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

Chapter 35
This Fortune Teller Does It For Free (1)

『 Translator – Divinity 』

To be honest, I did expect the academy to take some action against me.

I was the first one to escape the entrance ceremony maze since the academy’s founding, and I even cleared the class prepared by the academy in one go through fortune-telling (?).

With me around, all the exams that involved mazes or finding locations would be impossible. If I instigated the students and led them as a group like I did during the entrance ceremony, it would be impossible to evaluate each student individually.

So, although it was a bit much to impose restrictions on me, I could understand.

But.

‘Understanding and accepting are different.’

Understanding is one thing, accepting it is another.

Frankly, it’s like the school telling a student who uses a specific art technique, “You’re too good at drawing with that, so don’t use it anymore.”

I looked around at all the instructors of Romance Academy, who were sitting around the conference room.

Several layers of round tables with holes in the center were placed, and I was standing in the middle, on a podium.

The vice-principal, maintaining a stern expression, was sitting at the front.

Feeling all sorts of gazes directed at me from all directions, I opened my mouth.

“First, I’d like to ask. When you say restrictions on fortune-telling, what is the scope of those restrictions?”

“Everything.”

“…By everything, do you mean all the fortune-telling I do in this Romance Academy?”

“That is correct.”

…Isn’t this a bit too much? Did all these proud academy instructors agree to such a restriction?

More importantly, did they think I would just accept it if they imposed a penalty like this?

“Vice-principal, the penalty against me is unfair.”

“Unfair, you say.”

“Indeed. Romance Academy is a place to educate students so they can fully utilize their jobs. In that sense, restricting fortune-telling, which is the identity of my job, , is too much.”

“Hmm.”

Of course, I had to express my dissatisfaction.

And honestly, even if exams are restricted because of me, isn’t that something the academy should deal with? Why are they trying to solve it by restricting my abilities?

At my natural rebuttal, many of the instructors present nodded in agreement.

If this were a company or the military, it would be a different story, but this is a school.

Why would a school restrict a student’s abilities?

Having grasped the flow, I had no intention of stopping.

“Vice-principal, and all the instructors gathered here, as you know, I have a non-combat job. , as the name suggests, is a job solely about fortune-telling. If you take away fortune-telling, what’s left?”

“…That’s not wrong.”

“Honestly, it seems a bit too much.”

“We are an educational institution that fosters students. We are not a place to suppress a student’s abilities.”

At my words, some of the instructors began to agree. Although they were a minority, their voices echoed throughout the conference room.

Seeing that there were opposing opinions, it seemed like the vice-principal was acting on his own, which made it even harder to understand.

‘Why is he so insistent on restricting all fortune-telling?’

Actually, there were many other ways for Romance Academy to be wary of my fortune-telling.

In exams like the maze or finding the destination, they could just give me the highest score without me participating, or they could make me report and get permission from the academy every time I did fortune-telling, or they could restrict the number of times I could do it from the beginning.

But completely restricting all fortune-telling was excessive in many ways. It’s not like the academy wouldn’t know that.

While I was pondering the academy’s intentions, the vice-principal looked at me.

“Student Namgung Min, let me ask you this in return.”

“Go ahead.”

“Why are you attending this academy?”

“…?”

What is this? Asking a student why they’re attending school?

The vice-principal continued as I was momentarily speechless.

“As you said, Romance Academy serves to train and develop the jobs of students who are job holders.”

“That is correct.”

“But you have nothing more to learn, do you?”

“…Ah.”

I finally understood what he was trying to say.

I kept thinking of myself as a ‘student’. As the basic setting of a player who attends this Romance Academy, learns, interacts, and reaches the ending.

But how did the academy see me?

‘What a needs to learn and develop is naturally fortune-telling, but I’ve never been wrong in my fortune-telling so far.’

Actually, whether it was real fortune-telling or not, from an outsider’s perspective, I boasted a 100% accuracy rate in fortune-telling.

So there was no need for me to attend Romance Academy. There was nothing more to learn or develop.

The vice-principal was pointing that out.

“You are the first in Romance Academy, but we still had the will to educate and guide you. By inviting other Fortune Tellers from outside or something.”

“……….”

“But you are more amazing than any Fortune Teller I know. Frankly… I want to hire you as an instructor in charge of , not as a student.”

At the vice-principal’s honest statement, the instructors’ murmurs subsided.

