Chapter 108: Adepti Chiruan, I Did Not Lie (4K Chapter)
[Scythe and fist shadows clashed, creating sparks in the air.
Fu Hua sensed that Rita had no desire to attack and was only defending against her offensive. Worried about the other battlefield, she decided to use the power of a Divine Key.
Seeing Fu Hua's aura surge, Rita understood that she was preparing to use a Divine Key. Thus, she could no longer hold back and prepared to switch to Argent Knight: Artemis.
Just as both sides were about to use their full power, a massive lance slammed down between them, interrupting the fight.
Fu Hua looked up.
The owner of the lance, Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie, Durandal, was sitting with her legs crossed, watching them. Her posture exuded the air of a powerhouse.
A single sentence from Durandal made Rita put away her scythe, which surprised Fu Hua.
Durandal did not choose to make things difficult for Fu Hua. On the contrary, she let her go. In her own words, if she were in Fu Hua's position, she would probably make the same choice.
Because their battle was not just for their own beliefs, but also for the people they cherished.
After thanking Durandal, Fu Hua turned around, leaped down, and disappeared into the vast night.]
"As expected, I knew big sister was a good person!" Kiana the cat was overjoyed.
"It seems Durandal isn't a villain, just deceived by Otto," Mei analyzed.
"I have a theory. What if big sister and I were originally real sisters in the movie, but we were abducted and brainwashed by the evil Otto as children, which is why we don't recognize each other!" Kiana's expression was incredibly wise, just like the foolish Theresa.
"You kaslana, it's a pity you didn't become a screenwriter." Bronya: ???
"So now it seems only Rita is the bad woman!"
"You can't say that. Rita might be your... in the future." Theresa had also heard the "rumors" at headquarters and knew a bit about Rita and Durandal. It was said that Rita was unilaterally pursuing Durandal. And Durandal was straight.
Just as the audience thought Rita was a villain, the progression of the movie's plot made them realize why Rita had tried to stop Fu Hua.
[Durandal and Rita just silently watched her leave.
Rita was the first to break the silence.
"You... why didn't you stop her?"
"—She will die."
Durandal's voice sounded. "That is her own decision."
"What a pity. I don't dislike her."]
"???"
The viewers were all full of question marks.
Based on Fu Hua's performance in the first movie, she had almost beaten the six-core Sirin to a pulp. If the Will of Honkai hadn't personally taken the blow for her, Sirin would have been soloed by the Taixuan Sword God.
Now it was just a three-core Herrscher. It could kill Fu Hua?
"You've got to be kidding. Hua will die?" Pardofelis had guessed that Kiana would be written off, that Himeko would be written off, but she had never guessed that Fu Hua would be written off.
Half of it was because of Fu Hua's terrifying combat power, and the other half was because there was absolutely no foreshadowing in the first half of the movie.
"Pardofelis, it looks like you guessed wrong. It seems this movie is going to kill off Hua," Su said.
[Fu Hua, having arrived at the battlefield, first saved Mei and Theresa, telling Bronya to take them away.
Then, just as Rita had said, after a battle filled with special effects, Sirin, using the powerful self-healing ability of the Herrscher of Death core, once again grabbed Fu Hua by the neck.
Sirin was a little puzzled. They had reached this point, so why was her opponent still not using her full strength? She clearly had two Divine Keys, but she refused to use the other one.
"But it doesn't matter. This won't change anything. Die!"
Just as Sirin was about to deliver the fatal blow, the crisp sound of clapping cut through the smoke of the battlefield.
Sirin followed the sound and saw a blond man who had appeared on the battlefield at some point.]
"It's Grandpa!"
"Overseer Otto? Didn't he order Durandal to stand by? Why did he come to the battlefield himself? Could it be to save Class Rep?" No one could answer Kiana's question.
"It seems she hasn't just lost her memory, but her strength has also decreased considerably," Su sighed. If it were the Fu Hua from the first movie, she probably could have farmed the three-core Sirin like a mob.
Sirin was secretly pleased, trying hard to keep her expression neutral. This movie was really giving her face. No matter who came to fight her, there was only one outcome.
And that was, getting choked!
