Just as Kallen's heart was mixed with three parts reminiscence, three parts relief, three parts emotion, and ninety-one parts intense urge to complain.
She saw that after Otto shouted out the lines that once belonged to her, he seemed to deflate like a balloon.
Then he turned and ran... ran... ran away...
Leaving only Kallen holding the flying device model, standing in place, staring blankly.
What Kallen didn't know was that little Otto, who had already run far away, was similarly lamenting to Lucius in his mind.
"o(╥﹏╥)o"
"Wuwuwu... Sorry, me from the future, I mixed up the lines..."
Yes, just now little Otto had actually been reciting lines to Kallen according to Lucius's requirements. And merely reciting lines had nearly exhausted all the social ability he'd accumulated.
This little Otto was extremely introverted, even introverted to an extreme degree.
"You already did very well. However, being this introverted ultimately isn't good... Forget it, let's take it slow."
Lucius also found little Otto's personality troublesome. This was his future designated Schicksal Archbishop. If he continued being this introverted, future scripts basically couldn't advance.
So he had to find ways to make him more confident, more extroverted, more lively...
However, these were matters to consider later. Looking at the results, what he came to Francis's place to do was already complete.
Pulling Francis onto the cart while completing the famous scene of Otto and Kallen's first meeting.
Although little Otto had nervously switched his and Kallen's lines around...
But this famous scene already had all the lines it should have. Surely it could pass that silly system's judgment.
"Forget it, things are done. Let's go back."
...
Although Lucius and Otto finished the plot and decisively slipped away, Kallen left behind had a feeling of being disheveled in the wind.
"What on earth is going on?"
Clearly she'd reminisced about the most nostalgic past, clearly she'd successfully become friends with this era's Otto as wished, but... why didn't these two happy things together make her happy? Instead, she had a feeling like grass was growing?
"Is there something wrong with this world?"
Ultimately, Kallen thought fruitlessly. Looking at the model in her arms, she sighed and walked toward home.
Anyway, she'd already become friends with Otto. After becoming more familiar, she'd pull him onto the cart. With her, a mature adult's guidance, she could surely quickly develop his potential and make him a major help in establishing Schicksal.
When she reached the manor's residence, she happened to see Francis coming out from inside.
Kallen thought about it and decided sooner was better than later. Why not tell him about her peculiar experiences now and pull Dad onto the cart?
But before she could speak, Francis spoke first.
"Oh, Kallen? Perfect that you're here. Dad has something to discuss with you."
Kallen bounced over to Francis, lifted her cute smiling face, and said: "Father, what is it?"
"It's like this. Dad wants to change our father-daughter names."
"???"
Hearing Francis's words, Kallen's small face was filled with great puzzlement.
"Dad, our names are perfectly fine. Why change them?"
"Dad recently met a strange person skilled in divination. Thinking we're about to do something big, I had him divine for our father-daughter pair."
"That strange person said we'll face a great calamity in the future. Changing our names can help us avoid it."
The world will soon be destroyed, your dad joined a world-saving organization... Such words naturally couldn't be said to his current daughter. Therefore, he could only fabricate this explanation.
"Fortune tellers and diviners are mostly charlatans. Dad, you might have been tricked."
Kallen knew this world truly had ethereal 'fate' existing, and some people could touch fate's trajectory, but she didn't believe Dad would encounter such a person.
Rather, the probability of being deceived by unscrupulous charlatans was higher.
"Better to believe it exists than not!"
"It's not completely abandoning our current names, just adding to the existing names."
Seeing the determination on his face, Kallen knew she couldn't dissuade him. She simply asked: "Dad, what name do you want to change to?"
"I'm planning to add Kaslana after both our names. From now on, I'll be Francis Kaslana, and you'll be Kallen Kaslana."
"Clatter!"
Hearing the name from Francis's mouth, Kallen's small hand trembled. The model in her arms fell to the ground.
"Kallen, your complexion doesn't look right?"
"No, nothing." Kallen quickly picked up the model from the ground while asking seemingly casually: "Father, does this name... have any meaning?"
"Knight. It represents knights... and will also be our family's principle from now on."
"Dad, the big thing you just mentioned—is it related to this?"
