Recaps

Huo Yuhao and the others concluded that Otto’s five-hundred-year obsession with Kallen created the resonance that let the Imaginary Tree permit a history rewrite. The Tree used Otto as both the key to opening a new world line and the price of anchoring it, leaving the group to recognize that the Tree—not Otto—decided how the change turned out.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto’s alteration of history left a visible crack in the world line, and the group saw patterns linking the execution platform to Otto’s final moments.
• Tang San said the Imaginary Tree had permitted a rewrite to be proposed but had not guaranteed that Otto’s desired outcome would endure.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhou Weiqing concluded that Otto’s schemes and suffering had built a powerful connection to Kallen’s death, making his obsession a key to the Tree’s roots.
• Ye Yinzhu said Otto could open the lock but could not decide which way it turned, because the Tree controlled the result.
• Tang San and Gu Yuena explained that the Tree used Otto’s resonance to create a new branch, then absorbed him to stabilize it.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhou Weiqing concluded that the Tree had used Kallen’s death and Otto’s obsession as nourishment for its own growth.

Huo Yuhao and the others discussed how Otto’s five hundred years of obsession forced the Imaginary Tree to open a crack toward the moment Kallen died, though it gave him no guarantee she would survive. The Tree took Otto and closed the passage, leaving his effort remembered as an inconspicuous crack in its lowest growth ring.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto opened a path to the Imaginary Tree through his suffering and unwavering obsession, not through strength.
• Tang San and Gu Yuena said Otto knowingly let the Tree use and consume him because it was his only chance to reach Kallen.
• Huo Yuhao showed how Otto’s actions formed connections to the past, carrying his obsession to the instant before Kallen died and forcing the Tree open.
• Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao explained that Otto became both the one who opened the passage and the one who filled it, leaving the new world line without room for him and Kallen together.
• The Tree’s lights faded after acknowledging Otto’s presence, and Huo Yuhao said its lowest growth ring would preserve the crack forever without changing any world line.

After the Light Screen revealed that Otto’s plan would erase him from cause and effect, the group discussed how his nonexistence could make room for Kallen to live. The chapter left them contemplating the peace he hoped Kallen would enjoy in a world where she would never know he had existed.

• The Light Screen revealed that changing the World Lines would cause the Imaginary Tree to erase Otto from all cause and effect.
• Gu Yuena, Tang San, and Huo Yuhao explained that the world would rewrite history to fill the gap left by Otto’s erasure.
• Gu Yuena said Otto had to become that gap so the world could make room for Kallen, and that he had accepted there was no path for him to survive.
• Ye Yinzhu said Otto stayed silent because even a farewell might leave a connection that could bind Kallen to him.
• Gu Yuena said Kallen would feel peaceful and happy without knowing Otto had ever existed.

Huo Yuhao and the others discussed how Otto would be erased from causality to replace Kallen’s death, leaving him with no existence or echoes. The Light Screen then showed Kallen moments from execution while Otto raced through the Imaginary Tree, unaware that time was running out.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto would become a null value, erased from existence so Kallen could live.
• Gu Yuena said Otto’s nonexistence would anchor Kallen’s survival, and Huo Yuhao warned that even Honkai could be erased from causality.
• The Light Screen confirmed that Otto had accepted erasure with no resentment, regrets, or echoes.
• The Light Screen showed Kallen bound on the execution platform as the executioner prepared to act.
• Tang San explained that Otto could not see Kallen’s execution, while the split screen showed him rushing through the Imaginary Tree.

The group watched Otto race through the Imaginary Tree to save Kallen as she was executed, but he could not reach her in time. His sacrifice made the Tree reassess her death, changing it from an execution to force majeure, and the chapter ended with Tang San saying Otto had at least died at the same moment as Kallen.

• Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had to reach the Imaginary Tree before Kallen's execution became irreversible.
• As the executioner counted down, Otto poured five hundred years of obsession into the Tree and accelerated through the final instant.
• Kallen's noose tightened before Otto could reach her, and Tang San explained that Otto was using his own death to make the Tree notice him first.
• Gu Yuena said Otto's sacrifice changed Kallen's death from an execution to force majeure, though it could not save her life.
• Zhou Weiqing condemned the world's cruelty, and Tang San said Otto had at least died at the same moment as Kallen.

