Fu Shi burst into laughter and secretly used voice transmission to tell Fu Lin about Otto sneaking someone from St. Freya, and before long, Fu Lin couldn't hold back and laughed out loud too.
'Hahahaha, this is a real heart-piercing move. Otto's like a panda ordering takeout — absolutely ruthless.'
'Hahaha, exactly! Especially when he said that name with such a straight face — not even a shred of hesitation, hahahaha.'
Fu Shi raised the corners of her mouth and, in order not to laugh too abruptly, thoughtfully turned off the camera for himself and Fu Lin, then pounded the table in hysteric laughter.
In the live broadcast room, as everyone listened to the sound of hands slapping the table and looked at the lower-left corner, the hosts were nowhere to be seen, and everyone's faces instantly turned black.
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[Bronya murmured, "1955... the day Anti-Entropy was founded."
"No, that was the day Anti-Entropy was destroyed."
Welt refuted, and then name after name spilled from his mouth,
"Welt Joyce, Liesel Albert Einstein, Frederica Nikola Tesla, Emma Planck, Erwin Reanna Schrodinger..."
"I remember each and every one of their names. Because remembering them is the only thing I can do."
"They were killed one by one by Valkyries of Schicksal right before my eyes, and all I could do was run away in shame."
"...Like a terrified and weak beast."
Welt's tone was extremely calm, as if recounting a story unrelated to himself, but beneath that calmness was a chilling horror.
Einstein, 〈So in this world bubble, Dr. Tesla, the others, and I all died in Manhattan, New York?〉
[Miss Lily] Otto, 〈No wonder Welt would want to destroy Schicksal.〉
Tesla, 〈You beep beep beep, you've got some nerve saying that. If it weren't for you... Joyce wouldn't have died. If it weren't for you, Reanna wouldn't have sacrificed herself...〉
Tesla wanted to lash out, but tears uncontrollably welled up in her eyes.
[Sit-up's King] Welt, 〈Tesla...〉
Tesla, 〈Joachim, I'm fine.〉
Einstein, 〈...〉
Tesla took off her glasses, picked up a tissue Einstein had handed her before leaving, and gently wiped her tears.
Kiana, 〈Wow, seeing it this way, our Overseer really is a complete villain.〉
'Blazing Flame', 〈You only just realized?〉
[Magical Girl] Theresa, 〈Grandpa, you're such a big bad guy!〉
Bronya widened her eyes in disbelief and looked at Welt, "Anti-Entropy... was destroyed...?"
"In every lightless night, I dream of that man." Welt's voice gradually became agitated, trembling as he said, "Lying in a pool of blood, he entrusted me with his name and the Herrscher core, over and over again."
Then he let go of his crossed arms and continued, "In the end, I returned. Using his name, I fulfilled the promise he made to fight for humanity."
As Bronya tried to argue, Welt let out a cold snort, took off his glasses, and his eyes glowed with a bloodthirsty red light.
Then came the iconic scene — Welt, channeling his inner "Yang Chaoyue," domineeringly declared,
"Power, belonging, ideals — when I inherited the name Welt, I also inherited everything that man left behind."
"But... under this name, there's nothing that truly belongs to me. I'm just playing the role of a shadow that died long ago."
"...But why should I play the role of a failed shadow...?"
As Welt activated the Herrscher's power, blood splattered from his body — the broken vessel was clearly unable to withstand the force any longer.
Even as his body teetered on the edge of destruction, his voice grew more impassioned—
"That's right! I was the one who killed the Herrscher of the Void and saved this world!"
"I did what that man couldn't. I've already surpassed him...!"
'Pufferfish', 〈???〉
Sirin clenched her fists, angrily glaring at Welt on the screen, "Every time I see this guy... he gives me this really annoying feeling☆"
[Miss Lily] Otto, 〈Hahaha, here's a fun fact — Welt is actually a negotiation specialist...〉
[Sit-up's King] Welt, 〈....〉
'Pufferfish', 〈Heh, that was a cold joke.〉
Bronya, breathing heavily, shouted, "...You've gone mad!"
"I'm not mad — I've conquered the world...!"
A red glow flickered as a colossal iron beast descended at Welt's side. He looked down at Bronya, his clouded eyes now brimming only with madness.
"This is my own power, my own belonging, my own ideal..."
"This... is the real me!"
Tesla, 〈...Is this really Joachim?〉
Einstein, 〈...The difference is too vast. Maybe this is another personality projected by the Herrscher of Sentience of the Leader.〉
[Sit-up's King] Welt, 〈Why wasn't it Arahato that I summoned...〉
Mei, 〈Could it be... that turning into a Herrscher makes you all swell with pride and become total edgelords?〉
Kiana, 〈Now that you mention it... kinda does, Mei.〉
Wendy, 〈...〉
'Pufferfish', 〈...〉
Fu Shi scratched his head, glanced at Fu Lin, and said, "Seems like... not really, right?"
Fu Lin silently shot him a look, then mimicked Fu Shi in her heart and declared, 'Hehehe, I will control everything! I am is the complete Celestial Immortal, the complete Fu Hua, the complete me!'
Fu Shi, "..."
Wendy, 〈Bronya-sis won't be in trouble, right...?〉
A gentle breeze swirled around Wendy, her eyes fixed on the Welt on the screen, committing his face to memory for the day she could avenge Bronya.
Bronya, 〈Wendy, Bronya will be fine.〉
Seele (White), 〈Wendy, you have to believe in Bronya-sis.〉
"The Duck's future is destined to hold a Herrscher core — how could she fall here? The only thing waiting for her is Kevin revoking her license."
Fu Lin waved her hand with a smile.
Bronya, 〈Bronya dislikes the host with no sense of boundaries!〉
Bronya wasn't about to surrender without a fight, either. She controlled Heavy Bunny, putting up fierce resistance.
After a while, unable to quickly subdue Bronya, Welt's body was riddled with wounds from the Herrscher power backlash.
"Enough, kneel before me!"
Welt panted heavily, the crimson Eden Star hovering above his palm, its gravity waves crashing down on Bronya like an invisible giant hand.
"You have no right to judge me!"
Welt shouted furiously, "I killed the people you cared about, and you hate me! So how are we any different!?"
Bronya forced herself to stand, staggering step by step toward Welt, saying,
"Bronya doesn't hate you. I just think you're both pitiful and sad."
"All I see in your eyes is fear and cowardice."
As if Bronya had exposed his deepest secret, Welt suddenly grew agitated and shouted, "Cowardice? What a joke! I'm stronger than anyone!"
Bronya kept moving forward, continuing, "You're not strong at all. Bronya has seen people far stronger than you — even when disaster strikes, they face it with courage..."
"Even when despair blots out the sun, they fight back with their will..."
"..."
"...They are still the heroes who protect hope!"
Tesla, 〈This Joachim is such a loser.〉
Kiana, 〈Who was Bronya talking about? I want to make them my idol.〉
Elysia, 〈I want to meet them too~〉
Mei, 〈Kiana, Bronya was probably talking about you...〉
Kiana, 〈Eh? No way, absolutely no way. Bronya would never say that about me. Unless I'm still dreaming!〉
Bronya, 〈Dummy Kiana.〉
Kiana, 〈That sounds about right.〉
'Pufferfish', 〈Heh.〉
'Blazing Flame'←_←, 〈...〉