Chapter 3: You have no name to give me! I will punish you!

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Translator: Soafp

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One afternoon after school, I found myself standing in front of a certain pair of people.

“What do you want?”

“Who are you?”

The two of them, a boy and a girl, stood close together as they stared at me.

Just as the two of them had said, we weren’t acquainted. Today was the first time we’d ever seen each other face-to-face.

(So… these are the two. Aisaka’s ex-boyfriend and the girl he cheated with.)

That’s right. These were the two people Aisaka had told me about.

I knew what the guy looked like because there was a photograph of him, but I didn’t know what the girl looked like. Still, considering how lovey-dovey they were together, there was no mistaking them.

“……………”

Honestly, now that I was actually here, I couldn’t help wondering why the hell I’d come.

I’d only used the hypnosis app because I wanted to do something naughty with Aisaka. But after learning about the past she’d kept hidden, I’d ended up taking action like this.

There was nothing in it for me. I couldn’t exactly demand that she thank me for saving her, either…

“…Haa.”

“What are you sighing about?”

“He’s kinda creepy~.”

Of course I wanted to sigh. I looked at their faces.

The guy was handsome, unlike me, while the girl was a black gyaru who looked like the very definition of a loose woman.

Aisaka was a gyaru too, but personally, I’d take Aisaka over someone like this any day.

“Hey, do you know Mari Aisaka?”

“Huh? What about Mari?”

Bingo. There was no doubt now.

Unlike me, who had expected it, the guy grinned as he opened his mouth.

“What, are you one of those guys who’s fallen for her? Haha. Did she tell you something? Like how I cheated on her, maybe?”

Apparently, he’d happily spill everything without me even having to ask.

“I can’t believe some guy like you would come sticking your nose into Mari’s business. That’s hilarious. I don’t know what she told you, but it’s too late now. She and I have nothing to do with each other anymore. More importantly, her parents believe me, not her. Even now, I still think about how funny her crying face was.”

“You’re seriously cruel~. I feel so bad for her~.”

Despite saying that she felt sorry for Aisaka, the girl was smiling.

Perhaps thinking that I’d been rendered speechless by their attitude, the guy became even more pleased with himself and continued.

“Besides, she’s taking some high school romance way too seriously. Who cares if we were childhood friends? I don’t give a damn how much she suffers. Hell, I wouldn’t care if she killed herself over this. Actually, wouldn’t that make things easier for me?”

“……………”

People like this probably never really believe the other person will actually kill themselves.

That’s why they can say such irresponsible things and hurt other people without giving it a second thought.

“…I don’t know how else to put it, but you’re a piece of s**t.”

“What did you say?”

Well, I’m a piece of s**t too.

Apparently irritated at being called a piece of s**t by some stranger, he separated himself from the girl and walked toward me.

Even as he approached, I remained calm.

“Say that again.”

“Guh…”

Even though he wasn’t much taller than me, he had a decent grip.

When he grabbed me by the collar, my throat was squeezed, and my expression twisted from the difficulty of breathing.

“Yeah, yeah! Do it, do it~♪”

The girl behind him egged him on, looking like she was having the time of her life.

To be honest, I’d never encountered someone with such an openly evil side before.

I’d experienced something resembling bullying back in middle school, but both sides eventually reconciled, and somehow we’d managed to resolve things peacefully. Maybe that was unusual.

“She had cuts all over her arm, you know?”

“So?”

“She was cutting herself. Even if she didn’t intend to die, she was pushed far enough that she resorted to that.”

“So what?! I told you already, I don’t care! If she wants to die, then she can go ahead and die!!”

He punched me squarely in the cheek.

It hurt. I must have bitten my tongue too, because the taste of blood spread through my mouth.

“…!”

I’d never been in a fistfight before, so neither my body nor my mind was accustomed to this kind of pain.

It shouldn’t have been unbearable, but tears welled up in my eyes anyway.

“Wow, what a loser! You’re already crying!”

“You brought this on yourself by picking a fight with someone you can’t beat. Know your place, loser.”

With that, the two of them walked right past me.

“…Wait.”

I held my cheek and stood back up.

Apparently getting annoyed, the way both of them looked at me was as though they were staring at garbage.

“I’m gonna f*cking kill you.”

“You’re seriously getting annoying~.”

From where I was standing, your voices were the annoying ones, you assholes.

The guy approached me again and reached for my neck, but I grabbed his arm and met his eyes.

“Tch.”

He clicked his tongue loudly.

Apparently my stare irritated him quite a bit. He raised his free hand…

But the fist never came down on me.

“Stop.”

“!”

