The Golden Watch Of Hypnosis - Chapter 42
Tenshi groaned and woke up from his little nap, his eyes stung as the cool air from the air conditioner hit his red and sleep-deprived eyes.
At the front seat, Nero was lazily looking at the outside scenery while munching on a bag of chips while Haruto drove the car with a slightly tired expression on his face.
Tenshi fixed his sitting posture and looked at his watch.
1:55PM
Tenshi smiled and for one or two minutes, stood quiet and peaceful. Then, a random thought appeared on his mind as he questioned the watch.
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It wasn’t as if this question didn’t come to his mind before per se, but back when he first wanted to ask, he was dealing with something or someone so he didn’t have the time, but now, he was free so he asked without hesitation.
[Of course there is, even without inserting fake memories, you can manipulate their feelings towards you, you can make them subconsciously tell you everything that comes to their minds to you, you can make them do anything you like even without them knowing.]
[For example, if you want to increase a hypnotized person’s lust towards you, you can do just that, even without manipulating their memories.]
[You can make them tell you the truth to everything you ask ectecetra.]
[Exactly.]
[However, the most powerful function of the watch is that, you can kill the hypnotized targets anytime you want without any hassle, not matter how powerful or how godly they are.]
[That’s the only thing the watch can do to a hypnotized target’s physical body, otherwise, there’s no other function related to a person’s body]
Tenshi frowned a bit and put his hand on his chin.
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[You know, you can make any of their organs fail just with a command from your mind.]
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[Oh, don’t worry, a blue screen asking for your permission to execute the target will flash in front of you, and until you agree, the target won’t be going anywhere.]
Tenshi slightly nodded and smiled. He then pulled out his phone and checked it for any text or calls; after seeing nothing new, Tenshi nodded his head put it back into his pocket.
At least Misaki wasn’t bothering him with another hundred messages
Nero looked back, seeing if Tenshi was awake or not, and after seeing that he was awake, Nero turned his gaze back towards the window with apparent boredom in his eyes.
Tenshi looked at the tanned man in front of him. Nero was handsome, from there, he looked like a model. His slightly rugged look improved his face even more.
“Don’t worry sir, just another ten minutes and we’ll reach the office. ”
Nero said and turned back, his sight on the scenery once again.
“Nero. Your wife’s now dead. It’s a confirmed kill. ”
Haruto said with a quiet tone in his voice.
“Hmm. Did you plant the fake witnesses? ”
“I did. ”
After their small and nonchalant discussion, Nero’s mouth become sealed as Haruto sighed.
As he had nothing to remove his boredom with, Tenshi interestedly looked at Nero.
“So, now that you’re wife’s dead, what’s your plan? ”
“I know that a wife’s not all you need in life, but do you plan on marrying again?”
“Marriage? No. Never. ”
Nero replied with an icy dry tone.
“Don’t talk to him right now boss. He’s in his ‘I hate women’ mood. ”
Haruto said and laughed joyfully.
“What do you know about my situation wife-slave?”
Nero spitefully grinned.
“Nonetheless, after this, I’m just going to frequent the brothels.”
“Wakaka! ”
Nero laughed with joy in his tone. After all, he finally managed to get rid of his wife.
“And make this same mistakes again Nero? ”
Haruto said and rolled his eyes.
“By the way, Viagra must be costly right? I’ll pay for ten of them as a sign of brotherhood. Hahaha! ”
After seeing Nero shoot a heated gaze towards him, Haruto winced and returned back to his driving.
“It must be nice having a wife like yours right? ”
After a while of silence, out of nowhere Nero asked with a low voice.
” Yeah ”
“It’s nice having a wife like her that bears with my mood changes and tantrums and still manages to smile at me. ”
“Guess it’s fate right Haruto?”
Nero said with a disheartened tone yet his face held a smile.
” Yeah, you can say so. But don’t worry, love isn’t everything in life. ”
Haruto said in an effort to placate Nero.
