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

After saying that, the pseudo-law user rolled his eyes and collapsed to the ground.

Keng Huo was completely bewildered by this sudden and unexpected situation.

What's going on? Did this supposed healer cut off his own meridians when things got bad?

But before Keng Huo could continue his wild imaginings, he felt a surge of power erupt beneath his feet, causing the entire Qianyu Academy to tremble, shake, and...

collapse!

A continuous, deafening roar erupted from the building beneath Keng Huo's feet. The ceiling was quickly covered with countless cracks, and enormous branches, far thicker than the vines summoned by the pseudo-Herrscher, rose from the ground and emerged from the main building of Chiyu Academy.

Senba Academy seems to have become a living thing.

Suddenly, a huge branch as thick as a truck was flung out from the rooftop beneath Keng Huo's feet, and Keng Huo, who was standing on it, was thrown into the air by the force.

"Holy crap... I'm really on fire this time..." Keng Huo rolled his eyes, feeling the biting wind and the cold temperature. The release time of the Beast Trapping Talisman seemed to be almost at its end. "My beast... this time... please... let it run wild a little longer..."

Keng Huo had no idea how high he had been thrown, but he found that his height allowed him to see the entire Qianyu Academy.

The main teaching building was collapsing, and what emerged from it was an enormous plant.

At the very top was the flower bud that Keng Huo had seen in the classroom. Now, the bud had fully bloomed, and the upper body of the pseudo-Herrscher had appeared in the center of the flower.

The pseudo-Herrscher shrieked, "I don't believe it!! I gave so much! I gave my all!! Yet why can't I even crush an ant!!"

With her shrill cry, countless branches, as thick as towering trees, whether vines or thorns, shot straight at Keng Huo, who was still high in the sky, like spears.

"First of all... I'm not an ant... never mind."

Keng Huo slowly closed his eyes, as if sensing the breath of the wind.

Finally, the upward momentum was countered by gravity, and the haunting figure slowly came to a stop in the air.

Then, like a fish swimming in water, it nimbly turned around, spread its arms, and its body stretched out like a bird of prey spreading its wings in the air.

"Wind...please take me with you." Keng Huo's body seemed to suddenly turn into a piece of paper, floating lightly in the air and drifting aimlessly with the wind. Giant spear-like vines pierced straight at him, and the wind arrived before he did, causing Keng Huo's body to drift to the side with the rhythm of the wind.

"Tiger and Crane Double Form... Crane Fist! Crossing the River!" Keng Huo's body descended at an increasingly rapid pace, his clothes fluttering in the wind like battle flags.

"Die!! Die!!" The pseudo-Herrscher seemed to have gone mad. Several huge vines rose from the ground and danced in the air, trying to knock Keng Huo down. However, although Keng Huo's falling speed was getting faster and faster, it was also becoming more and more agile. It could even change direction freely in the air with the wind, as if it were flying.

"You cannot disperse the wind..." Keng Huo's voice was not loud, but it exploded in the heart of the pseudo-Herrscher like muffled thunder. "Aren't you curious about why I am so strong? Then I will tell you."

Keng Huo had already sheathed his blade, put on his gauntlets that were as clear as white carapaces, and took three blue crystalline objects out of his pocket and hung them around his neck.

“Nameless knight, lend me your hands…” The first crystal pendant suddenly shone brightly, “This was left by a member of the army that once invaded the Divine Land… a loyal will to hold the position and fight to the death!”

"Next... Will of Nangong! Awaken! The battle is not over! Please inflict your trial upon me!" The second crystal pendant shone brightly, far surpassing the brightness of the first. "This is the soul of the last Yue Family Army soldier who fought against an Emperor-level Honkai Beast in the war against the Yue Family Army. It is the will to protect the army, which fought to the death until the entire army was wiped out, with not a single soldier fleeing and ten thousand corpses lying in the empty city!"

"Finally... the will of the weak! Awaken! Roar! Let those who think themselves strong and superior tremble before your noble souls!" Keng Huo roared, his voice muffled by the wind, but his burning fighting spirit and anger traveled through space and time.

