Hypnotizing a Beautiful British Exchange Student in the Nurse's Office (2)
Hypnotizing a Beautiful British Exchange Student in the Nurse's Office (2)
She was the professor in charge of the Basic Mana Manipulation lecture.
She had been deeply worried since early that morning.
It was because of Yujin.
'They wanted me to teach a student who had pulled off something even I couldn't do? Me, a mere B-rank, teach a future S-rank?'
“Professor” sounded impressive, but she was only a B-rank awakener.
...In truth, her abilities were hardly something to dismiss as “only” B-rank.
S-ranks were a moot point—only seven existed in the entire world.
A-rank was a realm attained only by those elite few who combined a powerful Innate Talent with persistent effort.
In other words, B-rank was the highest level an ordinary awakener could reach through accumulated experience.
In corporate terms, she was equivalent to a department head at a major conglomerate.
She was by no means someone who had to feel inferior wherever she went.
On top of that, her Innate Talent belonged to the exceedingly rare magic type.
Naturally, she had long since mastered Mana Manipulation.
She was more than qualified to teach beginners the fundamentals.
But...
Teaching an ordinary prodigy expected to reach A-rank would have been one thing.
But teaching Yujin, who had already qualified as an A-rank awakener, was another matter entirely.
This was too much. Shouldn't they at least assign him an A-rank professor?
Such thoughts gave the professor a stomachache nonetheless.
'Teaching him well would only break even. If I taught him badly... I'd be the great criminal who ruined Korea’s next S-rank.'
The attention focused on Yujin turned her stomach sour too.
Public opinion at the moment was practically confirming Yujin as a future S-rank.
So what if he attended her lecture and picked up a bad habit?
'A measly B-rank got above herself, tried to teach a future S-rank, and ruined the nation's talent.'
This kind of condemnation would certainly come flooding in.
That was why, yesterday, the moment she watched the entrance exam footage, she almost resigned her professorship on the spot...
[Hayeon, could you assign another professor instead of me...?]
[No. I can't even retire, so where do you think you're running off to.]
'Can't even resign. Tch.'
Because the Chairwoman hadn't granted her resignation.
She had no choice but to drag herself to the lecture hall, swallowing her reluctance like bitter medicine.
All the while, her heart pounding with the fear of daring to teach a future S-rank.
But...
"Professor. Given that I'm already at this level, may I go to the Training Room during your lectures from now on?"
"......."
'It was perfect? Better than mine?'
Fortunately, Yujin was far more outstanding than she'd thought.
Even her mana control, which she prided herself on as being on an A-rank level, was child's play next to Yujin's.
A sigh of relief escaped her before she knew it.
'What a relief...!!! No one would be able to curse me for failing to teach him!!'
First of all, she'd avoided the traitor ending, so she could rest easy.
Furthermore,
'And he was not trying to go out and play—he wanted to use the Training Room? A freshman who should have been eager to show off as a newly awakened student?'
And the place he said he'd go to was the Training Room.
The sweat-filled place that first-years didn't even glance at because they were too busy going out to have fun.
A student who was too good for her to teach was volunteering to train diligently on his own.
As a professor, there was no way she'd dislike that.
—Hesitantly.
"C-can I really go...?"
'And he was so polite too.'
Even Yujin's expression was full of apology.
An expression that said, I'm very sorry to say this, but it really doesn't seem like it'd be much help, so may I train on my own?
He thought he was being insolent, but because his fundamental character was so wholesome, everything he did came off as wholesome.
The professor's expression softened.
"Of course... No, let's just say that I'm the one who sent you to the Training Room!"
Beyond that, the professor even proposed treating it as though she herself had sent him.
On the surface, it sounded like she was doing Yujin a favor. In reality, it was a suggestion for her own sake.
'What Cadet Yujin lacked most was physical ability. I'd be the brilliant professor who recognized that and guided him even if it meant overriding the curriculum...!!'
Based on the entrance exam, he was a cerebral type whose strengths were flawless pattern recognition and situational judgment.
In combat intelligence alone, he was comparable to Aika, the awakener ranked first among the S-ranks.
On the other hand, the physical capabilities to back that up?
Just barely the average for a guy who'd just awakened.
Even she, a B-rank, could probably crush him.
So, just have him hit the weights.
Instead of trying to teach a kid who was already better at manipulating mana than she was and making a fool of herself.
