K424 of the Collapse World

"Yes, of course you are not satisfied. Because you still want to control me and use me as a tool to fight against Houkai."

She had extinguished the beautiful memories deep in her mind and blocked all her escape routes. She had no intention of changing her choice.

Erase your emotions and let your actions be controlled by your most external reason...

"I'm not satisfied simply because things haven't been resolved."

There was no emotion in her indifferent voice, and the silver-haired girl slowly approached the window railing.

"Now that you have made your decision, let us end it once and for all.

Let’s put an end to all this.”

Shiris raised her hand and pulled open the cell door, then walked into Asakura Miyuki's cell. She lowered her head and looked down at the black-haired girl curled up in the corner, as if she was looking at a curled-up wild cat.

"Are you ready?"

"Heh...are you planning to execute me yourself? Then what are you hesitating about?!"

There was no fear in Asakura Miyuki's eyes. For some reason, deep in her heart, she seemed not to mind dying at the hands of the silver-haired girl in front of her...

However, the other party did not do as she wished.

"Not really. I just wanted to give you a chance on a whim."

A golden glow emanated from Shiris's body, and the powerful energy of her Herrscher dissipated, pressing against the narrow walls of the isolation room.

Asakura Miyuki stared at the silver-haired girl who had transformed into a Herrscher with an expressionless face. But when the golden light faded, her eyes suddenly widened slightly.

"This is......?"

"This is something your Lord Croy left for me before he died. It is an engraving from the Law of Destruction."

Using her left arm to stroke the lava-red cracks on her chest, Shiris let her right arm, which was also covered with flaming cracks, hang limply at her side as she looked into Asakura Miyuki's surprised gaze.

"The Herrscher of Flame's Law of Destruction cannot instantly destroy Herrschers of the same level, but it can leave these marks of delayed destruction on the Herrscher's body. When it is filled with Honkai again, and the cracks in these marks spread to the entire body of the recipient, the target's body and soul will be annihilated and completely disappear from this dimension."

Pointing at these engravings that destroyed the laws, Shiris hooked her finger at Asakura Miyuki.

"With your current strength, attack with all your strength to create the crack on my chest. This will be enough to spread the law to the entire body of the Herrscher and kill me."

Seeing Miyuki's frown, Shirisi chuckled.

"Of course, I'm not going to commit suicide. I'm just giving you a chance for revenge. I will also attack you and crush you with all my might at the level of a Herrscher."

Shirley raised the only hand she could move, her left hand, and assumed the starting posture of Inch Force Instant Dust.

"I allow you to strike first and attack my weak spot with all your strength. Come on, complete your revenge."

"..."

Asakura Miyuki slowly stood up and looked at the silver-haired girl who was close to her. The sharp claws made of collapsed crystal structure quietly appeared at the tips of her ten fingers.

Revenge... That's right, the culprit who killed the two masters of the Herrscher of Heart and the Herrscher of Fire and imprisoned her here, Shilis Kaslana, is her biggest enemy.

It's simple, a Western cowboy showdown.

There is no doubt that the Ruler of Restraint is powerful, but now, anyone can see her weakness. Even if there is only a 1% chance of winning, she still has a chance to make this arrogant betrayer pay the price!

662 The Feelings That Never Changed >>

Even if it was just charity from the enemy, as a follower, she had the obligation to avenge the Herrscher she served and weaken the civilization of this world.

But......

Why is this happening? !

"Well......!"

The black-haired girl's hands began to tremble slightly...

When she was about to pierce the silver-haired girl's chest, Asakura Miyuki was surprised to find that the "false" memory that she had buried and suppressed deeply suddenly broke through the shackles with unimaginable power and disrupted her will again.

Just by thinking that, without even any hostility rising, she once again fell into a state of confusion from which she could not extricate herself...

"What, you're not going to fight? With your current strength, you still have a chance to defeat me when I'm in a bad state. Just use the instant body flash that Yaezakura taught you to attack my weak spot as you have been practicing, and then..."

"Shut up!!"

While roaring like she was about to collapse, Asakura Miyuki suddenly clenched her fists, allowing the sharp crystal claws to pierce her palms, and the bright red blood dripped down the back of her hand.

The girl, who was immersed in confusion, was completely unaware of this. Her gaze, which had just been scattered in the trembling, began to gather again under some kind of effect...

Emotions are part of consciousness. How can the decisions made by self-consciousness suppress the will itself?

No matter what, people cannot go against their own heart.

It was that memory... No, it should be Asakura Miyuki herself who stopped herself. At the time when she was constantly deceiving herself, her heart had already made the final decision for her.

She couldn't hurt the girl in front of her...

Or rather, she didn't want to hurt the girl in front of her.

(No... This is impossible...! Could the decision I just made be wrong?! I absolutely don't believe it...)

"Miyuki..."

"Get out of my way! You just want to play with me in the end, right? Now, you can kill me or chop me up as you please, but I don't want to dirty my hands just to kill someone like you!"

After hearing this, Shirley was silent for a moment, then smiled in an ambiguous way.

"Really... Then why are you crying?"

"

——? !”

Asakura Miyuki immediately raised her hand and touched her cheek. The moist touch proved that what the silver-haired girl said was true.

"Why......"

Asakura Miyuki stood there in a daze, blood mixed with her tears running down her cheeks. In her dull eyes, she seemed to have understood something, yet she still seemed to know nothing.

