Fu Hua took off the red-framed glasses she used for her "role-playing" and said seriously to Welt, "Mr. Welt, for your safety, it's best to prepare to leave as soon as possible!"
As a participant and partial observer of yesterday's battle, and as someone who had a deep understanding of both Otto and Lin Wei, Fu Hua knew clearly that after the battle ended in such a "mutual loss," Otto's ever-restless heart must be filled with a strong sense of crisis.
Therefore, although Fu Hua had asked nothing and Otto had said nothing, she was extremely certain of one fact: since the result was so unsatisfactory, in order to seize the opportunity while he still had control of the situation, now that Lin Wei had just been driven out of the Eigenworld and would not interfere with him in the short term, he must and had to hurry up and take action...
The arrow was on the bow, it had to be fired. Otto had long since torn up his own retreat path. He had no choice but to continue on the path he had planned for himself.
Therefore, the peace of St. Freya Academy would soon be broken, and Welt's presence here would become increasingly awkward.
Out of the trust and tacit understanding between friends, Fu Hua felt she had a duty to warn him of the risk.
Out of her identity and responsibility here, while conveying her goodwill, Fu Hua was also implicitly warning him—I work for Otto, after all. Before you and I become enemies, hurry up and leave.
She had never asked what Welt was doing lurking in St. Freya Academy.
Whether it was for medical treatment or to monitor Kiana from a close distance, as long as he didn't do anything dangerous, she turned a blind eye to his presence.
But now, things had changed. Once Otto started to move, Anti-Entropy would inevitably follow suit.
In this situation, how could she, Otto's biggest spy in St. Freya Academy, and Welt, the leader of Anti-Entropy personally lurking in St. Freya Academy, greet each other calmly on campus as they had before?
Uh... well, given their personalities, it wasn't impossible...
But no matter how you thought about it, it was strange, so it was better to forget it.
"...Ms. Fu Hua, did you carry out a special mission this time you were out?"
Welt was taken aback and blurted it out, but then he suddenly realized he had overstepped his bounds and quickly added, "I'm sorry, I don't mean to pry into any secrets. I'm just a little surprised by the news you brought..."
He knew how precious the delicate tacit understanding and trust between him and Fu Hua were, so he especially didn't want to cause any unnecessary misunderstandings.
"It's alright, Mr. Welt. I won't suspect you of anything because of this," Fu Hua said. After a moment of thought, she conveyed the information completely and concisely.
"I did indeed carry out a very special mission—to cooperate with Otto and the headquarters forces directly under him to knock the Mr. Lin Wei you knew of before into the Sea of Quanta. Spurred by him, Otto is about to start carrying out his plan and is likely to further strengthen his control over St. Freya Academy."
The content was brief, but the information density was extremely high. So Fu Hua paused for a moment to let Welt digest it before continuing.
"It's no longer safe for you to stay here. It's best to leave as soon as possible."
After saying what she needed to say, without waiting for a response from Welt, Fu Hua took the glasses out of her pocket again, put them on, and returned to her "role," saying, "As a student bringing gifts to the teachers, I won't stay here any longer, otherwise it might arouse suspicion. I'll take my leave now."
After saying that, she gave Welt a slight nod and then walked straight out the door, clearly having no intention of continuing the conversation.
She was a cautious person and would not expose such an obvious flaw in such a small detail.
"..."
Fu Hua came suddenly and left in a hurry. Before Welt could say anything more, he was left alone in the office, with only the "gift" Fu Hua had left on the table.
The information Fu Hua brought was indeed quite unexpected and important.
St. Freya Academy was a relatively closed "paradise," and he himself rarely communicated with the outside world, having been engrossed in his work here. Therefore, his ability to obtain information from the outside world was extremely poor.
Generally speaking, this wasn't a problem. After all, after the Second Honkai War, both Anti-Entropy and Schicksal had suffered heavy losses.
For so many years, everyone had been busy licking their wounds and dealing with the urgent tasks at hand. Generally speaking, no "major accidents" would occur.
After all, theoretically, wasn't the biggest "accident" currently studying at this school?
He was already so close to the "accident," could there be any other accidents?
There shouldn't have been, but now, an accident had really occurred...
Lin Wei, like a suddenly appearing rhinoceros, had charged through the whole world, only avoiding St. Freya Academy. In this way, the prerequisite that allowed him to proceed step by step no longer existed, and Welt himself was still unaware of it.
This was very awkward!
And also very dangerous...
The old and cunning Fu Hua saw this subtle fact clearly.
So, before the storm reached St. Freya Academy, she had taken the initiative to inform him of the major changes and risks that had just occurred in the outside world, helping Welt to fill in this missing key information.
With that, Fu Hua had done her duty. Whether Welt decided to leave or stay, she would not ask any more questions.
In fact, from the moment she walked out that door, the tacit "cooperation" between them had officially ended. Now that their identities and positions were about to become opposed, it was no longer appropriate to maintain ambiguity.
She still wouldn't report Welt's presence, but in return, she would also start to be wary of any dangerous actions Welt might take...
Fu Hua's decisive attitude was tantamount to a further declaration of danger. But even so, Welt was still grateful—or rather, it was precisely because of this that he was even more grateful.
