Kiana: Three Hours Aren't Up Yet?! (3K)

"The second time was when I realized that some things are not just about right and wrong."

"The third time was after realizing that some things are neither right nor wrong, yet still firmly doing what I believe in and taking responsibility for it."

Upon hearing Father Otto's final words, the audience watching the film fell silent. At that moment, they could no longer condemn Otto, even though they knew that the Otto who caused all the tragedy was not the same person as Father Otto.

"Eden, I don't dislike Otto as he is." Elysia leaned on Eden's shoulder.

"Elysia, me too." Eden looked at Elysia tenderly and affectionately, smoothing her pink bangs, and said, "Unlike the main storyline, although Father Otto didn't say anything about love and affection, his actions were full of love."

"A priest who made a mistake and tried to atone with his life, living in repentance," Sakura said. "The Saintess he mentioned, is it Kallen?"

As Kallen's best friend and having met Otto many times, she knew that no one but Kallen could change Otto.

"Kallen ..." Otto stared blankly at Father Otto on the screen, his mind filled with only Yaqing and the story he told him from five hundred years ago.

At that moment, he felt as if he had stepped into the Bishop Otto.

"The turning point appeared... because of my cowardice. I didn't dare to take that step and leave with Kallen, which led to the changes in the world's development. That wasn't the Saintess's answer, but a warning left for me, left for Otto Apocalypse..."

Otto muttered to himself.

"If I hadn't backed down like a coward, would the world have changed? Would Kallen's death have been prevented? Then Otto would have lived with Kallen..."

Otto's thinking had reached a dead end.

"Otto, Otto!"

When Otto heard that familiar voice, he seemed to see a little girl smiling at him from the top of a wall. But when he came to his senses and looked closely, he only saw Kallen's worried expression.

"Otto, what's wrong? I call you but you don't respond, you just keep talking to yourself, are you...?"

Before Kallen could finish speaking, Otto hugged her tightly.

Kallen didn't struggle, but gently patted Otto's back, as tenderly as a mother, and said softly, "What's wrong? Why are you suddenly acting like a little child? If I tell little Theresa, she'll laugh at you for being shy."

"Kallen, hug me a little longer."

"Yes, you can hug me for as long as you want."

A long time.

Otto's somber voice came through. "Kallen, I can't imagine a world without you. I don't have the ability and wisdom of the Bishop of Schicksal, and I can't achieve what he did. My only outcome is madness and death."

"Don't belittle yourself, you're the smartest," Kallen gently comforted Otto.

Father Otto's voice was calm yet trembling. He had buried the Saintess in a foreign land, and then he came here to establish an orphanage.

Because of his own experience, he understood Joachim and respected his choice.

Theresa could no longer hold back her sobs.

As Father Otto finished speaking what sounded like his last words, Bronya suddenly called out Joachim's name. Joachim was outside the door, pushed it open, clutching the crucifix that the priest had dropped in the snow.

"Father, you lost this cross last night, so I found it."

Joachim clutched the cross tightly. Even though he was still confused, he was willing to take over the orphanage and the responsibilities of a priest.

"So please continue to be my family, and don't lead me down the wrong path...!" Joachim collapsed by the bedside, tears streaming down his face. Theresa gently hugged him from behind.

Father Otto listened to Joachim's words, he believed in Joachim, and before he died, he clutched the pendant tightly in his hand.

"I have fought the good fight... I have finished the race..."

"I have kept the faith you have in it..."

A tear fell onto the wooden floor, instantly transforming into white light that engulfed the entire world.

"I never imagined that one day I would actually shed tears because of Otto." Kiana wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Grandpa..." Theresa couldn't imagine life after losing Otto.

"If Bishop Otto in the main storyline were Father Otto," Mei exclaimed.

"Wait, Mei is right. If Otto in this world is just the director of an orphanage, then who is leading the people to fight against the Honkai?" Himeko raised a crucial question.

"But there's still the class monitor!"

The squad leader Fu Hua they were talking about was sitting awkwardly next to Elysia, listening to the loud crying next to her. It seemed a bit unreasonable for her not to cry as well, but her mind was only on the main storyline of shooting herself.

