The Golden Watch Of Hypnosis - Chapter 39
“I’ll make you stronger! I’ll make your lives worthwhile! ”
Tenshi said as he wiped the crocodile tears from his face and separated from the crowd of the boys.
The boys tiled their heads in confusion and stood still.
“Boss, how is getting stronger related to our li-? ”
“Before that, have you ever read the Chinese novels depicting martial arts? ”
Tenshi asked as his expression turned to that of one filled with coldness and experience.
Of course, he had to act as a loashi sometimes.
“Boss, how is that matter related to this? ”
Ben said as he got closer to Tenshi and frowned in confusion.
How were those novels related to gaining power? What Ben thought when Tenshi said the fact regarding strength; he thought it was about politics or something, not some stories meant to entertain people.
Ben was now thinking if this young master in front of him was brain-damaged or something
“I see, then you haven’t seen the real world have you? ”
Tenshi said as he got closer to Ben and put his hands on his shoulder; an attempt to show his friendliness to Ben and also an attempt to make him get more used to his face and his touch.
Psychology.
“Martial arts exist in this world! ”
Tenshi said with a grand aura spilling from his body as he put his hands on the air as he was a prophet; and these boys were the general population; his eyes looked towards the ceiling as it formed a brilliant and glorious angle.
This is the reason every manipulative person needs to go to acting classes!
The boys frowned and a bit later, their eyes went wide as they put their hands on their mouths like a girl. Everyone was astonished.
Holy shit, why wouldn’t they be? This guy exposed such an amazing fact to them!
“W-what? ”
“Is this true boss?! ”
“Holy shit, I don’t believe this! ”
The boys clamored, their faces exposed such expressions that said that they were betrayed. After all, to them, it felt as if Tenshi was joking with them.
The boys slightly frowned and felt as if their future boss was too much of the joking type.
Tenshi cleverly smiled and turned back and walked towards a certain corner of the room, there, Nero and Haruto were standing there with expressionless faces.
“Show them Nero and Haruto! Show them the power of cultivation! ”
Tenshi yelled gallantly as if he was a president giving speech at a rally.
Hiddenly, his eyes let out a shining glint as he gazed at the men.
This was his plan of course. He wanted to see what types of abilities the people of their standings had, and furthermore, after learning that information, he would, in the future, always be ready for any signs of betrayal.
Tenshi learned one thing after 17 years that everyone, regardless of how much love and respect they show for you in their faces, they can stab you in the back at any moment without any hard thinking.
After all, all it takes to make the henchmen betray their masters were just creating disharmony and sometimes, manipulating their opinions or feelings.
It wasn’t that he didn’t have any trust towards them or their boss per se, but it was a given that he had their boss under Hypnosis, not them.
Tenshi was less cautious about them, because, he could see that in their eyes that they had great respect for their true boss, Amano.
Which meant that they were of the type that were very easy and always repaid their debts and didn’t scrutinize anyone related to their boss. In a short sentence, they were they types of people that were very untrustful of people but when people tried hard enough, they would gain their affections, meaning that they wouldn’t take any actions against anyone unless that have a grudge with that particular person.
But of course, behind every generous and always understanding boss’s actions, there’s always a motive. Basically, Amano successfully made his henchmen so faithful to him that they would probably kill themselves but won’t leak information about their boss.
Tenshi could be wrong however, since it was all but a guess that was born from seeing their devotion to their bosses in their eyes.
After all, Nero only called him sir while he called Amano boss, to Nero, boss might be a title of utmost respect and importance rather than a title made for flattery.
“Yes Sir. ”
“Oooh! Okay Boss! ”
Nero said nonchalantly while Haruto yelled with excitement, then, they stood up and walked towards the boys.
Tenshi acted disinterested by once again sitting down on the stool with his hands on his chin; his eyes however, were aimed at the performance that Haruto and Nero were soon about to give to him.
“Watch the window kids~!”
Haruto said as he aimed his palm at the window, after that, a whirlwind of air started to form as the room started to get windy.
“Fwooooooo~!!! ”
The air from the outside was sucked into the inside of the room as cool air started to fill the room violently; the air was cool because it had lower pressure than the surroundings, meaning that was more cool due to Bernoulli’s principle.
The boys squealed with excitement and got closer to the window in an attempt to see what was happening; even some of the more skeptical people in the group now started to believe Tenshi when he said that martial arts exist.
