Honkai Impact 3, but I’m Amamiya Ren!

“Ugh—Hmmmm!!”

The illusory golden chain wrapped around the black box suddenly appeared and broke.

The slender body of the Phantom Thief Ziyuan was suddenly blown away by the violent black and red mist that burst out from the black box, and knocked her down onto the thick pillar outside the shrine.

After knocking down the thick pillar supporting the room, the Phantom Thief Ziyuan fell to the ground and began to open his mouth and close his eyes.

Even the black bird-beak mask used to conceal her identity fell off due to the strong impact, revealing the white-haired girl's exquisite and flawless face, as perfect as a doll.

"Ms. Miko, please get out of there quickly. Don't touch that box!!"

The white-haired girl seemed to have an unusually strong physique. The impact and pain of breaking a thick beam only made her open her mouth and close her eyes for a brief moment.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw Yaezakura walking towards the black box floating in the air with a wooden expression.

The white-haired girl didn't even have time to pick up the black bird-beak mask that fell beside her.

She quickly shouted a warning to Yaezakura, stood up as quickly as possible, and pounced towards Yaezakura.

Chapter 39 Yaezakura (Blackened)

Faced with the white-haired girl's alarmed warning, Yae Sakura, who had previously shown great concern for her, now seemed to turn a deaf ear to her.

It was as if she could no longer hear any sound in her ears, and Yaezakura's expression became expressionless.

Her blue eyes reflected the shadow of the black box floating in the air, which continuously emitted strange black and red smoke.

It was as if the clear blue lake had changed color due to the large amount of red blood poured in.

Yaezakura continued to stare at the black box. Her blue pupils quietly turned into a blood-red color, and her whole temperament began to become evil and strange.

Two long cherry-pink fox ears had stood up from her soft cherry-pink hair at some point, further highlighting her inhuman appearance at the moment.

"stop!"

The white-haired girl shouted loudly and rushed towards Yaesakura as fast as she could, as she was slowly reaching out her hand to the black box and trying to open it.

However, before the white-haired girl could get close to Yaesakura.

The red-black mist that escaped from the black box suddenly condensed into a huge, thick fox tail. The huge red-black fox tail blocked the white-haired girl's approach like a shield, and even spun the white-haired girl's delicate body towards a distant place like a spinning top.

Bang bang bang bang bang——————!!!

Amamiya Ren suddenly pulled out his Mosin-Nagant and Sunrin double pistols. He pulled the trigger continuously and fired all the hot yellow bullets at the strange black box floating in the air.

Although I still don't quite understand what happened at the scene.

But the situation was getting out of control, and Amamiya Ren could see it at a glance.

As the master of the palace, Yaesakura's twisted mind is suppressed, and only occasionally reveals a little from under the normal surface? It is most likely because of the black box in the hands of the strange thief Ziyuan.

If Yaezakura were to come into contact with the black box, or even open it, the unformed secret treasure sealed inside would be released.

There's a risk that Yaezakura will simply revert to her normal state as the lord of the palace. The distortion in her mind will no longer be suppressed, and will burst out like a volcano. She will no longer be friendly to palace invaders like Amamiya Ren and Hato.

So Amamiya Ren drew his gun and shot without hesitation.

Of course, his target was not Yaesakura herself.

Instead, it was a black box floating in the air, emitting a strange smoke smell continuously, with the intention of knocking the black box far away from Yaesakura's reach.

However, the bullets fired from the Mosin-Nagant and Sunwheel dual rifles ultimately ended up with the same fate as the white-haired girl.

The huge fox tail that continued to extend from the black box was swung like a long whip, and it flicked away all the hot bullets shot by Amamiya Ren like dust, and even reflected them in the direction of Amamiya Ren himself.

This forced Amamiya Ren and Hato to retreat a distance to avoid the reflected bullets.

[Come on, Yaezakura, open this box, release your true desires and memories that have been sealed up, and quickly recall your true self! ]

A hoarse voice like a roar slowly rang out from the black box. With a bewitching power, it penetrated into Yaezakura's ears, constantly tempting Yaezakura to open the black box.

"Stop talking!"

Amemiya Ren's pupils trembled suddenly. The bullets in the Mosin-Nagant and Sunrin double pistols in his hands had just been used up. For the time being, he had no way to remotely prevent Yaezakura from touching the black box.

So Amamiya Ren ran straight towards Yaezakura at high speed as if she was racing with the white-haired girl who had regrouped and started over on the other side.

While running at high speed, Amamiya Ren pressed his red-gloved hand on the white spirit bird mask on his face, ready to summon the personality mask to fight.

