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

She had rebelled before.

She had tried to resist.

But each time, the other party trampled on her resistance and intensified their "punishment" of her resistance.

Over time, he learned to obey.

As long as you comply, you will not be hurt any further.

As long as you comply, they will leave after they have had their fun.

As long as you comply...

Yuno's eyes were empty and lifeless, her hands trembling and hanging limply at her sides, allowing the other person to pull, beat, and curse her as if she were a rag doll.

If only... if only I could bear it for a little while...

……

but……

A tear still slid down her cheek.

I still hope... someone can save me...

Save...myself, powerless to resist...

Even just a glance would be enough...

Please... give me... the courage to live...

……

This memory gradually faded into gray, finally settling on the departing figures of those girls, with the girl in the lead crouching down and gently stroking a cat by the roadside.

"I'm sorry..." Keng Huo didn't know how ferocious and terrifying he would look if he could make an expression at this moment, but feelings of pain and anger kept alternating in his heart, "I...can't save you..."

"Sorry……"

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Yae Sakura carried Keng Huo into the room and threw him onto the living room floor with a thud.

The dark shadow that emerged from behind Yae Sakura transformed into a cloud of smoke, enveloping Keng Huo's body, and slowly floated up, flying towards the kitchen next door.

"What are you going to do?" Yae Sakura glanced at Higokumaru.

"Didn't you want to stew a pot of delicious food..."

Perhaps sensing the growing murderous intent in Yae Sakura's eyes, Hishiko stopped talking sensibly: "Then why did you bring him back? Didn't this guy smear chili powder all over your face before?"

"He's going to die," Yae Sakura said after a moment's hesitation, addressing the dark figure.

"Yeah, especially after you slammed him on the ground just now." The shadowy figure called Hiyomaru replied casually, "If you're going to kill him, why don't you just do it already? If you kill him, can't we get on our way sooner?"

"You extract the Honkai energy from his body."

"Isn't this exactly what...? What?" The dark figure darted backward in a surprisingly human-like manner. "You think Honkai can affect the quality of the flesh?"

“He’s turning into a suicide soldier.” Yae Sakura’s gaze was fixed on Keng Huo. As a pseudo-Herrscher, she was very sensitive to Honkai energy and could sense the physical condition of the man in front of her.

In that earth-shattering impact, the man miraculously survived neither the recoil nor the fall from the sky. Yae Sakura couldn't understand the mystery behind this, but it didn't affect her judgment.

Keng Huo's body is being eroded by a large amount of Honkai energy, and the constantly healing wounds are the best proof. Honkai energy is transforming him into a zombie-like creature, and the first step is to repair his body.

Once his body has fully recovered, the Honkai energy will likely begin to truly erode him.

"I won't do it!"

Yae Sakura didn't answer, but silently drew her sword.

"Okay, okay, you're the boss, you're the boss, I'll absorb it, alright?" Fei Yu Wan reluctantly leaned over to Keng Huo's body, and wisps of crystal-clear energy, like stars, slowly drifted out from Keng Huo's pores, wounds, and even his mouth and nose.

Yae Sakura glanced at Keng Huo: "Life and death are in the hands of fate. Whether you survive or not depends on your own destiny..."

……

In the bedroom, Yae Sakura wrung out a towel soaked in cold water and gently placed it on Theresa's head.

Theresa murmured, as if she were talking about something unspeakable in her dreams.

Yae Sakura gently stroked Theresa's burning cheek with her fingers. Looking at the face that bore a striking resemblance to the one she deeply loved, she fell silent for a moment, as if time itself had frozen.

However, the silence was broken by Hishimaru's low, husky voice: "Haven't you made up your mind yet?"

Higokumaru suddenly floated in front of Yae Sakura, placing himself between Yae Sakura and Theresa: "We don't have time to waste any longer..."

Yae Sakura did not answer.

Undeterred, Hiyomaru's crimson eyes gleamed with cunning as he slowly drifted away from Theresa and Yae Sakura: "Look! How much she resembles your Kallen, and you can even smell her... But so what? Don't forget, Kallen is dead..."

“Five hundred years, no one has ever lived that long…” Hishimaru whispered in Yae Sakura’s ear, “What do you think Kallen will do after she went back and sealed us away?”

"She deserves the greatest credit for sealing the demon in the box once again, then married another man and left behind her bloodline..." Hissing whispers penetrated his ears like a poison seeping into his bones, "She betrayed you... betrayed your love... she became someone else's wife..."

"Think about her wedding dress, think about her breathtaking first time... She wasn't thinking about you then..." Hishiko's words were filled with endless malice.

"No...she wouldn't..." Yae Sakura muttered to herself, as if she hadn't heard Hishimaru's words.

