"I might not have been able to do it before, and I might not be able to do it now, but that doesn't mean I won't be able to in the future."
Xu Yanwu said to Otto, "Right now... my power is still growing, and... the rate of growth hasn't slowed down."
"Back then, I was already able to sense the existence of souls."
"Now, I have the ability to preserve souls."
"Then... in the future..."
That was as far as Xu Yanwu went. He left the rest for Otto to consider on his own.
"My abilities are still continuously growing..." Otto fell into thought as he listened to Xu Yanwu.
"How long will it take?"
Otto asked Xu Yanwu, "How long will it take for your power... to grow to that point?"
"You've already waited so many years. Would a little more time really matter?" Xu Yanwu countered. Then he said, "I don't know, but... absorbing Honkai Energy... no, absorbing Honkai itself, can make me stronger faster."
"..."
Otto hesitated somewhat.
He understood what Xu Yanwu meant.
If he chose Xu Yanwu, it meant abandoning most of everything he had worked toward regarding the Honkai all these years.
No... perhaps not most of it, but...
If Otto truly chose to seek the answer to resurrecting Kallen through Xu Yanwu, then everything Otto had done before... would need to be put to use in a different way.
"Do you know what I've done for my goal?" Otto asked Xu Yanwu.
"I know... I know some of it."
Xu Yanwu said, "But you should understand that even if Kallen killed herself, she still wouldn't want you to save her this way."
"Even so, do you still intend to stubbornly persist?"
Faced with Xu Yanwu's questioning, Otto replied, "...I know that even