Suddenly, I can control people.
People are controlled by all sorts of tangible and intangible forces, but my case is special.
“Welcome!”
I open the convenience store door and walk in. I haven’t decided what to buy yet.
After glancing at the part-time worker greeting me with a bright attitude at the counter, I pretend to ponder and wander around the display shelves for no reason.
The part-timer is quite pretty.
Men probably swarm around her like mayflies, flirting as if it’s the fate of convenience store part-timers.
I have no relationship with her.
I’ve stopped by this store a few times and had the chance to see her face, but that’s it. I only realized today that she’s quite pretty. Suddenly, I wondered: What are the chances of me and her hitting it off?
It’s extremely unlikely. Women don’t come to convenience stores to find boyfriends.
She probably already has a boyfriend, and even if she doesn’t, she’d likely give me an awkward look if I tried to talk to her. Even if, by some miracle, things went well, the chances of her stripping in front of me or acting like a pr0stitute are almost zero.
It would take at least a week, or maybe months, or even years of building human connection and trust before we could develop into a “lover” relationship.
Not that it’s troublesome, but the number of times one can meet a potential partner in a lifetime is extremely limited. But what if I could skip that process at will?
I grabbed random items and placed them on the counter one by one.
“Let me help you with your purchase,” the part-timer said with a friendly smile.
“Wait a moment.”
When I raised my hand, a hint of unease flashed across her face. But in a moment too short to notice, she returned to her smiling expression.
“Yes, how can I help you, sir?”
Snap.
I lightly flicked my finger.
Suddenly, the woman lost her senses and entered a dazed state.
“Show me your mounds.”
“Yes.”
The part-timer began to take off her uniform.
The excitement I felt at this moment is hard to describe in words. Even if the exact same situation were recreated in a p0rno, it wouldn’t feel the same.
The part-timer who had just been helping me with my purchase was now revealing her pale skin. She fumbled with her br@ hook, exposing her melons, and stretched her waist so I could get a good look.
Such thoughtful consideration.
I casually reached out and touched her mounds. I pressed and rubbed with my palm, slid my hand up and down, and played with her buds, pulling and teasing them.
Satisfying.
I hadn’t realized it through her cl0thes, but her melons were quite large.
“Put them back on.”
She put her underwear back on, as leisurely as if she were changing at home. She used her hands to adjust her melons into a comfortable position and then put her uniform back on.
After watching all of this, I clapped my hands.
Clap.
“Aren’t you going to ring me up?”
“Ah, yes! Let me help you with that.”
The woman had no idea what had just happened.
Because events that occur in a trance state are forgotten. This phenomenon is called hypnotic amnesia. What just happened definitely occurred, but to her, it never did.
This is the power to control people.
I call it hypnosis.
After finishing the purchase, I walked out of the convenience store.
Of course, if you’re asking whether what I just did was a perfect crime, it wasn’t.
There’s still evidence like CCTV, and there might have been witnesses while I was engrossed in the elasticity of her mounds.
But does that need an explanation?
I don’t need to worry about such things.
The pursuit of public institutions can’t corner me. Unless I make a really big mess, that is.
I’ve lived a life true to my desires in small ways.
If you ask what the weakness of hypnosis is, it’s that it can’t prevent physical phenomena that have already occurred.
Just like no one lives worrying that a bomb might fall on their head.
I’m the same.
Well, I’ve bought some snacks, so let’s head home.
As I entered a deserted alley, someone called me from behind.
“Oppa!”
It was a familiar voice.
“Huh?”
The moment I turned around, I felt a sharp pain in my back.
“Ugh!”
My legs gave out, and I collapsed. I couldn’t breathe.
What’s going on?
“Ahahaha!”
It felt like I’d been stabbed.
The woman looked at me and laughed like a maniac.
“Ugh…!”
“Now we’ll be together forever.”
I thought she was some crazy woman, but it turned out to be my ex-girlfriend.
As soon as the knife was pulled out, bl0od gushed out of my body like a broken faucet.
Am I really going to die like this?
“Ugh! Gasp!”
The shock and pain brought back a memory.
When my ex cheated on me and left, I was so angry that I hypnotized her with the suggestion, “You’ll be unhappy without me.”
I thought it was a satisfying revenge, but it was a mistake.
My consciousness rapidly faded.
When I was freed from the terrible pain, I naturally realized.
I’m dead.
“Hahaha!”
I burst into laughter.
To die young because of my own hypnosis, what a stupid way to go.
“What’s with him? He’s laughing right after dying.”
Wait, wasn’t I dead? Who’s that?
I realized I was in a place I’d never seen before. A space filled with white light, I was in some sort of line, and a woman outside pointed at me and spoke.