“Nah, I’m not searching for love. I’m just searching for companionship ”
Nero said and grinned, after a moment, his gaze was once again redirected back to the window.
After so many months, he’s finally going to be able to visit the brothels again.
Tenshi grinned and slightly nodded.
Now that the topic had descended into marriage, a subject Tenshi didn’t like, his brain started to spiral into philosophy once again.
Tenshi from the start, never wanted to get married. First of all, marriage never lasts 50% of the time and the divorce rate is something like 3 out of 4 married couples, if you wanted to skydive and three out of four bags were guaranteed to not work, would you still take the chance?
No. He wouldn’t. Nope, never.
Many things don’t work in life, marriage is just another one, even back in his childhood, he wondered if the promise with Haruno would even work after so many years.
Well, Tenshi felt that his thoughts regarding marriage could also be applied to promises, especially the childhood ones.
50% of failure!
“Boss, we’re here!”
Haruto said with a laugh as the car stopped. He then went outside and opened the door by Tenshi’s side.
Tenshi put his phone in his pants and went out with a cold grin on his face.
As soon as he went outside, Tenshi sighed in relief as the heat from the outside was now lesser than before.
Haruto and Nero stood beside him as a security guard came and took the car key from Haruto and drove the car away to a parking lot.
Tenshi looked in front of him and saw a huge 3 meter tall gate with four muscular security guards vigilantly looking at the people passing by the gates.
On the left side of the wall of the gate, a small board was hung saying ‘Blackrock Industries Headquarter ‘.
The guards opened the gate as Tenshi and his men entered.
In front of Tenshi was a big and wide avenue lined up with trees leading onto a big and pristine looking office block piercing into the sky.
The office block was from what he could judge, 21 floors high.
“Ah, boss! ”
From the building’s sliding door, Amano ran towards Tenshi’s with a flower bouquet in his hand.
Tenshi seeing this, curved his eyebrows in confusion.
Coming here to greet him was fine but with a flower bouquet?
Nonetheless, Tenshi shook his head and went ahead and received the bouquet and smiled.
“Nice to see you boss! ”
“Yeah. ”
With a one word reply, Tenshi gave the flower bouquet to Nero standing behind him and walked towards the building.
The others however, seeing this took no offense and smiled at each other.
“Ah, brother-in-law, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you! ”
Haruto said as he looked at Amano and lewdly smiled.
“We met like; eight hours ago ”
Amano said with a slight cough as he looked at the sky with a slight red flush on his face.
Seeing this, Tenshi turned around and squinted his eyes.
Brother in law? Oh so Amano’s sister was this guy’s wife? A good way to hook a man to his throne
Tenshi rolled his eyes as he eliminated a certain plan from his mind and smiled at the both of them.
“Oh oh, come on, sister in law kept you away from us for such a long time~! ”
Haruto said with a wide smile on his face.
Even the rarely-smiling Nero chuckled.
Amano rolled his eyes and looked at Tenshi as an excuse of running from the situation.
“Oh, sorry to keep you awaiting boss, let’s go! ”
Amano stupidly smiled and went ahead with Tenshi towards the building.
“Boss. What would you like? ”
“Mead, wine, spirit, whiskey, malt or just plain beer? ”
Amano said with a charismatic expression on his face as he pointed at the brightly lit drink bar in front of him. There, Tenshi could see many bottles of alcohol held in the cabinets and tables.
Tenshi was now in Amano’s office, the entire 21th floor reserved for only him and his closest aides, other than them, no one else could enter here without his permission.
The room was as wide as Tenshi’s entire home; as far as his eyes could stretch, all he could see in the room were antiques and valuable but good looking furnishings.
To Tenshi however, all of this felt like a waste of money.
After a moment, Amano went in front of the bar and pulled out a couple of glasses and bottles.
Seeing this, Tenshi was about to refuse but Tenshi felt a certain thing within him tell him to be more curious and courageous and drink the offered alcohol.