Then he'd get stronger on his own, and later on in interviews she could just say things like "I recognized his talent right away."
With this intention, she hurried him out.
"Hurry along and go train!"
"Thank... Ah, I'll take Cadet Alice to the infirmary on my way out!"
—Swoosh.
'Hm? Could they be dating...? No, there was no way a wholesome young man like him would do that.'
Taking Alice along with him was unexpected, but she didn't pay it much mind.
Alice's complexion had been truly terrible, and Yujin's expression had been brimming with concern.
She simply decided he was a kind young man.
"I'll put you under hypnosis."
".........!!!!!?"
Had she known what happened in the infirmary, she might have changed her mind a little.
* * *
Meanwhile, Alice.
She was the sole recipient of Yujin's concern, but...
That concern was something she didn't welcome at all.
"Are you sick? I'll take you to the infirmary..."
"N-no!!!"
'How am I supposed to tell him I stayed up all night reading dirty comics?!'
The reason her complexion was so bad?
She'd stayed up all night exploring the world of 'Eyes,' becoming so absorbed that she'd even suffered several nosebleeds.
The reason her face was red?
Every time she saw Yujin's face, she remembered what she'd seen on 'Eyes.'
That was how much she'd done something so sordid she couldn't even look him in the face.
Yet what came back to her was sincere concern.
She was on the verge of going crazy from shame.
'Yujin was so kind, yet I had projected him into those comics...!! Have some shame, Alice, you lecher!!'
She'd even come to regret calling him a lecher yesterday. That was a bonus.
But she couldn't reveal the truth, so time just passed as she hemmed and hawed...
'Ahh, Yujin. You're even good at mana manipulation. Amazing....'
—Snatch.
"...Hwuh?"
"I'll take Cadet Alice to the nurse's office on the way!"
"......!!!!!!?"
The result was the catastrophe of Yujin scooping Alice into a princess carry.
Too stunned to even speak, she was carried away.
'Th-this is just... and the nurse's office, of all places, just like the comic I saw yesterday...!!!'
"Hold on a little. We will be there soon... Hah, why is the infirmary so far away?"
'......Yujin is worried about me, and here I am thinking these things—I'm so sorry!!'
The irony: the woman from England was running her delusion circuits all on her own, while the self-styled Hypnosis Breeding Guy was being annoyingly, thoroughly wholesome.
Neither of them had any idea what the other was really like.
In the end, the two of them arrived at the nurse's office carrying perfectly opposite emotions.
—Mutter, mutter.
"Away on a house call at a time like this? Hah. There should not even be any house calls this time of year. Not doing her job properly..."
'I knew it, no one's here!! It's exactly like the comic I read yesterday!!'
Fortunately or unfortunately, the awakener responsible for the infirmary—who would have realized Alice wasn't sick—was absent as well.
Alice trembled.
It was because one of the comics she'd read yesterday had come to mind.
—Now then, how about we lift up your top?
—Okaaay...♡
'He would say he was listening to my heartbeat and undress me, then claim he was giving me medicine or an injection while doing all sorts of things to my body...!!'
Her heart pounded faster in tandem.
The sense of moral transgression, having such thoughts while cradled in Yujin's arms.
And despite that...
Somehow, her mouth was parched with thirst.
—Gulp.
'N-no, Alice. Yujin would never do that. Never.'
What held back her snapping thread of reason was her faith in Yujin.
A faith that he would absolutely never do any harm to her.
A certain conviction, one that even felt frustrating, that he wouldn't even do it if she asked him to.
'Even the day before, he had been so reluctant to hypnotize me. Surely...'
"Haa. Can't be helped. Alice?"
"Yes?"
"I'll put you under hypnosis."
".........!!!!!!?"
Her faith was shattered in an instant.
The moment she understood the meaning of those words, fireworks went off in her head.
'Hypnosis?! He was really going to do it for me—no, to me?!! Yujin was?!!'
"Uh, uh, Pardon?"
That was how flustered she was—she even blurted out her mother tongue, English with a noble British accent.
But Yujin's eyes were already glowing.
Gold. Vividly.
"It is all right, Alice. Sleep well. When you wake up, it will all be over."
"......!!!!!?"
'He was going to put me to sleep and then do it?!! If he was going to do anything, I'd rather he left me conscious... No, what in the world was I saying?!'
Alice was too bewildered to resist.
