Chapter 16: My next target is a young lady!

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Translator: Soafp

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“Looks like another brave hero has fallen today.”

“A tragic loss… amen.”

“Nobody died.”

I replied to Akira and Shogo while eating lunch.

Honma's confession rejections had become something of a regular attraction by now. It seemed another boy had confessed to her today—and, as always, nobody had succeeded.

What made it worse was that he was from our class. At that moment, he was surrounded by his friends, being comforted.

“Damn it… I got to talk to her a little the other day, so I thought I had a chance… I really thought I had a chanceee!!”

“Don't think you have a chance just because you talked to her…”

“Still, even someone with a good-looking face like yours gets rejected by Honma.”

“Isn't she getting a little full of herself lately?”

“Right?”

Oops. This might be turning into an unpleasant situation.

Sure, because she was so popular, maybe people thought she was arrogant. It was not exactly that “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down,” but it was perhaps inevitable that some people would see her that way.

“Hey, don't say bad things about an underclassman just because of that. If someone confesses and she isn't interested, it's natural for her not to date them. Honma-san hasn't done anything wrong by rejecting him, has she?”

“Mari… You're right. I guess so.”

Just when the atmosphere seemed likely to turn ugly, Aisaka spoke up and talked the girls down.

Because Aisaka belonged to the group that could practically be called the center of the class, the other girls did not really go against her or object to her opinion.

They were not stupid, either. They understood that bullying a younger student merely for seeming arrogant would only make them look bad.

“Honma is definitely among the most beautiful girls in the second year, right?”

“And lately, she's been talking to you a lot, hasn't she?”

“…”

I did not say “You're annoying” out loud.

Honma had been coming up to speak to me for a while now. I sometimes got unpleasant looks because of it, but it did not actually bother me.

“…Kukuku.”

Why would it?

I alone knew her secret, and only I could do whatever I wanted with her body. Are you jealous because she talks to me? Jealous because she smiles at me?

Don't make me laugh. I had already stepped far beyond that level.

“You've been seriously suspicious lately. Don't tell me you can use magic or something!?”

“No way.”

“No, I'm telling you, there has to be something! There has to be a secret behind a guy like you suddenly getting approached by girls when you used to be unpopular!”

My longtime friends really were sharp. It was a wild guess, but they were surprisingly close to the truth.

Still, hypnosis apps were things that only existed in fiction. Even if I told them I owed it all to a hypnosis app, they would play along but never truly believe me.

“Actually, I control those girls.”

“Seriously? Tell us how!”

“If we could do that, we'd be having the time of our lives every day!”

See? They clearly did not believe me. They were just going along with the joke.

“What are you talking about?”

“Kai says he controls women…”

“We were saying how jealous we are—wait.”

Hey, who were you guys talking to just now?

And why did I hear a voice I had started hearing so often lately from behind me…?

Like a broken tin man, I slowly turned around.

“Hi! You looked like you were having fun, so I came over♪”

“…Aisaka.”

“Not Aisaka, right? Call me Mari.”

“…Mari.”

“Yep♪”

Thank you very much for that cute smile.

Ever since I had protected her from Honda that day, Aisaka had started coming to talk to me more often. Now she had even gotten me to call her by her first name.

Whenever I called her Mari, she smiled. Behind her, the popular boys glared at me intensely, and Akira and Shogo were obviously jealous too.

But that jealousy felt amazing. It was the best.

“So, Kai-kun controls girls?”

“Uh… yeah…”

“That's what he says…”

What? She had heard it all perfectly?

Aisaka—Mari—was one of the main girls supposedly being controlled. After thinking about it for a moment, she said with a laugh:

“Kai-kun, you're so naughty. Do you control girls and grope their br**sts?”

“…Please stop.”

When a girl actually pointed it out, it wounded me emotionally.

I had grown closer to Mari through what happened before. But sometimes I wondered: if I confessed everything I did with the hypnosis app, how would she react?

The same was true of Honma and Agatsuma.

But I could not stop. The hypnosis app was simply too tempting.

