Chapter 13 – Hero Academy (2)
I hinted at deepening the trance for a while.
Kazan was motionless except for her breathing.
The way to check whether sleep hypnosis has been successful is surprisingly simple. All you have to do is ask one simple question.
“You want to say your name… What is your name?”
“Ka… Zan…”
I decided to make Kazan feel her friendship and trust in me. I start with general common sense that everyone can agree with and lead to the implications I want.
“Being friendly with your roommates is… Very… Important. If you are close with your roommate… Your future life will be more enjoyable and comfortable…”
“Yes…”
“In order to become close to your roommate, Zeon, you must trust and feel close to Zeon… If you trust and feel close to Zeon, Zeon will also trust you and feel friendly to you… You will develop trust and familiarity with Zeon. I would like to. Now there are balloons around you…”
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I used the balloon expansion method to increase Kazan’s trust and friendliness toward me.
“Your most trusted and closest friend in this school is Zeon… You have become really close friends with your roommate… I feel so good, I feel like I am flying…”
I also decided to give the hypnosis keyword.
“When Zeon says, ‘Kazan goes into a cozy room,’ you become dazed and in a comfortable, cozy state…”
The hypnosis keywords given in sleep hypnosis sometimes work and sometimes don’t. I have no choice but to trust my luck here.
Since I have achieved my goal, I said my last hint.
“You fall into a deep, cozy sleep again… You fall into a very happy and joyful dream, for you and Zeon, whom you trust, have become very close friends… You fall into a deep sleep… Morning When this happens, I wake up very happy and refreshed…”
If you leave the hypnotic state, it changes to sleep and wakes up after a certain period of time. I went back to my bed and fell asleep.
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The next morning, I had no choice but to wake up frowning as someone shook me violently.
“Zion! Wake up quickly! I need to eat! Come on~!!”
“Ah. “What is it?”
“Rice! Let’s eat!”
It was Kazan who woke me up. She looked out the window with a half-asleep look and saw that the sun was finally rising.
“Shh. What time is it now?”
“6:30.”
“Crazy. I’m going back to sleep.”
I said one word and lay down again.
“Hey. The early bird catches bugs easily. If this happens, we will have no choice but to use force.”
Suddenly my body floated.
“Ugh! What!”
When I opened my eyes in surprise, Kazan was holding my body with both hands.
“Are you awake? Now let’s stay for dinner.”
“Damn…”
I had already lost all my sleep and was no longer in a position to lie down again.
“Put it down now. “I ran away from sleep.”
Kazan lowered me to the floor. She smiles with an expression that makes Kazan say, ‘Did I do well?’
“Are you thankful I woke you up? “If I hadn’t woken you up, you would have slept all morning.”
“Okay…”
“Let’s go eat.”
I went to the restaurant with Kazan.
As I was thinking deeply about why he woke me up, I remembered the sleep hypnosis I did yesterday before going to bed.
‘Ah. You woke me up by becoming friendly with me. It’s so spacious.’
This situation is a side effect that usually occurs when people quickly become friends using hypnosis. Usually, when we make friends, we meet for a long time, get to know the other person, get used to each other, and get used to it. However, when you use hypnosis, you skip this process and go straight into a friendly state. The other person thinks I’m their best friend and gives me attention, but I’m not used to this attention, so it gets annoying.
Kazan seems to be the type of person who is very rude to her friend. However, as a true hypnotist, I accept all this nonsense. If you get irritated because it’s annoying, the sleep hypnosis you worked hard on yesterday will be useless. And I also have the good side of having such a wide range of friends who take care of various things for me.
I said while slapping Kazan on the back.
“Hey. Thanks for waking me up. After all, eating breakfast is the best.”
“Of course. When I was in the estate, my nickname was Alarm Clock. “I woke up the servants early in the morning.”
‘Crazy guy…’
“Did the servants like it when you woke them up?”
“It seemed like he was avoiding me. There were servants who came to sleep in completely different places. So I got hurt a lot. “I think you are the first person to thank me on the first day.”
Haha. We are friends.”
Me and Kazan had breakfast at the restaurant. For breakfast, she had rice, egg soup, and stir-fried pork. In this world, pleasant Korean food exists. After eating breakfast and washing up, it is already almost 9 o’clock. Today is Monday and the first day of class begins.
Kazan said.
“Let’s go take a dungeon exploration practice class.”
“Oki.”
We went to the classroom. On the way, Kazan asked a question.
“Why are you taking a dungeon exploration practice class even though you are a mental wizard?”
“Are mental wizards not allowed to listen?”
“It doesn’t matter what you hear, but mental wizards try to stay out of battle. “The performance evaluation for this class involves actually going into the dungeon. Is that okay?”
After thinking about it, I told him about my fake aspirations.
“I want to change the perception that mind mages are useless in combat. I will become the best mind mage recognized by everyone in battle. A mental wizard who can make even general-level monsters hallucinate and make them dance. To do that, I need to constantly gain combat experience.”
Kazan looks at me with an expression of admiration.
“Wow. You are a really nice guy. Good luck. Then, let’s do the same thing in our class.”
For the dungeon exploration practice class, you must form a group of 5 people, and once you form a group, the group will last for the semester. It would be nice to have a trustworthy warrior like Kazan by my side.
“I’m fine. “Isn’t it obvious?”
When I put out her fist, Kazan also put out her fist and touched her.
