Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

Cheng Xing looked at everyone present and saw that they all actually felt some guilt and remorse for what they had done! Hahaha! These accomplices of scum who killed millions of people actually felt guilty about what they had done?

Oh, this is really, really hilarious!

"Oh, why are you afraid? I'm just a scarecrow."

Cheng Xing's crow body transformed back into black mist, then into a scarecrow that looked like it could be blown away by the wind at any moment, except that the scarecrow was dragging a scythe as long as it was.

"Fiddlesticks is just a myth to fool children."

His voice at that moment sounded like that of a middle-aged man.

Chapter 10: I am not Federico

At this moment, in this place, it has been overwhelmed by profound fear and swallowed by endless despair.

People not only saw the comical yet fragile scarecrow crawling forward, dragging a sickle that was slightly longer than itself, but they also saw countless vengeful spirits slowly emerging from the shadows.

Those people died in horrific ways; some were left with only half a body, some had festering sores all over their bodies, some were covered in wounds, and some were unrecognizable. But without exception, they were all victims of this disaster.

Is this the last remaining fear lurking in their hearts? Is this the source of their guilt and unease? It comes from the so-called revenge of ghosts.

Cocolia could no longer maintain her composure. Her eyes widened as she sat on the ground, seeing countless vengeful spirits slowly crawling out from the shadows. They piled up on top of each other, some even merging together. They didn't seem like illusions; they seemed incredibly real.

Yes, why does it feel so real? Oh, when this thought came to mind, those resentments seemed to become a real thing.

Flesh and limbs were haphazardly piled together, people's bones were even interlocked with each other's, incredibly compressed and twisted, simply because millions of people were now fused together in layers, becoming a crimson wave formed from flesh and blood and all sorts of things.

Without exception, every mouth loudly questioned why they had died so tragically, every eye revealed boundless resentment and anger, and everything hated them, cursed them, loathed them, and wanted to drag them down to the bottomless hell.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Unable to bear the shocking images and horrifying truth, he raised his sidearm, pointed it at his forehead, and pulled the trigger.

Yes, right now, only suicide can escape this terrifying reality. Only death can bring eternal peace. Once I'm dead, I won't have to suffer this torment and terror anymore.

As the first shot rang out, more and more people raised their sidearms and pulled the triggers.

boom! boom! boom!

Gunshots rang out one after another in the command room, and blood blossomed on the smooth and clean walls. Each person's brain had been pierced, and each body lay neatly in the blood.

The crisp gunshots and the dull thuds of corpses falling echoed like a beautiful melody in the command room, and fear was the most delicious result, the most delicious result of all.

This is the fruit of fear, born from the guilt and unease of a sinner, their genuine fear of the truth, and their dread of retribution.

Ah! This is the feeling, this feeling of fear! Ah! Power is surging forth! My body is feeling fuller! My emotions are being satisfied! It's so wonderful, so easy to get lost in. Oh, I want to start more wars, more killings, more madness, to taste boundless fear.

At this moment, Cheng Xing was completely immersed in that crazy emotion, immersed in the fulfilling feeling of absorbing fear, and just as he decided to destroy everything, a voice rang out.

"You are not a monster."

Kiana…………

Cheng Xing's eyes, which had been filled with crimson smoke, focused again. He looked at the group of people committing suicide and Cocolia, who was squatting on the ground, terrified and urinating incessantly. His expression returned to calm.

He wouldn't kill this woman; he never intended to kill Cocolia from the beginning, even though the sins she committed were enough to warrant her death no matter where she was placed.

Because of the Eye of the Abyss.

If we kill her now, Seele might never come back.

Cheng Xing only glanced at Cocolia one last time, who was still in a daze, before she turned into smoke and quietly left. Oh, of course, the reason he was able to leave now was because Miss Bronya was still in a state of fear.

why?

Because he had previously recorded some of his own words spoken in Seele's voice.

So before he left, he asked Kiana if she would believe him and repeat the recording.

When Cheng Xing returned, he saw the silver-haired loli slumped on the sofa with lifeless eyes. The recording was filled with Xier's cries for help, revealing her feelings of being completely ruined.

Kiana, meanwhile, was holding a recorder and enthusiastically circling around Bronya, providing 360-degree surround sound.

The specific reason is that this little dwarf had previously mocked him as a paramecium and was willing to believe in a monster that he could not understand at all.

How can you call someone a monster when they're your friend? Trusting your friend is something you should always do.

After Cheng Xing returned, he told her what he knew about the Third Honkai.

"So in order to reclaim the complete Conquest Gem, they devised a series of cash and plans to imprison your father, make you suffer loneliness and contempt, and turn you into a Herrscher who kills millions of people, all to complete the Herrscher Gem."

If someone asked Cheng Xing whether he hated Raiden Mei or disliked her, his answer would be, of course he hated her.

Even if that personality is the Herrscher personality, and that's precisely why Cheng Xing hates Raiden Mei, because it's made very clear in the later story that the two personalities are completely compatible.

The feeling of death is never pleasant.

But it was precisely because of that death that I have now become this ghostly figure, no longer resembling a human.

He is now a demon, or even Fiddlesticks of the collapsed world.

As long as fear doesn't dissipate, as long as the root of everything isn't destroyed.

He, like Federico, can only be forgotten, not destroyed.

It can even continuously unleash waves of fear and panic around the world, constantly absorbing that food and turning it into the power to become stronger, and into tools to satisfy its desires.

But I wouldn't do that myself.

Cheng Xing looked at Kiana, who was sitting next to him, poking Bronya's cheek and grinning foolishly. Originally, Cheng Xing's heart had calmed down because he had swallowed the fear.

