My obsession with role-playing seems to have distorted the world's aesthetic.

Not far from Otto, Kiana looked somewhat excited.

This young lady is indeed different from others, hehehe, this young lady is the mastermind behind everything!

Come to think of it, as a genius physicist, I have already seen through everything, and everything is under my control, Kiana Kaslana!

Due to Xia Qing's relationship with the Reincarnators, the Herrscher of the Void, Sirin, did not appear to have transformed into an insect, but Kiana unexpectedly began to expand.

Theresa didn't feel anything was wrong about being a representative of power. She didn't have any great ambitions, so it was impossible for her to be chosen as the mastermind behind the scenes.

Bronya wasn't surprised at all. She herself felt that she was a good person because... there are no bad people who like Seele!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Earth, at the Anti-Entropy headquarters, Tesla confidently addressed Ai Yin:

"The mastermind behind this must be Bishop Otto of Destiny. I swear on the life of my best friend Otto Apocalypse. If he's wrong, may he get his head caught in a door and be struck by lightning on the street!"

Tesla doesn't care whether Otto agrees or not; he doesn't care what Otto thinks, he only cares about his own opinion and his own conviction. After all, his best friend Otto is just a tool for making oaths.

“That makes sense. Of all the people I know, Rioto is the most suspicious.”

Ai Yin nodded. At the same time, Anti-Entropy was convinced of Otto's idea, and Raven, the representative of World Serpent, and Wendy, the representative of Dream Group, also shared the same idea with her.

As for the representatives of the Honkai Beasts, Green Tor and Houraiji Jiuxiao, the current discussion is still about that possibility, because both of them know too little about this world's humans and beasts.

While St. Freya and her group were staring at Theresa's office computer screen, Xia Qing switched identities, maintaining her future Bronya identity while appearing as Li Erlid.

“Be careful not to fall, Miss Apocalypse.”

Black wings suddenly appeared behind Li Erlid, and countless jet-black feathers swept through Theresa's office with the aim of destruction.

"My Houmu comics! My snacks! Wow, they're all gone, all gone!"

Ignoring Theresa's heartache, Li Erlid controlled the black wings formed by his combined power and ascended to the heavens with Otto on the spot.

slip away~

Lillid manipulated the ideal fluid to achieve the effect of flight; as for the wings? They were just decorations.

When Xia Qing, playing the role of Li Erlid, took Otto away from St. Freya Academy, the reincarnators seemed to have reached some kind of cooperation with Rita. After continuing to transform into the future Bronya and bidding farewell to the group from St. Freya Academy, she returned to Anti-Entropy to begin discussing strategy with Tesla.

Time passed amidst suspicion, and as night fell, with ten minutes remaining until midnight, all the contestants gathered in the Foam Space.

The foam space contains several pillars of different styles, and a participant stands on each pillar.

Looking at the creature on the scene that was clearly not human, Raven, the representative of World Serpent, asked with some surprise, "A Honkai Beast?"

Chapter 173: The Destroyer of the Part-Time World, the Demon King and the Savior of Penglai Temple Jiuxiao

"Nice to meet you, Raven, a cadre of the World Serpent."

Looking at the raven Green Tor in the distance, Otto calmly said, "I'm quite curious about who the real mastermind is here." At this moment, Otto took the initiative to bring up the topic: "I'm very curious about who among us is the real mastermind."

Although you might not believe it, I wasn't actually the chosen mastermind.

As Otto finished speaking, Tesla immediately retorted, "Aren't you the mastermind? Of everyone here, you seem to be the one who has done the most things like human experimentation."

"There's no need to assume I'm being malicious."

Ms. Tesla, I am not lying, nor would I stoop to lying.

I, Otto, am certainly not the chosen mastermind behind this game; the mastermind is someone else.

Speaking of suspicion, Ms. Tesla, your side isn't entirely innocent either.

Otto turned his attention to Tesla, believing that Tesla was indeed a suspect.

"Huh? I'll bet my best friend... cough cough, do you guys think I, Tesla, look like the mastermind behind this?"

I, Anti-Entropy, have been diligently developing technology to combat the Honkai. Things like human experimentation have always been done by Cocolia and have nothing to do with us conservatives.

Tesla said with certainty, while Otto immediately retorted: "You are indeed not very likely to be the mastermind, but none of us are sure whether the Contractors were taken into account in this competition."

If we consider the contractors, Bronya might be the mastermind behind this game.

Your contractor, the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance from the future, is completely different from the previous two leaders. I sensed an extremely similar aura emanating from her.

Like me, we are willing to bear the taint of sin for the sake of justice. We are all righteous individuals who firmly believe in fighting against the collapse, and we will not regret it even if our hands are stained with evil.

After Otto, now in a male body, finished speaking, Xia Qing, playing Bronya from the future, reverted to her spirit form and appeared next to Tesla: "Have some shame! What you're saying is so fake, even I don't believe it."

Since you have committed evil deeds, you should be prepared to bear the consequences. Bishop Otto, the man of destiny, why do you try to cover up your evil deeds?

Neither of us went to this point for power; I did it for Seele's resurrection. You're no better off.

Karen's death has left you in a similar state to mine; we are both deeply sinful, and hypocritical pretenses only disgust me.

Otto looked somewhat embarrassed by Bronya's ruthless rebuttal. "Bronya, didn't you say before that you and I had reached a cooperation agreement? Why are you suddenly exposing me?"

I still need to cultivate my persona as the Archbishop of Schicksal, who is fighting against the Honkai, but you, instead of staying at home, just flip the table and start playing around.

"The mastermind? Just two bootlickers."