["What a spectacular battle. Worthy of the Queen of the Honkai. Your figure is always so dazzling."
Otto started with a barrage of compliments, which almost confused Sirin.
Sirin recognized Otto. He was the one who had awakened her.
"As a gift for giving you a second life, could I trouble you to show her some mercy?" Otto opened his palm, pointing at the hostage in the Herrscher's hand.
At the same time, a crimson fluid seeped out from his body. The blood-like fluid spiraled up his arm, finally converging into several sharp spikes.
"She is my friend. I don't wish for her to be harmed."
Otto's tone was still playful and frivolous, just like his usual carefree self.
Sirin didn't think so. She felt discomfort from those blood spikes.
In the standoff between the two, Sirin chose to back down. She sensed the same aura from Otto as her own.
And, different from her own, another kind of bottomless, obsession.
Otto continued to praise the Herrscher of the Void.
"That a person like you would become a king... humanity is truly pathetic."
Sirin disgustedly threw Fu Hua aside and disappeared into the void.]
"He really did come to save Class Rep!" Bronya was shocked.
To have all the Valkyries stand by and then personally come to save Fu Hua... no matter how you looked at it, it gave the impression that there was a special relationship between the two.
"Yay, Hua doesn't have to be written off!" Pardofelis said happily.
"Something's wrong. How could Otto reveal one of his trump cards just for friendship? His character should be someone who is selfish and would stop at nothing to achieve his plans," Vill-V frowned.
"Sis Vill-V, I think you're overthinking it," Pardofelis said, eating popcorn, stretching her body like a cat. "If you ask me, Otto definitely came out to save Hua because of their 500 years of acquaintance."
"How pitiful. Schicksal is clearly an organization meant to fight the Honkai, yet their leader resurrected the Honkai's greatest enemy. I wonder what the Schicksal Valkyries would think?" Einstein sipped her coffee.
"Didn't the Herrscher of the Void say it? That humanity has a king like Otto is humanity's tragedy," Joyce added.
"What exactly does he want to do? What benefit can resurrecting a Herrscher bring him?" Einstein couldn't figure it out. "Even if he sides with the Honkai and resurrects Kallen, after the Honkai destroys the world, how would Kallen live?"
"Otto would never side with the Honkai," Joyce said. From his understanding of Otto, Otto would at least completely expel the Honkai before resurrecting Kallen.
What Joyce didn't know was that siding with the Honkai and becoming an apostle of the Honkai were two different concepts.
[Otto walked over to Fu Hua and looked down at the heavily injured woman.
"Ah... what a pathetic sight. The last time I saw you so heavily injured was 500 years ago at Tianqiong Peak, wasn't it?" Otto crouched down, preparing to treat Fu Hua first, as a celebration for the successful completion of the first phase of his experiment.
"...Why..." Fu Hua's voice was as thin as a thread.
"Hmm, you can still speak?"
Fu Hua struggled to get up, speaking with difficulty. "Why... let her go... don't you know... her target is..."
"It's Theresa. I know." Otto's tone suddenly became grave. "I'm afraid it won't be long before they are caught."
"This time, no one else will interfere."
"Their battle will be fought to the end."
Otto's words made Fu Hua react, or perhaps she couldn't believe it. This man before her would actually sacrifice his own granddaughter.]
It wasn't just the Fu Hua in the movie who was shocked; the audience watching was also extremely surprised.
Among them, the one who couldn't believe it the most was Theresa. She never thought that the grandfather who was so gentle to her would become such a cold person in the movie.
"Are you crazy?!" Theresa growled at Yàqīng.
She could accept everything else, including the mockery of her height and her slacking off. What she couldn't accept the most was the slander of Otto's affection for her.
The atmosphere in the screening room became strange.
Everyone's attention was focused on Theresa and Yàqīng.
Kiana was caught in the middle.
Yàqīng had probably already anticipated Theresa's strong reaction.
"Come out with me for a moment, Theresa. I'll give you a reasonable explanation," Yàqīng said with a forced smile. "If you can't accept it, whether you want to hit me or yell at me, I'll take it."
With that, Yàqīng stood up first.
