MGSFV?! Chapter 391. Otto Gazes at You Gently, Saying No More
Just as players were still recovering from the intense philosophical clash between i, Vil-V, and Mobius—
they were hit with a scene no one expected.
It felt like...
Usually, it's the characters inside the ga having flashbacks.
But this ti, it felt like players themselves were being forced into one.
Sothing didn't feel right...
Could even more unexpected characters be appearing next?
While that unsettling feeling brewed—
text began flashing across the screen.
The calendar nad "Eternity" finally turned a thin page.
The heroes from fifty thousand years ago were long gone,
and the scars left behind by Finality seed to have faded into nothing.
The spinning top danced across the smooth tabletop.
Ti, too, seed never to have moved.
...Or perhaps it had long beco sothing like the factorial of a negative number,
analytically continued across infinite poles,
slowly returning from the direction opposite the beginning.
Elysia: "..."
Elysia: "..."
She recognized every word in that sentence, but together they were...
"Basically, what it ans is..."
"If you place Finality at the center of the tiline, the Previous Era moves forward toward it, while the Current Era moves backward into it."
i finally broke the silence to explain, after seeing Elysia stare blankly at the subtitles.
"Oh?!"
Elysia understood now.
She paused and muttered, "Why did Mr. 'Otto' have to explain sothing so simple so complicatedly?"
"i's explanation is way better."
"Hmm..."
In the studio, i glanced at Hokuto beside her.
After reading his lip movents, she relayed:
"Maybe because... scientists just talk that way.
They want to explain every process thoroughly,
but end up making things overly complicated."
Elysia asked, "You're saying this is actually faithful to Mr. Otto's style, right?"
i paused as if consulting soone again.
Hokuto: When those three chat in the lab, that's exactly how it is (confird).
i then relayed with curiosity:
"Elysia, you've never seen the three of them in the lab?"
Elysia shot back:
"Why would I ever go to their lab? Who goes to a lab for fun?"
"...Fair point."
i nodded.
Then she thought of sothing else—
Yeah, who does go to the lab for no reason?
So how did Hokuto know what Mobius's lab was like...?
Had he been there before?
...
While i was pondering this,
Elysia resud the main story.
After those cryptic subtitles,
Hiko's voice finally echoed out:
"Yo, Headmistress. Sorry to wake you from your nap."
"Nap...?"
Theresa rubbed her temple, dazed.
"I was just... dreaming, right?
Felt like I was in the Hyperion, giving commands, flying through deep space..."
[Wait, so Theresa was dreaming? She did collapse earlier...]
So players started connecting the dots.
[I don't care, why did MiHoYo suddenly bring back Hiko?! You'd better not pull anything shady!]
[I'm scared the screen's gonna glitch or Hiko's gonna start flickering...]
In-ga—
Hiko chuckled at Theresa's mumbling.
"Mm... interesting dream.
Mine's been a bit different lately..."
[Please don't say you dread of dying again, Hiko... Please don't let this be a setup!]
[Kiana, this is your Final Lesson.]
[You there—shut up.]
[What changed you? Was it MiHoYo?]
But Hiko's dream wasn't quite what players feared.
"It might sound silly...
I dread the class I taught had already graduated.
When they left school, we all hugged, crying and laughing together..."
Sounds... normal?
Not too knife-y.
No way—it must be a taphor.
The writers definitely set sothing up.
So players couldn't help but suspect.
After Elysium Everlasting, a lot of them no longer trusted the writers' restraint.
But then—
Hiko and Theresa just chatted casually.
They even agreed to grab drinks soti.
Theresa offered to treat Hiko to so bitter lon liquor...
Still loving bitter lon that much, even in her drinks (LOL).
Hiko also handed Theresa a proposal for a "Fun Sports Festival."
Speaking of sports festivals in Honkai Impact 3rd...
Players instantly rembered that legendary "Big Honkai Sports Festival" event illustration.
After all, that's where the famous "Kevin slurping noodles" was born—
In the animation, when Raven ca back exhausted from a match to complain,
Kevin was fully absorbed in his bowl of noodles.
Kevin's slurping was so silly, it beca a lasting —
Popping up in official and fan videos alike.
Like in Chapter 11: To the Ends of the Deep Sea,
when Seele heard "slurping" in the Sea of Quanta,
players joked it was Kevin eating noodles.
Even in Elysium Everlasting—
Eden once chatted with Elysia...
Yep—that iconic scene:
A dozen Fla-Chasers sitting around the eting table...
Ahem. Anyway.
Hiko and Theresa chatted a bit, laughed,
and Hiko left without incident.
No surprises.
So peaceful, it felt... unnatural.
Players: ?
Did we just get fake Honkai Impact 3rd?
Nothing happened??
Honestly—
Even if Theresa suddenly realized it was a dream and whispered,
"Hiko... long ti no see,"
it would've felt normal.
...