"Why not? She never loved you in the first place..." Hisshou suddenly flew from Yae Sakura's left ear to her right, his deep, hoarse voice piercing her ears like a steel cone, "Did you think your obsessive love was reciprocated? Don't be ridiculous, her response was that she would protect everyone... not just you..."

"You were just doing it on a whim for her..."

"You are just one of the millions of passersby..."

"To her... you're just a fleeting memory..."

"Shut up..." A murderous glint appeared in Yae Sakura's eyes, and her voice trembled slightly, as if she was resisting some unacknowledged fact.

"Stop lying to yourself... Look at this!" Hishiyuu suddenly darted behind Theresa, lifted her upper body, and thrust her burning red face in front of Yae Sakura. "This is her bloodline, these are her descendants for countless generations!"

The shadow that Hiyomaru had transformed into suddenly vanished, and Theresa's body, losing its support, crashed heavily onto the pillow. Yae Sakura sat there blankly, at a loss.

"Betrayed me...?" Yae Sakura's voice trembled, as if she had lost something important, a feeling of her heart being hollowed out.

"You know it yourself!"

"Karen has absolutely no love for you!"

"You've been indulging in self-admiration from beginning to end."

"From beginning to end, it's been a solo performance on a stage you directed and acted in!"

"No one needs you! No one cares about you! No one will be there for you..."

"Only I am the devil..."

Hishiko's eyes flashed with murderous intent: "Kill her...Quick! Let's get out of here..."

"Kill her...kill her...kill her..." Under the whisper of Higokumaru, which seemed to be directly imprinted into her heart, Yae Sakura slowly raised her hand and grasped Theresa's neck.

Yae Sakura's eyes were gradually replaced by murderous intent and resentment. Her arms trembled, as if she had exhausted indescribable courage and willpower.

Seeing that Yae Sakura was still unable to make up her mind, Hishiyomaru began to urge her impatiently.

"Kill her! We have no time to waste. 'That thing' is awakening! Staying here will only cause the Herrscher core within you to awaken it even faster!"

"Kill her! She's nothing to you! She's a traitor's bloodline!"

However, Yae Sakura's hands trembled, as if she were struggling deeply inside.

"Don't be ridiculous. You killed your own sister as a sacrifice to the gods, and you still expect anyone to love you? To care about you? No way! You are a traitor! Traitors have no right to beg for anyone's concern!!"

"You are not needed by anyone! You are a cancer on the world, a lone devil walking in hell! You only need yourself!"

“I am… a traitor…” Yae Sakura’s eyes gradually moistened, and her gaze lost its luster.

"That's right...you killed the villagers you lived with day and night..."

“I am…unnecessary…extra…” Each word was like a knife to her heart, carving deep furrows in her soul.

"That's right...you're nothing special to her..."

"I'm……"

The murderous intent in Yae Sakura's eyes intensified slowly, and tears of complex emotions welled up from the corners of her eyes, stopping on her fair chin.

"Don't be afraid... I will definitely... protect you..." Suddenly, Theresa, who had been unconscious, opened her eyes slightly, her hazy gaze seemingly filled with longing.

She seemed oblivious to Yae Sakura's murderous aura and the feeling of being bound by a shackle on her neck. Instead, she raised her limp hand and reached forward, as if to caress the person in front of her.

Yae Sakura's murderous gaze faltered slightly, and her heartbeat seemed to slow down a beat for that instant.

That phrase... seems familiar...

Theresa's soft hand finally covered Yae Sakura's face. Yae Sakura felt the warmth of that hand and seemed to be able to hear the care and joy in the other's heart.

"Do you still... have someone you want to protect..." Yae Sakura asked softly. The long-buried memory of the past finally began to spread quietly in her heart, and tears began to flow uncontrollably.

"Do you still have... unfulfilled wishes...?"

"Do you still have... people waiting for you..." Yae Sakura's voice gradually turned into a sob, and her stiff hands slowly softened.

"The kind of life where you know there's someone waiting for you in the future...it's really wonderful..." Yae Sakura's eyes struggled and wavered between jealousy and warmth.

"But...the person I've been waiting for..." Yae Sakura sobbed uncontrollably, her beautiful face made even more pitiful by the tears, "She's gone...she's...left...my future is gone..."

"already……"

"It's completely empty..."

Yae Sakura leaned slowly against Theresa's chest, finally unable to hold back the sorrow and painful memories that had been buried in her heart for many years and that she could not forget even after waking up from the seal. She let them surge out from her deepest memories and devour her reason.

"But even someone like me... has someone I want to protect..."

"Even though that person is no longer here...but..."

"but I……"

That stunningly beautiful face, now wet with tears, was slowly replaced by sadness and despair.

Even with someone like me... I still hope...

"I've been saved..."

Yae Sakura's hand and Theresa's hand silently overlapped, she closed her eyes and gently kissed her.