Tenshi up until now, never drank any alcoholic beverages partially due to his mother’s upbringing, but, he’s already planning to kill several people, which also go against the principles she set up for him so a bit of drinking couldn’t really do much harm.
[After all, dead people stay dead. There’s no reason to always keep them in your mind and follow their ideals are there?]
[The dead stay dead. It’s not like she’ll wake up and criticize you for drinking is it?]
[I absolutely regret not knowing the taste of water, food or anything else that passes through your mouth. Perhaps, even I was just like you, never tasted any alcoholic beverages in my previous life.]
[Well, at least I can know how it tastes from your feelings after you drink it so go ahead!]
Tenshi nodded a bit and without any consideration, voiced out his choice randomly.
“Malt. ”
“Ah, good choice boss, the drink for soldiers as I call it. Full of valor!”
Amano excitedly pulled out a bottle from the cabinet beneath him and poured it into a glass.
“This is Karuizawa 1967. Aged for 51 years ah, I never opened it for myself but here I am, serving it my boss!”
“Boss, I’m proud that you’re the first one drinking from this bottle! Hah! Cheers.”
Tenshi took the glass and clicked it with Amano’s glass. He then took a look at the light amber colored malt in the glass and sniffed it a bit.
The malt smelled very woody, a rich and elegant type of wood that comforted the nose when burnt. Of course, the fragrance of sweet cherry was also mixed in it.
Burnt treacle, balsamic glaze, dark fruit jams, dark plum skins.
Oxo drink, beef but the top layer of meat when cooked and gone slightly crispy.
Something like chocolate orange with plain chocolate.
Whiffs of peat smoke mixed in with dark forest fruits.
That’s how it smelled like, rich and vibrant. Tenshi almost felt as if he was in a bright and colorful festival just from sniffing it a little bit.
“You know what I like about malt boss? Purity. ”
“They’re very very pure. Untouched by corruption and whatnot. That’s the factor on why I love them, especially the Japanese ones. ”
Amano said as he looked at his glass of malt and nodded.
Tenshi smiled and for once, closed his eyes and took a small gulp of the malt in his hands.
After a moment, Tenshi opened his eyes as ecstasy revealed itself, he then smiled.
Peat is to the fore here mixed in with black currants , black cherry and black coffee.
Not as woody as the nose suggested with some raspberry fizz coming through and the peat just grows and keeps exploding on the tongue.
The fruit grows mixing in with the dark meat and the obvious wood.
It was as if strong, black and heavy fireworks were exploding on his tongue. Tenshi couldn’t keep himself calm and eventually slowly downed the entire glass of malt.
Tenshi’s face flushed as he coughed and returned to his previous cold expression.
“Did you get what I asked you to gather yesterday? ”
“Oh that? Yeah, Nero’s going to collect them from an agent. ”
Amano said as he gulped his glass of malt and happily smiled.
Tenshi nodded and looked at the black suitcase beside the small stool he was sitting on; a full hundred million Yen, in other words, a million dollars.
It was full and stuffed with cash to the extent that it looked as if it was the stomach of a human, bloated.
To Tenshi, this suitcase of cash was the symbol of corruption and money laundering. He was sure that Amano wasn’t a businessman for nothing, he must’ve given him money from illegal sources rather than his own legal cash flowing from his assests.
Tenshi knew that in business, even your family came last before wealth and gain.
Even he himself was somewhat like that, perhaps he was like that from the start, greedy and manipulative. Nonetheless, he had justifications.
It was just that, when Tenshi looked at the suitcase, his eyebrows twitched as he felt as if he was going to deliver his soul straight to the devil’s hands if he took it.
If he took it and blew the money away, what his mother tried to stop and died trying to do, will now also devour him.
Corruption.
Tenshi smiled and took the suitcase in his hands, it was heavy as if it was a big rock that was capable of smashing people’s mouths.
Tenshi stopped the philosophical talk in his mind and eventually started to think how he would take the investors stocks, securities and properties.
