I Was Transported to Another World with a Male-to-Female Ratio of 1:3000 and Made into a Breeding Pet for the Demon Lord’s Army - 39

Chapter 39: Take This! Hypnosis!!

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【Day 6: Zoo Open】

Today, like always, I spent my time on display in the glass-walled room. If I had to point out a single difference from before, it would be the large trench—about three meters deep and two meters wide—now dug beyond the glass. Thanks to that, the banging on the wall and the yelling from the other side had decreased significantly compared to the day before yesterday.

Honestly, if that racket had continued every day, I would’ve gone insane from the stress by now, so I was pretty grateful for the change.

Rumble, rumble…

“…Still, I’m so bored.”

At first, just raising my hand would make people scream and cheer, and that was entertaining enough, but by the sixth day, I was starting to get tired of it. Apparently, they could still hear me over there, but because the distance across the trench had increased, I could no longer make out their reactions clearly—which was a real loss.

“Not that there’s anything else to do. I can either sleep or stare blankly at books I can’t even read. And Hamlin-san looks super busy anyway.”

I tried getting closer to at least play with Hamlin-san, but she must’ve been really frustrated about losing to Aura-san the other day since she’d been running circles in the room nonstop since morning.

(I’m soooo booooored!”

Now that I think about it, aren’t zoo animals usually stuck in a “sleep → food → sleep again” loop?

As a kid, I’d envied that kind of life so much, but now that I’ve actually experienced it, it was way harsher than I imagined. It felt like time itself had stopped, and each day just crawled by.

“I don’t care if it’s a dolphin show or juggling or street performance—anything’s fine, just free me from this boredom!”

Tap… tap…

“Hm? What’s that? Sounds like someone tapping on the glass…”

“【Hypnosis】”

CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE!

“……OHH!!??”

The moment I turned toward the sound, my mind went completely blank. All thoughts vanished, and a powerful sensation, as if the world had been flipped upside down, surged through me. Even though my body felt so weak I was about to collapse, I couldn’t move at all—like I was bound by invisible chains.

『Pathetic~ ♡ There’s no way someone cool like me would ever mate with gloomy types like you Onee-sans~ You’re all way too desperate crowding around like that~』

…What the hell is this?

My mouth moved on its own, and before I knew it, I was speaking the language of this world fluently. The creepiness of having words spill out of my mouth without my will made my skin crawl.

『Hypnosis doesn’t work on me~! There’s no way I’d become your puppet, Onee-san~ ♡』

What’s happening to me?

『Hey, the hypnosis finally worked! There’s still more you should be doing! Like undressing him piece by piece!』

『Exactly! If you’re not making him strip and do a humiliating hip-thrust dance with a dead-serious face, you should give up being a hypnotist!』

『Shut up! You amateurs stay quiet! Hypnosis is perfected because it includes bratty boys who mock hypnosis!』

『I agree!』

『Pathetic~ ♡ Losers~ ♡ Pathetic!~』

『Ohhh, so this is one of those “put them in their place” plays!? So Ken-chan likes that kind of domination play!』

『I’ll shut that cocky little mouth with a hot, steamy kiss ♡』

Every time I said something, the people beyond the glass stirred and became agitated. I didn’t understand the meaning of the words I was saying, but just from their reactions, I got a bad feeling that I was saying some seriously messed-up stuff.

What if I was insulting them or something…

『Tch… Just kill me already! A noble male knight would never give in to such cowardly hypnosis!』

Hip thrust~♡

『Wait, now he’s saying knightly lines? And look at that cute little hip wiggle~♡ But maybe it’s time to wrap this up. Strip him down before Luna-sama finds out!』

『That’s not me! I didn’t make him say that!』

『Huh? What are you talking abou—wait, my arm… My neck… stop—』

Thud!

『Hey!! Why are you choking yourself! What the hell are you doing!?』

『…There’s someone else here! Someone else who uses hypnosis like me! We’re already under a hypnosis attack!』

『Wha—hypnosis attack!? Wh-Wh-Wh-What do we do!?』

『It’s simple. Just break the trigger condition! Hypnosis requires eye contact—that’s the key!』

『No way! A rare male human is thrusting his hips to tempt me! There’s no way I’m closing my eyes and ignoring that! I’d rather die than miss this opportunity!』

『Agreed. Then we have no choice but to find and defeat the one casting the hypnosis!』

『But there are over a hundred demi-humans in this room! That’s impossible!』

『Even if it’s impossible, we have to try—for Ken-chan’s sake!』

『But I don’t see anyone suspicious… Wait, my consciousness… It’s… Fading away…』

『Hey! You okay!?』

Grab…

『……Hmph. Here I thought there was one among you immune to my spell… You’re the hypnotist, aren’t you?』

『What are you saying all of a sudden… Wait—are you the one controlling her body!?』

『That’s right! I’m the hypnotist you’ve been looking for! If you don’t want your friend to get hurt, sit back and enjoy watching Ken-chan’s humiliation!』

『Ggh… I don’t care what happens to my friend. Just lift the hypnosis on Ken-chan!』

『No can do! Honestly, I didn’t intend to hypnotize Ken-chan… But what was that hypnosis? A bratty boy play? No! The future is all about ‘noble knights under hypnosis, forced to break their dignity’! The hypnosis reaches its peak when it makes him act like a noble knight who doesn’t even exist in this world!』

Grab!

