Honkai Impact 3rd: The Girl Who Chases the Flame

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"Hundreds of Honkai Beasts, are they really Herrschers?"

Welt Young merely glanced down; to him, the Honkai Beasts that gave Siegfried and the Valkyries headaches were nothing more than a rabble.

"More than that, I'm worried about my sister's condition, Dr. Tesla. Will what just happened affect her?"

"……what."

Tesla paused for a moment, then quickly calculated in his mind.

"Oh no, something must have happened to Melutina..."

"..."

Walter Young decisively abandoned the idea of helping Siegfried and his companions, and turned to leave.

"Contact Ai Yin and make calculations; we must first ensure my sister's safety."

"What about the Second Herrscher?"

"Get the atomic bomb ready. I'll do it as quickly as possible, hopefully..."

Walter glanced at Siegfried.

"He is able to perform his duties very well."

Coincidentally

Meanwhile, on the other side of the mountain, Otto, wearing a mask, also arrived.

"Very well, now it's time for our anti-entropy friends to make their appearance, heh..."

Otto shook his head.

"What an easy bunch of people! Your pointless sense of justice and conscience will ruin you. That's why you keep losing. The power of love can make or break a person."

I know you won't just leave Siegfried and the others to fend for themselves, after all... you are all heroes who sacrificed yourselves to defeat the Honkai.

As he spoke, Otto turned his gaze to the battlefield.

Ten minutes later

"Hmm, still handling things with ease. The anti-entropy movement is really slow. How can they claim to be the most technologically advanced civilization?"

Half an hour later

"Siegfried... can he still hold on? I didn't come here to deal with this rabble."

after an hour

"..."

……

"here it is……"

"where?"

Lin Nai looked around blankly, her eyes meeting a sea of white, and those two, black and white, past.

"Who are you?"

Chapter Four: Welcome Back, Melutina

That is a prison of memories, an endless corridor.

In this deep place, only she remained, still tightly bound.

Unchanged for 50,000 years.

If time could stand still forever, if memories could remain forever.

That unchanging eternity will eventually become a scar.

Deeply, deeply...

It is etched deep within the soul.

Loss has become a habit, but it will never be a habit.

A shadow is a shadow because it faces away from the light.

But who can give up?

Who could accept that?

……

"This is the turning point in our memories, the crossroads of the corridor of memories."

Melutina sat there, gazing at her other self.

"Yes, I remember."

Linna stood with her back to the light, her shadow enveloping the seated Melutina.

"Long time no see, another me."

"Yes, it's been a long time."

A simple greeting, but nothing more.

"This is the trap she set for us, just like that person did 50,000 years ago."

Melutina turned her face away, looking at the paintings in the corridor formed by memories, which recorded her life.

"That was the first time we had a major disagreement, wasn't it?"

Linnaeus put his hands inside his white coat and looked at the painting with a leisurely and even somewhat dashing air.

In Melutina's eyes, that posture was simply like...

"This painting? The Death of Vilvie... perhaps that's how it should be titled?"

Linna looked at the painting, then turned to look at Melutina.

"Melutina stabbed her senior, Vervie, to death with a gun... No matter how it happened, the result remained the same."

“But we all know what happened… I refused, and you accepted.”

Melutina stared intently at Linnaeus.

"Yes."

Linnaeus nodded, walking past one painting after another.

So many people have died...

"Melutina!"

Melutina finally couldn't hold back and grabbed the woman by the neck.

"You knew perfectly well...you knew perfectly well! I am your shadow...I am a life form created from your memories! Why...I only needed to be your shadow! But why, why did it have to be you! You betrayed them!"

"Really? I don't think so."

Linnaeus's eyes turned to the first painting.

“Remember? I told Adam that when my brother died, he bled so much that the whole fountain was red.”

"..."

Melutina stared at her intently, without saying a word.

"The Honkai is really illogical. It appears suddenly and then takes away your life."

Linna took a step back and broke free from Melutina's grasp.

“My brother was an idiot. Because he was the older brother, he should have died before me. Adam was also an idiot because he wanted to be a hero, which is why he died there.”

"I won't allow you to talk about them like that! Especially you!"

"Alright, calm down, Melutina."

Linna remained unmoved, her tone carrying a sense of familiarity that made Melutina unconsciously suppress her anger.

“You know her, well, Mebius. She’s special to both of us.”

Yes, Mebius.

Melutina suddenly understood where this sense of familiarity came from. From the very beginning, although the person standing opposite her was Linna, she always mistook her for Mebius.

“I want to be like her. I’ve grown taller, I wear snake-shaped earrings, and I have long, slightly curly hair.”

Linnaeus reached out and touched another painting, which depicted a person with green hair.

"I put candy in my pocket, and I used a frivolous tone to cover up my true feelings... but I am not Möbius, and I can never become Möbius."

"..."

Is it wrong to want to become like a doctor?

Lin Nai turned her head and suddenly asked seriously.

"you……"

Melutina looked hesitant.

"I also learned Alicia's tone and loved others in her way."

Linnaeus's hands were behind his back.

"Even if I tell them every day to praise me, whether I'm cute or not, whether they miss me or not... I'm not Alicia."

"..."