Tang San: The Only Solution Was for Kiana to Put Kallen on the Scales and Make Otto See for Himself

"He had long since stopped saying 'thank you.'" Zi said coldly. "He only says 'continue.' Because he knows that girl will not stop. She cannot choose for herself. As long as the world still exists, she has to act. It is an open scheme, plain for all to see, yet no one can break it."

"Is there really no one who can break it?" A'Dai suddenly asked, his voice like a dull blade scraping over stone.

"The one who can break it would have to care less about winning and losing than Otto does." The Dragon God spoke slowly, his voice like wind rising from beneath an Ice Field that had existed for ages. "Every step Otto takes rests on the fact that others still care. They care about the world, their companions, Kallen. If someone truly cared about nothing, Otto's formula would collapse. But the hardest thing in this world has never been winning. It is letting go of everything. Kiana cannot let go. So she can only walk the path he laid out for her."

"Then... will she become someone like Otto too?" Xiao Xiao's voice was soft, as though she feared disturbing something.

"No." Tang San said, "Because she has one thing Otto lacks. Not strength, not wisdom—it is that even at her most painful, she is still willing to catch others when they fall. At his most painful, Otto only wanted the entire world buried with him. So even if she truly opens that door for Otto, she will not walk through it. She will first give half her own fire to the world."

"But will half be enough?" Bei Bei asked.

"I don't know." Tang San said. "But at least the world beyond that door will not have only Otto in it. Perhaps that is