Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

"Is this already the greatest effort that Alicia has ever made?"

His voice was serene, as if speaking from across the deep sea. Every character was precise, yet it carried a strange tremor, giving it a touch of mystery.

"In that case, there's nothing more to be done."

"That's all I can do."

"Everything called Jiangcheng".

……

As the last sentence fell, Jiang Cheng closed his eyes slightly, his drooping eyelashes gently pressing against his eyelids, as if preventing himself from opening them again.

The somewhat nonsensical and incoherent conversation, which sounded more like talking to oneself, was the first time it had happened during this day-long banquet.

Eh……

—Did the boy already know that he would give a gift?

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never mind.

Alicia had no time to think.

Her mind was completely overwhelmed by countless things, and the girl, who was the Herrscher of Origin, had no attention at all.

They ignored the exquisite cake.

They ignored the delicious food.

Ignoring the superficial beauty of the painting.

They ignored the bizarre Honkai energy.

Ignoring the viscous sea.

She just wanted to get up there quickly, to burst into pink petals the moment Jiang Cheng opened the gift box, to have a petal expand and be launched out, to have a red ribbon covering her body, and to be herself lying in the middle of the flowers, enveloped in fragrance.

All you need to do now is offer your blessings, and you can give yourself to a boy who will never refuse, will unconditionally forgive, and has boundless gentleness.

Everything was so wonderful, until...

"—Peng!"

The sound of wind seemed to reach my ears, but beyond the limits of what the eye could perceive, a black celestial body, transcending the form of light, bloomed in place.

—The twisted gravity tore open Jiang Cheng's chest.

He fell backward like a rag doll.

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Ok?

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Seeing the boy's exquisite, wrinkle-free dress ripped open, revealing a large hole in the chest area where she always buried her head, she could no longer suppress her voice, which she had practiced so carefully.

"This is……"

"what happened?!"

"What on earth happened?!"

……

The gift box was instantly shattered, and Alicia rushed to the boy's side in the blink of an eye, using all her strength to heal the wound on her chest, pouring out her authority as the originator, not caring about the excessive consumption of energy.

No...

No!

Why won't it work?

Why can't I do it?!

The wound, filled with gravitational interference, directly created a force field, and was attacked from all directions, instantly harming every part of the body.

This was the Herrscher of the Star's greatest blow, directly destroying the Herrscher's core gem, the core where her true soul and self-storage resided.

Even if the power of origin has the potential to rewrite everything, it is still impossible to save a person who is already dead, or even one whose heart is dead, a second time.

It can't be saved.

Unless the authority is used once more, the core of the Herrscher of Death is activated again, and a completely new desecration is carried out from scratch, the boy is shamelessly resurrected even after knowing that everything about him will be trampled underfoot.

Given that Jiang Cheng's fatal injury was caused by his own actions, is there any point in continuing to dwell on all of this?

Why……

Why did Jiangcheng do this?

Why choose to end your own life?!

This isn't the script I expected!

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140. You've done enough, Alicia.

As anticipation grew with each different segment of the banquet, all emotions vanished, like a kite riding the wind, believing it could soar to the highest point, only to plummet to the ground the moment the wind stopped.

In Alicia's plan, she hid in a box and presented the gift at the birthday party. The boy opened the box and, amidst a sea of ​​pink flowers, saw her, as perfect as a spring cherry blossom, and accepted her gift.

This is the ideal script!

This is the perfect ending!

Jiang Cheng committed suicide or something.

This shouldn't have happened at all!

……

But at this very moment, this emotion, which had been stretched to its limit, was not alone.

how……

what happened?

Bi Jiangcheng looked at the girl who was clearly panicked, biting her bright red lower lip hard, and even a few drops of blood flowed from between her pearly teeth.

His body was being torn apart; the gravity from the massive celestial body was violently destroying it, but none of this could compare to the boy's current state of mind.

"Why are you here?"

"Aren't you already gone?"

"The birthday party is completely over, isn't this the time for me to clean up?"

Incomprehensible.

Completely incomprehensible.

They had already waited until the banquet ended and it was time to rest.

Why do you have to wait until the banquet is over to look for something?

A rare look of panic appeared on his usually calm face; the sudden and dramatic change in the situation even tinged his somber expression with an inappropriate sense of helplessness.

Until he caught a glimpse of the still-fluttering flowers and the torn gift box out of the corner of his eye, the boy, who was not immune to romance, immediately understood everything and realized what was about to happen.

I see……

Have you been too anxious lately?

Have you experienced the problems you described?

Even though he had time this time, he still couldn't understand what the girl was thinking.

—Because my own emotions are incomplete.

Ultimately, I'm just putting on an act; when it comes to important moments, I can't feel any emotions or sense what's about to happen.

The current disaster occurred because of my momentary negligence; in reality, I was just a broken life and couldn't even have foreseen the existence of romance.

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Jiang Cheng was prepared to die.

There are many reasons and causes. It could be that one is unwilling to live in such a broken state, or one does not want to see Alicia's sad face, or one's world, having lost so much emotion, has lost its appeal.

Unable to experience worldly joys, to savor the fragrance of flowers, the sweetness of honey, or the freshness of fruit, most of the time all that remains is numbness.

If you want, you can come up with a multitude of seemingly irrefutable reasons anytime, anywhere.

But only one is truly crucial.

I am not needed.

—I will only bring pain to Alicia.

This is the sole determining factor; it can be used to negate all the reasons mentioned above, or it can replace all the reasons mentioned above as a reason.

Since there are no emotions, theoretically there shouldn't even be numb emotions. Moreover, the absence of emotions simply means that most emotions cannot be experienced; the parts related to Alicia are still as clear as ever.

If he so chooses, he can stay by Alicia's side as her inseparable partner and experience the joys of ordinary people.