Otto's attempt to synchronize with Kallen's death gave her a fleeting sense of his presence but could not save her. As he reached the Imaginary Tree, hundreds of discarded versions of himself emerged to block his path, and the first confronted him over the innocents he had sacrificed.

• Tang San, Gu Yuena, and Huo Yuhao explained that Otto burned himself into the Imaginary Tree so he and Kallen could draw near in the same instant, though they never met.
• The Light Screen showed Kallen and Otto disappearing as the Imaginary Tree fell silent.
• Huo Yuhao noticed cracks splitting the space around the Tree, and hundreds of Ottos in black Archbishop's Robes emerged from them.
• Gu Yuena and Chang Gongwei identified the figures as the selves Otto had discarded, while Huo Yuhao and the Dragon God explained that Otto had to defeat his past selves to alter reality.
• The first discarded Otto accused the original of killing innocents in the name of the greater good and demanded to know whether he remembered him.

Otto defeated the manifestations of his past sins and entered the Imaginary Tree, where he declared his guilt and begged for Kallen’s return. As the tree’s light consumed him, he shattered into golden motes and became fuel for its roots.

• Otto fought and destroyed the countless versions of himself, accepting responsibility for the sins of his five hundred years.
• The Imaginary Tree sent down a beam of light and drew Otto toward it, despite his body beginning to disintegrate.
• Otto confessed that he was evil and said he wanted to bring her back to life, asking only for her to live.
• Otto reached toward the Imaginary Tree and shattered into golden motes that flew into its roots.
• Huo Yuhao said Otto was burning himself rather than simply falling apart.

Otto used his existence to empower the Imaginary Tree and send its light toward the moment Kallen died, hoping to rewrite reality and save her. The light reached its destination, where Otto appeared alive but changed, openly confessing his crimes and preparing for his final battle.

• Otto exchanged his existence for the Imaginary Tree’s power, and its projection burst into light that raced toward Kallen’s death five hundred years earlier.
• The witnesses debated whether Otto deserved the Imaginary Tree’s recognition and whether Kallen would accept the weight of his sacrifice.
• The Light Screen revealed the world five hundred years earlier, where Otto stood before the Imaginary Tree with cracks covering his body.
• Otto confessed that he had deceived people, caused deaths, manipulated wars, and treated the world as a chessboard, calling himself thoroughly evil.
• Otto summoned a simple golden spear, revealing that he had shed his usual disguises and was ready to fight.

Otto sacrificed the evil he had accumulated over five hundred years to rewrite the Imaginary Tree’s rule and save Kallen, disappearing after she survived. As the Light Screen dimmed and lit again, a golden pillar of light descended onto the battlefield from five hundred years earlier.

• Otto drove his spear into the Imaginary Tree’s projection and offered his accumulated sins to change the rule that Kallen had to die.
• Otto’s body disintegrated as he rewrote the moment of Kallen’s death, making her wounds heal and the Collapse Beasts retreat.
• Kallen survived, and Otto vanished after saying that his sacrifice had been worth it, leaving his golden spear embedded in the Imaginary Tree.
• Huo Yuhao said Otto had won by his own definition, and the Light Screen showed the battlefield from five hundred years earlier again.
• A golden pillar of light descended from the sky, tearing through space and time above the battlefield.

Otto projected his will into the past and wielded the Annihilation Form of Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment to challenge the fate that Kallen must die. He fed the sword with his life and five hundred years of obsession, then unleashed its power as the Kaslana heroes appeared within its flames.

• Otto appeared in the past as a projection of his will, surrounded by golden flames drawn from the Imaginary Tree.
• Tang San identified his weapon as the Imitation Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment in its Annihilation Form, a sword embodying the Kaslana heroes’ will.
• Otto said he wanted to become the hero Kallen had hoped he would be and swung the sword to sever his inner demons.
• The sword’s strike burned through space and time as Otto attempted to sever the established fact that Kallen must die.
• Otto’s body was charred and ruined as he poured his life and five hundred years of obsession into the sword.
• Otto called for Heavenly Fire to unsheathe, and the Kaslana heroes appeared within the rising flames.

