Honkai Impact 3, but I’m Amamiya Ren!

Theresa heard the sound of the doorknob turning and suddenly stood up from her desk as if her instinct had awakened.

Although her eyes were still sleepy, Theresa seemed to have the action engraved into her DNA. She picked up the saliva-soaked Homunculus comic book on the table smoothly, tore it into small pieces as quickly as possible, and then suddenly hid the torn pieces under her desk.

"Ahem, Himeko? What's wrong with you?"

Looking at her good friend Himeko Muryota who pushed the door and walked into her office, Theresa pretended to be serious and coughed lightly.

She calmly wiped away the traces of saliva that had flowed from the corners of her mouth when she fell asleep unconsciously, trying to show the dignity of the academy president, and asked Wuliangta Jizi who suddenly broke in.

"Well, Theresa... My dear Theresa, I haven't received my salary for three months. Can you please make an exception today? I promise to only drink one bottle of wine and never drink too much again!!"

Wuliangta Jizi glanced at the half piece of Hom comic paper that had not been swept off the edge of the table. The corner of her mouth twitched slightly, and she pretended that she saw nothing, then turned to Theresa and gave her a flattering smile.

"Didn't I already tell you that St. Freya's College doesn't have any extra funds right now? Ah, um..."

Just when Theresa's brows subconsciously raised and she was about to reject Wuliangta Jizi's application, she seemed to suddenly think of something, and her originally firm tone suddenly became soft and hesitant.

"......It's not impossible. Anyway, even if I don't agree, Jizi, you will find ways to borrow money from others to buy bars. Remember what you said, you must not get drunk again."

Theresa sighed softly, took out her personal terminal from the drawer, and paid the three months' overdue salary to Wuliangta Jizi's account.

"No way, Theresa, you're so easy to talk to today? Did something good happen?!"

Looking at the payment message on her mobile phone, Wuliangta Jizi, who just wanted to give Theresa some trouble as usual and did not hold out much hope of successfully collecting her salary, suddenly opened her eyes wide in shock. She said to Theresa in disbelief.

"I, I seem to have had a dream. I dreamed that a handsome young man dressed in black and wearing a white mask brought a few friends to beat me up... and also told me to treat my subordinates well and not to deduct their wages?"

Theresa covered her forehead, recalling the remaining memories in her dream, and said this in a somewhat uncertain tone.

"It must be you, Jizi, who has been urging me to pay the wages. As a result, every time I take a short rest after being tired, I have nightmares about being beaten up as an evil capitalist!!"

"Who told you to keep deducting my salary? Don't worry, Theresa. You will be able to sleep well and have a good dream tonight."

Wuliangta Jizi looked at the account balance displayed on her mobile phone without raising her head. The corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up, and she said this to Theresa in a very casual tone.

Wuliangta Jizi was already imagining in her mind what kind of fine wine she would buy next to get drunk.

"I hope so. But the young man who beat me up seemed to claim to be a psychic thief. Aren't thieves supposed to steal the assets of rich people quietly? Even if I was regarded as an evil capitalist in the nightmare, I shouldn't be beaten up by him. What kind of thief is this? It's really an illogical nightmare..."

After hearing Theresa complain about the specific content of the nightmare, Himeko Muliangta, who was browsing the dazzling array of fine wines on her mobile phone and preparing to say hello to the familiar bar owner, began to sweat slowly on her fair forehead.

"Hmm? Himeko, what's wrong with you? Why are you sweating all of a sudden?"

After noticing that Wuliangta Jizi's delicate body was somewhat stiff and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, Theresa immediately showed a puzzled expression to her.

"Ahaha, it's nothing. Theresa, you should ventilate your office. It feels a bit hot... Anyway, I'm going to take a rest first. See you later!!"

Wuliangta Jizi showed an embarrassed smile on her face. She hid the mobile phone that had just received the funds behind her and quickly left Theresa's dean's office as if she was fleeing.

"The Phantom Thief of the Heart? Joker, the Phantom Thief of the Heart? That Phantom Thief Channel website can't be real? Did the Phantom Thief of the Heart really make Theresa repent and be willing to pay me the withheld salary?!"

While escaping from the dean's office, Himeko Murata recalled the mission commission she had left on the Phantom Thief Channel website when she was drunk and had a playful attitude. She couldn't help but feel a sense of absurd surprise in her heart.

Chapter 5: You asked an S-class Valkyrie to give you a massage?! (K words)

After a whole day of running around in the impression space, Amamiya Ren and Raiden Mei bid farewell to Hatagu and Seele, and returned to the Raiden house in the real world with the ability of the other world navigation APP.

