Chapter 250 – Episode 234 the Fool · 0

Han Song-ah. She was Su-ah’s older sister who was one year older than her.
She is much taller, and her breasts are too different to be considered sisters.
She gets excellent grades in school and does her housework well.

She is an older sister who appears to be ahead in many ways.

“… With this, Sua, your life points are zero.”

“Ugh… Please do not attack.”

“Haha! You can’t win if you don’t attack, right? That’s what games are like.”

However, even since she was young, she got along well with Su-ah, who had a blunt and gloomy expression.
She was a relatively bright older sister.

“… “We’re going to go to church, so you need to watch the house carefully?”

“Yes~ I will have a good time with Su-a, so have a nice trip~.”

“Everyone, please go…”

“Oh my. Sua, you. If you always show a timid appearance like that, Shinbyeol will not look at you kindly!”

“S-sorry… !”

“Lol. Anyway, have a nice day Mom and Dad! “We just have to eat until dinner on our own, right?”

“… Tsk. Anyway, I’ll go and come back.”

But that doesn’t mean her older sister was good at everything because she had natural talent.
Because her parents, who were obsessed with a suspicious religion, were always away from home, she had no choice but to take the place of her parents and take care of her.

“Ha… This side dish… There’s a strange smell again.”

“Sister. Card game… Let’s do it one more time…”

“Huh. I’m preparing it. “I’ll do it again after dinner.”

Sua’s gaming skills were not very good.

Moreover, her tactics were always obvious and trivial.
Still, for Su-a, who stayed at home without anyone else to play with, Song-a would always be her game partner.

“… Haha. Sua, I see you holding a card like this. “She seems to have quite the form, doesn’t she?”

“Huh… ?”

“I wish my little sister~ Her hands were so pretty and pretty.”

“… Sister too. “It’s pretty.”

She lost the game once again, but Su-ah was still smiling because she was happy.

Evening time.

Su-ah asked Song-ah as she warmed up and ate the soup she had been eating for several days.

“… Mom and Dad… “Do you believe in a strange religion?”

“Huh?”

Su-ah raised her head and looked up at the picture frame on the left side of her table.
A photo of the face of the religious leader that my mom and dad believe in, who is called Shinbyeol.

Instead of a family photo where it should be, it is taking up space.

She has a sturdy physique and a handsome face, so she seemed like a pretty good-looking person when she was younger.
Her hair has turned pale and wrinkled, as if she has not been able to escape the passage of time.

It’s not just in front of the table. Even on top of the TV where dust hasn’t been wiped off, and on the left side of the dresser.

A photo of Shinbyul standing on a podium with a bright smile and mouth open is hung in a luxurious frame.

It’s not that there are no family photos, but they are much smaller and more insignificant than Shinbyeol’s photo.

When you look at it this way, you almost fall into the illusion that Shinbyeol is a real family member.

Although it is said that I have seen Song and Su-ah in real life when they were much younger… I don’t really remember.

“Before… My school friends asked me to go to the talent market with them… Mom… You stopped me by shouting loudly…”

Su-ah puffed out her cheeks and whined.
I could see my friends getting rare cards at the local church’s talent market held every weekend.

After her mother yelled at her and stopped her from playing cards in front of her children, she became estranged from her card playing and even from her friends.

“… Strange. Mom and Dad say that one day, when we get older, they will take us to church… Honestly, I don’t like it.”

Song-Ah smiled brightly and answered.

“In that case, it would be better to play games and have fun with you, Su-a.”

“Really?”

“Then. Of course.”

“… Hehe.”

“Oh, right. Me… Did you learn anything new at school?”

“What is it, sister… ?”

As she cleaned up her rice bowl, Song-Ah placed a stack of her cards on the table.
Unlike the dark and dull card game played by Su-ah and Song-ah,

It was an eye-catching set of cards with various pretty pictures drawn on them.

After shuffling the cards, Song-Ah handed Su-A her card deck.

“This is it. Hmm,~ Would you like to try it out first?”

“Huh… ? Is this a card game too?”

“You can enjoy it like a game, but… “It’s something that can seriously predict fate.”

