Chapter 77
"You have 50 minutes for the test. Begin as soon as you receive the question paper."
……What was this? This familiar feeling.
The moment I received the question paper, I let out an exclamation inwardly. No, wasn't this too easy?
There was nothing but basic math problems solvable with the four fundamental operations, and questions that were practically common knowledge.
Was the test normally this easy?
Judging by the candidates around me struggling with the problems, that didn't seem to be the case.
While solving the questions, I realized something.
Korea was a country where people took it for granted that they had to receive nine years of compulsory education, three years of high school, and then go on to university because even that wasn't enough.
I had never once thought I was smarter or more capable than the people here, but
there was one situation in which I could consider myself a little better.
This written test.
I didn't know about other worlds, but this world's standard of education was far behind that of the modern era.
At the very top, there were probably people far smarter than me grappling with abstruse fields of study, but…….
What mattered right now was the average level, wasn't it?
The answers just flowed out!
On top of that, the Goddess's Agent skill helped me understand and use any language I encountered as though it were my mother tongue.
That was practically a cheat code when it came to foreign-language questions.
Why was this skill so absurdly effective?
The knowledge wasn't actually in my head, but some strange instinct for grammar guided me to the correct answers.
When I confidently turned the page, I faced a real problem.
A question about history.
Arrange the names of the previous heroes in chronological order.
Ugh……!!
Wasn't this practically common knowledge in this world? But there was no way I could know it.
What was the current hero's name again? I think Noah mentioned it…… Was it 'Bellisa'?
I guess I'll just take a stab at it.
It wasn't as though the world would end just because I screwed up a few history questions, right?
I finished everything.
When I looked at the clock, there were 34 minutes remaining.
I stood up first, handed in my test paper, and went outside.
When I came out, the woman with glasses was waiting for me.
"Have you completed the test?"
"Yes."
"The final interview is waiting. Please wait a moment."
The woman with glasses slightly opened the door opposite us and went inside.
Was the interview room right in front of me?
I had a feeling I was going to be first in line.
"Come in."
I opened the door and entered.
Three interviewers were seated, waiting for me. One was a well-built man with graying hair neatly swept back, and the other two were young men dressed smartly.
There wasn't even a pretty interviewer. What a disappointment.
I considered hypnotizing them immediately and guaranteeing my acceptance, but held back for the moment.
Since I had been the fastest, I would have to wait that much longer. Above all, I had no motivation whatsoever to hypnotize men.
Let's see how things play out first.
"Please take a seat."
I sat down, facing the interviewers across from me.
"Please briefly introduce yourself."
"My name is Dekal. I'm a mage who uses fire-based attack magic."
"Yes……."
The young man continued speaking as he checked the documents.
"Could you tell us why you applied to Melbrit as a candidate trainee?"
"Hmm……. No particular reason."
The interviewers seemed displeased by my halfhearted attitude.
"What do you consider your greatest strength?"
"The fact that I can use magic, I suppose. Since I'm a mage."
"Is there nothing else?"
"The spirit of wind……. Ah…. Never mind."
I snapped my fingers.
The consciousnesses of the three interviewers and the woman with glasses sank into a trance.
First, I looked up at the ceiling and let out a long sigh.
"This is boring……."
It wasn't enjoyable at all.
I had no intention of answering the interview seriously, either.
Fighting monsters had been more stimulating and thrilling, if anything.
It couldn't be helped…….
I rose from my chair and looked over the only woman in the room—the woman with glasses—as though appraising her face and figure.
Her face. Moderately cute, I suppose. Her breasts were moderately large. Her hips……. I ran my hands over the woman's body to check for myself.
Her buttocks were fairly substantial. I pulled up her long skirt and checked her underwear.
Black panties embroidered with purple patterns.
"All of you will forget everything that happened in this interview just now."
First, a reset.
"You will not perceive my actions."
That was the keyword that would make me invisible.
However, this suggestion would only make them ignore my actions. Communication through language would still work, so the interview would continue.
"You will be unable to focus on the content of what I say."
Done.
With this, no matter what nonsense I spouted, the interviewers would forget everything the moment they left this room and would never be able to recall it.
"Lastly, my interview will result in my unconditional acceptance."
Ugh…….
Even I had to admit it was a boring suggestion.
It couldn't be helped. If I answered too seriously like an idiot and botched the personality interview, cleaning up the mess afterward would be even more bothersome.
Let's think of it as a rite of passage for an enjoyable school life.
Clap.
I clapped my hands.
"We will now begin the interview."
I ignored them and kissed the woman with glasses on the lips.
"Mmph. Mmmph."
The woman with glasses merely stood there with a puzzled expression, unable to perceive my actions.
I pulled her into my arms, sucked on her lips, and forced my tongue into her mouth.
