Otto from 500 Years Ago (Continued)

They were certain that the Otto before them was the Otto from 500 years ago, not just because of his clothes, but also because of his demeanor.

Bishop Otto had ruled the world for five hundred years, and his strategic and commanding presence was not something that could be faked by ordinary people. But the Otto before them was timid and lacked that presence at all.

"It really is time travel..."

Mobius's beautiful eyes shone.

Those technical terms that seemed like gibberish to others were listened to with utmost attention by her.

"Mei, do you think it's possible?"

"Mobius suddenly said."

"I don't know, but it's definitely impossible to achieve without conducting experiments."

Mei made a joke.

Mobius then took a deep breath, turned his head and looked at Yaqing, staring at her quietly.

Yaqing felt uneasy under their gaze.

"Snakey, don't look at me like that..."

Yaqing calmly said, "This data was provided by the president."

Yaqing already knew that using the screenwriter position as a shield wouldn't fool Mobius, so he shifted all the blame onto Otto, mainly because he explained everything to Mobius as long as he knew even a little bit.

The key question is, what does a lousy screenwriter know about time travel?

Mobius looked suspicious.

As the director of the Schicksal Research Institute, Yaqing's access to data by Otto is inextricably linked to Yaqing.

"Aren't you the director of the research institute?"

"Well..."

Yaqing's tone seemed somewhat hesitant to speak, as if she had come to a realization, her eyes fixed intently on Mobius.

"It was the CEO who opened the back door for me."

Mobius couldn't help but roll his eyes.

She had witnessed Yaqing's research capabilities firsthand, so she completely dismissed that statement as nonsense.

But Kevin actually took it seriously.

"Hey, Yaqing, Otto will give you special treatment?"

"That's right."

Yaqing nodded.

Mei sighed and rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

Yaqing is lying completely; anyone who believes her is a fool.

Unfortunately, her boyfriend was mentally challenged.

"Achoo! Achoo!"

Otto suddenly sneezed twice in a row.

As the saying goes, "First you think, then you curse, then you mutter," Otto immediately guessed that someone was cursing him, but perhaps there were too many people cursing him, so he couldn't guess who it was right away.

"Otto, you have a cold?"

Kallen nestled in Otto's arms, looked up, and had a worried expression on her face.

"No, Kallen, someone must be talking about me behind my back."

Otto hugged Kallen tightly.

Kallen chuckled, her smile as radiant as a flower.

"There are so many people online criticizing you now, you must sneeze so many times every day."

Otto smiled.

For him, what do all the insults in the world have to do with me?

When Kallen saw Otto from 500 years ago appear, the smile on her face gradually turned into confusion.

"Wait! Is time travel really possible?"

Kallen looked at Otto.

Otto thought about it carefully for a while, then shook his head with a serious expression.

"No, it can't be time travel. If it were really possible, the person appearing wouldn't be me from 500 years ago."

Otto's meaning is very simple.

If time travel were truly possible, Bishop Otto wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to resurrect Kallen; instead, he would have simply traveled through time to change a series of tragedies.

Even if Otto himself cannot change it, this Otto who traveled to the modern era through time projection will definitely try his best to change it after learning of Kallen's death.

"So this person is... another part of your plan?"

It's no wonder Kallen thinks this way, because in Honkai, if the current civilization encounters something inexplicable, it must be Otto's doing.

"It should be, and I don't think he is me from five hundred years ago."

Otto's calm analysis.

"Given that I have many Honkai Steel bodies, this Otto is very likely a Soul Steel body that I specifically used to store 500 years of memories. As for why I did this, I can't figure it out at the moment."

After all, Otto is not "Otto"; he has a perfect love with Kallen and cannot possibly put himself in her shoes.

She has a "ladylike" lover, a "filial" granddaughter, and "respectful" students...

"Sigh, when I think about the sins you committed in the story, all because of me, I..."

Kallen's expression turned forlorn.

Otto felt a pang of heartache and held Kallen tightly, whispering, "Kallen, it's not your fault. It all started because of me. I romanticized my plan as resurrecting my lover, but the sins I committed are impossible to conceal."

"Hmm..."

Kallen buried her pretty face deeply in Otto's chest.

Upon meeting this familiar yet unfamiliar person, Theresa and the others explained the current situation to Otto, who seemed to be from 500 years ago. When he learned that he had come to a world 500 years in the future, he was deeply astonished.

Tesla was not going to be friendly to Otto and remained skeptical. They searched for a long time but couldn't find a living person appearing in the time-space projection.

But the Otto before them made them believe that he was completely different from Bishop Otto, whether in temperament, personality or tone of voice.

