Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Only Once in a Lifetime

“Grandmother said to tell. What couldn’t tell yesterday, because the current me can tell.”

The little kid pointed at the letter.

We were looking at the same place, the same phrase.

Heaven also closes eyes to the first fortune of a baby shaman who just received the god.

There was something guessed.

“Beginner’s luck, overlooking first work mistake, such?”

“Yes.”

The little kid leaned the body toward me and whispered small.

“Heard an opportunity to unlock the shackles and run only once in a lifetime.”

Realized.

If the shaman’s shackles······.

“Heard the fortune permitted to see the farthest, the deepest, the most in my shaman life.”

Heaven’s secret leak.

“So heard can’t fortune-tell carelessly, to anyone, anyhow. Heard have to offer the most precious to the most precious person.”

I closed the eyes.

“Try believing once, precious person older brother. Today as much I will see better than grandmother? Hehehe.”

There are such words in the streets.

-The shaman who just received divine descent is the most capable.

The real reason sent the little kid who obtained the vermilion bird yesterday to me from morning.

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva’s repayment of favor.

“Your grandmother said so. In my four pillars heaven’s secret leak mines stuck everywhere.”

“Yes?”

“Not a big accident occurring touching recklessly fearlessly without knowing?”

“Heueung, this a secret. Secretly teaching only to precious person older brother?”

The little kid stuck even closer toward me and whispered small holding breath.

“Heard when looking ahead to an area can’t handle completely loses soul so okay.”

“How okay when losing soul?”

“Don’t know divine fortune? The god descends on the shaman and sees.”

How do I know that?

First time hearing even the sound of divine fortune today.

“Think that words spit with normal mind? If the normal mind returns won’t even remember the words oneself said?”

The little kid smiled brightly confidently.

“Grandmother said so. Don’t worry anything and if something difficult and hard just lose soul and doze and come.”

[Cheep cheep!]

The vermilion bird chick size sitting on the little kid’s shoulder also cheeped proudly.

The little kid tilted the head putting down the fine brush writing sutra recitation.

“So what most curious precious person older brother?”

Couldn’t answer right away.

The inside of the head was complicated.

* * *

Returning to my room I sat down flop on the floor.

Crossed arms and sat cross-legged.

Glared at the golden light letter put down on the room floor.

Brows crumpled automatically.

‘An ally hard to obtain easily rolled in with own feet without even requesting?’

An unexpected windfall.

‘Why does Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva bend and enter so much? Because the underworld messenger is my guardian deity?’

Suddenly King Yama’s words floated up.

-Good connections gather, large and small opportunities arise there, and if luck follows at the right time life will be quite worth living. That is precisely great luck.

-So please form connections carefully. The luck of the human world originally derives from connections.

The more looking unsettled.

No way just giving out a letter where golden light bursts so noisily without hoping.

‘Too excessive for a gift, inner intention felt too much for repayment of favor, only favor full for a trap.’

Look at the work Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva said will help.

-Arranging secret connections.

-Planting listening ears in Cheongwongak.

-Opening friendship association to support mother’s social circle activity.

-Seizing back rumors of political and business world famous figures.

-Sending the exorcism shaman who will serve the next generation white tiger deity.

‘All selected and sent only matters that continuously exchange, and have to form connections.’

The reason felt uncomfortable.

‘Would have been good if ended sending moderately money or precious items. This have to see as separate inner intention.’

With this level of scale already exceeded the category of gift long ago.

This is a bribe.

‘What matter Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva handing bribe to me? If the underworld messenger maybe.’

[What? Why? Me what?]

The underworld messenger who was watching drama with a serious expression in the world turned the head.

Yes, you! Let’s see me a bit.

‘Heard the little kid obtained the vermilion bird thanks to you?’

[······This messenger doesn’t involve in the human world.]

‘Doing this messenger sound. Even in front of me capturing poop form? Then why gathered the four directional deities in the shaman house shrine?’

[Ahem! That is heaven’s secret leak.]

