Honkai Impact 3, but I’m Amamiya Ren!

Since Amamiya Ren claimed to be a Phantom Thief, Yaezakura, after hesitating for a moment, also chose to use the novel name of Phantom Thief to refer to the man with the black bird-beak mask.

Because her stance was fundamentally different from that of the villagers, Yaezakura did not feel hostility towards the black bird-beak masked man who was feared and hated by the villagers, but was able to look at that existence with a more neutral, objective and rational eye.

"Although the villagers saw the thief releasing monsters, or causing the poultry and passers-by to go berserk and lose their minds, the black thief has been leaving to a place where few people go."

"If the thief really wanted to destroy the village, he could have just stayed in the center of the village."

"Although Ying has the power to kill monsters, she is only one person after all. She cannot deal with all the monsters that are attacking every corner of the village at the same time."

Yaezakura frowned slightly and slowly expressed her inner confusion to Amamiya Ren.

What made Yaezakura hesitate was not just the logical analysis.

Or perhaps, her seemingly rational logical analysis actually came from the strong emotional feelings that emerged from her heart for no reason.

Even though she had never met the black thief, Yae Sakura always felt that she must be a good person, and perhaps someone very important to her.

"Because that guy's goal is not as simple as destroying the village. Rather, the destruction of Yae Village is of no importance to him. The only important existence in this village is you, Miss Yaesakura."

Amamiya Ren responded to Yaezakura without hesitation.

"That guy kept moving, probably looking for you. Fortunately, Yutu and I found you earlier. If you were killed, it would be too late."

"but........"

"No need to worry so much. You only need to see for yourself whether the man in the black mask is good or evil. Come with us!"

Before Yae Sakura could try to come up with some excuses for the man in the black mask, Amamiya Ren interrupted her directly and invited Yae Sakura again.

"...I see. Mr. Joker is right. It would be better to see it in person rather than just guessing here."

Yaezakura's expression gradually became firm. She nodded her head vigorously, stretched out her delicate little hand and tightly grasped Amamiya Ren's red-gloved hand.

"The last sighting of the black masked man was in the southeast of the village. According to the route of the sighting information, if the black masked man is really looking for me, then he should be in the Yae Shrine in the back mountain now!"

By integrating the eyewitness information provided by the villagers of Yae Village, plus the testimony given by Amamiya Ren——and the strange premonition that was inexplicably throbbing in his heart.

Yaezakura slowly turned around, her beautiful blue eyes looking firmly towards the back mountain of Yaesu Village, as if she could see through layers of obstacles and see the shrine that she was so familiar with.

Under the silent gaze of the villagers of Yae Village.

Yaezakura, the palace owner and local, walked in front, leading Amamiya Ren and Hato on the road to Yae Shrine.

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Chapter 37: Phantom Thief Ziyuan: Are there any colleagues here too?

Led by the shrine maiden Yaezakura, Amamiya Ren and Hato quickly left the Yae Village area, came to this secluded and rarely visited mountain, and arrived at the Yae Shrine on the top of the mountain.

Pass through the bright red wooden torii and walk up the narrow mountain stairs.

Before Amamiya Ren officially walked to the front of Yae Shrine, he keenly noticed the slender figure standing in front of the main gate of Yae Shrine.

"The Phantom Thief wearing a black bird-beak mask... actually exists, and is really here. As expected of Joker, he even predicted this!"

Looking at the main gate of Yae Shrine, the man turned his head because of the footsteps of Amamiya Ren and others.

She was wearing a slim purple and black evening gown and a black bird-beak mask decorated with two kite tail feathers, revealing only the delicate and fair lower half of her face. She had a white ponytail that allowed for flexible movement, and a pair of pupils as blue as the sky.

Yutu, who was following behind Amamiya Ren, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in slight surprise.

Then she looked at Amamiya Ren, who was silent beside her, with admiration, and was once again shocked by Amamiya Ren's amazing intelligence network.

Even the World Serpent, which holds the most records of pre-civilizations in the world, has incomplete records of the mysterious and mysterious Ruler of Corrosion.

Moreover, the information recorded in the database is very vague.

However, Amamiya Ren was able to accurately tell about the Herrscher of Corrosion's dress style, and with the help of the shrine maiden Yaezakura, she successfully found the Herrscher of Corrosion who had not yet moved to the next location!

Because the enemy they need to face this time is the Herrscher of Erosion from the previous civilization. In order to avoid being eroded by the Herrscher's body through the channel of power as a medium, they must

Yutu did not use the power of transcribing information on the white-haired girl wearing a black bird-beak mask in the distance.

However, even without using the ability to transcribe information, Yutu could be certain that it was definitely the reaction of a Herrscher just by sensing the terrifying and deep aura coming from the white-haired girl with pigtails.

