To create Honkai Impact 3rd in a world where Kallen exists.

...

The group continued exploring the old town and soon discovered some new clues.

For example... the strings on the puppet on Otto's body undoubtedly indicate that it is related to the Herrscher of Domination.

Next, they need to take Otto around the town and repeatedly measure the location of the core.

But they never considered why the puppet strings just happened to get tangled around this person from 'another dimension'.

In the process of searching for the core traces, they also reflected more deeply on Otto in the main world.

Is what he's so fixated on really bringing Karen back from the past?

Is there really such a way?

But Changguang said... he has a chance to go back to the past.

"If there really is five hundred years... I would definitely change because of it."

Otto, standing to the side, quietly spoke up.

"If that person has lived for more than five hundred years... then his obsession must be ten times, or even a hundred times, greater than mine."

The one who knows you best is undoubtedly yourself.

This statement has always been a metaphor, but at this moment, it has become a reality.

Nobody understands Otto, but Otto understands himself.

He did not believe that he would be swayed by external information five hundred years from now, nor by anything.

no way.

Therefore, the only thing that changed his behavior was himself, his original plan.

He smiled slightly, indirectly answering Tesla's question from before, and also allowing others to better understand what kind of person Otto was.

“I do not consider myself a power-hungry person. The direct reason I joined the rebels against the Mandate of Heaven was that they raised the banner of the Holy Maiden.”

"Huh?" Tesla was a little confused.

"...From a selfish perspective, perhaps I just didn't want the name 'Karen' to experience any more failures."

"you--"

Otto gave a wry smile, and in response to their questions, simply continued...

“What I’ve said is the truth from the bottom of my heart. My motives may seem ridiculous or laughable to you…”

“But you should also know that when Karen died, a part of me that I called my self also disappeared.”

“I also constantly long to go back to the past, back to the days when Karen was still alive, back to the time when I still had a ‘self’.”

Yes, he has this idea now, and he's quite certain that it won't disappear over time.

It will only increase day by day, overwhelming all his room for thought.

Theresa, Durandal, and Einstein remained silent.

Looking at Otto as he poured out his heart, for some reason, they felt sorry for him, even though he was the future Bishop of Destiny!

A great figure who has a profound impact on reality, there are very few things in the world that he cannot do.

That kind of people……

"A future Bishop of Destiny, a figure who has influenced the fate of the world for five hundred years—yet he is merely a walking shadow, a pitiful puppet?"

Tesla couldn't help but ask a resounding question, looking at the other party with disbelief.

[I just don't want to see Kallen's name suffer failure again... I'm tearing up]

Only now do people finally believe—was it really for one woman? And only for one woman?

[One is five hundred years, the other fifty thousand years—are they obsessed with the number five? A number associated with pure love!]

[Let's do the math. Fu Hua seems to be from five thousand years ago, so... she deeply loves me! (Instant answer)]

Brother, the Taixu Sword God badge on your head looks really good.

"He really... sigh, he reminds me of Kevin,"

Alicia felt a little sad, snuggled into Eden's arms, and sighed.

Is Kevin now... like that too?

A walking shadow, a pitiful puppet? She didn't want these words to be applied to her companions, but she had to admit that Kevin now... might really be the shadow and puppet carrying out Plan May.

"..." Kallen remained silent, looking at Otto's words from five hundred years ago in the text, and Tesla's mocking words.

She didn't find it particularly funny.

She unconsciously clenched her five fingers, digging them into the flesh of her palms, causing her fair skin to turn red. She pursed her lips.

The slight pain made her thinking clearer and prevented her from getting too caught up in it.

A complex expression flickered in her blue eyes, intense emotions surging within her. Those words seemed to echo in her ears—Otto's answer and his sorrowful helplessness.

She couldn't help but recall more: that face that was almost gone, the past buried by the world, like a movie replaying in her heart.