The mission commissions on the Phantom Thief Channel website were completed very smoothly, and all the previously accepted mission commissions had been cleared and completed by Amamiya Ren.

Except for the shadow of the white-haired little nun at the beginning, all the target shadows that Amamiya Ren encountered later were just a bunch of useless soldiers who could not pose any threat to him at all.

Some of the shadows couldn't even transform, and just maintained their true appearance in the real world as they rushed towards the Phantom Thieves of Hearts led by Amamiya Ren, and were naturally forced to repent.

The uneven strength of the target shadows in the impression space did not bother Amamiya Lian.

However, the mental state of those target shadows made Amamiya Ren, the Phantom Thief of Heart who knew the inside story, feel a strong sense of horror that made his scalp tingle.

After leaving the area where the white-haired little nun Shadow was, all the other shadow targets encountered by Amamiya Ren seemed to have given up thinking, and just like NPCs with a program, they kept repeating the same lines and actions.

No matter what questions Amamiya Ren asked them, those shadow targets would only keep repeating the lines that had already been prepared, with infatuated smiles on their faces.

Only after launching attacks on the shadow targets and completely defeating them, will those extremely strange shadow targets respond to Amamiya Ren's words of repentance and honestly accept the outcome of having their hearts changed by the Phantom Thief of Hearts Joker.

A shadow like this who completely lies down and gives up, only follows his own inner feelings, keeps repeating the same lines, and basically no longer reacts to changes in the outside world... In fact, Amamiya Ren has seen this.

The entire modern society has fallen into a wave of laziness, and human evolution has entered a state of stagnation due to fatigue.

From the collective laziness and unconsciousness of mankind, the Holy Grail, the spiritual treasure of all mankind, was even born - the false god Yaldabaoth.

The false god Yaldabaoth imprisoned all the human shadows in the deepest prison of the image space. Only a very small number of human shadows with strong twisted desires in their hearts could successfully escape from prison and create their own mind palace in the image space.

The evil god Yaldabaoth manipulated the Phantom Thieves of Hearts from behind the scenes to defeat the palace masters in the image space one by one and make them repent. In fact, he was completely using the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as tools.

The Shadow, the lord of the palace whose twisted desires were stolen, will be imprisoned again by the evil god in the deepest cell of the memory space. Like the common people in the prison, he will never have the idea of ​​escaping from prison like before.

And those human shadows imprisoned in the deepest prison of the memory space are in a state of complete stagnation and laziness.

No matter how they are treated, those human shadows will be content with the status quo. Even if the end of the world is approaching, they will not make any special reaction to it. They will just squat in their own small prison space and wait for the end of the world to come.

The human shadows that Amamiya Ren encountered in the memory space were almost the same as the lazy shadows in the deepest prison of the memory space.

If the shadows of those mission targets appeared in the prison in the deepest part of the memory space, Amamiya Lian could be sure that they would be able to integrate into it like a fish in water.

But that type of shadow appeared randomly in various areas of the impression space, and the information contained behind it made Amemiya feel a little sweaty.

Ordinary shadows like these, who are deeply trapped in laziness and do not have enough twisted desires in their hearts to support them, are obviously unable to overcome the supervision of the shadow jailers and escape from the prison in the deepest part of the impression space.

In other words.

Or the evil god's control over the impression space has become stronger, and he can drag all human shadows in the impression space into a state of laziness, negativity and stagnation.

Either the prison built by the evil god in the deepest part of the impression space was destroyed by some existence, or at least there was a big mistake, causing the lazy people and shadows who should have existed in the prison to drift into different classes of the impression space.

Considering that after those shadows were defeated and changed their hearts by Amamiya Lian, their bodies did not disappear on the spot, but were forcibly transferred to the prison in the deepest part of the impression space.

Obviously, the second guess is more likely to be realistic.

After all, this world is no longer simply the worldview of P5, but is also stitched into the worldviews of other Persona series.

The false god Yaldabaoth is just a false god after all.

If it encounters other powerful gods as opponents, it will probably suffer a loss even if it stays in the impression space that is Yaldabert's home ground.

It would be good if the prison that imprisoned the shadows of the people was destroyed.

Even if Amamiya Ren can change the hearts of human shadows, those shadows will not be transferred to the prison to be imprisoned by the evil god.

