Chapter 7 - The Storm Strikes Twice
The European underworld.
Among them, there is an organization that exerts great influence in the Northern European underworld, an organization that started as a small mercenary group and reached this point, and that is the Bargr Fang organization.
The leader of this Bargr Fang and an S-rank superhuman powerhouse is none other than Scolia ‘Fenrir’ Hatieri.
Although Hatieri is the leader of such a great organization and a tremendous big shot, despite being in such a position, Hatieri lives quite freely.
That was also the reason why she was in Korea.
While the superhuman industry in the light of Korea might be different, the current Korean underworld has a small pie and is mediocre, making it just right for playing around. Even if she got into trouble, there wouldn’t be many big problems. Well, if she went up to the land that used to be called North Korea, which is now extinct, the story might be different, but that’s a story for when she goes up there, isn’t it?
And it was purely by chance that she heard about a certain fortune teller.
She just happened to overhear the story of this skilled fortune teller with her very sharp ears while passing by.
Well, regardless of how it started, Hatieri eventually found that fortune teller and gained a small amusement to satisfy her interest and curiosity.
And that choice, whatever it became, turned into a big storm and gave her a great shock.
At first, when the fortune teller easily figured out the problem she had given to test his abilities using only playing cards, she was just amazed.
‘Huh… He looks like an ordinary person at a glance, but he solves this with real fortune telling?’
This room, or more precisely, this secret space called ‘VVIP Exclusive Premium Secret Subspace’ with a name she didn’t really like, which now contained her and this fortune teller, is an expensive secret space that anyone deeply involved in the superhuman industry would know about.
Not only is it expensive, but for subspaces sold to big shots like Hatieri, each one is unique.
In other words, the escape method, that is, the method to open the door to get out of this subspace, is all different.
Yet, for a fortune teller who doesn’t even know the escape method of this space to figure it out by just pulling out a few cards… how could she not be surprised?
As such, when they moved on to the main event and read Hatieri’s own fortune, and the result came out that there was a traitor, Hatieri couldn’t just laugh it off.
She had already seen the ability of the fortune teller in front of her earlier, and above all…
‘This guy… I feel a strange pressure when he’s reading fortunes…’
The guy who seemed like a small, frightened animal when not reading fortunes completely changes when doing card readings.
How should I put it… like seeing a great big shot? It even seems like there’s a halo shining… above all, when it comes to fortune telling, I find myself believing the words of the man in front of me.
That’s why Hatieri couldn’t easily pass over the word ‘traitor’.
‘Come to think of it, there have been a few suspicious things lately…’
The reason she came to Korea was also to clear her stuffy mood. It’s also why she didn’t pass over a story she could have ignored and came to find the fortune teller. Because she needed a change of mood.
Anyway, given the situation, Hatieri, who had twisted her face fiercely, gritted her teeth and muttered.
“A traitor…? Fuck! Which son of a bitch…!!”
And I, Dam Han-ul, who was watching this scene while trembling, barely opened my tightly closed mouth as if it had been glued shut out of fear and said.
“Ex-excuse me… The fortune reading isn’t over yet…”
Although she wasn’t consciously spreading it, the aura of anger and killing intent mixed with the pressure emitted by her as an S-rank superhuman was not something that I, an ordinary person, could withstand.
You can tell just by looking at how my body is trembling like an aspen leaf and cold sweat is flowing, right?
“What? Fortune? Ah… right. There was still one card left… Sorry, fortune teller.”
Fortunately, Hatieri heard my words and calmed down the fierce aura she was emitting and apologized to me.
She seems like a really scary person, but it’s fortunate that she listens to people. Just looking at her impression, she seemed like someone who wouldn’t listen well to others…
“…Right, then. Let’s continue with the fortune telling. Will you continue for me? Fortune teller teacher.”
Hatieri looked at me with a serious expression. I was just feeling burdened, but…
‘Ah… I don’t know. If I finish the fortune telling quickly, I can get out quickly, right?’
Whether Hatieri’s attitude had changed or not, I just wanted to get out quickly and lie down in a hotel room to play.
‘What kind of mishap is this on the way to a trip…!’
While inwardly making a crying face, I cleared my throat once and said.
“Ahem! Then I will continue with the fortune telling…”
After secretly wiping off the cold sweat on my hands on my pants, I swallowed hard and flipped over the second card.
The first card was the Joker, meaning a traitor.
