I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

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Once again speaking shockingly, Ye Yue Li Ya stopped and looked at the teacher in front of her, who was facing the light against her and whose face was slightly dim, and she stopped.

she asked rhetorically.

"—Are you serious?"

"Ah."

……

The two continued walking along the bank of the Uji River, and at this time, Hirakawa Tetsufumi had already told the whole story and the cause of the incident.

"Which student fell in love with you first?"

"……Um."

"You firmly refused?"

"Ah."

"firm?"

"I was really determined at that time," Hirakawa Tetsufumi defended himself.

"Then after a few days, I turned around and got stuck in it," said Ye Yue Li Ya.

"..."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi gave a bitter smile. "Yes, I cannot deny this, but I was very firm when I refused. As for what happened afterwards... to be honest, I don't know what happened, I just felt..."

"Hypnotized?" Ye Yue Li Ya added.

"Well, it was like a dream." Tetsufumi Hirakawa described his feelings at the time.

"Tsk."

"how?"

"The man who claims to be able to hypnotize all of Japan easily, was actually hypnotized?"

"..."

Hazuki Riya walked beside him, looking at his profile.

"Is there any other possibility, for example, that the yukata is your sexual fetish? Then that student wore it at the festival, which immediately caused a critical blow to your sexual fetish, so after a kiss, you are completely dominated by your lower body, or something."

"...How can it be so careless?"

"You don't seem to deny that yukata is your sexual fetish."

"……no."

"You hesitated."

"..."

"Tsk."

"..."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa recalled the first time he saw Shinohara Shiori wearing a yukata, and stopped talking.

After waiting for several seconds, he reluctantly got back to the point and replied, "Although this is quite ironic, I have indeed thought a lot about it in the past few days since I woke up from the dream. I feel that there seems to be no other possibility except this."

"Do you know what this memory looks like in my mind?"

"It really was like a dream, I felt like I was watching a movie."

"I seemed to have lost the ability to think, and indulged in ridiculous behavior almost without thinking."

"This memory seems very inconsistent and abrupt in my overall memory. It's as if my body is controlled by someone else, who is doing things that I would never do."

"It wasn't until I woke up and looked at it again that I realized what I had done."

"This experience really is like a dream, like being hypnotized. Can you understand?"

"..."

"...I've never been hypnotized." Ye Yue Liya said subconsciously, and then as if he had thought of something, he immediately took a step away, "Hey, I don't mean to experience it, don't do anything to me."

"..."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa glanced at her.

Hazuki Reiya stiffened for a moment and then recovered as if nothing had happened.

"But I think I understand what you mean."

"Do you understand?"

"Well... after all." Ye Yue Li Ya looked at the night scene on the other side that was completely opposite to Hirakawa Tetsufumi, and her voice softened a bit, "I believe you wouldn't indulge in beauty for no reason."

"Even though I always say you're a pervert or something, and that you'll do something obscene..."

"But I believe you won't do that in order to speak so recklessly..."

"At least in my eyes you are a good person... you are not a bad person."

"Having this ability and being able to stick to it is a quality that deserves admiration... I didn't compliment you, so don't get carried away, ok."

Hazuki Reya's voice faltered for a while, before continuing.

"...In short, such willpower should not be easily changed unless there are other special circumstances."

"If you have this ability, maybe others will have it too, like that student."

"Also, maybe it's possible—"

Hazuki Reiya, who had glanced to the side, finally turned her head and stared at him.

"Do you fully understand your abilities? From what you told me last time, it seems that you don't know much about your abilities, and you used a guessing tone when you explained them."

In her sight, Hirakawa Tetsufumi shook his head, "To be honest, indeed, I don't know much about my ability. To me, it is an unknowable black box."

"Then it's not impossible that it might have some unexpected side effects, right?"

"..."

Chapter 209 Before the agreed date arrives

"Can I ask, when did you acquire your ability? Did you have it when you were born?"

“I’ve had it for about half a year.”

"Half a year? I see. How did you get that?"

"I was in a meeting at that time, and I got it out of nowhere, inexplicably," Hirakawa Tetsufumi answered the question from Ye Yue Liya beside him, while recalling the moment when he first gained the ability.

"Since I gained this ability, I have been thinking that I need to be cautious with this unknown existence. I tried to use it a few times, and the last time I used it was when I was with you."

"So you really don't understand your ability, and you don't rule out the possibility of side effects?"

"Ah."

"..."

"If it's a side effect, it would be the worst case scenario." Ye Yue Li Ya looked at Hirakawa Tetsufumi through the night, with complicated emotions in his eyes.

Then he sighed and spoke.

"Yeah... Actually, I've thought about this possibility myself. If it was really caused this time, then this ability is really a time bomb."

“I don’t know how or when it will be triggered.”

"I have no idea how it works, and what will happen if it continues to happen?"

"..."

fell into silence.

Neither of them could solve this problem. Hirakawa Tetsufumi didn't understand this system that suddenly parasitized him, and Hazuki Reiya didn't understand it even more.

Why does the system exist? What does it rely on to exert this ability? It is a complete black box, an unknowable existence.

So no matter how you think about it, it can only be guessing.

Does using your abilities cause your willpower to decrease?

Is hypnosis a two-way street?

Every time an ability is used, will it cause backlash at some point in the future?

……

Without exact conditions, such speculation can only be vague and unfounded and cannot be proven.

Unless we encounter this situation again, we can get some clues from the similarities between the two times.

That’s why I say that if it’s caused by side effects, it would be terrible.

As I was thinking silently, I could hear the sounds of footsteps and the splashing of the Uji River on the bank. The wind was blowing along the river bank, and it was a little chilly as it got late into the night.

I heard a voice of comfort in my ear, but I wasn't sure if it could be considered a comfort.

"It may not be a side effect. It may be that the student hypnotized me."

"..."

Looking back to the side and seeing Ye Yue Li Ya's equally conflicted expression, Hirakawa Tetsufumi didn't know what to say.

Was he hypnotized by the girl? Although this situation is better than "side effects", it is still hard to know what to do.

Afterwards, if the willful Shinohara Shiori continues to act like this, should he hypnotize the girl first to prevent her from hypnotizing him first?

Tetsufumi Hirakawa also doesn't want to encounter a situation where he is forced to use his abilities.

In short, no matter which situation it is, the more you think about it, the worse it gets.

After a long time, he pressed his temple with his knuckles and spoke with a headache: "Forget it, no matter what the situation is, if it can't be confirmed for the time being, we can only put it aside for now."

What's more, there may be other unexpected possibilities.

"Yeah." Ye Yue Li Ya also agreed with him.

Unfounded speculation without any evidence will only make the issue more complicated.

Putting the reasons aside for now, just be a little wary of it.

Moreover, in fact, the question that has been bothering Tetsuwen Hirakawa in the past few days is...

"Now that the fact has happened and cannot be changed, what should I do?"

"..."

A slightly confused voice sounded along with the breeze that brushed across my cheeks along the river bank.

Whatever the reason, it had happened, and he had indeed fallen into an absurd relationship with his student, Shinohara Shiori.

Even if it was forced and not of one's own will, this stain cannot be erased.

Besides, are you really totally unwilling...?

"do you like her?"