Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

They should at least know everything that Raiden Ryoma has done before, and all the help and attention he has given them should be more than enough for them to treat Raiden Mei, who no longer has any property, with kindness.

Even if the premise of "misfortune not extending to family members" is that the benefits do not extend to family members, does that mean that kindness cannot be passed down, and only disaster can be passed down?

Even ordinary people who don't know anything about Honkai should know just how benevolent and foolish this company is compared to other companies.

This is an important subordinate of the conservatives, who has not yet been tainted by hatred or tainted by too many privileges, and belongs to the ideal anti-entropy part. He is simply not comparable to the so-called radicals.

“I can find the right information, enough evidence to prove that your Raiden family has done nothing wrong to this city.”

“As long as you don’t accept it, I can keep searching for you until I get to the bottom of it, until you realize that you have done nothing wrong.”

"Will not……"

"You don't need to do so much."

The lips of the girl, gently bitten by the girl's pearly white teeth, already bore some bite marks, nestled between her upper and lower lips, being carefully rubbed and bitten.

A morally upright heart cannot accept it, and an overly distorted, morbid, and gravity-bound emotion cannot accept that it makes the boy go to such lengths.

"There's no need to worry so much. As for Chang Kong's matter... I don't care about it that much anymore." She chose to avoid and refuse without hesitation.

The matter seemed to have come to a temporary end, and Raiden Mei gave up on dwelling on it, suppressing her emotions for the time being.

Jiang Cheng, however, was completely unwilling to let the matter end so abruptly, leaving hidden dangers for the future, preparing a bomb that could explode at any time, killing everyone or at least seriously injuring the girl—his fingertips stepped forward without hesitation and pinched Raiden Mei's chin, almost forcing her to look into his eyes with those crimson pupils.

The girl's soft, moist eyes met the boy's serious, deep blue eyes, and the boy, who always went straight for the point, chose to explode right now without hesitation.

"You don't need to think about this city. At worst, just treat Changkong City as a dream. Once you wake up, you'll forget the dream that vanished like a bubble."

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238. Mei's ○○ Warrior's Lower Seat

……

what……

what……

They wouldn't even give them a chance to escape.

They weren't even willing to leave room for refusal.

He always chooses to be tolerant, yet at this moment he insists on cornering the girl, forcing her to confront the bloody atrocities he has committed and the millions of lives he has personally harmed.

Regardless of what she went through, Raiden Mei, who was essentially just an ordinary high school student, simply could not accept the actions she had created.

I want to lower my head.

I want to close my eyes.

They want to bury their heads in the sand like ostriches or turtles, hiding in their shells, as if only in this way they can ignore everything about themselves and forget what they did yesterday.

Those burning pupils, those eyes that made no attempt to conceal their concern and worry, were like the stars in the daytime—the brilliant sun, eyes whose radiance could not be blocked even with eyes closed, leaving no room for escape.

Because feelings don't lie.

Once your body warms up, you can't ignore the sun.

Even with my eyes closed, even with my head buried in the sand, my body is warm, and I can feel the sunlight shining on me. Every corner of my body, every part that has spent too long in the shadows, is cheering.

Those who hide in the shadows cannot resist the warmth of the sun, just as a useless person who has never been cared for will go crazy after being rescued.

No one is born into darkness, into a dirty and dark alley, nor should anyone be born into suffering and endless torment.

The body's nature is such that it feels happy simply by feeling the sunlight. Because the soul, as a being, feels warmth when cared for, all its positive and responsive instincts are preparations for receiving the care of others.

Raiden Mei could only open her eyes and stare directly at the boy. In fact, those were clear eyes without any other color, so clear that you could even see your own face in them, and they were as deep and dark as the ocean, reflecting the light.

"How is this possible..."

"How could I possibly consider these a dream?!"

"Sixteen years... I spent sixteen years with my father here. I was born here, I lived here, I made my first friend here, I held my first wooden sword here. My life, my entire life as Raiden Mei, has been in this city. I can never forget it!"

……

How could anyone possibly abandon everything in one fell swoop?

Even if you want to forget or let go, it's only a part of it.

Even the most carefree person in the world can only let go of a specific event or actively forget a particular experience.

How could anyone possibly abandon their entire heart, everything, including their name, family, and friends?

What's the essential difference between that and denying oneself?

