Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

55. The Voyeur Alicia Doesn't Want to See Beauty (Seeking First Subscription)

The preferences and perversions of young girls.

The boy has always been very tolerant.

Even the loss of clothes was designed within an acceptable framework, otherwise people wouldn't expose it if they had nothing to wear.

He had always believed that he and the girl had established a good relationship in private.

Some things that are difficult to say aloud have become tacit habits.

however……

Looking at the girl whose face was filled with fear, whose cute face showed no trace of lying, and whose silver starry eyes were spotless, the boy, who had been leisurely and maintained a calm and peaceful expression, finally couldn't keep up the act.

"This is the first time you've come to pick up my clothes in a while."

"So……"

"—Who stole all those clothes before?"

……

Eh……

Eh?

Eh!

Perhaps because of overwhelming fear, she even gave up using her brain to think about the matter, and offered the most humble apology simply out of her unwillingness to lose.

Until the boy's eyes revealed an undisguised shock and astonishment.

If Jiang Cheng didn't deliberately hide it.

Then there's only one possibility: clothes.

"How……"

"How could this be!"

Vilvi could no longer maintain that humble posture; her fear vanished, replaced by a fury that almost ignited within her.

—Even I didn't take Jiang Cheng's clothes.

—Even I haven't done that lately.

How could that unknown guy possibly be worthy of doing something so lewd and perverted? How could he dare to take the boy's clothes right in front of me? Only a slut among sluts, a despicable person among despicables, would do such a shameless thing!

Full steam ahead!

—I must catch that despicable thief.

……

This blunder was resolved in a way that, in a sense, you didn't want to see.

In a sense, this is not bad.

At least you don't need to comfort or console the girl.

However, this matter was ultimately left unresolved.

Because you can't find out who the real culprit is behind it all, you can't even find a single clue.

Even with Wilvi's talent, creating a special machine capable of completely tracking its target, she still couldn't find the mastermind behind it all.

[This can only be attributed to you accidentally losing your clothes, and quite a few times at that.]

To escape that machine's pursuit, the person who stole your clothes would have to be a superhuman, possessing speeds at least several times faster than normal sound.

[This is outrageous! How could a superhuman steal someone's clothes, especially not a pretty girl's, but yours, a guy's?]

[You're just an ordinary person, an ordinary person with no outstanding talents or strengths. What exactly makes you worthy of being noticed by others?]

Even if someone likes Alicia and wants to find traces of that girl through you, you've been separated from her for a long time.

Even now, you can't get through to Alicia's number. The girl seems to be deliberately avoiding and distancing herself from her former brother.

[I guess the girl has embarked on another unique journey. Without you, who's holding her back, she can now find her own paradise, her own eternal haven, in a better and more complete way.]

[If that person wants to find any trace of Alicia in you, their information network is far too inadequate.]

【never mind……】

Let it pass.

Because of this, you'll have to make a three-point agreement with Vilvie to ensure that the girl can raid your room every three days.

What kind of nonsense is this...?

They're practically like two psychopaths.

There's nothing we can do about it.

[The girl's personality is so insecure and self-loathing; even with your company, she's always afraid you'll disappear like a bubble.]

The severity of this mental illness has reached a point where simple, gentle methods cannot provide assistance.

[Because being too gentle can be like the sun, instilling fear in a girl who has never been outside, and might even cause her to run away and stay away.]

Even if the girl can no longer lose you, this fear has only diminished the desire to escape and distance herself, becoming simply pure fear.

You couldn't bear to, and absolutely couldn't, watch the girl who saved you fall into the abyss. You could only wander in fear, endlessly wandering, even your gentleness was burned like a flame. And because you had witnessed the light, you could no longer endure loneliness and darkness, chasing after the fire like a moth.

The moth drawn to the flame will ultimately fall into the fire and be burned to ashes, a fate you absolutely cannot accept.

[Now, let time and gentleness help the girl realize that you are not like a bubble that will suddenly disappear.]

Even if saying this is somewhat insulting, fine.

All of this is already a reward for the girl's courage.

[Since that day, my love for you has made a young girl willing to jump into the abyss without hesitation, knowing full well what lies ahead, and willing to give up everything she already has.]

All the love and beauty we feel now are already a reward we deserve, and you are that reward that every young woman should have.

In a sense, this objectifies you, but isn't the girl's affection also a reward for you?

All salvation is always mutual and reciprocal.

You still prefer to use that same phrase to describe it.

[Or rather, that one sentence has become the epitome of your entire relationship with the girl.]

I see you.

I see your life.

It's okay.

The answer to love is the desire to be seen. It is this shared trauma that allows us to see each other.

As time went by, you didn't mention the matter you already knew, but instead let the peaceful time pass by slowly.

[During this time, you've also been working hard to improve yourself. Since direct intelligence can never surpass that of a girl who has already reached an extraordinary level, you might as well develop in all aspects, using the unique methods of training warriors through the Fire Moth to improve your physical attributes and combat power.]

Although Möbius speaks very bluntly and seems to lack emotional intelligence, and has a terrible reputation, being called a "devil scientist," it's simply that everything she produces is of high quality, with a very high success rate.

[You asked her to help plan your training method, and you saw significant improvement in just a few months.]

[Your already excellent health, honed during the journey, has reached a professional level; in combat, few soldiers could defeat you.]

[Without resorting to excessive weapons or underhanded tactics.]

Unlike the demonic scientists outside, she only uses her skills on extremely heinous death row inmates and those who volunteer for experiments; she's not the kind of madwoman who randomly kidnaps someone on the street and uses them as test subjects, as rumored.

[The other party's character is so good that it's almost unbelievable; they might even use dangerous things on you only after ensuring a very high success rate.]

[The goal is to make oneself the last human experiment.]

This is an absolute luxury.

No smart person would do that.

[Using a world-class scholar, a researcher who is at least one of the best in biology, as a test subject.]

But this was also Möbius's insistence, an insistence that even her assistants found somewhat unbearable.

[Rumors are just rumors, utterly meaningless.]

If this is what they call a demonic scientist, a truly evil person, then the world's expectations of ordinary scholars are far too high.

[Even though the other party is being very friendly to you, at least 97% of the reason is because Vilvie is showing dependence on you.]

[The girl who was sliding into the abyss, after you pulled her up, is now in an even worse state than before. Her continued isolation may simply be a manifestation of a split personality, with excessive self-loathing leading her to wear a mask of hypocrisy.]

So now.

[—The girl can't live without you.]

This girl can never leave you in her life.

[Because of a party organized by Alicia, an unexpected and ingenious event, a heartfelt gift, and an ordinary conversation.]

The girl found her own redemption.

Just like someone named Otto 50,000 years from now.

[A spring morning, an ordinary wall, a wrecked airplane, and a girl smiling and reaching out to a boy in the sunlight.]

She greeted the boy warmly and invited him to play with her.

And so, a five-hundred-year-old obsession was born.

The emotions of life are truly wondrous.

You are the first person she has met who understands her and is willing to help her, and the years of getting along have taken this to the extreme.

"Unique" is a very strong word.

When reading aloud, the teeth gently touch the lower lip, unconsciously forming an upward curve, as if smiling or showing goodwill to someone.

Although Möbius neither understood nor approved of such feelings, he did not, like those scholars, consider you a femme fatale.

Whose femme fatale will pull the girl out of the abyss and give her redemption and hope?