Chapter 168

After all, the upcoming battle would be certain death, and Welt did not want to be a burden to Tesla, nor did he want Tesla to be even more heartbroken.

He himself never expected that he could successfully do sit-ups inside the coffin.

After the war with the Second Herrscher ended, the relationship between the two became very awkward. In order to avoid the awkwardness between them, Welt chose to leave Anti-Entropy and carry out an investigation on his own. He was very concerned about the next move of Schicksal, which was responsible for recovering the Second Herrscher's remains.

Tesla was too shy to try to keep Welt, which left Tesla feeling depressed for a long time after Welt left.

Upon hearing Welt's frank answer, her pretty face turned as red as a ripe apple.

"Varied..."

She opened her lips, and the genius's mind began to scramble.

Steam seemed to be rising from its head, and it looked like it would crash in three seconds.

Welt glanced at Tesla and gave him a gentle smile.

"... I just don't think I could have given her happiness before. Aurora's appearance makes me feel gratified. Even if I'm gone someday, there will be someone to accompany her on her journey..."

At this point, Welt got up from his chair and helped Tesla up.

Then he gently hugged Tesla.

"I have never regretted inheriting the name Welt, because Mr. Welt Joyce is a hero to me, and Einstein and Tesla have shown me the beauty that I would give my life to protect."

"Let go of Tesla, whose head is starting to steam, "Welt continued.

"With great power comes great responsibility. I've always believed that. At the very least, having inherited the power of the First Herrscher and the name of Welt, I should do something for this world..."

"That's true. The greater a person's ability, the greater the responsibility they can fulfill. But this is not an obligation. Everyone has the right to choose whether or not to do so!" Freya said after a moment of silence.

In terms of ability, she is currently the most capable person in the world.

Mandate of Schicksal symbolizes rights, but rights are also a part of power.

"Indeed, the greater one's ability, the greater the responsibility one can shoulder. Ability and responsibility are related, but they are not necessarily linked."

Freya taking responsibility means making her own choices.

I chose this kind of life myself.

"As the Acting Grand Bishop said, the two are related, but not necessarily so." Welt chuckled self-deprecatingly. "Of course, even if they aren't necessarily related, I would still choose to become a hero like Welt Joyce ... However, I've also noticed that there are some things I can't keep pretending not to see..."

Decades of affection, decades of companionship.

After Freya took power, Schicksal was no longer hostile to Anti-Entropy.

The duopoly situation no longer exists.

Now, the two sides are cooperating to develop technology and form a common front against fight against Honkai.

Welt was constantly being sent out to inspect, found himself with more free time to think about his relationship with Tesla... to the point that he realized he owed Tesla a wedding.

Freya was still a little confused. Theresa looked at the shattered seal in her hand and then at Welt, and subconsciously clapped.

The applause brought Tesla back to his senses after his mental lapse.

Tesla looked at Welt, her thoughts in disarray, her eyes trembling, her cheeks burning. Never having imagined that Welt would reciprocate her feelings so directly, she suddenly collapsed backward with a soft thud.

Her brilliant mind allowed her to come up with names for her children.

Welt, of course, wouldn't let Tesla to the ground, and quickly reached out to catch Tesla as he fell backward.

"Hmm... should I prepare a wedding gift for you two?"

"Ah?"

Theresa, who kept clapping, finally realized that something big was about to happen.

"No need for expensive gifts, I plan to keep things simple with Tesla... no, I should ask Tesla's opinion first. However, it seems she won't wake up anytime soon..."

Welt felt an unprecedented sense of relief, as if a heavy burden on his shoulders had disappeared.

"Really? Well, congratulations, Mr. Welt... Anyway, there's nothing important to do today, so let's end this early."

"Thank you very much, Your Acting Grand Bishop."

"Let's go, Theresa."

Freya announced that she would end her morning work early, but in reality she had taken some documents and planned to continue working in the St. Fountain. Welt helped Tesla to the sofa to rest, seemingly not intending to leave work early.

Freya pulled Theresa away from the office, but as soon as they stepped out, she tripped and fell flat on her face, scattering the documents she was holding all over the floor.

She truly hadn't expected that Welt would actually get married.