‘Want to have heaven’s secret leak confiscated for a week, or have the drama viewing rights returned saying good for chasing miscellaneous ghosts confiscated again?’

[······.]

Look at this.

Just looking at rolling eyes the estimate comes out exactly.

A planned criminal with full intentionality.

‘Heard the requested was only to avoid misfortune, why deliberately even gave windfall?’

[······.]

‘Said not involving in the human world why did meddling that doesn’t work?’

[······.]

‘Eh? Keep not answering? Told not to take out heaven’s secret leak sound now trying to exercise the right to remain silent altogether?’

[······.]

‘Confiscate television for a week.’

[No! My treasure number 1!]

The underworld messenger hugged the television surprised with a whoosh.

[Mean! Is there giving and taking?]

‘So tell. Why did so?’

[You why doing so? Said that little kid no matter of weaving with you from now on? Said a matter not know? Said not your business?]

The underworld messenger crossed arms with a sulky face.

[This matter a matter woven with that little kid from beginning to end, and others’ matter not your business, why asking picking nitpicking?]

‘······.’

[Pretend not to know until the end as first determined the heart. Then enough.]

‘······.’

[Don’t even put interest, don’t even send gaze. Connection is mutual.]

The underworld messenger was firm.

[Even if mutual agreement when associating, don’t know separation is unilateral notice? Bad connection also connection, if cutting from your side enough.]

‘Sure? A matter officially notarized in the underworld? Established as theory and review finished reported to academia?’

[What picking even notarization to theory establishment again?]

‘Then superstition, idiom?’

[A guy who doesn’t even believe superstition······!]

‘Won’t believe?’

I nervously swept the head.

‘When couldn’t see couldn’t hear couldn’t experience considered superstition or something not a big deal. But how much I saw heard experienced until now. Why not believe that?’

[Yesterday insisted won’t believe desperately?]

‘Wanted not to believe. Because that doesn’t work now this shape.’

Irritated and scratched the head roughly.

‘Because trying to cut completely in this opportunity so please cooperate a bit.’

[Cut? Bad connection? Lingering?]

A sigh came automatically.

‘Something caught in the heart arose.’

‘Because of that little kid?’

‘Because of what I saw heard yesterday and today. Will ask only that and fold cleanly.’

The reason the state of mind became complicated.

The foolish lingering wanted to believe already cut began to wriggle again once.

‘Hey, guardian deity. Curious because of that.’

[What?]

‘No matter how the first fortune a baby shaman who just received divine descent sees heaven won’t close eyes unlimitedly.’

[Heaven’s secret leak.]

‘So. How many people heaven’s secret leak permitted?’

[That also heaven’s secret leak······.]

The underworld messenger rolled eyes as if anxious and hugged the television even tighter.

Whether so or not.

I unfolded the cross-legged and stood up from the seat.

‘If saying. In this life I came out to the sunny side. So······.’

The inside of the mouth dried tightly.

‘Like the past no matter of knife fights weaving dirtily with master, brothers, gangsters, Maljukgeori horse head and Namsan Leech······.’

I gripped and opened the fist.

‘If blocking so that woman not entangled again in that miserable back alley war······. If I snatch first before that husband guy······. Still not okay?’

No matter how many times gripped and opened couldn’t stop the hands trembling.

‘Once formed bad connection eternally bad connection? No matter when how what effort, only give wounds to each other?’

The underworld messenger was looking at me with strange eyes.

‘I also know. Old matters only I remember alone, lingering useless no matter pulling out again, a matter that didn’t exist to that woman.’

Couldn’t look straight at those eyes.

I covered my eyes with trembling hands.

‘Yet lingering remained in the answer couldn’t hear then. Even living, even dying, until now.’

[······.]

‘To that woman might not have been, but to me that woman was heaven’s bond.’

Heaven’s bond not permitted to me.

So heavenly punishment.

The underworld messenger closed the eyes.

‘Earlier asked me what most curious? This time most curious whether can connect with that woman as heaven’s bond.’

[······.]

