Chapter 58: I think all men are just like me!

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Translator: Soafp

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This summer vacation, I truly felt I was spending incredibly fulfilling days.

I had spent deeply meaningful time with wonderful women: Mari, Emu, Saika, Manaka, Fiana, and Konoe-san.

Well, basically, doing deep things was only possible while they were hypnotized. In their normal states, there was little I could do with them… Even so, for me, it was a huge change.

“…So, what is this?”

Now, on a certain day while I was enjoying those wonderful days, I found myself standing in a pitch-black space where nothing was visible. I realized in an instant that this was a dream.

“This is kinda scary… Wake up, me.”

Being left alone in complete darkness wasn't a pleasant feeling.

I stayed still in that unchanging darkness, but then a small change occurred at my feet.

“?”

Suddenly, something wriggling appeared at my feet.

It was like pink threads… Though saying this might be odd, they swayed like sea anemones, which was slightly creepy.

“…Ugh.”

Just as I thought, What is this? It's creepy, the threads suddenly rushed at me as though they had locked onto me… Well, “rushed” might be a bit of an exaggeration.

“What the heck…”

Countless pink threads entwined around my body and refused to let go, as if declaring they would never release me.

Objectively speaking, I felt as though I had seen this situation somewhere before—or maybe not. While thinking that, I tried to find a way to escape.

“Eeh! There's no demand for male bondage play!!”

When it happened to me, that was absolutely true.

After that, I struggled hard, trying to do something about the entangling threads, but it was completely useless.

“…Haa.”

As I struggled, I felt as though the threads had increased slightly.

There were threads that pulsed like a heartbeat, and threads that did not… And then—

“What?”

Another change occurred.

This time, black threads appeared in front of my eyes, blending into the background, and they swarmed toward me just like the pink threads.

Strangely, however, those threads gave off a sense of malice—hostility. I instinctively closed my eyes.

“…Huh?”

Given their momentum, they should have definitely pierced through my body. Yet, that impact never came.

Trembling, I opened my eyes and saw that the pink threads were protecting me from the attack of the black threads.

“…Amazing.”

Some threads whipped and repelled the black ones like whips. Others caught them as though performing a sword catch. Most impressively, some pink threads coiled around the black threads like snakes, constricting them.

I was shown a battle between pink and black threads, but my overall impression could only be summed up as: What the heck is this?

“What am I even being shown…?”

Since it didn't matter anyway, I just wished to wake up quickly. Then, in this place where I thought I was alone, a single voice echoed.

“Impressive. So their feelings for you are that strong.”

It was a mechanical voice.

Startled by the sudden voice, I hadn't expected anyone else to be here, so I involuntarily shouted loudly.

“Who is it!! Is someone there!?”

As if responding to my voice, a smartphone appeared before me.

It hovered in place, emitting a suspicious glow, and the dream grew increasingly incomprehensible.

Just as the phone began glowing strangely, a change occurred in the pink threads capturing me.

“…Huh?”

The change was at the ends of the threads.

Gradually, human shapes formed at the ends of the threads binding me. They took the forms of people I knew well.

“Mari… Emu, Saika… and Manaka, Fiana?”

The girls who suddenly appeared said nothing and simply stared at me. Connected to their hands were the threads entangling me.

It felt as though they were telling me they would never let me escape.

Well, if these threads had been generated with such intent from them, I didn't feel bad about it at all.

“…Somehow, this doesn't feel bad!”

Fundamentally, there was no man who would dislike being desired by beautiful women like them.

People who disliked slightly horror-like things might not understand, but for me, this was completely acceptable—rather, I welcomed it.

“Are you pleased? You have already shown them hope. They have entrusted their hearts to you… No, connected their hearts to you so deeply that they might break if you, as an existence, were to disappear.”

“I don't really get what you're saying…”

I understood the words coming from the phone, but not their meaning.

If they thought I wouldn't escape them like this, they could rest assured. I couldn't escape from their ch*sts either? Rather than escaping, I'd dive right in!

“…As expected, this is interesting. What I'm doing with you isn't that different from what I did with the previous man, yet the presence or absence of a heart that cares for others changes everything to this extent.”

“So, what have you been saying all this time…?”

“Don't worry about it. You're about to wake up soon.”

The moment those words were spoken, light shone into the darkness.

Before I could confirm who you were, my consciousness was abruptly returned to the real world.

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“…!”

The moment I opened my eyes, my bedroom ceiling came into view.

I looked around in a daze for a while, but one memory remained clearly in my head.

“I feel like I was surrounded by Mari and the others in that dream… Kukuku.”

I said it remained clearly, but that was a lie.

All I could recall was being surrounded by Mari and the others. To experience in a dream a situation not yet realized in reality—being surrounded by five of them… Well, I didn't remember doing anything in particular, so it could also be called a boring dream.

“…Hmm.”

As morning came, I gazed at my self-asserting “partner” and had something to think about.

I could only do such things with them using the power of hypnosis. But as a high-school boy, I couldn't help but slightly fantasize about waking up in my futon like this…

I had used scheduled hypnosis before, but I didn't know whether it could activate across days, so I couldn't test it.

“No, no. I've read too many erotic manga.”

I would have them do such things as a prank someday when I finally had a proper girlfriend of my own.

“…”

The instant I uttered the word “girlfriend,” Mari and the others flashed through my mind.

Thinking of multiple women instead of just one made me feel ashamed of my lack of loyalty… But what was this?

“Maybe I'm needed by them,” I even found myself thinking something that stupid.

I understood that the hypnotized girls relied on me. Even in their normal states, they treated me as a good friend.

Recently, I had told Manaka that I would protect her, but I had said similar things to the others as well.

“I know they won't remember, but somehow, dismissing it as promises I made on my own feels wrong…”

It was a strange sensation, as though something was whispering that it absolutely must not be done.

After thinking for a while, my stomach growled loudly, so I headed to the living room to find something to eat.

Then—

“Ah, you're awake, Kai.”

“Hello. I'm intruding.”

“…Huh?”

Facing me in the living room were my sister and the attractive older woman from next door—Konoe-san.

(…Enough with calling her “the attractive older woman from next door.”)

Well, she certainly was an attractive older woman, and we had done various things… But rather than being surprised by Konoe-san's sudden visit, anyone who remembered what had happened would probably just scold me for hunching forward slightly.