Honkai Impact 3, but I’m Amamiya Ren!

In this situation, with her mind blank, Raiden Mei subconsciously recalled the taboo words that Amamiya Ren had once warned her about.

"A guy like you——"

Mei Raiden couldn't help but open her pink lips, and her throat seemed to have a will of its own, and she made a dry and hoarse sound.

"No, Mei, you can't say that!"

When I heard that Raiden Mei was completely defeated by Shadow Mei's verbal attack and lost her mind and wanted to say the forbidden words to completely deny Shadow Mei's existence.

Amemiya Ren, who was standing next to Raiden Mei, immediately became alert. He quickly raised his hand and covered Raiden Mei's moist and soft lips, trying to block the words that Raiden Mei was about to shout.

However, Amamiya Ren's reminder did not restore Raiden Mei's sanity after she was provoked by Shadow Mei.

"A guy like you... can't possibly be me!!!"

Even though her mouth was covered by Amamiya Ren, Raiden Mei was still stubborn and tried her best, shouting at Shadow Mei at the top of her lungs.

The pink lips with a slight moist feeling were constantly caressed between Amemiya Ren's palms. The touch of the soft lips made people feel a little comfortable as if they were being massaged.

However, the words that Raiden Mei successfully shouted out made Amamiya Ren sigh softly.

"Is this some kind of fixed level that I can't skip? It looks like I'll have to fight to solve this problem in the end."

Although before entering the palace, Mei Raiden was carefully warned about the precautions she should take when facing her own shadow.

But Amamiya Ren did not expect to be able to skip class successfully. He had already prepared himself for the possibility that Raiden Mei would fail in facing Shadow and end up fighting.

"Ah... what did I say just now... I'm sorry, Amamiya-kun, I'm sorry..."

After Amamiya Ren moved her hand away from her mouth, Raiden Mei, who had lost her mind due to the bewitching of Shadow Mei, finally regained her sanity.

After realizing that she had ignored Amamiya Ren's dissuasion and insisted on saying the forbidden words that she had already known, Raiden Mei lowered her head in shame. She no longer dared to look at the figure of Amamiya Ren beside her. As her tears flowed uncontrollably, her slender legs fell to the ground softly as if she had lost all strength.

"It's okay. I understand. Didn't I tell you before we entered the palace that I would stay with you no matter if it's once, twice or three times, until you completely accept the shadow?"

Amemiya Ren pulled at the red gloves on his hands. Wearing a black bird-wing windbreaker, he stood in front of Raiden Mei who was kneeling on the ground, shielding her from the increasingly prominent and powerful figure of Shadow Mei.

Shadow's torture of the mind is so targeted that every word is a critical hit and every sentence is true damage.

Even Amamiya Ren, who was listening, felt her scalp tingling when she heard what Shadow Mei said, let alone Raiden Mei herself.

Forced to reveal the thought that had once flashed through her mind in front of Amamiya Ren, the person she cared about, and falling into the tragic situation of social death, Raiden Mei has now completely entered a state of mental breakdown.

"Amamiya-kun, you... don't you hate me?"

Hearing the calm and composed voice of Amamiya Ren coming from the front, which was as calm and composed as usual, Raiden Mei, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly trembled.

She suddenly raised her head, looking up at Amamiya Ren with a pleading look in her purple eyes, and her slender white hands carefully grabbed the corner of Amamiya Ren's phantom suit in front of her.

"Of course not. Didn't we already agree that no matter what happens, I will never hate you... And who do you think I am? I'm not some new Persona user who just entered the palace. I know much more about the shadow of the mind and the knowledge related to Persona than you think."

Looking at Raiden Mei, who was kneeling behind him, looking at him with pitiful and humble attitude, and pleading eyes, Amamiya Ren sighed softly, then held her cold and soft hand in a gentle voice, and comforted Raiden Mei, whose psychological defenses had been completely shattered by Shadow Mei.

"Humans cannot completely control their brain activities. From time to time, some dark and negative thoughts will float through their minds. When you see an overly cute animal, the balance mechanism of the brain may make you subconsciously want to hurt it. When you walk past a tall building, sometimes you want to jump over the railing... These are all objective existence, but they are not thoughts that arise from your own will."

"Maybe some dark thoughts may occasionally flash through your mind, Mei-senpai, but just thinking about it in your mind is nothing at all. As long as you don't turn those negative thoughts into actual actions, then no one can blame you, even if that person is your own shadow."

During the time that Amemiya Ren and Raiden Mei have been together, he has never felt the slightest malice towards her. He believes in Raiden Mei and also believes in his own judgment of people.

Shadow Mei's accusation might be correct. At one point in time, Raiden Mei did have those dark thoughts in her mind.

But she obviously restrained herself and always remained the kind and gentle Mei Raiden, not turning into the Queen of Thunder in the palace because of the distortion of her mind.