Meanwhile, outside, the craftsman who had infiltrated the headquarters of Destiny, watching the meeting on the screen, whispered to himself.

At that very moment, a figure was moving nearby, but neither side noticed the other's presence.

"Miss Bronya's frankness is much better than that of some of the secretive Bishops of Destiny. In comparison, Miss Bronya, Bishop Otto, you are indeed very suspicious."

Raven chuckled and said that she didn't have much affection for this hypocritical bishop, Fate.

"Don't forget you're a suspect too. World Serpent is the most deeply hidden organization among our three major powers. As a cadre in the World Serpent, I don't believe you can be completely clean."

Otto immediately retorted, while Raven calmly said, "Our members in this world take it upon themselves to eliminate the Honkai, even if the means they use violate human morality."

However, compared to you, Bishop Otto, I, Raven, am as clean as a blank sheet of paper.

Upon hearing Raven's words, Otto felt that Rita should be in this situation, as he himself had not deliberately learned how to engage in verbal sparring.

"Clean as a blank sheet of paper, huh? How laughable! This savior sees an unfathomable darkness within you!"

A voice suddenly rang out from beside Green Tuo; it was Penglai Temple Nine Heavens, who had previously concealed his form through the power of combination.

These were not items created by Xia Qing, the contractor she was playing, that allowed them to conceal themselves with a thought; Jiu Xiao's invisibility just now originated from these items.

Penglai Temple Nine Heavens was not lying; among everyone present, Raven's clothes were indeed one of the few in the color scheme of black.

As for why I should step forward at this time, how could I, as the savior of light, just stand by and watch others argue?

This game, similar to Werewolf, will be guided by the supreme and benevolent Savior of Light!

From the Honkai Impact 2 world, where the story hasn't started for long, it seems that Houraiji Kyuuhou has entered his chuunibyou (delusional) state again. Theresa looks somewhat surprised to see Houraiji Kyuuhou like this.

I hadn't noticed the contestant in the corner before, but now, seeing those features...

Purple hair, a coat with chains and bandages, a cross pinned to her hair, and a tone that perfectly matched what Hei hope had said.

That's right, the girl in front of me is the most wicked and evil demon king, Houraiji Kusho!

“The most evil and lowest demon king, I had already noticed you before, and you are also a suspect.”

Otto looked at Penglai Temple and said this, in his eyes this demon king was the most suspicious person present.

The lowest and worst—just hearing this description makes Otto think that Jiuxiao is no good person.

"Wait, the lowest sin? Are you insulting the Savior's character?!"

The chuunibyou girl Jiuxiao pointed at Otto and questioned him. Otto nodded and said, "I still recognize the culprit that made our universe fragile."

"World Destroyer Penglai Temple Nine Heavens, what is your true purpose?!"

Otto slightly turned his body and pointed his right index finger at Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens. In response to his words, Nine Heavens replied somewhat rudely:

"I, the savior, came to your world to bring salvation, and I am not a destroyer of the world at all."

"Let me introduce myself. I am Penglaiji Jiuxiao, the savior of this world, the chosen one, the savior of light!"

Jiuxiao spread her right hand and circled around. Hearing her chuunibyou-esque tone, Otto twitched the corner of his mouth.

Is this guy in front of me really a world destroyer or just some chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) sufferer? I asked Li Erlid for some information about him when I went back before.

The World Destroyer in the intelligence report is not much different from that purple-haired girl. Could it be that the World Destroyer is a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur)?

"The Light... Savior? Bishop Otto, are you sure you're not just framing someone randomly? She just seems like a kid with a bit of a chuunibyou."

Raven, somewhat speechless upon hearing Nine Heavens' self-designation, questioned Otto.

Chapter 174: Otto, Eliminated

"Do not doubt my identity, I am the real Savior of Light."

With a slight upturn of his lips, Jiu Xiao spoke confidently, while Tesla and Raven completely ignored his words.

No one who isn't suffering from chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) would say something like that so brazenly.

"Are there two masterminds hidden among the eight contestants? In this case, the process of elimination is quite useful."

Kiana, Bronya, and Theresa—I don't think they could be the mastermind.

At this moment, Wendy, who had been quietly observing the scene, spoke softly, and Xia Qing didn't know what to say in response.

Good grief, they ruled out the correct answer right away.

It's said there are two masterminds behind the scenes, but I've never said that those two masterminds were present from the beginning.

According to the original game flow calculations, when only four people remain, one person's identity will change from a faction representative to the mastermind behind the scenes.

However, the other contestants present were unaware of this information. After a moment of silence, Wendy continued to state her deductions:

"Theresa is innocent and kind, and everyone should have access to information about that. The leader of the St. Freya organization is probably not her; it's just a coincidence that the school and the organization share the same name."

Kiana... It's frustrating, but this genius physicist seems to have a slight intellectual problem. If she's the mastermind behind it all, then this game is no challenge at all.

According to the intelligence I have, although Bronya was active on the battlefield as a child soldier, she did not commit enough atrocities to qualify her as a mastermind.

I've heard of Ms. Tesla's reputation. As a conservative anti-entropy advocate, she hasn't done anything wrong. As for that chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) person, he was probably randomly chosen by the Holy Grail.

So, there's only one truth: you're the mastermind behind this game, Bishop Otto!

The game won't randomly introduce a completely useless mastermind who only speeds up the game; there won't be any rewards for finding the mastermind.

I propose that we vote today to elect Archbishop Tianming first.

Wendy made no attempt to hide her dislike for Otto; the Destiny human experiment would not have progressed so smoothly without his tacit approval.

He saw some classified information in the laboratory, and much of it was even personally ordered by Otto.