Even those who were inwardly dissatisfied with this penalty must have been convinced by the vice-principal’s explanation.

Instructor Redfield’s words suddenly came to mind.

‘In my opinion, there’s no one among the new students who uses their job better than you.’

It was exactly as he said, and the academy was evaluating me even higher than that.

A gap created because I didn’t think I was actually doing fortune-telling.

As if knowing that I was troubled, the vice-principal didn’t continue speaking. He must be waiting for me to answer.

‘What should I say?’

First of all, I definitely couldn’t accept the penalty. I had to continue intervening in the characters’ lives with ‘fortune-telling’ as the justification.

If my fortune-telling was restricted now, it would be difficult to get closer to Liu and the princess, who became close to me because of my accurate fortune-telling.

Then should I ask them to ease the restrictions?

‘…That’s also just a temporary solution. It will just happen again if my fortune-telling continues to be accurate.’

And I was in a position where I had to continue making accurate predictions in important situations.

Then…

“…It can’t be helped. I’ll be honest.”

“Student Namgung Min?”

If I couldn’t find a way to solve this problem,

I just had to dismantle the problem itself.

“My fortune-telling doesn’t always have a 100% accuracy rate. There’s a condition.”

“A condition, you say?”

Ultimately, the reason the academy was trying to impose a penalty on my fortune-telling was because of the premise that my fortune-telling was 100% accurate.

If I broke that premise, the problem would naturally be resolved.

Of course, by using lies and deception.

“The accuracy of my fortune-telling increases by 1% every time I fail.”

“Hmm…?”

“Because of that, I’m constantly doing trivial fortune-telling in my mind. By failing those, I raise the probability of the fortune-telling I do at important moments.”

That was a lie.

“Is that so? I’ve never seen a with that kind of characteristic among those I know.”

“I don’t know the reason either. It’s a characteristic I’ve had since birth.”

“Hmm…”

This was also a lie, of course.

Normally, it would be difficult to convince even ordinary people with such a one-sided explanation without any basis or logic.

But there were a few reasons why my words would be accepted.

“Could that… be true?”

“Does anyone know about ?”

“There are many, but it’s such a unique job…”

Firstly, fortune-telling was originally illogical.

Unlike cases where there was clear evidence or logic, fortune-telling had to be believed just because the Fortune Teller said so, with ‘fate’ or ‘God’s will’ as justification.

Since its existence itself was far removed from logic or reason, even bizarre explanations held a minimum level of persuasiveness.

And more importantly,

“…Isn’t that more believable?”

“Excuse me?”

“Isn’t that right? It’s ridiculous that my fortune-telling has been correct every time just because I did it.”

“Hmm, if there’s such a restriction… it’s not unbelievable.”

Because my fortune-telling was so unrealistic, my explanation actually sounded more realistic.

It was common sense. Normally, if someone gave you 100 million won for free, you would be suspicious, but if they said they would give it to you after doing a handstand for 24 hours, some people would believe them.

Because common sense dictated that unrealistic results required a corresponding price.

‘Now’s the time to sigh again.’

And I intentionally acted resigned. I lowered my head, sighed, pretended to think for a long time, and made my voice tremble.

The believable condition, and my attitude.

It was more than enough to make my lie seem like the truth.

“Hmm, student Namgung Min. Why did you hide that?”

“…It was my long-cherished dream to enter Romance Academy. I’m the first to be admitted, and if it was revealed that I had this condition… I was afraid it would be difficult to enter. I apologize.”

“Oh…”

Subtly stimulating the instructors’ pride in the academy, and the immaturity and naivety that a student who just became an adult could have.

It didn’t take long for the vice-principal and the instructors’ gazes to soften.

“It’s alright. The reason the academy asks students to reveal their jobs and skills is for smooth education. You are fully qualified to enter the academy.”

“Then what should we do? Should we… cancel the restriction on fortune-telling?”

“But ultimately, the fact that student Namgung Min can clear all the exams with fortune-telling remains the same, doesn’t it?”

“But there’s that characteristic, isn’t there? Taking that into account…”

The conference room gradually became noisy. Since my fortune-telling had gone from an unrealistic element to a ‘controllable’ level, they were discussing what to do with the penalty.

Those who were originally dissatisfied with the penalty, those who still saw Namgung Min as a threat to the exams, those who insisted on imposing the penalty equally.

