Honkai Impact 3, but I’m Amamiya Ren!

"Bronya has finished eating and is ready to go... Mei-sister is going to meet that woman named Kiana, so don't wash the dishes today. Just leave it to Cocolia. We can't let her eat for free and do nothing."

Bronya jumped down lightly from the chair. She stopped Mei Raiden who was about to clean up the dishes and pushed her towards the door.

After successfully passing the dishwashing job to Cocolia who was staying in her room in isolation.

Mei Raiden said goodbye to Ren Amamiya and Bronya at the door of Raiden's house, and the three of them left in two different directions.

"Lian, where are we going next?"

Bronya followed Amamiya Ren closely and asked him a question.

A taxi was approaching slowly from the distance on the road. Although the taxi fare was much more expensive than the subway, Amamiya Ren was not short of money at the moment. He simply stretched out his hand to stop the passing taxi.

"Master, let's go to the Loublanc Cafe in Shikenjaya."

After opening the taxi door and letting Bronya get in first, Amamiya Ren told the taxi driver in the front seat the destination and also answered Bronya's question.

"I know about Café Lubron, but you got the wrong name, brother. It's not called Shigenjaya, it should be Sangenjaya."

The taxi driver that Amamiya Ren stopped was obviously an experienced driver and was familiar with all the buildings in Tokyo.

As soon as he heard the name of Café Lublanc, the driver knew where Amamiya Ren wanted to go, and happily corrected him.

"Shigenjaya... Sangenjaya? Anyway, I'm counting on you, Master. It would be best if you can go faster."

Amemiya Ren frowned slightly. The only thing he clearly remembered was the name of Cafe Lublanc. As for whether Cafe Lublanc was in Shigenjaya or Sangenjaya, he really couldn't remember.

Or maybe he never tried to memorize it deliberately from the beginning, and it was already very good that he could recall the place name Xxuan Tea House.

The taxi carrying Amamiya Ren and Bronya slowly drove away.

As time passed, when the taxi drove into Sangenjaya in Setagaya district, the scenery outside the window gradually made Amamiya Ren feel familiar.

"Master, stop for a moment. Let's get off here."

Chapter 6: A World Where the Phantom Thieves of Hearts Don’t Exist (K words)

After getting off the taxi, Amemiya Ren looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar environment of Sangenjaya. He suddenly felt like he was back home, and a sense of security emerged in his heart. He could find a way here even with his eyes closed.

Even the noisy sounds of pedestrians on the Sangenjaya street sounded like white noise to his ears, making him feel comfortable and friendly.

"Have you lived here before? You seem to be very familiar with the surroundings."

Looking at Amamiya Ren, who was walking briskly through the alleys of Sangenjaya as if she was a fish in water, a hint of surprise appeared in Bronya's silver-gray eyes.

When in the taxi, Amemiya Ren clearly remembered the name of Sangenjaya as Shigenjaya, showing an attitude that she was not very familiar with the place.

However, after arriving at the Sangenjaya area, Amamiya Ren showed a strong sense of familiarity with the terrain and environment around Sangenjaya. She moved quickly and with a clear goal in mind through the alleys that might not even be marked on the map.

When looking around, Amamiya Ren's eyes occasionally revealed a hint of nostalgia.

The inexplicable conflict between Amamiya Ren's previous words and current actions made Bronya feel an incomprehensible and strange feeling in her heart.

"If you can say that I've lived here before, I guess I have... We're here, this is Café Loublanc."

After walking along the familiar path that seemed to be engraved in her DNA, a coffee shop with the sign "Leblanc" appeared in front of Ren Amamiya.

Because the location of the coffee shop is a bit remote, there are not many customers in this Lubrown Coffee Shop.

Fortunately, even though there are not many customers in the coffee shop now, Leblanc Coffee Shop is still open for business, so Amamiya Ren and Bronya don't have to make a wasted trip.

"........."

Amamiya Ren's answer was somewhat vague, but Bronya didn't seem to be obsessed with getting to the bottom of the issue.

Bronya just followed behind Amamiya Ren silently, and after he took a deep breath and opened the door of the Lubrun Coffee Shop, she followed him in step by step.

"Oh, you two are strangers. What would you like to order?"

The sound of the store door opening attracted the attention of the middle-aged man at the counter. He looked at Amamiya Ren and Bronya, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked the two unfamiliar customers.

The decor of Café Loublanc is just as I remember it.

However, the coffee shop owner standing behind the counter was quite different from the impression Amamiya Ren had in her memory.

The owner of the Loublanc Coffee Shop was wearing a blue shirt and a white apron tied around his chest. The middle-aged man had shaved his beard clean and looked very clean-cut.

From the facial features of the owner of Café Lublanc, Amamiya Ren could vaguely see some traces of Sakura Sojiro.

