The Fortune-Teller Saintess - Chapter 8

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The Fortune Teller Saint

Chapter 8

As I was carefully examining the ‘THE DEVIL’ card, I suddenly remembered something I had forgotten and let out an exclamation.

“Ah!”

“What’s wrong, Ria?”

“I forgot…”

I stared at Robelina with vacant eyes.

‘I was supposed to help our Lina with her romance!’

That bastard Jacad not only suddenly changed the topic but also picked a fight out of nowhere, making me completely forget about it.

Moreover, I had just done my best to ruin my relationship with Jacad. This meant it would be difficult to connect Robelina and Jacad.

‘No wait. Should I change the male lead while I’m at it?’

The original story had already gone off track anyway. It might not be bad to give the male lead position to a different sub-male lead instead of Jacad.

Besides, I had already seen the original work where Jacad was the male lead. It might not be bad to see a different sub-male lead become the main one?

“Hehe. Lina…”

Are you interested in changing male leads?

I held back those words and linked arms with Robelina, rubbing my face against her arm.

Despite my aegyo offensive, Robelina narrowed her eyes and asked.

“Ria, did you cause some kind of trouble again without me knowing?”

“Lina! Do you think I’m some kind of trouble-making machine? It’s not like that!”

“Then what is it this time?”

I felt wronged that she thought I only acted cute when I was in trouble. Though she wasn’t wrong.

I let out an embarrassed cough and spoke seriously.

“It’s about a friend of mine. This person apparently has a man already destined to be her fated lover. But that bast… I mean, that guy is a complete jerk.”

“That bad? So?”

“It just so happens that this friend has many men around her who are much better than that guy. Wouldn’t it be okay to meet other men instead of the one destined by fate? What do you think?”

“Hmm.”

After pondering, Robelina finally answered seriously.

“If it’s a lover destined by fate, that means God decided it, right?”

“Well, yes?”

The original world must have been created by God too.

“Then there’s no need to meet other men, is there?”

“What? Why?! That guy is a complete jerk!”

When I asked back in surprise, Robelina made an excuse with a flustered face.

“Well, God must have had a reason for deciding that.”

“Hmm, ugh…”

“…But as you said, it might not be bad to meet other men.”

“Right?”

“Yes. If there’s such a thing as predetermined fate, even if she meets other men, she’ll eventually return to her original lover anyway.”

My lips, which had been raised high, dropped straight down.

That wasn’t the answer I wanted!

“Ria? Are you angry?”

“I’m not angry… I just realized how devout you really are.”

“Huh?”

Robelina blinked her round eyes.

I let out a deep sigh and thought.

‘Right. Anyway, she said it’s okay to meet them, right?’

Let’s see whether fate changes or returns to its original course.

I pulled up one corner of my mouth in a sinister smile. I heard Robelina muttering “Why is she acting like that again?” but I let it go in one ear and out the other.

‘First, let’s have Lina meet the other sub-male leads. Then I’ll subtly pair her with the man she shows the most interest in…’

That’s when it happened.

“Hello?”

“Huh?”

I heard a greeting from the side and turned my head.

The railing connected to the outer garden. Some man was sitting there with one knee up.

Through his silver hair fluttering in the wind, I met his amethyst-colored eyes. The moment I saw him, I felt the blood drain from my body.

“Wh-why are you here!”

“Haha.”

Nine let out a light laugh and smiled.

“This time I found both?”

“Both?”

“I found the Saint.”

Nine pointed at me with his long fingertip.

“And I found the priest who deceived me.”

“Gulp.”

“I waited until you left the temple. If I had known you were the same person, I wouldn’t have wasted my effort.”

When Nine narrowed his eyes, his amethyst pupils glinted sharply.

“Isn’t that right, Saint Ellia?”

“I had unavoidable circumstances…”

“Are there situations that even a Saint who sees the future can’t handle?”

“Of course there are! First of all, I didn’t even know I had become a Saint!”

“Continue.”

Nine rested his chin on his hand as if he would graciously listen.

Feeling wronged, I rapidly poured out words to him in appeal.

“I naturally thought Robelina here would become the Saint, but I became the Saint instead! If I had known I was the Saint, I would never have told such a lie! What’s unfair is that this sacred relic chose me of all people…!”

