Honkai Impact 3rd: The Girl Who Chases the Flame

"Hey, what are you two talking about in broad daylight? Your lovely and charming Alicia is still here."

A familiar voice broke the silence. Alicia walked over to Melutina and patted her belly.

"Hmm, feels good?"

"..."

"Ellie, you got up very early today."

Eden smiled and greeted him.

"Drinking first thing in the morning, Eden, have you been indulging yourself too much lately?"

Alicia took the wine glass and placed it on the table.

"Hey, Qianjie went to see Aponia yesterday, and it seems like they had a fight."

"Because of that precept?"

"Melutina asked."

"What else could it be? For Qianjie, Sakura's death is an unacceptable mistake."

Alicia shrugged.

"He always insists on arguing about right and wrong, and he's still the same as ever."

Melutina closed her eyes.

"But there aren't that many right and wrong answers."

"Ugh, how dejected Melutina is."

Alicia patted her, but Melutina just whimpered and rolled over, looking like she didn't care about anything.

"Ellie, is Aponia alright?"

Eden then asked.

“It’s nothing. Qianjie suggested judging her according to the precepts, but the result was not guilty. Then Qianjie stormed off.”

Alicia shrugged. Actually, this was an obvious result; otherwise, Alicia wouldn't have spoken so frankly.

So Melutina didn't even bother to ask. Since Alicia had spoken up, it meant everything was fine.

"Hmm... Melutina, you're going to get angry if you ignore me."

Alicia said, pressing Melutina's head.

"I've been paying attention to you, but I just don't really want to get involved."

Melutina's tone was full of weariness.

"...I want to lie like this for at least a month."

Upon hearing this, Alicia and Eden exchanged glances, then simultaneously shrugged helplessly.

.........

Infirmary

"Doctor, I heard that something happened again during my period of overwork?"

Cang Xuan looked at the apple in his hand, riddled with holes, and his eyelids twitched.

"Yes, all three major cities were destroyed, and Sakura is dead."

Mebius put it succinctly.

"........."

Cang Xuan spent five seconds processing this information.

"Um, how is the mental health of our staff here...?"

"Three of them became withdrawn, and one was furious."

Mebius put it succinctly.

"...Um, I know that Qianjie was furious, and the one who became withdrawn was?"

Cang Xuan asked tentatively.

“Vilvie, Aponia, Melutina.”

Möbius shrugged.

"The nuclear bomb was made by Vilvie, who is now receiving psychological treatment from Su. The soldiers who killed Sakura have received the commandment of 'Defeating the Honkai'."

As for Melutina, she was there. After all, she, Senju, and Sakura were the three giants of the Poison Chrysalis back then, and now, unexpectedly, the most senior Sakura had sacrificed herself first.

"...Even Dr. Wilwy needs psychological treatment?"

Cang Xuan was somewhat worried about his junior sister's condition, but he was still surprised that Wilvi had gone to receive psychological treatment.

After all, Vervier and Mebius are widely recognized as two of the most unscrupulous people in the industry.

"Well... Velvi isn't as strong as she seems."

"Mebius thought for a moment and then said."

"Hmm, isn't the Doctor not as calm as he seems?"

Cang Xuan then asked.

"What are you saying, Cang Xuan?"

Möbius raised an eyebrow.

"The buttons on your shirt are misaligned."

Cang Xuan pointed to Mebius's exposed navel.

"..."

Mebius silently buttoned his shirt back up, then coughed twice.

"Cangxuan, about yesterday's experiment..."

.........

"Um... excuse me..."

Su looked at "Vilvie" in front of her with an awkward but polite smile.

"Who are you?"

“I am Wilvie, Sue.”

Vilvi propped her chin on her hand, looking out the window with a sorrowful expression.

"……Really?"

Su swallowed hard, his hand holding the pen unsteady. He forced a smile and said,

"Um, which one is Vilvie?"

"kindness……"

Vilvi simply said sadly,

"you guess?"

"..."

Su could no longer laugh.

Chapter Sixteen: The Right to Choose

"Please line up in an orderly fashion and enter the shelter according to your assigned number. Please do not rush, avoid trampling, and be careful. To reiterate, please line up in an orderly fashion..."

On the way to the refuge built by the Firemoth, a girl wearing a large beret stands on a huge rock, holding a megaphone and repeating the same sentence over and over.

From a generally rational perspective...

Yes, that girl is really cute.

So even under these circumstances, the men on the street still stared at her.

This person was none other than Melutina.

Alicia sent her here to work because "the Thirteen Heroes don't welcome freeloaders."

"Please everyone..."

"Excuse me, miss..."

"Well?"

As Melutina repeated her lines, she watched as a middle-aged man walked over with a five- or six-year-old boy.

"What's wrong? Kid... friend, are you lost?"

Melutina lowered her head and asked.

Incidentally, she doesn't like children. She generally believes that children are the embodiment of evil in the world and the representative of innocent malice.

According to Hua, human nature is inherently evil, but it will eventually become good.

"No, I'm looking for my sister..."

The little boy felt that the older sister was looking at him as if he were being stared at by some ferocious wild beast, so he quickly shrank back.

"It's like this, miss..."

The middle-aged man scratched his head.

"This child's name is Joachim. I just happened to see him alone, looking for someone. It seems that his sister Frederica has gotten separated from him."

"He got separated from us? What about his parents?"

Melutina leaped off a three-meter-high rock, startling the two of them.

"It seems to be..."

The middle-aged man didn't finish speaking, but Melutina roughly understood.