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"Joachim! What are you running from!?"

"Your own past? Or the priest and everyone in the orphanage?"

"No, you are just running away from yourself! You coward!" Bronya shouted to Joachim mercilessly.

"I don't know... what should I do to be right?" Joachim had a confused look on his face, and his voice was filled with tears.

The expression on Bronya's face softened slightly.After a moment of silence, Bronya continued.

"There are not so many right and wrong in this world."

"Only things have right and wrong, not people. The so-called right and wrong of a person are just the responsibilities he has to bear after doing something."

"Bronya knows this is difficult... Bronya was just like you before..."

……

Under Bronya's advice.Joachim finally untied his knot.

Early the next morning.

Bronya and Xier were woken up by Theresa's knock on the door.

They arrived at Joachim's room, only to find it empty.

"He left after all." Theresa's face showed a little loneliness.

Bronya and Xi'er didn't speak.After a moment of silence, Theresa spoke.

"Bronya, Xier, the priest has something to say to us."

Bronya and Xier looked at each other, and then followed Theresa to the deepest room of the orphanage.

It has completely reached the point where the oil is exhausted.Otto lay on the bed and tried to turn his body towards them.

The redness on his chest spread across his body, as if it was going to tear him apart.

Seeing Theresa and the others arriving, Otto's voice trembled slightly.

"Theresa, my cross seems to have been lost in the snow."

Theresa lay beside the bed and said with a sad face. "Father, you have a good rest first, and I will go find it for you."

"Next week, no, tomorrow I will take you to the hospital in town. You will get better."

Otto, knowing that his end was approaching, shook his head.

"It's okay, no need. Is Joachim... gone?"

A silence answered him.

Otto shook his head slightly, already having the answer in his heart. "I know...I understand how he feels. After all, the person who made him an orphan...is me."

"It's not the priest's fault!" Theresa retorted.

Otto shook his head and said softly. "Right or wrong cannot answer all the questions in this world."

"I always ask myself if there was another way to save Joachim's father at that time."

"But no matter what I thought, I still chose to kill him that day."

"Maybe it's because in him, I see my past self...the one I want to end."

"Father..." There was sadness in Theresa's tone.She knew that Otto was preparing to reveal his last words.

Otto continued.

"I have also touched taboos and been involved in the power of evil. I have been implicated... no, I have killed many innocent people."

"But the Saint stopped me and rescued me from that abyss."

Thinking back to Kallen, a faint smile appeared on Otto's face.

In this world, when Kallen fled to the far east with the box that sealed the Herrscher, Otto in this world chose to give up everything and escape with Kallen.

Although he finally succeeded in sealing the Herrscher of Corrosion.But Otto and Karen were both cursed.

Kallen died two years later, in Otto's arms.

On her deathbed, Karen in this world left behind her last words that affected Otto's life.

A person will experience growth three times in his life.

For the first time, it is to understand the right and wrong of things.

The second time, it is to understand that some things are not only right and wrong.

The third time, after understanding that there is no right or wrong in some things, you still firmly do what you believe in and take responsibility for it.

Although Otto in this world was also confused due to Kallen's death.He even gave up on himself for a time.

But, in the end, Otto in this world chose to inherit Kallen's unfinished path.

After burying Kallen in a foreign country, Otto came to Siberia and established the Freya Orphanage.

……

After Otto finished his last words, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open.

Joachim stood in the doorway holding the cross.

At this moment, Joachim finally untied his knot.He chose to inherit Otto's responsibility and power and continue to guard this orphanage.

With the last bit of regret in my heart disappearing.The light in Otto's eyes seemed to grow brighter.

"I have fought the good fight... I have finished the race... your word... I have kept..."

After saying his last words, Otto closed his eyes forever.

……

On the hill outside the orphanage.

A low tombstone appeared in the cold wind of the eternal frozen soil.

Joachim, dressed in priestly attire, stood before the tomb with a cross in his hand and prayed.

"You went first to prepare the way ahead."

"If you ask me why some people die early..."

“For death has passed away first, and there is no more sorrow, nor crying, nor pain, nor terror, for the past things have passed away.”

"We know where you are going."

"We also know your path..."

……

During Otto's funeral, there was a flash of white light.Qin Hao and Bronya once again returned to the maze of the Quantum Sea.