Otto used the heroes’ sword to attack the Imaginary Tree’s rule that Kallen must die, then fought the Tree’s endless phantoms to keep the altered future from being sealed again. Badly wounded and burning through his divine soul and life force, he continued swinging as the battle grew increasingly hopeless.

• The heroes acknowledged Otto’s resolve, and he swung their flaming sword at the rule that Kallen must die, declaring that he would become her hero.
• The scene shifted to a battlefield where Otto faced the Imaginary Tree’s phantoms, which attacked him for trying to alter space-time.
• Otto’s first two strikes incinerated swarms of phantoms, but more poured in endlessly and wounded him.
• Otto made his third strike despite losing his right leg and burning his divine soul and life force; his hair turned white as the phantoms quickly filled the cleared space.
• Otto made a weakened fourth strike while the phantoms tore at his body and devoured his divine soul.

Otto spent his remaining existence fighting the Imaginary Shadows so Kallen might survive, then appeared on a warped battlefield wielding three imitations of Divine Keys. As an enormous, twisted beast crawled from a rift, Otto readied himself to face it.

• Otto kept striking the Imaginary Shadows despite his body disintegrating, and burned away his future possibilities to continue fighting for Kallen.
• Otto saw Kallen watching him and used his final strength to unleash a ninth strike, engulfing himself and the battlefield in golden light.
• Otto appeared on a warped battlefield surrounded by weapon imitations, then summoned the Black Abyss White Flower, the Xuanyuan Sword, and the Oath of Judah.
• An enormous beast formed from black imaginary energy crawled out of a rift as Otto prepared to fight it.

Otto defeated the Imaginary Beast formed from his sins by purifying, severing, and binding it, then piercing its core with the combined power of three Divine Keys. The heart of darkness struck back and pinned him with cursed spikes, but Otto began pulling them out so he could keep moving toward Kallen.

• Xiao Xiao and the others identified the enormous Imaginary Beast as the embodiment of everyone Otto had killed and the sins he had committed.
• Otto tried purifying the beast with the Black Abyss White Flower, then severed it with the Xuanyuan Sword and bound its smaller forms with the Oath of Judah.
• Otto fused the three Divine Keys’ Authorities into an arrow of light and pierced the beast’s heart of darkness, causing its body to disintegrate.
• The heart of darkness launched a final counterattack, piercing Otto with black spikes that corroded his Divine Spark and made his body turn transparent.
• Otto said he could not die while Kallen was waiting, then began pulling out the spikes despite the risk that he would disintegrate.

The Light Screen showed Kallen’s execution being interrupted by a Collapse Beast outbreak caused by Otto’s battle within the Imaginary Tree. Despite her injuries, Kallen fought to save civilians and shielded a little girl from a fatal attack, leaving her critically wounded but still protecting the child.

• Otto pulled out the final spike, his Divine Spark shattered, and he died relieved to have given up being a god.
• The Light Screen showed Kallen’s execution at Schicksal Headquarters five hundred years earlier as a simultaneous image of Otto’s battle.
• Collapse Beasts poured into the execution grounds, and Gu Yuena said Otto’s spacetime fluctuations had triggered the outbreak.
• Kallen broke free from her shackles, fought the beasts bare-handed, and carried an old woman to safety despite her wounds.
• Kallen threw herself in front of a little girl, took a spike through her body, and held back the beast while telling the child she would protect her.

Kallen died at the execution grounds while protecting a little girl, and Otto saw her death as he struggled toward the end of the Imaginary Tree to change her fate. As Otto neared annihilation, memories revealed him and the fifteen-year-old Kallen sharing a sunny afternoon in Vienna, where she read him a knight novel.

