Ye Yinzhu sighed softly: Otto chose the quietest way to erase himself, bit by bit

After the Light Screen went completely dark, everyone remained silent for a long time. Xiao Xiao buried her face in her hands. Her shoulders had stopped shaking, but she looked hollowed out, slumped against the back of her chair. Just when everyone thought the revelation was over, the Light Screen suddenly lit up again.

This time, it showed no images. There was only a voice, low and distant, as though it came from the farthest depths of the imaginary. The voice said:

"Erasure."

The two words struck like a pair of mountains crashing down.

Only then did words appear on the Light Screen. They lit up slowly, stroke by stroke, as if to make certain everyone saw them clearly:

"Otto Apocalypse: If he succeeds in altering the World Lines, the price will not be ordinary death. The Imaginary Tree will erase him completely on the level of cause and effect. Every trace of him—past, present, and future—will be removed. He will become a 'concept of nothingness that never existed.' Even Honkai itself could not withstand this price."

"Wait!" Xu Sanshi shot upright, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets. "Even Honkai itself couldn't withstand it? Isn't Honkai a god-level existence? It couldn't survive that kind of erasure either?"

"Because this isn't death." Gu Yuena's voice was soft, yet it pierced every ear like a needle of ice. "Ordinary death means a life ends. When a soul scatters, the soul is gone. But erasure from cause and effect means tearing you out of the great book of the world. Not tearing out one page. Removing every word that mentions you, until not even a punctuation mark remains."

"But that would leave gaps in the book." Xiao Xiao raised her head, her eyes so red she could barely open them. "If