Honkai Impact 3rd: My Days as a Captain in Schicksal

"To me, the whole world combined is not as important as you!" Otto roared as if he had lost control of his emotions, but then realized his loss of composure and replied after calming down a bit.

"Karen...I can't live without you..."

"If this world didn't have you... I couldn't live alone..." Otto said, head bowed, as if talking in his sleep.

"You are the only light in my world..."

"So...please...even if it's just for my sake...come with me...let's live together..."

"We've forgotten about this organization called Destiny, and we've forgotten about this trivial matter."

“By the way, let’s go on a trip together. Our first stop will be the Far East, which you’ve been longing for.” Otto’s voice became excited as he said this.

"Although I couldn't be by your side that time, this time..."

"Enough!" Karen's loud shout suddenly interrupted Otto, who seemed to be engrossed in talking to himself.

"No matter what... I absolutely cannot leave at this time!"

"Please, stop insulting me." Kallen's voice was filled with barely concealed anger. "Kaslana is the shield of the people, and I will never run away... especially not at a time like this!"

"Thank you for your kindness, but I cannot accept your method at all, and I will not go with you."

"And... I'm sorry, I've always regarded you as my dearest older brother."

"I already have someone I love deeply."

"……Feel sorry."

Otto's head had been lowered at some point, his fists clenched tightly, and he seemed lost in thought.

After a terrifying silence, Kallen turned and walked toward the Honkai Beasts wreaking havoc at the other end of the plaza.

"Miss Karen! What do you intend to do with that weakened body?!" Arthur hurriedly called out to Karen, "We don't have any anti-Honkai weapons on hand right now. Going there will only be a pointless death! We should..."

However, Kallen did not stop, and continued walking towards the Honkai Beast on her own.

"Karen! Stop! It's my fault! But what you're doing is pointless..." Otto rushed over without anyone noticing, anxiously reaching out to grab Karen.

However, he was met with a powerful punch from Karen.

Otto felt his entire body convulse from the punch, just like the previous executor. He was unable to move due to the intense pain and could only slowly fall to the ground.

"Grandpa Arthur, please take care of my good-for-nothing brother." Karen helped Otto up and turned to Arthur, speaking softly.

Seeing this, Arthur sighed and took Otto. An important descendant of the Apocalypse family could not be allowed to take such a great risk here.

"Please," Karen whispered to Arthur.

“No…don’t go…it’s dangerous…Kallen…what are you going to do…” Otto weakly reached out, trying to use his last strength to pull Kallen back, “No…”

"Is there even a need to ask?" Karen left without looking back, her back view as resolute as Jing Ke going to Qin.

"Of course, it's to protect my people."

Kiana, who had been standing motionless for a long time, felt an indescribable emotion welling up inside her.

Is it just about passion? More than that.

Is it just being moved? It's more than that.

Is it fear or excitement in the face of a powerful enemy? I don't think either can be used to describe this emotion.

"I guess... this is the Kaslana family's passion..." Kiana murmured. "Damn dad, please don't make me think of you at times like this..."

“Now… there’s something more important.” Kiana looked up, revealing a big smile. “Kallen, I’ll help too!”

Kallen instinctively wanted to refuse, but then she remembered Kiana's amazing skills just now, and considering that having another powerful partner at this time would be a good choice, she agreed to Kiana's request.

"Thank you, Miss Kiana. Judging from your skills, are you also a Knight of Destiny? I don't think I've ever seen you before," Kallen asked curiously.

"Haha... Well, let's talk about that after we deal with the Honkai Beasts." Kiana laughed it off.

Meanwhile, Bronya, perched on the flagpole, was rapidly processing massive amounts of data. The screen in front of her was flashing with a deluge of code—enough to overwhelm an ordinary person's brain: "How could this be… how could Honkai Beasts appear here at this time? Could it be that my previous understanding of the area information wasn't complete… No, I need higher-level access to weapons, otherwise Kiana simply can't handle this number of Honkai Beasts…"

"As long as the regional authority reaches level B, it is possible to materialize the anti-Honkai weapons of this era, but this calculation method... is unheard of... I can't even decipher the calculation method to obtain level B authority... Has Schicksal hidden this level of technology?!"

"Wait!" Bronya's pupils contracted sharply. "There's hidden information even under C-level access!"

