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There shouldn't be any possibility for him to fall in love with her, and he can't.

Therefore, she could only deliberately keep her distance, yet she greedily cherished every moment that belonged to her and him, and could only watch the interaction between him and Kallen.

what……

Come to think of it, he did envy Karin, envy her for being in that position, envy her for having such a pure reason for approaching him.

After all, Karin took the initiative to find Otto because she was attracted by the small airplane he made, but it was not the same for herself. Otto was indeed a brilliant man, but if that was all, for her who was in a high position in the Shanyat family, it would not be enough to make her like him.

She just felt that someone like Otto would become someone who could change the world.

But fate always likes to play jokes like this. In the years that followed, she suddenly found that she seemed to have gradually developed a feeling called love for the boy without realizing it.

Didn't she think about taking the initiative? The Shaniyat family has always actively encouraged positive responses in relationships. This was what the ancestors of Alicia said, except that Lancelot a few hundred years ago was too outrageous.

But just as she was about to take action, she received a warning from the [Precepts], learned about the prophecies of her ancestors, and found out how many eyes were watching here in secret.

So, she could only do this...

This is indeed the only way. Kallen's purpose in approaching Otto is so pure and simple. She just wants to save the world with Otto. Her original purpose in approaching Otto was to observe his talents and to use him to fulfill Shaniyat's long-cherished wish.

Emotionally, she felt ashamed that she was not as pure as Kallen. Logically, she could not go against the will of the [Precepts] and the ideals of the people. No matter what the situation was, it seemed that she could not interfere.

Constantine questioned why she didn't take any action. She really couldn't do anything. Kallen was so pure and didn't have any malice towards anyone. She could also see that even though Kallen was a little slow, she did have feelings for Otto beyond friendship.

I remembered that when I was a child, Karen always liked to drag me around. Although I always disliked her for not looking like a young lady at first, I knew that I was actually enjoying the time I could do whatever I wanted. I didn't have to think about whether my manners were reasonable or whether I had to think about all kinds of power struggles. I just wanted to be as arrogant as a child...

Therefore, she was unwilling to hurt Kallen.

But... she was so selfish and despicable. She could have clearly pointed out the feelings between them, but she chose to remain silent, selfishly and willfully enjoying things that did not belong to her.

As for whether Otto was taking advantage of her mind, is there any need to guess?

After all, Eleanor had been strictly trained as the head of a family since she was a child. How could she not see that Otto was trying to use her and the Shanyiat family behind her?

She just didn't care and pretended not to notice. She admitted that she liked Otto. Otto used her and she also took advantage of the opportunity that Otto used her to enjoy that time briefly. Anyway, what Otto asked her to do was not a big deal for her and the Shaniyat family.

One day, Kallen will see the darkness hidden by Otto, and in order to prevent her from seeing the hidden darkness, Otto will inevitably need to rely on his own strength. Thus, it becomes an unspoken secret between the two parties.

"If I had never liked you... No, that's not right. Our meeting meant that I was destined to be attracted to you, but the feelings between us were wrong from the beginning... Ha, Otto... Otto..."

Your future will surely be dazzling, but my future is destined to stop at this era...

A few days later, Klosten.

Otto finished reading the letter in his hand, lit it over the candle flame as usual, and watched it burn to ashes.

That's great! Eleanor will be back soon and will succeed the position of head of Shaniyat. In this way, with Eleanor's help, at least there will be no problem on Karen's side due to the turmoil in destiny caused by the failure of the Eastern Expedition.

It's just... every time I have to trouble her like this and take advantage of her feelings for me...

What on earth was she thinking? Why had she never chosen to reject herself? Why did she take these things for granted...

But he didn't dare to ask, for fear that after making everything clear, he would have to face those problems and her feelings, and he was afraid of losing her support.

I am also afraid of her leaving.

Isn't this a good relationship now? Karen can continue to walk on her ideal path without worries, and the other darkness is covered by herself and Eleanor. On the surface, they still maintain the same relationship as before...

Isn’t this... bad?

He recalled the time when Kallen's father died when he was 13 years old. He was shocked by the death of the god-like man in his eyes. Every generation of Kaslana's patriarch died in the liberation of the Holy Judgment of Skyfire, and the cause of death of every generation of Shaniyat's patriarch was even more confusing.

He only knew that according to records, few heads of the Shanniyat family in each generation could live past the age of fifty.

