Live broadcast of Honkai Impact 3rd, I chose to expose Kiana in Sky City!

However, when I think about what happened to Kevin afterwards, I can't help but feel disheartened...

Of course, Kevin in his memory did not feel disappointed after hearing Mei's answer, but was just a little puzzled.

"ah......?"

"But sometimes I just feel that...you are cuter than others because of your purity."

"..."

Sue and Kevin were silent for a while...

"Nothing, I'll wait for you over there."

With an expression that she tried hard to conceal, the girl hurried away.

(Did you hear that, Sue? How did I say that before?)

Although he didn't say anything, Kevin showed off to Su through his eyes through the tacit understanding between close friends.

Facing his conceited look, Su Ziran responded rather rudely with a roll of his eyes.

(Okay, what are you showing off...)

"Hurry up and change your clothes. I'll wait for you outside."

Facing Su's urging, Kevin still refused to give up and said he would try one last time.

"...Don't delay too long, it's getting late."

As if he was angry, or perhaps inspired by something, the boy simply stood on the three-point line this time.

He closed his eyes again and raised his hands...

Flip your wrist and throw the basketball in an arc with ease.

Of course, his movements were still a little clumsy - and even because he had his eyes closed, they looked a little funny and pretentious.

But when he opened his eyes...

Like a miracle, the ball did not fall.

"See? I did it!"

Almost subconsciously, the boy turned around, wanting to share this joy with the people closest to him, but there was no one else here except him.

"..."

"..."

"..."

“How sad…”

"It is indeed a kind of...unspeakable loneliness..."

The first half of the story is pretty good.

However, it was not until the last sentence, "But there is no one else here except him," appeared that everyone could no longer hold back.

".....Mei? ...Su?"

"Where... have you all been?"

"Look, I...I did it."

......

The basketball disappeared from the screen...

Instead, there is a scene where Kevin is sitting on the last platform, quietly waiting for the arrival of the protagonist group.

Obviously, just this kind of camera language is enough to show that everything that was just played is just his memory...

To this day, the man has no way of telling whether all this actually happened.

He only remembered that at that time, when he finally succeeded, he could at least feel happy for a moment.

——Not like today.

But he was also different from before. He finally had to admit that victory was not a matter of a moment.

After that, the world will continue to turn, and the basketball that passed through the hoop and became extremely brilliant in that moment will also begin to "fall" and eventually land heavily on the ground.

——But he doesn't care.

Before the game even started, he acknowledged that victory would inevitably lead to such a tragic ending.

But he was still deeply involved in it, and he didn't think the importance of that moment would be damaged in the slightest.

But he could no longer be obsessed with it.

"Hector knew the kingdom would fall, and Achilles knew he was heading for death. But both of them went to the battlefield without hesitation."

——The man had said this before, but he omitted one more thing to add.

"They are not more resilient than ordinary people, they just know that failure is another name for victory."

.......

On the other side of the earth opposite the moon, the girl from the Kaslana family was also lost in thought.

After many twists and turns, Kiana Kaslana and Kevin Kaslana have stood on the tug-of-war arena called "The End".

Originally, for the second-generation Moonlight Throne plan, as long as Kiana could become a complete Herrscher of the End, all remaining problems would be solved.

But the earth space recovered by the girl's hands, vaguely foreshadows a future with a more complicated destiny.

——After being repeatedly ravaged by the Stigmata Project, she could no longer be sure whether the original Earth could still directly withstand the power of the Ruler of the End.

If this concern comes true, the second-generation Moonlight Throne project will certainly not be able to be implemented on Earth.

At that time, the artificial Herrscher of the End - her sister could only stay in outer space to manipulate all the Honkai energy, just like Kevin now.

However, having said that... the premise of this trouble is that Kiana can win the wrestling with Kevin - that is to say, for humans, it must be just a "happy trouble".

In other words, this is not any different from her fate as a star anchor.

A kind of expectation and sadness that went hand in hand climbed into the girl's heart at the same time. She knew that both her biological father and the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance would have similar feelings.

After all, just like scars are called the medals of tough guys - the crown of heroes, it is a desire called "responsibility".

"The brightest light before the sun rises,

"It will rise in our darkness if the stars - the stars that are waving to you, calling you to leave your throne in the mist"

"They can melt the dark clouds in which a dark war is being waged—"

"With your youthful and brilliant light!"

