Collapse, a simulator of lifelong regret!

Chapter of Stars and Moon: 72. Alicia: The new Herrscher is... Death?

"Your mental state may require a doctor more than me. Do you want me to call a psychiatrist for you?"

I am too lazy to even pretend to be friendly on the surface. I no longer chat with others from the heart like I used to. I am not willing to even say a few perfunctory words. The tragic ending that I created with the boy in the past has been deeply engraved in my bones.

It was precisely because he liked to chat with other strangers and people with whom he had no need to chat that Jiang Cheng was ignored and the initial tragedy occurred.

Alicia also doesn't want to harm any life because of her identity as a Herrscher.

——It’s meaningless.

The nun did not simply leave because of such a small behavior. Her eyes that seemed to be able to see fate clearly seemed to have lost all their luster at this moment, and she could not even show the rejection.

She took a step forward, her chest, which was not covered or restricted, beating slightly, and her high-profile body brought an inexplicable sense of oppression.

……

The third place among the heroes chasing fire.

——Precepts.

Although no matter what you want to do, no matter what you have to do, it usually leads to a greater disaster and only creates a worse outcome than the original one.

Sometimes it even makes people doubt whether doing nothing would be any worse than doing something.

In a sense, Aponia has done more wrong things than Alicia, caused more disasters, and has a more extreme personality.

In any case, this kindness itself cannot be denied.

Although the ability that Aponya possesses cannot be called a magic weapon to save others - the talent of seeing the thread of fate is in a sense just pure torture, because one can only see it but cannot change it.

Even after holding the precepts.

This power is still just pure torture.

Human language has countless ways of being understood, and the result of her precepts the moment she opens her mouth is only what is said, not what is in her heart, which means that there are countless ways to bypass those words and achieve tragedy through word games.

She has not experienced so much now, and she is not even a fusion warrior. Today she is just a person in distress. She still has good intentions and wants to help the numb girl in front of her and the girl who refuses to leave her side.

"You are in a really bad state. Even the most desperate beggar in Dusk Street wouldn't be like this. Can I... provide you with some help?"

"If you have someone very important who won't leave you even after death, I can provide some help."

"——This kind of numbness and emptiness for a long time is really dangerous."

The female voice, as soft as butterfly wings, still floats in the air.

Her voice seemed to have a strange magical power that could calm people down for no reason. There was no need for lights or candles; her presence was like a candlelight, illuminating a corner.

If the so-called priests and nuns in the world had this kind of power and beauty, then the whole world would probably fall under the glory of God.

however……

No matter how bright the candlelight is, it can only reflect a tiny ray of fire in the bright and clear mirror. Facing the purest and deepest darkness, even the brightest fire can't illuminate a small space.

There was not even a hint of light in the pink starry eyes; they simply reflected the dull color of the sky.

“—I don’t need it.”

[You don't think this mysterious nun in front of you can help you in any way. ]

[If Aponya wanted to help you right away, you might have wasted some time to listen, but before helping him, he even touched your side, as if there was someone in the air next to him.]

[This kind of weird stuff makes the credibility drop a lot after all. Even though you may not hate it that much, you won't deny this nun because of it. It doesn't matter if it wastes some time. ]

[It's just inexplicable...you don't want to know more about it. ]

【It was completely out of an unreasonable emotion.】

【So be it. 】

[This nun can only comfort you, but she can't really help you. Even this comfort comes from a third person.]

[If you have not felt the same trauma and have not experienced the same things, then empathy is essentially just a condescending comfort. ]

[Now you have deeply realized how true this sentence is. ]

[In the past, you knew that what you did was wrong, and you couldn’t accept Jiang Cheng’s separation from you. Although you still felt pain and boredom, this feeling ultimately came from your unwillingness to let go of love.]

[It is only after you have experienced losing everything a thousand times that you can truly realize how terrifying this feeling of loneliness is.]

[Just as you can only now fully appreciate how much struggle the boy went through in his life. ]

[You think of the boy all the time, recalling his happy smile in your mind, and recalling his loneliness before his death, a loneliness that should never belong to a gentle boy. Your self and reality will serve as the narration of this set of contrasting pictures, telling you that all this is the ending created by you.]

[All of this cannot be denied or cut off. Whenever you think of the boy, you feel your empty heart begin to ache, as if your heart is being squeezed hard, blocking every hole and even stopping your breathing.]

[From top to bottom, every cell and every nerve is in pain.]

[No matter how chaotic the tides are, they can't cause any waves in the deep sea. That is a world full of pressure, darkness, and terrifying monsters.]

[——It doesn’t make sense.]

[Even if it is possible to waste a minute or a second on this, it is meaningless. You still have to continue living and continue to look for the "paradise". ]

[No one in the world knows, no one seeks, and no one can truly care about you. 】

[All those who were willing to care about you were killed by your indifference. ]

[You can only fall endlessly into the deep sea. ]

[Under this deep sea where even sound cannot be heard, where you cannot see even a centimeter of water, the dull seawater fills your throat, enters every hole, and swallows up your entire body. This is the abyss of despair, the ocean.]

[——How long will this stagnant life last? ]

【ah……】

[Perhaps until the day you atone for your sins. ]

[You should bear all this, as a bystander who watched the boy's struggle before his death, and the murderer who was clearly capable but didn't even dare to step forward and hug Jiang Cheng. ]

[You don’t deserve relief, or even relief from pain—from physical harm.]

