Chapter 277 - Chapter 277: Chapter 267: The "Proficient One" of the Power of Consecution (2/2)
The old man shook his head, not doing as Karno had suggested, then Karno nodded and continued to pretend to shuffle the tarot cards for a while before finally drawing three cards and looking at them, then displaying them one by one.
“Hmm, they are the ‘King’ reversed, the ‘Wizard’ reversed, and ‘Death’ upright…”
Karno was just pretending to divine for the old man, merely to complete the ritual, but when he saw the three tarot cards, he felt an odd sensation.
It was as if they were foretelling something.
The King reversed, the Wizard reversed, Death upright.
What did it mean?
However, he quickly dismissed his doubts and continued to smile at the old man, saying, “The result of the prophecy is here, tonight, your son will come to give you some money as a token of his filial piety.”
“My, son? Hahahaha!”
The old man burst out laughing, laughing so hard he couldn’t stop, shaking all over, even laughing to tears.
Karno immediately froze, feigning confusion and asked, “What, what’s wrong, why are you laughing? Don’t scare me, did I really calculate something wrong?”
The old man sneered and said loudly:
“Hmph, I don’t have a son at all, you conman! Give me the gold coin!”
Karno pretended to be stunned, his body slumping in his chair, he murmured:
“It’s over, I owe you a gold coin, it’s bad, bad, sigh.”
But he quickly posed as if making a last-ditch effort, stood up and said loudly, “No, I haven’t lost yet, because my prophecy will only come true tonight!”
“So go home now! Wait, I mean, come back tomorrow morning to find me!”
The old man immediately got angry and yelled, “You’re just trying to weasel out of it, where would I find you if I come back tomorrow morning?”
Karno’s expression turned ugly, shook his head and said, “No worries, our circus won’t leave until a week later, you will definitely find me, sigh.”
The old man quickly remembered that was indeed the case, the circus was to stay a whole week to give the people around Fein City the chance to see the circus performances.
“Hehe, that’s good, but don’t you run away! I warn you!”
After the drunken old man left, the circus’s ringmaster Ferrero, dressed as a clown, came over, bowing to Karno with great respect.
“Congratulations, Young Master Karno, you are soon to reach the 3rd Rank on the Path of Revelation!”
Karno turned around with a smile on his face and said:
“Ringmaster Ferrero, you yourself have recently climbed the ladder of a ‘Gourmet’, and you have great potential. You will reach the 3rd Rank eventually, just like me. By the way, didn’t you say a few days ago that you want to leave the East Coast and perform elsewhere, was it the southern provinces of Cyart?”
The circus ringmaster Ferrero smiled teasingly and said, “No, we plan to go even farther north… to perform in Rhea.”
At night, the drunken old man returned home.
He had never been married all his life, and though he had had intimate relationships, he’d always been childless. How could that absurd prophecy ever come true?
“Sigh.”
The lonely old man sighed in his tiny room, a wave of melancholy in the depths of his heart. Whether or not he could get the gold coin actually didn’t matter.
He truly wished the conman’s prophecy could come true.
“Knock knock knock.”
At that moment, there was a knock on the door.
Because the public order in Fein City wasn’t very good, the old man approached the door with caution, not opening it.
“Who is it?”
The voice outside hesitated, but eventually mustered the courage.
“I, I am… I am your son, do you remember something that happened over thirty years ago in Nasir Town?”
The old man’s eyes widened, he immediately opened the door, and a middle-aged man dressed flamboyantly stood outside awkwardly, with tears streaming down his face, and immediately embraced the old man.
“What’s happening? What exactly is going on?” The old man became flustered, completely not understanding the situation.
The middle-aged man, with tears streaming down his face, said:
“Back when the Rhea People suddenly invaded, you were separated from mother. At that time, her family took her away from East Coast Province before she had the chance to say goodbye to you… Father, I’ve finally seen you!”
Disbelieving, the old man soon also burst into tears and hugged his son tightly.
His son pulled out ten gold coins and stuffed them into his father’s embrace, and then took out fine wine to share deep talks with his father into the night.
Karno lay calmly on the rooftop, staring at the bright stars in the night sky, with the voluptuous Sunbelle lying beside him.
Both listened to the story unfolding in the room below. Sunbelle, unaware of the truth about Lord of the Lost, couldn’t understand why Young Master Karno would do such a thing.
Was it just for fun?
She couldn’t help but ask:
“This is the third time, you’ve done this kind of thing three times now, giving a wandering girl parents, bestowing sudden sight to a blind warrior, finding a son for a lonely old man. Is it interesting just to make those unbelievable prophecies come true, pretending to be a prophet?”
“I am not any kind of prophet, merely an astonishing conman.”
Karno nodded with a smile and said:
“Indeed, it is very interesting, fulfilling the hidden desires in others’ hearts, their disbelief gives me satisfaction… But don’t laugh, Sunbelle, your dream… I’m definitely not going to make it come true… You dare kick me?”