Chapter 32 – Reward Confirmation
Hypnotism.
A wicked power that can manipulate the minds of others.
But thanks to that wickedness, it was a power that enjoyed a cult, no, a major level of popularity in the market for adult games, doujinshi, and erotic novels.
Think about it. A spinster boss who was hysterical with me yesterday, sucking my dick and calling me master at night!
Or the childhood friend I liked suddenly getting a boyfriend, and my jealousy exploding, leading me to use hypnosis to ravage her and realize pure (purely) love (give birth)!
Finally, the upper-caste woman who bullies me becomes my onapet, moaning and groaning!
Doesn’t your heart flutter just imagining it?
That’s the power of hypnosis.
[Reward]
[Hypnotism]
And that power is now being given to me.
“Keuh! Keuheuhuh!”
Naturally, such a wicked laugh burst from my lips. Honestly, anyone else would have reacted the same way.
‘With this, I too can be with a top-tier high school beauty!’
I pressed the reward confirmation button with such a dark fantasy in my mind.
[Please turn both palms to face the sky.]
Then, this message suddenly appeared.
‘Suddenly telling me to turn my palms to the sky.’
What kind of nonsense is this?
I thought, but I wanted to receive hypnosis quickly, so I obediently did as I was told.
Thud.
“Whoa!”
As I turned my palms to the sky, something fell onto my hands.
What fell from the sky was a wooden box with a familiar symbol of a giant eye, a symbol I had seen somewhere before.
With a deep smile on my face, I placed the box with the trustworthy symbol down and rubbed my palms together.
It’s a rule that you have to soften your hands like this before unboxing.
After rubbing my hands, I placed my hand on the button that seemed to be the lock.
“Okay. Let’s check it out. Ta-da-ran, ta-da-ran~”
I opened the box while making a very familiar background music sound with my mouth. And then.
“No. What the hell. Is this Sakura?”
I couldn’t help but frown.
Inside was not the hypnosis app I was expecting, but rather…
[Hypnosis Basics Made Too Easy!]
[A 5-yen coin with a string attached]
I knew what this was, but it was a very pathetic set compared to what I had originally expected.
If there was only a book, I would have been happy thinking it was hypnosis activated by a finger snap or a trigger word, but seeing the coin, it was too easy to guess how to use it.
So, I put the box on the floor and wailed.
“Nooooo! My click-hypnosis-obsessed-top-tier-beautyyyy!!”
After cursing the world once, I calmed my excited heart.
Yeah. I knew it.
If it’s hypnosis from 2009, snapping fingers or this kind of coin hypnosis was the trend.
I knew that fact too well rationally, but…
‘Couldn’t they just give me a smartphone…’
I grumbled to myself once, then decided that since it was a reward, I should check the contents.
First, the coin with the string…
‘Just a normal 5-yen coin and a string?’
It was just a normal coin and a string, and the book was…
‘No. Is this some kind of textbook you’d find on the internet? Hypnosis Basics Made Too Easy…’
I’ve never been to university, so I don’t know, but I’ve seen posts on communities about understanding textbooks, so it wasn’t unfamiliar.
Of course, there were no other items besides these.
Damn it. This reward is so stingy.
I clicked my tongue and decided to read this hypnosis basics book that didn’t seem easy at all.
After all, I had nothing else.
‘Well, it’s called basics, so it should be easy, right?’
With half worry and half expectation, I read the book, and surprisingly, it was full of helpful content about hypnosis and related topics.
The problem was that if you took out the hypnosis part, the content was similar to a psychology book.
For example, this part…
[The human psyche is largely divided into two parts. One is the surface psyche. The 【actions or thoughts】 we commonly have are part of this surface psyche. And the other is the deep psyche. What we know as 【instinct】 corresponds to this deep psyche…]
See? This is more like a psychology book than a hypnosis book.
Well, what can I do? I have to read it to learn hypnosis.
It’s not very thick anyway. It’s not like I can’t read it.
About two hours after I started reading this strange hypnosis book.
“Hmm… It’s more interesting than I thought?”
I was able to finish reading with more satisfaction than I expected.
For some reason, it was a reading session where I learned useful things about psychology.
The problem is that there was nothing to learn about hypnosis itself…
The funny thing about this book was that it had various cases and precautions about hypnosis, but it didn’t have the most important part: how to learn hypnosis.
‘Is this right?’
It’s like a vegetable bun without vegetables…
Thanks to that, I couldn’t help but think that this damn screen was trampling on my pure love for my top-tier beauty hypnosis obsession.
While I was thinking about whether to throw some shit at the world while predicting the future, suddenly.
[You have acquired a new skill!]
[Skill slots will now be opened!]
【Skill】
[Basic Hypnosis]◀
Fortunately, I was able to obtain hypnosis in an unexpected way.
‘Whoo-hoo! Got hypnosis!’
