Chapter 376
Yes, this is what's known as a plot-driven death.
Even with his health bar fully charged, he still managed to pin Fu Hua to the ground and finish her off, let alone in this situation that felt like a plot-driven kill.
A newly awakened Herrscher is no match for Herrscher has been awakened for a long time, let alone an outcast like Freya.
Freya originally intended to grab Fu Hua's face directly, but the next second, she seemed to deflect some kind of mental attack with her eyelids, and her right hand reached out and grabbed Fu Hua's neck, completely ending Fu Hua's last chance.
She nodded slightly. Fu Hua's counterattack was brilliant. She launched a sneak attack with her mental abilities almost without her noticing, which made her eyelids twitch involuntarily.
Freya wanted to applaud Fu Hua's efforts, but unfortunately, her other hand was currently gripping Fu Hua's neck.
Hmm, why would you choke someone?
Never mind, let them pinch me then.
"What a pity, but you tried your best. By the way, doesn't your brain explode? You talk a lot about the superego and ego, especially the ego... Why does it sound like you're such a chatterbox?"
Freya subconsciously started to complain. After her palm touched Fu Hua's neck, Fu Hua could no longer resist Freya's 'reading', and at this moment, her superego and ego also felt the pressure of facing Freya directly.
429. The fact that my own class monitor has become a triple personality disorder patient.
When Freya returned, she also packed up Fu Hua, Herrscher Transformation, with a ribbon.
"Kiki, look, I brought back the spirit that was behind you."
"..."
Looking at her familiar class monitor with a traumatized expression, Kiki was curious about what her class monitor had gone through in the ten or so minutes between the explosion stopping and Freya bringing her back.
Of course, Fu Hua could only hinder Freya's movement by destroying buildings. Although it is unknown what influenced her escape method of blowing up floors, walls, and houses at the drop of a hat, the explosions that Otto was worried about finally stopped after she was defeated by Freya.
Before Freya found the ribbon and dressed Fu Hua up beautifully, she also thoroughly interrogated Fu Hua's mind.
During Freya's reading of her memories, Fu Hua felt her heart being brutally violated. However, no matter how she resisted, her heart was unable to withstand Freya's invasion.
Whether it was her memories of her first period or the memories of crying while studying in Canghai City, many little things that Fu Hua had forgotten were unearthed from the depths of her memory during Freya's memory reading process.
Everyone has some dark history or embarrassing past events. Just reliving them is enough to make Fu Hua feel ashamed and indignant. What's more, Freya forcibly digs into Fu Hua's heart to find these dark history or embarrassing past events.
But unfortunately, she was powerless to resist.
It's like a toddler who has just learned to walk trying to resist an adult who is rubbing her face with her tiny fists.
Freya unearthed many memories, including a considerable amount of dark history. Fu Hua felt that her superego, id, and ego were all subjected to this unusual form of mental attack.
All three consciousnesses are now somewhat withdrawn.
"Sister Freya, may I ask... what exactly did you do to the class monitor?"
Although the ribbons binding Fu Hua are beautiful, they are nothing special to a Herrscher and have no binding effect whatsoever.
Freya not only bound Fu Hua tightly, but also dressed her up in the style often seen in anime where she is "given away as a gift".
Of course, Fu Hua's appearance is somewhat different from that in the animation. After all, in most animations, this scene usually takes place on Valentine's Day, and she wears only a ribbon to bind herself.
Kiki wasn't disappointed because Fu Hua was dressed neatly; she simply didn't understand why Fu Hua, after Herrscher Transformation, didn't break free of the ribbons.
Seemingly understanding what Kiki really wanted to ask, Freya explained with a smile.
"She did want to resist and run away, but if resistance and running away were useless, she wouldn't have chosen to resist and run away even if I hadn't tied her up with the ribbon."
There are reasons why Fu Hua's superego, id, and ego have become withdrawn.
At least the superego, id, and ego all rebelled, but their resistance seemed to be useless, otherwise they wouldn't have obediently been tied up by Freya like a real-life gift.
If it weren't for the fear of being too stimulating, and the fact that Kiki and her sister Mei are close, Freya might have found an opportunity to give Kiki a gift consisting only of a ribbon.
Freya felt she had been thoughtful enough; everyone would want a gift from a kind and considerate older sister like her, and might even want more.
"..."
Kiki didn't know why, she just wanted to feel sorry for the class monitor who had become Herrscher.
She was initially saddened by her class monitor becoming Herrscher, and now Herrscher's saddened by the same thing. Perhaps it's because she became Herrscher that she's being bullied like this by her Freya sister.
"My old friend seems to have become Herrscher."
Otto stared at Fu Hua, who was bound like a gift, and suddenly felt confused.
"Why did she suddenly become Herrscher? According to the order in which the Herrscher descended in the Previous Civilization, the Herrscher of Consciousness should be the eighth Herrscher to be born... Before that, there should have been the Fifth Herrscher of Herrscher of Ice, the Sixth Herrscher of Herrscher of Death, Seventh Herrscher of Herrscher of Flames."
