Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

Like waves in a storm, one after another, relentlessly pushed up by the storm, accumulating layer upon layer, the spray rising higher and higher, the energy accumulating within becoming increasingly terrifying.

Alicia's slender waist twisted wildly, almost breaking in two. Everyone watching was afraid they would hear a "crack" and then it would break completely.

The girl's head was curled up in her arms, her cherry lips slightly parted as she silently exhaled, then she suddenly opened her mouth and bit the jade hand that was covering her cherry lips.

A red tooth mark appeared on her fair and tender skin, seemingly unconcerned that her delicate skin might be injured as a result.

"please……"

"—Let's try harder."

……

[Roughness, abuse, and ruthless control... this behavior, bordering on domestic violence, is exactly what today's young girls crave.]

[The Herrscher's body, enhanced by the Honkai energy that has grown stronger along with technology, to the point of being almost superhuman, seems to have become a tool for Alicia's amusement.]

It's like treating a relative's unruly child as if it's not your own body, and since it's hard to break, you just want to abuse and damage it.

[Even though this situation is completely different from the persona you remember, you inexplicably feel that the current scene is what a normal young girl should be like.]

Alicia's mistakes have piled up far too many. The girl has never had a chance to atone for her sins or face the punishment she should have received. She can only bury all her loneliness, pain, and self-blame deep inside.

If twisted emotions accumulate excessively, even the most flawless fairy will one day be tainted by the filth of darkness.

You even find it hard to compare the girl in front of you with the adorable fairy from your memories who never gave you a second glance. It's difficult to even put them together, let alone see them as the same person.

The gap is too large.

[It's less about a girl under ten dreaming of traveling the world in search of a perfect paradise like those described in fairy tales.]

The person standing before you now is more like a lonely and insecure individual, almost like Vivi... Vivi...

【who? 】

What just popped into your head?

Why do you feel that shadow is somewhat important?

what……

Can't even recall blurry images anymore?

Jiang Cheng felt the doubts that this perfection conveyed to his heart, as well as the equally vague feeling, like a kitten's paws gently stirring the edge of his heart.

If it weren't for the fact that his memory of that unforgettable girl was still perfectly intact, he would probably be puzzled by it as well.

Strange.

That's really strange.

Even if becoming a Herrscher means being controlled and becoming a puppet of the Honkai, such a manifestation is completely inconsistent with the symptoms that would occur to a Herrscher.

The loss of memory, and specifically specific memories at that, was never mentioned in the plot, not even in the slightest detail.

and……

—Hasn't the shackle already been broken once?

The shackles of the past civilization were indeed deeper and stronger than those of the present civilization. If Alicia hadn't shattered the threads of fate, Anna, the Herrscher of Ice, probably wouldn't have even had a chance to struggle.

But no matter how indestructible it is, hasn't a part of it already been broken in front of it?

I did feel the emotions.

That's favoritism.

His favoritism towards Alicia.

Because I didn't want to see the girl sad, because I didn't want to see the girl shed tears, just watching this scene and hearing the sound of tears gently falling to the ground made my heart ache as if I were experiencing the same pain.

This feeling is absolutely genuine and not fake.

The so-called instinct is completely impossible.

A body that has died completely and been eroded by Honkai energy cannot possibly retain any instincts that were etched into its memory during its lifetime.

Because the muscles have been dissolved, all the organs and nerves inside the seemingly unharmed body have been completely liquefied by the Honkai energy.

Unless this instinct is etched into the soul, how could a body that has undergone a complete transformation have muscle memory?

Why did he lose his memories of Virvi?

Why was it only Virvie who lost her memories?

You don't quite understand this inexplicable loss, even though theoretically you should be more rational and capable of thinking and analyzing things more clearly now than ever before.

If we really want to delve into this, there's really no need to explore it further. For those who have passed away, forgetting is perhaps the best choice.

Compared to these things that have become meaningless, you now have a more important goal to pursue, one that seems etched into your very soul.

【—Alicia.】

You have given this girl enough punishment, clearly letting her know that this existence, this tangible warmth, and the happiness so close at hand are not some bubble under the sun, dazzling yet fragile.

You can't truly empathize with Alicia's thoughts; you can only see the gentle upturn of her lips beneath the cream puffs, and the overflowing happiness of being pampered.

