Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 5018 (Five Thousand and Eighteen) A Group

"'Force yourself' to imagine? Is it difficult for you to imagine it?" asked the Brown-Handed Man.

"Yes, it's hard to imagine." The brown-handed man said, "Because... I have never lived in an environment where everyone assumes that oppression shouldn't exist... I... It was very difficult for me to imagine it, because even I... don't think that oppression shouldn't exist. If I want to imagine that... that situation, first... I have to temporarily change my own ideas... I tried to change it and imagined myself as a person who believes that oppression shouldn't exist... It took a lot of effort to finally succeed, but... I couldn't imagine myself like others at that time."

"I have already imagined myself like that, so why can't I imagine others like that?" said the man with brown hands.

"Because... compared to myself... I don't believe that others would truly believe that bullying should not exist." said the man.

The brown-handed man asked again, "Why don't you trust others even more?"

"Because... I am bullied all the time." The man said, "I can't believe that those who bully me would... think that bullying shouldn't exist." The man said.

The Brown-Handed Man asked, "What about those who have never oppressed you?"

"I still don't believe it... I have never heard anyone say that bullying should not exist. When I was... bullied... no one's actions made me... realize that person had such thoughts." The man replied.

The brown-handed man asked, "When you thought that, the person who cast the spell on you must have known it. How is he?"

"He told me... to keep trying to imagine," the man said.

"Did you imagine what he said?" asked the Brown-Handed Man.

"Yes." said the man.

"Have you imagined it?" asked the brown-handed man again.

"I imagined it," the man said.

"What else did you think about at that time?" the brown-handed man asked. "I thought... if it was really like what he said, that the people who oppressed me believed that oppression should not exist, then... I would not be oppressed in many cases..." the man said.

The brown-handed man asked, "After you thought about this, did he say anything else to you?"

"Yes," the man said. "He asked me how I felt."

"How did you answer?" the brown-handed man asked again.

"I said to myself...if that's the case...I would...feel very comfortable..." the man said.

The brown-handed man asked, "Where is he?"

"He told me... to imagine what it would be like if I lived in that kind of environment for a long time," the man said.

"Did you imagine it?" asked the Brown-Handed Man.

"Yes," the man replied.

"Did you imagine it quickly this time?" asked the Brown-Handed Man.

“No.” The man said, “It’s difficult… still very difficult. It can be said… even more difficult.”

The Brown-Handed Man asked, "Did you try to imagine it?"

"I tried very hard, but... but because I need to imagine living 'for a long time' in an environment where people believe that bullying shouldn't exist... this... requires a stronger imagination." The man said, "This is different from imagining that when I'm being bullied, there's someone who speaks up for me. In that situation... I just need to imagine one person standing up... The difficulty of imagining it is not as difficult as this. Imagining a group of people like this... is definitely more difficult than imagining an individual like this."

(End of this chapter)