Isekai Sagishi no Consulting

"Gas... what is lighting?"

Umaro frowned on unfamiliar words.

It is difficult to explain it.

Because when I explain it in words, I only get the impression of being "such an idiot".

To explain it, we need to go around a little bit.

"People are weak creatures. Therefore, we live in a herd.My instinct is to protect myself. "

That instinct is troublesome.

"When people around you say things that are different from themselves, they have the illusion that they are wrong.No matter how confident you are, your confidence is shaken by objections and objections from around you.There are differences in the width of the sway and the time it takes to sway, but there are not many people who do not sway thoroughly. "

I'm blocking my ears because I'm stubborn enough to not listen to people, and I realize that if I turn my back and listen to people's stories, my beliefs will shake.

If you are a straightforward person who belongs to "society" and wants to coexist with others, you cannot completely pass through objections and objections.

Even if you pretend to listen to me, it sticks like a thorn somewhere in your heart.

That's because human beings are weak creatures that cannot live on their own.They have that kind of trait as a species, but they form a herd.The instincts of such creatures alarm us.'Isolation in the herd is dangerous,' he said.That's why I doubt my mind.You can't believe yourself anymore.

"Is that like Delia in a water shortage?"

Estella is saying that when there was a water shortage in District 42, the representatives of each Alliance were forced to "weir the river water to send water to the channel," and Delia was about to cry, "Maybe she was wrong."

"There's something psychologically close, but it's clearly different from that."

When multiple people with different opinions appear and are in positions hostile to themselves, the justice that they believe can be shaken.

Delia was just thinking that even her inescapable mission of "protecting the river" was her ego.

However, it was a friction that occurred because both sides had not spoken enough, their thoughts were divided, and their opinions were divided.

Collisions within a herd occur anywhere, anytime, no matter how big or small they are.

But gas lighting is different.

As in the case of Delia, it is not the friction of passing opinions without malice, and the Soviet is manipulated with clear malice.

"Gas lighting is cruel abuse that tramples down and takes away the dignity, confidence, self, thoughts, responsibilities, values of that person… no, torture"

Estella swallows raw saliva into noisy words.

It's really, really mean and horrible, gas lighting.

"What exactly is it?"

I suppose you want to know exactly where you stand.

Estella asked me with a look of fear.

Specific examples?

There are also several types of gas lighting.

What we have in common is to make the target think, "I'm the one who's wrong"....

"For example, a man who waves violence against her says, 'I wave violence because you pissed me off.'If that goes on, she'll have the thought, "Don't make me angry."

If you make the right decision, you should encourage your boyfriend to 'stop the violence', but if she thinks she's wrong, she'll try to change herself.

They swallow the opponent's chaotic theory.

If it goes too far, you'll be brainwashed to say, "I'm really a kind person," or "I'm the only one who can understand that person."

These are also a form of gas lighting where people think that their opinions are more correct than their own as a result of their continuing negative opinions.

"Is that possible?I mean, you're obviously saying something funny, right?So you think you're wrong? "

Well, that's usually what I think.

When I hear about gas lighting and mindset control, I say, "You're kidding.Often. "

But they're never a lie or a big deal, they're actually happening.

In short, "man" is a creature that is more likely to be deceived than most people in the world think.

Try it.....

"Becco, this is a bit of an experiment. Can you help?"

"Please tell me what you want me to do if I'm awkward!"

And now stop your words and wrinkle between your eyebrows.

Becco looks slightly surprised by the change in my expression.

"... no, well, you can say no if you don't want to."

"No, no, I don't know what to do, but I'd be happy to help if I could."

Becco's words distracted him, and he whispered to throw up.

"Even if you say that with such a disgusting face....."

"I don't have a disgusting face.This is the face of the selfish. "

…………

Silence.

"... um, Mr. Yashiro?"

"Nh... well, then, if you give me a reward, will you do it?"

"No, no, no! No rewards!We appreciate your cooperation! "

"Hah... then I wonder why you look like that..."