Seeing how serious Welt had been, Freya felt that it wouldn't be long before Aurora called the two of them "Dad" and "Mom."

"Qiqi Qiqi..."

"Yes, I was surprised too."

Freya got up, rubbed her nose, and patted off non-existent dust from her skirt.

After tidying up the documents scattered on the floor, Freya and Theresa left together. On the way, she hurriedly contacted Einstein and told Einstein about the incident.

Then...

Even Einstein, who also possessed a genius brain, was rendered inoperable.

She instinctively took a wrench and tapped the casing of the enormous super quantum computer in front of her, while simultaneously sending a message to Ryoma.

Then she continued to tap the outer shell of the super quantum computer with a wrench. She didn't know why, but she just couldn't stop at this point.

Ryoma, who was debugging the Titan Mech's turret mode, glanced at the communication he had received. He didn't pay attention to it at first, but instead had the Titan Mech activate its turret mode.

The Titan Mech began to transform. Its arms, which could take down a Valkyrie with a single punch, were pressed to the ground and deformed along with its legs. The extended steel stakes were driven into the ground and fixed in place. Then, the continuously opening missile launchers and cannons were aimed at the target 500 meters away.

"Mr. Ryoma, should we lock onto... Mr. Ryoma?"

However, before Ryoma could lock onto the target Titan Mech turret mode, he pressed the free fire button.

"Mr. Ryoma!!!"

Then the Titan Mech in turret mode started demolishing buildings, bombarding the surrounding warehouses, buildings, and other Titan Mech.

Although there were no casualties, the number of buildings and mechs destroyed by the Titan Mech in turret mode was countless.

After all... in turret mode, the Titan Mech deploys 18 by 18 missile launchers, totaling 324 small missiles per salvo, and 70 heavy machine guns using 14.8mm ammunition, capable of firing 350,000 rounds of ammunition in one minute...

There were no casualties, since the Titan Mech in turret mode do not lock onto humanoid targets and mainly attack non-humanoid Honkai Beast.

However, the psychological trauma is immense.

Incidentally, the turret mode wasn't fully debugged yet, so the Titan Mech, which was firing missiles and dealing massive damage, exploded due to overload.

The towering flames were quite a sight.

However, Ryoma stood aside, holding the remote control, facing the massive explosion with an unwavering expression. The heat wave and the blinding sparks were like a small firework display.

His calm and composed attitude, as if a mountain were collapsing before him, continuously elevated his image in the hearts of the Anti-Entropy members. Of course, Ryoma himself was very flustered, and his thinking completely stopped.

Huh? Welt is getting married?

He felt that since it was April Fool's Day, Einstein must have been playing a joke on him.

Yes, that must be it. How mischievous...

He then subconsciously forwarded the communication to the other Conservatives executors, and news of Welt's decision to marry Tesla was spreading among the Anti-Entropy executors in a strange way.

Moreover, each spread represents a loss, or rather, a bewilderment.

An Anti-Entropy was inviting a woman to dinner, as it concerned his future happiness. However, because of this communication, he ended up spitting all the food he was eating onto the woman's face, suffering a devastating loss.

However, regardless of the woman's angry departure or the strange looks from those around him, this Anti-Entropy enforcer remained standing there, waving his fist and cheering in a way that was unclear. Well, he was naturally a supporter of Welt and obviously a member of some secret marriage-urging support group.

Perhaps the news was too shocking and too unbelievable, it took him a long time to process it before he continued to spread the news.

Meanwhile, at an orphanage on the Russian border, Cocolia watched Bronya playing happily with Anne, Liliya, and the other children, a smile of satisfaction on her face. Just as she was about to pick up Rosalia, she glanced at the messages on her communicator and accidentally strained her lower back...

"Mother!!"

"Oh no, Mom has collapsed!!"

"Rosalia, you bastard!!"

"Huh??"

188. And he deeply remembered Tesla's smell.

The enforcers of the Anti-Entropy organization, whether Conservatives or reformers, were all terrified by the message they were forwarding to each other.

It's no wonder they panicked and even messed up a lot of things.

After all, the marriage of the Alliance Leader of the Anti-Entropy organization is a big deal.

