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

There is no doubt that the living dolls themselves can distinguish the bloodline of the Kanbara family.

That's why Kanbara Yu could only stay in the ancestral home.

The reason why Shuichi Kanbara did not choose to fight to the death with the living doll was because the living doll's behavior logic meant that it would never touch Yu Kanbara before the sacrifice.

The reason is that even though it was impatient or so hungry that it needed to draw blood from multiple ordinary people to stay alive, it did not choose to harm Shinbara Yu.

This patience and discipline are like saving the best food for last.

The way this living doll suppresses itself is through killing.

In Su Qing'an's view, the practice of making live puppets is as particular as eating crayfish by first peeling off all the shells before eating them together.

In a sense, is this a genuine spirituality or an inertia caused by the way a living doll exists?

If we consider the former perspective, then living dolls are indeed very special.

In short, the nature of the living doll determines that it will not refuse Sato Yuno as the priestess, as long as the time is brought forward to the festival day a little earlier than before.

Before the time for them to truly devour Shenyuan Xi arrives, the living puppet will naturally not refuse a meal offered to it.

The key to this plan is that the Shinbara family's ritual is to be held in front of the villagers at the shrine where the gods are enshrined. For three days, the entire village will take turns guarding the shrine where the ritual is to be held.

Based on Shuichi Kanbara's previous statements, the Kanbara family was practically being forced to sacrifice their own flesh and blood and lives to maintain the village's faith.

In theory, although Sato Yuno and Kanbara Yu are both 15 years old, the difference in their appearance should be easy to see.

However, Shuichi Kambara stated that the people of Kambara Village had never seen Yu Kambara.

The reason was that the man loathed everything about the village, and from the moment his daughter was born, he tried his best to prevent her from having any contact with the villagers.

If it weren't for the living dolls, he would never have allowed his daughter to stay in such a place, but even so, his men formed a defensive line near the ancestral home.

Hand grenades, pistols, fully automatic rifles, bulletproof vests, and riot shields are all readily available. The villagers themselves are nothing special. If it weren't for the existence of the living puppets, Shuichi Kanbara could easily plow through Kanbara Village and beat everyone to the ground.

In fact, on the day of the sacrifice ten years ago, Shuichi Kanbara led several hundred of his men and equipped them to Kanbara Village, intending to use force to suppress the villagers who wanted to sacrifice his father.

Then the living puppet appeared. It did almost nothing, but just glanced at Shuichi Kanbara and his subordinates, and everyone lost control of their emotions, howling and rolling on the spot, losing their ability to fight.

Shuichi Kanbara was unaffected, but he was held up by several villagers. He roared and howled, but in the end, he could only helplessly watch as his father was taken into the shrine by a live doll to have his blood drained.

Shuichi Kanbara still can't forget how he spent those three hellish days. The smile and comforting look his father gave him before entering the shrine were nothing but sharp blades that tormented him.

From that day on, half of this man's spine was broken.

Even if Sato Yuno and Su Qing'an understood what the villagers had done, they could not fully comprehend even half of the hatred in Kanbara Shuichi's heart.

When they arrive at Kambara Village, they may be able to understand some deeper things.

Kambara Village is an extremely xenophobic village, and Kambara Shuichi suggests that Su Qing'an go with them as the heir who will inherit the old butler's position in the future.

So he is now learning some basic etiquette from the old butler in order to sneak into Shinbara Village as the new butler.

Looking at herself in the mirror, Sato Yuno was somewhat dazed. Her originally light purple hair had been dyed black, and her emerald green eyes were now covered with black contact lenses. She pursed her bright red lips.

Since becoming a pseudo-Herrscher, her body has undergone some subtle changes. The speed at which she trains to improve her physical strength is significantly different from that of a normal person. Her hair seems to grow faster, and her metabolic function has been greatly slowed down. Although she still needs to eat, this body's energy intake should come more from Honkai energy.

The girl has developed an almost subconscious indifference towards humans; only the emotions generated by past memories can sustain her normal personality.

Her skin had become excessively delicate and fair, and the coldness in her eyes seemed impossible to dispel even through her colored contact lenses.

The girl in the mirror, with black hair and black eyes, possessed a stunning appearance and charm.

This version of myself feels surprisingly unfamiliar.

Just like Su Qing'an, she also has black hair and black eyes. Sato Yuno suddenly realized this and couldn't help but be a little distracted.

Behind the girl was a servant of the Kanbara family, who was currently using a hairdryer to blow-dry the girl's damp hair. The light fragrance emanating from Sato Yuno was released with the hot air, and the maid who smelled this fragrance instantly felt a refreshing and pleasant sensation.

She lifted the girl's hair, and the hairdryer quietly emitted a suitable amount of hot air.

The maid's fingertips accidentally touched the skin of her neck, and the slightly cool touch brought the maid back to her senses.

She twirled a strand of hair that was no longer damp, turned off the hairdryer, and, seeing the girl's dazed expression, asked with some concern:

"Miss?"

"……Um."

"Let me take you to change your clothes."

"it is good."

Sato Yuno understood the maid's reason for asking her to change clothes. The festival in Kambara Village was an extremely solemn occasion for the villagers, and wearing a specific kimono was a basic etiquette.

Although it has a strange and absurd feel to it that such ignorant and ridiculous people talk about etiquette, it is indeed the truth.

Now, what Sato Yuno needs to do is try on the kimono to see if she can wear the armor inside.

Valkyrie armor is generally very lightweight, and there are quite a few like Kiana's, which are so thin and light that they perfectly accentuate her slender curves.

