Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

Will I return to your side at your shameless, despicable, and filthy pleas, and embark on this journey with you once more, a journey filled only with sorrowful memories?

You really...

Is it okay to hurt Virvie?

[To snatch the only light from someone who has only one straw to grasp, to take away the only thing that a young girl will never have again in her life.]

You really...

Is it permissible to hurt someone who saved Jiangcheng?

[Her most precious possession was taken away from someone who was completely inseparable from the boy, someone whose own feelings changed with him.]

You really...

How dare you hurt Jiangcheng?

[This story drags a young man, who has severed ties with his tragic past and is now experiencing a wonderful new life, back into painful memories of the past.]

[For Jiang Cheng, Vivi was willing to abandon everything she already had to take a gamble she knew was absolutely impossible, even if it meant giving her heart, even if it was just wild grass, she would light it to warm the boy.]

This kind of reckless love, this willingness to sacrifice everything, is most naturally rewarded with companionship with the young man.

—They are the truly normal and correct people.

Do you really deserve it?

Do you really deserve it?

Do you really have the right to interfere in their affairs?

Just like the prince and princess in fairy tales.

[Vilvie and Jiang Cheng have done everything they could, endured enough disasters and hardships, and finally came together hand in hand.]

[You're nothing more than a spectator, a character whose status in the story is closer to that of a villain or a vicious female supporting character. How dare a demon king interfere with the happy ending of the prince and princess?]

[Option 1: You can't. You can't accept that you could even have thoughts of harming a young person. What kind of person have you become?]

[Option Two: You cannot. You cannot take away the only straw, the most precious treasure, from a girl who saved Jiangcheng. Why would you harbor such a shameless and despicable thought?]

Option three: You cannot. There's no reason, simply because you no longer deserve it. Deep down, you believe you're no longer worthy to interfere, no longer worthy to shatter that happiness and beauty, even though it would be incredibly painful.

The options came out.

But in reality, there was no choice at all.

Or……

Ever since that birthday party when the boy was invited by Wilvi, he had almost lost all choices and room for change.

This is a counterattack against all the wrong choices made in the past.

Every time I tried to ignore Jiangcheng, every time I did what I had to do, rather than what I was willing to do or hoped to do, it was an emotional backlash that accumulated.

This emotion has been suppressed and ignored for too long, so much so that it has flourished unnoticed in the shadows until it can no longer be restrained, at which point the surging waves of this emotion are suddenly realized.

—A tower built of sand and gravel will eventually be blown down by a strong wind.

—No one could stop it in the instant of collapse.

No one could help but watch helplessly as the magnificent tower, whose inevitable collapse was laid from the very foundation, crumbled into pieces.

This is a complete and utter empathy, a profound and thorough empathy. Rather than calling it a simulation, it's more like reliving one's past life, returning to childhood with a more mature demeanor and a more distant perspective.

It seems like you can make up for the regret, but you forget that when you try to make up for something, you always take your eyes off everything you're holding in your hands.

Life has its limits, and the space that human hands can grasp is also limited. No matter how hard we try, we can only grasp that tiny bit.

An individual's strength is destined to be unable to take care of every place, and if one tries to save everything, the end result is often that nothing can be saved.

"did not expect……"

"I was so obviously wrong."

Alicia stared directly at herself in the mirror.

She possessed the perfect demeanor of a young girl, flawless and pure, with an almost perfect figure, a perfect appearance, and a soul hidden beneath.

The beauty that can be appreciated with just one's own eyes is something that probably no one can find fault with.

But the girl was grieving.

Those blue eyes, which should be as lively as a fairy and record all the beauty in the world, are now filled only with self-loathing and deep sorrow.

Even though I already knew it was a different life.

Mingming wanted to find the paradise in fairy tales.

Instead, he became a part of that dark story, the one who turned his back on paradise.

Determined to make up for regrets.

Determined to change the tragedy that will come later.

But it inadvertently created a completely new regret and a completely new tragedy.

The fairies in the paradise feed on love.

