His Secret Technique
Cast:
Soular, Minami Shun - age 16
June, 2011
The high school building is made of unadorned concrete, angular, blocky, and four stories tall. On the ground below, students enter the gates in small clusters. The uniform is a violet jacket with violet trousers, with sky blue trim at the cuffs and at the collar. All of them are boys.
Two boys sit by the window in one of the top floor classrooms. Few others have arrived, and classes will not start for a quarter hour.
"Minami, you've got a girlfriend, right?"
Minami Shun, sometimes called Soular, shakes his head. "I have friends who are girls. There is a difference."
The other boy seems to consider this for a moment, then snaps his fingers. "I know, you hypnotized them! You've gotta teach me how to do that, man!"
"I did not hypnotize them into being friends with me!"
"You did hypnotize them, then! Tell me how!"
"You fool, hypnosis is not some magic solution to interacting with half of all humans! If you want to be friends with girls, just look them in the eyes and talk like a normal human!"
"Look them in the eye... Talk normally..." The other boy takes notes. "Dude, that's brilliant! They won't even know they're being hypnotized!"
Facepalm.