(Though lately, I barely feel embarrassment about it anymore. Does that mean I'm getting used to it?)

At first, even touching them made my heart pound so loudly it was almost ridiculous. Now, I could remain calm as though touching them had become part of my everyday routine.

It seemed I was getting closer and closer to the kind of hypnosis-using scumbag who appeared in manga.

Then time passed, and the fun part of the day arrived: after school.

Today, I planned to enjoy Honma.

“Kukuku… Man, this is a nice sight, Honma.”

“Ah… Master, are we going to stay like this the whole time?”

Honma had completely embraced her role as part of the play. She was tied up in front of me with a toy in her mouth.

There was no trace left of the dignified Honma, the girl known as the Ice Queen. Between her hypnotized state and her disposition, she had become nothing more than an extreme m*******t who followed my will.

“What should I do…? Hey, Honma, what do you want me to do?”

“That switch…”

“The switch?”

“Turn it all the way up… as high as it can go…”

Honma begged shyly.

I nodded and granted her request.

Afterward, after receiving a little service from her, I held Honma's body in my arms.

Whenever everything was over and my mind felt clear, hugging a beautiful girl like this truly soothed my heart.

“…Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I ended the hypnosis at a time like this.”

“Hypnosis?”

“Oops, it's nothing. I was just saying you're really lewd today, Honma. The gap between your public image and this is way too huge.”

“It's because Senpai bullied me.”

“Do you dislike it?”

“I don't dislike it… But there's one thing I'm worried about.”

The moment she said she was worried about something, I felt myself immediately snap to attention.

Recently, whenever a girl I was taking liberties with said something like that, I had started bracing myself and asking what was wrong.

“Don't tell me it's another stalker?”

Had the stalker returned, or was it some other problem?

I worried, but it turned out to be entirely unnecessary.

“I can't be satisfied by myself anymore. Unless Senpai bullies me, I…”

“…Oh?”

Should I be happy about that?

In a way, it sounded as though she was saying she could not live without me, and it made me feel good. I found myself stroking Honma's head.

“Maybe it's because you're an underclassman, but you're kind of cute.”

Honma had a kind of charm that came specifically from being younger.

And the preference that completely shattered that cute image into pieces? From my perspective, it was simply erotic, and I had no problem with it.

I would continue getting plenty of enjoyment from her.

“I can't leave Senpai anymore…”

“All right. I'll bully you one more time.”

After that, I had more fun and left Honma's house.

Thanks to the hypnosis app, my days had been one continuous string of fulfillment. Sometimes I became afraid that a backlash would come someday, but there was no point worrying too much.

“…Also, this mobile battery is seriously garbage.”

I had started carrying a power bank so I could charge my phone outside, but it was completely useless.

At first, I thought my phone might be broken. But that was not it: whenever I activated the hypnosis app even once that day, a strange fantasy-like phenomenon occurred where the phone would no longer charge.

“I use this app practically every day, so this is a real problem.”

I gave a wry smile, thinking that perhaps this was one of the costs of using it.

Still, even though I was doing whatever I wanted with three beautiful girls, I was starting to crave new stimulation.

For the sake of finding someone new, I decided to target people outside my school.

“I'm seriously awful. But whatever—I'm a scumbag.”

Chuckling to myself, I headed into town.

And then I found them.

“…Woo♪ Nice.”

I spotted two girls. Their uniforms were familiar—I was pretty sure they belonged to a prestigious girls' school with a long history.

“It's supposed to be a genuine school for young ladies, isn't it? That makes it even better.”

Both were as beautiful as Aisaka and the others, and they appeared to be around the same age.

They must have been close friends, since they were walking hand in hand. It was a heartwarming sight.

“I'll try going after both of them at once.”

Forgive me, you two. Next, I'll be taking liberties with both of you.

But surely neither of you has some serious hidden issue, right?

No, no. There was no way students from another girls' school would turn out to have their own landmines too.

If I pulled another losing ticket like that, I'd spend all my allowance buying lottery tickets.