Although Otto realized, based on the recent intensity of Honkai Energy, that the invasion of Imaginary Element was imminent and a new Herrscher would be born, according to his calculations, the Herrscher of Ice would not appear in this world for at least another month.
"...Why?"
"Since the Honkai possesses consciousness, 'It' will naturally adjust according to the situation, just like the Eleventh Herrscher born in the Previous Civilization era— the Herrscher of [Binding]."
Freya answered, but she didn't say anything more, instead looking at Otto with a strange gaze.
In order to fight against the Honkai Beast and Herrscher, the Previous Era created Fusion Warrior as their counterparts.
The Fusion Warrior was extremely powerful, successively defeating the formidable Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Herrscher.
Faced with the overwhelming power of the Fusion Warrior, the Eleventh Herrscher, the Herrscher of Binding, was born with the ability to counter Fusion Warrior.
Although the Eleventh Herrscher was defeated by the Fusion Warrior once again, the Honkai Consciousness did take other actions depending on the circumstances.
Hearing Otto's confident tone, Freya became even more confused.
Is the Honkai Consciousness of this world too gentle? Or is the Honkai Consciousness too gentle towards this parallel world?
Or perhaps, something happened at the end of the Previous Civilization that restricted the Honkai Consciousness, or perhaps the struggle between the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum affected the Honkai's selection mechanism.
Of course, there are too many questions that I want to know the answers to.
"..."
Faced with Freya's curious gaze, Otto smiled slightly and chose to play dumb.
Otto's reaction annoyed Freya. She wanted to grab Otto by the neck and read his memories, just like she had done to Fu Hua a few minutes earlier.
However, Otto's ability to conceal his true form, use a body made of Soul Steel, and transfer his consciousness at any time left Freya completely helpless against him.
After all, the abilities of the Herrscher of Consciousness are ultimately more effective against the consciousness of 'humans' than against animals. And Otto, who uses the Soul Steel Body, is, in a sense, non-human.
The abilities of the Herrscher of Erosion are more useful on Otto's clones than those of the Herrscher of Consciousness.
However, because of the good deeds she did in her previous life in the Previous Civilization era, Freya is clearly more skilled in the abilities of the Herrscher of Consciousness, while the abilities of the Herrscher of Erosion of Herrscher of Erosion are difficult to control precisely due to her lack of proficiency.
This could lead to Freya accidentally releasing the power of the Herrscher of Erosion, potentially killing Otto and making her the sworn enemy of Theresa in this world.
Even if they were just K423 and Theresa from a parallel universe, Freya didn't want to be disliked by them...
Therefore, Freya chose to give up any actions that might cause her to become enemies with Theresa. Of course, it was Kiana originally attacked Otto. Kiana herself didn't care at all if Theresa disliked her, as long as she could get revenge... even if it meant her heart was burned by the flames of revenge, she was willing to do it.
Unfortunately, Kiana wavered a bit because of Otto's verbal attacks.
Although Kiana awakened a new ability called 'Loving Freeze' under Freya's guidance, and was no longer as obsessed with revenge as before, she did indeed hate Otto. Even without a reason for revenge, she wouldn't hesitate to take action against Otto for the sake of the World Serpent Organization.
If we were to ask who in the original world most wanted to hear news of Otto, it would undoubtedly be Kiana.
Unfortunately, Otto's feigned death for three years diminished Kiana's resentment and hatred considerably. After all, in truth, there was no deep-seated hatred between her and Otto; her resentment towards Otto stemmed more from her parents' and her own experiences.
After all, his mother did die in the Second Eruption. When Otto dropped the Honkai Energy fission bomb on the Siberian Plains, Cecilia was already on the verge of death... Otto mainly wanted to kill the unstable factors, but in the end, Siegfried did not die, and Otto's crime became the so-called attempted murder.
Kiana's experiences certainly gave her reason to hate her, but for Otto, she had been kind and considerate enough to Kiana; no other test subject would receive such treatment.
Not only was a Giant Floating Battleship specially prepared as a cage, but she was also provided with a large number of guards and excellent educational resources.
Of course, the original Otto did have many reasons to kill him, but the Otto of this world seems to be even more deserving of death than the Otto of the original world.
Freya was somewhat worried that Otto in this world might have already chosen to defect to the enemy, as he seemed to know more than Otto in the original world.
Clearly, the difference between the two parallel worlds is not just that she and FU do not exist, but also that Otto in the two worlds may have different attitudes and ideas on certain matters.
Freya began to think carefully.
Because this world doesn't have K422... Otto didn't use her to create a heroine persona, and also because of her absence, one of Otto's research projects in this world may have remained stagnant.
In the original world, Otto would always refer to her as the Surprise Box.
