The King of Cosplay in the World of Honkai Impact 3rd

Upon equipping it, you gain Cecilia's skills, knowledge, and the like.

It seems there's more than just that now.

There's also memory, and if you push it further, Cecilia's personality will become one of the things you acquire.

Although for now, I am still the dominant one.

But if these assumptions hold true, and based on my deductions about those extreme cat-abusers...

Then now...

"Kiana..." At this moment, Li Pu truly resembled the real Cecilia, her words filled with endless love, self-reproach, and a trace of relief.

"My daughter, please forgive me..."

"Your incompetent mother."

As a mother, she had been unable to accompany her daughter for far too long. Unable to watch over her, cherish her, or guide her into adulthood.

To be someone who was one of the most important people in a child's life, yet unable to be there for their growth.

This was enough to make her blame herself, and now, being right beside her, she couldn't express any of it.

All she could do was pray for her forgiveness.

Though she didn't dare to hope for it.

"I won't forgive you!"

What a heartbreaking statement, what a statement filled with intertwined love and hate! But it was also a statement brimming with longing and hope.

She shouted this through her tears!

It was Kiana!

Yes, it was her!

The person whose face was almost blurry! The one who was the most gentle, who loved her the most, yet cruelly abandoned her and disappeared into the vast sea of people.

Mom!

My mom!

The one who disappeared from my side fourteen years ago without so much as a goodbye.

The one I had longed for for fourteen years.

She had truly returned.

"You left without saying anything back then," Kiana sobbed, "Forgive you? Do you know how I've been for these fourteen years?"

"Do you know how much I missed you?!"

"You left without a word, and you never even thought of coming to find me!"

"Do you know... do you know... do you know..."

Kiana's voice grew softer and softer, to the point where she could barely speak, choked with sobs.

"Do you know how much I missed you?!" Kiana cried, "How much I yearned and hoped for this day to come."

"But you're already here, right beside me."

"Why would you still create a fake identity to deceive me!"

Why, Mei couldn't understand. And she didn't want to! With that fake identity, she just felt something was wrong, everything seemed too coincidental.

Intentionally attracting Mei's attention, intentionally making herself look pitiful to blend into the school.

Why couldn't she just come find her!

Why did she have to use those strange, broken technologies to disguise herself as some weird person.

"I won't forgive you!" Kiana sobbed, "Even if you hug me, spend my birthday with me, or buy me gifts, I won't forgive you."

"Besides, you haven't done anything, and you still used that fake identity to deceive me."

"Why should I forgive you!"

Yeah! Why should she?!

'No, that's really not a fake identity, my dear aunt.'

Li Pu felt like her head was twice its normal size.

She hadn't felt anyone following her when she ran, she had confirmed no one was following before starting the Transformation Dance, no one was here, not even cameras.

How did they follow her? How did they catch up?

What the heck was she supposed to do?

What to say?

It was over! According to the System, characters with such low 'understanding' could only be equipped for a short time! Only ten minutes.

Half of that time had already passed.

She would revert back in five minutes.

How will I explain this to Kiana later?

No...

What if this System is unreliable and the character won't actually equip it for such a short time...

No...

This System is just unreliable!

And it likes to hide important information!

No, these aren't important things!

The important thing is what is she going to do?

How is she going to face Kiana?!

Chapter 30: Probably Going to Die Horribly

It's over.

I'm going to die horribly, aren't I?

What the hell? What kind of joke is this! Who talks like that?

Is this what they call dying horribly!

This is f***ing being ripped to shreds and scattered to the winds!

Being torn limb from limb, sliced into a thousand pieces, cut in half at the waist, having my tendons ripped out and my skin peeled off – they can all take turns!

I! Li Pu! Genghis Khan! Covered in sweat! Dripping with sweat! Pouring with sweat!

I can perfectly imagine how deeply someone will hate you when they discover everything was a lie, just as deeply as they loved you! So I'll definitely be scattered to the winds!

I never expected something like this to happen.

Kiana caught up and found my hiding spot.