『Gahh! What is this absurd strength!? The hypnosis has removed her power limiter! I can’t breathe—My neck…!』

Glint!

『Is this it for me? My lifelong dream since childhood… To witness “the bratty boy who secretly likes her but acts out due to puberty, only to be shown who’s boss by the reclusive Onee-san next door”… I was so close, Ken-chan… I’m sor—』

Glint!

『No way… We scraped and saved to come here! I’m not leaving until I see Ken-chan’s strip show!』

Glint! Glint!

『That’s it! That’s the key! We’ve only ever looked in Ken-chan’s direction… Not even once did we look away! In that case… ORAAA!』

Thud!

『Guha… A backward roundhouse kick!?』

『Found you, hypnotist! You sneaky bastard!』

『What!? How did you discover me!? I was perfectly hidden!』

『Simple logic. Hypnosis requires eye contact. But we’ve all been facing forward, and no one in front turned back. So you… You used the glass surrounding Ken-chan to reflect our eyes!』

『That just explains how the hypnosis worked! That’s not proof you found me!』

『No need to rush. The first clue was that hypnosis continued even after one of our allies turned around. If it were just pre-programmed actions like Ken-chan’s hip-thrusting, that’d be one thing. But to hold a conversation, the subject needs new commands constantly. Which means—at a minimum, the hypnotist needed to make eye contact twice!』

『……』

『First time: hypnotizing through the eyes reflected in the glass. Second time: direct eye contact after we turned around.』

『And the final clincher—you were close enough to hear us talk about who the hypnotist was. That narrowed it down to someone directly behind us. Honestly, I didn’t expect to nail the culprit on the first guess though.』

『Fufufu… A-hahaha! Impressive deduction! But so what if you’ve exposed me! I still have control of Ken-chan! That hasn’t changed!』

『【Hypnosis】』

『Tch! Why the hell am I wearing clothes! This is against the knightly code… Loser~! That kind of hypnosis won’t work on me~!』

『What!? No! I never gave an order to make him act like a bratty boy! Hurry! Strip off those clothes!』

『Your struggle will end in vain! I gave Ken-chan a new command! From here on, it’s a pure battle of willpower—a full-power hypnosis showdown…』

『Guh… I won’t lose! I’ll counter with the full-power of my  hypnosis! Ken-chan is mine!』

『Loser! Kuh… Kill me! Your boobs are so small, haha! Stop! I have a fiancée back in my homeland! Ohhh♡ I give uuuup♡ What are you doing!? Isn’t it the knights’ rule to serve every morning!?』

Agaaagagagaga!

Information kept flooding into my head without ever reaching completion.

Who… am I? Was I fighting with a sword…? No, I think I was in love with the older girl next door… Wait? I need to get these clothes off fast! No, wait! What are clothes, anyway? What does it mean to live?

『UOOOOOOOOOOOH!!』

The taste of blood slowly spread in my mouth, and a wave of nausea hit me hard. The scenery in front of me was gradually swallowed by darkness, and even my sense of place became unclear.

『UOOOAAHHHHH! 400% Hypnosis!!! GET CRUSHED!!』

“Aaaaahhh… ah…”

Tremble… Twitch… Thud!

“Ah…”

『Kyaaaah! Ken-chan’s nose is bleeding…! Someone, get Luna-sama!』

『Damn it! We messed with his mind too much! Ken-chan’s brain short-circuited… If they find us, we’re toast! Let’s run for it!』

『I-I agree…』

Slide, slide… Grab!

『Wha—this long tail… Don’t tell me…!』

『After checking for magic activation… So there really was a hypnotist. It’s clearly written in the rules, isn’t it? That the use of any magic on Ken-chan is strictly forbidden. This will cost you dearly. First, I’ll start by slowly breaking both of your spines.』

『No… wouldn’t it be better to tear off their limbs and hang them at the entrance? It’d be a fine example of what happens to violators.』

『P-please forgive us! This was… right! Instinct! Yes, in the Demon Realm, actions based on instinct aren’t punishable, right?!』

『Y-yeah! It’s not like we wanted to do it! We just got a little too into it… You know?』

『Don’t be ridiculous! What kind of creature has hypnosis as an instinct!? Everyone, look closely! This is the punishment given to those who break the rules! Lammy!』

『Understood.』

Crack!

『GYAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!』

Crack, snap, crack crack craaack…

It was said that the dying screams of the two women echoed endlessly through the still night sky…

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