Chapter 179 – Day to (5)

The unmanned bus is a public transportation method like the subway, but it is a means of transportation that is always empty because people do not use it because the magical girl does not protect it and the usage fee is slightly higher.
However, the driverless bus now was filled with people like me who seemed to have given up after trying to take the subway, leaving only enough space for them to barely walk inside the bus.
I touched the ID card on the boarding gate breaker and entered the slightly cramped interior of the vehicle. I dug into the crowd and settled down.

“Whoa…”

Once I was ready to go home and calmed down a bit, I stood in the middle of the crowd and began silently sorting out today’s events.
A conversation with Esther has cleared up some of my questions.
The reason I came to my senses was because I was affected by something while planting a tentacle on Esther.

Esther told me that if these tentacles were planted in me, I would not be attacked by the negatives.
When asked if people were under hypnosis, they replied that they could not make comments that would harm negatives.
In other words, it is someone negative who hypnotizes people…

District 4 is full of people like me who have escaped the negative hypnosis.
It is he who gathers the people, and the purpose is to do something for Rapid…
Didn’t come close to me…

That being said, he is aware of negative hypnosis, and has a way to release it.
He didn’t approach me because I wasn’t hypnotized through him.
You said it was for Rapid… There is a high possibility that he will hypnotize Rapid and try to antagonize me who is trying to have sex.

Rapids and grapes… The magical girl didn’t notice that people were hypnotized.
Then who is he… Is she a magical girl, or is she something that isn’t a magical girl…
I don’t know what it is, but considering that I’m using the entire area 4, I’m certain that I’m a high-ranking, dangerous person.
I’d rather not get too close

After roughly tidying up, I raised my head, concentrating on one question: who the hell was he?
Looking out the window, the bus had already arrived close to the house.
The bus is still full of people.
As if no one got off… Full in here.

“… Huh?”

Feeling something strange about that fact, I looked around.
A chilling sensation crawls up your spine.
People are all looking at me.

“What, what…”

I’m not looking at it openly, but I keep glancing at it with blank eyes.
I wondered if there might be a great beauty standing behind me, but it wasn’t.
Even if you change your seat, your eyes will follow you.

Everyone who looks around makes eye contact with me.
I got goosebumps and immediately hit the get off button and got off as if I were running away from the open bus.
Several people reach out to me from the bus, as if contemplating whether to follow me.

“Huh… Heo-eok…”

When I got off the bus, I felt the cold air.
Dizzy.
I don’t know what it was, but something was dangerous.

No, I’m not sure if it was dangerous, but I got goosebumps.
Why are you looking… ?
It wasn’t a magical girl, it was looking at me.

I continued to walk to a place where there were no people and ran away.
People keep glancing at me.
Suddenly, the image of the men glancing at Grape comes to mind, and a strange thought arises in my head, wondering if this is how it feels to be a popular man.

If I had felt that it was a gaze filled with such desire, I would have just passed on that there were a lot of perverts.
I feel bad that all the blank eyes, as if they are not seeing anything, are all directed at me.
After realizing that everyone around me is abnormal, I feel their gaze frightening.
I feel sick to my stomach.

“Ha…”

After sighing and shaking my head, I first checked where I had landed.
I got off the bus, but this is a distance that I can reach on foot.
I continued to walk slowly, observing the people around me.

Unlike in the bus, people were walking, doing their own thing.
But even so, I sometimes feel or see them glancing in my direction as they pass by.
I wondered if I had a smell or something, so I looked at the nearby window… Nothing seemed strange.

Why are you looking at me… ?
I feel the gaze sensitive enough that I am not used to the gaze of others.
When I evaluate myself objectively, I don’t have the appearance to stare at so much.
There are other reasons besides looks.

Is it because of hypnosis… ?
Then why are you looking at me?
What is the hypnosis the negative puts on me and other people?

