"We really need to drive everyone away. I can't concentrate while people are watching me.
"Of course, I won't let anyone disturb us. If people gathered around to watch, who knew what sort of rumors would spread? A rumor repeated three times becomes a tiger. Lin Yan wasn't afraid of rumors, but he didn't want to get dragged through the mud either.
The matter was quickly resolved.
"You really saved me today. I'll definitely repay you, so don't hesitate to tell me if you need anything.
"Right, I'll tell you if something comes up. Though I don't think there'll be anything in particular."
"Honestly, you should reflect on being too nice. Having Lin Yan around saved me, but I can't stand the thought of other people ordering you around whenever they please. Helping people is a good thing, but shouldn't you be a little more selective? In Lin Yan's case, you accept everyone who comes to you.
"Am I really that undiscerning?"
"That's why idiots take advantage of you without you even realizing it. Lin Yan, you're busy too, so it's fine to turn down requests once in a while."
Lin Yan understood what Issei meant, but he did not want to disrupt the order of this world. Every person's choice was a drop in a long river. Once the river of fate underwent even the slightest change, things might happen that even he, a man who stood at the pinnacle of the gods, could not control.
He was neither a theist nor an atheist.
If he had to describe himself, then when he had lived in his original world, he had been a deist. Deism was a philosophical viewpoint that emerged in Country A during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and in Country B during the eighteenth century, mainly