Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1169 Rational Harem Party
Upon hearing the logical reasoning, several people present immediately became interested.

"Using problem-solving strategies to address matters of subjective will? That's really Xia Shou's style," Ke Hen said.

Bai Ge touched his painted mask (decorated with childish patterns designed by Gray Rain) and suddenly said with emotion, "This reminds me of Moonburn Village."

With a loud "Aww!", Goro Kirigakure chimed in, "Speaking of which, it's true. Back then, the imposters we encountered were that guy... that guy whose name was something else and something else?"

Baihe: "Liu Yilong and Ling Xiao."

“Right! I’d forgotten all about it. After the power of Moonburn Village disappeared, that memory became very fake. But I remember that in that fake memory, those two people were quite close to us, especially Xia!” Goro said, winking and making faces, completely immersed in the excitement of exposing Xia Shou’s true nature.

"You might not know, but Liu Yilong, Ling Xiao, and Xia Xia seem to be classmates! The rule of Moonburn Village is to find the dummy and kill it. The one who breaks this rule is our trump card, Master~" Wulang said happily.

His enjoyment has completely shifted from role-playing to hunting down topics related to summer keeper.

Baihe seemed to recall for a moment, and rarely showed a bit of curiosity: "To be honest, it is quite strange. I feel that Xia is quite sentimental, but at that time she was the one who came up with the solution the fastest and found the dummy."

Kehen and Moying were also intrigued.

"Senior Natsumori, have you had such an experience? Senior Goro, please tell me in detail!"

Mo Ying looked at Xia Shou with even more appreciation: "Truly remarkable. People who can solve this kind of brainwashing anomaly through reasoning are extremely rare among those who handle such matters."

After all, the examples from the archives have already proven that the hardest thing for people to control is their own emotions... I thought Xia was a very sentimental person.

Under the relentless teasing and joking from everyone, Xia Shou finally couldn't take it anymore. He sighed helplessly and explained:

"Please, bosses, the way you're saying this makes me sound like I'm cold-blooded. I'm actually very sentimental!"

Baihe let out a barely perceptible chuckle.

But he immediately explained, "I'm not against it, it just feels a bit strange to talk about being sentimental in our three parts."

After saying that, Baihe fell into deep thought.

He recalled the battle of the Divine Laws. If it weren't for Xia Shou, Hui Yu probably wouldn't have survived, and might even have become his beastly father.

Even Shirakawa couldn't tell whether Natsumori's ability to take gray rain into account in such an extremely complex situation was due to his powerful reasoning skills or his emotional awareness.

Undoubtedly, Xia Shou changed Huiyu's life and also changed the fate of Huiyu's long-deceased mother.

It was Xia Shou who made Bai Xue's initial decision meaningful, instead of turning her into a tool for a scumbag to fulfill his desires and a foolish laughingstock.

Hmm, I might as well find an opportunity later to have Huiyu recognize Xia Shou as his godfather, Baihe thought to himself.

"Cough, cough."

Shangguan Yan coughed twice and said, "Our three departments just have a lot of staff turnover, but that doesn't mean I'm a cold-blooded boss."

Moreover, we haven't had many staff changes in any of our three departments recently. You see, we have more and more colleagues, and we're even expanding our office space.

Besides, you know, those who offered you help in your time of need are your benefactors, aren't they? Selling coal at a slightly higher price makes them benefactors too, right?

Mo Ying raised his glass: "Indeed, although it's the devil, not everyone has the luck to make a deal with him... To our leader." "You're too kind~ And thank you also to my lovely subordinates for their long-term hard work."

Shangguan Yan and Mo Ying clinked glasses in tacit agreement, and then drank it all in one gulp with great elegance.

Goro Kirigakure muttered, "If only our minister could be as lenient with his subordinates' work as he is with jokes."

"Hehe, don't mention work during the dinner. Also, for those who express negativity about working overtime in entertainment settings, I'll give them more opportunities to improve their work skills," Shangguan Yan said with a smile.

"Minister, I was just kidding! Let's get down to business. Weren't we just discussing... uh... Xia's logical reasoning?"
"Xia, tell me quickly, how did you deduce that?" Wuyin Goro hurriedly steered the conversation back on track.

"Yes, that's right, let's continue the game." Shangguan Yan generously let the other party off the hook.

Everyone looked at Xia Shou, and Su Yue urged softly, "So, Brother Xia Shou, what is your reasoning?"

Let's analyze the roots of self-identity.

First, there's emotion, which is essentially desire, and as everyone knows, desire is something we can't control.

It cannot be eliminated, only suppressed; it cannot be forced to be generated, only forced to be done. Therefore, if that ex-girlfriend came to me, my first thought would definitely be my feelings.

It's possible that I don't feel anything at all, so naturally I can't make any emotional investment. It's not that I don't want to, but that I simply can't.

Pretending to have feelings and making sacrifices is just deception and merely satisfying the other person's desires, which is probably not what the other person wants to see.

Therefore, the only thing I can do is to take responsibility for the things I did in the past.

This is merely to make up for the debt I owed to the other person due to my amnesia, so that the person who was once very important to me won't be too heartbroken.

Another point is memory. Can memory really represent a person's self?

From the perspective of the person looking for me, it's definitely not possible, because if she considers me after my amnesia as that person, it means she doesn't believe that memory is everything about a person's self.

Or perhaps she considered it everything, but believed that I, despite my amnesia, still had the potential to recall things, meaning that I, who felt I was "dead," could be resurrected by regaining my memories.

But that's their own opinion, and it has nothing to do with me.

From my perspective, now that I have amnesia, if the memory is me, then the past me is dead, and the other person is irrelevant to me.

If the memory is not mine, then the amnesiac me falling in love with my current lover means that, stripped of the memory, which is the me bound by moral common sense, I would indeed fall in love with my current lover.

Therefore, if it is the former, I do not need to take responsibility; if it is the latter, then I must be genuine in my feelings for both of them and cannot abandon either.

Therefore, if I cannot develop feelings for my ex-lover, I would make the choice I just mentioned.

Therefore, the question of choosing between the two doesn't come from me, but rather from whether those two women can tolerate each other.

"Hmph, sounds like it could be named the 'Rational Harem Party'," Mo Ying teased.

"What about the answer in another scenario? If you found your former lover, who had lost their memory and started a family, would you say you would try to create a chance encounter... elaborate on that?" Shangguan Yan tugged the conversation forward at the opportune moment.

(End of this chapter)