Accidentally Becoming a Great Prophet?!

Finding a murderer…
This is a first for me.
Many people have come as customers, and there have been people who came for fortune-telling for deep matters, but there hasn’t been a customer asking to find a murderer.
And even the person who killed their own older brother…
‘This kind of atmosphere isn’t particularly familiar…’
I’ve received many customers since I started my fortune-teller life, but it’s hard to say the period has been long.
Can I say I don’t have much experience yet?
Anyway, asking to find the person who killed their older brother… It’s such a heavy topic.
Come to think of it, it feels like I’ve become a detective I’ve seen in movies or anime. Finding a murderer…
There’s a difference in that those people find through deduction and I find through fortune-telling, but isn’t finding the culprit similar?
‘Come to think of it, I wonder how those people who confidently find culprits manage to find them so calmly?’
It’s not like I’m experiencing an incident like those work protagonists, but if I were in such a situation, I don’t think it would be easy to be that calm.
Is that the level you need to be a detective story protagonist?
Whoosh!!
Even while thinking such thoughts in my head, my hands naturally and skillfully shuffled the cards flashily.
‘Wow… Now it’s almost at the level of a magician or a card shark appearing in some movie??’
As they say, practice makes perfect, and as I’ve often done card fortune-telling as my main method while receiving many customers, my card shuffling skills have now reached the level of a master.
As I do it, I suddenly think, “This really improves as you do it, huh?” Is experience really that important?
Even while doing it, my body moves flawlessly and flashily without a single mistake while I’m thinking about other things, right?
Hmm, anyway…
Swoosh!
I neatly spread out the well-shuffled cards on the table, drawing an elegant curve.
Oh, even to my eyes, it’s amazingly well done. At this level, wouldn’t I get a perfect 10 for artistic score?
Anyway,
“Now, please draw one card first.”
When I spoke after shuffling all the cards, the customer silently picked up one card with a dark expression.
And when that card was flipped over, the card that appeared was…
Monster card, ‘Killer of the Underworld’.
It’s a card with no particular effect and not very good stats.
But cards when playing the game and when doing fortune-telling are different!
“Your older brother was killed by someone’s contract. The person who killed him… is a 42-year-old C-rank superhuman named Park Gwang-pal, and the people who requested it are Kang Ji-ho and Seok Young-hoon. A government official and a mid-sized company president? Are these the names you expected?”
“…I only know the name Kang Ji-ho. My perfectly fine brother suddenly came back dead from drug overdose, you see. Even though he was living diligently… To die like that… It was strange, so I looked into it. I had heard something before that too… And then I barely found out one person’s name. But I only found out the name.”
“Hmm, what did you hear?”
“Yes. That he saw something strange… He said it’s best not to get involved in such strange things, so he just reported it to the police and came back… But a few days later, he came back dead.”
“I see… You must have suffered a lot emotionally.”
Wow, should I say her ability is good or her determination is incredible…
Although a superhuman, she’s someone with a low rank living no differently from ordinary people, an ordinary person, but to dig into that and find out one culprit’s name… It’s quite amazing.
After pushing aside the card I had already seen, I told her to draw one more card, and when she drew a card, I flipped it over again to check.
This time, the card that came out was a trap card, ‘Secret Transaction’.
It’s a card with good performance that allows you to discard one card from your hand and steal one monster card from the opponent’s field.
Well, that’s irrelevant so let’s pass that and look at the meaning…
“From this, we can know two things. One is… that your older brother was killed because he witnessed the secret transaction between those two. And the other is… that Kang Ji-ho is already dead.”
“…Kang Ji-ho is already dead…?”
“Hmm, it seems like you haven’t obtained the information long ago, right? You barely got one culprit’s name, and because you had no other way to do anything more, you came to find me with the mindset of trying to grasp anything you could.”
It seemed that the information this customer said she obtained was information released because Kang Ji-ho had died.
This Kang Ji-ho was one of the people brainwashed by the fanatics who came to Korea, the culprits of the tentacle incident that happened on the day I ended up meeting the Witch of Music last time.
And he was killed by the fanatics on the day that incident occurred.
A considerable amount of time would have passed since the customer’s brother was killed, but how could an ordinary person find such information at once?
She must have searched for a long, long time and found a thread-like trace, but was too exhausted to push further, and also hit realistic limits. So isn’t that why she came to find even me?
