Here it comes, here it comes—just as expected.
Lin Ye had known Isshiki Iroha would pull a stunt like this. If she didn't, she wouldn't be Isshiki.
Earlier, this girl had been vague and noncommittal, refusing to agree to Ryou Fujibayashi's request, and Lin Ye had guessed that Isshiki hadn't agreed precisely because of him.
But to expose her true intentions now—wasn't that a bit too fast?
Lin Ye thought it over and decided to first play along with Isshiki for a while, to see just what kind of outrageous request this girl could come up with.
"..."
Lin Ye put on a flustered act. "Isshiki, you promised Ryou just now that you wouldn't go blabbing."
"Nope! I only said I wouldn't blab—but Senpai isn't off the list of people I can blab to. Senpai, toying with a girl's heart like this—I think Senpai should know that Senpai would find out about it too!"
Isshiki Iroha was very satisfied with Lin Ye's reaction.
This was exactly the reaction she wanted!
Hahahaha.
Recalling how she'd just been frightened by Lin Ye a moment ago, Isshiki Iroha now felt utterly refreshed, comfortable beyond words.
She even had the urge to stand up and shout a couple of times to vent the excitement surging in her chest.
Senpai used to love bullying her—well, now things had come full circle. As the wheel of fortune turned, it was finally Isshiki Iroha's turn to viciously take revenge on this fickle, philandering man.
Isshiki Iroha began pondering how exactly she should pay Senpai back.
What should she make Senpai do?
Prepare lunch for her every day?
Treat her to meals?
Take her to the amusement park?
Say "Princess Iroha, please get in the car" every time they met?
Isshiki Iroha couldn't contain the excitement in her heart.
"Isshiki, how have I treated you?"
"Well, of course it's been good… as if! The way Senpai's always bullied me is still fresh in my memory—I haven't forgotten it even now. Senpai, you didn't actually think I'd forgotten, did you!"
Isshiki Iroha gave a smug little chuckle, the corners of her mouth curling up, unable to hide her amusement.
"I take very good care of you on a daily basis."
"Take care of me, and then bully me every single day, bully me right in front of Yukinoshita-senpai and Yuigahama-senpai, without sparing me an ounce of dignity—how does that count as taking care of me?"
Isshiki planted her hands on her hips.
"You—what do you want to do?"
That timid, weak tone gave Isshiki Iroha enormous satisfaction.
Senpai, so you have days like this too. Weren't you always so domineering, so full of presence, so dignified?
You even threatened me earlier, said you'd resort to forceful measures—so how come you don't dare use them now?
"What I want to do—surely Senpai knows full well? Hmph."
She gave a soft snort.
"I, I understand… I… I'll just agree to it, then."
Agree to what?
Amid her confusion, Isshiki Iroha saw Lin Ye walking toward her.
"I, I'll satisfy you."
"Hm?"
Watching Lin Ye reach out a hand, Isshiki Iroha finally understood what he was referring to.
It scared her into retreating two steps.
"Senpai, what are you trying to do! I, I'll call the police and have you arrested!"
She was furious, her emotions somewhat agitated.
"I… go ahead, say it!"
Wahh!
So exciting!
Senpai really is afraid of being threatened.
Isshiki grew even more delighted. "Ahem, ahem, ahem, it's very simple, Senpai."
She looked at Lin Ye, coughed twice, and continued, "Be my… be my… a very obedient Senpai, who heeds my every word—to put it as an analogy… something like a slave obedient to its mistress! Obediently do as I say, listen to me in everything. If I tell Senpai to go east, you go east; if west, then west. You must never defy my will."
You've really got some nerve to dream that up!
"I understand."
"Good that you understand. Then from today on, Senpai, you're my—"
"You're my slave, Isshiki."
"Eh!"
Isshiki froze.
"Senpai, you misspoke."
"I didn't misspeak. From today on, Isshiki, you'll be my slave—my dear little junior."
"Huh."
Isshiki Iroha cried out in shock, "Senpai, Senpai, aren't you, aren't you afraid I'll spill everything about you? I, I'll really spill it!"
At this moment, Isshiki Iroha also noticed that Lin Ye's expression had changed—no longer as weak and cornered as before.
