"Who are you?"
"Hmph... [Chijie]."
Two Chijies appeared within this space.
Yet the other Chijie was completely different in both tone and demeanor... He seemed more like... Elysia?
The other Chijie led him through his life... through the ending where Immer, his adjutant, died during the Tenth Honkai Eruption.
"Even now, aren't you still deceiving your own [heart]? The moment he was chosen as the Tenth Herrscher, his death was inevitable."
"Are you deaf? I know his death was inevitable, but he shouldn't have died for nothing!"
"I personally ensured that his ending would no longer be insignificant... And you... you don't even deserve to speak his name."
It was just like what Chijie had said in that concept PV...
Battle itself had no meaning. Slaughter had no meaning either. But their deaths could not be meaningless.
He continued guiding him through his memories, this time to the events at Dusk Street Sanatorium...
From those memories, it seemed Chijie had never hated any specific person. So where did his rage come from?
Because... whether it was the day the sanatorium was purged, or every subsequent moment of helplessness, the only person he had ever hated was himself.
That was why his rage would never be extinguished, unless death finally came for him.
Now, it all connected.
All the buildup surrounding Chijie had come together!
To put Chijie's circumstances another way... it still came back to Honkai's core.
He was still saying... "There's nothing I can do."
It was simply that he had not entered the password himself.
Yet even in such helplessness, they would not lose heart because of it.
Everyone would strive to change everything for all kinds of reasons.
That was what Chijie was doing now as well.
Deeper than "the battlefield," clearer than "home," it was the