…Hmm, it just occurred to me, but somehow the government officials I’ve seen through fortune-telling all seem to have bad endings. Like that troublesome customer who came before, and this person too.
Well, I’m not particularly concerned since they’re both people who would be considered dirty and bad rather than clean and good… One of them has been dead for quite some time anyway.
It seems like I keep getting involved with those fanatics who follow that outer god or evil god or whatever as much as those people…
…Why do I have an ominous feeling that I’ll meet that kind of people again in a troublesome way?
Sigh… Anyway, back to the main point…
“But Park Gwang-pal, who directly killed your brother, and Seok Young-hoon, who ordered the hit, are still alive. Do you still want revenge?”
“…Of course. I thought it was fortunate that at least some other people were still alive. But… Although in my heart I want to chew them to death…”
“It would be difficult for you, right? Well, I understand. It’s good timing, I needed an excuse too! We’ll help you up to that point!”
To be precise, it would be my friends helping, right? I’ll just be watching.
“You, you’ll really help me? But… I don’t have enough money to ask for that much, and it’s too dangerous a task…”
“Ah, well, we don’t need any additional payment, so just give me a little for the fortune-telling fee. Money isn’t important.”
What’s important is that I’ve gained an excuse to play hooky!
Of course, it’s not for long, it seems I can only rest for one day, but what’s important is that I can play hooky and rest!
And, grinning, I flipped over one card.
This time, the card that came out was a monster card, ‘Militia’.
“In about four days… Seok Young-hoon will spend some quiet time with his subordinates at some villa. By the way, Park Gwang-pal, one of Seok Young-hoon’s subordinates, will be there too. The purpose is to do drugs, it seems? So it seems they’ll spend time quietly at the villa in secret. It looks like they’re coming out unable to hold back after restraining themselves since the person who supplied them with drugs died. If you want to take revenge, you should go then.”
Well, it says there are subordinates…
But how amazing subordinates could such a person have?
Looking at it, it seems he has a foot in the underworld too… If so, it’s easier to gauge.
Korea is also famous for having weak underworld power in the superhuman industry.
And although it’s not the position I wanted, I’ve become something like an underworld boss, so there shouldn’t be any particular problems, right?
‘Well… They’ll handle it well on their own, right?’
Honestly, I don’t know much about such things…
But aren’t there many people who would know well? If it comes to that, I could just contact some S-rank friends, right?
Of course, this isn’t particularly legal or anything…
‘Well, anyway, it seems I’ve already gone too far to become a diligent law-abiding citizen, hahaha…’
From the point of being in a position like an underworld boss or lawless zone owner, aren’t we already out on that front?
It seems we’ve come too far to particularly care about such things from the point of getting involved with superhumans, so let’s not particularly worry about such things.
What’s important now is that I can skip business once through this!
‘This time I should rest at home without going on a trip or anything…’
Ah, come to think of it, I heard there’s some detective movie opening where they do deductions, should I go watch that since I’ve taken on something similar?
“Well anyway, since that’s how it turned out… Would you like to rest at our house for now? We’ll have to move together in four days anyway, so I thought it might be good to stay together.”
Although it doesn’t seem particularly dangerous for an ordinary person to return home given that she’s still alive despite digging this far, there’s always the possibility of ‘what if’, and well, that would be more comfortable anyway.
“To, to impose on you that much…”
“It’s fine, really. It seems you’ve had a hard time until now, we have many rooms, so rest well until you achieve your desired revenge. Ah, we were just about to have lunch all together, if you haven’t eaten, would you like to join us?”

“If you’re offering, I’m grateful… Thank you, teacher…”
“Oh my, it’s nothing.”
Then, taking only a few bills that caught my eye from the fortune-telling fee I received, I returned the rest.
Since I gained an excuse to play hooky for a day thanks to this, it’s only polite to take care of this much!
“But teacher… How can you know all those things just by looking at cards…?? I’m so curious about that…”
“Huh? Well, it’s not so much how I knew… I just saw it when I looked?”
“Uh… Is, is that so…?? As expected, a skilled teacher like you is different in some way…”
Ah, well, I understand you’re curious, but… how can I explain something that I really just see when I look?
There’s a reason I call myself an amateur fortune-teller, you know?