Accidentally Becoming a Great Prophet?!

Surprisingly, the pastime our parents chose, who were tired of playing so much lately, was a cafe.
“But how did you come to think of running a cafe?”
Chop-! Chop-! Chop-!
I showcased my card shuffling skills, which had now reached almost mastery level, without even looking at the cards, while asking my parents.
“Well, now that we’ve retired and reached this age, we don’t want to do intense work again. Running your own business is quite troublesome, isn’t it? So as we thought about something where we could manage a store while also resting comfortably, a cafe just came to mind.”
“Ah, well, you do drink a lot of coffee.”
“By the way, when did your card shuffling skills improve so much? Someone might think you’re a card shark.”
“It looks like you could even outdo a card shark? Next time you come, want to try shuffling some hwatu or playing cards? I think that would look even cooler!”
“I think I could do playing cards, but probably not hwatu? I’ve never tried that.”
Both Mom and Dad enjoy coffee tremendously.
Well, not that they enjoy it in-depth like experts, just that they drink a lot of it.
But even so, both of them have their own firm coffee preferences.
Dad likes espresso, Mom likes sweet lattes or caramel macchiatos.
…Is caramel macchiato even coffee? Anyway.
I don’t think our parents will do the barista work themselves if they open a cafe… They’ll probably hire someone, right?
“Hoho, when we hire another barista, we should get someone who can make a thick and tasty espresso, right?”
“What are you saying? We should get someone who can make various sweet drinks well! That way they can make amazing macchiatos, you know?”
“Oh ho! Truly, real coffee is espresso drunk in its homeland…!!”
“If you’re going to talk about the homeland of coffee, let’s just go to that original land!! Our country has its own taste!”
“But coffee isn’t originally our country’s food in the first place!”
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do, so in Korea, we should follow Korean ways!”
“No, are you fighting over such useless things again? Please calm down… We have a guest.”
Our parents get along really well, but they argue over such trivial things, you know? Well, arguing might be too strong a word, maybe bickering?
It’s not like they’ll become estranged from bickering a bit, but it’s better to stop them.
If left alone, it might escalate to a physical fight and waste a lot of time. Though they don’t hold grudges at all.
‘Anyway, they’re my parents, but they’re quite unique~.’
Maybe it’s because they’ve been taking the medicinal herbs, but they’re really healthy too.
“By the way, then are you just thinking about starting the cafe for now?”
“We just need to find a building! We’ve already found the company to do the interior and the people to work! Once we find the building, we can start construction right away!”
“Wow… You’re quite thorough with that…”
“It’s not a chain, just a neighborhood cafe… But we’ve chosen the company well, and we’ve found good people to work as employees.”
“Is that so?”
“Of course! Is it really that difficult to create loyal employees who will serve with all their heart if you offer to double their salary? Fufu…”
“It’s easy to poach capable people too! What can you do? It’s a capitalist society, so those with money are the gangsters! Hohoho!”
“You’re using the money I gave you very efficiently, aren’t you?”
“What’s the use of just holding onto it? It’s not like we can take it with us after we die. We won’t spend it all recklessly, but it’s good to spend when it’s time to spend.”
“I’d like to do that too, but the problem is I have nothing to spend it on…”
I really want to spend it lavishly, but there’s nowhere to spend it. I spend on small things, but it doesn’t even make a dent…
Is it that those who have spent money know how to spend it well? Even if I have a lot of money, I don’t know how to spend it well.
Well, anyway.
“Alright, the setup is complete! You asked where would be good to set up the cafe… Shall we pick a place where business will be extremely good?”
“Oh my, that’s not necessary! Even if it becomes popular, it’ll just be bustling! We don’t need anything that grand, the place we want is… a place where we can make moderate profits and gain lots of regular customers!”
“Ah, that style?”
“Yes. We’re setting up the cafe to create our own hideout of sorts, so what good would it be if it’s overcrowded with people? It’s enough if there are a moderate number of customers, we don’t make a loss, and we have quite a few regulars.”
“Asking for that instead of just a place where business will do well is a much more sophisticated, difficult, and stylish order~.”
What a picky order!
Well, I guess since they’re opening it because they’re bored from playing, and they’ll rest a bit and play again, there’s no need to make an extremely successful cafe?
“Still, do you have any candidate locations prepared?”
“We’ve looked at and chosen some places… Are you thinking of choosing from among them?”
“I think that would be easier.”
Isn’t it enough to just decide? That way, the work becomes much easier!
