Chapter 7 - First Fortune (5)
Chapter 7
First Fortune (5)
『 Translator – Divinity 』
From the moment she entered the exam hall to test her luck, easily passed, and returned to the plaza to wait for the others,
Billionaire Liu Yan’s mood was the worst.
‘That bastard, there’s definitely something about him.’
The fortune teller who had interacted with her on the way to the dedicated exam hall. Her mind was filled with thoughts about him.
Or to be more precise, suspicions.
‘He’s definitely a spy sent by those bastards who tried to kill me last time. Or is it that nouveau riche guy who keeps picking fights with me? Or that bastard I lost to at the auction? If not, is it someone from the driver I fired last month? Or maybe he’s trying to cheat on the exam? An instructor? He looked young, but it’s possible he’s disguised. Then how much of this is part of the exam? Was that simple luck test just now also part of the exam? Or is figuring out that bastard’s true identity the answer? Or maybe—’
Liu Yan was a misanthrope. She doubted everyone in the world, and doubted them again.
The only things she didn’t doubt were gold coins and treasures that couldn’t think, speak, or betray, and idiots who weren’t worth doubting.
The reason the misanthropic Liu entered
‘Was the initial entrance exam offer itself a trap? Is the entire academy working together to kill me? Damn it! Then I should run away right now… but then I won’t be able to get that.’
The billionaire’s head spun, and she bit her nails.
Liu Yan was aiming for just one item in
It would be a waste of breath to say who that one person was.
‘Damn it! I have to get that… First, I need to investigate that bastard, put a tail on him, and somehow find his weakness…!’
“Liu.”
‘But what if he lives inside the academy? You can’t enter unless you’re a student…! As expected, I need to get someone on the inside!’
“Liu Yan.”
“Who is it!?”
Liu, who was biting her nails and thinking about all sorts of suspicious possibilities, what-ifs, and future plans, turned her head with a vicious expression.
Standing there was Lucas, looking at the irritated Liu with worried eyes.
“Liu, your fingers are bleeding.”
“…I know, Lucas. Don’t worry about it.”
“How can I not worry? We’ve known each other since we were kids. Let me use healing magic…”
“Go away.”
“…Liu.”
Lucas, who kept trying to take care of Liu, and Liu Yan, who bluntly rejected him.
Seeing the arrogant
Someone sighed, saying she was at it again, someone laughed as if amused, someone didn’t even show any interest, and someone clicked their tongue.
And among them, Rain Arthur, the
It was because she couldn’t bear to watch Liu and Lucas any longer.
“Miss Liu, is your paranoia acting up again? Who is it this time? A passerby you met on the street? Or Instructor Charles Teddybear? Or is it that fortune teller?”
“Get lost.”
“That ridiculous suspicion, it’s annoying to watch. Are you suspecting that fortune teller? He’s not even here right now.”
Her words, mocking the fortune teller, implied that the fortune teller she was suspecting hadn’t even passed the exam and come out yet.
It was the complete opposite of what she had said before the exam, when she somewhat defended him, saying, “He’s a classmate, so be polite.”
Liu, who knew Rain Arthur’s hypocrisy and true colors well, looked back at Rain with her arrogant smile.
“Hey, idiot.”
“I don’t want to hear that from a paranoiac.”
“Are you blind?”
“…What?”
Liu Yan was suspicious of that fortune teller. She was suspicious, and suspicious again, and overly suspicious, and conscious of him.
And the reason she was suspicious of someone was when that ‘someone’ was capable enough to harm her.
In other words, Liu only suspected those who were competent enough to touch her, the billionaire.
“Didn’t you see him answer all my questions earlier? He did that without even using his job skill. What does it mean that someone like that isn’t here?”
Yes, after passing the dedicated exam, you could return to the plaza. But the reason these special job holders were gathered here was fundamentally because they knew each other and knew they would be classmates.
Those who passed the dedicated exam formed a special class. But that fortune teller was different.
There was no reason for him to stay here after passing the exam.
“Those here are me, Lucas, a certain idiot, Her Highness, and His Holiness. His Highness passed a while ago and must have gone somewhere, and that Hero bastard is probably similar.”
“………….”
“That Namgung Min guy is the same type of person.”
“…Namgung Min?”
“The name of the fortune teller you mentioned is Namgung Min. He said his name at the beginning, didn’t he? You don’t even remember that, and you’re acting all nice, what a joke.”
“Liu Yan…!!”
Grit.
