Honkai Impact, starting by entering Kallen's body

Su Xin suddenly recalled her first encounter with it and its words, and in an instant, the pain seemed to have never existed, vanishing completely.

"Answer me, Su Xin, I want to know, in your heart, what am I to you?"

Family? Friends? Partners?

Karen's genuine voice completely pulled Su Xin back to reality from the uncertain imagery.

Su Xin murmured, her eyes wide, her mind still racing.

What he just saw was by no means accidental; he was bound to face choices, to coexist with the future, and to move forward linearly for a period of time without a direct causal effect.

As long as there is a choice, a corresponding result will be generated immediately.

Are there more scenes like those just shown, all of which could be in the future?

If you make the same choice as what you just saw and heard, won't you ultimately face the same tragedy?

I don't want

Only by doing the bare minimum can we avoid repeating the same mistakes.

"Su Xin!"

"I'm here."

"I want to know, now, please don't avoid this topic, okay? Don't we need to confirm our relationship?"

Karen said timidly. The usually cheerful and outgoing Karen now had more fear in her eyes than expectation.

So afraid that she didn't want an answer, so afraid that if she did, the two of them would sever all ties. She was afraid.

"I"

Su Xin is now facing many choices, just as he saw on the screen earlier, countless answers will yield corresponding results.

If those scenes were in the future...

Does that choice make sense? Can we even choose? Is it just repeating the future we just envisioned, repeating it all over again?

My family and loved ones are facing another choice for me.

Why must I make this choice?

Repeating the same failures countless times, forever and ever, the same mistakes, the same failures, the same despair, the same cycle.

What can I do? If that's the future, can I change anything?

I need to give a correct answer, but how can I give an answer that can be considered correct?

Su Xin didn't know what to do. She wanted to show me some footage at that time, but she wouldn't let me see the whole content. I could only see some fragmented clips.

Does this mean I'm being told the ending is already set, and any changes to the process are meaningless?

If I make the wrong choice, I can start over; is my free will meaningless?

Was it telling me those things back then to make me face reality?

To tell me—freedom, choice.

I have no freedom.

There was no other choice.

What is the bottom line? Only by taking action can we move forward.

"I know, I know I need to answer correctly! I just want to see you live on!"

"I'm just working hard for a small wish."

"I just want to move forward and do everything in my power to change things!"

Su Xin snapped back to reality, realizing she had spoken a little too loudly.

"I'm sorry, Karen, I lost my composure."

Life, it seems, is nothing more than a walking shadow, a clumsy actor gesturing wildly on a stage—appearing briefly, then quietly retreating without a sound.

With both feet deeply embedded in the blood, the only option was to continue wading through the blood, but turning back was equally tedious.

Su Xin didn't know how to answer, or what choice to make to reach his ideal destination. He truly didn't know that perhaps, he would repeat the same mistake again, arriving at an uncertain end.

"You want me to live?" Karen asked, somewhat surprised.

“Hmm, I want to see Karen Kaslana find her own path, not bury her life in such a tragic era. Sounds selfish, right? Forcing someone to do things against her will.” Su Xin calmed down and said self-deprecatingly.

Karen remained silent for a long time before reaching out to touch the lake's surface. The water, which should have been cold and flowing, felt as if her fingers were being embraced by countless warm threads of a bonfire.

It's not selfish to let others do it, but it's selfish to make others do it. Karen understood this principle.

But if Su Xin is the selfish one, then Karen can't be hated either.

She will never forget the time she spent with Su Xin, the beautiful moments, the dark and gloomy world, which also welcomed a unique and dazzling starlight.

Karen smiled gently and replied, "I will listen to you. I also want to live. How wonderful it would be to live! I can eat lots of delicious food and help many people in need. That's why I won't die so easily."

"I do not believe."

"Why? Do you think I have no desire to live? I have many reasons to live."

"I know, but sometimes we have no choice at all."

There are reasons to live, but there is only one reason to die, enough to easily make someone willingly give up their life.

Su Xin tentatively added: "If one day you discover that you can save countless people, countless people you love and who love you, all you have to do is willingly die, what would you choose?"

Karen froze. Her reflection in the water showed one eye was gold and the other blue, which looked quite eerie.

Su Xin knew that this problem was difficult for Karen, because she was willing to sacrifice herself to save everyone, and in the eyes of those she saved, such a person must be considered a hero.

At that moment, would Karen be willing to abandon those in distress in order to save them?

Out of personal motives, Su Xin hoped that Karen could live.

In that brief glimpse of the future, he saw Kallen liberate the Black Abyss White Flower at zero rated power.

Karen has no holy blood; the only possibility for her to be completely liberated is to pour her entire life into the gun.

Although only her back was visible in the image, Su Xin was absolutely certain that it was Nakaren.

He only looked at that image; he couldn't see anything else.