Suppressed emotions can twist a pure fairy.

The thought of failing to save even the next stranger would make a young girl feel depressed, let alone repeatedly ignoring the most important person in her life.

Those were the people who led me out of the dark forest and sent me to the world of humans!

How could this feeling not exist?

How can this feeling be suppressed?

The girl had previously overlooked this point, becoming so engrossed in the present that she seemed to genuinely treat this simulation game as a game, a tool to make up for past regrets.

Obsessed with spending time with the townspeople who have never faded from my memory.

Not only did they ignore Jiangcheng, but they also completely ignored themselves.

He ignored the sadness that followed each time he ignored Jiang Cheng, ignored his desire to chat and play with Jiang Cheng, and used the satisfaction of making up for regrets and the joy of changing other people's tragedies to resist it.

They don't even care about their own desires.

They ignored even their own demands time and time again.

Even ordinary people with flaws in their humanity will become distorted and smeared with blackness, as filthy as black water, once suppressed.

What about innocent young girls?

Where is the pure pink fairy?

Can that seemingly flawless, seemingly pure, seemingly unblemished human nature, truly grow in a swamp and be immersed in repressed emotions that can be called sin, and remain untainted by the mud?

There is no need to choose anymore.

Or rather, making any choice again would make no difference.

Failed.

It was a complete and utter failure.

Even the deepest sense of defeat, no matter how suppressed or distorted the emotions, can no longer be released; it can only continue to accumulate and boil over.

The girl grieved alone in a deserted place, hiding in the shadows and watching the boy and girl's beautiful and happy life from a corner. She didn't even dare to stand in the sunlight, and she couldn't tell anyone about her sorrow.

At least……

—Don't hurt Jiangcheng anymore.

……

[At twenty-four, this year is just another ordinary one, seemingly without any changes or upheavals, just like a moth drawn to a flame, so quiet.]

The only change might be that the three-point agreement has been cancelled, and the girl will no longer rummage through your room, because you're officially living together now.

[No need to worry about things moving too fast anymore. Even Vivi can no longer accept the two of you continuing to live separately. That very night, while you were sleeping, you felt a young girl touching your fingers.]

[After you open your eyes, the girl who was sleeping in another room suddenly enters your room, takes your hands in hers, and sits on top of you.]

[Those silver-gray eyes held a greed you'd never seen before, an undisguised greed; the suppressed emotions were finally about to be revealed.]

Perhaps you've seen this expression before, perhaps you haven't missed seeing such intense emotion in the eyes of a seemingly fragile and withdrawn girl.

[However, the girl had always hidden these emotions very well, forcefully suppressing them deep inside, daring not to reveal even the slightest bit.]

It's no longer necessary.

There's no need to suppress it.

No need to endure.

Unleash your full potential, show yourself to the fullest!

After experiencing some indescribable things, you looked at the bloodstains on the bed and fell silent.

[Since when, your impression of Velvi has gradually become extremely abstract, transforming into that of a pervert.]

[—Until yesterday, a cry of pain came from the girl's mouth.]

Even with the utmost effort to suppress it, sounds inevitably escaped. The hand resting on your back, to avoid harming you, even chose to let its nails dig into its own flesh to distract itself.

[Though her fingers were fair and delicate, her palms like jade, when you held her hand again, you could clearly feel the numerous wounds covering her hands.]

Even her full lips were bitten until they bled, disregarding her own body and her inexperience, and not wanting to interfere with or disturb you.

"Feel sorry……"

"I will pay more attention next time."

Jiang Cheng could no longer hide his guilt and dared not continue his abnormal behavior. He didn't even dare to clench his hands, but calmly let go and touched the clothes next to him, wanting to stop this immature farce.

however……

Contrary to expectations, the gentle girl did not choose to give up or forgive, but instead waited until they were more familiar with each other and understood each other better before coming back.

Her slender, soft fingers gently touched the corner of her lips, and her slightly hoarse voice revealed a resolute determination not to give up.

"Do not."