Another person I don’t know passes by looking in my direction.
It was a man with a keychain featuring Rapid and Ash on his vision phone.
Even though I hate men’s gaze, I keep making eye contact with men.

As I walk, I start to get short of breath.
The idea that I am the only one out of hypnosis around here makes me conscious of the people around me.
I think I’ll get gaze phobia.

Even now, the illusion that it seems that even the surveillance cameras are following me still persists.
Avoiding their eyes, hide between buildings where no one comes and move.
Only then did I catch my breath a little, and I headed home, moving only in search of an empty road.

Still, surveillance cameras are much better than human gaze.
As I move away from people, the obvious thoughts pop into my head again and become firmly established.
When I meet Rapid on the weekend, I’ll have to meet somewhere other than District 4, where there are no people.
It’s dangerous to do anything to Rapid in Precinct 4, where you might get a call from someone from the mall that there’s an unknown man next to him.

And… The need to learn more about hypnosis grew.
Around me, I want to know what happened to me.
Ash and Rapid’s hair in the bag right now is lacking.

You have to earn points and find knowledge and information in Maginsa to find out what happened around you.
For that you need more points…
In the end, what you have to do doesn’t change.
After thinking, I took out the key and opened the front door.
After entering the house, feeling uneasy for no reason, I locked the front door, reached the door chain, and sighed as I leaned against the door.

“Whoa…”

First… I want to take a shower first.
After entering the shower room and turning on the cold water, the stress that had built up while feeling their eyes on me was relieved little by little.
After a quick shower, I went out with only a towel wrapped around my wet hair and waist and searched through my bag.

Before I shake off the water, I need to pack Ash and Rapid’s hair properly first.
Ash’s hair is top notch, Rapid’s is… It’s cut and dusty.
Ash’s hair is dusted off once, sealed in a more clean pack, and Rapid’s cut hair is gathered well, shaken off, and checked again.

“Sniff sniff…”

I put Rapid’s hair in a ziplock bag and sniffed it, but it didn’t smell much.
In a small space, the smell gathers more and feels thicker, but at this level… Even if this is well received, it is inferior.
The lower grade is sold by the gram, not by the strand.

After weighing, packaging separately, and preparing the product, I immediately posted on Marjinsa.
Ash hair sale, Rapid hair sale post, the sale was completed in less than 4 seconds.
Points come in with a tremendous speed as if a machine, not a person, is purchasing.

“I’m back~ huh?”
“Uh… ? Huh.”

As I was about to check on the buyer to prepare for delivery, I suddenly heard the front door open and the door chain caught, so I immediately closed the site and closed the old laptop.
On the porch, Grape was standing outside the door, pulling the door chain.
I belatedly brushed off my wet hair with a towel and approached the front door.

“Now, wait a minute… I’ll open it…”

Didn’t I lock the front door… ?
I walked to the front door and untied the door chain to allow Grape to enter.
Then, facing me with the front door in between, Grape looked down at me as I bent down to open the door, looking down at me strangely, then swallowed and said,

“… Were you taking a shower?”

I shook my head, wiping my damp hair with a towel.

“No… I was just washing up, but I was busy doing something… Oh, wait a minute.”

As I was brushing my hair, the towel I had tied loosely around my waist was shaking and it was about to come loose.
I hurriedly grabbed the towel around my waist, loosened it slightly, and put it back on. I put the towel on my head around my neck, brushed my wet hair over, and held on to the towel that was covered like a skirt.
Holding the towel so it wouldn’t drip, I looked up and met Grape’s eyes.

For some reason, they are trembling terribly as if they are on the verge of losing their reason, but their eyes look much nicer and more comfortable than those who are out of focus.
When I see a normal person after seeing a strange person, I feel relieved and smile spontaneously.
I looked at Grape with a slight smile, then motioned for him to come in quickly.

“Do you want Grape to take a shower first? Or rice?”
“Angeo.”
“Huh…?”

Grape entered the room, slamming the front door violently.