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

At this moment, right now.

A person named Jiangcheng could have nothing more to say.

The previous push-away was the result of his utmost effort; this body could no longer accept such a sincere confession and push him away again.

There's no reason anymore.

I can't find a reason.

Even the suspension bridge reaction was denied, with the girl arguing that the feelings would last forever.

Even though you don't understand me at all, it's still denied. You, the girl in the rain, are unique to me.

As long as it's you, I will choose you no matter what, no matter what it looks like, I will choose you firmly, even if I have to do it all over again. You are my number one.

Therefore, I couldn't refuse.

No reason could push the girl away.

In reality, all these random thoughts I'm having right now are completely useless, and all those trivial ideas in my mind are utter garbage. If I wanted to explain my current emotions, I only needed one sentence: ...

How could anyone in this world possibly bear such a confession?

No.

impossible.

On this one matter, Jiang Cheng could be absolutely certain that there was no one in the world who could remain unmoved by Raiden Mei's confession to him.

"The only thing I never expected was that even someone like me would one day be treated like this..."

My subconscious rant was abruptly interrupted.

Even the slightest dissent is not allowed.

Raiden Mei hooked her arms around the back of his neck and pressed her voluptuous body against him, her black hair ruffled by the heat, and a gentle fragrance lingering in his nostrils.

Their lips intertwined, and the embrace that followed felt all too familiar, yet the beauty remained undiminished, without a trace of dullness or cloying sweetness.

The girl's sweet, honey-like lips gently possessed him.

Seal it with a kiss.

"Ha...please don't say those things out loud."

The girl smiled gently, took her lover's free left hand, and placed it on her full left breast—the closest spot to her heart.

"You are special to me. I've said this many times. If you're going to deny yourself again, you'll have to deny me first."

"And compared to you, I'm the one who's not even sure if I'm going to confess my feelings right now."

In fact, until now, until that one last kiss.

Until this sweet act was repeated once.

Only Raiden Mei could barely convince herself that she had finally grasped Jiang Cheng, the one she had always only been able to watch from afar, and who had only briefly touched her fingertips when she was first rescued.

Because I simply dare not imagine, I simply cannot imagine that I could touch that ethereal person.

He seemed to have a plan from the very beginning, as if he knew everything and was a prophet who knew all changes.

Just like those old-fashioned characters in novels and anime, those who are heartless and ruthless, they will never be swayed by any changes in the world, they will only look towards the distant future.

It's foolish to deliberately seek out someone after being rejected, only to be rejected again. It's like being a complete idiot.

I had absolutely no thoughts about failure, or rather, I never even considered the possibility of success, because it was certain that a complete idiot like myself would be rejected.

It was something done purely out of courage, even knowing there was a precipice in front of him, because he didn't want to live in a world without Jiangcheng, so he moved forward.

What would happen if Jiang Cheng's confession to her was rejected?

—The girl had never even thought about such a thing.

Because there's no need to think about it at all.

Failed.

that……

Let's end it here.

life.

Anyway, I was already prepared to jump off the building and commit suicide during the next class when I was by the lake.

I've already lived an extra month, and thanks to Jiangcheng, I've made as much money as I could ever want.

So whether it's the fear of death, the fear of failure, or anything else... you just have to face it. If you're rejected, it's just death anyway.

Even if she doesn't break down because of the boy's rejection, and doesn't suffer the consequences of her own actions again, a world without Jiang Cheng is a world without meaning for her.

I never expected it to succeed.

It's practically a miracle.

"If that's the case, then you're actually the one who's highly unlikely to be the one."

"It's like a dream, that someone like me, hated by everyone, could meet you."

The girl's gaze was so intense, yet so gentle, and along with her soft voice, it was like the gentlest breeze.

They looked at it as if it were some rare treasure.

Even their gazes were filled with such tenderness.

She seemed afraid that her gaze might burn the boy.

"In most novels, people who are reborn or control the future use it to their own advantage, but... Jiang Cheng, you're an exception."

"There are many things you don't need to tell me at all."

"Even what Mei knows now is something she shouldn't know."

"The future is already beyond redemption. Even if I stayed by Kiana's side, I wouldn't think about her all the time, because my heart is already too full, there's no room left."

...Ling. Dream~ Qi Er's Cold Private (Nine) VIIsan.

"Cough cough Dad 3O kick zero device..."

"Mr. Jiang Cheng?"

……

PS: This is Jiang Cheng's choice of what to do, although in the end it still seems rather clownish, changing its mind constantly, but...

This is already the best that an ordinary person can achieve.

While some might perceive it as mere intellectual pedantry, no one would think that Jiang Cheng, having reached this point, was deliberately lowered in intelligence when Mei, flashing with lightning, turned him back from the glorious path he had left alone.

This volume is finished, and the story is over; at least Mei's romantic storyline has ended.

The aftermath of Bronya and Kiana's story, Siegfried discovering his daughter has been kicked aside, and the plot that takes a complete turn from that moment on... these are what will be covered in the next few volumes.

What can be revealed at present is that Kiana's story is far from over. When Jiangcheng becomes complacent, she will return like lightning.

Regarding the subsequent plot, please rest assured, everyone. Although Jiang Cheng is not a genius, his IQ is above average, and he really, really wants to live and desperately wants to survive.