However, Yaesakura opened the black box much faster than Amamiya Ren and the white-haired girl rushed to her to stop her.

"The real...me..."

Yaezakura opened the black box floating in the air in front of her with a dazed look.

As the black box was opened, the red-black smoke that had been continuously escaping to the outside world was now completely liberated and surged wildly and unbridled.

The terrifying storm that arose from the black box instantly pinned Amamiya Ren and the white-haired girl, who were approaching Yaezakura at full speed from two different directions. Their bodies seemed to be bearing a tremendous weight, and even moving seemed extremely strenuous.

“…What? What’s going on?!”

After opening the sealed black box with her own hands, Yaezakura seemed to suddenly regain consciousness. A look of horror appeared on her pretty face. She staggered back a few steps and then fell to the ground unsteadily.

"What's going on with this memory?!"

Yaezakura raised her slender hands tremblingly and hugged her head tightly.

Feeling the huge amount of memories flooding into her mind since the black box was opened, her pupils suddenly dilated to the extreme and her face became paler.

[Yes, this is the real you! Do you remember that you killed all the villagers of Yae Village with your own hands time and time again, and completely destroyed the responsibility entrusted to you by your dead sister, the bloody, ugly and sinful Yae Sakura! ! ]

A strange voice came from the box, with a low and horrifying tone. She spoke to Yaesakura who was kneeling on the ground with a mocking tone.

The black and red mist surged and condensed into a huge fox head. On that ferocious and eerie fox face, it was giving a condescending and sarcastic smile to Yae Sakura in front of it.

After opening the black box, Yaezakura's memories of reincarnation over the past five hundred years returned to her mind.

Through the malicious manipulation of the Herrscher of Corrosion, Yaezakura focused on recalling the deep memory of her sister being sacrificed by the villagers of Yae Village and her breaking the promise she made to her sister and slaughtering all the villagers with her own hands.

The stimulation of those painful memories made it increasingly difficult for Yae Sakura to accept the reality. She simply hugged her slender body, curled up like a fragile and powerless child, trying to escape from it all.

[Admit it, Yae Sakura, the monsters that attacked the villagers were formed by your own desires. They were the true embodiment of your desire to break the agreement with your sister, kill the villagers, and take cruel revenge on them... I understand all of this. I am the only one in the world who understands your true thoughts and heart.]

The huge red and black fox head floated to the ear of Yaesakura who had fallen to the ground, and spoke in that strange voice some enchanting words that bewitched and tempted her to fall.

[If you ask why... Because I am you and you are me! ]

Chapter 40: Oh no, I saw a female ghost!

"You are... me? You must be kidding. A guy like you—"

After hearing the bewitching words that the giant fox head slowly revealed to her, a flash of anger appeared on Yae Sakura's pretty face. With a tone full of resistance and denial, she shouted loudly at the giant fox head.

"No, Yaesakura! Don't say that!!"

Although she felt something was wrong for a moment, the ominous premonition that emerged in her heart still prompted Amamiya Ren to speak quickly and try to stop Yaezakura from saying the most crucial sentence.

"————A guy like you can't be me!!"

Yaesakura's voice of denial filled with pain rang out.

A sound like the movement of flames suddenly sounded, and the red and black smoke surging within the Yae Shrine instantly transformed into a red and black flame-like substance.

The huge fox face formed by the red and black phantom flames stretched its mouth corners wide, and she narrowed her narrow fox eyes, revealing a playful smile.

The bloody mouth composed of red and black flames suddenly opened wide and swallowed up Yaezakura, who was sitting on the ground in a daze with no desire to resist.

Bathed in the strange red and black flames that were reborn from the giant fox head.

Yaesakura staggered to her feet from the ground. She slowly raised her head like a broken doll, her scarlet eyes flashing with a strange scarlet light.

The Sakura-colored miko with long fox ears on her head, who was obviously in an abnormal state, slowly smiled a yandere-like smile of joy with a blush on her cheeks towards Amamiya Ren in the distance.

"What's going on? She's obviously just a shadow. Even if she's not a shadow, she's definitely not a real human. But Yaezakura's behavior and experience are as if she herself has entered this palace?!"

After the giant fox head devoured Yaezakura's delicate body, the storm resistance encountered by Amamiya Ren and the white-haired girl disappeared at the same time.

However, even if she had gained the freedom of movement at this time, Yae Sakura, who needed them to stop her, had already fallen into a distorted mind, and her body was controlled by the strange voice coming from the black box.

Amamiya Ren looked at Yaezakura with a serious look on her face, and his brows were tightly furrowed.