And Eleanor will succeed to the throne and become the next head of the Shaniyat family.

This means that one day, her departure will become inevitable.

"I have done so many evil things. Even if she becomes like the other Shaniyat family heads one day, I will definitely die before this." He comforted and numbed himself in this way.

Moreover, what he had done with Karin recently was no longer the small fight as before. In order to prevent Karin from being caught with any clues, he deliberately designed Karin's identity as the Purple Kite Thief.

As we all know, the iris is the family emblem of Shaniyat. The purple iris easily reminds investigators of the Shaniyat family. Now the entire Mandate of Heaven has collapsed financially due to the failure of the Crusade, and the European countries that were conquered before are also ready to move. The Kaslana family has become shaky because of the failure of the Crusade because they followed the Apokalis family to participate in the Mandate of Heaven's Crusade.

Even the preacher who had never been worthy of being so arrogant in the Kaslana family dared to speak so arrogantly in front of Kallen and himself.

To put it bluntly, just as Eleanor said, Destiny will face the most violent turmoil since its establishment, and the entire Destiny is already in turmoil.

But the Shaniyat family did not participate in the Eastern Expedition at all, and still stood here to support the destiny.

Otto had no doubt that if it were not for the Shaniat family's deterrence against European countries, Tianming would probably be in a much more difficult situation than it is now.

Through this little calculation, he dragged the Shaniyat family into the water and used the Shaniyat family as a shield for himself and Kallen. Do those missionaries who want to investigate have the courage to provoke Shaniyat?

Although history has been covered up, Otto also knows that the Shaniat family hundreds of years ago could easily raise an army to destroy a country. This is also an important reason why European countries have only been able to make moves but dare not take any open actions so far.

However, all that he did was based on the premise of Eleanor's indulgence of him. When Eleanor returned to Klosten, she would definitely know about the Purple Kite Thief and would definitely see through his little tricks.

She has always been careful to maintain the glory of the Shaniyat family. Will she forgive her own behavior this time?

Even Otto was unsure about this matter. He even felt that it would not be excessive for Eleanor to slap him a few times like Karin did.

But he had to do this, because he had run out of ideas at this point. Only by doing this could he allow Kallen to act better without thinking about the predicament that Tianming was facing at this moment, and without thinking about the root cause of all this. Only by doing this could he maintain the current false appearance.

If Eleanor still chooses to help herself this time, her status in the Shaniyat family will be questioned by others, and this will give her father a reason to further drag the Shaniyat family into the water.

Helping herself again would be completely detrimental to Eleanor.

For a moment, Otto didn't know whether he should hope that Eleanor would come back to stabilize the current turbulent situation of Tianming, or hope that she would come back a little later so that this false appearance would be shattered more slowly.

"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..."

Split

The sunset that day was very red, and its afterglow cast on the path in the woods, bright red as blood.

She looked down at her chest which was pierced by the flaming bullet. She did not seem to feel any pain. Instead, she turned to look at the young man who suddenly appeared behind her.

The golden light gathered into the shape of the Heavenly Fire Judge, and was held in the young man's hand. At this moment, he looked panicked, his face was pale and bloodless. He was gasping for breath, and the hand holding the Heavenly Fire Judge was trembling as if the Heavenly Fire Judge would fall from his hand in the next second, not knowing whether it was because he had used up too much energy when coming here or for some other reason.

Ha... Otto, you chose Kallen after all...

In other words, to you, Kallen is your whole world, right?

Before you pulled the trigger of the Holy Fire Judgment on me, did you ever hesitate for a moment?

The smell of burning flesh rushed into her nose, and the blood gushing out of her throat blocked all the words she was about to say. Even though it was just the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire synthesized by Void Wanzang, its power was far less than the original one, but when a person was caught off guard, even if it avoided the heart, this shot was still enough to be fatal.

Is this... fate's punishment for me?

She thought so.

She fell in love with someone she shouldn't have, did things she shouldn't have done, and even had the idea of ​​going against her predetermined fate...

She once held out hope that Otto would believe that she would not hurt Kallen. After all, the three of them grew up together and understood each other. But at that moment just now, she suddenly realized that all of that might just be self-deception. Maybe... From the very beginning, there was only Kallen in Otto's world, and he didn't want Kallen to be exposed to any risks or accidents.

Even if I am the one responsible for the hunt.

