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207. Problematic Children from the Sandbox Garden
Otto was no ordinary person.
Although he was momentarily stunned by Cecilia's unexpected reaction, he quickly recovered and looked at Cecilia, who was looking down at him, with the same smile as usual on his face, and his eyes became much deeper.
"I'll reserve my opinion for now... but did you come to me disguised as Cecilia just to say these things?"
Otto adjusted his tone, slowing down his speech slightly to give himself time to think.
He was certain that the Cecilia in front of him had not been found to have any problems during the previous tests—whether it was her appearance, vital signs, or even her biomagnetic field, everything was Cecilia!
A very clever disguise.
The more sophisticated the disguise, the more skill and preparation are required. Therefore, the fact that the other party possessed a disguise like Cecilia's must have been the product of a long period of preparation.
Therefore, based on this preparation, the other party must have their own purpose.
Otto could also see that the other party's behavior in front of him was completely genuine.
During their brief encounter, Otto, in his moment of surprise, also cleared away all his previous impressions of Cecilia and started building a character profile for the girl in front of him from scratch, with the most important thing being his 857 arrogance!
Arrogant and disdainful of everyone!
Then, based on the existing intelligence, let's speculate a little...
Otto felt that the other party was neither Anti-Entropy nor any organization in the world that had been trampled underfoot by Destiny.
This arrogance is very much like that of a Herrscher. If it is a Herrscher, then this disguise might be the Herrscher's power. It is possible that a Herrscher would deliberately spend time making such a ridiculous, childlike decision in front of them.
but--
"I can entrust the destiny to you, but what bargaining chips do you have to offer?"
Otto already has some ideas.
First of all.
The other party is definitely not a Herrscher!
Although Schicksal has only experienced one Great Collapse so far, Otto has seen what a Herrscher really is through Welt.
He believed in the Destiny intelligence network he had established, and he also believed in Anti-Entropy—if a new Herrscher was truly born into this world, he would never arrive silently!
However, Otto was not a ruler who liked to veto; he was a schemer who liked to believe.
and so…
"There are some things about you that make me look forward to something, but I look forward to something every day, and I am disappointed every day. So if you want to do something, you can start now. I hope I won't be disappointed today."
Although Cecilia called Otto the clown, he was leaning back in his chair at the moment, showing no intention of summoning the other Valkyries or making any other plans. He simply sat silently in front of the guy who might be his enemy, behaving more like a spectator than a victim.
It was as if everything that happened here afterward had nothing to do with him.
He simply watched silently and offered his hopes, nothing more.
He didn't refute Cecilia's words at all.
But everything he did seemed to be an irony in response to Cecilia's words.
This is Otto.
The Archbishop of Destiny, whose fundamental principles have never been truly shaken in his hundreds of years in power!
...
“His Excellency the Archbishop remains the same as always, which is why I said that as long as there is an Archbishop like him, even if Destiny loses me, it will not really cause any problems.”
Cecilia looked at the screen, having already put the embarrassment of just now behind her. Now, looking at Otto like this, she felt a little wistful.
When Ryougi Shiki heard her say that, she didn't say anything more.
Although she didn't know exactly what gave Otto his confidence, she could tell that Otto's fearlessness came from many sources and couldn't be given by just one trump card.
So now she's taking Otto seriously.
"What a complicated person he is."
Both of them were praising Otto, but Roland, who had been watching everything, gave a completely opposite opinion.
"Otto is going to suffer a loss."
White Demon's tone was very certain, as if she already knew what was going to happen next.
Roland was also somewhat curious about this.
"Are you so sure... that you've figured out who replaced Cecilia?"
"Correct."
White Yaksha gave an affirmative answer.
"Making such childish and capricious decisions, and in such a manner, is just like the Queen... Among us, the only one who would do something like this is the Queen. Combined with the blessing she used when she traversed the battlefield just now, unless there is someone from another world who looks exactly like the Queen, we can be sure that this is the Queen!"
Upon hearing what White Yaksha said, Roland nodded slightly, but continued to ask questions.
"So you mean the Queen will just kill Otto next?"
"Haha, no."
White Yaksha laughed.
