[Kiana: What's going on?!]
[Honkai · Himeko: What Otto said just now… what does it even mean?!]
[Fu Hua: So this is Otto's true objective…]
[Raiden Mei: Class President Fu Hua, please don't keep helping Otto anymore!]
[Keqing: How can you sacrifice other people's lives just to awaken Kiana's consciousness?!]
[Hu Tao: That's such blatant disregard for life!!]
[Tesla: He's always been like this! Achieving his goals by any means necessary, wrapping it all up in pretty words!]
Within the group chat,
everyone was utterly shaken by Otto's brutal plan!
So this was all something Otto had planned long in advance—
Allowing Kiana to enroll at St. Freya Academy,
leaving her untouched for two whole years.
Waiting until the time was ripe,
then artificially activating the Sirin persona within her.
And then—
Using Kiana's friendships and bonds with Mei and the others,
using the sacrifice of those Kiana cherished most,
to awaken Kiana's own consciousness!
To suppress Sirin's will!
And in the end—
to obtain a human who wielded Herrscher power!
From the standpoint of humanity as a whole,
this might indeed be "resisting Honkai."
But it was undeniably cruel—
and unbearably selfish!
With the exposure of this plan,
the extraordinary beings from other worlds finally came to understand—
Just what kind of person Otto Apocalypse truly was.
"Heh… hahahahahaha!"
Suddenly, without any warning,
Fu Hua burst into laughter.
Now that she saw everything clearly,
she felt that both this world and Otto
were utterly insane.
Otto, however, looked calmly at the laughing Fu Hua and asked in earnest,
"My friend, let me ask you sincerely.
Your actions have gone beyond my control,
which is why I chose to tell you everything."
"Even so—
are you still going to oppose me?"
"Are you still going to stop me?"
The laughter stopped.
Then, almost as if drawing on every last bit of strength she had,
Fu Hua answered—
"Friend?"
"There isn't a trace of conscience in your words—
only lies without bottom or end!!"
"Trampling on others' feelings,
toying with their fates…"
"You never once—
not even for a moment—
thought of yourself as a villain, Otto Apocalypse!"
"You disgust me!"
As her rebuke rang out—
Lightning tore through the sky!
Darkness swallowed the heavens!
And with it,
the face of Otto Apocalypse was shrouded in shadow!
[March 7th: Well said! Speak for us, Fu Hua—tear into him!]
[Fu Hua: ]
[Raiden Mei: I've never seen Fu Hua this emotional before…]
[Hu Tao: Otto really has gone way too far!]
[Star Rail · Welt: Otto has always been like this. He never believed himself to be evil.]
Yet just as the group chat surged with emotion—
The image on the screen slowly brightened.
And what it revealed made everyone gasp in shock!
A golden gun barrel was aimed directly at the screen—
straight at Fu Hua!
Golden light gathered in Otto's right hand.
Mimicry · Shamash Judgment!
In its firearm form!
Otto slowly raised the gun,
bringing the muzzle level with Fu Hua's forehead.
It was a painfully long process.
So long that five hundred years of memories
seemed to pass like a fleeting dream before his eyes,
dissolving one by one into nothingness.
"… "
Otto remained silent.
He pressed his lips together,
and at last, spoke in a low voice—
"Immortal Red Kite…
I did not lie."
—
Bang!
—
The deafening gunshot echoed through the sky!
Before the horrified, disbelieving eyes of everyone watching—
Fu Hua's body slowly collapsed.
?!
In that instant—
The group chat erupted into chaos!
No one could believe what they had just seen!
Otto…
had actually shot and killed Fu Hua?!
At that moment—
Even Fu Hua herself, watching from before the screen,
felt her expression darken.
She had never imagined that,
in the future revealed by this rating system,
her end would be like this…
That the man she had regarded as a friend for hundreds of years
would treat her this way?!
And yet—
Those final words Otto spoke…
What did they truly mean?
Before the viewers could discuss it further—
Feathers began to drift down from the sky.
[Feather of Taixuan · Zeroth Rated Output!]
Fu Hua had activated
the Zeroth Rated Output of Feather of Taixuan
just before losing consciousness!
And then—
To the excitement of all viewers—
A single feather descended before Himeko!
Fu Hua, her pupils glowing crimson,
appeared before the newly awakened Himeko.
"…The Herrscher has awakened."
"What?!"
At last, Himeko tensed.
"Once you leave here, run north.
You'll see a watchtower."
"It's safe there. You can hide for now.
There will be guards along the way,
but I believe you can handle them."
Fu Hua directly laid out the escape route.
This was the last help
she could offer Himeko.
That quiet gentleness
moved everyone watching—
and only deepened their contempt for Otto's inhuman actions.
"I don't need to know any of that."
"Tell me—
where are Theresa and the others?"
Himeko showed no intention of escaping.
She asked, without hesitation,
the only question that mattered to her.
Even after hearing that a Herrscher had awakened.
And at this moment—
The viewers before the screen finally realized—
This rating's true protagonist
had always been Himeko!
Murata Himeko!