Even a denial seems relatively clean and straightforward.

Just like the difference between beheading and slow slicing, although the final result is death, the degree of cruelty in between is completely different.

Even though the target was a teenager, Raiden Mei couldn't help but raise her head and immediately refute such remarks that were like "it's easy to talk when you're not in the same boat" or "let them eat cake."

Until I saw those eyes, as vast as the ocean, a gentle gaze that seemed to have anticipated all my dissatisfaction.

"—Then blame it on me."

……

"Eh……"

"Eh eh eh—!!!"

"Jiang Cheng, what are you talking about?!"

"No...no! Absolutely! Absolutely not! It's absolutely not Jiang Cheng's fault!!!" After a brief moment of confusion, Raiden Mei's face instantly showed a look of terror, her arms crossed in refusal to cover her chest.

"Whatever happens has nothing to do with you. It's those guys who bullied others that caused this to happen."

"Don't you know they did something wrong?"

Jiang Cheng stared at the girl as if he had expected this.

Why do you prefer to blame yourself rather than blame them?

"Why can't you take better care of yourself? At least don't make me feel so heartbroken."

"I exhausted all my strength to help you, but the first thing you did after you recovered was to defend those who harmed both of us."

……

The girl's face was pale, and her body, having absorbed all the anger, was now empty. Her Herrscher physique was just as soft and weak as it had been yesterday, as if her bones had been removed, and she collapsed.

Perhaps the impact of seeing these ruins and recalling her life more than ten years ago was too great, so much so that Raiden Mei only remembered this moment.

Compared to the strangers who mostly deserved their fate, the one who did the most and gave the most was the boy who is still thinking about comforting them.

"You know perfectly well that I did everything in my power to save you, so why do you belittle the effort I put into rescuing you?"

"Is all my effort so worthless? Is it so cheap for me to have disrupted all my original plans to come here and solve this problem?"

For the first time, Jiang Cheng didn't continue to show that warm gentleness, as if he had thrown away all the tolerance he had just shown. He silently lowered his head and said, "Instead of feeling sorry for those strangers, why can't you feel sorry for me?"

"The feeling of being struck by lightning is really unpleasant. Even if it was all my voluntary act of making amends, the physical impact was still real."

"Are those strangers, those guys who never give you a friendly look, really that important...more important than my existence and safety?"

Yes.

Jiang Cheng was the one who knew nothing.

Jiang Cheng was the one who suddenly got into trouble.

She was trying to cut ties with the past and prepare for her date the next day, but when she woke up, she found that her date had slaughtered the entire city and was now being controlled by some strange thing, turning into a calamity.

He could have simply turned away or resolved the issue without trying to salvage it. He wasn't at fault in the first place. He was just a useless person who was anxious and insecure even after receiving love, a rat who didn't deserve warmth and sunshine. He destroyed his efforts and followed the mastermind behind the scenes.

Jiangcheng...

he……

He still chose the most laborious method to save himself, who had already proven himself unworthy of saving and couldn't even grasp the happiness right in front of him.

Why ask such a simple question?

'Because I was already helping you/Mei!'

……

Compared to those strangers I may have only met once, and enemies filled with negative memories, the boy in front of me is the one who truly needs to be cared for.

Only he, only him, this body that had been saved twice and had fallen into the abyss, deserved to feel guilty for only one person.

Just how big of a mistake was it?

"I……"

The girl's eyelashes fluttered as she looked up at Jiang Cheng, as if she had made up her mind. She gently bit her soft lips, and her limp body suddenly leaned forward, revealing her waist, which was completely covered by tattered clothes. Her slender fingertips lightly touched the floor, and her ample breasts hung halfway in the air.

Jiang Cheng didn't even have time to stop it, or even react. His eyes had just caught the movement, and he didn't even know why the person was leaning forward, when the most humble posture was formed right before his eyes.

—Please sit down!

—The most authentic secret manual in the Far East.

After two foreigners learned the skill from him and mastered it to an unfathomable level, this ability finally came into the hands of native martial artists.

……

In an instant, Jiang Cheng couldn't understand it. He felt as if everything in the world had been stripped of its reality, and his dark blue pupils unconsciously began to spin in circles.

Should we say it's fortunate that it wasn't all zeros?

Even the last shred of relief vanished in the next moment.