An Unconventional Journey of Self-Reflection for Otto (Continued)

"Is this the start of a flashback...?"

Upon seeing Otto invite Void Archives to view her past memories, Elysia couldn't help but murmur to herself.

The plot development felt familiar to the audience.

When faced with a character about to leave the stage, the official team always squeezes out all the remaining potential or tries to make the audience cry one more time. Otto is clearly a knife in the flashback.

A gleaming knife aimed straight at their hearts.

It is titled "Memories".

"Every word Otto says is inexplicably philosophical, making you want to believe it. It's strange, considering he's done so many bad things, I feel a little sorry for him at this moment."

Little Knowledge couldn't help but speak up, scratching his head in confusion.

He doesn't need anyone's pity.

Fu Hua patted Little Knowledge's head.

"Because he is about to fulfill his 500-year-old wish."

Upon hearing this, Little Knowledge slapped Fu Hua's hand away and blurted out in astonishment.

"Old fogey, do you really think Otto can resurrect Kallen?"

The disbelief of Little Knowledge.

Fu Hua nodded slightly.

She believed that even if Otto was called a fool, he was destined to fulfill his long-cherished wish.

However... it doesn't necessarily mean turning back time to 500 years ago.

After all, no one can be sure what Otto's plan is until it is completed.

Stepping into fragments of memory, it was before the Schicksal Expedition, when he joyfully told Kallen that he would accompany her on the expedition as a medical practitioner.

But the smile on her face didn't last long. Otto's words left Kallen confused.

When we grow up, you must take me with you to save the world.

Kallen does not believe that war is the only way to save the world, and that deep involvement in various countries is clearly not what Schicksal should do.

Feeling lost and confused Kallen wanted to confide in Otto.

But Otto gave an irrelevant answer.

The texture of memory shattered, returning to the clouds. The Void Archives began a rational analysis, and the Key of Revelation grasped the key point in just one sentence.

Otto also admitted that he was not a good childhood friend. If he couldn't even objectively evaluate himself, how could he give Kallen a second life?

"Let's see... There should be plenty of opportunities for us to offer our criticisms."

"After all, in her presence, I am often just a complete fool."

"This is a... journey of Judgement."

Elysia was surprised.

It turns out it wasn't just a wave of nostalgia.

It is also Judgement.

Otto lays bare his memories before the audience, wanting to witness firsthand the mistakes he made and to let the audience judge him.

"Otto was running away at that time..."

Mobius paused.

I couldn't help but look at someone.

This escapist personality, this irrelevant attitude.

It always reminded her of someone.

"Snakey, why are you looking at me like that?"

Yaqing tilted her head.

"Nothing."

Mobius snorted coldly. "One is influenced by one's company." She finally understood who Yaqing got her escapist personality from.

That wretched Otto ...!

Mobius was furious. She thought about how she had made so many hints and direct advances to pursue Yaqing, and how Yaqing had avoided her for so long. It turned out that the root of the problem was Otto.

[Entering the second memory, Schicksal's eastern expedition failed, and Otto and Kallen warmed themselves around a campfire in the bleak cold wind.]

Otto sneezed a few times because his clothes were soaked in the river. Kallen told Otto to put his wet clothes down to dry, and then draped her own coat over Otto.

Kallen couldn't help but ask Otto about the failure of the Eastern Expedition, and the internal strife and corruption caused by money within Schicksal.

Otto still chose to run away, comforting Kallen with his self-righteous gentleness, unaware that it was precisely because of this that the two of them would drift further and further apart on their respective paths.

Otto didn't understand Kallen's hero complex at all; he just wanted to stay by her side. But he also knew that Kallen's talk of saving the world wasn't a joke.

"Look, these fatal flaws were misaligned from the very beginning."

Otto's tone was full of self-mockery and sarcasm.

"The memories that follow... are nothing more than making Otto Apocalypse a pathetic and laughable figure step by step."

"Kallen is really arrogant."

Sakura shook her head.

In the story, Kallen draped her coat over Otto, saying that the strongest Valkyrie wouldn't be afraid of the cold, but then she turned around and sneezed several times.

Sakura even wondered if this character setting was reversed.

According to the plot of the idol dramas she often watched, Otto should have put his coat on Kallen, who was feeling cold. However, considering Otto and Kallen's physical condition, it seemed quite reasonable.

"Escape, escape, escape."