Since he couldn't refuse Mei's confession, neither physically nor spiritually, as an ordinary person, he couldn't refuse the confession of someone who only had eyes for him.

So let's just break the plan and start over. Originally, I wanted to use my sudden appearance to escape the plot, but now I can continue to use my unknown specialness to directly assassinate Otto during the budding stage, use the World Serpent's ability to infiltrate the floating island, wield the Jizo Soul, and resolve a whole wave of subsequent events... As for Otto's niche, replacing him is still very simple.

At least at this moment, as the anchor of a Herrscher's humanity and the person who falls in love with a Herrscher, Jiang Cheng is more important to Gray Serpent than its father.

As for the water, we will try our best to rewrite it later, making the middle part slightly more comfortable to read without affecting the viewing experience and the exciting moments.

You could also write an "what if" scenario for this volume, where Mei didn't catch up but instead followed Jiang Cheng's request, resulting in her and Kiana torturing each other in the academy, forever watching over each other.

As the setting sun bathed the classroom, I witnessed the scenery I had once admired with my childhood friend, the clouds dancing in the sky like burning red roses, and once again, I recalled the past.

They reached out, but couldn't grasp even a sliver of light; they could only watch silently as the afterglow of the setting sun slipped through their fingers.

Just like Jiang Cheng, whom we failed to capture back then.

Life is truly cruel; a single wrong decision can lead to the loss of everything.

There's no room for regret, because no matter how much you regret it, you can't go back to the way things were. It will only slow down your current life.

Even though it is clear that this behavior is meaningless, recalling it now is nothing more than trying to find a sword by marking the boat on the river of time—this behavior itself cannot be denied or stopped.

Even if the day ends and the living room is empty, she will not return to her room until the sun goes down.

She would look out the window, watching the moment when the setting sun, having ceased wielding its power, gradually painted the room red in the sky.

Raiden Mei always thinks back to the time when they first met.

I think back to when Jiangcheng was still around.

This world is terrible, rotten, full of scheming and plotting. To survive, to live well, how about we try to complement each other? With my knowledge and your potential, we can definitely survive.

As long as she doesn't forget his happy expression back then, the unfulfilled promise seems to continue indefinitely, and she will continue to wait like this.

Although she could scold herself for being useless and easily forget, she remembered everything. Because she remembered, it was impossible for her to forget.

So today, she waits like this for someone who can never appear, idly staying in the classroom to fulfill a promise that can no longer be kept.

Perhaps I've already gone mad.

Besides, I still have a lot of drafts saved up, and the bounty in my author's note is still active and can remain so. Anyway, with my current performance, I can't afford to take on too much responsibility.

Even though we already know the answer, let's shamelessly ask one more time...

How was this volume?

Chapter 66, First Mission – Assassinate Otto

The result, naturally, was no response.

Having just crawled out of the ground and pushed aside the ruins surrounding him—because he wasn't the main target of the attack, the girl's blow only damaged the plane itself, so Gray Snake, who could barely maintain normal behavior, turned to look around.

He was trying to find the boy, and the rescue signal was already on the verge of being sent out. He only needed to assess the surrounding environment to decide whether it was necessary to call for help, but he froze on the spot for a moment.

The monitor, a deep green color that defies description, seemed to freeze in place, just like eyes at that moment.

The gaze, which should have been as cold and unresponsive as a machine, seemed to subtly reveal an incomprehensible emotion at this moment.

I……

Saw it...

what?

The green monitor clearly showed the shy and innocent Herrscher, like a young girl, and the boy being held tightly in the arms of that Herrscher, a monster who should be inhuman, a monster who only knows destruction, and who was being kissed shamelessly in public.

The intensity of the emotion, the depth of what might be called love... even the Gray Serpent, a non-human, emotionless machine, could feel it.

Something's wrong?

Could I have been transported to another world?

How could I see a talented member of the new generation of humanity, a newly appointed executive of World Serpent, being held tightly in the arms and kissed by the Herrscher of Thunder, who destroyed the entire Changkong City, humanity's greatest enemy?

……

……

……

Without Jiang Cheng even realizing it, he successfully accomplished something that most of his predecessors who had transmigrated before him could not—causing the Gray Serpent to fall into a state of logical instability and making a theoretically absolutely cold machine doubt the world.

Do not……

It's no longer just a gray snake.

Because in the instant that the system was in a near-collapse state of chaos, the monitors simultaneously connected to the accounts of all the World Serpent executives, forcing everyone to put down their work and watch the romance between the human and the Herrscher immediately.

After hearing about the Third Honkai Impact, Raven, who was on her way there to check out the place—actually looking for orphans she could adopt and was about to become a professional healer—saw her view of the killer website she was browsing suddenly replaced by Gray Serpent's first-person perspective.

The girl was forcefully pressing the boy to the ground, kissing him passionately, and embracing him tightly. Her purple hair, which shimmered like lightning, was being blown about by the gentle breeze. Even from a side profile, it was clear that she was a girl who should be magnificent and majestic like a god. The armor she wore was more like divine attire than what could be called the armor of a mortal. In the lower left corner, there was a real-time display of her energy level.

what……

what?

what! ! !

Lawyer...

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