"Yan Huan!"
"..."
"Yan Huan, wake up, ow!"
"Ugh..."
Yan Huan's consciousness groggily surfaced from the darkness. The first thing he heard was Myau-chan's anxious cries beside him.
He tried to open his eyes, but his entire body felt overwhelmingly numb and tingling. It was like waking up from anesthesia—his mind was alert, but his body had yet to awaken.
'I...'
'Where am I...'
His brain felt heavy as he struggled to recall what had just happened.
He rembered...
He had just returned downstairs from grocery shopping and saw a black sedan car.
Then he had glanced at the car's rearview mirror, which reflected the billboard opposite his public housing apartnt building...
And then, he lost consciousness?
'!!'
'It's Hypnosis!'
Only now was Yan Huan slow to catch on, belatedly realizing that he had been subjected to Hypnosis.
But this ti, the Hypnosis was completely different from before!
In the past, when she hypnotized him, he only felt a slight numbness and tingling sensation, but he still retained his consciousness.
This ti, however, he had completely lost consciousness.
'Her Modifier Ability must have gotten stronger again...'
A wave of sheer terror washed over him, jolting so feeling back into his limbs.
Creak...
He subconsciously shifted his body, only to find himself tightly bound. Even his vision was covered by an eye mask.
"Myau-chan?"
"Thank goodness, you're finally awake, ow!"
"Was I hypnotized by Ye Shiyu earlier?"
"Yes, ow. By the ti I reacted, you had already fallen for it, ow! Then I could only watch helplessly as Ye Shiyu ca down from the apartnt building and brought you here..."
"Ca down from upstairs?"
Hearing this, Yan Huan's heart skipped a beat.
'That ans Ye Shiyu went to my apartnt?!'
'Did she see An Le and Sakuramiya Hitomi?'
'And if Ye Shiyu was able to co down completely unscathed and hypnotize , it highly likely ans a fight broke out between them, and Ye Shiyu won?!'
'How are they doing?'
'Ye Shiyu's Modifier is terrifyingly powerful right now. Sakuramiya Hitomi's clones have been eliminated, and An Le hasn't used her Modifier in a long ti. There's no way they could be her match...'
'If sothing terrible happened to them...'
"..."
Yan Huan subconsciously worried about whether Sakuramiya Hitomi and An Le had fallen victim to Hypnosis, entirely forgetting that he himself was imprisoned.
"Oh right, Yan Huan, do you rember that villa you were looking at last night, ow?"
"...The one with the luxurious basent?"
"Yes, ow! You are currently locked inside that very basent!"
"..."
Hearing this, Yan Huan was completely dumbfounded.
Only now did he understand why the elders in his previous life always maintained the tradition of avoiding taboos to prevent jinxing things.
Great. He had just searched for basents yesterday, and today he had happily moved in with his bags packed!
'Wait a minute...'
'Don't I still have one use of the Battle Defeat CG left?'
'Logically speaking, being hypnotized into submission and locked in a basent is a guaranteed bad end. Why didn't the Battle Defeat CG warn
when I was heading ho earlier?'
'Could it be that this ability derived from the Index Finger actually turned traitor?!'
Yan Huan subconsciously thought this, but upon second thought, that probably wasn't the reason.
'Either...'
'This still doesn't count as a bad end?'
'Or...'
'So special factor prevented it from activating?'
Click.
However, in the very next second, the sudden sound of a door opening echoed in the darkness.
"Ye Shiyu is here, ow!"
Although Yan Huan had Myau-chan acting as his eyes, sparing him from struggling in the unknown darkness, the intense sense of oppression radiating from Ye Shiyu was far beyond what could be offset by that alone.
Hearing the sound of Ye Shiyu's approach, Yan Huan's heart skipped a beat.
Deprived of his vision, his hearing, touch, and sll beca exceptionally sharp.
Tap, tap...
He heard her moderate footsteps landing in a steady rhythm. The faint breeze, carrying a delicate floral scent, outlined the silhouette of her tall figure in his mind.
He subconsciously raised his head and cald himself down. Slipping on his Mask of Perfect Poise, he faced the direction of the sound.
"Who? Who's there?"
"Xiao Huan... it's ."
Hearing Ye Shiyu's voice, Yan Huan pretended to heave a sigh of relief and hurriedly asked,
"Sister Shiyu, where am I? Are you here to save ?"