“…Eh?”

I activated the hypnosis app.

The hypnosis, targeting both of them, seemed to take effect. Just like my sister and Aisaka, both of them began staring blankly at me.

“That’s right… I decided I’d use this app to do whatever I wanted. So I’ll just do whatever I want for my own satisfaction.”

After that, I gave the two of them their orders.

I told them to go to Aisaka’s house and explain everything that had happened, clearing up the misunderstanding with her parents.

Then I told the guy that, once he returned home, he was to run around his neighborhood completely naked while shouting at the top of his lungs.

“Understood.”

“Okay.”

The two of them turned their backs on me and began walking in the direction of Aisaka’s house.

“…I’m seriously asking for divine punishment, aren’t I?”

I probably only needed them to do the first part.

The second part was entirely because I was angry about being punched and mocked.

Running naked through his own neighborhood while shouting… Once he actually carried that out, there was no way they’d be able to walk around outside with straight faces anymore.

Even if no one understood why they’d done something like that.

“S**t, now that I’ve actually given the order, I’m starting to get scared. I should get home.”

I felt a little guilty, but the feeling of “serves you right” was much stronger.

The fact that they were going to suffer one way or another, combined with the superiority I felt knowing that the hypnosis app would keep me from being caught for what I’d done…

The fact that I could feel that way meant I really was an irredeemable b*****d.

“Whatever. I just need to become a horrible person. I’m still testing just how powerful this app is, but with this thing, there probably isn’t much I can’t do.”

Once I’d calmed down, I could find another girl, put her under hypnosis, and do whatever I wanted.

This time, I’d satisfy my desire to touch those big br**sts and indulge in all my other desires too.

With those thoughts in my head, I made my way home.

“Hey, what happened to your face?”

“…Huh?”

Naturally, my punched cheek had swollen up, and my sister and even my parents were worried about me.

Since I’d never been in a fight before, they were extremely concerned and kept asking me what had happened.

“Did you cut your mouth anywhere? Open up.”

My sister was unusually gentle with me, and it felt strangely refreshing.

Several days passed.

Apparently, the two of them carried out my orders perfectly. Rumors began spreading around the neighborhood that a naked man had been running around while shouting at the top of his lungs, and that the police had gotten involved.

The rumor had even reached my high school, and apparently people knew which high school the guy attended and who he was.

“Man, there’s some seriously messed-up guy out there.”

“Yeah. None of us are that kind of pervert, right!?”

“Of course not…”

I listened to my friends while pretending I had nothing to do with it.

Part of me thought afterward that I’d gone too far, but the fact that I still thought, serves him right, apparently meant I really did have a terrible personality.

(I honestly don’t care what happened to those two… Heh. Maybe I really do have a talent for hypnosis?)

Trying to use a power like this to play around with girls was probably impossible for anyone with a normal conscience.

That’s why I had to become evil like me!!

“Good morning, everyone~!”

“Morning, Mari!”

“Gooood morning!!”

As I went about my days like that, Aisaka arrived at school.

She seemed just as cheerful as always. After everything that had happened, I’d actually hypnotized her once more and asked how things were going.

Apparently, her parents had apologized to her so desperately that they had practically rubbed their heads against the floor.

She still didn’t understand what had happened, and apparently she hadn’t completely forgiven them for not believing her in the first place, so she said her feelings about it were complicated.

“I don’t know what happened, but… I feel like someone saved me. I feel like someone was whispering into my ear. I can’t remember who it was… but somehow, I feel like that’s what happened.”

Those final words made my heart skip a beat, but it wasn’t like I’d intended to save her, nor had I done anything worthy of being thought of that way.

As far as she was concerned, I was still a b*****d who’d secretly seen her naked without her knowing.

“…Seriously, she’s got a great body.”

Incidentally, when I’d hypnotized Aisaka that time, I had gotten to touch her br**sts.

I still felt guilty about touching a woman’s breasts while she was under hypnosis, but in the face of how soft they were, that guilt was practically worthless.

For the first time, I felt like I’d finally become the kind of horrible person I was aiming to be.

“Hasn’t Aisaka been smiling a lot more lately?”

“Yeah. Didn’t she even get confessed to yesterday?”

“Well, she’s that beautiful. And she’s got an amazing figure too.”

It was as though her worries had been lifted from her shoulders. Aisaka had begun smiling genuinely, and that seemed to have made her even more popular.

“Want to go karaoke today?”

“Yeah, yeah!”

“Then it’s settled!!”

As I listened to Aisaka happily discussing her plans for after school, I put all my brainpower into figuring out who my next target would be.