At the words that I had acquired hypnosis, I could feel the smile on my face, which had been buried deep underground, rising again.
‘Hehehe. Finally, I too will have a top-tier beauty…’
I thought that and pressed the skill to see how to use it.
[Basic Hypnosis][LV: 1]
[The effect is activated by tying a 5-yen or 50-yen coin with a string and swinging it left and right.]
This was something I knew too well.
What I needed to know was how usable this hypnosis was and how long it lasted.
And that was explained in detail below.
[There is no limit to the number of times a user can use hypnosis in a day, but there are limits to the hypnosis that can be applied to the person being hypnotized.]
[Number of times hypnosis is possible.]
Surface Hypnosis: 3 times
Deep Hypnosis: 0 times
Of course, along with this basic information, there was also a warning about this power.
[*Caution. If this is violated, the mind of the person being hypnotized may collapse.]
‘The mind may collapse…’
At those words, I frowned and recalled the past, then shook my head and started reading again.
As I turned my eyes to the grim warning, the most important duration was there.
[Surface Hypnosis]
[The duration is determined by the subject’s command suitability.]
In other words, if you hypnotize a pervert with a perverted hypnosis, the duration will be longer.
[If the command suitability is not met, the memory of the hypnosis may be lost.]
In addition, if the suitability is high, the memory is likely to remain, and if it is low, the memory is likely to be erased.
As I read through the explanation, the last line was quite a sight.
[Deep Hypnosis]
[When using deep hypnosis, the subject’s personality, characteristics, nature, intelligence, etc., can be altered, so there is no duration.]
You can change everything…
At that one line, I felt my heart, which had been excited until just now, sink.
This deep hypnosis was literally turning a person’s life upside down.
In short, it was that dangerous and frightening power.
‘To manipulate a person’s life.’
I had done something similar in the past, so I knew how powerful this was.
‘It was a terrible experience.’
And also the danger of this power.
Of course, what I did and this mental work were unrelated, but they were similar in that they could manipulate a person’s life.
‘I should refrain from this as much as possible.’
Deep hypnosis hasn’t been unlocked yet, but judging from the words level and basic, it might become available as the level goes up.
After roughly finishing my thoughts on hypnosis, I sighed and looked at the book again.
But, why did they give me this?
‘No. Then why did they give me the book? It’s not even an instruction manual…’
As I thought that and looked at the book again, a strange screen popped up.
[Skill Book: Basic Hypnosis]
And I was briefly shocked by that phrase.
‘This is crazy. There’s even a skill book?’
One was the fact that there was a skill book in this game.
And the other was…
‘Wait, then is it possible to use magic like a fireball?’
Because of the expectation that I could use fantasy abilities.
And thinking about it, I think I saw a strange pile of books at Hanaya.
Maybe those are all skill books.
‘Magic that you can only get if you’ve been a virgin for 30 years?’
It was definitely an appealing story.
After thinking about the skill book for a while, I came back to my senses and checked the rewards again.
I was distracted by hypnosis, but there were other rewards besides hypnosis.
[Reward]
[Stamina Recovery Potion × 5]
[Virility Enhancer × 5]
[Instant Hair Growth Potion × 5]
[Elixir]
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.
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The rewards other than hypnosis are not that important… No. Wait a minute.
[Instant Hair Growth Potion: Makes any bald head grow natural hair.]
[Effect: 2 years]
‘This is crazy.’
It seemed like another jackpot.
It wasn’t just because the effect was good.
‘In my memory, this was something that Hanaya sold for 100 million yen each…’
This was something that cost 1 billion each.
‘With just one of these, I could make 1 billion… no, maybe even 2 billion?’
You might think, how can you get 2 billion with this, but wouldn’t this be a cheap price for rich people who are really bald?
I thought that to myself and hid the hair growth potion well in my pocket.
Am I not going to use it?
In the first place, this body’s hair keeps getting cut, it’s not that it doesn’t grow.
‘Thinking about it, my hair has grown quite a bit, hasn’t it?’
I think it’s about time to cut it… I should tell them not to do it this time.
Now that I have a handsome face, I should style it properly.
I thought that to myself and cleared the reward screen.
While clearing it, there was one reward I hadn’t checked yet.
There was one remaining list of rewards for clearing the scenario beyond the limit.
And I hit another jackpot with that reward.
What was inside was none other than.
[Scenario Over-Achievement Reward]
[Subspace Pocket]
Subspace pocket… no.
‘Pocket?’
It was a subspace pocket.
I slightly widened my pants pocket and thought.
‘This?’
What pocket? I read the explanation of the subspace pocket.
[Subspace Pocket: A subspace is created in the pocket of the clothes you are wearing. You can put any item in the pocket. However, living things cannot enter.]
With that explanation, I couldn’t help but think.
Maybe the scenario is better than I thought?