"Mei-senpai, your battle has come to an end for now. It's my turn on the stage now."

Gently releasing the delicate little hand of Raiden Mei that was reluctant to leave and still wanted to continue to nestle in his palm, Amamiya Ren turned to face Shadow Mei on the other side.

"In other words, are you going to stand on the side of that poor fellow? It's really a pity. If you were willing to submit to me, I could have reluctantly allowed you to survive."

Ever since Raiden Mei completely denied the connection between her and Shadow Mei, the aura emanating from Shadow Mei has been rising steadily and suddenly.

Her purple eyes completely transformed into golden ones, and her words were mysterious and dangerous like a double voice with an echo.

After seeing that Amemiya Ren chose to stand in front of Raiden Mei to stop her, Shadow Mei sighed softly, and there seemed to be a hint of regret and loneliness in her eyes that flashed away in an instant.

"Even if you want to help that poor creature, it will be useless if you are willing to be parasitized and sucked blood by her, because... I am her shadow, the real Raiden Mei!"

As the Queen of Thunder and Lightning, she is the original and truest personality of [Raiden Mei].

And what Amamiya Ren recognized was that the gentle and weak Raiden Mei was just a character whose personality was forcibly changed by the pressure of reality and whose mind was distorted.

Boom boom boom————!!!

At the moment when Shadow Mei made the judgment, a huge thunder like the roar of God fell down, and the vast deep purple lightning engulfed Shadow Mei's slender and well-proportioned figure.

When Shadow Mei's figure slowly emerged again in the shining deep purple lightning, her clothes and appearance had undergone a drastic change from that of Thunder Mei's real body who was still kneeling on the ground.

A pair of scarlet horns like those of an evil spirit extended from Shadow Mei's forehead, which was covered by purple-black bangs. She wore a tight combat skirt made of black and white, and her slender white arms were covered with a pair of blood-red arm guards.

Shadow Mei showed a new look, and a god-like dark purple halo appeared behind her. On both sides of her were red demon armor arms suspended in the air, holding a huge sword to guard her.

"Now, I am the real [Raiden Mei], can you defeat me who holds the power of conquest?!"

Chapter 91: Ksitigarbha's Soul is Beyond Limits! How can you also have the authority of God?! (Two in One)

Shadow Mei, like an evil ghost warrior, lowered her body's center of gravity slightly forward. Just as she leaned forward, a deep purple thunder suddenly burst out in front of Amamiya Ren's eyes.

Accompanied by purple lightning all over the sky, Shadow Mei moved so fast that she seemed to teleport. In an instant, she suddenly appeared in front of Amamiya Ren and swung the purple sword in her hand at him.

Ding ding ding————!!!

The crisp sound of metal hitting stone rang out continuously. Amamiya Ren raised her hand and blocked the Jizo Soul Sword in her hand forward, and fought with Shadow Mei who was attacking at an extremely fast frequency.

After the crisp sound of blades colliding, like hammering iron, rang out for a while, the muffled thunder created by Shadow Mei's fierce attack finally sounded slowly and belatedly.

“So fast—!”

Amamiya Ren continued to wave the Jizo Soul Sword in her hand, blocking the purple sword that Shadow Mei was swinging towards the vital parts of her body.

However, the more Amamiya Ren fought with Shadow Mei with swords, the more he felt that Shadow Mei's sword-drawing speed was continuously rising, advancing towards an even faster and more agile realm.

In the first two seconds, Amamiya Ren was still able to compete with Shadow Mei's sword power, but when the time came to the third second, Amamiya Ren, who had fought with Shadow Mei for 450 swords, began to gradually lose the upper hand in the sword fight.

"Is she getting faster? No, not only that, under the paralyzing effect of the lightning, my speed is also starting to slow down..."

The purple sword in Shadow Mei's hand was wrapped in fine lightning, and purple electric arcs kept leaping on the sword body. With her exquisite and skillful sword-wielding technique, she left brilliant and beautiful lightning sword lights in the air.

And when the sword carrying the power of thunder and lightning collided with the Jizo Soul sword in Amamiya Ren's hand, the thunder power spread along the Jizo Soul into Amamiya Ren's body, and immediately made Amamiya Ren's palm holding the sword relax a little, and his body movements became more sluggish and stiff.

Through the brief game with Shadow Mei, Amamiya Ren roughly figured out the range of Shadow Mei's strength.

Not as ridiculously powerful as Siegfried in the second stage in Kaslana Palace, Shadow Mei's real strength should be only slightly stronger than Scarlet Prison Maru in Yaesu Palace, and that's only to a very limited extent.

However, the focus of Shadow Mei's strength is different from that of Shadow Feiyumaru. Her strengths are her swiftness and ferocity like lightning, her superb speed that makes it difficult for people to react, and her powerful destructive force that can crush everything in her path.