Although Li Pu had already considered that there might be some extra trouble after this incident, as long as he pretended not to know anything, acted mysterious, and said nothing, handling it with a cold shoulder would be enough.

He might face Kiana's constant pestering.

But as long as she didn't actually see all this, many things could be explained away with a lot of nonsense.

But now, in this state...

How the hell am I supposed to explain this!

Li Pu felt like an ant on a hot pan, completely unsure of his next move. It felt like every path he took was a dead end!

Whether to acknowledge Kiana here isn't a simple matter of kinship or bloodline.

It's not about secrecy or some other nonsensical "correct" option.

Internally, now that he realized this emotion, love, and so on, he could be considered to be 'understanding' them. So how should he face this emotion?

From his own perspective, this would directly affect his 'understanding' and 'performance' regarding the character.

But he, Li Pu, swore he never, not for a single second, thought about being a mother to someone else!

Externally, how should he handle his relationship with Kiana? If Kiana discovers her emotions have been deceived, then he should just dig his own grave and buy a good coffin.

Then, once he's in it, he won't have to suffer any punishment!

'No! I've decided! It's better to suffer a short pain than a long one!' Li Pu gritted his teeth and thought: 'I'll wait a few more minutes until the equipment's effect wears off.'

'And then I don't know! I'll just talk nonsense when the equipment's duration ends!'

There's no other way now anyway. It's better to suffer a short pain than a long one, and it's better to talk nonsense than to explain further. The final interpretation is up to her now, as long as she doesn't touch Kiana and let her realize that this body is the real deal.

"You're Kiana's mother?!"

Suddenly, a figure stood beside Li Pu. She said with a dumbfounded look of disbelief, "You... how could you..."

"Is it the Appearance Mimicry and Camouflage Technology?" the girl said, "You..."

"Mei..."

Li Pu...

Was despairing!

This was beyond f***ing belief!

Mei knowing about this meant it had gone beyond the ordinary! The identity of that young man named Li Pu was definitely more complex than a 'swordsmanship' expert who hid his true strength just to make a living!

Yes, it was that simple.

Before, Mei hadn't thought much about it, nor had she considered much. She just thought Li Pu should be some kind of swordsmanship master.

It's just that he didn't want to make a living through swordsmanship, and in the first round, she had only forced him to counterattack by chance.

In the second round, he had completely bought a flaw and deliberately lost to her.

In reality, it's hard to say whether it's easy or difficult for a swordsmanship master to get by these days. But for him to be such a young and extraordinarily skilled swordsman who wanted to take an unconventional path was also understandable.

Anyway, she, Mei, had seen similar plots in books.

But now it seemed like nothing was as simple as she had imagined.

Although she didn't know exactly what was going on, because she hadn't followed Kiana down the same path, she had seen a human figure enveloped in fluorescence in the woods, and the long-haired older sister who appeared after the fluorescence dispersed.

And that pink outfit.

The upper body was the school uniform, and the lower body was sweatpants.

Whether it was the style, color, or way of pairing, it was no different from Li Pu just now.

This was something that could be easily figured out.

It must have used the latest appearance mimicry and camouflage technology!

This kind of technology.

Mei had seen it; her father's developed technology had this special kind of technique. Using holographic projection and nanotechnology, it was entirely possible to disguise one person as another.

It's just that this technology currently had significant limitations and wasn't very mature yet.

And after watching for a few minutes, she had also heard the silver-haired older sister's self-blaming words and Kiana's crying. Although she felt the situation was outrageously strange.

But reality doesn't make sense.

Everything happened so outrageously!

After seeing everything return to calm, Mei suddenly felt that it was her turn to appear.

As a friend, she naturally knew her family's situation.

Her father supported the family alone, and her mother disappeared when she was a little over one year old, nearing two. Her father never said where her mother went, only that her mother had gone to a very, very distant place.

Mei knew what that 'very, very distant place' was, and she also knew what it implied.

But Kiana just thought her mother had run away from home, because Kiana had never seen her mother's spirit tablet, nor had she ever visited her mother's tombstone.

Therefore, Kiana didn't think that her mother going to a 'very, very distant place' meant that.