No Way That Could Actually Happen, Right?
Hehe~ Could something like this possibly have happened?
* * *
“Okay, follow me. Always carry the anti-penetration defensive amulet.”
“Anti-penetration defensive… amulet. Always carry it.”
“Are yokai really appearing, or is this a false report? Let’s double-check the facts and move out.”
“Double-check the facts… properly… understand them.”
“Good job. Well done.”
“Uh-huh….”
Her eyes were completely unfocused and hazy as she stared at the screen.
The deputy of the Exorcist Division, Arasaki Yuri, who obediently followed every command I gave.
If I could, I would fix all her other flaws right here and now.
I wanted to remove even more of those annoying elements that would lead her to a humiliation ending, but…
In such an open place, I couldn’t keep the deputy of the academy’s flagship Exorcist Division around for much longer.
“Now check everything I commanded and head back to headquarters. Stay careful with your body, my dear.”
“Uh-huh… Understood. I’ll be careful with my body……”
I quickly checked off only the things I had told her to remember, then gave her a simple hint to head back to the Exorcist Division headquarters.
After that, I squatted behind the gymnasium, facing the 『Black Ink Will』 that was already burning inside my chest.
“At first I was a little hesitant, but once I did it… my will is starting to burn a bit.”
I had only come here to achieve happy youth endings for the heroines in this otome game.
Reincarnated into the body of this creepy hypnotist villain, forced to use hypnosis? Of course I felt nauseous.
But for the greater purpose of giving my heroines the ‘youth ending’ they deserved, I was ready to use this guy’s hypnosis without any hesitation.
‘Hypnosis app? Inconceivable. I’ll use it completely ‘healthy’ and ‘normal’.’
* * *
Time flew by, and soon it was evening at the Public Exorcist Girls’ Academy.
“203, that’s this way.”
Following the guidance of the upperclassmen, I arrived at the individual dormitory.
I began slowly unpacking my luggage—not exactly mine, but the original owner’s.
“This is for washing… clothes to change into… and these suspicious powder medicine in a bottle—damn, what is this?”
In the front pocket of my bag were a few toiletries and several sets of men’s underwear.
Among them suddenly appeared this upgraded, oddly glowing pinkish powder medicine.
It wasn’t some light pill that aroused humans.
Carrying something this suspicious out in the open— it made me realize once again how fortunate it was that I had been reincarnated into this body.
“Sigh… unpacking later. Let’s do it later.”
The rest of the luggage was still full, but since there might be even stranger things waiting, a constant sigh escaped me.
I set the unpacking aside for now.
This was the first step toward reaching the heroines’ happy youth endings.
“First, I’ll join the Exorcist Division, then I can start things properly.”
The Public Exorcist Girls’ Academy, the main stage of the early game.
The Exorcist Division, which forms the backbone of the academy, is divided into three major departments according to the game settings.
One is the Yokai Extermination Division, led by the deputy, Arasaki Yuri.
Another is the Information Department, which investigates yokai sightings, gathers information, and assesses danger levels.
The last is the Health Department, which treats exorcists injured by yokai.
There are other minor departments, but they’re irrelevant for now.
“Anyway.”
Among the three, the one I aim to join is the Information Department.
Most of the heroines are active in the Extermination Division, but to prevent them from heading toward humiliation endings, I need to stay with them constantly—which is extremely inefficient.
Entering the fast-contact Information Department, I can deliver accurate information over the phone and prevent those endings before they happen.
“Since I’ve replayed this dozens of times, there’s no way I don’t know about any yokai or information I’ll send.”
Of course, there might be a stubborn exorcist who ignores my reports and charges in blindly, but in that case I can just track the Information Department and head over myself to use the hypnosis app again.
“Hmm, perfect plan.”
I’m not worried about some weird variable where I get forcibly recruited by another department, right? Haha, I have full confidence that such stupid worries are unnecessary.
In the Health Department, only students whose inner yokai power is specialized for ‘regeneration’ or ‘healing’ are selected.
