The Golden Watch Of Hypnosis - Chapter 37
Tenshi looked at the sterile white corridor and smiled without a reason.
Behind him were the two flowergolems and a clean and bright looking old man; the director of the hospital.
“Director Kazuki, is the floor clear now? ”
Tenshi chuckled and looked at the ceiling filled with bright LED lights. As it was a hospital, there were no bugs or stains near the ceiling.
The director gulped and wiped the sweat coming out of his forehead with a napkin.
Why was the mafia here? As far as he remembered, they didn’t have any mafia related patients in here today nor were any of the staff here related to them
“Yes Mr:Tenshi, the entire floor has been cleared of staff. ”
“Good. Now come with me. ”
Tenshi said as he waved his hand behind him; one of his signature moves which meant to follow behind him.
The director sweated bullets once again as Nero put his arm on his shoulder.
“You should know, he’s our boss’s superior. ”
“So watch what you say very carefully. ”
Nero said and went along with Tenshi, Haruto laughed with a teeheehee and walked towards where Tenshi was going as fast as he could.
The director paled.
A sharp glint flashed in Tenshi’s eyes as he looked at the white sliding door in front of him.
The reason why he took the director with him? Simple; he took the director with him to show off his worth to his future henchmen.
It was a dirty tactic actually. It could intimidate them or change their opinion of him into a more ‘wealthier and affluent’ person, making them more likely to take the offer he would give them later.
Everyone, no matter how much they own their employers, will always prefer an affluent and powerful employer rather than a loser employer.
Simply put, he would show off his potential and power to his future henchmen. After all, who wouldn’t want to follow a powerful man?
Tenshi’s logic might be slightly off actually, he didn’t really think like how a normal human would think. His plan might or might not work, after all, even though he had somewhat of an experience in psychology, he never really used them in real life.
In a small white, brightly lit room, fourteen beds were neatly laid out as fourteen boys sat on top of them apprehensively.
Some of them had their legs bandaged while some of them had their arms bandaged, however, all of them had one area on their body where bandages were there without any exception, their heads.
Their injuries weren’t that serious. The bandages however, were just another way to increase the fees they were about to pay.
Government hospitals ah government hospitalsthis was the reason the hospital was so posh and clean
One thing common amongst all of them however, were their blonde hair and the piercings all over their body.
One of the boys with a tongue piercing stood up from his bed and took a glass of water from a table beside him. He then drank all of water inside the glass and sighed, his face pale as a sheet of paper.
“H-how are we going to pay for all of this?! ”
“Fourteen patients, it’s going to take at least a few hundred to cover all of this!”
The boy said as he put his shaking hands on his head, if he could, he wouldn’t have gone along with his pals to thrash that fucker.
The boy couldn’t handle any more debt, he had his father to take care of
“Don’t worry Takashi, we’llcombine our money and pay for all of our hospital fees. ”
A man lying on top of a bed groaned and replied, he was the boss of this group of delinquents. Ben Ninomiya. One thing unique about him though, were his jade earrings.
“Butdo we have to pay? That fatty did say that we were almost killed by a serial killer. So, shouldn’t the hospital cover for our injuries since it’s a government hospital? ”
A bright eyed boy with a eyebrow piercing said with skepticism.
“I don’t know.”
The boy with the jade earrings replied while shaking his head lightly. His face however, turned ugly the next second.
“That fucking bastard! Due to him, we’ll have to spend all of the money we earned this time on hospital fees, dammit! ”
The leader of the bunch said while his hand hit the bed with a thud.
Suddenly, the door to the room opened as a man in a business attire entered with a clamor; behind him were two men covered in flower and another bald man in a suit.
Seeing this, the boys were intimidated; were these guys from a news channel here to interview them?
The boys gulped as they suddenly felt that Tenshi did a good thing saying that they were attacked by a serial killer.
After all, if the news channels reported their incident, the hospital would sponsor their treatment in an effort to bolster their reputation right?
The boys didn’t mind the fact that they would become an advertising opportunity for the hospital. What mattered to then however, was if they would have to spend money or not for their treatment.
“Hello boys! ”
“It’s me, your savior and sympathizer Tenshi Ayama! ”
Tenshi chuckled and walked towards the boys, his men and the director faithfully following him.
Hearing this, hostile expressions appeared on the delinquents faces as they straightened their spines and prepared their minds for whatever that was about to happen next.
Of course, their eyes widened as they took another look at Tenshi.
What the fuck? Who is this guy?
Tenshi right now was slim and totally fat free. His cheeks and jaw formed such contours that he looked sharp and roguishly evil.
The boys however, put that matter to the back of their heads and prepared for what this bastard was going to say to them.
However, seeing a certain bald man following Tenshi with an apprehensive expression on his face shocked the delinquents.