"Please briefly introduce yourself."
"Dekal. A hypnotist with a big cock."
"I see."
As I sucked on the woman's tongue, I let saliva flow into her mouth.
"……?"
I sucked hard on her lower lip while roughly kneading her firm buttocks.
At least I was a little less bored now.
"I will now ask the main question. Why did you apply to Melbrit as a hero candidate trainee?"
"To fuck the cunts at Melbrit."
I abruptly hiked up the woman's skirt and watched the interviewers' reactions.
Just as I thought.
The convenient thing about this suggestion was that it could also obscure, to some extent, the direct results caused by my actions.
In other words, if an invisible person threw a stone and hit someone, that person might find it strange that a stone had flown at them from somewhere unseen,
but someone under the suggestion of being unable to perceive me might not even recognize that I had thrown the stone that hit them, reacting only to the pain.
This method took advantage of that.
I pulled down the woman's panties, exposing her pussy completely in front of the interviewers.
But the woman with glasses continued standing perfectly straight.
"Slurp."
I noisily sucked on the woman's pussy.
It tasted salty. She must have worked up a bit of sweat.
"What do you consider your greatest strength?"
"A fucking huge, thick cock."
"Hmm……."
The interviewers simply watched me undress the woman, listening with expressions that seemed to say, I see.
I moved behind the woman with glasses, removed my pants, and pushed my cock into her pussy.
It was tight.
"……Mm."
The woman with glasses let out a small moan, as though she felt a little discomfort.
But she continued standing there as though I didn't exist.
I clung to her back like a leech, sucking on her ear and licking her neck.
"Put it in her pussy?"
The woman with glasses frowned at my whispered words, but she couldn't focus on them.
My cock burrowed deep into the woman's pussy.
"Ah~!"
I cried out exaggeratedly, hugged the woman tightly, and wildly thrust my hips.
"I love it. I love this pussy!"
I furiously stirred the inside of the woman's pussy with my fully erect cock.
"I will ask the next question. When acting as part of a team, do you consider yourself an excellent leader, or a team member who supports the leader well?
Please explain why."
"A team member who supports the leader well. Because I can pleasure the Hero's pussy."
I wrapped myself around the woman with glasses like a spider and thrust my cock into her pussy with wet, squelching strokes.
"……! Hk. Hngh…. Mm…!"
As the woman with glasses was raped, she could not perceive my actions and could only endure it.
I reached around to gently rub her clitoris while persistently pounding my cock into her pussy.
"Hmm…. Mmm. Hk! Hk…!"
"Ah, I love a tight pussy."
I fondled the woman's breasts through her clothes while roughly thrusting my cock into her pussy.
I could feel the tight pussy gradually becoming wet due to its physiological response.
"Have you ever experienced conflict while participating in group activities? If so, please tell us what happened and how you would resolve such a situation."
"There was one adventurer who tried to teach me a lesson. I crippled him beyond recovery and solved the problem by fucking the woman he coveted."
"Hmm-hmm."
The interviewers nodded lightly.
I roughly slammed my cock into the woman's pussy. Her body stiffened as though in pain, but I paid no attention and rapidly moved my hips solely for the sake of my own ejaculation.
Squelch, squelch.
"I'm cumming inside!"
I hugged the woman standing motionless so tightly that her clothes crumpled, and violently ejaculated inside her pussy.
Her pussy instinctively clenched tightly around my cock.
I continued moving my hips, thoroughly milking myself down to the base of my balls and spilling every last drop of semen inside the woman's pussy before slowly pulling out my cock.
"Do you have anything you would like to say at the end?"
"Phew……."
As I got dressed, I said while fondling the glasses girl’s buttocks, which I had just ejaculated inside.
“Thank you for allowing me to enroll in a school like this. In return for your expectations, I’ll fuck every girl who was raised as a treasured jewel. That is all.”
“Um, yes… I understand. Thank you for your time.
We’ll conclude the interview here. I hope you get good results. You may leave now.”
I left the room feeling refreshed.
Stia was waiting outside. Perhaps she was still somewhat embarrassed, because she asked with a bashful expression.
“D-Dekal. How did the interview go?”
“It went well. It was just a simple personality interview. Don’t be nervous.”
“I see… Thank you. And about what happened earlier….”
“What happened earlier?”
Stia lowered her head.
“It was my fault for reaching out carelessly. I’m sorry for putting you through such a shameful experience.”
“Oh, you mean when you grabbed my dick? You were surprised, weren’t you?”
“…Ugh.”
I bluntly exposed what she had been trying to phrase indirectly.
“I’ll forgive you if you tell me what you were thinking when you touched it.”
“W-What do you mean, what was I thinking?”
