Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

There was probably still a tiny bit of a chance back then.

At least back then, there could have been a happy ending.

She made everything so ridiculous; a perfect, dreamlike beginning turned into an utterly terrible ending.

This is really terrible; they couldn't even part amicably, and they didn't even offer their blessings.

Instead, it was his own nature—that of a demon, a natural disaster, and a monster beneath the princess's exterior—that destroyed the last beautiful thing that belonged to the prince and the boy, and shattered the perfect ending that seemed like paradise with his own hands.

—The bad thing isn't the prince.

—It was her, the princess she considered herself.

A self-righteous princess who squanders others' feelings, ignores what she cherishes, and is arrogant and foolish because of others' love for her.

waste.

inability.

commonplace.

No matter how vile or terrible the words used to describe this so-called princess, they would not be an exaggeration.

Even the most foolish and incompetent person wouldn't make every choice a failure, every choice a mistake, turning what should have been a beautiful and perfect ending into a bad one, or even an ending that hurts everyone.

It only takes one timely choice, it only takes one moment of awareness.

I should have just paid more attention to the boy.

what……

After all.

Why must the prince save that princess?

He is clearly an excellent and talented prince, possessing gentleness and kindness, so why does he insist on saving a foolish and incompetent princess?

Why even call someone who is utterly incompetent and shows no virtues whatsoever that a princess should possess a princess?

Shouldn't a princess belong to someone who is truly virtuous, of high character, and who is genuinely devoted to the prince, possessing a pure and flawless character?

As a prince, why can't he be with the one he truly loves?

Why can't you pursue a princess who is a good match for you?

A real, beautiful girl.

So what if it's in the Demon King's castle?

So what if they get arrested?

Vilvi will still bravely reunite with Jiangcheng through her own efforts, and she will not only be the one being saved, but also the one being saved.

The beauty of saving each other, even their personalities are so well-matched and perfectly compatible, it's a truly happy ending like a fairy tale.

That girl who thought she was a princess and a fairy and wanted to go to paradise was just a minor villain, a vicious second female lead, the witch in Rapunzel, and the big bad guy who hurt the prince.

Only at this moment did Alicia truly realize why she hated fairy tales.

Actually...

It's just that I hate myself.

I hate that time when I would unconsciously become obsessed with fairy tales, yearning for that paradise and the princesses in the stories, to the point that I ignored the concept of reality and the real me.

I hate that self-righteous, cute girl who thinks she's a princess, when in reality I'm just a wicked and dark villain.

……

The girl could no longer muster the smile that once captivated and delighted everyone, nor could she ever again look upon the world with that peaceful and beautiful heart, at the flowers, the wind, and the grass.

The intense self-denial and self-torture were comparable even to the self-loathing that Wilvi experienced before she met the boy.

The girl even hallucinated hearing the boy in the room chanting her name, and she became so greedy that she began to fantasize about someone she had hurt.

what……

what……

what……

Shouldn't the ending of a story be that all the villains are eliminated?

and so……

Let's sacrifice that stupid villain.

You've made enough mistakes. Every choice you've made has been wrong. In fact, you could say you've never made a single sound choice in your life, never seized an opportunity, and never saved a young person.

You actively abandoned and ignored the boy, actively hurt him, and then personally destroyed his happiness, causing the girl who had tried so hard to die.

[Vilvie struggled as much as she could even before she died.]

[I'm unwilling to let go of this tiny bit of happiness that I fought so hard to salvage, a brightness I've never seen before in my life, a bubble sparkling in the sunlight.]

I didn't want this feeling, this heavy feeling, to drift away like a feather.

[You've witnessed the interactions between Vilvie and Jiang Cheng; you're not someone who can simply ignore those feelings.]

This even instilled a heavy sense of fear in you, and even completely extinguished any hostility you might have towards the girl—because victory was no longer possible.

