Fu Hua revealed the entire process and reasoning behind taking Kiana away.
In an instant, the feelings of those who had been full of blame and resentment toward Fu Hua became complicated.
Indeed, Fu Hua had been aiding and abetting evil—but was that really her fault?
It was not. Fu Hua had taken Kiana away to protect St. Freya Academy, to prevent a Honkai eruption on the scale of Changkong City from happening.
Changkong City was used as the comparison because the Siberian Honkai eruption existed only in Fu Hua's thoughts within the memory. It was limited to written imagination, without even a single concrete image.
Clearly, to learn what had truly happened back then, they would have to wait until Fu Hua touched other memory fragments.
For now, what was shown was the process of Fu Hua accepting Otto's mission, monitoring Kiana, and bringing her to Destiny.
Everyone knew Otto was certainly up to no good, but from Fu Hua's perspective, was this immortal's conduct truly wrong?
No. She had merely made the choice she believed to be most correct. If the Herrscher personality within Kiana had truly awakened, a devastating catastrophe would have descended upon St. Freya Academy. Even as a Valkyrie academy, it would likely have been almost completely wiped out.
Fu Hua simply wanted to protect the academy and prevent a great disaster from descending.
Even when Fu Hua took Kiana away, guilt had been written across her face. Unable to save Kiana, she could only make the forced choice that came at the least cost.
She knew very well that cooperating with Otto would certainly cause Kiana tremendous harm. Yet Fu Hua, who had lived for countless years, understood all too well that some painful choices had to be made.
As the saying went, when