Chapter Summaries

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.