But the middle-aged man standing behind the counter with the attitude of a store owner was definitely not the assistant of the "Pope" card in Amamiya Ren's memory, the handsome uncle Sakura Sojiro who had a cold face but a warm heart.

"........I want a cup of signature coffee."

Amamiya Ren stared at the shop owner's face for a while, until the middle-aged man touched his face in confusion, making sure that there was nothing strange on his face, and cast a surprised look at Amamiya Ren, then Amamiya Ren withdrew his gaze from the shop owner.

The owner of the Lublan Coffee Shop was replaced by a stranger. This unexpected development was undoubtedly beyond Amamiya Ren's expectations.

However, even if I ask the store owner now, he will just treat me as a weirdo and might even kick me out.

To be on the safe side, Amamiya Ren decided to order a cup of coffee and sit down in the Leblanc Cafe to collect some information through casual conversations between the owner and other customers.

"Bronya, what would you like to order?"

After placing her order, Amamiya Ren turned to the side and asked Bronya for her opinion.

"It's fine as long as Bronya is like Lian."

Bronya had no objection, she chose the same signature coffee as Amamiya Ren.

"Okay, two cups of our signature Lubrun coffee. Please sit anywhere you like."

After confirming the needs of the two new customers, the middle-aged man started busying himself in the kitchen backstage, making his most famous coffee, Lubrun coffee.

And taking advantage of the gap when the middle-aged man was making coffee in the kitchen.

Amamiya Ren, who was sitting in the corner closest to the attic on the second floor, made a request to Bronya, who was sitting opposite her and flipping through the menu on the table with interest.

"Bronya, I want to ask you a favor... Can you use your hacking abilities to help me investigate a few people?"

Bronya, who possesses world-class hacking skills, took the initiative to accompany him on the trip, and now it seems that she has been a great help.

If Amamiya Ren was alone, he obviously wouldn't be able to investigate other people's information so conveniently.

"No problem. Although the only electronic device she brought with her this time is a cell phone, with the help of the Heavy Armored Bunny, Bronya can use only her cell phone to investigate the information of most people in the world."

Bronya tilted her head expressionlessly, and she took out her cell phone very skillfully. The air behind her suddenly blurred for a moment, and the transparent figure of the Heavy Armored Bunny 19C disappeared in a flash like an illusion, as if she was ready for the search.

"So, who is Lian wanting Bronya to investigate? The owner of the Lublan Coffee Shop?"

Bronya noticed something was wrong from the strange look that Amamiya Ren gave the owner of the Leblanc Cafe.

If Amamiya Ren wanted to investigate other people's information, the owner of Leblanc Coffee Shop would definitely be the first to be investigated.

"That's right. Let's investigate the shop owner first, and then search for a man named Sakura Sojiro... By the way, there may be hackers monitoring this cafe, so be careful, Bronya."

Amemiya Ren nodded to Bronya, and after recalling that Sakura Futaba had installed surveillance cameras in the Lublon Cafe, he added something to Bronya.

As world-class hackers, it is unclear who is stronger in hacking skills, Bronya or Sakura Futaba.

It’s hard to say in terms of pure hacker skills, but the reality is that Bronya is stronger than Sakura Futaba.

After all, Bronya has the super-realistic auxiliary tool of Heavy Usagi 19C to cheat, and Sakura Futaba, who can only rely on her own brain, is obviously no match for the quantum computer.

"Bronya has hacked into the surveillance system of the Leblanc Cafe and disguised and modified the surveillance video... Now start searching for the personal information of the owner of the Leblanc Cafe..."

Bronya's slender, white fingers moved flexibly and quickly on the phone screen, and her pair of silver-gray pupils reflected the light of complex data characters.

"The owner of Leblanc Coffee Shop, Sogoro Asakura, 33 years old, male, unmarried, used to work as a government official, but because he reported on behalf of the people who suffered injustice, he was squeezed out of the government system by his dissatisfied superiors. Since then, he opened Leblanc Coffee Shop in Sangenjaya and has been there ever since..."

"Sakura Sojiro... There are 7 people with the same name in the country, 1 of whom lives in Tokyo and is 62 years old... Photos of the seven Sakura Sojiros have been sent to Lian's personal email."

Bronya investigated and processed information very quickly. Before the owner in the kitchen brought the coffee, she had already investigated all the information that Amamiya Ren wanted.

"Sakura and Asakura, Sojiro and Sogoro... I'm really impressed by their similarities."

Not only are their names and dressing styles similar, but even their past experiences are very similar.

Although the full picture has not yet been clarified, the overlapping similarities between Asakura Sogoro and Sakura Sojiro have already made Amamiya Ren's heart sink slightly, and she felt a bad premonition.

Amamiya Ren took out her cell phone, opened her personal mailbox and checked the seven photos that Bronya sent her.

