By the time Herman transformed back to his original form and reached Ochaco's house after creating some delay deliberately and arranging some things in Kumo Takamine's disguise, it was already half an hour later.
"… Herman."
As soon as Ochaco saw him, Herman gave her the hypnotic suggestion to let her guard down, and the walls she'd desperately tried to build around her sanity started to crack.
The gravity of her reality crashed down on her, and her body started trembling.
She had a horrified, pale, almost lifeless look on her face, and her eyes were in despair. Looking at her like that, Herman's heart was filled with joy.
'Absolutely fucking perfect!'
He was cheering in his heart, while Ochaco, who let her mind relax in front of him since she trusted him, felt the opposite.
The more she tried to calm down, the more she panicked, and she felt as though her very sense of self was crumbling before her.
But just when hope had all but vanished, a comforting hand wrapped itself around her shaking fingers. And a gentle voice, like a soft breeze, reached her ears, offering comfort in the midst of her turmoil.
"Ochaco, what happened?"
Startled, she looked up, only to find Herman's eyes filled with concern and anxiousness.
"Are you okay?"
Those words were the final piece that broke through the fake walls she had created around her to deal with the situation. The weight of everything she had been holding inside, all the pain and turmoil, became too much to bear for her.
She finally let go of her restraint.
With her whole body trembling from the intensity of her emotions, she let out a loud, anguished cry, releasing all the pain and sorrow she had been holding inside.
Looking at her like that, a strange look flashed in Herman's eyes.
But to Ochaco, it felt like he sensed the weakness in her defenses and was concerned, because as soon as she broke down in tears in front of him, he swept her up in an unexpected embrace, soothing her.
Feeling Herman's gentle hug, Ochaco was startled, but she didn't push him away.
Instead, she held him tightly and cried in his arms.
It was as if all the pent-up sorrow, fear, and frustration she had been carrying were finally finding release.
Between sobs, Ochaco continued to share everything with him. She told him about the man who appeared, how he was carrying her mother, the threats he gave, about her father's kidnapping, and the devastating words the man said at the end.
She told him everything.
However, hearing all of this, Herman only had one thought come to his mind.
'... Seems like my acting skills still haven't rusted yet.'
A strange satisfaction rose in his heart. Regardless of how he really felt, though, he had to keep up the act until the end. So while rubbing the back of Ochaco's head, he started comforting her.
"You have suffered a lot..."
When Ochaco heard his, her body almost stopped trembling.
Noticing this gap, he gently pushed Ochaco back and looked at her as she lifted her messy face.
"Let's go see your mother first... I know a doctor who could help us in this situation."
"That..."
Before Ochaco could speak, with a tender touch, Herman wiped the tears from her cheeks, and then, under her bewildered eyes, he gently cupped her face and asked.
"You don't trust me?"
Due to his hypnosis, he knew she trusted him quite a lot, which was also the reason she called him here. But he still asked since the act had to be performed.
As expected, hearing that straightforward and blunt question, Ochaco shook her head hurriedly.
"... I do."
"Then don't worry, since I am calling someone, it means she's trustworthy."
Seeing her nod her head, Herman decided to take a step back and give her the much-needed space to process her feelings.
For the first time in her life, Ochaco felt that other than her parents, there was really someone else she could trust.
Sadly, she didn't realize that Herman, who was new to Japan, had literally zero connections here, and the female doctor who came was actually one of Kumo Takamine's workers who managed his rape cases.
Herman specifically ordered her in Kumo's disguise to come here and perform an act, and she did.
The female doctor, although she charged a good amount of money, did her work exceptionally well, especially the things she did to make Ochaco's mother's pussy and asshole hurt as if she had been raped.
Once that was done, she treated her as a good doctor.
Seeing all this, Herman was quite satisfied. As for the high fees she charged, it was all on Kumo Takamine's account. What did it have to do with him?
Besides, she wouldn't be living for long anyway.
After he had squeezed her of all her value, all that money she charged him would come back to him with added profit, so Herman was quite generous with the payment.
"The doctor said she will wake up in a few hours..."
Herman patted Ochaco's back and comforted her in her mother's bedroom, standing beside the bed.
"Ummm... Thanks a lot."
"It's what I should do..."
Seizing this opportunity when Ochaco's guard had been dropped to the lowest towards him and she was filled with gratitude, he once again activated his Hypnosis skill and, in his mind, started giving her Hypnotic suggestions.
'If Herman can arrange such a doctor, he must also know about a Hero who could help me in secret... Herman must know, after all, he's Lady Hellfire's brother, he has connections... But what if he doesn't? I have to tell the police… Yes… The police. I can't trust that villain... What if he takes the money and runs? What if he's just playing with us? I don't have the money either…'
Due to her fragile state of mind, the suggestions took root in her mind like weeds in a neglected garden, and it didn't take long for them to bloom and make Ochaco ask.
"Herman... Do you know any Hero who can help—"
Before she could finish, he covered her mouth with his hand.
"Shhh! Don't you remember that guy's warning?" He said in a hurried and panicked voice.
"… Sorry... But I–I don't have money..."
She apologized and lowered her gaze in shame on the outside, but in her mind, the decision to inform the police had already taken place, and all she needed was an opportunity.
The money was just an excuse.
As for why Herman wanted her to inform the police?
It was because if she went to the police, he could use it to create a more despairing situation and make it all her fault, which would also break her bond with her mother, and fill her heart with a guilt so strong it would drown her whole.
He could use that situation to make her utterly, hopelessly dependent on him, so broken and alone that when he decided to leave, she would come crawling to him, wagging her tail like a little puppy, ready to offer up anything for him to accept her, even her body, her virginity, all just for a scrap of his attention.
After all, Ochaco was a good girl, the kind everyone loved.
She'd never known real rejection, never made a mistake that could shatter her perfect little world.
Naturally, these would all be good things if Herman only needed a girlfriend or wanted to have some genuine love. But a lovey-dovey relationship was never his intention.
Of course, if she were conquered 100%, Herman wouldn't mind being romantic, but before that, she had to be broken. Utterly shattered and then remade in his image.
To be rejected by everyone and accepted by only him.
He wanted to be her entire universe, her beginning and her end.
"Ochaco… Try to understand. Your father's life is in that bastard's hands. And don't worry about the money... I'll figure that out. Just... don't even think about the police. We have no evidence. No CCTV video, nothing. Those guys would have wiped it clean. Hell, even if we had something, we can't risk it, so just forget it."
Every word out of his mouth was like a roadblock, convincing her not to report, but in reality, it was like the signposts that only gave her more ideas and a deeper belief.
He was practically handing her the blueprint: find evidence, and you can win.
And just as he'd planned, the moment he was gone, and her mother was lucid enough to answer questions, Ochaco asked about everything that had happened, how it happened, and where it happened.
Of course, she hadn't gone insane, and her method was still gentle and full of care for her mother, who seemed to still be in a state of shock.
Regardless, the location was all Ochaco needed, and she got it after a long session of comforting her mother and putting her back to sleep.
Knowing the location of the incident and not wanting to waste any more time, Ochaco slipped out of her house secretly under a disguise to look for any evidence she could find that very night, unaware that a thug was watching all her movements on Herman's order.
When Herman learned about Ochaco's actions, a predatory smile appeared on his face, and he gave the command to another thug.
"The target is out. Leave some clues and let her take the memory card from the CCTV camera."
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Ochaco has been conquered, Izuku's mother completely conquered, and Bakugo's Masochist mother became a slave, all in the latest chapters.
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