Joining MiHoYo, the Savior Me is Targeted by Elysia

——BEEP! BEEP!

The ear-splitting alarm blared like a swarm of bees, making the already noisy corridor even more chaotic.

But the world in Himeko's eyes remained calm.

"Alright, time to get some air."

She straightened herself with effort, taking steps in the opposite direction of the crowd.

Time seemed to pause at that moment.

"Even though they're all kids who never grow up, I'm still quite fond of this place."

Himeko said to herself with a smile:

"From now on, there's still a long road ahead, right? I wish you... good luck."

People with weapons, people covered in bandages, people carrying the wounded, people moving parts—

People Himeko had seen, people Himeko hadn't seen—

People who remembered Himeko, people who didn't remember Himeko—

One by one, they brushed past her.

"I really want... another drink."

Elysia fell silent, and Griseo beside her was even more immersed in the mournful atmosphere, even the ahoge on her head drooped.

The comments also became unusually quiet, and the players who had once claimed to have guessed the ending dared not speak anymore.

Even a fool could sense what this short film was hinting at.

"At the end of the chapter, there's one last animation left. Judging by the length... it seems different from the short film just now."

Elysia forced a smile and said to Griseo:

"I bet it's a large CG no less impressive than Queen's Descent! It's definitely going to be amazing!"

"..."

Griseo didn't respond. She was feeling conflicted. On one hand, she couldn't bear to continue watching, but on the other hand, she wanted to know Himeko's ending.

Elysia wanted to encourage Griseo to continue playing. Although the current story development was a bit off, she still firmly believed that "someone" would arrange a happy ending for everyone.

"Let's begin."

Time couldn't stand still forever, just like Kiana couldn't stay in the school with Himeko forever... She had to push open that door eventually.

So, Elysia, along with Griseo, and millions of viewers and tens of millions of players, opened the animation at the end of the chapter.

The video began with an alarm, as Judgment-Class Honkai Beast Benares charged towards the Hyperion.

Himeko, wearing the Vermilion Knight: Eclipse armor, quickly repelled the dragon with the power of the Plague Gem.

"Thief who stole my power, did you think you could escape?"

Just as Himeko was determined to bring Kiana home, the Herrscher of the Void was also hunting Himeko to retrieve the Plague Gem.

The two, moving towards each other, quickly found each other. Upon contact, the Herrscher of the Void immediately took Himeko to the "Imaginary Space" under her control.

In this void filled with only crystals, the Queen could unleash her power to her heart's content, without being disturbed by others.

"Hmph, I've been waiting for you."

Skipping the trouble of approaching, it was just right for Himeko, who didn't have much time.

Holding her crimson greatsword, she cast aside all pain and death, and got into a fighting stance.

"Ready to meet your end?"

While provoking her, the Queen reached out, and Himeko's body was immediately dragged in front of the Queen by a powerful pulling force.

"Struggle as much as you can~~"

Accompanied by the Queen's cruel laughter, Himeko, who had just been caught, was thrown out again.

And as she flew, the Queen pulled out a huge crystal block, blocking Himeko's path, wanting to break her spine.

—BOOM!

With a loud noise, Himeko's body crashed into the hard crystal block, creating a huge dent.

At that moment, countless viewers felt phantom pain from their backs, and some unconsciously shrugged their shoulders.

"Ugh!"

Before Himeko could break free from the dent, the Queen's pursuit came one after another.

Countless cubic crystals wrapped around Himeko, then began to squeeze and crush... This alone was already a cruel torture.

But that wasn't enough. The light wings behind the Queen transformed into ribbons of flowing light, which then wrapped into blades, cutting the cubic crystals that surrounded Himeko into four pieces.

Then, the ribbons were wrapped into a sharp light spear, piercing through the cube from the bottom up, and finally smashed down from the opposite direction, shattering the crystals that imprisoned Himeko.

[FUCK! STOP IT!]

[That's too cruel, don't treat Himeko like that!]

The audience clearly couldn't accept the Queen's cruelty either, but fortunately... as the Herrscher of the Void confidently turned her head, the greatsword in Himeko's hand suddenly shot out...

Enveloping a wild power, it struck the Queen directly, declaring its master's survival.

"Cough!"

She thought it was just the other side's death throes, but when the Queen tried to defend, she felt the terror of that power.

Shocked, she lost her elegance for the first time, forced to bend over awkwardly to dodge the blow, letting the greatsword slam into the distant crystals.