"Isshiki, you don't really think you can threaten me with that, do you!"
"..."
Isshiki Iroha's heart sank. "You, you're not afraid I'll tell Yukinoshita-senpai? If Yukinoshita-senpai found out, Senpai, you'd be done for—you'd never have any chance of being with Yukinoshita-senpai ever again."
"Not afraid. I believe you won't tell."
"I, I won't keep Senpai's secrets for no reason—unless Senpai…"
"Refused."
Lin Ye refused in one breath.
"Hey, hey, then change it—just be my butler, then."
"I, Lin Ye, never accept threats. No one's threats will ever be accepted. Just now I was purely playing along with you, wanting to see just how far you, Isshiki, would go."
Lin Ye pressed closer, looking down on her from above. "I really didn't expect you, Isshiki, to have grown so bold—daring to come threaten me, and even wanting me to be your slave. You've really got some guts."
"It's not a slave—obedience is the key point."
Being stared at, Isshiki Iroha's heart grew even more flustered.
As expected, threatening Senpai wasn't so easy.
This guy Senpai wasn't the least bit afraid of being threatened.
No—it might really just be a bluff. In reality, Senpai was scared to death and had simply decided to be tough with her this once, to make her back down, to make her retreat.
How could that be.
How could she, Isshiki Iroha, possibly fall for it.
"Hmph, Senpai, since you're so tactless, then don't blame me. I'll make you understand just how terrible the consequences of offending me are."
Having said that,
Isshiki Iroha took out her phone.
As a regular of the Service Club, she naturally had a few extra contacts. Through every effort, she had successfully obtained the phone numbers of Yui Yuigahama and Yukinoshita.
And now,
she was about to use, for the very first time, this contact—the contact that would make Senpai tremble with fear.
"Do you know who I'm about to call?"
"Yukinoshita, right!"
"Mm."
Isshiki watched him. "If Senpai begs me, I can consider sparing you. Call me Queen Iroha, and I'll forgive Senpai."
You've really got some nerve to dream that up.
Now she was even treating herself as a queen.
"Isshiki, you still haven't grasped the situation you're in."
"Sen, Senpai, you're not planning to resort to violence, are you! If, if you really do that, I, I… will definitely call the police, I'll absolutely never let you off."
"There's no need for violence to deal with you."
Lin Ye had already thought of a good method.
"Then what are you planning to do?"
"In this world, there exist some marvelous things. Isshiki, I imagine you more or less know that!"
"Uh..."
What was that supposed to mean.
"For instance, if I say a word like 'Isshiki, your body is forbidden to move,' perhaps your body really won't be able to move."
"How could there be such a thing—it's completely impossible."
Isshiki Iroha burst into laughter, not believing it in the slightest.
Lin Ye locked eyes with the girl.
Let me use Isshiki to test out my Hypnosis ability.
Ability,
activate.
"Isshiki, from now on, your body shall obey my commands."
"Senpai, quit joking around."
Isshiki Iroha laughed.
"Isshiki, your body is forbidden to move. Without my command, you may not move."
What Lin Ye was now curious about was whether Isshiki's consciousness would also be stripped away, or whether only her body would be affected.
Isshiki Iroha wanted to laugh, but couldn't laugh.
She wanted to open her mouth and speak, only to find that she couldn't even open her mouth.
Every single part of her body felt as if half of it had been imprisoned beyond her control.
Isshiki Iroha was stunned.
Can't move, can't move,
completely immobile.
How could this be.
Why couldn't her body move at all.
Move, move for me!
Senpai, you—you really can do it!
Watching the girl standing stock-still on the spot, Lin Ye realized his Hypnosis ability had taken effect—he just didn't know whether the girl's consciousness was still present.
But for now, he first had to tease the girl a bit, to make Isshiki Iroha realize she'd done something wrong.
"Isshiki, say something. Standing there without moving a muscle—I'm honestly amazed you'd cooperate with me this much. Truly worthy of being my adorable junior, so cooperative."
No, Senpai, I really can't move.
Hurry, think of something, save me, hurry and let me return to normal!