He remembered the summoner who should have been called Mami. She wanted to protect her younger brother, but after the collapse, she used her telekinesis to break his neck.

He remembered that family of three who should have been poor but happy; the father, corrupted by the Honkai, wished to return home before he died, and then he, corrupted by the Honkai, returned home...

He remembered... endless stories of sorrow, fragments of all the will he had ever collected, the endless hope and despair he had borne.

"This is the culmination of countless encounters with the weak... their cries of despair..."

"Never give up... Never surrender... An indomitable will that never abandons hope, even in the face of despair!!"

The three crystal pendants, as if unable to bear the burning will within them, suddenly exploded! Three streams of light swirled around Keng Huo, like guards protecting him, or like undying heroic spirits. They danced and hummed joyfully, finally merging together and merging into Keng Huo's body.

The pseudo-Herrscher shrieked in a sharp voice from the center of the blooming flower.

Why aren't you afraid!

Why didn't you run away?!

"Why! Why did you dare to draw your weapon against me! Aren't you afraid! Aren't you scared! I don't believe it!"

As she watched Keng Huo hurtle down towards her with unstoppable momentum, the fear in the pseudo-Herrscher's eyes magnified little by little with Keng Huo's figure, and disbelief and terror appeared on her face at the same time.

"That's right! Of course I'm scared! I'm scared to death!!" Keng Huo's expression was as ferocious and terrifying as a vengeful ghost, his facial muscles twisted as if they were about to jump out of his cheeks.

"I can't sleep at night!! I can't eat or sleep properly!! I'm terrified that you'll suddenly appear and take away the life I've worked so hard to have!!"

"So!!!" Keng Huo's angry roar was like a resounding bell. He was enveloped in a layer of dark blue energy and crashed down with the momentum of a meteor.

"That's why I'm going to cut off your head!! Nail your body to the wall!! I'll use your head as a pillow every day..."

"Only then can I sleep peacefully!"

"The will of collapse!! Remember this! It was not some weak, inferior being that killed you!!"

"But rather... the noble human soul!!!"

The right fist, clad in a gleaming white gauntlet, finally made contact with the flowerpot.

Like a meteorite striking the ground, this fierce collision suddenly unleashed a massive shockwave, as powerful as a missile explosion, causing the entire Chiyu Academy complex to collapse in the impact.

Chapter 85 The Cherry Blossoms Have Faded

Keng Huo felt his consciousness fading away, and the darkness before him seemed to swallow up all his vision. Perhaps it was an instant, or perhaps it was ten thousand years. In this darkness where the concept of time had been lost, he gradually fell asleep.

The once magnificent Senba Academy is now nothing but ruins and a crater resembling one struck by a meteorite. A man lies quietly in the center, surrounded by firefly-like points of light.

The points of light seemed to lose their vitality and gradually went out. A few points of light slowly fell on Keng Huo's body and disappeared.

Suddenly, a tall figure emerged from the heavy twilight and stood quietly beside Keng Huo's unconscious body.

"They were fighting so fiercely, they couldn't have been a group..." Yae Sakura slowly squatted down and poked Keng Huo's cheek. "Dead? It seems like he's not..."

Yae Sakura looked at Keng Huo's body with some surprise, covered in countless lacerations that looked like he had been thrown into a centrifuge and shaken for hundreds of hours: "You're still alive?"

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and leave! Staying here for even a second longer could wake up 'that thing'!" A wisp of black mist slowly rose from behind Yae Sakura, and a pair of scarlet eyes seemed to be watching the northwest warily.

“That’s right, let’s go.” Yae Sakura gently lifted Keng Huo’s body and carried him on her shoulder.

"Um... what are you doing?" The dark figure seemed startled by Yae Sakura. "I meant we need to go back quickly!"

“Yes, let’s go back.” Yae Sakura, carrying Keng Huo, still walked briskly, and left Chiyu Academy in a few leaps.

"Fine, let's go back! Why did you bring this guy with you!"

"He'll die if he stays here."

"What does it matter to you whether he lives or dies! It's only been a short while and you've already picked up another burden!" The dark figure seemed to be driven mad by Yae Sakura, restlessly circling around her. "Drop him off!"

"No."