Francis hadn't expected his daughter could think of this, but there was no need to hide matters about establishing Schicksal from Kallen. Anyway, this would soon spread throughout Fire Moth.
"Fire Moth is incompetent, the United Government shortsighted. How can we save the world relying on them?"
"Someone invited me to join an organization, a new organization reformed from Fire Moth's framework."
Hearing Francis's grand ambitions, Kallen's heart suddenly developed an ominous premonition. She asked as if unconcerned: "Dad, have you decided what the organization will be called?"
"Already decided long ago. It's called Schicksal—humanity's manifest destiny!"
Hearing this, Kallen's suspended heart finally died.
At the same time, an incredible thought arose in her heart.
Dad... couldn't he also be like her, also from the future?
Or rather... the one who knocked me out back then was my own dad?!
Thinking of this, Kallen felt her already insufficient brain had a feeling like it would explode.
Scheming for five hundred years, only to be knocked out by her own dad when about to reach the finish line... Such a thing absolutely cannot be!!!
But soon Kallen realized there was another possibility. She hurriedly asked: "Dad, is establishing Schicksal your own idea?"
Francis shook his head and said: "No, I'm not the initiator."
Hearing this, Kallen breathed a sigh of relief, then asked with somewhat complex emotions: "Dad, can you tell me... who initiated this organization called Schicksal?"
It could be said this matter was extremely important to her.
Just thinking slightly, she could know this person pushing for Schicksal's establishment must also be from fifty thousand years in the future.
Even very likely... No, should definitely be that bastard who knocked her out!!
After all, time travel wasn't simple. Only existences possessing pseudo-divine power like herself could accomplish it.
And besides her, another existence possessing pseudo-divine power was only that person who crashed into her.
Come to think of it, she'd already descended to this era. That person who collided with her must also have come to this era!
Regarding Kallen's question, Francis didn't hide it. Although Lucius's information temporarily couldn't be revealed, both Lucius and Francis knew that openly, Nicholas, that old geezer, was Schicksal's organizer... and future scapegoat.
"Nothing that can't be said. The initiator is that old geezer next door."
"The old geezer next door? Dad, you mean Nicholas? Otto's father?"
"That's him. Although I can't stand that old geezer, temporary cooperation is still possible..."
Regarding Francis's following words, Kallen couldn't listen anymore, because she was already thoroughly enraged!
"Nicholas, I never thought it would be you, old geezer, who made me crash at the critical moment!"
"My grand ambition schemed for five hundred years was actually ruined by you, this old geezer!"
"I'll kill you, kill you!!"
Of course, besides the hatred of being knocked out, Kallen's killing intent toward Nicholas, this old geezer, had other reasons.
Or rather, being knocked out actually wasn't the main reason she wanted to eliminate this old geezer.
Even if someone else had caused her crash, she might not be unable to talk it over. After all, against Honkai, any powerful force was precious.
But Nicholas, this old geezer, was an exception.
She knew what kind of thing this old bastard was. He couldn't possibly be a fellow traveler on her world-saving path. This guy was the culmination of Stellaris's xenophobe fallen empire traits.
Such a person grasping powerful force would only bring greater disasters to the world!
Besides this, the Schicksal Oath was something she'd guarded for five hundred years. Valkyrie after valkyrie sacrificed their lives for humanity's survival under this banner.
Yet it had actually been preemptively registered by a bastard like Nicholas. This made her feel like something she treasured had been stolen, which was extremely unpleasant.
Combining all the above, Kallen's killing intent rose greatly.
She was long no longer that initially pure saint. She knew that keeping certain people alive was irresponsible to more people. And at this moment, it was time for her most skilled segment...
As Archbishop, she'd long been criticized by her teacher for insufficient strategy. Kallen herself also had clear awareness of this.
So during the five hundred years of commanding Schicksal, she'd also found an experience applicable to most situations based on her own circumstances.
That was—Kill.
Most of the time, as long as she could eliminate the person creating problems, the remaining problems would become much easier.
And coincidentally, although she considered her strategy inadequate, regarding martial force she truly hadn't cowered. People she wanted to eliminate—basically none she couldn't eliminate.
Thus, in a blind spot Francis hadn't noticed, Kallen's azure pupils were being invaded by gold, within which chains seemed to be rolling.
"Nicholas, I'm coming to kill you now!"
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