• Kallen comforted a little girl before dying from her wounds at the execution grounds five hundred years earlier.
• Otto watched Kallen die through the Light Screen and vowed to change her fate, even if he had to burn away his existence.
• Otto pressed on toward the depths of the Imaginary Tree as his divine spark shattered and his body faded.
• Otto collapsed near death, unable to reach the end of the Imaginary Tree, while his consciousness began to dissipate.
• Otto's memories returned to a Vienna courtyard, where the fifteen-year-old Kallen read a knight novel and called him over.
• Young Otto sat beside Kallen and complained that the novel's happily-ever-after ending was clichéd.

Otto drew on his will to reach the Imaginary Tree’s core and learned that changing the past would erase his existence from every timeline. He accepted the price and sent a brilliant light toward Kallen’s execution five hundred years earlier.

• A memory showed young Otto promising Kallen that he wanted to protect only her, and Kallen said she would wait for him.
• Otto recalled Kallen’s words, reassembled his shattered divine spark, and used his will to keep fighting.
• Otto advanced toward the Imaginary Tree’s core, cutting through its branches as his body and soul burned away.
• Otto learned that rewriting the past would make him never have existed, and he accepted the cost to save Kallen.
• Otto pressed his hand into the core and sent light through space and time toward the execution ground five hundred years in the past.

Otto sacrificed his existence to revive Kallen five hundred years in the past, then the Light Screen showed his final battle before he vanished. With his remaining power, he mimicked Void Archives to destroy the Imaginary Beast's remains and clear his way to the Imaginary Tree.

• Golden light healed Kallen’s fatal wound and brought her back to life as Otto disappeared from every timeline.
• Otto’s final words reached Kallen five hundred years in the past, telling her to live well, and the Light Screen went dark.
• The Light Screen resumed with footage of Otto’s final battle, where the Imaginary Beast’s lingering remains blocked his path to the Imaginary Tree.
• Otto converted the power of the Key of Reason, the Key of Sensation, and the Key of Knowledge into an incomplete Void Archives.
• Otto hurled Void Archives at the remains, and the golden cube began deconstructing their concept of existence.

Otto erased the Imaginary Beast’s remains with the Void Archives and reached the Imaginary Tree’s core, where he rewrote history so Kallen would survive at the cost of his own existence. After Otto vanished, the Light Screen showed him still moving on the imaginary battlefield, nearly erased but not yet gone.

• Otto used the Void Archives to erase the Imaginary Beast’s remains and the curse attached to them, opening the path to the Imaginary Tree.
• Otto struggled along the golden path despite his fading body and reached the Imaginary Tree’s core.
• Otto learned that changing the past would erase him from every timeline, then accepted the price and rewrote Kallen’s fate.
• Kallen returned to life five hundred years in the past as Otto disappeared, sending her the last words, “this time, live a good life.”
• After the Light Screen went dark and the onlookers mourned Otto, it showed him nearly erased but still moving on the imaginary battlefield.

Otto used the last trace of his divine spark to forge a self-consuming Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment and tear open the Imaginary Tree’s barrier to reach the origin of space and time. As the sword and his body began to break apart, the passage remained unfinished and the blade began to shatter.

• Huo Yuhao said Otto was already dead and sustained only by his will as Otto struggled toward the Imaginary Tree.
• Otto’s right leg and then his remaining limbs disintegrated, but he crawled onward until he reached the Imaginary Tree’s projection.
• After losing his left arm, Otto transformed his final divine spark into a ghastly white Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment made from his existence.
• Otto pressed the sword against the Imaginary Tree and burned his body to force open a passage to the origin of space and time.
• The sword developed spreading cracks before the barrier was breached, and Otto realized its power was insufficient.

Otto burned his existence to open a passage through the Imaginary Tree and rewrite time, saving Kallen while vanishing from the battlefield. Before his sacrifice could end, he merged himself with the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment and offered his body, soul, and existence to the Tree, which began to consume the flames.

• Otto burned his will and love for Kallen to open the rift and reach the source of space and time.
• Otto accepted the cost of having his existence erased from every timeline and rewrote fate, healing Kallen as he began to disappear.
• Otto remained on the imaginary battlefield and drove the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment into the Imaginary Tree's trunk.
• Otto merged his body, consciousness, and soul with the Divine Key, turning himself into fuel for the sacrifice.
• Otto declared his offering to the Imaginary Tree, which shook and began devouring the flames.

