Otto: It Doesn't Matter If Kallen Hates Me; What Matters Is That She Lives Again

"What did that scene look like?" Xiao Xiao asked softly.

"Kallen stood before him, shielding everyone behind her." Ye Yinzhu spoke in a low voice, his fingertips trembling lightly against the strings. "Just as she had done five hundred years ago. Otto wanted to revive her, but in the first second after her resurrection, she would do the same thing again. He spent five hundred years wanting her to live. Yet the first thing she would do after coming back to life would be to stake her life against the world once more. He could never get around that. Because that was who Kallen was."

In the scene, Otto walked to the edge of the temple and looked down at the land below, which was being swallowed by white light. Branches of the Imaginary Tree hung from the clouds like countless cold, lifeless tentacles, beginning to coil around mountains, rivers, and cities. The world trembled faintly. His expression did not change. He merely watched in silence, as though watching an old play that was finally reaching its end after five hundred years.

"She won't agree," he suddenly said, as if answering someone's question. "But that doesn't matter. I only want her back. After she returns, she can hate me, stop me, or die for those people again. That is up to her. But this time, I won't let her die again. I will place the entire world beneath her feet. It doesn't matter if she hates it. What matters is that she lives again."

"He doesn't even care if she hates him," Gu Yuena said quietly. "He doesn't care how much pain she will be in after she returns. He only wants her to exist. This obsession has already surpassed love, hatred, and everything that should exist between people. It