Mobius was furious and glared fiercely at Yaqing.

Yaqing looked completely puzzled.

Mei couldn't help but laugh when she saw this.

"Mei, what are you laughing at?"

Kevin asked curiously.

Mei adjusted her glasses and blatantly lied through her teeth.

"I'm laughing at Otto for loving so humbly."

Humble?

Kevin didn't understand.

Perhaps noticing the confusion on Kevin's face, May began to explain on behalf of her boyfriend.

"Given Otto's intelligence, it's impossible that he couldn't see what Kallen was thinking. The reason he kept choosing to run away was because he loved her too humbly."

Mei still felt it was a bit of a pity.

"Otto's humble love made Kallen a kind of faith in his heart, but even heroes have a vulnerable side, a side of confusion, and a side of bewilderment."

"Otto deliberately chose to avoid the problem and escape because he was afraid to solve the problem for the hero in his heart. If we were to take a third-party perspective, I believe he would soon notice this."

"It's just a pity..."

Mei sighed.

Therefore, this chapter is titled "The Twilight of the Fool".

This is the end for Otto.

This is the Twilight of the Fool.

The third flashback is the scene from the Purple Iris arc, where Otto uses human experiments to develop a cure for the Black Death, and Kallen chooses to rob the rich and help the poor, becoming a phantom thief.

"I really don't understand, why were you so awkward back then?"

"Why not just tell her all your thoughts? The whole history might be changed because of it."

Void Archives couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"Maybe, but what exactly did you want me to say to her back then?"

Otto chuckled self-deprecatingly.

What can be said? What can be told?

Is he claiming to be researching new drugs through human trials, or is he using economic theories from 500 years in the future to explain what truly solves the fundamental problems?

If it's not these things, what's the point of telling Kallen directly?

"Will she change herself because of this, or will I change myself because of this?"

Otto's voice trembled as he said those words, sounding as if he would burst into tears at any moment.

"But in fact, none of you have changed anyone else."

Otto nodded, agreeing with Void Archives' words. At that time, he had naively believed that he had many ways to protect Kallen.

Void Archives couldn't understand why Otto, who had been frail and sickly since childhood, would think so highly of himself in this matter. In the end, the complementarity did not exist; instead, it hastened Kallen's death.

Since that day, Kallen discovered the true dark side of Schicksal.

Their life trajectories were thus thrown out of control.

"What followed turned into a tragedy disguised as absurdity."

"I ultimately made the most foolish judgment of my life."

In Kallen and Otto's cozy little house.

Kallen couldn't help but hug Otto.

That trembling question, "Will she change herself because of this, or will I change myself because of this?", was incredibly impactful on Aunt Kallen.

Otto felt very fortunate.

I'm glad I didn't choose to run away or take a roundabout way back then, but went straight for it. I'm also glad that I met Kallen after we got married.

"Otto, you..."

Before Kallen could finish speaking, her eyes widened.

Otto actually kissed those alluring red lips directly.

After being married for over a decade, a simple kiss would never have made Kallen feel shy or surprised. However, this time, Otto's kiss was too abrupt.

A long time.

The two then parted ways.

A silver thread connected their lips.

"Kallen, I'm so glad now, so glad that we didn't part ways like in the story."

Otto put his arm around Kallen's shoulder.

Kallen's face flushed slightly.

After all, she's not the Schicksal Valkyrie in the storyline. Even within Schicksal, the staff still refer to her as Lady Kallen.

Without Otto's power, Kallen would just be an ordinary member of the Kaslana family, the daughter of the previous head of the Kaslana family, the aunt of the current head of the family, and the next head of the family...

Does Kaslana really have a successor as head of the family?

[Entering the flashback chapter again, Otto talks to his sister Lisa. Otto threatens Lisa with the truth about his father's death, threatening her to help him save Kallen. He then agrees to run away with Kallen.]

In his most desperate moment, he agreed to his sister's foolish request and personally released the Honkai Beasts from the prison, sending Kallen to her doom.

"You know what? Otto ... I'm sometimes really jealous of your sister."

After a long pause, Void Archives's tone was filled with helplessness and deep regret.

"Back then, I meticulously set up so many traps for you, big and small, and you never fell into them—"

"But all she did was hand you a shovel, how could you dig your own grave?"

"It is said that human emotions can make people lose their rationality, but what you did is indeed a bit unbelievable."