"Because she believed in herself, believed in a monster, but not a monster."

Kiana noticed Cheng Xing's gaze, and after exchanging glances for a moment, she looked at Bronya beside her and asked, "Do you want to poke him too?"

"Snapped!"

Cheng Xing slapped himself across the face, inwardly screaming, "Give me back the emotion I felt just now!"

Unbeknownst to him, Kiana was watching him with a gentle smile.

Chapter Eleven: This is not home

Cheng Xing felt that he had resolved the hidden danger. Now he just needed to wait for the Hyperion to arrive so that he could take the three girls with him away and his journey could begin.

Forget about pursuing myself; it's not a good thing for someone like me to enter St. Freya Academy.

Although it's not an all-girls school, but an academy that trains Valkyries, at least for now it really only has female students! At least there are some boys at the back of the hill, but now it's really just female students going there by themselves. Are they going to become like Ichika Orimura?

Since you don't intend to be a necromancer, then don't meddle in other people's relationships all the time, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable.

Should he become a simp and fawn over someone who doesn't love him? That would be too humiliating. Although he had developed genuine feelings for Kiana, he didn't intend to give up everything for that girl.

And if I really go to school, wouldn't I be stuck watching Mei and Kiana's relationship grow stronger and stronger, their love as sweet as lilies, while I'm just a loser hiding in the shadows, only able to wish them well with a happy heart, and ultimately lamenting my own tragic fate?

What human suffering!

So I'd better hurry up and leave. Maybe World Serpent is a good place to go. I can go to Paradise and interact with the 13 Heroes. Everyone there is talented, speaks well, and is handsome and beautiful.

Cheng Xing was in charge of dinner tonight. Although he didn't know why Mei, who had better cooking skills than him, refused to cook, he didn't care much. He simply made some basic dishes that he knew how to make. Of course, the taste was just so-so. You can't expect an ordinary stay-at-home guy to have any great cooking skills.

Not every otaku is like the protagonist in a novel, possessing innate talent and mastery of cooking. Otaku like myself who can cook well are probably already rare characters.

Cheng Xing was preparing dinner, while Mei pulled Kiana aside to chat. She was determined to find out what kind of person Cheng Xing really was.

Bronya?

That poor girl is still withdrawn; it seems the psychological trauma she suffered earlier had a very serious effect.

"Kiana, answer me seriously, why do you believe him? Is everything he's shown you really worthy of your trust?"

Mei asked Kiana, who was standing in front of her.

Kiana scratched her head, then said vaguely in a tone that even she wasn't sure about, "I'm not really sure either. When I first met him, he seemed like just an ordinary guy. But he risked his life to bring me to see you to repay a debt of gratitude, which proves that he's definitely a good person. Besides, he helped us, so he's my friend, Kiana Kaslana."

"But you should know Kiana, there's also the possibility that everything right now is a facade, just to gain your trust and then betray us at a crucial moment."

Raiden Mei knew perfectly well that her current behavior was a strange rejection of someone, even her benefactor, but the severe psychological trauma she had suffered before made it impossible for her to trust that monstrous guy.

You can't be too harsh on a girl who is both mentally and physically in high school to easily trust someone who has caused her severe psychological trauma.

Incidentally, Cheng Xing overheard everything the two said in the room, even though he was in the kitchen.

Yes, he was deliberately eavesdropping.

"...But Mei, he confessed to me before."

"what!"

Raiden Mei was stunned.

Kiana was no longer the silly girl she had been before; her expression had become more mature for her age. She said, "You know, when I was walking with him, I could sense that he had a very obvious aversion to me and even to everything around us. At that time, I became curious about why he had such a strong indifference and aversion to everything around him."

"We went into the sewers to escape the Honkai Beasts. After we came out, the smell was so unbearable that we found a few rooms here to wash ourselves. Before I could say anything, he had already told us to separate."

“At that time, he felt extremely repulsed by me, but even so, he was willing to risk his life to take me on an extremely dangerous journey.”

“Mei, do you know? After he knocked you out, he tried to leave. At that time, his expression was so similar to yours before… Even though there was no expression on his face, I could really hear his heart crying. I could really feel an unprecedented loneliness eating away at him.”

“I will not abandon him. He needs me. I can feel it. I really can feel it. If I really abandon him, he might, he might die.”

Kiana was rarely this mature. At this moment, Raiden Mei remembered something: the girl in front of her was someone who had been abandoned by her father since childhood and had traveled the world alone.

How could all the events and suffering experienced along the way possibly cultivate a paramecium that knows nothing?

"As for that confession... I don't know how to respond to him. I really want to reject him directly and say that I am devoted to you... but that would be too cruel, it would be almost like driving him away."

“My intuition tells me that once I’ve clearly said no, he will leave without any hesitation.”

“A person who is crying is about to walk down a path of despair. As a knight of the Kaslana family, I will not allow such a thing to happen!”

Raiden Mei was mesmerized by Kiana's handsome appearance; this was the Kiana Kaslana she knew.

"What are you going to do?"

Kiana couldn't maintain her mature demeanor at this moment. She scratched her head in distress and said that she didn't know what to do. She had only kept Cheng Xing on instinct, but she didn't know what to do next.

"Do you have feelings for him?"

"How could that be! My heart is completely devoted to Mei!"

Kiana immediately said this.

Cheng Xing paused for a moment while chopping vegetables, then smiled and shook his head, continuing to chop the vegetables on the cutting board, but this time he didn't seem as focused as before.