Theresa Tattles

"They really came up to rescue the squad leader!" Bronya was shocked.

By having all the Valkyrie stand by and then personally coming to rescue Fu Hua, it gives the impression that there's a special relationship between the two.

"Great! Hua doesn't have to go off the field!" Pardo exclaimed happily.

"Something's not right. Why would Otto reveal his trump card because of friendship? Someone like him should be someone who will stop at nothing and is selfish for the sake of his plans," Vill-V.

"Sister Vill-V, I think you're overthinking it." Pardo stretched like a cat while eating popcorn and continued, "If you ask me, Otto must have come out to save Hua because of our five hundred years of friendship."

"It's truly pathetic. Schicksal is clearly an organization meant to resist the Honkai, yet their leader has resurrected the Honkai's greatest enemy. I wonder what the Valkyrie of Schicksal would think?" Einstein took a sip of coffee.

"Didn't the Herrscher of the Void say that it's humanity's tragedy that it has a king like Otto?" Joyce chimed in.

"What exactly does he want to do? What benefits can the resurrected Herrscher bring him?" Einstein couldn't understand. "Even if he joins the Honkai and resurrects Kallen, how will Kallen live after the Honkai destroys the world?"

"Otto would never side with the Honkai." Joyce knew Otto as well; Otto would at least drive out all the Honkai before reviving Karen.

Joyce was unaware that joining the Honkai and becoming an apostle of the Honkai were two different concepts.

Otto walked to Fu Hua's side and looked down at the heavily injured Fu Hua.

"Ah... you look terrible. The last time I saw you so badly injured was five hundred years ago at Mount Qiongqi, wasn't it?" Otto crouched down, preparing to treat Fu Hua first, as a celebration of the successful completion of the first phase of the experiment.

"...Why..." Fu Hua's voice was barely audible.

"Hmm, can you still speak?"

Fu Hua struggled to get up, and said with difficulty, "Why... did you let her leave... Don't you know... her goal is..."

"It's Theresa, I know." Otto's tone suddenly turned serious. "I'm afraid they won't be caught up with for long."

"This time, no one else will interfere."

"Their fight will continue until the very end."

Otto's words made Fu Hua realize something, or perhaps she simply couldn't believe it—this man was actually willing to sacrifice even his own granddaughter.

Not only was Fu Hua in the movie shocked, but the audience watching the movie was also extremely surprised.

The one who found it most unbelievable was Theresa, who never imagined that her incredibly kind grandfather would become such a cold person in the movie.

"Are you crazy?!" Theresa growled at Yaqing.

She could accept everything else, including mocking her height and ridiculing her for slacking off and being silly. What she couldn't accept the most was Otto's slander about her feelings for him.

The atmosphere in the screening room became strange.

All eyes were on Theresa and Yaqing.

Kiana was caught in a dilemma.

Yaqing probably anticipated Theresa's strong reaction.

"Come out with me for a moment, Theresa, and I'll give you a reasonable explanation." Yaqing forced a smile. "If you can't accept it, you can hit me or yell at me, I'll do whatever you want."

After saying that, Yaqing stood up first.

Shigure Kira winked at him, asking if he needed her to go out and help explain.

Theresa followed Yaqing away.

Shigure Kira noticed the strange atmosphere in the screening room and stood up to say, "Please continue watching the movie, everyone. Don't worry, Principal Theresa and President Yaqing need to go out for a talk about some work-related matters."

No one believed Shigure Kira all.

"Why did Yaqing and Theresa start arguing?" Elysia asked worriedly.

"Elysia, don't worry, Yaqing will handle it," Eden comforted her.

"Excuse me." Mobius kicked Kevin's leg.

What are you doing?

"It's none of your business whether I go to the toilet or not."

Outside the screening room, watching Theresa who looked like an angry little beast, Yaqing helplessly dialed Otto's number.

Far away in Europe, in Otto and Kallen's love nest.

Otto answered the phone, "What is it? My dear friend, you don't usually call me during movie time."

"President, I'm sorry to have disturbed your movie enjoyment, but Dean Theresa has misunderstood me a bit, and I might need your help to clarify things." Yaqing explained the situation to Otto in very brief words.

"Okay, give the phone to my dear little Theresa."

Otto briefly explained his experiment to Fu Hua; he didn't intend for K423 to die. He wanted K423's consciousness to overcome Sirin's consciousness, thus creating a human with Herrscher powers.

"Manipulating a human is far simpler than manipulating Herrscher." Otto knew that getting K423's consciousness to win would be no easy task, and that required a sacrifice.

"Could it be..." Fu Hua no longer knew how to describe the man in front of her.

"I think you've already guessed it."

"That's right, that's love..." Otto admitted without hesitation that K423's enrollment in the St. Freya Academy was also his arrangement, including their happy and warm memories, which were also controlled by Otto.

"... They... will be killed...!!"

"I understand, the difference in combat strength is obvious." Otto refused to offer them any assistance and did not allow any outsiders to intervene in the battle.

"According to my calculations—"

"When the victim appears, K423 will reclaim this body!"

"I believe in Theresa and I believe in her students."

"Kill the Herrscher with love—"

"This is a feat that only they could accomplish."