Becco moved when she sighed heavily, curled her hair, turned away and spoke to herself.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you have such a disgusting face!?Isn't that normal? Or, really...!? "

Becco covers his face with his hands and starts pulling his cheek muscles violently.

Wow, that sucks!

It's more dangerous.

"That's it, Becco! The experiment is over!"

"It hasn't started yet! I sincerely want to cooperate!"

"I know! This is gas lighting!"

"... what?"

I can't believe how easy it is to understand and shrink my mind... pure!?

... yeah. I have to take care of my mind for a while.

"Did you see that? Becco looked normal, didn't he?"

Ask those who watched the whole thing.

But nobody answered.

"No, it's true that Becco has such an interesting face that he normally feels a bit of resistance, but Becco has such an interesting face."

"No! We didn't get caught up in it and couldn't answer, did we!?"

It didn't seem to be a silence from the fear of being caught in the "Spirit Judgment" by saying "normal" to Becco's face.

"I've been watching Becco from the middle of the day, realizing what he wants to do, but... it's too effective and overwhelming."

"I'm a little surprised, too."

The truth is, I lost a little confidence and said, "That's not true, is it?"I thought you might be asking around Umaro... but I didn't want to disturb you so much.

"Probably because Becco and I are" friends, "he said.

"Palm. 'Friendship' is not such a twisted word."

Regardless of the truth, Becco seems to have friendly feelings for me.

The anxiety is considerable when I think that the edge or interaction may be cut off.

"For example, Estella, you said to Ginette, 'It stinks, stay away from me.'" That's not true!There's no way it stinks! Can you argue? "

"I can't. If Ginette hates me, I'll be back in the inn in no time to take a bath."

In this way, if there is a relationship there that you don't want to break, people will be fine and doubt themselves.

"Just now, it's easy to say," Don't look bad, "but it's hard to say," Don't look bad. "

'Don't do it' is hard to consciously implement.Point the camera at me and say, "Please be natural."

"Becco was confident that he didn't have an absolutely disgusting face, but his confidence was shaken by being warned many times.It was just after I said, "I'm going to experiment."

If this becomes more subtle... most people can be framed easily.

"If I'm really trying to crush Becco, Becco won't show up in public in a week.To put it further... even a puppet who only believes what I say and executes "How do I behave?"That's gas lighting. "

The same complexion suddenly gets worse.

This gas lighting is a stepping stone to brainwashing and mind-control.

Disrupt the other person's confidence or belief and convince them that they are wrong.

A human being who has become like this will be swallowed up by the words "more amazing than himself", which made him realize his mistakes.

"This is the foundation of gas lighting."

Estella stood up unexpectedly and took a half-step back.

The water sounds loud and the bath water shakes.

"This is... the foundation? So, is it still up there?"

"Ah. Umaro was attacked because of his application."

Listen up, guys.

And know it as knowledge.

That there are such horrible ways of psychological attack in the world.

And it's so easy....

It's amazing, but it could happen.

"Do you think Imelda or Ginette is the one who gets caught more easily by gas lighting?"

Throw such a question.

Together they saw the faces of Imelda and Ginette.

The two named people looked at each other.

"Er... am I?Imelda is steadfast, and I'm just... relaxing for a little bit. "

Wow, Ginette, you overestimate yourself.

Where is "just a little"?

Other people seem to agree with Ginette's self-analysis.

No one is speaking out against it, nodding in line with the people nearby.

Ginette is more likely to be fooled than Imelda.

Of course I think so... but this time it's a mess.

"In my experience, Imerda is more susceptible to gas lighting."

Are you crazy?

Disgruntled, Imelda sharpened her lips.

"People who are confident in themselves, have a high reputation from around them, and have some moderate experience are more likely to break their confidence."

Celebrities and corporate greats are deceived by spooky fortunetellers and religious figures because of that aspect.

"Such people are seldom confident in their actions and confused about making decisions, which is why -"

"When you lose confidence, you're fragile..."

That's what I'm talking about.

I'm always listening seriously to Estella.

Perhaps you feel the danger of gas lighting more than anyone else.

