Chapter 6- Questions leading to confusion

She starts to walk towards the larger people gathered and all of them being handled by Harumi. The officer also followed because as he already said this was his first time to actually see what really cursed ability can do. Harumi starts to walk quickly toward Nozomi, "The people are getting out of hand. I am afraid that I think I can't handle them anymore." Harumi says in a panic when suddenly Nozomi asks her to stand beside the officer. Harumi looks at Nozomi and nodded before making her way to the officer. "Good morning officer." she says "Good morning Miss Nomura, Good day." the officer replies.

Harumi looks at mister Luke calmly and says, "Mister Luke, I'd like to cover your ears." The officer chuckles and Harumi continues "With Dark energy." This catches the officer off-guard and he looks at her puzzled. She says that it'll feel a bit odd but that would protect his ears from the ability that Nozomi will be using. He seemed a bit hesitant but agrees, meanwhile Nozomi stands in front of the people and smiled before whispering "Harumi now." with that Harumi lifted her hands softly, The officer feels something covering his ears, "What is this pressure that I am feeling, This-this feeling its almost like something stopping the air to reach inside!"

Nozomi does such a hand gesture which insinuates her moving her right hand in such a way that puts someone to sleep. This is again one of her many cursed abilities "Dark mind manipulation." it allows her to control people's minds, mostly she has looked into people's eyes and they start to act on her moves but sometimes she does it without looking into their eyes. The guards and the lower officials all lie down almost like they all were shot dead at the same time. Officer Luke looks in surprise at all of this, The only reason he isn't sleeping like any one of them is because of Harumi's Dark energy covering his ears.

Now, when mentioned that Nozomi has to look into people's eyes to manipulate their minds is a mid-level control over the ability but controlling them without even being close to them and even controlling whose minds get manipulated is another level of confusion in the Agency. No one till now could master this ability other than Nozomi, it is a must according to them for manipulating someone's mind.

After all the officials present there are down, she slowly lifted her left hand and placed it below her right hand in front of her chest, with some space left between both the hands, she slowly starts to float and soon she reaches a height where no one could reach without help. everyone who Nozomi didn't manipulate looks up and tries to understand what is happening, Some of them take out their phones and try to record just then all of the gadgets are pulled up by something almost like some forcefully pulled it away from them. "What the heck is happening?" this thought comes up in everyone's minds but there is no time to think. The officer looks amazed as to what is happening. Turns out it was Nozomi who had done this, Her eyes start to glow a faint shade of yellow. Her right hand has something floating just above it, "The Dark cursed energy dome." Harumi says coldly after looking at the officer's face full of confusion.

she continues, "I won't say anything anymore about this, it's better for you to just see and understand." The officer looks at her wide-eyed and he is so surprised by all of this that goosebumps are normal for him. Suddenly a voice interrupts this feeling for the officer, "Now back to Miss Arai, officer." it was Harumi who said it and this adds to the officer's surprised feeling. He turns his head towards Nozomi and looks at her. Turns out that she used her left hand to pull all the gadgets so that no one could record anything after that she slowly raises her right hand towards the air and then the Dark cursed energy dome starts to float and also starts to form a dome, The dome was created big enough to let it take the house and the all the people around it with expanding to almost three houses and taking them inside it.

This surprises all the people and they all start to panic but before anyone could even move a finger Nozomi's calm voice interrupts everyone, "Tragedy isn't it?" she says, and as soon as she says that people couldn't move and feel this pressure upon them is which forbids them from moving. The officer also feels this sudden pressure and that makes his ears bleed, "Agh, th-this hurts." and with that, he falls down to his knees. Harumi helps him up and hands him a handkerchief and then she says, "You are sensitive officer, I'd have to make the Dark energy more powerfully otherwise your ears will burst and you won't be able to hear for the rest of your life." This leaves the officer in shock and he agrees without a doubt, "I do agree that I have sensitive ears but this was incredible and Harumi looks very much experience with this. I underestimated her." the officer thinks to himself, and with that Harumi strengthens the Dark energy covering the officer's ears.

Nozomi's eyes then start to glow very brightly with a shade of yellow and everyone present inside gets hypnotized or in simple words, she manipulated all of them. All of their eyes start to also glow but faint yellow this time. Nozomi then says with her sweet and soothing voice," Very well then. The event you all came to witness here is no longeth anything, nothing such that ever happened in this neighborhood and there was no such attack. The boys are no ones and this shall stay in your minds as a part of an illusion if ever remembered, The part of your brain which is responsible for remembering this event is currently absent and now." She pauses for a second before saying, "Sleep!" aloud for everyone to hear clearly. As soon as she says the last word, everyone whose brain was manipulated suddenly falls to the ground, The officer looks shocked as to what happened only to realize that they all are asleep. Nozomi slowly comes down to the middle of the air floating and also the dome starts to open. Harumi moves her hand indicating the Dark energy to now fade away as there was no need for it now. Nozomi stands there looking at other people and the dome being now open and nothing to stop their air from entering it now allows the air to enter the area and that causes a soft but rather fast gust of air to enter. Clothes hanging on a line do indeed wave in the wind or even flap and this was with entering a gap or a particular area with an air gap, where the current air present inside wasn't moving which causes Nozomi's hairs and clothes to wave softly and at that exact time the officer looks at Nozomi. The sun rays and her hair and clothes waving because of the wind make her look like a goddess, "She actually looks like an incredible goddess."

Harumi snapped him out of his thoughts, "Officer you alright?" she asks him with a cold tone and he replies with a sudden answer, "No, oh I mean yes. I am alright, you just caught me off-guard for a second there." he finishes his sentence and straightway after that Harumi says, "My apologies for that."

Till then Nozomi brings all the other low-ranked officers back to their senses. All of them slowly wake up looking confused and some also scratching their heads in confusion looking for a suitable answer to fit this situation. Nozomi approaches officer Luke and says, "I apologize for not keeping that fact about your secretive ears in mind. I hope it didn't hurt that bad." This makes the officer look straight at Nozomi wide-eyed and say to himself, "what?! but how, how did she know something like this happened to me wasn't she looking at the people that time?" with an expression showing that the officer has his head deep in his thought. Nozomi suddenly says, "Yes I was indeed looking at the people when this happened to you." This sends a shiveress down that officer's spine as to how could she hear his thoughts. Nozomi breaks eye contact and says, "You staring straight into my eyes is an open invitation for me to read you like an open book."

This amazes the officer so much that he asks Nozomi one more thing that kept bugging his mind, "Nozomi I have one more question." She looks at the officer and replies, "Keeping in mind that you're a trained homicide detective working with the police as an officer and are in charge of all the happenings related to the Dark Mafia, you must have some questions in mind so let's take about the over a cup of tea. I am sure coming to the Agency Tech and talking there would help you understand." The officer looks surprised and says, "Yes sure I'd love to." with an excited look on his face.