Volume 45Chapter 1 Part1 (2/2)
But anyways, girls do have the i But when it coirl and enjoying fortune-telling
”You get it? Whether you invite her or not, ot it?” Sudou told me
And after saying that, Sudou cut the call by force I had thought it was strange for Sudou to invite , it seems this is what he really wanted
While I felt slightly disappointed, I quickly changed s I better call Horikita quickly If Sudou finds out later I ignored his request, it would be troublesoet, I call Horikita on the scene right away And soon enough, Horikita picked up the call
”Hey Horikita, do you like fortune-telling?” I asked her
Every wo If there's a woirls in general, it is undoubtedly this woman
”You say the strangest thing as an opener” Horikita said
Indeed But forelse to open up the conversation with, so there was no choice
”It would be very helpful if you answered me” I told her
”So that means if I don't answer you at all, there's a possibility you won't be saved?” she asks
I didn't expect her to reply like that, but there is indeed a possibility of e of Sudou putting me in a headlock came to mind
”So? Will you save me?” I asked her
”If you don'tme one”
So I'll be owing her one just for answering whether or not she likes fortune-telling huh? I resisted the urge to ers and quickly end the call now, but I have to hold on, Sudou's angry face appeared in my mind after all
”Please consider it like that” I told her
Having realized that her answer is worth sohtly and answered
”Let's seeI'm not very enthusiastic about it but it would be a lie to say I dislike it” she answered me
Unexpected, unexpected Horikita had answered
”Have you ever had your fortune-told before perhaps?” I asked her
”Of course nothing like that It's just I've seen fortune-telling co” Horikita said
Perhaps she's talking about the fortune-telling by birthday month that comes up in the news
I can't ies her clothes or buys accessories after hearing her lucky color is red from a television screen
”Are you perhaps addicted to fortune-telling?” she asks
”No, not like that There's been ru around recently, have you heard about that fortune-teller?”
”Fortune-teller?”
Silence as though she had re settled in, and perhaps she re but Horikita soon replies in a convinced tone
”Indeed there seems to be quite an uproar over it I've heard of it” she said
”I was slightly curious about it They keep saying it's accurate, I wanted to see how accurate it really was But, I can't really believe that fortune-telling could be so accurate about so”
I had expected her to agree with me but a different opinion came back from the other side of the phone
”Is that really true? I think a person with real power can be accurate” Horikita said
”No, no Only an esper or so can be that accurate” I quickly replied
Horikita see a person's future from their face, hands or date of birth I don't believe in such unrealistic things
”Not like that The fortune-teller has no power to divine the future Isn't that obvious? It's as absurd as sohosts exist But unlike psychics, fortune-tellers have access to a large amount of your past data, in other words, they base their predictions based on a huuess such things froh” Horikita told me
So she's not just a drearounded in theory
”In other words, a power derived fro, huh?”
”You know quite sos” Horikita answered in an amused tone
”We cannot view ourselves objectively but expert fortune-tellers, in a short amount of tis that the person being divined does not realize And that's what's left as the result of fortune-telling Couldn't we think of it like that?” Horikita said
Cold reading Literallysomeone's mind without any prior preparation It's a technique that draws out inforh casual conversation to make the 'observation' and 'insight' skills to gain inforet Andwordsit while avoidingtheh level of skill
”I've become a bit interested”
”I'o” Horikita said
”Then why don't you co?” I asked her
”You're kidding, right?” she replies
”I'm quite serious”
”I refuse” Horikita said
I tried slipping in words of invitation into our brief conversation but she brilliantly rejected the able to accept her rejection simply
”I', so I think it's better for me to have someone like Horikita with me” I tell her
”I' with crowds, you know too” Horikita replies
Indeed that is true Naturally there would be a lot of students crowded around the fortune-teller that so happens to be a hot topic right now There's even the possibility that it won't sio I certainly cannot i in a crowd like that
I tried to reconfir, but even if I stick to it I'll just end up arousing her suspicions As for me, if I had truly understood Horikita's words, there would no longer be any reason to stick around I' proble her, I cut the call Then I briefly sent Sudou a istered as 'read' and dissatisfied words came back to me
Sudou had replied ”Then I quit” to ht,Horikita And since I had failed, he had no more use for ether to the fortune-teller
”But even sofortune-telling huh?” I muttered
I was not interested initially, but after htly interested
I suppose I'll go check it out tomorrow