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48 – Episode 10. Hypnosis treatment, the first.

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“Once the introduction phase is over.”

Joo Ju-yeong muttered as she turned off some of the switches on the device.

There are several functions of a hypnotic device, but the main one is to assist in entering a trance state.

It is an object created by analyzing the ability patterns of mentally capable people in addition to existing hypnosis treatment techniques.

Joo Ji-young swallowed her saliva while watching Lee Si-hyeok repeat her breathing naturally with her mouth closed.

From now on, it’s Ju Ji-young’s domain.

Ju Ji-young does not know what Lee Si-hyeok sees in him and trusts him so much. However, as much as she is expected from her students, it is one of her teachers’ duties to meet those expectations with all her might.

‘But I shouldn’t be impatient.’

It is said that stability is guaranteed thanks to the assistance of the machine, but it is still a treatment that requires meticulousness and patience.

In the worst case, it can destroy the ego or leave permanent scars on the mind. In order not to cause such an unfortunate incident, even if it is a little slow, we must proceed step by step and surely.

‘First of all, let’s check if I entered the trance state properly.’

Joo Ji-young held a small microphone connected to her device in her hand.

“Do you remember what your name is?”

“… Lee Si-hyeok.”

“Age and gender?”

“18 Years old, male.”

Seeing that I was able to safely speak basic personal information, it seemed that I had entered a stable state of trance.

Still, just in case, Joo Joo-young continued to ask a few more questions.

“Who are you talking to right now?”

“… Joo Ji-young.”

Looking at the fact that he doesn’t use honorifics, it seems that he wasn’t particularly respectful on the inside.

‘I’m not that old.’

When her treatment is all over, Joo Joo-young opened her mouth again, thinking the same thing about hitting Honey Bam for some reason.

“Do you remember what you did yesterday?”

“… Farming.”

“Farming?”

At Lee Si-hyeok’s answer, Ju Ju-young tilted her head slightly.

‘I guess I played a game. Until late at night, she would have participated in the cherry blossom festival at Edelweiss Academy. As expected, high school students are full of stamina.’

Of course, what Lee Si-hyeok actually did was not farming games, but stealing in reality. However, Lee Si-hyeok’s unconscious answer came because he only recognized what happened yesterday as ‘farming’.

“What are you most worried about lately?”

“…… World peace.”

As Lee Si-hyeok, who knows what will happen to this academia in the future and what events will happen to the world, it is natural to be concerned.

However, since it was an unexpected answer for Joo Si-yeong, she smiled quietly without realizing it.

‘World Peace… , It’s not something a student would have to worry about.’

And it didn’t take long for that laugh to turn into a feeling of pity.

Irregular’s existence poses a threat to Lee Si-hyeok, who is still a student. He was attacked like that at his immediate entrance ceremony, so it’s no wonder that he’s calm on the outside but traumatized on the inside.

In fact, I heard that counselors are suffering from overwork after the entrance ceremony.

‘As an adult, I should do well.’

At most, he was just over 20 years old. But in a harsh world, children have to become adults quickly.

Especially for someone with special abilities like Joo Ji-young. So, maybe Lee Si-hyeok will soon become an adult.

Whether he wanted it or not.

Joo Ji-young lightly stroked Lee Si-hyuk’s black hair, and then she patted both her cheeks.

Now it was time to come to my senses and start a full-fledged ‘treatment’.

“I’m going down to a deeper place, Sihyuk.”

“… Depths?”

Operate the device again.

To go down to the deepest part of the unconscious, a place called ‘deep layer’.

Lee Si-hyeok says he has forgotten the past. However, his body reacts violently with the mere sight of objects reminiscent of the past.

It is proof that the brain has left memories somewhere.

There is no way that even a negative reaction would come out if the memory disappeared without a trace from the brain.

The deep place in the brain where those sleeping memories exist is the ‘deep layer’.

“Take a deep breath.”

The light from the device that covered Lee Si-hyuk’s eyes flickered more intensely. A regular signal sinks Lee Si-hyeok’s unconscious further and further.

“- Exhale as it is this time.”

Joo Joo-young operated the device slowly, paying attention to the reaction coming from her sensor.

We need to be careful here.

As it is a memory so strong that it can become traumatic, the mind itself may be in danger if touched incorrectly.

“Is this the limit… “

The sensor has warned that it is dangerous to rush further than this. I couldn’t reach the place I wanted, but I was able to barely cross the borderline of the depths.

Joo Ji-young opened her notebook in her arms and checked the list of questions she had written in advance.

It is to find out exactly which memories are adversely affecting Lee Si-hyeok.