Even Otto, who was watching the news, was so shocked by it that he knocked over his wine glass. Although he was heartbroken about the wine glass, which was one of only ten in the world, it took him a long time to recover from the fact that his rival Welt was getting married.

Those familiar with Welt's executors know that the boy named Joachim decided to abandon everything after inheriting the name Welt, so when he and Tesla developed feelings for each other, those around them were anxious for the two of them...

Many of the executives who are showing signs of aging or have retired are close in age to Tesla, and can be said to have watched Welt grow up.

In 2008, the reason why Tesla, who was over seventy years old, and Einstein, who was a few years younger than Tesla, maintained their youthful appearance was entirely due to the fact that they were seriously injured in their battle with Otto. With the help of the strongest Valkyrie Schicksal at the time, and under the excessive healing of the Power of White Flower, Einstein and Tesla's bodies underwent permanent changes, which is also the reason for their immortality.

Although they are still young, their partners who co-founded Anti-Entropy have grown old.

Emma Planck, who was once the manager of Schicksal's North American Branch, is now over eighty years old. Although she is no longer able to stand on the front line of Anti-Entropy, she still assists the organization Anti-Entropy retirement.

As everyone's "older sister" and "mother," Planck cared deeply about the happiness of her friends. While others gradually found happiness, some chose to live out their lives alone...

Among them, the three who gave her the most headaches were Welt, Tesla, and Einstein.

After all, the romantic relationships between these three are actually quite complicated.

Einstein naturally favored the first-generation Welt, while the second-generation Welt and Tesla had mutual affection.

The former could not find any solution, since the deceased would continue to beautify their memory, and Einstein seemed to be doing so intentionally.

The latter, however, remained in a stalemate due to issues of duty and not wanting to implicate others, yet both harbored feelings for each other.

"Lord Planck, please don't be agitated," the nurse hurriedly tried to calm Planck down.

Seeing Planck, though no longer young and beautiful, still clearly a beauty in her youth, struggling to her feet, even though she was over eighty years old, Planck looked only in her fifties among the elderly and did not appear particularly old.

However, the content that was forwarded to her communicator surprised her greatly.

She even wanted to pull out the IV drip and wear a beautiful evening gown to tease Tesla, who had a thing for young boys, and Joachim, who had a thing for older sisters.

But after struggling for a while, she realized that she was really getting old.

Perhaps he won't live for many more years.

"Phew, phew... Anyway, this is a good thing... it's a good thing..."

Planck was very worried that he had implicated Tesla and Welt.

She had Welt impersonate the original Welt to attend various events, in order to create a balance of power between Anti -Welt and Schicksal when Anti-Entropy was at its most vulnerable.

However, this approach also unknowingly increased the burden on Welt's shoulders.

Planck couldn't stand by and watch Welt and Tesla drag things out like this.

Planck privately suggested more than once that the two of them should just get married.

However, Welt rejected Tesla's proposal, citing the still dangerous situation of Anti-Entropy and claiming that he might die in the battle against Honkai, and not wanting to upset Tesla further.

Tesla, for similar reasons, understood the heavy responsibility on Welt's shoulders and did not want to be a burden to Welt. She knew what kind of mission Welt was carrying, so she consciously suppressed her emotions.

So, she, the older sister, was really furious with those two.

Oh, her current hospitalization has nothing to do with being so angry with the two of them. It's purely because her body has been exposed to too much Honkai Energy during multiple experiments, and her body has weakened to the point that she is unable to stand on the front line of fight against Honkai.

Planck closed his eyes, and at that moment he seemed to see the young man named Welt by Einstein surrounded by a crowd, in a joyful atmosphere, and also saw the boy Joachim secretly watching Tesla beside his father, the Finnishman.

"Phew... I almost stopped breathing!!"

As he reminisced, Planck suddenly gasped for breath.

For a fleeting moment, it felt as if she had entered a sea of flowers, and across a small river lay her deceased companions, which nearly made her heart stop.

"No, it's not time yet. I can't give up before I see little brother Joachim and little sister Tesla get married..."

"Lord Planck ..." The nurse standing nearby was both amused and exasperated.

The other person had just closed their eyes and their breathing had suddenly slowed down, which had startled her quite a bit.