Magneto left with complicated feelings.
From then on, he had a new experience: being accused of not being extreme enough. Clark's imagination had gone too far and dealt everyone else's brains a heavy blow. By the time he left, he was almost too high-spirited.
"Looks like I prepared this restaurant for nothing," Schiller said. "I thought you'd have some kind of physical exchange."
"I don't like fighting," Clark said bluntly.
"That's quite a rarity." Schiller laughed, fork in hand. "If you said that to your counterparts in other universes, you'd definitely get a synchronized stare."
"I don't think my counterparts in other universes like fighting either." Clark disagreed. He had always been very good at expressing differing opinions in front of Schiller. That was actually rather difficult, especially when facing Doctor Schiller.
Some people might have found Pride relatively serious and difficult to refute, but Greed was always more like a doctor. He played the role of a doctor almost perfectly. When facing a doctor, it was easy to fall into a pattern where one person asked and the other answered. People felt pressure and wanted more to give the correct answer rather than the answer in their hearts.
Some people even felt as though their hearts were empty. They could not find any answer within themselves, so they were easily led. They would instinctively deny certain extreme choices, such as liking something very much or disliking something very much. The moment someone asked, they would answer that it was neither.
Such an answer often meant that they were under pressure. They were trying to maintain their mental balance, probing the world with an utterly nonaggressive posture. For a doctor, this was not a good sign.
Schiller always avoided creating this situation during counseling, but sometimes he deliberately made use