Honkai Impact 3, but I’m Amamiya Ren!

The huge damage inflicted on Feiyuwan's body burst out in an instant. Feiyuwan let out an unwilling roar full of hatred. Her body became tattered and in a mess. Most of her body had turned into light particles and dissipated in the passing wind.

"The protagonist always appears last, so leave the final blow to me. Checkmate... No, let me say this now——"

Amamiya Ren was fiddling with the fully charged Mosin-Nagant and Sun-Ring dual pistols in his hands. Under the gaze of his companions, he slowly stood in front of the dying Hiyukumaru who was lying on the ground.

A slight smile appeared on Amamiya Ren's lips. He crossed the muzzles of the Mosin-Nagant and Sunwheel pistols in his hands. The Mosin-Nagant Sunwheels, which had been charged to the extreme, raised the temperature of the surrounding area to the point where it was slightly distorted and even began to emit flames.

“——————Jackpot!!”

Chapter 46 Kallen: Sakura and the secret treasure are handed over to you!

The blazing flaming shells burst out from the muzzles of the Mosin-Nagant Sunwheel dual guns, and hit the huge fox head of Feiyu Maru with incredible accuracy, which was filled with unwillingness and anger.

The power of the Mosin-Nagant Sunwheel dual rifles is far less powerful than the special moves used by Armored Hatoha and Yae Sakura.

But this was the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely exploding Feiyuwan's hideous and evil huge white fox head into red and black spots all over the sky.

“Is this the end?”

I watched helplessly as Feiyuwan's body completely decomposed into red and black spots of light, slowly circling and flying back into the still opened black box.

After waiting for a while, Amamiya Lian found that there was no strange sound coming from the black box.

So he slowly lowered his hands holding the Mosin-Nagant and Sunwheel dual guns, turned his head and looked at the other thief present.

"Well, thank you for your help, Mr. Joker. If it were just me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to defeat Feiyukumaru so easily and truly free Sakura."

The Oath of Judas summoned during the previous battle had disappeared. Kallen patted the dust on the black bird-beak mask in her hand and put on the mask that she had picked up after the battle.

But this time, Kallen did not wear the black bird-beak mask directly on her face to cover her face.

Instead, he wore the black and purple mask diagonally on his ear, revealing his true face while talking to Amamiya Ren.

After Kallen thanked Amamiya Ren and Hato solemnly and seriously, she began to answer Amamiya Ren's questions.

"Kimizumaru has been defeated, but she is not truly dead yet. Although Sakura has chosen to become your power, Joker, and incarnate the power of the stigmata you possess, as long as Sakura still exists, Kiimizumaru cannot die completely."

"As time goes by, Feiyumaru will eventually be resurrected again. If Sakura's heart is ignited with strong negative emotions again, the day of Feiyumaru's revival will even be accelerated."

Amamiya Ren could totally understand what Kallen meant.

The relationship between humans and personality masks, humans and shadows, is so complex and multifaceted.

In essence, there is no difference between shadow and personality mask. Personality mask is just the shadow of oneself tamed by the personality mask user who recognizes and faces his own heart.

It is not enough to defeat it once. As long as humans are alive, the shadow in their hearts will continue to come back and regenerate.

Not to mention the dark shadows in the hearts of ordinary people.

Even if the user of a Personality Mask is defeated by strong confusion and instability, the probability that the Personality Mask that has been tamed will rebel again and turn back into a Shadow is not zero.

only.......

"Yae Sakura... Sakura has become my personality mask now. Higashimaru should not appear again."

Amamiya Ren frowned slightly and asked Kallen.

Personality users have no shadows because they have faced their own hearts and transformed their shadows into personalities.

And Yae Sakura directly transformed herself into a personality mask, so theoretically she should not give birth to a shadow again.

"......Personality?"

Faced with the completely unfamiliar term "persona", Kallen's blue eyes showed a somewhat bewildered look.

However, she soon realized that Yaezakura transformed herself into the stigma of Amamiya Ren, so the personality mask must be the name that Amamiya Ren gave to the stigma of Yaezakura who placed her power on the white fox mask.

"Because I have become Mr. Joker's personality mask, this place will collapse after a while, but Feiyumaru will follow me into Mr. Joker's heart. But don't worry, Sakura will do her best to suppress Feiyumaru and prevent her from reviving and doing evil in Mr. Joker's heart."

Yaezakura stood beside Kallen, with a look of deep apology on her pretty face. She bowed her head slightly and apologized and made assurances to Amamiya Ren.

To transform her own spirit and strength into stigmata and entrust them to Amamiya Ren's body was the decision Yaezakura made when she was extremely weak in order to defeat the Herrscher of Corrosion, Hiyukumaru.

The effect of this decision was very good. Kiryumaru fell into a weak state due to Yaesakura's separation, and Yaesakura also made outstanding contributions to defeating Kiryumaru by relying on her resistance to the force of erosion.

As a result, Amamiya Ren also obtained the personality mask of Yae Sakura, a woman with excellent strength, which should have been a win-win situation.

