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Episode 99
Prophecy (3)
‘So that shaman really has prophetic powers?’
[huh.]
A fact that can be known through the divine presence felt in the room.
At least this number was a real shaman who had formed a bond with the Great Mother.
‘I understand. If the Master of Magic Book says so… … .’
Riley nodded after hearing what I said.
“Mr. Ermin, I don’t think this person is a scammer.”
“Really?”
Ermin asked in a suspicious voice.
“Is it okay if I don’t try Raul’s ‘method’?”
“that…….”
Sigh─.
That was when.
The shaman, who had been silently listening to Riley and Ermin’s conversation, burst into laughter and joined in.
“Child, there is no need to use that wretched method of judgment on the real woman.”
“… … .”
“I’m sure she’s on a different level from the con artists you’ve seen so far.”
Bustle─.
Riley’s fist clenched when she heard that.
It’s a kind of reflex that has developed after beating up dozens of shamans throughout the day.
But the shaman who saw this continued speaking without even blinking an eye.
“Tsk tsk, now you’re going to hit the girl’s head again while saying, ‘Actually, there are two of them-’ It’s too much, so stop being so rude.”
“oh.”
Riley let out a gasp of admiration and meekly lowered her fist.
no.
He just ‘pretended’ to put his fist down.
“Actually, there were three!”
Taat─!
Riley kicks the seat before I can stop her.
She swung her fist with all her might at the shaman.
“under…….”
But the shaman just laughed as if it was ridiculous.
Oh my gosh─!
Riley’s fist stopped in midair. An invisible force had frozen her body.
“It’s a useless act, child.”
“… … .”
“As I said before, I see right through every single one of your actions and thoughts.”
Chomp!
As the shaman swung the fan next to her, the invisible force holding Riley back disappeared.
The action caused Riley’s body to sway. She regained her balance and turned her gaze towards the shaman.
The shaman looked at us with a cold, expressionless face.
“Would you like to check further?”
Riley shook her head at his confident question.
“No. I think this will be enough.”
“… … .”
“I apologize for being rude. There are so many scammers in the shaman village that I had to check it out.”
As Riley bowed slightly and offered an apology, the shaman nodded as if she understood us.
Riley, who had returned to her seat, flopped down on the cushion next to Ermin.
“You see, Mr. Ermin? This person is a ‘real shaman.’”
“Yes. It seems so to me too.”
Clang─!
Ermin took out his wallet with an impressed expression.
“Here are the side dishes. We have prepared plenty, so please take good care of them.”
“okay.”
The shaman, who checked the money bag, closed her eyes with a satisfied expression.
She immediately began to divine our future.
Saaaa …
The strange presence hovering around the room grew stronger. The shaman continued to mutter an unknown spell.
String.
Soon, she furrowed her brow.
“It’s so dark ahead. I can’t see even an inch ahead of me.”
“… … .”
“That’s interesting. What on earth are you guys up to?”
Ermin answered after hearing that.
“We are pursuing a being. We came all the way to the Moonlight Song to find clues about him.”
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“A clue, a clue… … .”
The shaman nodded her head repeatedly.
“Yes. The person you are looking for is truly a strange being. He has accumulated a great deal of karma. I don’t know whether it is good or bad karma.”
“Then do you know where I can find him?”
The shaman’s eyes widened at Ermin’s cautious question.
And then he started staring at us without saying anything.
“… … .”
“… … .”
There was silence in the room for a while.
3 minutes.
5 minutes.
And 10 minutes.
“… … ?”
[… … ?]
But as time passed and the shaman did not speak, Riley and Ermin’s expressions became increasingly puzzled.
Riley whispered a question to Ermin in a quiet voice.
“Why did the shaman stop speaking?”
“well.”
Ermin, who had been thinking for a moment, let out a sigh and said, “Ah-!” and then came up with a hypothesis.
“Are you still angry about Raul’s actions?”
“… … Are you angry at my actions?”
“yes.”
Ermin nodded.
“Of course, Raul’s ‘method’ is a great way to judge a shaman’s skills… … but isn’t it a bit rude?”
“… … .”
“I almost got hit by a customer, but an apology like ‘I’m sorry’ won’t help me feel better.”
“aha.”
Riley nodded as if she understood.
“Then, let me once again offer my sincere apology to the shaman.”
Riley immediately gets up from her seat.
She bowed deeply toward the shaman and began to offer her heartfelt apologies.