“Wait, you were the one who told this mage that I was the Saint?”

Robelina, who had been quietly observing the situation, interrupted in surprise.

With the already chaotic situation and more people to worry about, I almost cried as I contorted my face.

“That’s right, but…”

“I told you to continue explaining?”

“Ahhh!”

At Nine’s question, which showed no consideration even in this situation, I finally screamed.

“…That’s how it happened.”

I was completely burned out.

After explaining the situation to Nine and Robelina, I wanted to go home.

Of course, Nine didn’t let me go home that easily.

“So you didn’t intend to deceive me.”

“Of course not. Why would I do such a thing?”

“Still, making me waste my effort is a bit annoying.”

Nine drew up a bit of his magical power.

As a Saint and priest who possessed divine power, Robelina and I immediately sensed that opposing energy and stiffened.

Especially Robelina, befitting a Sungbongwan, stepped forward while hiding me behind her.

“Stop. I won’t forgive you if you harm the Saint.”

“I had no intention of tormenting her, but hearing you say that makes me want to.”

As if reflecting Nine’s feelings, his purple magical power swirled in the air.

Despite my nervousness, I carefully stepped forward.

“What would it take to appease your anger, Mage?”

“Well.”

After seeming to ponder for a moment, he finally spoke.

“I think my mood would improve if you became my playmate?”

“To treat the Saint like that…!”

“Alright.”

“Ria!”

When I casually accepted, Robelina was shocked.

I gave Robelina an awkward smile and asked Nine.

“What do I need to do to be your playmate, Mage?”

“You just need to follow one rule.”

Nine extended his index finger and smiled mischievously.

“When I call for you, come and play with me. That’s all.”

“If that’s all it is…”

“You’re accepting it more easily than I expected?”

“If that will calm your anger, Mage.”

I also smiled mischievously at Nine.

For a moment, a strange light flickered in Nine’s eyes before disappearing. When I stared at him wondering if I had seen wrong, he smiled with his eyes crinkling.

“My name is Nine. Don’t call me ‘Mage’ so formally anymore, just call me Nine from now on.”

“Alright, Nine. I’m Ellia. This is my friend and Sungbongwan, Robelina.”

“…”

Robelina glared at Nine with disapproving eyes.

Noticing Robelina’s hostile gaze, I immediately stepped in front of her and said to Nine.

“When you want to call me in the future, please contact me secretly through Robelina.”

“Why?”

“I am a Saint after all. Rather than contacting me directly, it would be less conspicuous and more convenient to communicate through Robelina.”

“Hmm. Well, fine.”

Once the discussion was settled, Nine stood up. As I had noticed before, he was a very tall person.

“Well then, I’ll be going now. Don’t ignore me when I call for you. Got it? If you do, I might just turn the Temple upside down.”

Nine waved his hand at me as he spoke.

Just hearing those frightening words made me gulp.

“That won’t happen, so please don’t say such scary things.”

“Haha.”

With that laughter, his figure disappeared. It was spatial movement magic.

Only the lingering traces of mana reminded us that he had been here.

***

‘This Saint is quite amusing.’

Nine thought as he stood atop the Imperial Palace using spatial movement magic.

He could see the Saint and her Sungbongwan arguing in the palace corridor, thinking he had disappeared.

‘And she seems a bit foolish too.’

Saying he would turn the Temple upside down was all just bluffing. Even as the Mage Tower Lord, he couldn’t carelessly touch the Saint, who was practically a symbol of the Temple.

He had only provoked her out of curiosity about what kind of person Ellia the Saint was.

And the result was quite disappointing.

Without considering her position as a Saint, she had offered to be his playmate until his anger subsided.

But he didn’t know.

He didn’t realize that a smile was hanging on his lips as he thought this.

Nine, who had been watching Ellia, used spatial movement magic once more to return to the Mage Tower.

Before his figure disappeared, he muttered quietly.

“Fool.”

***

‘…is what you’re probably thinking right about now, right?’

I grinned as I looked at the spot where Nine had disappeared.

‘Why do you think I bothered to become your playmate? It’s all to set you up with Robelina, that’s what!’

Drawing Robelina into the communication network was for that reason too.

‘Now you’re a fish in the pond, Nine.’

Robelina as the pond and Nine as the fish within it.

Now it was my turn to care for them as their manager.

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