Chapter 442 TeriTeri

"Come, have a taste. This glass of red wine was hidden by me five hundred years ago."

Mikael took the wine glass from Otto's hand and shook it gently. The blood-like bright red liquid sloshed around in the crystal glass, leaving shallow traces on the wall of the glass.

He leaned in and took a sip, his eyes narrowing unconsciously.

"Otto, I don't dare to drink this wine from you."

Otto sat on the shining golden bishop's chair, caressing the velvet cushion with one hand, and brought the wine glass to his mouth with the other hand, taking a sip.

"Ah - I didn't expect that the strongest man of an era and the first Herrscher of the previous civilization would be afraid. This is really surprising. I thought that heroes like you have no fear in your hearts."

"snort."

Mikael relaxed his straight back and leaned back into the seat as deeply as Otto. Before he spoke, he glanced at the three-dimensional projection on his right, which showed an image of a group of Valkyries answering papers in a classroom.

Of course, as expected, the center of the picture is Kiana... no, it is the experimental subject numbered K423.

Seeing her scratching her head at the blank test paper, Mikael chuckled, then turned to look at Rita, who was standing upright and facing everyone not far away, seeming to be thinking about whether the other party could Listen to the conversation here clearly.

After half a minute, he slowly answered Otto's previous words:

“As long as you are human, you cannot completely abandon fear.”

"But you are different, Mikael, are you really a human being? Not to mention other things, you have lived for more than 50,000 years. What does the so-called 'human being' look like in your eyes? Just like humans themselves. There’s not much difference between the Chao fungus who doesn’t know Hui Shuo and the cricket who doesn’t know Spring and Autumn. Does the ‘human nature’ summarized by us Chao fungus and cricket really apply to you?”

Mikael shook his head, but Otto knew that it didn't mean "inapplicable".

"Hua is the same age as me, but I awakened her five thousand years ago, so she is considered to be five thousand years old. And you, Otto, are almost six hundred years old, aren't you?"

Otto didn't answer. While sipping his wine, he glanced at Theresa who was sitting behind the principal's white card further away, looking anxiously here from time to time.

"Otto, you should know that when the quantity accumulates to a certain extent, the accumulation of quantity becomes meaningless. Is there really a big difference between fifty thousand years, five thousand years and five hundred years?"

Mikael said softly and drank all the wine in the glass.

Otto did not lie. This glass of wine was indeed buried under the ground of Klosten five hundred years ago. On the day he led the rebels back to Klosten, on the day he avenged Kallen, on the day he became On the day when he became a bishop, he buried the bottle of wine that Karen drank at the door of the Cathedral of Destiny.

In the mouth, the wine is a bit thicker and colder than normal. If it weren't for the astringency, sourness, and the little fruity flavor left, in terms of taste alone, Mikael would have felt like a glass of blood that had been frozen in the cellar for five hundred years.

And this is indeed the case.

What Otto buried was wine, but it was never wine.

That is the bitter fruit of all that happened five hundred years ago.

What created it was the tragedy of his and Kallen's personalities, as well as the fate of Mikael's intervention.

"How's it going? Does it taste good?"

Mikael's eyelids drooped, and even when he heard Otto's voice, he only raised them slightly.

"fine."

His tone was as calm as water.

"I still have wine that has been buried for 50,000 years. Do you want to try it?"

A smile spread across Otto's face. Of course, wine is more than just wine, but he is still happy to listen to the stories from fifty thousand years ago.

At first, he was so idle that there was very little in the world that could attract his interest except that one thing.

Secondly, most of his current understanding of the history of the previous era still comes from some fragmentary information in the void. Not to mention that this information is incomplete... In short, just like this man's comrades, Otto Apokalis also cannot understand this man.

No, it’s not that I can’t understand it.

"You said before that what you want to do is the same as me?"

Mikael nodded, then shook his head.

"Same, but a little different."

Otto stared at Mikael's trembling eyelashes and did not continue to ask.