“I am truly sorry if my previous actions made you feel offended.”
“… … .”
“As I said before, I’ve encountered so many scammers that I needed a thorough verification process.”
When there was no response to her repeated apologies, Riley continued speaking.
“Can you forgive my rudeness just this once and keep an eye on the future? We are in a desperate situation right now. We really need a clue about that guy.”
But the shaman who heard Riley’s words just had a pitiful expression on her face.
She let out an annoyed sigh.
“Pay the extra fee, you idiots. Do you think anyone wants an apology for doing this?”
“ah.”
* * *
“Ahem.”
Clang!
As Ermin paid more money, the shaman coughed and closed her eyes again.
Mumble mumble──.
A shaman who begins to chant an incomprehensible spell.
How much time has passed like that?
Finally she began to mutter in a quiet voice.
“I can see it, I can see it. I can see the whereabouts of the one you are looking for.”
“… … Where should we go?”
“You have to go south, much further south. That’s where you’ll encounter the man you’re looking for.”
Ermin asked back.
“The south of the empire?”
“okay.”
“The southern part of the empire is too comprehensive, can you explain it in more detail?”
“… … .”
The shaman, who had stopped talking, began to stare at Ermin again, as if wishing for something.
Clang─!
In response to that unspoken request, Ermin immediately handed over the purse.
The shaman smiled with satisfaction this time, closed her eyes again, and began to speak.
“I see a plain, a wide plain.”
“… … .”
“Ah, yes. There is only one plain so desolate and barren in the southern part of the empire.”
A shaman with both eyes wide open.
She smiled faintly and asked Ermin a question.
“Do you know of the Borbor Plains area?”
“… … .”
“Well, of course you wouldn’t know. It’s a very remote area even within the southern part of the empire.”
The shaman continued speaking.
“If you go to that Borbor Plains area, there’s a mysterious lake. Inside that lake lives an ancient spirit, and perhaps that spirit knows the whereabouts of the one you’re looking for… … .”
“Shaman.”
“… … ?”
That was when.
Just as the shaman continued speaking excitedly, Ermin cut her off.
“You want me to go to the lake in the Borbor Plains?”
“Yes.”
“But there is no lake in the Borbor Plain.”
“… … ?”
When the shaman heard those words, her pupils shrank momentarily.
She asked back in a trembling voice.
“… … You’ve been to the Borbor Plains?”
“yes.”
“Oh, how? That’s a really remote place.”
“It’s my hometown. So I know the geography around there like a glove.”
Yes, that’s right.
Although the Borbor Plains might be an unfamiliar area to others, Ermin knew the area all too well.
because…….
-My homeland is the Borbor Plains in the southern part of the Empire.
-I have pretty good eyesight because I have been looking at wide plains since I was little.
… … That area was Ermin’s hometown.
“But as I said earlier, there are no ancient spirits, not even a common lake, in the Borbor Plains.”
“Uh, uh uh… … .”
Gulp─.
I could hear the shaman swallowing her saliva.
“Hey, when was the last time you went back to your hometown?”
“It must have been about 10 years.”
“That, that, that’s right! It’s only natural that you wouldn’t know about the mysterious lake that formed in those ten years!”
The shaman shouted in a loud voice, rejoicing as if she had found a way out.
“hmm.”
But Ermin wasn’t so dull as to not notice the shaman’s flimsy excuse.
He asked the question again in a voice that had become extremely cold.
“Then, can you tell me roughly where the lake is?”
“… … What, what?”
“Where is the mysterious lake? Where is it located in the Borbor Plains?”
The shaman answered in a trembling voice.
“Well, we need more axes to find out!”
“You need more money?”
“That, that, that’s right! I bet that money is woefully inadequate for children like you… … .”
Chorrrrrrrr─!
Ermin opened his purse and poured out gold coins onto the floor.
In an instant, the gold coins piled up like a mountain.
[… … .]
I’m going to turn back.
Ermin, that guy is an Inquisitor, so why is he carrying around so much money?
“… … Hibiki!”
The enormous amount of money was enough to make even the shaman’s eyes widen. She was so surprised that she even started hiccupping.
Whether so or not, Ermin continued talking.
“Please answer honestly, I will give you as much money as you need.”
“… … .”
“Where is the mysterious lake located roughly?”
Now that we’ve confirmed that Ermin has enough money, there’s no way we can back out.
The shaman answered in a timid voice, her body trembling like an aspen tree.
