Awakening (cont.)

Years later, Changkong City News Station reported on a middle-aged man who was dedicated to doing good deeds and had achieved great success. He was said to be sincere and enthusiastic, and he persisted in exercising and starting his own business to help others. Even in middle age, he continued to work hard and eventually succeeded in establishing a foundation to help impoverished children. He was wealthy and honest.

"I am willing to dedicate my life to helping others; perhaps that is the value of my existence." He stood in front of the camera, dressed in a suit and giving a thumbs-up.

"Hahaha... This is absolutely fantastic!"

Lin Ai caressed the phone screen with great affection, her fingers tracing the Hypnosis APP above her, her eyes still gleaming with excitement.

He, Lin, has a dream: to make all the things he dislikes in this city disappear!

Even if he had stopped that pervert before this, what difference would it have made? Even if he had caught the man red-handed, it wouldn't have stopped him from committing the same offense again. And what if he saw the school bullies? Even if he beat them all up, he would only receive the same punishment as them, and he would still have to deal with those idiots from time to time.

Now, with this Hypnosis APP, he can finally realize his dream!

"But hypnotizing them one by one is too inefficient. I need to think of a way... Hmm?" As Lin was thinking about how to maximize the use of the software, he saw a group of people walking past in the distance from the corner of his eye.

He squinted at the group of thugs dressed in... "flashy" colors. Their multicolored hair and card-playing hairstyles immediately reminded him that they were one of the target groups he wanted to eliminate.

These guys were following a... Nun at a distance?

That's Nun, isn't it?

Lin was surprised to see Nun in such a place, but he didn't think much of it. After all, he had more important things to do. He grinned and followed the group of thugs who had no idea what they were about to face.

New Year's Eve Special: Nun and Hypnotist

"Go to the police station and turn yourself in."

Lin Cong to wipe his hands, then wiped the blood-covered faces of the thugs, and snorted disdainfully at the group of thugs who were lying on the ground.

It wouldn't have taken him much effort to beat these guys down, but interrogating them took a while. If it weren't for the Hypnosis APP, he really wouldn't have known that a guy who looked like a human being... well, a guy who looked like a human being could do so many beastly things.

After the orderly footsteps faded into the distance, Lin breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much more at ease. He was sure he could get a good night's sleep when he got home.

"What... did you do to them...?"

Just then, an ethereal voice, which Lin hadn't expected, rang out in the direction the thugs had left. Lin, who was about to stretch lazily, immediately stopped what he was doing.

The Nun I just saw was standing at the intersection, a lock of long hair peeking out from her Nun's cap and falling in the middle of her face, looking incredibly alluring under the night lights.

"Huh? Nun? Go back quickly, go back quickly." Lin Yi saw that she was not a fish that had escaped the net, and immediately lost interest. He waved his hand casually, "Don't walk at night, unless you're a little bit dim-witted and want to experience the so-called wickedness of human nature."

Seeing that Lin wasn't listening to her at all, the Nun frowned and emphasized, "I'm asking you... what... did you do to them?"

"This is a substitute attack, you can't see it." Lin Si shrugged and grinned without restraint. Anyway, even if he told the truth, no one would believe him, no one would have his strong ability to accept it.

"But... I saw... you flashed your phone screen at them... and they... froze." The Nun paused, then added, "And... you didn't make any weird poses... you're not a Stand user..."

...broken.

Lin hadn't expected her to observe so closely. Could it be that he had made too much noise when he started to teach those guys a lesson?

And she had even read that comic...

"Okay, actually I'm a police officer..."

"Your student ID card... is lost..."

"..."

I brought it back.

They brought the Nun home.

He brought this busty Nun Aponia, who looked a few years older than him, back to his home where he lived alone.

"Let me make this clear first, I brought you back simply because you said you had nowhere to go." Lin crossed his arms and stared impatiently at Aponia had entered the house and was sitting properly in a chair. He added, "In exchange, just pretend today's events never happened, and don't hold me accountable for what I did before, okay?"