And sinking the found memories to the bottom of the depth was the ‘seal’ of the memories that Lee Si-hyeok wanted.

‘How hard it must have been.’

Ju Ji-young already knew something about Lee Si-hyuk’s past. It wasn’t something she found out this time, it was information she had acquired a long time ago when she was investigating Lee Si-hyuk’s past.

It was a past history that could have been traumatic.

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Lee Si-hyeok was abandoned at Academia before he even took his toes. Since then, he has been left in a nursery, where he has grown up with children who are in a similar situation to him.

Fortunately, thanks to Plato’s policy, the operation of the nursery school itself seems to have gone smoothly.

But that peaceful period did not last long.

Right before Lee Si-hyeok entered elementary school, an arson broke out in the nursery school.

As a result, the nursery school was burnt down and most of the children died.

Lee Si-hyeok was one of the few survivors.

Still, because the children who became survivors were tightly united, they were able to endure without breaking their hearts.

The schools were scattered, but they continued to communicate by going to the same psychological counseling center after school.

And that counseling center became the talk of the world three years ago.

This is because indiscriminate terrorism by purists took place at this counseling center.

It was known to the public that there were no survivors, but in fact there was one surviving child.

This is Lee Si-hyuk.

He survived twice, but no one would call it luck.

Because he watched with his own eyes the sight of his friends, whom he regarded as his family, being murdered.

It was an incident that a middle school child couldn’t handle.

After that, Lee Si-hyeok’s talkativeness drastically decreased and his friendships were completely cut off.

In the record left by the counselor at the time, it was written that he was in a psychological state in which there would be nothing strange even if he committed suicide immediately.

After Ju Ji-young checked her past records, she couldn’t help but be surprised at the gap between her and Lee Si-hyuk.

Lee Si-hyeok in her perception was an ordinary student who did not have a very angular appearance.

For a while, I was suspicious that someone had borrowed Lee Si-hyeok’s name to infiltrate Academia.

‘Maybe it has something to do with my memory loss.’

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In order to survive somehow, his subconscious mind must have decided to oblivion.

It must have made the past ‘something that didn’t exist’ and managed to regain the vitality of daily life.

However, the traces of that terrible incident remained in Lee Si-hyeok’s unconscious and had various influences on his life.

‘… I may have said something cruel.’

Someday, I said to face that memory and overcome it, but it may be irresponsible to say it because I am not the person in charge.

As Lee Si-hyeok said, there might be a past that would be better sealed and forgotten.

“Sihyuk?”

“Yes.”

Lee Si-hyeok muttered in a strangely different tone from before.

Is the deep personality still stopped in childhood?

“How old is Sihyuk now?”

“I’m eight years old.”

I was the age when the fire broke out at the nursery school.

Joo Ji-young paused for a moment, feeling sorry for her, then continued her question after catching her breath.

She has to do it somehow as much as she was asked to do.

“Where is Sihyuk now?”

“…… “

There is no answer. The hypnotic device beeps, and the mental parameters fluctuate violently.

Lee Si-hyeok’s breathing also became noticeably quicker. It seems that this was a bit of a risky question. He needed to change his approach.

“Who is Sihyuk around right now?”

“… Friend.”

The figures that fluctuated in response to the following questions have returned to a stable level. Fortunately, this question didn’t seem to be a big problem.

“You have a friend. What is that friend doing now?”

“It’s dead.”

It’s a calm voice.

Joo Ji-young closed and opened her eyes and checked her figure.

Strangely, however, there was no significant change in her figure.

I can’t believe that the death of my friend wasn’t such a serious trauma.

“… Is it hot nearby?”

“No, it’s not hot.”

She asked cautiously, but the answer came back that was far from Joo Si-young’s expectation.

“It’s not hot… ?”

“Yes, it is not hot.”

“Somehow friends… Did that happen?”

“Because I didn’t listen to the teacher.”

Teacher. In context, it must be a teacher in a nursery school. But she didn’t listen to the teacher. She said the child was dead?

There’s no way that could happen. Shouldn’t happen

Joo Ji-young opened her mouth again with a trembling voice.

“… Why is Sihyuk there?”

“To reach God.”

What came back was a strange answer that was hard to understand with ordinary common sense.

However, as soon as he heard Lee Si-hyeok’s words, the name of an organization came to Ju Ji-young’s mind.

Kabbalah.

A group that insisted that mankind should become a higher being and that the emergence of abilities was the starting point.

It was a crazy religious group that was shattered in the Lost Child Incident 14 years ago.

“…Why are you?”

The timing is not right.

Why is Lee Si-hyeok from 10 years ago talking about the slogan of a group that should have disappeared 14 years ago?

Joo Ju-young’s face hardened.