"As I said before, the parties I attended with my father when I was a child and the magic season banquets I attended as an adult were just small-group chats about which magic materials had increased in price and who The mage tower exploded again, and a certain black magician made new progress in some taboo provisions..."
Zatanna covered her forehead and said, "I didn't realize I had such a lack of common sense about the ordinary world."
"I'm afraid I don't think Jonathan and his old friends are going to talk about some real common sense at the banquet." Schiller tilted his head towards Zatanna and looked at her from above his eyes.
"Yes, Xiao Zha, I think you are thinking too much. The common sense they are talking about must be common sense in the industry. It is the kind that can be used to publish papers directly. It is normal for you not to know." Constantine said quickly. comforted.
Zatanna shook her head and said: "In addition, my etiquette performance is also very bad. I even doubt myself a little. It seems that I can't do anything without magic."
"Perhaps the irony magic is too convenient." Zatanna pursed her lips and said, "If you knock over a wine bottle, it will float with a finger, and if you crumpled the carpet, it will return to its original state with a wave of your hand. I don't know what I have done over the years. There are many things that I can restore with magic, but not this time."
Constantine opened his mouth. He originally wanted to tell Zatanna angrily that Klein was a liar and was deliberately suppressing Zatanna's self-esteem, but he didn't expect that Zatanna actually knew her through this incident. Got some sense.
Recalling his brief but passionate love affair with Miss Magician, Constantine had to admit that Zatanna was indeed not very mature. This girl had her own advantages, such as being sincere, not being secretive, and having a childish energy and freshness. The vitality of life is like an apple that has just fallen to the ground. This is what Constantine likes most about her.
But in comparison, she has a lot of shortcomings. The common shortcomings of young people, such as recklessness, not considering the consequences of doing things, being easily trusting of others, etc. cannot be called shortcomings. They are just lack of experience. Zatanna's biggest The problem is that she is a child with a sword.
She possesses irony magic and spiritual magic that are unique in the entire magic world. She can cast them anytime and anywhere without paying any price. She can also enter other people's minds and control their actions. It doesn't take much to think about how much covetation these abilities will arouse.
But Zatanna does not have the self-control to match her own strength. Just like a child holding gold to get through the bustling city, any problem that can be solved with magic is no problem. As time goes by, the magic becomes stronger and stronger, and the brain is basically underdeveloped.
Constantine couldn't think of any reason why Zatanna would think that she could use mental magic to deal with him when she saw Schiller's tower of thought, but Zatanna just thought she could.
It's not that she looked down on Schiller, she was just too confident in her own abilities. She did have pride, but this pride would definitely make her fall into trouble when it hit the wall.
In fact, Constantine always wanted to remind Zatanna, but he really had no position to do so because he was not more talented than Zatanna and had messed up more things than her, so he was not qualified to play her elder.
Tell her what to do.
But Zatanna does lack the guidance of some elders. After her father disappeared, there was no one who could control her to teach her when to use power and when not to use it, and what would happen if she relied entirely on magic.
Bad consequences.
Thinking of this, Constantine stopped talking. He thought it would be better to let Zatanna fall into trouble. Anyway, Schiller was here and he was the one who asked Zatanna to go to the chemistry laboratory. If something happened to Zatanna,
Nor will he sit idly by.
"Then what are you going to do?" Constantine asked.
"I don't know." Zatanna said, covering her face with her hands. She shook her head gently, and the swaying hair on her temples looked a little funny, but she also looked particularly innocent and childish.
"I think you should go and apologize to him." Constantine pulled Zatanna's wrist and said: "It's useless for you to hide like a turtle shrinking its shell, otherwise you will feel that you will always owe him.
Apologizing can at least make you feel at ease."
"You can really try." Schiller suggested: "I don't think Jonathan will blame you. It is common for young people to make trouble at banquets, and you are a young and beautiful lady. If you really mean
Apologize and no one will be offended."
Zatanna had a tangled expression on her face, and Schiller's words became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
"Or are you actually disdainful of being around ordinary people and unwilling to lower your proud head to apologize to them?"
"Of course not." Zatanna stood up, looked at Schiller and said angrily: "I have already apologized to you, and I also helped you control other people's minds. I have never been willing to do that."
"I'm sorry." Schiller turned his head back. After taking a sip of wine, Zatanna's expression just softened a little when she heard Schiller add: "You were very familiar when you entered my mind.
I thought you did this all the time."
"That was an accident." Zatanna stamped her feet, but her tone was not so firm. She pursed her lips tightly and said, "I'm just very worried about the extremely evil curse. There are always some truths in this world.
Do I sound excusable in front of a psychiatrist?"
"Yes, miss, if you tell me directly that you are stupid, I will gladly accept it and will immediately tell you that you are forgiven."
