You're Next, Otto!

"Miss Himeko, all you need to do now is wait here. I'll be back shortly."

"I'll await the good news."

The woman nodded at him. Compared to the Mister Walter in her memories, he seemed a little... embarrassingly edgy now?

But no matter what, she... he was still very strong.

That form revered as the Eclosion Herrscher was practically godlike.

Perhaps that was the foundation of his arrogance.

She watched the man who had merged with Yang Chaoyue, now gripped by youthful fervor, walk down from the clouds toward the manor.

Then—

A pitch-black gale suddenly swept past.

Huh?

What was this?!

Himeko's expression tightened.

This clearly was not a wind that should exist in nature.

Yet when it brushed across her face, all it brought was... refreshment?

Wasn't it no different from an ordinary breeze?

Confusion appeared on her face.

But in the next instant, she understood everything.

—She was not the target of this attack.

The same wind swept over the man who had just stepped into the void, but it brought a terrifying upheaval like a magnitude-five earthquake.

His proud expression froze in an instant, and his body stiffened as though Medusa had fixed her gaze upon him.

Not a trace remained of the high spirits he had displayed, as though a thousand riders could sweep across flat ground.

Before Himeko's horrified eyes—

The man who had been so full of vigor plummeted straight down, landed on the ground, and vanished like a ginseng fruit.

Himeko: "!!!"

Where was Walter?

Where had that huge Walter gone?!!

PS1: As for whether Joyce was alive in the story.

Joyce died in 1955. Cecilia was born in 1976, while Siegfried was born in 1972. There was no way they could have been active in the same era.

PS2: I originally