Leaving them in a will would be a good idea since just a day after they sign the papers, he can just use the watch to cause each and every one of them to die out of different types of organ failure.
The above one was good but it seemed like a bother due to the extravagant time needed to prepare a will. Although the tax relief he would gain was really good to his eyes, he didn’t really care about them much.
Scrapped!
Tenshi frowned.
Tenshi also couldn’t make them sell every property and security they have in their arms to him at a penny per rate because it would seem to be too much suspicious. Furthermore, it would also be filled with many problems and frankly told, he was sure that stocks could be sold at any rate the owner wants but he wasn’t sure it was the exact same thing for properties.
Hmm.
Gifting. Yes gifting their assets to him! That could work!
However after a while of excitement, Tenshi calmed down and rolled his eyes.
Gifting stocks and real estate however, had major pitfalls such as, gift tax if he was going to sell it instantly, and even if he held it for longer or shorter than five years, capital gains tax will come back and bite him in the ass.
Another option was, make them transfer all of their securities and stock to a trust and set himself up as a beneficiary
No that wouldn’t work, he didn’t want only the dividends, he wanted to sell the stock after getting them and if possible, usurp various positions at certain companies.
Tenshi’s plan was simple, he would reign as the ruler in the business world of Acropolis city. Furthermore, he had to show off his influence to Sakura’s mother right?
Remembering Sakura, Tenshi smiled.
Gifting it is then, taxes didn’t matter to him.
But of course, to transfer stock to his name he needed to have a brokerage account at a broker firm and to do that, he needed to be eighteen.
Of course, that wouldn’t be a problem anymore after 12am today.
“After the meeting, tell all of your investors and stockholders to meet me. ”
Tenshi said as he looked at the brown eyes of Amano, his hands still held the empty glass of malt. Tenshi liked the malt, if he could, he would take it home.
Hearing this, Amano looked at him with a confused expression on his face.
“Why boss? ”
“Just do as I say. ”
Tenshi said coldly as he looked back at his glass.
“OK. ”
Seeing Tenshi’s face, Amano took the bottle of vintage malt beside him and poured Tenshi’s glass to half-full.
Tenshi nodded and swished the glass, it’s slightly brown liquid moving round and round like a tornado.
Was he drunk? No. Not yet. From what Tenshi could see, he wasn’t as weak to alcohol and he thought he would be.
“Say, how many shareholders do you have Amano? ”
“Six. Six thieves as I like to call them, bloody bastards. ”
Amano said with a slight frown, then, he took his glass and completely emptied it.
Tenshi’s eyes went wide as he grinned.
“Why?”
“Hmph, they want to list the company on the stock exchange, meaning that they want to turn this privately-held company into a public one. Great! I raised jackals! ”
“That way, the ownership would be liquidated! ”
“Hmm ”
Tenshi stiffly replied with a thoughtful expression on his cold face.
“Amano, I don’t do this for everyone but since you’re one of my trusted lackies, how about I help you out with this situation? ”
“But the problem is that, they have a solid reason for doing so, they want to raise more capital! ”
Amano sighed as he swished his glass of malt, from there, the liquid was glistening like a star.
“Don’t worry. Just do as I say, make them come into this room and I’ll handle the rest. ”
“You want investment right? I’ll help you. ”
Tenshi said as he looked at Amano with a charming smile on his face, right now, it seemed as if his face was glowing.
After seeing his face, stars started to emerge in Amano’s eyes as he squealed.
“Boss! I didn’t notice but how did you become so handsome and thin in such a short time?! ”
“Uh, ayurvedic herbal medicine? ”
Tenshi sheepishly smiled and replied an nonsensical answer. He never bought ayurvedic medicine before so he didn’t know how they worked, plus, due to drinking three glasses of malt, his mind was now half-melted.
Guess he wasn’t as strong to alcohol as he thought.
“Ooooo, ayurvedic medicine?! Looks like I have to try them one day!”
