Witness the Stars Being Shattered!

"Almost, there's one Planck left." Yaqing smoothed Mobius's bangs.

"You're really heartless, leaving no one behind. Aren't you afraid that Anti-Entropy will stop cooperating?" Mobius continued to let Yaqing play with his long hair.

"I left two for them, didn't I?" Yaqing said nonchalantly.

"Next up is the battle against the big villain! Joyce, you have to win!" Pardo cheered Joyce on.

"Pardo, have you forgotten that Joyce died at the beginning of the main storyline? The First Herrscher and the Anti-Entropy Leader are both Joachim Yang." Mobius bluntly shattered Pardo's illusions.

"Professor Mobius, shattering a girl's beautiful illusions is a great sin!" Elysia suddenly said.

"Hmph." Mobius snorted, turned her pretty face to Yaqing's neck, and took a deep breath as if to vent her anger.

No one was surprised by this.

"Mei~"

Kevin seemed to want to say something, but May guessed in advance, felt shy, and pretended to be annoyed as she hit Kevin.

Seeing her friends so different from each other, Su sighed helplessly.

Although it seems like Mobius is "bullying" Yaqing, the actual initiative is always in Yaqing's hands, while Kevin is different; he is always in a subordinate position in the relationship.

The world was distorted in Otto Apocalypse's eyes; he sensed everything crumbling before his eyes, and he sensed time being thrown into a giant blender.

Past, present, and future—everything becomes blurred and indistinct amidst endless slowdowns and fragmented moments.

In a daze, Otto seemed to see Kallen again, Kallen with a noose around her neck.

"Life is nothing more than a walking shadow."

"A clumsy actor gesticulating wildly on stage—"

"It appears briefly, then disappears without a trace; it is a story told by a fool, full of noise and commotion, yet devoid of any meaning."

When Kallen opened her eyes, her azure pupils turned an unusually blood red.

"You...you...you..." The Bishop of Schicksal, who had led humanity for five hundred years, couldn't even speak clearly at this moment. Otto was trembling all over.

"Otto Apocalypse, he will defy fate, scorn life and death, transcend all reason and logic, dispel all doubts, and cling to his impossible hope."

"No, that's not right..." As Kallen continued the conversation, Otto realized that the person in front of him was not Kallen, but his own projection, his own cowardice.

A world without Kallen would have no meaning to its existence.

Having awakened to his true nature and recognized his own shortcomings, Otto broke free from the black hole created by the Star of Eden.

"Oh, I'm here too? But it doesn't seem to be me," Kallen said in surprise.

"I think the reason Grandpa recognized this illusion so quickly is probably because he didn't believe Grandma could say so many cultured things," Theresa shook her head and sighed.

"Little Theresa, what do you mean?!" Kallen put her hands on her hips.

"However, Bishop Otto's words were truly pure love." Kiana felt a strange mix of emotions, wanting to agree yet also disagreeing, that a world without Kallen would have no meaning.

Central Europe, the Schicksal Headquarters.

Otto fell into thought.

After a long while, he finally smiled.

"That's right, but it's also wrong."

Otto tapped the table and said, "I am indeed a fool, but not a fool who does the impossible; I am a fool who plans everything."

At that moment, it was as if a resonance had occurred, and Otto's temperament overlapped with Otto's.

"Welt, watch out!" Before Joyce could react, Star of Eden was shattered by Margarita's shout.

"Creating a black hole, what a savage power." Otto was cynical, behind whom lay the Judah's Oath. "Once you fall into it, not even light can escape."

The chains of Judah's Oath successfully sealed the Honkai energy within Joyce's body, turning him from Herrscher into an ordinary person.

"You were careless, Herrscher." Otto looked at Joyce with amusement. "When did you develop the illusion that the Divine Key are indestructible? Right now, you're nothing but a weakling who can't even kill a chicken."

It only takes a moment.

Otto would then be able to reverse everyone's fate.

In Joyce's eyes, everyone was bound by the chains of Judah's Oath, powerless to break free or resist.

Suddenly, a plane appeared in his line of sight and crashed straight into Otto.

"I remember an Eastern proverb that says: 'You can search high and low without finding it, but then it comes to you effortlessly.'" Otto grabbed Joachim and Planck on the plane.

"Since so many people are so eager to be executed, it would be wrong of me to execute them all in one order," Otto laughed. "How about we do it one at a time?"

Otto's first choice for execution was Joachim.

Joyce did everything in his power to block the blow for Joachim.

"The situation took a sharp turn for the worse; even Planck was captured." Einstein shook his head.

"(Anti-Entropy profanity), the plot isn't going to be that we get defeated by Otto, and in the end I, with my messy hair, lead you away like a dog, right? If that happens, I'll really (Anti-Entropy profanity)." Tesla swore furiously.

Having witnessed the power of Judah's Oath, which even the six-core Herrscher Sirin struggled to break free from, Tesla could not imagine the possibility of Joyce's victory, especially since Joyce had just awakened.

Welt Young, who had read the script, remained silent.

"In situations like this, where the main characters are being oppressed, the villains in anime should talk a lot more at this point," Kiana wisely remarked.

"And then the protagonist seized the opportunity?" Mei didn't really think it would end like that.

"Mei, I'm sure I guessed right!"

"Okay, Kiana, if it's really as you say, then I'll make your favorite chicken wings tonight," Mei said gently.

"Great! I knew Mei was the best!" Kiana excitedly hugged Mei.

"I want to eat chicken wings too!" Kallen gets excited whenever food is mentioned.

"I want one too! I want one too!"

Chapter 156 Witness what it looks like when stars shatter!

Joyce's act of shielding Joachim from a fatal blow dampened Otto's enthusiasm, prompting him to decide on a different target: Margarita.

