Chapter 26: Otto: Let the Immortal Blades Go Save Grandpa!
Schicksal's history always moved forward as it always had.
Even with the unexpected events in the Far East that had caught Master Otto off guard, he still believed that things like humanity and love could control the Herrschers.
It was just unknown whether the Herrschers were aware of the changes happening around them.
Otto needed to go to Theresa to understand the specific situation in the Far East. As for whether he was more interested in Theresa's thoughts or gathering information, it was hard to tell from his face.
"..."
Raiden Mei's video was just too abstract.
Otto hadn't expected Raiden Mei to evolve into a tentacle monster. It was the first time he had seen such a powerful 'Herrscher.' It was debatable whether she was even human anymore.
'She can constantly evolve and improve her body during combat, even including changing its shape. What kind of strange experiments did Anti-Entropy do on her?'
'But looking at her abilities, it's also possible...'
'Is she not Raiden Mei? Is she just pretending to be Raiden Mei to lure out the person behind the scenes?'
'Are the Honkai gems in someone else's hands? This is truly, slightly 'controlling' me.'
Otto had obtained some incredible information in the Far East, but this information wasn't enough for him to figure out who was behind it all.
'Should I have the Immortal Blades come over and test the waters?'
The Overseer was in the habit of using the Immortal Blades to solve troublesome problems.
Very well, the Emperor of Nagazora's little pony harem had a new candidate.
"Grandpa, have you finished looking? Can you tell me why you came to the Far East now?"
Theresa was a little tsundere. She was clearly looking forward to her grandpa's cooking, but she also had a serious barrier against Otto.
"Yes, do you know this girl? Kiana Kaslana, Siegfried's daughter... The main point isn't her, but the young man beside her."
Otto pointed to Noldrei, who was live-streaming his coronation on the screen. He was now more curious about where Noldrei had come from.
Otto had records of how many people were in the Kaslana family, down to how many times they had engaged in marital relations.
He was very sure that there was no way another Kaslana family member could be wandering around outside.
Either this young man wasn't from the Kaslana family, or he was a Kaslana who had been wandering around before Otto became the Overseer five hundred years ago.
After all, there were so many people on Earth, it was normal for one or two Kaslanas to wander off and change their surnames.
No matter how much Otto managed, he couldn't control the dicks of dead people from the past.
Theresa also looked at the young man. Her first reaction was that this young man looked a lot like a younger Siegfried. Her second reaction was, 'Huh? Could he be from the Kaslana family?' Her third reaction was that Kiana was having incest with her cousin.
Theresa was immediately shocked and lamented, "Oh no, could he also be from the Kaslana family?"
Otto agreed, "It's certainly possible, but it's also possible that he dyed his hair and changed his eye color. We just need to find a way to know his Honkai adaptability."
Otto's method was indeed simple and direct, so simple that it could directly take someone's life.
"How can you use Kiana's friend for experiments?"
Theresa firmly rejected this behavior.
'Should I say that I've already started to suspect that he's experimenting on K423?'
Otto had noticed that K423's condition wasn't quite right. He decided to find a way to test the Honkai energy concentration on K423 at some point. Only then could he confirm whether she had been tampered with.
She had indeed been modified, and even her personality had become a bit strange.
Whether it was because she knew about humanity's almost hopeless future, or because Noldrei, this future person, was so abstract, Kiana no longer thought the Honkai was a big problem.
After all, someone could create a Honkai-adaptable genetic body out of thin air, and even absorb all the Honkai energy in a city.
This was no longer within the realm of Kiana's brain to comprehend.
From this, it could be seen that the Honkai problem was indeed not a problem in the future.
But the troubles that future humans brought to themselves...
'What does that have to do with me?'
Countless question marks popped up in Kiana's head. She also wanted to ask why she had happened to be caught by a future person that day and turned into a tentacle monster.