When Su-ah drew one of her cards, Song-a smiled and checked her card.

“It’s a tarot card.”

* * *

“Starting tomorrow, Song-ah will be with us too. Since you are old enough, you will have to follow me to every service from now on. You don’t want to show your rude side in front of Shinbyeol, so brace yourself. “You can do well, right?”

“Yes…”

Her days remaining at home with her sister did not last long.
When Song-Ah reached the age of entering high school, her parents began to take her to attend worship services.

It would be excellent to educate her from an early age in instilling faith in her.
Unlike other religions that require people to attend various events from a very young age,

The starting age for becoming a believer who can accept Shinbyeol is from around that time.

It seems that his doctrine is thorough.

“… Draw… Set… My turn… Uh… And then it’s my turn again… Ugh…”

It was a quiet time when I was alone at home.

Even when she entered middle school, she didn’t really have many friends, and she still enjoyed playing the card game she had been playing since elementary school.

“Ugh… Set of cards… I know what it is…”

Even if she played the game alone, she was confident that she would win, and she was confident that she would lose, so she felt less happy than when she played the game with Song-Ah.
After finishing her third edition, Su-ah organized a stack of her decks that she and her sister used in turns.

“Uh… Is it time for dinner already? ?”

She was in the third year of middle school, but since she didn’t have an older sister who always took care of things for her, she didn’t even know how to distinguish between old and sour side dishes.
This is because she has always depended on her older sister for even the smallest sense of life.
After eating, her stomach hurt, but there was nothing she could do.

After Su-ah ate her meal, she opened the tarot cards that Song-ah had brought her.

“Uh… This is…”

This is the normal position and this is the reverse position…

She began exploring by reading books on tarot and astrology that she had secretly brought from the library.
Illustrations drawn on each card, various phrases and Roman numerals.

Sua pulled out a few cards.

When she looks at herself in the mirror, she looks pretty good.

“The hand… It’s pretty… Her sister did that.”

How surprised would Song-ah be if she saw herself able to read tarot readings well after going to church?
Thinking of surprising Song-ah, Su-ah decided to tell her fortune in advance.

Su-ah shuffles the tarot deck as written in the passage in her book.
With Song-Ah in her mind, she pulled out her card.

“This…”

Her tarot card that will teach Song-Ah’s fate is

A reverse Fool card appeared.

In the book about astrology and tarot that was opened together.

Recklessness, negligence, distraction, ignorance.

And it was written that she was a fool who could not warn of the danger ahead.

What does it mean?

I shuffle the uneasy Tarot cards back into the deck as they were,

Su-ah waited with her mom and dad late at night for her precious older sister to return.

* * *

“Tarot? Taro? “Aren’t you crazy?”

A handful of cards fly into the air.

It was because her family arrived later than expected, and she fell asleep.
I was caught secretly borrowing tarot-astrology-related books and tarot cards.

“Even if you weren’t old enough to convert to faith, you were learning the nonsense of relying on the devil? “Are you out of your mind?”

“Uh, mom…”

“Honey… Be careful.”

Su-ah’s father lowered himself to stop her screaming mother.
She almost dropped the autograph ball she got from Shin Byeol-nim and a tsk came from her dad’s mouth.

“… “It’s a ‘happy’ day like today, so let’s be careful, right?”

“Ah… Sorry…”

After glaring at her mother, her father lowered her body until he was at eye level with Su-ah.

“… “Suya.”

“Dad…”

“The reason I haven’t taken Su-ah to worship yet… This is because Shin Byeol-nim already deeply believes in the existence of her Su-a. Sua… One more year passes… If only she could attend the service… You believe that you will be able to show her deep faith, just as much as her mother and father. “Dad, you know what I mean, right?”

Whoa. Dad sighed and continued speaking in a soft voice.

“But Suya. What would Shinbyeol think if he played with worldly objects that were played with by foolish school friends who did not even know the ‘ㅁ’ letter of faith? Isn’t that a ‘betrayal’ of Shin Byeol-nim, who trusted Su-ah and waited for her until she reached the age of mental maturity? Betrayal. And that… Provide Su-ah with something to eat… Provide her with a place to rest… Provide a place to sleep… It is also a betrayal of her mother and father, who provided everything for Su-ah. Suah… The kind that tears people’s hearts into pieces and torments them… Are you going to become a bad person?”

