Accidentally Becoming a Great Prophet?!

One day, while I was idly lounging in my room like the unemployed person I am.
I received a call from an unknown number.
The chances of a call from an unsaved number being a proper contact were extremely low, but I decided to answer it anyway.
After all, I was in a great mood these days because I had earned some free money.
“Hello?”
[Is this the phone of the skilled fortune teller who does great card readings?]
“Yes, that’s righ… What?!”
Ah, I carelessly answered that it was right in the middle of saying the name…!
A skilled fortune teller who does great card readings… I don’t know whose number was wrongly written down for this call to come to me, but I should quickly correct this…
[Ah, that’s a relief! This is Kang Min-ji, who got a fortune reading last time. The one who gave you 500,000 won for the reading…]
Wait, 500,000 won for a reading…?
Could it be…?!
“Ah, could it be from that time…?”
[Yes! That’s right, sir!]

So it is that person who came to my friend’s tarot shop and got an amateur card reading from me…!!
Damn it?! I should have given her the shop’s phone number, but I ended up giving my own phone number?!
“Um… What can I do for you…?”
Could it be that she’s calling to ask for a refund because the fortune was wrong?!
What should I do if that’s true?! I’ve already spent half of it!
Ugh… In this situation, I have to somehow deny it… Should I just hang up the phone?!
Amidst various thoughts racing through my mind, a statement that squeezed through them all made my brain stop working for a moment.
[Ah! Actually… The fortune you gave me last time turned out to be incredibly accurate!]
“Pardon…?”
Wait a minute.
No, it… was accurate?!
How???
[Thanks to you, I was able to handle my task well and cleanly get promoted to team leader! Thank you so much!]
“Uh… Ah, well… Yes.”
I gave an amateur card reading… and it turned out to be accurate, things went well, and she even got promoted?!
Damn… Maybe I should have bought a lottery ticket instead of just going home that day…
Anyway, my response was quite awkward, so I just gave a vague answer, and an excited voice came from the other end of the phone.
[So, I was wondering… I’d like to give you a small gift as a token of my appreciation this time… Where should I go?]
“Uh…”
Uh… A gift? She wants to meet??
What on earth is this situation…??
It was a situation I had never even imagined.
Moreover, as the incident that I had erased from my memory after eating chicken with that money from the fortune telling came rushing back, my head, which was receiving shock after shock, stopped working…
And I ended up committing the blunder of telling her my home address when she asked where she should go.
[…I see. Alright. I’ll go there then. I’ll arrive within an hour at the latest. Well then…]
“Uh… Oh!”
By the time my head started working normally again, it was already too late, and the call had ended.
“Wait a minute, she’s coming to my house…?”
My mom had come over two days ago, so the place was clean and tidy, but…
“Ah, damn it… I don’t know what to do…”
Starting from the fact that that ridiculous card reading turned out to be accurate, my head was in complete chaos.
I mean, what kind of job was she doing for that nonsensical fortune to fit so perfectly that she got promoted?!
‘Well… I guess this kind of reaction isn’t incomprehensible if she became a team leader at Hwajin…’
The problem is that because of this, it seems like I might have to give more fortune readings…
Anyway, after staying frozen and just blinking for a while, I finally opened my mouth when her story ended.
“I… see. Haha, congratulations…”
“It’s nothing special. It’s all thanks to you, sir.”
Ah… This is incredibly burdensome.
To think that after the situation kept flowing strangely, it would come to this point where I keep being called ‘sir’…
Still… although it’s a bit awkward, I was tempted by that Korean beef set and the money.
When would an unemployed person like me ever receive such a large sum of money?
To avoid continuing to feel this burden, I should tell the truth that ‘I’m actually just an ordinary unemployed neighborhood guy, and that card reading was just lucky to be accurate.’ That would be the right thing to do, but…
Ah, what’s with that money and Korean beef…
Succumbing to the temptation of the small greed inside me, I couldn’t bring myself to say those words…
“If it’s alright with you, sir… I’d like to continue receiving your guidance from time to time…”
“Ah… Ahem, well, if there’s enough time and appropriate compensation…”
“I see. I’ll always make sure to prepare sufficient compensation. I hope we can continue to have a good relationship in the future, sir.”
“Um… Yes, well… Haha…”
After that, Kang Min-ji left without much else, and I shed tears inwardly in dejection.
“Ah… Damn it. What’s with that money and Korean beef…”
Still, seeing the money in the white envelope, I could avoid crying outwardly.
That’s because there was a whopping 1.5 million won in it!
Seeing such a large sum of money, a thought even grew in a corner of my mind: ‘Maybe continuing this amateur fortune teller life might be more profitable?’
Anyway, after carefully storing the envelope containing 1.5 million won, I took the Korean beef to the kitchen.
And in the evening, while trying to suppress the corners of my mouth that kept trying to rise, I grilled this high-grade Korean beef set at home with soju, with a troubled heart.
“Gulp…! Why is this Korean beef so delicious…!!”
…The gifted Korean beef was really delicious. So much so that tears were literally flowing from my mouth due to how sad I was.
Meanwhile, Kang Min-ji, who perceived Dam Han-ul as an extremely skilled fortune teller, was satisfied, thinking she had responded quite well and that the fortune teller’s reaction had been quite good.
‘He didn’t seem particularly displeased… and our relationship doesn’t seem bad. Hmm, I think I chose the gift well too.’
As befitting a veteran of Hwajin Guild who had continued her superhuman life without causing any incidents, she was handling her team leader duties smoothly, so if any important matters arose, the fortune teller’s abilities would be a great help.
It would be good to establish a good relationship in advance. Surely someone with such abilities must have other clients too. Of course, this was her misunderstanding.
‘However… He doesn’t seem to be living very comfortably…’
Anyway, wanting to maintain a good relationship with the skilled fortune teller somehow, she…
‘Hmm… Should I try to promote him a bit? First, I should talk to my team members…’
She started promoting to her team members…
And the snowball that started rolling because of this began to roll in a direction that Dam Han-ul, who was just an ordinary person, could never have imagined…
Achoo!
“Ugh… Is someone talking about me?”
Of course… he, who was just deliciously eating Korean beef at home, couldn’t even imagine it.