The girl should be very satisfied.

……

【ah……】

The girl's delicate lips were slightly swollen and red, and a mysterious, strange liquid trickled down from the corner of her mouth. But before it even crossed those rosy lips, her exquisite tongue gently licked it clean.

As if savoring some rare delicacy, some excessively greedy fairies were unwilling to waste even the slightest bit.

[Her pale thighs were gently bound by pink fabric, the already tender and mushy flesh showing reddish indentations from the constriction.]

Her body remained limp, only the torn and disheveled hem of her skirt barely concealing her. Her half-open pink eyes were hazy, as if she had fallen into a beautiful dream, into a paradise woven of flowers and nectar.

"I'm so satisfied."

I don't even know when I last felt this fulfilled.

[Perhaps it was more than a decade ago, or even earlier, perhaps I've never felt this level of satisfaction before.]

[A body that has been empty for too long, unable to fill the void it craved for survival, finally stops groaning in hunger and instead gently pats its lower abdomen, signifying that it is now overflowing with love.]

Her flat stomach had bulged slightly—Alicia had eaten far too much in various ways after her binge eating.

Fairies need love to live in this world.

Without love, fairies will starve.

What was once just a descriptive phrase has, at this moment, become something truly essential, something whose loss would be unbearable.

[It wasn't because I was truly starving to death; I was simply lying on the ground, utterly exhausted, feeling my entire body emitting a mournful cry as if I were falling into an abyss.]

【—Because I'm satisfied.】

Because it was the first time I experienced satisfaction.

The girl, who could only watch others eat from the sidelines before, can finally sit at the table and experience the steaming hot food herself.

[There will be no more interference from others, and I will no longer make mistakes that cause our precious trip for just the two of us to be disrupted by strangers I don't know and don't want to know.]

You can clearly see that those pupils, so close to yours, reflect only you, and in those pink pupils, there shines an incessant longing.

That was once something that belonged only to another person, something unique that came from mutual devotion.

【Very good. 】

It's so wonderful to be able to make such a wish.

It's so wonderful to be able to atone for past sins.

[After decades of wandering, it felt as if we had returned to the moment we first met. In the boy's eyes, there was only you, with perhaps a few flowers and birds mixed in, reflecting in this forest that resembled a beautiful paradise.]

There's no need to delay any longer. Let's take the boy back to the place where you first met, to the small town that holds your memories.

Although the cataclysmic destruction that occurred when Jiangcheng was resurrected almost completely destroyed this continent, standing still and looking around, you wouldn't be able to find anything that could be called life.

【No. 】

[More than just life.]

[The endless mountain ranges, towering peaks, cities built by human labor, and defensive barriers specially constructed to combat the collapse—even the surrounding rivers, polluted by heavy experiments and almost completely stained green, were all nowhere to be seen.]

[If it hadn't been cancelled at the last minute, the entire continent, including this foundation layer, would probably have vanished, completely swallowed up and pulverized into basic particles.]

[Fortunately, the place where you and the boy once lived, Xiaozhen, has always been a disaster zone due to your existence as a jinx. Now, all human facilities are built extremely far away from there.]

The human defense line has almost formed a circular shape, radiating outwards with signs of life, becoming increasingly sparsely populated the closer one gets to the outer edge.

[There might be some aftershocks spreading there, but with the authority you left behind and the protection of a thousand tribulations, there shouldn't be any problems.]

As for Möbius...

She probably won't mind, right?

……

"what……"

"how……"

"—Would that be?"

The scholar, who had crawled out of the barrier in a disheveled state, seemed unaware of what had happened before him. His azure pupils merely reflected the surrounding ruins—the land was as flat as if it had been trimmed by a god with a road roller, and apart from a few chaotic holes made up of countless voids, there was not a trace of the solemn and majestic atmosphere of the past.

Only a single, stubbornly standing gate, abruptly contrasting with the surrounding flatness, atop a hundred-meter-high hourglass-shaped earthen slope, testifies that this place once belonged to the laboratory of the Fire-Chasing Moths.

It's just resurrecting an ordinary person, isn't it?

It was just using the Divine Key.

Isn't it just a weapon created by a Herrscher using the culmination of human technology?

how……

How could this be?

"My experimental data..."

"—My house!"