[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-life-as-a-mental-mentor-in-marvel":3,"chapter-my-life-as-a-mental-mentor-in-marvel-my-life-as-a-mental-mentor-in-marvel-chapter-805":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","My Life as a Mental Mentor in Marvel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2323373,4544,"Chapter 805: How Siegel Broke Apart (Part Two)","my-life-as-a-mental-mentor-in-marvel-chapter-805",805,"\u003Cp>If one were to explain all this in a slightly absurd way, it could only be said that shoddy construction has caused immense harm—laying bricks without mortar, with dire consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor frowned hard, touching his temple with his hand: “Shattered… what does that mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It means exactly what it says,” Siegel’s fingers kept lightly tapping the hospital bed rail. “The tower I built wasn’t sturdy enough, and I stood too high—so my entire personality shattered, breaking into many pieces. For a long time afterward, I tried to glue them back together.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This…” Victor had been about to say this was utterly ridiculous, but he felt perhaps the metaphor was just too down-to-earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original explanation would have contained many technical terms he couldn’t understand, so Siegel had deliberately phrased it plainly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, it sounded too frivolous—could a personality even shatter? And even more absurdly, could it be glued back together???\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“During that time, I wasn’t in a normal social environment, but I knew I had to return, because I still had things to do,” Siegel continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I had to find a way to appear like an ordinary person—perhaps by piecing the fragments back together, then using some adhesive, or filling the gaps with caulk, pretending it was some kind of postmodern artwork…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel sighed. “The reason I chose psychology as my major is because the psychologist treating me was truly professional.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, it’s also possible I just didn’t know how to glue the vase properly—each time he saw through it—so I developed unrealistic expectations for this field, to the point that now, I can’t even find a suitable student…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel shook his head helplessly, but Victor didn’t find Siegel’s joking explanation amusing—he had heard heavier truths behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since I couldn’t glue the vase back together, I had to find another path. I thought: instead of presenting a crookedly glued vase, why not just hold up a shard of porcelain and say it’s an ancient fragment?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But achieving this wasn’t easy. After much thought, I decided to build another house—just one with enough space to house every fragment, letting each one play its role at different times and under different conditions. That might make things easier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you rebuilt a high tower?” Victor asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, the plan went smoothly. It was correct—I stuffed the shattered personality into the new building and activated fragments as needed. It made me seem much more normal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But problems soon arose. To use these fragments systematically, someone had to manage them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even a newly built house needs maintenance—front desk staff, repairmen, security, cleaners, transport workers, lobby managers. I had to construct a complete system inside my own mind to prevent chaos and collapse.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sounds like a fairy tale,” Victor murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly. Soon, I realized the fragments weren’t enough,” Siegel sighed. “You can’t have an apartment building filled only with property staff—there have to be some residents too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, beyond the functional personality fragments, I broke the memory portion even finer—turning every personality trait born from memory into its own separate shard. They became the main residents of the tower, while the functional fragments served as property staff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor shook his head, finding all this insane—but Siegel paused, then continued: “I’m explaining this because you must first understand where these things came from, to know what happened the day I met Bruce Wayne.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Normally, each personality fragment in my mental tower represents a tiny fraction—point zero zero something—and when added together, they must total exactly ‘one,’ because all fragments originated from a single, whole personality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you cut a pizza into eight slices, whether you separate them or reassemble them, they should always form one complete pizza,” Siegel offered a simple, clear analogy. “If you take one slice alone, it’s one-eighth. Eight one-eighths make ‘one.’ Before that day, the state of my mental palace was exactly like this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When I arrived in Gotham City, I realized I needed a more ruthless employee to handle its many dangers,” Siegel touched his eye. “But the mental tower couldn’t conjure staff out of thin air—all personality traits were merely fragments of the original shattered personality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To create a new employee, I had to take an existing fragment and split it in half—so it could still perform its original duties while taking on a new one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Out of necessity, the tower’s property manager split a fragment from the emotion department in two, using one half to mold a new employee and assign him to duty.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor’s logic told him he understood Siegel’s process—but his common sense screamed that this was insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, it was simple: the total volume of personality traits remained constant; infinite subdivision simply created infinite employees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel, newly arrived in Gotham, found his existing personality fragments unfit for the city’s conditions—he needed a new employee to handle its chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the combined total of all employees and property staff couldn’t exceed one—so he split one ten-thousandth into two halves of five ten-thousandths each, thereby creating an extra employee out of nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And then?” Victor asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The split fragment belonged to a very special department—essentially a sub-division under emotion. This trait was called ‘pride.