The Golden Watch Of Hypnosis - Chapter 22
The boy looked at me and then returned his gaze to the manga in his hands.
“I can’t belive someone would actually like this… ”
“This is cancer ”
“Shut up! ”
“Calm down, I don’t necessarily discriminate between people that read shoujo manga.”
“I said shut up! ”
“Okay. ”
The boy grinned and once again flipped a page.
My mind boiled with anger as my fists tightened.
All boys are the samethey just get pleasure from mocking and torturing me
He’s mocking me for liking shoujo manga
Tears slid down my eyes as I fell and broke down crying.
I had learned long ago to silence any guttural sounds made by crying.
It wasn’t because of the boy in front of me, it was just that I had enough of my life.
Why? Why can’t these boys be like the men in shojo mangas? Chivalrous and gentle?
The boy stopped reading the book and came closer to me with a charismatic smile on his face.
He put his hands on my shoulder.
My body didn’t resist his touch, I was astonished. Why didn’t I shiver in fear?
Even when my mother touches me, I feel fear rush through my whole body.
“Ah, why are you crying? ”
“How does it concern you?! ”
I said slightly angry, I didn’t want to display my weakness to someone else.
“I have only one problem in life, that I can’t see a beautiful girl cry before me. ”
His smooth smile captured my attention. His eyes felt like a moon surrounded by stars, incredibly dreamy and capturing.
For the first time, I could look at someone’s eyes without anxiety crippling me.
” ”
The tears stopped falling as I looked at the mysterious boy in front of me.
“Ah, cheer up. I won’t make fun of your ‘tastes’ anymore. ”
He grinned once again and looked at the window in the tree house.
” why are you here? ”
A hoarse voice escaped my mouth as I curiously looked at the boy with red eyes.
He returned his attention to me and wryly smiled and pointed at the window.
“I was originally walking down the streets but the sweltering sunlight was too much for me. ”
“In order to cool down myself, I wandered here and there and eventually found out your tree house. ”
“Thank you, if it wasn’t for your tree house, I might’ve been turned into boiled meat by now. ”
“Even though I don’t want to, I apologize if I possibly offended you by intruding in your treehouse. ”
He said while looking at the piles of shoujo manga with a sarcastic expression on his face.
My expression lightened as I heard his humorous method of speaking.
” So, how long have you been here for? ”
I don’t know why, but I felt curious about him.
He was the first male I didn’t feel nervous and anxious in front of, furthermore, he was also friendly and slightly humorous.
Just like those men in shoujo manga.
“One or two hours, give or take the fifteen minutes I spent howling from the blistering heat.”
“Hehehe. ”
Unknowingly, the suspicious and tense expression on my face dissappeared.
“So what’s your name? ”
I asked, slightly nervous whether he would answer or not.
I didn’t really have any experience in talking to other people, much less boys.
I also felt like an idiot, shouldn’t I have asked his name at the start of our conversation?
“Tenshi Ayama. You? ”
“Erm, Misaki Riyama. ”
Tenshi nodded, not minding the pause I took between my name.
I felt lightness in my mind, that he didn’t know about my background.
Would he be more formal if he knew about my background?
After a round of chitchat, I got to know the boy in front of me better.
I got to know that he had no friends because everyone got nervous in front of him easily because he was way too talkative and confident.
I felt that he wouldn’t say things about his family but I was astonished to think that he trusted me enough to say insider information of his family.
He told me that his mother died four years ago because of an accident, furthermore, he also told me that his father cheated on his mother.
I felt special.
For the first time Someone considered me someone they can confide in, someone that they can trust with their own family matters.
I felt sad about his father and also reliefeven if we don’t have the same abusive father, we have the same untrustworthy father.
I felt relief that he can be considered as one of the people that have gone through the same hardships as me.
“Are all fathers like this?… ”
I asked, slightly downhearted.
“Perhaps not, however, I am certain of one thing, that my father is a cheat. ”
“He deserves death for cheating on my mother. ”
Tenshi said, with a wronged expression on his face.
“Is your bond with your mother that strong? ”
I asked with my hands on my cheeks, sighing due to the blistering heat.
“Yes, my mother is the most important person in my life to have existed. ”
“It doesn’t matter if she is alive or dead, in my heart, she is the most important person to have existed to me. ”
Tenshi said with a reminiscent expression on his face.
“It seems that your mother was verygood to you? ”
“Yes ”
“Huh, I wish that my mother was like that ”
“Wait? Your mother doesn’t love you? ”
“Not exactly to her her husband comes first ”
“Even though that isn’t a bad quality I just wish she spent more time with me ”
Hearing my talk, Tenshi silently nodded, hearing my feelings with utmost attention.
