Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"Is this your answer...? Hehe, hehehehe..."

Somehow, the black shadow laughed strangely after hearing Kiana's resounding and firm reply. She laughed, as if she was laughing at her own misstep, and at the same time as if she was laughing at Kiana's determination.

However, that was not the case. The black shadow was just pitying the girl in front of him, pitying her for forcing herself to use another method that she did not want to use to end this ridiculous farce.

"What are you laughing at? What's so funny...!?" Before she could finish speaking, her body started to move on its own. Almost relying entirely on her instinctive sense of murderous aura, Kiana barely managed to avoid the attack from behind. , a sword full of killing intent.

The dark blade grazed the surface of the "Bai Lian" armor on the girl's left arm, sparking a few sparks. However, Kiana staggered back a few steps and realized that the person who attacked her was not someone else, but someone from just now. The "captain" who hasn't spoken to him since then.

The man was holding the black sword in his hand, staring at her expressionlessly. When his eyes met, Kiana saw that his eyes had become dim, and they were almost the same as the captain's eyes that were like the night sky. The difference is huge.

"Hmph! You shameless fake, you finally show your true colors!"

After saying that, Kiana got into a fighting stance and prepared to concentrate on beating up the puppet pretending to be the captain. But the annoying laughter came from the side again, and the black figure was seen smiling, floating in the air again and crossing its legs, looking at ease.

"Hehehe~Kiana~☆You asked for this~"

"What did you say?"

"I didn't want to use this method originally, who made you so stubborn☆~"

"Hmph, I guess you are the one who is so stubborn!"

"Well~ I just hate the fact that you are so tough~☆But this is the only value. Let me use your captain to play with you~☆"

After that, the pretended captain, under the control of Sirin, raised the "God Key" towards Kiana that was unique to the captain.

"How dare a mere fake compare to the captain? See if I don't beat you until you beg for mercy!"

When the sky was full of snowflakes slowly falling from the dark sky, the battle had already begun. Kiana rushed towards the fake captain and kept shooting with both guns in her hands. But what surprised Kiana was that the fake captain actually He was in the same posture as the captain in his impression. He just shook the hilt of the sword slightly, and the flash of sword light split the bullets he fired into two halves one after another, effortlessly.

When the last bullet was cut apart with the bursting sparks, Kiana had already rushed in front of the opponent, jumped up, and kicked him over with a flying kick.

The impostor calmly bent back to avoid the flying kick, but when he turned around, Kiana had already pulled the trigger with the muzzle of the gun almost close to his face.

The bullets spurted out with tongues of fire, but the puppet just turned his face sideways, and the bullet passed by his ear, leaving him unscathed.

"What!?"

Kiana immediately felt something was wrong. This puppet pretending to be the captain was not as simple as it seemed.

At the moment when Kiana was surprised, the opponent swung a sword with his backhand. Although Kiana retreated in time to avoid it, she was still knocked away several meters by the sword energy along with the surrounding snowflakes. .

"Wow!?"

The strong air flow made it difficult for Kiana, who had already taken several steps back, to stand still. Although it was freezing and snowy, a drop of cold sweat kept sliding down her forehead.

"This guy...could it be..."

Except for occasional fun, Kiana has never seriously competed with the captain like Mei, so she has never felt as strong a sense of oppression from the captain as she does now.

Having watched Mei and the captain spar several times, she knew that the captain was very strong, so strong that he could easily defeat a "Beichen Itto-ryu" master like Mei in swordsmanship. But in the end, Kiana didn't understand how Sirin created the puppet in front of her that not only had an image, but also used the captain's own fighting skills.

But if the counterfeit in front of him really has the same strength as the captain, then how should he deal with it?

In order to verify her judgment, Kiana, who did not believe in evil, touched the V-shaped button on the neck of the armor and activated the "explosion mode" of "Bai Lian". With the propulsion brought by the small engine on the back of her waist, Kiana He flew up again.

Seeing this, the puppet slashed out another sword energy. The moment the sword energy came into contact with Kiana, it exploded with force, and the flying snowflakes immediately covered Kiana's figure.

"...!"

"Ouch!!!!"

I saw the girl breaking through the snow mist kicking the puppet as fast as possible. After the opponent's horizontal sword blocked the kick, which did not have much power, Kiana jumped up again, spinning her body in the air, and at the same time using She fired her pistol to restrict the opponent's movements. When she finally saw a flaw, she raised her legs high and used all her strength to lower down on the puppet's head.

"neko——charm!!!"

The huge cat claws produced by Honkai Energy almost shrouded the opponent's entire body in its shadow. In the huge rumble, the snowflakes on the surrounding snow were shaken away, revealing the hard rock ground underneath.

However, Kiana knew that this blow did not hit. The puppet's reaction speed and movement skills were just like the captain himself, extremely fast and able to dodge just right.

When she landed, the opponent who sided to avoid this move had already confirmed Kiana's position through subtle sounds using techniques stolen from the captain's memory. Then, before the surrounding snow curtain dispersed, the long black sword had passed through the air and struck at Kiana. Kiana had to hurriedly fight back with a pistol, but the opponent's sword tip was still cutting off a few strands of silver. The long hair scratched Kiana's cheek.

"hateful!"

Seeing this, Kiana raised her leg and kicked the opponent's waist, but was blocked by the opponent who was also in the snow mist. After Kiana retracted her leg, she immediately squatted down and kicked the opponent's ankle. He actually dodged it with a light backflip and put a certain distance away from Kiana.

Still unwilling to give up, Kiana wiped the blood on her face and attacked the puppet again. But even so, the "gun fighting skills" passed down by the Kaslana family were completely unable to give Kiana the upper hand at this moment.

After a few rounds, Kiana found an opportunity and pointed her gun at the counterfeit in front of her again. However, the opponent seemed to have predicted her attack. The moment before Kiana raised her gun, she also stabbed her with a sword. past.

The tip of the "God Key" easily penetrated through the muzzle of the pistol, and the entire gun body was pierced and disintegrated into a pile of useless parts. The pitch-black sword edge brushed Kiana's arm again, but this time, she didn't have time to dodge in time.