People Are Falling Apart, Task Masters

I didn't expect that before nightfall, I would see a ghost.

Otto's eyes fell on the man standing at the door of the room.

The man with long dark blue hair was smiling, not those rebellious smiles, nor the one with a hidden knife in his smile.

A refreshing smile is like a spring breeze.

Different from the dark blue hair, the pupils are light blue, with good facial features, a white shirt, a blue tie, a white-gray jacket, a black-gray hooded coat, and blue-gray trousers.

Otto looked at the man, and the man noticed Otto who suddenly appeared.

The man glanced at Otto, then spoke slowly.

"I really didn't expect you, Otto, to come so soon."

The man said slowly, "But, tyrant in the sky, let's talk about our affairs later."

He turned his head to look at Walter, who couldn't hold back his expression, and said with a smile.

"Joachim, can you give me back my things?"

The man stretched out his right hand to Lao Yang who was standing there, with a very comfortable smile on his face, as if he was really asking for something he had lent out for a long time.

Lao Yang didn't move.

Before becoming Walter Yang, Old Yang's name was Joachim Nokian Vetanen.

His lips trembled slightly, and Otto stared indifferently at the two reunited after a long absence, but his body leaned back slightly, blocking Bronya behind him.

Bronya was still carried by Otto, looking at the three men in the room with round eyes.

Lao Yang looked at the blue-haired man's outstretched right hand, his voice trembling.

"Master Joyce! Why... you should be dead!"

Lao Yang cried out tremblingly, obviously the man in front of him disturbed his mind.

But there was respect in his trembling words.

Because the man in front of me who is gentle and firm is called Walter Joyce.

It is the symbol of anti-entropy, the "leader" of anti-entropy, and the original first Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason.

A man who should have died.

My name of Walter is inherited from this lord, and I have been following the belief of this lord since before I became Walter.

Joyce is the soul of anti-entropy.

"No no no."

At this time, Otto, who was the third party, intervened in the conversation between the two of them, like a bad child.

"Walter, this is just a copy of Joyce."

"Joyce is dead long ago, no one knows better than me."

Otto said.

Because Joyce was already dead, and the cause of Joyce's death was himself, the Lord of Destiny!

This is just a clone of Joyce created by Cocolia.

Hearing Otto's words, Joyce turned his eyes to Otto, and he smiled, but this smile made Otto feel very familiar.

He and Joyce in the past had taken a bath together and been honest with each other.

This feeling......

"It's been a long time, Otto. Give me trouble when you come out."

"But what you said is indeed correct."

"This is indeed the body of the clone."

Joyce said so.

He is frank and frank, and he is not artificial.

"But I am Walter Joyce."

"I am back."

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Very ordinary words, but it seems to be announcing to the whole world.

The soft voice was deafening.

What a joke.

Otto frowned.

As if Joyce wanted to explain, he pointed to Lao Yang's chest, where there was the core of the Herrscher of Reason.

"After the Herrscher of Reason fully understands the "explanation" of a thing, he can reproduce the thing with his own power."

"And even if our bodies are damaged, as long as we understand and have enough Houkai energy."

"In addition to the core of the Herrscher of Reason, the backup of our consciousness. As long as the core is there, the Herrscher of Reason can be continuously reborn."

"But!" Lao Yang interrupted Joyce, who was a little excited.

"There is no backup of your consciousness in the core of the Herrscher of Reason! Nothing!"

The Herrscher of Reason can jump repeatedly.

Walter's sit-ups also depend on the protection and backup of consciousness by the core of the Herrscher of Reason. As long as the core is not destroyed, it can always make a comeback.

So Walter can always dedicate his life.

However, after Joyce's death, Einstein and Tesla, even Lao Yang who inherited the Herrscher of Reason, did not find Joyce's consciousness in the core of the Herrscher of Reason.

As if it didn't exist.

Otherwise, the current anti-entropy leader is still Joyce.

"Yeah, I'm not in the core."

Joyce spoke slowly, as if several friends were chatting.

"However, this is very strange."

"As the number one Herrscher, I haven't left any consciousness in the core of the Herrscher."

"No matter how you think about it, it's not right."

"Ein and Tesla are both weird, aren't they?"

Joyce said, while Otto's eyes were slightly cold, and he realized a possibility.

"Because there is an existence that doesn't want me to be resurrected."

"He eliminated my consciousness from the core of the Herrscher."

"Let me, the existence that betrayed Honkai no longer appear."

"The Second Herrscher who appeared later did not show his betrayal again."

Otto understood that Joyce, as the Herrscher of perfect physicality, after his death, the memory consciousness should remain in the core of the Herrscher, waiting for the chance of resurrection.

However, there was an existence that prevented Joyce's resurrection and stripped his consciousness from the core of the Herrscher of Reason.

And that existence, Otto is very familiar with.

That is [Honkai Consciousness].

"However, I'm still back." Joyce said, looking at Lao Yang with a smile.

"You've grown up, Joachim."

Joyce called Lao Yang by his real name.

He raised his right hand and compared it above his head.

"Now you are taller than me. When we first met, you were still so short."

Joyce compared his waist. Lao Yang knew Joyce when he was young, and was greatly influenced by him, so that his later life trajectory could not be separated from Joyce.

"I've heard that after I died, you pretended to be me and kept the organization intact."

After Joyce's death, the news of his death did not spread to the public immediately. Instead, he used the ability of the Herrscher of Reason to disguise himself as Joyce and frequently accepted various news interviews, thus establishing anti-entropy.

However, during this period, Lao Yang also ran away from home, but in the end, he realized the heavy responsibility of "Walter", and he chose not to be self-willed to take on this responsibility.

"You are lucky."

Joyce's words made Lao Yang's heart tighten uncontrollably. No one had ever said "lucky" to himself.

Everyone has only expectations for themselves.

"So, give me back my Herrscher of Reason core."

"Hand me the baton."

"We wait for [Ouroboros], and we will surely save mankind."

Joyce stretched out his hand, and Lao Yang couldn't help but took a step in his direction.

The goal that I have always dreamed of in the past stands in front of me again, this feeling...

However, when Lao Yang took a step forward, a thin figure stood in front of Lao Yang, as if to protect him from the wind and rain.

Otto carried Bronya and stood between Joyce and Lao Yang.

"You, you probably believed this guy's nonsense."

Otto spoke, then smiled, and spoke again.

"I believe it, [-]% of it."

Otto looked at Joyce, and Joyce, being watched by the Lord of Destiny, did not flinch in the slightest, but looked at Otto with neither humility nor condescension, as if Lao Yang had become a foil for the two of them.

"You are indeed Walter Joyce."