Lin thought either the Nun had something wrong with her head, or he had been infected by Kevin's brain; otherwise, she wouldn't have done something so stupid.

"...Thank you...for taking me in..." The Nun covered the cross on her chest and bowed slightly to Lin Weiwei.

"No, I don't need your thanks, I just need your promise."

"Grateful..."

"..."

It can be preliminarily judged that this Nun's skill in feigning ignorance is far beyond Lin's reach.

"Hey, are you asleep?"

In the middle of the night, Lin, with bloodshot eyes, lay on the sofa and asked Aponia, who was lying on the bed.

"No... excuse me... why can't you sleep?"

"I've been single for eighteen years, and suddenly one night a super beautiful, aloof Nun slept in my bed while I slept on the sofa. Of course I couldn't sleep." Lin thinks his greatest strength is his honesty, but perhaps too many people can't stand his straightforwardness, which is why so far only a few people can be his friends.

"...sorry."

"Why should I apologize?" Lin asked in surprise. "This was my desire, not yours. You didn't do anything wrong, so why should I apologize?"

"The Dean said... we should first examine ourselves for mistakes..." Aponia's soothing tone calmed Lin's restless heart considerably. As if to enlighten him, she said, "So... even when you see 'evil'... you should first think... whether the evil in others... was caused by yourself..."

"... What else did the dean you mentioned say? Like about purifying your sins?" Lin asked, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"He said... I should offer my unclean body to the Lord... but... I wasn't ready... so... I'm leaving for now..."

The small room fell silent. The starlight from the window shone on the Nun's bewildered face. She clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and prayed.

Lin pondered for a moment, then briskly got up, turned on the light, and walked up to the Nun amidst her questioning expression, pressing his face against Nun delicate, milk-smooth face.

A pair of black eyes blinked, meeting the gaze of a sapphire blue eye.

"What are you doing...?"

Lin interrupted her and calmly asked, "Do you think I'm handsome?"

"Huh?"

"To be honest, do you think I'm handsome? Or you can use any adjective you prefer to describe my appearance, as long as you tell the truth honestly."

Aponia was caught off guard by Lin's extremely blunt words. She subconsciously followed Lin's lead and carefully examined his face.

Then, as if possessed, he said, "Very... beautiful."

Lin smiled and asked again, "Do you want to [beep] me?"

"This... this... what does this mean?" Aponia's slow voice quickened as Lin exclaimed in surprise.

This topic is just too provocative! Even the dean, who made her feel uneasy, didn't use such explicit language!

"Don't be afraid, speak your mind." Lin stared seriously into Aponia's evasive eyes.

"Don't you think I'm perfect?" Lin said, listing his talents. "I can cook, I have excellent grades, I'm upright, I treat people sincerely, I have a great physique, I'm clean-living, I know a variety of fighting techniques, I never get discouraged, and I'm incredibly handsome. Apart from not being able to work for less money, I'm like a male protagonist in a novel."

But... would a male lead really praise himself like that? Shouldn't he be a little more humble?

This person's narcissism has exceeded most people's imagination, hasn't it?

"Don't you want to fuck me hard? Wear stockings and hang on a cross and fuck me ten times a day?" Lin asked seriously.

Even if you say that...

But for a fleeting moment, Aponia genuinely felt that Lin was indeed... alluring.

His entire being exuded an aura that made one want to commit a crime.

"Follow your heart! Look at you, aren't you a normal person? What era are we living in? Stop thinking about those bullshit things. Do you understand that old man is after you? He's using your faith to do bad things to you!" After seeing what flashed in her eyes, Lin smiled and stepped back to his original position, snapping his fingers at her.

This Nun is fairly enlightened; if it were someone who had been too deeply poisoned, he wouldn't have had any good way to correct them except through hypnosis.

"You think what you want to do to me is wrong, so you think what that old guy wants to do to you is right?"

Aponia stared blankly at the grinning Lin. After a long while, she nodded blankly and said, "He... is wrong."

"Great! Take me to your... what's up tomorrow?"

"Nursing home."

