Chapter 152 – 25. Omens (4)
“So… You’re asking me to look at other people’s conditions with my ability, not something else? Even at this time of the night?”
“It’s not just another person, it’s Professor Shiana. Cyana Plata.”
Jeong Ye-won looked at me with a disapproving expression.
My face as I pressed the doorbell eagerly seemed so urgent that I opened the door right away, but that expression has continued since I heard the request, as if I was expecting something different.
“Haa… What the heck, I thought you forgot and came running again.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“I’m just talking to myself, so don’t worry about it. So, why should I watch it?”
Something in her heart is about to wriggle at the attitude of Jeong Ye-won, who sighs deeply.
I’m in a hurry right now, do I have to explain all of this?
I thought Jeong Ye-won, whom I had watched until now, was a reasonable enough person, but I guess I was wrong.
Why is it so difficult to tell you the result after looking at that point?
[Should I just use hypnosis to force him to submit?]
A tempting whisper lingers in my ear.
I didn’t want to use hypnosis on others unless it was absolutely necessary.
However, if you think about it, is there a situation where hypnosis is as necessary as now?
I fidget with my phone in my pocket.
The touch of cold, dry metal, and a hemispherical energy absorber embedded in the center.
A faint vibration is felt through the thin membrane.
Yes, now was not the time to hesitate.
In a situation where you don’t know what will happen to Siana right now, what would you do if you were persuading her?
There is no guarantee that she will listen even if she says everything in the first place.
Fully determined, I immediately tried to pull out my phone without paying attention to anything else.
Then, a warm feeling suddenly grabbed my arm.
Then, as if waking up from sleep, my mind gradually became clear.
“Yewon-san…?”
“Calm down, Mr. Jihoo.”
Eyes mixed with worry and anxiety stare at me.
The hand that held her arm was trembling slightly.
What was I… Trying to do?
A chilling sensation runs through the body.
The feeling of being induced to hypnotize Jeong Ye-won ‘by someone’.
In other words, I was being controlled so naturally that I was not even aware of it.
My head went blank and I couldn’t even judge anything, so I had to force myself to follow the hand that pushed me on the back.
If Jeong Ye-won hadn’t hesitated even for a moment or stopped me, she would have been hypnotized as well.
My heart beats uncontrollably.
Fragments of the accident that had not yet been erased were crashing fiercely in my head.
Not being able to free your mind was such a terrible experience.
Whoever.
And… Why did he bother to intervene in my mind?
Is it the work of Elin Dayhatsu, the professor Shiana mentioned?
It couldn’t have been. To the extent that Cianna assures her that ‘she doesn’t seem to have figured it out yet’, she was right to rule out the possibility that her tail has already been stepped on.
Then, what kind of person has been secretly playing with my hair so that even I don’t notice?
After excluding the prime suspects, the case goes further into obscurity.
“I just had a strange look in my eyes. A lot of that too.”
“Sorry… I’m really sorry. I… Whoa. I must have gone out of my mind for a moment.”
“Now that you know it, let me explain the situation properly. If you know that, you can interpret it properly. You didn’t think you could interpret tarot readings without any background knowledge, did you?”
Whether or not she knew that she almost had a terrible experience, Jeong Ye-won brought up the subject again with a brusque tone.
It was as she said.
Even though she knew in advance that background knowledge was essential for understanding and foreknowledge of a specific situation, rather than simple tarot reading, she completely excluded it.
Oh my god. If you had even forgotten about it and rushed it, how hard was the accident suppressed?
Corruption of the mind without even the slightest hint of it.
If I am in a situation where no one can be by my side like I did just now, can I still remain who I am?
…But now is not the time to worry about this.
Finding out if Cyana was in danger was the first priority.
“I’m running out of time, so I’ll give you a quick summary. She sent me a voice message from her professor, Shiana, and she was told that she was almost in danger from a person she suspected of being her demon spy, so I’m worried about her condition. The message came a total of three times, but it seems that the speed of speaking is getting more urgent as time goes by, so I’m worried that something is wrong… So I’ll ask her just once. Really… I’m sorry.”
“Okay, so you don’t have to apologize anymore. Instead of.”
A purple card, the symbol of Yewon, slowly emerges from the air.
One, two, five, ten… As the number of cards increased, the magical energy surrounding her shimmered purple.