Although the shadows are imprisoned in the Prison of Sloth, their real bodies in the real world will not be affected too much. They will just lie down passively like salted fish. Moreover, after Amamiya Ren completes her development, she will definitely defeat the evil god and free these imprisoned ordinary shadows.

But compared to being imprisoned by the evil god who is high above, freedom is better.

Although the feeling of laziness still fills the hearts of these shadows, as long as Amamiya Ren defeats Yaldabaoth, the evil god who represents the collective laziness and unconsciousness of mankind, the hearts of the shadows that have been dragged into the quagmire of laziness will surely gain true freedom and liberation.

"Welcome back. It seems that your mission in the Impression Space has been going smoothly. Many users have left messages saying that their wishes have come true. People who used to treat them harshly have suddenly become gentle and fair."

Returning to the living room of Raiden's house, Amamiya Ren saw Bronya sitting at the dining table fiddling with her laptop, just as she had been when he left.

Noticing the return of Amamiya Ren and Raiden Mei, Bronya shifted her gaze away from the laptop screen in front of her. She greeted Amamiya Ren with an expressionless face and informed her of the latest status of the Phantom Thieves Channel website.

"It worked so quickly, that's beyond my expectation... Bronya, let me see!"

After hearing Bronya's report, Amamiya Ren's eyes couldn't help but light up slightly.

He walked quickly to Bronya's side and couldn't wait to look at the Red Phantom Thief Channel website that Bronya was maintaining.

If we don't count the number of times she used the power of Jizo's soul to forcibly change Cocolia's heart in the real world, this is actually the first time that Amamiya Ren has seriously changed someone's heart.

Yaezakura had already been dead for a long time, and finally became the personality mask of Amamiya Ren.

Seele was subjected to human experiments by Cocolia and is no longer a pure human physique. Moreover, as a shadow, Seele was subdued by Amamiya Ren as a personality mask.

Mei Raiden is actually a real human girl, but she followed Amamiya Ren into her own mind palace, and awakened her power as a personality mask user in the palace. Obviously, this is not a proper process of changing her heart.

The first person that Amamiya Ren truly changed her heart to was the white-haired little nun Shadow whom she encountered in the area near Kaslana Palace.

Therefore, after walking to Bronya's side, Amamiya Ren immediately looked for details of the phantom thief commission from the unscrupulous boss who withheld the wages of his subordinates.

As the mouse wheel rolled, Amamiya Ren quickly found the thief commission post, and the poster also posted new messages in the commission post.

[No way, no way? Is this Phantom Thief Channel real? Does the Phantom Thief of Heart Joker really exist?! ]

[I originally just wanted to post something to join in the fun and complain about my boss, but I didn’t expect that after I posted the post in the morning, my salary was deposited into my account during my lunch break!!]

[But my boss said she had a dream in which a man in black clothes and a white mask beat her up... I hope she doesn't know that I was the one who issued the Phantom Thief Commission. By the way, will this kind of repentance like a robber really not have any negative impact on the person himself? ]

[Although that boss likes to deduct my wages, she is actually a nice person.]

The efficiency of repentance in the real world is so rapid that it seems to be immediate.

Judging from the time of the message left by the task initiator, the white-haired little nun must have made up for her mistakes as soon as Amamiya Ren changed her mind, and compensated the task initiator in full for the withheld salary.

[I don't believe it. How could such a bizarre heart thief really exist? It must be a false propaganda scam. Maybe in a while this place will be exposed as a promotional website for the heart thief Joker movie. You must all be water army hired by the capital!!]

[I have been watching this Phantom Thief website for the whole day. To be able to use this viral method to force the promotion of the Phantom Thief website, the operator behind it must be a highly skilled world-class hacker. I saw someone mentioned before that those who are selected as mission targets by the Phantom Thief Channel will receive an electronic notice.]

[The electronic notice also contained the website address of the Phantom Thief Channel and the silhouette image of the Phantom Thief of Heart Joker in black clothes and a white mask. Your boss must have had a nightmare after receiving the electronic notice, so he dreamed of being beaten up by the Phantom Thief of Heart Joker... Since he is called a Phantom Thief, how could a real Phantom Thief of the Heart use beatings to make people repent? He must have stolen something! ! ]

[I also think that your boss just had a nightmare during his nap. Other people who were converted by the Heart Thief Joker never mentioned their experiences of falling asleep and dreaming about being beaten by the thief.]

[Dreaming may indeed be the boss’s own fault, but I think the Heart Thief Joker might really exist, and can rewrite people’s subconscious minds... This is too cool! A new urban legend!! I feel that it won’t be long before the existence of the Heart Thief Joker will become popular all over the world!!]

