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

"So, I choose to forgive him..."

"And you."

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Yae Sakura gently stroked Hishimaru's hair, murmuring comforting words: "It's alright...it's alright...it's all over now...the pain we went through...it's all over now..."

“But you still hit me…you still said we’re not the same person…” Hiyomaru cried aggrievedly. At this moment, she was no longer the fierce and menacing person she had been before. Instead, she was as pure as a child crying to her mother.

"I'm sorry... It's all my fault..." Yae Sakura gently rubbed her face against the other's. "It's all my fault... I pushed all the painful memories onto you, but kept the beautiful ones to myself..."

“It’s my fault for making you suffer pain and loneliness… It’s my fault for ignoring your cries for help… It’s all my fault…” Yae Sakura’s tears fell uncontrollably, dripping onto Hishimaru’s face. “I forgot one thing… We are not the same person… I can’t even bear those painful memories, how could you, who have just been reborn… bear it…”

"I'm sorry... your pain and struggle... it's all because of my selfishness. I didn't want to get hurt, I didn't want to face reality..." Yae Sakura closed her eyes. "It's all my fault..."

"I'm sorry, Hishikomaru... please forgive me..."

"Please come back to me..." Yae Sakura hugged the battered and bruised Hishimaru tightly. "This is all my fault... You don't have to bear this burden anymore..."

“Come back to me… From now on, please let me carry on with this pain, it was meant to be mine…” Yae Sakura hugged Hiyomaru tightly, as if she wanted to meld her into her own body.

Stunned, Higomaru stared at Yae Sakura's face, tears also blurring her vision.

Higokumaru and Yae Sakura's bodies slowly emitted light, but the difference was that Yae Sakura's body emitted a pink glow like spring, while Higokumaru's body emitted a black light that defied physics.

“Yes, come back. Your pain, your sorrow… I will bear it for you…” Yae Sakura’s cheeks were wet with tears as she smiled gently at Himeko. The light in her eyes grew brighter and brighter, intertwining as if they were about to merge into one.

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Its crumbling will trembled, but the warm touch emanating from its body made it so attached, as if it wanted to become addicted to it and was unwilling to retreat.

Do you hate it...?

When exactly did this hatred begin...?

Five hundred years ago... or fifty thousand years ago?

Sealed inside that black box... I've long forgotten what it feels like to be embraced...

I've long forgotten what it feels like to be forgiven...

From beginning to end...everyone hated me for no reason...resented me...even though I never hurt anyone...

Two lines of tears streamed down its face.

In these endless years... my hopes have been almost completely worn away by time, and I have even forgotten what my initial desires were...

What exactly is that longing?

It's as if someone can hold me, pat my head, and speak to me in a gentle voice...

It's alright... all the pain is over...

But I've never understood that feeling because I've never experienced it.

But what is this feeling of mixed sadness and happiness...?

Why...does it make me so attached to it...?

This warmth... I want... I want to linger here a little longer...

Please... if you'd like to hug me...

Please hug me a little longer, okay...

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"No... I don't want to..." Hishimaru struggled, crying and screaming, trying to push away Yae Sakura's embrace, but the warmth in Yae Sakura's arms made her weak all over, unable to push away the person embracing her. "You lied to me... you lied to me... you don't like me at all... you clearly hate me..."

“No, Hiyomaru,” Yae Sakura gently stroked Hiyomaru’s hair, “Just as you love me… I love you too…”

"Five hundred years... such a long time, and you are the only one who has been by my side... No matter how desperate or painful, you have always been there for me, haven't you?"

"How could I not love you, with you by my side like this..."

Hishimaru's body stiffened. Finally, she could no longer hold back her tears, and she hugged Yae Sakura tightly, crying uncontrollably, "I'm so scared... I'm scared that once you're in the outside world... you won't care about me anymore..."

"No, I'll always stay with Himeko..."

“I’m so scared… I’m afraid they’ll hit you, yell at you, and you’ll still not fight back like before…”

"No, I have the Scarlet Prison Pill."

"I'm so scared... I'm so scared..." Hiyomaru's tears soaked Yae Sakura's chest, "I'm afraid you'll forget me..."

