The Path You Believed In... I Preserved It

Why was it me (Otto)?

When they saw that scene at the same time, Otto and Xu Yanwu both had the exact same thought.

Why was Otto (I) like this? What was going on?

Otto looked at himself in the scene.

The version of himself lying in bed, pale and weak, clutching the Kaslana family crest in his hand.

Otto saw countless purple patterns on that body's surface—traces of Honkai Energy corruption.

This version of himself was about to die.

Otto came to that conclusion.

Xu Yanwu, meanwhile, shouted, "Otto, why did I see you in there?! And why do you look so sickly, collapsed in bed?!"

"That isn't me!!!"

Otto's expression grew irritated.

For some reason, after seeing that version of himself, he felt... deeply annoyed.

He hated that version of himself.

Was the first Parallel World version of himself he saw really going to be like this?

"Not you? With that mop of blond hair, those green eyes, and that face of yours, who else could it be?"

Xu Yanwu continued.

"That isn't me from this world. It's me from a Parallel World!"

Though irritated, Otto still explained it to Xu Yanwu.

"The you from a Parallel World... actually ended up like that?"

Xu Yanwu had wanted to laugh, but seeing Otto on the verge of death from Honkai Energy corruption, he could not bring himself to laugh.

"Looks like you didn't have it too good in that world."

Xu Yanwu said, "To end up in such a state... But."

Changing the subject, Xu Yanwu said, "His expression, his eyes... they look very gentle. Unlike you."

"That Otto truly isn't the same person as you."

Xu Yanwu's words only made Otto more irritated.

"How could I be that kind of person?"

As Otto and Xu Yanwu argued, a