Otto sacrificed himself to revive Kallen, allowing the Imaginary Tree to erase him from history and her memory. After the screen showed his complete disappearance, the Imaginary Tree suddenly moved and the light of every timeline stopped.

• Otto merged with the Imaginary Tree, and Kallen revived five hundred years earlier.
• The Imaginary Tree stripped away Otto’s memories and erased his records and existence from history.
• Otto asked the Imaginary Tree to make Kallen forget him, and she awoke unable to remember who had saved her.
• Otto vanished completely, and the Light Screen displayed his sacrifice before fading to darkness.
• The Light Screen lit again, showing the Imaginary Tree move as the light of all timelines stopped.

After Otto sacrificed his existence, the Imaginary Tree split off a new world line where Kallen had never died. The new world began without Otto, who vanished from every timeline, while Kallen remained unaware of his sacrifice.

• The Imaginary Tree responded to Otto's sacrifice by growing a golden branch and forming a new world at its tip.
• The new world showed Kallen surviving her execution, creating a world line in which she had never died and history would be rewritten.
• The onlookers realized Otto did not exist in the new world because he had paid for its creation with his past, present, and future.
• Kallen woke at the execution ground, confused by her healed wound and unaware that Otto had sacrificed himself for her.
• The golden branch's brightest future showed Kallen leaving the church, becoming a hero, and saving many people.

Otto sacrificed his existence to the Imaginary Tree so Kallen could live in a corrected world line, and the Tree devoured him to create it. After Otto vanished, a record of his sacrifice briefly appeared, and the Light Screen showed his final moments as his remains formed a golden shooting star.

• A faint record at the Imaginary Tree's branch identified Otto as the sacrificer and stated that his sacrifice created a new world line where Kallen survived.
• Gu Yuena asked whether the others would sacrifice everything to save someone, and Chang Gongwei, Lei Xiang, and A'Dai said they would for someone important to them.
• The Light Screen showed the Imaginary Tree devouring Otto's body, soul, and consciousness as nourishment for the new world.
• Otto recalled his five hundred years of obsession, sins, and loneliness, then willingly burned himself to accelerate the sacrifice.
• Otto said Kallen had survived and would be free before the creation light consumed him completely.
• Otto's remains gathered into a golden shooting star in the void.

Otto sacrificed his existence to create a world line where Kallen survived, leaving only a hidden record inside the Imaginary Tree. After the Light Screen showed his erasure and the others reflected on why he had chosen it, it revealed Kallen’s execution five hundred years earlier and froze the moment before she died.

• Otto’s golden meteor struck the Imaginary Tree, and its power sustained the new world line as Kallen opened her eyes alive.
• Otto vanished from the Sea of Quanta, but a tiny remnant entered the Imaginary Tree and left a hidden record of his sacrifice at the end of time.
• The Light Screen showed Otto’s sacrifice being remembered only as an unnamed act, while the others concluded he had erased himself so Kallen would never learn the cost of her survival.
• The Light Screen shifted to Schicksal’s execution ground five hundred years earlier, where a Collapse Beast’s claws pierced Kallen’s abdomen.
• The world around Kallen froze at the moment of her execution.

Otto’s meteor crossed spacetime and erased the moment when the Collapse Beast wounded Kallen, allowing her to defeat it and escape unharmed. As spacetime cracked under the rewritten history, the meteor’s remaining power began repairing it, leaving Otto’s sacrifice still being spent.

• Otto’s meteor crossed into the past and froze spacetime around Kallen’s execution ground.
• The meteor rewrote history so the Collapse Beast’s claw missed Kallen, erasing her wound and the blood.
• Kallen used the Oath of Judah to pin and kill the Collapse Beast, then left with the little girl, believing she had been lucky.
• Spacetime cracked after the historical correction, and Otto’s remaining golden power spread through the cracks to repair them.