Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

To confirm that his jovial old man was hiding there, Snow began to play the family card—

“Look, Dad, it’s been so long since you, Theresa, and I have had a proper chat. If you don’t pay attention to the family atmosphere, the relationships between family members will become distant.”

“Look at Dad, the last time you met Theresa, after you greeted her, you started arguing—there was no atmosphere of family harmony at all.”

“…”

The man on the other side of the screen made a thoughtful gesture. Otto naturally knew what his daughter was thinking... but at this moment, he simply believed that his child wanted to spend one last moment with him...

Therefore, the blond, blue-eyed man quickly accepted the girl's invitation after a short time.

"A family gathering... well, Christmas is just around the corner—so let's have a private party instead..."

"Just the three of us?"

Snow confirmed it.

"It's just the three of us."

The man nodded, then seemed to remember something and added—

“If you may—my dear daughter, take your adopted daughter named Ningdi with you—I haven’t seen her much yet.”

The man smiled and shook his head...

“I will have Rita inform you of the location of the gathering—see you later, my dear granddaughter and my good daughter.”

Otto nodded to Snow and Theresa on the screen, then cut off communication with the Hyperion. The man rubbed his temples, somewhat uneasy, feeling he had overlooked something...

Moreover, this premonition seems to have become more and more serious as time goes by—

"Is something missing?"

The man muttered to himself, unaware that a pair of purple eyes had already been fixed on him. The little Ningdi he was talking about had, with the help of Jiuxiao, tracked him down via the internet during the man's communication with Hyperion.

...

"All I can say is that the old man has chosen the most brutal way to get beaten up—if he doesn't want to meet us, then at most it'll be me, Mother, Kiana, and I going to the Imaginary Tree to teach him a lesson..."

"But now that he's agreed to meet... then it's not up to that old man anymore—once his identity is verified, we'll start fighting, understand?"

Miss Snow shrugged and looked at the crowd who had finished watching Mr. Otto's conversation.

"I understand, I understand—"

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"Well done—Ai-chan, Kusho."

Jiuxiao, a former indie game developer, and Ai Yi, the former AI of the pre-modern civilization now serving as the Hyperion, unceremoniously followed the network cable to Otto's location and dispatched the assassin master, Ningdi, to follow the bishop.

Meanwhile, on another level of the Hyperion, a group of people were surrounding a white-haired woman who bore a striking resemblance to Karen...

“My esteemed Miss Amber—you know what I mean, don’t you?”

The scene in the room right now, if placed in a different setting, could easily be mistaken for gangsters forcing women into prostitution...

A large group of people surrounded Snow, cheering her on, while on the opposite side stood Miss Amber, who seemed restless and uneasy. Even through her orange goggles, Snow could sense her panic...

"Wh...what?"

Looking at Otto's daughter in front of her, Miss Amber suddenly had the illusion that her days were coming to an end.

"Wow... what's with that expression—it's like we're going to sell you into prostitution and force you into prostitution???"

Before Snow could say anything more, Leonardo DiCaprio, who had come over to watch the commotion, chimed in with his comments...

"Isn't it...?"

The former secretary of the Archbishop of Destiny instinctively asked a question, plunging everyone into silence...

"Kiana—tell me the truth, how did you bring her to the Hyperion?"

Snow immediately turned his head to a white-haired knight princess who was watching the show...

"Huh? I...? Didn't you want me to invite Miss Amber to the Hyperion?"

Kiana was stunned for a moment, looking at the crowd in front of her... with an expression that seemed to say, "Are you blaming me?"

"So how did you invite him? Tell me..."

"Uh... put a sack over his head and hit him on the head with a club???"

The White Knight scratched his head and gave an answer.

"..."

"Kiana, who did you learn all this from?"

Theresa stared blankly at her obedient niece beside her, beginning to wonder if there was something wrong with the Kaslana family's parenting style...

