20demayo Chapter 758 : Chapter 758
Chapter 758 : Chapter 758
Chapter 758: This Matter is Very Simple, Won’t it be Resolved if I Do It?
“Little Han, I'm very grateful that you can say that, but there are still a bit too many things involved in this. If I rashly drag you into this matter...”
“The matter will be resolved very quickly.”
I followed the shop manager's words and said, “Shop Manager, how many times have you and Tan Han fought challenges from others in the arena?”
Seeing that the shop manager was somewhat unable to answer, I guided the topic toward Tan Han again, “Tan Han, then let me ask you, do you feel that this match after match of fighting is a continuous refinement for you?”
“...I feel that it is. I am constantly becoming stronger, the experience from combat is continuously stacking and accumulating. Continuous fighting makes me realize my former weakness and understand the desire for strength within my heart.”
“I see... I see. Do you still want to become stronger?”
I looked at Tan Han smilingly and asked.
“Yes, I still need to become stronger, just like you, to be powerful to the point that no one dares to point fingers at me.”
Tan Han said firmly.
“I see, you’re still taking me as your goal for moving forward. Do you need my help?”
“If it's using your power to settle this matter... I think I'll pass for now, but I still need to thank you for your kindness.”
Tan Han hesitated for a moment and finally shook her head in refusal.
“Then do you have a way to resolve it? Or do you think today's challenge is the last Teaching Assistant you have to face?”
I continuously threw out questions one after another.
Although Tan Han seemingly responded to each one, there was no end to such questions.
Ultimately, the one who would be left speechless wouldn't be me, the one asking the questions, but Tan Han, who was constantly dealing with my questions.
“I don't think I can resolve this matter immediately, and today won't be the last Teaching Assistant I encounter, but I won't shrink back either.”
At this point, battle intent filled Tan Han's gaze again, and that phrase about not shrinking back further solidified her will, “Because I found... Teaching Assistants are not that unreachable either.”
“I like the last sentence you said. It's rare that our opinions suddenly align. Those Teaching Assistants who like to lower their status and cause trouble for no reason are sometimes not unreachable. So... I'm very optimistic about you in this challenge match. You shouldn't mind if I cheer for you from the spectator area, right?”
“This... of course I don't mind.”
Tan Han was a bit surprised, but she still nodded and said.
The point of Tan Han's surprise was mainly the content of the conversation just now.
Clearly, earlier it was all a buildup, an attempt to prove such fighting was meaningless, with the intent to find an excuse to step in and help resolve it.
But with the turn of a single sentence, it was as if she had ultimately given up on it, making it impossible to see through.
However, Tan Han originally had no intention of expecting help from others.
Just as the shop manager said, this was a stage she and the shop manager had to go through.
There would always be an end to the enemies to be fought, not to mention her opponent was a Teaching Assistant of the Witch Academy!
She didn't need to win against all the Teaching Assistants.
When she won against the first Teaching Assistant, her reputation would reach the peak of her life.
When she finished the second one, it would prove her win was not hollow.
When she won the third match...
She would be qualified to stand on an equal platform with the opponent and tell them that their methods were meaningless.
Three.
Three Teaching Assistants was the limit she estimated.
For a Teaching Assistant to fight someone like her, losing was not without cost.
Not all Teaching Assistants were idiots willing to gamble their own futures on such illusory things.
A Teaching Assistant who lost to a second-year student who had just started the semester would probably never be able to lift their head for a lifetime.
“As long as you don't mind.”
I sat down in a place to sit nearby with a smile.
The preparation area here was not very small, but excluding the newly arrived me and Senior Ying Shiqian, there were actually only Tan Han, the shop manager, and Xiao You.
Plus some service personnel outside, providing some necessary services and guiding the participants onto the field and so on.
“Truly my apologies, my arrival seems to have made the atmosphere here even more oppressive.”
Looking at how there were clearly five people here, but it felt as if no one was talking.
The participant preparation area here was quiet to an even somewhat terrifying degree, “Actually, I came out this time mainly to give myself a rest. I suddenly heard this news about you and came over to see your situation along the way. I thought I would be able to bring you some good news.”
“It's fine, Little Han. I'm very grateful that you could come over at this time. But what Little Tan has to face is after all a Teaching Assistant with formidable strength. It's also very normal to have some pressure. This requires more time to adjust the mindset.”