Eden's tissues weren't nearly enough for Elysia.

It's a bit of a dilemma.

Mobius took a tissue from his bag and threw it toward Eden.

Eden gave Mobius a grateful look.

Mobius turned his head away with an air of arrogance.

"Waaaaah."

Sakura looked at the crying Pardo with surprise and confusion. This shouldn't be the case. In her memory, Pardo wasn't that sentimental. She asked, "Pardo, why are you crying?"

"Sister Ying, my finger is stuck..."

Upon closer inspection, Sakura noticed that Pardo's slender fingers were wedged perfectly into the gap of the seat armrest.

"???"

The snow was still falling. In front of the tombstone in the stone-carved city, Theresa held a bouquet of Abyss Flower, Joachim knelt before the tombstone, praying sincerely for him.

The tombstone bears the deceased's name: OTTO, and a line in German that can be translated as "When his heart was free, Joachim gently uttered the words of the Bible."

"We know where you're going. We know your path."

Theresa made a vow at the priest's tombstone that the orphanage named Freya Orphanage would continue to operate. This was her and Joachim's choice, and the path they would take.

"God will protect you, our Father."

"God will protect you, our hero."

"Freya Orphanage?" Kiana was surprised. No wonder it was a parallel world. It was only one word different from Theresa's Valkyrie Academy, and it was basically the same as a university in reality.

"I suddenly realized that the headmaster and Joachim are quite a couple." As a shipper, Bronya ships every couple she sees.

"???" Theresa's expression was strange, and she asked with displeasure, "Bronya, are you awake?"

"Aunt and Teacher Yang? That's impossible."

"I'm talking about the headmistress in this parallel world. If she and Joachim continue to run the orphanage together, they might very well develop feelings for each other over time. Moreover, before the priest died, she gently hugged Joachim." Bronya presented the evidence one by one.

"That seems to be true." Kiana scratched her head.

"Don't even think about it! It's impossible no matter how you think about it!"

Chapter 178 Kiana: Three hours and it's still not over?! (3K)

Otto had calmed down thanks to Kallen's comfort, but when he saw Theresa hug Joachim, that string of reason snapped again.

"Damn it, even my little Theresa has never hugged me so gently!" Otto gritted his teeth in anger, consumed by jealousy.

Seeing Otto like this, Kallen could only smile helplessly.

Otto suddenly remembered that Amber had given him some information before, saying that Welt Yang, the vice president of Anti-Entropy, had joined St. Freya Academy under the name Joachim. He hadn't paid much attention to it before, but now he couldn't afford to think about it too much.

He didn't even bother watching the movie; he threw on his coat and ran outside. He called Amber on his phone to find the document. Otto was thinking that this plot point was a hint given to him by Yaqing.

Yaqing sneezed at the Schicksal Cinema.

"Kevin must be cursing at me." Yaqing assumed Kevin was the most malicious person. She glanced at Amber, who had stood up, and was a little puzzled. The movie was only halfway through, so why was someone getting up? The plot wasn't bad at all.

"Sister Amber, what's wrong?" Yaqing asked.

In the dim light of the screen, Yaqing could see the veins bulging on Amber's fair forehead. She left without saying a word.

This left Yaqing completely baffled.

"Maybe it's because of some work-related issues," Cecilia explained.

Yaqing didn't want to chase after him to ask, so she had to turn her attention back to the screen.

Bronya returned to the platform, but Seele was nowhere to be seen. Only the notebook in her arms offered her some comfort.

Joachim reappears and tells her that the labyrinth is crumbling, and because of Bronya's abilities, he chooses to tell her what has happened.

Welt Yang encountered a powerful enemy. In order to seal the enemy in the Sea of Quanta, he chose to sacrifice his physical body to create this huge labyrinth, which will test everyone who steps into it.

"Welt... stopped the 'snake' from invading reality with his life."

"Just as I expected."

Viewers were already used to Welt Young's physical body disappearing; in fact, they would have been surprised if Welt Young hadn't died.