Kallen sprinted toward the Honkai Beast that was roaring wildly in the street, deftly dodging its claws and attacking from behind. However, being weak and unarmed, she couldn't even break through the Honkai Beast's skin. The dull thuds from her punches didn't even bother to get the Honkai Beast to defend itself.

"Damn it! If only the Oath of Judah were here with me right now..." Kallen thought to herself, "Since we can't defeat the Honkai Beast, we can only lure it away... and let Kiana take the opportunity to evacuate the people..."

"Kiana! I'll distract it! Quickly rescue the people from the ruins! Take them to the barracks outside the city! They can be protected there! The cathedral is not safe now!" Kallen made up her mind and, like a nimble swallow, climbed up the back of the Honkai Beast, which was three or four stories high, trying to attack its eyes to distract it.

"Okay!" Kiana didn't have time to think. She grabbed a hand in the ruins and pulled it out. A scream came from the ruins, and a civilian covered in wounds and bruises was pulled out of the rubble.

"Stop yelling! Get out of the city!" Kiana kicked the screaming man in the butt and ignored him, continuing to dig through the ruins.

While Kiana was wholeheartedly digging the hole, Kallen was also caught in a fierce battle.

The weakened Kallen lacked the ability to harm the Honkai Beasts, but the Honkai Beasts possessed the power to kill Kallen in this state with a single blow. Therefore, Kallen could only dodge constantly, and in order to prevent the Honkai Beasts' attention from being drawn to civilians again, she could only engage in close combat with the Honkai Beasts, which greatly increased the risk.

“This won’t do… The Honkai Beast could be attracted by the crowds over there at any moment. I have to lure it away… But I don’t know if I’ll encounter other people along the way. What should I do…” Kallen’s anxiety was almost palpable. “There’s no other way. I have to take a gamble… I’ll lure it to a secluded alleyway with few pedestrians…”

Having made her decision, Kallen deftly dodged the Honkai Beast's claw attack, the sharp claw covered in bone spikes leaving a half-meter-deep claw mark on the ground.

Kallen used the momentum to push off the claw and ran into the alley behind her, deliberately slowing down her pace in case the Honkai Beast didn't chase after her.

"Awooo—" The Honkai Beast, seeing that its prey was trying to escape, let out a deafening roar and chased after Kallen.

"It's done!" Kallen thought to herself. "Next, all Kiana needs to do is evacuate the people, find a way to shake off this Honkai Beast, and then go and rescue the others."

Kiana, on the other hand, was worried about Kallen's safety, but she couldn't ignore the people in front of her, so she could only speed up the excavation of the ruins in the hope of getting there in time to support Kallen.

Suddenly, the sound of clashing armor came from not far away. Kiana looked in the direction of the sound and saw a squad of fully equipped city guards running towards her. Her eyes lit up.

"You! Take these civilians to the barracks and protect them!" Kiana shouted loudly at the armored city guards without thinking too much.

The city guards ran up to Kiana, and the entire team stared at her with suspicion. One of them spoke up, "We were ordered to enter the city to exterminate the Honkai Beasts, not to act as babysitters. Besides, what right do you have to order the city guards around?"

"Isn't your city guard supposed to protect the people?" Kiana's eyes widened, her tone filled with disbelief. "Isn't clearing out the Honkai Beasts also to save the people? What you're doing is no different from putting the cart before the horse!"

“That’s the order we received,” the leading city guard sneered. “And who are you? All irrelevant people, evacuate immediately. Tell me which direction the nearest Honkai Beast is in, and don’t get in my way!”

"You?!" Kiana laughed in anger. "Listen up, my name is Kiana Kaslana, and you..."

"You?" The leading city guard showed disdain on his face and was about to continue speaking when he was suddenly pulled by the person behind him. After the person behind him whispered a few words to him, the leading city guard showed a look of panic on his face. He looked at Kiana with some unease and took a step back imperceptibly.

“Since you are a knight of destiny from the Kaslana family, the fourth squad of the seventh company of the second infantry regiment of the city guard is willing to obey your orders.” The leading city guard suddenly stood at attention and said in a completely different tone than before.

"Then hurry up and take these people away!" Kiana didn't have time to think about why the other party had changed so much, but since the other party was willing to cooperate, that was naturally the best thing. Moreover, the situation was urgent, and Kiana wanted to find Kallen, who was luring away the Honkai Beasts alone, as soon as possible.

