Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

The prerequisite for etching one's existence into another's life is having enough time, enough time for intimate companionship to wear everything down.

The new life between the boy and girl has only been going on for less than two years, and their feelings for each other are still occasionally starting to sprout.

—Not nearly enough!

……

For the first time, the nun's grey eyes, which had witnessed countless calamities and listened to countless prayers, revealed a wordless doubt, as if they were truly covered in a layer of dust, and she stood there dumbfounded.

Can't understand.

do not understand at all.

I don't understand at all.

As a nun, the real job is to listen to the prayers of others and to have a keen emotional insight, so that you can realize the emotions and problems in the heart of an enemy the moment they open their mouth.

Regardless of whether it's Dusk Street or not, and regardless of whether the nun's qualifications are questionable, the young girl must have a strong capacity for empathy.

At this very moment, Aponia was unable to comprehend what was happening before her eyes, nor could she grasp the subtle emotions contained within those dark, brooding eyes.

There is no explanation or description to speak of.

You can't even find a few complete, continuous sentences.

The boy seemed to be merely venting some resentment that had been buried deep in his heart for a long time, using some meaningless, tone-based symbols or characters.

This thing, which was very common in the past and was quite ordinary at any time, seemed extremely strange at this moment.

Haven't the precepts already been issued?

Why……

It seems that Jiangcheng has been completely unaffected?

So-called forgetting...

What exactly does it mean?

It was impossible to piece together complete information from it, and the specific situation could not be known. One could only sense a subtle strangeness, which did not belong to the behavioral logic and standards that a life after being inscribed with precepts should have.

This is completely different from any previous instance, at any point in time, after any precept was applied, and the posture of the person being subjected to it is unlike any other time.

fear……

Hesitation...

Even though they knew nothing and understood nothing, their emotions and instincts seemed to have already foreseen what was about to happen.

Her fingertips, which had finally been able to relax slightly, unconsciously gripped the fabric of her chest tightly. Even when she accidentally pinched that soft, large flesh, she remained motionless as if she had no feeling at all.

Unlike normal development, it will create hundreds of tragedies caused by its own unnecessary actions, endings that it is powerless to change no matter what.

The price is that Aponia, who never talks about her own actions, has to experience being the miserable one from the very first time.

It was just luck in the end.

Do not change it.

Do not seek progress.

How long can this so-called luck last?

How many more times will it take for a misfortune to expose the disaster behind it? How many more times will our ignorance be fully exposed?

The more ignorant, less knowledgeable, and less educated a person is, the more likely they are to develop a strange arrogance and act presumptuously.

Helpless, stunned... the nun who always listened to others' prayers with the utmost composure seemed to be overwhelmed by emotions for the first time.

what……

what……

what……

Doesn't it seem a bit ridiculous to continue to believe in your own ignorance, to continue to ignore established facts, and to ignore the truth that has already been revealed?

How could I possibly know nothing and understand nothing?

How could we possibly continue to be ignorant and foolish?

Even if it's just an interjection, even if it's just some characters that sound like a complaint or grumbling, it doesn't mean it can't contain a huge amount of information.

"—These are some clear yet blurry fragments of memory. It seems that this time I really need to be impolite and get to the bottom of things."

"—As my most important lover, there shouldn't be any falsehoods or secrets between us. Isn't this... something Alicia herself told me?"

"—The collapsed plan, the truth and the falsehood, the reality and the illusion, I really can't tell anymore."

'That's impolite,' 'I'm being persistent in asking questions,' 'Lovers shouldn't have any falsehoods or secrets,' 'Didn't Alicia tell me this herself?'

Isn't that already very clear?

Has a disaster or calamity been clearly explained?

Under what circumstances would it be necessary to be impolite, to pry so deeply, to complain, to emphasize that there should be no secrets between lovers, and even to feel dissatisfied with what the girl told him herself?

This is a literal expression of dissatisfaction, which cannot be escaped in any way. Even the most ignorant person can easily hear the nuances in the words.

That was definitely not a normal discussion, nor was it mixed with affection, or even the kind of emotion one would have in everyday conversation.

There is only anger.

Only angry.

There is only dissatisfaction.

Only when one does not accept something or agree with a predetermined outcome will one's language contain such fluctuations and emotions.

The object of Jiang Cheng's dissatisfaction was only one name.

——Aliceia.

The goddess of stars and moon, the master of paradise.

The sole core of this eternal paradise.

It doesn't matter if anyone dies, it's acceptable if anyone leaves, but she can't have any problems, she's the one I can't lose, she's the most important girl in the paradise, without exception.

Beyond all these identities, the one that the girl cherished most was probably the boy's lover, whom she would never let go of and had never let go of.

Perhaps things aren't so bad after all.

Perhaps the time for tragedy to happen has not yet come.

Perhaps whatever happens can't be worse than the possibility we've seen.

"—It seems I have indeed been deceived in some ways."

Watching the boy's fingertips sway gently, his brows and eyes, which were already drooping with no strength, met those eyes that were covered by a thick layer of sand, as if breaking free of their restraints, and felt inexplicably heavy.

It was clear that the chains on my body had been broken off somewhat, but the feeling that came with it was more of a strange, unspoken, and suppressed emotion than a sense of lighthearted joy.

"Thank you for your help. It seems I need to talk to Alicia about our relationship again. Hopefully, she's in her room right now."

"You don't need to worry too much. I don't think it will escalate to the point of parting ways."

……

With a creak, the door was gently closed, and even the last ray of light from outside disappeared. Even the swaying flowers seemed to have completely lost their butterfly-like momentum and fell to the ground with a thud.

No longer as agile as an elf, no longer dancing in the air with the wind and birds, it is now just a petal that has fallen to the dusty ground.

Jiangcheng has left.

There wasn't even a sound of footsteps; they practically flew away using their powers, like shooting stars in the night sky, disappearing from sight in a flash.

So anxious that they didn't even offer a greeting, and their act of closing the door was so sloppy that a tiny sliver of light could still seep in from the outside.

In the silent, dark room, only a nun who had vaguely realized her mistake stood there blankly.

I seem to...

They did something even worse.

……

"Ugh."

"People in the world are indeed all equally foolish."

"You just used a few tricks and stirred up some internal strife, and those idiots were calmed down again?"

Mebius stood alone in the laboratory, his vertical pupils, now truly transformed into those of a viper, fixed intently on the semi-transparent screen before him.

That is the entirety of all the cities, the habitat of everything that humanity has left, including surveillance footage of the new high command of the Firemoth.

Since the satellites were completely destroyed, we can only rely on simple monitoring methods to broadcast images, and can only achieve complete monitoring to a certain extent by relying on sheer numbers.

The city is now filled with monitors created through modifications of Velvi's surveillance systems, ensuring absolute control over everyone.

Just now, using this comprehensive monitoring system, we found a group of people who claimed to have been established for freedom and for the purity of humanity.

It couldn't even have the slightest impact; it was seized and destroyed immediately upon its inception.

There is no privacy whatsoever.

There is nothing that can be hidden.

Extremely heinous behavior.

Although this kind of thing would have caused a huge uproar if it had happened before the collapse, or even just a few years ago, no one would care now.

All it takes is to incite hatred, and everyone will turn their attention to other things.

The masses have never thirsted for truth, nor have they ever pursued reality.

They turn a blind eye to evidence that doesn't suit their taste, ignoring it even when it's presented to them. If falsehoods are tempting to them, they are more willing to worship fallacies and embrace falsehoods fabricated by others.

Whoever provides them with illusions can easily become their master, and whoever destroys their illusions will become their victim.