"...I was the one who tied you up, Xiao Huan."
The words spoken by the girl before him sent a chill straight to Yan Huan's heart.
Based on his past experiences, Ye Shiyu would usually pretend to be restrained when she wasn't hypnotizing him.
But now, she wasn't even bothering to act, filling Yan Huan with a profound sense of foreboding.
'I'm afraid...'
"Xiao Huan, there is sothing I want to ask you."
"...Go ahead, Sister Shiyu."
Yan Huan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, planning to adapt to whatever she threw at him.
In the darkness, Ye Shiyu remained silent for a long ti before her voice trembled slightly as she asked,
"You know that I have a superpower, don't you?"
'!!'
"ow?!"
The mont she spoke, not only did Yan Huan's scalp tingle, but Myau-chan also cried out in sheer horror beside him.
Yes, even without being able to see, Yan Huan could feel the overwhelming sense of oppression radiating from her Modifier.
'Ye Shiyu must have grown suspicious a long ti ago, which caused her Modifier to experience another explosive growth...'
'So that's why I had absolutely no consciousness when she hypnotized
earlier?!'
"Previously, in the staff dormitory, when you broke through my ability that night and woke up, I sensed sothing was wrong...
"At the ti, I was only suspicious.
"But recently, the fact that you... reacted to An Le and Sakuramiya Hitomi proves that not only do you know about my ability, but...
"You also know how to counter my ability, don't you?"
Leaning slightly closer to his ear, Ye Shiyu spoke these words.
The more Yan Huan listened, the more terrified he beca.
He couldn't see her expression at this mont, but an image of her had already ford in his mind.
She was definitely staring at him with an expressionless face and deep, fathomless eyes, clearly having decided to silence him.
Of course, perhaps she didn't intend to kill him.
Instead, she would use Hypnosis to make him completely forget everything, turning him into a docile, obedient Sworn Younger Brother stripped of his own personality!
"Hurry up and deny it, Yan Huan, ow! O-Otherwise!"
"..."
Yan Huan did not respond, prompting Ye Shiyu to question closely,
"Including that night... Actually, Xiao Huan, you didn't react to , but to Spencer, didn't you?"
"..."
"We're dood, ow..."
As Ye Shiyu exposed more and more of his lies, Myau-chan's voice gradually grew faint and weak.
The black cat had likely turned into an ashen, despair-edition useless feline by now.
"...What about An Le and Hitomi? How are they doing right now?"
Facing Ye Shiyu's interrogation, Yan Huan took a deep breath, his facial expression gradually returning to a state of calm.
He didn't answer her. Instead, he countered with a question of his own.
"Xiao Huan, you still haven't answered my question... You slept with Sakuramiya Hitomi, did things with An Le, and... had a reaction to Spencer... You..."
Yan Huan had no desire to answer. He rely interrupted her by repeating his own inquiry.
"An Le and Hitomi, how are they?"
"..."
The Ye Shiyu before him fell silent.
After a long pause, her voice drifted through the darkness,
"They are currently in my hands."
"..."
Upon hearing this, Yan Huan's expression turned incredibly grim.
He knew it. Without her clones and with her Modifier state reset, Sakuramiya Hitomi—along with An Le—were absolutely no match for Ye Shiyu.
He took a deep breath, raised his head toward Ye Shiyu's direction, and said,
"Sister Shiyu, just tell it to
straight... What do you want
to do?"
After speaking, Yan Huan felt Ye Shiyu draw slightly closer to him.
Imdiately after, he heard her say,
"Xiao Huan... Such promiscuity is wrong. You did those things with Sakuramiya Hitomi and An Le, had a reaction to Spencer, and even lied to , seeing
as a mber of the opposite gender...
"If this continues, do you plan to make a move on Bai Yi next?"
Yan Huan was left utterly speechless. He didn't want to reply; he just waited for her to deliver her final ultimatum.
Seeing that Yan Huan remained silent, refusing to say a word, Ye Shiyu was forced to continue,
"If you stop associating with other girls from now on, Xiao Huan, and focus entirely on staying here, I will let them go."
Hearing this, Yan Huan sighed and asked her,
"Sister Shiyu, are you going to lock
up here?"
"..."
