The call ended, and when Gao Guang and Otto looked at each other, Gao Guang realized that Otto's eyes were somewhat hazy.
It wasn't really shock or sadness, but that kind of disorientation that comes from having one's worldview shaken, from finding it impossible to accept something.
Questions like 'Where am I?', 'What am I doing?', 'Who am I?'—Otto was probably experiencing exactly that kind of state.
To Gao Guang, this whole affair seemed incredibly simple; if negotiations fell through, then that was it. Everyone would just throw in the towel, and nobody would get to play. But Otto wasn't like that: his mission dictated that he could only uphold an organization as trashy as Edelweiss, so he was unable to simply step out like Gao Guang and discover a brand-new world after smashing the constraints that held him back.
