She needs proof

“I need you to give me proof, or I’ll never look at you again.” Rui gave her ultimatum.

Sonobe nodded. “I understand. I promise I can give you anything you want.”

Rui huffed and yanked her hand away. “After practice. First thing.” Sonobe agreed.

It turns out, Rui would get what she wanted early, as after school a heavy but mostly unexpected rainstorm hit over the town. Practice got canceled, and Sonobe followed Rui to a destination he didn’t know, but could guess pretty quickly. She walked ahead of him with her own umbrella, keeping distance from Sonobe and his.

“You called it hypnosis?” Rui asked, focused in front of her and refusing to look at Sonobe.

“Hypnosis is part of it, but if I don’t take the suggestions off eventually it can cause physical changes. That’s what’s happening to Asuka.”

Rui didn’t respond. She continued on as they walked into a slightly cheaper residential area than the rest of town. “If you can hypnotize people, make them do anything, then you’ll prove it on someone I choose in front of me.”

“Who is it?”

“My asshole dad. You’re gonna make sure he leaves me and my mom, for good.”

“Sounds like a deal.” Sonobe said as Rui stopped in front of an older, slightly shabby house and started walking up to the door.

“What do you need for it to work?”

“Just his name. The rest is text generated.”

“Ren Yoshinaru.”

Sonobe went ahead and typed that into the app, then prepared to fill out the suggestions. But he had an idea on how to be extra certain Rui would believe what he told her. “Anything you want me to do to him?”