The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 55: Supernatural Department (5)

Kawasaki quickly said: "No, we are not here to listen to stories, we really have something to entrust."

Qian Xiaoyi said: "I don't see any problems in this regard in you, so it's a problem with your relatives and friends?"

Kawasaki secretly praised Mr. Qian for being an expert who could tell his current condition at a glance. However, he still guessed wrong. Kawasaki took a deep breath and said, "No, we came here this time just for ourselves. The content of this commission is - we want to see ghosts!"

"Want to see ghosts? Why?" Qian Xiaoyi asked puzzledly.

"Why?" Kawasaki became excited when talking about this. He said excitedly: "Mr. Qian, you may be used to seeing ghosts, but if you can prove that ghosts exist, you can prove the existence of human souls! Once you can get this evidence, it will be a subversion of the entire human society! A subversion of technology! The world will change because of this. Even the Nobel Prize will be a piece of cake. As long as we succeed, we will go down in history! Doesn't this arouse your interest, Mr. Qian?"

Although Qian Xiaoyi had known for a long time that this guy named Kawasaki was stupid, he didn't expect him to be so stupid. If it was that easy, how could a high school student like him get the chance? However, he didn't say anything to criticize him, but said, "It's a very...imaginative commission, but I'm sorry, I can't take this order."

Kawasaki was dumbfounded: "Huh? Why?" He obviously felt that his speech just now was very convincing, but he didn't expect to be rejected.

Qian Xiaoyi said expressionlessly: "Because I see that your forehead is black, you may have a disaster in the near future. If you get involved in something dirty, even I can't save you..."

Kawasaki froze. This familiar statement... Here it comes! Memories of being cheated of money by charlatans in the past came flooding back.

Even Tanaka noticed something was wrong and started to get a little restless. Temperament! Mr. Qian's temperament was very different from the beginning.

Inuyama Heita and Suzuki looked at each other and were somewhat puzzled by Qian Xiaoyi's poor performance.

"Please follow me." Qian Xiaoyi stood up and came to the desk. He took out a piece of cloth with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, Yin Yang and the Eight Diagrams written on it from the drawer and spread it on the table. Then he took out the hexagram tube and put three copper coins into it with a mysterious look on his face. While shaking it, he said, "Let me tell you a fortune to predict good or bad luck and find out if there is any way to avoid disaster..."

"No! No need!" Kawasaki hurriedly stopped him. At this time, he still had a little fantasy about Qian Xiaoyi, and said, "Mr. Qian, there is no need for divination. I... By the way! I am a Western divination practitioner!"

"What a coincidence!" Qian Xiaoyi took out a stack of tarot cards from under the table and began to shuffle them like a gambling expert. Then he spread them smoothly on the table and said, "I also know a little bit about this kind of divination. Let's flip the cards."

Seeing Qian Xiaoyi playing with the tarot cards like playing cards, Kawasaki and Tian Xin shouted in unison: "If you shuffle the cards like this, the tarot cards will cry!"

"Well... let's not use that..."

Before Kawasaki could refuse, Qian Xiaoyi said seriously: "Still not satisfied? There is nothing I can do... It seems I can only use my unique skills."

After that, he took out a crystal ball and placed it on the table, then sat down and said solemnly: "Please sit down, let me clear the fog and peek into your future..." Liar! These two words kept circling in Kawasaki and Tanaka's minds, and then landed in the center! They were now sure that this guy was a charlatan, no different from those people before!
"Oh, right! I suddenly remembered that we haven't done our homework yet!" Kawasaki winked at the others and left without any courtesy.

Qian Xiaoyi sat in the boss chair without any sincerity and made a final attempt to keep him: "Don't leave, how about we talk about zodiac signs? You have Mercury retrograde recently..."

"A ghost's constellation!" Kawasaki rushed out of the door as if escaping, and the other three followed closely behind him. Before leaving, Tanaka bowed and said, "Excuse me." Then he hurriedly closed the door. In response to this situation, Qian Xiaoyi just smiled and put away the divination tools on the table.

Downstairs, Kawasaki gasped and said, "I almost got cheated again! Damn it, why is it so difficult to meet a real exorcist?"

Tanaka shook his head: "At first I thought that guy was the real deal, but in the end it was still like this."

Kawasaki said to Inuyama Heita and Suzuki, "I'm sorry, you two, I let you encounter such a thing just after joining the club... Wait, Suzuki, are you sure he is the Taoist priest in the Lucky Mutual Aid Association?"

Tanaka said, "Is this a mistake? I've never heard of a Taoist priest using tarot cards and crystal balls for divination. Could this person be a fake?"

Suzuki didn't know what Qian Xiaoyi was up to, so he could only say cautiously, "That...it was indeed him, but I don't know why Mr. Qian has changed so much. He usually isn't like this."

"That's right!" Kawasaki also sighed, "He is completely two different people just like at the beginning... At the beginning? At the beginning? Tanaka, do you still remember what the other party looked like at the beginning? He didn't look like a liar at all. Instead, he looked like a serious businessman. He asked us what we wanted to entrust him with as soon as he opened his mouth, and he looked like he was doing his job in a businesslike manner." Kawasaki suddenly had an idea, as if he thought of something.

Tanaka recalled, frowned, and said, "Indeed... the other party's attitude towards us changed the moment you made the request, and then he became like that, it seemed... like he did it on purpose? But why?"

"The conversation was inconsistent. He didn't try to keep us even if we left..." Kawasaki suddenly realized, "I understand! He was just trying to drive us away! He runs an office, and it's pretty rude to drive away a client. But if the client leaves on his own initiative, there won't be any problem!"

"So..." The two looked at each other and came to a common conclusion: "There's something wrong with that guy!"

Tanaka said, "If he wanted to chase us away, that makes sense. Minister, your second-year remarks must have scared him. He didn't want to play house with a bunch of high school students like us, so he acted like that, hoping that we would think he was a liar and run away!"

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is!" The more Kawasaki thought about it, the more excited he became. He turned to look at the sign of Lingkong Office and said, "So, Mr. Qian is not a liar! In that case, I can't let him go! I must make him accept our commission!"

Inuyama Heita curled his lips: Brother Yi's strategy seems to have worked, this guy took the bait himself, he really asked himself to be sold and even helped others count the money.

(End of this chapter)