"Perhaps Imelda will wear out her spirit if she keeps saying 'it was better before'."

Imelda's creations are artistic and of course beautiful in quality.

It includes, of course, how you work as a woodcutter, what you look like, and what you've made in the past.

Those with a slight experience around them are convinced that there were success stories at that time, and that "the work at that time was a good thing", self-evaluation and evaluation from the surroundings were high.

It is difficult for any human to continue to transcend the past.

It may be possible to go beyond that one day, but not every time.That's something everyone is aware of.

That's why when you say, "The previous one was better," you get a little self-criticism in your mind that says, "Surely, is it inferior compared to the previous one?"

If that continues, little self-criticism grows bigger and bigger and bigger, and I think, "I can't go beyond the works of the past anymore", "my talents have been exhausted", "I am already a human being."

Singers, writers, and cartoonists stall after a hit because they suffer from such "comparisons with past success stories."

"The past is the past! What we're making is the best!Without a human being who can say "no", he cannot escape the suffering.

"Anything from work to fashion.For example, what if they told me that last year's hairstyle was better?"Last year's dress was wonderful.You can do it again, and I want you to look like that. "And then I said," You've been dressed badly lately. "Can you poke me in the face and say, "I don't have a good taste?"Whoever you're dealing with. "

"That... depends on people."

Fraudsters are impersonating their titles.

If that's what a noble con artist says, you might get a little irritated without getting hurt.

That 'little' gives rise to 'little self-criticism'.

Once budding, self-criticism then accelerates.Without even realizing it.

"Conversely, it's harder for someone like Ginette to catch someone who can say, 'Yes, I'll be refined.'"

"I see... then, Ginette is at ease."

But, Estella...

Even such a ginet can be pushed by gas lighting.

"Ginette, you're fixing the knife order."

"Yes, we arrange it every day in a certain order and place."

"What do you think if the order changes?"

"Um... did someone use it?"

The order in which Ginette arranged the knives was already stained with the body.

It's impossible to make an inadvertent misarrangement.Rather, the order of the knives in the ginet is so fixed that they are arranged as usual when unconscious.

If the order is changed, it is natural to doubt others.

"But what if I didn't even touch Magda?"

"Then I think I put it wrong."

Ginette would be.

"I'm sure you'll be a little more careful than usual on that day and arrange the knives in a fixed order.But the next day, the order has changed again. "

"That's...."

Ginette brings her eyebrows together.

For example, it is not true.Still, it's creepy enough.

"Next time, I wonder if Magda or I touched it.But we don't know.If that goes on for three or four days, I'll start to think you're crazy.Finally, I begin to suspect that outsiders are entering the kitchen and reordering it.But that can't be happening. "

…………

You must be listening to me and imagining the situation.

Ginette covered her mouth with her hands with a difficult face.

"As I repeat that, I say:'Ginette, have you been acting weird lately?'That's what you think."... maybe I'm weird."

The bathroom calms down like it hit water.

"Finally, I'm afraid of checking the order, and I start to ignore the order and put it in the mess.Estella asks when she sees something like that."Ginette, what's wrong?I wouldn't have done this if it had been Ginette before. "That's what you think, right? Have I gone crazy? And Magda says, "... store manager, you should get some rest".And Loretta said, "Because we protect the Yangtai Pavilion."I can't breathe, and you look at me like you're asking for help.Then I'll tell you this."It's okay. I can do it without you."

If that's true, Ginette....

"That's what you think."Ah, I don't need a sunset pavilion."

"............"

Ginette's eyes twitched, so I kept my cheeks tight.

Don't believe me. It's a story.

"Don't worry, we need you at the Sunset Pavilion, and we're here to help if you're in trouble.This is an unlikely story if we were all plotting to kick you out of the pavilion in the sun.I assure you, we all don't want to see a sunny pavilion without you, and we don't want to admit it.What we love is the sun pavilion where Ginette is. "

I'm going to pinch your cheeks and look straight into your eyes and swear.

It is important to know the existence of a clear and unambiguous "ally" in the heart shaken by gas lighting.

