Chapter 167 – Chapter 10 – Explore

“…You mean the opponent of fate?”

“Yes. The opponent of fate.”

The Heavenly Demon listened to me and made an interesting expression.

“If you’re a fateful partner, do you mean your partner?”

“It’s not necessarily limited to companions. It can be a friend who will be with you for the rest of your life… A colleague, a teacher and a disciple, etc. It’s a person who will be close enough to be called fate in life.”

“Hoo..”

It seemed to have succeeded in attracting interest.

Honestly, who wouldn’t be curious?

Even if it’s a heavenly horse, I can’t help but wonder if it’s a fateful opponent.

“Still, more than half of them show up as companions. Usually, the closest opponents are companions.”

“Then do you want me to tell you who my partner is?”

“It’s difficult to say exactly who it is. All I can know is the appearance or fragmentary information at best… I can guess at least the area where they live.”

“That’s a bit disappointing.”

“Wouldn’t it be so easy to read the heavenly gi?”

And even if you perfectly find out who your fateful partner is, if you let them know, it will be leaked and your destiny will be ruined.

Even if you go to meet the person of that fate, it means that you will not really get along.

There is no such thing as a definite future anyway, so it’s impossible to find out perfectly.

‘Anyway, after talking about it, I’m curious too.’

The Heavenly Demon’s Fateful Opponent?

Whether it’s a partner or a friend, I’m curious.

Looking at it, I don’t have many close people.. To be honest, I wondered if the opponent of fate would appear because he looked close to a hikikomori.

At least none of the people I’ve seen so far didn’t show up.

‘How can I come out if there is no opponent at all?’

People in this era seem to have a lot of people around them, so I think at least one person would come out, but I wondered what would happen in this case.

‘I hope it comes out properly.’

Doesn’t someone have to come out first to have something to say?

If no one comes out, ‘There is no opponent of fate. It’s a pity.’ I have to say…

-Shaking

I don’t even want to imagine what would happen to me.

There is no way I could hope that he would be safe after committing a crazy act in front of the Heavenly Demon, saying that he was destined to live alone for the rest of his life.

I took out a bead from my bosom, thinking that I should at least make an excuse if no one really opened it.

Simple divination could be done with a wooden board, but this was a task that could only be done with the direct help of marbles.

Because it glows when activated, I don’t use it as much as possible for fear of being misunderstood as an expensive night wine, but I didn’t think that the Heavenly Demon would covet just one night wine.

He picked up a piece of long hair, presumably belonging to the Heavenly Demon, that had been scattered around and placed it on top of a bead, preparing to read the heavenly gi.

“While reading the heavenly spirit, my consciousness will enter this orb. I will be able to communicate with reality, but communication may not be smooth.”

“Consciousness enters the marble?”

“As long as the body is left in reality, it is possible to talk and listen through connection, but it becomes impossible outside of that. It should be seen that it becomes virtually defenseless.”

“Hoo..”

…Something on his face is uneasy.

I don’t think I’m going to do anything while I’m unconscious.

“..If something happens to your body in real life, you may get an intoxication, so please be careful.”

“Is it..”

I bluffed in advance thinking that I might be tied up and kidnapped while I was unconscious.

I wouldn’t do anything like this

I don’t know why, but I felt her creepy when I saw her with a sad expression on her face, but she calmed down and started to use her heavenly energy.

-Uuuuu

– Pick.

‘…?’

What. Is it broken

Watching the light fade from her beads, I touched her beads with my hand.

‘I can’t do this.’

At least you have to show something to make an excuse.

If the light goes out after just a little light like this, even if you make good excuses, you can’t hit the cover.

‘Give me some strength, beads.’

– Tuk tok

At least until now, this hadn’t happened, so I kept trying to connect by touching the marble to solve the first situation.

-Shaking

I let out a sigh of relief as I watched the beads return to light with a small tremor.

If there was a problem

– Flash!

‘..Isn’t the light a bit big?’

That it was emitting an abnormally brighter light than usual.

I felt a blue flash pierce my eyes through tightly closed eyes, sucking me into consciousness.

* * *

-Uuuuu

‘Ah. Came in.’

Contrary to my worries that nothing might appear, it came safely into the marble.

A virtual space created using the power of heaven and marble.

It is a space where the heavenly spirit of the future that I want to read is embodied, and I am like a ghost in this space, so it is impossible to interact with people inside.

It means that it is only possible to obtain information by exploring this space, but instead, it is used sometimes because more specific information can be obtained than when reading with a wooden board.

At one time, Dang Ah-yeong said that it would be possible to get clues to the development of martial arts from her future self with this…

‘What should I know?’

