Regarding the question of whether one thousand lives are enough to beat Honkai Impact 3rd.

The scent of shampoo mixed with orange clung to Fu Hua's body, and at that moment, it acted like a dangerous catalyst, arousing in the young man the desire to embrace her, wrap her in his trench coat, and hold her slender waist.

Su Qing'an suppressed the restlessness and said with a smile:

"okay, I get it."

"Hua, you don't need to worry about me in Canghai City. I've already given you my new phone number. You can add other friends on other apps later."

"So, I'm leaving now?"

The girl nodded slightly, and slowly closed the boy's hand with her slender fingers, whispering:

"Ah."

"Remember to come see me on Sunday."

Otherwise I'll be lonely.

Even though Fu Hua didn't utter those words aloud, the faint, flickering light in her eyes still spoke volumes.

Su Qing'an silently cursed in her heart several times.

The girl's unintentional advances had already dealt him a devastating blow.

After all, unlike Fu Hua, whose favorability has increased from moderate to the present, Su Qing'an, who started with full favorability, is the one whose heartstrings are most easily touched.

The boy's earlobes gradually turned red just from the soft touch of the other person's fingers and their slightly seductive words.

To prevent these colors from spreading further, he silently recited the Sword Heart Mantra in his mind, but it still couldn't stop the surging waves of emotion.

With the soul's essence becoming increasingly powerful, the Sword Heart Technique can no longer fully control one's emotions. It is no longer the cheat tool that could easily suppress even the fear of death.

This forced Su Qing'an to rely solely on willpower to resist her impulses.

The boy ultimately didn't choose to hug her; he merely pinched the little girl's fair cheek in a retaliatory gesture, and under the gleaming light in her eyes, he whispered:

"I will."

29. Seele o Fuleai.

After successfully seeing Fu Hua off, Su Qing'an asked the dormitory supervisor where the principal's office was, and then politely nodded and left the dormitory building.

The boy stepped onto the smooth granite floor and looked at the rows of school buildings in the distance, fixing his gaze on the most conspicuous white obelisk among them.

The top floor there is the principal's office.

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……

Su Qing'an used the maximum power of his soul essence's affinity amplification to gain the opportunity to talk with the headmistress. After a battle of wits and a demonstration of his abilities, the boy became the art teacher of this prestigious girls' school.

This was an idea he had long ago: to get closer to Fu Hua naturally and reasonably, becoming her teacher was the best solution.

Otherwise, Su Qing'an couldn't guarantee that nothing unexpected would happen at the academy while she was outside, and continuing to stalk and protect her would be disrespectful to her and the students nearby.

Therefore, being a teacher is a necessity, and at the same time, it allows one to earn a certain salary to make a living.

The reason things went so smoothly, besides the influence of the soul's essence, was that Fu Xiuran had thoughtfully increased his age by one year on the identity certificate.

Otherwise, as a minor with only a basic high school education, he would be completely unqualified to teach at a school of this caliber.

Of course, even if Fu Xiuran gave Su Qing'an a high school diploma and an adult age that didn't exist at all.

Given that Su Qing'an does not possess a teacher's qualification certificate, it is impossible for her to obtain this position.

The real reason Su Qing'an could become a teacher at this academy was that it was a private academy, and the principal had enough power to ignore these factors, making many rules more flexible, which allowed Su Qing'an to be hired directly.

The reason the headmaster agreed to let the boy become an art teacher was because of the various skills Su Qing'an learned during his time at St. Freya Academy.

Roughly speaking, within the broad concept of fine arts, Su Qing'an has dabbled in various categories, including painting, sculpture, design, and architecture.

However, in such a short time, he obviously couldn't quickly demonstrate his erudition. Besides, with 55,000 years separating them, no one knew whether the skills he learned in that era would still be applicable.

So Su Qing'an chose to "use cheat codes".

The school principal, who was willing to wait for the boy to demonstrate his talent because of his affability, was moved by a sketch that the boy drew in three minutes.

It was a bizarre technique she had never heard of before, seemingly an incredibly ancient art yet also possessing some innovative reforms.

But more than any of these, what strikes the soul most is the sparse martial intent remaining on that piece of paper.

Su Qing'an painted himself, and only by painting himself could he fully embody this strong will that was both unwavering and tinged with sorrow.

That surpasses the limits that any master painter could ever reach with a brush.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a dimensional attack; this spiritual will directly dragged the headmistress into a fleeting dream, making her feel intense emotions and an incredible shock.

Anyone with even a basic understanding of art would instinctively respect someone with such an incredible level of skill, even if the person in front of them only looks like a teenager who has just come of age.

Su Qing'an was very fortunate that the school principal himself had received excellent artistic and cultural education.

In her eyes, diplomas and teaching certificates are meaningless to people of this caliber. The fact that such a meager salary could keep Su Qing'an was a very worthwhile deal.

Thus, the boy successfully passed the first priority option. He abandoned the remaining eight alternative options and went to the faculty dormitory with the qualification certificate personally awarded by the principal to collect the corresponding key and various daily necessities.

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……

Seele o Fuleiai.

The girl silently recited her own name.

She couldn't quite remember which day she had been in the city.