Isshiki Iroha screamed inwardly, but her body still showed not the slightest sign of being able to move.
She had completely lost control over her own body.
"Alright, Isshiki, that's enough. There's no need to keep up the act."
Isshiki still stood in place without any movement at all.
Lin Ye knit his brows slightly, perfecting his performance as much as possible.
"Hey, Isshiki, if you keep pretending like this, don't blame me."
Coming back before Isshiki, Lin Ye reached out a hand and first poked at the girl's cheek.
Isshiki Iroha screamed inside, but there was nothing she could do,
and she could distinctly feel Lin Ye's hand gradually moving downward along her cheek.
Don't,
don't,
don't!
"If you keep this up, I'll take it as you consenting to my every action."
No, I don't consent, Senpai, stop right there. I've genuinely run into an abnormal event.
Don't kick me while I'm down, don't take advantage of the situation to cop a feel.
Last night Ryou Fujibayashi-neesan still didn't satisfy you, and yet you're still this full of fire, still out hunting for women!
Isshiki Iroha was so anxious she was about to cry,
yet her eyes didn't hold even a trace of tears.
Lin Ye's finger poked downward,
and Isshiki Iroha still gave no reaction.
Lin Ye nodded.
He just didn't know what the drawback of this superpower was.
"Isshiki, let's see how long you can hold out, pretending with me."
No, no, I'm not pretending!
Lin Ye scooped up the girl,
which threw Isshiki Iroha's heart into a panic.
No way, no way—Senpai's planning to carry her off to the bedroom to have his fun?
Don't!
Senpai, don't do this.
It's still my first time, I don't want to lose my first time just like this.
Senpai, let me go!
'Thud…' came a sound.
Isshiki Iroha found herself tossed by Lin Ye onto the sofa.
The sofa?
Senpai, you're planning to just go at it right on the sofa?
At the very least, at the very least do it in the bedroom!
In the living room, this exhibitionist style of play—I can't take it, I can't bear it.
The Fujibayashi sisters will hear and find out.
No matter how Isshiki Iroha roared inside her heart, her body gave no reaction whatsoever.
Her shoes were taken off,
her socks were taken off,
and Isshiki Iroha could already sense what was about to happen next.
Papa, Mama.
Your adorable daughter is going to take the step today, right now, and become a woman.
In the next instant,
an increasingly intense stimulation came from the soles of her feet.
An itching sensation was continuously transmitting through her soles to her brain.
Every nerve in Isshiki Iroha's body went taut.
Lin Ye noticed the slight reaction in Isshiki's body.
Very faint, but a reaction nonetheless.
"Intense stimulation can still make a hypnotized body react."
Mm, not bad, not bad.
This kind of test—he couldn't bear to run it on Ryou Fujibayashi, and as for Mai or Ren Nanase, he actually couldn't quite bear to do it to them either.
But Isshiki Iroha was a different matter.
Since this junior dared to threaten him, then naturally she had to bear the corresponding consequences and accept the corresponding punishment.
This was his punishment.
To make this junior remember well, with her own body, never to casually threaten a man whose true strength she had no measure of.
"Impressive!"
"Isshiki, you're not ticklish—you actually don't react at all. Impressive, impressive."
"Let's see how long you can keep it up."
...
Lin Ye scratched even harder, and on top of that launched an assault on the girl's waist and underarms as well.
Wherever she was most ticklish, that was where he stimulated.
At the same time, Lin Ye observed,
and found that Isshiki's body did still react—it wasn't completely maintaining a static state.
But even this let Lin Ye further understand the effects of the superpower.
"Isshiki,"
"you're really something—not even afraid of this, and still daring to pretend with me."
I really… am not pretending!
Isshiki was already crying, crying to the point of near collapse.
Only, neither her sobs nor her cries made it out of her mouth.
She discovered that there were, in fact, things even more excruciating and painful than physical pain!
It was all Senpai's fault, Senpai tormenting her like this.
At the thought that she might have to remain in this vegetable-like state for the rest of her life, Isshiki Iroha even felt the urge to die.
In this moment,
she wanted nothing more than to return to normal, and for that, she was willing to pay any price as compensation.