"Sis—"

Thinking about how her older sister had packed her up in a sack and carried her away in Sky City, Kiana immediately threw the pot away...

"Hiss—putting that aside for now, what kind of invitation is it to take a whole sack of stuff like that?"

"Huh? Auntie, you emphasized that 'please' really hard... I thought you were going to kidnap me..."

"...Although, it seems there's really nothing wrong with it."

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Eternal Paradise: Chapter 454 A Tragic Tomorrow Awaits Lord Otto!

Having cleared up a certain misconception, the group dispersed, and Amber was invited into the reception room to begin a formal exchange...

"So, does Bishop Snow have any requests of me?"

With a change of scenery and no longer a dark row of people staring at her, Amber immediately felt much less pressured, and looked at the blonde girl in front of her with a sense of ease.

"Nothing—just need to borrow your glasses and clothes, you know what I mean, Amber?"

The girl didn't mince words and directly stated her requirements.

"Clothes and glasses? Okay."

The white-haired woman nodded. Years of habit had prevented her from asking the girl what she needed those things for; she simply prepared to take off her clothes and glasses...

"Cough cough cough—you don't need to be in such a hurry, Amber."

Seeing the woman about to take off her clothes, Snow rolled his eyes and changed the subject—

"Kiana said she dragged you from a deserted street outside the town?"

"What, you're not working by your father's side anymore? Or has your father abandoned you?"

Looking at Miss Amber, who seemed bewildered and homeless, Snow asked her curiously.

"Uh... Lord Otto said I'm free now—let me go and find the meaning of my existence..."

"So you were pondering the meaning of life, wandering around the town, when Kiana kidnapped you...?"

"Yes."

Amber nodded....

"Got it... Amber, wait for me—Mom!!!"

Snow gestured for Amber to calm down and then called out towards the door—

"That old geezer at home is cheating on his wife again, and then he dumped the girl afterward!!!"

.....

Achoo—!

Just as she was instructing Rita on how to prepare for the dinner party, she suddenly sneezed violently...

"Bishop Otto, are you alright?"

Rita, the maid, glanced at the former bishop standing to the side with some concern.

"No, I'm fine—Rita, just do as I say. Also, could you please inform Snow about the location of Theresa's party?"

"Yes, Lord Otto."

Having roughly figured out what kind of situation the blond man in front of her was, Miss Rita turned her head, exchanged a smile with Durandal at the door, and shook her head with a sympathetic look at Mr. Otto, who was still deep in thought in the room.

...

“I have a general understanding of the situation—that is to say, Miss Amber, after working for Otto for more than ten years, Otto suddenly declared you a free man, allowing you to search for the meaning of life?”

Karen, summoned by her daughter, nodded after hearing what had happened, and immediately clenched her fists.

"That's right...and also—"

"Are you really Lady Karen?"

When Lord Snow called her "Mom," Amber sensed something was wrong, and the woman who rushed in afterward, who looked almost exactly like her, nearly made Amber stop thinking...

“That’s right, I am Karen, Amber, right? — Don’t worry, I’ll definitely beat that Otto guy up!”

With her fist clenched, Kallen made a promise to Amber...

"This... Lady Karen, please don't make things too difficult for Lord Otto... He was only doing this for—"

Amber was interrupted before she could finish speaking. Miss Karen was no longer listening to any advice; in her eyes, Amber had been successfully manipulated and fooled by Mr. Otto—the more Karen tried to dissuade her, the more ruthless Karen would become in her pursuit of Otto…

"Okay, okay—I'll handle it! You should stay on the Hyperion for now; it's not safe to keep wandering around down there."

Of course, despite her thoughts, Karen still had to agree verbally, and casually extended an invitation to the "homeless" Miss Amber.

"Ah... thank you very much, Miss Karen."

"Oh, we'll all be good friends and besties from now on—no need to be so polite."

Snow, having had a passing Valkyrie from the theocracy squad lead Amber to the lounge, summoned all his acquaintances to the conference room...

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