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“On an ordinary day, neither sunny nor warm, Anna told me the admissions office staff was off, and asked me to cover for a day. I went—and there, at registration, I met Bruce Wayne.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because this trait represented pride, it made judgments about Bruce Wayne that went beyond reality. Based on those judgments, it acted—and caused Bruce Wayne to develop unusual interest in an ordinary university psychology professor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everything happened too suddenly. None of the residents or property staff in the tower realized what was occurring—only that this fragment had heard a series of soft laughs.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Afterward, it performed a series of actions, yet believed them perfectly normal. Neither the other residents nor the staff recognized the severity of the situation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They should have stopped this employee the moment he began his insane act of venturing into Gotham’s streets at night—but since nothing like this had ever happened before, the emergency response department issued no warning, causing everyone’s reaction to be delayed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And then?” Victor listened intently, sensing this might be part of Siegel’s dark past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“On one night out, I encountered Batman, who was investigating a case…” Siegel’s fingers brushed the bed rail. He paused, then said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know—a psychology professor with considerable expertise, a personality trait embodying pride, encountering a paranoid delusional patient who had convinced himself he was real…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We had a heated discussion on certain issues in jurisprudence, criminology, and behavioral science.” Siegel placed his hand on the side of his neck. Victor looked at him: “So this scar… was left by a batarang?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel nodded. “When my nerves transmitted the pain to my brain, alarms rang out inside the mental tower.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The logic department’s traits finally realized something was wrong—they saw that this trait’s actions violated my own behavioral patterns and contradicted both self-interest and safety.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What happened to the trait that was working?” Victor asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It was contaminated,” Siegel glanced again at Bruce. “For reasons too mysterious to explain, in the instant Batman focused his attention on me, this trait was infected by a virus.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The trait’s goal orientation changed completely—it no longer served normal function. And now, the you who knows me… is the you who met this version of me,” Siegel looked at Victor. “And this version of me is the other half of the pride fragment that was split—also embodying pride.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you proud?” Victor recalled, puzzled. “I didn’t notice.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel shook his head. “A trait being pride doesn’t mean my outward personality is proud, or that I’m proud of everyone and everything…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So how does this relate to Bruce’s current condition?” Victor asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The problem is this: we were originally one fragment, split in two. Though contaminated, he still originated from my own fragment and retains the pride trait.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel looked at Bruce. “And the thing that contaminated him holds a peculiar obsession with Batman. When these two motives combine, they produce severe consequences—for instance, this trait firmly believes Batman will make the choice it desires.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel sighed. “Pride is an extraordinary emotion—it encompasses overgeneralization, obsession, stubbornness. When driven intensely, it can trigger all kinds of dangerous outcomes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor’s gaze settled on Bruce. “So this is the consequence?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. The contaminated trait believes Batman is a god—a god above all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“His occasional descent to earth is merely to observe how wretched his pitying lambs are, gathering material for his dream of saving the world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This trait stubbornly believes that if Batman’s strength and energy are utterly drained through certain methods—leaving him weak and in agony—he will then realize that to survive at the bottom, one must abandon principles and join the corruption. Proving to him that these people he deems pitiful are, in fact, the very criminals he hates most will shatter his mind and soul.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then Batman will retreat to his lair to lick his wounds, just as he has done on countless nights.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So Batman came to the hospital to heal?” Victor asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel shook his head, speaking in a complex tone: “But he never imagined Batman would choose to become one of them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel paused, his emotions still churning. “That means he admits he has no difference from these criminals.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor understood Siegel’s implication, but still asked: “…Has he truly let go?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siegel closed his eyes. “I don’t know. But if a person hasn’t truly let go of hatred, can he possibly laugh from the depths of his heart?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1590,"2026-06-20T16:39:22.658Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c01c46d1f63cce34c621038c72cddf2a5ddb495676eb663a899d66e84c333918","my-life-as-a-mental-mentor-in-marvel-chapter-806","my-life-as-a-mental-mentor-in-marvel-chapter-804",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-life-as-a-mental-mentor-in-marvel-cover.jpg"]