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Schicksal Headquarters.
Listening to the words about himself revealed by the rating system,
and looking at the perfect score displayed on the screen—
even someone like Otto, the Overseer of Schicksal,
couldn't help but show a trace of astonishment.
He had heard those words clearly.
[The world will turn, in that instant, for one person alone! Let the sins forcibly imposed dissipate like smoke, let the consciousness that was brought to an end continue forward!]
[Let the despicable be buried with me… let the light, because of you, reach toward the future!]
[I deceived my friends… deceived my family… deceived the world and the rules above it!]
[All for the sake of granting that one and only true you… a second life.]
[I'm back.]
[Kallen.]
He didn't know exactly what had happened.
There was no way to verify it.
At this point, Otto had only linked with the Will of Honkai once.
He couldn't even imagine how he would act in the future,
how he would attempt to revive Kallen,
or what kind of result he would ultimately obtain.
But from those few sentences—
Otto understood one thing, and one thing only.
No matter the cost.
He… had succeeded.
"Kallen…"
Otto's eyes stung slightly—
an emotion he hadn't felt in countless years.
This was the tremor of an obsession that had been suppressed for over five hundred years.
At this moment,
he actually felt a hint of jealousy toward himself at some future point in time.
Because by then—
perhaps his reunion with Kallen had already become reality.
At this moment,
this cold and ruthless Grand Overseer of Schicksal—
a man who would not waver even if millions upon millions of humans perished before his eyes—
was actually trembling slightly,
reading the text on the screen line by line.
Personality analysis?
In Otto's view, the wording was even somewhat restrained.
A perfect score?
Unexpected—but utterly meaningless to him.
The evaluations given by people from another world?
He read them word by word, sentence by sentence—
yet still found no clue capable of saving Kallen.
Even so, Otto felt neither disappointment nor regret.
It was merely that his curiosity had gone unsatisfied.
No matter how stirred he had been just now,
in Otto's heart, the ending in which he succeeded was already predetermined.
No matter the method,
no matter what obstacles lay in the way—
at the end of the worldline,
he would complete it.
He would revive Kallen.
Otto had never doubted this.
This was Otto's confidence—
or rather, his extreme arrogance.
That said, there was one particular remark that did pique his interest.
"A dead Otto is the best Otto?"
It seemed that people in another world harbored no small amount of resentment toward him…
At the same time.
Theresa, like most others, stood frozen before the screen.
"Grandpa…"
She had never imagined that under such an exposed evaluation—
her grandfather, Otto, the Overseer of Schicksal,
would actually receive a perfect score.
Even with her heavy emotional bias in his favor,
Theresa had to admit—
Otto's choices in certain matters were indeed cold,
and even cruel.
Even from the perspective of an uninvolved third party,
one could easily feel hatred and revulsion toward him.
Her grandfather…
Just what kind of extraordinary feat had he accomplished
to overturn the attitudes and perceptions of millions of viewers in another world?!
[Theresa, try to eat some fruits and vegetables besides bitter melon every now and then.]
When this particular comment related to herself appeared on the screen,
Theresa's heart suddenly trembled.
There was no need to think about it.
Only Grandpa would ever say something like that to her…
And yet even people from another world remembered it so clearly,
using it as part of Otto's evaluation.
That alone showed how unmistakable Otto's affection and care for her were—
so clear and so profound that even outsiders could feel it.
For a moment,
Theresa's emotions were incredibly conflicted.
Her resolve even began to waver once more.
(What Grandpa did was indeed unforgivable… but if no one stayed by his side, wouldn't he be terribly lonely too?)
Unlike Otto's agitation,
or Theresa's emotional turmoil—
many people in the chat group now felt as though they had been slapped in the face by Otto, completely unseen.
Wasn't his score supposed to crash through the floor?
How did it suddenly become a perfect score?!
Wasn't he supposed to be universally despised?
So why did these people from another world treat Otto like some kind of god?!
What in the world was going on?!
[Kafka]: Why is it so quiet? And someone seems to be shutting down emotionally, huh?
[Silver Wolf]: QAQ
[Star Rail · Himeko]: Damn it… do these people from another world really have something wrong with their eyes? Or is it their brains??
[March 7th]: Otto clearly did so many terrible things!!
[Tesla]: Damn it—what exactly is going on here?!
[Sparkle]: Sigh, foolish people~ Sometimes I really feel sorry for your comprehension skills.
[Sparkle]: Ever considered the possibility that this score isn't meant to judge a character's moral goodness or evil?
[Furina]: …
[Herta]: Indeed. This score may be more inclined toward evaluating a person's charismatic presence.
[Herta]: And charisma has nothing to do with good or evil.
[March 7th]: Otto? Charisma? Where?!
[Ningguang]: I think the Otto we know… may truly be just the tip of the iceberg.
And amid endless questions—
there was no time left for further discussion.
The screen slowly lit up once more.
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