Chapter 1094 Father and Son (Twenty-Three)

When hearing this answer, Magneto and Polaris both felt absurd.

Although ordinary people could not see any waves in what just happened, even Scott, who was also a mutant, did not know what kind of competition this father and daughter had gone through in their professional field, but they themselves knew it very well.

It was not difficult to imprison Polaris, but the difficult part was that he could neither hold her in place nor hurt her. This was the first time that Magneto did this. In the past, he directly used violence to hold Polaris.

And Polaris was also the first time that she was deprived of all her abilities before she had time to burst out her own power. She did not even have the opportunity to fight and vent her emotions, and was forced to calm down.

This was the first time that Magneto poured cold water on someone in this way, and it was also the first time that Polaris was poured with ice water from head to toe.

However, Magneto felt more relieved than usual.

In fact, Magneto was not willing to fight with Polaris at all. As proud as he was, how could he like to bully the weak? His power and Polaris were not at the same level at all. What was the point of completely crushing him?

It was not a training of fighting skills, and it could not even be called a fight. It could only be said to be one-sided bullying. To suppress Polaris by force was meaningless to Magneto, and it was not a victory at all.

Although Magneto was serious, stubborn, and could not speak, he was not a pervert who liked to abuse his own daughter. Polaris provoked him, and he subdued Polaris. After repeating this process countless times, he just felt bored.

However, if he did not do this, he could not let Polaris provoke him. He did not have such a good temper and needed to maintain his prestige.

Therefore, after several such conflicts, Magneto had lost all his patience. As long as Polaris showed a little sign of provoking him, he would directly solve it with force.

In Magneto's understanding, he had to fight early or late anyway. Pressing Polaris there early could also make her say less stupid things.

But in fact, there is no sense of accomplishment at all, just like screwing in a screw on an assembly line. If you succeed once or twice, you may feel a sense of pleasure that shows your strength, but after repeating it dozens or hundreds of times, all that is left is the boredom of routine.

However, this time, Magneto actually felt a trace of gloating.

There is no doubt that his stupid and rebellious daughter just gave in, but she suffered such a big loss just because of such a small matter as not knocking on the door.

Polaris collapsed even more. She looked at Schiller with a very serious look and asked: "...Are you sick?!"

Schiller did not speak, stood up and stepped back two steps. He stood by the door, put his index finger and middle finger together, exerted a little muscle, and flicked the door with his fingertips, making a crisp "click" sound.

"Don't sit on the floor, it's cold, Miss Lorna, if you have anything to say, we can go to the sofa and talk in detail... Stand up."

Polaris sat there and exhaled. She pursed her lips and stood up, looking at Schiller with a stubborn look. Just when she was about to do something, Schiller turned back and said to Magneto:

"Eric, have you told anyone in advance that you don't want to be disturbed during this period? Is it your visiting time now?"

"I don't have visiting hours." Magneto replied.

"Okay, Miss Lorna, it seems. You need to call this office in advance and ask if we have time to receive your visit." Schiller looked into Polaris' eyes and said.

"You should know that your father has a bad temper. If you don't call in advance, you may disturb his rest, which will make him very irritable and you will be scolded."

"But you can't blame him entirely. If someone breaks into my office during non-reception hours, I will also feel very irritable, don't you?"

Polaris stared and was about to answer "no", but Schiller smiled and said, "If you don't mind, I will call you when you go to bed at midnight today and talk to you about Hegel's philosophy..."

Polaris, who had the words on his lips, closed his mouth silently and swallowed the rebuttal back into his stomach, because, looking at the posture today, Schiller definitely kept his word, and Polaris didn't want to be called up to attend a class at three o'clock in the morning today.

"In fact, it's not normal for Eric to have no visiting hours. I don't think you can guess it."

"How about this, according to my visiting hours, I can receive visitors now, so you don't have to call, but you have to knock on the door, this is basic courtesy."

Polaris's first reaction was relief, but then she showed a strange expression, wondering why she was so easily satisfied, and she was actually happy that she didn't have to call, just knock on the door to enter this room.

However, Polaris still shook her head, cleared her throat, and reached out to knock gently.

"Please come in, Miss." Schiller gave up his seat, and Polaris walked in with her head held high, walked to the sofa, sat down, crossed her legs, hugged her arms, and began to stare at Magneto.

Scott, who was following Polaris, covered his eyes. It was very rare that he did not sit next to Polaris, but sat opposite her.

Magneto stood behind the table, recalling the series of interactions between Schiller and Polaris in the past few minutes.

