The Imaginary Tree Split Open and Hundreds of Ottos Emerged-All Dark Chapters of His Past He Had Killed Himself

"Look closely," Tang San said, pointing at the Light Screen. "The instant the execution ended on the left, Otto's body on the right scattered too. Not one after the other. Simultaneously. Five hundred years ago, Kallen breathed her last. Five hundred years later, Otto burned himself out. To the Tree, those two events were the same instant. Otto wasn't accelerating to catch up with her. He was doing it so that, in that final moment, she wouldn't be alone. He used himself to fill the instant of her death. So when Kallen passed, she wasn't all alone. She must have felt something. That was why she looked back. That was why she glanced in his direction."

"But they were five hundred years apart," Xu Sanshi said hoarsely.

"To the Tree, five hundred years wasn't even an inch," Gu Yuena said. "Once Otto burned himself into it, time no longer meant anything to him. He entered the Tree. And the Tree connected five hundred years ago and five hundred years later simultaneously. There, only a layer of bark separated him from Kallen. When Kallen looked back, she wasn't looking into the distance. She was looking behind that layer of bark. She couldn't see anything. But she felt it all the same. Perhaps that was the cruelest part of this so-called 'synchronization.' They really did draw close in the same instant. Close enough that only life and death lay between them. Yet neither touched the other. One was dying, the other dissipating. And just like that, they missed each other."

"And after they missed each other, they were parted forever?" Xiao Xiao asked.

"Farther apart than forever," Huo Yuhao said. "When you part forever, you still remember each other. But for them, one was erased from the world without a trace, while