16 - Shotawn

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They all stood frozen, as if awaiting a cue. Yuuto assessed his surroundings, back pressed against the only escape route—the door to his classroom.

'This might be bad...' His thoughts raced.

Suddenly, a solitary figure broke through the crowd.

A small, dark-skinned boy with blonde hair and blue eyes advanced, flanked by a man dressed in a sharp tuxedo. The boy's smile was unnerving as he fixed his gaze on Yuuto.

An eerie silence fell. Not a single student moved. Even the two subdued teachers remained motionless.

"Let me guess. Your doing?" Yuuto asked, his tone even, meeting the boy's gaze with unflinching calm.

"Perceptive... And calm. Even now. As expected of the one who took down my little brother," the boy replied, his smirk broadening as he studied Yuuto.

Yuuto glanced back at the classroom door, sensing no movement from inside. 'They weren't affected by the hypnotism... Right?' he wondered.

"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down, little prick? I've taken down quite a few people lately," Yuuto retorted, his voice dripping with mockery.

Tommy, the old man in the tuxedo, contorted his face in anger. "Why you insolent...!!"

Satoshi raised his hand, signaling his butler to cease. The butler's expression eased back into calmness.

"Hahaha, you really are amusing, Hiroki Morii. I'm curious how long you'll keep laughing..." He muttered suggestively, his voice dripping with confidence.

"Way longer than you, peanut breath. You've hypnotized them, right? That's the only thing that makes sense of this whole thing." Yuuto scanned his surroundings sharply.

'I don't see Kanoko... Or Kaede... Or that traitorous bitch... Or his kohai- that judo girl, Ayumu. Where are they? Usually, in an NTR setting, the villain would parade them in front of me to try and break me,' Yuuto speculated with a sneer.

"Oh, aren't you astute? From my research, I pegged you as just another brainless thug." Satoshi's mockery caused the hypnotized crowd of students and teachers to erupt into a drone of thunderous laughter.

Yuuto joined in the laughter, prolonging his long after theirs had ceased.

"Ahahahahahahaha..." Yuuto's chuckle resonated across the silent crowd.

Satoshi's brow furrowed in confusion.

"What's with the laughter? Has this spectacle driven you insane?" Satoshi probed.

"Oh, not at all, you stupid clown," Yuuto retorted, slowly halting his laughter. "You really get off sniffing your own farts, huh? By showing yourself, you've just signed your death warrant. I now know you are the one who's doing this." Yuuto sneered with venom,

"All I need to do is snap your neck, and then I'll sort out this hypnosis later."

"Indeed, you are perceptive... Considering how you dealt with my brother, I have no doubts about your ruthlessness, as well. Perhaps we are cut from the same cloth, though I'm clearly the more intelligent one," Satoshi replied smoothly.

'Third floor... 15-meter drop. No bushes, no escape routes. I need to stall, figure something out... Do I have to break his neck now? If the hypnosis doesn't break, I'm screwed,' Yuuto assessed his options.

"You really enjoy this, don't you, shota bastard?" Yuuto said.

"What's life without a little thrill, Morii?" Satoshi sighed with a twisted sense of calm.

'Too risky. That old guy looks frail, but appearances are deceiving,' Yuuto thought as he eyed the butler closely, noticing his concealed buff physique.

'...He's too fit. If I charge at peanut-breath here, I might not kill him quick enough before he jumps in.'

"Thinking about whether you can take me down before my butler intervenes?" Satoshi guessed, his smirk widening.

Yuuto's muscles tensed.

'Damn it, he got me figured out...' He thought, masking his concern with a smirk.

"Nah, I was just admiring that monocle. What's it made of, bitchnesium?" Yuuto quipped.

"How cute..." Satoshi muttered, snapping his fingers with a sinister grace.

Suddenly, Kaede, Kanoko, and Nao emerged from the crowd, their expressions blank, moving mechanically.

Yuuto's eyes widened slightly, 'Ah, there they are. For a second there, I thought I'd been isekai'd out of this world... Though the Judo childhood friend ain't there,'

"Ho... Recognize someone?" Satoshi taunted, a twisted smile spreading across his face as the three women surrounded Satoshi, their faces emotionless yet their eyes screaming silently.

'FUCK... I CAN'T MOVE...!! COME ON...!!' Kanoko raged inwardly, trapped in her own body.

'What is this!? What is this!!? Hiroki... Save me...!!' Kaede's thoughts echoed in desperation.

Satoshi then beckoned Nao closer with a crooked finger and started kissing her deeply.

'Haha... Well, Hiroki, like what you see...? I've willingly agreed to this. He didn't even need to hypnotize me... Don't hate me too much for introducing him to your cute mother and sister <3' Nao's thoughts dripped with betrayal as they continued, Kaede reluctantly massaging his shoulders and Kanoko forced to lick ear.< p>

'Shit...!! Doing that to a bastard like him..!!' Kanoko seethed, filled with disgust yet unable to resist.

Nao then glanced up at Yuuto, her gaze challenging, expecting his features to contort with despair.

'Hiroki....!!! Don't look...!!' Kaede's heart cried out.

