21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 389 Intentions (First update of 2020, please subscribe and ask for monthly tickets)

Egawa Sae didn't disturb Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi during their lunch; after again asking Sae for a favor, she went to an adjacent table with her husband, leaving the spot for Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi.

"Is this matter troubling you a lot, Hiromi?" Chen Yu asked while eating the bento Hiromi Jounouchi made for him.

"It's not that it's troubling," Hiromi Jounouchi replied as she ate her bento, "I just think there's no need for such sensational reporting. After all, my starting point was just to treat and save people, but now Ms. Egawa Sae is talking to me about liberating women from childbirth, enhancing women's social status and whatnot..." Hiromi Jounouchi shook her head somewhat helplessly as she said this: "It makes me feel very strange, like people insist on saying I think something I never did."

Hearing what Hiromi Jounouchi said, Chen Yu suddenly looked at her with a quirky expression and asked her, "Hiromi, you probably didn't do reading comprehension when you were little, did you?"

"Reading comprehension? I've done those kinds of problems where you read a passage and understand the content, Chen Yu, don't you underestimate me too much?" Hiromi Jounouchi frowned disapprovingly upon hearing Chen Yu's question.

However, Chen Yu shook his head and said, "It's not about reading a passage and then understanding what the content says. What I'm talking about is reading and understanding the author's thoughts and feelings, grasping the profound connotations hidden in the text. Hiromi, have you done that kind of question?"

"Huh?" Hiromi Jounouchi was bewildered when Chen Yu said this, her face froze, not understanding what he meant.

"It's the kind of question that requires you to grasp the author's thoughts and feelings. As a child, I was so tormented by these questions that I felt like dying!" Chen Yu said with a wry smile, shaking his head as if recalling the fear of being dominated by reading comprehension problems as a child. But he continued, "However, what's most troubling about these questions is not understanding the connotations of the article but having to figure out the so-called emotions the author wants to convey."

"But if we're talking about emotions the author wants to convey, for children, understanding such profound things should be difficult, right?" Hiromi Jounouchi felt that when she was a child, she couldn't have grasped such deep concepts.

Chen Yu nodded and sadly stated, "That's why for children, answering these questions often involves regurgitating the set patterns taught by teachers, fitting a specific format to respond. But..."

At this point, Chen Yu seemed to recall something amusing, his lips curling into a smile: "Sometimes writers just write based on inspiration, without intending to convey any profound meaning. Yet, in ordinary people's view, since you are a writer, what you write is naturally a literary work with profound meaning; if they can't understand, it's because they lack understanding.

Therefore, many people will force their interpretations onto a work, and oftentimes they will add content to an article that isn't there.

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I remember something interesting from when I was studying. One year, during an exam, they chose an article by a known writer as the reading comprehension text, requiring students to determine the feelings that the author wanted to convey. But everyone's answers varied from the standard ones, so the grades weren't great.

So, some curious individuals took the question to the writer himself, asking what exactly he meant to express, what was the real standard answer, but the response given by the writer himself was, 'I don't know myself, because I wasn't thinking that much at the time.'"

"The writer himself didn't know what emotions he wanted to express?" Hiromi Jounouchi was surprised by the story Chen Yu told—such responses, where even the author didn't know the emotions they wanted to convey, were beyond her expectations.

"Some asked the author the same thing, but the author said he just wanted to write an interesting story, nothing more. If he did have any emotions he wanted to express at that time, it was simply the desire to write an interesting story." After Chen Yu explained this to Hiromi Jounouchi, he earnestly said to her, "I'm telling you all this because I want you to know that other people's perceptions of your thoughts aren't important; what matters is how you felt when you were doing this thing, did you want to do it?"

"I wanted to do it...?" Hiromi Jounouchi, upon hearing Chen Yu's words, fell into deep thought, seriously pondering the question. After some consideration, she finally nodded at Chen Yu in affirmation: "I wanted to do it! From the start, my only goal was to cure Ms. Egawa Sae and save her child. I decided to help her because I could empathize with her desire to be a mother from a woman's perspective! So this is something I want to do."

"If that is the case, why not follow your own thoughts? As for how others interpret it, that's their business; you just have to do what you want to do well," Chen Yu smiled and looked at Hiromi Jounouchi, speaking thus.

While Hiromi Jounouchi was contemplating what Chen Yu had told her, Kyuuzai Ryousen also came over with his lunch. However, seeing Hiromi Jounouchi sitting next to Chen Yu, he hesitated, unsure whether to sit down.

But before Chen Yu could say anything, seeing him approach, Hiromi Jounouchi waved at him first: "Come over and sit, Ryosen-kun."

"My apologies." Seeing Hiromi Jounouchi inviting him, Kyuuzai Ryousen still glanced at Chen Yu, who tacitly consented, then sat down at their table.

The arrival of Kyuuzai Ryousen didn't disrupt the conversation between Hiromi Jounouchi and Chen Yu. She grasped the meaning behind Chen Yu's recent words and reexamined her original intentions under his guidance, gradually understanding what she should do: "Do you mean, Mr. Chen Yu, that I should act according to my own thoughts, rather than worrying about social perceptions and the opinions of others?"

"In this world, not a single thing can please and satisfy everyone. Your research is already challenging traditional human ethics and touching on what's called 'the realm of the gods,' so it's normal to encounter criticism and attention. Why bother with the thoughts of those mediocre people?" Chen Yu looked at Hiromi Jounouchi and told her so.