Shigure Kira gave him a look, asking if he needed her to come out and help explain.
Theresa also followed Yàqīng out.
Sensing the strange atmosphere in the screening room, Shigure Kira stood up and said, "Everyone, please continue watching the movie. Don't worry, Principal Theresa and President Yàqīng just need to step out to discuss some work matters."
No one believed Shigure Kira's explanation.
"Why are Yàqīng and Theresa fighting?" Elysia asked worriedly.
"Ely, don't worry. Yàqīng will handle it," Eden comforted her.
"Move it." Mobius kicked Kevin's leg.
"What for?"
"I need to use the restroom, is that any of your business?"
Outside the screening room, looking at Theresa, who was like an angry little beast, Yàqīng helplessly dialed Otto's number.
Far away in Europe, in Otto and Kallen's Little Love Nest.
Otto answered the phone. "What is it? My dear friend, you don't usually call me during a movie screening."
"President, I'm very sorry to disturb your enjoyment of the movie, but Principal Theresa seems to have some misunderstandings about me. I might need your help to clarify them," Yàqīng explained the situation to Otto in a few short sentences.
"Alright, give the phone to my dear little Theresa."
[Otto briefly explained his experiment to Fu Hua. He didn't want K-423 to die. He wanted K-423's consciousness to defeat Sirin's consciousness, creating for humanity a human who possessed the power of a Herrscher.
"Manipulating a human is far simpler than manipulating a Herrscher." Otto knew that for K-423's consciousness to win would be no easy task, and this required the appearance of a sacrifice.
"Could it be..." Fu Hua already didn't know how to describe the man before her.
"I think you've already guessed it."
"That's right, it's emotion..." Otto admitted without hesitation that K-423's enrollment at St. Freya Academy was also his arrangement, including their happy and warm memories, which were also controlled by him.
"...They... will be killed...!!"
"I understand. The difference in combat power is obvious at a glance." Otto refused to provide them with any help, nor would he allow any outsiders to intervene in this battle.
"—According to my calculations—"
"—when the sacrifice appears, K-423 will reclaim this body!"
"I believe in Theresa, I believe in her students."
"—Using love to kill the Herrscher—"
"—this is a great deed that only they can accomplish."]
"If I didn't know beforehand that Otto was the big villain, I would have really thought he was a righteous leader," Kiana complained.
"That's right. All this talk about love and emotion, that's clearly the line of a hot-blooded shonen protagonist," Bronya said with a strange expression, rarely agreeing with Kiana's statement.
"He knows ethics yet tramples on them. He knows morality yet does not abide by it," Patrick spoke up. "This is Yàqīng's character supplement for the Otto in the movie."
"How fitting."
What Patrick didn't know was that there were several more lines after these two.
He craves wisdom, but only for personal satisfaction.
He worships beauty, but only to deny the existence of ugliness.
[After hearing Otto's speech, Fu Hua finally understood that the man before her was nothing but a complete madman. Fu Hua couldn't help but laugh, a laugh mixed with bitterness.
"My friend, I'm asking you seriously now. Your actions have gone beyond my control, so I chose to tell you everything. Even so, are you still going to resist me? Are you still going to stop me?"
Fu Hua's laughter stopped. She used almost all her strength to answer Otto Apocalypse.
"...Friend?"
"There is not a trace of conscience in your words... only bottomless selfishness and lies..."
"Trampling on the feelings of others, toying with the fate of others..."
"You don't even for a moment... think of yourself as a villain..."
"Otto Apocalypse..."
"...you make me, from the bottom of my heart... feel pity... and disgust..."
Thunder flashed across the sky, and darkness covered the sky.
And at the same time, it covered the face of Otto Apocalypse.
A golden brilliance gathered in his right hand, gradually taking the form of a flintlock—the replica Might of An-Utu.
He slowly aimed the muzzle at the person lying on the ground.
It was a long process.
So long that the memories of these five hundred years, like a dream, a bubble, a shadow, dissipated one by one before him, turning into nothingness.
It was an extremely short process.
By the time he came back to his senses, he had already made his choice.
"Adepti Chiruan, I did not lie."
The screen went black, and only a "bang" was heard.]
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