A blonde little girl with a bubble-orange headband raised her hand: "Report, Mother! She's holding a funeral for her little spider!"

Beneath a tree by the wall of the Hearth House, a white-haired girl with black highlights at the ends of her hair sat on the ground, holding a small box in her hands. A black curse seemed to spread upwards from the tips of her fingers.

[Former servant: "This child, perhaps the [curse] has acted up again. Clementine, go and check on her."]

Clementine, the redhead with the soft-light bell pendant, nodded: "Oh, okay."

[March 7th: Wow! It's an animated short for Genshin Impact! We saw an animated short for Honkai Impact 3rd on the screen before, I wonder when we'll get an animated short for Honkai Impact: Star Railway.]

[Black Tower: Both "The Last Lesson" and "Thus Spoke Apocalypse" are heart-wrenching, and I think "Song in Ashes" is no exception. Do you really want an animated short film?]

[March 7th: What you said makes a lot of sense. Looking at it this way, let's just forget about it.]

[Linnie: This is... my father when I was a child?]

He really wanted to watch it, but for some reason he was also a little afraid to.

[Servant: Clementine...]

[Raiden Mei: Defeat all my brothers and sisters, become king... Is this some kind of 'breeding a venomous insect'? I never thought that 'breeding a venomous insect' and 'thriving', two completely contradictory terms, could be put together.]

[Aha: Join the Hearth House and embrace a wonderful childhood!]

[(Honkai Impact: Star Railway) Welt Yang: Hearth House × Mist Village√]

[Hanabi: Wow, my servant has a congenitally cursed holy body!]

[Paimon: I feel like her spiderlings died because of this curse. Keeping spiderlings as pets...that fits my stereotype of the Fatui enforcers.]

[Qin: I kept a pet turtle when I was little, and I thought everyone kept similar small animals.]

[Paimon: Huh? Jean actually did something so cute?!]

[Lisa: Hehe, Qin is just a young girl.]

[Kiana: Is the servant's mushroom-shaped eye also due to a curse?]

[Alicia: Haha, mushroom eyes! It's a little impolite to laugh out loud, but that description is so apt!]

[Ying: The mushroom babies are so cute! They're tiny, fragrant, and soft!]

[Star: Knights of Favonius, Thousand Rock Army, remember to protect Klee and Qiqi!]

[Ying: It's okay, I can still suck other lolis!]

[Star: Damn it, if only I were in Teyvat, I could protect the little girl from this blonde demon!]

[Hu Tao: Are you sure you won't steal from me?]

[Hanabi: Speaking of which, since the servant's original name was Peruvéri, let's call her Pepe from now on!]

[Sambo: The Pera Universe has gained another member, hasn't it?]

Peruvier, who was digging a grave for the little spider, heard footsteps. She turned around and saw Clementine holding a small cake and eating something.

Clementine swallowed the cake in her mouth: "I brought cake...would you like some?"

[Peruvelli: "Okay."]

She placed the small cake on a leaf and then put it in front of the little spider's grave.

[Peruvéri: "You know spiders don't eat cake, right?"]

[Cravlie: "Ah... I... I know!"]

As the song begins, Clementine and Peruvier share a cake, pick mandarin oranges from a tree, catch fish in the water, and sit by the window of the fireplace house, reading by moonlight.

[On the windowsill were white and red dolls placed side by side, along with medical supplies for bandaging.]

[Peruvelli bandaged Clementine's injured hand: "Do mothers and daughters argue?"]

Clementine didn't answer. She opened the window and looked at the starry sky: "I've heard that on the night of the winter solstice, there are colorful auroras in the sky..."

She smiled at Peruvieri: "When we grow up, let's go see it together."

[Peruveli gazes at Crevie. The scene shifts; Peruveli has grown up, and Crevie is still in front of her, but this time, a knife pierces Crevie's body.]

With her last breath, Clementine rested her head on Peruvier's shoulder: "You will become... a very good [king]."

[Soon, she fell backward: "I'm sorry... thank you."]

Peruvée stood frozen in place, as raindrops began to fall.

[Padoflis: Huh? Clementine's gone already? Wasn't that a bit too fast? So fleeting!]

[March 7th: The knife is really coming! I was wrong before, I don't want to see animated shorts in Honkai Impact 3rd: Star Railroad!]

[Fireworks: Too late, your prophetic abilities have already activated.]

[March 7th: Caw! I don't want to hear it!]

[Möbius: Clementine wasn't killed by Arecino. Clementine had a sword stuck in her body when she fell, but Arecino's reflection in the window shows her still holding a sword, and there was no blood on it.]

[Alicia: Arecino never managed to kill her, so Clementine sacrificed herself to protect her? What a touching friendship.]

[Aha: Peruvieri, go and transform this imperfect fireplace house into the one we desire!]

[Silver Wolf: It keeps raining.]

[Star: This isn't rain; it's servants weeping for the deceased.]

[Sambo: Peruvéri, so you're the Water Dragon King after all.]

[Fukaros: Like a light rain falling without cause.]

[(Honkai Impact 3) Bronya: Seele...]

Watching Clementine and Peruvier's friendship, she couldn't help but recall her time in the orphanage.

Thinking about it carefully, winter and Russia are very similar, and even the promise to watch the aurora together is very similar to the promise to watch the sea.