"Yes, Ginette."

"... Magda likes the store manager more than Yangtamari-tei"

"I love the store manager too!I hate it if you don't have a shop manager in Yangtao Pavilion! "

"... gentlemen"

Three people gathered around Ginette and hugged Ginette.

I took the liberty of using my name for Estella and Magda and Loretta.

Feel the warmth of the skin and a soft smile returns to Ginette's face.

"Sorry to scare you."

"No... but, yes, I was scared."

I stroked Ginette's head to sin.

Um, Mr. Yashiro.

Hmm?

Ginette looks up at me like she's staring at me.

"Um... thank you. Tell me you like the Yangtai Pavilion.Um... I'm here... "

Ginette's gaze ran away, his face fell down, and only his gaze returned.

Ginette looked up at me with a bright red face.

I must have been quite anxious.

Do you want to keep a big service here?

"Of course."

"... eheheheheh"

Grabbing my hand stroking Ginette's head with both hands and gently wrapping it around, Ginette turns his wet eyes into a smile.

"I'll never forget what I just said."

... don't say that with that face in the bathroom when you're mixing swimsuits.

I would have hugged you by accident.

... even if I spray my nose bleeding, will I be able to deceive you if I insist that you "climbed up"?

Mr. Yashiro!

"Ooh!?"

Becco's crying face broke in front of Ginette smiling with wet eyes.

What the hell are you doing throwing pictures right after the scenery!?I thought you'd get your eyeballs cut off by a lot of falls!

"The awkward are still sad or lonely, anyway!Thank you for your kind words to the selfish! "

Well, I've decided his heart too... I don't know.

Becco, don't worry.

"Mr. Yashiro....!"

"Your face is so funny "

"That's not true! That's not what I wanted!Mr. Yashiro, do you like me?!Don't you hate it!?Hey, Mr. Yashiro! "

"Stupid! Don't come crying!You almost touched your lips!? Relax, I'm scared! "

"You said you liked me, Mr. Yashiro!"

I was stuck by a sobbing half-naked Becco, rubbing my cheeks in my abdomen... and I couldn't stand it anymore "LIKE!"he shouted.

... I've never heard of torture like this.It's too intense, really.

Anyway, even if the two of us used it to get out of the aftermath of gas lighting... is that good?You're not hurting me, are you?... shit.

Well, Ginette's knife example is commonly used in bad religions.

Continue to give a slight discomfort and drive you into the darkness of your doubts to take away your ordinary mind.

"If you do it multiple times, people will disintegrate themselves so that they can't recover."

You will not be able to make a normal decision.

There are also cases where a powerful boss who was feared in a company was forced to retire by his cooperating subordinates.

What our men did was very simple and easy.

Every morning, I subtly change the height of my boss's chair. That's all.

Make sure you don't have any unfamiliar eyes or unfit mouth.

Changing the height of the chair gives you a feeling of discomfort as bad as something familiar to your body.I feel very sick.

If that goes on every day, we won't get beaten up.

We try to find the killer, but our men work together to help each other alibi.

No matter what you do, no matter how you scratch your feet, your boss will eventually say, "Am I crazy?I began to doubt myself, went to the hospital, became mentally ill, and eventually left the company.

"So, there was no boss like the demon that everyone hated. Congratulations."

"Congratulations... what are you talking about?"

"Depending on your standing position... well, as a means, you'll be in a nasty category."

It is not only a way to get rid of the opponent, but also to make it impossible to regenerate.

Oh, and I can't praise you.

"So, Umaro and the others were hit by multiple gas lighting."

"But, Mr. Yashiro.There is no evidence that the Norton Shop did the backwork..... "

"You don't have to come out."

"Of course... huh?"

The only reason we don't have any evidence is because they're not working behind the scenes.

I checked the men who weren't working behind the scenes, and it's only natural that they didn't have any evidence of working behind them.

"Again, even if I'm sorry, let's say Ginette plotted to crush Cantalchica."

Impossible.

Estella immediately utters a negative word.

