Chapter 443
Although Freya's research projects have always had Jackal as her research assistant, and she can temporarily hand over the research to Jackal, it doesn't mean she can relax.
Even though the Jackal's abilities are outstanding, she is only skilled in the field of biology, and the research on the 'Order Stone' is far too important.
Freya wasn't averse to intimacy with Rita; rather, she was quite enamored with such a charming lover and enjoyed sexual pleasures, but only when she wasn't too busy.
Freya planned to work through the night to catch up on the progress she had fallen behind, but Rita saw through her little scheme.
"It seems that this trouble is not too serious."
Hearing Rita's mutterings, Freya naturally knew what was going on, and rolled her eyes at Rita with even more annoyance.
"I see. You were worried I was overthinking things, so you're trying to distract me?"
Thinking about the increased sexual activity caused by the Whitelist and whitelist issues in recent years, Freya's cheeks flushed even more.
"You've really gone to a lot of trouble."
"No, it's only when Lord Freya has a touch of melancholy that the food tastes especially good."
Rita covered her mouth and chuckled, her legs rubbing against Freya's legs in an even more provocative manner, making Freya feel hot all over.
The scent of shower gel emanating from Rita was identical to her own, and coupled with the fact that Freya was also dressed in a thin nightgown in the bedroom, with their skin rubbing against each other without any fabric, the impact on her will was beyond imagination.
So the king stopped holding morning court from then on... what a load of rubbish!
"...Waaah, you're the kind of troublemaker who makes monarchs obsessed with sex no matter which ancient country you're in."
Hehe~
"I knew I couldn't let you harm others. If you've got the guts, come at me!"
Freya puffed out her rather large chest, but Rita smiled and puffed out her chest, knocking Freya down.
"Lord Freya, can you tell me what's bothering you? This time, it shouldn't be something embarrassing to talk about, right?"
Because of the huge impact of the Whitelist in previous years, Freya didn't dare let too many people know about it. As more and more people know, the secret is no longer a secret.
It wasn't that Freya didn't trust Rita, but rather that she believed someone like Otto would always find out the secret she was about to reveal, so she simply chose not to tell him.
After five years, Freya still hadn't figured out how to resolve the Whitelist, since the Whitelist and whitelist conflicted with the Valkyrie's fighting beliefs.
It was precisely because she couldn't tell Rita this secret that she couldn't resist Rita's temptation and even became infatuated with Rita's body.
"Yes, this time it's not anything embarrassing to talk about."
Freya briefly explained Otto's attitude and his true purpose.
Otto's goal was indeed to revive Kallen, but Otto also knew that he wanted to revive the real Kallen, the Kallen who declared in the Hall of Judgment that she had fallen in love with a girl, the Kallen he wanted to save but ultimately killed.
Otto does indeed have the ability to manipulate memories, or to input memories that are favorable to him into Kallen's brain.
But that Kallen was not the Kallen he wanted to find.
Memory, soul, body.
After realizing that the path to revival was ultimately unsuccessful, Otto abandoned the idea of bringing Kallen back to life.
What he wanted to do was never to restore a broken toy, but to bring that broken toy back to the moment it was not broken.
Time reversal, the Imaginary Tree, and the vertical timeline are what Otto is now pursuing.
Only the Imaginary Tree, which gives birth to all laws, and the Sea of Quanta from which all laws manifest, can accomplish this.
Even Otto knew that his idea had absolutely no chance of succeeding.
Even so, Otto continued to pursue this goal.
As Freya slowly explained, Rita's beautiful eyes, which seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, widened.
"That bastard... was never a sage or a wise man, nor a leader who guided the current civilization against the Honkai. From beginning to end, he was just a 'fool' who wanted to make amends for his mistakes."
In Otto's mind, the only mistake he has ever made is causing Kallen's death.
Otto did indeed have feelings for Kallen. In fact, after Freya and others studied Otto's diary, they believed that Otto's ruthless methods stemmed from his love for Kallen.
However, it was not love.
More than anything, it was guilt and a sense of remorse.
He wanted to revive Kallen, not to possess Kallen, but to bring back to life someone he believed should never have died.
