Authority (Recollection)

Otto Apocalypse is alone, standing in the hall of the Schicksal Overseer Cathedral.

The crowd outside the church is singing, dancing, and celebrating the victory.

With the support of the people, he destroyed Risa Schariac and her puppet Overseer, Marseille Apocalypse.

He ended the chaos and unified Schicksal.

Everyone praised him for his great achievements, following in accordance with Kallen's dying will, he has reshaped and recreated Schicksal.

He has ended the chaos and unified Schicksal.

He is a great man and hero, in the eyes of all.

No one sees him as weak.

No one treats him as a clown.

...Except himself.

He knows he is just following the Holy Maid's path.

He knows he is just making this unpleasant world into what she wanted it to be.

But... is that enough?

If that's all Otto Apocalypse will achieve during his entire life...

Will the late Kallen Kaslana be happy with him?

He recalls a day 14 years ago.

The despondent shape of her back appears in his mind.

She was a hero.

A sad, weak, and unlucky hero.

She once took from the rich to give to the poor.

But she fought alone against the ugliness of the rich and powerful.

She once fought to take away Pandora's Magic Cube.

But as a result, disasters were inadvertently spread throughout some places in the world.

With that determined look in her eyes, she showed him that she was willing to die fighting him.

This broke his heart.

However, fate seemed to have played a huge joke on her.

Her final form on the execution site somehow became a spiritual totem preserved in time.

Ten years after her death, he has seen that those who wanted to change the world have used her as their banner.

They all claim that they were inspired by her.

In the end, they've got their reward.

They created a better tomorrow while their Holy Maid was left to die in despair for the world.

Cruel fate and his pathetic cowardice at the time...

Gave her no opportunity to see the coming light of the new dawn after the darkness.

That day, she turned away from the light with determination.

And since that day, her true self has never been seen again.

The malice of the world wronged her deeply, forcing her to depart from her home and to give up her life.

During this tragic end to her life...

He, the one who was shot by the arrow of love, played an ugly role that he should not have played.

The original plan was not the one that came to fruition.

He was in such a panic that he was used by his own sister.

But nothing would change the cruel fact that it was the Honkai beast he released that killed her.

It was his years of self-righteousness that killed her little by little.

No matter how much he believed in the Holy Maid after that, Kallen Kaslana, the human, would never rise up again from her cold coffin.

...Her impulsiveness and stubbornness that he was obsessed with, and her lips that were the perfect thickness...

Would never be seen again.

Unless time could be turned back...

Or the dead could be brought back from the beyond.

Otto Apocalypse is alone, standing in the hall of the Schicksal Overseer Cathedral.

The crowd outside the church is singing, dancing, and celebrating the victory.

He closes his eyes, letting the tears roll down his cheeks.

He knows that he is the only failure here.

A failure...

...One who deserves no pity and should go to hell.

**Irrelevant Files**:
**Chapter 1 -** Mission Report Kv10297 • St. Fountain Tour Guide • Golden Fountain • Fountain of Blood • From Sint Fontein to St. Fountain • Unsent Letter • A Flyer • A Resident's Diary • A Scrap of Paper • Duino Elegies