Starting Work at MiHoYo, the Savior Me Got Elysia's Attention

During this time, she discovered the existence of the World Serpent organization, the secret Fu Hua carried, and the horrifying experiment Shencheng Pharmaceuticals was plotting in Sky Dome City to complete the Stigmata Project.

When Raven ambushed Rita's Undying Blade Squad, Kiana arrived just in time to save Rita, allowing them to temporarily escape Raven's pursuit.

Rita looked so delicate when Kiana saved her.

She was usually portrayed as a naturally black-bellied big sister.

Was this what they called gap moe? MiHoYo really got it. It stabbed straight into my girlish heart.

Rita was great, wasn't she? You liked her, didn't you? Guess when she was going to die?

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To stop the nearly city-destroying Stigmata Project of "spreading high concentrations of Honkai energy throughout Sky Dome City"...

Kiana disregarded her own physical condition and didn't care how terrifying the Kevin Fu Hua spoke of was. She chose to pursue Raven's convoy, determined to get information out of Raven.

In the past, she would have done the same, except she would have been wearing a confident smile and arrogantly declaring, "Leave it to me!"

Not gritting her teeth like she was marching toward death.

This hurts. I'm thinking of Ye Ming again.

That expression looked like it had been carved from the same mold as Ye Ming's.

Ye Ming and Kiana really are alike, in every sense of the word.

You won't even call him Ye Bao.

Alvit: Miss Rita, are you really going to continue the operation before Lady Durandal responds?

The perspective soon shifted to Rita. Having inhaled the serum gas that neutralized Honkai energy, she was physically only slightly stronger than an ordinary person in her weakened state.

"If Lady Durandal arrives, we can succeed. But what if she cannot make it in time? Or what if World Serpent has already completed its plan by the time she gets here? What will happen to this city?"

Rita closed her eyes and spoke sorrowfully:

"If victory means defeating the enemy in a city piled high with the corpses of thousands upon thousands of innocent people after they have died... then I, as a Valkyrie, have no need for such a victory."

Although Rita's mission had been to pursue the Herrscher of the Void, when she learned that World Serpent intended to use the entire city's population as test subjects, she still chose to cooperate with her target and use her weakened body to stop this dreadful plan.

Rita isn't morally ambiguous at all. She's completely one of the good guys.

So Otto is the only one in Schicksal who deserves to die, right?

The players' affection for Rita skyrocketed, while Ye Ming wore the expression of someone whose injustice had finally been cleared away as he said:

"See? I told you there wouldn't be any tragedy! These chapters are just meant to highlight Rita's personality and stance."

"That may be true, but everyone is already guessing how I'm going to die."

Somewhat helplessly, Rita showed Ye Ming screenshots of the livestream comments.

Rita has lost her strength, she's weak, and she's still heading into danger. She's definitely going to die.

I bet she'll meet Kiana in the end and die covering her retreat.

They'll probably be about to break out successfully, only for her to suffer a fatal wound at the very last moment.

They'll give you hope of success first, then stab you. MiHoYo is best at this routine.

Ye Ming finally understood what it meant for a qualified Kanchou to go looking for tragedy on their own.

What turned you all into this? Was it MiHoYo?

"Ye Ming, Lady Himeko at least appeared for nine chapters. I'm not really going to be written out this quickly, am I?"

"I said you won't!"

Ye Ming said innocently:

"Think about it carefully. In this new version, the only really tragic part was Kiana wandering through Sky Dome City. Wasn't everything else fine?"

"Not to mention the huge helping of sweetness between Bronya and Seele, Kiana even awakened as the Sky Dome Ranger! No matter how you look at it, there's more hope and beauty than despair, right?"

--Urgh! Aaaah!

--Aaaahhh! Ugh!

The moment Ye Ming finished speaking, everyone's phones began playing a succession of agonized cries from a girl.

Even without looking at the images on their screens, the girls could tell...

It was Kiana screaming.

"..."

Kiana, who had been captured by Jackal because of the serum gas, was being held inside an experimental chamber and subjected to Jackal's casual torture.

"A sweet version?"

"There won't be any more tragedy afterward?"

Faced with the girls' questioning, Ye Ming said aggrievedly:

"Don't panic yet. Kiana was actually pretending in order to obtain information. She didn't feel any pain at all back then. It'll be explained later."

"Then why wouldn't Kiana feel pain?"

"Because the Honkai energy corrosion was too severe, she had already lost her sense of pain."

A little bonus for the readers who have been following along.

Dear readers, the fact that you've been willing to keep reading instead of stockpiling chapters truly means a lot to me.

I'll keep releasing extra chapters to repay the trust you've placed in me.

Before that day arrives, I've prepared a fun little event for you.

The next chapter will feature the long-awaited segment where we plan a funeral for Honkai Impact 3rd.

