The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 714 Hope and Despair (17)

After being stabbed by the "monster" on the night of the typhoon, Fushiki Yoko was first sent to the Nanajo family's private hospital for emergency treatment, and then transferred to another hospital. She has been in a coma ever since. Even the doctors cannot explain the cause of her coma. They can only attribute it to brain damage caused by the shock and the body's self-protection.

When Qian Xiaoyi arrived at the ward, not only was there someone guarding outside, but Miwa was also inside taking care of Fushiki Yoko, and was sitting aside reading a book. What surprised Qian Xiaoyi was that in addition to her, there was another acquaintance in the ward.

"Isn't this Miss Anna?" Qian Xiaoyi teased, "I didn't expect to see you here. It's really rare. Aren't you going abroad to film the show this time?"

Anna sat by the window and looked out, still looking lazy. She turned around and replied with a smile, "This time, we can't just go abroad to avoid the limelight. So instead of passively avoiding it, we should take the initiative to participate. Fate cannot be avoided. To be or not to be, that is the question."

Qian Xiaoyi rolled his eyes. These mysterious fortune tellers were always like this. They had to pretend to be mysterious when they themselves didn't understand something, and only spoke after the fact. But occasionally Qian Xiaoyi would admit that their intuition was indeed very accurate.

He looked at Miwa and asked, "Ms. Miwa, how is Miss Yoko doing now?"

Miba closed the book in her hand, looked at Fushiki Yoko on the bed, and said, "It's not good, nor bad. At least for now, I don't feel that she is in pain, and the aura around her doesn't show any signs of weakening. Although it's still impossible to summon the soul, it seems that the other party is not in a hurry to do anything to Miss Yoko's soul."

"Miss Anna, what about you?" Qian Xiaoyi asked, "You're not here to watch the fun, right?"

Anna held a tarot card between her fingers and said, "I have read the fortune for her. The Wheel of Fortune is upright. Although she is imprisoned, perhaps there is still hope for her to turn around."

"Can't your divination just give a direction or something?" Qian Xiaoyi shook his head. These charlatans were talking in circles again. They were correct, but they were basically just some correct nonsense and were of no help to the current situation.

Anna said: "If I had this ability, I should be hired by major energy companies to explore for oil and mineral deposits instead of helping people tell fortunes here."

"That's right~" Qian Xiaoyi couldn't help laughing when he heard this. It's okay to fool those customers, but those present are all experts in the field, who doesn't know who?
Miba said: "We originally wanted to stop Mr. Fushigi's reckless behavior by retrieving Miss Yoko's soul, but unfortunately, the soul summoning failed, and we were unable to find the enemy's location through her body."

"That's natural." Qian Xiaoyi said, "After all, this is the monster-like woman, Hayafune Chizuru. If we can really find her, then we have to consider whether it is a trap set by the enemy... But we still have to do what we should do. It's always good to try different methods. Maybe your local method doesn't work, but my outsider's technique can work?"

As Qian Xiaoyi spoke, he took out some props for rituals from his bag. Next, the curtains of the ward were drawn. Qian Xiaoyi tried several methods of summoning spirits that he knew, including orthodox rituals and folk techniques. In short, he tried all the methods he could, but Fushiki Yoko still did not respond.

So Qian Xiaoyi had no choice but to give up. He turned to look at Anna who was watching the show on the side and asked helplessly: "Then Miss Anna, can you use your tarot cards to tell fortunes for us once and peek into the traces of fate?"

At times like this, Qian Xiaoyi had no choice but to turn to the professional charlatans he had always hated, to see if these guys' intuition could give any good advice.

"My pleasure." Anna said, "Normally, my divination fee is very expensive, but since you saw a wonderful performance, I will not charge you for the divination you requested this time." Qian Xiaoyi curled his lips and said nothing. Charging for fortune-telling is the professional code of the charlatans. If the other party does not charge money even though they are not related to the person, it means that he is up to something bad, or he wants to create a cause and effect and take away more things.

So the other party agreed so readily that Qian Xiaoyi felt a little guilty.

But this time Qian Xiaoyi wronged Anna. She really felt that her horizons had been broadened and she saw many rituals that she had never heard of. She was quite happy, just like watching a show.

Anna's slender fingers shuffled the cards rhythmically. Although her technique was not as fancy as that of a magician, it was still pleasing to the eye. Soon, she laid out a complicated card array on the table beside her. Since everyone was an insider, Anna did not explain what the cards meant this time. She just looked serious, flipped through the cards, and pondered from time to time.

Qian Xiaoyi and Wei Bo did not make any noise to disturb them, but just watched quietly.

In Qian Xiaoyi's understanding, this is the process in which the fortune teller is using his vast subconscious mind to sort out information. As for what conclusion they will draw with intuition in the end, it all depends on the fortune teller's own talent.

After a long divination, Anna breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the result was pretty good. She put away the tarot cards one by one, neither hurried nor slow.

"Hey, why don't you tell me the conclusion?" Qian Xiaoyi couldn't help but ask, "What's the result?"

Anna raised her head and smiled. "Ah, sorry, I was so absorbed in the divination that I forgot to explain... Since you were the one who requested the divination this time, I did the divination from your perspective... And the result of the divination is - just wait."

"What?!" Qian Xiaoyi was very unhappy: "Isn't this the same as not saying anything?"

Anna said teasingly, "Oh? So you want a more 'detailed' interpretation? Just like the other customers who come to me for divination? I really can't do anything with you, so I will interpret it for you again. This time I will use the Celtic Cross layout, a total of ten tarot cards. The first one, [Ace of Swords], predicts your fate..."

"Alright, alright~ Stop trying to fool me with that tone that fools laymen." Qian Xiaoyi understood that this woman was taking revenge on him for his previous attitude, so he said, "I understand, just wait, okay? I'll trust you this time... I'll leave Miss Yangzi to you to take care of. I'm leaving now."

He left the ward directly. Since there was no point in staying here, he could only wait and see. Anyway, with them around, he could detect any changes in Fushigi Yoko at any time.

"Oh, this is the first time I see Mr. Qian having a headache." Wei Bo said with a smile, "It seems that he is not good at dealing with fortune tellers. What an unexpected weakness. You really played a trick on him."

Anna smiled and said, "I'm not kidding him. My tarot cards told me that no matter what happens, he can handle it and find a way out of it. He has this ability. So like I said, he just needs to wait, and the way will appear by itself."

(End of this chapter)