Honkai Impact 3rd, what should an ordinary player do at the start?

Raiden Mei and Kiana, this classic duo, ultimately spent their first encounter after the Honkai Impact 3rd together, hand in hand.

Shopping for clothes—which should theoretically be the most likely way to increase goodwill—was a completely different experience for the two of them, conducted in the coldest of ways.

Kiana had many questions along the way.

However, he couldn't bring himself to say it.

But seeing Raiden Mei's eyes made it impossible for her to say anything.

It was a terrifying lightning bolt that seemed to send shivers down one's spine just by witnessing it. It was lightning that truly resembled a surname. The dense dark clouds were no longer just the heavy clouds in the sky; they even made the girl recall the scene she had witnessed that morning—a street torn apart by God.

In the end, he didn't even ask a single question.

The girl named Kiana could only sigh as she changed her clothes.

Midway through, he didn't even have the energy to think about how his clothes would inevitably reveal some skin that Jiang Cheng would see.

In order to resist the paralysis, the functions of the Kaslana bloodline in her body have been pushed to the limit, and even her brain is dizzy.

In the end, even choosing clothes became a perfunctory matter; they just grabbed a few white shirts and hot pants at random.

There was no light novel-like development, nor any rosy youthful memories. Even if I were to lie in a wheelchair watching the sunset in the future and recall it in that extremely beautiful atmosphere, I would not find any beautiful day. This trip was really just a precise completion of the boy's initial goal - to collect the three starter Pokémon.

In this way, all that's left to do is increase the favorability of the three of them, while figuring out how to decrease Mei's favorability towards him, so that he can leave when necessary and when Raiden Mei doesn't care.

The Thunder Queen probably wouldn't care about someone Mei doesn't value. Even if she leaves, she won't do much more given her past achievements.

This is the final plan. (Liulingsi Baba Temple)

Its name is "Escape from the Sky".

Humming a song in Jiangcheng, having chosen a black trench coat for myself, in a rare moment of comfort without so much pressure, we gathered once again at the meeting place.

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Chapter 52 Bronya: Jiang Cheng, do you even know how to play?!

The first thing that catches the eye is Kiana, who has changed into a white shirt and shorts, and Mei, who seems to still be wearing her school uniform.

Is it because you couldn't find clothes you liked?

still is……

Do not……

It's not that it wasn't replaced.

The boy, who was subconsciously caught up in speculation, interrupted his pointless thoughts without hesitation—because his cherry-colored eyes were clearly reflected in the area below the purple skirt, where the black stockings met, the area belonging to the absolute territory, and a corner of the pure white lace skirt was also clearly visible.

It's not that Raiden Mei didn't change her clothes or choose new ones; she simply chose to wear the new clothes under her old outfit.

why?

There's no need to say things like that.

The moment she felt his gaze, her slender fingertips gently released her grip on the hem of her skirt.

There's no need to guess anymore.

Indeed, she was wearing a long skirt under her clothes.

Because we've already seen it.

The boy clearly saw the purple sailor uniform slip off her slender, soft body in an instant, as if it had been planned in advance, and disappear from his sight in a flash. In just a blink of an eye, what appeared again in his vision was a long, pure white dress, as beautiful as a flower.

Her long, delicate eyelashes were gently lowered, and the girl's blushing face resembled a flower bud ruffled by the wind in spring, yet she still allowed her white dress to flutter freely, and in an instant, the swaying petals flew gracefully and freely in the wind.

Pure as a flower.

As flawless as a cloud.

However, the flowers and clouds were not in their purest form; instead, they were tinged with the crimson of the sky, as if they were glowing with intense heat.

The perfect breeze seemed to come from nowhere, and by the time she realized it, the pure white skirt was already billowing in the air.

After removing the outermost layer of clothing, the inner long skirt billows in the wind, making one appear as if completely naked.

The body heat that had been building up for so long was carried away by the wind. When it blew onto the boy who was so close, you could even clearly feel and smell that lingering warmth, that natural fragrance that belonged to Raiden Mei.

The pure and innocent-looking purple-haired beauty lowered her swan-like, noble and proud head. Her flawless, exquisite face was flushed as red as a fiery sunset. Shyly and embarrassed, she lowered her eyelids, yet from her petite lips she still managed to utter a shy declaration, barely audible, a yearning to be noticed and appreciated.

"Do you still think this outfit looks good?"

"This was specially chosen by Mei."

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--Ruined.

Now I have no choice but to comment.

Despite her seemingly aloof demeanor, Wu Yiqi kept her distance from Raiden Mei, appearing to have no intention of denying anything. Although she felt somewhat sad, there was nothing she could do.

Jiang Cheng really didn't expect that the reason why Raiden Mei seemed so indifferent was simply because she was dissatisfied; it turned out that she had been accumulating a big problem at this moment.

It wasn't that they hadn't resisted before, or that they hadn't taken any action against my gradual distancing; it was just that I needed to accumulate a lot of energy, and it would take longer to build up enough for a decisive blow.

Faced with such a situation, Jiang Cheng would never shamelessly dance and rip off 8 people (Yi Lingmeng said it was not good, not beautiful enough).

--impossible.

This is something that humans can never do.

"So cute, so pretty!"

This is the only answer Jiangcheng can offer.

It was enough to make the girl's eyes shine again, and to make her pupils, which had been gloomy for a long time, like dark clouds in the sky that occasionally flashed with lightning, shine with clear approval once again.

Without any pretense or intention to belittle—this behavior, which is simply impossible for humans, was completely negated at this moment.

