"Whew... whew..."
The cold wind swept across the young man's face. It was an environment that should have made ordinary people extremely uncomfortable, yet it elicited no reaction from him at all.
Even though he wore a mask that covered half his face, Otto could still sense that there was something extraordinary about the Herrscher before him.
"Is that what you wanted to say?"
The young Herrscher pointed at the syringe in Otto's hand, but his gaze gave Otto an unprecedented sense of danger.
Yet instead of attacking and snatching the syringe away as Otto had imagined, he merely waved his hand, looking at Otto as though he were an idiot.
"If it's just this kind of thing, don't come looking for me. Your Schicksal researchers should be able to analyze what it is and what it does. I don't think you've lost so much trust and confidence in your subordinates that you have to go that far, have you?"
Otto placed great importance on talent. That was why he had sent Bianca and Rita to Feng Chen's side. Feng Chen had managed to attract Sirin, the most complete Herrscher currently known, so there had to be something different about him.
To prevent Sirin from suddenly being controlled by the power of the Honkai one day, taking Feng Chen away from Schicksal's control and beginning another rampage, Bianca and Rita were also crucial factors. Moreover, the initial reason those two had grown close to Feng Chen was that Otto had discovered the difference between Feng Chen and other male Honkai Energy adaptors. Put bluntly, he wanted a new tool—one for which he could not find a replacement.
Feng Chen himself could not determine what Rita in this world felt for him—because the only source of his knowledge about this world,