Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

Her eyes were lowered, resisting direct eye contact, but her rosy lips naturally curved into a lively and natural smile.

The fairies of paradise have integrated lies to an almost instinctive degree.

"what……"

"How……"

"how could be?"

"Neither you nor I are people who enjoy talking to others. Even when we are forced to chat with others, we just do it perfunctorily like strangers."

"How could two people like us, who only have each other as companions while traveling, possibly meet other people and become friends with strangers?"

……

"really?"

"I don't mean to doubt you."

"But... I do feel like someone is missing."

"Perhaps it's not that important, but for people like us who have no friends at all, even just one person to talk to is very important."

The boy's figure appeared unusually tall under the room's lights, casting a shadow that covered the girl's entire body, obscuring her beautiful face and making it difficult to see the expression in her pink eyes.

Every now and then a gentle breeze would sweep by, stirring the tranquil treetops, lifting a corner of the petals, and drawing a fragrant breeze upwards, brushing against the well-defined, jade-like neck, the snow-white skin shimmering with a pink glow, beckoning one to kiss its sweet fragrance.

Her delicate fingertips stiffened, and the slightly swaying hem of her skirt seemed to merge with the still-blooming flowers in her hands—blooming, withering, and dying…

Her hair, imbued with a honey-sweet fragrance, was gently caressed by the breeze carrying petals and green leaves, dancing lightly on her slender shoulders.

The sounds, especially those from so close to the back of the mountain, were exceptionally clear: the gentle murmur of pure spring water flowing quietly by, and the calls of migratory birds building their nests.

Natural, harmonious... like a new chapter in the game, if you could ignore the fact that the girl who should be the protagonist is just sitting there blankly.

Jiangcheng...

Did Vilvi leave behind such a profound legacy?

It's already this late.

Can you still feel the lingering effects of forgetting her?

"If there are people, then..."

that……

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Can't find it...

There is no reason to deny it.

This is no longer a time to be careless or perfunctory.

Alicia could see the confusion in Jiang Cheng's eyes—it wasn't a sudden interest, but rather a long-suppressed bewilderment that he could no longer contain.

Jiang Cheng could no longer tolerate or ignore the inexplicable emotions welling up inside him.

Perhaps if I continue to deny it and try to find a way to circumvent this answer, the boy will still choose to accept it. That gentle boy won't have any conflict with me over such a small matter.

He would never accept it, and it was absolutely impossible for him to accept it; Jiangcheng was always like that.

The only question is, does this really make any sense?

Deny it once, deny it twice.

How many times can it be denied?

How many more times can the topic be changed?

Even if a teenager can tolerate this behavior once, twice, three times, or even continue to tolerate it, as long as he changes the subject, he will never ask further questions and will never cause himself any trouble.

Can the hidden emotions in our hearts really be reduced?

Will that resolve that doubt?

Even if you are unwilling to mention it because of concerns, will the emotions suppressed in your heart really disappear with the passage of time?

No.

Do not!

Will not.

Emotions suppressed in the heart will not disappear with the passage of time; they will only continue to brew until one day they can no longer be suppressed.

All you need to do is wait for the right moment, a moment when your heart is filled with emotion, and the seeds of your feelings will surely sprout and grow.

Alicia knew this very well, and probably few people in the world, apart from that girl Velvi, knew this better than the young girl.

Because it was this seed that sprouted and transformed her into the twisted and filthy thing she is today.

If all of this could truly be suppressed.

If this day could really disappear.

The one standing here now is no longer a despicable and shameless Herrscher who has lost all her brilliance and purity and is unworthy of being called a fairy.

The boy will surely regain his memories and stand on this earth as a true human being, instead of being a rag doll controlled by others, a Herrscher who can be manipulated at will, or a prince deceived by the person he trusts most.

If the girl had been able to suppress her emotions from the beginning, she would never have bothered the boy for her own wishful thinking.

There may be many reasons for this resurrection, perhaps it is due to the birth of the Herrscher of Death.

The only original reason was an indelible stain.

—I can no longer accept all of this.

……

In the end, I was nothing more than a voyeur who spied on a boy's life. I had no right to change anything. I had already pushed that boy away from me with ruthlessness, indifference, and stupidity.

—Wanting the boy to continue living is just a little bit of my whims. Does that mean I have to take the boy away from Wilvi?

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—So, am I going to live like this, in a world without Jiang Cheng, for decades or centuries to come, regretting that I never even hugged him?

……

Alicia had also wished that she would never grow up, that she could stay a child forever, that she could stay at that innocent age forever, so that there wouldn't be so many tragedies later on, so many mistakes, and she wouldn't have parted ways with the boy at that banquet.

Unfortunately, time blocks the way back, and even the Herrscher cannot overcome the barrier of time, and can only watch helplessly as the mistakes they have made are made.

We are powerless against all disasters, powerless to rewrite them, and even powerless to forget them.

—This matter is actually not that difficult.

If it only requires satisfying the criteria of importance, having some similar characteristics, and being the individual that occupies a certain proportion in memory.

It seems that this world can find people who can continue to deceive teenagers and keep making excuses.

"—Mebius!"

Alicia softly uttered that complicated name, her cherry-pink pupils finally lifting without fear to meet those dazzling dark eyes.

Like a collision of unrelated starry skies, or like a pink shooting star burning itself out to streak across the dim horizon in a dreamlike fashion.

The boy's doubts were shattered in an instant, and he could only let those rosy lips utter sweet words.

"If the important person you're talking about is one of the world's top geniuses, in great shape, and inexplicably lazy and slovenly."

"So of all our memories, of all the people we've met, the only person I've ever met with is Mebius."

……

—I see.

So that important person was Dr. Möbius?

Jiang Cheng's brows furrowed slightly, and without even realizing it, a thoughtful yet incomprehensible light flickered in his eyes.

seem……

This is true.

That name isn't entirely absent from my memory.

Although most of the memories, except for those related to Alicia, were fragmented, and some were even completely untraceable, the name Mebius did not disappear entirely from memory.

Perhaps one wouldn't actively think of it if no one mentioned it, but if someone brings it up, one's instinct will release information related to that person.

scholar.

Proud.

In good shape.

They're completely giving up.

Instant noodle lover.

I don't care about appearance.

With long green hair and snake-like eyes, he was given the infamous title of "devil scientist," and in reality, he was indeed a man who was good at human experimentation. Beneath that cold exterior lay a soft heart.

There do seem to be a few similarities. It bears some resemblance to that figure that always appears in my memory from time to time, a figure whose physical instincts insist I must never forget.

At least in the deepest recesses of my memory, those two shared characteristics make me one of the world's top geniuses.

How can there be so many top geniuses in this world?

and so……