——Based on this premise, she and her companions still have a lot to work on.

In the command room of the destiny operation...

Rita looked at her old colleague with calm eyes.

"With this, the battle has come to an end, Lord Changguang."

"Yes. Although there were many twists and turns in the process, the Valkyries still managed to achieve the state that all the seniors had been looking forward to through their own efforts."

Changguang and Otto are very similar at times, at least they remain calm in times of crisis, just like a player playing a game.

"...[Common expectations]?"

Rita said thoughtfully.

"What, is something wrong?"

"No. From the perspective of effort, everyone has prepared everything they can for victory. But... completely seizing the power of the end is undoubtedly only the first step in creating a better world. And what needs to be done after that... may be more difficult to think about than today's action plan."

Rita's overall perspective sometimes makes people doubt whether she is just a pure maid.

At least for now, her predictions are quite accurate, as if she has been given a cheat code.

I couldn't help but propose a method to recover the earth, and now I look to the future and point out that the difficulties in the future will be even more severe.

Of course, Changguang also has extremely smart technical personnel.

I soon realized what she wanted to say.

"But at least we can be confident of their victory - from the perspective of the past, this is already a great miracle, right?"

"...Indeed. But once a miracle happens, it becomes just an ordinary past."

"So, Bianca and Mr. Siegfried have done a very good job in recovering the Earth. At the beginning, I could only say that it was an experiment where we had no idea how far we could go."

Chapter 554 No one expected that Da Ai-chan was actually...

As a somewhat irresponsible designer, Changguang is really proud of them.

Of course, her words also show that the whole plan might have been just a spur of the moment plan...

In other words, this plan, which can be called a Jedi counterattack, is actually a gamble.

Fortunately, the result of this gamble was that Kiana and others achieved unprecedented success.

"I shook the power of the end, reached the cocoon of the end, and obtained the qualifications to become the Herrscher of the End - even Lord Otto could not have predicted this future."

Faced with the success of Kiana and others, Rita couldn't help but sigh like this.

Of course, Rita's evaluation of the former protagonist really made Changguang, who is also a technical person, feel inappropriate.

"That's hard to say. After all, he can be said to have taken away the "only answer to the Hengsha Project."

"...Although that man certainly doesn't want to do that."

Of course, it is not a good idea to talk about a former leader who is no longer with us behind his back.

So Changguang turned the topic to that mysterious existence.

"But speaking of this...what do you think about the existence called "λ"?"

Of course, Changguang’s question was not directed to Rita, but to the third person in the command center - Beichen.

After fighting alongside the Valkyries for a long time, everyone belatedly remembered that he was a researcher by profession.

So when Shibao said he wanted to challenge Kevin in a one-on-one duel, he didn't go into the dream with him.

Currently, I am playing games and live streaming in the command center.

Of course, this was kept secret from Rita and Nagamitsu.

Therefore, in Changguang's view, he has been working seriously since the beginning.

"Me? My thoughts don't really matter."

Although Beichen knew what kind of existence Da Ai-chan was, he did not reveal it.

After all, at times like this, just be a riddle teller.

Otherwise, Changguang will just ask, why do you know so much?

Wouldn't it be easy for people to trick you into revealing your secrets in a matter of minutes?

"Ah, sorry. I was more of just asking and answering my own questions."

Fortunately, Changguang didn't ask this intentionally.

She just slipped up more often.

In fact, her obsession with research may be no different from that of scientists such as Otto and Möbius.

Sometimes, while chatting, I find myself immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

"'Pseudo-time crystal'... Although I can guess what she wants to describe by using this term - I am not sure what the difference is between this and the so-called 'thread of fate'."

“No matter how many times fate comes back, I will always make this choice. This is the choice I want.” This is the true meaning of “infinity”, a weight that mortals may find difficult to bear.

“Especially when we realize that our lives may not just be about ‘living in the present moment’, and not just about ‘being ourselves’… then the weight of ‘time’ becomes indivisible and boundless, making yesterday and today our dreams and memories.”

"Ah... maybe only the infinite love of God can love such a human being."

It turns out that among all the researchers at Tianming, Changguang may be the one who talks the most.

No, it can even be said that among all the researchers in Honkai, she is the most approachable and the most free-spirited one.

Directly from the identity of Da Ai, we talked about [infinity], [being yourself], [time]...