"No, it won't happen..." Yae Sakura gently stroked Hiyomaru's back, patting her back to help her catch her breath as she cried uncontrollably.

"really?"

"Um……"

"really?"

"Well... because we... were originally meant to be the same person..."

"Then...it's okay to forgive me one more time, right?"

Higokumaru's tear-streaked face suddenly broke into a smile, all traces of the past gloom and malice gone, replaced by a deep, joyful expression, as if he had been freed from hell.

"Please live on... with happiness and hope..."

"What...what are you going to do?" Yae Sakura felt a vague unease. Their fusion had just been unilaterally terminated by Hishimaru. She instinctively tried to move, but found herself unable to.

"If you still want to carry me with you... how can I bear to let you continue to bear the painful memories I've carried..." As if using the last of his strength, Hishimaru raised his hand and gently stroked Yae Sakura's cheek.

"I'm sorry... Sakura... I still want to... be willful one more time..."

Hisoka's body was covered in cracks, like a porcelain doll.

"Stop...stop it now!" Yae Sakura's lips trembled slightly as she struggled to squeeze out the cry from her heart.

"I'm sorry... Forget all this pain, forget me... Please carry on with you, filled with happiness..."

"No...stop...stop it!!"

"Living under... a free and blue... sky..."

Hisoka's body shattered like a broken mirror, turning into countless fragments that fell onto the cold earth.

Only then did Yae Sakura regain her mobility. She frantically picked up the fragments from the ground, her hands trembling as she tried to piece them back together. But the moment they touched her, they shattered into countless points of light, disappearing into the space.

“Hiyokumaru…” Yae Sakura opened her arms, wanting to gather the dissipating light into her embrace.

"I'm sorry... thank you..." She knelt down on the boundless earth, tears streaming down her face.

(The End of the Changkong City Mystery Exploration.)

"How can hatred dispel hatred? Only love and forgiveness can dispel hatred..."

Volume 3, the end!!!

I prepared many foreshadowing elements for the Yae Sakura arc, and also felt a lot of frustration for many days.

Without this hellish suffering, no bright future would be so precious.

It is because we escaped from the lava of hell that the paradise we arrived at is so beautiful.

The same goes for Yae Sakura.

She has always been influenced by her Herrscher personality and controlled by the demon in the box. Her fate and her struggles, if they are to be redeemed, must cross this muddy swamp.

If Yae Sakura hadn't saved Kallen five hundred years ago, she wouldn't have become a pseudo-Herrscher, wouldn't have saved Theresa in Changkong City five hundred years later, and wouldn't have been saved by Theresa and Keng Huo, waking up from the nightmare of five hundred years ago.

This kindness will be passed down from generation to generation, forever.

This is an ordinary story about "returning kindness".

Volume 4 The Mystery of Xuanyuan

Volume 4 The Mystery of Xuanyuan

Chapter 103 Two-headed chibi characters are kind of cute, aren't they?

Keng Huo slowly woke up from his hospital bed, his brow furrowed as he felt a tearing pain all over his body.

"Damn it... I'm really going to be bedridden for a while this time..." Keng Huo rolled his eyes. The last punch he threw when fighting Theresa in her possessed state was too forceful. Almost all of his main muscles were damaged to varying degrees. Now it was difficult for him to even move. Keng Huo closed his eyes and carefully felt the pain in his body, trying to assess his current injuries.

But the sensation in his arm that wasn't pain bothered him.

Moreover, the garment on his arm seemed sticky and attached to his arm, as if it had been wetted by something.

Despite the pain, Keng Huo couldn't suppress his curiosity and gently lifted his blanket.

……

Eyes wide open.

The atmosphere seemed to freeze in that instant.

Finally, Keng Huo broke the silence. He didn't know where the strength came from, but with a miserable scream, he violently flung away the small, strange creature that was sleeping peacefully on his arm, drooling.

"A ghost!!!!"

Just as Yae Sakura was awakened by the chill brought by Keng Huo pulling off the covers, she hadn't even had time to figure out what was going on when she felt a tremendous force throw her away. The weightlessness of floating in the air quickly brought her back to her senses, and her small body performed a beautiful backflip in the air before landing steadily.