"Boss lady, do you have any more outrageous things to say?" Otto asked with amusement.

Margarita deliberately spoke in a low voice to lure Otto closer, probably because he saw that everyone was under Judah's control and Otto actually fell for it.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Margaret took out the bottle of women's pepper spray from Joyce's coat pocket, which was actually a Honkai Steel Suppressor. She pressed it hard, causing Otto's Honkai Steel skin to temporarily solidify.

Joyce naturally wouldn't let this weakness slip by. After temporarily stopping the bleeding, she entered her original body mimicry mode.

"My fists, become the true Judah's Oath!"

Joyce's arms transformed into the Judah's Oath, and he punched Reanna hard, cracking her face. He had never hated anyone so much; Otto was the first.

"Get out of Reanna's body! You clown!!!"

"Great!" Kevin exclaimed excitedly.

"We still have to rely on Hua!" Pardo noticed that the bottle of Honkai Steel Suppressor that could turn the tide of the battle was a gift from Fu Hua.

"Wow! The sound of Otto's Honkai Steel face creaking is wonderful."

The sudden sound startled everyone.

When you look in the direction of the sound, you see Fu Hua and Little Knowledge standing at the door. Little Knowledge is carrying two big bags of snacks and is watching Otto's humiliation on TV with great excitement.

"Didn't you go out to buy things for your graduation thesis design?" Yaqing asked.

"Yeah, I've bought them all. They're all at the antique shop. I bought a lot of snacks, do you guys want some?" Little Knowledge is happy to share.

Fu Hua waved the things in her hand, nodded to everyone, and went upstairs.

"Give me a seat, I want to watch too!" Little Knowledge stayed behind instead, making people wonder if she rushed back just to watch anime.

Little Knowledge tore open a bag of potato chips and handed it to Pardo.

"But this Honkai Steel body belongs to Reanna, right? What will happen to Reanna if it's damaged too badly?" Elysia asked worriedly.

"She died, what else can we do?" Mobius said bluntly. "Since she wasn't even mentioned in the main storyline, it means she didn't survive."

"Professor Mobius, if you keep doing this, people won't like you anymore~" Elysia pouted.

"I couldn't be happier."

When Otto realized he couldn't control his Honkai Steel body, he planned to take Joyce and the others down with him, but when he pressed the self-destruct button, nothing happened.

"You've really done something remarkable, my Lord Otto," Reanna's voice suddenly rang out, addressing her respectfully as "my Lord", her tone icy cold.

"Impossible, you..."

The Honkai Steel body transformed, changing from Otto's appearance back to that of Reanna.

"What? You were just showing off your body until now, and you don't even remember this voice?"

When Reanna learned that Otto had used the Void Archives to modify her body a hundred years ago, she thought of this day. A hundred years had passed, and even she couldn't help but sigh.

"The Ship of Theseus is named after Theseus!"

Reanna plunged the Abyss Flower into the chest of her Honkai Steel body, severing her connection with Otto.

"Well said!" Little Knowledge clapped.

"Little Knowledge, do you really know what the Ship of Theseus means?" Yaqing asked with a smile.

"The Ship of Theseus? What is that?" Little Knowledge looked completely bewildered.

"Didn't you say that what Reanna said was right?"

"I mean, that line about still using someone else's body to show off is so well said." Little Knowledge crossed her arms, clearly infected by the Dumb Theresa Virus.

Kevin asked in a very low voice, "May, what exactly does 'Ship of Theseus' mean?"

Mei found it amusing that Kevin, a graduate of a prestigious university in the Far East and a highly educated... corporate slave, didn't even know what the Ship of Theseus was.

"To put it simply, there was once a hero named Theseus. To commemorate him, people kept repairing his ship until all the parts of the ship had been replaced more than twice. Then a philosopher arrived and asked a question."

"Is this still the same ship?"

Kevin nodded as if he understood, and said, "It means that in the story, Reanna is a ship whose parts are constantly being replaced by Otto, but fundamentally, she is still the original ship."

"So smart." Mei stroked Kevin's white hair as if petting a puppy.

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Margarita checked to see if the professor and Joachim were injured, but her expression immediately changed drastically, and she hung up the call.

"We received a long-distance communication from Cuba. Just now, the Schicksal entered a state of zero alert."

Reanna seemed to realize something, her expression changed drastically, and she hurriedly asked Joyce if he knew how to make radar.

Joyce was a little confused. Now? Make radar?

Reanna said that if the Void Archives made from the Herrscher of Reason Core could do it, then there was no reason why he Herrscher of Reason, couldn't. She grabbed Joyce's hand and saw the large hole left by the Abyss Flower in his chest.

"If you don't understand, just read the data from me!"

Using the radar created by Joyce, they immediately spotted an intercontinental ballistic missile displayed on the radar screen—no, not an intercontinental ballistic missile, but Schicksal's latest Honkai Energy Fission Bomb!

"It's happening again! Is Joyce going to die like Mom, from Otto's Honkai Energy Fission Bomb?" Kiana said angrily.

"Kiana, you're getting a little too involved," Theresa frowned.

"Xiao Yaqing's writing about Otto is indeed a bit excessive; even I find it infuriating."

Kallen's choice to stand on the same side as Kiana ironically made Theresa look bad.

Mei chose to remain silent. Having grown up in Anti-Entropy and influenced by Dr. Tesla, she genuinely didn't have any good feelings towards President Otto, but she also didn't harbor any ill will towards him.

However, she found Otto's actions in the story somewhat repulsive.

"I'm talking about Otto in the story, not the real-life President Otto," Kiana quickly explained.

"Ah!"

Kiana received a hand chop from Theresa.