Anyway, after checking the cafe location candidates that my father said he had looked at in advance, I promptly held out the well-shuffled deck of cards.
“Hmm, then now both of you please draw one card each.”
“Nyaa! Let me watch too!”
“Oh, Heukmyo? You came at a good time?”
“Hehe! I can’t miss such an important spectacle meow!”
Heukmyo, who had finished his tasks and approached without a sound, sat down neatly next to me and started watching the card reading.
“It’s been really long since I’ve watched this in such an atmosphere meow! It reminds me of the old days, before we moved to the current mansion we’re living in meow!”
“Is that so? Well, I guess it is.”
Hmm, thinking about it, the differences between then and now are that the company has increased a bit, the house has changed, my card shuffling skills have improved a bit, and I have a lot more of something.
Isn’t it still an incredibly burdensome situation now as it was then? Ah, when will this mental pain ever go away… These days it seems the scale is getting even bigger, but there’s no way, right? I probably won’t be able to…
Julius Caesar of Rome received so much stress that he developed severe alopecia areata, and searching high and low to solve this cursed baldness but unable to find a method, he always covered his head with a generous crown, but if I keep getting stressed like this, won’t I develop alopecia too?
Hmm, since I can find a way to solve it even if I develop it, am I in a better situation than Caesar?
“Want to draw first?”
“Sure, why not.”
The first person to draw a card was none other than my mother.
The card that appeared like that was a trap card, ‘Crossroads of Life’.
It’s a card that, if there are two cards of any type on the opponent’s field, makes them choose one of the two to destroy.
The meaning is…
“It would be perfect to set it up near a moderately busy area. Near an intersection where both cars and people pass by quite a bit.”
Well, roughly that.
If you build it in such a place, busy office workers will come in the morning and quickly take coffee to go, and in the evening, people who have finished eating will come in and chat while drinking coffee or beverages.
Our parents will sleep in in the morning and play or rest at home in the evening, so it’s perfect to use as their hideout during the quiet afternoon.
Anyway, next is father’s turn.
Tuk.
This time, when father flipped a card, what appeared was again a trap card, ‘Wailing from the Graveyard’.
The meaning of this card is…
“When you make the cafe, make sure to make a large parking lot. You don’t need to make things like a drive-thru.”
It means to build a large parking lot.
The neatly arranged graves are parked cars, and the owners of the wailing from the graveyard and the zombies appearing on the card are the moving people.
It’s saying it’s much better to build a parking lot. It’s more convenient for customers, the store gets more customers, and regulars develop because they like it.
“Well, it’s amazing how such conclusions come from these things every time we see it! Don’t you think so, dear?”
“I agree. Well, I guess that’s why he makes a living as a fortune-teller, right?”
Although I spoke about future events, our parents, who had often used my fortune-telling services for free through the blood relation chance, accepted it as if it were natural.
“Hmm, and if we choose from among the candidate sites you gave me… This one is perfect.”
I chose one from among the documents containing the candidate sites I had received from my father and handed it back to him.
“Hooh, that’s right! It’s a land that perfectly matches your description! Then I’ll proceed with this right away!”
“The distance isn’t too far either, so it’ll be perfect to go as if taking a walk! Thank you, son? We’re living luxuriously in our later years thanks to you!”
“Oh, it’s nothing. I’ve benefited a lot from our parents too.”
It’s because we have such good parents that I grew up well like this. Though I never imagined this peculiar ability to fortune-tell.
Anyway, like that, after simply finishing the card reading I had showcased my skills on after a long time and gathering the cards, I started to relax sprawled out on the sofa.
“Ah, can I sleep here for a day today?”
“What are you saying? Rest as much as you want!”
Since I came, I’ll stay overnight at our parents’ house after a long time, it’s good~ This is healing! Yep!
“Heh~ By the way, even though I saw it after a long time, it’s still a mysterious skill meow? The taste of card shuffling has improved too meow!”
“Is that so? Well, it does feel like I’ve returned to my beginner’s mindset.”
I smiled lightly and, escaping from my extraordinarily extraordinary fortune-teller life, spent time comfortably as just an ordinary son of my parents, ate together, rested more lazily, and fell asleep comfortably.
Heukmyo also, seeing that, went to sleep a little distance away, that is, near me.
“As expected, he grew up well, didn’t he?”
“Hoho, that’s right. He grew up very well, healthy and admirable.”
“No matter what happens in the future, even if storms come on flat ground, he’ll be able to endure without a scratch, right?”
“Of course. Seeing him today, I’m even more certain. That our child can navigate well…”
Like that, the night grew even deeper.