But when she thought that Feiyumaru would also live in Amamiya Ren's body because of her, Yaezakura felt a strong sense of apology and guilt towards Amamiya Ren.

"I see. I roughly understand the situation... It's okay, Sakura, you don't have to blame yourself. It doesn't matter even if Feiyumaru is resurrected. At most, I can defeat her again. It would be even better if I can tame her into my own power."

Amamiya Ren pondered for a moment, and after listening to the explanations from Kallen and Yae Sakura, he finally figured out the current situation. He even set his sights on Himegakumaru who had not been resurrected.

The ghost of the shrine maiden Yaezakura took the initiative to transform herself into a personality mask and live in her own mind.

It is natural that the process of conquering personality masks will be different from the situation in the game.

To give an example, Amamiya Ren should have relied on the synthesis of multiple personalities in the Velvet Room to obtain a personality mask of Minamoto no Yoshitsune that did not have the eight jumps.

But in fact, Amamiya Ren directly collided with the dead soul of Minamoto no Yoshitsune himself, and subdued the Minamoto no Yoshitsune who was proficient in the eight-ship jump and made him his own personality mask.

I always feel that this is not the gameplay of Persona, but more like the gameplay of the next door true Megami Tensei...

It is normal to have some side effects.

Moreover, if this side effect is handled well, it may also be a help to you.

"Let's put off such a distant thing as Feiyuwan's resurrection for later. Since this palace is about to collapse, we have to speed up our search for the Desire Stone! Hmm...what about the secret treasure?"

After knowing that the palace was about to collapse, Amamiya Ren should have returned to the entrance as quickly as possible and left before the collapse of the palace affected her.

But Yutu's ability to create portals is too convenient. Amamiya Ren doesn't have to stick to the so-called entrances and exits. As long as Yutu is there, he can immediately return to the real world no matter where he is.

Therefore, Amamiya Ren decided to find the three desire stones in the Yaezakura Palace as quickly as possible before the palace collapsed.

As for the secret treasure, it is not as important as the Desire Stone.

After all, the secret treasure is just the embodiment of something in reality that is most important and impressive to the master of the palace, and it cannot enhance Amamiya Ren's combat effectiveness like the Desire Stone.

What's more, the secret treasure of Yaezakura's palace has not yet taken shape, Yaezakura herself is dead, and has become his own personality mask.

Amamiya Ren couldn't possibly write a warning letter and burn it in front of Yaezakura's grave, or send it directly to herself, right?

Instead of spending energy on insignificant secret treasures, Amamiya Lian felt that it would be better to do a favor to the Phantom Thief Ziyuan. Maybe Amamiya Lian would need her help in the future.

However, the Phantom Thief Ziyuan——Karen Kaslana seemed to hold a different opinion from Amamiya Ren.

"As for the secret treasure, I'll leave it to you, Joker, to steal it. If you are chosen by Sakura, I believe you must be a righteous and conscious person who can use this power in the right way."

"I can tell from your eyes that you are pursuing some kind of great cause and mission that is almost impossible to accomplish, so you desperately need strength. But please remember not to lose yourself for the sake of strength and end up forgetting your original goal."

"Of course, I believe that if you show any signs of going astray, Sakura will definitely stop you and become your line of defense before you lose control!"

A warm smile like sunshine that shines into people's hearts appeared on Karin's delicate face. She handed the black box in her hands to Amamiya Ren in front of her, and gave him repeated instructions and warnings.

Chapter 47 Damn it, I’m five dollars short again!

"It doesn't matter what happens with the secret treasure, the most important thing now is the Desire Stone...Hato, you still can't detect the reaction of the Desire Stone?"

Amamiya Ren reached out and took the black box of secret treasure handed over by Karin. It was just a secret treasure with no practical use. Since Karin was willing to give it to her, Amamiya Ren had no intention of pretending to be polite and pushing it away.

Especially since the palace had already begun to collapse, Amamiya Ren, who was standing in the shrine on the back mountain of Yae Village, could already see that the end of the horizon was beginning to be eroded and disappear by darkness.

Just like the end of the world, the deep and empty darkness slowly and steadily approached the back mountain where Amamiya Ren and the others were.

"Now, we can indeed detect some abnormal reactions. If that reaction is the Lust Stone you are looking for, Joker, then there may be the clues you want behind this door."

After Amamiya Ren's active inquiry, Yuto finally gave effective feedback. She slowly raised her slender white hand and pointed to a remote room in the corner of the Yae Shrine.

"That's the shrine's warehouse, used to store things that are not normally used. Sakura doesn't remember storing something called the Desire Stone in the shrine's warehouse."

Yaezakura introduced to Amemiya Ren the place that Hato pointed to. Her brows were slightly frowned. No matter how hard she tried to recall, she was sure that she had no impression of putting the Desire Stone, or any stone, in the shrine warehouse.

While Yaezakura was still thinking hard, Amamiya Ren had already taken the initiative to walk to the door of the shrine warehouse, which was barely unaffected by the aftermath of the battle, and stretched out her arms to push open the tightly closed door.

The moment the door of the shrine warehouse was pushed open, a faint cherry-pink light emanated from the dim warehouse floor.

