Heroes' Stubborn Resistances
"Wait, hold on... I must've misheard that. Could you say it one more time?"
Minwoo stammered even worse than when he'd heard Mari's yandere outburst, waiting for Luna's response. Luna parted her lips again.
"I... want Sera... to be happy."
"Hold on, hold on! That's different from before, isn't it? I swear there were some way more extreme, pervy words flying out a second ago. Come on...!"
"..."
But despite Minwoo's protests, Luna exercised her right to remain silent. He was genuinely flustered. The hypnosis had clearly taken hold, so why were her answers so inconsistent? And now she was refusing to respond altogether...
"You definitely said something like you wanted to beep~ with Sera just now..."
Even Minwoo couldn't bring himself to say beep~ out loud. In a way, wasn't this even more dangerous than incestuous yandere vibes? Warning bells were ringing in his head as he eyed Luna.
"..."
Luna stayed stubbornly mute.
"These guys... could it be some kind of hero or isekai buff giving them hypnosis resistance...?"
At first, the hypnosis had worked fine, so he'd assumed no issues. He never dreamed it'd snag here of all places.
"Guess I'll have to keep going and figure out the problems one by one."
There had been plenty of hurdles(?) so far, but he'd overcome them all somehow. With that in mind, Minwoo decided to push to the next phase.
"First up... let's test how far basic brainwashing goes."
He thought for a moment, then turned to Mari first.
"Listen up, Mari. From today on, you're gonna have sex with me every single day. That's the only way to win your big bro's heart and get what you want. Got it? Nod if you understand."
"..."
Mari didn't nod.
"Okay... striking out right from the start."
Until now, using the target's deepest desire as a pretext had made them nod easily. But the heroes weren't biting.
"What's the issue here?"
Minwoo pondered every angle, but thinking alone wouldn't solve it. He needed more data points.
He tried similar commands on the other two, but they all failed.
"Maybe the commands are too aggressive from the jump."
Minwoo paused again, then tried the relatively friendly Sera.
"Listen, Sera. I'm actually a professionally trained masseur. If you let me give you regular light massages, your skin'll get smoother, your face'll get even prettier, and who knows—Ares might love you even more. Plus, it'll help circulate your mana and make you stronger. Sound good? Wanna try a massage from me?"
"..."
A silence stretched out—short, but feeling eternal. Minwoo swallowed dryly. Then Sera slowly nodded.
"...!"
Minwoo inwardly cheered. His hunch about their otherworldly origins causing resistance was close, but not quite right. It wasn't about being from another world exactly—it was a clash of modern common sense versus this fantasy world's.
All the women so far shared one trait: profound ignorance about sex. Demon King Ernate had zero interest in it; Siola was similar. Aisha and Line had basic chastity notions but zilch knowledge, making them easy marks. Chloe the elf... well, no explanation needed.
But these modern heroes? They came with contemporary chastity views and solid sex ed. No way a ridiculous brainwash like "fuck someone else to get loved" would stick, no matter the hypnosis.
Sure, "massages make you pretty and strong" was bullshit too, but it was the difference between utter nonsense and something plausibly bullshit. Like the experiments with Line and Viscount Selton: if it fulfilled their desires, resistance vanished. But that didn't help with the heroes right now.
Minwoo retried on the other two with similar tweaks. Results...
"Mari's a total brick wall. Hates me that much? Won't even let me touch her."
Luna, surprisingly, nodded easily. Unlike Sera's beauty angle, she perked up at the strength boost.
Sera's pure love for Ares; Luna's forbidden(?) love for Sera plus power-ups. That was the code to crack them. But Mari rejected everything, no matter the spin. Even soft Ares pretexts got no nods.
Minwoo finally threw up his hands.
"The one I wanna torment most has the highest resistance. What kinda bullshit is this..."
He grumbled but switched gears quick.
"Well, I don't need brainwashing to mess with her..."
True enough—sensory manipulation didn't require desire pretexts; it worked universally. He'd torment Mari another way. All heroines couldn't fall the same, or where's the fun?
"This is gonna get interesting. Heh heh..."
The lavish bedroom went to waste, but he'd found new toys. Minwoo cackled inwardly. Mindless bangs were fun, but unexpected challenge? Even better.
"Still, hate to waste the bedroom setup."
With that, he smacked Aisha's ass. Water sprayed from her soaked crotch, splattering Mari's face as she knelt there.
...
Minwoo left the heroes kneeling and lavished Aisha with rewards. Of course, he made it all feel like a dream by the end.
Sorry, Aisha, but for hero relations, that was best.
"Labyrinth dive, huh... Sounds fun. I can slot into position nicely..."
Afterward, he imprinted the max trust: he was a reliable ally. Specifically: mysteriously summoned here like them, now settled in, eager to help their quest. Help meant pro masseur tending Sera and Luna regularly. Labyrinth dangers? Aisha as bodyguard. No sweat.
His specs and glow stick made monsters no threat anyway, but to others he was a normie—needed excuses.
"That should do it."
Tough, time-sink quest(?), so he double-checked the brainwashing obsessively. Satisfied it was airtight, he tested the bed with Aisha one last time, then left the mansion.
Back to the street spot. Glow stick off.
The heroes' story resumed.
...
Chloe regained consciousness sooner than Minwoo expected—right as he wrapped hero tests and returned.
'What... happened?'
Pre-blackout memories were fuzzy, but clarifying over time. Not glow stick this time—pure orgasm overload.
'Human mating... is it always this intense, this overwhelming...?'
She hugged her sweat-and-fluid-smeared body, shuddering. Not from cold—elves didn't feel it. This was the afterglow of sex pleasure etched into her elven genes for the first time.
Trickily, Minwoo's brainwashing and first experience (anal, but still) shocked her deeply. Unbeknownst to her, her subconscious now burned with curiosity for human sex.
Again. I want to feel it again.
Her surface mind repackaged it.
'Odds of pregnancy from one time are low. And confirmation takes time... That man... can't send me back till my pregnancy's certain...!'
Against Minwoo's intent, Chloe's entanglement lingered.