“Do you also have a unfaithful father like mine? ”
Tenshi asked, curious.
“You can say so ”
I felt that perhaps he might see me as an emotional baggage so I didn’t tell him.
I felt as if I finally found a friend, a person that has gone through the same hardships as me.
Tenshi nodded, understanding that I didn’t want to tell him anything more.
“You know, this is one of the reasons I don’t want to marry. ”
Tenshi said while looking at the roof of the treehouse.
” Why? ”
“You see, children are the carbon copies of their parents, I think that I also might not be able to stay faithful towards my spouse. ”
“Actually, I would also be a distant and uncaring father, just like my father. ”
“I’ll ruin my children and my wife if I marry, so I don’t plan on marrying nor do I want to have children.”
Tenshi quietly said while grinning.
“I also won’t be able to find my ideal wife you see, I want to marry someone like my mother. ”
“A Yamato Nadeshiko, gentle, sweet and loving ”
A reminiscent look floated on Tenshi.
“However, girls like that don’t exist. ”
“The only place where they exist are in my dreams, furthermore, the only girl I know that is like that doesn’t like to me anymore ”
“I seemed to have turned into a monster after my mother’s death seeing me change so much she distanced herself from me. ”
“Nontheless, even if I did find a good wife, she would leave me. ”
“Why would you think like that Tenshi? ”
I asked.
“I don’t know, it might be an inferiority complex to other men. ”
“I’m…too emotionally scarred ”
“I I don’t trust easily. ”
Then, he looked towards me and smiled.
“Except you you are the only person I have been able to trust easily. ”
“I feel that we have much in common. ”
Tenshi’s smile turned into a grin.
“Tenshi, I also feel the same. ”
I said, looking down towards the ground.
A flush crept up to me.
“I I don’t want to marry either. ”
“I belive that after marrying me, the groom will use me and throw me away. ”
“I I also have anxiety issues. I can’t get close to a male without getting goosebumps on my skin. ”
“I hate males”
I looked at Tenshi, a slight warmth creeping up on my face.
“Except you it feels that you’reyou’re someone like family to me. ”
“I don’t get goosebumps nor do I get shivers when you stare at me ”
Tenshi smiled.
“Family, huh? ”
Tenshi looked around the room without a motive.
He suddenly turned towards me with a naughty and mischievous expression.
“Let’s seewould you like to participate in a promise with me? ”
“Huh? What promise?”
I crept up to him with a smile, slightly curious at whatever he was going to say.
“If one day, you can’t find another guy that you can genuinely trust and I can’t find my Yamato nadeshiko ”
“Yes?… ”
I asked, slightly expectant at what he was going to say.
“I’ll send a marriage proposal to your house.”
He said with a smirk.
“How about it?”
My face went red as I thought about the scenario I only saw in shoujo manga.
In an altar, Tenshi dressed in a suit, charmingly smiles and says,
‘I,Tenshi Ayama, take you, Misaki Riyama , to be my lawfully wedded (husband/wife), to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.’
Wedding bells rang in my mind.
“What are you even saying?! ”
I hit Tenshi’s head with fists that are devoid of any strength.
However, deep inside, I considered his promise.
Rather than marrying some unknown person that will abandon me later on, Tenshi seems like a much better choice.
Furthermore, he was just like the heroes I saw in shoujo Mangas.
“Ouch, no need to hit me.”
” I’ll promise then ”
I looked towards the window with a fake-disinterested expression.
“But you need to mold your personality into those prince like characters in shoujo mangas. ”
“Be a knight of justice! Help the poor and kill the evil! ”
“That doesn’t seem hard. ”
A wry smile floated on Tenshi’s face.
“Hmph.”
I hmphed and looked at another direction.
Tenshi nodded to himself.
“But you also need to turn yourself into a yamato nadeshiko. ”
“Only then, will I consider marrying you! ”
“Okay! ”
One month passed as I visited the treehouse daily in order to talk with Tenshi.
Life was good, I was able to meet with Tenshi everyday.
I don’t know why but I felt slightly pleasant whenever I saw him.
It felt as if every dark emotion in my mind will be wiped out if I see a single smile from Tenshi.
“Haah! ”
Tenshi heaved heavily while putting down the piles of manga he held in his hands.
“Ah! ”
I gasped, slightly astonished at the size of his pe- manga collection.
A day or so ago, he asked me to try out his manga collection. Saying that mine was filled with the mangas of romance genres.
I looked at the book titles, Naruto, One Piece, Beserk.
Why have I never heard of these? Are these manga from the action genre?