After Kiana darted into the alley where Kallen disappeared, the squad leader of the city guards seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said to the people behind him, "My God, thank goodness you reminded me, otherwise I would have been killed by that monster..."

"Those monsters..." The squad leader looked at Kiana's back with apprehension.

"A monster..." Kiana's hearing was far beyond that of ordinary people, and she naturally heard the squad leader's seemingly quiet mutterings. Her steps almost faltered, but her worry for Kallen prevented her from stopping; instead, she quickened her pace. "What kind of beings are the Valkyries of this era...?"

"Boom—" Another sound of a building collapsing echoed. Kiana's heart skipped a beat: "It must have been caused by Kallen's battle... I have to get there quickly!"

Kiana, disregarding the debris she knocked over on the roadside, stumbled and ran as fast as she could in that direction, looking utterly disheveled along the way.

"Please... Sister Kallen... Please, you must hold on..." Kiana prayed incessantly in her heart. Just thinking about Kallen's smile, which was full of encouragement amidst despair, before she left the cell made her heart clench, and even her eyes stung.

"Please... I beg you, time, this time please be on my side..." Three or four more loud bangs followed, amplifying Kiana's unease. "Please... only this person... only her... I must save her..."

Finally, after Kiana turned the last corner, she saw Kallen.

Kallen is surrounded by three Honkai Beasts.

Karen is protecting a little girl who is alone.

Kallen, who had managed to block a downward claw attack from a Honkai Beast with all her might, had her left leg bent abnormally.

A bone spur protruding from the wrist of a Honkai Beast...

Karen runs through the wall.

"[Recorded data, hidden information number 858]:"

...During the execution, unidentified Honkai Beasts appeared near the plaza. While rescuing civilians, the weakened Kallen Kaslana was killed by one of the Honkai Beasts.

"No!" Kiana felt her blood vessels were about to burst. Looking at Kallen, who was covered in blood but still smiling at Kiana, Kiana felt her blood rush to her head and her whole body trembled.

"Kiana..." Kallen's eyes flashed with surprise when she saw Kiana.

"Quickly take this little girl... away, I'll hold off these Honkai Beasts..." Kallen spat out a mouthful of blood as she spoke, staining her tattered nun's habit. "Please... if it were you... you could definitely do it..."

"No, no, no!" Kiana lunged forward like a madwoman, grabbing the bone spur that the Honkai Beast had pierced Kallen. As if she hadn't heard Kallen's words, she pulled with all her might, screaming without any ladylike composure, "Let her go! I told you... let her go!"

"Roar—" The Honkai Beast swung its arm violently, throwing Kiana and Kallen, who was pierced by bone spikes, out together. The bone spikes left a deep mark on the wall, and the destroyed wall collapsed with a crash, burying the little girl under the rubble.

In a split second of urgency, Kiana grabbed Kallen and pulled her into her arms. The two tumbled and flew away. When they landed, Kiana adjusted her posture to minimize the impact on Kallen.

"Sister Kallen!" Kiana shook her head, still dazed from the impact, and hurriedly looked at Kallen. "Don't speak! I'll take you away and stop your bleeding!"

“Kiana… little girl…” Kallen seemed to have lost consciousness, her eyes gradually losing focus, ignoring Kiana’s words, but she still murmured, “Save her…”

"What kind of time is this to say such nonsense!" Kiana's tears finally streamed down her face. "You...you must hold on...I'll take you to a doctor...the best doctor...they can definitely save you..."

"So...please...don't leave like this..." Kiana knelt, her upper body gently resting on Kallen's body, her shoulders shaking as she sobbed uncontrollably, "Please...please don't give up...I...let me bandage you up first..."

Kiana completely ignored the Honkai Beasts surrounding her and violently tore off a piece of her own clothing, attempting to bandage Kallen's wound with trembling hands. However, the penetrating wound was too large, and no matter how hard Kiana tried, she could not stop the blood from flowing out.

Kiana regretted not paying attention during her first aid class. If she had, perhaps she could have temporarily stabilized Kallen's injuries.

Of course, Kiana knew this was impossible.

Even to a layman, it was clear that this wound meant certain death.

This massive penetrating wound pierced Karen's abdomen, puncturing her stomach, churning her intestines, and causing varying degrees of damage to her heart and lungs.

Kiana collapsed onto Kallen's body, lost in a daze.

I don't know where to start.