You will play the role of a paying player, demanding that the entire funeral be livestreamed and offering Hu Tao all sorts of suggestions, so that the funeral will be held according to your wishes.

If there's anything you'd like to see at the funeral, please leave plenty of comments on this chapter. I'll select highly liked and suitably fitting scenes to include in the funeral.

61. Can Sensitive Skin Use It?

"Why are you all looking at me like that?"

Feeling the resentment in everyone's gazes... especially Mei's, Ye Ming looked utterly innocent.

"Losing your sense of pain because your injuries were too severe—doesn't that count as angst?"

Bronya expressed her dissatisfaction with a ??? expression.

"Does that count as angst?"

Tilting his head, Ye Ming said with an innocent look on his face:

"Losing your sense of pain during battle is a huge BUFF. Otherwise, why would painkillers like morphine be essential on the battlefield?"

"Where did you even get this kind of knowledge?"

Durandal looked thoroughly confused.

"When I was traveling through the timeline before, the pain from my injuries was driving me insane. But after the Herrscher of the Void shot me, I suddenly couldn't feel the pain anymore."

"If Honkai energy hadn't corroded my sensory nerves, I probably would've broken down from the agony halfway through. How could I have held on for so long?"

The moment Ye Ming finished speaking, Himeko poked him. Realizing what he had said, Ye Ming hastily corrected himself:

"Oh! I mean... me in the video. That fanfic author probably used the same logic."

Whether it was because Ye Ming had sounded too immersed while describing the past, or because his explanation had come a little too late, everyone present wore stunned expressions.

It took the girls a long while to process it before they slowly accepted Ye Ming's explanation.

"Couldn't it be because the you in the video was tougher and not afraid of pain?" Ei asked in return.

"If that were the case, it would mean the video's creator doesn't understand me at all."

Ye Ming said with a smile:

"I'm really afraid of pain. What was that phrase again? Sensitive skin? Uh... that doesn't sound right either."

Unable to think of the right word, Ye Ming could only use an analogy:

"Something like... the level of pain where you'd cry out after kicking the bedframe with your toe."

"That analogy is way too immersive! My toes already hurt."

Everyone finally believed that Ye Ming had not deliberately served up angst, and in the plot that followed...

Kiana scared off tigers and wolves, beat up Honkai Beasts, and then escaped the laboratory, giving everyone the feeling that things were finally getting better.

"Next comes Mei and Kiana's reunion."

Under Ye Ming's careful arrangement, the two who had been separated for over three months finally saw each other again.

"Mei..."

The moment Kiana saw Mei, instead of happily rushing into her arms as usual, she took half a step back in fear.

"Why are you here? Don't come any closer... It's dangerous here!"

Even though the Herrscher personality had been temporarily sealed away, the monster inside her body had not disappeared.

Kiana had already caused Himeko's death. She simply could not bear the risk of losing Mei as well.

"Kiana, you're hurt..."

Mei ran over and hugged the Kiana who was trying to flee from behind, only then realizing that the other girl was trembling all over.

Her heart aching beyond measure, Mei said through tears:

"I'll take you home, back to the Hyperion. Everyone is waiting for you."

"Mei, I can't go back... I'm sorry."

No matter how tightly Mei held her, she could not mend Kiana's utterly broken body and heart.

From beginning to end, Kiana did not dare meet Mei's eyes. She was afraid that she would lose herself in the happiness of the past and forget the responsibility she had to bear.

"..."

At that moment, everyone understood. Kiana and Mei's reunion was only meant to lay the groundwork for another farewell.

The warm home was right there, yet Kiana could only choose to leave.

She could not find the way home, nor did she believe she had the right to return.

It felt like she had been eating candy, only to bite into a shard of glass that cut her mouth until it bled.

Her reunion with Himeko in her consciousness had been just as painful.

That whole "better not to meet than to meet" thing had really been taken to heart.

After that, Rita arrived as well. The three of them shared the information they had obtained, then defeated Raven, who had come to stop them.

And at that moment, the Honkai bomb that would claim countless lives in Sky Dome City had already begun its countdown.

When Kiana learned the bomb's location, she resolutely left Mei behind and walked into the darkness.

"No. No matter how many times I watch it, I just can't accept it."

Mei in reality hugged Kiana, yet she was afraid that Kiana would react the same way she had in the game.

"This is the first time Mei's ever acted spoiled with me~!"

Fortunately, the real Kiana had not been tortured to that extent. Once Mei snuggled up to her, the long-dormant "gremlin energy" came bubbling back out.

"Before, whenever I tried to hug you, you always pushed me away."

"Ugh... because every time you came over to hug me, you either wanted to steal food or borrow money from me..."

"Haha, was that so?"

Kiana smiled sheepishly, then took hold of the hands Mei had wrapped around her from behind.