The two men reached another deal in just a few words. Even though every word of it has nothing to do with the content of their transaction.

However, for Mikael and Otto, the grandfather and grandson, such an obscure exchange is also a kind of confrontation, and the way it looks now is just right.

If you really want to tell everything in detail and frankly, there is no need. That's something only a fool like Kevin needs to do.

but……

"That idiot Kevin, after five hundred years, he should have figured it out, right?"

However, thinking of Kaslana's ancestor, Mikael naturally glanced at Kiana under the surveillance camera.

The girl's neatly arranged braids had been messed up by Mei Yi early in the morning. She pulled the paper helplessly with both hands. Compared with the blank space at the beginning, there were finally more scattered things on the paper. A few black spots.

I can only say that it was not unexpected. Tutoring is not krypton gold. It requires long-term persistence to be effective. After two days of tutoring before the exam, Mikael estimated that at most he could make Kiana leave two fewer spaces on the test paper, so that her score would not be two fried dough sticks and one egg - a big "0" and two underscores.

"Teriri-Teriri, Teriri! Teriri-Teriri, Teriri!"

"Ugh! Cough cough cough!"

Otto had just taken a sip of wine, and before he could swallow it, he almost vomited on Mikael.

He covered his mouth hard, stiffened his neck, and finally swallowed the wine. When he turned to look at Theresa, he saw his granddaughter was at a loss and pushed her loose hair forward, as if this would block everyone's sight.

The bell for the start of the exam was normal, so why did the bell for collecting the papers become like this?

Theresa wanted to get under the seat directly, but she stubbornly accepted it all because she thought that her grandfather was here and everyone was watching.

As for who did it... Theresa felt that this was not a question that needed to be thought about at all - it must have been Kiana who did it!

"Ahem!"

"Tsk! You can actually lose your temper like this."

Mikael curled his lips in disdain. In the surveillance footage, the examination room had already started collecting papers, and Kiana had completely given up, even provocatively lifting her feet on the table.

"Ahem! Haha, my granddaughter is quite naughty, and I didn't expect her to use this as the bell for collecting papers, which makes you laugh... Ah, no, I'll do it myself."

Her throat was choked by the wine and felt extremely uncomfortable. Standing in the distance, Rita heard the bishop's cough and immediately turned around and walked over. Her steps were fast but not too eager, so that she was confused.

But Otto just shook his head and handed the unfinished wine to Rita. Rita smiled at the corner of her mouth, and her scarlet pupils swept over Mikael, and then turned and left silently.

"The bishop's maid is really sensible."

Mikael commented as if he didn't know anything.

Otto squinted his eyes and looked at him for a moment. He didn't believe that Mikael knew nothing about Rita, but since the other party insisted on doing so, he didn't mind acting along.

"No, no, no, you are wrong, this is not my maid. Meet Rita, the S-class Valkyrie of Destiny."

Rita had already walked forward several steps, and upon hearing the voice, she immediately turned around and bowed to Mikael again respectfully. She was also very curious about Mikael. In the two years since she became an S-class Valkyrie, except for the time when she was on missions and vacations, she had been following Bishop Otto as a maid most of the time. This was the first time she saw the bishop talking so much to another person.

Of course, she couldn't hear anything. She could feel that when the two of them talked before, they were blocked by a thin layer of collapse energy, and no sound could be transmitted. She didn't know what kind of technology this was, at least she had never seen it before.

But it didn't matter. She could see the expressions of the two people clearly from the corner of her eyes. The excitement and resonance hidden under the calm expression really appeared on the face of the bishop for the first time, at least from Rita's perspective.

In the past, Bishop Otto did not never talk to people, but it actually gave people the feeling that he was talking to himself.

Because no one could understand what he said.

But after introducing Rita, Otto kept silent, and it seemed that he had no intention of introducing Mikael.