Amano said as he laughed and looked at his slim and muscular stomach over a blue vest.
Tenshi looked at the man before him more carefully, Amano right now was dressed in a white undershirt and a blue vest, right now, he was looking extraordinarily handsome.
Tenshi nodded displeasedly, why wasn’t he as handsome as this dude?
“Brzzzzzzzzzzzz!”
“Brrrzzzzzzzzzzz! ”
A buzzing sound rang out as Amano pulled out a phone from his pocket unenthustically and looked at the screen, then a moment later, he put it on his ears.
“Yes Rin-neechan?”
Amano said while rolling his eyes.
Tenshi became interested as he came forward and listened to their conversation.
Isn’t Haruto Amano’s brother in law? Meaning that Amano’s neechan is Haruto’s wife?
Tenshi was interested.
“Yes yes, I’ll send him home more quickly today. ”
“Okay take care. ”
Amano said with apparent nonchalance in his tone, from what Tenshi could hear, his last two words were as if it was spat out with hate.
Interesting. A good way to divide the wife and husband must be found out
Within the dim lighting, Tenshi’s devious and malicious smile could be seen as Amano hung up his phone and sat back on his stool behind the bar.
“I’m tired of pretending boss. ”
“I believe I’ve told this to you before but will you still listen? You know, I just want someone to listen to my heart right now. ”
“Okay, say it to me Amano. ”
“OK boss.”
“Frankly told, I hate my sister. She was and still is, nothing but a burden to my shoulders. ”
“Back when she was a teenager, I was ruthlessly mocked and derided by her. Hell, she doesn’t even remember the torture she gave to me everyday when I had to return to my home from school. ”
“I was nine years old goddammit! ”
Amano banged his fist on the bar with a thud as his voice boomed within the room.
“I was fucking nine years old when I thrown from a small bridge by her and her friends, because of that, I still have a scar on my forehead! ”
Amano said as he pointed at the scars above his eyes.
“That’s horrible. ”
“Yeah, it fucking is! Believe me, I never felt such fear as I did back then even when a gun was pointed at my fucking face! ”
Amano stood up and paced back and forth while telling his story, he was almost yelling as spit fell out of his mouth.
After a while of silence, he calmed down and once again sat back on his stool with a peaceful smile on his face.
“But of course, later, I found out she had more uses than lying around my house and gobbling up food. ”
“She was beautiful, extraordinarily so. ”
“I used her to bind Haruto to my chair like a faithful lackey. ”
Amano chuckled as a devious look started to form on his face, his grin started to widen as he relaxed his back and once again started to drink.
“You see boss, back when I first found Haruto, he was nothing but a court-martialed military surgeon. I took him in and fed him, even then, he completely didn’t submit to me just like how Nero did. ”
“So I used my sister as a gambling chip. I made them meet each and mixed aphrodisiacs in their water! ”
Amano laughed, his laugh was so strong that his head started to fall back towards his behind.
Tenshi looked at Amano with an interested look on his face.
Tenshi’s mind, has now succeeded in brewing a plan in order to make Haruto submit to him whole heartedly.
Until now, he could see the love on Haruto’s face towards his wife, Tenshi thought that perhaps, his wife also loved him and subtracted her from his plan.
But of course, suddenly, it turned out that their love might not be as two sided as Tenshi and Haruto thought it would be.
Nonetheless, Tenshi wanted to listen, and after that, he would come to know if his plan is executable or not.
“I knew that Haruto never had any sexual partners before and also leant that he, was also abandoned by his parents. ”
“So of course, it didn’t take me much time to figure out he would never, ever, abandon his ‘mistake’. ”
After a while of deviously grinning, Amano’s smile died as he looked at Tenshi.
“Honestly, I now regret that I set both of them up. I pity him. ”
“Hmm? His wife doesn’t love him? ”
“No, it isn’t like that, she eventually fell in love with him but ”
“Well, in the first year of marriage, let’s just say she wasn’t really faithful to Haruto ”