"Otto, you shouldn't keep obsessing over the past, much less treat me as your faith. I'm just a Valkyrie—a Valkyrie who fights to protect humanity. I am not everything to humanity. Wake up, Otto!"
"Are you... really Kallen?"
Otto's feelings were complicated. Though she couldn't put it into words, she could clearly sense that the Kallen before her was not a clone. Whether it was that look in her eyes or that unwavering resolve, she was exactly like the Kallen in her memories.
This was Kallen—the real Kallen—but...
"You're... Kallen from another world, aren't you?"
Otto understood the rules of the Sea of Quantum as well. Though she knew the woman before her truly was Kallen, she definitely was not the Kallen of this world. Among the countless bubble worlds in the Sea of Quantum, finding the one she wanted was harder than finding one particular grain of sand in a desert.
"That's right."
Kallen nodded softly. "I was indeed brought back from another bubble world, but in that world..."
Kallen glanced back at Ling Feng. He was leaning beside the Queen, seemingly whispering something to her. Then Kallen looked back at Otto. "In that world, if Ling Feng hadn't appeared, I would have died by your hand as well..."
"No... impossible. Absolutely impossible."
Otto clutched her head. "I... I never wanted to hurt you. It was clearly... clearly those stupid, corrupt nobles of Schicksal back then. I... I only wanted to protect you. I only wanted to protect you."
"But what you did hurt too many people."
Kallen remained calm. Though she had once been reckless, she had now learned to think—to think calmly. After all, it was her recklessness that had once cost her so much, even herself.
And after going through all that, she had learned to