Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"It's my turn to make the request."

"...?"

The cold wind shook the young man's clothes. The captain raised his sword and pointed it at the black figure in the distance. "Sirin, if you stop interfering with Kiana's consciousness now and remove this consciousness space, we can still avoid it." In the next battle, otherwise, I will have to defeat you as you said, and then forcefully break through this space and bring Kiana back to reality."

"Hmph, hehe, hahahahaha!" Hearing this, Heiying couldn't help but laugh disdainfully, "Do you think I will be afraid of you? Or do you think I will be afraid of that broken toy in your hand?"

"..."

"Human, you can try it, I'm looking forward to your performance~☆"

That's it for now, no more words are needed.

In fact, the captain knows very well what he should do first, but holding back Xilin is only the first step. Even if Fu Hua and the others take Kiana out of the database, there is no guarantee that the problem will be completely solved. , in the end, maybe like last time, we have to use the power of "Yu Duchen" and "The Trace of Nothingness" to solve all this.

And although the "Honkai Energy" that Siren masters is not enough to allow her to really suppress herself in this consciousness space, if it is the level of one or two puppets, I'm afraid there will still be no problem.

So until then, the captain must fight her and use the power of the "God Key" to consume as much of her power as possible.

The reason why the captain said that just now was just as a last-ditch attempt, but it was obviously useless. After all, even if she didn't take the initiative to attack, she still had a lot of "Honkai Energy" left. If you sit back and wait for death, fighting is inevitable.

"Ugh..."

After sighing involuntarily, the captain rushed towards Sirin at a speed that even Kiana on the side had no time to react. When he reduced the distance between himself and Sirin to less than five steps, he raised his hand high. The black sword blade struck at Xilin who still didn't take any action.

But at the moment when the sword in the captain's hand fell, a black shadow flashed in front of Xilin and separated the two of them. In a sound that almost broke the eardrum, the captain's slash was unexpectedly blocked by the black shadow with a Stop the same black sword blade horizontally.

"!?"

As if looking into a mirror, the person standing in front of the captain with Hengjian at this moment was a young man who looked exactly like him, but there was no expression on his face.

During the brief struggle, the captain quickly glanced into the distance with his peripheral vision. As expected, the puppet that he had defeated had disappeared. No, rather, he was standing in front of him unscathed at the moment.

Kiana, who had already experienced the power of puppets, looked at this scene, and even though she was surprised, she did not forget to shout at the top of her lungs: "Captain! Be careful!!"

I saw the puppet exerting force fiercely. After deflecting the captain's sword with a horizontal slash, he took advantage of the situation and thrust it diagonally upward from the lower right corner towards the captain.

Realizing what the opponent wanted to do, the captain immediately stood firm and cut down from above again to block the opponent's attack. However, the opponent's sword grazed the captain's sword when the two swords intersected, and almost at the same time. In an instant, the opponent retracted his sword and slashed it diagonally upward from the lower left corner. Another sword hit the captain's sword.

These two extremely fast sword strikes successfully bounced the captain's sword upwards, and the gaps in defense were inevitably exposed. From the perspective of Kiana in the distance, the puppet's swing seemed to be something other than... A simple sword strike, but two slender and graceful crescents.

"Crescent Moon Slash"...?

The captain who recognized this move couldn't help but be a little confused. At least during his tenure, he had not used this ingenious sword skill from China in front of Kiana or anyone else. In fact, it had not been the last time he had used this skill. Recruitment has been going on for decades.

However, the other party had no intention of giving the captain a chance to breathe. After breaking through his defense, the puppet took a step with his left foot, lowered his body, and in the blink of an eye, he changed the black sword in his right hand to his left hand, and finally removed it. After hiding on his right waist, he seamlessly connected to the next move he wanted to use: "Flying Snow Flash".

"..."

In a perfect arc, the long black sword was pulled out from the five fingers of the puppet's right hand and swung forward. In an instant, the light dispersed, and the fierce sword energy brought up countless snowflakes, engulfing the captain.

"Captain!!!" Kiana shouted worriedly. She was caught in such a strong sword energy. She originally thought that the captain would be injured, but the next second, the boy's figure appeared in front of Kiana. In the blue eyes.

I saw the captain who was blown away by the sword energy constantly changing his posture in the air. His whole body seemed to be melted into the sword energy and was not affected by it at all. Until finally he fell back to Kiana in a very light posture. Next to her, Kiana dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

But just in case, Kiana quickly looked up and down the captain's body. After confirming that the captain was not hurt at all, the stone hanging in her heart finally fell to the ground.

"I'm fine, Kiana."

"…Um."

The captain's tone did not become very serious. In fact, when the puppet changed his sword, he knew what the opponent's next move would be, so he immediately let go, holding the hilt of the sword with his backhand, and at the last moment He used the sword to protect himself in front of him. Because of the protection of the "Key of God" power, he was not directly attacked by the "Flying Snow Flash" sword energy.

After adjusting his breath, the captain once again turned his attention to Sirin in the distance...and the puppet in front of her who was exactly the same as himself except for his clothes.

"Hehehe~☆How about it, how does it feel to fight "myself"? Look, I even changed the clothes you used to wear for him. Do you feel nostalgic? "

Siren said as she looked at the puppet in front of her, wearing a white fur collar and a black coat. It was what the captain wore when he went to Siberia sixteen years ago, and it was also what he wore when he met her.

"Myself?...Is that really the case?"

"Captain, you have to be careful, that puppet seems to be imitating your tricks." Kiana reminded.

"No, it's not imitation..." The captain shook his head, "It's use."

"Oh~☆Human, it seems you have realized it." Sirin said with a smile.

"You used my memory?"

"Hmm~☆ That's right. I think you haven't forgotten. The last time you came to ruin my good deeds, I told you that I saw part of your memory."

"..."

"Although the memories I saw were almost all your parts within a hundred years, but... that was enough for me to create a "branch" that is as good as you in terms of combat skills. "

"One hundred... years...?" Kiana was a little confused when she heard this. One hundred years, does it mean that the captain's memory has spanned a hundred years? And listening to Siren's explanation, the one hundred years only refers to the part she stole. Could it be that in addition to these one hundred years, the captain's memory also has a longer time span...?

Even Kiana immediately realized what this meant. Although there was an aunt around her who could be said to be "immortal", the captain's daily words and deeds were indeed not like those of her peers. It should be like that, but she still couldn't believe it.

"Captain, you...could it be..."

Kiana did not express her doubts directly. Firstly, she also understood that now was not the time to talk to the captain about this. Secondly, she also wanted to use this to learn more about the captain from the conversation between the two.

In addition, there is another thing that makes Kiana extremely concerned. Since Sirin has seen the captain's memories for nearly a hundred years, she should understand that the captain sixteen years ago did not say sorry. Nothing about her has ever deceived or hurt her.

Even though she has not fully seen the truth of the past, Kiana still believes that the captain has not done such a thing, and she is convinced that she is not wrong.

But if that's the case, then what exactly is Siren's "hatred" for the captain now...?

So, in order not to distract the captain, Kiana remained silent and quietly listened to the conversation between the two.