The chilling corrosive waves emanating faintly from the white-haired girl were exactly the same as the corrosive reactions on the bodies of the violent imaginary beings that Yutu had encountered before!

"........."

Facing Yutu's words filled with admiration and praise.

Amamiya Ren, who had taken the initiative to search for the black-masked man in the palace, was staring at the white-haired girl, whose natural beauty could not be concealed even with a half-covered mask, and fell into silence for a long time.

————No, sister, who are you?

Where is the Akechi Goro I'm looking for? Where is a pancake man like me? How did I suddenly become a girl?!

The purple-black slim-fitting women's dress and the black half-covered mask dotted with purple tail feathers clearly look like a thief costume that couldn't be more real at first glance.

But Amamiya Ren did not know this strange female thief.

So sisters, which new character are you in P5ABCDEFG?

"It's really amazing. How could such a desolate and remote village in the Far East lead two thieves to this place? This kind of strange fate makes people feel that it is a fateful encounter!"

Just like the inexplicable attraction between thieves, they faced three strangers who slowly walked into the shrine from the bottom of the stairs.

The white-haired girl wearing a black bird-beak mask immediately spotted the figure of Amamiya Ren standing right between the two beautiful girls.

Looking at what Amamiya Ren was wearing, the black bird feather windbreaker with a strong thief style, and the white spirit bird mask that covered half of her cheek.

A strong sense of novelty suddenly emerged in the white-haired girl's blue eyes.

The white-haired girl's speaking style was very controlled, with an obvious air of pretentiousness. If an uninformed person saw her, they would even think she was rehearsing lines from a play.

"It's just that - following a lady relentlessly is not what a gentleman should do. It seems to be a strange thief named Joker~~~~"

The white-haired girl wearing a black mask also heard what Hato said to Amamiya Ren before. She thus learned that Amamiya Ren was searching for her, and also learned Amamiya Ren's code name as a phantom thief.

"Ah, as a fellow Phantom Thief, I have to give my name to be polite... My name is Ziyuan, the Phantom Thief Ziyuan!"

As if she suddenly remembered something, the white-haired girl's delicate and tender mouth curled up slightly, revealing a charming smile.

She gently placed her slender palms in front of her chest, stepped back a little, and bowed slightly to Amamiya Ren as a greeting. The whole process was very smooth, silky and extremely beautiful, just like an aristocrat, revealing a sense of skilled elegance from the bones.

"Could it be that Mr. Joker is also someone who covets the secret treasure, and is chasing me relentlessly because he is trying to snatch it from Ziyuan?"

After bowing gracefully like a noble, the Phantom Thief Ziyuan slowly stood up and asked Amamiya Lian in a slow and leisurely tone.

It was not until then that Amamiya Ren noticed that the white-haired girl who called herself the Phantom Thief Ziyuan was holding a small black box in her other hand.

"Secret treasure? Have you already published the notice and stolen the secret treasure?!"

When hearing the Phantom Thief Ziyuan mention the word secret treasure, Amamiya Lian finally couldn't help but open her eyes wide in surprise, and subconsciously asked the white-haired girl.

Once the secret treasure is stolen, the entire palace will begin to collapse, and it won't take long before it will completely fall apart.

The desire stones that Amamiya Ren has not yet had time to collect will also randomly drift to somewhere in the impression space as the palace collapses.

This was undoubtedly unacceptable to Amamiya Ren. To find the lost Desire Stone in the impression space was as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack.

"A, a warning letter? Ah, this——"

Faced with the questions raised by Amamiya Lian, the girl who called herself the Phantom Thief Ziyuan suddenly opened her cherry mouth in panic.

Not only did she begin to stutter when she spoke, but even her tone suddenly became normal. Because of the confusion and shyness in her heart, she suddenly forgot the pretentious tone that she was supposed to continue to maintain.

"Yes, indeed, releasing a warning letter before stealing the secret treasure is part of the aesthetics of the Phantom Thief, but in an emergency, even if there are times when not releasing a warning letter in advance is a reasonable way to deal with it!"

The Phantom Thief Ziyuan coughed several times in succession, and she barely managed to switch from her normal speaking voice to the controlled intonation of a Phantom Thief.

However, this time, the white-haired girl's tone clearly contained a hint of embarrassment that could be easily heard.

The lower half of her face, which was delicate and flawless and not covered by the black bird-beak mask and was as white and smooth as a peeled egg, was stained with a blush that could not be ignored.

Anyone who looked at her could tell that the white-haired girl was being stubborn and unjustified.

Chapter 38: Yaezakura, you can't get close to the black box anymore!

".....No notice was released? Then the secret treasure should not have been formed yet. How did you steal the secret treasure?"

From the white-haired girl's reaction, I could tell that she hadn't released a notice yet.

