Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

Listening to the increasingly clear footsteps in her ears, Kiana could hardly control the tears in her eyes, but when the footsteps finally stopped beside her, she still held back the emotions that were about to burst out. He smiled and looked up to his side.

In the ray of sunlight that happened to fall through the clouds again, Kiana saw the black-haired boy standing next to her with a smile, looking at her tenderly with his reassuring black eyes like the night sky.

"captain…"

"Well, I'm here."

The captain responded softly to the girl's call. After putting away the long sword in his hand, he knelt down next to her. He took out the exquisite handkerchief embroidered with crystal flowers and kites from his pocket and wiped the blood on her face. Finally, he carefully wrapped it around Kiana's injured left arm.

"Captain, Captain, Captain..." Kiana whispered these two words repeatedly, and tears couldn't stop flowing from her eyes. Perhaps she thought of the time when she threw herself into the arms of the impostor and cried bitterly. Thing, this time she didn't do it again immediately.

But when the captain reached out and stroked the top of her head to comfort her like Kiana had done before when she was sad, Kiana couldn't help but threw herself over and cried loudly in the captain's arms.

The girl's cries of grievance echoed in this desolate snowfield again, but this time, what she received was no longer a false response without sincerity. The captain gently touched her head and patted her back, soothing the girl's emotions. That all-too-familiar sense of security soon made Kiana calm down.

Shrinking in the captain's warm arms, Kiana felt that even the biting cold wind blowing continuously on the snowy field could not penetrate the shelter of the body in front of her, making her feel the slightest bit cold.

Just for a moment, a blurry picture flashed through Kiana's mind. It was very similar to now. In the memory, she was also held in someone's arms, but the surroundings were an extremely miserable scene...

"what is that…?"

Kiana couldn't remember, and she had no time to think about these things, because she knew that now, behind the person who protected her, the enemy was still there.

"Hypocritical human being, you are still here~"

Hearing the contemptuous voice behind him, the captain patted Kiana on the shoulder, so Kiana nodded knowingly and loosened her arms holding the captain.

The captain smiled and helped her wipe away the remaining tears on her face, and then stood up. When he turned around, the smile on his face disappeared without a trace, replaced by a calm but uncomfortable look. A face that dares to transgress at will.

Sixteen years apart, across those dusty past events, the two faced off again on this pure white snowfield.

On one side, there is a girl who has been treated with misery by the world, played with despair by fate, and finally raises the fire of revenge against the creatures in this world; on the other side, in order to protect the girl behind her, she is determined to fight against the girl sixteen years ago. The boy's will did not waver.

"I knew you would definitely come~hehehe~"

"Then you should also know why I'm here."

"Oh? Ha~" Heiying smiled disdainfully, "Defeat me and then rescue the little girl behind you who only talks nonsense and cries?"

"..."

The captain shook his head, "Xilin, this kind of revenge is meaningless. Even if, as you said, you got Kiana's body and achieved the so-called rebirth, the flame of your revenge will burn again." Where are you going? Those people are no longer here, and even the Tower of Babel behind you has long been turned into a pile of ruins."

"Hehe, hehehe, hahahahahahaha!!" After hearing this, the shadow named Xilin couldn't help covering his face and burst out laughing, "Hahahahaha~ Human being, what are you talking about?"

"?"

"Who do I want to take revenge on? Hahaha, hypocritical human, hateful liar, aren't you right here? Standing in front of me."

"But this has nothing to do with Kiana... or anyone else."

"It's irrelevant? Huh, idiot, you really don't understand anything..." For some reason, Sirin muttered in a low voice.

"what?"

"You! And everyone around you, I hate you, hate all of you, you all should disappear with this ugly world!!!"

Ignoring the other party's doubts, Sirin suddenly screamed hysterically. Her words sounded full of anger towards the world and the person in front of her. In the captain's opinion, that kind of anger would only hurt Kiana and Kiana. More innocent lives besides her.

He couldn't let this happen, and he couldn't let the girl in front of him who was blinded by "revenge" make the same mistake again and again.

Therefore, with a few rays of light, the black sword transformed into the captain's hand, which seemed to be the only way to break the current situation.

"Captain..." Kiana leaned on the rock behind her and looked at the boy in front of her with some worry. The captain turned his head and glanced at Kiana, telling her not to worry.

The black shadow not far away saw the captain once again summoning the sword that had the same power to control "space" as his own, but still seemed disapproving, "Oh, oh, oh, look, you want to use that toy to hurt me again. ~But human being, you will definitely not be able to defeat me this time~☆”

Siren's confident tone made the captain aware of a strange aura permeating the air.

Although with Fu Hua's help, he successfully arrived at this consciousness space with a somewhat special structure, the current deterioration of the situation has exceeded his expectations. If he had not arrived in time, Kiana's consciousness might have been destroyed due to Xilin's severely damaged by the attack.

He was sure that it only took tens of seconds from the time his old friend activated "Feather Dust" to the time he sneaked into Kiana's consciousness space and arrived here, but that was only limited to the physical sense.

Judging from the conversation between Siren and Kiana that I overheard when I successfully infiltrated here, they have been in contact for some time, and there was even a battle during the period, but before that, the "Key of God" did not make any Any reaction?

The captain thought about it and glanced at the long sword in his hand. The purple glimmer emitted from the prismatic crystal connecting the sword body and hilt seemed to be telling him that there was nothing abnormal about the "Key of God" itself.