Although Freya had also studied herself, she didn't know how many secrets Otto had discovered about her. In any case, Otto was a researcher who was hundreds or thousands of times better than her. Even if he didn't have the level of Dr. Mei from the Previous Civilization, he was definitely the most outstanding researcher of the current era.
In front of such a researcher, there is a backup body of the Herrscher of Finality is willing to cooperate with his research.
Freya even suspected that Otto from the original world had also discovered the origin of the parallel truth that Dr. Mei had once discovered through her body.
If that's the case, perhaps due to his own limitations, he won't be able to immediately utilize the origin he discovered like Dr. Mei, but he will inevitably have disagreements with his counterpart in this parallel world.
After this analysis, Freya suddenly realized that Otto in this parallel world was really not just a little bit incompetent.
Otto in this world wants to resurrect Kallen, but he has not succeeded...
It turns out that Otto of the world succeeded at least 99%; he did indeed find Kallen's soul.
Although he pieced together the souls by collecting them, he did achieve his original goal. However, this approach still has an unstable element: Kallen, who was successfully resurrected, has not yet awakened.
Ultimately, he merely extracted fragments of Kallen's soul from her belongings and used a repair method to reassemble these fragments into a whole, yet he was far more powerful than Otto of this world.
Otto in this world, due to his poor performance in various aspects, seems to be suspected of becoming a Honkai Consciousness.
Freya increasingly wanted to kill Otto of this world to eliminate any future worries, but after glancing at Theresa beside her, she had no choice but to abandon this tempting idea.
In any case, the Otto in this parallel world is not the Otto from the original world whom you have to be wary of.
Even so, Freya was still very unwilling.
After all, she had also switched careers to become a researcher. When she stayed in the Alliance and did research with the Jackal, she studied herself almost every day without interruption, but she did not discover any origin.
Dr. Mei from the Previous Civilization discovered five types, and FU from the previous life may have mastered one type.
As for the number of Otto who mysteriously disappeared from the world, it is currently unknown, but based on her understanding of Otto, there are at least two.
If he had only discovered one source, Otto would never have left Schicksal, and at least the position of Acting Grand Bishop of Schicksal would not have fallen to her so quickly.
It now seems that Otto of the World really did throw out quite a few smokescreens.
Freya now regrets that she didn't go easy on Kevin when he was down. She should have teamed up with Kevin to eliminate this most unstable factor directly.
But upon closer reflection, it's even more impossible for her to team up with Kevin.
She had already shown considerable control over her hostility by not transforming into the Herrscher of Finality to fight Kevin.
While Freya was secretly analyzing the situation, Kiki asked Fu Hua, who had Herrscher Transformation, a few questions, as she was worried that Fu Hua might not remember her after Herrscher Transformation.
Fortunately, Fu Hua not only remembers her, but also remembers their travels together and even their time at the St. Freya Academy clearly and logically. Apart from being a little withdrawn, she seems no different from a normal person.
This left Kiki feeling very confused, since she had seen many Herrscher, and each of them seemed to have awakened a dual personality after Herrscher Transformation.
Several years ago in Changkong City, she met the Herrscher of Thunder, who was like a queen of lightning. The hot-tempered queen of lightning back then was so different from Mei, who is now a housewife.
A year ago, during a mission in 2016, she met Wendy, who had awakened Herrscher of Wind. Wendy, who used to speak gently and kindly, became like a crazy woman after awakening as the Herrscher.
Then, Kiki witnessed her awakening, the Herrscher of the Void after awakening. Putting aside the length of her skirt and her embarrassingly childish remarks, the awakened Sirin personality was actually wearing her current face.
The Second Herrscher, Sirin, was originally a cute little girl with purple hair, but now she has become a cold and aloof queen with long white hair. This transition has left Kiki at a loss for how to react. If she takes Sirin as her Herrscher Persona, then she has obviously also become a dual personality.
As for his class monitor becoming Herrscher, it seems to be more than just a matter of dual personality; it's a shocking triple personality.
In addition to the aloof superego and the originally cold-faced but warm-hearted id, there is now an additional talkative ego.
Of course, all three personalities became withdrawn and were very depressed when answering Kiki's questions, but Kiki still noticed that her class monitor had become a triple personality disorder patient.
The next moment, she couldn't help but cry out for help to her sister Freya.
430. Just give the newly born Herrscher a set of personality-correcting punches.
"... Don't cry, silly girl. It's normal to suddenly have an extra personality after becoming Herrscher."
Freya said with a smile.
Hearing her older sister Freya's unserious reply, Kiki's face fell even more.
Although the people around her, and even herself, did seem to become completely different people after becoming Herrscher.
"Is Freya like this too?"
"Huh? Me? Of course I'm different. Although I become quite taciturn after becoming Herrscher, it's not because I have an extra personality, but because I don't want to ruin the aloof aura I have after transforming..."
Freya shrugged at this point.
"Although my transformation is indeed influenced by Kiana's original personality, the most important thing for me is that I usually keep my mouth shut... which makes me look like a bad guy."
"Sister Freya, how is this possible?"