Dotore from Genshin Impact is my teacher

(My politics teacher wasn't lying; the required philosophy course was indeed difficult to understand. I only grasped a fraction of the textbook content after the entire lesson.)

Kong: "Why did the general issue the Eye Hunt Order?"

Thomas: "Before explaining this, you should know that, just as Mondstadt is a 'free' city-state, Liyue is a 'contract' city..."

"And Inazuma... is the realm of 'eternity.'"

"General Thunder is both the supreme ruler and a god."

"The unchanging and eternal essence of this nation lies in the will of 'her,' who governs it."

"Therefore, we rely on the Three Principles to stabilize the government and the lockdown order to cut off the movement of people."

"The general wanted Inazuma to remain static, so that the river of time could flow past on both sides, while Inazuma remained unmoved, until 'eternity'."

Paimon: "Every god has their own ideas..."

Thomas: "Of course, this is just my own understanding. As for the recent issuance of the Eye Hunting Order, the reason is..."

"Perhaps the general believed that the Eye of God could provide the people with the power of 'change,' and that the 'eternity' in the general's eyes could not allow such 'instability' to exist."

"So General Thunder dispatched his men, the 'Heavenly Envoys,' to collect them from all directions, and one by one, embed the Eyes of God into the statue."

Therefore, this "Thousand-Armed, Hundred-Eyed God Statue" can be seen as a symbol of Inazuma's "eternity."

Paimon: "If that's the case... then General Thunder was actually a bit selfish, wasn't he?"

Thomas: "Haha, only outsiders like you dare to criticize General Thunder's actions so frankly."

"However... I also agree. The Eye Hunting Order is indeed something that should not exist. From the very first day the Eye Hunting Order was issued, Ms. Kamisato was determined to fight against it."

Sora touched the statue and felt many voices echoing in his mind—their wishes. Sora clutched his right forehead, his expression pained.

Paimon: "Hey, what's wrong? You look a little off."

Sora: "What...what was that sound just now?"

Thomas scratched his head: "Huh? A sound? I didn't hear anything. What just happened?"

Paimon: "Yeah, you touched the idol, and then what?"

Sora: "I think I heard... the 'wishes' of others."

Thomas rested his chin on his right hand in thought: "A wish? Hmm, that does confirm one of those sayings."

"Have you ever heard of it? When a person's desire becomes strong enough, a divine injection will be injected into him."

"That's the origin of the Eye of God... You could say that the Eye of God represents that person's wish."

"If what you just said is true..."

"It seems... that these people's wishes are even more persistent than I imagined."

Sora: "Does the Eye of God symbolize not power, but 'wishes'...?"

Thomas: "Alright, tourists of Narukami Island, it's time for me to head to our next stop—Kamitofu."

Paimon: "So, are we finally going?!"

……

Sora/The Traveler and Paimon follow Thomas to the Kamisato Residence to talk to Ayaka Kamisato behind the screen. Sora says that he came to Inazuma not to rebel. Ayaka Kamisato says that she will introduce Sora on the condition that Sora helps her fulfill three small wishes.

It's about three people who lost their divine eyes: a warrior who protected the village, a former eye-hunting order enforcer, and a swordsman who once aimed to be the greatest swordsman in the land...

The warrior who guarded the village had been waiting for someone. He lost his divine eye, forgot who he had been waiting for for thirty years, and even forgot why he was sad.

The samurai lost his divine eye, along with his own character and righteousness as a samurai. He lost his heart of goodwill, yet he could not draw his sword of malice.

The swordsman lost his ambition to become the best in the world, bound by the shadows of the past and lost in confusion. He had shattered the dreams of countless people. Now, he too had lost his firm goal and was mired in guilt.

Three knives again, damn miHoYo!

Naruto Shrine

That vixen is here!

Yae no Miko's probing gaze fell on Sora: "...Indeed, it wasn't my imagination."

"The wind from afar will bring new life to this sea..."

Yae no Miko brushed past Sora, walked to the Divine Cherry Tree, and said with her back to Sora, "Our meeting was a little too early. But your timing in setting foot on this island is just right."

"...Strive to live up to my expectations, little one." After saying this, she left.

Kong: "..." What is she saying? Why is she the riddle teller again?

Paimon: "Hmm, that Yaehime seems quite interested in you."

"What an enigmatic person she is. What deeper meaning lies in her words..."

"Hmm, let's talk about it another time. Let's hurry back and report to Ms. Kamisato."

……

kami-yashiki

Ayaka Kamisato appears and asks Sora what he thinks after seeing the suffering of those who have lost their divine eyes.

Kong replied that there might be things more painful than death.

Ayaka Kamisato replied: But in the eyes of the Shogun, who is a god, all living beings are perhaps just individual "life forms"...

Thunder, bleak light, gale, torrential rain... their arrival will never take into account the feelings of mortals.

But travelers will definitely understand.

Sora was persuaded and agreed to help Ayaka Kamisato fight against the Eye Hunt Order.

……

Kong went to see Xiaogong and rescued Master Zhengsheng (the one who made the fake God's Eye).

Wooden Leak Tea Room

At the celebration banquet, Thomas suggested playing a hot pot game and prepared the ingredients in advance.

The hot pot game is simply a game where everyone prepares different ingredients, which are then put into a pot to cook. Then, with their eyes closed, they take turns scooping food from the pot, tasting it and guessing who put it in.

The dish was a bizarre combination of empty ingredients, and Thomas and Ayaka Kamisato also added some strange ingredients.

Thomas was incredibly unlucky; he ate almost every strange food imaginable, and he felt like his life was flashing before his eyes, as if he was about to die.

Ayaka Kamisato put small cakes in the pot, which were then fished out and eaten on their own. Imagine the texture and the sweet and salty taste of cakes cooked in a hot pot.

Thomas wasn't in good shape, but after resting for a while, he seems to have come back to life.

The hotpot game is over, and the winner is Thomas.

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Philosophy is a theorized and systematized worldview, a generalization and summary of natural, social, and cognitive knowledge, and a unity of worldview and methodology. It is the concrete existence and manifestation of social consciousness, a social science that takes the pursuit of the origin, essence, commonality, or absolute and ultimate metaphysics of the world as its form, and the establishment of a philosophical worldview and methodology as its content.