Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"A girl confessed her love, boss."

"Yeah..." In response to the mechanical girlish voice coming from the equipment behind him, the captain also sighed with a wry smile: "This is really difficult, Ai-chan."

"Boss, why don't you go to Gnaku to take refuge? Ai-chan, I will try my best to handle the rest."

Along with these words, the image of a girl with a green bun pops up from the holographic screen. However, even Ai-chan, who is a Hyperion artificial intelligence, has completely lost the usual naughty smile on her face and replaced it with His face was full of sorrow.

"Thank you, Ai-chan, but I won't run away."

"Oh~ Boss, are you more stubborn than Theresa?"

"For the common goal, everyone on this ship has put in all their efforts. Since everyone is working desperately to protect the people they cherish until now, how can I choose to escape?"

"boss…"

What kind of awareness is hidden under the young man's gentle smile? Ai-chan glanced at the captain silently, then temporarily disappeared from the main screen, and the bridge became quiet again.

The captain waited quietly. He could feel the dragon's wings approaching at extremely fast speeds, enough to cover the entire sky, and its owner...the existence that symbolized collapse and destruction - the "Herrscher".

No, she is not the Herrscher. The real owner of that body should be Kiana, the Valkyrie of St. Freya Academy.

……

"Warning! Warning! A heat source is rapidly approaching our ship and has entered the warning distance. Warning, warning..."

"boss!"

"Are you here...Celine?"

As the automatic alarm sounded on the bridge, the captain quickly stood up, and Ai-chan's image immediately appeared on the holographic screen.

While standing up, the captain had already tightened his grip on the black sword in his hand. Through the screen, Ai-chan saw the realization reflected in the boy's eyes. It was... something that she, as an artificial intelligence, could not yet understand.

"How's it going over there in Gnaku?"

"The transport ship Helios has sailed out of Gnaku No. 2 and left Hyperion."

"Well, Ai-chan, activate all Hyperion's defense systems, increase the power of the protective net to the highest level, and then distribute the remaining energy to each main turret to prepare for battle."

"It's done, boss."

Before he finished speaking, violent tremors and alarms spread throughout the entire battleship. However, this piercing alarm was quickly covered up by the roar of the "Judgment-level" Honkaimon: Benares that resounded through the sky. .

The white dragon flapped its huge wings and passed by Hyperion's Honkai energy barrier, as if declaring that it was the true ruler of the sky.

In front of it, what humans call the Honkai energy barrier is no different from a layer of tissue paper. It is just lightly swept by the tip of its wings. When the output power reaches the maximum, the barrier melts like heated butter, and the defense The system instantly became fragmented.

Benares was flying around the deck, surveying mankind's creations. On both sides of the parking deck, dozens of beam main guns on the Hyperion continued to bombard Benares with almost maximum power. This attack was so pale and feeble in its eyes.

The beams of light that swept across the body's scales couldn't even cause Benares to feel any pain.

"You hypocritical human being, you should pay for your sin of deceiving the Queen."

While Benares was judging someone's crime in his mind, he picked up one of the ship's main guns with his claws and flew towards the bridge.

"Boss! Its target is here!"

"Mobilize energy, build a temporary protective net, and use large beam cannons on both wings to cover it!"

"No, it's too fast and there's no time to cover!"

"!?"

The huge wings covered the sky above the bridge, which gradually turned from blue to gloomy. Benares roared as if he was mocking and let go of the turret it had just torn off. The turret then fell accurately towards Hyperion. 's bridge.

In the reflection of the captain's pupils, the temporarily rebuilt energy barrier outside the bridge command room first turned into powder. Then, the steel structure supporting the inside of the command room also collapsed under the weight of the turret. All of this happened in just one day. moment.

Looking at the fort that was rolling towards him like a mountain, the young man who was holding the black sword in his hand and preparing to defend heard the sound of the elevator unlocking the air pressure behind him.

"Heh~"

While the captain looked back, he walked out of the elevator with a figure of flames and hope. Himeko had a confident smile on her face, and she swung the God-killing Weapon "Shirtel" in her hand towards the two of them. of fort.

The white magic dragon hovering in mid-air is proudly admiring his masterpiece, imagining in his heart the death of that hypocritical human being.

However, the next second, Benares saw that the turret it threw, after a moment of stagnation, was hit by someone hard, and then shot back towards his forehead at an incredible speed, and finally hit him hard on the head. its face.

Bang!

This blow was so violent that Sambenales was stunned for a moment.

"Impossible! That human!?"

Benares couldn't believe that this body, which couldn't even be damaged by a large beam cannon, could be injured by a simple physical impact.

On the smoke-filled bridge, the red knight showed a tacit smile to the boy next to him.

"Captain, it's time."

"Ah."

"After you finish, don't forget to buy me another drink~"

The crimson woman said this and jumped up from the bridge. Before Benares could react from the violent blow, he saw a black shadow flash across the sky. The figure was so fast that it could As for Benares, there was no time to react.

All it saw were the crimson locks of hair and the figure of a human who had defeated it once before.

"Hoo!!"

The body has never been so light, and the power pouring out of the "Plague Gem" is continuously flowing into the limbs.

Jizi dropped her foot, instantly knocking down Benares. The huge dragon body fell on Hyperion's parking deck with a loud bang.

Immediately afterwards, the red knight also landed here. Jizi sighed in her heart that this "God-killing Armor" could bring such powerful power to a dying person like herself, while she clenched her hands wrapped in flames. God-killing armor.

"This time, I won't let you have the chance to escape to the sea!"

The big sword in her hand glowed orange-red under the Honkai energy transmitted by the armor. Jizi raised the God's Falling Sword high and swung a fatal sword towards the opponent——

"Himeko, wait!"

Sensing something was wrong, the captain summoned his self-repaired armor and flew out of the bridge to try to dissuade Hime, but it was too late. In Hime's surprised expression, a crack in space appeared in front of her eyes like a ghost. In a flash, she knew that she had fallen into a trap.

The giant sword in his hand struck right in the center of the crack.

Then, the dazzling white light swallowed everything and swept the entire Hyperion space into it.

When Jizi opened her eyes again and saw the captain landing next to her with some difficulty, she realized that the two of them had completely transferred to another world with Hyperion at their feet.