“Look, look, in the western region where the Borbor Plains end… … .”
“Aha, you’re saying it’s in the western region where the Borbor Plains end?”
Ermin smiled faintly.
“It’s exactly where my hometown is.”
“… … .”
“But I haven’t received any letters in the last ten years saying that a lake has been created in the village?”
The shaman began to cry.
“That, that can’t be… … .”
“I guess you never learned that if you get caught with a trick, your hand will fly off. I’ll teach you a lesson today.”
Sreung─!
Ermin jumps up from his seat.
He walked towards the shaman with a big smile on his face, drawing his greatsword.
“… … Heep! Heep! Heep!”
The shaman who saw this started to cry and hiccupped like crazy.
The servants standing nearby also followed their master’s example and their faces turned pale.
Boom─!
At that very moment.
The shaman buried her head on the floor and made a grave offering.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!!! I’m really sorry for lying!!!”
“… … .”
[… … .]
* * *
“therefore…….”
Riley continued, glaring at the shaman and her servants who were kneeling and performing the punishment.
“Rumors about the two of us have already spread throughout the shaman village?”
“Yes, yes… … .”
The shaman nodded and answered.
“Rumors have already spread throughout the village that a group of ruffians have appeared and are going around beating the heads of shamans.”
“… … .”
“I also knew that the guest would hit me if he heard that rumor.”
They are scoundrels.
Yeah, well.
It’s even stranger that no rumors spread about the violence committed against all the shamans in the shaman village.
“Then how on earth did you block my fist? Didn’t you block it with divine power?”
“Well, actually, that’s… … .”
Rustle─.
The shaman rummaged through her pocket and took out a necklace.
“Choi, it was blocked by an artifact with the highest level of protective magic built in… … .”
“… … .”
[… … .]
Riley and Ermine looked dumbfounded.
Then the shaman hurriedly continued making excuses.
“But, that’s really weird! I’m actually really good at seeing the future.”
“… … .”
“But strangely enough, today I really couldn’t see any future!”
“… … .”
“I’m really not a fraud! I’m actually a really great shaman! I’m just not feeling well today! If you come back later, I’ll give you a proper look… … .”
It stings.
Riley glared at the shaman without saying a word.
The shaman flinched at the sight of those murderous eyes, trembled, and began to hiccup.
“Hipp!”
“Please give me my money back.”
“Oh, yeah yeah… … .”
After receiving their money back from the shaman, Riley and Ermin came out of the Moonlight Hymn.
A shaman village where the sunset has fallen.
The day was slowly coming to an end.
Riley, who had been quietly looking at the scenery, let out a deep sigh and asked me a question.
‘Your Majesty.’
[why.]
‘What’s going on? That shaman is said to be very skilled.’
[Ummm… … .]
I thought back to what the shaman had said earlier.
-I’m actually really good at seeing the future, right?
-But strangely enough, today I really couldn’t see any future at all!
okay.
As the shaman said, she was definitely not a fraud.
This was a fact that could be clearly known through the presence of a deity that was hovering in the room.
Moreover, there is no way that a swindler who can’t even lie like that could have been doing business in a shaman village for decades.
‘So, like the shaman said, is it really true that today was the only day when I couldn’t see the future?’
[huh.]
I answered.
[Perhaps an evil spirit interfered with the shaman.]
‘ah…….’
The evil spirits may have been plotting to disrupt the bond between the Great Mother and the Shaman in order to prevent Riley and Ermin from finding the Necromancer.
It was quite possible.
Then, it would also explain why the shaman’s predictive ability was weak today.
[Well, if that’s not it… … .]
I was just about to propose another hypothesis.
“Phew.”
Ermin’s sigh interrupted my words.
“It seems like there are no ‘real prophets’ in the shaman village.”
“… … .”
“It’s sad. I had high hopes, but all I get are scammers.”
Ermin was walking with a look of disappointment on his face.
Towering─.
At that moment, Riley stopped walking after seeing something.
“Hey, Mr. Ermin.”
“……yes?”
“There’s still one fortune teller we haven’t been to yet?”
Riley pointed to one side of the street with her finger.
【 I see the dots 】
And there… … .
“I can see your future for you! I can do it for you cheaply! A young shaman with great skills can see your future for you!”
“… … .”
[… … .]
One of the Suin tribe kids was busy soliciting customers.
It was the very same kid we saw first when we first came to the shaman village.