"Are you out of your mind?! Why are you bringing him along?! He's about to die! Are you going to take him back, chop up some scallions and garlic, add some water, and stew him into a delicious pot?!"

"Shut up."

Yae Sakura didn't notice that the numerous wounds on Keng Huo's body seemed to be healing quietly at an extremely slow pace.

……

A light appeared before Keng Huo's eyes. He looked closely and saw a scene of daily life at school.

But it was completely different from the campus life he remembered.

The girl in the picture opened her desk drawer and suddenly screamed as a spider crawled out of her desk drawer.

The girl was sitting in the classroom when a crumpled piece of paper hit her on the head just as the teacher turned around to write on the blackboard.

Her body trembled slightly, but she didn't react to the crumpled paper, as if she were already used to it. However, the thrower seemed quite dissatisfied with her reaction, and more and more crumpled paper came flying at her. Even the classmates next to her started to laugh secretly, also gathering their own crumpled paper and throwing it at her like a monkey. She silently endured it, hoping the teacher would finish writing on the blackboard quickly.

But when the teacher finished writing on the blackboard and turned around, everyone stopped what they were doing and sat down to look at the blackboard. The teacher frowned and said, "Yuno, pick up the crumpled paper next to you."

Yuno responded softly and timidly, and bent down to pick up the crumpled papers that had covered the floor around her. When she picked up the papers that were closer to the seat of the classmate next to her, the classmate moved his chair to the side with some disgust.

"I'm sorry..." Yuno said softly, quickly picking up the crumpled paper as if afraid of dirtying the floor beneath the other person's feet.

As she stuffed the last crumpled piece of paper into the drawer, she accidentally noticed what was written on the crumpled paper:

"Go to hell, you ugly monster!"

Yuno lowered her head deeply, resting her upper body on the table, and two lines of tears slid down her cheeks.

"Yuno, please pay attention in class," the teacher said in a commanding voice from the podium.

"Ah...yes..."

Keng Huo watched these scenes flash before his eyes with a blank expression.

She was in a toilet stall when someone poured a bucket of water on her from the outside.

Her shoes had disappeared.

Her gymnastics uniform had three or five large holes cut into her vital areas with scissors.

She wept, but no one reached out to her.

She tried to ask her teacher for help, but the teacher replied: "How could someone as kind-hearted as Aya-chan, who would even pet a passing kitten, do such a thing? Yuno-chan, I've heard from other classmates that you have some problems with interpersonal relationships. I hope you can look for the reasons within yourself and please don't do things like slandering others behind their backs."

She wanted to tell her family about her pain, but her parents, who were too busy to care for her, had no time to do so.

Until one day, her teacher came to visit her home and told her parents that she was not getting along well with her classmates at school.

Yuno was hopeful that her parents would take the matter seriously, but after her exhausted mother saw the teacher off, she turned around and shouted at her with a look of disappointment and resentment.

"Your father and I have worked so hard to send you to this prestigious school! It's one thing if you don't study hard, but you can't even get along with your classmates! What are you trying to do?!"

The last glimmer of light in her gloomy, dark world has been extinguished.

She began to numbly respond to everything that happened to her, like a soulless doll.

Over time, her classmates grew bored with her lack of reaction and began to pursue more extreme ways of playing, trying to provoke her resistance.

Just as they pulled out a utility knife and cornered her in the warehouse, they finally got the reaction they wanted.

"You...you stay away!!" Yuno held another utility knife in her trembling hand, stretching it straight out in front of her, as if that would keep the other party at bay.

"Oh?" The students who had long enjoyed bullying were not surprised but delighted, and they approached with delighted expressions. "Yuno, our little darling, has actually learned to fight back? That's really..."

"How happy!" A loud slap easily bypassed Yuno's hand holding the utility knife and landed hard on her face.

Yuno seemed to have lost her soul after being slapped, standing there motionless, even the hand holding the utility knife slowly drooping.

The other person happily grabbed Yuno's hair and dragged her back and forth like a monkey, making it impossible for Yuno to stand up.

The fear that the other party had instilled in Yuno over the years surged like a tidal wave, drowning out the little courage she had finally mustered.