The School is Under Hypnosis, and I'm the Only One Who Knows (I Was Able To Send The Hypnotist Flying Back Home, but Now I’ve Got The Whole School Under My Hands As My Harem, What Should I Do!?)

Chapter 1: Prologue

My name is Watanabe Ichiro, and I’m a third-year student at Sakura Minami Academy. My class is 3-6, and my attendance number is 31. Why did I go out of my way to mention my class and attendance number you ask? It’s because these details are necessary to tell the strange events I was involved in.

Normally, class and attendance numbers are just for the school’s convenience in managing students, and they don’t hold any particular meaning. However, this time, they carried significant importance. 6-6 is the last class at Sakura Minami Academy, and attendance number 31 is the last number in that class.

That Cheater Hypnotist seemed to be erasing students from 1-1, starting with attendance number 1. In other words, I would be the last one to be erased.

It all began on a rainy day. I had forgotten my umbrella and was hurrying home when I slipped on the wet stairs and fell. Unfortunately, I hit my head and suffered a severe injury. The doctor later told me that I was lucky, as if it had hit a few centimeters in a different direction it could have been fatal.

Fortunately, I didn’t have any after-effects and was discharged from the hospital after just two days. However, when I returned to school, I noticed something strange. Were there always this many beautiful girls at our academy?

Sakura Minami Academy was supposed to be a regular co-ed school with a 1:1 gender ratio. But it seemed like there were more female students than male students, and they were all beautiful.

Something was off. Feeling a sense of unease, I decided to look around the school. And that’s when I discovered a shocking fact. All the first and second-year students had become female, and they were all beautiful girls. Half of the third-year students were also in all-female classes.

This was clearly abnormal. It seemed like the students of Sakura Minami Academy had been replaced with beautiful female students. And no one seemed to have noticed that..

I casually brought up the topic with my classmates, but no one seemed to find this situation strange. It wasn’t just within the school; even my parents and my friends from other schools didn’t notice anything unusual about it.

It seemed like someone was using hypnosis or a similar ability to alter people’s perceptions and reality. I decided to call this person the Cheater Hypnotist.

The Cheater Hypnotist was manipulating people’s minds to turn Sakura Minami Academy into a harem school only for him. That was the only explanation I could think of. And I wondered if I had been freed from the hypnosis when I hit my head.

I considered consulting the police, but they might already be under the hypnotist’s influence. It would be bad enough if they didn’t listen to me, but if they did, the hypnotist might find out that the hypnosis on me had been broken. I couldn’t risk talking to anyone about this.

I couldn’t let the hypnotist know that I was free from the hypnosis, so I continued going to school as usual. While there, I discreetly gathered information. It seemed like the hypnotist was replacing the students of Sakura Minami Academy with beautiful female students in attendance number order. Five students per day.

Was it because the hypnotist couldn’t put a large number of people under hypnosis at once?

No, that didn’t seem to be the case. It felt like everyone in town was under hypnosis. If the hypnotist could only put a few people under hypnosis at a time, it would have been impossible to put this many people under hypnosis. Even my parents and friends from other schools were affected.

Perhaps the hypnotist was using a general hypnosis to affect a large area and then using individual hypnosis for specific tasks. For example, if the hypnotist was transferring students to different high schools, a general hypnosis wouldn’t be enough. If the hypnotist was making people move to different locations, a general hypnosis wouldn’t be sufficient either.

Even if the hypnotist’s abilities had some limitations, they still seemed incredibly powerful. The problem was how to counter the hypnotist. Normally, I wouldn’t stand a chance against such a cheat ability that could alter the perceptions of an entire town.

Should I run away?

But if I ran away, it would be like admitting that I was free from the hypnosis. If the hypnotist put multiple people under hypnosis and used them to search for me, I wouldn’t be able to escape. And do I even need to run away? Being put under hypnosis doesn’t mean I’ll be killed. If the hypnotist wanted to kill me, there would be no need to put me under hypnosis. I’d probably just be transferred to another school.

But I couldn’t let it go. I didn’t know how the hypnotist had obtained such a powerful ability to control people’s minds, but using it to gather beautiful female students and create a harem was unacceptable. Everyone had their own aspirations and worked hard to get into this school. It was wrong for the hypnotist to transfer them to other schools just because he wanted to be surrounded by cute girls.

Unforgivable. I wanted to teach the hypnotist a lesson. So, I started searching for a way to counter the hypnotist’s abilities.