“If it wasn’t some naughty prank, then you can tell me, can’t you?”
“I didn’t do it on purpose.”
“Then tell me.”
When I pressed her in a forceful tone, Stia seemed unable to think clearly and muttered,
“I thought it was… big and thick. W-What are you making me say?”
Perhaps she only felt embarrassed belatedly, because Stia’s face turned red.
“I’m disappointed…!”
“I’m sorry. Seeing you flustered made me want to tease you for no reason.”
“……”
“Let’s call it even and forget about it. How does that sound?”
“…That’s a good idea. I’ll forget the low-class sexual harassment you just committed.”
I felt as though I had narrowly avoided stepping on Stia’s sore spot.
It had been quite entertaining, walking such a fine line by using her own earlier embarrassing mistake as leverage.
Soon, the glasses girl came out of the interview room.
Under the influence of the suggestion, she did not even look at me and went straight to Stia.
“Please go in. There’s a final interview.”
“Yes.”
Her nervous expression returning at once, Stia glanced at me before opening the door and going inside.
“Dekal. Become a candidate, and let’s meet at the school.”
“Yeah.”
Stia entered the interview room.
I stopped the glasses girl from leaving by catching hold of her, then snapped my fingers.
Snap.
Just in case, I decided to lift the suggestion.
The three interviewers were irrelevant, but I wanted to show the glasses girl at least some consideration.
“When you wake up, you’ll recognize my actions again. Just like everyone else.”
“Just like everyone else….”
“You’ll also be able to concentrate on the content of what I say.”
That was enough.
Clap. I brought my hands together.
“Ah.”
The glasses girl looked at me and gave a small bow.
“Thank you for your effort during the interview. Please leave through the passage on the right. You can check the results tomorrow at Melbrit’s main gate.”
“Thank you.”
The hypnosis deactivation had been successful.
Of course, since lifting hypnosis was done by overwriting the suggestion, it did create the problem of my presence becoming faint to her.
It was a problem that could be controlled within normal limits.
Also, when I had given her the suggestion not to recognize my actions, I had hypnotized her by focusing her consciousness through sound rather than hand gestures.
That was why I had been able to clean things up even after unilaterally enjoying the glasses girl’s pussy.
The reason I had chosen finger snapping as my routine for inducing hypnosis was precisely because of this convenience.
It was possible to hypnotize someone without auditory or visual cues, but
there were rare occasions when that happened.
When someone became so deeply immersed that their consciousness could not be organized, and they neither paid close attention to my hand movements nor took any interest in the sound.
In such cases, the hypnosis did not take hold.
That was why caution was necessary when applying the 〈Unable to Perceive〉 suggestion.
That was why 〈Unable to Concentrate on the Content of Speech〉 had been a fairly decent auxiliary suggestion.
It was the sort of suggestion that caused no sense of incongruity while the person was listening, but interfered with their ability to interpret the content.
And through testing, I had confirmed that this suggestion became invalid while the subject was in a trance—in other words, when their unconscious mind had surfaced.
If I went on a rampage in a setting like a school, I would probably use it often.
〈Unable to Perceive〉 was a convenient suggestion in many ways.
Just as men sometimes imagine what it would be like to become invisible.
Sometimes, a suggestion that made me completely unnoticed by others could be useful.
Now, what should I do?
Should I wait for Stia to come out and hypnotize her?
No. There was no way she would fail. We would naturally meet at the Hero School.
I left through the exit.
By then, the sun was already sinking outside.
Should I return to the inn where Elin was? …No.
I should wait for Karen.
If I went back first, she would definitely feel hurt.
There had been things like street food sold by vendors in the commoners’ district, but there was nothing like that here.
It was a hassle, but I went down once and bought bread for Karen and myself.
I was almost out of money, too. Hm. I needed to think about where I could get more.
On the way back to Melbrit, I spotted a group of armed soldiers gathered together.
What was this? Looking closely, they were somewhat different from the guards. Judging by their high-quality equipment, they reminded me of the Vanguard family’s private soldiers.
The Vanguard family. Don’t tell me….
“There! That’s him!”
Diana screamed hysterically.
The Vanguard family’s private soldiers surrounded me in an instant, pointing their spears and swords at me.
They packed themselves around me without leaving so much as a gap, just in case I tried to escape. Then one of them stepped aside, and Diana appeared in his place.
Diana looked incredibly cute and beautiful dressed in Melbrit’s white uniform.
I had been on the verge of getting annoyed, but seeing her fairy-like appearance eased my anger somewhat.
“Are you ready to pay the price for tarnishing a noble’s honor? I challenge you to a duel, Dekal!”
“……”
I couldn’t believe she had suffered such humiliation and still hadn’t repented enough.
I sighed.