Mikael understood what he meant. How should he introduce his identity? The first Herrscher of the former civilization? This identity is too scary. But if it was just an ordinary teacher of Saint Freya...

The bishop of destiny and Saint Freya's ordinary teacher were drinking and chatting, and the arrogant bishop was even polite to him... Well, this is a question mark. Mikael was sure that if he was powerless now, Otto would definitely shoot him in the head without hesitation. After all, he was one of the culprits of Kallen's death and part of his unrequited hatred. Moreover, even without him, Otto's plan could be implemented smoothly.

The reason why the two can live in peace and even treat each other with courtesy is not some kind of inner resonance, and the blood relationship is even more nonsense. It's nothing more than that Mikael's plan still needs Otto, and Otto's plan doesn't need Mikael, and it doesn't matter whether he is alive or not. It can even be said that he is one of the people in the world who wants him to die the most, but he can't kill him.

The battle of Klosten and the giant cross that appeared on the moon, even though it has been five hundred years, Otto still remembers it clearly. Not to mention that Destiny also explored the moon decades ago and sent back traces of battles on the far side of the moon...

I've gone off topic. Anyway, it's not impossible to say that Mikael is an ordinary teacher, but... will Rita believe it?

Instead of this, it's better for the two of them to tacitly say nothing, leaving enough room for Rita's imagination, and let her complete Mikael's identity by herself.

"Okay, Rita, you follow Theresa to arrange the audience seats for the simulated actual combat assessment in the afternoon. Remember to prepare two cups of coffee in advance. I'll still be the same, what about you, old friend?"

"Just the same as you."

Sometimes Mikael thinks he is also funny. When he is with Hua, he always talks to himself like Otto, as if he wants to make up for all the words he didn't say in the past 50,000 years, but when he opens his mouth, it's all some meaningless nonsense.

But when he was with Otto, he became silent again. He was so silent that he was frugal with words, plain as water, and cold as ice.

Rita left with a lot of doubts, but she seemed to have forgotten to take the cup from Mikael.

"This child was stimulated when she was young, so she is very interested in playing the role of a maid. Just treat it as her personal bad taste."

"As a maid, her service level is impeccable, but I don't know if her combat power is worthy of the title of S-level Valkyrie."

Mikael threw up the crystal goblet in his hand, and then caught it steadily with his index finger. It was hard not to taste a hint of teasing in his tone.

"If you want to fight with her, I don't object, just remember to hold back. There are only two S-level Valkyries in Destiny."

"Forget it, I'm not interested in the second one, but I want to meet Yulandel more."

Mikael and Otto smiled at each other, and the two completed another round of confrontation invisibly.

Otto naturally wanted Mikael to fight with Rita, even if he killed Rita without mercy.

Since the battle between Klosten and the moon five hundred years ago, Mikael has been in a state of disappearance for a long time. Even if he reappeared in the last ten years, there is no information about him fighting seriously.

Otto needs to make a comprehensive quantitative assessment of Mikael's combat ability based on real battle examples, so as to formulate the countermeasures needed if he interferes with his plan. Although Mikael has repeatedly stated and hinted that he will not interfere with Otto's plan, he cannot be excluded from the enemy sequence because of this - yes, in this world, everyone except Otto himself is in his enemy sequence.

Moreover, he still has a very simple fluke - what if Mikael was seriously injured in the battle five hundred years ago, and his combat effectiveness is only one ten-thousandth of that until now, and he is not the opponent of the S-level Valkyrie at all?

Mikael naturally couldn't invite him to watch a battle performance for nothing, and of course he couldn't show his weakness and cause some misunderstandings that would cause trouble, so his answer was simple - he could fight with Rita, but it was not necessary. He could consider fighting against Yulandel.

So Otto could only laugh dryly. Yulandel was not Rita. What he was talking about here was not the difference in combat power, but that in his subsequent plans, there were many possibilities that could not miss Bianca's existence, unless there was no choice, or the plan was carried out to the point where Yulandel was no longer needed, then it was naturally impossible to risk letting Mikael fight her.

