Honkai Double Traverse: Taking Cyrene to Honkai Impact 3rd

Honkai Double Traverse: Taking Cyrene to Honkai Impact 3rd

Author: Midnight Butcher

Synopsis:

Current progress: Nagazora City—storming Schicksal and defeating the entire world single-handedly!—Elysian Realm, Elysia meets Cyrene—Amphoreus, the ancient beasts are the Company's real bosses!

[The King of Ancient Beasts arc begins in earnest.]

Cyrene is a girl who could be my mother.

After transmigrating to Amphoreus, Jiang Cheng enjoyed a life being cared for by a cute girl. Like all transmigrators, he awakened a cheat ability.

Except...

What the heck was the Valkyrie Cultivation System?

This was Honkai: Star Rail, not Honkai Impact 3rd!

After experiencing the dizzying highs and lows of life in a short time, Jiang Cheng had already started wondering whether he could have Cyrene dress up as Elysia to farm rewards. Then he got word that the system was opening a portal to the world of Honkai Impact 3rd.

However, the price was that, with no energy supply, the system couldn't provide any newbie gifts.

He'd have to live in a world crawling with Honkai Energy as an ordinary person with no combat ability.

Me, fight Honkai? Seriously?

But there was always a way forward, if you were willing to take it. Looking at Cyrene as she came over to him again, Jiang Cheng smiled.

"Cyrene, I have an idea..."

Miscellaneous

What do you do when you become a great demon king?

1. What do you do when the system gets the wrong address?

"Mr. Jiang Cheng, why don't you do something useful?"

"Doesn't it embarrass you to be supported by a little girl?"

The villagers' well-meaning advice was hard to hear.

So Jiang Cheng simply ignored them, selectively removing them from his field of vision.

"Brother Cheng, good morning!"

"Good morning."

Jiang Cheng greeted Phainon, the only one who didn't try to talk him out of it, and watched the young man head into the bushes with that broken wooden sword in hand to cut some grass, muttering about the Power of the Invincible Tyrannosaurus War God and the Holy Sword of the Invincible Tyrannosaurus War God.

He lay back in his deck chair and gazed up at the sky—

Blue skies, white clouds... sunlight gilded them in pale gold, and beams of light burst through the clouds like golden threads. When the wind blew, the clouds shifted and changed.

"A-Cheng~?"

Her sweet voice was like velvet soaked in honey, its irresistible affection pressing right into his ears.

Out of the corner of his eye, Jiang Cheng caught a glimpse of pink—the color of cherry blossoms scattered by the spring breeze, carrying the sweet scent of sunlight and nectar as it drew closer to him, bit by bit.

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

A series of crisp footsteps sounded on the wooden terrace.

Her rounded toes curled slightly, their delicate sheen reflecting the sunlight.

Jiang Cheng had barely blinked before a pair of clear blue eyes, as blue as a spring, filled his entire view.

"Don't sleep in. It's bad for your health~"

"...Why don't you spend more time playing with me?"

Cyrene came bouncing over, her hands behind her back, slender fingertips fidgeting together at her waist.

Her body tilted like a willow branch stirred by the wind, and the sapphire pendant on her chest swung in the air. She playfully tilted her little head to the right, closing her right eye as her curled lashes drooped.

"Okay?"

She was so beautiful.

Cyrene was someone who could be my mother.

It wasn't some artsy, tearful exclamation. It was simply an assessment of the situation.

What a shame. Jiang Cheng closed his eyes—

He wouldn't be able to look at her for much longer.

After all, this was the infamous cesspool of a gacha game.

[Honkai: Star Rail].

A gathering place for lunatics, an asylum crazier than Arkham.

Even with genius inventions and lucky elixirs capable of granting good fortune, all they could conclude was that "simply being able to live a normal life in this world is happiness enough."

And he was living in that very world.

Worse, his landing spot was even less promising than the lunatics' gathering place.

Because the pair of clear, almost sweet-looking green eyes looking down at him belonged to—

Amphoreus.

That was the name of this world.