[Kiana: This way of getting along feels a bit like Otto and Kallen when they were kids.]

[Furina: Oh no, is this going to end with a "Thus Spoke Peruvian" version?]

[Blue Sparrow: Your Excellency, let's charge forward with Peruvée!]

[Paimon: Stop rushing! The Imaginary Tree is already exhausted.]

[Ying: Sigh, the moment I saw Clementine's smile and heard what she said, I knew she wouldn't survive. She's already made a bold prediction: she'll see the aurora borealis when she grows up, so she definitely won't grow up.]

[Gold Sand: The aurora borealis...]

The aurora borealis appears at the winter solstice, and his hometown also has a beautiful aurora borealis. Peruvieri cannot go to see the aurora borealis with Clementine when he grows up, and he can no longer return to his former home.

[Silver Wolf: Even if your friendship is broken, please remain the king of the Hearth House.]

Inside the broken walls, a sword adorned with a bubble orange charm lay planted in the ground, just like the stick that had once been stuck in the little spider's grave. The branches of the bubble orange tree where Clementine had once picked fruit had long since been cut down, and bloodstained medical supplies were scattered throughout the fireplace house. Peruvée, sword in hand, slowly walked up the steps.

The former servant sat on a chair at the top of the steps in the round castle, looking at the soon-to-withering Soft Lantern Bells: "Flowers that aren't growing well should have been pruned long ago. The fact that they've only withered now is nauseating—don't you think?"

Peruveli remained silent. She gathered fire elemental energy and charged towards the former servant, but the former servant was already prepared. She drew her sword and used water elemental energy to block Peruveli's attack.

The two swords clashed, and the former servant, while launching physical attacks, voiced his opinion: "[Innocence] and [Kindness], what beautiful qualities. Alas, utterly useless!"

[The song began, and Peruvieri remained silent, but her attacks grew increasingly fierce.]

The former servant once again blocked Peruvéli's attack: "A caged bird is never worthy of the sky, and you are no exception."

[Peruveli gritted her teeth, concentrated fire element in her fist, and hurled it at the former servant. The former servant smiled disdainfully and threw a water sword, sending Peruveli flying.]

Darkness crept up Peruvier's arm, and lying in the ruins, she saw the withering, soft-lighted bell.

[Former servant: "Give up, let me, your mother, guide you to become a true king!"]

As the smoke cleared, the former servant discovered that Peruvier had risen again. She attacked Peruvier once more, but this time, Peruvier, whose hands had turned completely black, easily blocked her attack.

The singing changed to a children's choir, and Peruvéli finally uttered her first words since entering the room: "[Mother], you are not worthy."

She kicked the former servant into the ceiling and blasted him and the entire round fortress to smithereens with black flames.

[Sambo: Former servant: Peruveli, my daughter, why is this so? Peruveli: A true man is born between heaven and earth; how can he remain subservient to others for long!]

[Paimon: Peruverie is so strong! She was this strong even as a child, she must be even stronger now. Are we going to have to fight her again?]

Is it true that she and the traveler were servants?

[Young Master: She's the fourth seat among the Fools' Enforcers.]

[Silver Wolf: Strength is the reason to be king!]

[Silver Wolf: Actually, at the beginning of the battle, the difference between the two wasn't that great, but the previous generation's servant used his solid foundation in advanced elemental theory to trigger a vaporization reaction, blasting Peruvier away. After entering the second phase, Peruvier directly used her powerful brick-throwing technique to kill the previous generation.]

[Silver Wolf: The stats are amazing, aren't they?]

[Ying: A reasonable guess is that the previous generation's servant used a water shield to apply a wet effect on himself, and then the servant evaporated him with a single burst of vaporization.]

[Hu Tao: In any case, the previous generation's servant died a good death, becoming a distinguished guest in the Hall of Rebirth.]

[Kiana: Strange, why is Peruvier so quiet during battle?]

[Servant: I can't be bothered to reason with her; she doesn't deserve to listen.]

[Star: It feels like this world is a giant Cocolia.]

[Tesla: No, that former servant didn't even spare his own daughter, he's worse than Cocolia!]

Cocolia at least still loves the children in the orphanage, and as for her actions... at least she says she loves the children in the orphanage, something this former servant wouldn't even say.

[March 7th: This girl dared to underestimate the power of emotions! Punish her by making her read *Thus Spoke Apocalypse* 100 times!]

[Jingyuan: Hahaha, consider this a reward.]

[Keqing: Neither the previous servant nor Peruvier used elemental power for extended periods. Was it because they hadn't yet obtained the Eye of God at this time and could only use the Evil Eye?]

[Gui Naifen: Young Master possesses Demon King Armor; I wonder if the former servant had a second stage.]

[Blue Sparrow: She doesn't, but Peruvelle does. Former servant, you are the challenger!]

[Silver Wolf: Villains die from talking too much. Peruvieri learned from the experience of her predecessor who watched her transform, and without hesitation, she used hard crowd control and a powerful attack to instantly kill her.]

[Aha: Haha, this can be considered the last lesson the previous servant gave Peruvier.]

[Silver Wolf: Perhaps it was after this incident that the Queen granted the Enforcers more power, allowing them the ability to forcibly cut to the cutscene and transform after their first phase was defeated.]

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