“This here is the Naruto manga, In a nutshell Naruto is a story about a boy, a resident of the Hidden Leaf Village, who witnessed pain since he was born and strives hard to achieve recognition in his own village by vowing to himself to become the village leader. He shares a friendly relation with another kid Sasuke who is a genius unlike him who wishes to avenge the death of his clan by killing his elder brother.
The first arc gets over when Sasuke abandons the Hidden Leaf village in order to grow stronger and Naruto vows to bring him back. At this time he finds out that an evil group Akatsuki is after him due to some evil spirit sealed inside him. This is where ‘Naruto’ ends as he leaves to train in order to become strong.”
“In another way, Boy meets boy.
They don’t like that they inherited a war between their clans and decide to create a world where children can grow up normally and not have to fight in wars they didn’t even start.
But the fighting ends their friendship briefly and successive wars rage on. In the end, however, they are re-united by their common love for the world.
Boy meets boy.
One is born into a well-respected family and one is born an orphan. The little orphan goes through periods of failure and as a result, grows strong and seeks to create a better world than he was born into.
The other loses all the family he had and decides to become strong to avenge them. After learning the truth of why his family was killed, he decides to terminate the world and bring a new order.
Since their goals lie in direct opposition to one another, they fight it out and might makes…not so right. They both lose one of their hands and decide to “shake on it” and make peace with this world.
Boy meets girl.
Boy likes girl but girl thinks that he’s stupid and lazy and isn’t worth her time. Over time, she learns to not only respect him, but to love him deeply.
He saves her from a kidnapping and years later, he is voted in as the head of his village. They have a child and on the night that he is born, a tragedy strikes and leaves their child orphan.
Naruto has many stories tied together. It’s about the human experience. About hate and love and how we relate to one another. Pain shapes all these stories and reminds that at the end of the day, sharing our pain connects us.”
” Are you obsessed with Naruto?”
“You can say that, however, I also hate Naruto. ”
“I’m going to answer why I personally dislike Naruto the character.
His personality. It’s annoying at this point. He’s loud and dumb, but at least he’s got determination? Even when the person he wants to save is trying to kill him, even with the end of the world approaching? The power of friendship will save the day.
His ridiculous power ups Sage mode, nine tails cloak, nine tails chakra mode, six paths sage mode and he still uses the rasengan. Come on Naruto.
His obnoxious and disrespectful nicknames. More of a nitpick than anything but really Naruto. You’re going to continuously call everyone gramps? You’re going to call your own FATHER old man I’m amazed he’s still alive.”
I facepalmed myself
His ramblings didn’t stop as he started to explain about every manga he had in his collection
However, I still eagerly listened to him.
I was afraid I would disappoint him.
“Sigh, you don’t have to listen if you don’t want to ”
Tenshi said as if he could hear my thoughts.
I panicked.
“How about it? Instead of spoiling you about these, how about you read one or two chapters and then decide whether you like them or not?”
“okay! ”
However, at this moment, Tenshi gaze turned serious as he glanced at a certain manga in the pile of shounen manga.
He quickly pulled a black covered manga from the pile and displayed a sheepish smile on his face.
He then placed the manga behind his back.
He once again sheepishly smiled at me.
What is he hiding?
“Tenshi? ”
“What’s that in your hand? ”
I felt jealous, was that a gift from someone special and he didn’t want to give it to me?
“Tenshiii? What are you hiding from meee? ”
A jealous expression appeared on my face as I crept closer to him.
You have another friend? I thought I was your only friend!
The qi in my body was roaring, it was rolling in my body with energy I never felt before.
I felt discarded, used, jealous
I thought that I was close to you Tenshi
An embarrassed expression appeared on Tenshi’s face as he sheepishly smiled once again.
My heart hurt
“Give it to me!! ”
My voice appeared hoarse and angry, did I scare him?
“Tenshi, let me see what’s in your hand ”
I softened my voice into a feminine one and displayed a smile on my face as I leaned forward, grasping Tenshi’s hand.
His smell was intoxicating, it smelled Tenshi-like.
His smell oozed with raw-confidence and manliness.
I felt as if I was smelling chloroform, his scent made me go into a furor as my eyes turn glazed.
Tenshi, you are perfect.
I won’t share you
However, I can’t tell him that or else he’ll think of me as creepy and crazy.
I don’t want him to hate me
“Erm Sigh, okay ”
He sighed and with an embarrassed expression, handed me the manga.
On the manga’s cover, a smiling girl dressed in a kimono was sitting on a bench located on a mountain.
The title was
‘The Guide On How To Train Yanderes’
This is two chapters combined into one.
So, I’m sorry if it’s flow is slightly weird.
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