“Woahh! ”
“S-so amazing, this isn’t possible! ”
After a while, Haruto pulled his hand back to his side and smiled at the boys.
“As you can see, I’m an air elemental cultivator. I cultivate by using and absorbing the surrounding air elemental Qi around me using certain cultivation techniques. ”
“Remember, there are eight elements in this world: fire, water, wood, air, earth, space, light, death! ”
Haruto chippily smiled and patiently explained while the boys listened with excited expressions; after all, their fantasies had finally been proven true!
Who doesn’t want to fly on a sword and pick up girls like a badass?!
Haruto’s eyes relaxed as he pointed at a certain boy with his index finger.
“But of course, this is not all I can do. Look on closely. This is the true power of the wind element! ”
As soon as his index finger started to shake a little, Tenshi felt his heart stop as immense vibrations started to envelope his body.
Tenshi could feel that these vibrations weren’t physical, but the energy cultivators used to cultivate. It was the thing called Qi that they used to cultivate.
Tenshi looked around and felt the vibrations surrounding him have different intensities and different auras.
The immense vibrations he recently felt were that of a light and weightless one. To him, it felt invisible and had less intensity than the other types of vibrations.
Tenshi smiled tensely as he felt the vibrations decrease in the area Haruto pointed.
“Kggh! Ugahh! ”
The boy who was pointed at panicked and grasped at his neck, his eyes red as he gasped and desperately tried to breathe; meaning that, Haruto used his control on the air element to sap oxygen from the boy’s surroundings.
Tenshi frowned slightly before his grin increased more than ever before.
Tenshi had to get this guy on his side Pronto!
Air element, such a powerful ability!
[I’m afraid I’ll have to break some bad news to you.]
[Both Nero and Haruto have broken through the shackles of fate, meaning, that you can’t hypnotize them.]
[That’s true.]
“Unlike Haruto, I can’t really showcase my abilities here since I’m an earth elemental cultivator. ”
Nero shook his head with an expressionless face and returned to the corner of the room where he was sitting on before.
“Nero, give him a basic cultivation technique and teach him the basics of cultivation. ”
Tenshi said as he walked towards the window of the room and pulled out his phone.
Nero nodded and walked towards Ben and, out of nowhere, pulled out a scroll from his hands and gave it to Ben.
Tenshi seeing this smiled and looked at his phone; of course, the act of going to the window to check his phone was all an act. He wanted to learn about martial arts and the best way to do it was to make someone who knew all the ins and outs of it explain it.
Tenshi wasn’t intelligent, he was just good at taking advantage of opportunities and psychology!
“This scroll contains a basic breathing technique, all of you, read this together with each other and practice it simultaneously. I’ll see if you have talent for cultivation this way. ”
Nero said nonchalantly said he backed down.
“With this, we’ll monitor your progress and see what type of elements you can gather!”
Haruto said as he chuckled and sat down on a sofa at the side of the room along with Nero.
“Oh, I’ll say the names of the first four cultivation realms, they are
Mortal Ascension Stage
Spirit Ascension Stage
Spirit Profound Stage
Spirit Sea Stage
Anything above that will only confuse you.”
Nero said as he waved his hands at Ben and his group, his real reason not to state all of the cultivation stages however, were due to his laziness.
Nero didn’t really think that these boys would have much talent.
“Then sir, which realm are you in?! ”
One boy asked excitedly; the other boys however, tched and glared at him. After all, wasn’t asking a cultivator for his strength just like asking how much his wife charges per night? This was what they learned after reading wuxia!
Unlike what they thought how Nero would react, Nero laughed and answered with a patient expression on his face.
“Curiosity? Yes, be curious. Always be curious. ”
“I’m in the later stages of the Spirit Ascension Realm.”
Nero said with a smile on his face, supposedly pleased with the boys curiosity on martial arts.
“Ooh! I’m an early stage Spirit Profound realm cultivator! ”
” You’re a monster Haruto ”
“I can’t help it, it’s natural for me! ”
” Ugh ”
Ignoring their small talk, the boys opened the scroll with stars in their eyes and gasped.
Tenshi however smiled and looked at the scenery outside the window.
Tenshi didn’t like this part of the town, industrial and machinery filled, it wasn’t to his liking.
As far as his eyes went, the scenery was filled with high-tech towers and tall rising and posh buildings. If he looked down, he would see a highway lighted up by countless cars and trucks.
[Looks like the terms for certain cultivation realms have changed.]
[Nonetheless, you are now currently in the early stage of the Mortal Ascension Realm.]