Noldrei was playing with his new crown on the side. Although it was plastic, it could indeed be used to make some things.
He thought for a moment and casually inlaid two Honkai gems onto it.
The earth-shattering gems were inlaid on a plastic crown bought from a roadside stall.
Noldrei also thoughtfully made more decorative holes, thinking that he would likely find more Honkai gems in the future.
'So casual? So willful?'
Coco-Lia looked at the two gems with envy.
Those were gems. If it weren't for her own lack of Honkai adaptability, she would have wanted to stuff them directly into her stomach.
But Noldrei just casually inlaid them on cheap plastic?
It was also strange that the restless Honkai energy seemed to be at home in Noldrei's hands.
Coco-Lia didn't know how he did it. In her eyes, this was almost a miracle, and it also made her feel like all the efforts she had made in the past had become a joke.
It made her feel like a clown.
"Although I don't know how many more gems there will be, collecting them will definitely lead to something interesting. At worst, it'll just be time travel or something. I don't think it'll be that troublesome."
Noldrei was curious about what had happened in history that caused these things to not be recorded at all. He had even suspected that he had traveled to the past.
"Kiana, haven't you found the video of you beating up your classmates at Chiba Academy yet?"
"No, I wanted to show it to Raiden Mei, but I couldn't find it at all. Then what was the point of me going to all that trouble to beat people up? They actually dared to take down my video?!"
Kiana was also helpless. She had gone out to fish for information.
In the end, only Bronya and Coco-Lia had taken the bait.
The others were still hiding, with no intention of showing themselves.
So Kiana was thinking about whether to hang the two of them up and interrogate them, but seeing that Noldrei had no intention of doing so, she gave up on her inhumane idea.
Noldrei not interrogating them meant they could turn into ponies, but if they were interrogated, they might be subjected to future interrogation methods.
Kiana didn't even dare to imagine what kind of interrogation methods the future would have.
'What about me? What about me? I don't get a say, do I?! What exactly did you two do at the school using my identity?!'
'You two idiots, what did you do with my identity?!'
Raiden Mei was jumping with anxiety. She had only just turned back into a human, and now she was a horse in the backyard again?
Especially when these two were using her identity to cause trouble outside while she herself was completely in the dark, it made her feel even more pain.
"So, what do you think about this young man?"
Otto asked Theresa, who was still in shock.
"He's not a good person."
Theresa didn't know how to describe Noldrei. She just felt that this person was very dangerous.
"He's not a good person? What do you mean?"
Otto was very interested in Theresa's evaluation.
"He's too radical. He wants to change the world, but he doesn't care about the lives of others. He's like a madman."
Theresa thought that Noldrei's ideas were too dangerous. He wanted to create a new world, but he didn't care about the cost.
"Radical? That's a very interesting evaluation."
Otto smiled. He liked people who were radical.
"I think he's very dangerous. He's not someone we can control."
Theresa was very worried about Kiana. She was afraid that Kiana would be used by this dangerous person.
"Don't worry, Theresa. I'll protect Kiana."
Otto said, but he was thinking about how to use Kiana to control Noldrei.
"I don't trust you!"
Theresa said angrily. She knew that Otto was a very dangerous person.
"Haha, you're still as cute as ever, Theresa."
Otto laughed. He didn't care about Theresa's distrust.
"I'm not cute!"
Theresa was very angry. She hated it when people called her cute.
"Okay, okay, you're not cute. You're very powerful, okay?"
Otto said, trying to appease Theresa.
"Hmph!"
Theresa turned her head away, not wanting to talk to Otto anymore.
Otto looked at Theresa's back and sighed.
He knew that Theresa was very wary of him.
But he didn't care.
He just needed to achieve his goals.
As for what others thought of him, he didn't care at all.
He was Otto Apocalypse, the Overseer of Schicksal.
He was the one who would change the world.
And he would do whatever it took to achieve his goals.
Even if it meant using his own granddaughter.