Wasn’t this guy the director of the hospital?…
Holy fucking shit?! Why was this guy following Tenshi and that too with such an apprehensive and worried expression?
Suddenly, the boys felt as if they were mice being prepared for a scientific experiment.
Tenshi grinned and walked closer to them.
“Ah come on, I’m your savior, don’t you remember me? ”
“I guess that guy was too merciless huh? He must’ve hit you so hard you forgot my face. ”
Tenshi smiled and checked a boy’s head bandage with a worried expression on his face; the boy however, gritted his teeth and bore the rage he was feeling against this hypocrite.
This guy himself beats them up and then comes here to rub gauze on their wounds?!
This guy
“Please, these are my gifts for you guys, don’t reject them. ”
Tenshi said and waved his hands behind his back with a smile on his face.
Nero nodded while Haruto sighed in relief, then, they walked up to each of the boys one by one and gave them chocolates and flowers.
The boys apprehensively accepted the flowers and looked at Tenshi with suspicion.
The only reason they took them was because the director was here, otherwise, if he suspected that Tenshi was the one that beat then up, then they might lose that small chance of getting free treatment.
They didn’t actually believe that the director was following the orders of Tenshi.
What a joke!
This penniless guy had the power to make the director of a public hospital dance to his tunes? Heh!
“Director Kazuki, please leave. ”
Tenshi’s demeanor changed as he grinned, his eyes sending a chilling gaze towards the delinquents.
Within a second however, his demeanor changed once again as he adopted his friendly smile.
Tenshi wanted nothing but to chew these delinquent’s bones and spit them out. After all, even their lives couldn’t compensate the pain they gave him from the moment he entered high school.
Tenshi would chew their entire body and wouldn’t even spit the bones out. That was his pledge to his former bullied self.
Seeing this, the boys were even more shocked; was this guy was ordering the director around?
“Ye-yes Mr:Tenshi. ”
The director then bowed and promptly exited the room.
To the boys however, it looked as if the director was fleeing from jail.
“This is impossible ”
“Holy shit ”
The boys muttered softly as their impression of Tenshi went from a poor bastard to a rich scion.
Even though they had been contracted many times to thrash Tenshi; they never bothered to take a look at his background or check if he had a family. It was just their laziness.
Perhaps all this time he was the son of a rich family and he only inherited the family fortune recently?
Some of the boys accepted this reason as it was the only way the son of a rich scion would bear their beatings. After all, when you’re poor, you always have to bow down to external forces.
Tenshi took a small stool in his hands and walked towards the center of the beds, then, he dropped the stool with a thud and sat on it.
Nero and Haruto followed and stood beside him, looking like bodyguards of a wealthy person.
Tenshi smiled and put his right leg on top of his left leg, one of his usual postures; a habit if you have to call it.
“Guys, what type of lives do you even live? ”
“Your lives are miserable. ”
The boys blinked and slightly frowned, this guy came to mock them didn’t he?
“You’re living the lives of livestock you know? The person who sent you to beat me didn’t even come to see you did he? ”
Tenshi said as he removed his suit and revealed the vest and shirt underneath it, simply put, he was feeling hot so he removed some of the clothing on him.
“You called him didn’t you?”
Tenshi looked at the man with the jade earrings and asked; he knew exactly who was in charge.
“Yes we did ”
The leader sighed and truthfully replied. At least someone was curious of their daily lives, at least if this guy had enough pity, he would let them off after he said a bit of things about their lives.
Nero and Haruto didn’t understand what they were talking about but still stood beside Tenshi.
Tenshi viciously grinned in his mind but smiled pitifully in reality.
Good.
Very good.
“And he didn’t pick up did he? ”
“It’s not a he ”
The jade earrings guy put his hand on his forehead as he faked hesitancy.
At least, he can say the truth and distract Tenshi.
“It’s your girlfriend. Heh, it’s Haruno Ichiha!”
While the leader paused, the boy with a tongue piercing said with a joyful grin on his face.
Tenshi however, smiled nonchalantly.
“She isn’t my girlfriend. Furthermore, I don’t care if she did it or someone else did it. ”
“I came here to help you guys. ”
Tenshi however, felt a bit cold in his heart as he thought that it was Haruno who was ordering them to beat him up. He also felt curiosity over some things such as, ‘since when has she been ordering these guys?’ and ‘has anyone else except her ordered him to be beaten up?’etcetera.
Tenshi was certain about one thing though, and that was that Endou was also involved in this matter.
After all, he heard what they spoke in the bathroom clearly, both of them hated him so it wasn’t a mystery that Endou might’ve also sponsored these guys sometimes to beat him up.
Haruno was now on his kill list.
