Land of Shenzhou

After Otto offered a bouquet of flowers to the coffin, the scene dissolved once more.

The church, the people around them, the walls, the floor, the priest, the young Otto, the flowers...

Only the young Kallen and the coffin she was holding onto remained.

"From that time onward, I was afraid."

"Once, I had nearly regarded Mr. Francis as a god. Kallen did too, because in our young hearts... he was practically omnipotent."

"He could easily do things we could not. He possessed immense power, and he had conviction..."

"But he died."

"I could not imagine that even gods could die."

"So from that moment on, I began to fear death..."

"I was afraid that one day... Kallen would become like what was inside that coffin."

"A piece of... charred flesh. A corpse."

Xu Yanwu watched Otto say those things within the empty data and asked, "So?"

Otto glanced at Xu Yanwu before continuing. "At that time... Kallen had still been raised as a nun."

"She believed in God, and she was my faith as well."

"But what frightened me was... she was becoming more and more like her father."

"Powerful, kind, and full of conviction..."

As Otto spoke, he waved a hand, and ruins surrounded him and Xu Yanwu.

"Where is this?"

Xu Yanwu looked around.

There were ruins and corpses everywhere.

The entire village looked as though something had completely crushed it several times over.

"This was... a village. Back then, Kallen was not yet Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie. This was one of her missions."

"I went with her."

"But by the time we arrived, it had already become like this."

"That was the first time Kallen saw such a scene during one of her missions."

"Our mission was to drive away the Honkai Beasts near the village, but