"Ah, it's impossible, so don't take it seriously.Ginette, who plotted to crush Kantarchika, listens to Kantarchika's bad reputation."It's not delicious there," "the clerk's attitude is bad," and "hygiene management is untidy."Paula then takes action to pursue the source of the rumor.The first thing to notice is the competitor's Yangtze Pavilion. "

And as soon as Paula investigates, she'll know that Ginette was spreading rumors.

"So the evil of Ginette was exposed under the day, and peace returned to Cantalchica."

"After all, there are penalties for behaving in a way that traps others.I think it should be.Instead of pulling someone's feet, we want to make the Yangtai Pavilion a place where our customers can be satisfied with our efforts. "

Ginette is purely delighted that evil has perished.

Even if your name is used, it seems that you should be punished for doing the wrong thing.

I might be a little excited to defend you... well, that doesn't matter now.

"But what if the mastermind is not Ginette, but Estella, who loves sunny pavilions?"

Suppose Ginette had no consultation and was acting independently to crush his favorite Yangtze kiosk rivals.

"Even if Paula investigates the Yangtai Pavilion, there is no evidence of backwork.Ginette didn't do the backwork, and she didn't ask Estella to do it.Ginette has absolutely nothing to do with Estella's behavior. "

"... so that's why the Norton Engineering Store case happened?"

Umaro carves deep wrinkles between her eyebrows.

Well, that's what it is.

"It was a third party who attacked the Tolbec shop.Therefore, there is no evidence left. "

To put it further, the objective of the mastermind third party is not to "push the Norton Engineering Store to the top," but to "drag the Tolbeck Engineering Store down."

If this is why Norton Engineering is at the top, then the evidence is easy to leave behind.

Compared to the previous year, it is obviously striking an unnatural rate of increase, or if you look at the graph, there are abnormal fluctuations.

However, it is difficult to leave evidence if it is a sabotage operation to a Tolbec engineering store such as this one.

All people see is' someone gaining 'and' their own damage '.

So Umaro only noticed the fact that 'the Tolbec engineering store suffered damage' and the fact that 'the Norton engineering store made a profit' in relative terms.

Because it caught my eye, I didn't notice 'a mastermind third party who didn't get a direct profit'.

"But do you really have such a third party?Someone who doesn't profit himself, but just wants to disturb the Tolbec shop and does something so huge. "

"Yes, there are a few reasons for that."

First, just after Umaro and the others came into contact with the Norton Agency, Norton Agency sales fell.

This is the result of being aware that the mastermind third party has gone a little too far and weighed himself up.

Non-Norton shops do the same, based on evidence that Umaro's investigation has not been badly publicized and the number of requests has decreased.

Exactly the same phenomenon as Norton Engineering, which suddenly increased orders, cannot begin to happen in a shop other than Norton Engineering at the moment Norton Engineering turned to suspicion.It's not just one company, it's two or three companies at the same time.

For some reason, I was suddenly asked for a job that I was supposed to hire from a Tolbec shop.How many times does such a coincidence occur simultaneously?

This is evidence that the same person is repeating the same technique 'using another person'.

Sometimes it happens in music and art.

Lift up the missing 'other' to bury the blind in order to crush the most blind.

Steal the opportunity to get noticed and plant the image of "mediocrity".

And then, when the season passes, it vanishes on its own.

Then you can leave the missing "other guy" that you lifted.Those who don't have enough to take will only have less to take.

The battle to crush rivals without exposing your tokens to bad reputation is conducted in any genre.

"And one of the reasons is that the reputation of the Tolbec Works is spreading too fast."

They were waiting to pull their handrails.I hope that the Tolbec Engineering Store will reach the limit of patience.

I can tell from Umaro's story that the Tolbec and Norton engineering stores collided after the District People's Games.

Halloween, probably by Miss Connor at the latest.

So, he was sued by the General Court on the last day of the hot season.

So Umaro chose to talk.

To put it bluntly, for the first time here, the Tolbec Workshop officially acknowledged their non-compliance.

If the rumor spreads exponentially, it's strange that it doesn't.

