Chapter 1682: NO．297：Setting Aspirations with Playthings

NO．297：Setting Aspirations with Playthings

As the proposer and practitioner of the Central Tressen Counseling Room, and also as a well‑known empathetic bot who mingled on Umastagram in the early years, Umastarsensei, Aomo Lindun naturally would not expect to solve the troubled's problems with a single universal moral viewpoint.

This can be said to be the professional competence of many psychologists, and at the same time it is also the reason why many people fail at comforting work.

Those who cannot and are unwilling to flexibly adapt their views, and who harbor some self‑interest deep down, always reject the option of giving more to others, unless that person is worthy.

But for the demon, this is different.

Not because he can eliminate the selfish foundation, but because changing his viewpoint is essentially no burden for him.

He, who constantly observes and continually incorporates new viewpoints, often compares their pros and cons, compares the circumstances of those who practice these viewpoints, and thus arrives at an especially vague hierarchy.

Different viewpoints and ideas have no hierarchy of three, six, nine for him; he switches between them effortlessly and without cost, so you can see him as if he were a mirror.

— He presents different attitudes and uses different words toward different people; at first glance it seems like he's reflecting the other, but the demon is not a mirror, and all those changes in scenery are the result of conscious adjustment.

This also inversely proves that he hides too much in his heart, so much that extracting just a few angles yields corresponding viewpoints to respond to the other.

But this proof is not the focus when he gives advice to people.

Because in the vast majority of situations where he gives advice, he acts not as a mirror but as countless shards.

It is a fragment of shattered moonlight.

A fragment split into four or five pieces, yet it always manages to reflect the cold light of what you seek.

Only thus can it precisely lock onto the thing buried too deep in your heart and drag it up.

Put another way, this is mutual complementarity.

Not mirror reflection, but precise inclusiveness.

Just as Bai Ren would not bring it up if he weren't specifically seeking his help to counter psychological shadows, since he already notices some signs.

Aomo Lindun, who never discriminates and never rejects the path of avoidance, does not care about the problem that 'using psychological suggestion to interfere in order to deal with psychological shadows' is not sufficiently upright.

In this regard he focuses more on results; rather than whether the solution feels good, he believes people should care more about whether the solution can be permanent, so… even though he had long noticed the gloom and hesitation that Xi showed in their past interactions, he does not point it out.

Let alone doing anything about it.

One who excels at observation and deduction, and is even better at giving every person present a full analysis, never finding it bothersome, always has far more things swirling in his mind than others imagine him to have.

Among them also include the doubts 'How long will she keep this up?', 'What will pointing it out turn into?', 'What do her friends and family think?', causing his expressed thoughts to be even fewer than others imagine him to have.

But later, one of those doubts of his actually received an answer.

— Although he doesn't intend to interfere in others' ways of living, one of her friends or relatives came to him with a problem.

Thus there's no need to weigh the two sides.

The main reason he usually doesn't intervene is that the relationship isn't close enough, he doesn't know enough of the inner details, and without being able to guarantee how interpersonal relations will turn out after interference, cautious Aomo Lindun will first consider maintaining the status quo.

Once the other party's friends or relatives come seeking help, that problem no longer exists.

Although assisting a crime also entails responsibility in court, as long as one is not the instigator, the sentencing tends to be considerably lighter.

Just as a merchant would send himself to the gallows for higher profit, the demon is also willing, on the condition that he won't be held primarily responsible, to stimulate an individual of considerable observational value to obtain a conclusion.

This is first of all a profitable deal in his mind, and secondly, the seeker being a bedside person skews the sensual score—if you directly say it to his ear, he can't stand it. jpg

Just the steps involved in writing this process are so many, while the actual opinions given are only a few sentences. This makes it easy and simple for the elder sister to carry out, and also makes the friend's strategist lax and casual, so that when the target shows overt hostility, they inevitably share a silent wry smile.

'Chazuo, didn't you greet her?'

In his expected information and trajectory, Xi the painter should be a conservative type of ailishuma, and when facing any of the eight horse girls under her command, at most she would maintain a stoic persona, while inwardly she might waver in some way.

Just as the human heart cannot be truly equal, only able to maintain a balance in handling things, so each DD actually has differing attitudes toward different pushes; thus Miss Xi should have a D that affects her the most, someone before whom even the inertia of a stoic demeanor is hard to maintain.

Perhaps such a person is not among his own team… For now, willing to take a gamble, betting on a one‑in‑eight chance that Aomo, assuming he has it, he already suspects he has lost the bet.

'The greeting was just a greeting…' Ling's reply was as decisive as a dealer's ruling based on ironclad evidence, 'Little Xi also gave a straightforward answer, making me think she had let go.'

'Perhaps this is also a kind of causality.' Aomo sighed.

'Just like giving my advice doesn't require much thought—it's merely a few offhand remarks—Miss Xi doesn't need to hesitate to note this down; it's just an offhand matter.'

'Don't keep harping on causality like Shu does, or I'll get jealous.'

'What about that? That's your sister.'

'Among my sisters, Shu and Xi have the best attitude toward you—so good that it makes the other brothers and sisters can't help but speculate—don't you think I should be on guard a little?'

'It doesn't even look like you're being on guard.'

'Telling you is the most direct warning; you've got to keep an eye on things yourself. Although really I don't have much to say, I also don't take responsibility for stopping Xiao Qianhaiya and the others.'

'Then I really have to raise my vigilance twelvefold.'

"Hey, I'm saying, can you two stop constantly giving each other those looks?"

"……"

Even though Aomo was overlooking the coffee surface, he couldn't help but fall silent for a moment when Xi suddenly said that.

"How did this even start?" He lifted his head to look at Xi, who was holding her coffee cup and murmuring softly beside him, and instead met Chazuo's puzzled gaze.

"With such obvious mental‑communication fluctuations, it's already hard to hear what you two are talking about. If you're going to pretend, couldn't you make it more convincing? What are you looking at me for? Is it strange that I'm studying the magic here?"

"That's right," Aomo nodded, lifted his hand to rub his nose bridge, feeling that some of his earlier judgments needed to be reorganized, "It's truly unbelievable to have the motivation to study the local magic; may I be curious about your motive?"

As the saying goes, seeing the subtle signs, in both his own judgments and Ling's words, the serious‑minded painter Xi certainly shouldn't have this move, but when this move appeared, Aomo naturally couldn't help but review.

And the breakthrough point that this review unintentionally hits upon should still be that……

"Is it…?" He especially lowered his voice, although in the current team it probably wouldn't have much effect, "Is it related to the horse girls?"

"Don't worry about it!"

Oh……

He immediately found the benchmark again, and thus felt a little relief, like a turn of fortune after winding paths.

After all, this counts as the situation suddenly turning for the better, saving everyone some effort.