In the story of P5, the only example of a person entering their own palace and awakening their personality mask by reconciling with their own shadow is Sakura Futaba.

Moreover, it was Sakura Futaba's shadow who took the initiative to try to enlighten Sakura Futaba herself, which is not very useful as a reference.

Compared to P5, the situation that Yaesakura encountered is more like the process in P4 where the human body entered the different world and was tortured by the words of its own shadow.

But Yae Sakura is obviously the master of the palace, and she herself is the shadow, so how could she be tortured by the voice in the secret treasure?

"Although I don't know what you are talking about, the person standing there is undoubtedly Sakura herself. As for the fact that Sakura is no longer a pure human being, this is also natural because..."

Ever since the black bird-beak mask fell off, the white-haired girl has gradually recovered her original memories.

And when Yaezakura completely recovered all her reincarnation memories.

The white-haired girl who took off the mask of the Phantom Thief Ziyuan, Kallen Kaslana, also regained all her forgotten memories.

Under Amamiya Ren's somewhat puzzled gaze, Kallen Kaslana, who had previously acted very unfamiliar with Yae Sakura, now explained Yae Sakura's situation to Amamiya Ren in a sad tone, and her tone fully revealed her familiarity with Yae Sakura.

"Because, five hundred years ago, Sakura was sealed by me personally. Five hundred years have passed, and Sakura's body has long since passed away. What remains here is only Sakura's soul."

There was an indelible sadness in Kallen's blue eyes. She recalled the scene five hundred years ago when Yaezakura was eroded and controlled by the Herrscher of Corrosion.

In the distance, Yaezakura's bloody figure was gradually overlapped with the moment five hundred years ago under the influence of the erosion force. Everything was so exactly the same.

"Five hundred years ago? Seal? Soul?"

The huge amount of information contained in Kallen's words not only failed to immediately resolve Amamiya Ren's confusion, but instead made his brows furrowed even deeper.

.......Forget it, I won’t try to understand it, I’ll just start to feel it.

It’s like in the JOJO world there are not only Stand users, but also vampires, monsters, ghosts, fate and all kinds of strange things.

In the world of Persona, in addition to the Persona users, there are also various high and mighty gods. The fate that can be predicted through tarot cards, plus some elements like souls and ghosts, is not that strange.

If Yaezakura was really dead, this would be the first time that Amamiya Ren had entered the palace of the dead.

It is understandable that the condition of the palace in Yaesakura's heart is different from that of other living people as only her soul is left.

"Hey, Ziyuan, what will happen if I knock Yaezakura down? Will she be able to return to normal?"

Amamiya Ren pulled out the Raikiri sword hanging from his waist. He held the mechanical-style Raikiri tightly in his hand and asked a question to Kallen on the other side.

"I don't know, Sakura has been......"

Kallen, who was questioned by Amamiya Ren, just responded with a high-quality answer.

Before Kallen could explain in detail, Yae Sakura, who was getting impatient, appeared in front of her in an instant like a rocket.

Yaezakura raised high the Akazake Sakura in her hand, which had degenerated from a cherry-pink spiritual sword into a demon sword under the control of the Herrscher of Corrosion. She laughed crazily and violently and slashed at Kallen.

Fortunately, as an S-class Valkyrie from five hundred years ago, Kallen had extraordinary skills. She narrowly avoided the fatal blow from Yae Sakura and distanced herself from her with her agile and nimble body.

"It seems that the other party will not give us time to sit down and slowly discuss countermeasures, so let's just knock Yaesakura to the ground in one go! ————PERSONA!!"

Amamiya Ren held the katana Raikiri in his right hand and took off the white spirit bird mask on his face with his left hand. Under the astonished gaze of Kallen in the distance, he suddenly threw the white spirit bird mask towards Yaezakura with all his strength.

A blue-green flame suddenly swept across the sky.

Along with Amamiya Ren's deep call, Amamiya Ren's own personality mask also appeared on the stage with the blue sky turning into a stage under the gaze of everyone present.

Chapter 41 Please, Judas!

"Defeat her in one fell swoop, Yassen!"

Born from the azure flames was the Persona Arsene, wearing a bright red dress and with huge black wings spread out.

Amamiya Ren waved his arms and gave instructions to Yasin who he had called over.

Suddenly, a crackling sound was heard, and a huge golden ball of lightning appeared in Arsen's black claws. After a brief build-up of energy, Arsen threw the golden ball of lightning in the direction of Yaezakura.

A dazzling golden column of lightning suddenly fell from the sky.

The lightning was falling at an extremely fast speed, but the ghostly Yaezakura was even faster.