Otto—he was arrogant and conceited, believing everything was within his grasp. If anything slipped beyond his control, he would do everything in his power to destroy it.
Even though Otto understood that dictatorship would limit the growth of Heavenly Mandate's middle-ranking personnel, he still had no intention of fundamentally changing things, believing the drawbacks outweighed the benefits.
Cold-blooded and ruthless, he would stop at nothing to revive Kallen, even if it meant putting all of humanity in danger. And... all along, Otto had deliberately, even intentionally, allowed Honkai to develop. Then, he kept Heavenly Mandate's technology at a level only just sufficient to suppress Honkai, never allowing its technology to surpass Honkai by too much.
It could be said that if Otto had not deliberately held it back, Heavenly Mandate's technology would now be many times more powerful than it was.
If he had not intentionally allowed Honkai to develop, and had instead worked meticulously to stop it, Honkai could never have caused such immense harm to this world.
Although... Heavenly Mandate's rapid development was also the result of Otto's efforts. But in truth... Otto had been toying with the entire world, all of humanity, and even the Herrschers of Honkai.
At the same time, because of Lord Otto's excellent disguise and methods, most members of the Heavenly Mandate Organization who were dissatisfied with him merely opposed his disregard for life. They had not realized that he had never intended to eliminate Honkai from the very beginning.
And Heavenly Mandate was not without intelligent people. Some of them might even have realized that Otto had never planned for Heavenly Mandate to eliminate Honkai, but such people were often removed by Otto through various means before they could fully uncover the truth.
It could be said that... aside from Kallen, Otto's