Coupled with the Hokushin Ittoryu sword technique that Raiden Mei herself has learned, Shadow Mei's sword attack is very methodical. Her current strength and speed perfectly match the essence of Hokushin Ittoryu. When fighting against Amamiya Ren who also uses the Hokushin Ittoryu technique, she can naturally suppress Amamiya Ren everywhere.

The positioning of Amamiya Ren and Shadow Mei is similar, which is why they seem to have very poor compatibility.

“We can’t go on like this—Higyokumaru!!”

Amamiya Ren is a personality mask user, and his greatest advantage is naturally the personality mask. It is already very good that he can fight a few moves with Shadow Mei as a human being. He has no intention of using his own weaknesses to fight to the death with Shadow Mei's strengths.

After the Jizo Soul Sword once again clashed with the purple sword in Shadow Mei's hand, Amamiya Ren deliberately distanced herself from Shadow Mei. Flames burned at the ends of the five fox tails of the personality mask Higyokumaru, and she shot a large number of crimson flames towards the direction where Shadow Mei was.

"It's just a trifle. You haven't mastered the Beichen Itto-ryu at all. Are you feeling complacent just because you defeated that poor fellow? Let me show you what real sword skills are!"

There was a faint golden light blooming in Shadow Mei's eyes, and a cold arc appeared at the corner of her mouth. Her whole body shot out like a lightning, and she kept biting at Amamiya Ren's figure. The purple sword in her hand was slightly raised, and the blade pointed directly at Amamiya Ren who was retreating at high speed.

Faced with the explosive fire bombs pouring down from the personality mask Higyokumaru, Shadow Mei had no intention of dodging at all. She continued to sprint at full speed without changing her expression.

The scarlet flame bullet fired from Feiyuwan was about to engulf her delicate body.

The pair of huge ghost armor arms floating on both sides of Shadow Mei suddenly began to move. The red ghost armor giant palms tightly grasped the huge sword in their hands, making a preparatory posture for drawing the sword and slashing.

The build-up of momentum only takes a moment.

Just like lightning crossing the sky, dense and crisscrossing red lightning suddenly burst out, and the lightning sword that lit up with a bang slashed and destroyed all the flaming bombs shot by the personality mask Higurashi Maru, leaving only some insignificant sparks that fell on the delicate cheeks of Shadow Mei who remained calm.

"Times have changed. Your opponent now is not me, but——Yasen!!"

Under the strong pursuit of Shadow Mei, Amamiya Ren has retreated to the edge of the rooftop.

And the next moment when he stopped, the figure of the personality mask Arsene suddenly rushed out from below. The momentum created by Arsene's flying attack caused the hem of Amamiya Ren's windbreaker at the edge of the rooftop to fly, and a smile of success appeared on his face.

Vibrating a pair of jet-black falcon wings, the personality mask Arsene hovered above Amamiya Ren, with its sharp black claws extended forward. A mighty lightning bolt as bright as gold came down with a bang, and a dense golden lightning grid fell rapidly from the sky to the rooftop of the teaching building.

"You actually want to use thunder and lightning to fight against me, the Apostle of God who holds the power of thunder and lightning to conquer. How foolish and ridiculous!"

Seeing that Amamiya Ren was actually controlling the personality mask Arsene to use lightning skills on her, Shadow Mei, who possessed the power of the Herrscher of Lightning and the stigma of lightning, immediately curled up a mocking smile at the corner of her mouth.

She swung the purple sword in her hand confidently, and deep purple-red lightning flashes emitting a mysterious aura suddenly cut through the sky and rose up, striking the position of the personality mask Arsene with terrifying force.

When Amamiya Ren was explaining the knowledge about personality masks to Raiden Mei in the real world, Shadow Mei was also listening quietly in the palace, and she deeply agreed with everything Amamiya Ren said.

Although in Shadow Mei's opinion, Amamiya Ren's way of awakening the stigmata is a bit unconventional to the point of extreme, but if it is combined with the power of the Jizo Soul Sword in his hand, it is just right and can bring out the power of his own stigmata to the extreme.

The will of the stigmata will not perish, and the personality mask can naturally be reborn countless times.

Knowing this information, Shadow Mei had no intention of holding back at all.

She no longer held back like she had just done in the sword duel with Amamiya Ren, but instead went all out and bombarded the personality mask of Arsene in the sky with the strongest lightning, determined to blast Amamiya Ren's personality mask into pieces in one fell swoop to prove her own strength.

The golden divine thunder that descended from the sky and the purple-red thunder that rose from the bottom to the top collided with each other in a mighty manner. The two colors of lightning, one bright and one dark, mixed together, erupting with a strong momentum and impact, and set off a series of strong lightning storms on the rooftop. Even the barbed wire erected at the edge of the rooftop began to shake and could fall down at any time.

