Honkai Impact: Capturing the Little Herrschers starting with Sirin

"Ah~!!!"

In the early morning, the morning light slowly emerged from the horizon and shone into the house, illuminating the somewhat dim room.

Kiana, who was awakened by the shock, suddenly stood up, and glanced around with her frightened eyes. Her blurry vision stared quickly, and her thoughts, which had not yet recovered from the shock, gradually calmed down.

'I……'

Lowering her head and looking at the familiar quilt covering her body and the huge Hummingbird pillow lying casually beside her, Kiana's pupils, which had been trembling due to the mental shock, finally relaxed completely.

'call……!'

He let out a long breath. Although the shock to his consciousness was relieved, the scene in his dream became clearer after he calmed down.

The dark coast, the dim sky, the beams of light cutting through the darkness, and the birds flying across the sea of ​​clouds with their wings spread.

Of course, there was also the light that bloomed at the end, and... the girl who reached out to him.

"Walk with me one more time..."

'In this life.'

Perhaps Kiana is very clear that she is not good at thinking about these things. If it were in the past, Kiana would put the things she couldn't figure out behind her, or tell them to Raiden Mei, Bai Mo, Wendy, and Bronya, instead of being so uneasy like she is now.

But this time...

"I'm really concerned! I can't ignore it."

Just thinking about it, the girl's body couldn't stop shaking.

Although she tried her best to restrain herself, her whispers were still filled with tremors.

Why do you care so much?

"That girl looks so familiar..."

'That brilliant light that bloomed at the end and dispelled the darkness... also looks familiar.'

Kiana felt a little regretful, wondering why she was attracted to that scene at that time.

Why didn't she respond when the girl reached out her hand?

in case……

If it was a farewell, how lonely she would be.

Alone...with no one to keep her company.

Even if I walked with her for a while at the end, there was no...

"Kiana."

A voice with a hint of worry came into Kiana's ears. She looked up and found that Mei Raiden was sitting on the edge of the bed with an apron tied around her waist. She didn't even put down the spoon in her hand and came forward with a worried look on her face.

'How are you?'

Perhaps it was the mutual sensitivity between them. Mei Raiden, who was busy in the kitchen, sensed something the moment Kiana woke up.

Sure enough, after walking a few steps out of the kitchen, Mei Raiden saw Kiana sitting on the bed in a daze.

'No, it's fine.'

A smile that was not so pretty and even a little forced appeared on Kiana's face.

'I just...had a nightmare.'

Although she said so, how could Mei Raiden not see it?

If it was really a nightmare, Kiana would not be so quiet. She would jump up from the bed with great energy, and might even fall off the bed because of the huge amplitude, turning into a big white ball and giving Mother Earth a warm hug.

Sitting there quietly and in a daze like this is not Kiana's character.

not to mention……

“Kiana…”

"Hmm? What's wrong, Mei?" In fact, when you are in a bad mood, you want to suppress the sadness in your heart and pretend that nothing happened and face other people with a smile.

It's hard.

So Kiana was very clear that she might have made Mei worried.

"Don't worry Mei, I just..."

Snap!

A drop of water fell on the back of the hand.

At that moment, the words she wanted to say were stuck in her throat. Kiana lowered her head and looked at the water droplets on the back of her hand, her eyes gradually becoming empty.

'I……'

Snap! Snap! Snap!

The touch flowing across her cheek brought Kiana back to her senses, and a slight sob awakened Kiana's consciousness.

She reached out and slowly stroked her cheek, feeling the tears sliding down her face uncontrollably, dripping onto the back of her hand, onto the quilt, and between her fingers.

"Mei~! I......"

The sobbing sound came from her own.

'I think it was a dream, I don't want to lose...lose...'

The girl's tear-stained cheeks showed an unspeakable grievance. She didn't know how to express it. She didn't want to! But...

What are you not thinking about?

I do not know.

Mei Raiden reached out and held the sobbing Kiana in her arms.

She didn't say anything, nor did she comfort her.

She knew Kiana was not fragile, so she let her cry for a while.

It will be fine in a moment.

After venting all the sadness in her heart for a few minutes, Kiana got up from Raiden Mei's arms, wiped the tears from her cheeks, and slowly told the person in front of her everything in her dream.

It is said that people cannot remember what happened in their dreams. Kiana couldn’t remember it before. Sometimes she even had a dream that made her very happy and worth remembering, but she forgot it the next day.

The feeling of knowing that you really want to know everything that happened in the dream but just can't remember it is very uncomfortable, and it often makes Kiana absent-minded and take a long time to recall.

But this time, that dream Qiana remembered very clearly.

"It's very strange."

After telling the story, Kiana herself laughed.

wry smile.

She didn't even know what happened in her dream, but she was sad because of it.

"No." Raiden Mei shook her head, holding the girl's hand and patting it gently, injecting a little warmth into her sad heart.

'This proves that the person who left alone at the end was a very important person to Kiana.'

'Because it's so important, even if I just think about it, I will be sad.'

Lifting the hair by the ear of Paramecium, the white ball was now like a little child, lying on Mei's legs and looking absentmindedly into the distance.

"Remember it, because we can remember it, so that we don't want the deep sorrow to happen again."

His dilated pupils and the depths of his eyes sparkled with light because of this last sentence.

Standing up, the girl saw the constant smile on the face of the person next to her. It was a silent encouragement to herself, and it was also the care from Mei that she had long been accustomed to.

"Yes, I understand, Mei." Kiana is Kiana, she recovers quickly. She was sad one second, but her nose twitched the next.

"Eh? What's that smell?"

'...'

Mei Raiden didn't say anything, but after her pupils constricted, she quickly stood up and walked into the kitchen.

It seems that Paramecium's official cook is destined to have a failed dish today.

……

……

"..."

"So...how long has it been?"

"Haha...Look at you now. I still remember how high-spirited you were when you first came here."

'Victors of the God War, what caused you to become enemies? What is it..."

"Let you stay here."

"Is it the responsibility that has long passed away, the fate that has been abandoned, or... your life that cannot be called life..."

"The past?"