His love for Kallen may have been the starting point, but the real reason he went down a dark path was that he caused Kallen's death because of his own mistakes.
"So, does Lord Freya think that the Bishop is just a fool?"
"Only a title like 'Fool' would be suitable to describe his stubbornness."
Freya, who had been knocked down by Rita, lay on the sofa. She gently put her arm around Rita's waist, who was pressing down on her, and sighed softly. Then she muttered something very pathetic.
"If I were in his shoes, I might understand his pain better. It's just that I'm so glad I didn't have that experience... If it were me, I definitely wouldn't be able to bear it."
Hearing the murmur, Rita was overjoyed and lowered her head to kiss Freya's neck, making Freya feel unbearably itchy.
"Don't move. If you keep kissing me, I won't be able to control myself. In this alliance, only Siegfried can empathize with him. Although there is a big difference, my father has also blamed himself for it a lot."
"What's wrong with Lord Siegfried?"
"As you know, he tries very hard to be a good father. Kiana Aurora, and I have all accepted him. However, Aurora is closer to her adoptive parents, and I... don't want to take away Kiana's share of fatherly love, so sometimes I inevitably distance myself from him."
At this point, Freya's expression suddenly turned strange. Because of her tacit understanding with Aurora, Siegfried became even more melancholy and complained to Ryoma a lot. But for Ryoma, whose beloved was taken by Aurora, Siegfried's complaints were not complaints, but rather like stabbing him in the heart.
I've been raising this cabbage for several years. I don't expect her to find a good husband; as long as she has a good love, it doesn't matter if the partner is a woman.
As it turned out, he actually found a woman.
Moreover, she is not his only lover. Although he holds the position of the main wife, Ryoma, as a father, is very depressed.
Especially in Ryoma's (HX) eyes, although Freya only has Rita as her lover, he thought Freya should soon have more lovers like Kiana and Aurora, and this kind of love and affection was completely inherited from Siegfried, that playboy.
Ryoma didn't challenge Siegfried to a duel because the two had a fairly good relationship.
However, Siegfried's greatest pain was not that his daughter was not close to him, but his own incompetence and inability to protect his wife.
In his mind, the person who killed Cecilia was none other than himself, a piece of trash who could only wreak havoc in a powerless rage.
515. But Otto in this world is truly beyond saving.
Otto killed the person most important to him, and in his view, he must bear full responsibility for Kallen's death.
Siegfried believed that his incompetence led to Cecilia's death, and that he was responsible for Cecilia death. Therefore, he always felt that he bore some responsibility for Cecilia's death.
These two people are indeed easily empathetic in some ways; however, their choices are completely different.
After a period of decline, Siegfried chose to accept it, while Otto chose to reject the world.
In fact, the person who is more likely to empathize with Otto is FU from the Previous Civilization, that is, Freya's previous life.
Although many people, including Rita, know about Otto's past experiences, few people empathize with them.
After all, in their view, even if Otto's plight is sympathetic and pitiful, it doesn't mean that someone like him is not hateful.
Or perhaps it is precisely because these people are so pitiful that they seem so hateful.
If he were a purely evil person, neither Freya nor Welt would hesitate to kill him.
But he is not.
Leaving aside his gratitude to Freya for raising him, Welt also had the idea of fighting against the Honkai together with Otto because of Otto's achievements.
Of course, it turned out that Welt's idea was wrong.
Otto is not trustworthy because he has never seriously fought against the Honkai.
Although Otto is a despicable person, Welt has to admit that no one in this world has done a better job than Otto in fighting the Honkai.
He was a complex person, but in Freya's words, he was also a very simple person.
Or rather, Freya was able to understand Otto's inner thoughts better than others.
Although she couldn't empathize with Otto about losing someone important, Freya's desire for recognition from that person was just as strong as Otto's.
However, the person who was important to Otto was no longer there.
Freya's important people all found happiness.
No, there is one exception.
In Freya's heart, Otto has always been an important person to her; however, no matter what she does, she cannot find a way to make Otto happy.
"Lord Freya, Lord Siegfried and the bishop are nothing alike."
"Yes, the two of them are not alike at all, even though their experiences are very similar, but their personalities determined the outcome."