"Ha... ha..."

Himeko walked out of the wreckage of the crystals, breathing heavily.

"Is your attack over?"

Her body was battered and broken, almost being "dragged along" by her own will.

But even so, Himeko still held her head high and declared:

"Then, now it's my turn!"

"Heh... hahahaha!"

The Queen scoffed at Himeko's fighting spirit. After a burst of wild laughter, she said in the coldest voice:

"Die!"

In an instant, countless dimensional voids surrounded Himeko, and thousands of spears capable of piercing stars shot out.

And at that moment, Himeko also retracted the burning blade, dancing a desperate dance in the center of death.

Sword and spear intertwined, light and shadow overlapped.

The spears burst with lightning, and smoke shrouded destruction.

But the storm whipped up by the Flame-Chaser's sword turned everything to ashes.

17. The Last Lesson (3 Updates)

--Kiana, when you wake up, you will see that everything has changed.

A scarlet glow lit up from Himeko's heart, pulsing through her body with her blood, dyeing her skin with flame-like crimson patterns.

--You will find that this world is no longer beautiful.

Her blood vessels boiled like magma, and the primal force of life was completely transformed. The power, wanting to explode, swelled and expanded between her limbs, filling every space.

--Those ordinary days will be gone forever.

Himeko's eyes were like molten iron, and her flame-gold pupils burned to white. The greatsword in her hand also burst out with the radiance of the sun.

--But don't give up... never give up.

"Don't get so carried away!"

The furious Queen gathered high-concentration spatial energy in her hand, and with the twang of a bowstring, a dazzling stream of light broke through the sound barrier and shot towards Himeko.

Wherever the arrow passed, energy overflowed, and crystallization spread.

The matter in the Imaginary Space was attracted by this energy, constantly adhering to it, eventually turning the arrow into a giant pillar, whose violent force threatened to crush everything in its path.

"Haaah!"

Himeko's roar and the roar of the giant pillar shattering sounded simultaneously, and the instantly spreading smoke completely blocked the Queen's vision.

In the gray dust, only the fiery red of the flames could be seen!

"Damn it!"

Faced with Himeko, who was attacking with the force of a collapsing mountain, the Queen's disgust and impatience reached their peak.

Ribbons, light wings, spears, crystals—everything that could be used for attack was used by her, but Himeko's charge was like a burning nova, howling and breaking through the dark clouds.

"Don't even think about getting close to me!"

The Queen gathered Honkai energy in her hand, and at the same time, she endlessly expanded it with the help of spatial energy, spiraling it into a spear, then spreading it into a net, repeating the cycle, devouring everything in the Imaginary Space.

The dazzling firelight and the darkness that devoured light collided with each other, and at that intersection...

Himeko saw the people who had accompanied her at St. Freya.

Theresa, Mei, Fu Hua, Bronya, and...

Kiana, who smiled and promised her that she would become the strongest Valkyrie.

"I can still... keep burning!"

In an instant, purple patterns spread rapidly across Himeko's body, and the eternally burning embers spewed out from her back.

Wings of fire scattered rays of hope, illuminating all darkness.

At that moment, the soundtrack of Nightglow also reached its climax.

--Kiana, raise your head! Keep moving forward!

Himeko wielded her greatsword, her soul and body burning together in the firelight.

"Go and turn this imperfect story into the way you want it to be!"

Finally, amidst a vast expanse of white ashes, the burned-out Himeko collapsed powerlessly, the greatsword in her hand shattered into pieces.

As her life drew to a close, Himeko Murata spoke these words:

"Live on, Kiana."

"This is... The Last Lesson."

"What?!"

The Herrscher, her eyes trembling, realized that Himeko had injected the God-Slaying Spear into herself.

In that moment, Kiana's consciousness reawakened, and a roar of unwillingness mingled with a cry of anguish.

And Himeko... fell into the darkness along with the collapsing Imaginary Space, disappearing into the dust.

Only the background music, nearing its end, lamented:

So stay alive, bravely. So please, live on bravely.

"You... you... how could you write the script like this?"

Elysia felt a stinging in her nose, as if she would burst into tears if she relaxed even slightly.

But more than sadness, she felt bewildered at this moment.

"You clearly saved everything... why did you have to release an ending like this?"

Elysia's previous optimism wasn't blind confidence; she seemed to possess some inside information.

But now she looked betrayed, her face filled with an expression that said, "It shouldn't be like this."