Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

"I'm so stupid, I'm such a big idiot! Didn't you say you didn't believe in love before? How come you're starting to have expectations now? You're not some protagonist in a novel, how could you possibly straighten Kiana out? When did you become so overconfident? How did a shut-in like you become so presumptuous?"

"Wake up, you're just a scarecrow that went from being a shut-in to a monster... a scarecrow used to scare away birds and then discarded at will."

"No one will love a scarecrow, no one will love a scarecrow with a hideous face, no one will love a monster covered in blood."

"...Cheng Xing, this is the Honkai."

"This is not your...home."

Chapter Twelve: Leaving, Joining

During dinner that evening, no one noticed anything amiss with Cheng Xing. He maintained a smiling face, deeply burying his loneliness and sadness deep inside so that no one would discover it. Even Kiana, with her amazing intuition, couldn't see through his disguise because Mei was by his side.

He looks like he's wearing very heavy makeup now, making it impossible to see his face or his heart.

"The Joker trait has been triggered. From now on, no one will be able to easily see through your mind."

"Host, didn't you say before that you would never believe in love? That you would never expect love? How come you're suddenly moved now? You really are a clown."

Cheng Xing maintained his smile but did not offer any response. He simply watched Kiana and Raiden Mei interact quietly. Seeing how intimate the two were, he knew that he shouldn't be getting involved at all.

I shouldn't interfere in their affairs. As the two main characters, they will definitely be able to forge their own path, just like in the stories I've seen before. Even if that path is full of thorns, they will definitely be able to get through it.

It's best not to appear in a role that someone inexplicably clings to. That would be too humiliating. If you know there's no place for you here but still insist on staying, what's the difference between you and a simp?

Kiana, I'm grateful that you consider me a friend, but what's with that almost charity-like feeling you have? You think I'm pitiful, that I'm crying for help, so you reached out to me, and that's how I fell for you.

No, this isn't your problem. You just did what someone like you would do. The problem is with me... I was being too unreasonable, too arrogant, and too unreasonable.

I must be disgusting.

Having friends is already something to be happy about for a monster, but I actually hoped that you would fall in love with me and we would start a relationship that I had never experienced before.

What the hell? How did I become so ungrateful?! Please, have some self-awareness! What makes you think anyone should like you? You're a man with nothing, a man who's not even that handsome, and a mentally unstable man.

Okay, okay, there's no point in saying any more. Kiana, thank you, I will repay this kindness in the future.

Cheng Xing's smile grew even brighter.

He even formally apologized to Bronya at dinner, saying that if she wanted, she could vent her anger on him as much as she wanted, and he would absolutely not retaliate.

Bronya did not reject the offer; instead, she punched the face filled with a malicious, fake smile.

As night fell, the other three should have already fallen asleep, right?

Cheng Xing sat on the edge of the balcony, his legs dangling outside, seemingly not worried at all about falling. But then again, he wasn't going to die so easily in his current condition.

In this quiet of the night, I can take this opportunity to leave quietly.

Just as Cheng Xing was about to transform into a crow and leave, a voice sounded behind him.

Are you leaving?

Cheng Xing turned around and saw that Bronya, who had beaten him up earlier, was now standing behind him.

"Ah."

Cheng Xing didn't respond much, only giving a soft reply.

"...Although you are indeed very annoying, and the things you said before also annoyed me. But I also have to thank you for letting me hear Seele's voice again. I really haven't heard it in a long time."

"No need to thank me. Just a few hours ago, I almost killed your mother. You should hate me, you should despise me, you should resent me—that's perfectly normal. Who can easily accept a psychopathic monster? Hahaha! Don't you think so?"

Cheng Xing's exaggerated smile reappeared on his face, making him look like a complete clown.

Bronya saw the fake smile on the man's face again.

"...Cocolia's mother, you deserve it. And you don't need to deliberately provoke my anger and disgust. No one will like you if you do this."

"Yeah, but I don't need anyone else's approval."

"Your mental condition is very serious; you are now showing signs of suicidal ideation."

"Why do you care about a monster like me? Go back to sleep. After I leave, just treat what happened as a terrible nightmare. Just think of a disgusting monster that suddenly barged into your life and then suddenly left."

After Cheng Xing finished speaking, his body began to turn into smoke and transform into a crow. Finally, he spread his wings and flew into the dark night sky, disappearing from sight.

Bronya watched the departing figure, clutching her chest, and felt a strange pain.

"Why? Why does my heart ache so much? Why do those crows flying away seem so familiar?"

At that moment, Bronya felt a sense of loss, a feeling that was extremely familiar, much like the feeling she had when she lost Seele that day.

(This indicates that the next simulation will be related to Bronya.)

Cheng Xing kept flying, not knowing where he was going. This vast world gave him the illusion that there was no place for him to belong. He just flew aimlessly, flying towards wherever there was a particularly strong sense of fear, and then quietly watching the events unfold, neither changing nor interfering, simply absorbing the fear, and then continuing to fly towards some other place.

He then encountered a strange human carrying an umbrella, whose body seemed to be made of machinery, yet who showed little fear.

This thing looks like something cobbled together from a machine and a living being.

"Hello, Mr. Cheng Xing, would you be interested in joining our World Serpent?"

"...Okay, since I don't know where to go or what to do anyway, I'll just join you guys."

"So, will you choose your own code name?"

Call me Crow.

After wandering aimlessly for a week, Cheng Xing accepted Gray Snake's invitation and became one of the executives of World Snake.

Chapter Thirteen: Bronya

Cheng Xing was quite curious at first, wondering why he had been promoted directly to a cadre position without having to do any reviews or tasks. So he asked Gray Snake for the reason.