At this moment, as a pure white light suddenly flashed by, Asakura Miyuki raised her head slightly, and saw that the silver-haired girl had released her Herrscher transformation and returned to a relatively intact human state.

The palm of Asakura Miyuki's hand, which was pierced by her own sharp claws, has been repaired in the white light just now.

"Phew... Thank you, Ms. Miyuki. I think I have got the answer I wanted."

In Miyuki's dazed eyes, the slightly haggard silver-haired girl suddenly revealed a gentle smile. That sincere smile without any pretense was like a perfectly blooming forget-me-not, without a single flaw in its brilliance.

Even now, Asakura Miyuki was lost in the girl's smile. If she was willing to look deeply into those blocked memories, she would find that perfect smile was once her most important treasure.

"Wait! You..."

When she finally came to her senses, the silver-haired girl had quietly left the room, and the small isolation room fell silent again.

The black cat ears drooped slightly, and Asakura Miyuki sat back in the corner of the cell again, silently wiping away the tears from her face.

After that, there were no more whispers of criticism in the guard room at the entrance of the cubicle...

Hyperion Bridge

"Shilis, this is different from what you said before."

Looking at the silver-haired girl sitting in front of her, Wuliangta Jizi thought for a long time and finally said this light sentence. Rather than a scolding, it was more like expressing helplessness.

"Sorry, sorry~~ I just urgently want to know what the true condition of little Miyuki is."

"If anything happens to you, the bosses of Destiny and Anti-Entropy will probably come after me and kill me together."

"Oh... I'm so sorry..."

Shirley bowed her head to express her apology, but the faint smile at the corner of her mouth exposed the fact that she had no remorse at all.

In response, Ji Zi could only smile bitterly.

"You... ah. Well, it seems that Miyuki's problem will be solved soon. But Shirley, do you want me to delete the access records that are automatically saved by the monitoring?"

"Huh? Why?"

"According to your habits, you wouldn't want certain things to be known to everyone, right?"

Hearing Ji Zi's suggestive words, Shilis's eyes moved slightly, but she shook her head.

"I can't believe you seem to know me so well now... But there's no need to bother this time."

"Oh...?"

"Because many people have seen it... Especially Siegfried. That big mouth will definitely tell others. Then it will be impossible to hide it. It is better to face it calmly as soon as possible."

Shirley shrugged, looking at the white lines on her right palm that still existed in normal condition, and sighed softly.

"Let's not talk about this. Jizi, don't show that expression. I know my physical condition. Compared to the time when Otto took the Serenity Gem away for experiments, this time the situation is much better in a sense..."

"Then can I also understand that it is much worse in a sense?"

"...Please stop arguing. Miss Captain, you were not like this before."

Seeing that Ji Zi seemed to want to refute, Shilis immediately coughed and her expression became serious.

"Let's leave this topic for now, Himeko. During this time, I hope you can take good care of Miyuki."

"Well, that's my job."

Jizi let the girl change the subject and did not ask any more questions. She had already witnessed how stubborn Shirley was. If she decided not to talk about something, even if she was given a ton of truth serum, it would be useless.

"To be honest, I owe her a lot. I just saved her once on a whim one day, and she wanted to be my dependent on her own accord. But I have to say that Miyuki really helped me with many things. Well, I probably can't repay her enough..."

While listening to Shirley's story, Ji Zi suddenly thought of something and a hint of doubt appeared in her eyes.

"Speaking of which, Shiris, it suddenly occurred to me...if Miyuki hadn't stopped just now and attacked you directly, would you have responded to her choice by counterattacking with all your strength as you said?"

"Well... guess what?"

The girl who was playing dumb obviously didn't want to say it, but Ji Zi thought about it for a moment and suddenly laughed.

"I guess... you would knock her down with one punch, or even make her lose her memory, and then keep her by your side. Anyway, you would never hurt her, am I right?"

"Hmph... Wrong."

"Is it really wrong?"

"...

...real."

"I hesitated."

"..."

Shirley shook her head, raised the teacup to her lips, and ended this meaningless conversation with silence.

After a while, she spoke again slowly.

"Perhaps, Miyuki's experience is a good opportunity."

"I don't think it's a good thing to have my memory modified by the enemy."

“It’s not a good thing, but everything has two sides.”

As she spoke, the girl gently closed her eyes.

"In the past, Shenxue seemed to have integrated well into the Saint Freya group, but in fact, she always regarded me as her only light. She always thought about how to help me in everything and hardly considered anything for herself. If the accident that happened this time can eliminate Shenxue's fanatical worship of me and let her completely walk out of my shadow, it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, right?"

Hearing this, Ji Zi's eyes became complicated and she opened her mouth, as if she didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"Shiris, you are really..."

"how?"

"Nothing. Haha~ I just suddenly understood what those girls who were in ambiguous relationships were thinking. Anyway, I think you don't understand at all."

"What a mess..."

"So, it's nothing~~"

The conversation in the bridge ended with the deputy captain's deliberately drawn-out tone.

663 chance encounter

In an office of me company, Walter sat in front of the terminal screen, browsing the latest combat report.

Although he has given up his identity as a Herrscher, he is still the leader of the Anti-Entropy Organization and is also obligated to deal with this Honkai attack.

This last report means that the battle to defend the ME company is over...

"Mr. Walter, the damage statistics have been completed. Do you need to review them?"