"You will pay the price for this sooner or later." Constantine's words echoed in her increasingly confused consciousness.

"Ha... Indeed, Constantine, as you said, everything is my own fault..."

As she thought about this, the Black Abyss White Flower in her hand emitted a warm light. The attack of the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire destroyed her stigma, and the path of the Honkai energy in her body was also blocked, which greatly weakened the healing effect of the Black Abyss White Flower. If she continued to consume it like this, she would really die here today.

But she has more than just the stigmata...

Ok?

Her already somewhat dazed pupils moved towards the young man who seemed to be still standing there in a daze. At this moment, the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire in his hand had turned into a golden black abyss and white flower. He seemed to think that he could save the current situation.

Ah, Otto, you're not thinking this way, are you? Use the Holy Fire Judgment to block my actions, and when I no longer have the ability to pursue Kallen, use the Black Abyss White Flower to heal me?

But, Otto, have you forgotten your naturally weak constitution? Have you forgotten that you had already consumed too much energy when you rushed here?

Now that you can mimic the Black Abyss and White Flowers, you are already close to your limit.

What's more, the treatment of Heiyuan Baihua has always come at a price for an ordinary person...

Ha, Otto... Otto, why can you be so proud while feeling so inferior? Do you think you can control everything? Or, have you been ready to end it all with your life from the beginning?

One life for another...

Things did not go as she expected. The young man's face became even paler, and his exposed skin began to turn gray. Purple-red blood lines began to appear and spread from his hand holding the pseudo-black abyss white flower.

But unfortunately, all the people who are watching you will not let you die at this moment, and my death is not worth mentioning to them, so your idea is doomed to fail.

The golden holy spear began to disintegrate, and the young man looked at the holy spear disintegrating from his hand with an expression of surprise and panic.

He looked up at the girl not far away from him who seemed like she would fall down at any moment. Due to excessive physical exhaustion, he could no longer use the power of Xu Kong Wan Zang. He could only stretch out his hand in vain and finally fell to the ground.

Before his consciousness fell into a coma, he saw that the girl's body seemed to have turned into the appearance of a Honkai beast at that moment.

"You are really willing to risk your life. Why? Are you willing to use your life to test your position in his heart?" Constantine's usual annoying voice sounded, "Now the test is out, right? Compared to Kallen's life... No, it should be said that compared to Kallen's safety, your life is not worth mentioning."

Constantine walked out of the shadows of dusk and came to the fallen Otto. He looked down at Otto and said, "Can such a guy really change destiny and even the whole world in the future?"

His gaze shifted to Eleanor, who no longer looked human. "If you didn't have half Black Abyss blood in you, you would have died here today."

"I should have said... that no one can follow me, right?" Eleanor's hoarse voice rang out, "Constantine, I am the head of Shaniyat, my order..."

"Even if you are the head of Shaniyat, I am also the head of [Black Abyss] and your assistant. I have the power to take actions that I deem appropriate based on the changing situation." Constantine shrugged and said, "What if I don't come to watch and you are really shot dead by him? Or do you really think you have given up and can just die here?"

"Constantine, even though I'm seriously injured now, if you want to compete with me, I'm happy to accompany you." Eleanor's voice was extremely cold.

"No, I'm on your side. You're actually arguing with me for someone from the Apokalis family?" Constantine looked confused. "Are you the Black Abyss or am I the Black Abyss?"

"Put aside your manners, Constantine. Do you think I don't know who you are?"

Constantine immediately put away the cynicism on his face and turned expressionless: "Eleanor Shanyat, you must know that even if you are the head of Shanyat, you do not have the power to have absolute command. Moreover, your bloodline and talent are not much worse than Lancelot's five hundred years ago. For the Shanyat family, your importance is not much less than this Otto. So as [Black Abyss], I am here to warn you for the last time, Eleanor Shanyat..."

"Your life does not belong to you alone."

"If you behave like this again, no, if you have such a tendency, I have the power to inform the people above me to revoke your status as the head of the family and confine you to the Shaniyate Forbidden Land forever."

Eleanor was silent, and then she suddenly laughed: "Ha... warn me... Constantine, you think everything that happened today is another shame for the Shanyatid family, right? The head of the Shanyatid family was shot from behind by the man she had always loved with a Pseudo-Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment and was on the verge of death, and then... she chose to forgive him?"

