In the laboratory at Schicksal Headquarters, Otto watched the data on the screen and kept making adjustments..
"Not right. Still not right. There's clearly no deficiency in her vitality, and the soul is indeed Kallen's, but why?"
There were no abnormalities in any of her life signs. Why, exactly?
None of the values were problematic. Otto had dealt with soul transfers before. He might have succeeded many times through sheer luck, but this time, and this time alone, he had failed.
The reason might have been that Kallen herself had never wanted to wake up.
Otto moved his hand away from the console and walked toward another laboratory.
"I'll make you wake up, no matter the cost."
At this point, Otto could only use S-444. Although this might cause K-423 at the Far East Branch to lose control, in Otto's eyes, Kallen was clearly more important. Theresa would probably be difficult to deal with, but no—so long as it didn't affect the Far East Branch, everything would be fine. Feng Chen was about to head to the Far East Branch anyway. As long as S-444 was kept from meeting him then, there would be no problem.
If Feng Chen learned of S-444's existence, Otto's means of keeping him in check would probably be greatly reduced. So Otto had been doing his best to avoid deploying S-444, lest something unexpected happen.
But this time, even if he deployed S-444, reviving Kallen would still be extraordinarily difficult.. The odds of success were less than one percent. If a certain chairman were in his place, he would probably refuse to relax until the odds of success reached one thousand percent—and he certainly wouldn't gamble on that one percent.
But Otto was willing to take the gamble. There was no other reason. She was