Then what could the second card be?
It seemed I wasn’t the only one curious about this. Looking at how focused Hatieri was, it seemed she was too.
‘But why is all this important. What’s important is getting out of here quickly!’
Thinking that inwardly, I immediately flipped over the card.
Then the card revealed was…
“The Queen of Hearts?”
Ah, Hatieri said what I was about to say.
Well, that’s fine. Then I just need to tell the result of the fortune…
I swallowed hard again out of nervousness and told the result.
“The second card is the Queen of Hearts… The meaning of the card is… the identity of the traitor is someone in a high position, a person the client trusts, and the gender is female. Ah, and there are a few people who have fallen for this traitor’s temptation…?”
“The traitor is someone I trust, in a high position, and female? Ha! Kuhahahat!!”
Hatieri heard my fortune and laughed loudly while twisting her mouth.
How should I put it… looking at her reaction, it seemed like she had guessed who the traitor was.
Well… the result of the fortune came out quite detailed.
“Very good… it’s good, Teacher. Could I know a bit more about those people who fell for the traitor’s temptation?”
“Ah…”
Damn it, I was happy thinking the fortune telling was over, but now this hurdle…?!
Ugh… It doesn’t seem like she’ll just let me go if I say I won’t tell her…
“I’ll pay you handsomely. You can trust me. I’m an even more amazing person than you think, you know?”
“…Sigh, whatever, let’s do it.”
Rather than being swayed by the payment… I accepted her request to read more fortunes with the mindset of getting through this without trouble from a difficult customer.
It seemed like I had to do this much to leave peacefully.
Sighing deeply, I put the flipped cards back into the deck and shuffled them.
Then I drew three cards myself and spread them out.
“Hmm? Teacher, am I not drawing the cards this time?”
“Ah… I’m trying to proceed quickly because I’m busy. Since it’s related to the fortune we just saw, there’s no need for you to draw them.”
“Hmm… I see.”
Anyway, after spreading out three cards, I slowly flipped them over in order.
The first card was the Two of Diamonds.
“Two of Diamonds. There are two traitors who have fallen for the temptation.”
And the second card was the Jack of Spades.
“One of the two traitors is male. His position is lower than the first traitor we mentioned.”
The last third card was… the Jack of Hearts.
“The last traitor is female. Her position is similar to the second traitor, but it seems she was somewhat trusted by you.”
“I see… So that’s how it is…”
Hatieri, who had been looking at the flipped cards with a very serious expression, soon stood up from her seat and stretched her hand into the air.
Then a ring and a quite heavy-looking envelope appeared from thin air.
And after grabbing them with her hand, Hatieri put them down on the table and pushed them towards me.
“Here, Teacher. It’s not much, but… it’s an advance payment. Since it’s such a crucial matter… I’ll pay the rest of the balance after I confirm and deal with the traitors. Is that okay?”
Uh… What, confirm and deal with…?
Some scary words passed by, but… I just nodded while forcing a soulless smile.
‘Ah… I just wish she’d let me go quickly…’
The only consolation is that I might be able to return with my limbs intact, and that I received a quite expensive-looking ring and a thick-looking payment.
“Right, thank you, Teacher. I’ll finish my business within a week at the latest and come find you… so please wait, okay?”
‘Just forget everything and please never come back…!!’
Of course, that was my inner thought, but could I possibly express that outwardly?
“Ah… yes.”
When I answered briefly with a soulless smile, Hatieri nodded with a smile, and at the same time, I reappeared near that bus stop where I had been kidnapped.
Fortunately, there weren’t many people around, so I didn’t receive any strange looks. Well, even if there were, they’d probably just think I was some special superhuman and move on.
‘Hah… I hope I never meet that person again…’
Afraid that Hatieri might hear if I said it out loud, I muttered inwardly and sighed deeply, then first took out my phone.
The bus won’t come for a while… I should at least contact them to say I’ll be a bit late…
Anyway, just as I was about to make contact, someone tapped me from behind.
“Excuse me… Are you perhaps the skilled fortune teller Dam Han-ul…?”
“What?! No, who…!”
“Ah! I found the right person! That’s fortunate!”
When I turned around, a beauty with a different impression from Hatieri who I had been with until just now was smiling brightly at me.
‘Ah… I have a bad feeling about this again…’
Thinking that things were going to flow annoyingly again and take up a lot of time, I sighed deeply inwardly once more.