Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"...My eyes are not as beautiful as the real starry sky."

"Uh-huh, I'm not lying to you~ Everyone has the same idea as me~ If you don't believe me, you can ask Eden tomorrow."

"Sister Eden, I don't care about it for now, but as for the others..."

"Haha~ I know who you are thinking of. After all, boys are shy~?"

"Shy...hehe, well, maybe that's it."

Even though the glory of civilization is gone, in the small park not far from home where the two of them are, the flowers and plants that have lost people's care are still growing wantonly, as if they don't mind if anyone comes to appreciate their beauty. The boy and the girl cuddled together on the bench near the flowers and plants, feeling each other's body temperature and chatting wordlessly. In the end, their eyes gradually returned to the bright starry sky.

"Why..."Honkai" must destroy us humans? "

After a long silence, the young man staring at the starry sky above expressed his doubts. At that time, Zhi had not yet come up with his own answer to this question, or in other words, he had not been interested in thinking at that time.

Before the girl beside him conveyed her precious heart to him, he had already lost everything he wanted to keep. In the repeated "loss", he was already just an empty shell without a soul. .

If it hadn't been for the thread of longing that was transformed from his heart to completely bind his mind that was about to be separated, he might not have been able to survive this moment.

"We have come step by step to today, established our own civilization on this planet, and have our own beauty, but in the end... nothing is left."

"Twig..."

"Does our life, our existence, our will... really have no meaning other than being destroyed? Are we really born in this world just to be destroyed by the "Hengkai"? "

"..."

The girl listened to the doubts coming from the young man beside her, stretched out her hand and interlocked with his fingers. The paired rings on their ring fingers glowed faintly against the starry sky, explaining their eternal vows to each other. .

"Xiao Zhi, I don't think that's the case."

"..." Hearing this, Zhi retracted his eyes that were as beautiful as the starry sky above his head and looked at the girl beside him. Those charming pink eyes were looking at him with love.

"Xiao Zhi, do you know...the seven most precious "things" that everyone can get in life. "

"What is it?"

"Humph~?" Suddenly, the girl in front of him narrowed her eyes and showed a proud smile: "Kiss me, I'll tell you after I kiss you~?"

"..."

As if he was confused by the girl's weird mind, the young man sighed helplessly and slowly replied: "Even if you don't say so now, I will take the initiative to kiss you when it's time to kiss..."

"That?"

"It's really..." Finally, as if he gave in, Zhi lowered his head and pecked the girl's soft, sweet-smelling lips, and then immediately turned his head to the sky with a blush: "You can tell me now, right? "

"Oops~? It seems that's not enough. How about one more time? One more time, okay~?" the girl said with a mischievous smile.

"Refuse to raise prices while sitting on the ground in Padu style."

"Pfft, what is that..." The girl who was amused by the words of the boy beside her couldn't help laughing, and then she slowly said: "Then, let me tell you, the best thing we can get in our lives is One of the seven precious things..."

What were the words that the girl said later? Zhi couldn't remember it, but he missed it for some reason at that time, as if...he had already heard someone say it before the girl told him this.

……

——October 2016, 10——

——05:15 am——

……

"Woo...cough, cough..."

The cold water drops falling on the face and the cry coming from the communicator gradually forced someone's consciousness to wake up from the painful coma. The moment he opened his eyes, something immediately surged up from his chest, and the captain's mouth was immediately filled with the smell of blood.

"Ya...mi...mi...sister!"

"...?"

The girl's cries kept coming from the communicator, which made the captain have to wake up all the senses in his body even though he had a splitting headache. With his sight that was not yet completely clear, the captain glanced at the world around him. The sky was still a blur. The dark red color and the cold rain washed away the blood on his face, making him wake up more and more.

Ever since he took the "God Key" with him, because of the protection of the "God Key", he hadn't felt the cold rain or wind and snow falling directly on his face for a long time.

"Don't die... don't die! Sister Mia! Please, don't, don't die——"

"Xiao Misha...?" The captain, who finally heard who the desperate cry came from, was instantly shaken. He turned his head and looked at Hyperion in the distant sky, as well as the two people near Hyperion. figure.

On the Hyperion bridge, where alarms were already ringing because the protective window had been penetrated, Einstein endured the severe pain of being scratched by the Archon Spear on his arm, and climbed up holding on to the protective railing on the command seat. stand up.

Amidst the piercing beeps, a dilapidated scene on the bridge also came into view. Due to the broken protective windows, rain was blowing into the bridge with the cold wind from outside, and the surrounding metal deck was penetrated by the Archon Spear. There are potholes of varying degrees, and cables are exposed from them, sparks shooting out from time to time.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu——Sister Mia! Sister Mia!!"

"Damn it, damn it, damn it, the blood can't be stopped!"

Following the direction of the sound, Einstein saw Milly gathered around Misha's operating seat on the far left side of the bridge, crying to stop the bleeding of the woman in Misha's arms.

The blond woman in Misha's arms touched her sister's face with trembling hands covered with blood. Warm bright red liquid continued to seep out from the blood hole under her left shoulder, but she just smiled and used her already somewhat diffused Her eyes looked at her two most cherished family members in front of her.

"Miss Mia!?"

The tragic situation in front of him made Einstein jump out of the command seat in shock and pressed the call button for the Hyperion emergency squad.

Einstein, who ran forward holding his bleeding arm, suddenly remembered that at the moment when the Archon Spears pierced the protective window and entered the bridge, the woman sitting in the central control seat in front of the bridge seemed to be desperately calling the girl next to her. name, and threw himself at the opponent before his chest was pierced by those sharp spears.

"Miss Milly, let me see!"

Einstein, who rushed over, pushed away Milly's hands that were already completely soaked in red from pressing on his sister. He used the medical knowledge he had learned before to carefully check Mia's injuries, but when he saw the wound that penetrated Mia's shoulder, After the bloody hole, she froze.

"..."

"Doctor! Doctor! Please, save sister Mia, save her, please, save sister, sister Mia!" Misha grabbed Einstein's clothes and cried and begged, but Einstein But she silently held the shoulder of the silver-haired girl next to her. This was the only thing she could do now.

"...I'm sorry, Miss Misha, the amount of bleeding is too much. Even with today's medical technology, this kind of wound may be difficult..."

"No, no, absolutely not! Doctor, aren't you the smartest scientist in "anti-entropy"? You must have a way! Are you angry? ? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that to Dr. Tesla. I will apologize to her, I will kneel down and beg her, please save my sister! ! ! "

The girl with red eyes who was already crying clutched Einstein's uniform and begged her randomly to save the weak woman in his arms. But even Einstein could only endure the sadness and silence because of his powerlessness at the moment. .