Chapter 12: Chapter 12: That's a Familiar Person
"How is it possible!?" Hearing Otto's words, Rita instinctively couldn't believe it at first, "Your Excellency the Bishop, are you saying that the content in the video is true? Is there really a person like Mo Chen in history?!"
"I'm just guessing." Otto waved his hand. "After all, in my memory, there is indeed no such person. But my experience of more than 500 years tells me that memory can be deceiving. Even the history of this world itself can also be deceiving..."
"Deceiving history?"
Rita was stunned.
She couldn't imagine what earth-shattering thing must have happened if all this was true.
After all, for a person who has done so many earth-shaking things to suddenly disappear from everyone's memory, this would not be a simple matter no matter how you think about it.
The process must be full of twists and turns beyond imagination——
Rita instantly imagined the plot of a million-word novel...
In contrast, Otto remained calm. As a bishop who had controlled the world situation for five hundred years, he immediately judged the significance of this matter and immediately ordered:
"Ignore this matter for now and let this video continue to develop."
"Eh? Why don't you complain to the website and ask them to remove the product?"
"No need." Otto shook his head. "In the eyes of ordinary people, this video is still mostly fictional. Even if there are real parts in it, the emotions will be diluted by the fictional content. They will not really criticize our Schicksal because of the content in the video. After all, many of the mistakes made by Schicksal are just my mistakes..."
"Lord Otto?" Rita was surprised when she realized that Otto wanted to take full responsibility for his own actions. "So, are we going to show this video to Lady Theresa and Lady Sirin? I feel like something might go wrong..."
"No need to remind them deliberately." Otto thought deeply for a while, and finally shook his head and said, "Since no one knows what will happen, let everything take its course. In the end, there are only two things we need to do."
"Which two things?"
"First, find out who posted the video, Void Archives. After the Honkai, it suddenly disappeared from this world one day. I didn't pay much attention to it before, but now I think it must have known something and discovered some secrets that we don't know."
Otto's expression became more and more serious as he spoke, "As for the second thing, we should try our best to search for the man named Mo Chen. If he really exists, he must have left traces in this world. We should find a way to contact him and learn the truth behind him."
"I see."
Rita nodded, approving Otto's decision.
So, after Rita took over the task and left the scene, Otto watched the video on his mobile phone again.
Faced with the video title [The Stars That Never Disappeared] and the introduction that seemed to contain profound meaning, various images flashed through Otto's mind as he tried to piece together some details that he had not noticed in the past.
"This world is very beautiful. I am alive, Sirin is alive, Kallen is alive... and many, many more people are alive. I didn't care why everything went so smoothly before as if the gods had deliberately given me a happy ending. But now it seems that all this was not given by any god, but the final result after something happened that was beyond our cognition."
"Even if your past is unknown to anyone, even if your achievements have turned to ashes, I can still feel the changes you have brought to this world. Really... Mo Chen, if you are the shooting star that illuminates the night and saves everything, then even I have to thank you."
Looking at the content on the screen, Otto smiled slightly, feeling happy from the bottom of his heart, and even looked forward to the follow-up of the exposure video the next day.
But soon, after seeing the comments in the video that were all like [Otto, die soon], [Otto, your mother is gone], [Why is this bastard former Bishop of Schicksal such a jerk, can he just die soon?], his expression suddenly became less happy.
'why does it only expose my bad things?'
'Void Archives, I don't think you really hate me, right?!'
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"Hahaha, that bastard Otto is actually being scolded by so many people, so funny!!!"
Anti-Entropy Game Company, in the conference hall.
When Dr. Tesla saw the comments in the video, she laughed so hard that she couldn't close her legs.
Dr. Einstein looked at her silently and reminded her, "It's meeting time now. If you want to discuss the video, wait until the department meeting is over."
"Tsk, alright alright."
Dr. Tesla curled her lips in dissatisfaction.
Seele, who had grown into a graceful young lady, looked over curiously and said:
"Dr. Tesla, are you watching that number one video?"
"Yes."
"I watched that video, too. The protagonist in it is so handsome, just like someone in my dream..."
Seele spoke with a smile, and even a hint of nostalgia and happiness appeared on her face.
"Seele" Cocolia looked over with cold eyes from a distance and said loudly, "It's department meeting time now. When did I ever teach you that you can talk casually during a meeting?"
"Yes...I'm sorry, Mother Cocolia" Seele was so scared that she apologized quickly.
"Humph, one or two of them, they really make me worry." Cocolia curled her lips in dissatisfaction, "Your sister Bronya is the same, just because of some bad reviews on the Internet, she was so angry that she ran out for a ride and even had her driver's license revoked. Sooner or later, her motorcycle will be dismantled!"
"Ah, this…"
Hearing Cocolia's words, Seele looked embarrassed.
But then she said, "Today's video was really great. The male lead in it was the most handsome man I have ever seen. Yes, I don't know why, but I just have this feeling..."
"Humph, what do you know about being handsome, little girl?" Cocolia said indifferently, "If a man like this were placed in front of me, I wouldn't even look at him. He doesn't have any manliness at all!"
"…"
After hearing what Cocolia said, Seele's expression suddenly became a little tense.
After all, she always had a feeling that Mother Cocolia would regret saying these words next.
But she knew the other person's character very well.
So it must be just an illusion.
Shaking her head, Seele continued to secretly watch the popular video during the meeting. The more she watched, the more strange she felt...
She even had doubts.
'Another me, have we seen this brother named Mo Chen somewhere?'
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