Although it's a bit embarrassing, Sato Yuno's armor is not much different from Kiana's.

The root of the problem lies in the fact that when Kiana was filling in the Valkyrie armor appearance selection, she enthusiastically said, "Yuno, I'll help you choose."

The naive Yuno Sato said no problem.

What I received next was a set of cute body armor with cat paw prints on it. Although I do like cats, it's a bit strange to announce my hobby so openly.

Imagine Sato Yuno with a cool expression training in a tight-fitting suit of armor printed with cute cat paws. Doesn't that give you a strange feeling of cuteness?

Unfortunately, the girls who felt ashamed later would wear a tracksuit over their armor as a cover-up.

At that moment, Sato Yuno fell silent as she looked at the kimono hanging on the wooden frame in front of her.

19. Kyo-Yuzen, an unfulfilled promise.

“Miss, this is a Kyo-Yuzen kimono, which was prepared by the head of the Kanbara family for Miss Yu.”

“Kyoyuzen…” Yoshino Sato murmured to herself.

Hanging on the wooden frame was a magnificent and exquisite kimono, so much so that it resembled a work of art.

In fact, this kimono is no different from a work of art.

Unlike foreign techniques such as tie-dyeing, stencil dyeing, and twill dyeing, Kyo-Yuzen is a dyeing art unique to Japan.

From its initial sketch to its final completion, it requires 26 steps, each completed by a different master craftsman, and finally, the gold leaf is ground and printed with gold.

Its finished product is incredibly luxurious and dazzling; in a sense, you could even call it a work of art.

For girls who love kimonos, Kyo-Yuzen is like a dream, and it was certainly true for Yoshino Sato in the past as well.

No girl would refuse pretty clothes, right? It's like a mouse loves rice, a cat loves fish, and girls are made of sugar, spices, and something beautiful, so it's perfectly normal for them to yearn for beautiful things.

When Sato Yuno was in school and saw other people dating, she would sometimes fantasize about watching fireworks with her lover while wearing a kimono at a fireworks festival.

It would have been even better if she had been wearing a Kyoyuzen kimono at that time.

On her 15th birthday, Sato Natsuyuki patted her head and confidently promised to give her a Kyoto Yuzen kimono for her 18th birthday.

The man said with a smile:

“Yuno would look especially good in it, after all, Yuno is my daughter.”

At that time, Sato Yuno thought Sato Natsuyuki was bragging. Kyo-Yuzen kimonos were so expensive, averaging three to thirty million yen, which was far beyond her family's means.

But in the end, Sato Yuno believed it.

There was nothing the girl could do; she couldn't refute Sato Natsuno's confident words.

If a father makes a promise, then as a daughter, regardless of whether he breaks it later, all you can do at that time is smile and say yes, right?

So Sato Yuno smiled and said okay.

Then, Sato Natsuyuki did not live to see the girl's 18th birthday.

How beautiful the Kyo-Yuzen kimono is! But now, even the finest Kyo-Yuzen kimono presented to Sato Yuno only makes her feel sad.

It wasn't that she disliked Kyo-Yuzen kimonos anymore; she just wanted to wait for the one Sato Natsuyuki had promised her. Whether that Kyo-Yuzen kimono cost three million or thirty million, or even if it wasn't Kyo-Yuzen at all, a regular kimono would be fine, as long as…

If only Sato Natsuyuki could come back.

The girl silently took off her clothes, and the maid helped her put on her gorgeous kimono.

She looked up and glanced at the beautiful girl in the glasses, who seemed completely different from her usual self. The true color of her eyes, hidden by the colored contact lenses, appeared even deeper. If one could see the girl's real eyes, one would be amazed at how sad and cold they were, yet they also seemed... to be burning!

The flames of hatred cannot be extinguished.

As long as Sato Natsuichi doesn't personally deliver the promised Kyō Yuzen to the girl, Sato Yuno's murderous intent will never subside.

There will always be some things in this world that you can't forgive, even if it takes a long time to wear them down, even if it takes until the end of time, until the sea dries up and the rocks crumble, as long as you are alive, right?

Those who advise others to let go of hatred often do not understand what true hatred is.

Hatred is like a fire; once the fire is extinguished, you die.

What does it mean to fight to the death? This is it.

To advise Sato Yuno to let go of her hatred is tantamount to telling her to die.

So Theresa didn't speak, Kiana chose to remain silent, and Su Qing'an could only remain speechless as well.

Su Qing'an understood that kind of hatred.

Such clenched teeth, such utter desperation, such madness and determination to achieve the goal even at the cost of self-destruction.

Don't tell me that hatred only brings emptiness and nothingness in the end, and don't talk to me about putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot.

Who doesn't understand these big principles?

But if you truly hate a person or an event that much, then all that will remain in your mind is a surging murderous intent; the only difference is whether you remain calm or not.

“Very good, very suitable.” The girl twirled a strand of her smooth, silky hair between her fingertips. When she raised her hand, her fair wrist, as white as snow, was revealed. But even more eye-catching were the cherry blossoms painted on the cuffs of her kimono.

Those were cherry blossoms with elegant and gradually changing colors, gentle and beautiful.

Color is an infinite existence.

The finest custom-made Kyoto Yuzen involves a master craftsman finding the most suitable colors and patterns for the individual.

The girls who are custom-made are called "Huazhu".

Therefore, top-notch dyers always choose the main color and pattern colors that best match the image of the "Emperor".

The dyer must constantly test colors on the fabric, and then slowly explore from the scattered "palette" to find the color that is infinitely close to complementing the "master".