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"No! You know... far too much! Those things aren't something ordinary people could possibly know!"
For once, Kallen spoke cleverly. "Things from five hundred years ago, things about Otto, and things about Theresa... none of that is something an ordinary person could know! Who exactly are you?!"
"And that extraordinary power of yours... could you be... a Herrscher?!"
Once Kallen thought of that possibility, she decisively tried to draw her weapon, but Xu Yanwu stopped her.
"This is an arcade. Are you trying to cause a panic by pulling out a weapon here?"
Xu Yanwu grabbed Kallen's hand. "I'm not a Herrscher. I resist Honkai as well."
"Maybe making up a reason would be better for you, but lies are easily exposed... Besides... I'm willing to tell you the truth, because Kallen is someone worthy of my respect in every world."
"In every world...?"
With Xu Yanwu holding her wrist, Kallen was somewhat stunned by his words.
"Kallen, do you know... what a Parallel World is?"
Kallen was bewildered by everything Xu Yanwu had told her.
Kallen had lived from five hundred years ago to the present, and she was somewhat lost when it came to the modern era.
Still, Kallen had heard of Parallel Worlds... but she had always believed they were merely a concept.
After all, such things had never truly happened around her, so one should remain skeptical until they were confirmed.
Yet now Xu Yanwu was telling Kallen... that he had come from another world, and that... this world and that world were parallel worlds.
It was simply... too strange.
"So... according to what you said, the Kallen you knew was Kallen from another world, from five hundred years ago?"
Kallen found the phrasing rather