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[Kiana: He… does this count as admitting it?]
[Raiden Mei: Otto… so he really did intend for things to turn out this way?!]
[Theresa: But… why??]
[Tesla: Intended?! Impossible… don't let Otto fool you!]
[Einstein: Dr. Tesla… you're being a bit extreme.]
[Einstein: At present, this is indeed the only explanation that can reconcile all the inconsistencies.]
[Tesla: I…]
[Tesla: Sorry… I did get a little too emotional… you're right, Chicken-Head…]
[Durandal: It seems my intuition wasn't wrong. The Archbishop truly did have… a deeper, hidden purpose.]
Before anyone could think further,
on the screen—
Otto let out a soft sigh.
"No matter what, you did indeed defeat me, and in that instant, you also surpassed the one standing behind me—[It]."
"That is an extraordinary achievement. Make good use of that experience, and one day you will overcome the Honkai, bringing lasting light to the world you cherish."
"And I, too, will finally have the chance to do something similar for the world I cherish."
"To be precise—"
"—to return a lost torch to [her] hands."
Her?!
At once, everyone in the chat seemed to seize upon the key point.
The "[her]" Otto spoke of—
There could be no second answer.
For over five hundred years,
the one Otto had sought without rest,
the one he regarded as the entirety of his life,
the sole meaning of the world's existence—
—Saint Kallen!
But… hadn't Otto been willing to sacrifice five hundred years of the world's history, all of humanity, precisely to resurrect Kallen?!
Could it be that Otto's deeper, true objective…
Involved another way to achieve this goal?!
Within the pure white space,
Kallen froze slightly.
She had only just recovered from the grief of believing Otto had already perished,
when she was forced to absorb this new revelation.
Otto… seemed to harbor an even deeper purpose!
All those actions that had provoked universal outrage—
they now appeared to have been deliberate from the very beginning!
And the one thing that seemed destined never to change…
Otto's goal.
Or rather—
Otto's lifelong, unshakable obsession.
Forever and always—
Kallen…
Kallen…
—Kallen!
Looking at the image on the screen—
Even having become what he himself mockingly called a wandering, lonely spirit,
Otto was still murmuring devotedly, tenderly, toward his destination—his Kallen.
Outside the screen,
Even those supernaturals who had witnessed Otto commit countless evils and harbored deep resentment toward him
Could not help but feel a sense of sorrowful emotion and sighs of lament.
Let alone Kallen herself.
At this moment,
Kallen felt as though she sensed something faint yet undeniable.
She perceived it—
Otto's burning resolve, a determination ready to wager everything.
And under that ominous premonition, Kallen's heart clenched with anxiety.
On the screen,
Durandal and Kiana were likewise taken aback.
"She…?"
"Could it be—"
"Haha, it seems you've already guessed the answer, haven't you?"
Otto chuckled softly.
Across the void,
It felt as though Otto's familiar face—wearing that faintly frivolous smile—appeared before the eyes of all who watched.
Normally so detestable.
Yet now, accompanied only by his sighing voice and no visible form,
It somehow inspired an inexplicable sense of nostalgia.
And Otto continued speaking.
"That's right."
"Before you shattered me, I was infinitely close to becoming a [god]—yet in the end, I was nothing more than a slave to the Imaginary Tree."
"I was tightly bound to this intrinsic world. Though I did possess the power to reshape it, I had no freedom whatsoever."
"So, from the very beginning, I placed a bet."
"I wagered that humanity's will could create a miracle in a single instant—enough to throw the [laws] of the Imaginary Tree into chaos, to force them to bend, even if only for a fleeting moment."
"Kiana Kaslana—once the child I called K423. In the past, the power of love once allowed you to accomplish this—"
"And now, I have proven that anger can achieve the same."
"I placed my final hope of resurrecting Kallen upon this wager…"
"And the facts have proven that I did, indeed, win."
At that moment,
Otto's voice echoed faintly through the abandoned church.
Inside and outside the screen,
Every viewer fell into complete silence.
Quietly, they listened—
As Otto slowly yet unmistakably laid bare a truth that no one had ever fully understood.
So much had happened on this day.
And yet, there had been far too little time to process it all.
From the moment Otto used the information about the Core of the Herrscher of Domination to lure the Hyperion and Anti-Entropy to Kolosten—
Everything… had already been part of his plan!
All of Kolosten.
The entire town.
This former headquarters of old Schicksal.
The place where the Archbishop of old Schicksal once proclaimed Otto Apocalypse's right of succession.
The place where Otto led the uprising to overthrow old Schicksal and founded the new Schicksal in the name of the Saintess.
The place where Otto once slew his kin.
And also—
The place where Saint Kallen was executed by hanging…
and ultimately met her end.
This land of Schicksal's ruins, steeped in tragedy and conspiracy,
Was the eternal wound in Otto's heart.
And today—
Otto had chosen it as the site of his final stage.
From the moment he stepped onto that stage,
Otto's performance had already begun.
From the various acts that enraged the members of the Hyperion and Anti-Entropy.
From killing his own soulless body.
From deliberately leaking fragments of his so-called insane plan.
From personally pushing Rita, Durandal, Changguang, and others into opposing camps.
In the end—
This performance of Otto's,
this plan and conspiracy,
Concluded with himself being shattered by the Herrscher of the Void's authority as its [ending]!
He called it a gamble.
A colossal wager between himself and the Imaginary Tree!
What he put on the table—
Was everything he had.
And the trump card that secured his victory—
Was precisely the Herrscher of the Void,
The one who wished more than anyone to grind Otto Apocalypse to dust!
Kiana Kaslana!
"I wagered that humanity's will could create a miracle in a single instant—enough to throw the [laws] of the Imaginary Tree into chaos, to force them to bend."
Otto won the bet.
And this wasn't even the first time he had wagered on humanity's will!
As early as the moment Otto forcibly awakened the Herrscher of the Void within Kiana,
This grand gamble had already begun.
The first time—
He bet that the power of love could overcome the Herrscher's consciousness.
The second time—
He bet that anger could overcome the laws of the Imaginary.
Without exception—
Otto Apocalypse won every time.
[Ningguang: So… that's how it was…]
[Sparkle: Ta-da~ ta-da~!]
[Sparkle: Hahahaha, how fun! Even if I can't see your faces, I can already imagine those stunned expressions!]
[Keqing: …]
[March 7th: Indeed… no one could have expected this…]
[Kiana: That guy…]
[Honkai · Himeko: So from beginning to end… it was all an act…]
[Furina: So that means! Everything Otto did in Kolosten—was it all intentional…]
[Furina: All to make everyone stand against him, hate him… and ultimately defeat him…]
[Rita: It seems Lady Durandal's intuition… was indeed correct.]
[Durandal: So this was the Archbishop's true purpose…]
[Theresa: Grandpa… why… why didn't you say it sooner…]
[Fu Hua: Headmistress, this kind of performance could only be carried out by Otto alone.]
[Fu Hua: Kiana's anger, and the bargain with the Honkai—these were burdens that only Otto could bear.]
[Herta: What a terrifying man.]
[Herta: To place such faith in humanity's will… it's truly unbelievable.]
[Ruan Mei: First using the power of love, then the power of anger.]
[Kafka: One must admit it… Otto defeated the Honkai and the Imaginary—twice.]
[Aventurine: Fascinating, absolutely fascinating…! What a magnificent wager, what a thrilling gamble!!]
[Sushang: But… but… for Otto to achieve his goal of reviving Kallen…]
[Sushang: Just how is he going to do it…]
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