‘Whether can cut heaven’s bond as want like bad connection, whether I can forcibly cut that woman’s heaven’s bond. I was curious about that.’

[······.]

‘Said the husband devoted all pure love lifelong. So said that woman’s heaven’s bond.’

[······.]

‘How much harsh scolding received from that guy because entangled dirtily in the middle with me who received heavenly punishment and ended up returning. Until that black and glossy hair changed completely white······.’

I exhaled long.

‘So thought of deliberately turning away in this life.’

I smiled bitterly.

‘But somehow the cutting the last with a curse filled with malice caught in the heart, that remaining as lingering continuously······.’

Slowly closed the eyes.

If closing the eyes like this that night floats up clearly.

‘Burned one hall of the Samcheong-dong hanbok. Said will meet that woman directly and hear the story.’

Caught and held her among people running becoming a mess.

‘Went looking at the Samcheong-dong shaman house all day, but not permitted even one interview for the reason of hundred-day ritual. Exactly the day becoming three months, patience cut there.’

Wandered for 12 years.

No place not dug every corner of the country.

‘That woman, not opening the closed eyes until the end. Not answering even once.’

Held that woman’s shoulders and asked.

Poured the question refined and refined again several times inside for 12 years all at once.

‘Closed eyes, blocked ears, as if not knowing me or something, turned away until the end like that.’

So had no choice but to turn around.

Asserted won’t even pee toward Inwangsan.

Until the news that she died heard like that, no matter of us meeting again.

‘Thinking of asking the same as then. Okay even if can’t hear the answer. Because thinking of ending putting even the lingering there.’

To pray for happiness from afar.

‘Becoming a foreign substance mixed in that woman’s life once enough.’

[This is just sleep talking. Snore!]

The underworld messenger started pretending to snore standing.

[So I saw nothing, heard nothing, said nothing. In a word a matter I don’t know. Coool!]

The underworld messenger’s sigh spread between awkward snoring.

[One person. Heaven will also close eyes.]

The range of heaven’s secret leak permitted to the baby shaman seeing the first fortune that didn’t answer earlier.

‘Guardian deity, you······.’

[For reference like a monk can’t cut own head a shaman also can’t see own destiny. If peeking like others’ matter maybe. Snore!]

The underworld messenger who winked one eye disappeared like smoke with a slide.

But not even 5 seconds passed stuck out only the face from the wall over there and urgently added.

[A shaman sees the past better than the future. Five stars underline. Keokeo!]

The underworld messenger showed a thumb and went out to the wall again.

Like the Terminator’s last thumb locked while falling into the furnace and dying.

The underworld messenger also disappeared beyond the wall together with the thumb like that.

* * *

Let the little kid into my room.

Decided to ask directly.

“Earlier asked what most curious?”

“Yes.”

“Okay to ask now?”

“Yes.”

The little kid sat kneeling with a resolute expression.

On that kid’s shoulder the vermilion bird chick size was cheeping.

“Hope you look at this person.”

Could choose easily according to the underworld messenger’s hint.

I held out the paper with my four pillars written.

“Know how to see four pillars?”

“Not learned all yet······.”

“······.”

“But now able to see physiognomy and divine fortune so no relation.”

The little kid received the paper with my four pillars written.

Without even looking frowns the brows tightly right away.

“Uwa, just looking at the appearance a dirtily thin man! Sold the country in the previous life? How can be like this?”

Yes, that me.

“Kidney removed, finger cut, crucible smashed, more than half the face burns, don’t know how many teeth fell. Tsk tsk tsk. Knife marks can’t even speak. Dozens.”

How does this kid who can’t even see four pillars see such?

“Just looking connections thin. Every connection met only bad connections, betrayal and sowing discord, fraud······.”

“Enough. What I curious is this person’s woman. Whether heaven’s bond or bad connection such.”

“Woman and heaven’s bond······.”

The little kid crumpled the already tightly frowned brows with a whoosh.

“Dirtily pretty appearance. National beauty what? Men will flip eyes and charge.”

Yes, that you.