Honestly, he couldn't understand why a truck had suddenly fallen from the sky while he was lying at home, crashing down from the top floor all the way to the fifth floor where he lived.

He'd opened and closed his eyes, and for no reason at all, found himself in this world. As a modern person with no experience surviving alone in the wilderness, he'd nearly starved to death by the roadside before a young Cyrene took him home and raised him.

Once he learned that this was Amphoreus, specifically Aedes Elysiae, he'd spent every day worrying about Laigushi's existence.

Maybe it would care.

Maybe it wouldn't.

More despairing than the death sentence itself was the last day before the execution.

But more importantly, if he was right, then given Phainon's age, the Black Tide's arrival and Black E's first appearance would probably happen in the next few months.

After that, he could start making plans to run.

There was no way he could fight back.

It would only end with, "Me, fight Laigushi? Me?" before he got kicked to death like some stray dog.

He'd be worse off than a stray dog. At least a dog had to worry about getting bitten, and if it did, it needed rabies shots or it would die.

Him?

Heh. If he wasn't erased like trash, that would count as a win.

The only problem...

Was that he didn't know how to bring it up.

Jiang Cheng opened his eyes as a finger poked at him, and saw the girl leaning gently over him, sunlight like glazed glass veiled in gauze—

Her eyes were far too pure, utterly...

devoid of the slightest suspicion.

In this cycle, because Cyrene had found him, she'd spent a great deal of time helping a modern person like him survive in this era. She'd been by his side almost constantly, listening to stories and playing with him. As a result, she hadn't made good friends with the other children in the village, nor had she hosted the festival like she had in other cycles. Instead, she'd found happiness and contentment in her daily life.

As the person who'd spent the most time with her, and practically the only one she could call a friend, telling her he was leaving would probably hurt her almost as much as being stabbed to death.

"A-Cheng~?"

She tilted her little head. Her pink hair drooped to one side like cat's-tail grass stirred by the breeze.

"You've been staring at me all day~ Is it because... I'm looking extra pink and rosy today?"

"...It's nothing."

Jiang Cheng still couldn't bring himself to tell her the truth—that he was leaving.

Only after the girl's gaze finally left his face did he lower his head again, falling into troubled thought.

Maybe he should wait a few days, then make up an excuse about going on a long trip. He could say he'd be back in a month or two.

By then, in a month or two, Black E would probably have appeared and wiped out Aedes Elysiae. Even if breaking his promise was awful, it was still better than leaving the only friend he had...

Right?

He raised his head again and looked at the bright, clear sky.

They were all transmigrators, yet he was the only one with nothing—not even a cheat ability. He'd transmigrated in the flesh.

After coming to this world, he hadn't gotten a cheat or a login bonus, much less a Heaven Rewards Diligence System. He hadn't even gotten enhanced physical...

[—Ding.]

Jiang Cheng's eyes turned sharp in an instant.

His steady, slightly troubled breathing turned into a long, deep breath.

Cyrene, who seemed to be sunbathing without a care but was actually keeping an eye on him the whole time, immediately took a deep breath too.

[—Ding.]

The crisp, icy mechanical voice rang out again.

[Host, the Valkyrie Strategy System has finished loading. We wish you luck in winning over the Valkyries and—]

"Cough, cough—" Jiang Cheng nearly choked on his breath and couldn't help coughing twice.

His right hand instinctively clenched into a fist, about to shield himself, but before he could, Cyrene's pale hand gently held out a cup of warm water, steam still rising from it.

"A-Cheng, you need to take care of your health~"

"Mm."

Jiang Cheng no longer thanked her for it—or rather, Cyrene hated anything that made the two of them seem distant.

Still, he only took a small sip.

—That's it!

After barely swallowing that mouthful of water, he could hardly suppress the urge to grin.

Now he wouldn't have to worry about how to...

—Huh?

Wasn't this system called the Valkyrie Cultivation System? That shouldn't be a problem...

[System error.]

[Note: Current environment error.]

[Data world, Imaginary Energy error. Querying Path interference. Attempting removal.]

[Removal successful.]

[Attempting to detect Honkai Energy: detection failed.]