She didn't speak, as if believing that as long as she didn't admit it, it didn't count as imprisonnt.
Instead, she called it turning over a new leaf.
Seeing her play the ostrich, Yan Huan reminded her,
"Even if I agree, if I disappear, Aria, Hitomi, and An Le will all co looking for . How can I be sure you'll keep your word?"
"It's okay, Xiao Huan. As long as you agree, I'll use Hypnosis to make them forget about you. As long as you stay here like a good boy, everything will be fine."
"!?"
Hearing this, Yan Huan's expression instantly changed.
Even with the eye mask blocking his vision, his pupils inevitably shrank to pinpricks. His gaze felt as if it could materialize into sothing physical, piercing straight through the fabric to bore into Ye Shiyu.
Blue veins bulged across his hands bound behind his back. It was obvious that her words had completely crossed his bottom line.
Buzz!
And just as blinding fury drove Yan Huan to refuse her, an ethereal sound rang out, imdiately dragging his consciousness into a highly imrsive, vivid warning.
The Battle Defeat CG had been triggered!
[After hearing Ye Shiyu's utterly unreasonable demands, you beco so consud by anger that you no longer wish to humor this hopeless female ghost for another second.]
[You completely tear away your facade as the kind sworn younger brother, revealing the entire truth to her through a barrage of insults.]
[From the very beginning, everything you showed her was a lie, a performance put on solely because you wanted to resolve the Modifier.]
[From start to finish, you never once looked at her properly, nor did you ever harbor any feelings for her.]
[You didn't even want to know her in the first place.]
[Thus, under your brutal, face-tearing words, Ye Shiyu's delusions are finally shattered.]
[But the mont her fantasy shatters, what awaits you is the ruthless revenge of a completely broken Ye Shiyu.]
["Xiao Huan, since you've never seen
as your sworn older sister or as a mber of the opposite gender... then don't bla
for no longer seeing you as a special existence either."]
[Saying this, Ye Shiyu gently removes your eye mask, revealing her terrifying, expressionless face looking down at you.]
[Her deep gaze no longer holds any ripples of emotion when looking at you. Instead, it turns into an inhuman, freezing coldness.]
[In the next second, she activates an unprecedented level of Hypnosis on you, completely seizing control of your consciousness.]
[From then on, the existence known as "Yan Huan" vanishes completely from this world.] [Replacing him is a naless, humanoid pet kept in a basent.]
[You completely lose the ability to think, becoming no different from an animal.]
[Furthermore, because of your foolish provocation, her Modifier instantly expands to the point of conquering the entire world.]
[An evil god is about to descend, replicating the tragic devastation that occurred in Tokyo.]
[And the other girls you wished to protect will also et a tragic end in the apocalypse.]
[...]
[...]
[Battle Defeat CG Unlocked]
[Ending F: Inhuman]
[Due to your foolishness, you have unlocked the worst possible ending.]
[A lack of patience in small matters will ruin great plans.]
[Therefore, please endure.]
[GA OVER]
[Return to save point?]
The vivid and imrsive Battle Defeat CG slowly faded away, snapping Yan Huan's consciousness back to the mont just before he had to make his crucial choice.
But at this mont, no matter how terrifying the previous Battle Defeat CG was, and even though his back was already drenched in cold sweat, his fists remained tightly clenched, impossible to open, as if they had turned to solid steel.
Every step of the way, dealing with Ye Shiyu always seed to end in being locked in a basent for the rest of his life, or being hypnotized into a vegetative state or a madman...
One wrong move, and the entire ga would be lost.
And honestly, even if he didn't make a wrong move, he would still be punished!
Before, for the sake of the big picture and to avoid a bad ending, Yan Huan could endure it!
But now, if he didn't endure, the world would explode!
And if he did endure, Sakuramiya Hitomi and An Le were still in her hands, facing the fate of having their mories altered and erased by Hypnosis...
How the hell was Yan Huan supposed to endure this?!
He had suffered more than enough. Right now, even if it ant mutually assured destruction with Ye Shiyu, he wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger.
'Endure?'
'Endure my ass!'
'Myau-chan, help
untie these ropes...'
In the pitch darkness, Yan Huan gritted his teeth and suddenly spoke in his mind.
'W-What are you going to do, ow?'
'Ye Shiyu is completely hopeless. Help
untie the ropes. I'm going to blow her head off with Launch Fireworks.'
