Chapter 71 – Training Finally Begins (2)
Kalt said, hypnotizing Aria to a level where she could remember Kalt’s words.
“Arya, you cannot move until I give you permission. Arya, you must do what I say.”
Kalt withdrew his hand again and smiled.
“I guess this proves it.”
“Kalt? You just spread your hands and said, what does that prove? Is this like a joke?”
“Well? What do you think? Aria, can you move now?”
“Of course… Huh?”
Aria still didn’t understand the situation.
All I could think was that Kalt was playing a practical joke.
But.
“Huh? Why is my body…”
Aria’s body didn’t move at all.
Arya remembers what her Kalt said to her.
You cannot move without Kalt’s permission.
The actions that Kalt said must be followed.
“Why…!”
“I told you, Aria. You can’t move without my permission. This is also because you’re under my hypnosis.”
“Hypnosis… I mean, Kalt hypnotized me at some point!”
Aria’s voice grew louder in embarrassment and surprise.
“Just now. You might not have noticed it yourself, but when I was talking, Aria was completely hypnotized and in a daze.”
“Well, that can’t be… Ugh!”
Aria desperately tried to move her body somehow.
But no matter how hard she tried to move, she wouldn’t budge.
“Aria, relax. It’s hard to keep moving, isn’t it?”
And the moment when Kalt told her to lose her power.
Aria couldn’t even control her body properly anymore.
“What the hell is this…”
“First, you know how my hypnosis works, right? Oh, you can move now.”
“Ah!”
Even if she was told to relax, it took more than a certain amount of strength, and Aria, who continued to try to move her body, almost fell when her restraints were released.
Kalt kindly accepted Arya as she was about to fall.
“It’s okay.”
“Ka, Kalt, what on earth have you done? I couldn’t move my body and then suddenly it moved…”
“I told you. It’s hypnosis. I’ll explain it in more detail, so sit on the bed first.”
Aria experienced the bizarre phenomenon of her own body moving like a peg and sitting up on her bed.
‘The body does what it wants… ! Is this hypnosis? ‘This happened because Kalt hypnotized me?’
It was hard to accept and hard to believe, but it was true that her body was moving as it pleased as Kalt said.
Therefore, Arya asked, assuming that Kalt used hypnosis.
“… Kalt. Why are you letting me know that she’s using hypnosis?”
“That’s a good question. No, I already told you the answer, but… I’m glad that you at least want to listen to me properly. As I already said… I also used hypnosis on Maybelle Party to solve their problem. But they didn’t really use it. I didn’t tell you that I helped you through hypnosis.”
“Why?”
“At the time, I didn’t think it was really necessary. I didn’t want to make a fuss and say that the problem was solved thanks to me. Furthermore, I thought I could get along smoothly without saying that. Well… You know, it was all in vain. No. I was a fool.”
With a chuckle, Kalt continued speaking.
“I had no idea that if the favor continued, you might think it was natural. I never even dreamed that they would try to kick me out. After that incident, my thoughts have changed a lot.”
“Thoughts?”
“Up until now… I had a promise to my deceased parents, so I tried to live as kindly as possible. But still, being treated like that by people I thought of as colleagues made me feel like it was kind of pointless. I wondered why I was putting up with this. So I thought, I decided to be honest with myself and stop holding back what I’ve been holding on to and live faithfully to my desires from now on. And next time I make a partner, I’ll make sure they know my value.”
Kalt sat down next to Arya and stretched out her arms to hug Arya’s shoulders.
“Kah, Kalt!?”
“I think my hypnosis has been proven enough, so I’ll continue with what I was going to say. Aria, your problem is definitely on the verge of being completely cured. But that only applies while my hypnosis is working. If I break the hypnosis, … It will probably return to a slightly better level?”
The words Kalt spoke were so scary that Arya’s heart chilled.
“Well, that can’t be…”
For Arya, her own problem was her trauma itself.
The phenomenon that now seemed to show signs of being completely cured.
No matter how much one is selected as a candidate for sainthood, the problem that prevents one from performing well returns to its original state.
It was a situation she didn’t want to even think about.
“Hard to believe, right? First, just stay still.”
Kalt said, spreading her hands towards Aria again.
