Tang San: Kallen Buried in Otto's Wall, Everyone Buried in Kevin's

On the screen, Kevin raised a hand, and countless streams of data unfolded before him. Each one represented a survival plan for civilization. His finger paused over the largest one, his voice seeming to come from the depths of a glacier. "The Holy Mark Plan. Activate it. We don't need everyone's consent. If they can endure it, humanity will still have a future. If they can't, then that is a choice civilization made for itself. We are merely pressing the button that was bound to be pressed sooner or later."

"The Holy Mark Plan?" Bei Bei frowned.

"A selection process," Huo Yuhao said. "It preserves the portion of humanity most likely to adapt to Honkai, while the rest will be sacrificed. It is not meant to save every person. It is meant to let 'humanity' as a whole survive into the next era. It is unimaginably cruel, cruel enough to resemble a massacre against one's own civilization. But Kevin would do it. Because, in his eyes, the survival of civilization outweighs every individual heart. That is where he goes further than Otto—Otto only wanted Kallen, while Kevin wanted the Core Flame of an entire race."

"Then isn't he simply Otto's other side?" Chang Gongwei said quietly. "One acts for himself, the other for the greater good. But their methods are equally cold, and they sacrifice equally many. Otto thinks the whole world owes him, while Kevin thinks the whole world must return a future to him. Both of their scales bear billions of lives. Only one calls it Kallen, and the other calls it civilization."

"So neither Otto nor Kevin can judge the other," Gu Yuena said softly. "They are both incarnations of obsession. When obsession burns to its limit, only a single wick remains. Otto's wick is called Kallen;