Besides, it's not unheard of for a physical body to simply dissipate. In the first movie, Welt Young's physical body dissipated after being beaten by Sirin, yet he's still alive today.

"Come, I will open the final path for you."

Joachim opened the path to the third world for Bronya, which was also the final test. After passing this final test, she could leave the labyrinth and go to the location of the Core of Reason.

Joachim told her that she could enter the Sea of Quanta by using the Herrscher Core, but if she stayed in contact with the core for too long, her body would be torn apart. In the end, he told Bronya to remember that no matter what happened, she must not let the "snake" leave.

"Bronya promises you, the World Serpent is also Bronya's enemy, Bronya will never betray Welt's trust."

"Good luck, Bronya."

"So this place isn't the Sea of Quanta after all!" Kiana glanced at her phone, only then noticing the time, and exclaimed in surprise, "It's been three hours already?!"

"Has time really passed so quickly?" Himeko thought only about an hour had gone by.

"It's been three hours. Bronya should be finished with her three trials. After inheriting the Herrscher Core, she can leave with Seele, right?" Theresa thought the movie would end in another half hour.

But is the truth really as she thought?

[The familiar darkness. This time, Bronya was awakened by Seele. She was still in the snowfield, but it was completely different from the previous world. She looked at Kiana with a ghostly expression.]

Kiana's teasing caught Bronya off guard until Mei reminded her that their enemy was the Herrscher of the Void.

Bronya was even more confused after hearing this.

The Herrscher of the Void?

Kiana, the Herrscher of the Void, is right next to her, which means that the current timeline is when the Second Honkai was against Sirin. However, the time doesn't match up. How old were Kiana and Mei at this time?

Just as Bronya was thinking, Mei suddenly became alert.

"Everyone, prepare for battle."

A large number of Honkai Beasts were approaching, but before they could react, all the Honkai Beasts were wiped out in an instant. Dozens of mechs descended from the sky, and among them, the brown-haired man who had been hovering in mid-air slowly fell down.

"Did she survive? Valkyrie?"

"As expected, the trailer was a deceptive trick." Einstein realized this and remembered the contents of the trailer.

"So, of the three trials I left behind..." Welt Young looked strangely at his unruly self on the screen, "The first trial was a tormented child, the second trial was a rebellious child, and the third trial was a villain?"

Welt Young wanted to complain: This wasn't a test for Bronya; it was clearly a test for himself.

Einstein, however, had a different view.

"The first test represents the pain of childhood, the second test represents the confusion of growing up, and the third test represents the wrong path." Einstein succinctly summarized Welt Young's trials.

Welt Yang was willing to cooperate with Bronya and the others. He looked at them indifferently and headed directly into the depths of the snowfield. This was the first time Bronya had seen Welt as the Anti-Entropy Leader, and he was completely different from the one she remembered.

In this world, Kiana's impression of the First Herrscher is still that he was personally destroyed by Bishop Otto decades ago. Mei doesn't know much about the situation either, only that the other party established Anti-Entropy and claimed to fight for humanity.

"Those Herrscher claim to fight for humanity are completely unbelievable," Kiana said irritably.

"The boomerang will eventually hit you back at you." Bronya glanced at Kiana, who was clearly identified as Herrscher in the main storyline.

"Hey, why are you all looking at me like that? This is what I said in a parallel universe, not what I said in the main storyline." Kiana scratched her head.

Seeing Kiana's silly look, Bronya sighed. She had the face of a mature woman, but she was so foolish.

Twenty-year-old Kiana had her smooth white hair tied in a high ponytail. The HOMU on her short-sleeved shirt was stretched out of shape by Da Lei, and her fair and slender legs under her denim hot pants seemed to glow in the dim environment.

"It's Uncle Yang!" Rosalia was so excited to see a familiar face on the screen again that she hugged Lilia tightly.

"I have a feeling that Welt from this parallel world has a villainous aura about him."

"Kevin, you're right. I'm afraid that Welt, who claimed to have killed Valkyrie and Otto and destroyed Schicksal in the promotional video, is this guy." May nodded thoughtfully.