“We’ll have to take a separate look. Bring him here.”
“Lady Leira! He’s a soul who might have committed some crime, you can’t just pick him out like that…”
“That’s why I’m going to see for myself. Bring him.”
“Got it!”
What’s going on?
Her face was obscured by the light, but the woman seemed to be someone of high status. With just a wave of her hand, she commanded intimidating-looking men.
They pulled me out of the line and led me somewhere.
Where is this? The world you go to after death?
I hoped I’d miraculously survived, but that wasn’t the case. It seemed my soul was left behind and being taken somewhere.
So now comes the problem.
Is the current situation that I’ve been picked up and dragged away because I laughed like a madman?
“Stand up.”
This bald guy, I thought he was just intimidating, but he also had something like horns growing out of his head.
This isn’t a normal situation. I realized it deep in my bones.
“The one you’re about to meet is the goddess.
When you enter the room, immediately kneel and bow your head. Don’t even think about making eye contact.
Understood?”
“…”
When I didn’t respond, the man next to me sighed.
“Should we send him back? What if he’s some defective guy? We’ll all be killed by Lady Leira.”
“Hey, answer me!”
“Understood.”
For now, I’ll do as they want.
I died stupidly, but it seems this isn’t the end. I suddenly wanted to meet this so-called goddess. I’ve always wondered why I was born with this ability, but wouldn’t a god-like being know?
Maybe they deliberately placed me on a path to die young, like fixing an error in the world.
I opened a faintly visible white door and entered.
The goddess was wearing a slit dress that revealed her legs. She had a slim waist, fiery red hair, and the striking figure of a Western beauty.
A nearly perfect feminine form, worthy of being called a goddess.
“Kneel!”
A masked knight guarding the goddess shouted.
“Ugh!”
I felt a crushing pressure and fell to the ground.
I didn’t mind kneeling, but isn’t this too human-like for something a goddess would do?
It felt like I’d gone back in time to pay respects to a queen.
“That’s enough. Tell him to raise his head.”
“Raise your head.”
I barely managed to lift my head after being permitted.
“Young soul, you seem to have a story.”
A story? Not really.
I died in a stupid way, enough to make me laugh unintentionally. But hearing her words, I felt something was off. The fact that she didn’t know about me until she saw me means the gods here aren’t all-knowing beings.
“You don’t seem to have any special issues. There are a few worlds in need of salvation right now, right? Let’s send him as a champion.”
“Should we send him to the world with the beasts?”
“That one’s on the brink of human extinction because of the red moon, right? That sounds good.”
Wait, they’re talking about me like I’m not even here.
“You’d like that too, right? Going to a new world.”
“I…”
“It’s better than being annihilated, isn’t it? Right?”
D*mn it. This goddess was unreasonable.
She wasn’t even listening to me, just doing whatever she wanted.
What’s the difference between her and a spoiled brat? And she’s sending me to a world on the brink of human extinction?
“Could you send me back to my original world?”
I couldn’t help but sound desperate.
“Who said you could ask questions?!”
The knight shouted loudly, making my whole body tremble.
The goddess raised her hand to stop him, then looked at me and said, “That’s not possible. You’re dead, aren’t you? Your time in that world is over. Now, take him away.”
The goddess gestured dismissively, as if telling them to take me away.
“W-wait!”
As I was being dragged away, I struggled and managed to free one arm, then flicked my finger.
Snap!
Everything became still, as if time had stopped.
The two lackeys trying to take me away, the goddess’s knight, and even the goddess herself had all fallen into a trance.
Things went as I planned, but instead of feeling excited, I felt worse.
The more I thought about being killed, the more annoyed I got, and being treated like this even after death was infuriating.
I pointed at the lackeys and said, “You two, when you wake up, do push-ups until I tell you to stop.”
Next, the knight.
“You can’t move from your spot. You can’t harm me. You can’t interfere with my actions.”
Finally, the goddess.
“Obey my commands. Answer my questions truthfully.”
Clap.
I clapped my hands to wake them up.
Goblin: This is the last project I will pick up for a while. In fact, I didn’t want to pick anymore projects, but in the end I did. It was because this one is special. This is what the cultured would call an ero-novel. I did a little digging on Novelpia and the response to this novel was pretty good. I picked it purely as a honey-trap, as this kind of novels tend to attract many cultured readers. Hopefully they will be exposed to other novels on Goblinslate as well.
TFTC! This novel looks promising! The MC’s hypnosis ability is OP and seems to have unexpected side effects like the ex-girlfriend becoming a yandere
Don’t worry it will have it all.
Could be working because that’s how I got here 😭
Ha ha ha!