Honkai Impact 3rd: The Girl Who Chases the Flame

"Defeat..."

"Defeat..."

What shocked Fu Hua was that these people, faced with this situation, showed no fear, but instead seemed to be muttering something like madmen.

"Defeat the Honkai!"

"Defeat the Honkai!"

"Defeat the Honkai!"

They shouted like fanatics.

"This, this is impossible! This is...this is..."

As the one subject to the Divine Sound Project, Fu Hua suddenly realized what this situation meant, and her right leg went weak, almost causing her to fall to the ground.

"Precepts...it's actually precepts?! Could this be caused by..."

"This is what humanity is like, Hua."

Fu Hua was certain that she had just heard it from that beastly friend.

then……

What came into view were severed limbs and mangled remains.

……

"Ah...ah..."

"Sakura... wait, Sakura, calm down, you need to calm down, this is..."

Coincidentally, two figures appeared on the other side of the corridor.

"Kevin...you said...Ling wouldn't die! May didn't want to kill her! You said that! You just told me!"

Sakura grabbed Kevin by the collar with a ferocious expression, but the man known as the strongest fusion warrior offered no resistance.

"Did you help Mei lie to me! Did you lock me up just to kill her! Did you kill her as soon as you knew I was out! Answer me! Kevin! You! You bunch of..."

“Sakura…I really…”

Kevin couldn't come up with a useful explanation for the time being.

Because he himself knew nothing about the scene before him.

He was deeply shocked; he had no idea who had given such an order…

Or perhaps, no one gave the order.

"cherry?"

Melutina looked up and saw Sakura and Kevin at the other end of the corridor; her expression changed instantly.

"Kevin! Take Sakura and get out of here! Something's wrong!"

"what?"

Kevin was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, and then the next second, a hand grabbed his foot. He looked down, and the next second, the hand was frozen.

But the one who reached out that hand was a man who had lost half of his body.

"It's the Twelfth Herrscher! It's still here... This is a virus, scatter! Control it!"

Melutina only had time to utter this one sentence before she was surrounded by the Dead Servants.

"Sakura! Let's go..."

"Let me go!"

Sakura flung Kevin's hand away and rushed toward Rin.

"Hmm... Melutina! Sakura is yours! Hua, come with me to seal off the base!"

Kevin gritted his teeth, knowing he couldn't persuade Sakura at this point, so he had no choice but to shout.

"Hurry up and go!"

Melutina kicked a Deadpool aside and shouted as she ran toward Sakura.

"Ring, ring, ring!"

Sakura seemed to have lost her mind and ran towards her sister's body.

Melutina took out the Divine Key and tore the Deadpool in front of her to pieces. She rushed behind Sakura and hugged her tightly.

"Wait, Sakura, the Herrscher is still here, don't act rashly!"

"Let me go! Melutina! I can't leave Rin there alone... I can't!"

"Sakura, wait! Just a moment, we..."

"elder sister……"

As if returning from hell, the girl, now a corpse, actually made a sound.

"bell!"

"Tear."

"Sister...go die."

"..."

"..."

Spikes pierced through the abdomens of both of them, and Sakura's words got stuck in her throat, unable to be uttered.

"This is……"

Melutina struggled to raise her hand, looking at the spots on it…

"Virus……?"

Chapter Ten: Song of Cherry Blossoms

"Well……"

Melutina, holding Sakura, rolled over and hid behind a huge shipping container.

"It didn't penetrate... but it still worked..."

Melutina stretched out her hand and looked at the spots on it, her expression somewhat unpleasant.

"Cough...cough..."

Sakura clutched her abdomen, seemingly regaining some clarity from the pain. She lifted the fabric covering her abdomen and discovered the same spots spreading, but there were no visible external injuries.

"...Passed through my arm, then through Sakura and my abdomen? This looks like some kind of virus... So, is the Twelfth Herrscher a toxin-related Herrscher?"

Melutina felt a force twisting her nerves; to put it simply, it was like taking a five-hour nap and waking up feeling like she was about to die.

"Why... Rin was already... but why... can the power of a Herrscher even manipulate life and death?"

Sakura's expression wasn't much better. She gripped her knife, secretly observing the Herrscher in the distance, but she seemed to have no intention of attacking at all.

"No, I'm afraid that's not the case."

Melutina knew what Sakura hoped for, but at this moment it was clearly more important to change the reality.

"She was mentally unstable, practically a puppet... It was like a plague, spreading with each death until it reached an irreversible point."

Melutina could sense the movement of the Dead Servants around her, and took a deep breath.

"No matter what, we must stop her and bring this plague under control in this base."

Melutina grasped the Key of God, which transformed into the shape of a gun.

But she didn't know that sometimes a momentary misjudgment can lead to a decisive defeat.

At this moment, Kevin and Kevin, who had reached the same conclusion, together led the situation to its most dangerous point.

That is……

They misunderstood the nature of this virus.

That is not a plague.

It was an invasion.

……

"Now that all the infected have been brought under control, the plague can be stopped, right?"

Hua left the infected person's mind, and having exhausted a great deal of her mental energy, she felt a sense of depletion.

Just when Hua thought he had successfully taken control, Kevin on the other side finally noticed something was wrong.

"Communication...why was communication blocked?"

Kevin, who had arrived at the control room intending to notify the Firemoth headquarters to seal off the base, looked at the garbled text on the screen and suddenly felt a chill run from his feet to his heart.

"Plagues could not possibly have such power... Therefore, the power of the Twelfth Herald is definitely not simply a plague that works on the human body."

Kevin's mind raced through all of this, but he could only come to one conclusion...

"Am I the one who came here, and this is the worst choice...?"

There are indeed people who can stop the impending disaster, but Kevin is definitely not one of them.

And coincidentally, the people here now...

"Has he... been checkmated?"

Kevin's hand fell limply to his side. Although it lasted only a second, it indicated that he had grasped the truth, and his mind went blank.

……

"I've never heard of... you having such a trick up your sleeve."

Melutina pressed the "bell" to the ground and turned to look at Sakura, who had just seemed to have stopped time.

"I just used it on Kevin... I'm your predecessor in the Poison Cocoon, I still have that much skill."

Sakura's gaze remained fixed on the bell on the ground.