[Every thirty three levels are different stages of a realm of cultivation.]
[For example, if you’re level thirty three, you’re an early stage Mortal Ascension Realm cultivator.]
[Every Realm of cultivation is composed of 100 levels, the first thirty three levels are early stage, the second thirty three are middle stage, the last thirty three are later stage.]
[As you’re currently not using any cultivation techniques, your Qi is not aligned with any of the elements meaning that it’s currently blank and less powerful.]
[To find out what Qi you’re aligned with, you have to practice the same breathing technique they’re practicing and then find out what element you’re aligned with, then, you have to find a real cultivation technique.]
Tenshi nodded his head. Looks like he needs to get that scroll and practice it when he’s alone in his house.
[That’s good, but before that, spin the lottery once again. Otherwise, you won’t get a good cultivation techniques from the shop as they cost in the upwards of ten thousand and so shop points.]
Tenshi nodded his head and turned around, there, he saw the boys sitting on top of their beds while sniffing the air vigorously as Nero and Haruto approvingly looked on with interested expressions.
Tenshi suddenly felt a bit of a dilemma. If these guys turned out to be geniuses, then he wouldn’t be able to take revenge or anything on them as they would become useful to him later.
Tenshi shrugged and wryly smiled, things sometimes don’t always go the direction he wants to go to.
However, just as he was about to command the Watch to open the lottery screen
“Ding~ ting ting ti ti ting ting tin tin tign ting titi ting~! ”
A weird ringtone rang out as Tenshi frowned and looked at his phone; yes, he recently changed his ringtone from a dull soundtrack to that of a more likeable one.
On the screen, the name Sakura brightly flashed as Tenshi frowned.
Tenshi in confusion, nodded his head.
What? He didn’t remember saving Sakura’s number
Tenshi curved his eyebrows, perhaps when he was sleeping, Sakura woke up and opened his phone, and after seeing that his phone didn’t have her number, she saved it on his phone?
[Bingo!]
Tenshi blinked rapidly in confusion.
[What’s your password?]
< Kanae-nee >
[I have an utterly awful want to slap you in your face right now change your password. Today. Now.]
[If you don’t want to change it, I’ll see how you’ll explain to her when she finds out about how someone texted you 200 fucking times and calls you darling!]
<>
[…if only I had a normal host]
Tenshi smiled and picked up the phone and put it on his ears.
“Muu, why does it take so long for you to pick my phone up? ”
A sweet yet innocent sounding voice came from the other side of the phone, from her voice, Tenshi could feel that she was sulking about something.
“Oh, nothing, I was just roaming around the park with nothing to do. ”
“Just got nervous about what to say now that you’re my girlfriend, that’s why I refreshed my mind and then picked up your phone. ”
Tenshi acted shyly and laughed.
Tenshi sometimes forgets that he gets out of the character when talking with Sakura; his true character sometime manages to break out. That’s why, he always needs to keep watch.
“really?… ”
Sakura asked from the other side with a soft tone, from her voice, she seemed to beembarrassed?
Tenshi felt a smile creep up onto his face, what was in that smile however, he didn’t understand.
Ah, how cute.
[You’re falling in love once again aren’t you?]
Hearing the voice in his head, Tenshi squinted his eyes and shook his head.
Tenshi breathed in deeply and let out the feelings breeding and multiplying in his heart.
The moment he falls in love with someone once again, will be the the time he’ll taste pain once again.
Tenshi understood what he was going through his mind right now, he was trying to reject the notion of falling in love because of his fear of being scarred once again.
Though, he himself knew that avoiding and denying feelings only made it, in fact, stronger.
This was weird wasn’t it? Human’s brains?
“Of course, my heart always starts to beat faster when I think about you. It makes sense that it’ll burst when I talk to you right? ”
Tenshi bit the bullet and said whatever his old-fashioned corny mind could come up with, his stomach however, felt a bit cold as he felt something inside him dying.
It was his soul right? His soul was dying wasn’t it?!
” haha, you’re too corny”
Sakura laughed while Tenshi rolled his eyes, as expected.
However, just as he was about to do a rebuttal or something, Sakura interfered.
“But I’m also like that.”
” You see, sometimes, I find myself smiling and laughing for no reason at all, and later, I find out that I was thinking about you. ”
“I was also nervous before giving you a call!”
” Aren’t we a good match for each other? ”
Sakura said with a laugh, her tone a mixture of happy and warm.