Chapter 35: Busta Prophet

What are the characteristics of a good-selling prophet?

It’s that they give you a taste of the product in a really fantastic way.

When you go to the supermarket, there’s always that kind of sales tactic where they operate a tasting corner, whether it’s for an event or a new product, and let you taste the food little by little, right?

Prophets also needed that skill.

Due to the nature of this fortune-telling prophet, there are quite a few people who can’t tell if this is real or if they’re trying to pull a big scam on me.

And what makes those people believe and open their wallets as if they’re enchanted? It’s this tasting.

It’s like ‘You can use the service for free for a few months’ or something like that.

Not the whole thing, just a little, just a part of the amazing fortune-telling is shown in advance for free! Give it a try, they say.

Like once you use an ad-blocking program, you can’t easily escape the swamp of its convenience… Once you get a taste of fortune-telling like this, most people fall for it, and as a result, they willingly open their wallets.

It’s a skill that’s possible because fortune-telling and prophecy are abilities that feel equally fraudulent regardless of gender, age, strength, or weakness, so it’s a strategy that’s hard to show the same efficiency even if someone tries to imitate it unless they’re in the same industry.

And that strategy of the other-world fortuneteller… worked very well even after crossing over to Earth, another star and dimension.

‘Heh… I knew there couldn’t be no common ground in places where people live?’

Smiling inwardly as if it were according to plan, while maintaining a poker face that didn’t show on the outside, Cassandra generously gave them a little more of the free trial version to reach where she wanted to go using them.

“Let’s go with the last names… Maxwell Bronson, Carlos Austin Carter, Hailey Lowell Rosie. Scottish-born and currently American, Dominican-American, Brazilian-born.”

The tanned, red-faced white man was Bron, the brownish one was Carter, and the ordinary white person was Rosie.

“Who, who are you…?!?!”

Bron, who was the youngest and had the shortest career, reflexively asked a question at the sight of her rattling off personal information with a mysterious atmosphere from her seat.

This kind of question is a mistake. To a suspicious person who knows the goals of the World Dimensional Phenomenon Management Organization’s team members and even the personal information of the team members in front of her!

But there was no one here who could point that out.

Because everyone felt the same way as Bron, even if they didn’t say it.

Who the hell is she to know so much about us?!

The Dimensional Phenomenon Management Organization itself is famous, but the team members belonging to it are obviously not famous.

Attention is diverted to those who deserve attention, and most of them move without being well known to the public.

As such, the fact that the suspicious person in front of them knew all their information and rattled it off was one of two things. This person had dumped all the data.

Or… she really had some amazing ability.

But if she knew by dumping data, she wouldn’t contact them in this way.

So their thoughts leaned towards the latter… and that’s why it was even more troublesome. A fortuneteller who can see through the world from her seat, how terrifying and amazing is she?

In fact, although they belong to the Dimensional Phenomenon Management Organization, they are just two assistant managers and one deputy manager, who is in a responsible position, but is not a team leader, but a deputy manager who is in the number two position in the team.

You might think that being number two is quite high, but if you’re a deputy manager of a department in such a large organization, you don’t have as much authority as you might think. Of course, more than the two assistant managers below.

Especially… when dealing with someone who can be considered a super-important talent like the one in front of them. Dealing with such a person is obviously a job for a much higher-ranking official.

But that’s not possible now. They couldn’t leave to call a supervisor in front of this person.

It’s not clear whether the person in front of them is an ally or an enemy, isn’t it?

The energy she felt was also extraordinary. If they responded incorrectly, their necks could be cut off in an instant.

“Well, since you seem to still have some doubts… shall we move on to some more detailed information? For example, Bron has a crush on someone in the company? Someone of the same rank.”

“H-how did you know?!”

“Same rank and in the company, could it be me…?!”

Bron was shocked, and Rosie, who was next to him, was also startled.

“Ah, it’s not you, Rosie. You seem to have been a little self-conscious.”

“……”

But Cassandra kindly smiled and corrected Rosie’s misunderstanding.

And Rosie, who took damage, immediately became dazed.

