Chapter 2 – 01. Ability Can Be Copied! (One)
It’s been 3 days since I fell to this world.
I checked almost all of the trivial issues, such as where my room was located and whether I had enough money in my bank account, but I still had one problem that bothered me the most.
Hypnosis.
There was no one to hypnotize.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t that difficult to activate the ability itself.
Of course, there was some trial and error, but thanks to constant practice, I was able to use the technique faster than I thought.
At first, “Hypnosis!” See it even if you shout.
I try to weave threads and coins roughly and shake them.
While doing this and that, I suddenly realized that I had forgotten the exact name of the ability.
Yang Geum-tae’s ability is to emit hypnotic waves.
It’s literally the ability to ‘release a hypnotic wave’, but I’ve been too obsessed with the phenomenon of hypnosis so far.
As I close my eyes and focus on my consciousness, I gradually feel the energy deep in my chest and slowly draw it towards my arms.
Eventually, when a faint energy spreads through the entire palm, I swing my arm imagining that I am shooting something from my hand, and the air explodes with a light pink flash.
Pew!
OK, now it’s almost perfect.
It seems that the delay from not warming up to sending out the waves is still about a minute, but after trying for a few days, I thought it wouldn’t be too bad if this was an achievement.
Even so, the most important problem is that there is no target for practice.
According to the classic cliché, at this point, an unscrupulous incident like her college student sister living next door drunkenly mistook the house for the lake and entered my room on her own should happen, but unfortunately, my room is quite secure.
In reality, he deliberately chose a studio in a shabby neighborhood to save rent, but in this world, as a kind of welfare benefit for awakened people, consideration factors such as prevention of trespassing and various nearby convenience facilities were included without knowing.
Anyway, due to such realistic reasons, there is no way that a chance encounter will ever happen.
Until now, I have been struggling with the small morality in my heart, but now it seems that the time has come to make a decision.
“Huh… Is it inevitable that it will end up like this?”
It would be a busy street just 5 minutes walk from my house, so I’m going to grab someone from among passers-by and hypnotize them to test how well they communicate.
Of course, if things don’t go well, you should be prepared to run away.
* * *
“Wow, how come there are more people here than when I came yesterday?”
This downtown area, which is about 10 minutes away from the residential area, was able to boast that there were many people in yesterday’s field trip, but it seems that there are more people than yesterday because there is an event today.
Well, it’s good because the more people there are, the easier it is to catch one person in an obscure place and test it out.
First of all, since it is now around 8pm, according to the world view in the work, it is probably time for the lights of the shops to go out one by one and the bars to open.
“Refrain from movement at 11:00 p.M., Immediately control movement as soon as it passes 12:00. If you get caught sneaking around, at least go to the police station…”
Since this is the center of the city, it can be said that there is almost no danger of demons appearing, but you should always keep in mind the demons and demons.
Ghosts are created based on folk tales and legends, so they can appear at any time even under strict control and surveillance, and demons, like succubuses, tend to be a problem for people who try to interfere with human behavior.
When night falls and the temperature drops and even the air shrinks, predators hidden among humans start hunting.
Of course, as long as the academy exists nearby, only big players who have gone to some extent will refrain from harming humans, and prior to that, there will be humans wandering around after 11pm, but there is nothing wrong with being careful.
Between 8:00 and 11:00 at night, the time when humans are most defenseless.
It is also the most reasonable to try hypnosis at this time.
I moved briskly toward a busy street lined with bars.
And then, I had no choice but to face the cold reality right away.
“Hey, if you’ll excuse me, can I ask you something for a minute? Go over there in the corner.”
“If you’re going to work, why don’t you sit down at the table first and talk?”
1 t failed.
People here seem pretty rude to strangers.
The mall employees didn’t do that during the day yesterday.
“Should I just grab someone who’s been drunk and try it…”
I remembered the words of Mr. Moh, who says that even if you fall seven times, get up eight times and try again… But after being rejected nicely, I didn’t dare to talk to anyone anymore.
Wouldn’t this kind of plan itself be unreasonable for me, who is also born asa?
At that time, I saw long silver hair going deep into the alley far away.