“Aria, if I say release and snap my fingers, the hypnosis that solves the mental problem I placed on you will be temporarily lifted. But if I say release again, and I snap my fingers, the hypnosis will be activated again.”
Withdrawing his hand again, Kalt got ready to snap his fingers.
“Then shall we experiment right away?”
“Now, wait a minute, Kalt! You don’t have to…”
“Free.”
Sigh! And Kalt snapped her fingers.
“…!”
Flinch! And Aria’s body trembled.
“There’s nothing to be afraid of, Aria. The hypnosis that was solving my mental problem was only temporarily lifted. There’s nothing wrong with my body.”
“What on earth was hypnosis used to solve problems?”
“That’s… Do you remember the counseling I told you about? It’s hypnosis to make the contents more effective. If you have doubts… Just pray. It’s like casting a blessing.”
At Kalt’s words, Aria’s hands automatically came together as if writing a blessing.
‘Oh, why are my hands acting like they want to be!’
Following Kalt’s words, Arya, who still doubted Kalt’s words, prayed as if giving a blessing.
‘God… Oh, my…’
First prayer.
It was still okay.
The third prayer following the second.
There was no particular problem.
‘It’s nothing. W, it was a lie to say that my problem came back!’
The fourth and fifth prayers were held in succession with such hope in mind.
Trauma began to appear in Aria’s mind.
‘Oh, no. Why. There’s no way I’m coming out yet… There’s still a long way to go!’
It was clearly a problem that was being cured.
At this stage, she had to learn how to use blessings 10 more times while still using them lightly.
But the trauma is already starting to come to mind strongly.
A burning village, massacred villagers, terrible screams, the cries of monsters and the smell of blood that stings your nose.
Then, the sound of a thump and the realization that her father had died from above and the sight of her mother dying before her eyes.
“Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!”
Aria’s breathing becomes heavy. A large amount of cold sweat was secreted in a short period of time, and her heart was beating vigorously.
“Aria, stop praying.”
At Kalt’s words, Arya was able to stop her prayers.
Gradually, the phenomenon caused by trauma became less frequent.
“You understand now, right?”
“Carl… T.”
Aria had no choice but to admit it as she looked at her kalt.
That her own trauma had not truly been healed and that she was moving on thanks to the power of Kalt’s hypnosis.
“Is this… Is this the value of Kalt that Kalt wanted me to know? Without Kalt… My problems would still persist?”
“That’s right. I need to make this clear. Just like at a party where I live… Who knows if I’ll act shamelessly without even knowing my gratitude?”
“…”
Aria was confused.
The hypnotic ability suddenly revealed by Kalt.
And her own problems that she was not completely cured of.
A situation where her own condition can be controlled by her kart.
As Arya desperately tried to regain her cool, she thought about Kalt.
‘To Kalt… I don’t think Kalt has any malicious intent.’
If she had malicious intent, she wouldn’t have tried to solve Scarlett’s or Aria’s problems, let alone her own.
She wouldn’t have acted like that for their own growth.
‘Kalt is definitely… You must have been hurt by what happened at Maybelle’s party. That’s why I’m doing it this way. To let you know clearly this time.’
Aria said she was trying to feel good somehow.
In a way, the reason Kalt revealed her abilities like this was so that she wouldn’t have any secrets as a colleague.
In this way, she comes across as more honest by revealing her abilities and telling us what benefits she has brought to her party through her hypnosis.
“That’s right… I see, Kalt. I understand. Furthermore, I was really surprised that he had hypnotic powers, but… But that still doesn’t change the fact that Kalt acted for us. Kalt is truly an indispensable person to us. So Kalt, first… I’m back to you. Could you please solve the problem?”
I was still anxious because the trauma had just recurred so quickly.
That’s why I wanted Kalt to quickly snap his fingers and say yes.
“Yes, of course I have to do it again. If Aria agrees to my conditions from now on.”
“Khalt?”
“Now let’s get to the point, Aria. Didn’t I tell you? I also thought about living more faithfully to my desires.”
“What is that…”
“Aria must now know her situation well. She must have known the value of how much I am needed by you. So, Aria.”
Kalt said with a bright smile, happy that the moment he had been waiting for had finally arrived.
“Make me happy. Then… I’ll hypnotize you again.”