The Extermination Division, where Arasaki Yuri first used hypnosis as deputy, is even less of a concern.
In a place packed with girls who love to fight yokai, would I really get in just because I look like a gloomy otaku with weak power?
“No way.”
Unless some powerful member of the Extermination Division suddenly has a change of heart and drags me in, I’m certain it won’t happen—even if the sky fell.
“Since I’ve got plenty of time, I should finish unpacking.”
Thinking that, I picked up the luggage I had set aside and began unpacking again with a satisfied smile.
“Let’s see, what’s in this bag? Textbooks… stationery… a suspicious massager that operates with a remote control—damn, what is this?”
* * *
Late evening, after all new students had arrived.
“Senior Yuri. Did you return?”
“…Yeah. I’m back.”
After perfectly carrying out the strange ‘command’ that had been lingering in my head since the welcome party.
Haruno Yukio, the 2nd-year ace of the Extermination Division, warmly greeted the returning Yuri in the deputy’s office.
“Where did you go? I was worried because I couldn’t contact you after the welcome party ended.”
“I went to the Information and Supply Departments for a bit.”
“Information Department? You went yourself, senior?”
“Yes, during the day I received a report through the private line that a tentacled yokai nest had appeared under the city’s underground.”
“Hehe~ Really?”
“Since I received the report, I tried to handle it immediately, but… I felt like I needed to double-check, so I visited the Information Department.”
“The deputy said there are more fake reports these days. You checked properly.”
As Yukio lightly massaged Yuri’s shoulder while sitting in the deputy’s office and chatting.
The deputy kept fiddling with the defensive amulet she had received from the Supply Department, her expression somewhat vacant.
But Yukio decided to overlook it, thinking she was just tired from a day more exhausting than usual.
But—
“Oh, speaking of which, senior. Did you meet the ‘special student’ among the new arrivals this time?”
“……”
“From rumors, it’s said there’s a male new student with unusual yokai power, but since I was busy today I couldn’t meet him—.”
“……Huh.”
“—What?”
“While discussing the new students…”
The moment the conversation turned to the sole male student in the history of the Public Exorcist Girls’ Academy, Haruno Yukio’s eyes widened at the oddly ticklish reaction from the deputy.
“Senior, senior! Did you meet him? The male student?”
“…I just gave him a light greeting after the welcome party ended.”
“Then now the senior is also enjoying a pink youth while leaving the lethal exorcist behind?”
“I said it was a light greeting, Yukio.”
“Hehe~ But why such a reaction? It feels completely jittery. Are you trying to make me misunderstand, senior~?”
Yukio’s persistent questioning, convinced that something interesting was happening between the deputy of the Exorcist Division and the new student who had just entered today.
“……Stay careful with your body.”
“Huh? Senior? What did you just say?”
“It sounded like the new student told me to stay careful with my body.”
“Hehe…?”
“I don’t remember anything else. After that… I felt like I needed to double-check, so I headed to the Information Department.”
“Hmm~ Really? Well, got it. I won’t be troublesome. Senior.”
The deputy’s reply to the questioning was strangely vague.
‘Stay careful with your body’ was something that could come up in etiquette even with a first meeting.
But the senior, who usually acted first,
After one word from the new student, she went to the Information Department.
And without glancing back, she loaded up on defensive amulets saying ‘I need to practice using the yokai power inside my body’ and was now fiddling with them like love letters.
“The name of that male new student was… Takumi Hitoshi, I think.”
“This seems like the perfect time for the 2nd-year ace of the Extermination Division to claim the right to assign members.”
Haruno Yukio, the 2nd-year ace of the Yokai Extermination Division, began moving first to uncover the truth between the two.
And whether she knew or not about her junior’s thoughts…
“For some reason today… I feel a bit hazy.”
Yuri, the cold and dignified deputy known as the steel-blooded leader, sat on the sofa with a slightly relaxed, sleepy face.
She was only gently fiddling with the defensive amulet still in her hand.