"Dr. Shen, can we pretend we never met today?" Once Welt had confirmed that Shen Fei was not one of Otto's men, he breathed a sigh of relief. Even if his identity had been exposed, he could always leave St. Freya Academy, but then he would be unable to continue his mission.
"You became a teacher here to monitor Kiana, didn't you? No, more accurately, K423—or rather, the Herrscher of the Void?"
There was only one reason Welt, the leader of Anti-Entropy, would come to St. Freya Academy to teach. Though Kiana currently showed no sign of danger, she was still the Herrscher of the Void. If she awakened, the Second Honkai might well repeat itself.
To prepare for that possibility, Welt naturally had to stay by her side so he could stop her at the first sign of trouble. At the same time, he had another hope: perhaps the Second Herrscher could be brought over to humanity's side, just like the First Herrscher had been.
Back when Kiana's Herrscher energy awakened during her childhood, Siegfried lost an arm and then left her. But that did not mean he had abandoned her entirely. He simply did not know how to face Kiana at the time and could only flee. In Shen Fei's view, giving her the real Kiana's name before leaving her behind was an utterly baffling move, but considering Siegfried's circumstances back then, it was not impossible to understand.
But Kiana was, after all, the Herrscher of the Void. Even if Siegfried had ruthlessly ignored her, neither Schicksal nor Anti-Entropy could afford to do the same.
Otto wanted to use the Herrscher of the Void's power to complete his plan, while Anti-Entropy feared that Kiana would become a Herrscher again. If Siegfried had not desperately stopped her during that