Claps Clap clap-
"Woah… so cool Ruru, you are amazing"
The astrologist congratulates me on my first defeat of the damn disgusting rat that I was unable to defeat on my initial combat practice.
I have to run away humiliatingly on my first combat with it.
Now, I have finally conquered my enemy, ahahahaha…
… although the said enemy is a low level monster.
Hey, in my past life, I could not even kill a normal rat much less this evolved version rat.
The 'me' in this world becomes pretty amazing.
It's all thanks to fantasy, thanks that the genre of my life change.. Thanks me and thanks ether.
This world setting is just too wonderful.
Also, I was born in such a good environment. Hell! My mother is a duchess. Hell! A citizen of an Empire, not just a kingdom.
There are long list on why this world is wonderful to me. If I don't make use of it to my advantage, I will be a fool.
"Ruru is improving day by day while I have no improvement for a long time" The astrologer pouts her lips.
"You are going to die early anyway, why need to learn?"
I don't have any bad intention when I ask her that.
This astrologer girl is not one to be easily offended anyway.
"… well" the astrologer girl put her palm on her cheeks and said coyly "I want to be a genius celestial dwellers, so awesome that those of the celestial tower will deeply regret that I have die too early. It can be said as my cruel intention"
Her face has a pure warm smile as if the person who says such thing was not her.
I look at her, askance.
What a bad girl.
But I can understand the pleasure.
I heavily doubt if others will not be able to understand that kind of hidden pleasure gain from people regrets when they look down on us and then Bam! We make a ground breaking come back but do not want any association with those who look down on us anymore.
It's such a gratifying feeling.
But I also know that most of the time, it was only our wild imagination. Face-slapping and such are only found either in novels, drama or one's imagination.
"What exactly do those of celestial dwellers can do? And how will you attack your enemy?"
Most astrologers I know in my previous life are only engage in fortune telling and such stuff.
"Ruru, you should study what other ability is out there and not just focusing on sorcery" The astrologer start.
What? I have my hands pile up with sorcery and have no spare time to dabble on what others do Okay.
I look at her with a stoic face.
The astrologer shakes her head but still did her explanation on what ability the celestial dwellers have.
"Celestial dwellers use mystic energy or celestial energy or heavenly bodies energy, whatever you like to call it to dabble on bad luck, which means we can make use of the bad luck energy and impose on other"
I internally shiver at that.
That's scary, if they charm bad luck on me…
"Celestial dwellers can tap on the karmic cycle but it is a hard subject for us as well. Karma has always been a mysterious thing. When we look into people natal chart, we can alter their life natal chart if we have enough mystic energy. We can borrow the power of the star, calling upon the constellation. But even though it was such a powerful ability, it is not easy to master. Most celestial dwellers can only ever do predicting or tap into the mystic curse of bad luck or sometimes altering the natal chart of others"
She lament.
If you can do all those, you guys would've already soared to the heaven!
Such powerful ability…
Sadly, I will never be able to learn it.
Karma and the star is an objective existence but it needs a subjective cantonation to understand it.
Even in my previous life, I try to study astrology, reading tarot cards, learn zodiac houses but it all end up in failure.
I can understand theories like time travel, dimension, quantum physics and such than the objective existence that need subjective terms to understand it.
I can understand objective existence that needs objective terms to understand it.
"Why don't you try doing fortune telling?"
I gave her a suggestion, I have read about those astrologers improving when they do fortune telling for others in the novel I read.
"I did, most aristocrats would come to the tower and I will read for them"
"I mean the commoners"
"Hmm…" The astrologer girl has a confused expression "The commoners? Why should I?"
"Why should you not?"
I asked, I am more confuses as to why she would say that.
The astrologer girl stare at me, her expressions dazes before lighten up as if she understand something.
"Ruru, you are a good person. Your store sell things that will benefits those common and ordinary people, I have nothing against that. It was one way of attracting good karma. But for me, it was useless, the gratitude of those commoner is not so much as compare to doing prediction for the whole nation as one. When we predict bad fortune for the nation, the country ruler will take measures to tide through the bad fortune which in turn will we get the nation blessing. Nations to us celestial dwellers is a spiritual existent. It's gratitude is much more benefitting to us than the one on one gratitude of the commoners"
She puts on that warm pure smile again "Not to mention, commoners and ordinary people did little to nothing in impacting anything great for the nation. They exist just for the sake of existing, they just add numbers for a nation to exist, they exist just to…"
She continues her explanation concisely but I no longer pay attention to what she says.
My heart chilled up.
Because she constantly stick to me and have such a mild temper, always having that pure smile of hers, does not put up the noble etiquette and act so naturally with me that I forgot she was born of high status.
Her pride and arrogance as well as her dismissive nature of ordinary civilians are not a thing a person like me who was once a commoner can understand.
The nobles… no, those who can do miracles and are of transcended being have a cold arrogance of a higher being; viewing those of ordinary being below them.
I do understand but I don't think I will ever have that much of her kind of pride and arrogance even if I now become a person of the same standing as her. Not that I don't have a pride, what I mean is, there is all kind of pride and my kind of pride is different.
Because of how arrogant she was, I suddenly feel like I am in my past self body again. The one that can only look up to those politicians from afar, the one who can only look up to rich people lifestyle through the screen of my phone.
How I wish I also have richness and live extravagantly, having whatever I want.
But I know that it will never occur so my aim in life became simple, I just want to have a stable income and live life stably. I am fed up of having money crisis. Having constant family drama, I just want stability.
*
Over the past few days, I keep practicing hard, upgrading the level of monster I fight.
I force myself to stop thinking of my past live and focus on my current situation.
Mastering sorcery is the most important aim to achieve in this life.
"Ruru…"
Above my head-
I materialize a spear shape stone piercing the monster.
"Ruru…"
Beside me-
"Ruru…"
On my left side-
Someone grab my hand.
Using my other free hand, I eliminate the monster.
I turn my head towards the girl who grab me.
"Ruru, I keep feeling that there is a huge distance between us these days"
She purses her lips.
"Did I do something?"
She asked.
No, it was me who is the problem here.
There is nothing wrong with her opinion that she state the other day but it just gave me a very terrible past memory.
That is my problem and not her.
She judge things on an overall perspective while I judge thing individually.
Both perspectives are not wrong but are not right either.
There is no clear definition of right and wrong in the first place anyway. It was all about one's own perspective.
"Is it because of how I view commoners?"
"No" I denied.
"If Ruru said it's not, then it is not. Then why do you distance from me?"
I keep my silent.
"Although you say that it is not, I still feel that it was somewhat related to that topic. I think things through the other day, maybe I should do that 'fortune telling' you talk about for others? But I don't know where I will do"
Looking at her earnest expression in trying to figure out to set things right between us while in the first place it was not her fault, I somehow cannot…
"I have an idea for that"
I hear myself saying that.