At this time, the shop manager explained from the side.
“That’s true... However, my coming over this time was actually not just to see Tan Han. I also wanted to see you, Shop Manager. At the beginning of this vacation, I didn't expect the shop manager would also deliberately take a trip to my former residence to abduct that cheap brother of mine.”
“Ah? This... that matter...”
Being mentioned like this, the shop manager also recalled that matter, but it was not a pleasant thing.
“I didn't expect the shop manager would also be so concerned about my affairs. But that cheap brother of mine has made the shop manager see a joke. She has lacked love since she was young and also lacked some necessary family education. The words she said naturally didn't go through her own brain for consideration.”
“Yes, I also didn't expect that brother of yours, Little Han... to be like that. At that time, I was indeed too angry to bear it...”
At this moment, the shop manager also seemed to recall the experience at that time, her tone carrying a hint of resentment for her failure to live up to expectations.
Perhaps the shop manager at that time hoped to see Little Han's shadow on that brother.
After all, in that general environment, the Academy Network was full of rumors that Little Han was completely dead, as if this was an established fact.
Then the only thing that could be associated with Little Han seemed to be only her relative.
Xia Li held such a thought, found Little Han's brother, only to hear the other person say such words.
Anyone would be angered.
“But I've already brought her to the Witch Academy. If the shop manager is still too angry to bear it, I don't mind if you go and educate her.”
“Is that so? If there's a chance... I will.”
Xia Li was serious about this sentence.
She didn't care if that person lacked love or education; for someone to say such words, their values were indeed problematic.
Therefore, regarding the topic of this cheap brother of mine, the atmosphere here seemed to have slightly eased.
Perhaps this is the human nature of gossip.
Who can refuse to understand the trivial matters of someone else's family, or witness the biological diversity between relatives?
Even Tan Han seemed unable to refuse, understanding the past events of the goal she pursued, witnessing others' difficulties and tenacity, and then turning all this into a warning to alert herself.
If I hadn't personally recounted it, who could have imagined that such a tortuous and tragic past was actually a tragedy that really happened, and happened right beside them?
A life that was swapped at birth, parents with no bond of affection, a family without love or care, and Innate Spirit Vision that was sentenced to “death” from birth... and such parents actually raised her for several years before finally discovering and realizing the problem, sending her to a psychiatric hospital...
Perhaps for an ordinary person, even if they encountered one of these things, this life would probably be finished, right?
Suddenly, they felt that for such a person to be able to recount such facts at this moment with a tone as if they were joking... it was truly a miracle.
They even hoped that what the person before them said was just a made-up story, only to make them laugh in this oppressive atmosphere at this moment.
“Well that's pretty much my everything. I have to say the Witch Academy is truly a magical place, able to accommodate all kinds of magical people and things.”
Finally, I gave a sigh.
To be able to summarize the first half of my life in this way was also my own progress.
There was nothing that could not be faced directly, even my own terrible childhood.
“So... let the past things be completely turned over. There's no need to linger too much. Even if it brought me a lot of growth, brought me whipping after whipping, pain and distortion are not worth remembering.”
Accepting the imperfect self, letting those past events be just like one's ordinary memories.
Not being worth remembering didn't mean needing to deliberately forget.
Memory is the wealth of life and should be treated equally.
Just as beautiful memories can bring joy and hope, unpleasant memories can bring calmness and reflection.
They are all references for the future, proofs that shape the only me of the present.
At this point, my gaze subconsciously met Tan Han's eyes.
For an instant, she wanted to look away, but forced herself to accept it, yet in the end, she only received my responding smile.
By saying this, was I not making Tan Han realize that the scars on her body have no effect other than being ugly?
Not only did I, this outsider, feel uncomfortable looking at them, but she herself, as a girl, would also feel uncomfortable looking at them with that instinct for beauty.
However, this was indeed a good experience for Tan Han.
When she got tired of this experience and realized this behavior was meaningless, she would naturally stop.
The words about scars being the medals of the fearless were nothing more than a form of self-comfort in the face of backward medical technology.
“Tan Han, to be honest, when I heard Senior Ying Shiqian say that you were already enough to fight someone at the level of a Teaching Assistant, I was actually very shocked.”
“This... actually, it’s also just the power of this Wand of Absolute Cold. But I also have to thank you for introducing Mentor Natalie to me, Little Han. I am only able to barely contend with those Teaching Assistants by borrowing this external power.”