The boy was simply praising him.

They were simply praising her.

because……

"She looks so beautiful! She can even make a white dress look so cute," Kiana, whose mind was still stuck in the previous school version, finally uttered a proper exclamation. "No wonder she's the school's big star, Mei-senpai."

"Thank you."

Raiden Mei nodded politely to everyone, but her gaze was fixed on only one person—Jiang Cheng.

Being praised.

Jiangcheng praised me.

This truth powerfully impacts our thinking.

It made the girl unable to control the urge to smile, to curve her lips slightly like a petal being gently lifted by the wind.

The only one who could sense something was wrong, and the only one who realized that this reality was not some teen romance comedy, was Bronya, who was often used as a tool.

Because Jiangcheng is running away from Raiden Mei.

They are genuinely escaping.

She was taken along as a third wheel.

The current situation is simply like being beaten without any chance to stop it.

Doubt, confusion... She felt like a frog at the bottom of a well, helplessly watching the interaction between the moon and the clouds, which filled the girl with unprecedented fear.

The key point is that the moon and clouds are not something that will not interfere with her or the people around her; rather, they are a meteorite that could fall at any time and cause mass extinction.

Bronya couldn't hold back any longer. During the next round of communication, when they were getting the daily necessities they needed, she used the excuse that she had lost some things to signal to Jiang Cheng and her to leave temporarily.

On the way home, as the boy, who understood her, still left with her, the girl finally asked the question she had been holding back for so long.

Bronya didn't understand.

"What don't you understand?"

He asked the question knowing the answer already, but didn't even turn his head.

"Thunder and Lightning Meiyi."

Those silver eyes even held a momentary seriousness as if they were staring directly at the snow and ice of Siberia. Only a natural disaster could evoke such a cold and hard concept. Out of the corner of my eye, she seemed to be prepared to ask even if it meant being killed if she told anyone.

To this day, the girl, who had been captured for almost a day, still knows nothing and understands nothing.

Her life and safety were in the hands of the boy in front of her, and that was the only thing she knew.

Everything she saw, heard, and witnessed was incomprehensible to the girl, who was no longer a qualified mercenary and could not accept this incomprehension.

"You can know that because you're not the key one among the three, they can use threats against you, so I'll tell you everything."

"I also need your help, as a tool to ensure the stability of the plot even after I leave here..."

Jiang Cheng shook his head casually, gripping the katana at his waist with one hand, letting his black trench coat flutter in the wind.

Only when he was walking in the wind did the expression on his face, which had never seemed to change, relax for the first time, as if something taut had been released.

"You probably won't understand some of the more complicated stuff, but you probably know that there are Herrschers and superpowers in this world, such as the things called Stigmata that exist within the human body."

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Chapter 53 Bronya, come and be my tool.

“Bronya knows, Bronya possesses…”

The attempt to get closer was abruptly interrupted.

He extended one hand, his fingertips forming a stop gesture, while his extended index finger conveyed a message universally understood internationally.

The wind seemed to pick up a bit more at that moment, and the fluttering hem of his coat seemed to blend into the distant dark clouds. Jiang Cheng, who turned halfway to the side, gave the impression that this young man was about to take out a cigar from his trench coat, and not one of those common ones, but the most exquisite style that is said to be produced only in Cuba and rubbed on the thighs of beautiful girls.

"I possess superpowers, allowing me to know what happened 50,000 years ago, 500 years ago, and more than ten years into the future."

"The Honkai is a terrifying thing. In fact, in the last civilization, 50,000 years ago, humanity was already fighting against it."

"As an important member of Anti-Entropy, I think you should also know that you can occasionally dig up some antiques, advanced antiques."

“Wu Yi Ba Lin Qi Yi is right.”

In fact, the Godfather mech was discovered through archaeology, along with the Heavy Bunny it possessed. As a professional, Bronya naturally couldn't possibly be unaware of this.

This quantum technology is definitely not something that people of this era, who have only recently invented spacetime rupture technology, are qualified to access and master.

"It's a good thing that you didn't ask any more questions. It also fits the personality I've seen in you. This mercenary background might not completely fade away until more than ten years later, when you announce to Raiden Mei that you've grown up and will no longer refer to yourself as Bronya."

He seemed to be reminiscing and sighing deeply; the emotion that flashed in his cherry-colored eyes for a moment was genuine.

Incomprehensible.

Hard to understand.

The idea of ​​having genuine feelings for someone you've never met before because of events happening more than a decade later—Bronya's past experiences have rendered this body completely incapable of understanding such things.

If you continue listening, your worldview, the worldview you've cultivated over the past decade or so, will be destroyed in a way that is many times greater than the worldview you developed when you were brought to the orphanage.

Something called the inner self is strongly emphasizing this point.

This is something that is about to be destroyed.

The girl continued listening, forcing her worldview to accept the destruction that belonged to the boy, being worn down little by little by that gentle voice like the wind.

Do not……

It was not a passive destruction.

It is to actively trample one's own understanding underfoot.

In order to receive the boy's information as quickly and efficiently as possible.

"In short, I have the ability to foresee the future. I won't say too much about things that will happen in the future, otherwise it might ruin the plot. After all, actions taken entirely from the heart are completely different from those taken after hesitation. If you make a mistake when copying the answer one day, then the blame will fall on me."

"After all, you are one of the main characters of this era... no, this world that I have witnessed, one of the trio who will end the Honkai and save the world in the future."

The destructive power of a teenager cannot keep up with the destruction of a worldview.

Bronya realized the limits of her abilities.