This gave him a very strange feeling. He had never seen or imagined that similar incidents could be handled in this way.

Is Schiller as gentle as Professor X?

Actually, not really. During the whole process, he was very tough. Polaris did not give him an answer, so he first poured a basin of cold water on Polaris, making her fall into an embarrassing state, and then constantly used psychological pressure to force her to answer, step by step strengthening control, and guiding Polaris to make the reaction he wanted.

Magneto knew very well that it was impossible to make Polaris do this series of actions by using violence, because he had already tried it.

Forcibly holding Polaris with violence would only make her more and more irritable, and she would start to resist constantly, and even ignore her physical condition and fall into an extreme madness.

But is Schiller very rude?

That was not the case. In this series of confrontations, he behaved politely and always called Polaris "Miss Lorna". He did not use any insulting words, did not mock her, did not educate her condescendingly, and did not even say a word of truth.

However, Polaris did what he said, and did not feel humiliated or sad afterwards. She was even a little smug, completely forgetting how angry and collapsed she was at the beginning.

What was going on? Magneto fell into thinking.

"I just recovered from my anxiety disorder not long ago, and the symptoms of neurasthenia have not completely disappeared. The noise you made when you rushed in just now scared me, and my heart rate has not completely dropped yet."

Schiller also sat opposite Polaris. Hearing him say this, Polaris was stunned for a moment. She was about to speak, but Schiller said in a surprised tone: "So Scott didn't tell you? My God, it seems that I misunderstood you!"

"I said, how could a well-educated and compassionate lady be so inconsiderate of a mental patient who has not yet recovered? It turns out that you don't know."

After speaking, Schiller stood up again, brought a cup of hot tea, and gently placed it in front of Polaris, but Polaris suddenly seemed a little at a loss.

Schiller smiled and said to her: "Miss Lorna, I heard from Professor X that you are actually a thoughtful person. So you should have cared about the physical condition of me and Professor X when you first met Scott, right?"

Polaris coughed awkwardly and said hesitantly: "Well, I...actually..."

Polaris looked at Scott with a look of help, but Scott was not a person who was very good at covering up. He just said lamely: "Ah, yes, Lorna asked me, maybe I didn't explain it clearly..."

But at this time, Polaris reacted. Scott wanted to take the blame for her. If Scott admitted it, wouldn't it show that he had no emotional intelligence and answered perfunctorily when facing his friends' concern for the teacher?

If Scott really admitted it, it might leave a bad impression in Schiller's heart, and Professor X might also know about it. If it spread, Scott's reputation might be affected.

Like other second-generation mutants, Polaris has a great advantage, that is, she is very loyal to her friends. She immediately said, "It has nothing to do with Scott, it's just... I forgot, I was in a hurry to come here, and I didn't have time to ask..."

"Oh, so that's the case, it doesn't matter." Schiller nodded, without any intention of pursuing it. Polaris just breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard Schiller ask a death question again:

"So, why are you in a hurry to come here?"

Polaris stretched out a hand and covered half of her face. In this atmosphere, how can she say that she is worried that Magneto and Schiller will fight?

Polaris knows that the purpose of her coming here is to prevent Magneto from leaving a bad impression on Schiller.

But if she says now that Magneto is a completely annoying violent maniac, I am afraid that he will fight with you, on the one hand, this will definitely lower Magneto's impression in Schiller's mind, which is completely opposite to her goal.

On the other hand, Schiller may not know what conflicts there are between father and daughter. According to the understanding of ordinary people, if a daughter says this about her father, her reputation will be ruined, right?

Polaris stood there, opened his mouth for a long time, but couldn't say a word, and Magneto, who was standing behind the table, was even more gloating.

One person's misfortune is called misfortune, but two people's misfortune is fun.

If he fell into the pit first, he might be sad, but if he watched the second person fall into the pit, he would be very happy. This is the mentality of Magneto now.

It doesn't matter that he was stumped by Schiller's two-headed problem. It's very interesting that Polaris, who was always baring his teeth and claws in front of him and screaming, and rebelling 365 days a year, was also stumped by Schiller's two-headed problem.

In order to watch Polaris' wonderful expression up close, Magneto even walked behind Schiller, opposite Polaris, and looked down at her to see how his stupid daughter was going to answer Schiller's question.

Polaris was not stupid either. He first looked at Schiller's smiling expression, then looked up at Magneto's half-smile.

Polaris, who had been strong all his life, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, showed a fake smile, looked into Magneto's eyes and said:

"I came to find Eric because... I missed him."

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