blueteamnovel Chapter 12
Chapter 12
Chapter 12: The First Mission and Home Sweet Home (3)
The hypnosis made her confuse me with her dad.
As a result, the woman in front of me suddenly hugged me.
She grabbed the back of my head and pulled me right into her cleavage.
-Soft.
“......!!!?”
‘What are you doing to your dad!?’
Excuse me, miss. Did you do this with your father...?
I was so shocked I couldn’t even speak.
My Confucian values couldn’t accept her behavior.
However,
“You’re so late, Dad.”
-Ding!
[The soul is strongly connected!]
———A sudden notification.
The sensation of hypnosis piercing to her deepest core.
Above all...
A hint of resentment felt in her emotionless voice.
With all those, my vision completely changed.
[Assimilating with the target.]
‘What is this...?’
The world before my eyes was tinged with a faded sepia color.
* * *
“Experiment subject 47, success!!”
“...?”
‘What is this?’
When I came to my senses, there were numerous researchers standing before me.
No, the expression ‘above my eyes’ would be more appropriate.
I was looking up at them from quite a height.
Like a small child.
-Srrk.
‘My head moves on its own... Ah, this is a recollection.’
It wasn’t something I had never experienced before.
This was a kind of past recollection experience.
Back before my regression, when I reigned supreme.
It was a technique I often used to interrogate villains with hypnosis.
A convenient technique that allowed me to view memories even the person themselves had forgotten.
‘What’s going on? There’s no way I could perform such hypnosis with my current abilities.’
The problem was that this was a technique far too advanced for me to execute now.
Reading memories might sound simple, but...
This was a technique that involved directly examining the soul.
It was an extremely high-level application that required the target’s soul not to reject me at all.
For that, perfect hypnosis was an essential prerequisite.
Could I even attempt something like this with my current abilities?
Hypnotizing an awakened one who could break magical suppression restraints?
I was baffled and confused.
However, the scene before my eyes did not wait for me.
-Swoosh.
“This time, cyclobenzaprine... An overdose, but it’s fine since you’re awakened.”
“I don’t like pain....”
My vision changed again.
A syringe was coming right up to my face.
A child’s whining voice was a bonus.
Thanks to that, I could grasp the situation immediately.
‘Injecting the test subject... This must be it. The Awakener Proliferation Project.’
One of the settings from the game. The Awakener Proliferation Project.
A horrifying experiment that took place about 20 years before the prologue, centered around the military.
The purpose of this experiment was the artificial awakening of ordinary people.
Based on the fact that the hearts of awakeners held magic, they used a brutal method of implanting ‘cores’ into the hearts of the test subjects.
...A crazy act that could only be possible in the 90s.
The success rate was less than 2%, yet they sacrificed civilians for it.
Mainly orphans, too.
-Swoosh.
“Number 47. As a proud soldier of South Korea, you will dedicate your life...”
‘Brainwashing too? How horrible.’
The reason for using orphans was to brainwash them from a young age and wield them as convenient weapons.
The girl I assimilated with also received daily brainwashing under the guise of ideological education.
As a result, scenes that even made me, a spectator, horrified, passed before my eyes.
Dozens, hundreds of times, enough to leave an afterimage.
“Number 47, this time, the regeneration experiment....”
“You’re a machine. All you need to do is follow orders without thinking....”
“Who said you could talk back? Don’t speak unless instructed.”
“For the glory of Korea....”
.........
......
...
“———Is it tasty?”
Amidst the brainwashing days, a peculiar memory intruded.
A man squatting to meet a girl’s eye level.
His eyebrows arched gently upwards as he held a chocolate in his hand.
The sepia-toned world momentarily turned into full color.
-Nod.
“That’s good. Ah, it’s a secret that I gave it to you, okay?”
-Nod nod.
It wasn’t hard to understand his feelings.
The child in front of him, who could be his daughter, was subjected to daily human experiments.
And what did I do?
I forcibly dragged out the hope she had abandoned long ago using the power of hypnosis.
Even Satan would shake his head and say, ‘This is too much.’
I hurriedly tried to pull away.
‘This is... I need to get away from her!!’
-Grab. Struggle.
“Dad, it tickles.”
“Mmph! Mmmph!!”
‘Ah, the difference in physical ability!’
The overwhelming physical difference made it impossible to escape.
Eventually, I only managed to get free after the chairman helped me out of the soft trap.
“Oh, my. What is a grown woman doing, acting so disgracefully!!”
“...Phew! Thank you.”
“Don’t mention it. So, what is going on? What’s this about calling you Dad?”
“Well, actually....”
I quickly briefed him on the current situation.
She’s a victim of experiments. A poor girl.
Dad. The person she had been waiting for.
Me. Pretended to be her dad for a moment and got into trouble.
“This kind of hypnosis usually wears off quickly, but....”
“Dad, carry me on your back, and I’ll forgive you.”
“...As you can see, it seems her mental age has regressed to that period.”
The biggest problem was that her mind had regressed significantly during the process.
She was a brainwashed woman who did nothing without orders.
Her considering me her dad was impossible while sane.
To achieve impossible hypnosis, her mind seemed to have reverted to her innocent childhood.
“......Can you undo it?”
“It’s possible, but she will revert to her brainwashed state.”
“And undoing the brainwashing?”
“With the current abilities, it would be difficult.”
If I undo the hypnosis of her seeing me as her dad, she will return to being brainwashed.
To undo the brainwashing, I need to hypnotize her.
To hypnotize her, she needs to see me as her dad.
An endless cycle.
Even the second round of hypnosis master had no answer to this complex problem, so I frowned and...
‘Even if it’s her, there’s no way this can be resolved....’
“It can’t be helped. You will have to be her father for the time being.”
“...Excuse me?”
...What are you saying, you old hag?
“I’m formally assigning you a mission. Awakener Seo Yu-jin. You are to act as this girl’s father for a while.”
“No way.”
“There’s no one more suitable than you. My intuition tells me so.”
“.......”
Become her father? Me?
Even before my regression, I never had wives or children.
Moreover,
‘It feels like cheating...!!!’
No matter how regressed her mind is, her body is that of a grown woman.
Such a woman calling me dad and hugging me?
To anyone, it would look like infidelity or a sugar daddy relationship.
Thinking about my wives, I absolutely couldn’t do it.
But...
[A hundred nights have passed. Liar.]
‘...I have no choice.’
It was too pitiful to just walk away.
A brainwashed girl and a man who tried to save her.
Since it had come to this, I wanted to fulfill his wish, even a little.
‘My wives would forgive me for this much. Right.’
“Awakener Seo Yu-jin. I accept the mission... Hey, you.”
“What is it, Dad?”
I slowly knelt to meet her eyes.
Just like the lieutenant colonel did a long time ago.
“What’s your name?”
“Name? Name. Name... 47?”
“No. Your name isn’t a number.”
I recalled the memory.
The name she might have forgotten in her sepia-colored world.
[Hey, just asking....]
A name decided after much thought by the man who shared the same surname as me.
He wasn’t her real father. They didn’t even share blood.
But he was the closest thing to a father she had.
[How do you feel about the name Haru?]
‘Mister, your naming sense is amazing.’
“———Seo Haru. Your name is Seo Haru.”
Seo Haru.
Her expressionless mouth slightly curled upward.
“Yes. I am Seo Haru.”
In my previous life, I had no children. Now, I had a grown daughter.
* * *
A little while later.
“Which one of them is my mom?”
“What!!!? You, what do you mean by that.”
“Shall I do it? Hehe.”
“What are you talking about, you fox!!!”
Chaos ensued.