Hypnotizing My Crush
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What a pathetic sight. The subordinates got taken down by some low-level yokai?
I'll take care of it alone. Don't intervene.
Show these shallow yokai the true strength of the exorcism division chief.
Those three lines were the strongest division chief's final speech from the high-difficulty yokai extermination game _Miss Exorcist Division Doesn't Lose_.
No, wait... calling it a final speech is a stretch. A few months later, while other subordinates were investigating a yokai nest.
A groan of "Ughhh!!" echoed from what was believed to be the exorcism division chief.
Clunk.
I threw the game controller to the floor, flopped onto the couch, and let out a tired sigh.
"Ugh, damn it."
Three whole months.
Of my life wasted searching for the hidden "happy ending" in this game.
But every time I played, all I could find were the new, infuriating yokai female enslavement and humiliation endings that these exorcist girls had to deal with.
I never once uncovered the ending where the game's exorcist members happily enjoy their youth.
'Does the creator still have it? Ha ha ha, you said there was a happy academy youth ending to bait me in, didn't you?'
Of course, anyone who plays this game purely as a yaoi game could look at me and say, "Why are you chasing a youth ending in a game built to make your dick throb?"
"Just enjoy the scenes where yokai and weirdos humiliate beautiful girls, then. Why the hell are you wasting three months like this?"
'But these damn girls I love are dying off like female pigs in this game, and I can't just give up the one and only happy ending? Huh?'
Yeah, right. In a high-difficulty game where humiliation is the main event, I knew my own fault of randomly adding so many "beloved" characters was on me.
But this was the creator's trap.
'Pulling out such rich character stories in a yaoi game and telling me not to emotionally invest in them...'
Of course, in the beginning of the humiliation ending, I would suddenly lose my mind, jump into the yokai lair naked, and a few days later get found in some mysterious video declaring female corruption...
'But damn it, I really, really wanted to punch them hard...!!'
Even if those idiots couldn't handle it, in the end they were my beloveds, so I had to love them, right?
That's why I couldn't just give up searching for the youth happy ending hidden somewhere in this game.
"...I'll give up today, but tomorrow I'll definitely find it."
Normally I'd try a few more loops and go to bed, but after days of poor sleep, my eyelids felt heavy tonight.
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"-We welcome you."
'...What? Did I turn on the walkthrough video and fall asleep?'
"We will become the strong power to exterminate the yokai and weirdos threatening humanity. I believe in you."
'...Huh? Yokai? Wait, this line sounds familiar...'
"For the complete extermination of yokai and weirdos, and for our bright youth, I, as division chief of the Exorcist Corps, will sacrifice my own body."
'Eh... ehh...??'
Still half-asleep, my mind got shaken awake by one familiar line.
The speech I had listened to hundreds of times while retrying endings, my ears ringing from the game's prologue
I hurriedly opened my eyes and began to understand the situation.
Clap clap clap!!
With a light applause, the first thing that entered my vision after opening my eyes was the ceiling of the familiar bedroom.
No, it was the ceiling of the gymnasium I hadn't seen since graduation.
Next, when I turned my head, I saw a group of exorcist girls wearing uniforms similar to Japanese-style school uniforms.
"From now on, please take care of me. Welcome, new students."
The final nail in the coffin of my confused mind.
The closing of the speech by Arasaki Yuri, the division chief of the Exorcist Corps.
Everything in front of me had revealed that I had reincarnated into this exorcism game.
And that it was right in the prologue part, the "new student welcome party," before the story even began.
'...Wait. Then who am I? Who did I reincarnate into?'
After figuring out the entire situation, a single anxious thought rushed into my mind.
In a game with no main character, who was I reincarnated into?
Hands thicker and more masculine than a woman's.
The hakama I was wearing confirmed I had reincarnated into a man.
But in this game's male characters, they were usually the villains who triggered the humiliation endings.
'Phone... phone...'
Rustle...
'Here it is!!'
I pulled out the phone from my pocket, quickly switched to selfie mode, and looked at the face reflected on the camera.
"Damn it."
Seeing the creepy, unsettling face in the camera, I couldn't help but curse out loud.
Messy blue hair covering my eyes and face, the classic visual novel protagonist style.
The guy in the flashing camera was the ultimate villain I hated most while playing the game.
The otaku hypnotist who ruthlessly tormented the exorcism division in a creepy and brutal way.
Takumi Hitoshi.
