Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

When attacked by Honkai energy disasters, most ordinary people have no ability to resist Honkai energy, and their bodies will soon die after being excessively eroded by Honkai energy.

But some people with weak "Honkai resistance" are different. Compared with those who die quickly, if they do not receive timely treatment, their fate will be much more tragic.

Although they have weak resistance, in the face of "Honkai", such resistance is undoubtedly in vain. When they are excessively eroded by Honkai energy, they will naturally not escape death, but the form of death is different.

They are often destroyed before they die and can completely control their body and mind, thus becoming a walking corpse that only knows destruction, that is, "death warriors".

There is no medical treatment that can save people who have become "death warriors". The only way is to help each other out as soon as possible and bring them eternal rest, because the original "soul" in the body has long been eroded by "Hengkai" All done.

But Kiana was very puzzled. How could a dead soldier appear here? But compared to this, the scene that happened next shocked her even more.

In the process of approaching the dead warrior, Xilin actually called the other party "Mom" in a trance. She even called to the dead warrior with all her emotions and ran towards her, seemingly not noticing at all. The other party is not human.

"not good!"

Kiana was thinking something bad, and her body reacted one step ahead of her brain. She jumped out from behind the dead tree and strode towards where Sirin was.

"What!?" The captain, who was also aware of the abnormality, controlled the sword blade that was still stuck in the ground with both hands. He seemed unable to escape for a while, so he had to shout to Xilin to let her not go.

"Celine, don't go there!!!"

"Hey?"

Hearing the captain's voice, Sirin stopped temporarily. She turned her head and looked at the boy in the distance, and then at the woman who was obviously her mother, as if she didn't know what to do.

"Don't go over there, get back to the barrier!"

"But mom is right there..."

"Look carefully! That's not your mother anymore, it's just a walking corpse that looks like your mother. Go back!"

"...?"

Perhaps because of the emergency, the captain's tone was so stern that Kiana felt a little strange. She had never heard the captain speak in such an almost "command" tone, and he spoke so harshly that even Xilin seemed is also like this.

But just when Xilin was about to retreat, the dead soldier actually opened his mouth and called out in a hoarse voice: "Xilin...? Xilin..."

「!?」

Hearing the sound from the Death Soldier, Kiana, who had already run behind Sirin, couldn't help but froze in place. She opened her eyes wide and looked at the female Death Soldier with long brown hair in a shabby dress.

Among all the dead soldiers she met, no one could speak, or in other words, retained self-awareness after becoming a dead soldier.

"how come…"

The dead warrior called Sirin's name, and his pale face, which was filled with Honkai energy veins, showed a gentle smile that was no different from that of a human being.

"Could it be that...she still has human consciousness?"

Kiana couldn't believe this, because it was absolutely impossible, but she saw with her own eyes the tears sliding down the face of the dead soldier, like a poor mother who finally reunited with her children after being separated for a long time. He walked towards the place where the girl in front of him was.

"Mom...Mom!" After hearing her mother calling her, Xilin no longer ignored the captain's persuasion and wanted to see her family again. The desire to see her mother made Xilin stop retreating and walked away with tears in her eyes. He stepped forward and waited for his mother, whom he had not seen for a long time, to hold her in her arms.

But the happiness that was so close at hand eventually became a luxury that could never be reached. The captain suddenly appeared between the girl and her mother, isolating them.

And right in front of the girl, the dark sword blade was held tightly by its owner, and in the next moment it penetrated the chest of the dead soldier very easily.

"…captain?"

All of this was so sudden that Kiana didn't even realize what was happening, but the captain had already pulled out the sword that had been buried in the opponent's chest, and the woman immediately fell down with a sad cry.

Seeing her mother fall, Xilin collapsed and rushed forward to kneel in the snow, throwing herself on her mother, "Mom——Mom!!!"

The heartbreaking cry of the girl resounded through the snow forest composed of dead trees and pure white. The woman lay dying in the snow, her torn clothes were stained with the girl's tears. The captain stood aside and turned his head in silence. , put away the slightly dirty sword blade in his hand.

"Mom...don't...don't abandon Siren, don't, don't...don't!!!"

Looking at the scene in front of her, Kiana was also silent. She knew very well that such a sword passing through the heart would undoubtedly be fatal, not to mention that it was the "Key of God" that caused the wound.

But what made her silent at this moment was not just the heartbreaking scene of a young girl crying next to her mother. What was even more unacceptable to her was a certain kind of "shaking", a kind of "shaking" in the people around her who she trusted so much. ”.

Why?Why?Why?

She looked at the young man beside her and questioned herself repeatedly in her heart. She didn't know what the captain's mood was when he thrust the sword. She couldn't understand it.

Is it to protect Siren? But the other party had no intention of harming her, and even seemed to retain human consciousness.

Do not…

So, for what? Could it be that he felt that the other party had become a dead soldier and was helpless, so he wanted to help her escape?

No, that's not right...

In her eyes, the captain has always been the person around her who believes in the word "hope" the most. No, it may not be an exaggeration to compare him to "hope" itself...

His excellence is greatly admired by everyone...

His gentleness makes everyone feel at ease...

What he believes, everyone will also try hard to believe...

Because of this, she and everyone in St. Freya gathered around the captain and were willing to give him their sincerity.

Because the captain is always watching behind them, they can face every battle with "hope".

But... why?

"Why are you doing this...?" Kiana asked with mixed emotions to the boy beside her.

She knew that if it was the captain, he must have noticed the same thing as herself. If so, he would never thrust out the sword without hesitation.

"There must be some hidden secret somewhere that I didn't see that forced the captain to choose to do this."

Kiana thought this in her heart to make herself firmer, but at this moment, this thought was actually more of a "comfort", a way to prevent her from having a certain feeling towards the captain. A kind of wavering "comfort" that shouldn't be there.