To create Honkai Impact 3rd in a world where Kallen exists.

Alicia frowned. She cared deeply for the other person, yet they had to fight each other for some inexplicable reason. She sighed. This story... she didn't like it.

Inside the villa, Kiana and Mei exchanged a glance, both hesitant. The scene that followed likely wouldn't be pleasant, and neither of them wanted to click on the next animated short.

However, Luo Mo had clearly anticipated this situation, so the animation automatically played after the plot unfolded.

Skip? Exit? Neither is possible.

[What? I haven't ordered any short videos yet? Damn, this company is getting more and more inhumane.]

[Where's the skip button? I don't want to be hurt!! Skip!]

The very first scene of the animation is unsettling.

What goes around comes around; no one escapes the wrath of Heaven.

The sky was overcast with dark clouds, and lightning flashed intermittently across the clouds.

Under the dark, cloud-covered sky, and in Kiana's eyes, there was only her figure; in the scene, Kiana's neck was being choked by Mei.

The pressure from her throat made Kiana acutely aware of the agonizing pain of not being able to breathe; the two had finally reached this point.

"give up."

Mei threw Kiana away violently, her body floating in the air and Kiana's consciousness floating away, followed by a dull pain from the impact and fall.

"What a joke."

Kiana, dragging her aching body, stood up awkwardly, glanced at Mei not far away, wiped her mouth, and still insisted...

"I won't let you go!"

"With your barely conscious state?"

Mei returned a cold and disdainful look, glancing sideways at Kiana, who was barely managing to stand by supporting herself against the wall.

"With my fists!"

Without thinking, he threw a punch, but Mei easily dodged it.

As for Kiana, she certainly wouldn't let the other party go to some World Serpent just because of such a strange reason...

What a joke!

Relying on his natural reaction as a fighter, he suddenly swept out with both legs, but they were easily blocked by his horizontal arm.

It swept across the air, but was dodged by crouching low.

A sudden force struck her lower abdomen, sending Kiana flying backward.

Land, turn quickly, and charge forward.

Without even thinking, he threw a punch, which was easily dodged by his opponent who calmly sidestepped.

He then managed to sweep out a leg, but ignoring his numerous openings, he was naturally caught off guard and fell to the ground.

Then he suddenly looked up, but like an idiot, he put his head into the attack range. Lightning's foot kicked him straight in the jaw, sending him flying backward and rolling away.

"Humph."

Without time to analyze Mei's attack, Kiana, seemingly without reason, charged forward once more.

Mei also delivered a heavy blow to Kiana without any mercy, sending her flying backward and crashing into the iron railing.

Using the iron bars as leverage, Kiana spun in mid-air and tried to grab that slender neck.

All she could think about at that moment was getting Mei back and not letting her leave her.

But what greeted her was a cold, indifferent gaze, and a whip-like kick that came with the sound of the wind.

Kiana barely managed to parry the attack. She raised her hand, a golden light flashing in her eyes, as she attempted to utilize the power of the Herrscher.

Even if it means breaking Mei's leg, we'll keep her here!

However, she forgot that using this Herrscher power would only provoke Mei's greater rage.

Why, Kiana? Why do you still want to use this power?

Don't you know it's consuming your life?

Don't you cherish yourself at all?

Mei gritted her teeth, furious. She suddenly gathered the Honkai energy within her body into her hand.

The lightning-fast strike sent Kiana flying.

This time, she didn't hold back anymore—she wanted to completely wake Kiana up.

Kiana was kicked away like a tattered sack and slammed hard onto the bench.

No longer caring about fighting techniques, Kiana grabbed the weapon at hand—the bench—and threw it upside down.

Mei watched the flying bench indifferently as an electric arc struck it, causing it to automatically break in two.

"I will not... give up!!"

As Kiana leaped into the air, Mei channeled Honkai energy into her hand, and with a swift, deadly chop, sliced ​​across Kiana's chest.

She knew how to inflict pain without leaving scars; the final blow landed heavily on the abdomen, its tail flashing with lightning-like light.