"Yes, the sanatorium. Starting tomorrow, you'll be the boss there."

"What about the dean?"

Lin looked at his phone and said with an extremely wicked grin, "He went to prison to have someone cleanse his sins."

New Year's Eve Special: Nun and Hypnosis

Why are you willing to help me?

Standing in the corner of the room, watching Lin Kuang laughingly deal with the dean, Aponia asked in a low voice amidst this horrifying scene.

Lin grabbed the dean's collar and slammed him onto the seemingly exquisite wooden table. With a loud crash, the table and the old dean's bones broke together. He straightened up, stretched his neck, ignored the dean's groans, and took out his phone.

"Why? That's a good question." Lin grabbed the hospital director by the neck, opened the software and showed it to the director, then stood up and wiped the blood off his hands with a handkerchief. "I don't want to tell you about my trauma history. It's too long and too... pretentious."

"But I can give you a general explanation of 'why'."

After seeing that the director had entered a hypnotic state, he put down his phone, rubbed his fingers, walked to the window, opened the blinds, and gave a bright smile in the soft sunlight, "I am an orphan. My parents left a long time ago."

"Of course, I've come to terms with it. Countless things happen in the world every day: murder, marriage, birth, death... I just happened to be in the middle of this bad situation. It's okay to be sad, but you have to move on."

Aponia was somewhat surprised by Lin the Orphan's identity; his confident, even narcissistic, cheerful personality made him seem nothing like a child who had lost his parents at a young age.

"In short, my mental and cognitive state has been abnormal since I was a child, which may be due to the impact of my parents' passing."

"When I see certain people, it's hard to avoid having a lot of negative emotions, and I can't stand being a bystander. I want to throw all my emotions back at those people."

"If I stand idly by when I witness atrocities, then I'd be an accomplice."

In just a few words, Aponia sensed a great contradiction in the boy. He seemed to realize that his actions were not the best solution, but at the same time, he enjoyed the thrill of being punished by private law.

He was the complete opposite of a devout believer like Aponia.

"Besides..." Lin smiled helplessly, "If people like you keep quiet and refuse to resist, who else but me can save you..."

To be a silent, indifferent bystander, or to be a ruthless, privately-sanctioned individual—the choice requires no hesitation. Is there a "why" involved? It's simply his nature.

Just as no one can control the growth of their nails, who can suppress their own nature?

"..."

However, what Lin didn't see was that after hearing his words, Aponia, while seemingly deep in thought, was also quietly moving closer to his back.

Lin, who hadn't been wary of Aponia, stretched and turned with a smile, "Alright, time to go back..."

"Smack."

On the familiar phone screen, slender fingers pressed on the Hypnosis APP, and then a bright light flashed, and Lin, who had no time to react, instantly lost his luster in his eyes.

Her fingers dangled from the hem of her clothes.

After hypnotizing Lin, Aponia approached the dean, who was half-dead from the beating, and said in a calm tone, "Please turn yourself in."

"Yes."

Ignoring his injuries, the dean stood up and walked outside. He should be at the police station soon, and then, due to the severity of his injuries, he would be sent to the hospital for treatment before turning himself in. But by then, it would be none of her and Lin's business.

Aponia watched as the dean limped out of the door. She glanced at her phone with the Hypnosis APP on it, then at Lin, whose eyes were glazed over, and slowly walked up to him.

A... delicate distance, a distance where you could kiss just one step closer.

"Lin... from now on... whenever you hear me say something that starts with the word 'please'... you will agree to my request without hesitation..."

"...yes."

Follow your heart? Lin, you're absolutely right...

After her faith collapsed, she felt an unexpected sense of relief, and perhaps she had come to understand the source of Lin's confidence.

Even without her devout faith, Aponia was willing to continue living as a Nun and helping others, not because of any person or some vague, ethereal deity, but simply because she was willing to do so.

But even Lin wouldn't hide his desires...

The Nun, clutching the cross on her chest, asked the boy who would now strictly obey her orders, "Lin... please tell me, what happened last night..."

She licked her pink lips.