However, he would ask them later after he has succeeded in wooing them, otherwise, they wouldn’t tell him everything honestly.
“Help us? Don’t joke, we known you’re angry so please forgive us, we have our own circumstances! ”
The boy with a tongue piercing said with a sigh.
“No. I’m not joking. ”
Tenshi smiled. This was the time for the psychology card.
Tenshi would be the evil overlord and they would be the loyal henchmen, basically, he would make them think of him as the only person in the world capable of their trust.
“For how long will you work like slaves? ”
“For how long will you bear these types of wounds? ”
“You know, let’s look at this from the big picture! ”
“You do this types of work because of dire straits don’t you? Do you actually like beating up people and, when ill times strike, stealing and pickpocketing? ”
Tenshi pitifully shaked his head, however, judging from the boy’s regretful faces, he could say that he hit the bull’s eye.
These guys also steal don’t they?
“I pity you guys ”
“Shut up bastard, we don’t need your pity! ”
The brash boy with the tongue piercing yelled, angered at Tenshi’s pity for them.
“No. No. No. I’m not here to give you pity. I’m here to give you a chance to remove the bad past you guys have and give you a chance for a better future!”
Tenshi stood up and yelled, he then pointed at the tongue piercing boy.
“You Takashi, I know you. You were once a good guy weren’t you? A middle class family’s loved child right? ”
“Then, all of it shattered like a dream when your father had an accident and was proclaimed brain-dead.”
“Your assets were all sold, you mortgaged your home a year later and then, only managed to get two years of money for your father’s treatment. ”
“Right? ”
“After that time passed, the final nail in the coffin struck when your mother ran away with her lover and gave you her illegitimate daughter to handle right? ”
“The debt forced you on the streets and made you; penniless. ”
“One way or through another, you managed, by stealing or pickpocketing didn’t you?”
“After all, your father is stillalive isn’t he? ”
Tenshi said as he put his hands on the disheartened Takashi’s shoulders.
Tenshi was sure that this guy stole something big, after all, life support must cost a lot right?
He didn’t care really, even if it was murder or something, as long as he wasn’t be affected, he didn’t care.
“Don’t worry, I can change all of that. ”
“I’m here, I’ll take care of you Takashi-san. I’ll give you a chance to redeem. ”
Takashi looked up as a tear fell down his face, he frantically wiped them and grimaced.
Until now, Takashi never heard such words from anyone. He never heard words of encouragement nor did he receive any recognition for the work he did for his family.
No matter how much wrong he did, he did it for his father and his family! Yet, all he received were insults and ungratefulness, he bore the weight of going to hell and he only received words of insults from others. That however, he didn’t care about.
The final nail on the coffin, however, struck when his own little sister, one day insulted him for stealing
Stealing?
He never stole!
He just tried to protect his world, and his world turned out to be ungrateful!
Takashi felt warmth in his heart, he shook his head and took a look at Tenshi’s face, vigilantly searching for any signs of dishonesty.
However, Takashi felt nothing but sadness and empathy on Tenshi’s face. Finally a moment later, Takashi smiled.
Tenshi eyes relaxed as his smile brightened. Inside his mind however, he was cackling like a villain.
Nero wryly looked at Tenshi and shook his head; this guy turned out to be more manipulative that he believed.
Nero looked at the bipolar disorder suffering Haruto and immediately facepalmed, what he saw was a tall mountain like human crying a waterfall.
“H-how sad wuuu ”
” Shut up Haruto ”
“You’re heartless Nero wwuuu”
“Ughokay okay, calm down. I’m here I’m here. ”
Nero frantically smiled and rubbed Haruto’s shoulders. If this guy suffered from an outburst right now, he would suffocate in Haruto’s tears.
Tenshi however, turned around and looked at everyone of the boys one by one.
“I believe, that, just like Takashi-San, all of you also have your own stories don’t you? ”
“Don’t you all have reasons to fight the world? Prove that, no matter how much evil you’re doing, it’s all for saving your worlds isn’t it? ”
“I am also like that. ”
Tenshi smiled.
The boys after seeing how Tenshi treated Takashi, felt themselves warm up to Tenshi, as if he was someone they could rely upon, a person that empathized with them unlike the people in the world who always criticize them.
“A year or so later, the world will see me as an evil, demonical man. But I won’t care you see. ”
“Because, I’ll be doing all of these for my world. I’m going to save and protect my world no matter how much the world calls me evil.”
“After all, can justice and goodness fill your stomachs? Can they provide money for your family’s treatment when they need it?”
“Simply put, you don’t need to think of yourselves as evil. You’re just humans in the end, even if you’re bad, you have good sides. ”
Tenshi seeing them warm up to him grinned.
“Even if you’re evil in the eyes of the whole world, you aren’t to me. ”