Before we knew it, we had arrived at the ‘Dungeon Exploration Practice’ classroom. Me and Kazan sat in her back seat.
I turned my head and glanced around to find one person.
‘It’s there!’
The person I was looking for in this class was swordsman Aris, one of the female protagonists of ‘Girls Falling to Destruction’.
She is 165 cm tall, has green boyish short hair, a slim body, and small breasts. She has a boyish vibe, but her jawline is slim and delicate, so anyone can see that she is a girl. Her mood seems gloomy and dark. At first glance, it seems that this delicate and gloomy girl has nothing to do with close combat. But Aris has the greatest swordsmanship, and by the end she becomes the best swordsman on the continent.
I used Her Truth in Aris.
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Name: Aris Yurva
Race/Gender: Human/Female
Age: 19
Strength: 18
Agility: 22
Intelligence: 9
Mana: 18
Luck: 3
Swordsmanship Lv4, martial arts Lv2.
Swordsmanship genius, mana friendly. (Efficiency reduced due to mental problems)
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It is the beginning of the novel, and Aris has not yet awakened. The most noticeable things in Aris’ status window are the ‘sword genius’ and ‘mana affinity’ traits.
The swordsmanship genius trait makes him faster and more powerful than anyone else when it comes to learning swordsmanship, and the mana affinity trait allows him to use aurors as if he were breathing. Perhaps thanks to her mana affinity, she has a fairly high level of mana. Mana is an important value for a swordsman to use aurors. Therefore, in the latter part of the novel, Aris becomes an Auror swordsman with overwhelming performance and plunges the continent into a crucible of fear.
Yes. After Aris was corrupted, she became a swordsman who joined the Demon King’s army and brought terror to the continent. To understand Aris, you must first know her past.
Aris is the daughter of Count Drales Yurba. She is, but she is not a recognized daughter.
Count Drales had a wealthy estate in the Adrian Empire, so he had an arranged marriage with Servi, his wife. However, Servi had an eccentric personality and was stubborn, which caused Count Drales suffering.
Count Drales, struggling with loneliness and sadness, secretly has a one-night stand with a maid who has been following him well for a long time and gets her pregnant. The child this maid is pregnant with is Aris.
However, Servi was also pregnant with her son Durin, who was the same age as Aris. As soon as Servi found out that her maid was pregnant, she flew into a rage, went on a rampage, and declared that she would use all her power to assassinate her maid. Unfortunately, Count Drales was powerless to stop Servi.
In the end, the matter ended with the maid leaving the Count’s mansion and hiding forever that she was pregnant with Count Drales’ child. The maid enters a secluded village in the countess’s estate, where she gives birth to Aris and raises him. She had no problem living because she received enough money when she left the count’s family. It is said that Aris at this time lived happily with her mother, although she did not know who her father was.
But things in this world don’t always go as planned. When Aris was 6 years old, powerful spider monsters attacked the village and brutally killed or cocooned all the villagers. Aris watches helplessly as her mother is torn apart and eaten by her spider monster, and she finds herself trapped in her cocoon. At this time, all Aris could do was shiver in her dark cocoon, unable to move.
Just as the giant spiders are spinning around her cocoon and sinking their teeth into her, Count Drales comes with his knights and defeats the spiders, rescuing her. Count Drales knew that Aris was his and his maid’s daughter. Count Drales feels a surge of fatherly love and responsibility as he sees Aris shivering.
So, Count Drales accepts Aris as his adopted daughter despite Servi’s fierce opposition. Aris was dazed for a while as if she had lived the rest of the world, but then she saw the knights practicing swordsmanship, and she began to follow them. Count Drales is so impressed by his daughter’s hard work that he appoints her as a swordsman instructor for his knights.
But isn’t Aris improving her swordsmanship skills at an incredibly fast rate? Her driving force behind Aris was her desire to take revenge on those who made her like this.
Count Servi and Drales had a son named Durin, who was the same age as Aris. Durin is the rightful heir of Count Drales. Durin suddenly becomes extremely jealous of the beggar girl whose swordsmanship skills are better than his. Servi also hated Aris.
Servi and her son Durin are excitedly absorbed in tormenting Aris. Her servants are also afraid of Servi and ignore her Aris. Aris struggles to somehow survive in this gloomy and painful environment, and she enrolls in the Hero Academy.
Aris thinks that once she enters the Hero Academy, her fortune will be fulfilled, but according to her novel, her reality is different. This is because Aris’ half-brother Durin also came to this school. Durin does his best to make Aris her outcast even in this school.
Durin is the official heir to the count’s family and holds the title of Marquis Baek on his mother’s side, while Aris is merely an adopted daughter with no power. Therefore, everyone takes Durin’s side, and Aris becomes alone here as well. Still, Aris believed in her own swordsmanship skills and persevered, becoming an excellent swordsman in her own right at the Hero Academy.
However, there was a problem that even Aris could not solve: arachnophobia and claustrophobia. When she was six, her mother was torn to death by a spider, and she was trapped in a cocoon. The experience was so horribly traumatic that it still dominates her subconscious. No matter how much Aris tries on her own, this phobia does not go away.
If she had good friends around Aris, she might have overcome her phobia and soared into a stronger swordsman. However, Durin’s presence pushes Aris into a corner, leaving her alone.
In the end, Aris is captured during an important battle when she encounters a powerful spider monster and passes out while urinating on her. She became corrupted and became a powerful crazy swordsman for the Demon King’s army, cutting people down.
This is Aris’ story.
