Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

At three years old, perhaps due to exceptional talent, you can already move normally and possess almost complete language, cognitive, and learning abilities.

At four years old, you began to receive some basic education.

At five years old, with your parents' permission, you were allowed to go out to play by yourself. For your first outing, you chose the woods outside town.

【请选择——】

[One: Just take a walk around at home. No matter how towering a tree is, it can't withstand wind and rain when it's a seedling.]

[Second: Of course, you should take advantage of your cutest age to build good relationships with the uncles and aunts in town and wander around the town thoroughly.]

[Three: If you're going to go, go further afield, to the ash forest outside the town. I've heard it's very beautiful.]

—Does this even need a selection?

The options presented are not described in any depth and are not related to any Valkyrie.

Jiang Cheng made his choice without the slightest hesitation.

As a veteran Honkai Impact player, Alicia's original location is well-known.

It fell into the forest, accompanied by the light of stars and the moon.

If you can catch a girl's eye at first sight, even without the so-called "baby bird effect" (which may or may not be true), the value of a childhood sweetheart relationship will definitely be extraordinary, at least it won't just be a small regret from childhood.

Anyway, it's not a big problem even if the person isn't there.

He's still very young, so there's plenty of time to wait. Since this system is a nurturing program, it's impossible to wait until he's seventy or eighty years old to see Alicia. What would be the point of nurturing him then? Would he be raising a daughter?

Without hesitation, the boy extended his fingertip, his mind and body making the choice simultaneously.

Are there any other options?

As a little man, you should naturally choose the most difficult one.

[Besides, in fairy tales, forests are always associated with elves. Such a dense and lush forest must have countless elves, right?]

Stepping onto the damp, soft soil of Jiangcheng, the dense forest made even rainless days feel as fresh as if it had rained.

Although the journey was not long, the physical exertion required to walk through the forest was still not something a five-year-old child could easily provide.

What lies outside the town is not a so-called artificially laid-out woodland for aesthetic purposes, but a forest composed of countless unnamed trees, a world laid out by hundreds of branches, a vibrant and lush green kingdom.

Even exploring from an adult perspective can be tiring.

Jiang Cheng, however, was unwilling to leave just like that. He braved thorns and brambles, waded through mud and sand, and used his small strength to break the branches that always grew in annoying places.

Children often become fixated on things that seem inexplicable.

Listen to the rustling sound of fallen leaves being trampled underfoot, and breathe in the fresh air from the woodland.

Countless branches intertwine to form a lush green kingdom, like beams supporting the heavens and the earth.

It felt like stepping into a paradise from a nursery rhyme.

In this paradise that belongs only to dreams, we welcome the fragrance of nature.

Feel the softness of the soil with your feet, listen to the music of nature, breathe in the sweet scent of dew, and experience the rebirth of the forest.

Finally, I saw the tallest ash tree, but my view was blocked by the fluttering leaves.

Jiang Cheng waved her little hand to shield herself from the falling leaves. The next moment, a gentle breeze surged, as if her hands were parting the clouds and mist, revealing a clear world before her eyes.

Countless streams, like traces left by fallen stars, shattered the shape of light with their spray, scattering silver specks that were then tinged with a faint, ethereal blue.

In the dense forest, gentle sunlight filters through the gaps between the intersecting branches. At the intersection of light and shadow, a girl shrouded in pink lies there, her eyes still closed, not yet awake. Humanity and nature are in perfect harmony.

Fallen petals swirled up, and the girl's hair, seemingly imbued with the fragrance of many flowers over the years, was gently caressed by the breeze accompanied by the falling petals, adorning her delicate and flawless face with a pure and beautiful pink hue, just like her hair.

It was almost like Alice had transformed into Alice, who went down the rabbit hole and arrived in Wonderland.

It felt like stepping into a fairytale kingdom.

The understanding of beauty begins at this moment, awakening the earliest impressions of one's life.

Unbeknownst to them, Jiangcheng had already entered that world, his black shoes gently stepping over the exceptionally beautiful green fallen leaves, bathed in sunlight.

"Squeak-"

Suddenly, an untimely, strange noise rang out.

Jiang Cheng's dazedness and intoxication were interrupted. He gently raised his head and, in what was arguably the most perfect period of his life, accurately located the source of the noise.