Somebody, help me!
Isshiki Iroha was lost in an agonized expression.
Finally,
Lin Ye stopped his movements, looked at the girl lying on the sofa, still motionless like a puppet, and slowly exhaled a breath.
He was thoroughly satisfied.
That's what you get for threatening me.
This is the price you have to pay.
Lin Ye turned Isshiki over. Her eyes were vacant, even somewhat hollow, devoid of vitality.
Lin Ye felt awkward—it seemed he'd gone a bit overboard.
He looked into the girl's eyes, lowered his voice, and murmured a single sentence.
The triggering medium for Hypnosis was looking directly into the other person's line of sight.
Before he had successfully hypnotized Isshiki Iroha earlier, Lin Ye had secretly tried several methods, none of which had worked.
It was only upon making eye contact that he confirmed the gazes had to meet directly for the Hypnosis to be successfully activated.
"Hm?"
Lin Ye looked at the girl on the sofa.
He had already released the Hypnosis,
so why did the girl give no reaction at all.
"Isshiki, Isshiki."
Lin Ye shook her a couple of times,
and only then did the puppet-like girl slowly begin to react.
"Ahh ahh ahh!"
She suddenly realized her body had regained control, and immediately cried out. Reclaiming control of her body, she was so overwhelmed she burst into tears.
"Boo-hoo-hoo..."
At the same time, mixed into this crying was the lingering itch left in her body,
which made her, for a moment, wail out loud.
Lin Ye looked at the girl clinging tightly to him and weeping with all her might, and realized he'd gone too far.
Though it was revenge, he really hadn't intended to bully Isshiki to such a degree.
"Finally done pretending."
"Boo-hoo-hoo, Senpai, I… I really did just now… lose control of my body, boo-hoo-hoo..."
"I, I even thought I'd become… a vegetable."
"I was really… so scared!"
...
She hugged him even tighter.
Only after having lost it does one realize how precious it was to possess.
Isshiki Iroha really never imagined she could run into something like this.
"Senpai, Senpai, from now on… you're not allowed to say that kind of thing anymore. You jinxed it and it came true!"
"Senpai, you jinx-mouth, you deserve a beating."
Even now, she hadn't once suspected Lin Ye to be the culprit.
Or perhaps she had at first, but Lin Ye's subsequent reactions and behavior had made Isshiki Iroha feel that Lin Ye wasn't the culprit—that he was innocent.
Lin Ye grew increasingly awkward. He could only hold the girl, stroking her hair. "There, there, it's fine now that you're normal. Maybe some kind of accident occurred just now."
"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm."
Isshiki Iroha nodded vigorously.
Her collapsed emotions slowly subsided, and Isshiki's heart gradually returned to normal.
"Senpai, where is your hand?"
At this moment, Lin Ye's right hand was resting on the small of the girl's back—only, the small of her back was now exposed to the air, and he could feel how delicate and fine the skin of the girl's waist was.
"Your waist."
"Then why haven't you taken it away?"
"Why should I take it away?"
"Senpai, a girl's waist isn't to be touched carelessly. If you've touched it, then you'd better take responsibility for me."
"Responsibility? What's that."
"Wawa, I'll bite you."
Now, Isshiki Iroha sorted through the abnormal event she had just experienced once more.
With her reason now restored, she began to combine all the information she'd gathered for a round of analysis and conjecture.
In the end, she once again placed the object of suspicion onto Lin Ye.
Because she thought of the abnormality with Lin Ye during the lunch hour at Sobu High—
the unobservable, indescribable strange thing.
That too had been an abnormality.
And she had just experienced an abnormality as well,
plus, Senpai had said 'your body is forbidden to move,' and her body really had become unable to budge, as if it had lost control.
Earlier, Senpai's reactions of shock and the like had made her feel he was unaware—but now… it was different. With her reason now restored, she believed Lin Ye was the biggest suspect.
Surely there couldn't exist some indescribable invisible air-person!
And Senpai's reaction wasn't normal either. If he really had seen her rigid, vegetable-like state, Senpai should have been at least somewhat worried—not the way he was now, in essence displaying a complete lack of panic.
