Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

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Completely devoid of humanity, the boy, a natural disaster and a herald, is gradually approaching. In an area where there is no longer any noise interference, the sound of his feet stepping on the ground is now so clear and distinct.

We should run away.

Most Lawyers are inhuman.

They will absolutely not show any mercy.

How could a boy who has forgotten even the person he loves most possibly remember a girl whose memory has become blurred even before her death?

Alicia did not run away, showed no fear, and offered no resistance. She remained kneeling there quietly, her head bowed, like a princess awaiting execution, ready to let the romantic fairy die for reality.

Only between his slender, soft fingers did he gather the last bit of authority, the last ounce of strength.

The innate authority known as the Origin still shines brightly.

It is fundamentally different from any other Herrscher, and even a fully ascended Herrscher cannot reach this uniqueness, which is second only to the uniqueness of the Herrscher of the End.

If one can shatter fate by sacrificing oneself, then it is certainly possible to break free from the shackles of another person.

This power, which should have been used long ago but was delayed until now, can help the boy escape his predetermined fate and tragic shackles after his death, and can also reverse the inevitable tragic ending of this world.

—This is the last thing Alicia can do.

Listening to the approaching footsteps, the girl didn't even bother to think about why Jiang Cheng, who could fly, had landed. It was clearly the footsteps of death, the approach of death itself, yet she still raised her soft lips.

At the last moment, her pink eyes flickered slightly, as if she could finally leave this cruel world with her sins.

Feel sorry……

My dearest love...

It was my mistake; my greed caused you, who deserved happiness, to suffer so much.

Please allow me, at this last moment, to do something I should have done and used years ago, but failed to do because of my own hesitation.

Farewell, beautiful world.

……

"—Don't cry, okay?"

79. I don't recognize anyone named Vervier anymore.

—Smashing a continent should also meet the requirements of a Herrscher.

Based on the level of those predecessors, this is already considered an exceptional level. To this day, no one has been able to destroy an entire continent before they die. Doing anything more... would probably be considered working overtime.

Jiang Cheng doesn't like working overtime; at least in his memory, overtime is a word with a negative connotation.

So what should we do?

Perhaps I should leave, or perhaps staying is also an option.

It doesn't matter.

Life behaviors are driven by emotions.

Just as laziness is the primary driving force, if all emotions are lost, then humans themselves will become mechanical creations, machines that only obey commands and rationally analyze and think, no longer worthy of being called human.

If we analyze this purely rationally, based on what could be called a tragic, emotionless analysis of the body, then this continuation of life that has only just reappeared is actually meaningless.

Unable to experience emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, even when truly obeying the demands of the Honkai to cause destruction, there is essentially no sense of feedback.

A life devoid of so-called emotions is essentially equivalent to a machine creation without an internal combustion engine; it is like something utterly meaningless and unnecessary, having no reason to continue existing.

Perhaps in a sense, it could be said that this is why the boy did not want to die, because he was in pain due to his empty memories.

I don't want to die.

I don't want to live either.

Because everything is meaningless.

I cannot extract even the slightest bit of pleasure from every single moment of being alive, nor the slightest bit of feeling that I crave and need from the world.

They will not feel happy about being alive, nor will they feel afraid of dying.

It doesn't matter what happens.

—That's how it should have been.

Jiang Cheng, who should have been indifferent like a cog or a stone, felt a strange sadness upon seeing the girl's miserable and desperate state. A trace of sorrow appeared in his eyes, which should have been devoid of emotion, as if it were a natural bodily reaction.

The emotional shackles that clearly belong to oneself have not been broken in the slightest, yet they seem to ripple like an unwilling roar from across the world.

Strange.

That's really strange.

It's incredibly painful, like someone is repeatedly cutting open your heart with a knife, injecting the most terrifying poison into your blood vessels, which then flows with your blood, polluting and damaging every cell and every part of your body.

——This is impossible.

This body possesses a vitality that even nuclear bombs cannot harm; perhaps the only weapon humanity has is the Honkai fusion missile from its own notebook.

To discard one's own body and rip out one's heart—no one in this world but Alicia could do that.

The boy reached out and pressed his hand to his chest.

The pulsation is merely a useless design born to imitate humans, mimicking the posture that someone named Jiangcheng should have in their memory.

There was no damage, no injury, and he was in good health.

It can be described as perfect from any perspective.

that……

Is it a lament from the depths of one's own heart?

Is it because of an individual named Jiangcheng, or the soul of Jiangcheng, that is grieving for this?

【--have no idea.】

Alicia's only wish is for you to be resurrected.

The quantum that captures these desires won't do anything superfluous.

Whether you will be exactly the same as before after being resurrected, whether you will have any memories, or even whether you will have normal emotions are all unknowns.

[Clearly, you may still have memories, at least detailed memories of Alicia, but emotions seem to have been completely erased from your body.]

[Because of the interference originating from quantum power, you were not completely reduced to a puppet. To some extent, you escaped the control of the Honkai, retaining a semblance of your own self. You did not completely lose everything and become an absolute weapon to destroy the world until your own death.]

What's the point of all this?

What's the point of all this?

You feel absolutely nothing of the normal human emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness; it's as if your heart has been ripped out, and a light bulb without a filament won't light up even after being charged.

The person in front of you is very important, but your mind is only filled with thoughts of their life story.

Then, you feel confused.

[Where exactly does my love for her lie?]

Why would I feel such intense emotions for someone who doesn't care about me?

After losing emotions, you can only approach everything with cold calculation and guesswork, as if everything must have a return to be normal.

Without love, you can't understand why you would do things that yield no reward.

[And even more incomprehensible is the lamentation within my own heart.]

Why do I feel sad when I don't feel loved?

【do not know. 】

You know nothing.

You don't even know why you're stuck here, instead of following your duty to destroy the world and wipe out human civilization.

You just can't understand it...

What exactly do you want?

[Option 1: Ignore the girl and destroy this world. Human civilization after the Herrscher of Death is completely incapable of dealing with you. Furthermore, having absorbed the power of the sea, you even have the potential to ascend to immortality.]

[Option Two: Kill the girl. It's clear the girl before you is a traitor to the Honkai, having killed four Herrschers. And now you happen to have the ability to kill this traitor who, for some unknown reason, has given up all resistance.]

Option three: Don't harm the girl, and don't destroy the world. Just continue to think, continue to ponder the meaning of your existence, and think about where this thing called emotion comes from.

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[Option Four: Follow your heart. You should comfort the crying girl. After all, she is the most precious gift you found on your first adventure, the most precious gift of your life.]

……

Is that so?

So Alicia's feelings for me are that deep?

Having witnessed the girl kneeling before him in tears, the boy clearly realized how wrong his previous guess had been.

This is not some ethereal concept, but a love that suddenly arose for some special reason and could dissipate at any time after its resurrection.

It is truly heavy in the sense of the word, and probably not much less so than the Vilvi.

She completely shut herself off, becoming so numb that she couldn't even show any emotion on her face, reaching a state that even she had never reached before.

Perhaps only when Vilvi completely shuts herself off and severs her inner self, leaving her true self forever dormant until she is forced to awaken when the calamity of constraint occurs, will she be more similar to this sorrow.