“Is that so?”
I looked at Tan Han with a smile, my expression somewhat meaningful.
I was very interested in Tan Han's statement.
She seemed to have also become someone who didn't like relying on power obtained from external objects, or was this her initial definition of being powerful?
“That’s a joke. External objects are also part of one's own strength. Am I not also criticized for my strength originating from two Grand Spellbooks? I do not refute this.”
“It’s not the same...”
Tan Han subconsciously wanted to refute.
“Actually, it's all the same. Your Wand of Absolute Cold also belongs to [Transcendent Knowledge], and this thing is the predecessor of a Grand Spellbook. You should be very clear about this matter. Those people are also constantly looking for trouble with you for this reason.”
“Don't you want to take me as your goal? Initially, when they heard I held Grand Spellbooks, they similarly questioned what right I had to hold such things. Even now... they are similarly unwilling in their hearts, but no one dares to question me to my face why.”
“So don't care about their thoughts. The more you want to prove you are qualified, the more it will stimulate the greed in their hearts. Don't fall into the self-verification trap. There is no end to your match after match of challenges and victories, because you know they have no bottom line.”
“So... after all that talking... Little Han, you are still advising me to quickly end this meaningless challenge?”
Tan Han seemed to see through my intention for saying so much, her tone carrying a hint of irrepressible laughter, as if saying when did you also start speaking in such a roundabout way?
“You said that yourself, I didn't say it. Or do you think they have a bottom line?”
I shrugged, as if the words said just now were very ordinary.
“They indeed have no bottom line.”
Tan Han was very clear about this point.
When those people laid hands on the people around her, Tan Han understood exactly how disgusting those people were.
“But I cannot just choose to escape like this.”
“Escape?”
“Yes, this is a challenge they forced upon me. If I am the first to end this meaningless challenge, then in their view, it's escaping.”
Tan Han was very clear about the current situation.
It seemed that after the exchange just now, Tan Han at this moment was also more willing to recount some of her own thoughts.
“Escape... truly a very troublesome label...”
I gave a light chuckle, but I didn't care, “But... are you just going to willingly fall into the trap? Is this kind of meaningless energy consumption really still useful for you?”
I stared at Tan Han, who no longer dared to look into my eyes, and continued to speak: “It probably isn't, right. Your heart is already exhausted. Without enough accumulation, how can there be a steady accumulation and then a breakout? At this stage... they are just using the simplest method to drag you into the most inefficient way of self-improvement.”
My words naturally triggered resonance when they fell into Tan Han's ears, and the facts were indeed repeating just as those words said.
As a personal experiencer, she understood the sinister intentions within this the most.
Only this time, the truth was pointed out by someone else.
Sometimes the truth is like this.
Clearly, it's the same thing, but knowing it in one's heart and hearing it with one's ears brings a different feeling to oneself.
She was indeed trapped in a situation.
Although she was continuously challenging opponents, she wasn't even clear who her real enemy was.
Was it the club Wan Shi Wu?
Or specifically which Teaching Assistant?
Tan Han only clearly knew that their goal was the Wand of Absolute Cold in her hand.
But she could persist until now, absolutely not by relying solely on herself and the shop manager.
At the very least, the arena provided her with a lot of help.
Although the arena providing her with help might be to balance combat power and create greater conflict to ensure the arena's profitability, the help couldn't be faked.
Someone was targeting her, and someone was also helping her.
“I'm very clear... but I can't break this situation.”
Finally, Tan Han still shook her head and said.
“This matter is very simple, won't it be resolved if I do it?”
“This...”
Tan Han suddenly lifted her head and looked at me.
“Knowing your own predicament and being unable to save yourself, yet still not making good use of others' help, is called being foolish. Tan Han, are you such a person?”
I looked at Tan Han, directly interrupted her still-hesitant words, and asked word by word.
This kind of forceful cognitive definition, letting her know this concept through being first-to-arrive, while she instinctively wouldn't admit her own foolishness—only under the conflict of concepts would she have enough cognition to break her own wishful thinking and make an objective choice.
And paired with the previous selling of misery, the effect was even better.
That was nothing more than a means to bring a long-lost relationship closer, to establish a person stronger than her in the depths of her heart, making her better able to accept help from me.
Heart Sense, this sensing method of grasping others' moods at all times, is truly useful.