Where the Heart Resides | Villainess Mandelia's Psychology Lecture

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🪭 Villainess Mandelia's Psychology Lecture

'Where does the heart reside?'

Tsukuyomi Academy.

When they entered the classroom, the students looked at the blackboard and buzzed with excitement.

There was only one sentence written there.

'Where does the heart reside?'

'The chest?'

'Isn't it the brain?'

'Is this a philosophy class...'

Mandelia stood at the podium and quietly opened her folding fan.

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'Now, let us begin.'

'Where do you think your heart resides?'

A female student answers.

'I think it's in my chest.'

'Because my chest aches whether I'm happy or sad.'

Mandelia nods.

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'A natural answer.'

'Then, if you had surgery on your chest the day after a heartbreak, would your heart disappear?'

'...No, it wouldn't.'

—

A male student answers.

'It's the brain.'

'I heard that the brain creates emotions.'

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'Then, if you only understood the brain, would your love life be successful?'

Laughter ripples through the classroom.

'No, that's...'

—

Leon crossed his arms.

'The heart is just the brain at work, right?'

'It's all just electrical signals.'

Mandelia looks at Leon quietly.

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'Then, a question.'

'When you are told "thank you" by someone precious to you.'

'Was it your brain that moved?'

'Or was it your life?'

Leon loses his words.

—

Mandelia walks to the blackboard.

She writes slowly.

'Heart ≠ Organ'

Below that.

'Heart = Relationship'

The classroom falls silent.

—

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'People often say.'

'"My heart."

They say.

'But, it is strange.'

—

'If you meet no one.'

'If you touch no one.'

'If you are denied by no one.'

'If you are loved by no one.'

—

'What shape does that heart take?'

No one can answer.

—

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'The heart.'

'Is not something completed by you alone.'

—

'Conversations with someone.'

'Scenery.'

'Music.'

'Books.'

'Memories.'

—

'In the midst of such countless relationships.'

'It is something that keeps changing its shape.'

—

A female student raised her hand.

'Then...'

'Doesn't the heart exist inside me?'

Mandelia smiled just a little.

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'It does.'

'However.'

'It is not locked away.'

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'The heart.'

'Is a phenomenon that occurs at the boundary between you and the world.'

—

The classroom falls silent.

—

Leon says softly.

'Then...'

'Is the heart painful because you keep it all to yourself?'

—

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'Yes.'

'If you trap a river in a bottle, it will rot.'

'It is water because it flows.'

—

She writes the final sentence on the blackboard.

'The heart flows'

—

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'That is why.'

'You feel lighter just by talking about your sadness.'

'You want to tell someone about your joy.'

'You shed tears from music.'

'Your life changes from a book.'

—

'Because the heart is moving.'

—

Finally, she closes her fan.

The whole classroom looks at her.

—

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'To me, the heart is.'

'Not a possession.'

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'It is a dialogue with the world itself.'—

'Therefore.'

'If you want to protect your heart.'

'Do not lock it away, but...'

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'Increase your good worlds and your good dialogues.'—

The bell rings.

Not a single student stood up immediately.

The wind blowing in from the classroom window turns the pages of a notebook.

As if the heart itself is teaching them that it 'does not stay here.'

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