"If it's just a simple provocation, or someone who doesn't know what's good for them, then it's not uncommon for the Queen, who was smiling just a second ago, to kill you the next."
"But now..."
At this point, White Yaksha paused, then changed the subject while staring at the Queen's increasingly radiant smile on the screen.
"Roland, we've told you before that the Queen is known as one of the three major problems in the Little Garden, and among the gods and Buddhas in the Little Garden, very few dare to provoke her. Do you know why that is?"
When Roland heard White Yaksha say that, he had a vague idea of what she meant, but he still shook his head in agreement.
"I don't know—but one of the reasons must be that she's strong enough."
"Correct."
White Yaksha did not deny Roland's words.
"The Queen herself is strong enough, that's one aspect, but besides that..."
White Yaksha looked at the scene in the video where Cecilia was holding Otto by the neck and lifting him up with his Soul Steel body, and his tone carried a hint of helplessness.
"...It is difficult to please everyone. It is not that the Queen is incapable of doing so, but she will not do it, even if she herself is among those who are pleased."
"She would choose a simpler approach to the problem—that is, to make everyone unhappy, even if she herself is among those who are unhappy."
After revealing the answer to the riddle, White Yaksha's tone became more casual.
"Even if the Queen had just extracted the man's soul from his doll-like body and killed him completely, such an action probably wouldn't have disappointed that man—although we don't know exactly what that man wants, we can see that if the ending goes in that direction, that man would accept his death willingly."
"Although in the end, the Queen killed him, so she could be considered to have won, but doing so would be too much of a win-win situation and would make the Queen unhappy."
"She would never please everyone, so she would rather be dissatisfied herself than please Otto."
"This is the Queen, the one who gives countless gods and Buddhas a headache, the 'Little Garden Problem'."
......
208. That choice should never have existed in the first place!
Since the Halloween Queen is willing to make both sides unhappy in order to annoy each other, the whole thing becomes simple.
The queen, who had replaced Cecilia, grabbed Otto, and then Otto's Soul Steel clone slowly melted under some kind of blessing from the queen. Whether Otto could feel this pain or not, Roland and the others who were watching this scene did not know, but in any case, Otto did not even let out a scream and watched everything coldly.
Then...
There's not much more to see after this.
"When this guy captured Otto's clone, he consumed a part of Otto's identity."
Roland had learned a lot about the miniature garden from White Yaksha during this time, so after understanding the Queen's thoughts, he was able to see what the Queen had actually done.
So he began to explain to Ryougi Shiki and Cecilia.
"Although this method of directly consuming the other party's identity is very crude, it is impossible to completely consume Otto's identity as the Archbishop of Destiny. However, given this guy's control over this ability, consuming the part he needs is not a problem."
"So...she must have eaten Otto's identity as Archbishop of Destiny just now."
Hearing Roland say this, Cecilia began to worry, and Ryougi Shiki also frowned.
And then things happened exactly as Roland had predicted.
The queen, now bearing Cecilia's face, became the Archbishop of Destiny and immediately ordered the destruction of Otto's Soul Steel clone. She also branded Otto's Apocalypse family as traitors and launched a full-scale siege against them!
In principle, even if the Queen became the Archbishop of Destiny, it would be unlikely that the Valkyries under her would carry out such an order.
Even if the Queen were to assume Otto's archbishop status, she would still inevitably face scrutiny.
However, when the Queen gave the order, she directly revealed the problems of the Siberian laboratory and blamed Otto for all the dark side of Schicksal over the years. So when the Valkyries saw these things, they were silent at first, and then they directly obeyed the Queen's orders and took action!
However, Otto had anticipated this. When the Queen announced those things, Otto understood that part of his identity had been eaten, and which part had not. So during this period, he calmly approached Theresa, and then together with Theresa, they went to find Siegfried, who had escaped and had not yet returned to the Kaslana family. They also used the Soul Steel clone to obtain some things they needed.
He also took away the Key of God—Void Treasury, Judgment of Heavenly Fire, and the Oath of Judah.
Before the Valkyries could launch their operation, Otto, Theresa, and a reluctant Siegfried fled to the Far East.