“That person is…”

“W-wait! I’ll believe you, I believe you…! Please don’t reveal that…”

“Hey Bron! Are you doing some kind of skit!”

“Hmm, Mr. Carter, you’ve given up on marriage or relationships now? You got ripped off a lot of money during your two divorces… I guess the shock was big?”

Seeing this, Cassandra was certain that she and Zion would never have a broken relationship like this person.

Because Cassandra had unfounded confidence, thinking, “How could there be people who get along so well like us?”

Of course, she didn’t say that thought out loud. That wasn’t important now.

To make that delusion a reality, the most important thing was to meet first, wasn’t it?

“…?! B-but that’s a deduction anyone can make…! Prophecy, fortune-telling, or whatever…”

“You were going to take out a loan and, in addition, withdraw your retirement money in advance to go all-in on put options because you think the world is going to be a mess, even if it doesn’t end? You’re trying to solve everything with one shot because you’re struggling with divorce, child support, and living expenses.”

“…Huh?! H-how, how did you know that…!!”

Cassandra smiled.

In fact, she, who was from a medieval fantasy world, not this modern world, didn’t understand things like withdrawing retirement money and put options. She just recited what appeared in the fortune.

But knowing that smiling without saying anything would make the mystery and impressiveness even stronger, Cassandra just kept smiling with a poker face and prepared for the next step.

Because if you honestly ask about something you don’t know, it will damage the mystique of the fortuneteller.

Cassandra, who was also a seasoned merchant who had made a living from fortune-telling since she grew up from a child, was well aware of that fact through her experience.

Anyway, having confused two people, Cassandra looked at the last target.

“Rosie, you… like to relax comfortably at home. You relax so comfortably that you don’t clean your house, you only eat delivery food… Oh dear, you’ve gained quite a bit of weight because you’ve been putting off exercising because it’s a hassle? You might fail a physical fitness test. Ho ho, and you have quite hardcore tastes, don’t you?”

“W-w-wait, wait a minute…!! M-my private life like that…!!”

For Rosie, who acted like a flawless career woman at work, it was obviously not a situation she wanted to have such shocking private life, which she couldn’t easily reveal to her colleagues, simply revealed.

The hidden truth was revealed, and that revealed truth was revealed in a situation where she had just taken serious damage to her mental state due to a ridiculous misunderstanding, so the shock was even stronger.

And as with everyone, in the end, others don’t really care about that, but only she cares too much.

Because people are more indifferent to others than you think.

Whether it’s a subordinate or a colleague, as long as they don’t bother you at work and you can get along without discomfort, isn’t that enough? They weren’t the type to be bothered by such things.

In the first place… one person is interested in a colleague from another department, and the other is tired of two divorces, so what would they do with knowing such private life? They wouldn’t care.

Moreover, now they were also in a state where they had taken damage to their mental state, so they couldn’t even hear their colleague’s ordinary private life.

“Well, can you believe it now?”

At the sight of her saying that as if she would reveal more secrets if they didn’t believe her, they had no choice but to nod.

“Then… shall we talk about something that will be helpful to each other?”

So, having succeeded in selling the drugs properly, she continued the conversation.

They, who had already been enchanted by Cassandra, told them that she knew about the person related to this incident that the World Dimensional Phenomenon Management Organization was looking for, and that she would tell them the location, so they would move together to that place, and that the current situation was very dangerous, and that it was difficult to endure with only the power of Earth, and that there was something causing it, but they didn’t know anything other than that, so from the perspective of the Dimensional Phenomenon Management Organization, it was a deal that they couldn’t refuse even if they thought they were being deceived.

Moreover, there was only one condition attached to it, which was to accompany her to the meeting place, so there was no big risk, they could monitor her, and it was a definite addition of power, so the World Dimensional Phenomenon Management Organization accepted Cassandra’s proposal.

Grin!

‘Heh heh, just as planned!’

Everything was according to Cassandra’s plan.

And in such situations…

The disaster in Australia, which was not yet known to the world, was increasing in scope and casualties.