At Liu’s provocation, Rain Arthur gritted her teeth. Sparks flew from her eyes, and her hair seemed to stand on end in anger.
…No, her bob was actually slowly rising, and the surrounding stones and trees were flinching.
Seeing this, the others who had been watching Liu and Rain’s argument stiffened.
“Miss Rain, calm down!”
“Rain! Using skills without permission within the academy is prohibited!”
“Don’t stop me, brother. Today, I’m going to teach this arrogant girl a lesson!”
“What a load of bullshit. Try it. As they say, the best medicine for a mad dog is a beating, right? I’ll beat you to a pulp.”
“You bitch───”
Clap. Clap.
“Stop it.”
A large stone floating in the air was aimed at Liu, and Liu also pulled out a ring decorated with all kinds of jewels from her finger.
Lucas and the
But with a light clap, they all stopped.
“…Your Highness.”
“Your Highness.”
“Honestly, I don’t care whether you two fight or not. But that’s something to be resolved personally, not by causing trouble for the academy.”
The apple of the eye of the Unified Korean Empire’s imperial family rebuked Liu and Rain with a hint of contempt.
No matter how world-renowned a billionaire or a child of a prestigious European family they were, there was someone above them. The Saint of the Catholic Church and the two royals of the Unified Korean Empire had the power to intervene in their quarrel and shut them up.
With Kim Eun-ha’s cold mediation, Liu Yan and Rain Arthur closed their mouths.
“…Ha.”
“…Brother!”
…In the end, there was no reconciliation, just removing each other from sight. Liu, who ended the argument by violently turning her head, was lost in thought once again, and Rain immediately clung to Lucas.
But Lucas’s gaze was directed not at his sister in front of him, but at Liu.
“Brother, that woman…!!”
“Calm down, Rain. You were reckless this time.”
“B-but!”
“Even if we overlook the argument, it was wrong of you to try to use your powers first. Do you intend to harm the Arthur family?”
Cold words and reproachful eyes.
A frigid air with no hint of favor or warmth.
Rain looked at her brother with pleading eyes, then lowered her head.
“…No. I was wrong, brother.”
“Good to know. Then… Liu!”
“…”
“I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but get lost, Lucas.”
“Liu, calm your heart. I’ll help you.”
“…Brother.”
Unlike his attitude towards Rain, Lucas’s attitude towards Liu was as gentle and friendly as possible, with a soft smile.
Rain watched Lucas constantly fawning and Liu still ignoring him.
It was as if the situation before she intervened had returned, and Rain glared at Liu with eyes full of hatred.
“Liu Yan…!!”
“…Huu.”
What a mess.
Princess Kim Eun-ha sighed as she watched the same mess unfold.
Her brother was nowhere to be seen since she passed and came out, and the
Kim Eun-ha, turning her gaze away from the three who were displaying a sticky love triangle, suddenly stopped her gaze at a certain spot.
A place where someone had come out from inside, which she could tell with the
It meant that the owner of the exam room inside that door had passed the dedicated exam.
“Fortune Teller, Namgung Min…”
That trace had been there since she came out, having passed the dedicated exam third and waiting for the others.
Namgung Min, surpassing her and taking second place.
…The princess quietly closed her eyes.
***
“This place is nice.”
After making a promise with Teddybear to visit his home, Namgung Min left the exam hall and wandered around the academy, stopping at a certain spot.
Although
In other words, although the entire sky city was called Romance Academy, the actual size of
Of course, it was still by no means the size of an ordinary school. It was about the size of three or four ordinary universities combined.
And there was one unique thing about
If you were a student of the academy, you could live anywhere, not just on campus.
“It’s moderately remote, and the building size is just right.”
‘That’s why where you set up your base within the academy was quite an important factor.’
Usually, it was better to live near the building where you had classes, but for certain events or interactions with specific characters, the outskirts or other places were sometimes more advantageous.
If you valued dating outside the academy, it was fine to live outside the academy… It seemed like a system with high freedom, but honestly, it was just inconvenient.
‘Would it kill you to just let us live on campus and not waste time moving around, little sister?’
Because of that, I had to needlessly figure out efficient routes, which only gave me a headache.
But now that
Hadn’t I deceived Teddybear and gained his favor by telling his fortune for this very reason?
“Alright, I’ll open a fortune teller’s shop.”
The first step towards earning a regular income and seeing the ending as a ‘fortune teller’.
It began with my own small fortune teller’s shop.