As all sorts of voices mixed and the discussion grew louder, with even the vice-principal, who was sitting at the head of the table, deep in thought,

This moment, this was the moment I was waiting for.

“Vice-principal, I’m not sure if it’s appropriate for me to say this, but… I have an idea.”

“Hmm? Everyone, quiet down for a moment. Student Namgung Min, you have an idea?”

“Yes, I do.”

First, I solved the existing problem. The academy was definitely going to penalize me, but not anymore.

So, now I had to lead them in the direction I wanted.

“Ultimately, the problem is the accuracy of my fortune-telling, isn’t it?”

“That’s right. Even if you have that characteristic, it’s still a problem if you raise your accuracy to 100% beforehand and then enter the exam.”

“Then, wouldn’t it be fine if you prevented me from accumulating accuracy beforehand?”

“Hmm? You said you could also do fortune-telling in your mind. We can’t know your inner thoughts.”

No, what I want to say is a bit different.

Although the plan went a bit awry, the reason I intentionally showed off my abilities and made a name for myself at the entrance ceremony. The way to smoothly interact with the characters and earn money.

“I will open a fortune-telling shop.”

“A fortune-telling… shop?”

“Yes. If I tell other students’ fortunes there, it would be difficult for me to accumulate accuracy beforehand, wouldn’t it?”

“Hmm.”

Opening my own little fortune-telling shop.

That was my goal.

“A fortune-telling shop. That doesn’t sound bad.”

“If you tell other students’ fortunes at the shop, you won’t be able to accumulate accuracy beforehand.”

“Even then, you could just accumulate it right before the exam.”

“We could have surprise exams, or the instructor could have their fortune told right before the exam.”

“There might be some loopholes, but it seems like a realistic way to restrict student Namgung Min’s fortune-telling.”

“More importantly, if we allow the fortune-telling shop, the academy won’t be dishonored for restricting a student’s abilities. There’s no benefit in setting such a precedent.”

Favorable voices could be heard from all around.

It wasn’t a perfect solution, but as long as it didn’t completely restrict my fortune-telling, they seemed to think it was a good way to realistically restrict my fortune-telling. And it protected the academy’s honor as a bonus.

In the end, the academy wasn’t trying to completely control my fortune-telling, but to keep it at a reasonable level. They took such excessive measures because they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to control it to that reasonable level.

The vice-principal, after listening to the various opinions of the instructors, seemed to have made a decision and opened his eyes.

“Alright. We will accept Namgung Min’s suggestion.”

“Thank you, Vice-principal.”

“No, thank you, and I apologize. However, I will add a few conditions.”

“Conditions… you say?”

“Yes, first—”

***

Step.

I left the conference room and wandered aimlessly through the academy.

Although things worked out well, my head still ached because of the conditions the vice-principal imposed.

“Sigh, what should I do? I don’t know many people…”

At most, it was just Liu, Rain, Lucas, the Saint, the prince, and the princess. If I really stretched it, maybe Sasaki Ito?

I couldn’t fulfill the vice-principal’s conditions with less than 10 people.

But I couldn’t give up either, so I was thinking about it—

“Found you.”

“…Hmm?”

—When I heard a voice behind me and turned around.

My first thought was, she’s beautiful.

She must be a student since she’s inside the academy, with her fluttering clothes, her beautiful face despite the sweat, her curvy figure, and her long, flowing blonde hair.

I wasn’t good with words, so it was difficult to describe in detail, but she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.

Um, but…

‘Who… are you?’

It was a feast for the eyes to see such a beautiful student, but she was talking to me, right?

But who are you? I’ve never seen a student like you in the game.

“I’ve been looking for you. Ever since I came to the academy… only you.”

“Uh, excuse me? Are you perhaps mistaking me for…”

“No. You’re the one I saw in my dream.”

Looking? Dream?

Just as I had the somewhat rude thought that she might be ill,

The unidentified girl suddenly hugged me, and her soft parts were touching me!?

“I finally found you… Mr. Namgung Min.”

“Uh, um, uh. E-excuse me!?”

As my thoughts stopped at the situation and softness that were beyond common sense,

“Hey! Fortune Teller bastard! I heard you’re being penalized by the academy! If you want, this Billionaire will… help… you…”

“M-Miss Liu?”

“……….”

Liu, who had been running towards me with a smile, suddenly frowned,

And the teddy bear decoration hanging from the girl’s neck sparkled.