If there were people who weren't more comfortable with the Tolbec shop than before, they might start to get a bad reputation when they searched for a home in the Norton shop and found nothing.

However, it is unlikely that far-flung neighborhoods with weak direct connections will succumb to one argument and participate in the spread of bad reputation.

If you put your shoulder in the wrong person, you will have a painful tail when the truth comes to light.

Not to mention, they will not engage in sewage related activities that will expand in the future.I can't trust you.

From now on, we will not 'go ahead and spread' the bad word of the engineering shop that has little to do with us, from the big business that will spread towards Chuo Ward to taking the risk of being nailed.

At best, you should listen to it or keep it in the bottom of your belly.

Besides, it's snowy time.

No one would want to go out there and take the lead in pulling each other's feet.

"Nevertheless, Lucia sent me information as soon as the snowy season broke out.Carpenters in the 35th arrondissement are worried, "Is it okay to work with Tolbec Engineering?"

Which one of you had the information up to the thirty-fifth precinct?

In the snow that fills your hips.

"I don't like these people at the Tolbec Workshop. It's terrible. You should stop working with them."

"It was Lucia who said that he would use carpenters from the thirty-fifth district to build the port in the forty-second district.The difficulty of cooperating with the Tolbec Shop would be like influencing the decision of the lord of his district. "

Do you do such a big thing on the basis of rumored information?

The carpenters in the 35th arrondissement raised their mistrust to the lord?

"It's normal to think that the information they got came from a trustworthy place."

So, what is the source of the unconditional credibility of gossip smell information about carpenters in distant districts who did not have any particular contact?

"It can easily be deduced from the testimony of another person."

I was expecting this, or even during the snowy season, I went all the way to the Yangtai Pavilion to give me information. Murr.

"When I asked the Tolbec engineering department to fix the ice room in Murray's house, the union suggested the Norton engineering department."

"From the union..."

Yes, it is.

The Civil Engineering Guild Union, which is a member of civil engineering guilds in almost every district.

Among them, a great gentleman of the level who can speak directly to the nobility is spreading the story.

During the snowy season, it was so active that it spread to the farthest thirty-five districts.

"Why, the union... is paying their dues properly, and is providing a lot of information."

"Do I have a grudge against you or... taste good?"

With resentment and flavor, people tend to make stupid choices.

There are countless idiots who run away from their normal trajectory by grudge, and there are also idiots who are caught by the taste and become someone else's accusations.

"Didn't you do something to keep an eye on some stupid aristocrat?"

"Noble eyes... no way?"

Umaro's eyes are open.

He has recently kicked an invitation from a lord.

The lord is a rotten bastard, as Lucia and Maru have testified, with a rather insidious personality.

"... Lord of the Thirtieth Ward... huh?"

"I don't know. Suspicion alone doesn't prove it."

Everything I've told you so far is circumstantial evidence.

There is no conclusive evidence. There is no physical evidence.There are no witnesses.

In accordance with the law, we will definitely escape.

"But surely - the great man of the union, or a better man who can manipulate the great man, is turning his hand behind his back and trying to crush the Tolbec Workshop."

There are extremely suspicious people, but I don't know for sure, so I avoid mentioning them.

"From the above, there's only one thing I can assure you..."

I haven't solved anything yet, but that's all I can say.

"--The technology and credibility of the Tolbec Workshop means no one can win, no one can lose, no one can win."

…………

Open your mouth, Umaro is looking at me.

It would be interesting to stuff marshmallows in a big open mouth, but now instead of marshmallows in the mouth, I keep these words in my empty head.

"You should be as proud of yourselves as ever."

Whether you get fewer orders, whether you scratch a job or not, it's because the clever guy turned his hand from behind.

There is not a problem with the Tolbec shop.

Then you don't have to worry about anything.

When she told him that, Umaro sneezed his face and sipped with all his strength.

"Yes! The oils will continue to do their best to work from tomorrow!"

Umaro is back in good health.

You owe it to me. That must be it.

So, what do you want me to make this time...?