Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

62. In the end, Velvi failed to keep her promise.

The only connection you have left with the girl is memories; you can't even dig up her body, because that was her last request.

Feeling the indescribable heaviness in your heart, you breathe slowly and laboriously.

You didn't dig any further, because this was the girl's first and last request of you.

"Please stop exploring. It's ultimately embarrassing for someone you like to see you looking unattractive." —Vilvie.

You respected her request.

【yes. 】

You are willing to respect her demands because, in your eyes, she is, after all, an equal to you—or at least, you arrogantly believe yourself to be equal, ignoring talent, ability, and equality in terms of personality.

No matter how insecure a girl is, no matter how much she tries to give you everything she has, you will never allow her genius to be tarnished.

[Vilvie is a dazzling pearl; we should find ways to let it shine and be admired by countless people, rather than hiding it away at home.]

But now you feel it's unfair to the girl.

When exactly did Vilvie begin preparing for her death?

When exactly was this last message recorded?

[You know the girl makes backup plans, but you never know exactly how many backup plans there are, or what they are specifically for?]

【This is not fair. 】

This is unreasonable.

This is not normal.

—You never knew that.

[Velvie kept it a secret very well; even Mebius didn't know. Because if that stubborn but soft-hearted guy really did something like this, he would definitely do everything in his power to soothe Velvie's pessimistic mindset.]

Even if he knew he couldn't do it, the PhD student had already learned what cooperation and mutual assistance meant during their time working together.

She won't ignore you.

She won't ignore you, the PUA master in her eyes.

We won't ignore you, Virvi's only one...

【——Lover. 】

So how can you accept all of this? You can't accept this deception. You can't accept that the girl who promised she would never lie to you has deceived you.

We clearly said we would never separate.

We clearly said we'd face anything together.

【yes. 】

You have made a sufficient promise to the girl, and you have steadfastly fulfilled your vows without ever breaking them in the slightest.

[To ease the girl's confusion, to give her hesitant heart enough security.]

You'd be willing to give up everything for it, no matter what.

[This has been proven.]

Haven't you already proven it?

This relationship is not some fleeting bubble under the sun; though dazzling, it could vanish at any moment, leaving only a puddle of water, the last traces of moisture quickly disappearing under the scorching sun.

This is a true, unrepeatable, and eternally beautiful happiness that can last until the very end.

Unfortunately, Vilvie stood him up.

But Virvie left you standing there.

【ah……】

【Too. 】

You once vowed never to be apart, but now the girl has simply left ahead of time, leaving you all alone in this world.

When exactly did it begin?

When exactly did this betrayal and the signs of breaking the agreement begin?

You're using your mind as much as you can, even though the energy you're seizing right now is enough to extinguish your already fragile life, like a candle flickering in the wind.

Perhaps the girl's actions weren't so deeply hidden; you might even be able to find the very source of it all in the library of your memories.

【Remember……】

It was that afternoon.

……

The tired girl lay on the soft sofa, resting with her eyes closed. Her face was full of fatigue, and there were light dark circles under her eyes.

Her khaki hot pants stretched taut, revealing alluring marks. Her long legs were slightly together, and her fair hands were placed obediently and demurely on either side of her slightly chubby thighs. She hadn't even had time to take off her high-top leather boots.

—It's somewhat heartbreaking.

The boy approached cautiously, afraid of disturbing the girl's rest, and only when he was extremely close did he suddenly crawl behind the sofa.

He reached out and gently pressed the girl's head back, resting it on a soft cushion.

"Eh……"

The girl was so startled that she couldn't help but let out a cute sound, and a bad feeling flashed in her silver-gray eyes for a moment.

The instinctive tension she felt when someone got close to her, honed to an almost supernatural degree by her long period of solitude, was like a hedgehog ready to stretch out at any moment. Yet, upon realizing it was a boy, her body suddenly went limp.

"Jiangcheng..."

"what happened?"

The girl looked up in confusion, and their eyes met those of the boy who was leaning slightly forward.

His moist, silvery-gray eyes and the gentle, peaceful pupils of the night—containing a kind of blindness and a little confusion caused by the boy's sudden appearance—made his cherry-colored lips want to say something.

Before that, the boy's fingers were already pressed against the girl's lips.

"Shh~"

"You haven't been sleeping well for the past few days, so take this opportunity to get some rest."

Jiangcheng showed his concern without reservation.

"But……"

The girl still hesitated, lowering her head slightly to hide her dark circles in the shadows, as if she didn't want anyone to see her fatigue from what she had done.

"There's nothing wrong with that."

The boy didn't respond further, but instead, a stack of warm towels appeared out of nowhere and he placed them on her face, blocking out the light like an eye mask.

Leaning against his shoulder and neck, all external distractions vanished, enveloped in darkness, all the blood in his body rushed to his back and the side of his ear, gently soothed by the boy.

Long, nimble fingers slid from Wilvi's slightly stiff shoulders to the joints of her back, raising their fingertips as if poking her on tiptoe, their captivating breaths, with a playful gentleness, vibrating around her ear.

—That was a technique he had experienced once with Alicia, which the boy later learned through his own efforts.

—It really works very well.

The girl's body went limp almost instantly, like a doll or a pillow. She must have had such good genes from her ancestors that her skin was still soft and supple, like the most perfect tender tofu, even though she had stayed up all night.

I dared not do anything else, for fear of interfering with the boy's behavior.

—It would be bad if Jiang Cheng's finger got hurt by a bone.

"Relax~"

He slowed his speech, his breath hot against my ears, his long, slender hands kneading my shoulders, his fingertips tracing my spine, finding the most sensitive spot and gently pressing down.

The touch was like an electric shock, a tingling sensation, as if a complex, multifaceted heat flowed through her entire body, causing the girl to let out a soft moan.

Her slightly closed, starry eyes were covered by a warm, damp, smooth towel.

After losing a sense.

They become more focused on their physical senses.

You can feel the sensitivity when you are touched.

Perhaps because she was already used to being in contact with the boy, the girl, who was very withdrawn, did not become hard in this situation; instead, her body went limp.

[This may seem like just an ordinary massage, your way of comforting a tired young woman. But in this woman who has let her guard down, you've already seen the root of everything, you just haven't discovered it yet.]

—A dark gold pocket watch.

You didn't notice at the time, simply assuming the girl had given herself some new decorations.

After all, she is undoubtedly a circular warrior, and even her artistic talent far surpasses that of so-called artists.

[How could a simple experiment possibly leave the young girl so exhausted? Even Möbius's work was actually mostly the doctor's job that was keeping him up.]

Because she worried that you would worry about her, and that she wouldn't be able to take care of you, Vivi never dared to push her body too hard.

A girl's attention is always on you; she'll notice even the smallest difference in you instantly.

[Even though it's so obvious, so superficial.]

But you didn't care, you didn't pay attention.

If only you had paid more attention back then...

[If you could do what you have done countless times in the past to uncover and help young girls with their problems.]

[If you had realized how dangerous this place was, you would have immediately taken the girl away instead of staying in this place that you also found tiresome.]

[The final ending...]

Wouldn't things be different then?