The more she looked through the photos received in her personal mailbox, the heavier her mood became.

There are seven people with the same name as Sakura Sojiro in the country, but the one who looks exactly like the one he remembers... doesn't exist at all!!

Every person in the photo looks very unfamiliar in Amamiya Ren's eyes.

"Continuing the investigation, the names are Takemi Tae, Takamaki An, Niijima Makoto, Okumura Haru, Sakura... No, Isshiki Futaba."

Amamiya Ren slowly clenched his hands, pursed his lips, and told Bronya across the table the list of people who needed to be investigated next.

"........The information of the person with the same name has been sent to Lian's personal email."

Bronya was still very efficient. She quickly sent all the collected information to Amamiya Ren's personal mailbox.

Looking through the photos that Bronya sent her, Amamiya Ren's expression became increasingly heavy.

No, no, still not...

Among the photos that Bronya collected, there was not a single face that Amamiya Ren was familiar with.

It was as if, as if... the Phantom Thieves of Hearts [PHANTOM] and their collaborators had never existed in this world from the beginning! !

Of the people who were supposed to be members of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts [PHANTOM], only the leader, Amamiya Ren, is still truly alive.

Apart from the members of the Phantom Thieves, even the traces of their helpers were wiped out without a trace...

Apparently, Amamiya Ren's situation in this world is not as simple as he initially thought.

It seemed that there were some omissions and errors in his understanding of the world.

As a stitched world view that is not a single P5, this world has already undergone a reincarnation reset without anyone noticing.

But no one has ever said that this world has only experienced one reincarnation and reset.

The world where the Phantom Thieves of Hearts disappeared...

Although he knew that he was the true trickster who would turn the tide and bring about change, completely defeat the evil god, save the world, and prevent the end of the world, the evil god Yaldabaoth remained indifferent to his existence.

The evil god not only did not kill him, but instead gave him, the trickster, a certain amount of gifts, and taught him the mysterious martial arts called Taixu Sword Qi...

The evil god Yaldabaoth's attitude is not hostile, but rather ambiguous and friendly...

Various factors were superimposed together, and the messy and fragmented information was quickly pieced together into a complete state in Amamiya Lian's mind.

After eliminating all impossibilities, the remaining possibility, no matter how improbable it is, can only be the final fact.

"Could it be that this world has been reset and is now in the second round, and... the second round ending is that of an accomplice to the evil god? ! "

Amamiya Ren took a deep breath and felt her scalp tingling because of her bold assumption.

If this is the second act of the ending of Accomplices of the God of Evil, then the mysterious disappearance of the members of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, the state of being erased from public knowledge, and the strange attitude of the God of Evil Yaldabaoth towards them can all be explained.

As a pseudo-god-level transcendent being, even if the world is reset, Yaldabaoth will undoubtedly be able to retain the memories before the world is reset.

In the ending of the conspiracy with the evil god Yaldabaoth, only the protagonist Amamiya Ren survived, maintaining a deformed cooperative coexistence relationship with the playful evil god, and continuing to reform the twisted people in society as the Phantom Thief of Hearts.

However, the fate of the other members of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts was not mentioned in the accomplice ending.

After the world was reset, it is understandable that the evil god Yaldabaoth did not intend to repeat the original game.

It is not impossible that it chose to completely erase the members of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts and their assistants from the public's knowledge at the very beginning.

Only Amamiya Ren, a true trickster who had reached a certain degree of cooperation with the evil god, survived and still maintained his existence in the new world.

"There is one last person, Bronya, help me search for the last person's information... His name is Maruki Takuto, he is a psychologist..."

Maruki Takuto, although he is a collaborator of the Phantom Thieves, he is also an enemy of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

Of course, if the second round had ended with them being accomplices with the evil god, the relationship between the Phantom Thieves and Maruki Takuto would obviously not have developed to the level of enemies.

Takuto Maruki possesses extremely strong qualifications as a personality mask user. In the real world, he can use the power of the initially awakened personality mask to rewrite the cognition of others. After awakening the personality mask when the worlds overlap, he inherited the authority of the evil god Yaldabaoth.

Although it was a lucky break, the authority of a pseudo-god level was not something that anyone could pick up.

Takuto Maruki's personality mask is Azathoth, the most powerful Outer God in the Cthulhu mythology.

If it was him, there might be a chance that he could survive the purge of the evil god Yaldabaoth...

I miss you, Mr. Maruki!!

Although Maruki Takuto's personality mask Azathoth is very strange and ominous, no one can doubt his strength.

Even if they end up being enemies, it's clear that Maruki Takuto can be a strong partner in the fight against the evil gods who seek to enslave and destroy humanity.

Looking at Amamiya Ren, whose brows were tightly furrowed and her eyes were extremely serious, as if she had thought of something important.