"I was actually wondering when they'd show up. No way you'd brainwash everyone but leave them out," Yuuto said coolly, his voice calm and unnervingly steady.

Kaede and Kanoko found a sliver of relief in Yuuto's composed demeanor.

'Hiro...Ki..' Kanoko's thoughts clung to hope.

'The hell..!? Why isn't he breaking...?' Nao fumed internally, her irritation mounting.

Satoshi's annoyance flickered across his face as Yuuto remained unaffected. He then broke the kiss, pushing Nao off of him as he put his hands in his pocket, pulling out a small pocketknife.

"Hey." Satoshi called, his body snapping to Kaede. He looked up at her, his tone laced with anger.

"You're his mother, right? Here," Satoshi said nonchalantly, handing her the knife.

'No...!!!! NO...!!!! DON'T!!!' Kaede's mind screamed as she took the knife with steady hands.

"Stab him," Satoshi ordered coldly.

Kaede, with heavy steps, began advancing towards Yuuto, her eyes filled with silent apologies.

'HIROKI... HIROKI...!!! RUN...!!! PLEASE, RUN..!!!!' Kaede's internal screams were desperate.

'Wait... You're just going to kill him like that...? Isn't that too much..!?' Nao thought, unsure how to act.

Thinking quickly, Yuuto spun on his heel and sprinted back to the classroom, slamming the door shut behind him, yet unable to shut it wholly due to the fire hose in the way.

'Something... There has to be something here..!!!' He thought, as he swiftly turned away to the classroom as he noticed that the hose was in the way of closing the door.

"Hiroki... Don't worry..." A soft voice whispered just as he snapped his body around.

Then, eerily, the entire classroom chimed in unison, "Everything is fine with this..."

'They're under it too!? How...?' His eyes scanned the room frantically, stopping on the big TV screen showing an empty chair. 'No fucking way... He can hypnotize through the TV?' He thought, backing towards the window to assess his escape options.

...No escape was possible without risking serious injury.

As they advanced, Yuuto's mind raced. Suddenly, the classroom door burst open. Satoshi and his butler strode in, followed by a mob of brainwashed students and teachers. Kaede, knife in hand, steadily approached. Satoshi's smirk was confident and calculating as he caught sight of Yuuto near the window.

'HIROKI...!!! NO...!!! STOP THIS...!!! PLEASE!!!!' Kaede's internal pleas echoed desperately as she moved closer, knife gripped tightly in her steady hand.

'...This is getting worrying. He said he was just going to dominate this guy... Not... This...!!' Nao thought, concern slightly showing in her features.

"You know, I've made sure they're aware of everything going on around them while still under my control. After your hot mom kills you, right in front of your family, I'm going to ensure they remember every little detail. I'm gonna make them addicted to my cock, and only think about that while I break their spirit and forget about you entirely..." Satoshi hissed as he licked his lips.

'NO!!!! STOP!!!!!!!!! HIROKI...!!! HIROKI!!!' Kaede's thoughts screamed in despair, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"The way I see it, Hiroki Mo~rii-chan..." Satoshi began, his tone disturbingly cheerful. Yuuto faced him head-on, unflinching.

'Damn it..!!! HIROKI... THERE'S... NOTHING I CAN DO TO SAVE YOU....!! NO.... SOMEONE... ANYONE... HELP HIM...' Kanoko thought in despair, also shedding a tear as she followed Satoshi.

"You have two choices: surrender and die... or jump. Either way, these puppets will drag you back to me, and I'll make sure you get exactly what's coming to you..." His smirk spread maliciously across his face.

Yuuto tilted his head downward as he ducked, the gravity of his predicament sinking in.

'This is real... A bona fide hypnotist has commandeered the entire school and Hiroki's family against me...' He squared his shoulders, steeling himself for what came next.

"So, had enough of your bravado, Hiroki Morii—"

"DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMBASS!" Yuuto's voice boomed as he suddenly leapt up, throwing the window open with one hand and seizing the fire hose with the other.

Satoshi's eyes snapped to the fire hose, now under Yuuto's control.

'Damn it...! Where did that come from!!?' Panic flickered across Satoshi's face.

"I ain't ever giving up, you shota bastard," Yuuto declared, his voice ringing with defiance as he clambered onto the windowsill, hose in hand.

'H-hiroki...!!' Kaede's thoughts echoed, her gaze fixed on Yuuto, a flicker of hope igniting within her.

Satoshi's eye twitched in annoyance, taken aback by the audacity. "And remember this: My name's Yuuto Sakurai... And mark my words... I'm gonna baseball your ass!" Yuuto shouted, leaping from the window and using the fire hose as a makeshift rope.

'Yuuto... Sakurai?' Nao thought, her curiosity piqued. 'YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOO I'M TAKING ON AN ACTUAL HYPNOTIST NTR BASTARD IN ANOTHER WORLD, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE SECOND-BEST DAY EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' His thoughts raced with exhilaration, his face lighting up with a wild, childlike grin as he touched down.

Meanwhile, back in the school...

???: "Hm..? I ditched the lesson and came back but no one was here... What's going on?"

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