After the task client shared his new experience, users who were constantly browsing the Phantom Thief Channel website immediately expressed their opinions.

Some users questioned the authenticity of the Phantom Thief Channel website, while some users, as eyewitnesses of the incident, chose to believe it.

The users with the largest base were eagerly engaged in the discussion about Joker, the Phantom Thief of Hearts.

Although they did not truly believe in the existence of Joker, the Phantom Thief of Hearts, they acknowledged the existence of Joker, the Phantom Thief of Hearts.

The story of "Joker: The Phantom Thief of Hearts" is spreading and disseminating crazily among the public in the form of urban legends similar to the Ouija board and Bloody Mary.

"Hmm? I shouldn't have received these commissions before, right? Why are they showing as received, or even completed?"

As Amamiya Ren was constantly browsing the Phantom Thief Channel website, he suddenly discovered that the number of missions he had received did not match the number of previous missions, and even added many unfamiliar commissions that he had no impression of.

Therefore, Amamiya Ren couldn't help but turn her head towards the delicate profile of Bronya beside her and asked Bronya who remained calm and composed.

"The requirements of those commissions are very simple. Bronya can solve the troubles of those clients by just moving her fingers at home, without the need to trouble Joker, the Phantom Thief of the Heart... If you want to do it yourself, Bronya can stop using hacking technology to solve commissions on a real level."

As a world-class hacker, Bronya can solve many problems at home without leaving.

In order to reduce the workload of Amamiya Ren and increase the popularity of the Phantom Thief of Hearts Joker as much as possible, Bronya specially selected many commissions that could be solved with hacking technology, and quietly made those clients who wanted to change their hearts repent in a physical sense.

"No, if you are willing to help me like this, that would be great. Please also solve some commissions that can be easily completed later."

Compared to the Shadow of the Palace Lord, there is basically no reward for defeating the Shadow of the Common People.

Bronya is willing to work overtime to help and contribute to increasing public awareness of the Phantom Thief of Hearts Joker under a pseudonym. Naturally, Amamiya Ren will have no objection.

"Thank you for your hard work today, Bronya. Take a good rest with Seele...Persona!!"

Bronya worked diligently overtime all day and made outstanding contributions to the public's recognition of Joker, the Phantom Thief of Hearts. Naturally, Amamiya Ren was ready to reward Bronya handsomely.

The dark blue spiritual flame quietly burned and leaped up, and among the butterflies shining with a bright blue light, a slender and well-proportioned blue-haired girl wearing a sea blue dress slowly opened her eyes.

After seeing Amamiya Ren and Bronya appearing in front of her at the same time, a hint of joy appeared in Seele's sea-blue eyes.

"I'm a little tired too. Call Rita to come over and provide maid service and give me a massage. She left some things here."

Amamiya Ren stretched his body. Although he was not so tired that he couldn't get up, the whole day of high-intensity image space battles did make him feel tired.

"Rita.....massage......???"

Looking at Amamiya Ren who was walking towards her own room, trying to find the business card Rita left behind and call for maid service.

Although Bronya's pretty face remained expressionless, her eyes looked extremely strange and subtle.

Rita, I think she is referring to the S-rank Valkyrie Rita Rossweisse.

The night before yesterday, it was Rita Rossweisse who led the members of the Unbreakable Blade Valkyrie Squad to break through Cocolia's Changkong City base. With an arrogant smile on her face, as if everything was under control, like a cat and mouse game, she deliberately missed her and Cocolia, allowing Bronya to successfully escape from the fallen base.

Bronya had collected information about Rita and knew that she liked to act like a maid, but there were very few or almost no people who could really enjoy her service as a maid.

However, Amamiya Ren just decided to invite Rita Rossweisse, one of only three S-class Valkyries with destiny, to his home to help with massage in a casual tone as if he was deciding what to eat tonight.

As expected, Amamiya Ren is deeply involved with the top leaders of Tianming!!

Bronya confirmed her previous speculation and nodded to herself in agreement.

Cocolia's base in Changkong City was destroyed by the Destiny Organization. The trigger was probably because she attacked Amamiya Ren. That's why the Destiny Organization sent an S-class Valkyrie to eliminate the obstacle of Cocolia.

Fortunately, misfortunes often bring blessings. Although the plan to artificially create the Herrscher of Thunder and capture it for research was shattered, Bronya no longer had to bear the sin of destroying a city, and she successfully reunited with Seele ahead of schedule.