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Until the new student welcome party ended and we left the gymnasium, I was still in denial about the reality.
Reincarnating into the game? Of course it was shocking, but I accepted it and adapted.
But why, why was it this creepy bastard?!
"Ha... damn it, even if I reincarnate, it's always this unsettling guy..."
Takumi Hitoshi.
The only male student who had entered the exorcism girls' academy.
Thanks to a mysterious transaction with a yokai that had a weak yokai energy sleeping inside him, he obtained the power of "hypnosis" and approached the Exorcist Corps.
Using hypnosis and common sense alteration to humiliate the division chief who greeted him positively and all the other exorcist members.
Some became food for yokai to replenish their energy, some became his personal slaves, and others became his yokai's wealth.
A truly creepy and disgusting guy who threw away human hearts like trash.
'In the epilogue, I saw this guy living a rich and peaceful life until old age and dying. I really wanted to beat the creator to death.'
But if I had to find some positive side in being reincarnated as this guy...
My body felt healthier and more lively than in reality, I guess.
If I had to pick one thing, that would be it.
My body had no advantages at all.
'Oh, there's one more good thing. At least I can never reach the ending where these beloved girls get humiliated by this guy.'
Anyway, squatting in the back of the gymnasium, I sighed deeply while trying to figure out what to do next.
When Arasaki Yuri, the division chief of the Exorcist Corps, and the first "beloved" I had found in this game, approached me.
"You dropped this."
Arasaki Yuri, the division chief of the Exorcist Corps, held something that looked like my wallet and came over to me.
"Thank you."
"It's nothing. Be careful not to drop it from now on."
After receiving the wallet and thanking her, she nodded as if it was nothing.
Then she gripped her sword again.
When she turned to leave after speaking to me, she looked back at me sighing and opened her mouth again.
"By the way, you're the new male student who entered our academy this time."
"Yes, well... I guess so."
"It seems like it? That's an odd statement."
"It's a bit complicated to explain everything here."
"I see."
She accepted my words that I was reincarnated into an otaku who was going to humiliate this guy as the new student.
As if she thought it was just the nervousness of a new student who couldn't adapt.
Arasaki Yuri lightly tapped my shoulder and said,
"Taking care of new students is also my job as division chief of the Exorcist Corps. If you find it difficult to adapt, come to me anytime. New student."
Although she meant it as caring words for a new male student who couldn't properly adapt to the exorcism girls' academy,
Arasaki Yuri's one word made my head hurt even more.
'Normally, I'd cast hypnosis right here and dive into "Exorcism Division Chief Humiliation Ending 1-1"...'
Anyway, after the conversation ended, we were about to split and finish the situation when...
Ring ring!!
"Hm?"
The division chief's phone rang loudly.
"It's me. What's wrong?"
"......"
"We found the nest of a tentacled yokai underground?"
"......!"
"Send the coordinates and location of the nest. I'll move immediately—"
While listening in on Yuri's call for a moment, I said,
"Wait a minute."
"New student?"
"There, I think you shouldn't go."
"What?"
I quickly blocked her path and stood in front of her.
I had cleared this game dozens of times and collected countless humiliation endings.
I knew that the tentacled yokai appearing here were mostly parasitic life forms.
Not forms that dug nests.
'Then what about that call? Damn it, of course it's a trap.'
"Don't joke around. Get out of the way. The division chief can't be late to a place where help is needed."
"......"
Of course, I knew she, the division chief of the Exorcist Corps, wouldn't listen to a new student like me who had just met her.
And the fact that she was talking to me, who had been sitting in the corner without fear.
And my appearance, who hadn't properly understood the situation and was about to rush to the scene with just one sword.
I decided to put aside my worst plan for avoiding humiliation endings and actually follow it.
"Chief Yuri."
"What? You... how do you know my name...?"
"Will you watch over this place for a while?"
Using the power I had obtained through a transaction with an unknown yokai, the "hypnosis" ability acquired by my original owner Takumi Hitoshi, using a phone as a medium,
To avoid the humiliation endings I was facing in this game.
"I think we should check once more and move right away. Right?"
"Check once more... uh...
"Bring the equipment heavier, and take the amulet for yokai internal invasion defense."
"An amulet... I should take it... uh..."
"Then, go back to the Exorcist Corps, gather what I commanded, and leave. Chief."
"Uh... I understand... I'll do that, new student..."