Even more speechless was the fact that after Welt Joyce used his powers, he fell directly into a coma and lost his memories. Naturally, Schicksal recovered him and named him... Experimental Subject Ω1.
Thus, Welt Joyce underwent three years of research as an experimental subject within Schicksal. During that time, he endured without breaking down by exchanging letters with a pen pal, Clown Alpha—our Lord Otto, that is—mostly by gushing about Kallen together.
Later, after three fruitless years of research, Schicksal ruled out the possibility that Welt Joyce was a Herrscher. He was then brought to Imperial Research Institute Laboratory 42 as a laboratory assistant.
It had to be said that during this period, Welt Joyce and Otto had a fairly good relationship, even though they had never met in person. Otto even kept trying to recruit Welt Joyce under his command.
However... compared to Otto, Welt Joyce felt closer to the group of scientists who would later found Anti-Entropy, which left Otto somewhat displeased.
Later, Otto and Welt Joyce met in a bathhouse at a resort somewhere on the outskirts of London. They even bared themselves to each other and soaked in a Roman bath face-to-face...
During that time, Otto intended to have Welt succeed him as Schicksal's bishop, but their conversation was interrupted by a power outage, and Welt refused Otto afterward.
...After that, perhaps for the first time in his life, Otto developed the mindset of, "If I can't have it, I'll destroy it"? The power of a Herrscher was far too great. Otto would never stand by and watch Welt Joyce become his enemy.
So our Lord Bishop Otto began plotting all kinds of schemes to persecute Welt Joyce, finally provoking Joyce's resistance and hostility.
In 1955, Lord Otto personally made his move, intending to punish