Can we change the outcome? If there is no only option leading to the future, then all the sacrifices, waiting, and efforts over the long years will be nothing but fleeting illusions.

Su Xin couldn't accept this ending; he wouldn't allow it.

Or perhaps we made the wrong choice early on, or made the wrong choice. As of now, and into the future, all our efforts and choices may be meaningless.

What truly drives us to despair is not being in dire straits, but rather offering a glimmer of hope to those who are on the verge of despair.

Extinguishing hope when you are exhausted and in a sorry state only leads to deeper despair.

There is a kind of despair that makes the desperate person take despair as hope, deceive themselves and fight desperately, until finally the truth and reality are laid out in front of them, completely negating all their actions over a long period of time, and even negating their entire value and meaning as a person.

Su Xin is now in the third situation. He doesn't know if he's on the right track. If he is, then continuing forward is pointless.

If you choose the wrong path, you can't possibly reach the correct destination.

So, can anything really be changed? Can't we do everything, can't we change anything?

Su Xin: "Karen, I'll answer your question now, so you have to answer mine properly too."

Karen: "Mm."

Su Xin :)

"???"

Karen stared in disbelief, her mouth agape, a mixture of disbelief and secret delight, but also a sense of moral impropriety and bewilderment.

For an answer?

It's a little, a bit embarrassing to talk about.

I'm not happy. Although I didn't get the answer I most wanted to hear, it still proves that Su Xin cares about me.

It's okay, there's no one here. Hmm, no one, there's definitely no one! (Karen's standard three-part guilty conscience attack)

This matter is only known to Su Xin and me. Absolutely no third person can know, not even Otto!

Hmm, he'll think of an answer!

Karen was now shy and just wanted to end the conversation quickly, but as the saying goes, once you choose a path, you have to climb it to the end.

She started the conversation, so naturally I couldn't avoid it.

In the long river of time, there will always be a few important moments, like a stream branching off at a certain point, flowing into different oceans.

Before the diversion point, no matter how much noise you make, simply going through the diversion point will not change the final outcome.

At the fork in the river, the journey before the water flow causes countless water molecules to be distributed in different directions, influencing them to choose different paths and head to different seas.

Karen is unaware that the question she is asking at this moment is at a crossroads of fate.

Their fates will determine each other's ultimate destiny at this moment.

Su Xin asked seriously, "Now it's your turn to answer me, Karen. If in the future you had to choose between your own life and the lives of countless others, what would you choose?"

Karen: "Were you among those countless people?"

Su Xin: "Maybe, I don't know."

Karen: Kaslana can choose to live, right?

Su Xin: "Mm."

Karen: Kaslana?

"I think it's precisely because I would choose the latter that you want me to choose the former. But if I really choose to run away alone, would you like that?"

“I would never forgive that way of living.”

“I know better than anyone that I am just an ordinary person. Even if I was born into the Kaslana family, my strength is extremely small. Without your help, I wouldn’t even be where I am today.”

"So I am even clearer about what I should do and what I am able to do as someone with such unique advantages."

"Honestly, I was happy to hear that you wanted me to live. At least I know that I am more important to you than many other people."

Even if it's selfish of you, I still like you.

"But I, Kallen Kaslana, can choose to sacrifice myself to save the world, and so can I! I want to be a hero like you, I want to be you!"

Karen clenched her fist and extended it just above the water's surface, making it look like she was punching her reflection.

"Su Xin, I like her."

"I know."

"Ugh?"

"Let's go back and eat first. If we don't go back now, Otto's cooking will get cold." Su Xin changed the subject, but Karen was no longer the silly girl who would get distracted whenever food was mentioned.

Because she lost him, she will pay more attention to the person she loves.

Bukalian didn't expose Su Xin's true feelings. She could sense that Su Xin's emotions were fluctuating between low and high.

There's plenty of time in the future, so you can take your time doing whatever you want.

Karen wasn't in a hurry because he was there for her.

She will gradually help him understand her feelings and listen to his heart.

Karen stuck out her pink tongue and laughed mischievously like an elf: "You've been gone so long, you're probably freezing cold by now."

"It will warm you up when you eat it."

"mean?"

"Literal meaning."

Chapter 85 At this very moment, with you alone (5k)

Three days later, Su Xin looked to the future and knew that the Herrscher of Corruption would return in full force.

No, not at its peak. Limited by Yae Sakura's mental strength, the Herrscher of Corruption cannot fully utilize her authority.

The weapons that could be corrupted in that era were not many, and posed no threat to the enhanced Kallen.

The Herrscher of Corruption can only bring about a Great Collapse at most, causing ordinary people with low adaptability to Honkai energy to die. This forces the assassins and Honkai Beasts to fight Kallen, forcing her to make a choice: to use her power to eliminate the Honkai Beasts and save those who are dying from Honkai corruption.