In the course of fighting the Honkai, Schicksal had perhaps become no different from the Honkai itself.
Valkyries expended on Honkai battlefields, Valkyries and ordinary people used in experiments, cadets who failed to resist Honkai Energy, trainees who died during field training...
Death, death, death, death...
Schicksal had come this far on no small mountain of bones.
Some died fighting the Honkai, some died in wars launched like the Honkai itself, some voluntarily sacrificed themselves to advance Honkai technology, and some were forced into Honkai experiments and died.
If Honkai disasters existed to destroy human civilization, and the stronger civilization became, the stronger the Honkai became...
Then what Schicksal did truly was no different from the Honkai.
It no longer mattered whether those scientists and researchers applying for human experimentation did so for fame or to explore the nature of the Honkai.
The quality of kindness simply did not exist within them.
As for suddenly waking up, deciding to overthrow Schicksal, and atoning for the Valkyries sacrificed in experiments—that was even more laughable.
When they sacrificed other Valkyries, they would not even blink. But when the sacrifices involved someone related to them, they became agitated, even impassioned.
Only then did they begin wielding morality and condemning the actions of the Grand Bishop of Schicksal.
Otto did not say much. He merely wanted K422 to understand one thing.
"Oh, you mean no one is innocent? Bishop, I don't study philosophy."
"..."
Otto silently drank his black tea, inexplicably feeling irritated whenever he spoke with K422.
"I'm not talking to you about philosophy. I'm merely telling you that Kiana might have a better outcome if she remained with Schicksal."
"Bishop, you said might. Fine, the two great families are rotten and did do some things no human should do. Mm, that old