The gray snake mysteriously said that it was the Lord's order and then fell silent, which made Cheng Xing even more puzzled. Wasn't Kevin still soaking in the Sea of ​​Quanta? Why was he involved?

"It's impossible that something will happen in the simulations that will leave a deep impression on Kevin. Just intense love and hate, damn it! What did I do?"

Although Cheng Xing didn't understand, he stayed because he really had nowhere else to go. However, because of his code name, he was closely associated with a certain island called Exploding Duck.

"Good evening, Miss Raven. Could I have a glass of juice?"

Cheng Xing returned to Raven's Bar, sat down at the counter, and ordered a juice.

Raven, now dressed in a bartender's uniform, looked at Cheng Xing, who was ordering juice again, with a helpless expression and said, "So this is a bar, you know. Don't just order juice every time you come here, okay?"

Despite saying that, Raven, out of consideration for their colleague relationship and the money, poured a glass of juice and handed it to Cheng Xing.

Cheng Xing took the juice, his expression nonchalant. He said, "Ugh, drinking too much alcohol makes you dizzy and prone to making irrational decisions. Plus, getting drunk gives you a terrible headache. More importantly, I can't hold my liquor. I probably wouldn't even be able to finish a bottle of baijiu before I pass out."

Cheng Xing does indeed have a very low alcohol tolerance. Let alone baijiu (Chinese liquor), just two bottles of beer would make his face turn red and his head feel hot. So when he used to drink with his roommates and colleagues, he would always make it clear that he had a low alcohol tolerance and that he would stop drinking after a few drinks. Everyone knew about his alcohol tolerance, so they never forced him to drink.

Of course, he would never be drunk now.

Raven idly wiped the glass in his hand, then looked at the member who had inexplicably become a cadre. It was said that the Lord had directly ordered Gray Serpent to recruit this person into the World Serpent and promote him directly to a cadre position.

I guess it won't be long before he goes to that place.

Whenever Raven thought of that place, she remembered the fairy-like girl who gave her a terrible headache.

However, the newcomer shouldn't have to worry about being harassed, since he's not exactly good-looking.

Cheng Xing simply lay down on the table and said to Raven, "I'm going to take a nap here. Just wake me up when you close the door so I can leave, thank you."

Hey! If you want to sleep, go home and sleep!

"Home? I don't have a home."

"Are you kidding me? Didn't Gray Snake arrange a place for you to stay? How come you don't have a home anymore?"

“That’s just a house, not my home.”

After hearing this, Raven didn't say anything. She just sighed as she watched the man fall asleep on the bar without any defenses. She thought he was really carefree to sleep so soundly in front of a mercenary.

Then Raven took a blanket from behind the bar and covered him with it.

"I'll take care of you a little out of respect for your seniority, poor little brat."

Cheng Xing transmigrated directly in his physical body, and he is only in his early twenties now.

As for Cheng Xing, he activated the life simulator that he hadn't used for a while. After all, the aftereffects of the simulation with Federico were too severe. Only recently had he been able to completely blend his personality with Federico's experience, which made his personality completely stable and no longer as easy to lose control as before.

"Life simulator started, extracting host personality traits... Acquired entry: male human, abnormal personality. Matching simulation subject... Match successful."

"Your match is an ordinary killer, except he's a little bit psychopathic. Third simulation begins."

When Cheng Xing woke up from his coma, he found himself in what seemed to be a tent. The wind was blowing fiercely outside, and the temperature seemed to be very low, as if he were in some icy snowfield.

Cheng Xing straightened his clothes, which looked like warm clothes specially prepared for activities in the snow and ice. He unzipped the tent and peeked out, only to find that it was currently in the midst of a blizzard.

"An assassin in the freezing cold, am I about to kill someone, or am I playing an extreme challenge?"

Cheng Xing casually made a comment, then, based on the knowledge in his mind, folded up the tent and all the supplies inside, carried it on his back, and began to move forward.

Even without this set of warm gear, he completely ignored the low temperatures and strong winds brought by the surrounding blizzard, after all, he was now a genuine demon.

However, not long after he walked, he sensed a life about to be swept away by the wind in the icy snow.

Cheng Xing was surprised; he hadn't expected there to be a survivor in this blizzard.

Then he stopped moving at a normal pace and instead burst into a burst of speed, like a college entrance exam student running at the peak of their physical education test, and ran towards that place of life.

Before long, he saw a girl with light gray hair curled up on the snow, shivering, looking as if she was about to die from the loss of body temperature.

"Bronya!"

Cheng Xing was probably surprised. Had he somehow traveled to a point in the past? He wasn't sure; it might just be a virtual past or some kind of bubble world. But he couldn't just let this girl he knew die here.

Cheng Xing quickly took off his warm clothes and wrapped them around the shivering girl, then immediately set up the tent he had put on earlier.

Bronya forced her eyes open and looked at the busy figure. A strange sense of peace welled up inside her, a feeling she hadn't experienced in a very long time.

Cheng Xing tucked the girl's body into the warm sleeping bag and breathed a sigh of relief as her body temperature gradually returned to normal. Then he took out a small portable stove from his backpack and started boiling water.

"So why would a mentally unstable killer bring all this stuff to this freezing place? What's he doing here?! And why is he so well-prepared?"

Although Cheng Xing tried hard to recall some memories of this identity, he couldn't remember anything, whether it was because the system was targeting him or something else.

But that doesn't matter anymore. Anyway, what happened in the past has nothing to do with me... I guess so.

Chapter Fourteen: Lullaby