“Hmm? Kinda sounds like me…” Natsumi murmured gravely, and I glanced over at her. “Inari types are diligent and readily succeed in business, but they are also rather timid and poorly suited to leadership positions. For some reason, many of them are extremely attractive, both men and women.” “Now, that’s me!” She sounded like a child whose question had received a satisfactory answer. “Because the weather is currently out of balance, it is easier for sun and rain women to be born now. The homeostasis of Gaia, so to speak.” “I see!” “But they must beware…!” Suddenly, the fortune-teller lowered her voice, leaned forward, and looked at each of us in turn. “The act of influencing nature inevitably carries a heavy price. Do you know what it is, young lady?” “No,” Natsumi said, gulping. The fortune-teller’s voice dropped even lower. “They say if you overuse weather-type abilities, you’ll be spirited away and become one with Gaia! That is why debt, personal bankruptcy, and disappearances are unusually common among sun and rain women!” “Wow…” Natsumi’s eyebrows came together. “I’ll be careful!” As we were leaving, Natsumi bought something from the fortune-teller for a lifelong boost to her financial luck. “—So? How was it?” Instead of sighing, I took out my earphones and looked up from the screen of the MacBook. Mr. Suga was standing over me, backlit by the office’s fluorescent lights. “…This fortune-teller, who sounded like a Vocaloid, went on and on about a bunch of stuff straight out of a light novel. Something about people disappearing if they use too much power.” I’d been in the middle of typing up a manuscript for the fortune-teller’s story based on my notes and the recording I’d made. “So it really was one of those, huh?” Mr. Suga was grinning. What, he knew all along? I thought with some frustration. “The weather’s got nothing to do with dragon-god types and Inari types and Gaia and Page 26 Goldenagato | mp4directs.com