Zatanna held her chest and inhaled hard. She grabbed her bag and walked out the door on high heels. As she walked, she turned back and said, "I'm going to apologize to him now. I don't need your psychological treatment!"
After Zatanna left, Schiller shook his head helplessly, and Constantine also sighed and said, "What a stupid girl."
"Bruce is not much better than her." Schiller covered his mouth with a glass of wine and said, "Maybe Bruce a few years ago was worse than her."
"I admire the beauty and vitality of this group of ladies, even if they are stupid. Their coquettish or shy expressions can always provide some aesthetic value to the people around them and make people smile, but stupid boys
But this function is no longer available.”
Constantine grinned and said, "With the exception of Bruce Wayne, I think his face would look pretty good with such an expression."
"But seriously, Schiller." Constantine put down his wine glass, leaned forward, stared into Schiller's eyes and said, "Who is that Klein? Are you sure it's okay to let him teach Zatanna?"
"Jonathan once described to me that Zatanna is a bit like Bruce before. I don't agree with this because he made a judgment without having a deep understanding of Bruce."
"Zatanna is indeed a bit reckless and has little self-control. She relies too much on strength and lacks brains, but she is a normal person and cannot be compared to a mental patient from any perspective. These shortcomings are just shortcomings of ordinary people.
"
"To a certain extent, I think Zatanna's reliance on strength is not even a shortcoming. If you were born with three hands, would you deliberately not use the extra one? If you did, you would
Is it called abuse? To Zatanna, magic is as simple as instinct, so why not use it?"
"So she doesn't need to be taught at all. If she just messes around like this for a few years, she will understand. But I assert that Jonathan's purpose of manipulating her will not succeed."
"Why?" Constantine asked with some confusion, and then added: "You see, it took Professor Klein less than a month to make Zatanna start to doubt herself."
"It only took me three days to make Bruce doubt himself."
"I'm not comparing your academic level."
"But that's the truth." Schiller shook his head and said, and he repeated in an emphasis: "Jonathan Crane's attempt on Zatanna Zatara will not succeed, he is missing something very important.
"
Constantine raised one eyebrow, leaned forward further, looked into Schiller's eyes and asked: "What is that?"
"Love." Schiller spit out a word, and he said with certainty: "Jonathan Crane is a natural-born murderer. He has no ability to love."
Constantine stared directly at Schiller, hoping that he would give a more in-depth answer, and Schiller did as he wished, but first asked: "Have you read any works on the Stockholm complex?"
"A little bit."
"I repeatedly emphasize to my students that patients with Stockholm complex are not masochists. They don't like violence and control. No one likes these. They will fall in love with the perpetrator because they feel love from violence and control.
"
"So are they really loved?" Constantine grasped the key.
"Many times yes, but this kind of love may be twisted. If the kidnappers hate the victims, then they can kill them directly instead of imprisoning them. Many kidnappers who imprison their victims for a long time have twisted motives.
Love."
"The murderer pours strong and twisted emotions that are contrary to law and morality into the victim. The victim is not a wooden person. They will feel this emotion to a greater or lesser extent in the scene of being imprisoned."
"Emotions are very complex. An emotion is destined to have many different sides. Even the most twisted emotions have a mild side that is easily accepted by ordinary people. Once the victim accepts this side, the brain's self-protection mechanism will
Spontaneously persuade them to accept those more twisted things, and then persuade them to accept violence and control."
"During the process of imprisonment, the victim has no other source of emotion, but feels fear and panic. The only source of security is the emotional bond with the murderer, which is the victim's understanding and beautification of the murderer. When the victim
If you rely on this sense of security for a long time, you will naturally feel that you can't let it go."
"Even if they have been rescued, they still habitually seek this sense of security, which will manifest itself in the form of Stockholm complex."
"This is from the perspective of the victim, and the industry often analyzes similar psychological states from this perspective. But if we look at it the other way around, the murderer can take the initiative to cultivate this complex if he has mastered this mentality."
Schiller looked back at Constantine and said in a very ordinary tone: "This is not very difficult. Even if I am not good at learning, I can not only cultivate one, but many at the same time."
Instantly, Constantine broke out in a cold sweat. He stared at Schiller for a while and then looked away. He covered his mouth with his hand, coughed twice and said, "You mean, Jonathan Crane has no ability to love, so he
Couldn't do what you did to Bruce?"
Schiller nodded.
"So, you love Bruce?"
"Yes, as his teacher."
Constantine's facial features wrinkled up, and he said in disbelief: "...Ai everywhere deliberately tried to guide him to voluntarily accept harsh imprisonment?"
Schiller nodded, his attitude was so frank that Constantine was shocked, and then he heard Schiller say.
"Otherwise, with Gotham so full of trivial matters, where would he have the private time to adapt to the multi-threaded way of thinking after splitting his personality traits?"