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When she first joined the Holy Sword Alliance, she always showed her true face and made many friends.

Then all these friends died...

After composing herself a little, Cassandra met Van Shaw's gaze and said, "Let me tell you a story."

Fan Xiao: "..."

Cassandra frowned: "What's with that expression?"

"Can I not listen?"

Fan Xiao said expressionlessly, "Yes, being expressionless is also a kind of expression."

People who start a conversation with something like "Let me tell you a story" are usually talking about their own troubles.

Moreover, this dilemma often involves extremely difficult choices.

People only seriously worry about how to make a choice when they have the ability to do something. As for wishes that are too far from being fulfilled, they are just wishes. Even if people worry about them, it is just a light complaint.

So... he guessed that his junior sister wanted to use the opportunity of telling a story to ask him some difficult question.

After hearing his junior sister's "story," he'll probably have to take the initiative to comfort her.

To be honest, he found it very troublesome.

I don't really want to hear it.

Chapter 466: The Older Sister Makes Her Appearance?

Cassandra had no idea what was troubling Van Shaw.

In short, she was completely stumped by the other party's question, "Can I not listen?"

She's easily embarrassed; if someone says they don't want to hear it, she naturally won't insist on continuing.

She was a little unsure how to respond to that.

So she could only remain silent, staring at Fan Xiao with a look that was somewhat like a "glare," conveying a rather oppressive atmosphere through her gaze.

She really wanted to say it, but she just wouldn't!

She can only speak if the other person indicates that they want to hear it.

"Cough... I was just kidding."

Fan Xiao felt a little uncomfortable under his junior sister's gaze. He coughed lightly and said, "I quite like listening to stories. Why don't you tell one?"

Forget it.

To get comprehensive information sooner, it's best to be patient.

Junior sister doesn't often have the opportunity to speak up.

He was confident that he could extract the information he wanted as long as the other party was willing to speak.

On the other side, Cassandra composed herself and then slowly said, "If... I mean, if your father were a nobleman, possessing immense power and countless riches."

"As his offspring, you are also a beneficiary. You have been pampered since childhood, with countless servants surrounding you and taking care of you in every possible way."

"Although your father is busy with work and doesn't visit you often, every time you have a short time together, he will carefully prepare countless gifts for you. He will take you out to play, tell you interesting stories, listen to your little troubles, and give you some advice... Even though you don't see each other often, you know that he loves you very much."

"but……"

Her tone shifted, and her expression became slightly more serious: "Your father is very good to you, but very bad to others."

"As a nobleman, he ruthlessly exploited the people, lived an extremely extravagant life, and built his own pleasure on the suffering of others."

“You know what he did was wrong, but he is your father, and you don’t know how to deal with it.”

"Should you continue to turn a blind eye to his actions, or... stand on the side of justice, stop him from continuing his reckless behavior, judge his crimes, and thwart the stripping of his noble rights?"

Damn it, it's always this either/or question... Fan Xiao is fed up!

If your mother and wife both fall into the water at the same time, and you can only save one in a short time, who would you save? This kind of question is simply unsolvable. You have to think outside the box and cheat to give a relatively perfect answer.

Fan Xiao recalled the scene in the "Battle of Two Cities" instance where his junior sister couldn't utter a single answer to Caesar's final question.

No wonder...

She herself was caught in this dilemma of choosing between two options and couldn't make a decision, let alone enlighten the true king Caesar.

Although the issues troubling the true king Caesar were different from those troubling his junior sister, in essence... they faced the same dilemma.

The choice...

Instead of answering directly, Fan Xiao turned to his junior sister and asked, "Are you a diode?"

"Diode?" Cassandra's eyes widened in doubt. "What do you mean?"

Fan Xiao continued, "Let me put it this way: do you think your father is a good person or a bad person?"

“…I already said, it was hypothetical, hypothetical!” Cassandra reminded her seriously, “This is just a fabricated story!”

“Oh,” Fan Xiao said, seeing through the situation but not saying anything, “So, do you think the father in this story is a good person or a bad person?”

“…” Cassandra remained silent for a few seconds, then shook her head and said, “I don’t know either.”

"See, isn't it very clear to you?"

Fan Xiao said, "People are not simply good or bad, and things cannot be simply black and white."

"The areas where black and white overlap are actually gray; don't always try to exert force at either end."

"Can't we come up with a compromise?"

“This is… a diode?” Cassandra asked. “Black and white?”

She paused, then shook her head slightly and said, "I still can't figure it out. What method would be a compromise?"

"That depends on what kind of person you want to be."

Fan Xiao turned around, stood on the tall black city wall, and looked at the busy people inside the A9 base.

He said in a low voice, "If you just want to be an ordinary person, then don't worry about your father. It's normal for ordinary people to be a little selfish and have double standards."