Hearing Yan Huan utter such words in such a calm tone, Myau-chan was absolutely stunned.
It widened its eyes and hurriedly replied,
'Killing Ye Shiyu won't make the Modifier disappear, ow! It will only switch to the next Host, ow!!'
'Then let it switch! I refuse to believe the next one could be any more disgusting than Ye Shiyu!'
'And... and you two are right next to each other! If there's an explosion, you'll die too, ow!'
'Don't I have resurrection?'
'That will still have a massive impact on your life, ow! Especially if both of your lives are lost in an underground explosion, it will definitely cause a huge uproar throughout all of Linn! By then, even if you can resurrect, you won't be able to show your face again! You won't be able to go back to the academy, let alone anything else...'
'I said, get these fucking ropes off !!'
'ow?!'
Hearing that Yan Huan was truly enraged, Myau-chan didn't dare to argue anymore. It hesitantly flew behind Yan Huan's back.
Thanks to Myau-chan's efforts, Yan Huan suddenly felt the ropes binding his hands gradually loosening.
In just a few more seconds, he would be free.
Still wearing the eye mask, Yan Huan panted heavily, burning with anger as he began to formulate his next move.
He had to be completely focused. The mont he broke free, he would imdiately reach out, pin Ye Shiyu down, and plant Launch Fireworks.
Launch Fireworks would burst from his skin, detonating the instant it ca into contact with her clothes.
Because he had previously enhanced its chanics and power, even at such a close range, the resulting explosion would be enough to engulf the entire basent.
Of course, upon discovering that he had broken free, a shocked Ye Shiyu would definitely activate Hypnosis.
But he was wearing an eye mask. The mont she removed it, he would execute a Counter-Parry.
No matter what, she absolutely wouldn't be fast enough.
Today, he was going to completely end things with Ye Shiyu!
He had had enough of pretending to be civil with this bastard who handed out bad endings at the drop of a hat!
"...Xiao Huan, do you agree?"
Before him, Ye Shiyu spoke.
anwhile, Yan Huan's hands behind his back had already been freed from their restraints.
Feeling his hands regain freedom, Yan Huan took a deep breath. Word by word, he spoke in an icy tone,
"I refuse!!"
Hearing this, Ye Shiyu was clearly taken aback.
Beneath the eye mask, Yan Huan could even picture the panicked and helpless look spreading across her stunned face.
But...
Bang!!
In the very next second, he sprang into action. Leaping up, he reached out and grabbed Ye Shiyu's neck with unerring precision.
The girl in front of him didn't even have ti to react before she was completely subdued by Yan Huan. She stumbled back a few steps and let out a muffled groan.
"Ugh!"
Buzz!
Launch Fireworks was planted. Yan Huan could feel Ye Shiyu's muscles gradually tensing up.
Feeling his ability embedded into Ye Shiyu's neck, a raging inferno ignited within Yan Huan's heart.
Like floodgates bursting open, the mont his victory was assured, all the pent-up emotions and stress he had suffered because of Ye Shiyu erupted.
It was going to be a bad ending either way, so he didn't want to endure it anymore!
"Ye Shiyu! Let
tell you, you guessed right! From the very beginning, I knew you had the ability of Hypnosis!
"I knew it ever since the night Aunt Ye brought
over and you hypnotized !!"
As soon as these words left his mouth, Yan Huan felt Ye Shiyu's body tremble slightly.
In the darkness beneath the eye mask, he could sense the panicked and helpless look on Ye Shiyu's face gradually being swallowed by an icy coldness.
"Then... that night, the things you said to
when you left on your own accord..."
"Yes, I left on my own, but it was absolutely not to comfort you because you were worried Aunt Ye's love would be stolen away! It was because I was terrified of you! I wanted to hide from you!!"
"..."
"Including everything I did for you afterwards! It was all just an act because I was terrified of a pervert like you hypnotizing !"
In the darkness, the pupils of the strangled Ye Shiyu must have shrunk.
Imdiately following was an even more terrifying surge of freezing coldness and a crushing sense of oppression.
"But didn't you treat
as your older sister..."
"Ye Shiyu, from start to finish, I have never seen you as my sworn older sister!"
Ye Shiyu's expression must have grown even colder.