Whether it was truly that she couldn't, or simply that she didn't—even she herself didn't know. Either way.
The result: a message cheerfully popped up in front of Yujin's eyes.
—Ding!
[The target falls 'completely' under hypnosis.]
"Alice. I command you...."
Simultaneously, her head grew hazy.
A sensation of offering her soul, her everything, to the other person.
The sensation she'd abruptly come to like yesterday lazily wrapped itself around her entire body.
In her fading consciousness, she directed her trembling gaze at Yujin...
'When I actually asked him to, he had absolutely refused. Now he was really doing it...'
"Sleep well. Wake up without feeling sick."
"......?"
—Slip.
She fell asleep wearing a completely bewildered expression.
* * *
A few hours later.
"......?"
'What was going on? Why was I sleeping here... and why was it already evening?'
Alice opened her eyes as if nothing had happened.
In the nurse's office bed, with her body and mind feeling genuinely refreshed.
It was a few seconds after that when the memory of what happened before she fell asleep surfaced.
[When you fall asleep and wake up, it will all be over.]
'......!!!! Yujin put me to sleep with hypnosis!!'
Alice realized why she'd been asleep on the very first day of class.
Her head whipped around in all directions.
Yujin was nowhere to be seen.
'Where did he... W-was something done to me?!!'
—Grab.
Because of that, she began feeling her body all over.
She wondered whether something indecent had happened to her while she was unconscious.
It was for the sake of resolving this perfectly natural question.
And...
'......Why does it seem like nothing happened?'
Truly, nothing had happened.
No matter how much she examined her skin, not a single trace of being touched remained.
Her clothes were still draped over her without a single wrinkle.
Even her underwear, which would definitely show signs if it had been removed, was exactly as it was.
The only thing that had changed was that her hair, which had been tied back, had been carefully let down.
Everything else was exactly the same as before she'd fallen asleep.
She tied her hair up while sinking into thought.
'What? What's going on?'
...Other things aside, why was her underwear still the same?
There was no way a man could properly put a woman’s underwear back on.
A bra had to be adjusted by gathering flesh from here and there. That was what made it look nice.
Why was it still exactly as she had painstakingly put it on that morning?
Could it be...
'Could it be he really just put me to sleep?'
—Ding!
[Alice? It's Yujin. Sorry for texting you out of the blue. You seemed really sick, so I put you to sleep with hypnosis. I bought some medicine and left it on the nearby table, so be sure to take it when you wake up.]
[P.S. Sorry I couldn't stay and nurse you. I told the professor I'd go to the Training Room, so I've got to run. I locked the nurse's office door for now.]
She belatedly checked the text message.
Alice's mouth fell open.
'...Did Yujin perhaps have some kind of sexual dysfunction?'
Okay, let's say his conscience pricked him too much to go all the way.
Even so, a little touching wouldn't have left any trace. A perfect crime was totally possible.
And she, too... if it was just that much—and it was Yujin, of all people, and not some other man—she could pretend not to know and look the other way.
And he passed that up and went to the Training Room?
Her bewilderment soon dissolved and flowed into a sigh.
"Haa......."
'Yujin was so pointlessly wholesome.'
Amid all that, she got angrier because she was happy that he'd bought her medicine.
She didn't know why she was angry, but anyway, she was angry.
—Trudge, trudge.
'And what was all this medicine he had bought? I wasn't sick, so I'd tell him to return it...'
[Headache, toothache, menstrual cramps? Ge-X-rin!]
[Fast-acting anti-inflammatory painkiller for menstrual cramps, Ta-X-Lady]
[On Those Days.......]
".........."
Even that anger faded when she saw the absurd variety of medicine Yujin had bought.
Weren't these all medications that advertised themselves as good for menstrual cramps?
—Tremble, tremble.
"......."
For a long while, Alice teared up, lost somewhere between shame and fury.
* * *
After buying one of every type of medicine for Alice.
I headed to the Training Room alone.
To greet the moment of explosive stat pumping I'd been longing for day and night for the past two weeks.
The moment of bug-like rapid growth.
"Hoo... Arrived!"
'My goal is to reach a Strength Stat of 5.0 by the end of today.......'
"———Hey. Yujin. What have you been doing with her?"
—Grab. Sniff, sniff.
"......!!!!!?"
Up until the moment the inexplicably enraged Sia buried her nose into me.
I had thought it would be possible.