At the top of that tree, which seemed to exist only in fairy tales and was like a dream, there was a branch that was about to fall, with only a few insignificant fibers remaining at the joint, as if it would fall at any moment.

Here, beneath those branches where you could fall and get hurt at any moment.

—It was Alicia.

"Whoo~"

As the breeze blew, the last straw broke the camel's back, a dry tearing sound rang out, and the branch, having reached its limit, plummeted straight down.

"Shh-"

The downward-hanging branches made a faint whistling sound as they cut through the air.

It is insignificant; a naturally broken branch is to nature as natural as the hair that falls out of the human body every day—nothing unusual or surprising.

only……

If it hit that girl's face, it would probably hurt a lot.

I'm afraid I'll cry.

Most definitely.

Jiang Cheng subconsciously closed his eyes gently, unable to bear witnessing this heartbreaking scene, but his body moved forward more honestly.

But as the howling wind brushed against my hair, the sound of falling was delayed; instead, a fragrance seemed to waft into my nose on the breeze.

It's so sweet, like natural honey, it's almost cloying, making you feel like you've fallen into a kingdom of flowers.

After a while, no unusual sounds or cries of pain could be heard.

Jiang Cheng opened his eyes. He had already caught the fallen branch. The girl under the tree seemed to have woken up. She opened her clear, pure, pinkish-blue eyes and stared straight at him.

The whole world seemed to stand still, time halting as those dark pupils met those azure, sea-blue eyes.

Jiang Cheng gently extended his right hand and, as if possessed, introduced himself.

"hello."

"My name is Jiang Cheng."

"Do you want to come with me?"

Jiang Cheng's slightly upturned lips, gentle smile, and his outstretched right hand, inviting her, were reflected in her beautiful, azure eyes.

At this moment, time flows once again.

……

A distant dawn, a slanting spring breeze, a verdant forest, and flowers swept up by the wind.

And most importantly, a flawless girl.

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There are pictures here, which can be viewed after the updated version

3. Do you want to come with me? Alicia.

In the azure sky's starry eyes, all that could be seen was the boy so close at hand, with his gentle, deep blue pupils, the smile on his lips, and his outstretched hand.

In the shadowy thicket, stepping over thorns and cutting through weeds, like a hero, like a prince, facing the light, facing the leaves, facing the flowers, facing the birds, standing before the depths enveloped by the dense forest, shielded by the dark shadows.

The girl, who had just been born and whose self-identity was not yet clear, could only follow her most innocent feelings and reached out her little hand.

"So……"

"It's decided."

The boy gently held those delicate fingertips, carefully, as if holding a flower—the girl's slender and tender fingers felt as sweet and soft as flower petals on the grass, even more delicate than the beautiful petals on the ground.

This is your first encounter with the girl, and Alicia's originally bright and flawless life has veered off course onto an unknown path.

In a dreamlike encounter, Jiang Cheng chose to take this unknown baby, abandoned in a grove, back to his home.

The operation was completely opposite to what I remembered.

It wasn't the most diligent staff member who discovered it, but rather a young man named Jiang Cheng.

Instead of taking him to the orphanage, he selfishly took him to his own home, even though for the boy, in the mind of that innocent child who had not yet understood the world, the only safe place was the home where his parents lived.

This was also a very strange deviation.

In a sense, Alicia, who was actually involved, simply looked at the dreamlike scene and slowly blinked her colorful eyes.

He seemed somewhat dazed.

The butterfly effect, probability theory... each can explain the scene in front of us, but none of them can explain the appearance of a strange boy.

A complete stranger who doesn't exist in her memory, someone she can't find even with her incredibly fast social skills.

This is strange. If it were someone with a higher IQ, they would probably have already started brainstorming and simulating the game's problem-solving process.

only……

At this moment, the girl had only one thought in her mind.

what……

original……

Am I this cute when I'm discovered?!

Jiang Cheng's behavior was quite provocative for a teenager. Even if he was somewhat naive, it doesn't mean that picking up a baby and asking his parents if they could raise her wouldn't cause someone's heart to stop.

Fortunately, they are not corrupt or foolish people, and they like you, their lovely baby, just as much.

They don't mind that you were abandoned and are prepared to adopt you.

Do you agree?