"Then treating
as a mber of the opposite gender..."
"Ha, opposite gender? Do you really think I'd have any sort of feelings for a pervert who hypnotizes
and sneaks into my room at night?!"
"But... when we went on a date before..."
"Every ti I'm with you, I only feel disgusted and terrified! If it weren't for Aunt Ye, I wouldn't even want to look at you!!"
"..."
Under her blinding fury, Ye Shiyu's breathing grew increasingly ragged and rapid.
Everything happening was becoming more and more identical to the ons in the Battle Defeat CG, right before she hypnotized him and triggered the bad ending.
But now, Yan Huan couldn't care less.
He only cared about venting the resentnt that had been building up in his heart for so long, making sure to get it all out before Ye Shiyu pulled off his eye mask to hypnotize him.
When that happened, he would imdiately execute a Counter-Parry and detonate Launch Fireworks, perishing together with her and forcing the Modifier to select a new Host.
Even if it switched Hosts, anyone would be better than the current Ye Shiyu, who exploded at the drop of a hat and had her progress bar nearly maxed out!!
"Ye Shiyu, you have absolutely no right to dictate who I like, and you sure as hell have no right to call
promiscuous!
"Are you still delusional enough to think that locking
up or using Hypnosis will sohow change my mind?
"Fucking disgusting..."
The surrounding air grew increasingly damp and frigid.
The terrifying atmosphere seed to condense into water droplets, splashing against the back of Yan Huan's hand.
The sensation of the Modifier being on the verge of exploding weighed heavily on his heart, and the death knell of a bad end rang out with growing intensity.
Right before him, Ye Shiyu's coldness and furious wrath were undoubtedly causing her gaze to slowly lose its humanity as she stared at him...
But Yan Huan no longer cared.
He just wanted to tell Ye Shiyu his truest thoughts.
"Even if I, Yan Huan, die, I will absolutely never fall for you, Ye Shiyu!!"
Buzz!!
In the gloomy darkness, Yan Huan spoke for a long ti, a delighted and unburdened smile curling the corners of his lips.
Because he felt his eye mask being touched. It was about to fall.
Everything was finally going to end.
He could already imagine it...
Before him would be the expressionless face of Ye Shiyu, her deep, inhuman eyes practically radiating a sense of oppression.
She would be staring straight at him, her eyes a deep, abyssal purple, clearly on the verge of activating Hypnosis.
And all he had to do was execute a Counter-Parry and unleash Launch Fireworks...
Swish...
Until the next second, when the eye mask completely slipped off, revealing the Ye Shiyu standing before him, slowly rging with the image in his imagination.
Yet, it seed there was a difference.
The girl in front of him had her pink lips slightly parted, staring blankly at him.
Her face was pale, completely devoid of color.
Only a single, clouded teardrop—seemingly representing the entirety of her emotions at this very mont—slid down her beautiful cheek.
He was tightly gripping her neck, his fingers tangled in her dark hair.
Amidst the ssy black locks, the lighter skin tone of the back of his hand stood out in stark contrast.
And on the back of his hand, the droplet of water he had previously thought was ford by the terrifying atmosphere was strikingly conspicuous.
On his shoulder, Myau-chan slowly retracted its outstretched paw.
Evidently, it was the black cat who had removed Yan Huan's eye mask for him.
"..."
The entire basent suddenly fell dead silent. Yan Huan stared blankly at Ye Shiyu, who was being choked breathless by him yet remained completely motionless, and he suddenly froze in place.
After a long silence, Ye Shiyu's lips trembled, and she lowered her eyes.
She still didn't make any other movents, simply allowing Yan Huan to continue strangling her...
However, after a long period of silence, Yan Huan, who was still wearing his Perfect Emotional Control Mask, never received the lethal, defense-broken Hypnosis that had awaited him in the bad ending.
Even though he had done everything exactly as described in the Battle Defeat CG.
Realizing this, Yan Huan's expression suddenly shifted. Sothing clicked in his mind, and he looked at the Ye Shiyu standing before him.
Promptly, inch by inch, he released his tight grip on her neck, allowing her to breathe.
Crack!!
And the very mont Yan Huan let go...
Before his eyes, the Battle Defeat CG—which was like an illusion depicting an alternate Ye Shiyu raising a butcher's knife—
Shattered into pieces.
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