Accidentally Becoming a Great Prophet?!

Black Cat is strong.

Of course, that’s when viewed normally, but in Dam Han-ul’s house, she’s in the weakest position.

In reality, the only one she can beat in terms of strength ranking is Yeopoong.

‘Nyaaa…! Even though our first meeting was a bit awkward, I knew him first…!! I liked him first, nya…!!’

Perhaps because of this, Black Cat, who hasn’t been of much help lately, was feeling a great sense of crisis.

These days, she’s not even active as the Phantom Thief Black Cat, so she’s not contributing money, and being weak, she’s in a position of being protected along with others rather than protecting.

In fact, given Dam Han-ul’s personality, such a position could have created a sense of kinship and ironically made her the final winner, but Black Cat, unable to think of that, just thought like a superhuman.

She wanted to become stronger so as not to lose to the others!!

In the manga and novels Black Cat had read, there were cases where people with such thoughts would suddenly go down a strange path and become corrupted, turning into enemies, but that was just in those stories and didn’t apply to Black Cat.

After all, there was someone nearby who could make her much stronger than the villains or whatever in those works, without any particular penalty. They even lived in the same house!

‘Hmm, living in the same house sounds a bit romantic, nya!’

Of course, in reality, the house is so big that it’s just like living in a monthly rental from a landlord, but it’s all in how you think about it, right? If thinking that way makes her feel good, then that’s fine. It’s not like just imagining it in her head harms anyone else.

However… if there was something Black Cat misunderstood…

If she had confessed indirectly by asking about ways to win love or how to capture Dam Han-ul’s heart, she might have succeeded directly…

Unfortunately, because the superhumans around her were too outstanding and she herself was a fairly outstanding superhuman, it was a pity that she couldn’t find the easy way. But what can you do? It’s all one’s own fate…

Anyway, because there was a living, moving invincible cheat key nearby, Black Cat immediately went to find that cheat key who was also the person she liked.

And she immediately shouted.

“Um, please make me strong too, nya!! Teacher!!!”

“Huh??”

Naturally, I, Dam Han-ul, who suddenly heard such a request, couldn’t help but blink in surprise.

Suddenly asking to be made stronger, what is this…

But looking back on my amateur fortune-telling experiences so far, it wasn’t particularly impossible.

By the way, my mental fortitude has definitely improved… to only be surprised for a moment after hearing such a sudden request… Should I be happy or sad… That is the question.

Anyway, wasn’t it I, the amateur fortune-teller Dam Han-ul, who made Cheongso-ha stronger, helped Akame recover her body condition with strengthening as a bonus, and helped Wi Ji-young rise to EX-rank?

Black Cat’s request didn’t seem impossible.

I had no intention of refusing the request of an acquaintance and friend who even lives with me. Well, if she wants to become stronger, then it’s better to become stronger, right?

“That’s all fine, but… why suddenly?”

“To fill what I lack, nya, teacher!”

Hmm… I’m not sure what she means, but I can clearly see her eyes sparkling with determination.

Well, I don’t know the reason, but… shall I play along?!

Lately, there have been so many tough and mentally draining incidents that I’ve been incredibly tired, but amidst all that, such a relatively easy request… There’s no reason to refuse!

“Well, alright! I’ll do it well as a service!”

“Ooh! Teacher!! Thank you, nya!!”

I quickly got on board with Black Cat and raised the tension.

“Then shall we go to the basement right away, meow?”

“No, that’s troublesome. Let’s just do it here today.”

“Huh?! Is that okay, nya!?”

“Yeah. Actually, it doesn’t matter where we do it. Doing it in the basement is just for atmosphere.”

Living in this house recently, it seems everyone has forgotten.

Kids… I originally did fortune-telling in a normal apartment building…

Is this what they call not knowing about one’s tadpole days? Does it not apply since I haven’t forgotten?

“But aren’t all the cards and crystal balls in the basement, meow? Ah! There’s physiognomy, right, nya!”

“Physiognomy is a method, but it’s not the one we’ll use today.”

But using cards is troublesome because I’d have to go to the basement to get them.

If I was going to use cards, I would have just gone to the basement to do the fortune-telling.

Anyway, there’s something else I’ll use for fortune-telling this time. I can do fortune-telling with pretty much anything now. I even do it just by looking at the sky.

“What I’m going to use this time is…”

I rummaged through my room drawer for a moment and pulled out a plastic bag.