“There is no absolute equality in this world, and class is basically impossible to eliminate. You can choose to turn a blind eye, treat him as just an ordinary father, and then focus on doing your good deeds and helping those at the bottom of society.”

"Well... just consider your actions as atonement for your father's sins."

“…He’s the father in the story!” Cassandra retorted stubbornly, “He’s not my father.”

"Oh, look at my memory, I forgot again, I'm so sorry."

Fan Xiao continued, "If you... no, if the protagonist of this story wants to be a person who upholds justice... then he has to stop his own father."

"However, things don't need to be taken so far. He has the courage to betray his own class, which is already very commendable. No one has the right to criticize him."

"In my opinion... he can try to restrain his father's behavior and partially restrict his father's personal freedom, but there is no need to keep pulling his father's head. In short... as long as things are done in a reasonable way."

"His father may be angry, disappointed, or incomprehensible... but he will still continue to live and enjoy life, only he will not enjoy life as unrestrainedly as before. How much he can enjoy depends on how filial the protagonist of the story is."

"...Wouldn't that be considered selfish?"

Cassandra asked with a hint of hesitation, "To imprison the father who raised you in order to pursue your own moral ideals?"

"Clearly upholding justice, yet harboring selfish motives, allowing the father who should have been tried to continue enjoying himself..."

"Isn't this a double standard? Neither side has achieved purity."

"To achieve complete purity is to be no longer human. As a human being, why force yourself to do things that only non-humans can do?"

Fan Xiao shook his head: "As I just said, it is already a very noble virtue for a person to betray their own class."

"As for the plan I proposed... you can think of it as you personally arresting your father and making him suffer in prison, only that he is better off than ordinary criminals."

At this point, he looked at Cassandra and asked, "So, what kind of person do you want to be?"

“…” Cassandra: “I already said it was intentional…”

"Come on."

Fan Xiao interrupted her, saying, "Your use of 'I have a friend' is better than 'If'."

"Whether it's true or false, you might be able to fool me, and you might be able to fool others."

"And what about yourself? Can you fool yourself?"

"..."

Cassandra remained silent.

Fan Xiao didn't disturb her and waited silently.

After a long while, Cassandra finally looked up at Van Shaw and asked, "If it were you, what would you choose?"

"Why are you kicking the ball around like that?"

Although Fan Xiao was somewhat speechless, he still replied, "If my father were a villain, I would definitely choose to put justice above family ties and make him pay the price he deserves."

"I might be more lenient with him out of family ties, but definitely not much."

"In the worst-case scenario, I might just kill him outright."

Anyway, his father wasn't some villain, just an ordinary person... well, a somewhat selfish and scumbag.

He can naturally make things up without knowing what they are.

So even if he uttered remarks that were considered "extremely filial," he didn't care.

It's not true anyway.

Of course, if he really encountered such a difficult situation... he would most likely do something that would "cause the death of a person to be filial."

However, his approach will certainly not be extreme, nor will it be like a diode.

"..."

Cassandra paused, taken aback by Van Shaw's words, and asked, "Why? He's your father!"

“Because I have a moral fastidiousness, I feel very uncomfortable when I see immoral people.” Fan Xiao sighed, “Call me selfish if you want, but I will definitely make the things around me operate in a way that makes me feel comfortable.”

"...What kind of answer is that?"

Cassandra's tone carried a hint of complaint.

She felt that she had not received the answer she most hoped for.

"This is my answer, but most likely... it's not yours."

Fan Xiao's tone became more serious: "You hope to get the perfect answer from me, but where can you find a perfect answer to a 'two-choice dilemma' where you'll regret whichever you choose?"

"The only way to make everything relatively perfect is..."

He paused here.

Seeing that his junior sister's attention was entirely focused on him, he suggested, "The only way is to change your personality. As long as you can change your personality, your perspective will change."

"At that time, you will have many more new choices, and the answer I just mentioned will also apply to you."

"Besides that, there is actually another answer that I personally recommend."

"What?" Cassandra asked hurriedly.

Fan Xiao immediately blurted out, "District 019 was in a state of great chaos back then, and I was powerless to change it, so... I chose to leave here on my own initiative."

He held up one finger: "Escaping is shameful, but it's very useful."

"Sometimes you have to admit that escaping is indeed a way to solve problems."

"The world of evolution is so vast, our lives should not be confined to a small world segment."

"If you really can't make a decision... how about leaving the 019 section? Many things seem like world problems when we look at them from the perspective of our youth, but when we look back from the future, they may not seem like such a big deal."

He just casually mentioned this suggestion.

If his junior sister adopts the idea, then everyone will be happy, and the task Tina gave him will be completed almost immediately.

Of course, the possibility is very small.

"..."

As Vanshaw had predicted, Cassandra shook her head and said, "Thank you for your earnest advice, but... I won't run away from it!"

"Don't be so absolute in your statements."

Fan Xiao shook his head slightly: "This matter of yours is indeed troublesome to handle."