Hypnosis

In the Pet series, for those who possess the abilities to exert control over others, the powers generally resemble **Hypnosis**.

## Description

Hypnotized people can have their memories entered, and altered. They can become more susceptible to accepting false information as fact. Outwardly their expressions can become slower and users can generally tell when someone is under the effects. Long distance manipulation is improbable, something the pets handlers rely on as they tend to avoid contact with them in person, using Lookouts to keep tabs on them instead.

## Method

Sudden changes to instigate a change in brain activity are usually relied on to hypnotize someone, such as surprising them. This is usually done with sudden movements such as a glass being knocked over to flipping a coin. Although close and physical contact is often required when attempting to snare a person's mind, stronger users such as Hayashi can affect someone a few feet away.

## Users

### Hiroki

His powers are strong, Hiroki does not always need to be close to hypnotize someone. He is firmly against using his powers to have people buy fish from his and Tsukasa's Fish & Fish shop, considering it as similar to their criminal activities for the Company which is something he adamantly wants to get away from.

### Tsukasa

Relies more on physical contact to render people suitable for memory delving.

### Satoru

He was greatly surprised to see that Jin could resist his abilities.

### Hayashi

Methods of attrition were used to erode Katsuragi's resistance. Hayashi would have him hand his car keys over for him to escape.

## People Who Have Been Affected

### Yokota

From Satoru's doing, Yokota enthusiastically raced through a tunnel and drove off a ledge to his death.

### Kenji

He experienced several manifestations including visualizing a large eye staring at him from the wall, then viewing Hiroki casually unbutton Tsukasa's shirt to lick his chest. Putting it down to a headache and feeling dizzy, Kenji witnessed Hiroki shoot himself in the head as well as sparks appearing out a tap.

### Inui

When Inui's memories required viewing, Tsukasa made use of surprise to gain access to his mind. Innocently waving his hat around then *accidentally* knocking a glass over both alarmed Inui, and allowed Tsukasa the chance to grab his wrist to gain access. In a second instance, throwing a baseball near Inui startled him for Tsukasa to regain entry. In both cases after the experience, Inui remained motionless for a while after Tsukasa had left.

### Hitomi

A coin flip drew Hitomi's attention to where she was able to visualize her boyfriend as being physically ugly for wanting to feed fish to his turtle. This was a contributing factor to her breaking up with him.

### Satoru's Grandmother

With her mind collapsed from being crushed, Satoru's grandmother was influenced by Katsuragi to tell others that Satoru was adopted.

### Fukurai Delivery Guy

Offering a cash note, and then suddenly flicking it created the change in this person for Tsukasa to draw the delivery guy under his sway. After revealing what he knew about Hayashi, the delivery guy had fallen unconscious after the experience.

### Katsuragi's Agent

Hayashi dropped a bowl which unsettled the man as he reached to seize it. With his arm gripped, this agent was used as a puppet to report to Katsuragi, who he worked for, that Hayashi had headed back upstairs. In actuality Hayashi was listening into their conversation as he set about trapping Katsuragi. The agent operated normally, returning to his seat when Hayashi was nearby, and did not comment on the matter later when he was seen with Katsuragi's lookouts.

### Store Owner

This elderly woman seemingly did not have any physical contact to be drawn under Hayashi's influence. She was deployed twice as Hayashi worked on wearing down Katsuragi's resistance to his memory tampering. In both cases she functioned as a distraction as she appeared at Katsuragi's side with a pair of scissors, and then with a dolls house. This was in combination with Hayashi tapping into Katsuragi's fear of cats along with his memories of a man who owned many of them, as well as Katsuragi's family.

### Jin

Whether she was initially affected, or was familiar with how hypnotized people behaved and was just pretending, Jin appeared agreeable to Satoru's suggestions. That she is a crusher apparently gives her resistance, or complete immunity to others hypnosis.

### Dahao's Driver

Though some means involving Meiling, the driver would be placed in a state where he would pull over for Ron and Meiling to enter Dahao's limousine, and refuse his orders to go and obey Ron's commands instead.

### Dahao's Guard

Being tasered unconscious, he apparently had his mind manipulated in this state to where he would shoot other guards present to ensure that the CEO could complete his vengeance against Shengjie Chen.

### Dahao Chen

After his security guard was tasered, he appeared stressed enough to focus on Meiling's butterfly where he heard from his father, the appearance of which was puppeteered by Ron, that his grandfather wanted him dead. The hypnosis would not be identifiable and Dahao would act normally when he met his family on a yacht some time later. Upon Ron clicking his fingers, Dahao would shoot his own grandfather in the head then hand the gun over to Ron.

### Ambassador

Learning that Satoru could speak Chinese, and then reacting to him looking at him through a glass made the ambassador more agreeable to joining Satoru and Hiroki to the side of the room. He thought of his happiest memory at Satoru's suggestion, which allowed them to access his Peak in order to crush it.

### Fall Guy

A hand on his shoulder was enough to have him accept that he was the one who used a hairdryer to dry the ambassador's clothing when it was actually Hiroki.

### Second Fall Guy

Though some means he was certain that he had spilled water over the ambassador's shirt, though Satoru was responsible.

### Hospital Fall Guy

Whether through Jin, or Katsuragi, this decoy for Hiroki was already in a state upon arriving at the hospital. Further guidance from Hiroki ensured he would tell members of the medical profession that he had fallen ill form malnutrition so that Hiroki could leave.

### Katsuragi

Physical contact caused Katsuragi to believe that he had done a good job, and was also able to be induced into falling asleep by Hiroki.

### Security Guard

He went from refusing Hiroki access to a room Hayashi was kept in out of fear of burglar coming to his family's house, to granting access to stop the burglar from going there. Whether it was his inner thoughts or an exaggeration of the personality he had, under the effects he acted in a childish manner, asking if he had stopped the burglar from coming. He also obeyed Hiroki's request to stand watch and wait until he was done.