“Otto, you’ve been quite active lately.”
Just a few days after Vester realized something was wrong, Nicholas, Otto’s father, appeared before him.
“Bribing the servants around your siblings, planting informants, secretly fanning the flames, and sowing discord.”
Nicholas’s tone didn’t fluctuate much, as if he were merely stating without emotion something that had nothing to do with him.
Otto did not explain, because he had indeed done these things.
The father and son, who usually had almost no direct interaction, simply stared at each other in silence, surprisingly giving off a confrontational vibe.
After standing in a stalemate for a long time, Nicholas couldn’t help but curl the corners of his mouth.
To the outside world, Otto was the youngest son neglected by Nicholas; in reality, Nicholas actually held high hopes for him.
It was precisely because he had been secretly watching Otto that Nicholas was able to discover his little actions.
Just letting Otto act up for a month and watching with his own eyes as he made each of his siblings miserable, what on earth were Nicholas’s thoughts?
‘Hahahaha, pulling off such methods at this age, what will he be like when he grows up?’
No, I can’t laugh yet, I have to hold it in.jpg
On the other side, Otto, whose concentration was running high, didn’t miss this small detail, but instead keenly noticed Nicholas’s subtle expression of joy.
‘My actions were very secretive; even if I were exposed, Father shouldn’t have tracked me down here like this.’
‘Unless he was paying attention to me from the very beginning.’
At this thought, an extremely bold idea emerged in his mind.
‘Could it be that Father has been secretly testing me all along?’
Entering the stage now is Otto with the Ghost Brain activated!
With his brain operating at high speed, Otto was pondering what kind of answer Nicholas would most hope to hear.
Clearly, judging by the other party’s consistent style of action, what he wanted to hear was by no means any kind of defense or repentance.
‘What Father wants to know is my style of action, or rather, he wants to see how I would handle such a situation.’
“Father, I have a reason for doing this.”
“Oh, let’s hear it?”
Nicholas rarely showed a playful expression.
He had a clue about this.
‘Her name is Vester, right?
Otto went to retaliate against these people for her sake.’
The saying about flying into a rage for a beauty had quite a lot behind it.
‘I need to act…
very forceful.’
“Because they touched my things, and I am very unhappy about it.”
“Your things—are you talking about that little girl?”
“Mm, exactly.”
Giving an immensely domineering reply, Otto’s casual and breezy demeanor made Nicholas practically beam with suppressed laughter.
Those mentally deficient offspring born from the close relatives of other families—what could they possibly use to compare with Otto?
“Fine, I allow it.”
With a wave of his hand, he gave his stance.
Now, let’s pull the perspective back to the present.
“Otto, why are you zoning out again?”
“It’s nothing, I was just thinking about some things.”
Pulled back to his senses by Vester’s words, Otto flashed an apologetic smile at her.
“Actually, I thought of something too.” Saying this, the blonde girl extended a finger, “We should find a new friend too, shouldn’t we?”
As she spoke, her gaze subconsciously glanced toward a distant place…
If she remembered correctly, the ancestral lands of the Kaslana Family were in that direction.
The friend she mentioned was none other than someone from the Kaslana Family, and furthermore, someone who would develop all sorts of stomach-churning relationships with Otto in the future.
I got a great score of zero seconds in the “Guess Who She Is” challenge, come try it out too!
‘Hmph Hmph, with me by the side acting as Otto’s wingman, dealing with Kallen will be a piece of cake.’
The blonde maiden seemed to have already imagined the scene of the two of them sticking together with hearts floating around them, and couldn’t help but smile.
‘Otto, with me here this time, you won’t have to charge the tree later.
I said so!’
If she wanted to prevent Otto from walking down his original old path, the simplest method was to solve the problem at its root.
As long as Kallen doesn’t die, that’ll do.
“Vester, what are your thoughts?”
“Uh, if Otto only has me as a friend, wouldn’t it be way too lonely? So I want to find you a new friend.”
“…”
Being stared at intently by Otto’s burning gaze, the blonde girl couldn’t help feeling a bit guilty.
Vester admitted that she indeed had a little bit of selfishness.
As everyone knows, Kiana is the poster girl and protagonist of Honkai Impact 3rd.
Honkai Impact 3rd cannot be without Kiana, just as the West cannot be without Jerusalem.
Moreover, in the setting, Kallen is Kiana’s ancient ancestor.
Viewed thusly, Kallen to Kiana is just like original-flavor iced tea to tropical-fruit-flavored iced tea! This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
Nobody can refuse original-flavor iced tea, so Vester couldn’t refuse the opportunity to get cozy with Kallen either!
Watching the other person’s shifting gaze, Otto didn’t speak.
Having already gained a certain understanding of the blonde girl before him, he could more or less guess her thoughts through her expressions.
‘Although Vester didn’t lie, she also concealed something.’
‘Actually, she probably wanted a new friend herself.’
Vester wanted a new friend.
Although feeling inexplicably depressed about this, Otto did not express any objection.
After all, even if what he said earlier was very domineering, Vester was still an independent person after all, rather than “his thing”.
He could have endured the darkness instinctively, had he never seen the light—he had said as much before.
Naturally, he wanted to monopolize this ray of light, yet he was terrified that his overbearing nature might instead bring him the taste of loss.
Thus, Otto began to experience anxiety over potential loss.
After flying into the blue sky, should a kite rejoice that the wind gently lifted it up, or should it rejoice that the string tightly held onto it?
Otto now only felt that he was that contradictory kite.
“I have no objections.”
After a difficult choice, he still made this decision that went against his ancestors.
Hearing this, even though the blonde girl didn’t say anything out loud, the upward curve of her lips betrayed her attitude.
‘Forget it, as long as Vester is this happy, what does a new friend or two matter?’
‘Otto, you can’t be too selfish.’
‘Give Vester a bit of her own life too.’
As long as the blonde girl doesn’t think about leaving him in the future, it will be fine.
…
“That new friend—are they a boy or a girl?”
After convincing himself, Otto suddenly thought of an extremely crucial question.
“Should be… a girl, I guess.”
Not expecting Otto to ask this, Vester hesitated for a moment before giving an ambiguous answer.
“Should be?”
“It is a girl.”
“Good.”
Otto’s tightly knitted brows smoothed out.
However, subsequent facts proved that he had felt relieved far too early.