Volume 1 Chapter 51, Part 2 Mean Villainess, Fortunetelling
In her long, fringed eyelashes, I felt an unmistakable sense of strong will.
"I don't know why, but they said something was hindering me."
"Let me do a divination!"
Seemingly having suddenly changed her mind, she began the flower divination with calm hands, a stark contrast to her earlier trembling.
From the previously empty space, fluffy soil appeared through her magic.
She scattered 3 sparkling seeds, and mist emerged from her hands, enveloping the soil.
After a brief silence, she gently blew a breath, and the mist that wrapped the soil dissipated, suggesting beautiful flowers would bloom there.
However, the past seeds still exploded.
Naturally, the current seeds exploded too.
And the future seeds would likely follow suit.
"A sprout is growing!"
It was Ms. Natalia who said this with joy.
Though I expected an explosion, there was a tiny sprout instead.
I remembered that the fortune-teller who found that reading amusing also had a sprout as small as a kaiware.
In the end, it turned out that no one knew what kind of sprout it was.
"At this size, I can't tell what kind of sprout it is."
At least it didn't explode, but as I muttered this, the heroine hurriedly cupped the sprout in her hands.
"I will raise you"
"What?"
What do you mean?
And that was what the eyes of everyone there were saying.
"I'm going to leave this sprout aside and put my magic into it and make it grow."
"Is that even possible?"
When I asked her that, the girl in front of me nodded enthusiastically.
"I haven't learned this in flower divination, but I'll try. I'm sure I can do it."
That teacher never tried to do that, but I wonder if it's really possible.
If that were possible, what kind of flowers would bloom?
I was excited, but also a little scared.
Because the results of the divination showed that there was something like a stake blocking my happiness.
I feel somewhat resigned to the fact that I can't be happy because I have the guilt of making a game enthusiast suffer in my past life.
So I should accept that any outcome now is beyond my control.
But the thought that the flower blooming before me might have a terrible meaning is truly frightening.
I think there are flowers with scary meanings like curses or bindings.
I want to say let's stop this, but seeing the heroine seriously channeling magic into the sprout and everyone watching anxiously makes me hesitate to even speak.
In the end, I could only give up and think whatever will be, will be.
After a few minutes of silently watching, the sprout had really grown quite large.
It's about time for the bud to appear, I suppose.
"It's about to bloom."
When I heard that voice and looked up, I saw sweat gathering on the tip of her nose.
Maybe she's consuming a huge amount of magical energy right now.
I wonder if she's okay, what if she runs out of magic...?
"Ah! It's blooming, Lady Elena!"
Just as I was recalling how my legs had lost feeling from magical depletion, Ms. Natalia called out to me.
"Ehehe, it's blooming!"
She then said that with a silly smile on her face.
Looking down, I saw a cute star-shaped purple flower blooming in her hands.
"What is this?"
"The language of this flower is gentle affection, deep affection, and eternal love."
I was relieved that the words were not scary.
But what does this mean, affection, eternal love?
"There must be someone who loves Ms. Elena."
"Anyone who shows me gentle affection?"
"This species is the future, so even if we don't know it now, it will eventually come true"
"I see"
"There must be someone who loves you deeply."
Who is it that I love, who loves me?
Father or Elder Brother, perhaps?
And Mother too?
And I hope Rolus is... too.
"And eternal love, so it's a lie to say that Ms. Elena won't be happy."
She had a gentle smile on her face, and I felt like she looked like a goddess.
"Thank you, Ms. Flora"
Even though I should be terrifying, she went out of her way to sweat and grow flowers for me.
As I was thinking this, Ms. Flora's face instantly turned bright red and she hurriedly started to clean up.
What's going on all of a sudden?
"Um, that's all!"
Ms. Flora said this to Rudger and quickly returned to the other side of Leve.
Leve was covering his mouth, as if trying to hold back laughter.
Leve, you're hiding something.
I'll have to interrogate you next time.
I'll let it go today, thanks to Ms. Flora.
* * *
That night.
I lay in bed, recalling the story of the flower divination before sleeping.
"Hey, Rolus. Today, I had Ms. Flora do a flower divination for me."
"...Flower divination, huh?"
Rolus's tone was not bright; perhaps he was reminded of that flower divination instructor.
I remembered it too.
"The seeds of the past and present exploded, but the seeds of the future sprouted."
"...Right."
"So, Ms. Flora took the sprout and grew it into a flower, which she showed me. The flower language of that flower is tender affection, deep affection, and eternal love, or whatever."
"It seems like a very good flower language."
"That's right. I give my tender affection, and someone gives me deep affection, and then it's eternal love. I wonder who it is that I give affection to, and who gives affection to me. Maybe it's my fathers? And then, maybe"
"If that sprout is a seed of the future, then isn't that the person you will marry in the future?"
Maybe it's Rolus?
I was going to say something jokingly, but I was interrupted by Rolus' words, so I couldn't continue.
Now that he mention it, it does seem like a list of words that bring to mind marriage.
I never thought of that during the day.
"...I wonder if I'll get married"
"Lady?"
Now that I think about it, I remember talking about getting married before I died in my previous life.
But in the end, I died without ever getting married.
"Rolus, I have a headache"
My head hurts from hitting the windshield.
"Are you okay?"
No, that is previous me, but not me.
"Scary."
"Lady?"
I'm not going to live long...
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