[You've never lacked anything since childhood, so you can be arrogant and wasteful. Compared to you, this young girl is like a stranded person adrift in icy waters, unable to even find a plank of wood, relying solely on natural buoyancy.]

Jiangcheng was now her only vessel; she had never even experienced warmth before, only the pressure of the seawater all around her.

Even so, she had the courage to save the boy; even so, she had the courage to help him.

You are worlds apart from me.

She should be the princess; you're just a witch, the one who hindered Rapunzel's reunion with the prince and cast a curse.

—Vilvie absolutely cannot die so easily.

At least all of this shouldn't come at the cost of a young man's sorrow and utter despair, to the point where he no longer cares about his health or how much longer he can live, because he can no longer find anyone important in his life.

Anyway, you should atone for your sins, for ignoring the boy, for hurting him, and for being indifferent to everything he suffered.

[You are no ordinary person. Just like the First Herrscher of Reason and the Second Herrscher of Emptiness, you are also a non-human monster, a sign of calamity, possessing abilities beyond human imagination.]

This power is rather vague; even now, you don't understand what its specific authority is. It has neither been constructed nor exists in space.

If you weren't currently unqualified, and if beauty and flawlessness hadn't been immediately disregarded, you might even think your authority is something that seems meaningless and rather weak.

Even so, you have a premonition that your abilities may possess a more comprehensive and wondrous range than those of ordinary Herrschers.

You might be able to do more, even if it seems impossible, though the cost might be high.

Why not do something more meaningful?

—After all, you'll always be this incompetent.

[Option 1: Your abilities are inherently ambiguous and strange; perhaps you can create something unlikely by sacrificing yourself.]

Option two: Use your life to bring back Vilvie, to bring back the girl the boy loves.

Option three is the only thing you can do.

……

Is there any other choice?

Alicia gently bit her lip, looking at the three options in front of her. Her eyes, which were almost pink, reflected one answer.

It's not even that the three options are exactly the same anymore. In the past, no matter how similar the options were, even if they differed in some minor details, they were still three different options, three different things.

But what appears before us now is a combination of three options, forming a single choice.

This was the only thought in the girl's mind at that moment.

Absolutely the only one.

There will be no more barriers, no more different opinions based on different experiences, and no more different decisions based on different ideas.

Only at this very moment...

Alicia's sadness and repression are unified.

My fingers lightly touched my chest, which was so full that I could not even hear my heartbeat. My once beautiful inner self had been completely taken over by churning black water—a guilt and regret that even surpassed that of another version of myself.

Because she was the one who brought about the tragic end.

It was her choice that led to the current outcome.

Another version of her thought that this feeling came entirely from herself was actually being pushed and shoved by another despicable person, who was silently pushing this beautiful possibility into the abyss of despair.

Otherwise, if another version of myself treated the boy with the same feelings, they would probably become the closest of partners, lovers who could never be separated.

Even if it may not be as wonderful as a fairy tale.

Even if it may not be as heavy and intimate as Velvi.

An innocent girl should never have become like this, only able to hide in a corner and cry, even afraid to step out into the light and face the sun.

They can only become executioners and villainous demons, bad guys who hurt beautiful princes and princesses.

Even that despicable person, while grieving, was still indulging in the happiness of reuniting with the people of the town and the joy of changing the tragedy on his own.

and so……

please……

It must succeed.

The tragic ending was of your own making, so let it end with your own hand.

[All the misfortunes that befell the boy were caused by you. He should have lived a life of unparalleled happiness; his life had many opportunities to be happy, but you destroyed them time and time again.]

From their happy life in the small town and inheriting their family business, to their intimate relationship after officially becoming partners.

[A beautiful life, which is something countless people pursue but cannot attain—without you.]

If someone absolutely has to sacrifice...

If someone absolutely has to die...

[Then that person must be you.]

[In your previous battle against the Herrscher of the Void, you were once at a disadvantage, but simply because you were on the verge of death and longing for the boy, you gained even greater power and realized your true authority.]