I, who is in the middle of it, is a person who does not even know the martial arts skills, so what can I convey?

Since I can’t interact, I can’t even talk to Dang Ah-yeong in the future, so I can only see and convey something based on my standards.

By my standards, I can only see the extent of just quickly throwing memorization.

‘Oh, I’ll have to take a quick look.’

When I returned to the reality of the thought that had been wandering for a while and looked around, I saw a fairly large house.

It was possible to speculate that the target would be in this house since it was a space that was implemented to find the opponent of the Heavenly Demon’s destiny.

‘But now that I think about it, I think Lu Xiaochun said something.’

Didn’t Lu Xiaoqian say something before they parted?

I’m sure he said something about the Heavenly Demon…

‘…Ah.’

I remembered.

If possible, I told you not to read the heavenly spirit of the Heavenly Demon.

“…”

Ayy, nothing special

I’ve already entered, but now I can’t return it.

I told you not to read it if possible, I didn’t mean to never read it, did you?

‘It will be fine. Huh.’

At most, nothing will happen to me just by reading the heavenly secrets.

At least the record of the future doesn’t affect the present.

Leaving behind her anxious mind, she entered the mansion to achieve the purpose of entering the marble.

Is it really supposed to be called the Heavenly Demon?

The appearance of the house was wide enough that it could be used as a family home.

‘Who is the fateful opponent?’

-Thud!

While I was thinking to myself that it would be difficult to find the house as it was large, I heard a loud sound and what I thought were children’s voices.

“Sweetheart!!!”

“Kyaaaaa! Brother, please save me!!!”

“Your sister told me not to sneak into her room!!”

“I just went in for a while to find something!”

When I went to the direction where the voice was heard, four people who looked exactly like siblings were confronting each other.

A girl called Soja pokes her head out from behind her presumed eldest brother, and a younger-looking girl sighs with her angry look.

The remaining man was standing by the sidelines with an expression of ‘It’s a start again’.

“You have to be patient.. But as an older sister, do you have to be so angry with the youngest every time?”

“So-ah is becoming more and more daring because her older brother always calls her the youngest!”

“Be patient. You were like that when you were little. Children will change when they grow up.”

“Brother..”

– Trouble

According to the situation, the older brother who is the one to stop is the first. The girl hiding behind is the youngest. Her older sister, who was angry, seemed to be the second or third, but even looking at her appearance, it was obvious that she was a child of the Heavenly Demon.

Perhaps because she was still young, fighting seemed cute, but it was clear to everyone that when she grew up, she would slap the opposite sex several times.

‘No, I shouldn’t hit him.’

If their mother is slapped on the wrong cheek, she could die.

Please do the power control properly.

‘They’re all still young.’

Even if they were the children of the Heavenly Demon, it was so realistic that siblings fought over whether they were siblings.

But since she couldn’t keep looking at her children even though she didn’t know how much longer she could be in this space, she left her place and decided to look for her husband.

“Look! That’s just because he’s young, he’s a fox! He just stuck his tongue out at me so you can’t see him!”

“You’re saying that again. Why did you do that to So-ah every time? Really. So-ah. Did you really do that?”

“I didn’t, bro.”

“Look. You didn’t.”

“Ah!!”

‘…The youngest must be quite clever.’

What have you been so clever about since childhood to do when you grow up?

Well, it wasn’t my child, and it wasn’t something I cared about.

Parents should worry about their children.

Leaving behind her siblings, she tried to find someone who was supposed to be the father of the siblings and the opponent of Heaven’s Demon who was somewhere in the house.

‘..Where is it?’

I searched all the rooms, but neither her husband nor the Heavenly Demon herself was found.

It didn’t make sense that neither of them could be seen in the space the Heavenly Demon entered in search of his destined partner.

I looked around to see if it was nearby, not the mansion, but the only place in the marble space where people could be was inside the mansion.

If so, one conclusion can be inferred.

‘Secret room…?’

There is a room in the mansion that you can’t normally find, and there’s a person I’m looking for in it.

There was nothing so strange about it.

If there is no secret room in the house of a person the size of a Heavenly Demon, that would be strange.

‘..It can’t be helped.’

If that’s really the case, it took too long to find even a ghostly body without a single clue.

Since the Heavenly Demon is waiting outside, I decided that it would be unreasonable to find the secret room, how tightly hidden it might be, so I took out the talisman from my bosom and used the heavenly spirit.

It’s difficult and cumbersome to make, so it’s a talisman that I cherish most of the time, but I can’t help but use it at times like this.

After following the amulet flying at high speed into a certain room

I was able to find a door leading deep underground.