoong-min while following him. As a result, as reported in the report, the fact that the base is outside the academy, that it is the starting point of the famous treasure hunt commotion these days, and that he does not seem to have much money judging from the fact that he wears the same clothes every day. Organize…”
“Stop it now.”
“……yes?”
At that moment, knowing that it was a taboo, the female student knelt down and asked Liu.
That Liu Yan told me to stop doing background investigations?
She had been a schoolgirl who had been working under her for more than a few years, but I had only seen one case like this.
That’s only when the target of the background investigation is already dead.
“Is Namgoong Min… dead?”
“What kind of bullsh*t?
“I’m sorry!”
“Anyway, you’re an idiot, so you only talk sh*t. That’s why I canceled my request to approach Namgoong-Min. Just don’t go near that fortune teller.”
what is this again?
The other time, he told me to get to know him thoroughly, but this time he ordered me not to approach him again.
Liu, who threw all the efforts the female student had prepared to approach Namgoong-min into the trash with just one word, frowned.
“Don’t talk to me, don’t make eye contact. Do you understand?”
“Oh, I see!”
“And if you ask me in return, you said the debt would be doubled, right? I know you’ll do that.”
“yes!”
… … b*tch.
The girl’s eyes were burning with her head bowed down to her knees.
Right now I have no choice but to obey that b*tch, but I’m sure the opportunity will come.
The female student waited for Liu’s words while sharpening her blade of revenge.
“So Namgoong Min’s background investigation is over, you should investigate this.”
“……This?”
“Didn’t that fortune teller cause a commotion on the treasure hunt? I’ve laid out the board for a long time, but if I don’t earn a share, the name of <The Great Wealth> will die.”
What Liu threw at the girl’s bedside was a picture.
The female student didn’t know it, but it was a place that Liu had marked in advance after feeling an intense golden aura with <The Eye That Seeks Wealth>.
“I only have a picture and I don’t know where it is, so find out where it is. If you find out, I’ll double the debt.”
“……yes.”
Are you talking about working for free?
Liu Yan only suspects those who might be a threat to him, and treats the rest as idiots or good chess pieces.
And among Rio’s ‘janggi horse’, a female student with the thickest leash picked up the picture.
In a cave full of puddles of water, a sarcophagus engraved with strange patterns.
Today, the female students endure and endure again and wait for opportunities.
… … The day that will surely come, stabbing Rio.