[When the soul is in extreme pain, physical harm can help alleviate some of the pain, making the self feel like it doesn’t need to be cut into pieces.]

【——The criminal has no right to escape punishment. 】

[No matter what time, you don’t deserve to escape punishment. 】

[You won't forgive yourself even in your dreams. ]

[You continue to spend your days like this, enduring endless torture, until after two years of calm, the collapse once again stirs up waves, and a full 5000HW of collapse energy gathers in the Far East.]

[Surpassing any previous one, even the Fifth Herrscher, who froze one sixth of the ocean just by birth, could not compare with him.]

[Its strength is even twice that of the Fourth Herrscher. Even Honkai needs to accumulate energy to maximize its destructive impact.]

[Even the Fire-Chasing Moth, who had already made preliminary transformations and use of the first to fourth Herrscher cores, could not help but feel panic and fear, and the burning anger and hatred were also poured cold water by the naked reality. ]

[Just the precursor caused the defense line, which had already been close to being stable, to be shortened by hundreds of meters on average.]

[In the past, countless blood and flesh were sacrificed for a little bit of living space, and now they can only be actively abandoned in exchange for stability and conservatism. ]

【Humanity’s industry is unprecedentedly concentrated, and defense walls against disasters are being deployed in various regions at all costs and energy.】

[A large number of bleeding points were abandoned, and the rotten land was directly bombed to extinction, leaving only the people themselves to migrate to the core area as much as possible. ]

[Even the most foolish person can realize that this disaster is completely different from the previous ones, just like the difference between the First and Second Herrschers.]

[The First Herrscher only destroyed Europa, and the impact on humanity as a whole was not that great.]

[The Second Herrscher directly tore the human pearl into pieces.]

[——The fire-chasing moth. ]

[All of humanity's brightest geniuses fell here, including Jiang Cheng, who surpassed all the geniuses in history at a young age but died young due to physical reasons. He was also injured because of that collapse.]

[There are even rumors that Jiang Cheng's assistant Wei Erwei is a more talented person than Jiang Cheng.]

[No one wants to know whether it is true or not, but everyone knows that the top of humanity has almost completely collapsed. ]

[Humanity can never go through such a collapse again. It directly shattered the pride of mankind and caused democratic society to return to dictatorship. It took countless years to escape from extremism, and now it has returned to populism.]

[——This is all meaningless.]

[In Honkai's eyes, it is still as small as dust. 】

[The Sixth Herrscher still inevitably descended. ]

[After its birth, the entire Far East region and even nearly one-third of the surrounding continents fell into an absolute death zone.]

[In the first instant alone, a quarter of the billions of people left in the human race were killed or injured, and the pile of dead bodies was even larger than an entire country.]

[The land covered by energy has become a wasteland where no life can survive, not even fusion warriors. ]

[This does not mean that the radiation of Honkai energy is terrible, but it is in the literal sense. 】

[The ability of the Sixth Herrscher is...]

"die……"

"--born?!"

Alicia's dull eyes suddenly lit up.

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PS: My condition is really bad, so this chapter is relatively short. Yesterday, I was in a hurry to go to the police station and didn’t wear the right clothes, so I caught a cold again. Now I’m coughing…

Alicia's story cannot be without some twists and turns, and it cannot just continue in despair.

The Ruler of Death represents more than just the power to kill.

Chapter of Stars and Moon: 73. Alicia: Do I...really want to disturb Jiang Cheng?

Even though the connection with Honkai has been cut off.

But as the most special Herrscher besides the End, whose title is the Herrscher of Origin, after completely embracing and accepting her authority, the power held by the girl is still greater than the limit of any other Herrscher.

Even if it is to achieve enlightenment, even if it is to surpass one's own limits and reach a new world, even if it is to fully exert the power of the Herrscher.

Don't even think about touching the power of origin.

The gap in essence is an insurmountable chasm.

That is why, when the girl became interested and took the initiative to explore, the power that should have been extremely secret appeared completely in front of her.

Even including those that the Herrscher has not yet known.

--die.

--born.

……

……

Hundreds of millions of people died in the first instant.

It was clearly the Herrscher who was called a disaster who had arrived.

It is obvious that anyone who hears it will be terrified, feel panic, feel fear, and feel sad about this bloody disaster and death.

But the flawless girl, the fairy-like perfect girl's eyes suddenly lit up, not the gentle pink light that once belonged to the flawless, but a cold and twisted, numb madness. The stiff corners of her mouth raised upwards for the first time, as if raised stiffly like a building block or a doll.

That seemingly broken posture started to work in an even worse way.

——Because something more important has come up.

Paradise...

Paradise.

Paradise!

I was so excited, more excited than ever before. I was probably feeling the same way when I was first born and saved by a young boy and brought into the world.

Death and life have always been relative, and the luxury called collapse will give the Herrscher a power essence that far exceeds his ability to express, which can be called a rule.

The girl could feel the power of life hidden beneath the strong smell of death.

It is enough to make the flowers bloom, to make the withered branches sprout new buds, to paint the barren earth with green, to make the old people return to youth, and to restore the scarred body to perfection.

Even if it is severely corroded by Honkai energy, even if the body has been cold and dead for several years, it can still radiate the breath of life again.