Chapter 1383: with translation of chapter title

title: NO. 287: Everyone has their own track.

A heart that can be called a monster is naturally pathological.

Whether it's Shinjo Akane or Ohm Linton himself who issued this judgment, both clearly understand this.

Just as humans have ten categories and beasts a hundred kinds, each monster's heart has its own distinct obsession; Ohm Linton's heart is undoubtedly a pseudo-human pursuit of truth, an extreme fixation on efficiency, perfection, and optimizing methods.

This obsession has shaped his present and makes him exceptionally cautious and conservative in handling any major matter, to the point of being pathological.

Obviously, such major matters also include life's major events.

His decisions about partners and feelings are never made on a whim; he never even considers the possibility of breaking up, because each time he decides, he has already prepared to challenge a Happy End, aiming for a relationship that could serve as an exemplary model.

Furthermore, this pathology extends to friendship, making him always wholeheartedly care for friends while being unable to let go of any trace of a rift.

Undoubtedly, to any NT, this is gravity.

And it's black-hole-level gravity.

Once you enter his capture range, he will never let you go.

He will rationally categorize your relationship, and the higher category will be drawn into the black hole's event horizon amid utmost comfort and naturalness.

He treats them as his own, without distinction.

Precisely because his heart is most empty, it can become a mirror reflecting everything, turn into a pale moon indifferent to all, and easily satisfy the expectations of varied personalities.

But this does not mean he has no desire; taking into his hands all he values, this greed that Han Na's grandmother could define as the path of Mammon is his original desire.

He has pursued this to the present, and thus he feels that Ling's carefree ease is forever out of reach.

Insatiable greed is inherently opposed to the concept of carefree ease.

Yet he never thought of giving up; he refuses to relinquish anything, pursuing greed itself in pursuit of carefree ease.

It is precisely in this tug-of-war that the present him is formed.

This has shaped him into someone who, despite having prepared for multiple girlfriends, moves extremely slowly—or even stops—when actually hinted at or confessed to.

He indeed made preparations, but real-world developments interfered greatly—not just work, but also the human heart—both interpersonal and emotional—so his preparations were not merely material; they also required allocation of emotion and mental energy.

He does not seek balance among many parties, but rather balance for each individually.

Because Ohm knows well that the human heart cannot be evenly divided.

Even love divided equally cannot satisfy different people's needs, which is why most polygamous cases often experience discord, and some researchers argue that such discord is inevitable, and that mutual hostility might actually sustain the relationship.

Such viewpoints are common, even published in books, perhaps considered a universally accepted solution, but Ohm is not of that ilk; he refuses to accept a harem model where, like ancient emperors with three palaces and six courts, everyone mutually despises each other.

Nor does he want to say the cliché that he will love everyone equally.

What he pursues is mutual emotional balance, and also friendly relations among his girlfriends; at first glance it sounds like a fantasy, but put another way, it's about safeguarding his own love and others' friendships—something he is fully confident he can achieve.

But to achieve this, it requires not only his effort, but also the willingness of the women involved.

Thus, last night he gave Schweiya such a strange answer.

That counts as the final test.

Within a three-month period, she must prove her perseverance, and Ohm must also have his own battlefield balancing work and personal feelings.

And in this context, Ling is not mentioned because she is the person who puts the least pressure on Ohm.

She can easily get along with Ohm's circle, and she won't constantly cling to him, because in that dream she always has plenty of time.

If Akane truly cannot accept it, she can simply not appear, and life would remain as before, with no difference—Ling previously never stayed overnight at the office, rarely came over for a meal, and never disturbed this side of life.

But Isabella Mara is clearly different.

If Ling is like a drifting cloud—sometimes unseen, sometimes covering the moon—then Isabella Mara is undoubtedly a gravitational tide raised by the moon's pull.

She will inevitably cling to Ohm's side, competing with Akane for the same niche, launching a fierce territorial struggle that yields +100 survey points.

This is also a difficult problem for Ohm to handle.

This personality is not just unfriendly toward Akane.

Whether it's Skadi or Isabella Mara, their social skills when dealing with outsiders are not just disabled—they are definitely flawed.

Akane has indeed been offended by her—when he thought that, last night he was instead pushed into her bedroom.

Even Akane specially woke her from sleep, making the atmosphere reminiscent of an NTR scene fade to almost nothing, with any lingering elements like smoke ending up with Schweiya.

When Ohm thought Akane might be changing, she kept whispering in his ear, stirring things up.

Let Master Linton stir-fry seafood, preferably with something intense—the seafood can handle it.