On bustling streets, in dark, deserted alleyways, on highways where vehicles constantly pass by...

Seele wanders like a ghost amidst the countless scenes of this city, like a traveler traversing the gap between two worlds, forced to distance herself from the concept called the world.

Used, abandoned, ignored, overlooked...

After experiencing so much, the girl wandered through this cold and unfamiliar steel forest, aimlessly searching for something she herself didn't understand.

She just couldn't stop. If she rested for too long, it would be as if she would be swallowed up by some enormous terror and plunged into the void. Seele instinctively feared that future, and for that reason, even though she knew almost nothing about this world, she still tried her best and stubbornly took her own steps.

But now it seems she has to take a break; ever since escaping from that world, she has been in a very strange state.

One must not be touched by others or by matter, nor should one subjectively touch others or matter.

All normal bodily physiological reactions were strangely stretched to a distant time. Seele could still feel thirst, but she was also keenly aware that she would not die from thirst.

But the girl seemed to need to rest. The mental fatigue from not sleeping for a long time and the physical exhaustion from not stopping for several days prompted her to take a long nap.

Seele found a dark, secluded corner where no one ever visited, the place where she first appeared in the city.

The girl curled up in the darkness, and the lack of light in the scene inexplicably reassured Seele, and she drifted into a near-sleep-like trance.

If someone could see her face, they would find that she was just a very young girl.

At around thirteen or fourteen years old, her face was youthful and naturally innocent, but her deep blue eyes, like the ocean, were empty and bewildered, and the color of her lips was too pale, with a slight whitening amidst the rosy hue, which was clearly unhealthy.

Her petite body was covered by a white garment with a strange code on it. The slightly oversized size made her appear even thinner and more pitiful, and her milk-white skin gave her a visual appeal that surpassed even the white fabric.

The girl reeked of chemicals, and her exposed wrist was covered with tiny needle marks, vaguely revealing some cruel and dark truths.

But Seele herself didn't see these as proof of being cruelly treated; she was born into an orphanage destined to serve experiments.

Every "teacher" responsible for raising and educating children is a servant of the organization; there is no warmth from elders, nor will there be any children who dare to disobey.

Crying is a child's subconscious way of seeking benefits, and it is also an instinct to express fear and sadness.

However, since the former is out of the question and the latter is bound by instilled common sense, these concepts have all vanished without a trace.

Regular blood draws were common in such places, and as Seele grew older, her Honkai energy literacy improved dramatically, leading her to enter a real experimental field. The increasingly excessive blood draws made her body very weak and her face even paler.

The reason that Seele suddenly appeared in Canghai City was the final experiment.

Immersed in a culture chamber filled with reagents, the girl gazed at the magnificent crystal, as beautiful as a gemstone. Before she could even utter a sigh, she was plunged into the most painful moment of her life.

In the blink of an eye, the body felt the sensation of disintegration, and finally it seemed that the whole body was gradually falling apart, and all the senses were slowly going haywire.

Then, with a deafening roar, Seele vanished from the now-calm incubation chamber, leaving behind only the researchers who were shouting that the experiment had produced a suspected success and frantically calculating complex data.

This is all for the sake of humanity.

This is so that humanity can overcome the Honkai.

This is the reason those people gave Seele the reason she needed to be experimented on.

The girl knew what Honkai was, and through her exposure to it, her understanding of it far surpassed that of most people in the world, even though she lacked a lot of basic knowledge due to not having studied the relevant knowledge system.

But for higher-level Honkai knowledge—that is, the Herrschers.

Seele, on the other hand, had a clear understanding.

She overheard the researchers' conversation and learned that the wondrous, beautiful crystal was the Herrscher Core of the Second Herrscher.

It harbors a terrifying power, and if humanity can understand its secrets and use it to open the gates to the Sea of ​​Quanta, this civilization will have a backyard where it will never fear annihilation.

This has a crucial impact on the preservation of civilization and the future course of war.

Therefore, Seele Voller's sacrifice was necessary.

The deaths of his friends and partners were also a matter of course.

Unpleasant? Angry? Feeling it's unfair?

These emotions, which should appear in normal people, have no fertile ground to grow and sprout due to the distorted education they received from childhood.

The girl, filled with confusion, fear, and a sense of emptiness, was forced to accept all the unfair treatment.

The results of the experiment were milder than death.

But even so, things weren't much better. In that world called the Sea of ​​Quanta, Seele drifted in the void of darkness for a very, very long time.

It wasn't until a few days ago, in a fleeting moment, that she suddenly saw the light.

In a daze, the girl grabbed onto that beam of light and arrived in this world she had never seen before—the outside world.

Upon appearing in the mortal world, Seele's first reaction was that her body felt like a fragile building block pieced together, ready to collapse at any moment.

There were clearly no signs of sutures on any of the joints, blood circulated naturally, and the heart beat normally.

But the feeling it gave the girl was so terrifying and real. It was as if she had been transformed into a completely different form of existence in that world, and after returning to the physical form of existence, the sense of separation still raged in her nerves, tormenting her willpower.

Arriving in this external world where she knew no one and had no contact with anyone, Seele felt both lonely and at ease.