Some Divination n' Shit [PUNCHOUT]

"...Despite your recent troubles, things will soon be looking up for you my dear. With what I can see, you have nowhere to go but up from here."

The readheaded lady behind the table said this with a light smile after flipping over what was the final card in her tarot divination. The man on the other side of the table looked fairly thrilled to hear this news despite it just being from a tarot reading. Divination was considered taboo to some, but to others it could be a nice little way to prepare oneself for the future. That is, if you believed in what a bunch of random cards said about your future.

At least, they would be random if it wasn't for who was dealing the cards.

Leona, or "Lady Red" as she went by during her tarot readings, had some special affiliations with the very force of Fate itself. She was known throughout a small portion of Karakura's downtown area as "the lady who was never wrong". Whatever she read through her cards came true unless she specifically stated that her read outcome could be changed by the person she was giving a reading to. The type of question that was asked usually determined the way the cards would be laid out. From there, each position was a part of the person, and the card laid in it would describe that part of that person.

At the moment, Leona was receiving her small payment for her previous reading. After becoming fairly popular in the smaller parts of downtown Karakura, the readhead had found a way to start monetizing her "talents" in order to pay her bills and to be able to afford food. It wasn't the best, but it got her by. It really helped that she had some sort of popularity, though at times it did become somewhat annoying. Like right now, for example. Leona was simply eating in a restaurant and, once she had finished her meal and prepared to pay, was asked to give a reading. The main reason she did it was to help pay for the bill, despite her already having enough money for it as it was.

Right now the "soothsayer" was sitting patiently, waiting for the waitress to come back to receive the yen for the bill. That was something she hadn't been called in a while. It simply came to mind as she sat idly, hoping that nobody else would come to ask for a reading. There was so much more that she could do, and while she didn't mind doing anymore readings, she had already given about a dozen within the past hour. When you charge ¥1000 (roughly 10 USD), it's easy to pay for your meals and other living expenses. It wasn't luxurious most of the time, but that wasn't all that bad.

A sigh escaped Leona's lips as she started idly shuffling her deck of cards. She had heard people whispering about her as they came into the restaurant moments earlier, though she was lucky enough that they didn't come to ask her for anything. It wouldn't surprise her if someone came in just as she was about to leave and bug her about telling them how their future would go, or if their love lives would go well. It confused Leona why so many people were surprised to find out how many of those kinds of readings she was asked to do.