In this work, silver hair means that it has overwhelmingly more magical power than ordinary Awakened people, so it is quite rare, but I thought that it might be a person I know that I saw silver hair in this shopping mall located right next to the academy.
I ran past the human waves and barely entered the alleyway, and I stopped walking.
‘That’s right, Seo Joo-ha.’
Her silver hair, which came down to her waist, was something everyone who read the novel could not help but remember.
Even so, she…
“Uweeeee
Even among the heroines, she was horribly unable to drink alcohol, and her nickname was Asahi, saying that even a description of silver hair would bring to mind a drunken scene.
To be honest, I’m not really attracted to heroines who vomit after drinking… But I remember that there were surprisingly many fixed fan bases.
“You seem to be very drunk. Are you okay?”
First of all, let’s talk carefully.
Then, the back of the head, which was pouring rainbow-colored liquid into the sewer, stopped and slowly turned.
It’s not a horror movie, how does that head work like that.
“I-are you saying…?”
Her rather cute face and contrasting big breasts create a strange harmony.
It seems that there are still strange stains on her mouth… But when I saw her face, I wasn’t offended at all.
“Oh, yes. If you’re having a hard time, I’d like to buy a bottle of hangover cure nearby.”
“Well, then I’m really grateful… Can I ask you one more thing?”
“Yes, well, while buying hangover cure, please pay for the alcohol. Anything is fine as long as it’s not a request like this.”
After all, is a heroine a heroine?
Seeing her hesitantly asking for something, I inadvertently nodded her head.
But at her words immediately following, I couldn’t help but resent myself for acting without thinking.
“Uh, uh…? I’m really sorry, but… Can you give me some instead…? Uh, as you can see, it’s a little bit too much for me to go back to the store like this, so… I’ll send it to you later! Ehehe. “
Is this really… Heroine?
If there had been a scene in the novel where he asked to pay for a drink two minutes after meeting, he would have been forced to write 5,700 characters.
If I were a bad-looking blonde tanned bully, I would have pretended to help and secretly dragged him to a dark place.
“Um… Then, would you like to pay with my credit card first, and send the money to my bank account by meeting me later? Looking at it, you seem to be attending an academy, but I’m also going to be enrolled soon.”
“Ah! I’m entering school this year too! Come to think of it, I didn’t even tell you my name… I’m telling you to go to Seoju! It’s a bit embarrassing to meet you like this for the first time, but let’s get along well from now on…!”
“My name is Jihoo Lee. Since you seem to be in a hurry, I’ll pay for the bar first, then come back and buy you some hangover cure.”
This was the perfect response.
I headed for her pub outside her alley, with her still uncontrollable behind her.
* * *
Why did you eat so much Seo Juha!!
I was relieved to hear that she couldn’t drink much, but toast to her stomach who ate 150,000 won worth of snacks.
In fact, there is a setting that Awakeners do not gain weight at all because their body homeostasis and metabolism are very high.
“I’m sure there was no mention of eating a lot during the play…”
Have you been on a diet since entering the academy?
Well, it must have been enough because the academy food is pretty good too.
However, imagining Seo Joo-ha, who vomits while drinking and eats the snacks, fearing someone will steal them, makes my illusions about other heroines shatter.
When I arrived at the alleyway, developing my thoughts in a stream of consciousness, what greeted me was an all-out visual assault of rainbow-colored vomit.
That was it. The silver-haired woman who had been staggering against the wall just before was no longer here.
“No, I bought a hangover cure…”
Now I… Have I been scammed?
Actually, I tried to hypnotize her a bit by pretending to give her a hangover cure… But that’s over for now.
Among the heroines, Seo Joo-ha, who can compete for first place in cuteness and innocence, barely came back after paying the price for a snack I had never tasted, and then jumped out without a trace?
Even if something is twisted, it seems to be tightly twisted.
First of all, at the entrance ceremony four days later, I have to properly hold onto it and ask…
Oh right. There are only 4 days left, but I still haven’t been able to hypnotize myself today.
Seeing that every plan failed strangely, I began to feel uneasy about the future.