As players puzzled over this surprisingly ta writing—
Theresa picked up the "sports festival" folder Hiko had left behind,
accidentally knocking into the spinning top on the table.
The top, once gliding smoothly across the surface,
flew off in a perfect arc and dropped to the floor.
"A top?"
Theresa stared at it, confused.
Why was there a top on her desk...?
As she pondered this—
the ga suddenly exited story mode.
The player regained control.
Huh???
They were surprised—
but also kind of relieved.
Ah, there it is.
They knew the writers wouldn't pass up a perfect mont like this.
Sothing big was coming.
They wore smug faces of "I see through you, writers" and clicked [Pick Up].
They were ready.
Bring it on.
As the player confird—
Theresa bent down to pick up the top.
And as she straightened—
her surroundings were already empty.
"!"
"W-What just happened?"
Startled by this reality-defying phenonon,
Theresa's eyes widened.
Then—
a mysterious voice spoke:
"You just broke through a layer of your subconscious."
So familiar.
So distinct.
So...
[???]
[THAT VOICE?!]
[No way. We just had Hiko and now HIM?!]
Even players who thought they were ready—
were completely blindsided.
Elysia opened the History tab,
replayed the voice line over and over and over...
Until she was sure she wasn't hearing things.
Only then did she slowly click to continue.
Theresa: "..."
"Grandpa?! How could it—"
And sure enough—
Otto appeared on screen.
[IT REALLY IS OTTO!!]
[He's back from the dead!]
[NO WAY. IT'S ACTUALLY OTTO. SOBODY HAND A CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE, WE NEED TO BASH HIM BACK INTO THE GRAVE.]
[You guys really kept the bottle??]
[Of course! We ant it!]
"Did 'Mr. Otto' write himself into the scene just to get more lines?"
"He's the boss. It's not like he's getting paid for the extra VA work."
"...True."
——
In the story—
Otto (?) saw Theresa's shock and quickly tried to reassure her.
"Don't be alard.
I'm rely a fragnt of your subconscious—
A reference point you created to help understand yourself."
"Understand? Rejoice—"
And the mont he said "Rejoice,"
that ghostly Otto flavor ca flooding back.
But still—
Though his voice was similar,
his attitude was completely different.
"By chance fluctuation in your subconscious,
you've realized that you're dreaming..."
No cryptic riddles.
He was straightforward.
He directly told Theresa she was trapped in a dream,
that her real self was still unconscious on the Hyperion.
He even stopped her from trying to wake herself through "suicide,"
and calmly offered the correct thod to escape.
"To break free from a dream based on St. Freya Academy—
The best approach is to reenact how it broke down in reality."
That reminded Theresa—
"...The Doctrine Sector!"
A na long left unspoken.
A place formally known as the Underground Central Cathedral.
A channel through which St. Freya once received cutting-edge tech from Schicksal...
Also, the very spot where the Herrscher Core inside Kiana once reawakened.
"Exactly.
A battlefield where Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, and the Herrscher of the Void once clashed."
"Let's go, Theresa.
Let's see what's hidden there this ti."
[This carry-along Otto is way too competent. He actually makes you feel safe.]
[When Otto's on your side, he's like your god-tier dad. Nothing to worry about.]
Otto (?) was calm, thodical, kind.
It left many feeling disoriented.
The Overseer—
had never felt this... reliable.
So even felt a little emotional.
Such sincere concern.
Such natural conversations.
Such relationships that should exist...
Yet had been absent from Honkai for so long.
So hopeful. So pure.
Writers—
Do you still rember the promises you once swore to uphold?
Thinking that, many players couldn't help but ntally roast the dev team.
Still, they resud gaplay quickly.
Theresa and Otto (?) set off together.
They arrived at...
A location every player knew well.
The long corridor of St. Freya.
A classic Honkai Impact 3rd "landmark."
The site of many unforgettable scenes.
Even if you forgot—
the BGM, identical to back then,
would bring it all flooding back.
MiHoYo really went there...
[No way... Not that song?! Chocolate Door 3.0?!]
["Hiko gazes at you gently, saying no more."]
[Thank you so much, MiHoYo! (sarcasm)]
[What's next? A chocolate door at the end of this hall?!]
You joke—
but, uh... there kinda is. Ahem.
In short—
players were suffering varying degrees of Chocolate Door PTSD.
Like Elysia,
who instinctively rotated the cara to glance behind her.
Seeing no one there,
she pressed forward as Theresa with a hint of lancholy.
Maybe it's human nature—
She walked right down the center,
just like most players would.
A few steps forward—
Theresa spoke:
"Co to think of it...
When I first took over this school,
I really didn't like it much."
"Oh? Because it reminded you of your grandfather?"
"No.
I just didn't want my elders spending too much on materially."
As familiar scenery passed by—
The two reminisced,
the atmosphere echoing what once was.
If before it was just jokes—
this ti, it was real.
[The dead mories...
are attacking .]
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