“Oh, found it.”

“Nyah? What’s that, teacher?!”

“Well, as you can see… character stickers they used to sell at stationery stores long ago!”

Like the cards I use for fortune-telling, it’s one of the items I’ve just kept because it’s a memento and I felt a bit bad about throwing it away, though I don’t particularly use it. Like the marbles I used to use.

“Whew, I used to be incredibly good at flipping these stickers back in the day!”

In elementary school… I was the sticker flipping champion of the school!

These character stickers were really popular back then. Now they’re just forgotten.

Saving up a few hundred won of allowance to buy one or two and collect them, and then facing off with all the stickers someone had painstakingly bought and collected at stake, a death match that wouldn’t stop until one side’s stickers were all gone!

In that hellish battlefield… I was the school’s strongest sticker champion who stole all my friends’ rare stickers with snot on them without ever losing once!!

Well, it was only popular for 1-2 years, so after that, there was no chance to use those sticker skills.

By the way, the next popular thing was cards. It was really fun…

Hmm, I just thought of it, but the gacha craze was intense from back then… Whether it was rubber stickers, paper stickers, or cards, we kept buying and opening them to use better cards…

Ah, seeing them after a long time made me a bit nostalgic. Anyway, back to the main point…

“I just kept them and brought them along when I moved. Anyway, I’ll use these for fortune-telling this time. Alright! First, just take out two stickers from inside!”

“Okay!”

Hearing my words, Black Cat, without any particular question, put her hand into the pile of stickers in the opened plastic bag and rummaged around before taking out two stickers.

The cards she took out were, one ‘Puss in Boots’, and the other ‘Thief Master’.

Let’s put aside the detailed specs for now. They’re not important in the current situation.

“Now, the first sticker, Puss in Boots, not only represents you but also tells you about the power you need to obtain. It means the power you need to obtain is related to cats. To be more precise, should I say something related to cats?”

“Hooo! I see, nya!!”

“Next is the second one, can you see that this thief is holding two knives? This means there are two powers you need to obtain. The reason it came out as a thief is probably because you’re the Phantom Thief Black Cat? Because you’ve been active as that.”

“Hoooo!!!”

To think it matches so well even though I didn’t draw it, but she drew it herself! How amazing! I smiled at Black Cat who was making such an expression and continued speaking.

“You understand the general idea with this, right? Next is where you need to obtain these things… Now draw one more.”

Rummage rummage!

And this time, the one that appeared was ‘Fishman Merman’.

Interpreting this character with the great name of Merman Merman, what it means is…

“You see this guy is on land without water despite being a fish? It means it’s in a place quite far from water. Hmm, to be more precise, Gimcheon? That area. It seems you’ll need to conquer a dungeon. You’ll only need to do one… It’s a C-rank dungeon called ‘Cats Have Nine Lives’? Before defeating the boss, you need to defeat two field bosses inside the dungeon, take their spoils, then defeat the main boss and take its spoils too, then stick them into the ground, and you’ll be able to get what you want.”

“As expected, your fortune-telling is amazing no matter how many times I see it, nya, teacher!!”

“Hahaha.”

Hmm, not bad. Should I say it feels like the old days… It feels like I’ve returned to my beginner’s mindset.

Actually, whether it’s that or this, it doesn’t really matter and it’s all the same, but anyway, let’s think positively.

“Based on my experience, this should be enough to easily reach S-rank, I think?”

“Ah, but teacher!! Can’t you come along too, nya? You’re a superhuman now too, and you have that ring, right? With that, a C-rank dungeon should be no problem, nya!”

“Uh… You want me to go together?”

Oh, I never thought about going together…

“Hmm.”

I took out a sticker after hearing Black Cat’s words.

The one that appeared was the Earth Spirit.

‘No problem… If I’m nervous, I can have an escort…’

The fortune I quickly checked gave quite a good result. It seems there wouldn’t be much problem if I went together…

“A dungeon…”

I’ve heard about them countless times given the times we live in, but I’ve never actually entered one until now. That’s because I’ve been a very, very ordinary person until now. And that didn’t change even with the F-rank superhuman label.

Dungeons are said to be incredibly dangerous places, but… if safety is guaranteed, and now hearing about it from Black Cat, it did pique my interest quite a bit.

“…Alright, shall we go together?”

Yeah… It wouldn’t be bad to go once, right?

But since I’m still nervous, let’s bring a few people as escorts…