"To fight against Schicksal, the people began to believe in the 'Saintess.' They regarded Kallen as the world's only 'Saintess,' using her as their spiritual pillar to resist Schicksal. The man, unwilling to accept this, ultimately wanted to transform this imperfect world into the one she desired."
Thus, he embraced her faith and founded "New Schicksal," leading the people to overthrow the "Old Schicksal" and end the chaotic era. The people praised his great achievements and lauded him for carrying on Kallen's will and sweeping away a century of corruption—
[But... was that enough?]
The man sat and asked himself. The people who had raised the banner of the "Saintess" had undoubtedly secured a brighter tomorrow, but the "Saintess" herself had been forced to die in despair over the very world she had hoped for.
No matter how he turned the "Saintess" into his own personal faith from then on—that "human" named Kallen Kaslana, the impulsiveness he loved, that stubbornness, those perfectly thin lips... all of it would never awaken from the cold coffin.
"And there was only one way to fill the void in that man's heart: to resurrect Kallen Kaslana."
"This obsession grew increasingly paranoid and stubborn with the birth of his last child—a tragedy that began at the turn of the millennium, until the present day, when the curtain rose on its most climactic act."
"Until the end of the Second Eruption, the final casualty count for humanity alone, including only civilians, had already exceeded one hundred million."
"If you cannot grasp what this number actually represents... then let's take the era you lived in, Miss Kallen, the Middle Ages, as an example. The entire European civilization of the Middle Ages would have been wiped out roughly four to five times."
"Or, put another way, three to four Black Death pandemics."
"...Why did Otto do this! If it's as you described, Miss Odin, if he hadn't attacked that First Herrscher sir, then none of the rest would have happened..."
Kallen gradually understood what the casualty count the young girl spoke of truly meant, and her fists clenched.
"Because that man pored through all the literature of two entire eras of civilization, and excavated ancient ruins all over the world, yet still found no successful records of any person being brought back to life."
"Because of his five hundred years of obsession with you, and because of his child's crying and tantrums in infancy."
"So he turned his gaze to the Herrschers, and even the God behind the Herrschers, praying for a method that could let his beloved one return from history once more."
"For me...?"
Kallen took a few steps back in disbelief, the Saintess began to think: If she had agreed to Otto's request at the time and flown far away with him, would more people have been able to survive that disaster five hundred years later?
"Yes... For 'us'..."
The young girl who had not yet wielded Divine Authority asked the man the simplest question a child could ask:
[Where did Mother go?]
At that time, the man showed the child a smile tinged with hidden bitterness, comforting the ignorant child...
[She went to a distant place. Daddy will bring Mommy back. Daddy promises you, alright?]
[Then Daddy has to pinky swear!]
...Soon, the young girl's memories of the distant past came to an abrupt halt. The Saintess next to her seemed to have finally reacted to the girl's reply, which contained some bombshell news.
"Wait a minute! You're saying Otto has children?!"
Kallen Kaslana had finally grasped a crucial piece of information from the young girl's words. The Kaslana family's small-capacity brain began to spin rapidly at this moment.
"Ah, right... He has two children..."
"One is already in their forties now, and the other just reached adulthood."
Snow Apocalypse seemed to have failed to consider how much impact such words would have on this Saintess from the Middle Ages...
"Two... two... two? And one is already over forty, while the other has just reached adulthood?"
Snow's words had successfully caused Kallen Kaslana's thought circuits to completely overload. The sheer amount of information revealed by the blonde girl was so immense that even the purest of people couldn't help but let their imaginations run wild.
"So... they... um... their mother must not be the same person, right...?"
"After all, the age difference between the two children is so large..."
Kallen recalled the utterly chaotic relationships among nobles in the mortal nations of the Middle Ages... The fire of rage already blazing in her heart seemed to have been invisibly stoked by adding fuel to the flames.
"Fine, Otto, you bastard! Not content with what you have in your bowl, you're still longing for me, the dead one, right?!"
"And with such a huge age gap between the two children! You probably have more than one person in that bowl of yours!"
Kallen Kaslana, the Overseer's fiancée, who felt as if she had been inexplicably cuckolded, found her mood growing more and more strange...
"Huh?"
Seemingly oblivious to the storm brewing on Kallen's face, Snow tilted her head and let out a confused sound.
"No... theoretically, they all have the same mother."
"What???! Where is Otto now?! No, wait—who is the mother of these two children?!"
"..."
Silence descended upon the scene. The blonde deity silently observed the Miss Saintess before her, revealing a gloating gaze, seemingly with no intention of answering this question—
"Uh... why are you looking at me like that?"
"Um... ahem, what I mean to say is—Mr. Otto Apocalypse has always been unswervingly loyal in matters of the heart. Although his popularity with women had already become very good after your passing... he even picked up a beautiful disciple of Master Jingwei from Shenzhou."
"But, your Great Inventor remains a single bachelor and... um... or should I say, a virgin?"
In a place where Dad couldn't see, a certain blonde demon incarnation began to ruthlessly insult Lord Otto, who was neither present nor aware of what was happening.
"Then what about those two children, and their mother?"
The Saintess became more and more confused the more she heard, and her clenched fists unintentionally loosened a bit, her small blue eyes filled with big question marks.
"In Schicksal's modern biological field, there is a technology called homunculus. It can bypass the mother to gestate a human of a specified template, or customize the genes of both parties for certain special reasons."
"And to put it in the most common way you can understand, Miss Kallen, it's roughly using things like the hair, blood, and skin of both the man and the woman as a template for cultivation."
"And finally, creating a person."
"So, Miss Odin, what you mean is..."
Kallen vaguely felt something bad about to happen.
"Oh, Miss Kallen Kaslana, you are already the mother of two children. Congratulations~"
"Although you and Mr. Otto are not yet married, Mr. Otto used other methods to create two daughters for you."
"That's right, they're both daughters. By the way, this St. Freya Academy was founded by one of your theoretical daughters."
"..."
Kallen Kaslana stopped thinking.