For Rita, this was a bit cruel. As an ordinary person in the true sense, reaching the height of an S-level Valkyrie was a very remarkable thing. But ordinary people are ordinary people after all, and because she is too ordinary, she has become dispensable, even if she is an S-level Valkyrie. After all, although there seem to be only two S-level Valkyries in the world, there is actually no lack of combat power of the same level.

"By the way, Otto. Do you have that kind of person in your life...even though you feel that you have gone further than him or them, you still imitate their predecessors in behavior?"

It was a strange question, Otto couldn't help but frowned, and then shook his head.

Mikael laughed twice, yes, people are different after all.

What if others have it? What if they don't?

By asking such a stupid question, do you want to get a negative answer to prove your uniqueness, or do you want a positive answer to deny your loneliness?

Mikael himself didn't know at all.

"But...well, if the conditions are relaxed a little, maybe Kallen is one of them."

"?"

Mikael slowly typed a question mark. He didn't know how Otto was thinking, but no matter how he looked at it, Otto and Kallen now didn't have much in common...should be, right?

"You don't understand. The Apokalis family is proud. The approachable attitude I showed in front of the crowd and the concern in the eyes of some subordinates were just disguises. But I can't tell whether the purpose of this disguise is because I want to do something that forces me to do so, or... just imitating her, just catering to her preferences."

"Why are you telling me this? Our relationship has reached the point where we can open our hearts?"

"Didn't you ask first?"

Otto suddenly stretched out his hand. Mikael was stunned for a moment. After reacting, he gently held Otto's hand.

"Happy cooperation."

Withdrawing his hand, Otto stood up from his seat.

"Then I'll leave first, old friend. Don't be absent from the simulation test this afternoon, okay?"

"I thought you were so busy and lazy that you should find an excuse to go back to the headquarters of Tianming after the conversation."

"Ah, yes, yes!"

Otto nodded vigorously, but his smile became more and more weird:

"But, my old friend, didn't you prepare a gift for me at some point in the near future? If I don't stay to accept this gift, it would be rude to you."

He left on his own. Mikael sat alone at a small table. The projection on one hand showed an empty examination room. With a light "click", the sound and the image disappeared at the same time.

Theresa left at some point, and only a few staff members stayed at the long table in the distance to sort out the documents.

Mikael gently placed the crystal glass on the table, but no matter how gentle the action was, it would inevitably make a sound, right?

It was as if he had already gone very far, he had gone further than them, he was obviously stronger than them, and he could do what they did just by hesitating a little, changing his mind, and snapping his fingers. What everyone dreams of.

He clearly knows his true past. He is not a person who grew up watching this story. He is just a consciousness generated by random quantum entanglement. He no longer needs to respect and look up to them...

On the moon, in Klosten, in Changkong City...he was obviously the one who kept looking down.

But he still imitates them. Imitate their tone and actions.

He imitates Ellie's optimism, Kevin's determination, Eden's calmness, Aponya's gentleness, Sakura's decisiveness, Hua's indifference... He will also imitate Otto's perverseness, sinisterness and indifference, as well as the hiddenness behind all appearances. The melancholy, haggardness, sadness... and the madness that I could only suppress with all my strength.

But these are all fake, not Mikael's own character... maybe.

"Alicia...what kind of person am I...?"

Mikael raised his head and sighed, but his fingers opened the phone screen familiarly, and sent a number - 4 to an account with only a green avatar and no ID.

After thinking for a while, he typed another line:

"I'm sorry, it's okay to move a little earlier, right?"

After a while, the phone vibrated slightly:

"hehe!"

Imagining that Mebius was sulking but unable to do anything about it, Mikael shrugged his shoulders and chuckled.

Five minutes later, the school’s alarm sounded:

"Teri——Teri——"

"Teri——Teri——"

"Teri——Teri——"

The alarm sound was shrill and strange, and it rang three times in one go.