Yu Gonglian's eyes suddenly lit up, and he walked forward quickly. As the distance got closer, the object emitting a faint glow came clearly into his eyes.

"Found it, the Desire Stone!... But this Desire Stone looks a little weird."

Floating low above the warehouse floor was a pink crystal that emitted a deep glow and carried a deadly aura, looking like both stone and jade.

Different from what Amemiya Ren had in mind, this pink crystal that Yutu sensed as the lust stone was not in the shape of a skull, but rather resembled an irregular cube.

"I don't remember putting anything like this in the warehouse..."

Yaezakura, who was following closely behind Amamiya Ren, opened her eyes wide in slight surprise after seeing the pink crystals floating in the shrine warehouse.

Under the gazes of Yaezakura, Kallen and the others, Amamiya Ren reached forward and caught the slowly floating and rotating pink crystal into her red-gloved palm.

"This is----?!"

The moment Amemiya Ren touched the pink crystals, a strange memory suddenly surged into his mind.

That was the memory of the young Yaesakura who wanted to escape the village with her sister who was chosen as a sacrifice, but found that her sister's tendons had been cut, and finally she could only watch her sister being killed by the ignorant villagers.

After receiving this memory, Amamiya Ren finally understood what kind of cruel and brutal incident happened four years ago that the villagers of Yae Village had righteously shouted out.

We also learned how Yaezakura was bound by a curse called the Promise. Although she was full of resentment towards the villagers, she still went against her conscience and acted as a tool to protect the villagers.

As the strange memories from Yaezakura emerged, Amamiya Ren even felt as if she had experienced the same thing and ignited a twisted abyss of rage in her heart that clearly did not belong to her.

"Yes, this is the five dollars I missed! Although it looks a little different, it is definitely the Desire Stone."

In just two breaths, Amamiya Ren got rid of the rage brought about by the memories of Yu Shi.

In fact, he had immediately erased the influence of Yae Sakura's rage brought about by Yuishi's memories.

However, the ignorant and inhumane behavior of the villagers of Yae Village in Yushi's memory angered even the bystander Amamiya Ren, igniting the real anger in his heart.

Fortunately, this palace was on the verge of destruction. Amamiya Ren stayed in the shrine on the back mountain and could even faintly hear the screams of the villagers of Yae Village when they faced the end of the world.

Amamiya Ren felt a little comforted and relieved.

"If you think about it carefully, it makes sense. The great sins and secret treasures of the palace in everyone's mind are different. There is no reason why all the Desire Stones are exactly the same as if they were wholesaled. Atlas must have been lazy and used the same set of models again."

When obtaining the Desire Stone, one can peek into the important memories of the Palace Master. This was a system that was once implemented in P5R but was tragically deleted in the official version.

Since Hato said it was the Desire Stone, it can also allow Amamiya Ren to peek into the important memories of the Palace Master like the Desire Stone, and its color is consistent with the impression of Yaezakura as the Palace Master.

Then this irregular cube must be the Desire Stone!

"Is this the Lust Stone you were looking for, Joker? If this is the Lust Stone, I happen to have collected two of them, so I'll give them to you as well."

Kallen's little white head popped out from Amamiya Ren's shoulder.

She heard Amamiya Ren's mumbling just now. Although she didn't understand it completely, Karin could still fully understand that the pink crystal was the desire stone that Amamiya Ren was looking for.

Under Amamiya Ren's astonished gaze, Karin reached into the pocket of her purple fitted dress with her slender white hands and took out two irregular cherry pink cubes that were exactly the same as the ones in Amamiya Ren's hands.

"This is...the other two lust stones?!"

Amamiya Lian had never expected that before he could take the initiative to collect them, the two desire stones would be delivered to his door automatically.

Amamiya Ren subconsciously placed his hand on the delicate little hand that Kallen extended to him, and touched the two pink lust stones collected by Kallen.

In an instant, two completely different memories flooded into Amamiya Ren's mind.

One of them is the memory of Yae Sakura falling into the evil path, unable to bear it anymore and slaughtering all the villagers of Yae Village with her own hands, but was finally stopped and sealed by Kallen.

Another memory is that of Yaesakura, who was younger than she was four years ago and had not yet become a shrine maiden, and was happily playing with her sister under the cherry tree.

Maybe it’s because the little girl has not grown up yet.

Although Amamiya Ren could recognize Yaezakura in the third memory at a glance, the sister who was playing with Yaezakura under the cherry tree seemed slightly different from the one in the first memory.

After Amamiya Ren received the memory fragments carried by the three desire stones.

The pink lust stone in Amamiya Ren's hand and the two irregular crystals in Karin's hands collided with each other at high speed in an instant, and finally fit together tightly into a large cherry pink cube.

In the huge cherry pink cube, there was a faint red light flickering and lighting up slowly.

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I copied a book review. The idea that the Desire Stone is made of three parts is so genius! :-D

Chapter 48: The Key of God - Ksitigarbha Soul, the Eternal God!

"In this way, the Desire Stone of [Sin of Wrath] will be in our hands...Hato, you should know how to use this thing, right? Can you help me operate it?"