Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"Bianca, why are you doing this? There's no way you don't know how dangerous what Otto is doing now is!" The captain dodged the oncoming jab and clamped the opponent's right arm with both hands. asked.

"Because I also have a world that I want to protect. For the people in that world, I can only do this now!"

"you…"

"Ouch!!!"

With just a little effort, Hollandel broke free from the captain's hands. Her left hand instantly exerted force, and punched the captain's armor-covered arm for defense. The huge force that ordinary people could not bear made the captain's whole body move forward. Then he flew out and inevitably hit the wall behind him.

"Hiss..." The severe pain coming from his arm and the huge impact when his body hit the wall. Even with the protection of the armor's anti-impact system, the captain still felt dizzy at the moment.

After dozens of rounds of defense, the captain had to lament once again the gap in physical strength between the "Valkyrie" and ordinary people while getting back up. Fortunately, he had no intention of winning through head-on confrontation in the first place. .

"Teacher..." The girl looked at the boy in front of her who was obviously struggling because of her attack. She actually felt uncomfortable, but the outcome was still undecided, so she had no choice but to continue attacking.

Before the young man could recover, Hollandel, who wanted to end the battle as quickly as possible, showed an explosive power that the captain had never seen before. In just a blink of an eye, the girl rushed to him at such a fast speed. It was almost difficult for the captain to see clearly the opponent's moves.

"It's over, teacher!!" the girl shouted and dropped her fist towards the boy in front of her. The speed of the fist like thunder and lightning had definitely exceeded the limit that ordinary people could react, so Youlandel was convinced that this A single strike would determine the outcome of the battle, but in the next moment, the expression on the girl's face changed from confidence to surprise.

Through the girl's blue eyes, she only saw that the boy in front of her removed all the armor except his right arm at the moment he was about to be hit by the punch, and then disappeared from her sight.

"So fast!?"

Before the girl even had time to utter an exclamation, the black-haired boy with his right hand raised high appeared behind her and struck her with full force and precision with his elbow joint at the base of her neck.

Youlandel may not know that the "Sword Knight Moon Blade", which was only used as a test item for the "Fourth Generation Valkyrie God-Slaying Armor", actually cannot meet the real needs of its owner in combat.

Especially in high-speed melee combat and air combat, whether it is the main armament or thruster of the "Moon Blade" armor, its feedback speed or even the entire process cannot keep up with the captain's reaction ability. As a result, when the captain encounters this situation, Basically, they can only micromanage in advance by anticipating the enemy's attack. This is also the real reason why the captain almost failed to dodge the attack of the humanoid mecha just because he took a look at those plasma missiles.

Because he really didn't expect that he would be "faced" by such a heavy-looking mecha when he was floating in the air. At that time, his brain and body actually responded early, but it took time for the armor's thrusters to respond. There was a thrilling scene at that time.

Now, although removing the armor is tantamount to giving up all defensive power, on the other hand, the captain without the God-killing armor restraining his body can also exert his true speed and find a chance for himself to win, that is, ——Although this is not enough to cause any actual damage to the girl, it is enough to make her lose consciousness for a few seconds...or even worse, it can make her dizzy for a while.

However, the captain, who had been busy dealing with Hollander's rapid offensive, still missed one thing, that is, this competition was never a battle between two people.

Just when the captain was about to hit the girl as he wished, the golden chain shot from a distance tightly wrapped around his right arm, making all the captain's previous efforts and calculations go to waste on the spot.

"What!?"

The unexpected interference caused the captain to lose the only offensive opportunity that could allow him to win at the moment. However, the girl who had already exposed a fatal defensive gap took the opportunity to recover, turned around and stabbed the boy behind her with a punch.

"teacher!!!!!"

"!?"

Looking at the punch coming straight towards him, all the captain could do was to summon the God-killing armor that had been removed from his body at full speed to defend against this blow that was impossible to dodge.

However, even if the girl had restrained her power very much, the punch that finally landed on the boy's upper abdomen with just a slight force easily penetrated the limit of the God-killing Armor's protection, depriving the boy of everything on the spot. Mobility.

"Uh...uh...!"

The severe pain from the abdomen accompanied by a strong impact made the captain almost faint from pain. The strong punch not only caused pain, but also roughly disrupted the breath in his internal organs, making him I couldn't even breathe properly for a while.

In the end, the captain, whose eyes were black, lost even the basic strength to keep standing, and had no choice but to kneel down on the ground. The girl immediately gently met the other man's body and knelt on the ground with him.

"Sorry, teacher, I lost."

"Bianca, uh... you..."

"Teacher...that's enough. Let's have a good rest."

The girl hugged the boy who had no strength in her arms, and gently stroked his back with both hands, hoping that this would alleviate his pain a little. The blond man in the distance looked at the two people hugging each other, and just sighed and took it back. The chain that had just been shot was silent.

"You look more miserable than I...feel, Bianca."

"..."

The weak words in her ears made the girl even more sad. She always thought that she should be strong and would not be easily swallowed up by the torrent of emotions, but at this moment, she was still suffering from the fact that the boy she cherished was in pain because of her. Feeling like a lump in the throat.

"In order to save... the world you want to protect, you have to sacrifice... sacrifice a girl... or even the future and happiness of more people... Well, even so, do you have to do it?"

The difficult and feeble voice coming from the boy in her arms was an extremely sharp question to the girl.

"...I have no choice." The girl gritted her teeth and replied.

"Really...But, as expected...there's something a little wrong..."

"Eh?"

"Because...Bianca, the honor and dignity you stick to in your heart...your future and happiness will be sacrificed together with those things in the end...So, are you in pain too...?"

"teacher…!"

The girl didn't speak anymore, she just closed her eyes and hugged the captain's body tightly. The captain also smiled in relief and stroked the girl's long golden hair.

"But, Bianca, I don't want you to suffer...nor do I want Kiana and the people I cherish to have a painful future, so..."

While talking to Bianca, the boy who had gradually regained his strength through breath adjustment finally took action and played the trump card he had laid out from the beginning of the battle... just in case.

The long silver blade that had been stationary on the ceiling of the laboratory slowly detached from the wall under the drive of its owner, cut through the air and flew towards the pitch-black blade bound by the golden chain at high speed.

Before Otto and Hollander could react, the sharp silver blade had already passed under the "Key of God", and the chains were suddenly broken. The "Key of God" had broken through the chains and seemed to be mad. He also tried his best to output his own power, and immediately turned into a pendant and returned to its owner.