Even the most hard-to-cook seafood, which he doesn't understand at all, he just goes along with and can handle.

Indeed, it can handle it—the deep-sea hunter/sea successor's physique is superb, combined with the age slices almost maxing out output, prompting Shu to specially brew a tonic soup, resulting in an early-morning embarrassment.

But that's not the point; the point is that Akane truly hasn't changed—she still harbors hostility toward Isabella Mara, but she expresses it differently: she tries to get Ohm to use the horde leader as a rag.

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We're about to sweat soybeans, friend.

Feelings don't need balance, bodies don't need fulfillment; Akane brings Isabella Mara in on this premise, and the latter doesn't even mind—this would indeed make everyone happy—yeah right, Ohm's own character education is failing.

Even Ohm, who would never treat an enemy in such a base way, naturally does not see Isabella Mara as an enemy; even though the horde leader and Agor's deep-sea hunter enjoy extraordinary freedom of thought, and subtly influence each other toward an even more outrageous trend, Ohm still could not treat her emotionally in that manner.

This dilemma is also why she can smile sweetly before the mirror and say those words in an especially sweet voice.

'This is going to torment you.'

'It's a torment that works only on you.'

This is a revenge method that only Miss Akane Shinjo, whose position in Ohm's heart is unshakable, can carry out without pressure.

A sweet torment, constructed from Ohm's pathological obsession and his consistent moral tug-of-war.

This won't cause Schweiya's lineup to fall behind, nor will it make Ohm brazenly keep Schweiya waiting longer; instead, it will noticeably tighten Ohm's current pace.

Think of a solution.

Come up with a way to prevent Isabella Mara's presence from becoming a social obstacle, and devise a plan that satisfies both without altering her love.

This may not be completely hopeless, nor may it be the ultimate difficulty, but it will bring Aomo definite anguish.

And this sorrow will also inevitably become the fuse for even more torment later.

If one asks why—

Even though there is no defense at all regarding Ling's issue, and no information can be obtained, but that person who has previously allied with Suzi and Huoerhaiya, even let Aizhi connect with Zhenjiling's line, Miss Xin Tiaoxi, still holds the information network that can contact most of the women around Aomo.

Even serving as the fan-club leader for Aomo Lindun, as the head of several female groups where only Aomo is absent, and even as the owner or administrator of the gossip-watching group that includes both men and women besides Aomo.

She can pull out her phone after roll call in class, easily witness, and even give a push to the developments that will become her boyfriend's calamity.

—The three-month deadline is known not only to those few people from last night but also to Shi Huaiya, who has been diving silently without speaking.

It has now spread across all chat groups, becoming the superb good news obtained after countless losers and conservatives from yesterday reflected on it.

This directly proves that Aomo has not set a clear limit on the number of girlfriends, but instead has issued clear new rules for the track!

For a moment.

Those who have just debuted, those who have just opened the Dream Cup, those who have not debuted, and those who have long felt they have no chance except to grind time—all have bright eyes, as if a major competition in some sports manga were about to begin, giving each main character a panel to showcase their posture and vigor, full of fighting spirit.

And Aomo Lindun himself is completely unaware of this.

This can also be considered a sorrow belonging to the monster people.

He treats those brothers and friends with such sincerity, saying everything he can, yet they unanimously imposed an information blockade on him.

—Not a single person leaked the information to inform him!

Even though there are existences like Lipiya that were first excluded from the group for the reason that 'the enemy is too cunning'.

But having come to this point, Aomo, who still knows nothing of the future torment, after comforting and settling Qiena, Ling, and Ishamara, arrives at the activity room at a time considered more lenient for instructors than for students, treating his instructor role as a teaching job.

He even has in mind the new Saichang and new regulations.

Even now, his thoughts are completely filled with it!

But those are all the classic Triple Crown, Triple Hua Crown, Dream Cup three-peat… the establishment of the Monster Special Zone direction's goals, and the goals of the trainer image field, which will predictably take up more of his time.

It also makes him need to readjust the training plans and race schedules of his horsegirls underneath.

Accelerate!

But it must not be an acceleration that lowers the pursuit.

This goal, which at first glance seems difficult for some strong individuals, actually has considerable feasibility, after all this is the Jiemen District, the birthplace of horsegirl culture.

These long-term plans have usable angles and considerable overlap in resources and connections; no matter which field's development, they all somewhat incorporate horsegirl-related elements.

Either engage in it, or be a person.

That, for him, is also a track with entirely new rules, and from this point on, he must stride forward in step with his horsegirls underneath.