Kiana was blasted out like a cannonball.

She watched the other person fall, feeling a little annoyed that she had hit him a little too hard, but she also thought that she probably wouldn't be so stubborn this time.

...

[A clear case of domestic violence! It was held.]

[Last time, it was the last time, that Sirin inflicted all of Mei's injuries, and now they've all returned. This time, I'm on the cook's side!]

Watching Mei relentlessly unleash blow after blow on Kiana on the screen,

Everyone present felt somewhat awkward.

If you ask who's most embarrassed, it's definitely the culprit—Raiden Mei!

"Wait, Kiana, I would never hit you like that."

Mei quickly said that she hadn't expected this. She thought the initial choking incident was just a two-person brawl, and that she could just explain things to Kiana and everything would be fine.

But to her surprise, the subsequent events were beyond her imagination.

Unexpectedly, Kiana, deeply immersed in the story, instinctively slapped away her outstretched hand.

"Mei, Mei, please don't be like this. I promise I'll behave from now on." Kiana looked at Mei timidly.

The level of devastation depicted in the video was too advanced for Chongchong to accept.

She said that she would definitely listen carefully to the other person next time she encountered such a situation!

"It's all because Kiana, you insisted on using the power of the Herrscher of the Void. Don't you know what Mei is worried about?"

Bronya said calmly,

"You! I... I just didn't want Mei to leave either," Kiana retorted, dissatisfied.

Then, remembering what he had just done, he awkwardly moved closer to Mei and rubbed against her.

"Kiana, you're not allowed to do that again, okay? Otherwise, hmm?" Mei glanced at the screen, signaling her to leave.

"Okay, Mei, I was wrong, I won't... Wait, even if I wanted to, I don't have the means, Mei! I'm not the Herrscher of the Void."

Kiana realized her mistake halfway through her sentence and hurriedly explained, then glanced around and spotted Bronya smirking.

"And you, you little dwarf, don't try to sow discord between Mei and me!"

...

But before she could recover, the gates of the imaginary numbers above and around her suddenly opened like a tidal wave, and all the spears of the sub-space burst forth.

Mei was trapped in a small, sharp cage, and the final spear of the void was aimed at her throat, sealing off her escape route.

This is Kiana's trump card—albeit incomplete one.

Kiana slowly ascended the void steps, one hand covering her eyes overflowing with Honkai energy. Her weary figure and heavy breathing undoubtedly showed that she was in poor condition.

Indeed, after losing Fu Hua and Feather Dust, and experiencing a series of great battles, Kiana's current ability to use spatial powers without being controlled by Sirin is already her limit.

However, none of this made Mei happy at all.

Why is she distancing herself from him?

There are many answers to this question.

The simplest explanation is that they don't want the other party to use the power of the Herrscher anymore.

And now, is the other party still using it in front of her?

She had repeatedly warned Kiana not to use that ability again, because every time it was used, it meant the other person was burning up and the clock of life was ticking.

But how could Kiana possibly care about any of that when faced with Mei's departing figure?

"You've always been like this, Kiana...you've always been like this!"

A sudden downpour began, and cold raindrops fell on her cheeks, some of them perhaps tears.

"Even though you're covered in wounds, you still force yourself to smile."

Memories from the past surfaced in my mind, overcoming the blockage.

The other person's smile after the mission, as if they didn't want me to worry, but blood was still gushing from the wound;

She once lay helplessly in bed like a little girl, unable to even taste the food on the table;

And there are those unknown shooting stars in the sky; those figures flying upwards, colliding with each other.

Mei poured out all of this—her sadness, her pain, her helplessness... and her heartache.

"You saved me, you saved everyone, but you have to bear all the pain alone."

You are clearly the one suffering the most, so why don't you let everyone, or me, help you?

"Even at the cost of their lives!"

Mei gripped the spear to her throat, ignoring the cut on her neck.

Looking at the two pairs of eyes, one gold and one blue, she still felt a deep resentment.

"Mei!" Kiana desperately suppressed the raging consciousness within her, forcing herself to calm down.