In this timeline from 500 years ago, in the battle of 1491, Otto led Otto rebel army to defeat Schicksal and shatter the old Schicksal's reign of terror.

He fled after Kallen's death. He went to a small island and opened a monastery, but in order to save the ordinary people under the old Mandate of Schicksal's rule, he launched a rebellion in the name of the Saintess.

Upon learning from Tesla of the evil he would commit in the future, Otto, who lived 500 years ago, fell silent.

After a long silence, he finally spoke.

"Thank you. Your words have helped me face myself squarely, future doctor."

"There is indeed a void deep within my heart that time cannot fill. The more I chase after the Saintess's light, the deeper this void plunges my soul into the pain of darkness."

"I have conducted human experiments and killed my admirers. As you say, I do indeed face the terrible risk of falling into endless darkness."

"For me, to be a person of universal love like Saintess... is simply an ascetic practice, a precept, a form of self-discipline. I..."

Otto paused, looked at Theresa and the others, breathed a sigh of relief, and said sincerely.

"Gentlemen—if I am able to return to my own world after this extraordinary adventure—I will relinquish my first right of succession to the Bishop of Schicksal."

The words were spoken in a single sentence.

Theresa and Tesla were both shocked. They hadn't expected Otto to make such a choice, because the Otto they knew was someone who would stop at nothing to resurrect Kallen.

Otto then explained why he made this choice: during the civil war, he had reorganized and reformed the organizational structure of Schicksal, so that it could function on its own even without bishops.

He believed that only Schicksal that could function independently of the bishop was closer to the Saintess's own ideal.

"Thanks to you all, I was able to look at it from a new perspective... and thus arrive at completely different conclusions."

"I'm a little dizzy. Could this really be Otto from 500 years ago?"

Elysia never believed that Otto came from 500 years ago. She thought it was a conspiracy by Bishop Otto to get close to the main characters.

However, the plot development clearly exceeded her expectations.

It confused her a bit.

Otto was a skilled actor, but the Otto before him, in terms of tone, expression, and sincere emotion, possessed qualities that Bishop Otto neither had nor could portray.

It's as if we really traveled from 500 years ago.

"Eden, can it really achieve time travel?"

Elysia grabbed Eden's arm.

If time travel were truly possible, Elysia would want to go back to her childhood and see how adorable she was as a child.

"Elysia, the choice isn't just between true and false."

Eden's words left Elysia completely dumbfounded.

"Eden, what are you saying?"

Elysia was already feeling dizzy because of Otto, and hearing this made her even more dizzy.

"Actually, we've all overlooked one possibility: parallel universes. This Otto in front of us could very well be from a parallel universe, for example..."

Eden pointed to Elysia's fair forehead.

"Elysia, do you still remember the World Bubble that Bronya experienced?"

"Of course I remember."

Elysia blurted it out.

"That's..."

Elysia seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes widened in surprise.

"Eden, you mean this Otto is Father Otto?!"

Elysia was incredulous.

Eden nodded.

"It's not impossible. Otto said he went to a small island and opened a monastery to take in special orphans. In addition, he told Theresa and the others that he refused the position of bishop. It is very likely that he was the priest Otto later."

Elysia got goosebumps.

Foreshadowing will be resolved.

She clearly believed it.

If Yaqing heard this, she would probably burst out laughing, but Eden's conjecture is logically consistent, making it hard for anyone not to believe it.

"Without 500 years of obsession and madness, Otto is no different from a normal person, but the obsession with resurrecting Kallen weighs on his heart and has driven him to madness."

Fu Hua looked regretful.

If Kallen hadn't died, Otto might have done even better, Anti-Entropy probably wouldn't have separated, Schicksal would have become the main force against the Honkai.

Unfortunately, the turning point came 500 years ago.

"Looking at it this way, Otto is actually quite pleasing to the eye."

Little Knowledge nodded, then shook his head.

"No, I almost got caught up in this! This is Otto from 500 years ago. The things Otto did 500 years later, the evil deeds he committed—he can't possibly live! Otto must die!!!"

Little Knowledge's hands made a series of cracking sounds as if his bones were colliding.

Otto's character is contradictory and complex.

There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. Some may admire his love for Kallen, while others may hate the sins he committed. But fundamentally, Otto was not a good person.

Durandal keenly sensed something amiss with Otto, so she had Tesla examine him. To her surprise, they found the puppet strings of the Herrscher of Domination on Otto's body.

Meanwhile, inside the Hyperion, Changguang contacted Einstein and revealed some of the information he knew to them.

It was another long explanation of technical jargon. After exchanging information, the two sides reached a brief cooperation agreement.