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[Tesla]: Honestly… this is the first time I've ever seen Otto lose his composure like this…
[March 7th]: Because… this is Kallen's life or death.
[Xiangling]: QAQ Why wouldn't Kallen agree…
[Ningguang]: In truth, Otto probably already knew Kallen's answer before he even went to the prison.
[Ningguang]: Someone like Kallen would never choose to live on while watching her family be completely controlled by Schicksal.
[Furina]: Then Otto must have been so—so heartbroken…
[Furina]: Watching Kallen die right before his eyes—Kallen of all people…
[Hu Tao]: Indeed… for Otto, that must have been harder to accept than the sky collapsing.
[Himeko (Star Rail)]: Being forced to watch the one you love die in front of you… no wonder Otto became so extreme.
In the chat group,
everyone watched Otto—his voice trembling, his composure shattered—
and felt a deep sense of disbelief.
Up until now, no matter how great the crisis, no matter how terrifying the enemy,
Otto had never once shown such loss of control.
That ever-elegant, lightly smiling face
was now filled with tension, his eyes brimming with desperate hope.
And against their will,
many of them felt sympathy—
even pity—for him.
Because none of them could imagine
what it meant for someone like Otto,
who treasured Kallen as his entire world,
to watch that world collapse.
It was a suffocating, hopeless despair.
"I understand… Kallen… I really do…"
"But I won't let you die!"
"No matter the means, whether you agree or not, I will never let you die!"
Inside the prison.
Though darkness enveloped everything,
even the people in the chat could vaguely feel it—
Otto's gaze, resolute beyond all doubt,
a man willing to sacrifice everything to save Kallen.
To him, Kallen was his entire life.
How could he ever allow her to die?
The engagement was something Kallen would rather die than accept—
so Otto would never force that upon her.
But any other method—
no matter what it was—
Otto would not allow Kallen's death.
The prison remained silent for a long time.
Hearing Otto's words,
from the depths of the darkness,
Kallen suddenly smiled softly.
"Thank you—my great inventor."
[Something seemed to crack with a quiet sound.]
[As if a heart had shattered.]
[He waited, thinking she still had more to say—just like he did.]
[He had so many, so many words he wanted to speak.]
Yet this silence
was longer than the last,
and at the same time shorter,
more complete.
Though Kallen said nothing more,
Otto understood everything.
"Did you bring wine? I want to drink a little… just one glass…"
The dark red liquid was poured into a cup.
Kallen gently swirled it, then looked surprised.
"Is this the bottle of red wine I gave you?"
"Yes."
"…That's nice."
She drank it all in one go, letting herself sink into intoxication.
"Maybe… in some other world…"
[But Otto didn't hear the rest. He had already left in despair.]
Otto conveyed Kallen's decision to the Overseer.
The next day, at the trial,
Kallen deliberately made radical statements,
ensuring she would receive the harshest possible sentence.
It was her final act of defiance.
Schicksal and the council jointly passed the verdict:
execution by hanging.
[Otto was already dead inside. He had lost everything—his entire world.]
[Void Archives? Could it help me?]
[No. It would not allow me to use its full power.]
[As the Key of Revelation, the authority it grants depends on the level of civilization.]
[To obtain knowledge beyond civilization, one's consciousness would be trapped in the library, and the body would be taken over.]
[Otto didn't know what to do. He was simply drowning in despair, tormented by his own powerlessness.]
At this moment,
even the spectators in the chat—
even as mere observers—
could clearly feel Otto's despair.
A despair like slowly sinking beneath icy seawater,
engulfed by darkness and cold.
But it seemed
fate had no intention of sparing him.
As if compelled by some unseen will,
it sought to strike this man—
the great inventor of Schicksal who had once saved countless lives from the Black Death—
even more cruelly.
[Everything was proceeding according to Nicholas's plan.]
[But before Kallen's execution day arrived, news came that the old Overseer had passed away.]
Instantly,
everyone—
including Otto at the time—was stunned.
And Otto, being a physician,
quickly noticed something amiss in his father's cause of death.
The old Overseer…
had been poisoned.
In that instant, Otto grasped at this sliver of hope and began to act.
By following the clues, he quickly found the culprit—
his own sister, Risa.
The day before Kallen's execution, Otto met Risa alone.
A woman capable of killing her own kin spoke with chilling menace,
yet Otto had to seize this one and only chance.
Nicholas was dead,
and Risa did not know his original plan—
this gave Otto leverage to negotiate.
Soon, the two reached an agreement.
Otto would help Risa handle matters.
In return, Risa would give Kallen a chance at survival.
On the day of Kallen's execution,
everyone was summoned to witness the saint's death.
As Kallen made her final farewell to the world,
Otto followed Risa's instructions
and released Honkai beasts, plunging the area into chaos.
At that moment, civilians and nobles alike were mercilessly attacked.
Otto found Kallen and tried to take her away, to flee far from everything.
But when Kallen learned that it was Otto who had released the Honkai beasts,
what he received was a slap across the face.
It was the third time Kallen's slap had snapped him back to reality.
And he didn't know it then—
but it would also be the last.
On the screen—
to protect civilians amid the Honkai beast rampage,
Kallen fought until the very end.
She was killed by a Honkai beast.
!!!
The story advanced far faster than anyone expected.
Just moments ago,
through Otto's perspective,
everyone had subconsciously begun to hope
that Kallen might still be saved.
But that fragile hope
was abruptly, mercilessly severed
by the Honkai beast's attack.
Kallen's body was drenched in blood.
The wounds torn through her were horrific to behold.
At that moment,
the chat fell into complete silence.
Because they all knew—
in that scene,
there was someone whose despair
was a thousand, ten thousand times greater than anyone else's.
That person was
Otto Apocalypse.
At that instant,
he watched his entire world collapse—
soundlessly, utterly.
How deep must his despair have been?
How completely shattered his heart?
No one in the chat could imagine it.
[Keqing]: …Sigh.
[Furina]: Such a hopeless scene…
[Kafka]: Otto will probably never forget this moment for as long as he lives. It will be his eternal nightmare.
[Silver Wolf]: This hurts. It really hurts.
[Bailu]: Why… why do I actually feel bad for Otto…
[Hu Tao]: Because to Otto… Kallen was just too important. Too important.
[Robin]: Why is the melody of love so often accompanied by sorrow?
Inside Schicksal.
Amber bit her lip slightly,
watching Otto—
who was focused on his work as if nothing had happened.
As though by not looking,
he could forget that piece of history.
In Amber's heart,
a feeling—perhaps called heartache—quietly took root.
She…
had begun to feel sorry for her Overseer.
But she still remembered Otto's instructions
and continued to watch the screen.
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