"Isn't this the truth?" Constantine said coldly, "You made concessions for him again and again, and even turned a blind eye to him and Kallen using the name of Ziyuan to bully others. After the incident, you negotiated with the Apokalis on behalf of the Shaniyat family and finally won the release of Kallen Kaslana... Eleanor Shaniyat, Lancelot is not as cowardly as you."

"Ha... Constantine, you know... fate has already secretly marked the price for all the compromises and concessions." Eleanor's voice was filled with sadness. "I am powerless to resist fate. Everything I have suffered now is my own fault, but... Constantine, I can be confident and swear in the name of the great ancestor Lucifer that everything I do will live up to the glory of Shaniyat..."

Constantine was stunned when he heard this. He looked at Eleanor in front of him like a monster in some disbelief. No Shaniyat dared to lie in the name of Lucifer's ancestor, but everything he had seen so far could not prove whether what Eleanor said was true.

He could tell that her voice was full of determination without any guilt, but besides that, the deep sadness was it for herself, or for something else?

Eleanor sighed deeply. She was too lazy to explain everything to Constantine. She was too tired recently. She succeeded the position of the head of the family, helped Kallen and Otto to deal with the impact of the Phantom Thief incident, balanced the many contradictions within the Destiny so that the Destiny would not erupt into a civil war at least now, and everything that happened today...

It's really, really tiring.

"Send him back." Eleanor looked at Otto who was lying on the ground. "By the way, inform the bishop of Tianming and tell him that his son severely injured the head of Shanyat in order to release Kallen Kaslana. From today on, the Shanyat family will officially cut off contact with the Apokalis family. All Shanyat people in Kolosten will follow me to the north in the near future and will no longer participate in any affairs of Tianming."

"That's a decent statement. It should have been done a long time ago."

Constantine frowned again. Eleanor said so, but why did her tone sound so soft? Where was the coldness? Where was the resentment? She also wanted him to send Otto back?

Even if Otto doesn't want to be beaten to vent his anger, at least let him lie here and wait for him to wake up and go back by himself, right?

What? The leader of the Black Abyss, the only Seraph currently, is required to personally escort this guy back?

Are you sober?

"Obey orders, Constantine Shaniyat. Even if you have any objections, keep them to yourself. At least I am still the head of Shaniyat." Eleanor felt that her chest, which was pierced by the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire, was still in severe pain. In her artificially collapsed state, she couldn't even return to the city for the time being and had to stay in the suburbs for a while.

Constantine's eyes twitched, and then he looked at Otto on the ground, lifted his foot with one hand and prepared to drag him back.

"Constantine."

Constantine made an extremely unhappy "tsk" sound, carried Otto on his shoulders, glanced at Eleanor who had turned around and seemed to be looking at the setting sun that was about to sink into the horizon, and then left.

Forget it, forget it. Anyway, when the head of the Apokalis family finds out about this, Otto will not be in a good situation. Originally, the Bishop of Destiny wanted to use the incident of the Purple Kite Thief to force Eleanor and the Shaniyat family to further bind themselves to the Apokalis family. After all, the entire Destiny is in turmoil now, with dissatisfaction among the people at home and European countries eyeing them covetously outside. In order to protect his own position, he must tie the Shaniyat family to the warship at all costs.

Now, Otto's shot has completely destroyed the possibility of the Shaniat family supporting the Apokalis family. Eleanor will soon lead all the members of the Shaniat family to move north from Kolosten. It will be really interesting to see what will happen to Destiny at that time.

"At least this time she finally didn't think of protecting Otto..."

He is a good person and behaves normally when Otto is not involved. How could he be so blind as to fall for such a loser?

But unfortunately, Constantine was wrong again.

Otto's father, Nicholas Shaniat really needed Shaniat to be on the same front with them, but now the chaos caused by Otto's intrusion has resulted in the Shaniat family breaking up with Tianming, and the whole family just ran away without caring about anything. So what is left of Tianming after this?

Kaslana, who is demoralized and alienated from the Apokalis family? Or the people who have long been resentful?

The only person the Apokalis family could rely on after this was Otto. Even if Nicholas wanted to punish Otto, what could he do? If Otto was gone, the Apokalis family and the destiny would really be finished.

So when that time comes, Nicholas will have to appease Otto with good food and drink, and satisfy Otto's wish to stop pursuing Kallen. Otherwise, if Otto goes on strike, Destiny will really be torn apart by the angry people and European countries.