“B-but…”

Su-ah rolled her eyes, avoiding her father’s empty eyes.

In fact, Song-ah reveals the truth that her older sister brought the tarot cards…

She does not betray in any other sense.
Instead, Su-a looked at Song-a, neatly dressed in white, standing behind her father.

If it’s your sister.

Because she expected that her older sister might say something different.

But for some reason, Song-ah’s condition was strange.

She has the same eyes as her mom and dad.

“Throw it away.”

“Uh, sister… ?”

“Throw away. Something like that.”

Su-ah’s voice trembled at her cold voice.

“The future that Shinbyeol points out is the real future, so there is no need for that.”

It was a shock.

I couldn’t even imagine that such words would come out of her sister’s mouth.

“Sister…”

In the end, her tarot cards and the books she had borrowed were thrown into the trash heap.
Even if I quietly recited that it was a borrowed book, it was no use.

Even with the Tarot, it’s a borrowed book…

School life, which is already difficult, may become even more difficult.

“Boo…”

It was almost 1 a.M. And her family was about to wash up and go to sleep one by one.
Su-ah carefully searched for Song-ah’s room.

My sister’s actions, tone of voice, and facial expressions that I didn’t understand just a moment ago.

Although she always coldly mocked her attitude towards her parents’ god Byeol-nim, she always showed a bright smile in front of her.
It was hard to believe that it was Song-ah.

What kind of place is Shinbyeol’s worship? It didn’t take long for the curiosity I had always harbored about him to be eroded by fear.

She must ask Song-ah what happened.

“Song-ah… Hey… Worship… “How was it?”

“It was good~. Sua, if you ever get old enough to attend, I’m sure you’ll want to go, right?”

“Uh… Really?”

Although Su-ah is relieved that her high-tension voice of Song-ah has returned,

She couldn’t let go of the strange feeling of anxiety.

Songah told us one by one what happened during her service. However, the story was strangely abstract and seemed like various colors were painted chaotically on white drawing paper, so it was difficult for Su-ah to fully understand it.

But even so, she said that her older sister, whom she had always believed in, would come back, and Su-ah nodded her head in response.

“Besides me, I attend worship with older sisters… One by one, they hold our hands and begin to pray, and their cries fill the building, as if they are crashing waves.”

A scene was drawn in Su-ah’s mind that seemed both incredibly sacred and, in some ways, quite creepy.
While listening to Song-ah’s story, Su-a suddenly turned her head.

Did you receive it after the service?

A small frame containing a photo of Shinbyul, which did not exist before, is placed on Song-ah’s desk.

An old man with a wrinkled face. What did he do? Give me back my sister.

Keeping those remarks to herself, Su-ah carefully asked her sister.

“Uh, uh… So. Sister… I also got a frame… ? You saw it firsthand. In worship.”

“Huh. Right?”

“… That… How was the person named Shinbyeol?”

“It was amazing.”

Various rhetoric is added and Shinbyeol is described. A charismatic and booming voice that overwhelms those who listen. People who are moved by him.

It’s a sound that doesn’t really resonate with Su-ah.

And then suddenly. Song-ah turns her eyes towards Su-ah.

“But… “Do you remember when Dad said today was a ‘happy’ day?”

“Huh?”

“To me, he is no longer a divine star.”

“… Unless it’s Shinbyeol… “What is it?”

What is this sound. As Su-ah frowns, Song-ah continues her story with the same fresh smile as before.

“Me… Among the believers who came this time… I was selected over many high school and college students. “It is a privilege that only a few of the believers here can enjoy.”

Feeling anxious.

“This person is… Now it’s not Shinbyeol…”

The moment when I follow Song-ah’s gaze and look at Shinbyeol’s face in the frame.

“Boyfriend.”

Behind Suah’s back.

A disgusting feeling, like bugs crawling around.

I started to feel chills all over my body.

“It’s my boyfriend.”