Amemiya Ren raised his eyebrows in surprise, and he quickly turned his head to look at Yaezakura beside him, and then received a confused look from the Sakura-colored priestess.

After seeing Yaesakura's confused look, she had no idea why he suddenly looked at her.

Amamiya Ren was able to confirm once again that Yaezakura had really not received the letter of forewarning of the affair.

And if you think about it carefully, even though the thief Ziyuan claimed that he had stolen the secret treasure, this palace has never shown any signs of collapse and has always remained intact.

"Although the secret treasure has not yet been fully formed, it does not prevent it from being put in this box. As long as you hold the box, it is equivalent to stealing the secret treasure... As a fellow thief, Mr. Joker, can't you see this?"

After the Phantom Thief Ziyuan took a few deep breaths quietly, she gradually recovered from the shyness and embarrassment of being a Phantom Thief but not releasing a warning letter. She responded to Amamiya Lian with a slight curve at the corner of her mouth.

"........."

What is this new version of the game?

Having only played P5R and knowing nothing about the other letters of ATLU$ that were about to be released, Amamiya Ren already felt that she was lagging behind the version.

Nowadays, as long as the energy-shaped secret treasure is sealed in a box, it can be stolen without sending a warning letter.

It is also said that every time a derivative work of P5 is released, a god will be brutally killed.

I don’t know if there is a god watching over this strange thief Zi Yuan. I hope there isn’t.

It would be really frustrating if he was not targeted by the evil god Yaldabaoth who knew everything about him, but was instead targeted by false gods and evil gods from other systems.

"Excuse me, have we met before somewhere?!"

Watching the heated conversation between Phantom Thief Shiyuan and Amamiya Ren, Yae Sakura felt as if something was pressing on her beautiful cherry-colored hair for some reason, and she felt inexplicably irritated and uneasy.

Stimulated by the restless emotions surging in her heart, Yae Sakura could no longer bear it and took a step forward, taking the initiative to speak to the Phantom Thief Ziyuan in front of her.

Just as Yaezakura said, although the Phantom Thief Ziyuan was wearing a black bird-beak mask that covered most of her face.

But Yae Sakura still felt that there was a very familiar aura coming from the Phantom Thief Ziyuan, as if she had already met and known this strange girl and had formed an extraordinary special bond with her.

"Some people may think this way of chatting me up is old-fashioned, but if a cute miko-san chats me up like this, I can totally say it's just the right amount of novelty~~~"

After Yaesakura's interruption, the Phantom Thief Shiyuan withdrew his gaze from Amamiya Ren and instead paid attention to Yaesakura, the cherry-colored priestess.

Before his eyes could fully rest on Yaesakura's delicate body, the Phantom Thief Ziyuan had already started to say something flowery out of habit.

And when the white-haired girl's gaze was completely fixed on Yaesakura's face, her blue eyes suddenly lit up.

"Eh? That's strange. If you mention it like that, I feel like I've seen you somewhere before. Maybe this is what they call a bond. It seems like we are destined to be together... The shrine is magical, isn't it!"

The Phantom Thief Ziyuan also sensed a vague feeling of déjà vu from Yaezakura.

However, she did not pay too much attention to this strange sense of déjà vu, because Yaezakura approached her a few steps and she retreated a distance without making any expression.

She had stayed in this shrine long enough on a whim before, and now the deserted shrine had visitors other than her.

At this time, the Phantom Thief Ziyuan had already thought of bidding a gorgeous farewell to her colleague Amamiya Ren, and then leaving in an elegant and high-profile manner.

This time, risking her own aesthetics and honor as a thief, Phantom Thief Ziyuan will definitely make it impossible for Amamiya Ren to find her trace!

"...Hmm? What's going on? Oops, something is wrong! Miss Miko, don't come near me anymore!!"

Originally, the Phantom Thief Ziyuan had already made up her mind to retreat, but just as she was about to turn around and leave.

As Yaezakura got closer, the black box held in the arms of the Phantom Thief Ziyuan suddenly emitted strange, heart-pounding black and red mist.

Moving from Yae Village, where villagers live densely, to Yae Shrine, where people rarely visit, the black box, which is a secret treasure, finally became well-behaved when it arrived at Yae Shrine.

The Phantom Thief Ziyuan thought that this shrine was particularly effective and could suppress the evil surging in the black box.

Unexpectedly, before long, the black box began to emit strange and evil black and red smoke as before, trying to corrode everything around it.

And this time the black box's reaction was particularly violent, so strong that even the Phantom Thief Zi Yuan, who had suppressed it all the way, was unable to suppress the spread and surge of the black and red corrosive mist.

No wonder he's been quiet and unresponsive since arriving at the shrine.

It turns out that he was waiting here to have a big one!!