On one side is the neglected youngest son of the Apolcalis Family, and on the other is the highly anticipated but freedom-loving heir of the Kaslana Family.
The former craves recognition and attention from others, while the latter seeks their own freedom and rightness.
"It's like two parallel lines; the two people will never have the chance to understand each other (intersect)."
Freya sighed with some regret, saying that if Otto had tried to understand Siegfried's thoughts, perhaps he wouldn't have been so trapped by the past.
Or rather, once freed from the constraints imposed by Kallen, Otto, with his abilities, was destined to become an object of respect.
However, as if a gear had gone awry, his life took a completely different turn.
"Rita, do you know? When Aurora and I used the Second Divine Key: Thousand Worlds of Chariots, to observe parallel universes, we discovered different Otto in many parallel worlds, or rather, Otto who had come to terms with Kallen's death."
There's all sorts of Otto: Father Otto, Sage Otto, Fusion Warrior Otto, Valkyrie Otto, and more. It's not like Freya thinks Otto is just either a jerk or an even bigger jerk.
Unlike the "Bastard Otto" category, other types of Otto are mostly those who have come to terms with Kallen's death, or those who want to fulfill Kallen's wish to destroy the Honkai.
It was precisely because she discovered that Otto had many varieties that she decided to take this opportunity to win him over.
However, this idea was merely Freya's wishful thinking.
Otto does indeed have a rare breed of selfless or kind-hearted individuals, but the only person who could turn him into such a breed is still Kallen Kaslana. And these types of Otto are not happy; they only suffer.
Of course, Freya wasn't unaware of Otto's happy ending.
In a parallel world, Otto released Honkai Beast and successfully rescued Kallen from the execution ground. He then took Kallen and ran away, or rather, eloped. In any case, the two of them completely left the Order of Schicksal.
Because Kallen had lost the person she loved most, Otto, in order to cheer her up, acted very humbly all the way. In this way, they crossed the ocean and came to Shenzhou. They found a quiet place to live in seclusion. Otto stayed with the heartbroken Kallen until she died peacefully, with a happy smile on his face.
Otto's happiness has always been simple: he just wants Kallen's approval.
In this parallel world where he dies of old age, Otto does indeed gain Kallen's approval in the end.
Although the two lived in seclusion, they helped others in their own way, which, in the traditional Shenzhou cultural context, can be interpreted as 'chivalry and justice'.
Of course, Otto, who abandoned the Void Archive and eloped with Kallen, was actually just a cook and a laundry man. Even though he was the neglected youngest son, Otto, who had been living a life of luxury since childhood, naturally had the same standard of living as Freya.
Otto was unable to take care of himself, happily did the housework for Kallen's sake.
Perhaps it was precisely this act of putting everything aside and being humble in all things that allowed him to gain Kallen's approval as he wished.
After Freya and Aurora encountered this parallel world line, they discovered that Otto was not truly beyond redemption.
But Otto in this world is truly beyond saving.
No one can save him.
No one could save him.
Freya's sigh echoed in the room for a long time before dissipating.
The next morning, Freya began working on the relocation plan for the alliance members, and she also dragged Aurora, who originally wanted to stay in the First Research Institute to do research all day, to help her.
Now that the Quantum Battle Body technology has been widely used and Ryoma has established a new base on the moon, the next step is naturally to eliminate the biggest weakness of the Quantum Battle Body technology.
After all, the Alliance needs equipment to use the Quantum Battle Body. When using the equipment, the Valkyrie will be in a static state and then remotely control the Quantum Battle Body through her own consciousness and spirit.
In other words, the Valkyrie's physical body is essentially defenseless when using the Quantum Battle Body.
Given the Valkyrie's physical abilities, even if they were lying on the ground completely defenseless, it would be impossible for an ordinary person to break through their defenses.
This was one of the reasons that led to the relocation of the Alliance to the lunar base.
Although Changkong City is considered impregnable thanks to the efforts of Ryoma, Theresa, and others, she cannot guarantee that Changkong City can withstand all malice.
In fact, five years ago, Changkong City was invaded by a special type of low-class Humanoid Honkai Beast.
Even if Ryoma and Tesla strengthen their defenses afterward, they won't be much stronger than Changkong City was five years ago.