If Mei Raiden was still standing on the rooftop, she might be blown onto the wire mesh by the strong storm, or a hole would be knocked in the wire mesh, or she might fall directly to the ground along with the wire mesh.

Fortunately, Amamiya Ren had already taken advantage of the time when Shadow Mei was chasing her relentlessly, and controlled the personality mask Arsen to send the fragile and weak Lightning Mei out of the high-intensity battlefield filled with lightning and sword lights, and sent her to Yutu's side. That's why Arsen appeared from behind Amamiya Ren by rising from the ground.

Although Yutu was unable to completely eliminate the Shadow Guards that emerged like locusts, it would be no problem if he could just block their steps so that they could not interfere with the battle between Amamiya Ren and Shadow Mei and prevent those Shadow Guards from harming Raiden Mei.

This is the benefit of being able to manipulate two personalities at the same time... although the burden is also doubled accordingly.

The energy required to control the personality mask Higyokumaru is more than Amamiya Ren expected.

Instead of returning the power of Jizo-mimichi to Higyokumaru so that it can transform into a personality mask, it is better to do the opposite and let Higyokumaru's will drive the power of Jizo-mimichi to the limit.

Especially at this critical moment when Arsene and Shadow Mei are competing with each other in ultimate moves, Amamiya Ren should put all her strength into the personality mask Arsene.

In the sky above, the golden divine thunder that was originally in a tense confrontation gradually showed signs of weakening. After Shadow Mei, who had originally looked confident and arrogant, frowned slightly with an unsightly look on her face, the purple-red lightning in the sky began to press the golden divine thunder towards the direction of the personality mask Arsene.

"Come back, Hiyomaru, and focus all your strength on Jizo's soul!"

Amamiya Ren held the Jizo-myouhun katana horizontally in front of her body, gently placed her left hand on the slightly rough blade, and gave instructions to the personality mask Higyokumaru who was hovering beside her.

The white spirit fox Feiyuwan raised her head and let out a clear fox cry. Her body was like a burning cherry-colored will-o'-the-wisp fire, and like young swallows returning to their nests, she rushed into the Jizo Yuhun sword that was held horizontally in Amamiya Ren's palm.

The Jizo-mimyouhun sword was like a thirsty, dry sponge, greedily and madly absorbing the power of the Higyokumaru.

However, in the blink of an eye, the originally dull color of the Jizo Yuhun sword became bright again, and the strength of the blade returned to its indestructible sharpness. Even the tiny cracks in the sword that were caused when it was in a fragile state and fighting against Shadow Mei were spontaneously repaired and became flawless again.

"Let me see your limits, Jizo Mikyou!"

Amamiya Ren suddenly swung the Jizo Soul Blade in his hand, and his body was gradually stained with a frightening red-black ominous miasma. A hint of madness emerged in his obsidian-black pupils, and the corners of his mouth were raised high.

As Amamiya Ren swung the Jizo Yuhun Katana in the air forward, the Jizo Yuhun Katana in his palm gradually underwent some miraculous changes. The light texture of the Katana became heavy, the shape became more flamboyant and sharp, and even the length of the sword increased by three fingers forward.

After absorbing the power and will of Higyokumaru into the Jizo-myouhun katana, the true potential of Jizo-myouhun was awakened.

Amamiya Ren made a prompt decision and used the special skill of Jizo Soul that could greatly enhance the power of himself and his personality mask.

The strengthening effect of the Jizo Soul Sword after being possessed by Higyokumaru is outstanding. Amamiya Ren can intuitively feel that her physical ability has increased by at least three levels.

However, as the price of the huge increase in physical strength, he felt that he was now emotionally high and a little crazy. He wished he could immediately turn into a pancake man, cover his face and laugh a few times, and then shout "I feel good now", to show his extremely healthy and normal mental state.

"As the degree of strengthening increases, the influence of Jizo's soul power on the mind also increases... But it's not a big problem, it has no effect on the battle!!"

When he used the enhanced function of Jizo Soul in the past, Amamiya Ren was able to feel the erosion and tampering of his own spirit by the power of Jizo Soul, but he was able to clearly control his mind and suppress the negative influence to the extreme.

Although it is impossible to minimize the impact now, fortunately, there is Hiyomaru to help manipulate and assist the power in Jizo's soul.

At most, Amamiya Ren was given a buff that aroused her fighting spirit, but her mentality was not eroded or changed at all.

When red-black miasma emerged from Amamiya Ren's body, violent and boiling red-black spiritual flames also gushed out from the surface of the personality mask Arsen hovering above the sky, and the area of ​​Arsen's eyes radiated a breathtaking deep red light.

Under the massive enhancement of the full power of Jizo's Soul, the power of the Personality Mask Arsene suddenly increased to the limit.