Honkai Impact

Before long, Sakura, the girl transformed from a monster in the evil box, spoke again. Yae Ji's little face grew increasingly uneasy, and she ran faster and faster.

"Boom!—"

As if fate were playing a cruel joke on him, a tree root that had appeared out of nowhere by the roadside tripped Yaeji.

The evil long box immediately flew out of his hand!

Yae-sama, who had fallen to the ground, stared wide-eyed. Ignoring the dust on her face, she instinctively reached out her little hand, trying to catch the flying evil box.

"Snap~ Crack~ Crack~ Snap~"

"Uh!"

Yae Ji opened her mouth wide, ignoring the dust on her body, and hurriedly ran to the shattered evil box. All sorts of messy parts were flying everywhere, and even the girl Sakura, who had once been a "monster," had disappeared.

"Oh no!" Yae Ji's face turned pale, and her teeth chattered slightly. "I...I released the monster?"

A wisp of white smoke emerged from the evil box, and the black plates were printed with characters that Yaeji did not recognize.

Reason told him to leave this place of trouble as soon as possible, but curiosity and a strange sense of responsibility drove him to look ahead.

"Boom!—"

Yaeji's vision went completely white, and she lost consciousness.

"It hurts, hurts, hurts!"

Yae Ki sat up, clutching the back of his right hand. The sudden explosion had caught him off guard, and the parts that flew out of the evil box had cut his hand.

"Hey! It doesn't seem to hurt anymore."

The eerie blue-purple pupils blinked, leaving Yae Ji sitting on the ground completely bewildered.

"The long box! Yes, where's the long box?"

As the sun set and the sky darkened, Yae Ji felt a surge of anxiety. He only remembered accidentally breaking the long box that sealed the monster, then the donkey-eared monster impersonating 'Sakura' inside disappeared, followed by the long box exploding, and he lost consciousness.

"How come there's not a trace left? Where's my long box? How could such a big long box just disappear like that!" Yae Ji searched the surrounding area thoroughly, but there was nothing related to the long box at all, which made him even more certain that a monster was sealed inside the long box!

He actually released a monster! Adding to the monster that attacked outsiders in the back mountain, two monsters have appeared in the area near the village!

After searching in vain, Yaeji, her face filled with anxiety, ran quickly towards the village.

Before long, after running across the small wooden bridge, Yaeji glanced at the dried-up river again and found a boy who was slightly older than him sitting on the bank.

"Daisuke! It's so late, why aren't you home yet!"

There was no response. Yae Ji glanced at it suspiciously, then hurriedly ran towards the shrine. The appearance of two monsters outside the village was a huge event for the entire village!

What happened today was bizarre enough, so having an extra big helper is nothing.

“Ji”.

"Xiao Ji!"

Yaeji greeted people quickly while speeding up her run.

"Tap tap tap~"

Even the physically gifted Yaeyoshi was panting heavily after climbing the shrine's stairs.

"Father! My dear father!"

Yae Kiyoshi squatted down, supporting her knees with her palms, panting heavily.

A middle-aged man dressed in black, with a weathered face, walked out of the house. He frowned slightly when he saw his disheveled son.

"What kind of behavior is this, all flustered and panicked!"

"Father, something terrible has happened!" Yae Ji gasped for air like a vacuum tube. "Two monsters have appeared outside the village!"

After handing over everything to her father, Yaeji received a scolding as expected.

Stepping out of the room, instead of a tearful face, her expression was filled with a sorrow beyond her years.

"elder brother."

Yae looked up and saw a cute little girl who looked eight parts like her looking at her with concern.

Her long pink hair hung straight down to her waist, with slightly shorter pink strands sticking out playfully like tufts of hair on either side of her small head. Even so, there was no sense of messiness; instead, it added a lot of cuteness to the girl.

She wore a small shrine maiden outfit, with a thick, long white hemp rope wrapped around her waist and tied in a large bow at the back.

The eightfold sky cleared, and I was in a daze.

He seemed to see the monster that had transformed into Sakura again, and on the top of Sakura's head, two long pink ears seemed to have grown. With this thought, the thing didn't look like donkey ears at all.

"Are you alright? Father is so strict! Does your hand hurt?"

Sakura quickly finished analyzing the disheveled Yae Ji in front of her, and gently wiped the dust around the wound with her small hand holding a handkerchief.

"It needs to be bandaged up."

Yae Ji snapped out of her daze and quickly withdrew her hand. "It's nothing, just a minor injury."

After saying that, he glanced furtively into the room again and asked in a low voice, "Is Rin asleep?"

"Sister, is brother back?"

A weak voice reached their ears. Yae Ji and Yae Sakura looked at each other. Sakura blinked her big eyes innocently and said softly, "Rin heard Father scolding you."