Because...
"Otto, did he succeed again?"
Remembering what Fu Hua had just said about the fate of Mr. Lin Wei, whom he had never met but who had left a deep impression on him, he couldn't suppress the grief and indignation in his heart. It reminded him of the friends who had left him over the years...
"Ms. Fu Hua and that Mr. Lin Wei must be friends too, right? She must be feeling even worse about the current result... Did she talk to me about this because she doesn't want me to end up the same way?"
He empathized with Fu Hua's feelings and began to seriously consider his next move—to leave now, or to continue to wait...
Besides secretly observing Kiana, he wanted to know more about what Otto was planning for her.
So for this period of time, besides teaching seriously, he had been secretly investigating every corner of this academy, trying to find clues to this question.
Now, although he hadn't found the answer he wanted, he had accidentally discovered something else—for example, he had discovered what kind of insane "secrets" were buried in the deepest part of this academy, the Cecilia Clone.
He believed that if he could let that headmaster, whose morals and character were worthy of respect, witness that bloody and cruel truth with her own eyes, then in the near future, exposing Otto's lies, regaining her trust, and even having her, her students, and her followers become allies on his side would not be an impossible task.
With this alone, as long as he could successfully bring this news to the Doctor and the others, his "infiltration" this time would not be in vain!
But in his heart, he didn't want to leave halfway, because—
"I also promised to help Mr. Siegfried and his daughter meet..."
Welt muttered to himself with a wry smile.
"How can a person not keep their word?"
As another "work result" of his "infiltration," using the power of the Herrscher of Reason, he had long since silently hacked into the headmaster's private "holographic training room" and secretly left a backdoor there.
He could see that Theresa doted on her somewhat naughty "niece." To help her improve, sooner or later she would bring her to her private training room for "extra lessons." At that time, using that backdoor, he could link Siegfried, who was outside, into the system, and let this long-separated father and daughter successfully meet once through holographic images.
Wouldn't that be a perfect and logical thing to do?
Welt felt he already owed Siegfried a lot and had a duty and obligation to help him fulfill this small wish.
Welt had originally planned to leave after this last thing. Now that he was so close to success, how could he be willing to give up halfway?
In the end, impulsiveness, emotionality, and so on were not lacking in him.
These traits both gave him abundant humanity and emotion, and also brought him many troublesome flaws, making him and the entire Anti-Entropy always at a natural disadvantage when facing Otto and Schicksal.
Ironically, this seemingly innate passivity had been greatly alleviated after Cocolia joined Anti-Entropy...
He was still struggling with indecision, but the moment he thought of Cocolia, he suddenly calmed down.
"I should contact the Doctor. Tell them the situation here and discuss the next course of action together..."
"..."
Fu Hua didn't linger at Welt's door for even a second, nor did she eavesdrop as she had at the headmaster's office. She just methodically delivered her "gifts" to every teacher and every student.
As the best student of St. Freya Academy, the most respected class monitor, she had a duty to be humble and set a good example...
"Classmate Kiana, classmate Mei, classmate Bronya..."
At the last stop, Fu Hua gently knocked on the door of the adjacent dormitory. A minute later, a slender girl with gray drills for hair opened the door for her.
"Class Monitor, please come in," Bronya said politely, looking up. Her voice was as flat as ever.
"Classmate Bronya, where..."
Fu Hua was about to ask where the other two were when she heard a very recognizable voice from the room on the second floor.
"Mei, be gentle! Gentle... hiss, it hurts... hey, wait, wait, it sounds like someone's here?"
That wailing voice could only be Kiana's.
The next second, a fluffy white-haired head with a yellowish tint curiously poked out the door. The moment she saw who it was, she froze, then her expression darkened, and with a "clang," she slammed the door shut, retreating without hesitation.
"Damn it, why is it this class monitor again?"
Kiana could be heard shouting from behind the door.
"Why is she at our place at this time? Is she here specifically to laugh at me? Hiss... it hurts, it hurts..."
"..."
Bronya looked at Fu Hua innocently. You saw that, right?
She still couldn't understand. Kiana seemed like a nice person usually. Why did she always get so irritable whenever she saw Fu Hua, as if she had eaten gunpowder?
At first, she thought Kiana was jealous of her outstanding peer, but she quickly dismissed that suspicion.
She beat her soundly every time they played games, and that idiot, besides shouting "I'm not convinced, let's go again" after every crushing defeat and continuing to fight and lose with high spirits, she had never seen her do anything to her.
She asked Mei, and even Mei just shook her head. So, she was even more confused...
"It's alright, I won't disturb you," Fu Hua was used to this and wasn't surprised at all. She just smiled and left the last gift, then turned and left without hesitation.
The reason she came was to confirm Kiana's condition. A single glance was enough.
Full of energy, high spirits, looked very healthy!
It was just, could her enviable vitality last forever?
Fu Hua thought silently, hoping it could...
She looked up at the sky, at the gradually setting sun in the distance, and felt a little melancholy and lost for a moment.
"The future, what will it be like?"
She didn't know.
She only knew that after Lin Wei left, she seemed to be alone again...