"If I hadn't known beforehand that Otto was the main villain, I would have really thought he was a righteous leader," Kiana remarked.

"That's right, constantly talking about love and feelings, that's clearly the kind of talk a male protagonist from a shonen anime would say." Bronya's expression was strange, and she rarely agreed with Kiana's statement.

"He knowingly violates ethics, he knowingly disregards morality," Patrick said. "This is Yaqing's characterization of Otto in the film."

"That's so apt."

Patrick was unaware that there were several more sentences following those two.

He yearned for wisdom, but only to achieve personal satisfaction.

He worships beauty, but only in order to deny the existence of ugliness.

After listening to Otto's speech, Fu Hua realized that the man in front of her was nothing but a complete madman. Fu Hua couldn't help but laugh out loud, but it was a laugh mixed with bitterness.

"My friend, I'm asking you seriously now. Your behavior has gotten out of my control, so I've chosen to tell you everything. Even so, will you still resist me? Will you still try to stop me?"

Fu Hua's laughter stopped, and she answered Otto Apocalypse with almost all her remaining strength.

"...friend?"

"Your words contain not a trace of conscience... only bottomless selfishness and lies..."

"Trampling on other people's feelings, toying with other people's fates..."

"You haven't even had a single moment... where you feel like a bad person..."

"Otto Apocalypse ..."

"You make me feel utterly pathetic and disgusted from the bottom of my heart..."

Thunder rumbled across the sky, and darkness enveloped the heavens.

At the same time, it also obscured Otto Apocalypse's face.

Golden light gathered in his right hand, gradually transforming into the shape of a musket—Mimitation: Judgement of Shamash.

He slowly pointed the gun at the man lying on the ground.

That was a long process.

The memories spanning five hundred years seemed like a dream, vanishing one by one before him, turning into nothingness.

That was a very short process.

By the time he came to his senses, he had already made his choice.

"Scarlet Bird Immortal, I did not lie."

The screen went black, followed by a loud bang.

Chapter 109 Theresa's Complaint (Bonus Chapter)

"He... he killed the class monitor?!" Kiana was stunned.

Although in the movie it was Fu Hua who captured Kiana and handed her over to Otto, which led to Sirin's awakening, movies are movies after all. In reality, Fu Hua often helped Kiana, Kiana's feelings towards Fu Hua's fate were complicated.

Not only Kiana was stunned, but the audience watching the movie were also stunned.

"Otto personally killed one of his own side's top combatants?"

Sakura couldn't believe it, nor did she understand Otto's actions.

"His plan isn't love at all; it's a disregard for life!" Elysia indignantly.

"He believes in feelings, yet he plays with them. He believes in so-called love, yet he tramples on it." Eden frowned. "I can't judge this kind of person, and likewise, I don't like this kind of person."

"Hmm, Eden, I don't like those kinds of people either!"

In the screening room, Yaqing leaned against the wall, bored, watching Theresa talking to Otto on the phone. Suddenly, she noticed a patch of green around the corner not far away.

Yaqing glanced at Theresa, who was "complaining" to Otto, and then walked towards the corner.

"Why are you out here too?" Yaqing asked.

"Going to the toilet is none of your business," Mobius said, waving his still-damp hands.

"Senior, who upset you?"

"No."

"... Never mind, how about milk tea?" Yaqing felt the atmosphere was a bit strange, so she deliberately started a conversation.

"Casual."

Despite saying "whatever," Mobius's body language betrayed his actions as he followed behind Yaqing.

There was a chain milk tea shop near the cinema, with a decent flow of people. Yaqing and Mobius each ordered a milk tea. When it came time to pay, Yaqing's hand, which was reaching into her pocket, froze.

He remembered that his phone seemed to still be with Theresa.

With a polite smile from the shop assistant, Mobius paid for Yaqing's bill.

Sitting inside the milk tea shop.

"Sorry, senior." Yaqing, sipping her milk tea.

"Ha, there's not a hint of apology in your tone." Mobius rolled his eyes.

"You'll get used to it." Through the transparent glass wall of the milk tea shop, Yaqing Theresa squatting on the ground talking on the phone with Otto.

"Why did you two start arguing?" Mobius asked.

"We didn't argue, she just didn't quite agree with the plot I wrote." Yaqing clearly didn't want to talk about this topic.

The feathers reappeared.

It sounded like raindrops hitting an umbrella, or like birds flapping their wings.

The camera focuses on the containment pod in the Helheim Laboratory. Himeko, now awake, struggles to recall what happened before she fell unconscious. Remembering Theresa and the others, she stumbles toward the door.

Just a few dozen centimeters from the exit, Himeko suddenly felt fatigue wash over her. After falling, she struggled to her feet, leaning against the iron gate, panting heavily.

Then she noticed a bottle of reagent in her hand. She didn't know when it had appeared.

"Is this... serum?"

The reagent bottle is labeled HSN-b46.

The feather slowly fell, and outside the iron gate where Himeko leaned stood a familiar yet unfamiliar figure. She was ethereal and transparent, unlike a real person.

"Oh no! The old antique is dead and hasn't rested in peace. He's come back from the dead to seek revenge." Little Knowledge deliberately spoke in a low voice, leaning on Himeko's shoulder and whispering in her small ear.