Yae Ji was helpless. He hadn't expected that even returning so late, he still wouldn't be able to escape. His injured right hand subconsciously touched the small bag at his waist, which was empty, not filled with cherry blossoms as he had promised before leaving.

His facial muscles twitched, and Yaeji rarely displayed the authority befitting an elder brother.

Upon entering the room, the girl who had been lying on the bed was trying to straighten her back and look out the door.

"cold!"

Yae Ji immediately lost her composure and rushed forward. She was about to reach out to help the girl, but then she hesitated because she was covered in dirt. Yae Sakura arrived and silently helped Rin up.

Compared to him, Rin looks more like Yae Sakura. Because of her poor health and chronic illness, she rarely spends time outdoors. In her world, there are only her older brother and sister; even her father doesn't appear here often.

Two years ago, they went to see the cherry blossoms on the hillside together. It was the farthest Rin had ever gone out. In Yaeji's memory, he had never seen Rin so happy.

Like Sakura, she had pink hair that reached her waist, but the loose strands on both sides were tied back with a hairband for easier management. Her appearance was more youthful than Sakura's, and her skin, which rarely saw the sun, was exceptionally fair. Her deep blue eyes, unlike Yae Ji's, did not possess an eerie quality, but rather a magical power that could calm and soothe the mind with a single glance.

"Brother, shall we go see the cherry blossoms together next year? Those cherry blossoms that you pick and put in your bag and they won't fall are not pretty at all."

Rin's clumsy attempts at comforting her brought tears to Yae's eyes.

"Okay, let's go see the cherry blossoms together next year!"

After hastily cleaning herself up and falling asleep, Yae Ji had a dream, a very long dream.

In his dream, he lived in a strange world: iron boxes traveling on straight roads, tall buildings shaped like long blocks of tofu, and people each carrying a long box capable of sealing away monsters.

In his dream, he held a sacred sword enshrined in a shrine.

A side slash with the knife, a backhand sweep, a twist of the waist followed by another slash! A backhand upward flick! Using the momentum to twist the waist, a swift dodge!

This seems to be the 'Cherry Blossom Slash' that his mother taught him when she was alive.

The Falling Cherry Blossom Slash, also known as the Rapid Six-Stage Slash, is said to produce incredible effects when mastered to a high level.

However, the Cherry Blossom Slash in his dream seemed to be a little different from the usual one.

Chapter 3 Skill Point Allocation

The blue panel clearly displayed the [Sakura Slash] technique, along with various power analyses. The feeling it gave Yae Ji was like the glowing side of an evil long box!

[Wild Flowers Bloom and Split]

【Chaotic Blade】

[Dispersion]

These are the three effects of the [Falling Cherry Blossom Slash] branch. Yae Ji stared wide-eyed at everything in front of her in disbelief.

When he first saw this strange thing, he couldn't understand what was written on it, but now he can actually understand what it means.

Looking up, you'll see the words 'Skill Points' in the upper right corner, followed by the number (20/20).

Yazhong Ji didn't know how powerful he was.

"Um"

Yaeji subconsciously reached out to touch it and clicked on [Wild Flower Bloom].

"There is a chance that hitting the enemy will cause them to bleed."

There is also an upward arrow symbol next to it.

"Add some points?"

Still in a daze, Yaeji clicked the button, and the skill points in the upper right corner decreased, while the circular icon representing [Wild Flower Bloom] lit up briefly.

I didn't feel anything.

It can't add any more.

Yaeji added points to [Chaotic Blade] and [Dispersion], but she herself didn't feel anything.

Just as Yaeji was still confused, he suddenly saw a strange yellowish-brown head-shaped pattern appear in the lower left corner. Next to the pattern, the words "Rebellious Goddess" were clearly written.

"Defying the gods!"

Yae Ji naturally ignored the word 'shrine maiden'. Having been raised by his father since childhood and having a deep respect for the gods worshipped in the village, the impact of these two words on Yae Ji was too great.

Going against the gods is defying the divine! What did he just do? Could that evil box have entered his body? What should I do? What should I do? Has he been bewitched by a demon again?!

"me"

"Phew!~"

Like a drowning person grasping at the last straw, Yaeji suddenly sprang up from the bed as if springs were attached to his back!

"hu~hu~hu~"

He was panting heavily, his hair, soaked with sweat, matted together. Not far away, Sakura and Rin were still fast asleep on the bed.

Yaeji felt his mind was completely blank. He must have just had a nightmare, a nightmare about 'god'! He couldn't remember anything else.

She swallowed hard; her throat was unbearably itchy from dehydration. Yaeji tiptoed out of the shop, dressed, and left the room.