There's a Theresa Here, Too (Continued)

Steven exerted force, retracted his tentacles, and dragged the chain of islands before him.

"Core... core..." It was frantic, spreading out its psychic power and sweeping the islands again and again for signs of life.

Steven did not have much time left!

That black-haired harbinger of death below was about to arrive!

The floating island tilted.

Clang, clang.

"Cough, cough..."

Otto spat out a mouthful of dark, congealed blood, clutched his chest, and struggled to climb up from the wall that had become the floor.

He looked utterly miserable. Blood streamed down his face, and one of his artificial eyes had already been destroyed in the previous battle.

The last remaining one had also suffered considerable damage.

His vision was blurred, black-and-white lines like television static wavering back and forth before his eyes.

"Huff... huff..." Otto narrowed his eyes. Though seeing was extremely difficult, his gaze remained fixed on a white-haired girl.

Several seconds later, he barely made out that she was unharmed. Only then did he force a smile.

"Grandpa?" Theresa was still somewhat at a loss. "What exactly is going..."

Boom!!

Before the girl could finish speaking, a sudden change erupted.

Steel-hard tentacles pierced inside, tearing open another wall as a flood of light poured through the breach.

"Mm..." Having lived in darkness for so long, Theresa instinctively raised a hand to shield her ruby-red eyes.

Otto, however, narrowed his eyes fiercely and stared fixedly at the tentacles tearing through the metal wall.

As he looked at those bizarre things, his right hand trembled slightly, black blood dripping continuously from between his fingers.

In Otto's eyes, those blurred, vicious tentacles before him gradually overlapped with the Honkai Beasts that had destroyed the entire world.

At that moment, it seemed as though a flame had risen in his eyes.