This… was very suspicious.
So, she had to give it a try, and get Senpai to confess on his own.
And the method to make a man's heart flutter—what's the simplest one?
That would, of course, be… that!
No man would dislike it.
"Senpai,"
"What is it?"
"Do you want to touch up here?"
What's above the waist?
Lin Ye subconsciously looked over.
But his mind had already realized a step ahead.
This girl was starting to think about using her body to seduce him again.
Was he the kind of man who could be seduced?
She underestimated him.
"As long as you agree to one tiny request of mine, I'll allow Senpai to touch! Other places are okay too."
Lin Ye frowned.
It seemed this girl really was up to something—otherwise, why would she suddenly start playing the seduction game.
Lin Ye didn't ask, and Isshiki spoke up. "Senpai, teach me how to make other people's bodies unable to move too… please…"
So that was it.
This girl still suspected him.
Still, even if Lin Ye put himself in her shoes, the object of suspicion would only be himself.
This girl did have some brains. Earlier, when she'd been crying and shedding tears in her plea, he'd momentarily thought Isshiki's intelligence was no good either—that he could probably deceive her at will without even needing Hypnosis.
"What, what? Isshiki, what do you mean by this? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding."
"Senpai, don't play dumb. Earlier Senpai threatened me so full of confidence—turns out it was because Senpai has this special ability."
Isshiki Iroha nodded in sudden realization.
"Last night, Senpai must have used this strange ability to bully the Fujibayashi sisters too, right! And then forced them to submit. Senpai really is… impressive."
Lin Ye: "..."
If I really wanted to use my ability to satisfy myself, you'd have long since turned into a hot weapon—how would it ever be your turn to be jumping around in front of me?
"So, Senpai, teach me! I promise I won't tell anyone. And this ability—I won't carelessly use it on others either."
In this moment,
Isshiki Iroha stared at Lin Ye with curious eyes.
And Lin Ye felt it was time to make Isshiki forget what had happened today.
If this girl still remembered all this, she'd surely cling to him like a clingy little tail, racking her brains to achieve her goal—he had that feeling.
So making Isshiki forget was the best choice.
He just didn't know whether Hypnosis could make Isshiki Iroha lose her memory.
No matter what, he had to give it a try.
"Isshiki, since that's the case, let me show you the might of this power of mine!"
Isshiki's eyes flew open, revealing astonishment.
So it really did exist,
just as she'd guessed.
Isshiki was thrilled.
A special power that transcended the everyday—she, Isshiki Iroha, could come into contact with it. She was about to enter the mysterious Inner World.
"Senpai, hurry, tell me, hurry and tell me."
Isshiki Iroha even shook Lin Ye.
Senpai was good in every way, except he loved to bully her by being coy and keeping her in suspense—it was so unbearable.
If Senpai could fix that trait, she'd be even more satisfied with him.
"I won't just tell you, I'll even demonstrate it for you. Make sure you're mentally prepared."
Isshiki Iroha nodded vigorously.
Her only fear was that he wouldn't demonstrate.
She'd been mentally bracing herself for a whole round of persuasion—and now, wonderful, Senpai had brought it up on his own.
"Very good."
Since his junior had agreed, how could he let her miss out on this experience.
He had to let Isshiki experience it—experience it good and hard.
"Isshiki, starting now, do one hundred squats."
Isshiki Iroha: ???
But her body had already begun to move.
One,
two,
three.
Without pause.
And she could only watch helplessly as her own body went up and down, over and over, ceaselessly—even though her body already felt the aching soreness, it simply wouldn't stop and just kept going.
Until all one hundred squats were completed.
"Huff, huff, huff..."
Isshiki Iroha was panting heavily.
"Sen, Senpai..."
"Pretty good. Next up is…"
"Don't, don't! Let me off, I'm begging you, Senpai."
Scared,
Isshiki Iroha was already frightened.
The soreness of her body and the terror of being unable to control it made her understand this power of Lin Ye's.
This was just doing squats—if, if Senpai ordered her to strip naked, she likely wouldn't be able to stop it either.
If it really came to that,
what should she do?
Isshiki Iroha was afraid.
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