“Looking at the reaction earlier, it seems that I prevented something that could have gone wrong, but did this create a debt? No objections, right?”
“Of course.”
“It’s nice that it’s refreshing. Then, since we’re ready… Let’s start.”
The cards are elaborately arranged according to Jeong Ye-won’s sky-high hand gestures.
Eventually, her magic power was removed and two patterns were revealed.
It was a Celtic Cross Spread with six cards laid out in a cross shape and four cards laid out in a straight shape.
“By the way, this is a technology I’m still researching. I tried to make the card picture change dynamically depending on the situation, but be careful as there may be differences in interpretation.”
This is Jeong Ye-won’s identity.
No matter how variously the 22 concepts of the Tarot can be interpreted, in the end, the big frame of the concept cannot escape, and it seemed to be a technique devised to break the limits.
“You seem to know roughly, so let me explain briefly? The card in the middle of the cross signifies the target’s current state. The picture drawn on the card is… A crescent moon floating on a hill.”
The moon
It didn’t mean that well.
In normal interpretation, it means anxiety, doubt, obscurity, mystery, etc., But now, the interpretation of Jeong Ye-won, the caster, was important.
“The crescent moon is a moon that is about to become a full moon. The light is weak and fragile now, but it will become brighter as the moon rises. And the hill… Is a place where you can look at the moon, right? Probably Professor. ‘S current state is uneasy enough that you can see it with your own eyes.”
“Then right now…!”
“It’s still a long way off, so wait a little longer, Mr. Jihoo. While the sun usually has a direct effect on the body, the moon has long symbolized mental influence, so perhaps the appearance of the moon will cause serious problems with the professor’s body. If you were really seriously injured, the shape of the card would have been affected by the condition, so don’t worry about that.”
Saying that, Jeong Ye-won turned his attention to his second card.
This time, she didn’t tell me right away, but after confirming the third and fourth times, she opened her mouth.
“These three can be seen together. From the second one, each represents an obstacle to the current situation, an individual’s unconscious or latent desire, and the past. Hmm… A demon with a human head, a man hanging from a cliff. This is I’m used to it, cartwheel.”
The fifth meaning is what is needed to solve the problem, and the picture is a dark-haired emperor holding a book.
The sixth meaning is an insight into the near future, and the painting is… A skull that sheds bloody tears.
“Does that mean you’re going to die…?”
“If you look at it piecemeal, but you have to look at it as a whole. Surprisingly, the death card has a lot of positive meanings. For example, it symbolizes the end of trouble, or you might want to say that you are going through a dramatic change. Tears of blood… This is I don’t know yet. I’ll do more research and interpret it later.”
The seventh is the self the target sees, and the painting is the tower of Babel collapsing.
The eighth is the object others look at, the bright star that the painting actually burns.
The ninth is the subject’s inner hopes or fears, and the painting is a woman grieving the loss of her lover man.
“You know the last tenth one? It’s the final result, the comprehensive conclusion. The picture is… Uh. Why is this…?”
Jeong Ye-won turns around while holding a small card in her hand.
At first glance, it seemed that something unexpected had happened.
“Wait a minute. The picture didn’t appear at all… Even when I tried several times before, this never happened…?”
“Isn’t your mana running out from overdoing it? If it’s something like an error, let’s try it on someone else as well. Like me.”
Yewon, who nodded her head instead of answering, called out another deck of cards and arranged them towards me.
Not long after, a Celtic cross spread with similar + and ㅣ shapes neatly aligned appeared.
She was the one who confirmed to herself that she would be fine this time, but the moment she reached the 10th, Yewon’s expression suddenly darkened just like before.
Staring at the card filled with only darkness instead of a picture, she muttered, “This is ridiculous.”
“Again… Why is it like this…?”
Looking at Jeong Ye-won, who was staring at the card with the momentum to enter, a sudden curiosity arose.
As much as I learned the tarot as a hobby, I knew the intuitive meaning of most cards, but I also didn’t know how to interpret it because it was my first time seeing a picture full of black.
“Yewon, what do you mean by completely black?”
“Everything else is open to interpretation… But there is only one perfect black.”
Jeong Ye-won’s eyes are wet with fear.
She turned her trembling head and looked straight at me.
After several times of kissing her lips as if she didn’t want to say anything at all, a single word finally came out of Yewon’s mouth.
“The end. The complete end.”
